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	5/18/2005

Quiet Life in the Country

Was in Smithfield the other week and picked up the May 3rd edition of the local weekly The Herald. Front page stories were:

1) Smithfield plant to expand (76 jobs transfering from Britain for GM parts work)

2) Dish Maker Plans Move (taking 300 job to Mexico)

3) Body Found in River (bloated naked female) - update

4) Schools Stage Job Fair ("I like the area," Watta said. " In Johnston County everyone is laid back...")

That front cover was so interesting I eagerly turned to page 3A:

Accused killer could face death penalty - Clayton man charged in death of stepdaughter. (He had been using drugs. Bizzell entered the family room at about 3:30am and struck his stepdaughter with a 25 pound barbell as she slept. Then he strangled her and went back to bed.)

Running down the right side of the page, I noted the dashing chap pictured below smiling at me. A picture named WARcollectiblessm.jpg

Fast access internet service, Direct TV and Nazi paraphernalia. You can have it all in Johnston County, NC.

(I shrunk the scan down small enough so that you can't see the swastika hanging on the friendly looking local Nazi's right pocket.)

I guess to be fair, I have to mention that the paper had the good taste to run the headshots from the NAACP Mother of the Year contenders on page 9A.

10:27:09 PM

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A picture named iblogsm.jpg

I think I should be safe posting this without the permission of the artist.

Via the Carolina Journal in the May 2nd Rhino Times

9:16:38 PM

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Government schools are not Failing

"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe - Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy."

--Daniel Webster, June 1 1837

9:58:57 AM

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