So, as much as I hate to say it - they should let Tookie Williams live. Yes, he killed four people, yes he was a bad motherMM-MM back in the day. He's completely given up that life though, and has committed himself to destroying the glorified gangster image. Who knows how many people he could positively effect. He's certainly made an impact on many already. Yes, he will never be able to erase gang life or the Crips from the urban environment. But you know, maybe that's his real punishment. Knowing what he created, trying to destroy it, and knowing he'll never succeed.
The Miami Airport bomb incident - Lessons Learned:
1. Don't travel anywhere with a loved one who's off their meds - unless they're bound and gagged in the backseat and you're on the way to the doctor's office.
2. Don't yell "I have a bomb", unless you're looking for a permanent solution.
3. The only way to get blood off of the carpeting in a jetway is cold water, an oxidizing detergent, and light scrubbing with a bristle brush.
Additionally, any man who wouldn't sleep with Ann Coulter lives a life FAR too driven by prinicple, and not enough penis representation on the conscience committee.
And Iran's new president, whose name I won't waste the time trying to correctly spell, believes not only that Israel is a "tumor" on the middle eastern map, but further alludes to the idea that the Holocaust never happened. How do these people get into leadership positions? Muslim nations want to be taken seriously in the modern world, but they elect leaders with this kind of twisted worldview?
Also, hit CNN, some plane just crashed the shit out of an intersection in Chi-town. Relish this, because events don't usually get that current here at SBD.
Furthermore - has anyone noticed the duality of SBD? Silent But Deadly? Snooze Button Dreams? Oh yeah, you're thinkin' it, I know ya are.
Another thing, I love my car. I love my car so much, that I'm about to put more than HALF it's value into rehabilitating it. Of course, it will be made stronger, faster, better. By this time next month, I'll have a four cylinder engine that makes 100hp per liter, without a turbo, superhcarger, or nitrous oxide injection. Straight all-motor, factory parts. 2.2 liters, 220hp. Factory. Traction control and a limited slip differential in the transmission means I will not only grip better around 60mph benders, but I'll be pulling on you from a dig. Yes, $5,300 is a lot of money, but this car will be one of maybe 10 in the southeast US with this motor/transmission combo. And no, I won't let you drive.
So a jury of his "peers" and the victims' families should just suck it up because Tookie is a changed man?
Because, you know, I don't buy his act at all.
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Hey, for me to say that is for me to play my own devil's advocate. But what is he going to do, get out on the streets and join the gang? No. After writing children's books? I mean, those crip/gangbanger people want to kill his ass. He created something that is so far beyond his comprehension. I want him to come out of that cell and see what Tookie hath wrought. He's been playing this "I'm converted" shit for so long, that he's become a token of black solidarity - of urban strength. THE MAN WHO BROUGHT YOU THE CRIPS - is now a pillar of the community. Who the FUCK doesn't see the bullshit in that? I want to see this fucknut get out there and continue this mission in a world that exists outside of prison bars, where you don't have the private time to write children's books; where the urban desert closes in on you with it's black markets, local drug dealers, and no-way-out mentality. I want to see this fucker Tookie crumbled by that which he helped create - the glorification of violence.
In short, I hope he realizes the REAL horror that is the cycle of violence. I hope he does so and hangs himself in the halfway house, upon the realization that he was chasing unicorns. I want him to see the violence, be the violence, because he's caused so much of it.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
He doesn't ever come out, shank. If Arnie spares his life his sentence is commuted to life in prison without parole. I wonder what the odds are running now that the Governator pardons him? Could be some money to be made here if a fellow guessed right.
The pres actually has the ability to get Williams freed but I can't picture George going that route.
No way I'd let him live. I don't buy the act.
Besides, if he ever gets moved off death row his homies will whack him Soprano style.
As far as the Holocaust, those fuckers know exactly what happened, and they relish pissing people off by saying it never happened. They keep it up and they'll have their own to worry about about.
I can't abide people who lean too far either way in their political beliefs. I'd fuck Ann Coulter, sure. But I'm a guy. I bet if Al Franken saw her bend over in an airport he'd be masterbating within the hour.
Duality of SBD has been long noted, and all but forgotten. My old quote, in fact, made fun of that very duality: "Just because it's called SBD doesn't mean it stinks." It was almost as good as the ever-lovely Tiffani's quote, which is still there.
Where are those quotes anyway? My quote should be on top. Only because that is the first time I have ever come up with something so clever. And probably will be the last time.
The fact is..Tookie killed 4 people. I'm with Shank live by the sword, die by the sword.
Oh and Shank you lost me with on the second sentence with your car. All that stuff....is that good?