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>>>>>So fiscally you are pro capital punishment :-)
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>>>>That's actually one of the strongest arguments in favor of it - but of course makes even more sense on somebody 20 who is in without possibility of parole.
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>>>How about lifers (in fact all prisoners) being popped on exercise bikes attached to generators . They stay healthy and provide electricity to the nation.
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>>Oooh, I like that. And feed them particularly gaseous food and harness the methane as well.
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>You might even want to arrest more people to help reduce the US carbon footprint.
With a particular crack down (you'll forgive the expression) on the extremely flatulent.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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