Fly my pretties!!!
and don't give me any lip
about the Wick Witch of the West never actually saying that.
Go paint the world pink.
Let your fag flag fly.
Be your glorious self.
Kiss a man in public.
Kiss a man in the pubic.
Don't kiss a man's pubic in public... that's still illegal.
Dance your ass off.
And love.
Most importantly love.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Yeah, These are Still Things...
First on the list of This Shit's Still Happening
Did you think that measles were eliminated from the United States in 2000? Yeah, so did I. During my lunch break on Friday, I was greatly dismayed when I read a Washington Post article on the subject.
Lenny Bernstein in an article for the Washington Post summarizes the current measles outbreak:
The ongoing measles outbreak in the
United States has reached a record for any year since the disease was eliminated in this country 14 years ago, with
288 cases of the potentially deadly infection reported in 18 states, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The largest measles clusters are in
Ohio (138 confirmed cases), California (60) and New York (26), according to the
CDC. Almost all — 97 percent — have been brought into the country by travelers,
mainly Americans, who contracted the infection abroad. About half of those were
people who picked it up in the Philippines, where a large measles outbreak has
affected more than 32,000 people, causing 41 deaths, since January alone, said Anne Schuchat,
director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases.
Read the rest.As I said before, measles had been eliminated from this country 14 years ago. So what gives:
In the United States, the number of people who choose not to be immunized for religious, philosophical or personal reasons has begun to become a public health problem, Schuchat said. Others are unaware of, or unable to get, vaccinations before they arrive in the United States. A small number of adults can lose their immunity over time and may need to be re-vaccinated.(Ibid.)
The net medical
effects of the MMR vaccine cannot be understated. "The health and resource benefits due to
vaccination against measles during the first 20 years of vaccine
licensure," according to a 1985 study in Pediatrics, "have been
enormous. In this period [in the United
States] it is estimated that vaccination against measles has prevented 52
million cases, 5,200 deaths, and 17,400 cases of mental retardation, achieving
a net savings of $5.1 billion."
And oh yes, if you are actively campaign against vaccines, you can go fuck yourself. Your bullshit is injuring people if not killing them, and it needs to stop.
Creationists on the School Board
Did you find the culture wedge issues of the Bush Era exhausting? Yeah, so did I. Oh Johnny Walker, there is not enough of you to make this tolerable (he's also the reason why I am writing this so late in the week.)
It wouldn't be America without an idiot running for School Board, thinking that they will change the curriculum to get rid of those icky things like the Theory of Evolution, Reproductive Education, and Keynesian Economics (Mercantilism forever baby.) According to an article by Sherese Gore in the News and Advance, this time it's in Amherst County, Virginia, which boarders Lynchburg:
Two candidates
seeking appointment to the Amherst County School Board are laying out an early
agenda for their time on the board, including a candidate who said he is
concerned with the inclusion of evolution and human-caused global warming in
the schools’ science textbooks.
Oo goodie. And how, pray-tell, did this Candidate come to his agenda?
Olivares [...] is a
graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
His interest in
serving on the school board was sparked while serving as a substitute teacher
with Amherst County Public Schools. During that time, Olivares said he became
concerned with science textbooks that state that global warming is caused by
human activity and those that teach Darwinian evolution. As part of the school
board, he said would like to review the division’s textbooks.
“As far as the
current global warming, my physicist contacts tell me that there has been no
global warming in the past 15 years despite Mr. Gore’s film,” he said,
referencing the 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” which was written by
Al Gore.
In regards to humanity’s involvement with climate change: “As a physicist, I know better than that,” Olivares said. “I know the cause. It’s that big shiny thing that we see up there every day if the clouds are not covering it.”
Backing up, I couldn't help but notice that he doesn't care to much for that there "Darwinian Evolution" thing in them learny books. I for one am glad someone finally is taking a stand against Darwinian Evolution. Why should American Children be learning an outdated theory from 1859, which does not include genetics, DNA sequencing, and in utero epigenetics? Oh wait, I'm guessing he actually means Modern Evolutionary Theory:
Olivares said he
also is concerned with Darwinian evolution “being taught as fact and settled
science which it is not.” Single-celled organisms have not changed
significantly through the millions of years “that they say evolution has taken
place,” he said.
Following present
classification, there are a little less than 9,300 known species of
prokaryotes, which includes bacteria and archaea;[147] but attempts to estimate the true number of bacterial
diversity have ranged from 107 to 109 total species – and even these diverse estimates
may be off by many orders of magnitude.[148][149]
That's just diversity
among Prokaryotes, which is minuscule when compared to the
complexity and diversity of Eukaryotes.
While the article no where suggests that the Candidate's motives are driven by religious fervor, I will treat it as if it does. As I have written before, Creationism is an Insult to any god that would exist. If there is a god, that god apparently created the universe in a natural method, that includes evolution. To deny rational thought and the scientific method in favor of ancient mythology is insulting to this would be creator god.
Around Half of Americans Don't Understand Gayness
Did you think that most Americans finally understood what it means to be gay? Yeah, so did I.
Credits belong to Gallup. So go read the article and inform yourself.... I'll wait for you.... Done reading now? Good.
So these two polls show that around 37% of the public believes that gayness is a learned behavior that can be changed. My attraction to men is fixed. No one can change that about me. And thank fuck nobody has. I am proud to be gay. I am proud of my yellow eyes. I am proud of my brown hair. I am proud of the things I did not choose about myself, as I am
sure a straight man with blue eyes and blond hair is proud of himself.
But what's really troubling to me is that some 37% of gay children will be raised in a household that believes they can change. Perhaps worse is the number of straight children who will be raised "straight" and that any sign of effeminacy must be beaten out corrected.
Liam ‘14
It makes me sick to think of the millions of people wishing they
could change, expecting that they can change, and completely incapable of
changing.
And to anyone who thinks it is a choice to be gay, I know it's
trite, but so you think you are choosing to be straight? You choose to think
the waitress is attractive or the woman who sits next to you on the bus?
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Heterophobia Gaysplained
All Michael Sam and No Play Makes Liam a Dull Boy. Blah blah blah, Michael Sam, blah blah blah. Blah blah, blah blah blah blah, blah blah vibrator blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah Christianist douchebag, blah blah blah blah blah IB Times article written by Greg Price
on May 14 2014:
Please read the article if you aren't dying from ennui.
Anyway...
Blah Blah Blah
So I went to Photoshop and here's what Heterophobia would look like:
And how about this:
Or this:
Have you ever seen this?
What about from prominent gays:
Yeah, I haven't seen that either...
on May 14 2014:
A Christian lobbyist has
launched a boycott against the St. Louis Rams, openly gay defensive end Michael
Sam, and credit card giant Visa.
In February, Jack Burkman,
who head’s his Washington-based firm JM Burkman & Assoc., vowed to boycott
any team or company that works with Sam and he has stayed true to his
word. Burkman said the Rams and Sam are violating Christian beliefs, and
that he's mobilized a grassroots campaign made up of a coalition of Christian
leaders in 27 of the 50 U.S. states, according to The Independent.
“Visa and the Rams will learn
that when you trample the Christian community and Christian values, there will
be a terrible financial price to pay,” said Burkman.
“Openly gay football players
send a terrible message to our youth about morality. Somebody needs to step up
because the moral fiber of the nation is eroding.”
Please read the article if you aren't dying from ennui.
Anyway...
First of all, wow, Jack Burkman has contacts in 27 of the 50 states... good for him... I hope his mom stops for ice cream after soccer practice... 78.5 percent of the nation is Christian. It is positively laughable that his coalition isn't in 48 of the 50. If all non-Christians lived in their own states, they would occupy 10 states. Even if that were the case, he should still be able to find contacts in the remaining 40.
Secondly, how and in what way is Michael Sam playing in the NFL trampling "the Christian community and Christian values." It's just so fucking stupid, res ipsa loquitur. Dear lord my head hurts simply trying to write this article.
It is my experience that most of the gays that I know are looking forward to day when the act of existence is not viewed as a political statement.
Secondly, how and in what way is Michael Sam playing in the NFL trampling "the Christian community and Christian values." It's just so fucking stupid, res ipsa loquitur. Dear lord my head hurts simply trying to write this article.
It is my experience that most of the gays that I know are looking forward to day when the act of existence is not viewed as a political statement.
Blah Blah Blah
So I went to Photoshop and here's what Heterophobia would look like:
And how about this:
Or this:
Have you ever seen this?
What about from prominent gays:
I was going to show actual photos that were the result of homophobia, but it was too much. So I posted a bunch of links that shows what homophobia actually looks like.
Warning: the following is far too graphic for this blog.
Mark Carson
Barie Shortell
Kerry Tyler Street (Actually Straight)
Dustin Martin
Ferrucio Silvestro
Wilfred de Bruijn
Sachsenhausen
And so many more, but I just can't go any further...
Liam '14
Warning: the following is far too graphic for this blog.
Mark Carson
Barie Shortell
Kerry Tyler Street (Actually Straight)
Dustin Martin
Ferrucio Silvestro
Wilfred de Bruijn
Sachsenhausen
And so many more, but I just can't go any further...
Liam '14
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
456
According to the AP via this ABC News Report, 456 couples were legally married in the 5 counties out of 70 that participated during the last week in Arkansas.[1] 456, holy shit that's a lot of people just sitting around waiting to get married in one state.
Congratulations to all. Congrats to the beautiful who got hitched last Saturday. You looked absolutely amazing for having slept all night in your car. Congrats to the attorneys and the legal staff who made this possible. Congrats to the 5 County Clerks who issued the licences like professionals. 456 couples were granted basic legal benefits that other adult couples are able to enjoy.
Also congrats to the bigots who got a stay put in place. Your pathetically small universe only grew by 456. Congratulations to the 70 County Clerks who stalled long enough not needing to issue marriage licenses to couple who are absolutely desperate. You must feel so big in such a small world and having so much power in your job knowing that you can deny people basic human dignity with a smile.
Congratulations to all 753,770 voters who enacted the constitutional ban that is still in place. You only have to deal with 456 same-sex marriages. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Liam '14
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/arkansas-ag-seeks-court-stay-gay-marriage-23714855
Congratulations to all. Congrats to the beautiful who got hitched last Saturday. You looked absolutely amazing for having slept all night in your car. Congrats to the attorneys and the legal staff who made this possible. Congrats to the 5 County Clerks who issued the licences like professionals. 456 couples were granted basic legal benefits that other adult couples are able to enjoy.
Also congrats to the bigots who got a stay put in place. Your pathetically small universe only grew by 456. Congratulations to the 70 County Clerks who stalled long enough not needing to issue marriage licenses to couple who are absolutely desperate. You must feel so big in such a small world and having so much power in your job knowing that you can deny people basic human dignity with a smile.
Congratulations to all 753,770 voters who enacted the constitutional ban that is still in place. You only have to deal with 456 same-sex marriages. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Liam '14
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/arkansas-ag-seeks-court-stay-gay-marriage-23714855
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Damn You Michael Sam, Now I Have Type 2 Diabetes
Yesterday I was fairly upset by the NFL Draft. Just minutes before he went to the St. Louis Rams, I started pulling up statistics on Michael Sam, because I was convinced that he would go undrafted. I was getting ready to send a sharply worded letter to the NFL, ESPN, and Fox, letting them know that I would no longer be watching football, playing fantasy football, and that I would be contacting their sponsors after I would cancel my subscription to the Weekend Ticket. But voila at the second the Rams saved the day.
And then after I woke up today, I saw this video:
Uggh.. need insulin..too sweet.. too endearing... and no I'm not crying, I long ago established that I have no soul and am incapable of any real human emotions, so my eyes just be super dry.
Ok back to the statistics.
I complied a spreadsheet (the gay's best friend) of all the SEC Player-of-the-Year winners since the SEC started giving them out to defenders in 2003.
And then after I woke up today, I saw this video:
Uggh.. need insulin..too sweet.. too endearing... and no I'm not crying, I long ago established that I have no soul and am incapable of any real human emotions, so my eyes just be super dry.
Ok back to the statistics.
I complied a spreadsheet (the gay's best friend) of all the SEC Player-of-the-Year winners since the SEC started giving them out to defenders in 2003.
Year | Name | Position | Team | Round | Overall |
2003 | Eli Manning | QB | Ole Miss (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 1 |
2003 | Chad Lavalais | DT | LSU (Defense) | Round: 5 | Pick: 142 |
2004 | Jason Campbell | QB | Auburn (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 25 |
2004 | David Pollack | DE | Georgia (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 17 |
2004 | Carnell Williams | RB | Auburn (Special Teams) | Round: 1 | Pick: 5 |
2005 | Jay Cutler | QB | Vanderbilt (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 11 |
2005 | DeMeco Ryans | LB | Alabama (Defense) | Round: 2 | Pick: 33 |
2005 | Skyler Green | RS | LSU (Special Teams) | Round: 4 | Pick: 125 |
2006 | Darren McFadden | RB | Arkansas (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 4 |
2006 | Patrick Willis | LB | Ole Miss (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 11 |
2006 | John Vaughn | PK | Auburn (Special Teams) | Undrafted in 2007 | |
2007 | Glenn Dorsey | DT | LSU (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 5 |
2007 | Felix Jones | RS | Arkansas (Special Teams) | Round: 1 | Pick: 22 |
2008 | Tim Tebow | QB | Florida (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 25 |
2008 | Brandon James | RS | Florida (Special Teams) | Undrafted in 2010 | |
2008 | Eric Berry | DB | Tennessee (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 5 |
2009 | Rolando McClain | LB | Alabama (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 8 |
2009 | Javier Arenas | RS | Alabama (Special Teams) | Round: 2 | Pick: 50 |
2010 | Cam Newton | QB | Auburn (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 1 |
2010 | Nick Fairley | DT | Auburn (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 13 |
2010 | Patrick Peterson | RS | LSU (Special Teams) | Round: 1 | Pick: 5 |
2011 | Trent Richardson | RB | Alabama (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 3 |
2011 | Morris Claiborne | CB | LSU (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 6 |
2011 | Joe Adams | RS | Arkansas (Special Teams) | Round: 4 | Pick: 104 |
2012 | Johnny Manziel | QB | Texas A&M (Offense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 22 |
2012 | Jadeveon Clowney | DE | South Carolina (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 1 |
2012 | Caleb Sturgis | PK | Florida (Special Teams) | Round: 5 | Pick: 166 |
2012 | Ace Sanders | RS | South Carolina (Special Teams) | Round: 4 | Pick: 101 |
2012 | Jarvis Jones | LB | Georgia (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 17 |
2013 | Tre Mason | RB | Auburn (Offense) | Round: 3 | Pick: 75 |
2013 | C.J. Mosley | LB | Alabama (Defense) | Round: 1 | Pick: 17 |
2013 | Michael Sam | DE | Missouri (Defense) | Round: 7 | Pick: 249 |
2013 | Christion Jones | Alabama (Special Teams) | Junior in College |
On this list, three players were undrafted: one was a Return Specialist; one was a Place Kicker; and one is still in college.
Michael Sam is by far the lowest drafted excluding Special Teams. Out of the 30 people drafted, they had an average pick position of 42.3 and a standard deviation of 60.35 meaning any pick below 102.65 is low.
In fact besides Michael Sam, the only other defensive player on this list to have been picked below 112 is Chad Lavalais who was picked at 142. The three-sigma value is 223.05, and yet Michael Sam was drafted 26 spots lower.
So how and why did Michael Sam go from being a possible first or second round choice in January to being a seventh round pick?
He had what many consider to be a poor showing at the combine; he also might not fit in well in the tradition 4-3 scheme due to his height; or perhaps it's the fact that he came out.
There is no way of telling how he will do in the NFL. He might fizzle out like Tebow or become an average player with a long career in the NFL or perhaps even go all-pro.
No matter what there are a lot of people out there wishing him and his partner the best.
Congratulations Michael Sam.
'Liam 14
New rule: drink every time you hear that Michael Sam is "ramming" his gayness down someone's throat.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Heart of Glass Rhymes With... Gov. Beshear
It's Kentucky's turn to make headlines. Although Arkansas surly would beg to differ.
I was reading a article on Kentucky Governor, Steve Beshear, and his role in defending Kentucky's ban on gay certain marriages.
In an article in The Courier-Journal by Andrew Wolfson published on May 10th, all is explained on what Kentucky has been up to since losing in District Court:
Go read the full article. Seriously. I will quiz later on the material.
There is defiantly a lesson to be learned for governors, here. When your AG drops a case like this, perhaps you should likewise.By hiring outside legal representation, you are wasting government money that could be spent on education, improving infrastructure, or hell, even dildos for the poor would be a better use of the money.
If Jack Conway is running as a Democrat for Governor and you lose this case, he looks intelligent, a good leader, and fiscally prudent, while your party looks incompetent.... Wait Beshear's a Democrat... ummm. uhhh.... but... but. at least Conway looks good and smart... and at least now perhaps I will look a little less partisan... shit.
To see what Governor Beshear's odds are of success, I took a look at the Brief they filed with the 6th Circuit Court.
What scares me the most is that the Brief for the Defendant Appellant is very well written. The Brief is grammatically flowing and avoids choppy sentences and general errors. I obviously disagree with the logic and the jurisprudence presented; however, well written briefs have a tendency of succeeding, particularly when they defend the status quo.
But let's take a look at their argumentation:
Kentucky, like 33
other states, has exercised its broad authority to regulate domestic relations
by adopting a traditional man-woman definition of marriage.
That is not a definition of marriage. Marriage is defined by the statutes that promulgate the rights and responsibilities of marriage. States define marriage by whether or not they adopt the Communal Property Regime or if they use Common Law Property. Beyond that you are defining who gets married, and a state needs a damn good reason to do that (literally. Abridging the 14th Amendment requires strict scrutiny.)
So what's Kentucky's damn good reason for not recognizing same-sex marriages:
Even if Baker were not preclusive, Plaintiffs’
equal protection claims fail. Same-sex couples are materially different from
traditional man-woman couples. Only man-woman couples can naturally procreate.
Fostering procreation serves a legitimate economic interest that is rationally
related to the traditional man-woman marriage model. Thus, same-sex couples are
not similarly situated to man woman couples, and the distinction drawn by
Kentucky’s statutes is rationally related to a legitimate interest of Kentucky.
So economic collapse will ensue if Kentucky.. umm.. huh!? Gay people don't stop gaying it up when denied marriage. Yes, men and women make more men and women, and people see that as being somehow good for society. But straight people will continue popping little people out of their baby cannons, even if the gayz are allowed equal benefits. This doesn't even meet rational basis.
Furthermore the examples used by Kentucky to demonstrate their hypothesis are Japan and Germany, neither of which allow same-sex marriage. So we can't allow gay certain types of marriages, because there are problems in places where those gay certain types of marriages aren't performed. You do realize that's an argument for gay marriage, right?
But hold up, what's this about Baker v. Nelson:
Additionally, Baker v. Nelson, 191 N.W.2d 185 (Minn.
1971), appeal dismissed by 409 U.S. 810 (1972), affirmatively rejected the
notion that state law same-sex marriage prohibitions violate the Equal
Protection Clause. Baker remains
valid binding precedent upon the lower federal courts.
When nearly every federal jurisdiction in America is hearing the same type of case, perhaps this isn't the best argument. Baker provides no rational as it simply declined Certiorari. So after Perry, courts could adopt the 10th Circuits ruling as a primary persuasive authority. I explained it more in detail on the write up over Kitchen v. Herbert. Baker was over a statutory ban, while Kentucky has a constitutional ban. Thanks bigots!
Liam '14
The Reader Quiz
By what day must the Plaintiffs file their response to the appeal?
A. May 30th
B. June 9th
C. July 4th
D.Butt-Sex
The answer is D. Butt-Sex... good job reading the Courier-Journal article.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Meh.
***Just a quick heads up, the following post is incomplete. In the past I wouldn't post an incomplete writing, and it would sit unpublished forever. So this will be sloppy and unpolished and flawed. ***
I just don't have time to finish or the energy to clean it up. I also am bummed out about Town of Greece and the future out look of the Lemon Test.
***
Recently while speaking at the Pastor for Life Luncheon, Chief Justice for the Supreme Court of Alabama, Roy Moore raised some red flags about his opinions of law.
The video of his speech is supposed to be here, but I can't get it to work due to blogspot hating the world... or it does work, Yay!!!!!
Moore's Comments in three parts.
1. The 1st Amendment applies only to Christians:
Nope. The 1st Amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Even if the 1st actually stated that only Christians had the benefit of freedom of religion and speech, the 14th amendment would take care of that issue.
Here is the Lemon test as spelled out by the US Supreme Court (the Burger Court no less) in Windmar v. Vincent, 454 U.S. 263, 272 (1981).
A policy will not offend the Establishment Clause if it can pass the following three-pronged test: (1) It has a secular legislative purpose; (2) its principal or primary effect would be neither to advance nor to inhibit religion; and (3) it does not foster "an excessive government entanglement with religion."
2. Without God There Wouldn't be Freedom of Religion, so no Freedom of Religion for Those Who Worship False Gods
Ugggggggh the stuuuuuuuuppppppppidddd make it stop make it stop. If you take away people's freedom of religion, there's no freedom of religion... stupid stupid stupid. So yes, if there is a god, it's thanks to that particular god that there is freedom of religion and no thanks to Moore.
Ok before I jump to conclusions here is what Moore said:
Buddha didn't create us, Mohammed
didn't create us. It’s the God of the Holy Scriptures.
They didn't bring the Koran over on
the pilgrim ship, Mayflower. Let’s get real, let’s go back and learn our
history. Let’s stop playing games.
No One, No One claims that Buddha or Mohammed created the universe. If you're going to be an asshat at least get your facts straight.
Secondly as discussed by countless legal scholars, religions benefit from the establishment clause. In Weiss v. District Board, 76 Wis. 177 (1890) Catholics sued the state of Wisconsin, because they were being discriminated against when their children were forced to read out of the wrong Bible. Or a Unitarian in Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963) who was upset that their school time was being wasted.
When it comes to religion in the law, there is always an asshole who will push for further religious purity. The principles enshrined in the 1st Amendment and regulated by the Lemon Test help shield religious people from bigoted assholes who want to force their interpretations of religion on others.
3. Life Begins at Conception.
Finally Moore stated:
That's in Blackstone's commentaries. As soon as the infant stirs in its mother's womb, they didn't have the technology we have to day. But they knew that when it kick it was alive. Today our courts say it's not alive until the head comes out. If technology’s supposed to increase our knowledge, how did we become so stupid?
He goes on to state life begins at conception.
Where to begin...since he called people stupid, I think I'll start there.
Open a fucking text book; life does not "begyen" at conception. Life begins prior to conception with the production of millions of haploid gametes. Men produce living cells know sperm cells containing one half of a man's genomic sequence, which takes about 130 days to form. Women produce eggs or ovum before she is even born. Then one night when they are teenagers, and they've had too many wine-cooler, the man's penis becomes engulfed with blood, and they knock boots until the male is forced to apologies and say "well, that's never happened to me before, I'll call you tomorrow." And then he doesn't... Asshole.
It's kind of fucking embarrassing that a gay has to explain this to fully grown man. But the important thing to take away is that if you want to play the science game, make sure you understand the science involved.
Perhaps this video can shed some light on this issue.
Furthermore, courts don't claim that life begins at birth. If anything they are ruling on rights. In this country a human being does not have a full set of right until they reach adulthood. And for good reason. We don't want children to be treated as adults.
It's also funny that he would mention Blackstone and life in one breath. Blackstone's ratio states:
All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer.
How will he rule in an upcoming Death Penalty case. A new stet of statistics came out over the weekend from Gross at the University of Michigan, which shows that at least 4 percent of people that have been sentence to death have been vindicated.
We do not know how many people have been falsely executed.
But Blackstone didn't say executed, he said suffer.
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