I heard about Tracy Morgan on radio. It's still funny: that glance off to one side almost laid me on the floor. And Obama playing DDL getting ready to play Obama... delightful!
I have been listening all day to the same things you have, and while I agee with some of what your analysis, I am stillmtroubled by things that don't fit, and can't be made to fit with the information we have now. It is toomsoon to use phrases like "I take this to mean. Some things are clear: this is a fractured family, with tensions and stresses puling at it. But we don't yet have what is needed to grasp the dynamics of those stresses, or how they might have inflenced what happened. I suspect that some things that seem apparent now will assume different interpretations as more facts are known. I am fairly certain that the relationship between the brothers will prove to be far more complex than we think possible. And that that relationship will become the key to understanding the question that still cannot be answered: why. I ask why your analysis fails to consider the fact that both these young men grew up in this country.
Juan, I live in Vermont, and many many people here feel as if we are an occupied state. Border patrol authority extends 100 miles from the border. Vermont is only a little longer than that. That means almost all of Vermont falls under their jurisdiction, and subject to their suspicions. We've always sort of regarded the border to be about 100 miles wide, but in a different way: it was amorphous for so long in our history that there was a big zone that people regarded as belonging to both countries, even after the line was finally drawn. Towns, houses, roads on the border, people who speak both English and French. Families on both sides. Our capitol, many of our northern towns, even our state has a French name. We passed freely back and forth. It's part of our heritage. Now we have to choose, and we have to have a piece of paper to cross. Bienvenue a Vermont. Maybe we should become an independent republic again, and make INS move the border south.
Amazing. so far EVERY response has seemed to completely miss the point of this clever piece of satire.
I heard about Tracy Morgan on radio. It's still funny: that glance off to one side almost laid me on the floor. And Obama playing DDL getting ready to play Obama... delightful!
Fantastic. Love it. Laughing too hard to type.
I have been listening all day to the same things you have, and while I agee with some of what your analysis, I am stillmtroubled by things that don't fit, and can't be made to fit with the information we have now. It is toomsoon to use phrases like "I take this to mean. Some things are clear: this is a fractured family, with tensions and stresses puling at it. But we don't yet have what is needed to grasp the dynamics of those stresses, or how they might have inflenced what happened. I suspect that some things that seem apparent now will assume different interpretations as more facts are known. I am fairly certain that the relationship between the brothers will prove to be far more complex than we think possible. And that that relationship will become the key to understanding the question that still cannot be answered: why. I ask why your analysis fails to consider the fact that both these young men grew up in this country.
Juan, I live in Vermont, and many many people here feel as if we are an occupied state. Border patrol authority extends 100 miles from the border. Vermont is only a little longer than that. That means almost all of Vermont falls under their jurisdiction, and subject to their suspicions. We've always sort of regarded the border to be about 100 miles wide, but in a different way: it was amorphous for so long in our history that there was a big zone that people regarded as belonging to both countries, even after the line was finally drawn. Towns, houses, roads on the border, people who speak both English and French. Families on both sides. Our capitol, many of our northern towns, even our state has a French name. We passed freely back and forth. It's part of our heritage. Now we have to choose, and we have to have a piece of paper to cross. Bienvenue a Vermont. Maybe we should become an independent republic again, and make INS move the border south.