Sometimes it's difficult to remember that not everyone pays attention to every news story, every day. Most don't, and I know a few friends/family members who would likely miss many of these stories because they're out of the news cycle so quickly. So, I plan periodically post stories that have sat open in my Firefox tabs until I figured out what to do with them. I guess I just did.
Sam Stein reports on the latest evidence in the Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman/Republican Corruption case. These stories cannot be let go if we ever want make the case for and allow history to show that these people should be in jail, not anywhere near the The White House or any other area of government. Of course if you lived in Alabama when the only national network coverage of the story aired on 60 Minutes a few weeks ago you might not know this side of the story at all.
Why was this not news? Because everyone already knows? What the hell does that mean? We quietly accept that Bobby Kennedy's secret service detail may have killed the future President a few years after his brother, The President, was murdered? Jesus, now I feel much better going into the general with security lapses in Texas and State Department employees hoping to shake down Obama as it became clear he'd be the nominee. Just fucking wonderful.
Is depression good for you? I would say that feeling anything is good, long-term depression is bad. I've always been annoyed by the "come on, cheer up" sort that is uncomfortable with your pain so they want you to just get over it. However, working through something helps you to grow, dwelling on it slowly kills you.
The Prison Industrial Complex continues to get richer through the misfortunes of others. One of my best friends is in jail in CA and has been for almost the last 10 years, being released once in 2004, only to relapse and go back to heroin within a year due to lack of support from the same system that dumped him back on the street with nothing. If he had received the treatment he was actively pursuing just a few weeks before he did something stupid to get money for heroin the first time he was thrown in jail (stole from a biker meth dealer--knocking him out and dragging him 10 feet constituted a kidnapping charge), he'd probably be a screenwriter or something along those lines by now. He's extremely intelligent, college educated, but had a very painful, fucked up life and medicated with drugs. Right now he's being kept in solitary (which apparently isn't really "solitary" anymore) for his own protection because he refused to kill a guy for the whites, and just got his jaw shattered three weeks before his 35th birthday because of it. He's one in several million of those with a similar tale stuck in the system with no way out.
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