Cakes were made fer EATIN' (and sometimes WEARIN')! <|:)~
Posted on 06/24/2003 1:40:40 AM PDT by dansangel
Cakes were made fer EATIN' (and sometimes WEARIN')! <|:)~
((((JWFIV)))!
:-)
Thank yooooou! : )
Billie touched on that part about you getting special treatment.
I was hoping. LOL
You've certainly earned your hug today (((Louie)))....Thanks!
Yep, you're a *Babe* alright....a good hugger. : )
What happened? Hope it's not series.
And in case it is...
What's the name of that drug...the label is too small for me to read. Is it better than Tums?
Mallard pleads not guilty to murder - smoked pot,
took ecstasy and drank heavily before hit and runExcerpt:
FORT WORTH, Texas - A former nurse's aide smoked pot, took ecstasy and drank heavily in the hours before she hit a homeless man and drove home while he was lodged in her windshield, prosecutors and defense attorneys told jurors as her murder trial began Monday.
Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, faces life in prison if convicted. She pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, tampering with evidence, before attorneys began their opening statements on the murder charge.
Although she had taken drugs, Mallard could have stopped at a nearby fire or police station or called an ambulance after she hit Gregory Biggs on a highway in the early hours of Oct. 26, 2001, prosecutor Christy Jack said.
"All of a sudden -- bam -- he was just there," Mallard said in a statement to police, which Jack read to jurors.
Mallard did stop briefly to try and get Biggs off her car, but when she couldn't, she drove about a mile to her home, Jack said. Mallard then called one of her friends to pick her up, Jack said.
She and her friend then went to find Mallard's ex-boyfriend to figure out what to do next. When they couldn't find him, they went back to the house, where Mallard took the friend into the garage, Jack said. By that time, Biggs was dead, still lodged and bleeding in the jagged windshield.
The friend told Mallard to call 911, Jack said.
"Chante refused because she didn't want her parents to know what she'd done and didn't want to go to jail," Jack said.
Defense attorney Jeff Kearney said Mallard was in a drug-induced haze and had been hit in the face with flying glass when the car hit Biggs. He said she doesn't dispute what happened, but it was an accident, not murder.
She was just one exit from her home, so she kept driving with "a body entirely in her car, the head in the floorboard, legs going in directions that no one thought humanely possible. You can't imagine," Kearney said.
sy]]]]] WORD OF THE DAY: gearhead (GEER-hed) noun
A technology enthusiast, e.g. a person with a deep interest in the inner working of computers, automobiles, etc.
[From gear, from Middle English gere (equipment) + head, from Middle English, from Old English heafod.]
"Pauline and his compatriots were true hard-core gearheads: they loved the oily complexities of machines, and understood the internal mechanics that are, to the rest of us, an inscrutable mesh of wires and servos."
Brad Stone; Gearheads; Simon & Schuster, New York; 2003. http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743229517/ws00-20/
"I might as well conclude with a gearhead's account of how to shut off splash-screen displays, even though it's probably more trouble than it's worth."
James Coates; Windows 95 Software Works With XP Wizard; Chicago Tribune; May 3, 2003.
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Gregory Biggs
Chante Mallard
Chante Mallard (left) is accused of striking
Gregory Biggs with her car and leaving him
to die in the windshield.
Each day we've been introduced to this wonderful cast of characters who make up the membership of FReeRepublic. Being a long-time FReeper, it's been great to put a pic and bio to the screen names I've seen over the years.
FR's Finest... truly are the Finest. Each one well deserving of the coveted FR's Finest... AttaBoy/AttaGirl award and entry into the FR's Finest... Hall of Fame.
MSG?? Restaurants still use that stuff??
Gosh, what to say.....you two are such an important part of the Finest and have been from the beginning. Today's thread, Johnny is special, and in keeping with one of our daily keywords: Surprises!
Thanks to both of you for keeping the fire stoked when the Sistahs are out chopping more wood for the next few days. :)
And thanks, too, for so many, many beautiful graphics you two post every day! (like this one) :)
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