Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Its been a while

So its been almost 3 months since i posted a blog. So I thought I had a few min i would go ahead and do it. Alot has been going on, with the good Rev Wright being broadcasted all over the news. Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race (thank god) and Mccain is the republican nominee. Now that I have told you everything you already know lets get into some new news....


A black woman in Denver CO replaced the words from the National Anthem with the words from what is called "The Black National Anthem". Now let me get this story straight ( and this will spill over to another blog) If a white guy (or woman) changed the words to a White National Anthem(if one existed) then we would be deemed racist! But a Black person does it and its ok just a little embarrasing. It seems its ok for any other race to make racist remarks or comments except the White race. But enough of that like I said earlier that is a whole other entry.
Rene Marie was asked to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, she sang the lyrics of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — a hymn commonly referred to as the "Black National Anthem" — to the tune of the national anthem,. The mayor said only Marie, her husband and a musical advisor knew what the local jazz singer had in mind.
"What she said was that she was very sorry, that she meant no disrespect, that she was trying to make a creative expression of her love for the country," Hickenlooper said.

16 years after a brutal abduction rape and murder a Florida man has been put to death. It not only made news due to the fact that he was killed exactly 16 years to the day he was sentenced but he was the first to die in florida since late 2006. Mark Dean Schwab was put to death by lethal injection at 6:15 p.m. Schwab was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing 11-year-old boy. Just only a month after his release from prision Schwab sa a little boy on the news. He became obsessed with this boy and created and carried out a plan. He went to the boys home posing as a reporter that wanted to do a story on the young man. He then called the school the boy went to and acted like his father asking school officials to tell the boy to meet him at a local ball field. It was there that Schwab kidnapped the boy, put him in a uhaul truck and took him to a hotel where he raped him and strangled him to death. 5 days later he was found in Ohio where he was arrested and he admitted to the crime. This execution came as a reliefe for the family because Schwab almost got out of it. But much to his suprise the Florida and federal supreme court did not listen to his plee to live. At 6:04 pm the first of the 3 drugs were givin and he was pronounced dead at 6:15.

Well everyone thats all I have for now. I will try to keep new entrys comming every day so check back and as always you comments are always welcome!!!!!!!!!!!! HAVE A HAPPPY AND SAFE 4TH oF \JULY!

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