Frankly, my thoughts on abortion really aren’t that different from those on capitol punishment.

(PS – I’m not defending the criminals, you seem to think I am. I’m not. I happen to disagree with the death penalty as a Christian on principle, but we are a federal society and where it is legal, it is legal. The law is the law).

Ok, Regent. If there is one thing I will never claim it is the ability to spell. I’m just fortuante to a) have spell-checker and b) have a wonderful (and published) fiance who can edit…

So this was “The most profound hiatus” huh? Talk about hype….or more like wishful thinking.

The result was as I said it would be. No change. A bunch of moratoriums that accomplished nothing but giving more days of life to people who wouldn’t have given their victims the same courtesy.

I’m still wondering while people are still allowed to buy handguns, since the Supreme Court is reviewing a case on the Second Amendment as we speak now.

On Regeant, actually I wasn’t connecting you to Pat Robertson (unless you support Mr. “9/11 was God’s punishment”?). Rather I was comparing your poor understanding of the workings of the law to Regeant, that terrible bottom of the 4th tier law school in Hampton Roads. Certain events over the last 7 years have made it obvious that many graduates of that institution don’t know the law and may never have seen the Constitution.

PS – to anyone who has an interest in understanding why BK was wrong from the begining, below is an article from last fall explaining why most (every?) states, including Virginia would declare a moritorium on executions following the Supreme Court’s decision to take the lethal injection case. (I won’t hold my breath for BK’s apology…).

From the article:

“I think this is a de facto moratorium,” said Douglas A. Berman, a sentencing expert at Ohio State University’s law school [SW should be proud, I'm referencing THAT school]. Since almost all executions are carried out by lethal injection, he said a halt “would mean the most profound hiatus in the operation of the death penalty in at least two decades.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101701870.html

If you think your pre-schoolish debating skills make me angry, boy are you on the wrong track. Ohh…connect me with Pat Robertson! I’m quaking in these boots.

But i’ll no longer ask if you’ll no longer tell. You should be used to that.

Seriously, why so angry? Although, I do always get a laugh when you get all preturbed and angry over me “making everything about you” – too funny.

The Supreme Court heard a case this term about whether the Second Amendment allows personal ownership of handguns. Should they be confiscating everyone’s weapons now while we wait for the ruling?

I’m not angry, although it’s cute how you like to make everything about me. I seemed to have missed in your frothing whether you voted for Kaine, since you said what he did was the voters’ fault.

And I have no bloodlust, my friend. just think! In all this time you tried to attribute horrible and vile things to me, you could’ve read the SC opinions and stopped sounding like an idiot.

My point about you pushing the justice system off the bridge is that you don’t seem overly concerned with the niceties of our working common law justice system. This is the way the system works – it might be inefficient, it occasionally frees the guilty (and imprisons the innocent), and it may not feed your bloodlust, but it generally works to reach the right conclusion.

Where is the wrong here? The law was followed, proof that our system continues to work. Speaking of too much caffeine, you need to take a deep breath and accept the fact that angerier does not make you righter.

You really do amuse me with all of your righteous ill-directed indignation.

I didn’t vote for him…did you?

“PS – Gov. Kaine did enforce both the death penalty and the law, he did so following the dictates of the Supreme Court and our Constitution, which, as the chief executive of Virginia he is charged with doing.”

Wrong! The Supreme Court didn’t dictate anything to Kaine. He CHOSE to issue a moratorium. The Supreme Court hadn’t issued so much as an opinion until today. They didn’t issue a stay. Kaine volunteered.

And when the Court did issue it’s opinion, we were correct and you were wrong – one thing that’s always been consistent on this blog.

I hardly call that pushing the justice system off the bridge.

Really, cut off your caffeine IV, Ragnar. Calm down. Breathe. Read the opinions. Relax. Your brain will re-engage eventually.

From your previous post:

And when [Democrats] say they will “enforce the death penalty” and “carry out death sentences handed down by Virginia juries because that’s the law” (Kaine campaign ad in 2005), you know that they won’t.

When Democrats promise something that is not in keeping with their platform, don’t believe they’ll stick to the promise for minute. My question is really who is more at fault — the elected official or the people who put them there, believing the hollow promise, in the first place?

PS – Gov. Kaine did enforce both the death penalty and the law, he did so following the dictates of the Supreme Court and our Constitution, which, as the chief executive of Virginia he is charged with doing.

Are you a believer in the Constitution, or in mob rule? The only bridge here is the one you want to push the justice system off of.