Whether You're For or Against Capital Punishment I Think We All Can Agree This Guy Deserved To Die10/20/2017 ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A convicted cop killer who sued Alabama over its lethal injection method was put to death, but not before he cursed at the state and said: "Mom and sis, look at my eyes, I've got no tears in my eyes. I'm unafraid. To the State of Alabama I hate you mother f***er, I hate you." McNabb refused a final breakfast and dinner. He did not want prayer or a chaplin before, during or after the execution, and his final statement was directed at his family and the State of Alabama as they witnessed the execution. As the procedure began Thursday night, Torrey Twane McNabb, 40, raised both of his middle fingers in a show of defiance. McNabb's attorneys had unsuccessfully sought to stop the execution since he was one of several inmates in an ongoing lawsuit challenging the humaneness of the state's lethal injection procedure. McNabb was convicted of killing Montgomery police officer Anderson Gordon in 1997. He shot Gordon five times as the officer sat in his patrol car after arriving at a traffic accident McNabb caused while fleeing a bail bondsman, prosecutors said. His family members and attorneys who witnessed the execution expressed repeated concerns to each other that he was still conscious during the lethal injection. "He's going to wake up," one of McNabb's family members whispered. He was pronounced dead at 9:38 p.m. CDT, authorities said. Alabama Commissioner Jeff Dunn said he was confident the movements after the second consciousness check were involuntary and that McNabb was not awake. A lawyer for McNabb argued that it would be wrong to carry out the execution while proceedings continue in McNabb's lawsuit. The state argued that the inmates are unlikely to prevail in their claims since the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed other executions, including four in Alabama, to proceed using midazolam. The attorney general's office argued McNabb had presented nothing new to justify a stay. Now as Americans we all are entitled to our rights to believe whatever we want (at least for now). Some people are for capital punishment, some are not. Technically nobody is wrong, even though you'd think anybody with a brain would agree that we should just kill all the heinous criminals (murders, rapists, diddlers etc.) instead of wasting tax payer dollars keeping them alive. But if you don't, whatever, I don't really care either way, that's neither here, nor there. Certainly is not what this blog is about, not at all! But I'll tell you want, I'm glad this bastard is dead, and if it were up to me, if it was possible I wish they could've killed him twice. Why? Not because he's a cop killer (although I agree that is v bad!), but because he refused a last meal. Who in the hell turns down a last meal? To disrespect food like that, that alone warrants the death penalty in my book. While I have no plans to ever be on death row, I have dreamt about the idea of a last meal, one final chance to stuff my face before I'm dead. (FTR I'd just see how much pizza and dessert I could possibly eat, I'm no fancy boy just give me like 3 large stuffed crust pizzas from Pizza Hut, a bag of milk-chocolate flipz and some peanut butter ice cream and see what I can do) But like I said in my blog yesterday, you never know where life will take you. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I will never be on death row, but if I am the haters can shove this blog down my throat, unlike Mr. McNabb did with his last meal. As a man with well documented weight struggles, I fantasize about being able to eat whatever the hell I want with no repercussions. Guess what? What's exactly what a last meal has! No repercussions! You can go nuts! Who cares if you gain a quick 4 pounds from a king's feast? You're about to have much bigger problems than not being able to fit into your jeans or whatever pants they give you in prison. Plus, since this guy really hates the state of Alabama as he made clear in his final statements he missed one last chance to stick it to the man. This guy should be killed for stupidity alone. (I guess in a way he was) Now I get it when you're in prison for twenty years you kind of lose touch with the outside world and what's going on, but I mean you gotta have a library in prison right? I've seen Shawshank. They had a library. And according to Martin from the Office when he was in prison for insider-trading they had Harvard business professors teaching business to guys, who would go on to do incredible things in business. I get that Alabama probably doesn't have the same resources, but I bet they at least have some fucking books. Apart from the making license plates and getting raped, I'd imagine prison is pretty boring. 20 years is a long ass time, Chris Farley was still alive when this dude went to jail. The Spice Girls were still together. Over all that time you don't get a little curious about what happens to you after you die? Like one random day in 2003 where you're like I wonder what happens to my body after I die? I mean I'm not on death row and I think about that constantly. (Fun fact: it takes 8-12 years to become a skeleton after death!) Torrey how could you be so stupid?!! How do you not know that after you die your body evacuates all it's bowels. For those of you who don't know what that means, it means you shit yourself after you die! Meaning he could've had some Mexican food, 10 cups of coffee, a half gallon of ice cream, curry, or a simple old fashion can of beans, anything just to make the mess a little worse for whoever is employed by the state of Alabama to take care of after he die. But he didn't. As Black Dynamite once said:
Torrey was too concerned about fighting for the rights of humane death for people who brutally murder innocent people. You imbecile! Really dropped the ball there, man. Oh you flicked them off and said fuck you, that really leaves an impact. Like that hasn't happened before. Could've shit everywhere and made someone's day a hell of a lot worse. Not only is this guy a piece of shit cop-killer, but he's also an idiot. Enjoy hell, Torrey, I for one am glad your refusing a last meal ass is toast.
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Song: Hook Artist: Blues Traveler Album: Four It's true, after not even 90 days away in Tennessee I am already back in Rhode Island. Like the carpetbaggers before me, I headed south with hopes of exploiting it for my own personal gain. Instead I am back in Rhody before Halloween. Things obviously did not go as planned; but that's life. Unexpected shit happens all the time. It's not like I left thinking, I'm gonna be back before the World Series starts. Nobody wakes up in the morning and is like "I'm gonna get in a car accident today" but unfortunately shit like that happen everyday. Nobody wants to experience failure, either. Failure is interesting in the sense that it can be interpreted in many ways depending who you ask. To some kids a report card full of B's means they're grounded for a month, in another household that may me cause for a celebration. Thomas Edison once said (according to National Treasure) that when asked about his "failures" in making a light bulb, that he didn't fail, he found 2000 ways not to make a light bulb. I've been teetering back and forth with that same topic: failure. In ways I do feel like a failure and it makes me sad. Mainly because I just wanted this job to work out to make my parents happy, and so I could start being a real adult making okay money. I feel like I let them, and the people who believed in me down. But believe me, even though I hated it there at this school/hellhole and wanted to quit pretty much from day one, I didn't want to have to quit, it just got to the point mentality and emotionally that something had to give. I really wish it could've worked out, I think Nashville is a wicked fun city and would've love to have gotten to experience it more, but there was just no way I could have stayed. I know there will be people who are like "you should've just toughed it out, you pussy!" but they never spent a day at GMMP so they honestly can kick rocks. At the same time, while the job didn't work out, I don't consider the experience as a whole a failure. I met some incredible people while in Tennessee, gained a lot of knowledge and learned many lessons that I wouldn't have had I not tried life down there. At least I had the balls to try, a lot of people I know have never left RI. It's like when Belichick went for it on 4th and 2 against the Colts. While I was gone for such a short amount of time you may have not have even noticed I was gone, I was. There's leftovers that have been left in fridges longer than I lasted in Tennessee. Simply put why I'm back: The school I was teaching at was a living hell. I cannot stress that enough. I started two weeks into the year because it's such a rough-school that they couldn't get the position filled. I honestly believe I only got the job because I have the necessary degrees and am alive. Turnover there was v high. There was a teacher last year who quit after 1 day, and another teacher put in her two week notice the day before I did. So I wasn't exactly the first person who couldn't handle that place. The school had a 1/10 rating online, and I think it got that one because there was no zero option. Getting subs there was next to impossible because of that, they simply don't want to go there. For subs it's just not worth it with the shit you have to deal with. There were days when a fellow 8th grade teacher didn't have a sub so they'd just divide there classes and throw them into the other three classes, so instead of having 22 kids running wild in your classroom, you'd have 30. From the jump I felt waaaaaaaay behind the 8-ball. The administration didn't really do anything to help me get acclimated as a new teacher. My classroom didn't have desks, half the lights didn't work. I had to request to get a copy of the textbook multiple times. You'd think they'd be like here this is what you'll need to teach, but that never happened. They didn't tell me the curriculum either, so I had no idea wtf I was supposed to be doing for the first two weeks. That aspect of teaching is kind of important. It's hard to teach when you don't know what you're supposed to be teaching. I will say the other teachers in the building were quite helpful, but that's just because they knew how things worked at GMMP. Little things like having to pay for your own copies, or having kids threaten to "end you", stuff like that. While I could give the entire sob-story, I'm not going to do that, what I will say about this experience is that it taught me a ton about myself, what really matters in life and how to be a better person. One of my biggest takeaways is to be a lot less judgmental. In the past I've been so quick to judge others. Part of if it is from living in a small-ass town where that's basically all there is to do, and part is just from me being an ass-hole. I'm doing my best to fix the latter. For example, I knew people and had friends that went away to different colleges for a semester, or 9 days, then came home, so of course that becomes a topic of discussions. "Did you hear X is already back from Y?" Shit like that. I was one of the biggest haters around. But now I get how fucking hard it is to drop everything you've ever known and start somewhere new. Until you truly know what a person was going through you really have no right to say shit about it. I'm sure people will judge me for resigning 7 weeks in, that people will call me names for letting the a bunch of 8th grade punks get the best of me, but I don't care. If you're a person worth having in my life you'll take the time to understand where I'm coming from. As for being back in Rhode Island, it's not what I anticipated, but it's where I am now and am going to try to make the best of it. I wish my friends were more excited about me being back but whatever, you get older and people have their own lives, I get that, just feels good to be wanted I guess. I'm gonna try to write more, although I've gotten discouraged lately from lack of readers, and feeling like it's a hopeless dream. I do love blogging and when I'm at my best know I'm good enough to make it, it just seems like such an uphill battle. I just want to have a decent job and live a normal life. I'm gonna be 26 and feel like such a piece of shit with where I am currently in life. I know it could be a hell of a lot worse, but given what I expect out of myself I'm not happy. I wish I could go back and do a bunch of things differently, but that's impossible so I just gotta make the best of now. I guess that's it for this blog, yes I'm back, and while my mom has done incredible things to get me a part time job with benefits since I'm turning 26 in less than two months it's not enough... Soooooo if anybody has any leads for placing hiring soon or can help me get a full time job that hires soon to be 26 year-olds with two degrees and 7 weeks of teaching experience do not hesitate to come my way! Seriously, I'll do pretty much anything as long as it's full time w/ bennies and a livable wage. Song: Bad Boy Artist: Dan Croll Album: Emering Adulthood Song: Once In A Lifetime Artist: The Night Game I was going to do a full on blog but I'm fucking exhausted from teaching. Luckily, that isn't going to be going on much longer. Hopefully I'll have a little more time to write, although I wouldn't bank on it since I've been jaded by the reality that I'm not as funny as I think I am and kind of suck at writing. But despite all that negativity I also know that I'm fucking hilarious and actually can write. I just need an editor because I'm just too lazy to proof-read. I've been posting my MLB playoff predictions longer than DOL has been alive and felt like I at least had to have my official picks on the record. Just gonna do the wild card games. Hopefully I'll have more time to write and give better analysis soon for the rest of the playoffs. For now, short and sweet will have to do it. American League Wild-Card Game. Minnesota Twins 85-77 vs. New York Yankees 91-71 Pitching match up: Ervin Santana (16-8, 3.28 ERA) vs. Luis Severino (14-6, 2.98 ERA). Even though the wild-card game has been happening since 2012, I still don't really like it. Don't get me wrong, the excitement of a one game playoff to start off the postseason is awesome. I just fucking hate how a 162 game season comes down to a single elimination game. To me it's not fair, especially in years when the wild card teams have better records than division winners. I kind of hate how winning the division matters. If it were up to me there would just be a National and American League where the top 5 teams make the playoffs. If you wanna have the 4 and 5 seeds have a one game playoff, so be it, but I hate the idea of geography mattering more than wins. If you have more wins than another team, you should be rewarded for that. In 2015 the 98 win Pirates took on the 97 win Cubs in a one game playoff, while the Dodgers and Mets who both have less wins got automatic berths in the NLDS because they won their divisions. To me, if you win 98 games you deserve a series, not a coin-flip. But enough about hating on the wild-card game I'm already ranting too much which is exactly what I didn't want to do here. I feel like the Twins always end up playing the Yankees in the playoffs whenever they make it, and always get swept. So of course that's the match up here. I really, really want to take the Twins here because I fucking hate the Yankees, and like this Twins team a lot. It's great to see a future Hall-of-Famer like Joe Mauer have a bounce back year and get back in the playoffs. However, I don't think it lasts too long. While in a one game scenario it's extremely possible for the Twins to move on, I just don't see it happening. The Yankees have dominated the Twins at home this season and with their ace on the mound I expect that to continue. I think the Yankees win, and don't really have to sweat it out. Yankees win 6-2. National League Wild- Card Game: Colorado Rockies 87- 75 vs. Arizona Diamondback 93-69. Pitching Matchup: Jon Gray (10-4, 3.67) vs. Zack Greinke (17-7, 3.20) Another reason why I hate the one-game playoff is that it doesn't give fun-upstart teams like the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks a big enough stage to shine. Playing on the west coast, these teams don't get a ton of national media spotlight when they should, both rosters are full of young, exciting players that need to be shown the sports world. Guys like Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt should be household names. While most of the world is taking the D-backs to not only win this game, but possibly upset the Dodgers in the NLDS, I just have a weird feeling the Rockies are going to win. When everybody is all on the same team, that's when the lose, that's why Las Vegas has many big buildings. If who you always expected to win won we'd all be millionaires from gambling. I'll probably be wrong, but this is a shitty, get my feet wet again blog so whatever. I like the Rockies 4-3. Song: American Girl Artist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Album: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Never been a huge Tom Petty fan, but I mean come on, everybody loves this song. R.I.P. |
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