Amanda Knox - Appeal being heard -

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/09/29/newton-italy-knox-trial.cnn

Just have a hard time believeing that this girl is guilty.  She didn't have a translator, she has been in Italy in Jail for 4 years........I pray that she gets a reprieve.

Rick Perry just keeps on putting his foot in his mouth.......Good Grief

From the Huffington Post - John Ward article:

The bad moments made worse:
Perry had to have known he was going to get hammered on immigration, particularly his support for providing discounted in-state tuition at Texas public colleges and universities to children of illegal immigrants. He took flak for that in last week's debate, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney argued at length Thursday as to why the policy "makes no sense."

Perry bristled, and in his eagerness to hit back, he slighted a large swath of the conservative grassroots.
"If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart," Perry said.

Calling people who disagreed with him heartless will resonate. One conservative activist who said he agreed with Perry on the issue was still offended by the suggestion that those who disagreed with Perry lacked empathy.

Romney jumped on the line in his opening comments Friday morning during a speech to the Conservative Action Political Conference in Florida.
"I think if you're opposed to illegal immigration it doesn't mean that you don't have a heart. It means that you have a heart and a brain," Romney said to cheers.

Republican Debate Audience Boos Gay Soldier Stephen Hill After DADT Repeal Question

http://www.5min.com/Video/Santorum-DADT-Repeal-Social-Experimentation-517166097

Jaycee Dugard Files Lawsuit Against Federal Government For Failure To Monitor Phillip Garrido

FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
Jaycee Lee Dugard has filed a claim against the U.S. government for failing to monitor Phillip Garrido, the convicted sex offender who kidnapped her in 1991 and held her prisoner for almost two decades.


Dugard was 11 years old when she was kidnapped from a school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., on June 10, 1991. She was missing for 18 years before authorities discovered she was living in the backyard of her alleged kidnappers' home in Antioch, Calif. At that time, it was also revealed that Phillip Garrido had fathered two children with Dugard.

Garrido is a convicted sex offender who, in 1977, was sentenced to more than 50 years in federal and state prison for rape and kidnapping. But Garrido was paroled in 1988, three years before he abducted Dugard.

According to the complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Thursday, the federal government bears responsibility because it did not properly supervise Garrido. The federal government was responsible for Garrido from the day he was released in 1988 until the state assumed responsibility in 1999, the complaint alleges.

In July, the state of California awarded Dugard, now 31, and her two children a $20 million settlement for its role in Garrido's parole supervision.

"It was the State's negligence in the ensuing 10 years that was actionable and gave rise to Ms. Dugard's claim for damages and the resulting settlement," said Dugard's publicist, Nancy Seltzer. "Thus, the two governmental entities committed separate, distinct and consecutive acts of negligence."

The complaint alleges that the errors in the government's handling of Garrido's case are as "outrageous and inexcusable as they are numerous."

In April, Garrido and his wife, Nancy, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and rape. Garrido was sentenced to 431 years and his wife received 36 years to life.

Dugard, who recently wrote a best-selling book about her ordeal, is seeking unspecified damages.

According to Seltzer, Dugard is not seeking money for herself. Instead, she will donate "100 percent of whatever money she recovers" to the JAYC Foundation, Inc., a non-profit that provides "support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiences," Seltzer said in a press release.

"Jaycee ... will trust the Judge to decide the damages after all the evidence is presented," Seltzer said. "It goes without saying that what Jaycee went through in any one week of her 18-year captivity is more horrifying than most people will experience in their lifetime."

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Troy Davis was Executed - I am Appalled and May God Forgive

I am appalled and very disappointed that they did not grant clemency in this case.  If you read the attached link, it is really heartbreaking.    I can't help wondering if race was a factor.  I am sad and may God forgive us all.

Here is a quote from the article and the link to the entire article

JACKSON, Ga. -- Troy Davis, convicted of murdering an off-duty Savannah police officer more than 20 years ago, held fast to his claims of innocence even as he was finally executed by lethal injection on Wednesday night.
Strapped to a gurney and minutes from death, Davis stated that he had not carried a gun the night of the murder and did not shoot the officer, Mark MacPhail, in a fast food restaurant parking lot on an August night in 1989.
Speaking directly to MacPhail's brother and son, who witnessed the execution, Davis beseeched them to continue to examine the events that night. "All I can ask is that you look deep into this case so you can really find the truth," he said.
Davis then addressed prison officials preparing to inject him with a lethal mix of chemicals. "May God have mercy on your souls," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/troy-davis-executed_n_975109.html

Troy Davis attorneys pin hopes on desperate final appeal | The Raw Story

Troy Davis attorneys pin hopes on desperate final appeal The Raw Story

Georgia's board of pardons rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Davis on Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite support from figures including an ex-president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.


Davis is scheduled to die Wednesday at 7 p.m. EDT by injection for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail, who was shot dead while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. It is the fourth time in four years that Davis' execution has been scheduled by Georgia officials.