The News Today

So several stories are pretty interesting today... let's get started!

First on the front page, a quote from a Dr. Charles van der Horst, a doctor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Medicine.
"If the state wants to uphold the death penalty, fine, they can take a pistol and shoot the guy. But to have doctors make it clean for them is just the lowest of the low."
This Dr. van der Horst is my Hero of the Day for speaking out.
The whole issue is a lot more complicated, look it up for yourself here.
But the point I'm taking out of it is, don't have doctors come in and give a highly imprecise, expensive drug concoction and SWAB THE INMATE'S ARM WITH A DISINFECTANT WIPE in order to execute him.
Don't want them dead guys getting infections, now do we?
You want a deterrent to crime?
Public, prime-time executions.
I'm talking shooting squad, hanging, electric chair, guillotine, whatever.
If your goal is to prevent crimes in the future, don't do a lethal injection at some God-forsaken time at night like we're scared to take someone's life when the GAVE IT UP BY KILLING SOMEBODY.

Alright, moving along.
So a Senator Allred was caught speeding at 102 mph in a 65 mph zone.
Alrighty, sounds pretty strait-forward.
He got a ticket in the end, after receiving a warning.
Here's what's interesting.
Allred is quoted as saying "I'm being singled out to give a ticket to five days after the fact because I'm a legislator. It seems like, you know, somebody is going to great lengths to embarass me."
Like, I know, right?
How about this, Senator Allred.
Don't speed.
Novel concept I know.
Senators, should not break the law.
They represent us.

Next up, 6 articles on the swine flu.
Oh, sorry.
H1N1.
'Nuff said.

Lastly, there's this new product that I heard about, I'm hoping it'll catch on.
But the government can't tax it, so it'll probably be banned.