Texas is Filled with Special People

[Nam]

...like judges:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-arrested-for-dui-youre-going-to-ruin-my-life/

McALLEN, Texas - South Texas authorities say a state appeals court judge was arrested for drunken driving during a weekend traffic stop.

McAllen police say Judge Nora Longoria, 49, was stopped for a traffic violation early Saturday morning and charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

Reports state Longoria "had trouble with her balance and swayed from side to side and displayed red, glossy eyes," according to CBS affiliate KGBT.

The arresting officer said during sobriety tests, Longoria complained the officer was "ruining her life and career for what he was doing." She also reportedly said, "I worked hard for 25 years to be where I'm at today."

Longoria failed the sobriety tests and then became emotional and "refused to be handcuffed," authorities say.

The 49-year-old was taken to the police station where she refused to take a breathalyzer test. She then admitted to drinking five beers earlier in the evening, KGBT reports.

Longoria later posted $2,000 bond and was released from custody.

Longoria sits on the 13th Court of Appeals, which serves the region extending from Corpus Christi south to Edinburg. She was elected to the court in 2012.

It's the cops' fault, they made her drive drunk. She's a judge, she's special, and innocent in all this.

-Nam

[stromboli]

Never met a Texan that wasn't special.

[Shiranu]

I'll take that as a complement, since my mom tells me the same :P.

[Munch]

I'm not afraid of 'special' Texans in Texas.. I'm just afraid of them leaving its borders.

[Shiranu]

I'm not afraid of 'special' Texans in Texas.. I'm just afraid of them leaving its borders.

Don't worry, the average Texan seems too proud of Texas to have any desire to leave. For the most part the nutties are a self-containing problem.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Like anywhere there are some special Ks everywhere.. I meet a lot of really decent people in Texas and some real dipshits.. Same for everywhere I've ever been.
If you meet my old friend Andy in Texas your first impression probably wouldn't be good, but get to know him and you'd find that he'd give you literally the shirt off his back and though he sounds like a typical Texas holy roller he's an atheist at heart.
Sure, he drinks from sunup till he passes out and pisses wherever he happens to be, but he'd never turn you down for his last beer. He'd be to drunk to know you stole it.

[Solitary]

The last forum (Freethinkers) I was on, everyone there as regulars were from Texas, as was the owner. The trolls shut it down. Solitary

[Draconic Aiur]

Not all of us in Texas are stupid. Just Most. I live in McAllen, and there are idiots but we do have smart people. I'm embarrassed of these idiots, but I'm more insulted by your shit.

BIG MIDDLE FINGER!

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Then get off your ass, become politically active and get the dipshits like Louie Golmert and others out of public office..

[Nam]

Not all of us in Texas are stupid. Just Most. I live in McAllen, and there are idiots but we do have smart people. I'm embarrassed of these idiots, but I'm more insulted by your shit.

BIG MIDDLE FINGER!

You're special.

-Nam

[stromboli]

Long time ago I worked with a guy from Texas, a skinny guy medium height, who bragged he had been in like 60 plus bar fights. He looked it, with a nose broken twice and a slightly lopsided face. I quietly pointed out that getting in bar fights wasn't exactly an accomplishment. Avoiding them, however, was.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I dunno Strom.. I've been in a few.. The accomplishment is getting out alive I think..  It's been about 20 or so years since the last one.. Hopefully it was the last one too..

[Nam]

I dunno Strom.. I've been in a few.. The accomplishment is getting out alive I think..  It's been about 20 or so years since the last one.. Hopefully it was the last one too..

Ramblin' Rose

sweeping across the floor
faces drooling out blood
where punches become stagnant
within the breath
of drunk old men young

juke playing broken songs
where strippers slip with
hiked up legs smoothed by
the tequila a year before

Mexico battling Puerto Rico
teeth flying loose
like faeries shooting quarters
and losing their skirts

tears end in laughter
when a gringo walks through
the flaps asking,
"Do you serve beer?"


David Garrett Arnold
December 19 2013

Background:

Based on a true story. I used to hang out at a bar where Hispanics/Latinos hung out at in my hometown named, "Ramblin' Rose" where, when the guys got drunk they'd say their home country was better than the other, and a fight would end up always happening. I prefer Mexican beer to all other beers, when I drank, and they had the best. So I hung out there.

"Gringo", in this instance, is referring to tourists; no matter their race and what's stated in the poem actually happened. It was hilarious. This took place in 1998, I think. I don't remember. I drank a lot back then.

-Nam

[stromboli]

Lol. I've been in exactly 3 bar fights, none of which I started or was the reason for. I do know from that, that bottles don't break when you get hit in the head with one. Your scalp does. I stumbled out of the EM club in Scotland with blood pouring down all over my pristine Dress Blues and me. the laundry bill alone is a reason to avoid bar fights.

I also have a scar on my chest from a black guy in a racially fueled fight in the Argyll Bar in Dunoon, Scotland, where a black guy stabbed me, right at the vee of my dress blues jumper. And another on my right front thigh when he got me with a down stroke. Another laundry bill and a new pair of dress blue pants. The third one was in Groton, Connecticut. I got out of that one clean, no laundry bill.

Never cared for bars that much to begin with. I totally avoided them after the Navy.

[Solitary]

Not all of us in Texas are stupid. Just Most. I live in McAllen, and there are idiots but we do have smart people. I'm embarrassed of these idiots, but I'm more insulted by your shit.

BIG MIDDLE FINGER!

Is that meant for me? Solitary