Fresh Loaf

This is fantastic news, though obviously not a final determination as to whether the execution will proceed but merely a little more time and hopefully a fresh look at the new evidence.

-Sara at Going Through The Motions, after hearing that the state Parole Board granted a 90-day stay of execution to Troy Anthony Davis. Several witnesses in the case have recanted testimony that helped convict Davis.

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He Needs to Die.

-Erick at Peach Pundit is seemingly undisturbed about the possible killing of an innocent man by the state of Georgia. Aren’t conservatives supposed to be for limited government?

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I’m picking Whitehead to win with at least 65%.

-Jason Pye, on today’s 10th Congressional District special election. The candidates are Paul “I endorse myself” Broun and Jim “Seal the Canadian border” Whitehead.

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During Monday’s candidates debate, 10th Congressional District candidate Paul Broun accused his opponent, Jim Whitehead, of telling the Georgia Sport Shooting Association that he doesn’t own any guns. Broun also implied he has been endorsed by the GSSA.

Today, Jeff Emanuel at Peach Pundit noted that the GSSA lists Broun as its president.

Broun’s campaign manager Joshua Evans confirms that Broun has indeed secured the endorsement of the organization whose website lists him as its president. He says, however, that he believes Broun has stepped down from the position.

That this is a campaign issue at all is insane.

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Streaming video of last night’s 10th Congressional District debate between candidates Jim Whitehead and Paul Broun is now available, courtesy of Atlanta Press Club.

Broun and Whitehead were shockingly petty and inarticulate. Watching and listening to these two people embarrasses me as a Georgian and as an American. I’d vote for a leaky Magic 8-Ball before I’d vote for either of these two.

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I don’t think I’ve ever felt more embarrassed to be a Georgian than I was watching last night’s televised debate between 10th Congressional District candidates Jim Whitehead and Paul Broun.

Among the lowlights:

1) In an attempt to neutralize Whitehead’s pro-gun cred, Broun said that someone told him that Whitehead didn’t actually own a gun. Asinine.

2) Whitehead referred to the concentration of high-tech businesses in northern California as “Silicone” Valley.

The Atlanta Press Club will post video of the debate later today, at which point I’ll moan more extensively.

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Does Jim Whitehead realize that if he gets his wish he will have to actually represent the interests of Athens, GA in Congress? You know that something is terribly wrong with the boundaries of a congressional district, when the candidate favored to be elected to it, can be openly disdainful of its interest

-FlackAttack at Tondee’s Tavern on Jim Whitehead’s apparent disdain for Athens, which happens to be inside the congressional district he wants to represent.

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Dudes, the iPhone is my new best friend.

-Clunky Robot got an iPhone. Better yet, Clunky made a very nice desktop that you can download to your iPhone.

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I haven’t pooped in 5 days.

-Mingaling is constipated.

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Paul Broun’s showing was, quite frankly, nothing less of stunning and something that both Democrats and Republicans never considered.

— JMAC at Safe as Houses on yesterday’s special election to fill the vacant Georgia 10th Congressional District seat. Republican Jim Whitehead got 44% of the vote. Once all of the votes are counted, he will face either Republican Paul Broun Jr. or Democrat James Marlow in a July 17 run-off. With 96% of the vote counted late last night, Broun and Marlow had 20.7% and 20.3%, respectively.

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So, as I’m planning my schedule for the NECC, I just realized a huge conflict: NECC pre-conference events are on Pride weekend. How am I to watch the parade and hear the opening keynote?!

— Megan Golding is trying to figure out how she’s going to watch Sunday’s Pride Parade without missing one of the big speeches at the National Educational Computing Conference at the World Congress Center.

Forget speeches! What about the NECC’s six-hour “library crawl” on Sunday?! Complete with brown-bag lunches! Who’d wanna miss that?

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Yesterday at lunch I got Snapple Real Fact #116 and I cringed a little bit:

#116 – The largest fish is the whale shark – It can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons.

— Seth at Metroblogging Atlanta evidently forgot to bring a book to lunch. CL guest blogger Mei Lan wrote about whale sharks yesterday.

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