holy toledo batman

* from jun03 "Gonzales has left quite a paper trail - in the form of fifty-seven death-penalty memoranda he prepared for then-Texas Governor George Bush... "During Bush's six years as governor 150 men and two women were executed in Texas," Berlow reports in the Atlantic, "a record unmatched by any other governor in modern American history."
From 1995 to 1997, Gonzales acted as his legal counsel when the then-Governor decided whether to grant clemency, or to allow the executions to go forward. What kind of counsel did Gonzales provide? According to Berlow, he "repeatedly failed to apprise the governor of crucial issues in the cases at hand: ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence."

Berlow writes that the memos reflect "an extraordinarily narrow notion of clemency." They appear to have excluded, for instance, factors such as "mental illness or incompetence, childhood physical or sexual abuse, remorse, rehabilitation, racial discrimination in jury selection, the competence of the legal defense, or disparities in sentences between co-defendants or among defendants convicted of similar crimes."
Indeed, by 1999, Amnesty judged that "the Texas clemency process violates minimum human rights safeguards, by failing to ... comply with reasonable concepts of fairness and provide [] protection against arbitrary decision-making by the court." The Gonzales clemency memos establish that, in fact, it was even worse than Amnesty knew.
In another country, Gonzales's paper trail might haunt him. In this country, it may well put him on the Supreme Court." heres to getting the hispanic vote. btw - john dean is a farkin hero. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030620.html

* how long till we hear stories that olbermann is gay

* " Gonzales, “has also been a fierce defender of presidential secrecy, helping to put prior presidential records and Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force records out of reach. ‘He has been a major advocate of virtually untrammeled presidential prerogatives,’ said Elliot Mincberg, general counsel for People for the American Way" oh yeah - and he worked for enron (lawyer/client) http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=408

* can we leave yet?

* where can we go?

* in my bizarro world rant yesterday i created some fictional group called al-jihadism - i thought i heard on the teeve today some 'new' group called aljihad claiming responsibility for something or other. only in bizarro land.

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Four more years. Seriously.
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