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As somebody who lived in, moved away for 'enlightened pastures', then returned to, one of 2 states compared to Mississippi as 'the worst' (mi, wv, ky), I say, since you moved, ****.
You didn't like it, you left, goodbye. What Mississippi does is not your concern. So look down on the state if it makes you feel better. It doesn't make you a better person.
Firing squads are a great idea, they need to greatly increase their use so the time between a guilty verdict and imposition of the sentence is less than 24 hours. Bullets are cheap, don't have a shelf life, fast, and work extremely well. What's not to like?
Firing squads are a great idea, they need to greatly increase their use so the time between a guilty verdict and imposition of the sentence is less than 24 hours. Bullets are cheap, don't have a shelf life, fast, and work extremely well. What's not to like?
To add to mr/Mrs beachhead: guards, executioners are not aware of whose bullet actually performs the act. Typically there are 5 to 7 guards. All but 1 has blanks loaded. Therefore, no guard is actually sure if it was their shot or not.
Firing squads should only be for capital offenders who are otherwise honorable people.
It's the only dignified way to be executed.
The fact that liberals and leftists despise Mississippi more than any other state inclines me to a favorable view of that commonwealth.
It might even be better than Alabama.
This is the Nexus of right wing/confederate flag waving mentality. You believe in things because you think they **** some other group of people off who you hate, not because the beliefs are sensible or righteous. Sad.
Thank you for that input! Dowager soybean empress, who actually watched the TV broadcast, said that Governor Bryant seems to like firing squads because they're more punitive, and because they set a more dramatic example.
Then, Bitsi called and took me to task for not reading the new Mississippi Magazine Wedding Register she overnighted to me, last week. (https://katiekaizerphoto.files.wordp...ismagcover.jpg). It's a much awaited, inch-thick compendium of expensive weddings, and about the most entertaining thing that happens all year, in Mississippi. People who know better savor every effusive description of over-the-top weddings (primarily for their comedic value: it's rollin'-on-the-floor funny, sometimes)"If you had read it, you'd have mentioned the wedding in Dallas - in an Episcopal Church of all places, although with a write-up like that, those boys have to have been raised Baptist - between a defense contractor from Jackson, and an athletic director at a Texas Christian University, wherever that is."
"It's proof-positive that Gay weddings can be no more and no less tacky than heterosexual weddings, and therefore they have just as much right to squander hundreds of thousands of Dollars making fools of themselves as the rest of us do. And Governor Bouffant wants to make it legal for Christian - or whatever religion, I guess - bakeries to refuse to bake Gay wedding cakes. Sounds anti-business to me. Aren't Republicans supposed to be PRO-business. Honey, anything that rings a cash register is SACRED, to me, so I guess that makes Governor Bouffant a BLASPHEMER."
Bitsi is our Pharmaceuticals Maven, and I suspect her attitude toward weddings is about like her attitude toward medications. Sales are good. ALL sales are good(her stock portfolio and tentacles stretch across several pharmaceutical giants, so Bitsi doesn't care HOW you're medicated, as long as you ARE Medicated.).
However, I recently learned, here on City-Data that it is possible to throw an extravagant wedding for less than a hundred thousand - well - outside Mississippi, anyway... someplace where people don't know it's not a big wedding without Foil-stamped custom-logo gift bags for each out-of-town guest, waiting for them in their hotel rooms. ...places where weddings don't have 'themes' and get three-page write-ups in Town & Country. ...places where weddings are not productions to rival Golden Age Hollywood musicals... places where "impromptu" proposals are not filmed from multiple angles ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH_LHLlXFPg). And now, Governor Bryant wants to make it legal for businesses and government workers to deny Gay couples the right to be just as - deliberately and spontaneously candid and public as that lovely young boy-girl couple on the tennis courts at the club.
Maybe once Obama is out of office, the knuckleheads will finally calm down.
Mississippi is...well, proud to be regressive. I just finished watching the documentary about Neshoba County. All i could do was shake my head.
10,000 fine Christian, mostly veteran KKK members committed to preserving the state constitution to exclude black people from registering and voting.
Despite local bragging, the state refused to take action to prosecute those who hunted and murdered 3 civil rights workers ( 2 Jewish men from NY and 1 black man) intent on registering black people to vote.
10,000 fine Christian, mostly veteran KKK members committed to preserving the state constitution to exclude black people from registering and voting.
Despite local bragging, the state refused to take action to prosecute those who hunted and murdered 3 civil rights workers ( 2 Jewish men from NY and 1 black man) intent on registering black people to vote.
Get out of 1964 much? Oh, wait, it's 2016, 52 years after the fact.
This is the Nexus of right wing/confederate flag waving mentality. You believe in things because you think they **** some other group of people off who you hate, not because the beliefs are sensible or righteous. Sad.
The self esteem of many people depends on feeling superior to others.
This is the Nexus of right wing/confederate flag waving mentality. You believe in things because you think they **** some other group of people off who you hate, not because the beliefs are sensible or righteous. Sad.
Stickin' it to the libs has become a viable political platform in flyover country.
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