Until very recently, clemency grants were a consistent feature of our criminal justice system. In the last four decades, though, state clemency grants have declined significantly; in some states, clemency seems to have disappeared altogether. In this Article, I contend that executive clemency should be revived at the
state level in response to ongoing systemic criminal justice failings

I really appreciated them all hanging around to meet up with ol' kdog.  They sure do eat like Californians, I was the only one to finish my sandwich;)

Here's a link to Sailabration.

My building is right across from the National Aquarium, so we are getting a front-row seat to all the goings-on.

And the weather is cooperating nicely, much to the delight of the people who put this whole thing together, I'm sure.

That, and Larry Hagman's available.

Jacobs says now the producers have cut him out completely. "I will not waive my rights. The material isn't bad. But I read the scripts and found they were very plot driven. I thought she was going to have trouble down the road. The original "Dallas" and "Knots Landing" ran five years too long because the audience was so engaged with the characters. You didn't need to come  up with constant plot points. The scripts are good. But they should have been Bobby's kid the bad one, and JR's kld the good one. Bobby has a new wife, and she's from Houston. She should have been from main line Philadelphia, or Boston or New York. Or very rich. But I never had the opportunity to express any of this."

The new multi-nation poll finds that "in predominantly Muslim nations, American anti-terrorism efforts are still widely unpopular." Beyond Muslim nations, "in nearly all countries, there is considerable opposition to a major component of the Obama administration's anti-terrorism policy: drone strikes." Specifically, "in 17 of 20 countries, more than half disapprove of U.S. drone attacks." As usual, "Americans are the clear outliers on this issue - 62% approve of the drone campaign, including most Republicans (74%), independents (60%) and Democrats (58%)." But in every other surveyed country besides India (which naturally supports any attacks in Pakistan), more people disapprove of Obama's drone strikes than approve, usually by very wide margins. Indeed, "the policy is unpopular in majority Muslim nations, but also in Europe and other regions as well"; specifically, "at least three-in-four [are opposed] in a diverse set of countries: Greece (90%), Egypt (89%), Jordan (85%), Turkey (81%), Spain (76%), Brazil (76%) and Japan (75%)."

Sounds like Mike McCreary did tell the head of campus police about what he saw the next day which is something I didn't know.

Cain threw the first perfect game in the Giants' long and storied history Wednesday night at AT&T Park, striking out 14 and getting great defensive plays from outfielders Melky Cabrera and Gregor Blanco in a 10-0 victory over the Houston Astros.

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And Clemens jury is still out.  Exciting stuff:

Two jurors were dismissed for sleeping during the trial, and the judge said Wednesday that Hardin noticed another juror appeared to drift off during the lawyer's closing argument the day before. The judge said that's why Hardin pounded the podium multiple times.

Egypt's highest court declared the parliament invalid Thursday, and the country's interim military rulers promptly declared full legislative authority, triggering a new level of chaos and confusion in the country's leadership.

The Supreme Constitutional Court's ruling means that parliament must be dissolved, state TV reported.

The court also ruled that a former member of President Hosni Mubarak's regime may run in a presidential election runoff this weekend.

The court found that all articles making up the law that regulated parliamentary elections are invalid, said Showee Elsayed, a constitutional lawyer.

Parliament had been in session for just over four months. It was dominated by Islamists, a group long viewed with suspicion by the military.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in control of the country since Mubarak's ouster, announced that it now has full legislative power and will announce a 100-person assembly that will write the country's new constitution by Friday.

"The Democrats are saying something like this: 'We found a big hole that we did not dig. We didn't get it filled in 21 months, but at least we quit digging,'" Clinton said at the time. "'Give us two more years. If it doesn't work, vote us out.'"

When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Russia on Tuesday of shipping attack helicopters to Syria that would "escalate the conflict quite dramatically," it was the Obama administration's sharpest criticism yet of Russia's support for the Syrian government.

What Mrs. Clinton did not say, however, was whether the aircraft were new shipments or, as administration officials say is more likely, helicopters that Syria had sent to Russia a few months ago for routine repairs and refurbishing, and which were now about to be returned.

"She put a little spin on it to put the Russians in a difficult position," said one senior Defense Department official.

Mrs. Clinton's claim about the helicopters, administration officials said, is part of a calculated effort to raise the pressure on Russia to abandon President Bashar al-Assad, its main ally in the Middle East. Russia has so far stuck by Mr. Assad's government, worried that if he were ousted, Moscow would lose its influence in the region.

The fun part is that all the Tigers fans have been drowning out the Cubs fans with their cheers, and even when singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame".

But it's a Rasmussen poll.

Oh.

"Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children will be able to obtain work permits and be safe from deportation under a new policy announced on Friday by the Obama administration."

"The policy, effective immediately, will apply to people who are currently under 30 years old, who arrived in the country before they turned 16 and have lived in the United States for five years. They must also have no criminal record, and have earned a high school diploma, remained in school or served in the military."