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Ilsa

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8. My impressions of Mesquite TX:

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 09:39 PM

Mar 2013

Very "country-western", very conservative. A hate-crime there doesn't surprise me. That it was perpetrated by an AA man and woman is disturbing. That the police are dragging their feet is disturbing. That this happens at all is heartbreaking.

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Texas Lesbian Beaten on playground in front of children... [View all] busterbrown Mar 2013 OP

interesting... stillcool Mar 2013 #1

It's a hate crime regardless of the race of the perpetrators tularetom Mar 2013 #2

oh for pete's sake... DURHAM D Mar 2013 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author busterbrown Mar 2013 #6

Sometimes a moron and a bully are just that Smilo Mar 2013 #4

Exactly! kentuck Mar 2013 #5

original story did not state whether the woman's parner intervened...odd that nt msongs Mar 2013 #7

My impressions of Mesquite TX: Ilsa Mar 2013 #8