April 30 2005
The Word of the Day for April 30 is:
bereft • \bih-REFT\ • adjective
1 : deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something
*2 : lacking something needed, wanted, or expected
3 : bereaved
Life is a
tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Clear channel with 1200 radio stations: Once tried to control artists:
banned Dixie Chicks profits drop 59%
Red State Bertram Texas people need to get a life: In oatmeal day
parade drop oatmeal packets from the sky
Red State Texas wants to ban Gay foster parents.
No memorials in Bible belt of Texas:
Waco City Manager Larry Groth, who is white, said he is NOT certain the
Washington lynching needs to be memorialized. I don't think we should be judged
by an event in 1916," said Groth, a Waco native.
WACO - Of the nearly 500 lynching that took place in Texas before the crime
abated in the 1930s, the "Waco horror" is among the most notorious
On May 15, 1916, Jesse Washington, a retarded black farm hand, was
mutilated, tortured and hanged over a bonfire in the Waco town square as a crowd
of 15,000 watched and cheered. Minutes earlier, the 17-year-old had been
convicted in a brief trial of the rape and murder of a white woman, a crime to
which authorities said he confessed.
Neither the county sheriff nor presiding judge did anything to stop the mob
from dragging Washington from the stately domed McLennan County Courthouse,
according to historical accounts. The mayor and police chief watched the
gruesome spectacle as Fred Gildersleeve, Waco's most successful commercial
photographer, took pictures that he sold as souvenirs.
What stirs him most was that the lynching appeared to be condoned by
officials in Waco. The crowd was not riffraff and lowlifes but the so-called
"better element."
Vengeance is mine says the Lord:
"People say the tornado that hit Waco in 1953 supposedly followed the
path of the lynch mob," said Debose, recalling an event that blacks in Waco
came to see as divine retribution. The tornado, which cut a 23-mile path through
the region, passed through the center of downtown, killing 114 people of all
races.
Texas Legislature wants to ban same sex marriages: Should Bible belt lynch
black gays?