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Create an apostate logo...

by Princess in

jw
friends

ok all you computer geeks um, geniuses.

next weekend, steve and i along with another apostate from arizona, will be riding our bikes in a two day, two hundred mile ride from seattle to portland, oregon.

i thought it would be kind of fun to have an apostate logo we could print on sticker paper and attach to our helmets and/or rider numbers to bug any dubbies who may be riding too.

Study July 6, 2003 Listen to What the Spirit Says

by jgnat in

study july 6, 2003 listen to what the spirit says wt may 15, 2003

jezebel women in the congregation!

5 let no self-appointed prophetess seek to manipulate others in the present-day christian congregation .

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4 Even if we have a fine record, however, we must never be careless about our morals .
9 What if we have the reputation of being awake spiritually but we are largely asleep to Christian privileges and our service activities are perfunctory and spiritually “ready to die”? 9 ... we should revitalize our efforts in sacred service. 9 We certainly ought to start participating wholeheartedly in Christian meetings. 11 What if we discern that we are getting sleepy spiritually? We should act quickly for our own good. 11 Suppose we are being drawn to ungodly ways or are becoming lax in meeting attendance or in our ministry. 22 All of us can continue to benefit from ...counsel...as long as we apply it prayerfully and without delay.

Same old, same old. Do more, do more, do more...and when you've done that do some more and reach out for those Christian Privileges™

meetings=spirituality, service=spirituality, Laxness = spiritual death and ungodliness, complacency=spiritual danger, blah, blah, blah.

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Create an apostate logo...

by Princess in

jw
friends

ok all you computer geeks um, geniuses.

next weekend, steve and i along with another apostate from arizona, will be riding our bikes in a two day, two hundred mile ride from seattle to portland, oregon.

i thought it would be kind of fun to have an apostate logo we could print on sticker paper and attach to our helmets and/or rider numbers to bug any dubbies who may be riding too.

Bush Foibles, his Actual Sound Clips and Other Freudian Slips!

by reporter in

this is bush bragging about having lots of allies in the operation against iraq.

here is bush informing us how he is going to restore chaos and order...uh ok.

in this soundbite, dubya bites down on the word "co-operativeatively"!

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This is Bush bragging about having lots of allies in the operation against Iraq.

Here is Bush informing us how he is going to restore Chaos and Order...uh ok.

In this soundbite, Dubya bites down on the word "co-operativeatively"!

Here, ol Dubya jokes about being the dictator.

Here, Dictator Bush reiterates his burning desire to become a dictator!

Bush wants us to be distracted by Disneyworld while he sneaks in draconian post September 11th legislation! And Mike Malloy tells him off!

In this clip, Bush won't be fooled again!

Here, Bush critiques Saddam's "arms", or lack thereof!

In this clip, Dubya brags about the size of his package.

Bush say what? "Weapons of Mass ________________"

Bush stumbles over the point that we have to take lives to protect people.

Apparently, accounting firms perform complex ~~transactions~~ transictions!

Bush is confident he has universal approval in his words and actions!

Bush apparently learned lots of lessons while in the Alabama part of Vietnam!

"Mother America is brandishing her weapons. She keeps me safe and warm by threats and misconceptions..."

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Texas Windshield Murder Trial Begins

by TresHappy in

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/6152047.htm

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The actual 8-page sworn affidavit copy. The sex part was on page four. This provides many details of events surrounding this. Notice the exact detail that Chante gave Maranda as to the exits, highways, etc. and vivid details of the incident. This proves that Chante KNEW herself and her surroundings at the time of the accident.

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Texas Windshield Murder Trial Begins

by TresHappy in

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/6152047.htm

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Partier faces murder charge after leaving accident victim on her windshield

( Court TV ) — Chante Mallard Jawan was driving home from a dance club in Arlington, Texas, in the early hours of Oct. 26, 2001 when she struck 37-year-old Gregory Biggs. The homeless man's upper torso smashed through her windshield, leaving his lower half hanging outside of the car.

What happened next is almost unbelievable. Except that Mallard admits to it.

With Biggs still embedded in the windshield, she continued to drive to her Fort Worth home and parked her 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier in her garage. According to police and Mallard's confession, she periodically checked on Biggs, who remained stuck in the windshield, alive and moaning in pain. Mallard said she apologized to Biggs during such visits, but never made an effort to extract him. Nor did she contact police or summon medical help.

Mallard said she doesn't know when Biggs died — presumably sometime during the early morning — because she stopped checking on the injured man. Two friends of the defendant, Clete Deneal Jackson and Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, say Mallard called one of them. The two have admitted that they came over to Mallard's house and disposed of Biggs' body in a nearby park.

The men will be star prosecution witnesses as Mallard stands trial for murder and tampering with evidence. The 27-year-old faces life in prison if convicted.

Star Witnesses

Jackson received a 10-year sentence and Cleveland a 9-year term in a plea agreement in which they admitted to tampering with evidence and agreed to testify against Mallard. The duo says they removed Biggs from the car within 24 hours of the crash.

On Oct. 27, 2001, two elderly men told a firefighter that they had seen a dead body in Cobb Park. Initially, Fort Worth police believed Biggs was killed in an auto accident close to the park.

But the autopsy determined that Biggs must have been hit somewhere else and then transported to Cobb Park. The medical examiner concluded that Biggs' injuries were too severe to be sustained near the park, where driving at the high speeds necessary to inflict them would have been almost impossible.

The medical examiner also concluded that while Biggs had broken bones, he suffered no major trauma to the internal organs and could have survived if had he received prompt medical attention. In the examiner's opinion, Biggs bled to death.Four Long Months

For four months, police were baffled. They got a major break on Feb. 25, 2002, when Maranda Daniel, an acquaintance of Mallard, came forward. Daniel reported that around Valentine's Day, she had been at a friend's house with six other girls, including Mallard. The girls were talking, some were drinking, and they were trying to decide who would drive when they went out later.
Daniel told police that during their conversation that night, Mallard said she couldn't drive. When asked why, she giggled and explained she had hit a man with her car and he went through the windshield.
"I hit this white man," Mallard allegedly told Daniel, laughing.

Daniel told police that Mallard said she was on Ecstasy and drunk at the time of the crash. Mallard also allegedly told Daniel that when she returned home after the crash, her boyfriend was in the house and the two had sex before she returned to the garage to check on Biggs.
Police obtained a warrant and searched Mallard's home on Feb. 26, 2002. They found her Cavalier with the windshield and rear window broken out. The seats had also been removed.

Forensic tests showed blood and hair of the victim still lodged in remnants of the car's windshield.

Chante Mallard accompanied police officers to the station and agreed to make a statement.

The Confession

Mallard told police what had happened, but with a few differences from Daniel's account (Right. Now she knows she's in for it, so she'll try to soften the inflammatory incriminations). According to Mallard, she had only two drinks at the party (Right again! Who doesn't lie about the number of drinks they've had? And alcohol is the world's best truth serum!) and said she believed someone may have slipped something (more truth serum?) in one of her drinks. She also later denied having sex with her boyfriend while Biggs lay dying in the garage.

Mallard did tell police that after Biggs was removed from her windshield, several days passed before she could go back to the garage. When she did, she said she took the seats out of the car and put them in the back yard. She subsequently burned one of the seats.
By all accounts, Chante Mallard does not have a criminal record. She is state-certified as a nurse's aid, but has moved between jobs (flakey) at nursing homes in recent years.

She was born and raised in the Fort Worth area, and, according to her mother, was a Girl Scout who volunteered to help the mentally retarded. One of her high school classmates says she was an "A" student who worked as a teacher's aid. (Another browner who gets into trouble in later life)
Her Defense

Before Judge James Wilson issued a gag order in the case, Mallard's first defense lawyer, Mike Heiskell, told reporters that this was not a murder case, but simply a situation involving "a frightened, emotionally distraught young woman who had an accident, panicked and made a wrong choice. Then she called some friends who led her down the wrong path."

He believed she should only be convicted of "failure to stop and render aid." (Oh my God, Mike, are you f_ing serious?)

Mallard has been behind bars awaiting trial in lieu of $250,000 bail. Her new attorneys (why new ones?), Jeff Kearney and Reagan Wynn, will face off with prosecutor Richard Alpert.

A Tarrant County jury will decide her fate in a trial that will be broadcast live on Court TV.

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Texas Windshield Murder Trial Begins

by TresHappy in

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/6152047.htm

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UNBELIEVABLE JUST DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THIS!!!

We're missing at least one crucial part of the story here:

SHE HAD SEX WITH THE BOYFRIEND WHILE THIS GUY WAS TWISTING IN HER WINDSHIELD!

This happened all the while he was in pain and agony asking for help! All she could say was "sorry!"

This may have been papered over in the testimony. I don't buy her defense attorney's "embellishment" claims (see my explanations below in brackets). I don't know why it didn't come out in court. Here is an original article. When I heard about the trial, I instantly remembered the original story, over a year ago, as mentioned on a radio station at that time.

Bond set at $250,000 in hit-and-run case

Woman accused of leaving man to die on windshield

03/08/2002

By NANCY CALAWAY / The Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH – A judge on Friday raised bond to $250,000 for a nurse's aide charged with murder after a homeless man she hit died in her garage with his body lodged in her car's windshield.

Chante J. Mallard, 25 (at the time), had been released on $10,000 bail after she was arrested Wednesday. But at a bond hearing Friday, prosecutors said that amount was too low.

"It is no secret that the community is outraged by the offense of the defendant ... and I'd remind the court this is a murder charge," said Richard Alpert, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney.

State District Judge James R. Wilson raised the amount and said Ms. Mallard must be under house arrest, wear an electronic monitor, continue counseling, avoid alcohol and undergo drug testing.

The judge also imposed a gag order in the case.

Ms. Mallard was charged with murder this week in the slaying of Gregory Glenn Biggs, 37, a former Fort Worth school bus driver whose body was found dumped last October at Cobb Park on Fort Worth's south side.

"It truly is one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen," said Fort Worth police Lt. David Burgess, a supervisor in the traffic division. "I don't think there is really any other way to describe this."

But Ms. Mallard's attorney said that many details of the case have been overblown and that his client is devastated by the accident and seeking counseling.

"She is not the cold, harsh, inhumane person they would have you think," defense attorney Mike Heiskell said. "This girl is not a monster." (B.S. sir.)

In late October, Ms. Mallard had been to a club where she had a couple of drinks, police said. She told police she was on her way home about 3 a.m. when she hit a man who was walking along U.S. Highway 287 near the Loop 820 split.

Panicked, she continued the four miles to her home in the 3800 block of Wilbarger Street and hid her Chevy Cavalier inside her garage, police said. The injured man, later identified as Mr. Biggs, was stuck headfirst partially through the passenger side of the windshield and his legs, broken in several places, were folded over the roof, police said.

"He was alive for some period of time, about two to three days," said Sgt. Jon Fahrenthold, head of the accident investigation unit. "Apparently there was some conversation between them. She kept saying she was sorry, and he kept begging for help."

Police said that after Mr. Biggs died, Ms. Mallard and at least one friend then took the body to Cobb Park, a few blocks from her home, and dumped it. The body was found Oct. 27 near the edge of a parking lot.

In an affidavit, Maranda Daniel told police that she had been out with Ms. Mallard and several other women in mid-February when Ms. Mallard "giggled" as she explained how she had hit a man with her car.

Ms. Daniel also told police that Ms. Mallard "was messed up" on the drug "ecstasy" when she hit the man. The affidavit also quoted Ms. Daniel as saying Ms. Mallard told her that after she parked her car in her garage, she went inside her house and had sex with a boyfriend, leaving the injured man entangled in her windshield.

In her statement to police, however, Ms. Mallard said she felt "like someone had slipped her something" and did not mention any drug use.

Mr. Heiskell said that Ms. Daniel's claims were embellishments.

"This was not a friend of Chante's. In fact, they were enemies," he said. "She wanted to shed Chante in the worse light possible." (oh did she really?)

Mr. Heiskell also said Ms. Mallard did not talk to Mr. Biggs while he was in her garage and that the body was there for less than 24 hours – not the three days contended by police. (like a defense attorney would know more than trained police investigators)

"She panicked and made a bad decision, and her friend led her further down a bad road by telling her not to do anything, but it has been blown out of proportion," he said.

In the arrest affidavit, Ms. Mallard told police that after she returned home, she "sat there and cried and kept telling the white male that was sticking though her windshield that she was sorry." (oops, your "defense attorney" just lost credibility by saying that Ms. Mallard never talked to Mr. Biggs in the windshield) (Either you are lying Mr. Heiskell or she lied to the police)

Ms. Mallard also told police that "she does not know how long it took the man to die, [because] she quit going out into the garage," the affidavit states.

Medical experts said if long-bone injuries, such as a broken leg, are left untreated, they can lead a person to bleed to death within minutes or several hours as shock sets in.

"We talk about the golden hour, the middle period after an accident happens, and oftentimes even severe cases can be treated in that time and have a positive outcome," said Dr. David Mendelson, an emergency room physician at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. "It seems in this case, the person never got the definitive help during that time."

Ms. Mallard was charged on Feb. 26 with felony failure to stop and render aid.

This week, the Tarrant County medical examiner's office ruled that Mr. Biggs did not die of internal injuries from being hit by the car, but from massive blood loss and a state of shock.(So he was alive all the while he could hear what was going on)

Police obtained a search warrant for Ms. Mallard's two bedroom, one-car garage home and found blood, hair and human tissue in her damaged automobile.

"It was very obvious what had happened even though she was trying to disguise the damage," Sgt. Fahrenthold said. "She had planned to take the car out and torch it and claim insurance to get a new car. She had already burned one of the seats."(She isn't a monster Mr. Heiskell? C'mon. She had sex AND was trying to make a profit from her criminal acts by attempting to commit insurance FRAUD on TOP of "not rendering aid")

Police are searching for the other people who Ms. Mallard said helped her dump Mr. Biggs' body.

"There have been some very traumatic things that have happened in this country, and people have really come together to help each other out," said Richard Alpert, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney. "This is so the opposite of all that."

Mr. Alpert said although it is early in the process, he expects that the case will go before a jury.

"This is beyond the pale," he said. "It's hard to come up with a word to describe it. It's hard think that someone could have that level of indifference."

Mr. Biggs had worked for the Fort Worth school district from November 2000 to April 2001. He had also done sporadic construction work but was staying at a Fort Worth homeless shelter at the time of his death.

Mr. Biggs' mother, Meredith Biggs, said she was outraged to learn how her son died.

"Her lawyer is saying that it was just a hit-and-run or something. She had him in her garage stuck in that windshield for three days dying, and she wouldn't help him," she said. "He was begging for help. She would just come and see if he was dead yet. That's not hit and run." (And she would have sex with her boyfriend while he was left twisting in the wind crying for help all the while he could hear what was going on!!!)

Mr. Biggs had one son from a previous marriage, 19-year-old Brandon Glenn Biggs. Meredith Biggs said she wants people to remember Gregory as a loving, caring Christian.

"He was alive as anybody, and he was a worthwhile human being," she said.

VaDonna Spruill, a co-worker and a former roommate of Ms. Mallard, said she had seen her friend several times since the collision.

"When I asked her what happened to her car, she said, 'I don't want to talk about it,' " Ms. Spruill said. "She later told me she had a wreck and it was at home in her garage. To me it didn't seem like there was anything wrong, other than she might have been a little shaken up."

Ms. Mallard attended Morningside Middle School and O.D. Wyatt High School, growing up on the southeast side of Fort Worth. She made good grades, was a popular student leader and played on the school's volleyball team.

She had a strong family bond, friends said. Her parents helped her buy her house in 1995, friends said, and could be seen helping her with yardwork.

Relatives could not be reached Thursday for comment.

Neighbors said that Ms. Mallard's home was quiet and that the friendly woman always had a smile and would be happy to check on neighbors' houses while they were away.

"She was a nice neighbor," said Cherie Orr, who lives across the street. "It really broke my heart to hear about it. You just don't expect your neighbors to do something like this."

Narkeshia Holloway, another friend, said while she is supportive of her friend, Ms. Mallard's admitted actions baffled her.

"If there was the drugs and the alcohol, then I'm sure she was scared that something would have happened to her, but she still should have gotten in contact with someone," Ms. Holloway said.

Other neighbors were less forgiving.

"She still had to come to her senses eventually," said Norma Taylor. "I would have called someone. I wouldn't have been thinking about my trouble. But I've got a conscience."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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For those who ask, "why, God?"

by AGuest in

may you all have peace!

a dear one asked me some questions recently, including why god isn't... doing "anything"... and what is he doing.

for reasons of confidentiality, i will not name the person, but i am going to post some parts of our discussion, because i think it may put some things into "perspective" for some who truly wish to know:

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I consult the spirit too.

I find it quite refreshing!

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The Watchtower & the cigarette company

by expatbrit in

i: some relevant quotes from watchtower publications

1: the position of the watchtower as regards smoking

*** jv 181 13 recognized by our conduct ***.

reporter

Exactly. Would Jehovah and Jesus approve of those investments?

The onus here is a reverse-onus on them to prove themselves squeaky-clean Jehovah's Utensils™, since, after all, they represent Jehovah's Mother™ organization! A little leaven ferments the whole lump.

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The Watchtower & the cigarette company

by expatbrit in

i: some relevant quotes from watchtower publications

1: the position of the watchtower as regards smoking

*** jv 181 13 recognized by our conduct ***.

reporter

Did you win anything?

Now, THAT was a control freak. Christian Viewpoint™, like I was trying to tell six-of-nine, is something that is 100% non-negotiable, and, is unreasonably arbitrary and unreasonably enfoced, depending on the ~~control-freak-du-jour~~ prick who's micromanaging your actions. That was a good example.