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Suspect ‘covered’ in pot after Ellis County chase

10:55 PM CST on Monday, February 6, 2006
Associated Press

WAXAHACHIE – Wildflowers may not be the only thing sprouting up along a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 35 in Ellis County this spring.
Seeds of an illegal plant were inadvertently sown after a police officer stopped a car with no license plate light early Friday morning and smelled a strong odor of marijuana. When the officer returned to his car and called for backup, the driver drove away, Milford Police Chief Carlos Phoenix said.
As several law enforcement agencies joined the chase, the fleeing driver tore open and threw 17 to 19 bags out of his window.
“There was marijuana flying everywhere,” Phoenix told the Waxahachie Daily Light.
After driving over a second set of spikes set out by authorities, the suspect finally stopped and was taken into custody, and he was “literally covered in marijuana,” Phoenix said.
Officers picked up two duffel bags, a backpack and three or four gallon-size freezer bags from the interstate, but the wind blew much of the su
Also, some people with police scanners heard that a man was throwing marijuana out of his car window and drove to the scene to try to retrieve it, Phoenix said.
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No I didn’t get to cover that one… but it was a fun story none the less.

Ok.. so this is the third post on Bono’s speach at the National Day of Prayer. Sorry.
But for those of you who don’t want to read it, you can watch it thanks to C-Span.

Ok…
Thought I had better get in on this, Black Triangle has a link to the Best Blonde Joke Ever.

Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble said he was thinking about buying a new MacBook from Apple because it will dual boot with Windows XP and OSX.
But he’s not happy with the new Express Card slot.
It gets rid of the popular IO port that everyone uses.

Why does this matter? Well, go down to Sprint and ask for an EVDO card. Or Verizon. Or Cingular. They all have them. I would say these are all now NECESSARY for a traveling businessperson. I just got one yesterday and I’ve said goodbye to Wifi forever. My friends are all buying them (Phillip Torrone showed me his running on his 17-inch Apple Powerbook at Macworld expo).

Jim Wallis with Sojourner says Bono’s speach at the National Prayer Breakfast was, “was the most explicit about religion and the role of faith that I had ever heard Bono deliver.”

The National Prayer Breakfast is normally a time for reaffirming spiritual truths and testifying to the power of faith in people’s individual lives, but not so much a moment for prophetic and controversial social utterances. There have been exceptions – when Sen. Mark Hatfield spoke courageously about the moral “shame” of the Vietnam War in the presence of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger (I know a lot about that prayer breakfast speech because I helped write it when I was a seminarian in Chicago); when Mother Theresa spoke about the sacredness of life and raised the issue of abortion with the Clintons on hand; and yesterday, when Bono spoke like a modern-day prophet about extreme global poverty and pandemic disease and called upon the American government, with George Bush and Congressional leaders present, to do much more.
The speech, published below, was the most explicit about religion and the role of faith that I had ever heard Bono deliver, and his insistence on the biblical requirements of justice and not just charity was reiterated over and over again. In a small session with religious editors afterward, Bono spoke about how the churches had led on the issue of debt cancellation with the Jubilee 2000 campaign, on HIV/AIDS, and now on global poverty reduction. “You’re the bigger crowd,” he said, “much more than my stadium audiences.” He said the church will just hear “fanfare” from musicians.
But Bono is offering far more than fanfare, as his talk below demonstrates. To the religious editors he stressed how the justice issue is “really it,” and said that the churches had to figure out how to make that clear to people and that “movement is the way” we will finally succeed. Bono said he believed that something is moving now and we have to create the momentum to accomplish our goals. On the way to the car afterward, we spoke together about how really crucial that movement building is, how nothing else will suffice to make the changes in our world that are so vitally and morally necessary, and how the strategy in the religious community is so key. We also talked about the Isaiah 58 passage he had quoted in his speech – that when we respond to the poor as the prophet instructs, “God will cover your back.” This is one speech you will want to read and pass on to your friends.
– Jim Wallis