Ok I am not so sure the parents should be let off the hook when it comes to leaving your child in a car…I dont know how any parent could forget their child is in the car with them…maybe a sleeping infant but for 8 hours?  Wouldnt something click in your head?  I guess my 3 year old is too loud to forget, thankfully.  I also have a mirror that I can see right into the backseat that is right below my rear view mirror, so can’t miss seeing her when I look in that. 

Yes they should be filled with sorrow and guilt but getting a lighter prison sentence for it, dont know if I agree.

This is what many of us on wOw has been trying to say for sometime…this is what is news to me and I find very interesting: 

Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda

Colin Powell, one of President Obama’s most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president’s ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much.

"I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them," Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN’s John King, released by the network Friday morning.

But, he said, "one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all."

"And we can’t pay for it all," said Mr. Powell, who was the first African-American to serve as secretary of state, under former President George W. Bush. He was also national security adviser to President Reagan, and was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993.

Mr. Powell’s comments represent the growing concern that began with hard-line fiscal conservatives but is now spreading to moderates about the rate of government spending and debt under President Obama, and the long-term impact on the country’s fiscal sustainability and national security.

The national debt stands currently at $11.5 trillion and the deficit for the current fiscal year is projected to be close to $2 trillion.

Mr. Powell expressed alarm at "budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars" and "a huge, huge national debt that, if we don’t pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great-grandchildren will have to pay for it."

"So, I think the president, as he moves forward with his initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is. And, how much additional bureaucracy [will] be needed to make all of this happen?" Mr. Powell said.

"The federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives," Mr. Powell said then. "We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it."

"I don’t like slogans anymore like ‘limited government.’ That’s not the right answer. The right answer is, give me a government that works," he said. "Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible, but at the same time, have government that is solving the problems of the people."

The full interview will air on CNN’s "State of the Union with John King" on Sunday, July 5.

This morning’s front page paper shows an unusual picture of people involved in a dance move.  Approximately 500 people of all ages showed up in the scorching heat at a park to learn the dance routine from " Thriller". 

This is not about Michael Jackson.  It’s about a group of strangers from all walks of life, different nationalities, coming together peacefully, laughing, dancing in the sunlight, and clearly enjoying themselves under the free instruction of a local dance company.

It’s so nice to open the paper and see a piece that makes you smile…for a change. 

Leaving a small child, dog, cat in a car in the mid day heat is a deadly combination.  Anyone who does this and it results in the death of a child or pet deserves to go to jail.

that is worse kind of child abuse I’ve ever read about.  I would not want to be the mother, she’s going to have nitemeres for the rest of herl life.

I know that poor baby is with Jesus and away from negtive people who clearly have no concept of being a mom.