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What's the best method of treating convicted murderers? Should they be given life in prison, or sent away to a penal colony for hard labor, or maybe a life sentence in traditional prison. Maybe it depends on the particular case in question. If the circumstances were unclear as to the intention, but a life was taken and found guilty, perhaps prison only. Murder of a child, perhaps death penalty. Murder of anyone, which sentence and does it matter? Or maybe the death sentence should never be used as the taking of life as a punishment is behaving like the criminal.
Which punishment would make the best deterrent to crime?
What form of death should be used? Hanging, electrocution, drugs?
What about sending person to a penal colony away from normal civilisation?
Can you ever be sure of the guilty verdict?

I'm getting a history lesson today about Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. Sadly in 1536 at the age of 35 she was beheaded.
There are a few paintings of her, none were impressive... but I found a video that did her story and at the end they did some computer animations of what she would have looked like in modern times. The suggested creation (at 20 minutes into the video) is stunning.







If you don't have time for the video, the comparison is here:



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At 4:45 this morning, several phones in my house sounded an alarm. I got up to read the message:
Imminent extreme alert
TEST - This is a TEST of the Emergency Alert System.
No action is required.

Little do they know, some action is required. That message could have gone to a few hundred thousand cellphone users and someone should be responsible for their actions.
I equate that to yelling FIRE! in a movie theater and then saying "Only kidding."

As a kid, we had Civil Defense sirens located around the city, usually on top of schools or government buildings, designed to be used in the event of extreme emergency... like Russia sending off some nuclear missiles from Cuba that's only 90 miles away!

You could set your clocks by it as they sounded on the first and third Saturday exactly at 1pm and run for about 3 minutes. Yes, testing at 1pm.

I'd certainly like to know what genius scheduled emergency tests at 4am.


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Every day the numbers are getting smaller and smaller.

A few blocks east of me is a hospital. I can hear ambulances on their way to the Emergency Room. I can also hear them blowing their horns when someone is blocking their path to the hospital.
Less than a mile west of me is a fire station. If my windows are open, I can hear paramedics and fire trucks leaving the station. I can also hear when they blow their horns to alert cars to GET OUT OF THE WAY!

Last week, I was passing the fire station when the large ladder truck started pulling out. It's a 6-lane divided highway with a cement/grass center median. The traffic signal changes to red. I stopped and cars around me continued to run the red light ignoring the siren, lights and horn of the fire truck.

Today, a block from the hospital, cars in the turn lane refused to stop and allow an ambulance to get through the intersection that was coming from a different direction. Forget the siren and horn... these drivers didn't allow the ambulance legal right-of-way. I could see the ambulance having to wait (again) for cars not giving access to the hospital.

To say this is bad is an understatement. I don't know what it's like in your city. I thought Miami (50 miles south) was bad, Palm Beach appears to have taken the lead of bad drivers.

I'm sure there are laws for blocking emergency vehicles, but you have to have police watching and not busy escorting the ambulance to the ER.



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Fake university, he lost in court. Racking up countless business failures, he declared bankruptcy on 6 hotels and casinos.
Impeached twice.
His organization companies found guilty on multiple charges of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records.
He is connected with business fraud in the Stormy Daniels case.
Recently found liable in the E. Jean Carroll case, this may open a 'tidal wave' of women coming forward with similar claims.

While claiming' witch hunt' for nearly everything, Teflon Don has squeaked through a lot.
But there is still more to go...

He faces two lawsuits tied to his alleged efforts to interfere with the 2020 election.
I think the big ticket is he will be found guilty in connection with the January 6th insurrection.
Some are talking the possibility of prison, I personally think it would be a few years of house arrest and travel restrictions.

What's next?


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I have finished watching a few videos on climate change and the overall future, in particularly on the foods that are suggested for humans to eat.
Obviously we are to eat less meat and have a greener healthier diet. I am vegetarian so that part doesn't bother me at all, due to all the great positive benefits I have physically gotten from being vegetarian along with fasting daily. I did see at the end of one of these videos, a great portion of the future foods featured bugs for consumption. I don't know how others feel about it, on one hand it's possibly for helping the climate, and the other it's sounds maybe a little too much for the average person to go along with.

how do i get to live in uk and what do i need and for how long can i stay do i need a job first

We generally think of ourselves are smarter today than in days past but just keep in mind that in the 60s, a car owners manual told you how to adjust the valves, lifters, and timing chain. Today the manual tells you not to drink battery acid

The other day a neighbor asked me if I could take her to the Verizon store in town because she didn't have transportation at the time and she wanted to get a new phone for her husband who was getting hard of hearing and their phone didn't have enough volume for him. She already had a smart phone. So, off we went. We got to the store and a very nice salesman asked if he could help us. We sat at his desk and the business of obtaining another phone began. He had his smart phone which he was using instead of a computer and she had her smart phone out and using it to get the info he was seeking as I sat there silently watching these 2 conducting their business both paying more attention to their phones than to each other, a sudden urge came over me that I had been transported way into the future to a world I was very unfamiliar with. All I could think of was getting away from this place. I guess I was so deep in my thoughts that I just blurted out "I wanna go home." "But we just got here." the woman said and the salesman looked at me like I was a retard. "No, not back to the house, I wanna go back to the 50's when people looked at each other when they talked, I wanna walk around Central Park, I wanna ride my bike, I wanna go across the street to "Baldies" candy store and get a Coke in a green glass bottle, I wanna go fishing in Castle Lake." I wanna hear "Rock Around the Clock", I wanna see Jack Benny." I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and got up and said I'll be outside in the car and walked out of the store.
I went out to the car and sat behind the wheel and wept like a baby. Where did it all go? Where are all my friends? How did I get here? Is this what we all wished for? I felt lost. I wonder where Danny is? Oh yeah, he died a couple of years ago, Cancer. His older brother Jesse the same. Jimmy must be pretty old by now, he's probably dead too. Rudy jumped out of a 4th floor window because he couldn't kick a Heroin habit. Just about everyone I knew as a kid were dead.
A few minutes later my neighbor came out of the store and we went home. "Are you ok to drive?" she asked. "Yeah I'm fine'. I said and we drove back and I dropped her off at her house.

Whom among us is not an antagonist? There is Someone who spends their waking hours bloviating in the blog which they know little about. This person recently decided to pm me and they accused me of, among other things, being an antagonist.

An ANTAGONIST! What a terrible thing to read about oneself. Anyways, not feeling the love, this person is now blocked Blocked and may never pm me again on cs. There are now two humorless bloggers who are blocked from pm ing me.

is anyone proud of me for my choice of pronouns.