Busy Saturday

This will be a busy Saturday. I just went out to Eggberts to have breakfast with my brother-in-law. He is taking his youngest daughter...the one that goes to the nursing home to feed her mother every day...and her family to Bartlesville to eat out at the Mexican restaurant there. This is her birthday. The other daughter's birthday is the 14th...the same day as my son-in-law.

I stopped by Orchelon's and bought some cedar mulch before coming home. Later today I will start cleaning out and mulching my flowerbeds again.

On another note....

I was just reading Governor Perry's remarks in this interview about capital punishment in Texas.

They Messed With Texas
By PETER CATAPANO...

WILLIAMS: Governor Perry, a question about Texas. Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you…

(APPLAUSE)

Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?

PERRY: No, sir. I’ve never struggled with that at all. The state of Texas has a very thoughtful, a very clear process in place of which — when someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing, they go through an appellate process, they go up to the Supreme Court of the United States, if that’s required.

But in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you’re involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.

WILLIAMS: What do you make of…

(APPLAUSE)

What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?

PERRY: I think Americans understand justice. I think Americans are clearly, in the vast majority of — of cases, supportive of capital punishment. When you have committed heinous crimes against our citizens — and it’s a state-by-state issue, but in the state of Texas, our citizens have made that decision, and they made it clear, and they don’t want you to commit those crimes against our citizens. And if you do, you will face the ultimate justice.

See the media responses to this "execution cheer." Note how much it's an "us and them" issue: "if you kill one of our ..."

I consider that a tragedy. In my opinion, restorative justice is a much better response to crime than killing another person.