Update III (9:59 p.m.): The U.S. Supreme Court will not stop Williams’s execution, scheduled for 12:01 a.m. PST. Although he may be saved, I’ll pray for him tonight and ask God to show him mercy. Just in case…
Update II (6:20 p.m.): If only I could tell people off half as well. Alas, I have neither the patience nor the temperament. Well, enough of this death talk! I’m going to wrap up the task at hand, grab some grub, and watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory for the 20th time. Peace.
Update (3:42 p.m.): Governor Schwarzenegger denies clemency. If Williams really is saved, he will see his Savior soon. I know that sounds like hogwash to unbelievers, but to Christians, it’s God’s promise to us and a reality we look forward to.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. — 1 Corinthians 1: 18-25
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Liberal California Supreme Court rules 6-0 against stay of execution for Stanley “Tookie” Williams.
So what’s it going to be, Arnie?
Addendum: I didn’t know December 13 (tomorrow) was the execution date. I’m glad I won’t be on the giving or receiving end of this one. FullosseousFlap is holding a Tookie watch.
The following may be a tad insensitive in light of Tookie Williams’s impending death by lethal injection, but I had to blog about the once-funny Eddie Murphy’s Saturday Night Live skit, Prose and Cons (get it?), in which he played a poetic thug. It’s written by none other than Norman “White Negro” Mailer. The funniest part of the routine is Murphy’s poem:
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking – Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason –
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L …
My land – lord …
Def!
It’s one of those you-had-to-have-seen-it moments. Murphy’s facial expressions were priceless. I haven’t watched SNL in years, but in the 80s (The parents wouldn’t let me watch it in the mid- to late 70s when John Belushi ran the set), it was rocking.
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