Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165460)	4/12/2010 9:25:46 AM
From: Jane4IceCream	3 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

Yikes Kevin...chill! You're sounding like demons have taken over your mind! Have a warm glass of milk and a Lorne Doone cookie. Jane

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165460)	4/12/2010 10:41:59 AM
From: one_less	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I don't think any of those concerns are silly Kevin. I do think it is simply wrong to tag all people embracing a conservative mind set, or a liberal way of thinking, with responsibility for extremism. Doing so blocks civil discourse where conservative and liberal perspectives need to be taken under consideration.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165460)	4/12/2010 10:50:49 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

"It is silly to be worried that there have been twice as many death threats to Democratic congressmen so far this year than in all of last year?" Republicans don't report their death threats and Democrats just make them up, to be a victim

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165460)	4/12/2010 12:19:48 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Kennedy Cousin Loses Appeal in Murder Conviction By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 12, 2010 Prosecutors have said Bryant's claim was fabricated and that nobody saw him and his friends in the predominantly white, gated neighborhood the night of the murder. Bryant and one of the men he implicated are black; the other has been described as mixed race. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel lost his bid for a new trial in the 1975 slaying of his 15-year-old neighbor when the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected his appeal that cited a claim implicating two other men. The court ruled 4-1 against Skakel's request, saying the evidence doesn't back up the alternate claim. Skakel -- a nephew of Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel -- was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in 2002 for fatally beating Martha Moxley with a golf club in 1975 in a wealthy Connecticut suburb. Monday's decision came after years of appeals and a campaign by Skakel's cousin, Robert Kennedy Jr. Skakel, 49, had asked for a new trial after Gitano ''Tony'' Bryant, who attended the same private school as Skakel, implicated his two friends in the killing. A judge turned that request down in 2007, and Skakel then appealed to the high court. Bryant gave a videotaped statement to an investigator hired by Skakel in which he said his two friends were in Greenwich the night Moxley was killed. He said they told him they got Moxley ''caveman style.'' Bryant has since invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The two men he implicated have done the same. Prosecutors have said Bryant's claim was fabricated and that nobody saw him and his friends in the predominantly white, gated neighborhood the night of the murder. Bryant and one of the men he implicated are black; the other has been described as mixed race. The high court agreed with the trial judge and prosecutors that no one recalled seeing Bryant or his friends in the neighborhood on the night of the murder. ''There is no evidence, independent of Bryant, to corroborate any significant aspect of his account of the events of the night of Oct. 30, 1975, whereas there is a plethora of evidence to contradict his account,'' Justice Joette Katz wrote for the majority. In 2006, Skakel lost an appeal before the state Supreme Court in which he argued, among other things, that the statute of limitations had expired when he was charged in 2000. He still has an appeal pending in federal court.