Balta1701

The weather has been strikingly similar lately.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 03:10 PM) My brother has arrested multiple people here in Chicago with past murder convictions on their records, and I'm not talking about him arresting old men that served 50 years, got paroled, and then got caught again. I'm talking about convicted murderers that did just 7 years time and were paroled. I can't speak about the rest of the worlds sentencing, but I HIGHLY doubt it's as low as ours. I believe last I heard from him that if you commit a murder in Chicago, you have about a 75% chance to get away with it. I assume that means that murder investigations are solving just 25% of them right now. Then when it comes to sentencing, some of the sentences he's seen judges give are so much of a joke that he wonders why they even bothered arresting people. This is the problem with "data". I'm sure "data" shows that if you murder someone there is NO WAY you could be paroled after 7 years in Chicago. Reality is, it happens. Data means nothing when it's massaged the Daley way. Briefly googling for worldwide conviction statistics I found this about the UK.

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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 03:01 PM) The AL Champion Texas Rangers were 76-68 against the AL, 3 games better. (presumably not counting the postseason)

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 03:02 PM) They're exercising the option apparently... http://twitter.com/SI_JonHeyman/status/10059812385591296 Yeah, that didn't take long.

Partially

No one puts Kenny in a corner.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 02:52 PM) The most concerning part of last season was our inability to beat AL teams. Not sure what final record was, but we were average at best vs AL teams. 73-71 against the AL.

I know I are but what am you. Wait that doesn't sound right.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 02:39 PM) Death Penalty is a tiny, tiny percentage of prosecutions anyway, so that's not really useful to the topic. What he meant I'm sure is that the prison terms people actually serve for murder or manslaughter here end up being way too short, and I tend to agree with him. That has an effect. Wait, the prison terms for murder wind up being way too short? Are we breaking this down by race or anything? can you back that up with data, that prison terms for murder in the U.S. are shorter than in other western democracies? With the number of people we have in prison compared to the rest of the world I find that hard to believe without data. (And anyway...the death penalty note is relevant there because one of the main arguments in favor of it is that it is a deterrent to serious crime, aka murder).

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 02:38 PM) KC Johnson was saying on the Mully and Hanley show that it is pretty much up to Boozer TY, I've been wondering about that.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) Less consequence for murder here, pretty simple. Yet we're about the only one in that group with the Death Penalty.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 02:35 PM) Bulls vs Magic tonight with Boozer back. Should be a good one... Any report on how much floor time he'll see?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 02:23 PM) Im pretty sure there were a few predictions on this thread that the heat would get to or eclipse the bulls mark I'll raise my hand and say that I was one of those.

Gosh, the Bible code has a 1/12 * 0.02 chance of being correct, statistically.

Don't we all just suck.

Bad at this, I am.

Although, a few rats can be used as a food source in a pinch.

You rat.

Xanthareel in your diet makes stalking easy.

Unless they see what is on my cell phone...

One other thing bothering me about the whole Wikileaks matter...this prosecution for Rape in Sweden for Assange. It's just such an odd story, if it's not a politically motivated prosecution, they did just about everything they could to make it seem like one. They brought up the issue right at the time of the first big Iraq war document dump, interviewed him, publicly cleared him and allowed him to leave the country, said they were closing the case, then re-opened the case, and every time there's a document dump it seems like they push harder on it. Interpol declares him a wanted man the day after the diplomatic document dump. That said...I certainly have no opinions or knowledge on the merits of the case, so it's entirely plausible he could have raped a person in sweden. If he did though, whoever's doing the investigating/prosecuting has certainly made it seem to outside observers like the case is nothing other than a political move. To the point that I probably couldn't have served on the jury pool because I'd call any evidence presented "Suspect Edit: Here's salon talking about how unusual Interpol's behavior is here, they usually use the sort of warning that they put out for Assange for people accused of war crimes or genocide.

Soliciting? I don't see any women in here? What kind of soliciting do you think I'd do?

Perhaps Yhwh can change your mind.

Now you're jewish?