Texas pays a cushy full-time salary to a sociopathic weirdo who wears a shellacked feather boa toupee around on his head all the time to make sure Texas executes as many of its citizens as possible, and normally this guy, Rick Perry, he is the best state murder party planner in the country. NOT TODAY! The United States Supreme Court of Ruining the Fun ordered Texas to stay the execution of one of its black citizens, all because Texas gave him the death penalty specifically for being black. Uh, that is the point?
From the AP:
The [U.S. Supreme Court] on Thursday halted the execution for Duane Buck, 48, two hours into a six-hour window when he could have been taken to the death chamber. Texas officials, however, did not move forward with the punishment while legal issues were pending.
Buck was sentenced to death for the fatal shootings of his ex-girlfriend and a man in her apartment in July 1995. His attorneys had asked both the Supreme Court and Texas Gov. Rick Perry to halt the execution because of a psychologist’s testimony that black people were more likely to commit violence. Buck’s guilt is not being questioned, but his lawyers contend the testimony unfairly influenced the jury and Buck should receive a new sentencing hearing.
Rick “the state of Texas has a very thoughtful, very clear process in place for executing people” Perry was in Iowa this whole time all set to ignore the requests of this guy’s lawyers, just like his job description requires him to. Don’t look at him on this one. [AP]
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Hooray for exploding teabagger heads!
he should pray for death.
What do they wear in lieu of black armbands to show sadness at a death avoided?
They'll just drag him behind a pickup truck if he ever gets free – to show their sadness that he wasn't executed, of course.
Every time I see this gun-toting picture of Perry I want to see a photoshopped version with him in Pennywise the clown makeup. That would give a clearer impression of his character, especially with a 'Y so serious?' tagline.
We need a photoshopped image of him tossing a lasso around a goat, because that's what he is. A damn goat roper.
Goat "raper" – fixed. You're welcome.
Makes more sense then those ridiculous "Obama = Joker" pictures.
I can't imagine anything could be clearer than that picture.
…the state of Texas has a very thoughtful, very clear process in place for executing people…
Yes, it's called a Pantone® PMS Color Chart.
Whew, I'm lighter than "rustic drab," so I should be safe!
That's a helpful chart. I fell in between "Gin Blossom Pink" and "Morning After Grey."
That probably puts in the solid majority of Wonketteers.
"Irish Flu Green" here.
Unfortunately, being amongst "the solid majority of Wonketeers" means that we are gonna be some of the first up against the wall.
I thought it was just a good old Piggly-Wiggly bag (or whichever chain is the lightest shade of brown).
Now I'm wondering about John Boehner. Are people of the orange persuasion safe?
Hey now – that doesn't take into account the extra points for the mentally challenged or youths, etc. etc. Rick Perry would be just as happy to execute white people – he's willing to kill them all!
Has there been any research done to see if “PMS Glossy Black” gets more executions than “PMS Matte Black?”
Perry should read what that Jesus fellow said about Capital Punishment.
I have long thought that Christianity should update its symbolism, and depict Jesus strapped to an electric chair, instead of nailed to a cross, just so people get the message: Your God was a condemned, executed criminal. Convicted and executed after going through the roman's very thoughtful, clear process for executing people.
Just watched "Paradise Lost," the documentary about the "West Memphis 3" trial…yeah, that's one airtight justice system, all right.
I just watched that too. It's comforting to know you can get 20 years in prison for a crime you didn't commit based on the fact that you look a bit like Antony from Antony and the Johnsons and once listened to metallica.
Jesus' execution was planned and ordered by God as a substitute for executing the rest of us for our sins, so the earthly circumstances of his death don't matter. It was not an injustice that shouldn't have happened, but the only way that God would even consider not letting Satan roast your chestnuts for all eternity. So there's nothing inherent in (evangelical fundie) Christianity that requires drawing an anti-death penalty lesson from the Crucifixion.
So you're saying that God is a sadistic asshole?
Actually, my comment was written in the voice of Cheney.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eZxCD6iW6Bo/S8JEtLLS7NI...
Conservative Christians have already got you covered:
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/did-jesus-support-c...
Didn't Jesus compel a death by stoning to be commuted?
Thanks a lot Chet. By the way, can you refer me to the genius who established that the beatitudes apply only to the Joos?
Heh. That's the great thing about the bible. There's so much stuff in there, mistranslated so many times over the centuries that it can be twisted around to serve whatever perverted purpose you care to promote.
No wonder it's history's all-time bestseller.
Not that most of it isn't bullshit, but you'd be amazed at how true the texts and translations have remained over so long a period.
Wow, that is some first class logic-chopping. Since Jesus DIDN'T say, "No man, you shouldn't be executed" to the repentant thief, he therefore supported capital punishment.
I guess the fact that he NEVER said "You shouldn't get high" means that he supported pot legalization.
Well if thats what they think, then they better not be eating pork or shrimp or locusts, or else they will be an abomination in the eyes of the lord. Circumscision, also.
Perry should read what that Jesus fellow said about Capital Punishment.
What makes you think Rick Perry gives half of a shit what Jesus actually said?
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
I'm sure Perry feels that, were he black, he'd want to be put out of his misery too.
Can't read, too busy pushing people out of line to throw that first stone…
Looks like a George Costanza fire drill.
"Kill them all, let me sort 'em out."
The Supreme Court did that? What – is it April already?
Maybe he can find a coyote to shoot tonight just so that he can feel better. He's probably busy with his campaign and will just go to a college football game and shoot the mascot to save time.
Or the gerbil on trump's head.
Did you see that the Donald took him out to dinner to Jean-Georges Restaurant? The menu includes:
Fluke Sashimi with Floral Infused Cherries, Carmelized Foie Gras, and Crunchy Rabbit. Yeah, way to look like an everyday cowboy there, Rick.
Crunchy Rabbit results from not washing between trix…
That has GOT to be the gayest. menu. ever.
Yes, Elvis it is very gay. I could just see Perry ordering the crunchy rabbit and calling the server over and in that horrible Bush voice saying, "waiter, there's a hare on my plate."
Well, he had to be just like George, eating the fancy Frenchie food on days of high import (although the souffle shithole W was at when OBL bought has probably since been renamed Freedom Pie Works).
That is food porn, and relatively boring food porn at that. If he was a Dem it would be all over Faux News, but I guess we'll just be left to laugh at him on Wonkette (while wishing we could get a doggy bag).
Wonder how Sarah feels about being taken to a pizza chain when Rick got taken somewhere nice? I get the feeling that the Palin chicks get taken out to IHOP often. It's not because the guy wants to buy them pancakes either. He wants them out of his trailer so that he can fumigate the place.
He could also lower some corporate tax rates or deregulate the shit outta something. That may help as well, poor fella.
Jesus Fucking Christ Texas I know we make jokes and shit but damn you guys really are fucked up
Barbara Jordan
Anne Richards
The Mighty Jim Hightower, also.
thrust back at alt text Perry. Thrust, thrust, and thrust!!!
Glad to see that thrusting got the alt text changed KBJ.
Alternate hed: Texas Messed With.
TeaParty's reaction? They all screamed "STATE'S RIGHTS!!!!!!!"
Also: the "good hair" of Gov. Good Hair is not Gov. Good Hair's good hair, personally grown from his follicles, but a sewn into place men's weave? & this bald man is the front-runner?
Either, the GOP really does want to take us back to the 50s (at least…) & this is good news for Dwight Eisenhower, or Perry is going to doom his chances with a George Costanza "rageohol" episode.
They only want us to go back to a part of the 50s, like with the segregation and quick executions. The economic prosperity part, but not the high marginal tax rates on the rich or the decent union wages parts, because it is clearly impossible for a nation to ever have job growth when those things exist like they did in the 1950s.
Perry loves to play the tough guy role to the hilt, even when it comes to executing innocent people.
You could say that he's a thoroughly Willing ham
Well, hell, anyone can execute guilty people, that don't prove nothing. Perry is so law and order, he is in favor of executing innocent people, that's Texas justice! They might be innocent of the crime they were convicted of, but I am sure they done something.
Far better to kill some innocents that let one guilty go free. But hey, Willingham was a brown and we know what the good Tejas official shrink thinks about browns now don't we? Yep, yep.
/ nods too much and ten gallon hat falls off two gallon head
whaja mean Willingham wuz white????
Well, he didn't grieve the way people thought he shoulda grieved, so he was clearly a murderer. Would he have been accused if he was innocent, I ask you?
Don't matter if the guy's innocent … he was convicted, which in Texas means that morality and conscience are suspeneded, therefore it's OK to kill him, if only for sport. This is the logic that Bush used, and Perry is right there with him.
Also, slightly OT, but i just noticed Spanky has 4 accounts now that visit mine on a daily basis. Does this guy seriously have nothing better to do but sit in his mom's basement and cyberstalk us all day? He can even get his cheap thrills downfisting anymore
Sometimes I don't even scroll down far enough to see his "leavings."
What a loser.
And he thinks he's doing something worthwhile.
Does this guy seriously have nothing better to do but sit in his mom's basement and cyberstalk us all day?
I believe you just answered that question yourself. Taking away the downfist button was an awesome move by Wonkette…enjoy his pathetic rage.
"The schaden freudes itself."
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Or is it the freude that schadens itself? I can never remember.
Shittin' fraud, meet schaden freude.
Or is it the freude that schadens itself? I can never remember.
That's a good point. Going back to the original German: the schaden is the unhappiness and the freude is the joy part. So I guess it all depends on whether you're a glass-half-empty, a glass-half-full or a hey!-somebody-stole-my-glass kind of guy.
I count at least five identities. On the other hand we should feel proud that we are keeping this guy so occupied. Every moment his impotent rage is sated doing this is a moment we keep him from planning a Norway style attack.
Needs moar cheeto dust.
Hey, that's what happens when you drop out of the eighth grade to eat rock candy all day. SpankySybil is probably mad because his rattail got caught in the Tilt-a-Wheel at work yesterday, but that's not the libruls' faults. I'm pretty sure he came up with that approach to life all by his cousin-fucking self.
And I thought I was jaded and bitter, haha. I like you
black people are more likely to commit violence
Posted in every private prison in Amurika.
And after all we did for the blacks trying to civilize them.
They took Our Jesus & stole Our Civil Rights.
Rev. Dr. King was an apostate.
WWJD? Oh right. That's praying, gospel spouting Rick Perry. Not Texas Perry. What a douche.
Governor Helmet Head makes Georgie Bush look like St Francis of fucking Assissi.
Karla Faye Tucker disagrees.
Yeah, Bush was a pretty cold blooded killer. No wonder he and Cheney got along. Of course, at least Cheney has the balls to try to kill with his own hands. (And, strangely enough, only Laura had the smarts to pull it off).
I'm just waiting to hear Perry making jokes about…
"black people were more likely to commit violence."
Fuck, if only.
Tagged: 2012, death penalty, duane buck, GOP, job setbacks, rick perry, scotus, texas
And Assholevania!
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I'm assuming that at the next Republican primary debate the candidates will fall over themselves to declare that they won't nominate liberal pantywaist justices who do things like staying executions over incredibly inflammatory and prejudicial statements by the prosecution's witnesses during sentencing.
Especially liberal activist pantywaist justices like Antonin Scalia.
IMPEACH SCALIA!!!!11!!!111!!
Technically it was the defense's expert and the statement was eleicitied on cross. But it was still an utterly bullshit question to even ask, much less get some knucklehead to agree to.
Rick Perry's story about shooting a coyote in his pajamas is shady if you ask me. I live in a neigborhood where those sneaky fuckers are all over the place and, unless Rick's middle name is Mannlicher Carcano, I doubt seriously if he could come close to hitting one of them. They're smart, don't look for trouble and make themselves known only when there's a hamster or chihuahua around.
And how the coyote got into his pajamas, we'll never know.
or a roadrunner……..
As I recall, he claimed it was "COMING RIGHT AT MY DOG! SHOOT IT NED!" or some such bullshit. You know he saw it and shot first, laughed second and only then realized it was actually the neighbor's rat terrier with a bad haircut.
That's the thing, though: Perry always carries a hamster in his rectum. It's what he means when he says he's "packing."
No Man-Licker Carcano jokes, Wonketeers?
You disappoint me.
Goddamn activist judges, doing their constitutionally appointed duty.
Fucking activist Supreme Court, telling Texas it can't execute people for being black. Next thing you know, the Supremes will be telling the state it can't execute the intellectually disabled for being intellectually disabled.
On second thought, that's good news for Rick Perry…
this would never have happened if he'd seceded.
Also, who's the Hitler youth bunghole in that oft used picture? YeeeeeeeeeeHawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, muthafucka!
My gaydar says it's Ricky's "close, special family friend."
His protege.
"Oeuf means egg. Protege means rentboy. It's like those French have a word for everything!"
Plenty more where that came from.
two hours into a six-hour window when he could have been taken to the death chamber.
This Buck guy should be grateful — being taken right to the brink of execution and then pardoned worked wonders for Dostoyevsky.
It sounds downright treasonous, to me, to go around suggesting black people AREN'T more violent than white people. Its giving aid and comfort to the enemy right in the middle of this race war we are fighting. We know how to treat that kind of supreme court justice down in Texas.
Darn, if this Duane Buck had actually been innocent, like Cameron Todd Willingham, then the court wouldn't have intervened and the super-fun execution disco could have gone off without a hitch. http://nyr.kr/dvEOey
Scalia settled that issue long ago, when he held that actual innocense is not grounds to halt an execution. As long as the "process" was adhered to.
Actually, Scalia relied on originalism to find that Texas did not exist and now accordingly therefore could not be permitted to kill a black buck.
Years from now, we will all remember where we were on the day Scalia went Sharia.
Chortle.
Scalia Goes Sharia may be the worst Debbie Does Dallas sequel ever.
Damn Supreme Court chock full of liberals like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts. . .
They would be liberals, in Texas.
This sends a terrible message to people who might get to thinking that it's okay to be born black.
It's like the Texas tourism ads used to say "its like a whole other country" – right – like Somalia.
With Perry's butt pirates patrolling the waters…
With Perry's butt pirates patrolling the waters.
If Scalia is voting to hear this case, it can mean only one thing: He intends to LEGALIZE the use of race as a criteria in imposing the death penalty. And I presume in public accomodation, hiring, and housing as well.
"Black people more likely to commit violence" testified this psychiatrist?" Someone desperately needs a remedial course in the history of Western Civilization.
this isn't western civilization–it's Texas.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWWW!!! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH ! DEATH !
One day scientists will discover that remnant Neanderthal conservative gene.
Luckily, one's race is not something one is born with, but rather, a choice.
The new Texas state lottery, the winner gets to push the needle in the poor black criminal being executed. Should be a big money maker
you are making an assumption that the court will rule in his favor…..they won't it will be 5-4 to execute.
It's a conservative-leaning Supreme Court that halted a Texas execution. I'm afraid, mommy.
You guys, the death penalty deters violence. Which is why there is no more violence in Texas.
When you think about it, prisons only work on people who never go to one. Once you send someone to prison, you lost.
If Rick Perry was smart, he'd install death chambers in the back of every convenience store in Texas.
“the state of Texas has a very thoughtful, very clear process in place for executing people”
Also for parole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Belly#Prison_ye...
Mexicans, still ok?
yeah. until they outlaw Catholicism and make whatever fucked up religion Perry belongs to the state religion.
but how is Texas going to appease the Gods when Perry prays for rain? According to Dear Abby, fruit and burning meat are not sufficient sacrifices.
Now he doesn't get killed by Perry because he's black, he gets killed because he's in Tex-Ass. Justice and america.
When will we throw these buttheads out of the union. I mean they want to leave and we want them to go?
Yeah, you fancy liberal Blue States. How many executioner jobs have your governors created? Thought so.
Aw shucks, we ain't so fancy up here in New England. We still honor the Constitution the old fashioned way: By reading it.
Why get bogged down with words when you know it in your heart? Besides the Second Amendment, the rest is all legal mumbo jumbo except the part about impeaching Democrat presidents.
Zero by the state since 1846, and damned proud.
Our last execution was 1963, but I wouldn't be surprised if we still had an executioner on the payroll, anyway.
Gov. Perry is sending the bill of the prisioner's last supper to Sonia Sotomayor (a welfare queen), because, of course, his family cannot afford it.
Ha ha, good one, as if black people were citizens in Texas.
The only moral quandary the favorite candidate of the party of the Republican "Let him die" Party would have is if she were a woman, and had gotten knocked up by some prison guard. On second thought, he'd just give her a stay until it was safe to get the kid out via cesarean. Then she'd fry and her baby would immediately go into foster care and grow up to be just like her mom.
That's as merciful as the Party of Death would care to be.
"…a psychologist’s testimony that black people were more likely to commit violence."
I can't fathom how that fits in to the "thoughtful process". It seems more like a thoughtless process — black = violent = guilty = hang him.
But suppose we applied the "more likely" principle elsewhere. Imagine a Texan on trial here in Connecticut with the prosecution arguing "Texans are more likely to commit violence". If the Stetson fits, you must convict.
How could it not be a thoughtful process, though? I mean, the guy said, in his testimony, that it was "because of complicated reasons". What more evidence do you need, really?
Re – the psychologist’s testimony that black people were more likely to commit violence.
Pale face Rick Perry has presided over 234 executions during his tenure as governor which makes him the most violent son of a bitch in Texas. Or possibly the psychologist would testify that Perry's coming down with a bad case of negro.
He'll profit from this, unfortunately. They will go back, resentence this man to death, and then Perry will photo-op his throwing the switch to the cheers of his ever-more-fascist campaign followers, probably with some line about how he'll do this to Bernanke.
I get such a 'Greg Stillson' vibe from Rick Perry…
*Sigh* It's the 21st century and we still have capital punishment. And we have proof that it is not imposed fairly. I haz a sad.
Let me guess, Clarence Thomas wants him tortured and THEN executed.
I'm still stunned after seeing the replay of the start of the last Republican candidate debate. I had missed the beginning. If the way that Rick Perry stands as that screech woman mangles "The Star Spangled Banner" doesn't yell "psycopath" to you, then you aren't looking at it clearly. What does he have, a f**kin flagpole rammed up his ass?
To put Rick Perry's homicidal tendencies in perspective, the Guardian has prepared this rather horrific interactive piece that suggests Perry's reaction to the Supreme Court today is going to be along the lines of "Bah. Plenty more where that came from."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/...
who is the real victim here?
wait, what is the real victim here?
Scalia and Company are just joining Little Ricky in their game of cat and mouse. You know, the one where they don't kill the prey until it has had the last ounce of energy and hope drained from it by the drip, drip, drip of constant terror and torture. Sweet dreams, Pilgrims.
“the state of Texas has a very thoughtful, very clear process in place for executing black and brown people”
Fixed.
Other things the psychologist has testified to:
1) Black people are more likely to dance well.
2) Black people just want a warm place to shit.
3) Black people get the blues.
4) Black people walk like this, and white people walk like this.
"Very thoughtful, very clear process in place for executing people”
= YEEE HAAAW!!! plus Celebratory Gunfire
Those old fussbudgets, the United States Supreme Court …
He's leaving, on that murder train to Texas…
I think folks tend to forget that for as conservative as the court is, it's now has a Catholic majority (and no Protestants), and the Jews are Democrats, so if any court was to ever stay an execution (and who knows, maybe eventually ban capital punishment), it would actually be this crazy court.
And we all know how seriously the average American Catholic takes the Church's teachings!
Enough where it we're actually closer to seeing a more discerning court on this issue than ever before if even it's still a long shot, smart ass.
What the fuck is with the "smart ass"? The Conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court aren't going to go with a "liberal" opinion on capital punishment just because the Pope says so. Scalia believes the death penalty is constitutional and won't hear otherwise; Kennedy has upheld it in many specific cases; and the Supreme Court overturned one of Alito's death-dealing rulings before he joined it. Roberts is the only one who might be "squishy" on the issue.
It's a lot more creepy that way. And since Cheney is a sadistic asshole, it all makes sense.
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