Dallas Texas Police Issue Dozens Of Tickets For Not Speaking English

This morning I read in the Dallas Morning News that a rookie Dallas cop, Gary Bromley, had ticketed a Mexican national, Ernestina Mondragon, who had a driver's license, for not being able to speak English.

I am not making this up.

And now, late in the afternoon, Levi Johnston, who is now one of my regular news sources, via Twitter, tweeted the news that by this afternoon the story had changed.

Now, we learn it was not just one isolated rookie incident, instead, dozens of tickets have been issued, in Dallas, for not being able to speak English.

My great-great grandpa came to America, from Holland, unable to speak English, and never learned the language. But his descendants are all quite fluent with the language.

Sarah Palin really should have worked harder at keeping Levi in her realm. He seems to be quite a wise guy at only 19 years old.

Below is Levi's Twitter Tweet about the Dallas Cops Non-English Speaking Ticket Scandal...

"39 tickets issued to Mexican workers 4 not being able to speak English in DaLLAS TEXAS WTF? TEXAS IS ONE CRAZY STATE."

My Levi Johnston Twitter News Source

Once again, Levi Johnston is my news source via Twitter. The first time Levi was a news source was when I learned from him, via Twitter, that the Balloon Boy had been found.

And now I have learned from Levi, and confirmed elsewhere, that authorities now believe the Balloon Boy saga was an elaborate plot hatched by the fevered imagination of the kooky-banana father of Falcon, Richard Heene, to somehow better market his family for a reality show.

Apparently the Heene's, Richard and Mayumi, pitched a show that would have had stunts and hoaxes as its hook.

No charges have been filed yet. But the Larimer County Sheriff's office is going with charges of conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, false reporting to authorities and attempting to influence a public servant.

The notorious Heene's Gang could face up to 6 years in prison and a half million dollar fine.

It has been determined, how I do not know, that all three of the Heene's boys knew of the balloon hoax. They won't be charged, because, well, they are little boys.

Now, to me, I'm thinking, was any great harm actually done? The Flying Saucer Balloon Boy Saga made for some really good TV. It's not like the Heene's Gang was killing trees and horses or robbing people of their homes to build a football stadium. I'm thinking, until the gas drillers, here in Texas, face some jail time for poisoning people, animals and trees and Jerry Jones does some hard time, with big fines, for somehow gaming the system to allow him to abuse the proper use of eminent domain in order to steal people's home, businesses and peace of mind, so he could build a silly looking football stadium, well, I think throwing the law at the Heene's Gang really is not a thing that makes a lot of sense to me.

Sarah Palin's Daughter Bristol's Baby's Baby Daddy Follows Me

Yesterday I blogged about the Flying Saucer Balloon Boy. And then blogged about it again when I learned, from Levi Johnston, that the Balloon Boy had been found, safe and sound.


In the blogging, where I said that in this bizarre new world we live in, consisting of news coming at you from all sorts of odd locations, I said that Levi Johnston had become a news source for me due to the fact that it was from a Levi twittering tweet that I learned the Balloon Boy had been found.

In the course of the blogging about Levi Johnston I took a little poetic license and said he was one of my legion of Twitter followers. Which wasn't true.

But it is now true. This morning I got an email from Twitter telling me about a new Follower. The email informed me that "Durango Jones, Levi Johnston is now following your tweets on Twitter."

So, now I can honestly say that Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol's baby's Baby Daddy, Levi, is now ardently following my every single tweet on Twittering. I'm taking poetic license again.

Levi may not be following me for long. He keeps saying he is going to delete his Twitter account due to getting tired of too much flack from the pro-Palin right wing nutjobs. I'd get tired of it too, if I were Levi. Which I'm not. I find it amusing to read.

Levi Johnston Told Me The Helium Balloon Boy Is Home Alone Alive

Twitter keeps on being the gift that keeps on giving. A hour or so ago I blogged about the flying saucer helium balloon that kept the world's attention for awhile this afternoon due to the erroneous belief a 6 year old Colorado boy was inside.

So, I blogged about the bizarre, yet strangely compelling incident. An hour later I'm at Twitter, doing some Twittering when I see that one of my Followers, Levi Johnston, he being the baby daddy to Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol's baby, had twittered.

Levi had taken time out from preparing for his latest Playgirl magazine photo shoot to twitter or tweet, "Balloon Boy found alive, was never inside balloon HOAX: BALLOON BOY FOUND ALIVE IN GARAGE."

So, it was all a big brouhaha over nothing. Well, there was that UFO looking object zooming across the sky that got a lot of people really busy.

What a world we live in. I've only known of Sarah Palin for a bit more than a year. And now her former future son-in-law has become one of my news sources, via this ridiculous, yet useful, thing called Twitter.

Twittering Levi Johnston & Flying To Puerto Rico With Burning Eyes

It is yet one more gray day here in Texas. Heavy rain and flooding is anticipated.

I saw on Twitter, this morning, that Levi Johnston had done some fresh funny Tweeting about his Baby Mama's Mama again. I blogged about it on my TV Blog. This is twice now that Levi Johnston has provided me blogging fodder on my TV Blog.

Last night I went over to Miss Puerto Rico's and was able to book her a flight to the island. This was managed without incident. We had a breakthrough in that she now understands that you save a lot of money by booking a flight yourself online.

And I learned that Travelocity is really easy to use. Years ago I tried to book a flight using Travelocity, but gave up due to how laborious it was.

I went swimming this morning. It was not raining. The water has warmed up again due to us warming up into the 70s the past couple days, during the day. At night it gets down into the chilly 60s.

I have talked to several locals now who are sharing a burning eye problem along with me. It comes and goes. I am wondering if it is caused by the now widely reported, and research validated, bad air pollution we are being served courtesy of the out of control urban natural gas drilling that is cracking up this thing called the Barnett Shale underneath us and causing earthquakes and other woes in the process.

I need to find a couple thousand bucks by tomorrow. I think I'll go on a long walk and keep a sharp eye out for a lot of loose change laying on the ground.

Suddenly that does not seem like a good plan due to heavy blobs of falling wet stuff hitting the window. Why do the forces of nature always make my plans go awry? Bad planning?