An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
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YO! North East Texas Folks!
And ALL DFW too! Be smart! Go check out The Rowlett TEA Party! Join! Get involved! Nothing ever happens till someone MAKES it happen!
Prayers CAN Make a Difference!
Just received this email from Fred about Brooke:
THANK U JESUS!!!!!! Brooke just came out of her coma and looked at her parents!!!! When they told her they were going to the waiting room(visiting hours ended) she made her normal pouting face!!!!! The whole crinkled nose and forehead!!!! She couldn’t talk due to the tubes in her mouth and throat but crinkling the nose let them know she wanted them to stay!!!! I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am for God’s mercy!!!! Thank u God for miracles!!!!!
Amen to that! Miracles DO happen! Please pray for her speedy recovery, so she can be back at home, with her family, wrinkling her forehead, and pouting to her heart’s content. 
Please Pray!
You’ll remember I asked for prayers recently, and linked to my friend, Fred, and fellow blogger’s post about this horrible infection. I am asking for more now. Please.
I received this email from Fred earlier today:
My daughter-in-laws niece, Brooke, is very ill, much worse. I am so thankful for all the prayers and kind words, but I have to let you know, Brooke has suffered a collapsed lung and a heart attack. That’s all I know at this time, as info comes in, I will let folks know.. Keep praying…
No matter your political persuasion, the health of a young woman is in the balance.
Thy Will Be Done!
Prayer Request For Brooke
My friend, and fellow blogger, Texas Fred, has had his share of family illnesses in recent months. You might remember that he nearly lost his daughter and unborn grandson not all that long ago to something called acinetobacter baumannii, or Iraq Bacteria. Lisa and Carson are miracles! Unfortunately, illness has hit another family member. Unfortunately, this young lady has lost the baby. She is quite ill! She and her family need our prayers.
I am asking for us all to put aside any differences we might have and pray for this family.
Please! Read the entire post here.
Thanks.
More On Matt
When I made this post on Wednesday, I failed to do a little more reading, and I really should have, because I missed a couple of really important articles that were connected, and now I’m even angrier than I’ve been since I found out about Matt’s murder, if that’s possible.
Defense case: Toste slaying was justified
A lawyer for a Santa Rosa man on trial for the slaying of Matthew Toste in a downtown parking garage more than three years ago conceded Wednesday his client did the shooting, but insisted it wasn’t murder.
Rather, defendant Joseph Lopez Jr. thought Toste had shot his father during a scuffle between the two in which Toste knocked the father to the ground, said George Boisseau, the younger Lopez’s lawyer.
WHAT????? What a total load of male bovine excrement! I realize that lawyer’s are suppose to give their clients the best defense possible, but this is so much garbage, I can’t even imagine even a bottom feeder with a law degree trying to pull off such a tactic.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Spencer Brady said Toste, a 32-year-old construction worker, his date, a female cousin and her husband had just parked their car and were walking through the garage to a nearby nightclub when they were confronted by a group of at least six men.
The men, later identified as members of the Norteño criminal street gang, made catcalls and whistled and touched one of the women on the buttocks, Brady said.
When Toste objected, the men surrounded him and began taunting him. “They were saying, ‘Hey whiteboy. What are you going to do?’ ” Brady told jurors.
Not only was this MURDER, but it was also a racially motivated MURDER!
Juror intimidation charged in Toste murder case
The uncle of a Santa Rosa man on trial for murder pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of felony juror intimidation.
George Lopez, 36, the uncle of Joseph Lopez Jr. — charged in the 2006 slaying of Matthew Toste — is free on $60,000 bail for the incident that prosecutors said happened Feb.1.
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Lopez is the brother of former co-defendant Joseph Lopez Sr. and the uncle of Lopez Jr. His criminal history in Sonoma County includes a conviction for felony assault in 1997 and a felony drug conviction from 1999. He has been sentenced to prison twice.
On Thursday, Lopez requested a public defender. He told the judge he was unemployed and had no money. Chouteau asked him how he raised bail and he said: “I don’t know. Somebody bailed me out.”
Bail or bond? Since the judge is under a gag order, obviously, only the parties involved know the details, but I’m not real sure why bail was set. This is obviously not an upstanding citizen of the community. Even if bond was posted, $6,000 is quite a chunk of change for someone with no job. And not knowing who posted it? Give me a freakin’ break! I pray the jury will be safe, and the scum that tore a hole in Sally’s family will pay dearly!
Addition provided by Sally:
Witnesses unable to say who killed Toste
This does not bode well.
Praying for Justice
Toste murder trial begins with dramatic 911 tape
Emergency dispatch tapes played for jurors Wednesday revealed a frantic woman calling for an ambulance as her date lay dying in a downtown Santa Rosa parking garage.
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“We need an ambulance . . . he was trying to protect us,” Griffin said on the tape. “He’s dying. He’s almost dead.”
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The jury of nine women and three men listened to prosecutor Spencer Brady lay out the case in an hour-long presentation that relied on 911 recordings, video and dozens of still pictures, including shots of Toste’s body with bullet entry wounds in the chest and side.
Dear God! I cannot imagine the pain that Sally, Cathy, Thad and the others must have felt seeing those pictures. It breaks my heart, after all the pain they have been through over the last 3 years, that they have to relive the horror, it’s incomprehensible.
Related posts:
In Defense of the Second Amendment
Arrests Made……..FINALLY!
GRANNY!
Well Chris…..how does it feel to be a grandmother? LMAO Gotta admit, he’s a cutie. I’m just having problems with the mental image of YOU as a granny. Heh.
Meet Noah Ryan….popping into the world yesterday at a whopping 8 and a half pounds. OUCH.
Major congrats to the proud parents! Your lives are forever changed.
Oh…..My…..Word!
A very long time friend of mine came across some pictures from WAY back when, and I’m in shock! Were we EVER that young?
Sally, Tommy, and me? sigh….
Yeah, it’s an OLD picture! LOL Shaddup!
On This Day In History…..
……my beloved popped into the world! He didn’t know as he was growing up he’d be saddled with such a one as I. Heh. I wonder if he would have tried to crawl back in if he had had an indication how his life would change?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YA OL’ FART!
I LOVE YOU!
Grrrrrrrr
Jr and I spent the day wandering through Wally World, where she went in one direction, and I ended up hunting for her for a good half hour. You’d think if I said “Go put that back where you found it”, she’d have enough sense to return to the place where she left me, right? WRONG! She decided to take the long way back around. Pfft! TEENAGERS! I have to ask….why do teenage girls have to have socks that look like Pippi Longstocking rejects?
Naturally, there must always be a trip to the book store! It’s like a rule! It’s genetic! The draw is too great to resist! I only found two paperbacks, where as Jr found all kinds of things to peak her interest. Of course, we ended up spending as much there than at the Mart.
Then, it was off to the movies. Here’s where the REAL grrrrrrrr comes in! If you are going to pay your money to watch a movie, please, explain to me why you must sit there and text through the whole freakin’ thing????????? And I don’t just mean one person. There were at least 4 or 5 doing it. Do you have any idea how bright that bloomin’ light is in a dark theater? Have a little common courtesy! It’s not that difficult!
So, what did we see? Well, she’s a teenager, right? We had to go see New Moon! Amusing to say the least. The books are much better than the movies. Ok, I admit it, I had to see what all the hoopla was about, so I bought the set. Talk about an easy read. Heh. But hey, I like the theater of the mind in various forms, so why the heck not!
Now, it’s time to dry off (we both got fairly damp after running/waddling through the rain), and get comfy. I wonder if she’d notice that I put in some ear plugs? Dang, that girl yaps a LOT! And as most teenagers do, says nothing at all! sigh….
Law Enforcement Officer Needs Help
This morning Texas Fred has a post up from Barry Morris, who is riding to remember a fallen officer. Please go read the post, and consider chipping in a few bucks to aid him in his quest.
Dear Friend of Law Enforcement
And spread the word!
A Birthday Boy!
Some Badgers are older than others today!
Happy Birthday ya ol’ buzzard! 
Radish The Great….One Year OLDER!
Yes, boys and girls, Mzzzzzzzzzz Radish is joining the ranks of OLD folks…..faster and faster. Heh.
Back on the Road!
Yep! It’s time for the ol’ broad and Mr to head back home. While we’ve thoroughly enjoyed the last couple of weeks, I miss my kitties, my bathroom, my bed, and my non flooded driveway! This was a great 2 weeks, with the exception of my annual Christmas crud. sigh….
I hope Ick and Brat know how much we appreciate NOT having to stay in a motel!!!!! Now, when they build their new house, they’ll just have to make sure they have the required in-law suite, complete with private balcony, small kitchen, sitting area, large flat screen TV with ALL channels, and the biggest king size bed known to man! Heh. Oh, and don’t forget the CHOCOLATE mints on the pillows next time. I like the puff balls and all, but seriously, for a class establishment, it’s gotta be chocolate. 
Ok, I’ll shut up now. I’m dreamin’ big here….kind of like that 34 days cruise the brat keeps bringing up. Heh.
Seriously, thanks y’all!
So, since the hotel where we are staying tonight has no internet access in the rooms (really? What’s up with that?) and odds are, they won’t let me wander around the lobby in my jammies and bunny slippers, y’all probably won’t hear from me till tomorrow night….or maybe even Tuesday morning. After that, send out the National Guard, cuz we’re lost! Heh!
On This Day In History…..
……I was in a WHOLE lot of pain! As a matter of fact, I had already been in a WHOLE lot of pain for the past 2 days…this made it day 3. Needless to say, I was NOT a happy camper. Then around 5:30 in the evening, things got a REAL bad. But, within about an hour, I stopped screeching at the top of my lungs. There are just so many drugs they can give ya, y’know. After 3 days of labor, 27 hours of REAL HARD LABOR, this yucky little thing popped into the world. Thank goodness she cleaned up fairly well.
When I was 12, I had decided that the one, and only kid I’d have would be a girl, and she’d be named after my dad and my sister. So, there she was, 7 pounds, 2 ounces, 21 inches long, platinum fuzz on her head, and blue eyed…..Baby Brat! And surprisingly, I let her live through her teenage years. Go figure!
If ya wanna know how old she is…..count the candles! Heh.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAT!
