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[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

                 David Morris:
                 But I thought he was the "evil half-wit."  
                 That really fits much better.

He's that too, or at least Pynchon aimed a glancing shot across his bow.

                  David Morris:
                  Cheney on the other hand...

Don't know. When I first read the Governor of Jeshimon passage,
already knowing Shrub's attitude toward public executions,
my mind took an immediate leap forward to Crawford, Tx.

                Note for web readers: Neither Barnes nor Beets received 
                clemency; both were executed on-schedule.

http://www.bushfiles.com/02_18_00/death_race_021800.htm

Clemency, by definition, tradition, and law, is an 
independent act of mercy, or as McCown put it 
in his state opinion, "an act of grace or mercy by 
the body politic acting by and through the 
executive department of its government." It is 
only indirectly subject to the legal process, and 
is in theory a final opportunity for the community 
to consider whether some extra-judicial reason - 
possible legal error, exemplary rehabilitation, 
special human circumstances - might call out 
for mercy. But as the day wore on in Judge 
Sparks' court, it became apparent that few if 
any of the Board members seemed even to 
conceive of a notion of clemency review that 
was other than a simple last-minute check-off 
of prior legal proceedings. 

http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/no_mercy.html

               "Clemency" was allowing some to wait a 
              day or two before they were executed, the 
              number of buzzards and amount of tower 
              space being finite. 

On 3/8/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> George W. Bush as the Governor of Jeshimon

                    What impressed a first-time viewer 
               was not any natural charisma, for he had none, but 
               rather a keen sense of something wrong in his 
               appearance, something pre-human in the face, the 
               sloping forehead and clean-shaven upper lip, which 
               for any reason, or none, would start back into a 
               simian grin which was suppressed immediately, 
               producing a kind of dangerous smirk that often 
               lingered for hours. . . .