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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 05/02/2007 : 17:33:29
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YO: Shining down onto the flatlands of the mid-continent, a thin ray of blinding light has struck the state of Nebraska with regard to the Eighth Amendment.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Nebraska-Electric-Chair.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Orwellingly Yurz Sez: Yes, the death penalty is cruel, but it's certainly not unusual.
OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
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