That's life, that's what all the people say.
You're riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune,
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.

I said that's life, and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks,
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down,
'Cause this fine ol' world it keeps spinning around

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself, flat on my face,
I pick myself up and get back in the race.

That's life
I tell ya, I can't deny it,
I thought of quitting baby,
But my heart just ain't gonna buy it.
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try,
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself laying flat on my face,
I just pick myself up and get back in the race

That's life
That's life and I can't deny it
Many times I thought of cutting out
But my heart won't buy it
But if there's nothing shakin' come this here july
I'm gonna roll myself up in a big ball and die
My, My

Cue the Republican comedians. Your turn.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/14/toofat.execution/index.html

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death.

Richard Cooey was pronounced dead at 10:28 a.m. ET, said Andrea Carson, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Corrections. The execution went as scheduled, she said, with "no problems whatsoever."

Cooey had exhausted his legal appeals and Gov. Ted Strickland earlier denied the 41-year-old prisoner's clemency petition. Cooey murdered two college students in 1986.

Asked if he had any final words, Carson quoted Cooey as saying, "You haven't paid attention to anything I've had to say for the past 22 years, so why would you think that I would think you're going to pay attention to what I have to say now?"

Earlier Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected the stay Cooey's attorneys had sought, along with the opportunity to address the larger constitutional claims over when a convicted person is medically unfit for capital punishment. The court was also asked to review whether Ohio's lethal injection procedures amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

Cooey's lawyers maintained that at 5-foot-7 and 267 pounds, he was "morbidly obese" and had gained about 70 pounds since he was imprisoned at age 19. Prison food and confinement in his cell for 23 hours a day, limiting his opportunities for exercise, contributed to his weight problem, his legal team argued.

Cooey also contended regular medication he took for migraines would weaken the effectiveness of an anesthetic used in the three-drug cocktail administered during execution. He said his veins were weakened because of his health issues, and the lethal drugs would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Cooey waited too long raise the medical issues, saying he "knew of and could have filed suit over vein access prior to July 2005."
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Ohio does not serve a "last meal," as death-row inmates are given the opportunity to eat breakfast before a scheduled execution, Carson told CNN. But on Monday night, she said, Cooey ate a "special meal" consisting of a T-bone steak, hash browns, french fries, four eggs over easy, onion rings, four pieces of toast, a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, Mountain Dew and bear claw pastries. He did not eat breakfast Tuesday, Carson said.

Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the brutal murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery, students at the University of Akron. The men had been tossing concrete slabs onto Interstate 77, and one of them struck Offredo's car.

Pretending to "rescue" the women, Cooey and Clinton Dickens took the victims to a remote field, according to prosecutors. There the students were subjected to a three-and-a-half-hour period of rape, torture, stabbings and fatal bludgeonings. Cooey carved an "X" into the stomachs of both women, prosecutors said.

Each man blamed the other for delivering the fatal blows, but both were convicted of murder. Dickens received a life sentence because of his age.

Cooey tried to escape from death row in 2005, when corrections officials said he constructed a ladder from magazines and bed sheets in an effort to scale the barrier around an outdoor recreation area.

At an August clemency hearing, Jon Offredo, brother of one of the victims, said, "Our family has never gotten an apology from Richard Cooey. We've gotten blatant lies and excuses. Is an apology too much to ask? How could he commit such an heinous act and not feel regret?"

However, Cooey's lawyer, Dana Cole, said his client is sorry for his crimes.

The high court has not offered clear guidelines on what medical standards need to be met before an inmate is eligible for death. But in a case five years ago, the justices allowed inmates to at least make a claim that their specific physical or medical issues could be cause to block an execution.

The high court had sided with a convicted Alabama killer who claimed his veins were so damaged from years of drug abuse that executioners might have to cut deeply into his flesh to administer the deadly drugs.

Writing for the unanimous court in that case, then-Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the court was not going to "open the floodgates to all manner of method-of-execution challenges," as Alabama feared. "Our holding is extremely limited." That inmate is still on death row.

Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center, a data-resource group that opposes capital punishment, said the Supreme Court indicated that "how you're going to be executed is a civil rights matter, the same as if you were discriminated on the basis of race or gender or something like that."

A Washington state killer was given a reprieve in 1994 after claiming he was too obese to hang. Mitchell Rupe at one time was more than 425 pounds, but weight-loss surgery in prison had reduced that to 275 pounds over the years. Subsequent legal efforts to execute him failed. He died in prison two years ago after a long illness.

The Ohio case is Cooey v. Kerns (08-6722)"

So to me this begs the question: "...when a convicted person is medically unfit for capital punishment." Why would someone be medically unfit to be put to death? It's not like death is going to make their medical condition worse. In fact it may clear it up.

But knowing she can kick my ass actually makes her hotter.



Even though Kelly lost on Saturday, she still had a hell of a fight. A lot better than Kimbo's anyway. ;)

So week 1 TO scores a td and pretends to be an olympic runner, going down into the starting position and running. Result: TO is fined and the team is penalized 15 yards on the kick-off. Reason: The new rule is that if your touchdown celebration involves going to the ground that is a taunting penalty.

So week 2 two players score tds and drop down to one knee to cross themselves. Result: Nothing. No fine, no penalty. They went to the ground, just like TO did, but no penalty of any kinds.

Double standard? I think so.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/27/obese.prosecution.ap/index.html

" EDINBURG, Texas (AP) -- A nearly half-ton Texas woman charged in the death of her toddler nephew couldn't have beaten the boy to death because of her limited movement from weight problems, her attorney said Tuesday.

Mayra Rosales, who weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, was indicted last week on capital murder charges in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. Prosecutors said the 2-year-old boy died after being struck at least twice in the head while in the care of Rosales, who is bedridden.

Jamie Rosales, the boy's 20-year-old mother, believes the death was possibly caused by the morbidly obese woman rolling onto the toddler, said Oscar Vega, her attorney. She faces one felony count of injury to a child, which carries a life sentence and 10,000 in fines.

"She doesn't believe her sister intentionally did anything to her child," Vega told The Associated Press.

A state district judge put Mayra Rosales, 27, under house arrest Monday because the county jail lacks a large enough cell or necessary medical resources. She is required to wear a global-positioning tracker until her trial.

Sergio Valdez, Mayra Rosales' attorney, said she lacks the movement in her arms to have killed the child, calling it an "impossibility."

"She is not physically capable of having committed those acts," Valdez said.

Valdez said Rosales suffers from a thyroid problem that has caused her to put on hundreds of pounds over the past three to four years and has been bedridden for more than a year.

The stress of the arrest and charges has exacerbated the poor health of Mayra Rosales, who also suffers from a "life-threatening" ailment he would not disclose, Valdez said.

"This whole ordeal has taken a very negative effect on her, emotionally and physically," Valdez said. "She wants this to be over. She wants to be vindicated."

Vega said Jamie Rosales has a learning disability and will plead not guilty.

He declined to say where his client was the day of her son's death, but said he knew of no order forbidding the boy to be watched by his aunt."

Ok so the story is about how the 1000 lb womne may have killed the kid, but the back story is that the parents of this kid left him with a women who is bed ridden. To watch a 2 year old. You need a little mobility to watch a 2 year old. I feel bad for the kid, but everyone else is in this story is a waste of oxygen.

You think maybe it's just here that people are stupid right? Surely the rest of the planet must be smarter than this, right. Right?

I give you this:

http://www.newturfers.com/mwf/attach/38/355838/BBCNEWSWorldLionMutilates42MidgetsinCambodianRing-Fight.htm
"Spectators cheered as entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against African Lion
Tickets had been sold-out three weeks before the much anticipated fight, which took place in the city of Kâmpóng Chhnãng.

The fight was slated when an angry fan contested Yang Sihamoni, President of the CMFL, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters.

Sihamoni takes great pride in the league he helped create, as was conveyed in his recent advertising campaign for the CMFL that stated his midgets will "... take on anything; man, beast, or machine."

This campaign is believed to be what sparked the undisclosed fan to challenge the entire league to fight a lion; a challenge that Sihamoni readily accepted.

An African Lion (Panthera Leo) was shipped to centrally located Kâmpóng Chhnãng especially for the event, which took place last Saturday, April 30, 2005 in the city’s coliseum.

The Cambodian Government allowed the fight to take place, under the condition that they receive a 50% commission on each ticket sold, and that no cameras would be allowed in the arena.

The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back.

Sihamoni was quoted before the fight stating that he felt since his fighters out-numbered the lion 42 to 1, that they “… could out-wit and out-muscle [it].”

Unfortunately, he was wrong."

We are doomed.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/04/death.penalty.fat.ap/index.html

"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Death row inmate Richard Cooey says executioners would have trouble finding his veins to lethally inject him.

Death row inmate Richard Cooey says executioners would have trouble finding his veins to lethally inject him.

Lawyers for Richard Cooey argue in a federal lawsuit that Cooey -- 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds -- had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been worsened by weight gain.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, also says prison officials have had difficulty drawing blood from Cooey for medical procedures.

Cooey, 41, is sentenced to die for raping and murdering two young women in 1986. His execution is scheduled for October 14.

His attorneys say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could affect the execution process. The drug Topamax, a type of seizure medication, may have created a resistance to thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep before two other lethal drugs are administered, Dr. Mark Heath, a physician hired by the Ohio Public Defender's Office, said in documents filed with the court.

Heath says Cooey's weight, combined with the potential drug resistance, increases the risk he would not be properly anesthetized.

"All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating," Cooey's public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday.

Prison system spokeswoman Andrea Carson and Jim Gravelle, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, both said Monday they hadn't seen the lawsuit and couldn't comment.

Last year, Carson cited the obesity of condemned inmate Christopher Newton as one of the reasons prison officials had difficulty accessing his veins before his execution. Newton was 6 feet tall and weighed 265 pounds.

Two years ago, convicted killer Jeffrey Lundgren was put to death after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that he was at greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering because he was overweight and diabetic."

"All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating,"

Good.

This probably wont reach too many more people, but every little bit counts. This is from my friend Jims blog. He could use some help for a friend of his, who is a great guy that is in a shit place right now. Even if you can't/wont offer some financial assistance some spiritual would be great as well.

"I don't put a whole lot on this blog anymore for several reasons. However, this is definitely worth the time for me. Since the vast majority of the people I have on my friends list on this page have nothing to do with IWA and wrestling, I will have to give you a back story so you know what I'm talking about.

One of the first wrestlers that I worked with and thus became friends with was a guy named Roland. He wrestles as Rollin' Hard. Anyway, several years ago he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He fought it into remission and had a lot of support from fans, friends and family. He borrowed from the Lance Armstrong Live Strong campaign and created his own motto...LIVE HARD...BEATING CANCER TILL IT'S BLACK & BLUE. That is the tshirt that I mention in my writeup later. Moving along, the cancer came back and spread into more places in his body. Doctors gave him 12 - 24 months to live.

He sought more medical advice and was given an option to undergo a radical surgery that would try to remove as much of the spreading cancer cells as possible. He was told that the surgery could prolong his life by 6 years (and thus hopefully allowing enough time for something else to possibly be discovered by then) or it could take 6 months off his life due to the wear and tear on his body.

Roland decided that it was worth the risk to try and prolong his life for his 2 children and his wife and he underwent the surgery last week. They removed his spleen, gall bladder and some of his pancreas.

Roland is currently struggling to recover from this surgery and was put on life support machines to assist with his breathing the other night. He has fought it with everything that he has and if all goes well, he might get off the ventilator tonight if he doesn't regress.

Now that I have given you the backstory, I will now tell you about my attempt to help this dear friend and his family but also help me in the meantime. I'm not in the best shape of my life and I can't seem to find the motivation to work out and get into shape. If you continue reading, I think I have found a way to gain that motivation.

Today, I signed up for the Chicago Distance Classic with Stacy. She loves doing the half marathons and has completed 3 of them. She's been trying to get me to do one with her and well the thought of walking 13.1 miles in 4 hours just never seemed like something that I would want to do...until now.

Usually these events are done by people that are fundraising for cancer or other charities that are near and dear to their hearts. As some of you know, Stacy has leukemia that is in remission and that is why she started doing these half marathons in order to raise money for research in that field.

We have decided that we will walk this half marathon (I've gone on several 8 mile walks with her but never 13.1) while wearing Live Hard tshirts. However, I need extra motivation to make sure that I can make it the extra 5 miles and so I'm going to ask for friends that want to help Rollin and his family out to also help me out by giving me the extra motivation needed to finish this walk.

If you want to help Rollin and can afford to do so, you can send a donation too me by going to www.paypal.com and sending it to iwafannin73@yahoo.com

All the money donated to the paypal account, I will then give to Rollin and his family to help with their expenses.

The race is on Sunday August 10th in Chicago along the lakefront.

You can go to http://www.chicagodistanceclassic.com/index.htm for more information on the race and if you want to pay the entry fee, you can enter and walk in your Live Hard shirts with us. If you don't already have a Live Hard shirt but would like to walk in the event wearing one, we will try to have them at the Kings of the Crimson Mask show (August 2nd in Joliet) for you to purchase.

Again, if you would like to help out Rollin, you can send a paypal donation to iwafannin73@yahoo.com and I will pass along all the donations to Rollin and his family."

Thanks for taking the time to read this.