Internet bullets

As Rambo taught us in the terrible 2008 reboot: When pushed, killing is as easy as breathing. In our case, killing is as easy as dumping your mental diarrhea onto the pages of the internet. I'll pull from the same story on two different websites: KSDK and STL Today. It will be a threesome of stupidity to fill all your brain wrinkles with despair fluids.

Missouri governor Jay Nixon has postponed an execution because one of the drugs to be used was Propofol. The European company who makes the drug has threatened to stop exporting the drug to America if used in such a way. Propofol is widely used for general anesthesia in the country, so it would be pretty bad if we suddenly had to switch drugs or find a different supplier.

Imagine if your weed dude got busted and the headache of finding someone else you're comfortable with and can offer a good product at reasonable rates. Now imagine it's the life saving open heart surgery you've been needing and not you giggling at cartoon network on a Saturday night as you eat a whole box of crackers.

I'm against the death penalty because while I believe the state can incarcerate you if deemed to be a danger, I don't believe they have a right to determine if you live or die. I understand people don't agree with this sentiment, and I understand being for the death penalty. Everyone has an opinion and I can respect that. The wonderful thing about this country is we can have open debate with one another on the things we find important. Even better is when you can find someone to stand across from your position and give you a rational debate.

And the wonderful thing about the internet is people are going to say stupid things no matter where you fall on the issues.

How Missouri got a batch of Propofol is irrelevant. If you want a good read on the whole thing, this NPR article covers the bases pretty well. But we aren't here for facts and polite discussion...

I don't know what it is about some Americans. There is a sense of entitlement among them thinking we are better than every other country, and how dare anyone ask us to do or not do something. Usually this comes from people who make jokes at the expense of the French while not understanding that the without them, we'd still have a Union Jack on our flag and the queen on our money.

We have a global economy, and according to the NPR link up there, we get 90% of this drug from European countries, and it was a mistake the Missouri Department of Corrections even got the drug. Not using a drug accidentally sent to you to kill people isn't pandering, it's respect.

And Denny, stop using semicolons. We have commas and articles that do the same thing without dredging up archaic punctuation that only linguists and English majors care about.

The gas chamber. A perfectly cheap and easy way to execute someone as long as you were prepared to evacuate the surrounding residential area during venting of the gas and dressing your clean up crew in masks and rubber gloves to remove the body because of excess cyanide. If you take the Missouri State Penitentiary Tour in Jefferson City, you'll learn quite a bit about this wonderful way to die. 

Though an arm full of heroin probably wouldn't be too bad, and doctors are perfectly fine with the measurement "Some of" as a perfectly reasonable dosage.

Everyone becomes an environmentalist when it comes to executions. No one gives a damn about a polar bear or corn ethanol, but they will front the cost of a bullet for you. I would not, however. Ammo is expensive these days.

Public hangings are fucked up, and the fact that stopped doing it in America the early 1900s is testament to how far we've come as a society. We no longer see the public death of a person to be an entertaining evening. That's why we have the TV and internet pornography.

You know how people argue that evolution can't be real because there are still monkeys? These are the monkeys of our human evolution. There is a reason we don't do public executions. What's worse is that some people just don't realize it. 

Sometimes I wonder what would be the line these people refuse to cross. Bullet to the head or hanging is fine, but what about all the fantastic Medieval ways we decided to kill each other? Drawing and quartering? A cage in which the person dies of thirst? Or should we do exactly what they did to the victim? 

I'd like to find the person willing to do to Ted Bundy what he did to his victims. And then lock them up because clearly they are a damn sociopath.

You know how those liberals like feeding people and wearing bras like a bunch of assholes, right? Also, if you're going to claim anyone isn't smart you better be using punctuation correctly and checking your spelling.

I love the people who just want to attack liberals at every turn with nonsense catch phrases they learned from the Drudge Report. Some people can hide their stupid, but I respect the ones who put it out in the open. 

If you're wondering how someone could make these glaring mistakes while commenting, it's because people don't read the articles or do any research before spouting off a fountain of bullshit. The internet has given us information at our fingertips, and the only thing slowing it down is bandwidth and the time we invest in personal research. Since these news sites have those annoying auto-play videos, I can't imagine anyone is being held back because of internet speed.

Executions: Just what Jesus would have wanted.