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45-year-old Chi Kong Chow is being held in the Hamilton County Jail after causing a crash on Fort Washington Way that injured two sisters and killed another on Wednesday night.

Police say Chow may have been speeding when he lost control of his truck and it tipped over onto the SUV, containing 52-year-old Rhonda Gandy, 52-year-old Rhenda Driver and 57-year-old Susan Struwe. Struwe and Driver were injured and Gandy was killed.

Chow and his passenger had minor injuries. Wong is from Canada and is being held on $20,000 bond.

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We all know the controversial Mexican Cross Border Program was extended for two more years on August 8, under Federal guidelines concerning Pilot Programs, and as we reported, Jimmy Hoffa immediately showed his no class ignorance by continuing his boring mantra about those unsafe, dangerous and illegal Mexican trucks, a notion we have continually disproved on this site.

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The Senate and the House approved the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.

If a nation decides to withdraw from NAFTA, the agreement specifies a six-month notification process.

A president, with the support of Congress, can initiate this process. And a president, with the support of Congress, can attempt to renegotiate NAFTA.

What a president and Congress can’t do is willy-nilly abrogate provisions they decide are not to their liking.

But that’s exactly what Congress has been trying to do for 15 years by obstructing a cross-border trucking provision.

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It was no surprise when FMCSA Administrator John Hill extended the Mexican Cross Border Program for another two years, thus beating the opposition at their own game.

You see, FMCSA has been calling it a “demonstration program” while the opposition called it a “pilot program” which operates under different requirements, requirements that FMCSA has met.

So John Hill, using the oppositions definition of the program, extends it to 3 years as is permitted for a “pilot program”, and Jimmy Hoffa is furious!

I’m mad as hell about it, but I’m not surprised. - Jimmy Hoffa -

What is Jimmy “mad as hell about? That all the money that has found it’s way into the hip pockets of his politicians hasn’t yielded the intended results? Maybe.

I think Jimmy is further pissed because Mexican law forbids him and his union from organizing in that country. Canada allows it and we don’t hear any objections from him about Canadian trucks.

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GENEVA, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Friday for the fate of 50 Mexican nationals on death row in the United States after Texas defied a World Court order and executed one of their compatriots earlier this week.

The United States has an international legal duty to comply with a ruling by the International Court of Justice in March 2004 that it had violated its obligations under the Vienna Convention in the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, the U.N. said.

Jose Medellin, executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in Texas for the 1993 rape and murder of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena, was among the 51 named by the ICJ as having been deprived of their right to consular services after their arrests.

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With all the vitriolic hatred being thrown about against Mexicans, whether legal or illegal and the celebration of the recent Supreme Court ruling concerning the Second Amendment and the NRA’s stated goal of unrestricted gun ownership, once again violence has been visited upon innocents.

In Knoxville Tennessee on Sunday, Jim D. Adkisson, 58, an unemployed truck driver, carrying a 12 gauge semi-automatic shotgun and 76 rounds of ammunition, entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville Tennessee during a childrens performance of the musical “Annie” and opened fire, apparently with no particular person targeted, before being tackled and disarmed by members of the congregation.

2 people were killed including an usher who used his body to shield others from the attack. 5 remain in area hospitals in serious to critical condition.

Church members praised Greg McKendry, 60, who died as he attempted to block the gunfire. Barbara Kemper said that McKendry “stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us.”

Kemper said the gunman shouted before he opened fire.

“It was hateful words. He was saying hateful things,” she said, refusing to elaborate.

“Greg McKendry was a very large gentleman, one of those people you might describe as a refrigerator with a head,” said church member Schera Chadwick. “He looked like a football player. He did obviously stand up and put himself in between the shooter and the congregation.”

Adkisson is being held in the Knox County Jail under “suicide watch” and $1 million dollar bail.

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