{"id":93627,"date":"2025-03-09T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93627"},"modified":"2025-03-16T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:25:14","slug":"the-shoot-people-dont-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/the-shoot-people-dont-they\/","title":{"rendered":"They Shoot People Don’t They?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re doomed.  Finished.  Over.  After last week, I believe there is no hope.  I\u2019m not talking about poor Zelenskyy <\/strong>being ambushed.  I\u2019m also not talking about Rep. Al Green <\/strong>\u2013 who is also one helluva singer.  No, I\u2019m talking about the execution of Brad Keith Sigmon <\/strong>in South Carolina \u2013 by firing squad!  Is it the 1800s?  Are we truly barbarians?  To be fair, Sigmon actually CHOSE to be killed by firing squad \u2013 and if that doesn\u2019t scream insanity, then I don\u2019t know what does (his other choices were electrocution and gas chamber).  You know what else is still on the books?  Death by hanging!  Oh, yes \u2013 you can be hung in Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington \u2013 although I\u2019ve slept with loads of men in New Hampshire and none were particularly well-hung.<\/p>\n

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Since we\u2019re talking about death, let me update you on the Gene Hackman <\/strong>situation \u2013 although I suspect if you\u2019re interested in this sort of thing, you already know what I\u2019m about to say.  It would appear that Gene had advanced Alzheimer\u2019s along with some coronary issues and died on February 18th<\/sup>.  However, he seems to have outlived his wife by one week.  She succumbed to Hantavirus, which is spread through rat feces.  It would appear Gene was on a feces-free diet because no rat or any other food was found in his system \u2013 although he was not dehydrated.  So I\u2019m to believe Mrs. Hackman died, and Gene continued on alone for a week?  Without food, without wife, but with water and a wailing dog?  And where were those great, attentive kids of his?  Nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of wailing dogs, we come to Pamela Bach <\/strong>(I\u2019m not being crass…just give me a moment).  The former Mrs. David Hasselhoff <\/strong>committed suicide \u2013 yet not due to her marital choices.  She suffered from crippling arthritis ever since a motorcycle accident with David back in 2003.  She was lying dead in her bedroom for several days with reports of a dog howling.  Happily someone checked in to see what the fuss was about.  The dog survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re doomed.  Finished.  Over.  After last week, I believe there is no hope.  I\u2019m not talking about poor Zelenskyy being ambushed.  I\u2019m also not talking about Rep. Al Green \u2013 who is also one helluva singer.  No, I\u2019m talking about the execution of Brad Keith Sigmon in South Carolina \u2013 by firing squad!  Is it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93645,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93627\/revisions\/93645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}