300 Grandchildren

VERNON — Gregoria Martinez, 94, might seem like your typical grandma. She made quilts for her grandchildren, encouraged them to go to church, prayed for them, and gave advice.

Except the Vernon grandma didn’t have just a handful of grandchildren when she died Tuesday.

She had nearly 300.

Ninety-eight were grandchildren; 164 were great-grandchildren and 16 were great-great-grandchildren — all descendants of her own 11 offspring.

That’s without counting her three stepchildren or any of their descendants — or the three great-great grandchildren currently on the way. The family purposely underestimated the total count but felt if all were included it could be as high as 500.

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Bag of Randomness

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  • That picture pretty much sums up the youth of the 90’s.  Except it’s in black and white.
  • Wade Phillips has his own Twitter account, and I love his user name: sonofabum.
  • In case you didn’t know, his dad’s name is Bum.
  • And for you Ticket listeners, his tweets read like the Fake Wade, quite hilarious.
  • Even the most conservative right wing radio hosts of KTCK Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket don’t have a problem with the president addressing school children.
  • But one local conservative radio host is urging parents to keep kids home from school that day.
  • Pluto was discovered in 1930, and since that time it has only completed about a third of its path around the sun.
  • A Brief History of Closed Captioning
  • Thank You Mario generator
  • I was in Lubbock the other night and snuck into my friend Jonathan’s house and was able to snap this pic.  For shame!
  • There’s a commercial for the Winstar Word Casino that plays all the time that is located just past the border in Oklahoma.  They claim it’s the world’s fifth largest casino.  I highly doubt that, and from the pictures on the commercial, it looks kind of budget.
  • Sometimes, we all just don’t know how good we have it.
  • Three day weekends are good.
  • Every Labor Day I always wonder, will this be Jerry Lewis’ last?
  • I always wondered how he got involved with the MDA.  Most of the time a celebrity will back a cause they are personally or someone close to them is struck with the disease, but I’m not sure with Lewis.
  • High-resolution airplane view photos from Mars
  • Hope
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Obama’s plan to speak to schoolchildren ignites furor in Dallas-Fort Worth

A groundswell of parent opposition to President Barack Obama’s speech next week to students on the importance of education has forced many North Texas school districts to question whether to air it live in classrooms.

Obama announced the speech weeks ago, but opposition and concerns spread rapidly Wednesday morning through conservative social networking Web sites and radio talk shows.

By midday, local school districts say, they were inundated with hundreds of phone calls from parents urging them to not show Obama’s speech at school.

Some parents threatened to keep their children home from school if the video was aired.

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