Obama Trauma

I think Jesse felt it was his time to get back into the lime light. Just as Jay Leno said, "when does Jesse go anywhere when the mic is not on"?

And him saying it not knowing the mic was on, so what that doesn't make things any better. C'mon Jesse, you knew what you were doing.

Man Arrested for Killing Wife in NW Harris County

16,300 block of Leamington Lane in northwest Harris County

A man who claimed that he and his wife were the victims of a home invasion admitted to stabbing the woman to death as a result of financial difficulties.

Damion told investigators he staged the home to look as if a man invaded the property. He apparently stabbed himself to make it look as if he was also attacked.Two sons of the couple, ages 7 and 9, are in custody of their aunt, who is the sister of Damion.Damion Faulkner has been charged with murder and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday. Bond for Faulkner has been set at $50,000.


I feel so sorry for the kids. This is a pis poor act of insanity. Now his life and the kids' lives are even more a mess. Financial problems come and go so it isn't worth taking a life for.

Good Morning America

“To be in a situation where you have to take two lives to save your own, you have no idea what that does to you,” Horn said.

He wouldn't have been in this cituation had he stayed in his home like the 911 operator told him.

“I didn’t go outside to engage anybody. I just went outside to help get information for the police,” Horn said.

This is also a bunch of bullshit. He cocked his gun while he was on the phone with the 911 operator and told them he was going out there with his gun. He went out there to kill them not negotiate. Helloooo. Did he think the robbers where going to give him any information?

“When you’re confronted, and when somebody rushes you and you’ve already told them not to move, you know that you must shoot or you’re gonna be dead,” Horn said.

According to autopsies, they were shot in the back.

Again, he should have stayed safe and sound in his home and let the 911 call suffice.


The Castle Doctrine is a controversial law that gives Texans a stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, cars and workplaces.

Personally, I have no problem with this law but I think it should be presented more clearly. The Castle Doctrine gives us a stronger right to defend ourselves in OUR HOMES, at OUR WORKPLACES and if someone is stealing/vandalizing our car (not repossessing). Not our neighbor's. The bottom line is all I ask is for my neighbor to call the police if they witness someone breaking into my home/car. We are not supposed to have weapons at our workplaces anyway so that is an entirely different topic.

Grand Jury Clears Pasadena Man for Shooting Burglary Suspects

A grand jury declined to indict a suburban Houston homeowner for shooting to death two men he believed were burglarizing his neighbor's house.Joe Horn, 61, shot the two men in the back last November after he saw them crawling out the windows of a neighbor's house in Pasadena, a Houston suburb."The message we're trying to send today is the criminal justice system works," Harris County District Attorney Kenneth Magidson told reporters at the courthouse. Horn confronted the men with a 12-gauge shotgun after a 911 dispatcher pleaded with him not to go outside his house. The two suspected burglars, Hernando Riascos Torres, 38, and Diego Ortiz, 30, were unemployed illegal immigrants from Colombia. Torres was deported to Colombia in 1999 after a 1994 cocaine-related conviction.On a 911 tape of the call, Horn can be heard threatening the two men, who were both shot in the back.In the 911 call, a dispatcher urges Horn to stay inside his house and not risk lives. "Don't go outside the house," the 911 operator pleaded. "You're gonna get yourself shot if you go outside that house with a gun. I don't care what you think." "You wanna make a bet?" Horn answered. "I'm gonna kill 'em." After the shooting, he redialed 911. "I had no choice," he said, his voice shaking. "They came in the front yard with me, man. I had no choice. Get somebody over here quick."The incident touched off protests from civil rights activists who said the shooting was racially motivated and that Horn took the law into his own hands. Horn's supporters defended his actions, saying he was protecting himself and being a good neighbor to a homeowner who was out of town.Horn's attorney, Tom Lambright, has said his client believed the two men had broken into his neighbor's home and that he shot them only when they came into his yard and threatened him. "I understand the concerns of some in the community regarding Mr. Horn's conduct," Magidson said. "The use of deadly force is carefully limited in Texas law to certain circumstances ... In this case, however, the grand jury concluded that Mr. Horn use of deadly force did not rise to a criminal offense." Magidson said nine of the 12 grand jurors would have had to vote in favor of an indictment in order for Horn to be charged. Lambright said this week that his client regrets the shooting and would stay inside if he had it to do over again. Lambright did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment from The Associated Press. Texas law allows people to use deadly force to protect themselves if it is reasonable to believe they are in mortal danger. In limited circumstances, people also can use deadly force to protect their neighbor's property; for example, if a homeowner asks a neighbor to watch over his property while he's out of town. It's not clear whether the neighbor whose home was burglarized asked Horn to watch over his house.

Now that you've had several months to think about the shootings, what do you think the grand jury should do? Horn claims self defense. Do you believe him?