In a move that's sure to please kidney patients everywhere, UCLA is rejecting a $3 million gift from Donald Sterling earmarked for kidney research because racis remarks. Really? Because the guy holds private views with which many disagree, his money is suddenly somehow tainted? It's not like the gift was contingent upon research dedicated only toward improving the health of only white folks. Blacks suffer from kidney problems as well; a fact apparently lost among the politically-correct administrators at the institution of higher vegetation.
And unlike Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who chose to broadcast his views to the world, Sterling's remarks were made in an atmosphere in which a degree of privacy might reasonably have been expected. It is, after all, a violation of California law to record someone absent their knowledge and consent.
And while the media continue with their feeding frenzy regarding the comments a rich old philandering white guy made to his gold-digger "girlfriend", they've found even more bloody meat in what they're calling the "botched" execution in Oklahoma of one Clayton Lockett. Let's get one thing straight: that was a successful execution; he's dead, and he's never going to shoot a girl twice with a sawed-off shotgun and then help his accomplice bury her alive - nope, he's never going to do that again.
Could things have gone more smoothly? Probably. Does it matter that he may have experienced some degree of suffering before his death? Maybe it does to some folks who seem more worried about him than about the pain and suffering and terror he inflicted on an innocent 19 year-old.
Neiman and her friends were abducted and driven out to a remote country road. Lockett and his victims waited while Mathis chipped away at the ground, digging a small grave along the road. Neiman was placed in the ditch and Lockett shot her with a sawed off shotgun. But she survived and began pleading for her life. Another shot, but this time the gun jammed. A third shot hit its target.
But Stephanie Neiman was still alive. So Lockett and Mathis buried her anyway. Alive.
Whatever Lockett may have suffered, it paled incomparison to what he did to his victim, to say nothing of the terror likewise inflicted upon her friends. Sympathy for Lockett? Nope.
