Tag: Virginia

The state of Virgina is fixin to kill Muhammad

muhammad-2Tonight at 9 p.m the state of Virgina will be executing John Allen Muhammad, one of the so-called beltway snipers.

Back in 2002, Muhammad and his young ward, Lee Boyd Malvo, terrorized people in Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virgina. People were afraid to cut their grass, pump gas, or go shopping. Before they were done, they had killed 10 people and wounded 3 others.

The three weeks they were driving around and shooting people from the trunk of their car was a colossal bucket of suck for everyone. They were caught sleeping in their car at a rest stop here in Maryland on Interstate 70, about halfway between Frederick and Hagerstown.

The reason Muhammad is now in Virgina and not Maryland is because the Bush administration had him transfered to Virginia so that he could be tried there first. The reason? Because the prosecutor in Virginia was a Republican who had aspirations for higher office.

The prosecutor in Maryland was a Democrat.

I’m generally against the death penalty, not because I care about people like John Allen Muhammad. I don’t. I just don’t see how it solves anything. When Muhammad shuts his eyes for the last time tonight, the people he killed will still be dead. I also have a problem with how the death penalty is given to some, but not others.

It seems far too arbitrary.

With that said, I’m glad Muhammad is getting his ticket punched tonight. If we are going to have the death penalty in this country, why not him? I can think of no better person than John Allen Muhammad to get strapped down on a gurney and a toxic cocktail pumped through his veins.

2 Comments by Rick  /  November 10, 2009  /  Posted in: News
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Why Creigh Deeds lost

creighdeeds2A lot of the so-called experts are theorizing why Creigh Deeds, the Democrat nominee for Virginia governor, lost to the Republican candidate Bob McDonnell on Tuesday’s off-year election. Now I’m not an expert and I don’t live in Virginia, but I’m not going to let any of that stop me from weighing in on the topic.

Creigh Deeds lost because he is Creigh Deeds.

Living in Maryland, I get to not only see lots of campaign ads for candidates here in Maryland, but I’m able to see all the ads for candidates in West Virgina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia too. I cannot begin to count how many ads I’ve seen on TV for both Creigh Deeds and Bob McDonnell. By election day, I was fed up with seeing both candidates for Virginia. If I was a voter in Virginia, I wouldn’t have voted for either candidate.

I would have stayed home on election day.

I’m tired of voting for candidates that I just don’t like. I’ve been forced to do this because the Democrats put awful candidates on the ballot. I told myself after having to vote for John Kerry and John Edwards in 2004 that I would never vote for someone I didn’t like ever again.

I don’t like Creigh Deeds. He’s against gay marriage. He thinks juveniles should be eligible for the death penalty.  He voted to make English the official language.  He’s against the public option, and he said that if he was governor of Virginia, he would consider “opting out” of any public option health insurance plan.

With Democrats like Creigh Deeds, who needs Republicans?

I think history has shown that when voters are given the choice between a Republican and a Republican Lite, more times than not, they will choose the actual Republican.  If a voter is against gay marriage, pro-death penalty, thinks people should only speak English, and is against health care reform, they are probably a Republican.

1 Comment by Rick  /  November 5, 2009  /  Posted in: Politics
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Harry Reid announces that he is for the public option, but only if states can opt out

happy_harry_reidSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that the health reform bill he will bring to the Senate floor will have a public option, but it will include the provision that individual states could opt out if they want to.

My guess is that the only reason Reid is now for the public option is because he knows what everyone else knows; that 6 in 10 Americans are in favor of the public option.

Only a few months ago Reid said he was only for the public option if it was run not by the government, but by a private entity.

As I’ve blogged before, I’m really curious to see how the whole opt out thing would work.  Not that I’m so curious that I would want to see a Republican governor deny the people in his or her state the ability to have access to quality and affordable health care.

I’m not that curious.

I imagine it would be a real wedge issue during gubernatorial elections. Living here in Maryland, I am blessed with seeing political commercials from candidates not only here in Maryland, but in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Virginia too. Right now there’s a heated campaign going on in Virginia for governor. The Democrat is getting attacked because when he says he wont raise taxes, it somehow secretly means he will raise taxes. The Republican is getting attacked because he once wrote that working women were a detriment the American family and that birth control should be illegal.

Imagine the attack ads against Republican candidates for governor when voters see commercials warning them that a vote for the Republican means they will lose their public option health insurance.

Who knows, maybe that’s the point.

by Rick  /  October 26, 2009  /  Posted in: Politics
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