A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....03-20-03...Ultimatum from the East Room

JohnHuang2; Dutchess; Billie | Essay by JohnHuang2, Illustrated by Dutchess

[LadyX]

"I knew you could do it Marine."

Just don't order me to do ten left-handed push-ups...:)))

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, lookie ! . . .

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/870410/posts

March 20, 2003, 12:12PM

Clara Harris to fix computers, not teeth, in prison

Associated Press

After a month at a prison psychiatric hospital, the Friendwood woman convicted of killing her cheating husband by running him over with her car has been assigned to a women's prison to serve her 20-year murder sentence.

Clara Harris arrived late Wednesday at the Mountain View Prison at Gatesville, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Larry Todd said.

"She is cooperative and had a brief interview with the warden and indicated she would be serving her time without incident," Todd said Thursday. "She will live in dormitory-style housing and will mix and work with other inmates."

Harris, a dentist, also would be given a job at the prison's computer repair and maintenance shop, where inmates rebuild computers for school districts, he said. She is not allowed to practice dentistry.

Harris, 45, had been locked up -- first in the Harris County Jail and then in prison -- since Feb. 13, the day before her 11th wedding anniversary. That's when a jury in Houston sentenced her to 20 years and a $10,000 fine for killing her orthodontist husband, David, 44, after finding him with his mistress at the same hotel where she married him a decade earlier.

The first month of her incarceration was spent at the Skyview Unit near Rusk in East Texas.

At Mountain View in Gatesville, about 35 miles west of Waco, she'll be among up to 650 female convicts. The prison includes Texas' female death row, although the condemned inmates are isolated from general population prisoners like Harris.

Besides computer repair work, prisoners there also have agricultural and livestock handling jobs.

"She has computer knowledge, and that job seems to be one well suited for her," Todd said, adding that inmates have no Internet access.

Harris becomes eligible for parole after 10 years in prison. She could have received a life sentence but drew a lesser penalty after jurors decided she was driven by "sudden passion" to repeatedly run over her husband in a suburban Houston hotel parking lot July 24.

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She didn't cry hard enough in court. Now she has to fix 'puters !

AP 2-7-2003
Defendant Clara Harris reacts as she
testifies about her husband's affair.

[Dubya]

Me neither LOL.

(CNSNews.com) - “This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome but victory,” President Bush told the nation shortly after 10 p.m. EST Wednesday night. He warned the war “could be longer and more difficult than some predict.”

CLICK FLAG ABOVE FOR GOD BLESS THE USA: LEE GREENWOOD

[Dubya]

Eve and me are praying for these guys also.

[LadyX]

CUT THAT OUT!!

Tryin' to cook dinner, and I don't have time
to listen to Lee Greenwood and stand up and cry..:))

[Dubya]

OK LOL.

[Dubya]

[Libertina]

I am so proud of President Geoerge W. Bush and our American Troops and Allies! Thank you JohnHuang2 for a wonderful tribute to our Leadership! Take care everyone, I can't be on much today but your steadfast loyalty and faith is inspirational. :)
Presidential Strategery BUMP!

[Dubya]

[dansangel]

{{{{Billie}}}}: Thank-you for bringing John's hard-hitting essay to us in such fine form.

{{{{JohnHuang2}}}}}:**The Democrats? They're back at doing what they do so well: Being irrelevant. ** You've got THAT right! :-)

{{{{{{{Louie_Wolfie_Man}}}}}}}}}} :-)

{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}} to all of my Finest sistahs and Friends.

[dansangel]

{{{{{{{{{Libertina}}}}}}}}}}}

[LadyX]

Directing your post to Race Bannon, whose mother served in WWII.........

[Mama_Bear]

I am so proud of President Geoerge W. Bush and our American Troops and Allies! Thank you JohnHuang2.

Yes, Libertina, I am too! I know the families of our military are concerned for the safety of their loved ones, but I hope it helps them to know there are many, many prayers going up for their safe return. I also hope they know how proud we are of our men and women in uniform and how much we appreciate the sacrifices of those who wait at home for them.

And I thank you also, John, for another excellent commentary. Right on the money again! :-)

[GailA]

It turned rainey and cold this after noon here in Memphis. BUT we are supposed to have partly sunny mid-high 90's.

[SpookBrat]

"Don't ever underestimate Bush,' Ma' Richards once warned."

Always impressive work JohnHuang. I loved it. Thanks for the work you put into it.

Greetings Dutchess. How are you?

[Mama_Bear]

[WaterDragon]

Late for coffee, but an excellent read!