The Median Sib

There’s a news story about a Tennessee man who confessed to killing Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins 21 years ago,  He confessed, but for the past two years he’s claimed he is innocent and that DNA tests will exonerate him.

According to one report, he repeatedly raped the young woman with a wooden pole and then impaled her on it.  While he’s been in prison with three meals a day, a warm bed and an opportunity to live for the past 21 years, his victim has been dead - after experiencing a brutal and heartless death at his hands.  He is challenging his death sentence by saying that execution by lethal injection is not humane.  Hmmm.  Some people have an endless supply of audacity.  So predictable that now he is suddenly concerned about humane treatment.  Maybe someone should impale HIM on a wooden pole and let him see what inhumane really is.

And now it seems that the governor of Tennessee has given him a reprieve - to allow time for DNA tests.  I guess after 21 year, another few weeks won’t make any difference. 

And in a related news story, we read about two gang members scheduled for execution in Texas who are appealing their execution on the grounds that lethal injection is cruel and inhumane.

Their victims were two teenage girls who had taken a shortcut while trying to get home from a friend’s house and happened upon this group of teen-aged beer-drinking gang members who had been initiating a new member into their gang. They gang-raped the girls for more than an hour, and then kicked and beat them before strangling them to death.  Again, I think we can forego the lethal injection and let them experience being gang-raped, kicked, beaten and strangled to death. 

There will be those who say that we should not kill in order to teach people not to kill.  No, the purpose of the death penalty is not to teach people not to kill.  Maybe if the death penalty were actually used effectively, there would be a few killers who would be afraid to commit murder.  However, we have the death penalty so that scum such as those are no longer taking up oxygen and space on earth.  

This could be the solution to the Illegal Immigration issue.  I received this via email today, and as usual when things are forwarded, there’s no telling if it’s true or not.  But whether or not it’s true is irrelevant.  It’s a darn good idea.  What do you think? 

I have a friend who is president of his homeowner’s association in Washington D.C. They are having a terrible problem with trash on the side of the road that is around his association’s homes.The reason according to Wallace (my friend) is, there is being built just next to them, six new homes…..big ones! Wallace said the trash is coming from the Mexican work crews working at the construction sites. (McDonald Bags, Burger King trash, etc). He has pleaded with the site supervisors and the general contractor to no avail, called the City,County, the Police and got no help.

 So………………guess what some people in his community did?  They organized about twenty folks, named themselves The “Inner Neighborhood Services” to go out at lunch time and “police” the trash themselves.

It is what they did while picking up the trash that is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!  They got some navy blue baseball caps and had the initials “INS” in gold put on the caps. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, however, to understand what they hoped people would think it means.

Well the day after their first pick up detail, with them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras; 46 out of 68 of the construction workers did not show up for work the next morning!!!!!!!!….  and haven’t come back yet!!!!! It has been ten days. 

Now the General Contractor, I understand is madder than hell, but can’t say anything publicly, because he could be busted for hiring “illegal aliens”.  Wallace and his bunch can’t be accused of impersonating INS folks, because they have it on their home owner association records the vote to form the new committee within their association, plus they informed the INS about what they were doing in advance, and the INS said basically according to Wallace…………..”Have at it”!

Since I recently had to pick up trash left by nearby Hispanic workers, I could identify with the frustration of the real or imagined homeowners.

Hat tip to RC for a little levity amidst all the uproar about illegal immigrants.

Vinnie at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy also has an idea for solving the illegal immigration problem.

Update: Check out this latest post on the illegal immigration issue at Blame Bush!

Others posting on illegal immigration: Pursuing Holiness, Hot Air, Captain’s Quarters, A Lady’s Ruminations, The Violence Worker

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate.

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Posting had been light lately.  It’s the end of the school year, and I’m going crazy with all the testing I’m doing.  I’m helping first, second, third, fourth and fifth grade teachers with their end-of-the-year DRA testing (Developmental Reading Assessment).  Additionally, I publish our school literary magazine which contains the children’s writing.  It’s a worthwhile project, but it sure took a lot of time to put together the ten-page issue that will be sent home with the kids today.  My next project, in addition to continuing the testing, is to get my summer reading newsletter ready by the first of next week.  It’ll be posted in the sidebar here when it’s finished.

But then, after May 26th, summer break will be here, and I should have plenty of time to do whatever I need to do.  I’ll be posting often again.

One of the questions on some of the reading tests is: What do you like best about reading?  Here are a few of the children’sreplies:

It gets you smart.

I like learning cool facts in books.

Reading gives me something to do.

It’s fun and it gives me more knowledge.

It’s very fun because you learn a lot of things.

It helps your brain.

Because I read to my dad a lot and it makes me feel happy.

I like reading quietly to myself or to my rabbit.

When you read a book it gets your mind on what’s about to happen.

It makes you smarter and it’s fun.

It like to see the  pictures.  It makes me more smart.

You learn stuff and can write a report on it.

And I agree: Reading is fun, you learn stuff, it makes you smarter, and it takes you into the world of what’s about to happen in the story.  I’m not so sure about writing a report, though.