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SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2006
Houston Bailg
OPINION
Daniel F. Evans
Editor and Publisher
Julie B. Evans
Vice President
Don Moncrief
Managing Editor
Phishing and fishing
Can e-mail be made any more aggra
vating these days than through the
companies that operate between
the hedges of the airwaves?
Constantly, if they get your number
- meaning your e-mail address (and they
have definitely got their claws firmly
rooted in the Houston Daily Journal’s
number) they bombard you.
Their success rate is great. Their frus
tration rate is out of this world.
Why is their success rate great? Because
they’ve learned to use words in the sub
ject line that make most common Joes
think it’s important.
For us at
the HDJ we
can’t take
a chance. It
could be
something
from our
readers or
something
important to
our readers.
We see the
word “free
dom,” we’re
going to open
it. It’s an advertisement for discount
drugs.
We see the words: “Not to be missed.”
We’re thinking anything from a
local social event all the way up to the
President himself visiting.
No. Just an advertisement for recycled
printer cartridges.
“Critical”
Oh my, is someone hurt? Are they in
trouble?
No. An advertisement for condoms.
That’s right, the subject never, ever,
ever has anything to do with the body/
the meat of the message, but we - in our
position and to be a diligent servant to
you - have to find out the hard way.
Fear not, however. If you send it, what
ever it is - a meeting, an announcement
or whatever - we’re eventually going
find it.
We just have to counter their phishing
with our fishing.
Letter to the Editor
GOP stay on message
The Republican Party need not lose seats in the
November mid-term elections. While our Congress has not
performed exactly brilliantly, fortunately the Democrats
have done absolutely nothing to capitalize on the grid
lock. Republicans need to stay on message. This message
is that since 9/11/01 we have been safe under the leader
ship of this President and Congress, and the economy,
despite high fuel prices, is a powerhouse. Sadly enough,
the American people sometimes have to be reminded and
told just how well they have it compared to the rest of the
world. We are a spoiled lot.
All the Democrats want to rail about is the occupation
in Iraq ... That’s all they have to say. Despite being told
that it would be a five-10-year effort, they want to cut
and run. They act like we lost the war or something. Last
time I checked, we occupied the nation, and had installed
a new government. In addition, our fatalities are still only
approximately two per day. Nope, this is no Vietnam. We
are making steady progress in Iraq and need not even
talk about it prior to the Fall elections.
This Administration has brought integrity and honesty
back to the White House. Our leaders stand on time
honored principles. Is this such a bad thing? Again, nope.
Look at what we had. I rest my case.
Fellow Republicans, stay on message. We are having a
good, solid run, if not spectacular. Do not get bogged down
in the trivial matters brought-up by liberal Democrats.
We are above them; remember? We take the high road.
Now is no time to stoop to their level, brethren
Jimmy W. Hall, Dotiglasville
Worth Repeating
“My boy, the only place in this world that you find una
nimity is in the graveyard. And even there, I have heard
it said, at election time the dead have been known to vote
in various ways!”
Maurice L. Duplessis, 1890-1959
Premier ofQubec (Union Rationale)
Foy S. Evans
Editor Emeritus
That's right, the subject
never, ever, ever has
anything to do with the
body/the meat of the
message, but we - in
our position and to be a
diligent servant to you
- have to find out the
hard way.
Voter fraud does happen
Memphis - I’m stm in
Memphis, where thousands
of Elvis worshippers from all
over the world are taking part in an all
night candlelight; vigil in observance of
the death of their idol 29 years ago.
They lined up at Graceland and
paraded, single file, throughout the
night, passing by his grave site.
One man from Scotland proudly pro
claimed that this is the 16th year in a
row that he has come to Memphis to
participate in this ritual.
It’s unreal.
But what can you expect when
more than 600,000 people a year visit
Graceland to pay homage to arguably
the most famous and enduring enter
tainer of our time?
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The newspaper here is full of infor
mation that I find interesting.
Clearly, Memphis is crime-ridden.
In one issue of the newspaper there
were stories about shootings, a killing,
a neighborhood riot, a county commis
sioner who is resigning because of kick
backs, and accusations of voter fraud.
You know what voter fraud is. It is
something that opponents of a photo
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floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house, and
it fell not for it was founded upon a
rock.”
St. Matthew 7:25
Two significant things, at least sig
nificant to me, happened in Perry last
week. One was sad, the other was
happy. Both involved folks that I have
known for a long time. People who
were or are important in my life.
Let me stop here to say that if you
are not from Perry, this probably won’t
be of great interest to you. You are
forgiven if you stop reading where
this sentence ends. Still, I suggest you
make a mistake if you quit. For surely
you have and have had rocks in your
life. While I write of mine, you should
think of yours. It just so happens that
so many of mine live or lived, at one
time or another, on Swift Street.
First the sad. Annie Ruth Gray Boler,
age 92, died last week. She, like all the
Grays in her family that I knew (and
know), was a rock. The kind of people
that you could and can count on. Annie
Ruth’s Daddy and Mother, the W. W.
Grays, lived on Swift Street, as did
Annie Ruth and her husband, Watt
Boler, and their three children, Nancy,
Gary and Wayne.
Nancy Boler and I were classmates
in the Perry public schools. Gary and I
played together. The Bolers owned and
ran Houston Drug Store. My mother,
at one time and at an early age, kept
the books at Houston Drug Store. My
OPINION
Columnist 1%
foyevansl9@cox.net
pens.
It happens in Memphis, apparently.
Four black candidates for public
offices allege voter fraud in their elec
tionS, and this is a county controlled by
Democrats.
Hkre are some of the allegations of
voter fraud in just one election:
■ Voting by non-residents.
■ Improper vote counting.
■ Security breaches.
■ Mishandling of voting machines.
■ 366 people allegedly voted twice on
election day.
■ 3,000 people who voted early could
not be certified as being properly reg
istered.
■ 356 People voted twice during
early voting.
The local newspaper pointed out in
today’s edition in an editorial that
“it Would be a mistake to dismiss the
allegktions out of hand, given recent
history.”
Larrv
Walker M
Columnist
lwalker@whgb-law.com
Gray grandparents, Charles P And
Hazel N. (a different set from the
W.W.s) lived on Swift Street when I
was growing up. Watt’s brother, Orace,
and his wife, Norma, along with their
daughter, Betty Boler Whipple, also
lived on Swift Street. You began to
get the picture: Rocks on Swift Street.
Annie Ruth Gray Boler was certainly
one of these rocks.
Now the happy. This past Saturday,
I attended a celebration of Agnes and
T.F. Hardy’s 60th wedding anniversary.
It was a grand and enjoyable event!
There were the Hardy children, Terry
(sometimes Paul) and Sally and their
spouses. And, with so many long-time
Perry residents and so many ties to
Swift Street.
There was Mattie Lee Matthews and
her daughter, Shirley. Mattie Lee is
now 95 years old and still fiesty and
interesting and fun. You talk about a
rock - Mattie Lee is one! Shirley grew
up on Swift Street along with her
brothers, James and Horace.
Milledge Anderson (Dr. Mick
Anderson of Macon) who also grew
up on Swift Street was in attendance.
HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
In a recent election an investigation
by the newspaper revealed two dead
people voted, handwriting on three
othti ballots matched the handwrit
ing of dead people and votes were cast
by people using a vacant building as a
home address. The names of at least
500 dead people still are on the voting
rolls.
Earlier this year three election work
ers were indicted on charges that they
faked votes, made false entries and
committed other crimes in an effort to
throw an election.
Of course, in Georgia no such a thing
could happen.
- They didn’t even vote dead people in
Telfair County in years gone by. Did
they?
So, according to Rep. John Lewis and
his fellow travelers, including some
newspaper columnists and editorial
writers, there is no possibility of any
one ever committing voter fraud in our
state and we can trust people to claim
who they are and take their word for
it.
Better than a voter ID card, in my
opinion, would be a test requiring
that a person know the name of the
President of the United States. That
would be good for the country.
Mary and Buck Tolleson and Sally
and Ross were there. At one time, and
when I was a youngster, Buck’s mother
and Daddy and Ross’ grandparents,
J. Meade Tolleson, Sr. (“Cap”) and
Georgelle, lived on Swift Street.
Dr. David Lawson of Atlanta was
at the anniversary celebration. His
Uncles and Aunts, Hugh and Louise
Lawson and James and Mary Duggan,
were Swift Street residents, and if you
think Swift Street runs out as far as
the Perry Country Club, I guess David
was one, too!
So many rocks with ties to Swift
Street. Bolers (two sets), Raineys,
Carters, Hardys, Harpers, Nunns,
Matthews, Barfields, Grays (two
sets), Lawsons, Duggans, Andersons,
Walkers, Lees, Tollesons, Kicklighters,
Culpeppers, Gallemores, Hendricks,
Tuckers, Smiths, Meeks, Richardsons,
Chapmans, Gordys, Deans,
Beddingfields, etc., etc. Many of these
people have been pillars in our com
munity - rocks if you will!
Now back to T. F. And Agnes.
Wonderful people as was evidenced by
the great turn out of friends to help
them celebrate this milestone in their
lives.
Also, they are two Swift Street rocks.
Janice and I know. These two rocks,
along with Mattie Lee and Henry
Matthews, helped us raise our four
children when we lived - you guessed
it - on Swift Street.
And it fell not, for it was founded
upon a rock.