My first blog
Okay, I have been inspired by the biggest geek I know to enter the fray. View Galifianakis' blog at Link. I don't know why but somehow he makes me think of another guy. I am just getting started in this blogosphere but I figure I can come up with something interesting to say on a regular basis. We'll see....

Tiger Woods is once again not doing well in the Master's. It is getting to be quite disappointing. What happened, when did he jump the shark? He's still crushing Fuzzy Z but he is in the mid 30s behind by 7 strokes. That is crazy. Maybe it is the whole marriage thing, I don't know, the timing seems to coincide. Maybe having someone else in his life has caused a bit of distraction. I hope he get's his game back. He made golf fun.

It is friday. I'm planning a party tomorrow so hopefully the weather will hold out so that I can do some grilling. One can never tell with this New England spring. I can't wait for California...

China executed a total of 3400 people last year. That is more than the number of people who died on 9/11. It is kind of crazy. I think the US only clocked in at around 60. I wonder what the minority break down in China is like. In the US African Americans rank around 12% of the population but over 40% of death row inmates, a sobering number. For some statistics (although a bit old). There also are a number of inmates with web pages including Mario Flores. He seems to have a typical story if you look at the number of overturned criminal cases. If you can believe it there are actually people out there still in support of the death penalty.

Looking a little deeper the US ranks around 5th in the execution category. This is probably because we have fewer crimes (in general on a national scale) that warrant the death penalty. We also prefer to put people in prison rather than execute them and when we decide to execute it takes forever. If you look at the statistics over 3000 people here in the US on death row.

The real statistic I think has to do with the numbers of people in prison. The numbers are shocking. Nearly half of a percent of our population is in prison. That is 5 for every 1000 people in the US is in prison right now. I wonder what else in our country gives a statistic like that for occupation. The number for African Americans is 3.4% and 1.2% for Hispanics. That is crazy.

Internationally we are way behind in these issues. Only Russia approaches our percentages. China and Saudi Arabia are only at 0.1% while Iran comes in at 0.2%, well below our numbers even though they beat us in executions.

We need to wake up and fix our country!

Our tax dollars at work.