Screwed-up priorities

Wow.

Did you see this story?

It's on page A2 of the Star today, and a small article, at that, under "Today's Top 5".

It seems someone let their dog urinate on a 69-year old former-Marine's well-manicured lawn and he got upset. He got so upset, he killed the neighbor whose dog it was.

To repeat: wow.

Holy cow.

Stunning.

Shocking.

Disturbing.

Disturbed.

And sure, that's what I mean by "screwed-up priorities".

But that's not all.

The other, further part of this is that the guy's bail is set at three million dollars. That's right, $3 million.

It seems that, as a culture, we are so quick and decisive to do something really tough to people who do things to pets--dogs and cats--but if you do it to a child, an infant, well, you get punished, but not anything like if you did/do to that pet.

Abuse a child? Sure, you get spanked.

You might spend a few years in jail or something, absolutely.

But somehow kill a dog?

Fugghedaboudit.

You're going away.

And this is one such case, it seems to me.

You can have children starving in Mississippi for decades--but that's just because they're poor or black or trying to abuse the system.

Abuse one animal?

You're going down, big time.

What's the number one newer news segment on the 10 O'clock news?

Frequently, it's the "adopt-a-pet" feature.

Where's the one about the 13 year old boy or girl who needs a foster home?

Oh, that's right. That would make the news channel "Liberal" or "Left" or Left-leaning" or just too political or sympathetic, wouldn't it?

Pathetic. Pitiful.

Yeah, we have screwed up priorities, all right.

Wow.