This Is Just Stupid!

A truly astonishing story from Dallas, TX.  I just find it so hard to believe that all these 12-person juries are making such bad decisions.  Was there not some doubt in these cases? Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was [...]

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Queen Elizabeth II’s speech in the British parliament last week may have been routine but at least nobody got bored to death. That would have been against the law. Dying in parliament is an offence and is also by far the most absurd law in Britain, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 people by [...]

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Surprise, Arizona high-school senior Kim Peters carries an Olympic identification badge and an Arizona skeet-shooting members’ card, but neither got her out of a four-day suspension for bringing shotgun shells onto school grounds. The 17-year-old has won several trophies in the male-dominated sport and in August was one of 18 athletes across the nation to attend [...]

(8 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York couple sued a florist for $400,000 for using the wrong color flowers at their wedding — a mistake the newlyweds said caused them "extreme disappointment, distress and embarrassment." Elana and Toby Glatt had requested $465 centerpieces in "deep and dark colors of fuchsia, rust and green." Instead Posy [...]

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According to The Brooklyn Paper, a 6-year-old Brooklyn girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Obviously not all of Natalie Shea’s 10th Street neighbors thought her blue chalk splotch was her best work — a neighbor [...]

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Last fall, when two Black high school students sat under the "white" tree on their campus, white students responded by hanging nooses from the tree. When Black students protested the light punishment for the students who hung the nooses, District Attorney Reed Walters came to the school and told the students he could "take [their] [...]

(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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