In a nutshell, Obama's security advisor Jim Jones basically said In response to Dick Cheney's Fox interview on Fox News Sunday: Nana, nana, boo, boo - we're better than you were.
FORT WORTH, Tex. - A Texas nurse's aide allowed a man trapped in the windshield of her car to bleed to death in her garage over two or three days, prosecutors
said. Then, Chante Mallard called her friends and had them dump the body of
Gregory Biggs, a 37-year-old homeless man, in a nearby park. "I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say," Richard Alpert, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined
inhumanity here." On Wednesday, police arrested Ms. Mallard, 25, on a murder warrant in Mr. Biggs' October death. "If he had gotten medical attention, he probably would have survived," said Sergeant John Fahrenthold, a police traffic investigator. When the body was found in Cobb Park in southeast Fort Worth, evidence pointed to a hit-and-run, investigators said. But they were unable to develop any leads in the case until Ms. Mallard herself unwittingly provided the key to the mystery. When asked at a party why she was no longer driving her car, she told a friend "bits and pieces" about the accident. Last month, the friend went to police and they obtained a search warrant. Inside her garage they discovered her damaged 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier still spattered inside and out with blood, hair and other trace evidence from Mr. Biggs. The car's seats had been removed and were found in the backyard. An attempt had been made to burn one of them to destroy the evidence. Taken to the police station for questioning, Ms. Mallard at last explained what had happened. The woman told police she had been drinking and using Ecstasy the night she hit Mr. Biggs, sending him headfirst through her windshield and breaking his legs. Then, she panicked and drove the few kilometres to her home, where she parked her car in the garage. Mr. Biggs begged her to help him, she told the police, but she lowered the garage door and ignored his pleas. She returned several times over the next few days to apologize to him, but otherwise did nothing to help as he went into shock and slowly bled to death. After the man died, Ms. Mallard enlisted several of her friends to help remove his body. They put Mr. Biggs in the trunk of another vehicle and drove to the park, where he was found on Oct. 27. "This goes so far beyond failure to stop and render aid because she did more than not render aid," Mr. Alpert said. "She made it impossible for anyone else to do so." Ms. Mallard's lawyer, Mike Heiskell, said the accusation against her was not warranted. "I think this is overreaching on the part of the prosecution and the police and, in the end, I believe the law will shake out that this was simply a case of failure to stop and render aid," he said. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office told police Mr. Biggs suffered no internal injuries and apparently died from loss of blood and shock. Medical examiner's records listed his address as a homeless shelter in Fort Worth. More arrests are expected.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A motorist hit two pedestrians, then drove home with one of the bodies lodged in his windshield, police said. The man in the windshield died. Police said Steve Warrichaiet was drunk when he struck the pedestrians as he returned home from a friend's house late Sunday. One pedestrian was found lying on a street, critically injured, but police said the second victim remained lodged in Warrichaiet's windshield while he drove seven blocks home and parked in his garage. Warrichaiet's sister, Donna Gutowski, said he called her early Monday, minutes after midnight. "'Now I really did it. I killed somebody. I put the body in the car,'" she recalled Warrichaiet saying. "But I didn't believe him. He had talked nonsense before." She said she learned the crash really happened when an investigator came to her home that morning. Warrichaiet called police about 5:40 a.m. Monday, reporting that he'd been in an accident and thought he hit someone, authorities said. Police Lt. David Wesely said investigators didn't know what happened in the six hours between the crash and the man's call to police. Tyrone Ware, 50, of Green Bay, was pronounced dead when police arrived at Warrichaiet's home. The second victim, a woman, was in critical condition Wednesday at St. Vincent Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.
In a similar case in 2001 in Texas, a former nurse's aide hit a homeless man, drove
home with him wedged in her windshield and then left him to bleed to death in
her garage. Chante Jawan Mallard was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2003
to 50 years in prison.
Warrichaiet was charged Tuesday with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, hit-and-run involving death, injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and hit-and-run involving great bodily harm. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 77 1/2 years in prison and a $275,000 fine. A judge set bail at $100,000.
Gutowski said her brother has mental health problems and had received counseling for having suicidal thoughts. She said her brother needs treatment and medication. "This could happen to the next person. You've got to get ill people off the streets," she said.
Best rendition was in the 80's by Kay Kay Baca and Duke Cit All Stars. Les and Mary would have been so proud of Kay Kay and the boys!
From Les Paul to Chet Atkins - Orange Blossom Special.
And who could forget Jerry Reed.
And so many more.........
“The truth is, America CAN handle the truth”It would be nice to hear some truth right about now.
“But sometimes we don’t know what the truth looks like, 'cuz we haven’t seen it in such a long time.”Now ain't that the truth.
“We say we’re ready for change, but change is hard. Change will always be hard, and it doesn'tt happen from the top down.”It sure feels to me like they are trying to make changes from the top down.
I think the middle class, and common sense folks have just started rolling up our sleeves.“We don’t get universal health care, we don’t get better schools because somebody else is in the White House. We get change ecause folks from the grassroots up decide they’re sick and tired of other people telling them how their lives will be when they decide to roll up their sleeves and work.”
"And Barack will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your division. That your come out of your isolation. That your move out of your comfort zone. That you push yourselves to be better and that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. You have to stay the the seat of the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama. Not just on Tuesday, but it a year from now, in 4 years from now, in 8 years from now. You
will have to be engaged. You will have to be engaged and we are gonna need you. I hold no level of fear in this race because I have no expectation that we are doing this alone. We will need all of you standing with us, praying with us, working with us every step of the way because that is how change happens in this country.”
“If Barack Obama were a state he’d be California.”
“Think about it, he’s diverse, open, smart, independent, bucks tradition, innovative, inspiring, dreamer, leader. Not about himself, about us. He brings people together.”
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
