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Thumbs Up So, it looks like the late Senator Strom Thurmond’s segregationist views applied everywhere except the bedroom. Just like plantation owners who used to sleep with their slaves, it seems Thurmond had no problem ranting about the black race while sleeping with its women. This came to light recently when a
woman claiming to be the late senator’s mixed-race daughter came forward and talked to the media. The 78-year-old woman, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, should be applauded for finally coming forward after all these years to set the record straight.
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Thumbs Down Perhaps The Augusta Chronicle’s “City Ink� column has gotten too flashy for its own good. Though the paper deserves credit for exposing Augusta Neighborhood Improvement Corp.’s dealings with a bonding company accused of fraud, the blood in the water seems to have made the paper too eager for the kill. In the most recent “City Ink,� the paper had much fun at ANIC’s expense regarding its failure to contribute financially to the Augusta Common project, as it had agreed. Trouble is, that information turned out to
be false, as was revealed in a recent ANIC meeting at which a letter from Richmond County Public Works Director Teresa Smith was produced, showing ANIC had made a first installment on its $750,000 obligation, with another payment due in January. That new information was surprisingly absent from the paper’s next-day story. Even the column’s cutesy suggestion that the plaque at the Common be chiseled over to read “BotANICal� was shoddy. The plaque bears the organization’s name fully spelled out. Seems like a case of flair vs. fair.
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I have always been infuriated at people who assume that tattoos and piercings symbolize emotional injury or clamoring for attention. Just because someone’s personal aesthetic does not match what’s run-of-themill in society doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with them. People who think this way are most likely brainless morons who let “GQ� and “Cosmopolitan� tell them exactly what to wear and how to wear it all the time. Aesthetics do not involve following orders. If these people actually thought for themselves, they would understand all this. This report of Strom Thurmond’s having an illegitimate daughter; let the dead rest in peace! We got SADDAM! What a Christmas present! There is a SANTA CLAUS! I must be a masochist. I continue to watch Falcon’s football. Last Sunday’s game was a farce. Yeah! That’s those “dirty birds�!
Governor Dean is the Democratic nominee, it will be like another McGovern race. Has anyone ever thought how much better off this nation would have been if McGovern had been elected? We would not have had a president and vice president resign in disgrace. We would have gotten out of Vietnam with honor instead of being chased out. Many of our military men would still be alive if the war had ended sooner. Regarding Augusta’s proposed new civic arena. I would like to say that most of us might not be interested in horses or sports, but we are interested in entertainers who can bring us music. These entertainers are appearing all around us in other cities but, for some reason, they are never invited to Augusta. A good example is Debbie Reynolds, an aging star with a lot of talent. She comes to Myrtle Beach, Jacksonville and other cities. Why doesn’t Augusta bring talent like that? We will buy the tickets; after all, we love music and the stars. Who are you going to invite to this arena, or have you even thought about it? Give some thought to what a civic center should be to the taxpayers before you build it for its majesty and glory and power.
Like the rat coward he is, Saddam is found hiding in a hole in the ground. They should have called an exterminator!
Saddam has been caught, like a rat, underground.
I have a suggestion for the new park on Fleming Avenue: A police substation, staffed with police 24 hours a day to keep the crack dealers from taking over. Republicans have been stating that if
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