Aliens is on. What a great movie.
Have watched almost all of the first season of The Shield, loaned by me by a friend at work. Need to watch one more episode. Can’t wait to finish it.
Awesome show!
Life is too short to have a martini with bad olives.
Get good ones - preferably with jalapeno olives in them.
I don’t want much. I just want sentences to be tough, judges to be lenient where the circumstances require it - which shouldn’t be very often - and for serious crimes to get serious time.
I don’t believe in parole. Lock them up.
Last week, John Ashcroft, the tough-on-crime attorney general, gave federal prosecutors orders to all but eliminate plea bargaining with defendants and, almost without exception, prosecute the most serious charges they can prove.
Meanwhile, from Connecticut to California, legislatures and governors are, with a few exceptions, eagerly finding new ways to reduce, rethink or eliminate prison sentences for crimes within their jurisdictions.
The result is a somewhat contradictory national crime-fighting agenda: as the Ashcroft Justice Department demands the harshest prison terms and goes out of its way to track federal judges who do not give them, state lawmakers are openly advocating less time for the same crime and giving judges more discretion in choosing punishments. [New York Times]
The U.S. Army has ordered all 410,000 troops in the Army Reserve to prepare for mobilization. Not everyone is being ordered to active duty, but the new orders make everyone aware that the army reserves are now on a wartime footing. [Strategy Page]
I haven’t been blogging much, been busy and had other things on my mind.
Right now sitting on the couch watching a show about baby pandas, which appears to be the only thing on television right now worth watching. My cat is purring near my feet and is watching the same show - which is highly entertaining.
I am sipping a very fine martini with lots of jalapeno olives - which really makes my day. Now I just need a fine cigar.