This website has degenerated into a constant low-pitch whine about poor Obama being mistreated by the racist America. Anytime someone dares to criticize him, it is spun as either prejudice, racism, or using prejudice/racism to attack him. I know the mods will probably delete this diary to maintain the 99.9% Obamapurity on this site.

Waaa waaaa - apparently you can't support Clinton without being a racist bigot nowadays.

Court upholds Kentucky's lethal injections - This is breaking.

The Supreme Court has upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injections for executions.

The justices, in a fractured decision, rejected a constitutional challenge to the procedures in place in Kentucky, which uses three drugs to sedate, paralyze and kill inmates.

The split in the 7 to 2 opinion is as follows:

Roberts’ opinion was joined in full by only two Justices, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Anthony M. Kennedy.  Four other Justices joined the result only — John Paul Stevens, who concurred; Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas who each concurred and also joined each other’s concurrence, and Stephen G. Breyer, who concurred.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justice David H. Souter, dissented.

Most executions have been on hold since this case was taken up by the Supreme Court last year. I am guessing they will resume now.

My father taught me that respect is not something that people deserve by the virtue of their existence or their attributes or where they are from or what family they were born into or any other association. No, he said that respect is something you earn through your actions. He was a blue collar worker and he told me that he never had an expectation of respect from his employers or his coworkers or even his friends without him proving himself and his character through his deeds and his ethic.

It seemed to him that in this new age people expected respect without understanding and evidence as if their mere presence or words warranted unlimited trust and support and esteem.

While he is no longer alive, his words of simple worker's wisdom have always stayed with me.