Word: distracter
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...that this decision signals to lower courts that a de facto moratorium on lethal injection is in place, at least until the Supreme Court hears a case on whether injection is cruel and unusual later this term. Although this is a step in the right direction, it is a distraction to the real issue at hand: the ultimate end of capital punishment. It seems likely that the Court will maintain this moratorium on capital punishment until it issues a ruling on whether lethal injection is constitutional, which is appropriate when both the legality and morality of lethal injection remain...
...site, they later attributed the explosion to a gas leak. But as the last bodies were still being pulled from the wreckage, an opposition senator - himself on trial for leading an attempted coup against Arroyo in 2003 - accused members of her Cabinet of orchestrating the blast in order to distract attention from a scandal allegedly involving bags of cash handed out at the presidential palace to lawmakers...
...tried to distract myself with anything and everything around me—the “Re-sign Lowell” chants, Jonathan Papelbon’s jig, a sharply-dressed Manny Ramirez, the Dropkick Murphys, Jonathan Papelbon’s jig, Daisuke Matsuzaka’s translator Masa Hoshino ‘02, the list goes...
...Driven by a most dubious agenda, shortsighted cut-and-paste bloggers, lacking all the facts, have made a feeble attempt at being crack reporters. This is an aberrant attempt to distract the American people from what the real issues are. Hard working American families need affordable health insurance...
...Crap on Your Face Knife in the Back A non-verbal attack. As the TF speaks, subtly make eye contact and repeatedly touch your nose or teeth, thereby suggesting that the tool sitting across from you has some unpleasant appendage in his nose/teeth. Not only will this distract him for the rest of section, but the semblance of intimacy will leave him vulnerable for future attacks. Effectiveness Factor: 9 Judas Factor: internal strife, eventual forgiveness, immortalization in liturgy/musical 5) The Bull-dozer KO Park a bull-dozer outside of Sever. After section, bulldoze opponent, thereby literally crushing her. Effectiveness Factor...