getting votes by ruining lives and expanding the nuclear club...

in an unexpected twist to the duke lacrosse alleged gang rape...the dna evidence came back...no matches...not a one...there was no dna of any of the team members found on a woman who alleged she was brutally raped by three of them. of course this doesn't seem to bother the local district attorney at all. remember awhile back when he hit all the national news networks to declare he was convinced a rape had occurred (because i am sure he had all the evidence then, and had heard everything from all involved parties...afterall, that is what you would expect someone with such an important position relating to serving justice would do...but then that rarely happens)...that alone is disturbing. might as well have gotten on tv and declared himself judge, jury and executioner. but then it is a mentality that is found far too often in the offices that need it the least.

interesting thing about him declaring he still has a case that he will take even with the complete lack of dna matches...he's campaigning for reelection. so he backed himself into a corner by telling the world a rape happened, and afterwards, almost overnight, this case may have become a dog...but he has to find someone to put on trial, he can't back off now, or the voters will never let him forget it, he will be "soft on crime" and disappear back into private practice. so now some young kids will go on trial for a brutal rape, they will be put through the ringer that is our criminal justice system for 18 months or so...will be acquitted when a jury can't figure out how a brutal rape can occur without a hint of dna transferring...and will never quite recover. just once, i would appreciate a district attorney coming out and saying something like "it is my job to see that justice is served and the interests of the state, the victims, and the defendant are taken into account. i will not bring charges against someone simply because the media and people with no connection to the alleged events demand someone, anyone, must pay." won't ever happen though...

you gotta love the cowboy attitude of iran. john wayne would be proud of the "we're enriching uranium and we are well aware there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. we know the united nations will sit back and scold and maybe cut off trade (which will of course be broken by every country in the region and france) but will not do anything to seriously damage those of us in power. we know the united states is reduced to all talk because they can't handle the two wars they have going on already in the region, and a third would be a mistake even this administration would not make. so we're enriching this shit, and we're going to have a bomb someday soon...and then we will be safe, and we won't take your pompous arrogant shit anymore." funny, we destroy a country to keep it from garnering nuclear weapons only to find out it was nowhere close...and right next door the nuclear family expands in a country just as "dangerous" and now there is not a damn thing we can do about it but stomp our feet and wag our finger. good job buddy, you did it...

although, i must admit, i now see the brilliance in our foreign policy towards the middle east over the last hundred years though. muslims and arabs are attacking each other now...so maybe it was part of the plan all along to force them to live together under borders the west made up in order to simmer the hatred and have it eventually explode in region wide war that would eventually leave everything devestated and ripe for plundering. brilliant.

i see we're fighting again, how fuckin' lame...