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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim-thompson who wrote (73436)	2/20/2006 11:35:50 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Nothing beats W's look of a chimp, the movement like that of a chimp. And a chimp has more brains that W. The cartoon is trying to imitate Kerry. But if you put a chimps photograph next to W there is no difference.

To: jim-thompson who wrote (73436)	2/20/2006 8:27:02 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Morales beat Terri Winchell in the head with a hammer so brutally and repeatedly that her face was no longer recognizable, Miles said. He then raped and stabbed her. "He was laughing and joking with loved ones over the telephone." Too bad his victim couldn't. Terri Winchell, of Lodi, was bludgeoned, raped and stabbed one January night in 1981, her unrecognizable body dumped in a vineyard in Acampo. mercurynews.com U.S. high court denied killer's bid for stay (Michael Morales) AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ \| 2/20/06 \| David Kravets - ap SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the execution of convicted killer Michael Morales. Justice Anthony Kennedy reviewed the case, then sent it to the full court, which denied Morales' final appeal at 6:29 p.m. EST, according to court spokesman Ed Turner. "The court entered orders denying the request for stays of execution," he said. The Supreme court was the only legal option left for Morales, 46, who is scheduled to die from lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. at San Quentin State Prison for killing teenager Terri Winchell, of Lodi. He would become the 14th prisoner to be executed since California voters reinstated capital punishment in 1978, and the state's third execution in just over two months. Spokesman Vernell Crittendon said San Quentin guards "locked down" the prison at 2 p.m., meaning its 5,000 inmates could only leave their cells for medical treatment. Morales, he added, "is in relatively good spirits." "We're continuing to gear up for our shortly after-midnight execution," Crittendon said of the prison, about 15 miles north of San Francisco. "He was laughing and joking with loved ones over the telephone."

To: jim-thompson who wrote (73436)	2/20/2006 8:38:09 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Just so people will know what he did: Morales and his cousin pretended they were driving to a girlfriend's house when they meandered onto a country road off Interstate 5 near Lodi. A few minutes later, as darkness began to fall, Morales asked the question: "When are you getting an eight-track for your car?" He then lurched forward and wrapped his leather belt around Winchell's neck. He pulled and pulled. Ortega couldn't bring himself to watch but heard the girl struggle against the grip. After about 15 seconds, the belt broke. That's when Morales pulled out a hammer. He slammed the hammer against Winchell's head - over and over. Twenty-three times. She screamed for Ortega to help her and tried to fend off the assault, even ripping out her own hair. Ortega kept driving. Morales eventually beat her unconscious, crushing her skull. Then, Ortega pulled over. Morales told him to drive away and come back in 15 minutes. He dragged Winchell from the front seat and across the roadway, face-down, into the vineyard. He then raped her. Morales began walking away from the girl, but decided to turn around. He pulled out a kitchen knife and plunged it into her chest - four times. "To make sure she died," according to the state attorney general's report. Christian waited for her daughter to come home. By 8 p.m., she said she knew something had happened. By midnight, she could feel her daughter was gone. "It's a feeling I had in the pit of my stomach, like your insides are ripped out," she said. "That feeling has never left." Just something to remember if Mike Farrell or some of the other clowns show up lighting candles.