Cubs co-owner spends $400,000 to kill 10 Nebraskans

Everybody knows the four kids of billionaire Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts have spent hundreds of millions to bring Chicago a World Series. But most don't know one of those Cub co-owners has spent $400,000 to kill 10 Nebraskans sitting on Death Row. That's not hyperbole. Last year the Nebraska legislature voted to end capital punishment in Nebraska. Republican Governor Pete Ricketts, one of the aforementioned Cub owners, vetoed that measure but suffered the indignity of having his veto overridden. Incensed, 'Whack Em' Pete shelled out $300 grand to get a death penalty reinstatement referendum on the November 8th ballot; then ponied up another hundred grand to promote it.

Just like with the Cubs, Whack Em brought home a winner Tuesday, 62% to 38%. Death penalty opponents in the legislature vow another repeal measure after the first of the year. Meanwhile, Whack Em is conferring with his Attorney's General on ways to get banned lethal injection drugs to finish off the ten blokes sitting on Death Row, at a cost of $14 mil a year, as the repeal law hadn't gone into effect before it was rescinded.

Next time you spend a dollar on the Cubs, consider that a quarter of it goes to a loathsome specimen of humanity who will use it to commit legalized murder of his fellow man.