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Teen dad profiled in People mag is killed
UPI ^ | 11/21/2005

Posted on 11/22/2005 7:20:33 AM PST by ncountylee

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- An 18-year-old single father whose struggle raising his toddler daughter was featured in People magazine has been killed in Philadelphia.

Terrell Pough was shot in the head on his way home from work Thursday night and later died at Temple University Hospital, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Police said they have no suspects but do have a possible lead. No further details of the slaying were released.

The August issue of People profiled Pough, who worked as the night manger at a local restaurant while attending school full-time and raising his daughter, Diamond, who will be 2 on Nov. 27.

"She's what I work for, what I live for, why I wake up," he told People. "She's everything."

Diamond, who had full-custody of his daughter, had planned to work in construction after graduating next June.

"If something ever happens to me, no one can ever tell her that her dad didn't take care of her," he told People.


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To: yellowdoghunter; Howlin
Howlin doesn't lie.

And a whole lot of us who are thrilled that Samuel Alito is now the SC nominee were highly offended by the foul rhetoric posted against Harriet Miers at the time of her nomination.

We didn't 'lose.' But the conservative cause lost big time because of the vitriol of extremists against Ms Miers.

261 posted on 11/22/2005 12:12:39 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: Melas
You're quite welcome. Now how about a story in People about a young man who didn't get his girlfriend pregnant because they did not have pre-marital sex, they both graduate from high school, go on to college, graduate, establish careers, get married, and have children. What would be wrong with that?
262 posted on 11/22/2005 12:14:27 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: Melas; yellowdoghunter

She'll find it. He won't be good ENOUGH.


263 posted on 11/22/2005 12:14:33 PM PST by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: mlc9852

It would be like FR, except without all the Pissant threads, and really, who would want to read that?


264 posted on 11/22/2005 12:16:20 PM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: bonfire
There is more to this story and it will come out.

She states emphatically that there IS more to this story.

We shall see if she is just wishing or is right.

My money is on Door Number 2.

265 posted on 11/22/2005 12:16:53 PM PST by Howlin ("Victory is not a strategy. " ``Jack Murtha 11/18/05)
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To: ohioWfan
But we don't go around bragging about our sins in national magazines. We are ashamed of our sins. Our sins often have hurt our families and friends. We feel guilt. We know what we did was wrong. I still get the feeling if this was a story about a white kid, it wouldn't be a story. For that I feel very bad.
266 posted on 11/22/2005 12:17:11 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: pissant

OOPS! Ping to #262, pissant. The thread police are out in force.


267 posted on 11/22/2005 12:17:42 PM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: Howlin

Maybe she's doing a "Rita" and has a source :)


268 posted on 11/22/2005 12:17:47 PM PST by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: Woman on Caroline Street

Well, as I said I don't read People and only knew of the story after the fact because it was on the news.


269 posted on 11/22/2005 12:18:00 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: pissant

I mean 264. Sorry about that.


270 posted on 11/22/2005 12:19:08 PM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: mlc9852

Did the young man 'brag' in the magazine article? Did he say that what he did was a good thing?


271 posted on 11/22/2005 12:21:14 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: ohioWfan

No clue - I don't read People magazine. Do you think it would have been a story if the guy was white? Just answer that simple question, please.


272 posted on 11/22/2005 12:22:45 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
I agree with Ninian. Why glorify these mistakes?

I'm starting to think that there's not a single issue in the world that I agree with you on -- but at least you have consistency going for you.

273 posted on 11/22/2005 12:23:55 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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To: ohioWfan
Howlin is lying. I never had a debate with her about Harriett Miers. That is a lie. I never said a word about Harriett Miers.

Find the comment...post it...I am waiting.

274 posted on 11/22/2005 12:23:58 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: mlc9852

A simple answer then. Yes, I think it would have been a story even had the kid been white.


275 posted on 11/22/2005 12:23:59 PM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: Howlin
Ya your reputation speaks volumes...like you refusing to post the comment you claim I made. I never had a discussion with you about Harriett Miers...you have me confused with someone else, but you won't admit it.

Plain and simple, you are a liar.

276 posted on 11/22/2005 12:24:56 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: mlc9852

So in your view, there shouldn't be any "REDEEMING" stories about blacks?

Good for this BLACK kid who, in the end, was trying to break a CYCLE.


277 posted on 11/22/2005 12:25:33 PM PST by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: Alter Kaker

I'm sure we must agree on something! Do you like the Carolina Panthers? :)


278 posted on 11/22/2005 12:26:10 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: bonfire

You miss the point but I think it's a nice story about a young black guy who got his girlfriend pregnant. Are you happy now?


279 posted on 11/22/2005 12:28:39 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: bonfire

See post #80, someone else seems to think there is more to this story, which is what lead me to believe there might be.


280 posted on 11/22/2005 12:30:12 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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