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Maple popsicle - I want one. They sound so good.
Warning: SAD. Two men killed a teenage girl. One was trying to rape her. The other stood on her and strangled her to death, trying to stop her fighting his cousin. They turn out to be illegal immigrants. One local radio station asks if this changes your view of the case. I find that disgusting: the assessment of and punishment for murder seems little relevant to immigration status. What IS relevant is that the man who killed her had two DUI charges from 2006. It might have been nice if they'd deported him then and kept him out of the country, since I assume he was in the country illegally at that time also (although I don't know - he could have been on a temporary form of some sort or another, the news doesn't say so I assume not). However, while I have relatively little sympathy for illegal immigrants who get deported or get in trouble for that, I don't think your average illegal immigrant is going to strangle a 15-year-old girl (or anyone) to death, either. Or we'd have a lot more news articles about it than we do, considering the number of illegal immigrants.
And a different sort of news story - a truck driver with two trailers of lumber passed out at the wheel, and his nine-year-old son (with some instructions over the CB radio) managed to keep it mostly under control and get it slowed enough that a passing motorist could jump in and get the brakes. That could have turned out so much worse than it did.
I could link an article about the shuttle takeoff here, but I'm assuming most of you have seen that or can find it. :)
Maple popsicle - I want one. They sound so good.
Warning: SAD. Two men killed a teenage girl. One was trying to rape her. The other stood on her and strangled her to death, trying to stop her fighting his cousin. They turn out to be illegal immigrants. One local radio station asks if this changes your view of the case. I find that disgusting: the assessment of and punishment for murder seems little relevant to immigration status. What IS relevant is that the man who killed her had two DUI charges from 2006. It might have been nice if they'd deported him then and kept him out of the country, since I assume he was in the country illegally at that time also (although I don't know - he could have been on a temporary form of some sort or another, the news doesn't say so I assume not). However, while I have relatively little sympathy for illegal immigrants who get deported or get in trouble for that, I don't think your average illegal immigrant is going to strangle a 15-year-old girl (or anyone) to death, either. Or we'd have a lot more news articles about it than we do, considering the number of illegal immigrants.
And a different sort of news story - a truck driver with two trailers of lumber passed out at the wheel, and his nine-year-old son (with some instructions over the CB radio) managed to keep it mostly under control and get it slowed enough that a passing motorist could jump in and get the brakes. That could have turned out so much worse than it did.
I could link an article about the shuttle takeoff here, but I'm assuming most of you have seen that or can find it. :)
