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^ Wow, Alan. It's all about you.

^ Any matters concerning Morgoth's mother and I are none of your concern.

So essentially you're admitting that you're thoughts on this are emotionally charged and not rational? Don't even begin to assume what I have or have not been through in my life, thank you very much. Calm down, dear.

I am glad, and heartened a great deal, that this thread is full of people who have never had some seriously horrible **** happen to a loved one. It might, just might, change their minds. Edit: The state has a monopoly on justice. We are not allowed to take it for ourselves. But when the state begins to fail in that fell duty, is it any wonder people begin to want the ultimate sanction? Or are the thoughtful, liberal-minded people here the final arbiters of what does, or does not, constitute justice?

^ I love it already. Link?

How very Scandinavian. Was there down-time in a sauna, too?

But if the Democratic party got drone-bombed, wouldn't they be attacking themselves? Cray-zee.

Defending the blatantly guilty, those who have committed the most egregious crimes, has become a liberal parlour-game. I have no time for it.

Is that your mother?

Tried to get home to the Schloss after a hard day at work and found these Allied Kommandos having a disagreement on the roof of my cable car. * Pfffft *

Barbarossa to Berlin and some other military history about the Ostfront. A Man without Breath by Philip Kerr (another Bernie Gunther mystery, very good as usual)

I just can't get into MMOs, admittedly I only tried Rift and clocked up about forty hours in it. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it, I just couldn't *love* it.

The only reason the US makes a meal of the death penalty is lawyers. Next.

You are Obyknyven and I claim my ten groats.

It will also give our armed forces something genuinely meaningful to do after they come home from hot, sandy places.

^ That is indeed a twenty-five dollar value.

I suppose it comes from the British penchant for cynicism and borderline nihilism. Take for example Judge Dredd ostensibly being a fascist and Gestapo-ersatz despite being the hero of the series. You understand us. This is good.

As long as that means we can deploy Drones against them then I'm cool with your idea.

I approved of Jack Reacher. It was an old-fashioned sort of thriller, but in a good way. I am not a Lee Childs fan so I came to it with no pre-conceptions. I also love Robert Duval and fancy Rosamund Pike.

^ This is exactly the point. It will be hilarious.

Ha ha ha, death penalty debate ftw. What would Jack Bauer do?

Pie is good.

Possibly, but 'tis very expensive.

This is why opponents of the death penalty baffle and mystify me.