It totally sucks that child or forced marriages exist, not just in the third world, but also in countries like the United States.
This is because women aren't valued as anything but babymakers and sex toys. It is a disgusting world we live in.
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As usual, Trump lashes out, and meanwhile people in the real world are hurting and being ignored in favor of political theater.
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Meanwhile, Trump is spending this day playing golf with the equally disgraceful Lindsey Graham.
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There's nothing like a little bit of (possible) terrorism to celebrate the holidays.
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Congress is very fucked up, no question. Most of the problem is in the U.S. Senate, which arcane rules and totally amoral majority leaders can completely torpedo much-needed legislation.
It's time for drastic reform, but fat chance the Senate is going to reform itself.
Mitch McConnell would simply kill it.
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U.S. death row inmate Lisa Montgomery gets a reprieve from a judge.
Montgomery, who committed a truly heinous crime, was scheduled to be executed on January 12.
I wouldn't be surprised if Biden commutes her death sentence to life without parole.
Snip:
Montgomery was convicted of killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in December 2004. He used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, and then a kitchen knife to cut the baby girl from the womb, authorities said.
Prosecutors said Montgomery removed the baby from Stinnett’s body, took the child with her, and attempted to pass the girl off as her own. Montgomery’s legal team has argued that their client suffers from serious mental illnesses.
“Given the severity of Mrs. Montgomery’s mental illness, the sexual and physical torture she endured throughout her life, and the connection between her trauma and the facts of her crime, we appeal to President Trump to grant her mercy, and commute her sentence to life imprisonment,” one of Montgomery’s lawyers, Sandra Babcock, said in a statement.
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Tiny Skidmore is also infamous for the Ken Rex McElroy murder where the town had had enough of his bullying, violence, and torture, and someone shot him to death back in 1981 in front of witnesses. The notable thing about this case is the townspeople refused to rat out his killer. It is officially unsolved.
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