Jun. 28th, 2012

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A guy who tried to use the 'Stand your ground' defense in Texas got sentenced to 40 years in prison.
In lobbying jurors for a lenient sentence, defense attorney Bill Stradley blamed the tragedy on his client's misunderstanding of the state's "stand your ground" law. Something he predicts will happen with other Texas gun owners in the future.
Yeah, there's also the fact that he followed the guy down the street and confronted him....
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SCOTUS has upheld (5-4) that the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is constitutional.

The dissenting side is Scalia (as expected), Alito (ditto), Thomas (ditto) and Kennedy (and ditto).

It is further interesting to note that Romney's response was reportedly going to be the same regardless of how SCOTUS decided. Namely, he's supposed to say "Yeah, but Obama hasn't been dealing with unemployment like he said he would."

To which I respond "NEITHER HAS YOUR SIDE, ASSHOLE."

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