MD hadn't burned the Edmond Pettus Bridge yet but the sorry bastard has dang showl burned most of the bridges that ever connected him with the leadership of Selma.

Now he's left with the JJ22 Lifes and MISDirecteds of this old town.

MD can keep hope alive because he's still got the incompetent, semi-literate knuckleheads on his side and , unfortunately, the same crew of chumps just so happen to have recently CARJACKED this whole country(No need to worry too much 'bout dat dough 'cause when "the canned goods" give out, they gonna look back at Bush as the GOLDEN AGE).

The only problem with all of Duke's knuckleheads is that in their headlong race to they OWN graves, they might take some of us with them(But like my Daddy always said,"Son, don't you EVER worry 'bout somebody knocking you in the head like Cain did to Able because THE FEAR OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL WISDOM!").

Pretty soon if they ain't killing they own selves, they'll be settling down in prison or crying on the skreet corners boo hooing 'bout "preserving" they failed "educational" institutions. (Too bad that they "instructors" had only one desire for the past 40 years
& that was to cash they checks)

MD & his band of GROWING DWARFS talk about teaching "youth leadership" some day in the Teppers building.

MD & his ilk can git they STIMULUS PACKAGE & transform Teppers into they very own Taj Mahal and it'll still be nothing more that a building housing an adolescent daycare facility that churns out the unemployable.

What a miserable waste of time & money...

>O.K. Here's the part of the book where Buck comes up with a way to overcome the banker Longshore wanting to call in all of the city's overdrafts.

Tobe," he said, not frowning now, "old Longshore's got me to thinkin'"

"Unh-unh,"
Tobe
smiled sourly.

"Come here an' sit down," Buck said, reaching for a pad and pencil. He looked up as Tobe straddled the chair in front of him.

"How many gamblin' joints in town?"

Tobe
shook his head.
"God knows."

"Saloons? Them that ain't licensed?"

"No tellin'. "

"Whorehouses?"

>"Five,"
Tobe said, quickly.

Buck tossed his pencil on the desk.

"I want a list o' those places. Names of the owners. When you get that, we'll get together an' reckon up what each of 'em can stand in taxes."

Tobe gulped.
"Tax a gamblin' joint?"

"Hell yes." Buck said, and his eyes got to snapping with excitement. "Here we are givin' them police protection, streets, schools, an' a brand-new fire truck, an' they ain't payin' a dime. Legal places are totin' the whole load."

"Taxin' the girls don't seem right," Tobe frowned. "More like pimpin'"

"Hell, it ain't us," Buck said, "it's the city."

Tobe raised his eyebrows and stared at Buck. Slowly, his face relaxed, and he began to laugh and slap his knees. "That's the ticket," he said, " I can just see little old Ed Reddick collectin' taxes from Josie's Hollow Horn Girls.
Fussin' at 'em when they want to trade it out."

"Ed ain't goin' to collect them taxes. We need a big man, an' a strong one, to start off."

Tobe's smile faded and he groaned.

Buck stood up and slapped his hands together. "We'll open a new account," he said, "private, An' stick ever' dollar we collect in it. Then we'll pay it on the city's debit till we come out."

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CLICK HERE AND EXPLORE A LARGE VERSION OF THE FORBES PURCHASE MAP BY CLICKING ON THE LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER TO EXPAND TO REGULAR SIZEhttp://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1821f6.jpg

I enjoyed reading the biographies of 28 staff members of the Freedom Foundation on their website.
http://www.freedomfoundation.org/FF2_Staff.html
I especially enjoyed the biographies of Ronald Smith, Tina Smiley, Lorraine Capers, Dr. Margaret Hardy and Sheyann Webb-Christburg.

According their website
http://www.freedomfoundation.org/FF2_Featured.html
the next big event sponsored by the Freedom Foundation will be the 3rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Community Celebration on Sunday, January 18, at Pinkard Auditorium.

They plan on giving "lifetime achievement awards" to Annie Cooper and Jean Martin.

Reading about the renovation of the Teppers Building got me to thinking.
http://www.freedomfoundation.org/FF2_News_Wachovia.html
Has anyone seen a proposed menu for the FRESH START DELI?
I wonder if they plan on serving THE Kool-Aid
in their new Freedom Foundation restaurant or just in the Freedom Foundation Youth Leadership Institute.