Judge orders anti-psychotic medication forcibly administered so man will be competant to be executed.

In-f^(%ing-credible

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The defense lawyer Jack Strickland said the following:

Quote: "The whole idea of holding somebody down and injecting them so that we can then say, with a straight face, this person is now competent so we can kill them, I think that smacks of an Orwellian-Soviet-style approach to criminal justice.''

Smacks of? Jack as I remember 1984 that was EXACTLY how it happened. Winston is caught as a Thought Criminal, tortured beyond endurance untill he litterally accepts Big Brothers reality, and then executed for having committed the crime in the first place.

The soviets to my recollection didn't much care weather or not you understood the charges against you, they just shot your a$$ dead.

I laughed long and loud when I read this. It was too astonishing for any other response. The man is mentally incompetant to understand what is happening to him, and therfore execution is cruel and unusual. But we can force him to take pills to get around that constitutional restriction. Wow. The future is now folks. Orwell was right, he was merely off by about twenty years.


Alexei

Mein Got Im Himmel!

I thought I could handle really, really hot food.

I was wrong.

Or, well, perhaps we should define hot.

Tabasco is something most people can handle. It's heat rating is 2,500 scoeville heat units (SHU). Today I tried this: 119,700 SHU.



Pain. Breating in new air made it hurt worse. One drop. Exactly one drop set my mouth on fire for five or six minutes. Good stuff.

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Time for real news.

My spiritual life has been a suckfest lately. My particular bad "habbit" has been tough to break. But I've renewed the fight as of yesterday with the novel approach of, you know, actually trying. This includes, but is not limited too, actually praying when I'm supposed to. Sticking to the fast better than I have been, and not making any bullshit excuses about the 'futility' of things.


Also. I will probably not be in any church for Pascha. Why is this you ask? Because my best friend is seriously considering converting back to Orthodoxy (his grandparents were Ukranian Orthodox, his parents sent him to Catholic school...thus he lost all faith in religion). At his house, on that same Paschal weekend, he is throwing a big LAN party. The scheduling of this was very bad for me, and I was incredably stupid as I wasn't even thinking in terms of this years date for Pascha when I was consulted and I basically said, "Whenever is fine."

Long after that, after even I had realized my colossal blunder and was planning on how to, delicately, be absent for half the party while not looking like a jerk to them for walking out in the middle of it, when the host, my friend Chris, drops this little bomb. "Oh yeah, did I menttion? I'm thinking of converting to Orthodoxy now."

Well, that settled it. I'm going anyway. I'll get to something in the way of services, but this will be my only chance to talk with him at length in person...and I'm stupidly scheduled to pick someone up and bring them anyway. Not to mention that someone is coming from England in no small part because that date was one which I OK'd. So there are courtesy issues. But, in all seriousness, I was on the verge of telling him I couldn't go when I remembered his comment about converting. I talked to Fr. Peter about it. He's not pleased, but what can you do? He very much recognizes the importance of winning Chris over. He backs me on this, he's just very unhappy about the fact that it's happening at a part. Well, what can I say. It was stupid, but it did wind up afforing me the opportunity to, with Gods grace, see my best friend get Saved.

Pray to God for my friend Chris.

Alexei.