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San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
I'm not sure about exactly what blood all the people wanted. I wanted Al Qaeda blood and Osama bin Laden's blood. I think we should have "gotten even" and then some with Al Qaeda and OBL. I would have liked to minimize all other bloodshed. The war against Iraq was probably motivated by a lot of things - it's hard to understand just how exactly we could have gotten so off the mark. There were clearly a lot of errors in thinking and planning in the Bush administration. I started reading Scott McClellan's book at one point to try to understand it - I think it basically boils down to believing their own B.S.— January 13, 2015 6:32 a.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
I definitely don't think we should take weapons away from law-abiding citizens. In my view, the right to bear arms is an important check-and-balance against the power of the state. However, I don't think armed citizens would be effective against well-executed terrorist or organized crime attacks. Highly skilled and trained police and military forces have a hard enough time stopping these attacks - I just don't think non-trained persons would be very effective. Just my thoughts. It's hard to get realistic apples/apples comparisons. Japan has very few guns and a very low crime rate. Switzerland has a lot of guns and a very low crime rate. But Japan is not the U.S. is not Switzerland.— January 13, 2015 6:20 a.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
(Plot spoilers for Grisham novel The Chamber follow) John Grisham's death penalty novel The Chamber has a similar theme. A wrongfully convicted man awaits execution. But as his end draws near he admits that while he was not guilty of the crime he was being executed for, he had comitted many heinous crime throughout his life as a white supremist leader and ultimately he did deserve to die. Makes one wonder. I will need to review the studies from Northwestern University in detail. I think the U.S. has a legal system in place which makes the chances of a truly innocent person being wrongfully executed extremely small.— January 12, 2015 4:23 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
I will say personally in terms of life being taken away by the US gov't I worry much more about the thousands of good U.S. solders killed in the recent Iraq / Afghan wars than I do about criminals getting executed. For that matter I worry and feel much more for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers killed than criminals getting executed. I know technically they're not considered innocent because they're soldiers - but the way I see it the vast majority were probably just decent guys doing their job and they happened to have the wrong flag on their uniform. I guess for me I can understand different definitions of morality and fairness and I can accept those differences. To me, the death penalty is morally justified for severe crimes. But I have a hard time seeing how fighting a war in Iraq to: stop WMD's which weren't really there / kill Saddam / stop terrorists / bring democracy to the Middle East / stop WMD's which were there after all according to Dick Cheney / make money for Halibruton / ??????????? / who the hell knows why we really fought in Iraq?— January 10, 2015 4:20 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Twister, I guess maybe there's not that much to discuss because ultimately the question about whether or not we should have the death penalty boils down to questions of morals, justice and fairness. We all may have different definitions of these ideals so we may reach different conclusions. To me, I think if an extremely severe crime is not punished severely - even up to taking the life of the criminal then justice and fairness haven't really been fully served.— January 10, 2015 4:12 p.m.
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The Cubs do still have a loyal fan base. I think Wrigley Field is actually one of the coolest stadiums out there (although I suspect like everyone else they probably want taxpayers to build them a new one).— January 8, 2015 9:56 p.m.
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I might not be characterizing the LA fan base accurately as I'm only going from a limited time living in LA (roughly mid 80's - mid 90's) and of course a limited number of people I came in contact with. I guess the thing is regardless of loyal fans if you have 10 million people - or 20 million or more depending on how you count - in the metro area you WILL get big crowds at NFL games.— January 8, 2015 9:53 p.m.
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Just announced - Boston will be the US nominee for 2024 Summer Olympics— January 8, 2015 3:47 p.m.
Get in line, Chargers
Bo Jackson was arguably the greatest athlete of my generation. Shame he got hurt.— January 8, 2015 3:18 p.m.
Get in line, Chargers
My experience and feel for LA is that the city tends to follow whoever is winning. (Except for SC/UCLA which have die-hard college fanbases). At any given time between the Clippers, Lakers, Dodgers and Kings there is at least one team which is a legitimate title contender and that's (those are) the team(s) LA follows. You can add in the OC teams Angels and Ducks for that matter so out of the 6 greater LA major sports teams there's at least 1 or 2 which are title contenders. The Raiders and Rams weren't frequent title contenders in the late 1980's.— January 8, 2015 11:52 a.m.