Governor of South Dakota outlaws all abortions except for ones saving the life of the mother

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The governor of South Dakota on Monday signed into law severe restrictions on abortion, in a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's legalization of the practice 33 years ago.

Abortion foes have said they hope to use the South Dakota law to eventually bring the issue back before the high court, where they believe conservatives added to the bench by President George W. Bush in the last year could weaken or dismantle the court's landmark Roe vs Wade decision of 1973.

Supporters of Roe vs Wade have promised a legal challenge to the new South Dakota law.

-----

Pathetic
Saving the life of the mother... How do you define that. I guess it doesn't include saving her Constitutional rights or her rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Judge Sentences Former Deputy To One-Year Behind Bars For Man's Killing

http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/7670020/detail.html?subid=22100423&qs=1;bp=t

Anders Shot, Killed Handcuffed Suspect In December 2004, Police Say

POSTED: 11:09 pm MST March 3, 2006

UPDATED: 11:13 pm MST March 3, 2006

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- Billy Anders, the former sheriff's deputy who pleaded guilty to shooting and killing a handcuffed man, will spend one year behind bars, Action 7 News reported.

Anders was sentenced Friday in Alamogordo.

VIDEO: Anders Sentenced

"If I could do it all over again, in hindsight your honor, I would do it differently," Anders said in court. "We don't have the benefit, unfortunately."

Defense lawyers were hoping that Anders one-year sentence would be served with an ankle bracelet, rather than jail.

"The mandatory sentence in this case is one year," said Judge James Waylon Counts. "I have no legal authority to allow Mr. Anders to serve that one year anywhere but with the Department of Corrections."

"He'll do it, and he'll do it well, and he'll be model prisoner and he'll make them proud of him," said Anders' attorney, Bob Doughty.

The former Otero County deputy killed Earl Flippen on Dec. 18, 2004, after finding his partner's body outside of Flippen's home.

Police said they believe Flippen murdered Anders' partner.

Anders shot Flippen moments after handcuffing the suspect, a moment that was caught on the dashboard camera of Anders' police cruiser.

District attorney Scotty Key said he hated to be involved in the case, but he believed it was the right thing to do.

"Billy Anders is not a typical defendant, he's a police officer," Key said. "He's a good person who did a bad thing one time and it had tragic, disastrous results."

Anders' family was visibly upset after the verdict was read. Action 7 News reported that they weren't the only ones hoping for a lighter sentence.

"Is the world better off for Bill Anders going to prison?" asked Otero County Sheriff John Blansett. "Certainly not. Is the world better off for Earl Flippen dying? On a personal level, I believe so."

Security was tight around the courthouse, due to a threat made by the white supremacist group, Aryan Brotherhood, against Anders

Anders was free Friday night and is scheduled to turn himself into authorities next week.

Doughty said Anders could be home sooner than a year on good behavior.

Friday was Anders' 63rd birthday.

This pig shot a man that was in custody? Because he was mad at him? WTF? And he is begrudgingly given even a year in jail? WTF??

So do we have a Stargate Command as well?

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/030606p1.xml

SPACEPLANE SHELVED?

For 16 years, Aviation Week & Space Technology has investigated myriad sightings of a two-stage-to-orbit system that could place a small military spaceplane in orbit. Considerable evidence supports the existence of such a highly classified system, and top Pentagon officials have hinted that it's "out there," but iron-clad confirmation that meets AW&ST standards has remained elusive. Now facing the possibility that this innovative "Blackstar" system may have been shelved, we elected to share what we've learned about it with our readers, rather than let an intriguing technological breakthrough vanish into "black world" history, known to only a few insiders. U.S. intelligence agencies may have quietly mothballed a highly classified two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system designed in the 1980s for reconnaissance, satellite-insertion and, possibly, weapons delivery. It could be a victim of shrinking federal budgets strained by war costs, or it may not have met performance or operational goals.

(no subject)

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people. - Marcel Proust

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. - Robert Heinlein

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Rubin

Natalie Portman - Gangsta Rapper

hahahaha

this rocks

http://www.break.com/index/nportsnl.html

Quotes

Originally published at Twixel.net. You can comment here or there.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people. - Marcel Proust

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. - Robert Heinlein

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Rubin