DBWI: How are you voting on the capital punishment refferendum?

And the CT referendum on the re-instatement of capital punishment got defeated by a wide margin.

Northern Northern Massachusetts, if you believe our state government, which is trying to phase out the term Maine... :rolleyes:

You guys are in denial mode over Maine becoming a separate state, that's all. Just because you guys are in the centre of the friggin' country doesn't mean that the country has to be an über-MA.

Oh, and BTW, what's your opinion over what happened at Beacon Hill lately over the university top-up fees issue? Don't the politicians know why we have the Tripartite System in the first place?
 
The Governor of Nevada, Vince McMahon, the former Pres. of the WWF (after they beat the Global Endangered Animal Fund (former World Wildlife Fund) in a lawsuit to change their name).

Is asking to legalize Gladiator Battles along the Vegas Strip. Please sign the petition to prevent this inhuman torture.

EDIT: the bill passed, Gladiators are legal in Nevada.
 
So let me get this straight, if you do a crime state capital is punished? And do you later move the capital to another city or what? :confused:
 
Here in the Free Republic of Delaware, we do public hangings - on the first Saturday of the month, if anyone needs it, down in front of Legislative Hall here in Dover. We do a one month wait between trial/sentencing, then off to the Gallows. Seems like the real bad premeditated crimes have fallen off to almost nothing. We haven't had a hanging here for almost a year, but the last one was a Double. A fellow and his girlfriend offed her husband after torturing him. Good turnout, @ 2,500 people and the hangman got an ovation for that one.

Bobindelaware

[(ooc) I am personally totally opposed to the death penalty.]
 
And the CT referendum on the re-instatement of capital punishment got defeated by a wide margin.
5% is hardly a wide margin, especially when you have those GE voting machines... I thought we had laws mandating paper ballots in this country?

You guys are in denial mode over Maine becoming a separate state, that's all. Just because you guys are in the centre of the friggin' country doesn't mean that the country has to be an über-MA.
And the last referendum on whether Maine should be a separate state failed, so they clearly see that a separate "State of Maine" makes no economic sense. I don't see why people keep bringing up that idea.

Oh, and BTW, what's your opinion over what happened at Beacon Hill lately over the university top-up fees issue? Don't the politicians know why we have the Tripartite System in the first place?
Don't get me started about the country's university policy... it's like they're deliberately trying to do as crappy of a job as possible.
 
5% is hardly a wide margin, especially when you have those GE voting machines... I thought we had laws mandating paper ballots in this country?

They did use paper ballots.
And are you reading the Boston Herald again? It was a higher margin than that.

And the last referendum on whether Maine should be a separate state failed, so they clearly see that a separate "State of Maine" makes no economic sense. I don't see why people keep bringing up that idea.

Actually, it does make some economic sense (for those of us outside of MA). THAT one was a very close one, and it seems that a referendum will be brought up again pretty soon.

Don't get me started about the country's university policy... it's like they're deliberately trying to do as crappy of a job as possible.

I agree - the only things they manage to get right were the Tripartite System for both primary and secondary education and the end of the confusion between colleges and universities (by saying that one has to enter college before university). Other than that - all I have to ask is WTF?
 
Here in the Free Republic of Delaware, we do public hangings - on the first Saturday of the month, if anyone needs it, down in front of Legislative Hall here in Dover. We do a one month wait between trial/sentencing, then off to the Gallows. Seems like the real bad premeditated crimes have fallen off to almost nothing. We haven't had a hanging here for almost a year, but the last one was a Double. A fellow and his girlfriend offed her husband after torturing him. Good turnout, @ 2,500 people and the hangman got an ovation for that one.

Bobindelaware

[(ooc) I am personally totally opposed to the death penalty.]

wasn't that when the audience wanted encore?
 
wasn't that when the audience wanted encore?

No, that was when we had a serial killer executed and a child rapist coming to trial. They wanted to save the cost of the trial. He was convicted and sentenced to castration - in public, of course.

Haven't had any problems with child rapists since.

Bobindelaware
 
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