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Barack Obama

"Lincoln Sells Out Slaves"
by: Rob Kailey - Sep 13
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I Told You He Was No Good!
by: Rob Kailey - Jun 22

If You Haven't Seen This
by: Rob Kailey - Apr 28
5 Comments

Impeach the President?
by: Rob Kailey - Mar 16
15 Comments

It's the system, stupid!
by: Jay Stevens - Oct 25
7 Comments

Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.

Resnick Rants

by: Boris Resnick

Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 20:46:03 PM MST

Two decisions made by the Supreme Court today. The first was a decision to reduce the punitive damages for the Exxon Valdez spill. Justice Souter, writing the majority opinion, said that the correct ratio of punitive to compensatory has usually been one to one. A previous court decision in the case set compensatory damage at one half Billion dollars. The justices reduced the punitive from 3.5 Billion to .5, just to be fair to Exxon. After the decision an Exxon executive said that they had already spent 3.5 Billion on clean up. Doesn't that qualify as compensatory? Shouldn't they have raised the punitive, instead?

Also, the court overturned a state law that declared capital punishment for child rape. This same law was also in place in five other states.
Is it just me or do you have to be an idiot to think capital punishment is a deterrent for a non capital crime? Get a clue, legislators. You are basically saying, 'Kill the kid. Punishment is the same.'

Boris Resnick :: Resnick Rants