This is the kind of shit that makes me hate Selfish People:

[Taverner]

A much better way of saying this. The Murder suicide of the Mayor. WHY kill your daughter just because mommy and daddy are in debt? Fucking selfish, if you ask me.

Related links: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8CQo...

And: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localn...

[Haole Girl]

1. Read the story

The father died of cancer in 2008.

[Taverner]

2. Even worse - kill your daughter because MOMMY is in debt...

[Haole Girl]

3. This is continuation of a locked thread.

We will see if it gets locked as well.

I've alerted on it.

[Taverner]

4. I'm not continuing it, I'm correcting it

Why bash Texas? It's a state, like any other.

But still, there is something there to be angry about.

And it is because some folks are plain SELFISH

[Haole Girl]

5. Bullshit. nt

[Taverner]

6. HG - Look, I like you a lot - and we should take this offline

IMO, you are focusing on the wrong attribute

[Haole Girl]

7. Let's not. nt

[Taverner]

8. OK - just remember we're still friends

And I see where you're coming from

[Haole Girl]

9. Friends don't make ugly copycats of friend's threads

I guess actions speak louder than words.

[Taverner]

10. So when one friend thinks the other is wrong, they aren't Friends anymore?

Agree to disagree?

[Haole Girl]

12. You could have done it without the snarky copycat.

Interesting, while this is a continuation of a locked thread, it's not going to be locked.

[Taverner]

14. That's me - I AM Snarky

Snark is my happiness :)

[madinmaryland]

11. I call bullshit on both sides of the story.

Both are broadbrushes. One towards the state of Texas and the other with people who have mental problems.

Alerting.

[Haole Girl]

13. I did try to change the title of mine to "Texas media" instead of just "Texas"

But too much time had passed. :-(

[Fleshdancer]

15. someone killed their kid and we can't call that act selfish?

not trying to stir up shit, just wondering how calling this act "selfish" is a broadbrush.

[Lilith Velkor]

28. The act was not labeled selfish, PEOPLE were.

Specifically, mentally ill people.

Talking shit about people in a tragic situation is pretty goddamn tacky either way.

[Fleshdancer]

32. specifically, the person who killed her own daughter was labeled selfish based on her actions

I see nothing tacky about judging murderers for their actions. Sympathy is not required for every situation, especially when it involves killing your own young.

[Lil Missy]

16. Wow. The whole story has been dissappeared.

[Haole Girl]

17. Taverner just didn't copy the links correctly. You can always use the ones from the locked thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9446418

[Fleshdancer]

18. here's a link from cbsnews:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20011900-504083.html

[Haole Girl]

19. The daughter was so pretty...

and all of the neighbors said she was very kind and outgoing.

I wonder if the mother's account (the suicide note) of how they "cried all the time" was accurate.

We will never know the rest of the story... all the local media seem concerned with the credit card misuse. Apparently, most of the local residents do too. :-(

[Texasgal]

20. Must be nice to live in a

idyllic pure area! A perfect little place, where NOTHING goes wrong and you feel better about yourself for living there!

Wow... where is that? Maybe I need to pack up and move. :eyes:

[Haole Girl]

21. If I could move, to just about anywhere but Texas, I would

But, right now, I cannot sell my house & my husband does not want to move.

I hate it. I hate the small-mindedness of many of the people, I hate the hot summers, I hate the provincial news stories about el chupacabras, high school football, football training, football scandals, and smut-- smut stories about people's "reputations" (like the deceased mayor's). The REAL story should be about the murder-suicide. Period. NOT about whether or not she wrongly charged 6K which has already been repaid. But nobody - here in TEXAS - seems to care about the real story.

THAT is what is bothering me. THAT is one of the reasons I hate it here.

[Texasgal]

22. Mighty big brush you paint there

I'm not sure ANY place would be to you suiting.

[Haole Girl]

23. You mean "your suiting"?

You should proof your insults.

[Texasgal]

24. who insulted who?

You made a broad brush against a whole region of people.

Who is insulting?

[Haole Girl]

25. Alert, then

Good luck with that.

:hi:

[Texasgal]

26. I'm not the alerting type.

I think it's just funny that you broad brushed a whole region of people. Just kinda shows the intellect ya know?

Meh, whatever.

Have a good night.

[Haole Girl]

27. "the intellect ya know?"

You mean "MY intellect"?

No, I don't know.

[MajorChode]

29. Who insulted whom

I'm really not a grammar nazi, but in this case I just couldn't help myself.

Just trying to make light of a tense situation. Carry on.

[ThomasQED]

30. None of those things happen

anywhere but Texas?

[blueamy66]

31. I'm starting to feel that way about AZ.

I would love to live in So Cal, but probably won't be able to sell this houes anytime soon.

There are many nice things about AZ, but the "bad" things outweigh those nice things in a huge way.