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Post by Ritty77 on Jun 28, 2011 22:35:22 GMT -5
Driver charged after pedestrian's body found in front seatBy ANITA HASSAN Copyright 2011 Houston Chronicle June 28, 2011, 9:19PM Deputy Constable Paul Armand was making what he thought was a routine traffic stop early Tuesday morning when he pulled over a car that didn't have headlights on. As he approached the black Mazda 626, the Precinct 8 deputy noticed the driver had blood on his face. He also saw that the front windshield was shattered and partially inside the vehicle. The deputy constable then saw a body in the passenger seat, partially underneath the dashboard and with a severed leg. "He (Armand) was shocked," said Precinct 8 Capt. Jason Finnen. The driver, James John Onak, 45, told the deputy he didn't realize a dead body was in the passenger seat, Finnen said. Police allege Onak struck 32-year-old Fadel Steadman with his car on the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston and kept on driving for three miles while the man's body lay in his passenger seat. Onak was later arrested and charged with felony failure to stop and render aid involving a fatality and driving while intoxicated. Houston police, who took over the investigation, estimate that the accident occurred in the southbound lanes of the 12200 block of Gulf Freeway around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, about 10 minutes before Armand pulled Onack over. Investigators believe Steadman had pulled his Ford Explorer into the emergency lane on the left side of the freeway near Fuqua after the vehicle broke down. Witnesses told police Steadman was running back and forth across the freeway when he was struck by the Mazda. The collision forced Steadman's body through the windshield, and he landed in the front passenger seat inside the car, police said. However, Onak did not stop driving. Police said he got off the freeway and drove a few more blocks before he was pulled over by Armand on Kirkvalley near Beamer, police said. Onak told Armand he thought he had hit something while driving down the Gulf Freeway, but he was not sure, Finnen said. After discovering the body in the seat, Armand called paramedics and additional deputy constables to the scene. While searching the freeway, another deputy constable located the Mazda's licence plate as well as what appeared to be Steadman's leg, Finnen said. In 2001, a Fort Worth woman, who after a night of drinking and using drugs, struck a homeless man with her car and drove home with the man crumpled in the windshield. She then left him in her garage where he died two days later. The woman, Chante Mallard, was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2003. Onack, who is jailed in lieu of a $55,500 bail, faces two to 10 years in prison as well as up to a $10,000 fine for the felony charge. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7630000.html#ixzz1QdFZj0CD
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Post by Ritty77 on Jun 30, 2011 18:23:17 GMT -5
I'll just stick this here.
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Post by twinder on Jun 30, 2011 21:38:44 GMT -5
I thought it was funny. Of course, he'll be vilified for it.
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 1, 2011 16:18:52 GMT -5
I thought it was funny. Of course, he'll be vilified for it. Oh yes. The White House called right over. I'm wondering if W ever called over when they called him a liar, a murderer, a war criminal, a Nazi, an idiot, a hillbilly, etc. And if Obama is upset about being called a Dick on TV, he'll probably not even ponder what they call him off the air.
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 1, 2011 16:22:41 GMT -5
I saw where Obama released his tax forms. It looks like he took off a deduction for charitable donations. This is done to reduce one's tax liability. Yet according to Obama, people like him should be paying more in taxes.
Here was the perfect opportunity for him to pay more by simply not taking credit for his charitable donations. But he did anyway.
The password is "hypocrite".
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Post by leisuresuitlarry on Jul 2, 2011 5:21:47 GMT -5
Why lead by example? It's do as I say, not as I do...
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 6, 2011 15:44:55 GMT -5
Regarding the Casey Anthony case, I don't know if she killed her daughter, but the jury was right to acquit. The prosecutors did not prove their charge.
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Post by leisuresuitlarry on Jul 6, 2011 19:50:32 GMT -5
What the heck is wrong with prosecutors in this country? OJ Simpson, Casey Anthony... who knows how many others. She'll get hers in the end, just like OJ finally went to jail. She'll serve what little time now is required of her then she'll be back to clubbing and partying around - especially now that she doesn't have a wee one to have to chloroform before she can get her groove on.
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Post by philunderwood on Jul 7, 2011 6:23:39 GMT -5
I think that most often in cases like this it’s the expert that helps the defense select the jurors that wins the case.
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 10, 2011 10:02:21 GMT -5
From new Hampshire's Union Leader: Jim Crow? Not even closeEDITORIAL Published Jul 9, 2011 Legislators finally passed a voter ID bill this session, only to have Gov. John Lynch veto it. This week former President Bill Clinton compared it to Jim Crow laws. We suppose that as long as you’re going to make up stuff to discredit the opposition, you might as well go all in. Lynch vetoed the bill, he said, because it would create problems for people who wanted to vote. For instance, the bill gave people who didn’t have a valid ID on Election Day 2.5 days to come back with one. Lynch said that was just awful because “many town offices are closed or have only limited hours on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.” According to Lynch, it’s an undue burden to make people do business at town offices during workdays. He also said “State employees can use their agency-issued photo IDs to vote, but employees at private companies may not use their company-issued photo IDs.” So he thinks company-issued IDs are equal to state-issued ones? Sure he does. But Clinton was even worse. He said New Hampshire’s bill was, like Jim Crow laws, a “determined effort to limit a franchise.” Really? It’s not a poll tax or a literacy test. It’s just a picture ID. If you can get to a polling place, you can get to a state office that issues — for free — photo IDs. This disenfranchisement talk is just an attempt to smear the opposition, which is what too many people in politics do when they don’t have the facts on their side. unionleader.com/article/20110709/OPINION01/707089993/-1/opinion
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Post by twinder on Jul 10, 2011 12:29:54 GMT -5
Some of the comments at the bottom of the article are quite incredible. It's no wonder the country is in the shape that it is.
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Post by Doug Loss on Jul 10, 2011 14:48:09 GMT -5
You need to do as I do. I've had it with trying to debate these idiots. I just say, "You are, of course, lying." Then they go ballistic, which is entertaining, especially when you laugh at them for it, which gets them even more apoplectic. If they say, "How DARE you call me a liar!" I just respond, "when you stop lying, I'll stop calling you on it. Deal?"
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 14, 2011 15:28:35 GMT -5
I can't recall. Has a President of the United States ever stormed out of meeting? How proud the libs must be!
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 14, 2011 16:21:47 GMT -5
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 24, 2011 11:29:23 GMT -5
Saw this on a blog, it was someone's tagline:
I used to think there was a woman inside me screaming to get out. Then I sobered up and I realized it was coming from the basement.
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Post by twinder on Jul 24, 2011 12:02:24 GMT -5
That's funny!
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Post by leisuresuitlarry on Jul 24, 2011 19:39:53 GMT -5
I just saw a commercial on History International for the Children's Fund - you know, sponsor a child in some 3rd world nation and get letters and picture from him/her... The thing Sally Strothers used to push. Anyhow, I couldn't help but notice they dropped Christian from their name - used to be the Christian Children's Fund. I guess it's not cool to be Christian anymore and they figure they can get more suckers to donate if they open it up to muslims, atheists, satanist, sun worshipers, moon worshipers, etc.
I think they should have left well enough alone and kept the old name.
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Post by Ritty77 on Jul 31, 2011 9:17:49 GMT -5
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Post by Ritty77 on Aug 1, 2011 15:12:16 GMT -5
NJ Dem Frank Lautenberg tweets: New @hhsgov rule making birth control co-pay free will allow more women to make responsible decisions about their health lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=333713&_____ Call me kooky, but wouldn't having them pay at least some of the cost better help them "to make responsible decisions"? Everything's ass backwards.
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Post by leisuresuitlarry on Aug 1, 2011 15:24:45 GMT -5
No silly, if they are forced to shell out money for birth control then the ugly, inbred, mildly retarded, high school drop outs, welfare addicts, wic recipients, low self esteem, trailer trash women would say fuck it and not use any birth control and thus bringing more of the same into this shitty assed world.
Haven't you learned anything from Chuck and "He who must not be named"? The government should pay for everything for everybody and they should tax the living shit out of the rich and anyone who works for a living to pay for it all.
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