ANNA NICOLE SMITH. Anna Nicole, who died Feb. 8, will not be buried before tomorrow, if then. Her mother is appealing Judge Larry's decision awarding the body to the court appointed guardian of Smith's five month old daughter. Meanwhile, Anna Nicole's corpse continues to decompose.
Why is Anna Nicole's corpse decomposing while the body of soul singer James Brown, who died two months ago, is not decomposing? Brown's body, like Anna Nicole's, has been fought over in legal proceedings, thus preventing his burial. Post mortem experts believe that Brown's body is still in good shape because it was embalmed within a few hours of his death, while Anna Nicole's corpse remained refrigerated for more than a week before it was embalmed.
PRES. FELIPE CALDERON. The new president of Mexico got it right when he recently ordered 20,000 soldiers from the Mexican army to take over the fight against the narco trade in that country. Mexico's local, state and federal police have been corrupt through and through, and some drug corruption has reached into the highest levels of the federal government. Calderon raised the pay of the soldiers engaged in this fight from $319 a month to $474, retroactive to Jan. 1.
How effective will this move be and how long will the army continue to be used in the war against drugs? That remains to be seen. So far, no high level traffickers have been arrested. In Columbia, the combined use of the military and the federal police has resulted in breaking up that country's leading drug cartels. Unfortunately however, others were quick to move into the lucrative narco trade and Columbia continues to be the leading source of the cocaine found in the United States.
GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. Yesterday, the Republican governor of California was interviewed by Bob Schieffer on CBS' Face the Nation. That interview is more proof of why Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution should be ammended so that foreign born citizens will be able to serve as president of our country. Schieffer's interview convinced me that Schwarzenegger is the most outstanding elected official in America.
The governor advocated that candidates elected to public office adopt a centrism position. He stated that public office holders were elected to represent all the people, not just those of their own political party or any wing of a party. He believes that it is the duty of the president, the governors, congressional leaders and other office holders to bring the opposing political parties together so that both can work for the good of all the people, rather than only for their own interests.
Schwarzenegger admitted that he was wrong when, early in his term, he battled the majority Democrats in the California legislature. Failing to get his proposed measures passed, he tried to bypass the legislature by placing the measures before the public in an initiative referendum. With the strong opposition of the nurses and teachers unions, the measures were soundly defeated and his approval rating dropped to 30 percent.
The governor told Schieffer that he learned from his mistakes and started to work together with both the Democrats and the Republicans. Because he strived to bring both parties together, the legislature passed some notable measures for health care, environmental protection, and other laws of benefit to all Californians. Last November, he soundly defeated his Democratic opponent while Republicans in other states were run out of office.
THE DIXIE CHICKS. During the recent Grammy Awards, the Dixie Chicks won five Grammies. Celebrity award groups tend to be of the liberal persuasion and the politically correct crowd gleefully claimed that the awards vindicated the trio for their public criticism of President Bush and the war in Iraq. The Chicks' defenders and supporters just don't get it.
Some people would have been pissed off had the Dixie Chicks made their Bush-bashing and anti-war statements on any street corner in the United States. That is their right. But the shit storm over their remarks arose from the fact that they were made in England and not in this country. The politically correct crowd be damned, but Americans have absolutely no business criticizing our country or its officials while they are overseas!
JOSEPH NICHOLS. Who in the hell is Joseph Nichols? He is a Texas death row inmate who was convicted for the 1980 murder of a clerk during a convenience store robbery. He has lingered on death row due to the many appeals filed on his behalf. He is scheduled to be executed next month if a last minute appeal does not succeed. An angry 45 year old Nichols complained about his fate during a recent interview with a newspaper reporter.
Nichols told the reporter that he was angry at being "punished twice" for the same crime. "I've already served a life sentence. Now they want to kill me. They want to punish me two times. If they were going to kill me, they should have done it a long time ago."
Say what? That's some chutzpah for Nichols to cry foul. So, why has he been serving the equivalent of a life sentence on death row? The only reason Nichols has been sitting on death row over 25 years is because he agreed to let his attorneys file numerous appeals on his behalf. Claiming that he should not be executed because he has already served a life sentence is akin to a youth throwing himself on the mercy of the court because, by murdering his parents, the poor lad had been orphaned by the tragic sudden deaths of his mother and father.
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