I also like to think of the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said something to the effect that it is better that a thousand guilty people go free than a single innocent person get wrongly convicted.

I used that on someone once, and he said, "No, it isn't." I asked, "What if that innocent person was someone you loved?" He laughed: "That wouldn't happen." Because of coure, "decent" people wouldn't get in that kind of situation.

I'm watching You Kill Me and oh, man, Ben Kingsley? Still sexy.

What if that innocent person was you?

What if that innocent person was you?

Why, a fine upstanding citizen like himself would never find himself in such sordid circumstances as to be charged for a serious crime that he wouldn't be immediately be acquited of. And, really, such a person who couldn't prove his innocence would probably be guily of something, and probably wouldn't be a loss.

What if that innocent person was you?

Yeah, I'm white.

Yeah, I hate everybody (except you guys).

Interesting. Several presidents have been re-sworn in before, and a few not on Bibles. (Coolidge and Teddy Roosevelt just didn't use the Bible for their oaths, and when Johnson was sworn in after Kennedy was shot, they just grabbed a leather-bound book with a cross on the cover that looked like a Bible, but it turned out to be a missal.) [link]

I used to go to services at this temple.

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This guy? This is a terrorist.

That's horrifying, Allyson.

Absolutely. That poor family.