I will just say first of all, regarding yesterday's item about the Texas father who shot the drunken driver who killed his two sons, that he has been acquitted.
To put the incident more into context - he, the father, ran out of fuel and his two sons were helping him push the car up the road to their home. The completely stoned, drunken driver ploughed into them killing the sons. The father didn't admit to it - or a prison sentence presumably would have been mandatory - he threw the gun away (but I don't believe the police couldn't have found it if they tried hard enough) but the casings were lying around, the holster was in the man's home, and his blood was on the car of the drunken driver. But the jury found that the case was not proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' and I don't think anybody feels they should have brought in any other verdict. And I know people can't take the law into their own hands and deliver summary justice, but this is the one case I think which, quite rightly, was an exception.
I was awake early for Kiwanis, our speaker was another member who talked about her recent trip to New York, and Virginia. It looked very interesting, I'd love to visit Williamsburg. After Tennessee. But I can't really see myself visiting Tennessee.
Anyway, after a very late night and early morning, I had an afternoon nap at 11 o'clock. I missed Communion at Emmanuel and lunch, so this is a very short blog entry. I will probably be back tomorrow throwing in my two cents worth on ISIS.
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