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I am all for the safety of children and I think too many people driving and talking on cell phones pay way more attention to their conversation than to their driving regardless of whether they are in a school zone or not, but this is just the latest thing the lame ducks on the Mesquite City Council has come up with.   It appears these sort of issues are more important to the Council than trying to make Mesquite a better place to live.   I am a long time resident of Mesquite and have watched it deteriorate to where it now resembles some really ugly areas of Dallas.    Driving down Galloway Avenue resembles the likes of Buckner Blvd and quickly taking on the look of Jefferson St.    I happened to of taken off work a few days this week and have been out and about in Mesquite during a regular business day ... passed Jack in the Box about 3:45 PM and saw 20 - 30 thuggish looking kids hanging out in the parking lot, the Mesquite City Lake.. which is within walking distance of my house, a gang of high school kids screaming at each other.... a scene you might expect at Spruce or Samuell High Schools.... but not in Mesquite. 
Mesquite City Council needs to take a good long look at all of the homes up for sale in Mesquite... the decent people are leaving while you continue to welcome criminals and illegals into Mesquite.  If something doesn't change... soon....It won't be long before Mesquite is just another ugly and dilapidated part of Dallas... the new Southeast Dallas. 

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American Flag - 11 Sep

Please join us in this FLY THE FLAG campaign and PLEASE forward this immediately to everyone. We have a little less than one week and counting to get the word out all across this great land and into every community in the United States of America .

THE PROGRAM:

On Thursday, September 11th, 2008, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office, and store in the United States . Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on this seventh anniversary of one our country's worst tragedies. We do this honor of those who lost their lives on 9/11, their families, friends and loved ones who continue to endure the pain, and those who today are fighting at home and abroad to preserve our cherished freedoms.

In the days, weeks and months following 9/11, our country was bathed in American flags as citizens mourned the incredible losses and stood shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism. Sadly, those flags have all but disappeared. Our patriotism pulled us through some tough times and it shouldn't take another attack to galvanize us in solidarity. Our American flag is the fabric of our country and together we can prevail over terrorism of all kinds

Action Plan:

So, here's what we need you to do ...

(1) Tell everyone you know (at least 11 people). Take a moment to think back to how you felt on 9/11 and let those sentiments guide you.

(2) Fly an American flag of any size on 9/11. Honestly, Americans should fly the flag year-round, but if you don't, then at least make it a priority on this day.

Thank you for your participation. God Bless You and God Bless America !

1 My life is likely to last 10-15 years ~ Any separation from you is likely to be painful ~

2 Give me time to understand what you want of me ~

3 Place your trust in me ~ It is crucial for my well-being ~

4 Don't be angry with me for long and don't lock me up as punishment ~

You have your work, your friends, your entertainments, but I have only you ~

5 Talk to me ~ Even if I don't understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me ~

6 Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it ~

7 Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I could hurt you, and yet, I choose not to ~

8 Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me~ Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I may have been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak ~

9 Please take care of me when I grow old ~ You too, will grow old ~

10 On the ultimate difficult journey, go with me please ~ Never say you can't bear to watch ~ Don't  make me face this alone ~ Everything is easier for me if you are there ,~

 

Take a moment today to thank God for your pets ~ Enjoy and take good care of them ~ Life would be a much duller, less joyful experience without

God's critters.  

We do not have to wait for Heaven, to be surrounded by hope, love and joyfulness.

It is here on earth and has four ( or just 2 ) legs!

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face ...

Or a kitty in your lap purring ...

Or the soft snicker  of a horse as you enter the barn---

Live Well ~ Love Much ~ Laugh Often

Sickening... this woman isn't paying for her crime, she is the  same as she was before the baby died.... just  laying in the bed watching TV and eating.... I would throw in a couple of hundred dollars to have her  a cell built.  Just to see her pay.   Maybe they should restrict her food.... Judge allows house arrest for indicted half-ton woman 11:46 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Associated Press

EDINBURG, Texas – A nearly half-ton Texas woman charged in the death of her 2-year-old nephew will remain in her house because the county jail lacks a large enough cell or the medical resources, prosecutors said.

A state district judge on Monday agreed not to send Mayra Rosales, who weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, to jail provided she wear a global positioning system tracker until her trial.

Rosales, 27, was indicted last week on capital murder charges in the March 18 death of Eliseo Gonazels Jr. Prosecutors say the toddler was hit at least twice in the head while in the care of the bedridden Rosales.

Sergio Valdez, Rosales' attorney, did not immediately return messages left for him Tuesday.

Prosecutors said the possibility of checking Rosales into a hospital and putting her under 24-hour surveillance was ruled out due to the prohibitive cost, the McAllen Monitor reported.

Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino has argued that incarcerating Rosales would be impossible because the county jail does not have a cell large enough to hold her or medical staff equipped to handle her medical needs.

Prosecutors allege 20-year-old Jamie Rosales, Eliseo's mother, left the toddler with his bedridden aunt even though she knew that the woman was incapable of caring for him. She faces one felony count of injury to a child, punishable by life in prison and $10,000 in fines upon conviction.

Oh joy... First Day of School.   This means at least 50% of my support staff will be off all day.  They started turning in their leave last week.   I have not figured out why it takes a parent all day to take their children to their first day of school.   Most of my staff have children who are aged 9 - college, none of them have any that would qualify as Pre-K or even the lower grades in Elementary school, so why they have to be absent all day from work is beyond me.    With the beginning of school, brings open season for all sorts of excuses.... "I need to stay home with a sick child",  "School bus ran late, therefore, I am late" and then there's the dreaded "Teacher in Service Days" where both mother and father have to take off to tend to their children.   Over the last couple of years, I have found that fathers are taking off alot too, to stay at home with their sick children.   My mother went into the school with me my first day of first grade, after she escorted me to my classroom, she left.  That was the first and only time she ever escorted me into school which was sweet, but after about 3rd grade, most of the kids in my class found it embarrassing if a parent walked into school with them.

As a side note, most of the parents who are absent today from work are the same ones that invariably call in "they can't get out of their driveways" when we get a few flakes of snow or the power went out at their house when we get a thunderstorm.

Let the excuces begin....

I had to comment on the following newspaper article in this mornings Dallas Morning News regarding the first "GroveFest".   As old "Grove Rat", I actually remember when Pleasant Grove was still Pleasant,  it now breaks my heart to revisit the place I spent the first 11 years of my life.    I saw this article and started laughing,  I mean, in the current state of chaos that Pleasant Grove has become, I expected the article to cover theft, rape or murder before the day was over,  thankfully it didn't, however I did have to smile when I read they were actually having grafitti "artist" to compete, drive down Buckner Blvd in any direction and you can see these "artists" work on most buildings, fences, walls, etc.    Seems like the competition only encourages them to continue this sort of behavior vs. allowing them to "use their talents in a positive way". 
Oh the days when the Grove was still Pleasant,  those were the good ole days and I am afraid, they are gone forever. 

 
Dallas' Pleasant Grove area celebrates start of school with GroveFest 

 

08:30 PM CDT on Saturday, August 23, 2008

 

By TIARA M. ELLIS / The Dallas Morning News 
tellis@dallasnews.com

 

The celebration began slowly with bounce houses, booths and barbecue on the grill. By the time the crowd started to grow Saturday morning, the music was playing and the first back-to-school GroveFest was in full swing.

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Preparing for the first day at Samuell High School

By noon, the party for kids of all ages at the Pleasant Grove recreation center had drawn a crowd of a few hundred people.

For Crystal Williams, an 11-year-old who said she's not quite ready to go back to class, it was her last chance to go swimming before getting her hair done for school.

"I guess it'll be good to see my friends at school. But I'm not ready to start all that work," said Crystal, who will be attending E.B. Comstock Middle School.

In addition to the swimming at Pleasant Oaks Park and Recreation Center, the festival had a tug-of-war match, a dunking booth, a petting zoo, a climbing wall, a professional wrestling demonstration and other fun for kids.

The Dallas Police Department had its low-rider police car with suicide doors – which lift up instead of swinging out – and hydraulics on display. The department also brought its helicopter to the recreation center in the 8700 block of Greenmound Avenue.

On the tennis courts, a small skateboarding obstacle course had been set up. Kids young and old were on the boards trying to imitate the professionals of Guapo Skateboards.

Adrian Hodge, the team's videographer, did a little skating himself before stepping outside the tennis courts to watch a group of graffiti artists compete in a timed race.

The artists had 30 minutes to spray-paint wooden boards hung on the fence.

"It's great to see kids using their talents in a positive way. This community deserves some positive happenings," said John Williams, who brought his 4-year-old son, John Jr., to the festival.

At one point, a large crowd surrounded a booth where the emcee was calling out ticket numbers for a drawing to win school supplies.

"Anyone have ticket number 61?"

With her daughter on her hip, Tiara Hughes waved her hand in the air and called out, "That's me. Here I come." Trailing behind was her 3-year-old son, Jamyrick Cleveland, who later this month will head into preschool for the first time.

"This is perfect. This is everything he'll need," said Ms. Hughes, 22, a Pleasant Grove resident, while looking through the donated blue-and-black backpack.

Inside, Ms. Hughes discovered construction paper, boxes of tissue, a pencil box and folders. Her mother smiled and asked if there were any school clothes inside as well.

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan .One of the courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.
One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes."   The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting."  It got down to  the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently.
The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.   The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The Marine calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting America 's soldiers who are defending your right to say stupid BLEEP and act like an BLEEP. So, He sent me."

Maybe a trip to prison would  save her life vs. kill her, I mean, at that weight she is already in her own personal prison, losing a few pounds in one of ours won't hurt her, in fact, it may help her escape her own-  either way, she needs to pay.    How is it that criminals feel they can get away with things because of medical conditions or disabilities?

Bedridden, Obese Woman Indicted in Toddler's Death
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EDINBURG, Texas  --  A grand jury indicted a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman Thursday in the death of her 2-year-old nephew.

Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, was indicted on one count of first-degree murder and on one count of injury to a child in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. Rosales previously had been charged with capital murder.

The grand jury indicted her after a full autopsy confirmed investigators' suspicions that the child died March 18 because he had been struck. Investigators believe the toddler was struck at least twice, crushing his head.

Authorities recommended Rosales' bond be set at $150,000.

The boy's mother Jaime Rosales, was charged earlier with injury to a child because she allegedly left her son alone with his aunt. Her bond has been set at $100.000.

Prosecutors have to work out how Mayra Rosales will be detained and prosecuted because she weighs nearly 1,000 pounds. She is unable to fit through a door to leave her home. As of Thursday evening, she was not in custody.

Both Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra and Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino promised that Rosales would somehow face the charges but they had little details about how that would happen. Trevino said holding her at the Hidalgo County Jail for her trial would be impossible because she needs extensive medical care.

"She would die," said Trevino in Thursday's online edition of The Monitor in McAllen.

Nevertheless, she will soon face arrest, he said.

Have any of you been plagued and I do mean plagued with non stop, all day warranty calls?
In a day of wireless communications, most of our friends and family reach us via the internet or our cells, we hardly even use our home telephone, yet when I get home there are 12 - 15 messages on the answering machine from the same place, trying to sell extended warranties.   Every stinking one of them are recordings.  Even on weekends, the phone rings all day, when you answer it is a recorded message from these places.   Anyone have any idea how I can stop these folks from calling?   I know I don't have to answer the phone when I see their numbers rolling across my Caller ID but I still have to hear their message on my answering machine.    I would appreciate your ideas (outside of having our home phone number changed) on how to stop this.

Thanks

Too bad your moral compass wasn't working the time you had your wife killed over lust for a coed, who I am sure was worth every drop of your poor wives blood. There's no fool like a old fool and for an old fool like yourself to think that a young coed would be seriously interested in you to the point of having your wife eliminated, shows just how stupid a fool you really are. Too bad your moral compass was busted the night you helped kill Officer Hawkins- I agree with Officer Hawkins wife... it's a little too late. Mr. Rodriguez, volunteering to die doesn't make you any better than the remaining 5 who will be taking the same one way flight to hell that you will, you will just get there first. The only one who should be given any recognition at all is Larry Harper, who did us all a favor and killed himself vs. being taken alive and costing the tax payers 7+ years of upkeep for a gang of sorry losers. If I were a member of your wife's family or the wife of Officer Hawkins, I would have gladly "volunteered" to be the one to insert the needle into your arm tonight and watch your miserable, cold blooded, selfish and evil life end. Good Riddance...

Now Texas... let's see you expedite the executions of the other 5- I am tired of paying for them.

"Texas 7" Fugitive Volunteering to Die Thursday
Last Edited: Thursday, 14 Aug 2008, 6:32 AM CDT Created: Thursday, 14 Aug 2008, 6:32

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Michael Rodriguez's downfall began with an infatuation.

If he follows through with his plans to be held accountable, it ends Thursday evening in the Texas death chamber.

Rodriguez, 45, a key member of the "Texas 7" -- a group of seven fugitives who broke out of a South Texas prison in one of the state's most notorious escapes -- has dropped all his appeals and is volunteering for execution for his part in the killing of a Dallas-area police officer almost eight years ago.

"Whatever we do, there's restitution to be made," Rodriguez, 45, told The Associated Press in a recent interview outside death row. "But in this situation, the only thing I can do is be held accountable and express sincere condolences."

Rodriguez's execution, the eighth this year in the nation's busiest death penalty state, would cap more than two years of efforts he initiated to short-circuit the appeals process and accelerate his punishment.

"Sadly, a lot of people got hurt," Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez would be the first of the six surviving members of the infamous "Texas 7" to be executed.

At the time of the December 2000 escape, Rodriguez was serving a life term for hiring a hit man to kill his wife, Theresa, 29, to collect her life insurance proceeds. She was gunned down in 1992 getting out of her car outside their San Antonio home. The triggerman, Rolando Ruiz, also is on death row.

Rodiguez was taking college classes and wanted to get rid of his wife because he'd been smitten with a younger female student.

"The lust of a coed," he said. "I can't explain it. My wife was a wonderful person and didn't deserve this. I fell for a coed. It was stupid. ... But I was a willing participant. ... I really thought I would get off, like a lot of people who are deluded."

His father, who would be convicted of helping the escaped convicts, arranged to have a vehicle waiting near the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Connally Unit south of San Antonio after the inmates got out.

The gang was captured in Colorado in January 2001 after six weeks on the run. One of them, Larry Harper, killed himself rather than surrender to authorities.

By then, however, they were involved in the fatal shooting of Aubrey Hawkins, an Irving policeman, during a Christmas Eve 2000 robbery of a sporting goods store in the Dallas suburb.

"I'm glad we got caught, so no one else would get hurt," Rodriguez said.

His five remaining accomplices -- George Rivas, Randy Halprin, Donald Newbury, Joseph Garcia and Patrick Murphy -- also are there and awaiting the outcome of appeals. None of them has an execution date.

Rodriguez's punishment was expected to draw dozens of police officers to Huntsville to stand vigil outside the prison while Hawkins' widow, Lori, was inside watching the convicted killer die.

"I'll be there," she said. "Absolutely. I wouldn't miss this."

Lori Hawkins credited Rodriguez with being "the first one to really admit his guilt" but said his words of apology were "a little too late."

"It didn't have to happen," she said of the fatal shooting of her husband of four years. "Aubrey didn't need to die."

Rodriguez first wrote to a federal judge in Dallas in early 2006, mailing a hand-printed letter mailed asking that his appeals be stopped. Court hearings eventually were held to ensure Rodriguez was competent to make that kind of decision, but his execution was on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considered a Kentucky case that stopped all executions in the country with a challenge arguing lethal injection was unconstitutionally cruel. When the justices in April upheld the method as proper, Rodriguez's death date was set for Thursday.

"I'm ready to go," he said.

Toby Shook, a former Dallas County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Rodriguez, said he thought the former restaurant operator in San Antonio was being "very pragmatic."

"It's going to happen," Shook said, describing the case against him and the other former fugitives as "iron tight."

"He's able to at least make one decision on his own," Shook said. "He's choosing the time."

The seven prisoners overpowered workers at the Connally Unit near Kenedy on Dec. 13, 2000, took the workers' clothes, then grabbed 16 guns from the prison armory and fled in a stolen truck. They ditched that truck for another that had been left for them by Rodriguez's father.

Then 12 days later, while robbing an Irving sporting goods store of cash, clothing and more weapons, they killed Hawkins, who was shot 11 times and then run over with his own patrol car.

Acting on a tip from a resident of a trailer park outside Colorado Springs, Colo., Rodriguez and three of his cohorts were captured there Jan. 22, 2001. Harper killed himself. The remaining two surrendered two days later.

GOOD RIDDANCE!
You deserve more than to be quietly put to sleep-
Inmate set to die for Dallas slayings says he won't go quietly 06:27 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 By SCOTT GOLDSTEIN / The Dallas Morning News
sgoldstein@dallasnews.com

One of the meanest men on Texas' death row is scheduled to be walked to the execution chamber tonight.

Leon David Dorsey IV, once known on the street as "Pistol Pete," does not plan to die quietly.

In the more than eight years since a jury sentenced him in the execution-style murders of two White Rock-area Blockbuster Video store employees, he has earned a reputation as a violent, uncooperative, dangerous death row inmate.

Among his 95 infractions during his time on death row, Mr. Dorsey, 32, was cited for possession of weapons, assaulting and threatening to injure staff, refusing to obey orders and starting a fire outside his cell.

His history of misbehavior has kept him at the highest level of lockdown.

"That [level] is reserved for the inmates who are most combative or assaultive," said Michelle Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Mr. Dorsey's record on death row is no surprise for those who got to know him for his record on the outside.

Former Dallas County prosecutor Toby Shook has worked on 21 death penalty cases.

"I would honestly say Leon might be the meanest man I prosecuted for the death penalty, which is a pretty strong group to shine out of," said Mr. Shook, who now works as a Dallas defense attorney.

Mr. Shook said what separated Mr. Dorsey from other evil criminals was his brutal honesty.

"He is a fairly full-blown psychopath, but he's an honest psychopath," said Mr. Shook, who lives near and rents movies from the Blockbuster where the men were killed.

In August 1998, Mr. Dorsey was serving a 60-year sentence for the murder four years earlier of Ennis convenience store manager Hyon Suk Chon, 51, shot twice in the head.

That's when Dallas police detectives, armed with new information, revisited the man who had long been a suspect in the deaths of James Armstrong, 26, and Brad Lindsey, 20. The men were killed during a robbery as they closed the Blockbuster at the Casa Linda Plaza Shopping Center at Buckner Boulevard and Garland Road.

The April 1994 murder was one of the highest-profile Dallas cases of the decade, in part because of its brutality and because portions of it were captured on security tape.

Confession

Mr. Dorsey confessed to Dallas police homicide Detective Ken Penrod that he was the man seen on fuzzy black and white surveillance camera snapshots, the one who wasn't satisfied with the $392 he got from a front cash register. He said he was the robber who walked the two men in single file to the back office of the video store and shot them to death when they apparently weren't able to open a safe.

Investigators had no physical evidence linking Mr. Dorsey to the crime. But in his detailed confession to police, he provided information that had never been publicly released.

For Detective Penrod, the chill he felt while he sat across the table from Mr. Dorsey is unforgettable.

"I remember him like it was just yesterday," Detective Penrod said. "Because I had the feeling ... I was sitting there talking to the devil himself."

Days later, Mr. Dorsey again admitted to the murders in a chilling two-hour interview with a Dallas Morning News reporter. Mr. Dorsey likened the loss he brought on his victims' families to losing money in a craps game.

"They're dead. That's over and done with," he said. "Why are you going to sit there and worry yourself about that? Move on."

"I could have came in here and been, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so bad.' But I don't feel like that. That's not being honest with myself."

He also told The News that he decided to rob the Blockbuster despite carrying $4,500 in his pocket from robbing a drug dealer earlier in the day. He said he viewed robbing the store as a challenge, a way to satisfy his greed.

"If the opportunity presents itself, that's called maximization," he said. "If I don't get it, somebody else is going to get you later on. Better me than someone else."

A recording of that interview was admitted into evidence in Mr. Dorsey's murder trial.

Mr. Dorsey recently agreed to again meet with the reporter who recorded the 1998 confession, but Department of Criminal Justice officials canceled the interview, citing a specific threat Mr. Dorsey made.

"He's not being brought out of his cell unless necessary," Ms. Lyons said. "He's vowed that he's going to assault staff prior to his execution."

That threat fit a pattern of behavior that earned Mr. Dorsey the most restrictive status on death row. His number of visits and amount of recreation time are more limited than other inmates. He also has more severe restrictions on what he is allowed to possess in his cell.

Among his most recent infractions was a June 25 incident in which he told a sergeant he would cut the next officer who gave him a razor.

Asked later to give a statement about the offense, he said, "That's what's up, and it's on," according to Department of Criminal Justice records.

Mr. Dorsey's case is not on appeal and he is set to die at the Huntsville Unit after 6 p.m. Relatives of both victims declined interview requests.

2 lives lost

The men they lost had barely begun their lives. Mr. Armstrong, who loved to sing, was an assistant manager at the Blockbuster store and had worked for the company for about two years.

Mr. Lindsey attended Bryan Adams High School until shortly before his death. He had only been working at the store for a few weeks.

After Mr. Dorsey's sentence was handed down in May 2000, Mr. Armstrong's mother, Nancy, gave a statement in court.

"Our son was a gentle man," she told him. "I believe you're an evil, vile creature. You didn't kill for survival. You killed for pleasure."

She said she would witness any gestures he might make "when you get the needle you fear."

Staff writer Jason Sickles contributed to this report.

Death row infractions

Leon David Dorsey IV committed 95 infractions during more than eight years on death row. A sampling:

June 13, 2000: One day after arriving on death row, he is found to be in possession of tobacco.

Oct. 17, 2002: While being returned to his cell from the shower, Mr. Dorsey assaults an officer with a broken toothbrush. The officer is cut on his hand.

Nov. 14, 2003: Mr. Dorsey admits starting a fire outside his cell.

June 12, 2004: Mr. Dorsey stabs an officer 14 times with an 8-inch shank he made out of a typewriter rod he filed to a point at one end and wrapped in a sock at the other end. The officer was wearing a protective vest and was not injured.

July 2008: Mr. Dorsey is found to be in possession of a weapon he crafted out of a metal object. He vows to assault staff prior to his execution.

SOURCES: Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Dallas County district attorney's office

Is anyone else out there tired of Fox allowing Real Estate People to post  "blogs" about their profession which ultimately turns into an advertisement of their Real Estate Company?
I didn't think we were supposed to use the blogs to advertise, but this lady does it at least once a week AND she is showcased more than most.

If Fox is going to allow advertising on blogs, I should mention that outside of my regular profession (law), I also have a second profession that is almost as profitable as my first profession and it makes the world a more beautiful place, especially women.  If you are interested in knowing about my second profession  and would like to wake up the DIVA in yourself.....just ask :)

PS- That goes for you too Real Estate Lady

It was really nice to watch the news last night and see the story about a community coming together to help a War Veteran who lost everything in a fire.   It was great to see something uplifting to see something uplifting on the news and showing how generous and big hearted Texan's can be. 
God bless this gentleman,  those who cared enough to have this sale for him and for all of the people who came out to help this man, who deserves to spend the twilight of his life comfortable, not homeless, he has paid his dues. 

I woke up this morning to find that the Dallas Morning News had thrown a newspaper in every yard in our neighborhood.  Nice little yellow bags laying all about.   We opened it up to find "Al Dia" the Spanish version of the DMN.     I find it kind of strange that just this week lay offs were announced at the DMN, yet they found the funding to throw a Spanish  newspaper to several hundred homes in my neighborhood,  in which, very few, if any.... needed a Spanish newspaper.   You need to STOP catering to people who are too lazy to learn English and those who EXPECT the rest of us to learn Spanish.   DMN... YOU are part of the problem. 
Al Dia is not needed in my neighborhood in Mesquite. 

Gives a new meaning hammering out a divorce settlement....

Fort Worth woman accused of beating husband with meat tenderizer 11:49 AM CT 11:55 AM CDT on Thursday, July 31, 2008 By DAN X. McGRAW / The Dallas Morning News
dmcgraw@dallasnews.com

A 31-year-old woman has been arrested for beating her estranged husband with a meat tenderizer during an argument, Fort Worth police said.

Danielle D. Chastain

Danielle D. Chastain faces aggravated assault charges and is being held in the Mansfield Jail.

The incident began early Wednesday morning when Ms. Chastain and her husband, Jason C. Hollenshead, began arguing in the kitchen, according to a police report. The two are in the process of getting a divorce.

According to the police report, Ms. Chastain began punching him in the face and head. She then grabbed a steel meat tenderizer and began hitting him in the arms, back and head, the police report said. Then, she bit her husband.

Ms. Chastain then fled the scene in her vehicle before police arrived, according to the report.

Police found Mr. Hollenshead outside with swelling and bruising on his arms, backs and head. They also noticed the distinct “waffle-like pattern” of a meat tenderizer, the report stated.

Mr. Hollenshead was not serious injured, according to the report.