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| Even Jesus got a last meal. |
Now, in the story excerpted below, you'll find lists of extravagant meals, and I would agree to putting an end to that silliness. But good grief, how hard is it to put a rule list together? Limit it to a meal, a typical meal you might get at a restaurant. Make it standard portion sizes, limit the number of courses. Easy peasy. But it is more Republican to just shut it down all together. It's like in school where one kid acts up, and the teacher punishes the whole class.
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Special Last Meals: Texas Prisons End Special Last Meals For Inmates Facing Execution
Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death. . .
Read more at: Huffington Post
The articles I read said it was a Democrat who requested that a special last meal be eliminated.
ReplyDeleteAnd the guy who ordered it, really went overboard and then didn't even eat the darn thing.
Might be, Dan. And my verbiage didn't flow as well as it could have. You have to admit, a lot of politics lately has been mean spirited. Compassionless. And it's mostly from the right. It doesn't mean that a Democrat can't do the same, only that they don't do it as often. And in Texas, I'd imagine being a Democrat is a bit different than in the rest of the country. For instance, Rick Perry used to be one!
ReplyDeleteI'll agree with you on the tone of politics-it's been pretty bad.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if it has something to do with Obama and Reid, mostly, making everything an emergency. Started with the stimulus, Obamacare, mores timulus, jobs, debt ceiling, shut down of government. Everything was an emergency and that ratched up the rhetoric on bitg sides.
If we had leaders who were calm, cool and collected on both sides, maybe we would have calmer conversations.