The police let Tomas stew in the detention cell for a couple of hours. In the meantime, they called in the only Spanish-speaking member of the police force to interrogate the suspect. The patrolman’s name was Montoya; he worked the night shift on the other side of town. Montoya tried to establish a rapport with Tomas by bringing in a cup of coffee, but the Voice kept telling Tomas to keep his mouth shut.
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Gabacho– according to the Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy– is derived from an old Provençal word “gavach,” meaning a person from the foothills of the Pyrenees who spoke incorrectly. These days, it means “outsider,” somebody who just doesn’t fit in.
Jimmy Gabacho
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The police approached him slowly, and conducted a quick pat-down search. A metal detector revealed that he had a .25 caliber, semiautomatic pistol tucked into his waistband. It was one of those little guns that makes a hell of a bang. The bullets don’t have much stopping power, but up close, it’s a mean weapon. It’s small and easy to handle.
Jimmy Gabacho
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So that today’s date, October 11, 2010, doesn’t pass unnoticed, I wanted to pass along the word that it is National Coming Out Day, a day in which gays and lesbians are encouraged to take the leap of faith and share the most intimate fact…
Jimmy Gabacho
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Once in the psychiatrist’s office, Tomas began to describe the events leading up to the 14th. He had been suffering from auditory hallucinations since his mother died. He was very close to his mother. He was the youngest of all of their children, and was probably the spoiled one. When she died, he went off the deep end, and the Voice began to tell him to kill his father.
Jimmy Gabacho
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While no one can dispute the legitimate concern for following transfers of large sums of money from one international organization to another, we should keep in mind that Colonel Oliver North doesn’t work for the Thomas Merton Center or the Animal Liberation Front.
Jimmy Gabacho
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It was back in ‘87, there had been a shooting at the bus station. It was big news for central Illinois, because nothing ever happens here. As it turns out, a Mexican guy about 23 years old, one Tomas Diaz was facing two counts of murder for the May 14th shooting of Bill Johnson, 29, from Passaic, New Jersey. Police didn’t have a motive. The bus was passing through town en route from Chicago to Laredo, Texas. Within seconds after the bus stopped in Bloomington, passengers heard of a gunshot from the back of the bus. Johnson was fatally wounded and later died in the local hospital.
Jimmy Gabacho
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By the time we finished our conversation, Chandrashakar had a wild look in his eyes and he had his hands around my throat. He had lost it! Gone off the deep end! The poor bastard had been in too many meetings, and he had snapped like a rubber band.
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According to Faber’s court testimony in 1823, after the death of her husband, Enriqueta Faber disguised herself as a man and enrolled in medical school in post-revolutionary France. After receiving a degree in modern surgery, Enrique Faber was drafted into the Napoleonic army to serve in the medical corps in Eastern Europe and Spain. After Napoleon’s defeat, Faber immigrated to the French colony of Guadalupe and, later under the name of Enrique, sought his fortune on the island of Cuba. Shortly after his arrival on the island, Faber was not only baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, but he also married a Cuban woman named Juana de León.
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