No golf courses in prison.

Karma's a bitch, eh Juice?

Say it ain't so!

Is downtown Las Vegas burning yet?

Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles,

Sometimes karma takes a while.

Better late than never.

this is the bright note of the day.
that justice was finally served to o.j.
you can run but you can't hide.

see ya douche-bag. Don't drop the soap.

and we all shine on
like the moon and the stars and the sun

It's alright...Pres. Obama will pardon him.

re: #10 missouri boy

It's alright...Pres. Obama will pardon him.

can't - state charges can only be pardoned by governor
mu ha ha ha

For the last 12 years whenever someone mentioned "OJ" to me I would respond with a big smile and say "an innocent man falsely accused."

Today, I am not smiling at OJ for a guilty man has been convicted.

I thought we had this discussion last night?

OJ, meet your new room mate, Bubba.

It ain't over til it's over...I will believe it when he is in prison for life. That he got away with 2 murders, and is still considered a 'celebrity'? Sad and sick at the same time.

/Will we see another police chase on TV for what seemed like 20 hours?

BBL...off to see a 2-year old grandson!

re: #8 Tilli

see ya douche-bag. Don't drop the soap.

nah.. he'll be a hero, & in solitary. No need to be concerned about soap issues. :-(

How's he going to find the real murderer if while he's in prison?

Quit dinging this story up, people! Your interfering with Charles' efforts to create a new worst-rated story!

like all megalomaniacs, he didn't pay attention to the fact that his antics were wearing thin w/ the public.
his free pass got punched. and he didn't know it.

OJ, you can kill people, but do not steal from them.

re: #12 experiencedtraveller

For the last 12 years whenever someone mentioned "OJ" to me I would respond with a big smile and say "an innocent man falsely accused."

Today, I am not smiling at OJ for a guilty man has been convicted.

Oh! The travesty of justice, now OJ won't be able to find the real killers on a golf course some where.
/

"Mills of the Gods, Grind exceedingly slow, But grind exceedingly fine."

Oh happy day.

I'll wait for the appeal process to work it's way through the court. When it comes to OJ and the Courts, I take a wait and see attitude.

smile

Karma is a cast iron bitch with lots of time and a sick sense of humor, ain't she Juice?

Wooo hooooo! I am doing a happy dance.

Thanks Nevada!

So let’s go for another personal worst: Simpson convicted of robbing memorabilia dealers.

I reversed my down-ding, as this is a good news thread.

re: #9 Adrenalyn

and we all shine on
like the moon and the stars and the sun

[Link: noolmusic.com...]

OJ Simpson- from A to Z.

He is appealing. Shocka! As long as he is kept in prison throughout the appeal....and I am not convinced that he won't get out during the appeal, which would be an error of massive proportions.

Cya, later, Lizards.

The best part:

The verdict came 13 years to the day after Simpson was cleared of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles in one of the most sensational trials of the 20th century.

I remember watching the murder trial on TV and being dumbfounded by the unbelievably sloppy prosecution.

There's no doubt in my mind that he killed Nicole and Ron Goldman. I hope he rots in prison.

Say hello to the Tossed Salad Man^TM O.J.!

I remember the day OJ was acquitted. By chance, we had a fire drill and the entire office building was standing in a park waiting for the all-clear. All the African-Americans let out a big whoop as the news about OJ came out and everyone else was silent.

re: #21 jcm

Apparently he is looking at some hard time...

Hey OJ, the phrase is "get away with murder", not "get away with armed robbery". Dope. Seriously though, he had it *all* until he fucked up. Superstar, HOF RB. Decent acting career. Really liked by white America. But then it all went to his head, and his hands....

re: #33 centerofu

I remember the day OJ was acquitted. By chance, we had a fire drill and the entire office building was standing in a park waiting for the all-clear. All the African-Americans let out a big whoop as the news about OJ came out and everyone else was silent.

Raaaaaysthisth!

/

OJ said he won't be able to go to his kid's graduations. I'll bet Fred Goldman will have a retort to that.

Classic Greek style. Hubris made the man commit murder and think he could get away with it, and hubris made him think he could continue to do whatever pleased him. Only this time he did not have the Wookie Defense to get him off.

I would say something about justice coming late, at least, but I seem to recall something a few years ago, where Mr. Simpson got into a fender-bender and made the other party feel distinctly uneasy (football players, ever retired ones, tend to be HUGE!). It should be a good thing for everyone for this dangerous man to be removed from the streets.

Maybe in prison he'll have more luck finding the real killer.

re: #32 Sol Roth

lol
yuck!

Verdict happened 13 years too late...but justice has been served. Wonder what Garcetti, Clark and Harden are thinking now....

Look at how far the mighty have fallen - once one of the greatest football players/running backs to put on a helmet, now a convicted felon...

Karma is a bitch, ain't it, Juice...

I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak
Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdu'd eyes
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their med'cinable gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduc'd the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him thus.
--Othello

This reinforces my hopeful if not naive belief that all @$$holes eventually get what's coming to them.

Does this mean OJ is now disqualified from voting next month?

re: #42 Pastorius

Las Vegas smote back.

No doubt he will continue the search for his wife's killer while in prison.

re: #38 amphibian

What's the Wookie Defense?

re: #23 MJ

I'll wait for the appeal process to work it's way through the court. When it comes to OJ and the Courts, I take a wait and see attitude.

I think the testicle spent a large chunk of his money getting away with murder. You know, the last time around. He seemed to be able to afford to eat and play golf and stuff between then and now, but I don't think he's got enough change to make a mockery of justice a second time.

Tough decisions ahead. Eat with the killers? Robbers? Athletes? Wrongly convicted? Old guys who went to the well once too often?

re: #39 itellu3times
I can guarantee that O.J. will find the real murder while he's in prison!

Whatever became of his children? Are they a gong show yet?

The Wookiee Defense:

The Chewbacca defense is a fictional legal strategy used in episode 27 of South Park, "Chef Aid", which premiered on October 7, 1998 as the fourteenth episode of the second season. The aim of the argument is to deliberately confuse the jury. The concept satirized attorney Johnnie Cochran's closing argument defending O. J. Simpson in his murder trial.

This last statement is a parody of Johnnie Cochran's closing arguments in the O. J. Simpson murder case where he states to the jury: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," in reference to an earlier point in the trial when prosecutor Christopher Darden asked Mr. Simpson to try on a bloody glove found at the murder scene, and Mr. Simpson could not put it on because it did not fit his hand. [1]

re: #43 Blastforth

This reinforces my hopeful if not naive belief that all @$$holes eventually get what's coming to them.

It's called Karma. And it's not a naive belief. Have seen it happen many, many times.

re: #48 amphibian

He spent $10 million.

As I said, on the day he was acquitted: Isn't it nice what money will buy in this country?

Yawn.

re: #38 amphibian

Classic Greek style. Hubris made the man commit murder and think he could get away with it, and hubris made him think he could continue to do whatever pleased him.

I disagree. Orenthal James Simpson made himself commit murder and armed robbery. He embraced hubris willingly; he was not made to do anything he didn't want to do.

re: #4 RoughRider

Is downtown Las Vegas burning yet?

Hell no! We own guns here....

I have never been prouder to be from Las Vegas.

re: #47 MandyManners

What's the Wookie Defense?

Never mind. My head just exploded.

I wonder if he'll write a children's book while he's in prison.

I saw this t-shirt years ago:

"Drink Apple Juice because OJ will kill you."

re: #47 MandyManners

What's the Wookie Defense?

It'sfrom an episode of South Park featuring a mockery of Johnny Cochran.

re: #47 MandyManners

What's the Wookie Defense?

South Park.

"It DOES NOT make sense... why would an 8 foot Wookie come from a planet filled with 2 foot Ewoks? It DOES NOT make sense.

Therefore, you must acquit."

Story now rated +5.

Sorry, Charles. I tried.

Many notorious and famous people wind up getting whacked in the joint because another sociopath wants to make a name for himself.

Just sayin'.

re: #60 Noam Sayin'
HEY NOAM! That was, if I do say so myself, a little bit much - a childrens book?! Sorry, time can affect one's memory but I thought OJ killed two adults?

re: #66 realwest

HEY NOAM! That was, if I do say so myself, a little bit much - a childrens book?! Sorry, time can affect one's memory but I thought OJ killed two adults?

Mumia reference.

Schadenfreude. n. The exquisite delight one feels in the misfortunes of others. From the German (where else?).

re: #66 realwest

HEY NOAM! That was, if I do say so myself, a little bit much - a childrens book?! Sorry, time can affect one's memory but I thought OJ killed two adults?

The kiddie book trick worked for Tookie Williams.

/not

re: #64 victor_yugo

Story now rated +5.

Sorry, Charles. I tried.

Everybody - go back and reverse your up vote.

re: #58 coquimbojoe
Heh. Think how proud you'll feel when you vote Dingy Harry Reid out of office!

re: #68 Arkay

Schadenfreude. n. The exquisite delight one feels in the misfortunes of others. From the German (where else?).

Literally, "damage-joy".

re: #67 OldLineTexan

Ack! Right, Tookie. Had my excrement in human form idolized by empty-headed libs mixed up.

re: #65 Sol Roth

Many notorious and famous people wind up getting whacked in the joint because another sociopath wants to make a name for himself.

Just sayin'.

Dahmer.

re: #67 OldLineTexan
and
re: #69 victor_yugo

Gah, sorry y'all (and especially you NOAM!) I forgot about all that.
Sigh.

My 22 year old daughter just told me that all of the people that she communictes with who are voting for Obama are very upset that Simpson is going to jail.

Hmmm. I wonder what to make of that.

re: #47 MandyManners

What's the Wookie Defense?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Video is probably findable somewhere as well.

#8 Tilli

A bit crass, don't ya think?

re: #74 MandyManners

Dahmer.

Dahmer was a foregone conclusion. My brother was a prison guard at Huntsville (main location Texas Department of Corrections) for four years. He told me kiddie molesters and wife beaters/murderers were extra points in some sort of prison score-keeping practice.

re: #76 JohnSteele
I wouldn't worry about it too much - they are, after all, ahem, young folk ya know

My two cents - His life is a story for the ages. If Shakespere wrote this story, no one would have believed it. But there it is.

Charles
I am having problems seeing the ding counter
and when I hit quote or reply
it tosses me back to the home page
and it was not doing this 30 minutes ago

you change some code this morning ?

I LOVE Drudge's Headline!
My only hope, as OJ begins his incarceration which is likely to last the rest of his life, is that he DOESN'T convert to Islam. He may be a son of a bitch, but I don't want him over on their side.

re: #76 JohnSteele

My 22 year old daughter just told me that all of the people that she communictes with who are voting for Obama are very upset that Simpson is going to jail.

Hmmm. I wonder what to make of that.

Socialism is a mental disorder. It gets people killed. Sometimes by the cattle-car load.

Two years before he killed Nicole and Ron Goldman, I had a memorable afternoon of drinking with OJ at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. We were all working for NBC at the time. He was incredibly charming and generous. But in spite of that fond memory, I never doubted for a minute that he committed the murders and I'm glad he'll be punished, albeit for a far lesser crime than murder.

Glad he's finally off the streets. :)

The man has no conscience. I feel for his children and for the families of Ron and Nicole.

re: #71 realwest

See, having vote him in mitigates that sense of pride I have right now. Do he and Pelosi share the same brain cell?

re: #66 realwest

HEY NOAM! That was, if I do say so myself, a little bit much - a childrens book?! Sorry, time can affect one's memory but I thought OJ killed two adults?

Tookie Williams killed at least four adults. Then someone wrote - and his name was pasted on - a couple books for kids.

I believe Occasional Reader discovered that the books had sold 300 copies.

re: #76 JohnSteele

My 22 year old daughter just told me that all of the people that she communictes with who are voting for Obama are very upset that Simpson is going to jail.

Hmmm. I wonder what to make of that.

It means that all of us who oppose Obama are RACISTS!

re: #81 DeafDog

My two cents - His life is a story for the ages. If Shakespere wrote this story, no one would have believed it. But there it is.

OJ and Len Bias, two guideposts on the road of life for pro athletes, each with a big skull and crossbones DANGER sign hung on it.

May the chains rest heavily on his guilty ass.

Guess Mark Fuerman was not a witness, and Johnny Cochrane is dead.

re: #69 victor_yugo

Right up until he was lethally injected.

re: #53 rightymouse

It's called Karma. And it's not a naive belief. Have seen it happen many, many times.

Not to be a pedantic prick, but this is not Karma. The idea of Karma depends on reincarnation.

This is "just desserts".

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

Maybe for several years...behind the bars...

re: #74 MandyManners

Dahmer.

I've long suspected that was actually a hit, paid for by one of the families.

re: #56 victor_yugo

I disagree. Orenthal James Simpson made himself commit murder and armed robbery. He embraced hubris willingly; he was not made to do anything he didn't want to do.

So hey, either a defective empathy gene or acquired narcissism made the douche think it was his right to do anything, even commit murder. Same difference.

Lizards, it's a beautiful day outside in Minneapolis. Soon winter will be here and all amphibians will have to go hibernate. I'll go out and play while I can.

Charles, I'm having the same problem as #82 Adrenalyn.

....if doesn't fit, you must acquit,
but the jury spoke and in jail you'll sit

in jail he'll sit, till we read his obit.

#98
hey, maybe I'll get my first hat tip then
/just kidding

re: #96 Dianna

I've long suspected that was actually a hit, paid for by one of the families.

Was there any particular reason you thought that? A connection between the killer and one of the families, maybe? I'm kind of a true crime fanatic and that never occurred to me.

re: #83 Macker

I LOVE Drudge's Headline!
My only hope, as OJ begins his incarceration which is likely to last the rest of his life, is that he DOESN'T convert to Islam. He may be a son of a bitch, but I don't want him over on their side.

Who cares? His actions equal the murderous thuggery and total disrespect for human rights of others, just as Islam..

re: #103 unrealizedviewpoint

I still care about his soul.

re: #96 Dianna

I've long suspected that was actually a hit, paid for by one of the families.

It's called prison justice, and its free.

re: #97 amphibian

Lizards, it's a beautiful day outside in Minneapolis. Soon winter will be here and all amphibians will have to go hibernate. I'll go out and play while I can.

Agreed. I also think it's a good day to fire up a pot of chili, then take a scooter rider while the crockpot works its magic.

Check ya later, all.

re: #106 ploome hineni

As long as he still lives and breathes, he has the opportunity to come clean.

re: #90 OldLineTexan

OJ and Len Bias, two guideposts on the road of life for pro athletes, each with a big skull and crossbones DANGER sign hung on it.

I understand your point, but there is a difference between the two that I feel compelled to point out.

I grew up in ACC country and I am a HUGE Len Bias fan. Having Len's Life cut short was devestating to me (I was in HS at the time). It hurt at a very personal level even though I had never met him. He was a young kid who fell into the wrong crowd...happens all the time, but because of his great athletecism it was national news.

OJ was a more accomplished athlete who had it all. Then threw it away....lust, vanity, narcism, greed, glutiny, etc., all played a role. OJ's demise is his just dessert.

Oops. Forgot to quote that.

Where you at in the Twin Cities, Amphibian?

re: #104 Macker

I still care about his soul.

You mean the soul of OJ, if he has, shall, if exists, spend eternity in Hell?

re: #102 doppelganglander

Was there any particular reason you thought that? A connection between the killer and one of the families, maybe? I'm kind of a true crime fanatic and that never occurred to me.

The man who killed Dahmer was already in for life, no possibility of parole. One of the fathers indicated a more than usual degree of satisfaction.

There was a story - it may have been one of those ridiculous rumors that flies for no particular reason - that the killer's daughter received a scholarship from a board that the father referenced above was an influential member of.

I read that as a very interesting speculation. I do not present it as fact, but (if I could remember any of the names involved, it would help) as one of the most interesting speculations I'd ever read.

re: #65 Sol Roth

Many notorious and famous people wind up getting whacked in the joint because another sociopath wants to make a name for himself.

Just sayin'.

He'll be in protective custody. Probably get a racquetball course to himself.

Headline of the Day:

OJ's Hunt For Nicole's Killer Ends

Courtesy of Small Dead Animals blog.

re: #109 DeafDog

Of course they're different. I made no attempt to equate them other than as object lessons for fame and fortune.

re: #111 unrealizedviewpoint

Please see Post #108.

I'm _so_ sick of OJ.

OT and unbelievable: Alec Baldwin takes shots at Dems/Frank for the meltdown on Bill Maher.

Yes, that's a pig flying by your window....

Kinda like Grandma used to say, "He made his stainless steel bed, now let him sleep in it."

re: #39 itellu3times

Maybe in prison he'll have more luck finding the real killer.

I don't think they have proper mirrors in prison.

re: #108 Macker

As long as he still lives and breathes, he has the opportunity to come clean.

Yes he does. But the hurdle for him to do so is high. He not only needs to pay his pennance for the crimes that he was found guilty for, he would also need to come clean on the ones he got away with....I have doubts.

re: #111 unrealizedviewpoint

You mean the soul of OJ, if he has, shall, if exists, spend eternity in Hell?

If Hell exists, yes. I hope he spends at least a few million years there.

re: #118 Pianobuff

OT and unbelievable: Alec Baldwin takes shots at Dems/Frank for the meltdown on Bill Maher.

Yes, that's a pig flying by your window....

Wow.

re: #123 MandyManners

Wow.

Yes...who is that, and what has he done with Alec Baldwin?

re: #121 DeafDog

Yes he does. But the hurdle for him to do so is high. He not only needs to pay his pennance for the crimes that he was found guilty for, he would also need to come clean on the ones he got away with....I have doubts.

I don't disagree with you in the least. Still.

re: #118 Pianobuff

OT and unbelievable: Alec Baldwin takes shots at Dems/Frank for the meltdown on Bill Maher.

Yes, that's a pig flying by your window....

Threadworthy, unless I missed something.

re: #117 Quilly Mammoth

I'm _so_ sick of OJ.

It's a limbering exercise.

re: #76 JohnSteele

My 22 year old daughter just told me that all of the people that she communictes with who are voting for Obama are very upset that Simpson is going to jail.

Hmmm. I wonder what to make of that.

They're idiots.

re: #112 Dianna

That is very interesting. I guess we'll never know.

re: #126 OldLineTexan

Threadworthy, unless I missed something.

re: #126 OldLineTexan

Posted as a spinoff link, too. I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears.

re: #115 OldLineTexan

Of course they're different. I made no attempt to equate them other than as object lessons for fame and fortune.

I know you did since you bought up Len. I just didn't want any lizard unfamiliar with the Len Bias story to get the wrong impression. That tragedy still makes me sad. He was better than Jordan.

re: #130 Pianobuff

Bless you, I cannot watch Bill Maher.

re: #79 OldLineTexan

Dahmer was a foregone conclusion. My brother was a prison guard at Huntsville (main location Texas Department of Corrections) for four years. He told me kiddie molesters and wife beaters/murderers were extra points in some sort of prison score-keeping practice.

If you will pardon me for asking the obligatory sick question, but, how many points for a cannibal?

which canidate does OJ endorse ?

re: #118 Pianobuff

OT and unbelievable: Alec Baldwin takes shots at Dems/Frank for the meltdown on Bill Maher.

Yes, that's a pig flying by your window....

I was thinking about different lines McCain might go for on Tuesday. Since he's already called (justifiably in my opinion) for the resignation of Cox at the SEC, he should call on Dodd and Franks to resign from the chairmenships, too.....in a McCain/Palin adminstration, results have consequence!

re: #118 Pianobuff

OT and unbelievable: Alec Baldwin takes shots at Dems/Frank for the meltdown on Bill Maher.

Yes, that's a pig flying by your window....

That's a whole squadron of pigs flying past my window and blocking out the sun. I will now feel less guilty about laughing my head off at 30 Rock.

I wonder how the black jury in LA who acquitted him feel now. As well as all the black folks seen dancing in the streets back then, celebrating their mutual victory over Da Man by releasing a red-blooded murderer.

Oh, well. I guess all the Juice supporters have transferred their allegiance to B. Hussein so it won't hurt as much that OJ finally went down.

re: #118 Pianobuff
Excellent post and link - thank you!

re: #33 centerofu

I remember the day OJ was acquitted. By chance, we had a fire drill and the entire office building was standing in a park waiting for the all-clear. All the African-Americans let out a big whoop as the news about OJ came out and everyone else was silent.

I was at college and the college had a monitor setup in the main lobby, somebody snapped a picture of the crowd as the verdict was read. Same sort of reaction. Jaws dropped or excited smiles.

re: #83 Macker

I LOVE Drudge's Headline!
My only hope, as OJ begins his incarceration which is likely to last the rest of his life, is that he DOESN'T convert to Islam. He may be a son of a bitch, but I don't want him over on their side.

Why?

Islam was founded by a child molester and mass murdering psychopath, what could OJ do to "improve" on that?

re: #134 The Other Les

If you will pardon me for asking the obligatory sick question, but, how many points for a cannibal?

No clue, but I can tell you this: the serious cons are all badasses, and everyone steps around them. If you're in the joint, you want to be a badass or you will be the victim or dead. One way to prove you're a badass is to harm the inmates that even the other inmates cannot bear to see draw breath. That's what most if not all prison systems have segregated populations; to try and keep the notorious people like Dahmer alive.

Killing Dahmer in Texas would have made you King of the stinking unit.

This verdict was obviously racially motivated.

#118

From your link:

That someone as intellectually challenged as Alec Baldwin knows this, while virtually no major mainstream press members other than those on Fox News either do or are willing to admit it, is truly disgraceful.

A nice summation.

re: #125 Macker

I don't disagree with you in the least. Still.

Not only that, but because he decided to profess his innocence, he can't do it privately. OJ's trial caused the whole country harm. He's got to make a public display of his guilt.

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re: #129 doppelganglander

That is very interesting. I guess we'll never know.

Just as well. If we knew, there would be a new crime: solicitation of murder.

re: #97 amphibian

So hey, either a defective empathy gene or acquired narcissism made the douche think it was his right to do anything, even commit murder. Same difference.

Lizards, it's a beautiful day outside in Minneapolis. Soon winter will be here and all amphibians will have to go hibernate. I'll go out and play while I can.

I have to agree with you on that.

I should be going out for a walk.

re: #135 Airedale

which canidate does OJ endorse ?

I am betting Cynthia McKinney.

re: #133 OldLineTexan

Bless you, I cannot watch Bill Maher.

It wasn't on Maher. Some other political comedy show.

I don't know, Charles, it's pretty bad when Stinky Beaumont dings you down.

(LOL.)

re: #152 Dianna

It wasn't on Maher. Some other political comedy show.

HBO Real Time, hosted by Bill Maher.

My down ding just put her in the negative. -1 for the thread.

He should consider himself lucky. He has been free for 13 years after slicing his wife's head off and murdering an innocent man.

#11: Under the greatly revised Constitution, Pres. Obama will in fact pardon OJ for his "so-called" criminal acts. In fact, also, Pres. O. will appoint OJ to be "The Youth for Obama" leader for life.

There'll be a torch light parade in the evening when OJ is released from his purgatory with mandatory attendance by all "TYO Blue Shirters."

re: #136 DeafDog

He can call on them to resign as often as he likes. Even if McCain becomes president, there isn't a thing he can do to them.

re: #141 DoubleU

I was at college and the college had a monitor setup in the main lobby, somebody snapped a picture of the crowd as the verdict was read. Same sort of reaction. Jaws dropped or excited smiles.

It was that day I really realized the chasm between whites and blacks in the way we view things. It seemed so obvious to most what the truth was, but the differences in what we saw the truth to be, was stunning.

(Yes, yes, huge generalizations, no, nothing racist, just my own surprise and confusion on display.) I have never heard anyone clearly elucidate the joy some felt. Where did that come from and what was the joy about?

WAPO:

William Ayres, whom the McCain campaign regularly calls a domestic terrorist because of his acts of violence against the U.S. government in the 1960s.

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

Good recap of the original incident here, for those who missed it:

[Link: www.lasvegassun.com...]

I wonder how long it will take the American people to wake up to the fact that many democrats in congress are corrupt.

Sure hope it's not another 13 years.

here's a good one from the great Mark Steyn.
his take on the VP debate.
The riff at the end regarding Joe Biden's "diner of the mind" is hysterical.

re: #160 rednaxela

WAPO:

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

Yes, that "domestic" label is rather sexist.

"Terrorist" should do nicely. "Convicted felon" would be more to my taste, but there was some crazy shiite done in the US in the post-Viet Nam era.

re: #141 DoubleU

It was wierd. I didn't care one way or the other. I've been on juries - it's HARD to convict someone. People will bend over backwards and really take the "beyond a reasonable doubt" seriously.
But those who did care, cared ALOT, and no other opinion was welcome. In fact, no other opinion was even offered - everyone just kept quiet, including me.
Wierd, wierd, wierd.

re: #144 ploome hineni

how long before he converts?

lets take bets

Not being employed at the moment I must respectfully decline the invitation.

re: #154 OldLineTexan

Some female was hosting. I don't recognize her.

re: #156 FrogMarch

Nicole Brown's head was attached to her body. Don't add to the horror.

re: #158 Dianna

He can call on them to resign as often as he likes. Even if McCain becomes president, there isn't a thing he can do to them.

I disagree. It's the 'bully-pulpit" argument. Certainly he can't call for him to resign their office (Dodd can stay in the Senate and Franks can stay in the house till their voters wake-up). But an honerable President could call for them to resign from their positions as the head of the banking committees. If the public sides with the president, it'll happen.

In deciding on a sentence, the judge needs to take into account prior brushes with the law. While this cannot include his double murder, since against all the law and evidence he was acquitted, it can include his prior violent behavior, his felonious flight from arrest before trial, and other documented legal wrongdoings. These will have to be entered into some computer database. Assemble a mass of cases in which somebody committed a similar offense and had a similar record. Let the sentence be the average of what those other guys got.

That way, it cannot be argued later that he just got slammed because the judge was looking for a way to belatedly punish him for the murders.

He's home free on that one, as far as criminal penalties go. Mr. Mark of Cain. This time is different. Do it right, do it by the numbers. Make it unchallengeable. If that means less than life, so be it.

re: #160 rednaxela
I love it - "whom the McCain campaign calls..."? HELLO! Anyone home at WAPO?
And besides which it was the 70's.

re: #169 DeafDog

I'd call that wishful thinking.

More, it assumes either man has any shame. Clearly, they don't.

re: #167 Dianna

Some female was hosting. I don't recognize her.

She looked and sounded like Christiane Amanpour.

Rest easier in peace now, Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson. Hopefully you'll burn in Hell after you die in prison, OJ. And cheers to the entire Goldman family!

re: #167 Dianna

Some female was hosting. I don't recognize her.

I don't mean to be obtuse, but that's not what the transcript on the link shows. What did I miss? I see a remark clearly labelled "Bill Maher, Host".

BALDWIN: I put the rosin on my glove.

SHANDLING: I love it. C'mon, let's get it on.

BALDWIN: Let's get it on.

BILL MAHER, HOST: What is your...

BALDWIN: I'm gonna rape you...The, the thing we have to remember, a friend of mine who is very close to the financial community in New York pointed out that Democrats have a lot of the responsibility for this as well. I mean, it was Clinton who killed the Glass-Steagall, and it happened under a Democratic president. Barney Frank and his committee, they, they kept propping up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saying everything's fine, everything's fine, everything's good. And it was his job to know everything wasn't fine. And Barney Frank let you down and let us down as well. And so, but I want to say there's blame to go both ways. But I will say, I want to, I maybe keep beating this to death, but I still think anyone in this Congress who voted to add $140 billion to that bill, they should be ashamed of themselves. That is a disgrace. It's a disgrace. This Congress is a disgrace, Democrat and Republican.

McCain should send out fliers with his positive agenda. And I mean things like cutting taxes, reducing spending, fighting Islamo-fascists.

All I'm getting in the mail and on my answering machine are pro-Obama/anti-McCain advertisements.

This is a war and McCain hasn't shown up on the battle field.

re: #159 coquimbojoe

Yes! What was the joy about? I know exactly what you're talking about. I guess I didn't understand the joy - there was no comparable rage on the other side.

re: #157 Olderthandirt

#11: Under the greatly revised Constitution, Pres. Obama will in fact pardon OJ for his "so-called" criminal acts. In fact, also, Pres. O. will appoint OJ to be "The Youth for Obama" leader for life.

There'll be a torch light parade in the evening when OJ is released from his purgatory with mandatory attendance by all "TYO Blue Shirters."

Somehow I have the sneaking suspicion that it's not purgatory that's in store for this guy. I wouldn't presume to ask Higher Authority for strict justice in this case or almost any case. Bad karma; strict justice is scary. Still, how good can his chances be?

Al qaeda bomber ring bigwig killed gets no mention in Seattle Times,,,

,,mustn't have anyone thinking we are having successes there or that Iraq has functioned as a "honeypot" ensnaring jihadi flies who'd come coming to kill some kafirs,,

re: #177 centerofu

Yes! What was the joy about? I know exactly what you're talking about. I guess I didn't understand the joy - there was no comparable rage on the other side.

O.J. is persona-non-grata most everywhere he goes. That's something.

re: #175 OldLineTexan

I missed that - probably because of Baldwin's next remark - gah!

Sorry.

Literally, I never noticed Maher.

Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson were unavailable to comment...

While at newsbusters reading about alec's flying pig moment I saw this:
F Is For Ifill: Gwen Ifill Failed the Moderator Test

He only got convicted because he was a black man.

/sarc

re: #172 Dianna

I'd call that wishful thinking.

More, it assumes either man has any shame. Clearly, they don't.

While I understand your scepticism, I respectfully disagree with your conclusion. The decision makers, in this case, are Reid and Pelosi (they decide on the chairmenships). If the president were to make political hay about the needing better banking committe chairmen and kept throwing up Franks and Dodd in their face (and the president's minions were doing the same on the pundit TV), then it is more than wishful thinking.

In fact, this tactic is exactly what McCain has said he will do to reduce/eliminate earmarks. He will make a public issue of them and if a Senator X wants to spend money foolishly, he will call that senator out publically to have the spending removed.

re: #163 alien_mind
Thank you for that post and link. Love Mark Steyn and that column was spot on.

re: #159 coquimbojoe

It was that day I really realized the chasm between whites and blacks in the way we view things. It seemed so obvious to most what the truth was, but the differences in what we saw the truth to be, was stunning.

(Yes, yes, huge generalizations, no, nothing racist, just my own surprise and confusion on display.) I have never heard anyone clearly elucidate the joy some felt. Where did that come from and what was the joy about?

It was joy at payback. Remember the snickering white jury that acquitted some obviously guilty klansmen of a lynching? Back in Mississippi or wherever?

If you don't, you're probably young and white.

I don't believe for a minute that any demographic in this country is so clueless as to not have known in their bones that OJ dunnit. No differences in what we saw the truth to be. Just differences in what we saw justice to be. Justice in the case at hand? Or justice as in payback time?

re: #31 rightymouse

I remember watching the murder trial on TV and being dumbfounded by the unbelievably sloppy prosecution.

There's no doubt in my mind that he killed Nicole and Ron Goldman. I hope he rots in prison.

I had a friend at the time who was a courthouse insider during the trial. She told me that the Prosecution was very disheartened when Judge Ito was chosen. By the time the jury selection was over, the Prosecution knew they were doomed. That, according to my friend, is what we were seeing. They went through the motions because they had to but they felt the trial was over before it started.

re: #187 lostlakehiker

It was joy at payback. Remember the snickering white jury that acquitted some obviously guilty klansmen of a lynching? Back in Mississippi or wherever?

If you don't, you're probably young and white.

I don't believe for a minute that any demographic in this country is so clueless as to not have known in their bones that OJ dunnit. No differences in what we saw the truth to be. Just differences in what we saw justice to be. Justice in the case at hand? Or justice as in payback time?

Spot on.

The Juice is no longer Loose

re: #187 lostlakehiker

Quite so. Another way of thinking about the divide is that there are those who think that justice applies to individuals, and those who think more in terms of aggrieved groups.

re: #170 lostlakehiker

In deciding on a sentence, the judge needs to take into account prior brushes with the law. While this cannot include his double murder, since against all the law and evidence he was acquitted, it can include his prior violent behavior, his felonious flight from arrest before trial, and other documented legal wrongdoings. These will have to be entered into some computer database. Assemble a mass of cases in which somebody committed a similar offense and had a similar record. Let the sentence be the average of what those other guys got.

That way, it cannot be argued later that he just got slammed because the judge was looking for a way to belatedly punish him for the murders.

He's home free on that one, as far as criminal penalties go. Mr. Mark of Cain. This time is different. Do it right, do it by the numbers. Make it unchallengeable. If that means less than life, so be it.

From jurisdiction, judge to judge, sentences are far from equitable. This ain't no time to begin. I say fry him.

I just got back from the docs. Anyone seen Mandy Manners this morning? I'm looking for Soros links that deal with his family back in Europe, mainly the stuff dealing with the Nazi's and his grandfather (I think) who was some advisor to the Riech. Anyone have those links? Mandy is suppose to have many, and she may have passed them on to others here.

re: #191 godfrey

Quite so. Another way of thinking about the divide is that there are those who think that justice applies to individuals, and those who think more in terms of aggrieved groups.

Which is why Al Sharpton still makes money after the Brawley incident.

OJs lawyer screwed up. 9 white women on the jury, of course they're RACIST! /////

If his convictions stand after his appeal(s), and he serves his full sentence, then justice in this case will have been served.

But, concerning the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, justice has not been served because OJ killed the only eyewitness.

Hate having to feed the bum

re: #193 Walter L. Newton

I just got back from the docs. Anyone seen Mandy Manners this morning? I'm looking for Soros links that deal with his family back in Europe, mainly the stuff dealing with the Nazi's and his grandfather (I think) who was some advisor to the Riech. Anyone have those links? Mandy is suppose to have many, and she may have passed them on to others here.

I'll post what I have. Hold on.

What happens in Vegas keeps you in Vegas (or Nevada State Prison).

Better than having him on the street, though. He's obviously a dangerous mess.

re: #198 MandyManners

I'll post what I have. Hold on.

Thanks

re: #163 alien_mind

here's a good one from the great Mark Steyn.
his take on the VP debate.
The riff at the end regarding Joe Biden's "diner of the mind" is hysterical.

Good'un

At least Fred Goldman can try to collect on his civil suit since O.J won't be burning money on golf courses and visits to the Playboy Mansion. It makes a private investigator's job a little easier with him behind bars.

I don't think it was mentioned above but OJ was also arrested distributing fake satellite cards. The cards (or maybe the whole unit) was set up so the user could get all channels.

re: #188 SurferDoc

I had a friend at the time who was a courthouse insider during the trial. She told me that the Prosecution was very disheartened when Judge Ito was chosen. By the time the jury selection was over, the Prosecution knew they were doomed. That, according to my friend, is what we were seeing. They went through the motions because they had to but they felt the trial was over before it started.

On the plus side, the OJ circus trial gave us greta van sustrand....I like her style.

lol

Is OJ sane? What a wreck.

re: #203 wright1

At least Fred Goldman can try to collect on his civil suit since O.J won't be burning money on golf courses and visits to the Playboy Mansion. It makes a private investigator's job a little easier with him behind bars.

Interesting, OJ's home in Florida was protected from the Civil judgement, I wonder if that changes now that he has residence in Nevada?

Of course, none of this would have happened had that MORON democrat D.A. Gil Garcetti tried OJ in Contra Costa county, where the murders actually happened, because he would have been convicted there by intelligent jurors, instead of yielding to political correctness and moving the trial L.A. County, where the dummies on the jury slept through most of it, were too ignorant to understand the evidence, or decided because Simpson was black and the victims were white, he wasn't guilty. I choose to believe the latter...

re: #193 Walter L. Newton

Soros is Jewish but I do know he did help the Nazi's, he is still big on the one world order idea.

I predicted this when he was acquitted the last time; my theory was that he would be seeking punishment. This fits a pattern with the partial confessions he has made during the intervening years, and the recent crime itself can be seen as a way of begging to get caught and locked up.

[Link: www.sorosmonitor.com...]

[Link: www.frontpagemagazine.com...]

[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]

[Link: www.fpp.co.uk...]

[Link: www.investors.com...]

[Link: www.ibdeditorials.com...]

[Link: sweetness-light.com...]

[Link: www.stentorian.com...]

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

[Link: rotenochsen.wordpress.com...]

I have a few more but, these should help you start.

OJ and the DirectTV conviction.

re: #211 MandyManners

There is also a Soros/McCain link.

re: #209 DoubleU

Soros is Jewish but I do know he did help the Nazi's, he is still big on the one world order idea.

I think his grandfather helped the Nazi's, but anyway, Mandy is working up the links for me.

And yes, he does believe in a gobal government.

re: #213 DoubleU

There is also a Soros/McCain link.

Where?

re: #187 lostlakehiker

It was joy at payback. Remember the snickering white jury that acquitted some obviously guilty klansmen of a lynching? Back in Mississippi or wherever?

If you don't, you're probably young and white.

I don't believe for a minute that any demographic in this country is so clueless as to not have known in their bones that OJ dunnit. No differences in what we saw the truth to be. Just differences in what we saw justice to be. Justice in the case at hand? Or justice as in payback time?

So in the minds of those who cheered the decision, it's okay to brutally murder innocent white people to atone for verdicts that happened thirty years prior, in another State, in an unrelated crime with totally dissimilar participants?

re: #208 Joe Six Pack

Of course, none of this would have happened had that MORON democrat D.A. Gil Garcetti tried OJ in Contra Costa county, where the murders actually happened, because he would have been convicted there by intelligent jurors, instead of yielding to political correctness and moving the trial L.A. County, where the dummies on the jury slept through most of it, were too ignorant to understand the evidence, or decided because Simpson was black and the victims were white, he wasn't guilty. I choose to believe the latter...

What? What are you talking about?

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed in L.A. Contra Costa County had nothing to do with it!

[Link: nymag.com...]

[Link: globallabor.blogspot.com...]

re: #188 SurferDoc
Well I'm not doubting your friend, but I have to say that the way the prosecution tried the case aganst OJ, any judge, not just Ito, would've reacted and done pretty much the same thing.
That OJ's defense team was way above the DA's prosecution team was clear, especially on understanding DNA (which was, iirc, fairly new in the criminal justice system) but when the Assistant DA (who's name escapes me) wanted OJ to try on the glove, without knowing ahead of time whether or not the glove would fit, was a blunder of the first order.
You NEVER ask a question or pose a "drama" without knowing the answer or the outcome.
It was a long and complicated case that the DA presented, but when Johnny Cochrane said "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit" I had the feeling right then and there that unless OJ suddenly yelled out "I Did It", he was gonna walk.
In short, I think the DA blew it far more than Judge Ito did.

will the Goldmans be able to go after his assets now?

60 Minutes.

He discusses helping Nazis.

OK, said this earlier. But, IMHO, my best/wittiest post every (which is not saying much...)

So sad for Mr. Simpson. But, on the bright side; he has a better chance of finding Nichole and Ron's murderer in a prison than on a golf course.

[Link: questionsquestions.net...]

Wondering if he'll be free-on-bond pending all the appeals by his lawyers?
Hope not!

re: #220 realwest

The glove bit was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Do you remember the look Simpson shot Darden? "You are seriously going to let me do this? Chump!"

What did anyone thing Simpson was going to do?

The glove would have fit fine, in private.

What Happens Here - Stays Here

Warm regards from Sin City

re: #187 lostlakehiker

It was joy at payback. Remember the snickering white jury that acquitted some obviously guilty klansmen of a lynching? Back in Mississippi or wherever?

If you don't, you're probably young and white.

I don't believe for a minute that any demographic in this country is so clueless as to not have known in their bones that OJ dunnit. No differences in what we saw the truth to be. Just differences in what we saw justice to be. Justice in the case at hand? Or justice as in payback time?

I'm 43 and I make mayonnaise look taupe... I figured that it had to be some kind of payback, but really, it sad when to innocent people lay gutted in their own blood, the killer is known, and there are those who celebrate. Sigh.

re: #211 MandyManners

That will do it, I will send them on, someone I know wanted to read up on him. I'll save the links myself. Thanks bunches, golly gee, your grand.

re: #229 Walter L. Newton

That will do it, I will send them on, someone I know wanted to read up on him. I'll save the links myself. Thanks bunches, golly gee, your grand.

See No. 222.

re: #216 MandyManners

[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]
[Link: www.humanevents.com...]
[Link: www.amnation.com...]

re: #227 Viking6

What Happens Here - Stays Here

Warm regards from Sin City

You in Vegas? I am in Henderson, we got Vegas Rick in the North and someone else came out as a Sin City Lizard. We might have a quorum soon...

not even worth discussing...

re: #228 coquimbojoe

Bet I'm whiter than you. Of course, when you're fat, it's called, "Pasty".

I'm whiter than John Gibson.

gee OJ, all that "free" time in the slammer.... whatchya' gonna do with all of it?
Maybe explore the limits of your sexuality a little?

(or maybe share in the exploration of others' sexuality perhaps)

re: #211 MandyManners

[Link: www.sorosmonitor.com...]

[Link: www.frontpagemagazine.com...]

[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]

[Link: www.fpp.co.uk...]

[Link: www.investors.com...]

[Link: www.ibdeditorials.com...]

[Link: sweetness-light.com...]

[Link: www.stentorian.com...]

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

[Link: rotenochsen.wordpress.com...]

I have a few more but, these should help you start.

I know this is off-topic for this thread but it drives me nuts knowing that if Soros were supporting McCain the media would be stampeding each other in their rush to get a Pulitzer by reporting on his ruthless and ill-gotten gains.

re: #232 coquimbojoe
Hi up in Lone Mountain soon moving down to the Strip.

And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment.
Hebrews 9:27

re: #229 Walter L. Newton

KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.

KROFT: In what way?

Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and–and anticipate events and when–when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a–a very personal experience of evil.

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that's–that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Not–not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't–you don't see the connection. But it was–it created no–no problem at all.

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?

Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c–I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets–that if I weren't there–of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would–would–would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the–whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the–I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.

re: #226 Dianna

The glove bit was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Do you remember the look Simpson shot Darden? "You are seriously going to let me do this? Chump!"

What did anyone thing Simpson was going to do?

The glove would have fit fine, in private.

The prosecution was bunch of bumbling incompetent idiots. The judge was a spineless balless weasel who let the defense turn his court into a circus.

The trial should have been days. Three peoples blood, the murderer and the victims, at the murder scene, in OJ vehicle and home.

Done deal.

re: #230 MandyManners

See No. 222.

Hey Mandy, I've been seeing number 222
for 15 years on a regular basis.

clock, cash register, license plates, even your post...what does it all mean?
I would even wake up in the middle of the night at precisely 2:22.

re: #231 DoubleU

[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]
[Link: www.humanevents.com...]
[Link: www.amnation.com...]

WND? No thanks. I'd believe something from IBD or DTN.

re: #218 Dianna

What? What are you talking about?

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed in L.A. Contra Costa County had nothing to do with it!

They were killed in BRENTWOOD which is in Contra Costa county, dear...

re: #241 So?

Hey Mandy, I've been seeing number 222
for 15 years on a regular basis.

clock, cash register, license plates, even your post...what does it all mean?
I would even wake up in the middle of the night at precisely 2:22.

One-third of the Beast?

Isn't it kinda funny (not in a ha ha way) how raw we still are about scumbag?

re: #226 Dianna
I don't know if the glove would have fit fine in private, but it sure didn't in the courtroom and that's all that mattered.
BTW, iirc there was some talk that the blood on the glove had caused it to shrink a little; personally I think the DA shoulda kept the glove under the table. And I also think that Detective Furman's testimony helped OJ a lot.
There was some tv show - maybe 20/20 - that showed the actual police videotape of the crime scene and the inside of the house and they apparently videotapped it twice, just to be thorough and in the first tape, the glove was NOT on the grey carpet and in the second one it was plainly visible, the only thing ON the grey carpet at all.
As I said, the Prosecution's team was outclassed by the lawyers on OJ's team (whether or not anyone liked the lawyers on OJ's defense) but the DA sure helped them along with their defense.

Finally the stupid sociopath learns that even he can be punished for crime. As my wife points out to me, he thought that he could always "get away with it". She also points out that, being narcissistic he may well openly confess to the murders. I think that she is right. He cannot live without some kind of public attention.

+Photi

re: #244 MandyManners

One-third of the Beast?

Finally, an interpretation I can understand. I better go out and find the rest of my Trinity.

re: #246 realwest

Loved the glove thing. "Here OJ, spread your fingers as wide as you can. Good. Nope! The glove don't fit."

re: #243 Joe Six Pack

Dude its Brentwood, Los Angeles.

re: #243 Joe Six Pack

They were killed in BRENTWOOD which is in Contra Costa county, dear...

No, Brentwood is in LA County. There is Brentwood up near SF though.

re: #170 lostlakehiker

The thing is, OJ is pretty well screwed.
He's just been convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping, two major felonies, among ten other things.
20 years wouldn't be an unreasonable sentence for that, notwithstanding his prior brushes with the law.
He's already over 60 years old.
If he serves 2/3 of his time, he'll be paroled in his mid 70s, (if he lives that long), and released essentially destitute.

re: #220 realwest

Well I'm not doubting your friend, but I have to say that the way the prosecution tried the case aganst OJ, any judge, not just Ito, would've reacted and done pretty much the same thing.
That OJ's defense team was way above the DA's prosecution team was clear, especially on understanding DNA (which was, iirc, fairly new in the criminal justice system) but when the Assistant DA (who's name escapes me) wanted OJ to try on the glove, without knowing ahead of time whether or not the glove would fit, was a blunder of the first order.
You NEVER ask a question or pose a "drama" without knowing the answer or the outcome.
It was a long and complicated case that the DA presented, but when Johnny Cochrane said "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit" I had the feeling right then and there that unless OJ suddenly yelled out "I Did It", he was gonna walk.
In short, I think the DA blew it far more than Judge Ito did.

Good points. But if you look at it in the context of what my friend was saying, they were fighting the defense, the judge and the jury--and they had already given up. Right or wrong, in their minds they had already lost. PS: From where I was sitting (in front of my TV) the glove fit.

re: #243 Joe Six Pack

They were killed in BRENTWOOD which is in Contra Costa county, dear...

Find a map and look it up.

Sheesh.

re: #230 MandyManners

Yes, I got the other too! I'm sending these on to a friend, but a comment here.

I've read a lot of this stuff on Soros in the past, and I swear, I would not be surprised that this guy is behind a lot more of the crap going on, in finance and politics, then is apparent on the first look.

I think this guy is bigger than we ever could imagine.

IMHO.

re: #249 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Loved the glove thing. "Here OJ, spread your fingers as wide as you can. Good. Nope! The glove don't fit."

He'll be lucky if gets off just being fingered in prison.

re: #104 Macker

I still care about his soul.

He sold his soul thirteen years ago.

re: #249 Fat Bastard Vegetarian Yep and the DA said..........nothing.

re: #143 OldLineTexan

No clue, but I can tell you this: the serious cons are all badasses, and everyone steps around them. If you're in the joint, you want to be a badass or you will be the victim or dead. One way to prove you're a badass is to harm the inmates that even the other inmates cannot bear to see draw breath. That's what most if not all prison systems have segregated populations; to try and keep the notorious people like Dahmer alive.

Killing Dahmer in Texas would have made you King of the stinking unit.

My sister-in-law did time about 20 years ago for meth possession in OK. She shaved her head before she went to jail, and while there, in the first week beat the crap out of one of the prison bad asses...she spent 3 years in jail and wasn't messed with at any time after that.

re: #250 Viking6

Dude its Brentwood, Los Angeles.

You and Dianna need to take a geography course DUDE! Brentwood is NOT in LA, dummy.

re: #243 Joe Six Pack

They were killed in BRENTWOOD which is in Contra Costa county, dear...

Uh, no, it's in Los Angeles County. You shouldn't be so condescending when you're wrong.

Hey OJ, don't you wish this had've been you?

To An Athlete Dying Young

THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

A. E. Housman. 1859–

I've always loved this poem.

re: #217 Sol Roth

So in the minds of those who cheered the decision, it's okay to brutally murder innocent white people to atone for verdicts that happened thirty years prior, in another State, in an unrelated crime with totally dissimilar participants?

Not exactly. But in their minds, that's water under the bridge. No verdict can bring them back to life. They're thinking along the lines of---now you know what it feels like to have a sneering jury acquit somebody just because the killer was from their group and the victim from yours.

I think justice should be blind to these side issues. See my other post about how the sentence for OJ should be determined this time. I'm just trying to live inside the heads of those who were cheering. What could they have been thinking? NOT that OJ was innocent. NOT that the wife and the Jew had it coming. What's left? Payback. It's the only explanation that fits the evidence and grants a modicum of humanity to the gloaters. Reveling in payback is an unworthy emotion but right here on this thread we see a tinge of it. It's all too common a human failing, to put payback ahead of impartial justice.

re: #221 spidly

will the Goldmans be able to go after his assets now?

No sure, but Bubba will.

re: #261 doppelganglander
"You shouldn't be so condescending" y'all could've ended your statement right there and it would have been fine with me.