I love it when people have no idea about the definition of “Karma” — but still freely use it anyway in a sentence as an enforcer against their hoped-for punishment of someone else’s bad behavior. They think Karma is something immediate and predictable and tangible and just around the corner waiting to pay you back. If you make an immoral decision, God will wait get you in death — but Karma will punish you next Wednesday!
What is the best way to kill a man with the least effort on our part and that would give him the quickest, most painless, end — while saving us the most money?
America is a country that loves to punish. We punish foreign nations. We discriminately punish our own. This week, The Economist rightfully flays the ongoing — and failed — notion of Wild West American Justice where the punishment rarely fits the crime.
As a child, I was spanked. I never understood the memeing or the method in spanking — except for a parent to prove to a child they were stronger and meaner. My spanking experience was humiliating and hate-inducing. My momentary stepfather was especially brutal and sadistic in that he required you to pull down your pants and underwear if you did wrong. He then bent you over and told you to hold your ankles while offering your naked rear — anus always facing him — so he could hit you as hard as he could with a Holiday Inn fly swatter for ten minutes. Crying was not enough to stop him. Time was his only guide. He cannot die soon enough.
If we still believe in the United States that the purpose of prison is to rehabilitate both mind and body — should we ever be putting people in solitary confinement for years on end? Should an entire prison term ever consist of 23-hour a day lockdown with one man in a single cell?
Continue reading → Solitary Confinement Creates the Worst of Us
We need to nationalize all American banks RIGHT NOW! We’re already down the rabbit hole and sinking fast and there’s no way out of the haze and mass hysteria created by the previous administration that Barack Obama must now set right now.
In an alarming, but necessary, report from Oxford, it appears the UK have their very own Gitmo-like forever detainee camp called “Campsfield House.”
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