In Memory: Officer John Gaines

Officer John Gaines, the only African American officer on the Austin police force, was shot by George Booth, a deputy constable, at 6th Street and Trinity Street. on November 19, 1913. Booth, who had been making a disturbance, shot Officer Gaines while Gaines was on the telephone summoning help from the police station. At that time, African-American officers were not allowed to arrest whites. Officer Gaines and his wife, Sarah, were originally from Big Spring, Texas.

Tom Allen, age unknown, (October 24, 1915)
Officer Tom Allen, Austin's only African-American police officer since the death of John Gaines two years earlier, was shot and killed at Jennings' Drug Store in the 400 block of East 6th Street. The shooting followed an argument between Officer Allen and the editor of a black newspaper in San Antonio. Officer Allen was angered by reports that he had mistreated several African-American women he had arrested. After a confrontation with the editor by the wagon yard near Red River Street, Officer Allen followed the man to Jennings' drugstore. The editor, arriving first, drew a handgun from a briefcase he had left at the store and shot Officer Allen as he entered, his own gun drawn and ready. According to a newspaper story of the time, Officer Allen was killed only thirty feet from the site where Officer John Gaines had died two years earlier.

Drought could force nuke-plant shutdowns

Hey, lier-lier-pants-on-firer George Bush, get a load of this!

What about your nukes now!

<Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate. >>

Old Mother Earth still knows how to protect her children from you and your mindless, Mr. Money Bags friends.

Global Warming will shut your nukes down.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

Study: False statements preceded war

<<The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.>>

People will read this stuff and gloss over it. Bush should have been impeached years ago. It's hard for me to imagine an infantry soldier serving in Iraq. it's like Vietnam. How would you like to be the last American soldier to die in Iraq, especially knowing what we know now? At least the Gulf of Tonkin incident was one incident and not an on-going deal. I recall hearing John McCain saying there was no incident at the Gulf of Tonkin. He would know since he was the one of the Navy pilots sent to check it out, to change the subject briefly. Anything short of impeaching Bush is going to give the OK to future administrations that perpetuate lies and manipulation for the sake of their personal agendas. Whether or not Saddam was a bad guy is beside the point. (There are plenty of bad guys, like in the White House.) The Bush administration lied repeatedly and manufactured conditions for sending US troops into a big fat lie to die. Naturally, we did not need a study to point to the obvious.

Anyone with their head above ground would have known that the "pound cake" was a lie and had been a lie fabricated over a year before Bush used it in his speech. He knew what he was saying was a lie. I'm ashamed of so-called "General Powell" for his part in all of this. If he had his hand in combat during Vietnam, how can he escape hell fire and damnation now that he has proven his role in killing tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi's and wounding and killing US soldiers?

The entire administration should be taken out and placed against the White House in direct sunlight and made to answer critical questions from a critical public. Alas, it is too late. The stage is set for a willing public complicit in terrorism against women and children Worldwide.

It would seem that the lies about Iraq would be enough, but then we have this on-going game to displace public attention away from the real nature of Global Warming and the genuine threats to the US as well as Worldwide environmental balance, a genuine catastrophe beyond description.

Eddie Evans - Trying to help stop the crimes before they occur. Crime Scene Cleanup

Bush is the Liberal.

Gee whiz!
Listen to crazy Rush and you would really believe that George W. Bush is a conservative.
It's not so.

Bush is a liberal!

Liberals are first and foremost the guys that want to use government to "tinker" with the economy. I mean that liberals want to "fine-tune" the economy as it breaks the back of the poor.

So let's hold those radio talkers and politicians to the real test of "liberalism," the willingness to manipulate the economy from the government's side.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

Stocks Plummet Around the World

Since its beginning, capitalism has been a story of highs and lows. Some must lose so that others can win. The surplus gained from others' failings goes into some future design of capitals march forward by chance and by necessity. GROW OR DIE!

So we should not get too upset by the news this morning that stocks plummeted Worldwide.

What we do need to keep in mind and in our pinpoint focus, is that capitals' surge and burst, grow or die, unequal distribution occurred on a landscape of prestine waters and forests, on virgin habitat for hundreds of years. Now that its growth has lead to tight resource availability, more of capital goes to wars to ensure access to the stuff that is so important to its growth.

Forests are either gone or turned into tree farms Worldwide. Tree farms are not sustainable for the long haul, the 10,000 years plus haul. They will remain for many human generations, given the input of appropriate biologicals, but they will not produce that wide diversity of habitat and species our ancient forests provided.

Likewise with the ancient seed bearing habitats of the World, gone forever in most cases. Manipulation of the genetic code cannot replace nature's diversity. The boom and bust cycles of capitalism have sucked much of the life out of our planet.

I will have more to say to myself on these issues. I suspect that capitalism will become incredibly meaner with the onset of Global Warming in its apparent, early arrival.

I suspect that Hitler's doings will be small in comparison to what's coming. We've yet to see the nuclear powers flex their radioactivity in the defense of capitals' World hegemony.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleaner

First and foremost, the Internet's for learning.

First and foremost, the Internet is for learning.
That's how it started, and today the savvy learner will know what the Internet represents, a mighty tool for the intellect and research.

The Internet started with intellectuals and scientists interested in sharing vast amounts of information quickly over long distances. They wanted to have a place to store information, too.
Naturally, the military had a hand in all of this too.

Today Mr. Money Bags has his hand in the Internet, obviously, and not always for the better. I agree and applaud the neat stuff available because of capital's infusion into the Internet. It's really neat to speed along and find so many things to buy and share.
Of course there's the downside, the ever-growing nuisance of advertising, which we are all inundated with from morning until night and even longer.

Getting to the gist of this subject, I just did a search on various commercial search engines, you know who they are, Yahoo!, Google, and those little guys too. Great as they are, they do not and cannot approach the mighty, glorious efforts found on Wikipedia. Do a search for "airports" on Wikipedia and you'll see what I mean.

The information compiled on Wikipedia receives the criticism that it is not "scholarly" like the large encyclopedias. Also, some people say that Wikipedia does not carry that heavy credibility earned by the large, commercial encyclopedias. I say, "not so." Wikipedia is current, peer-reviewed information and can be corrected in a moment. This is not so of the large, commercial encyclopedias. Do you remember how the large, commercial encyclopedias perpetuated ill-advised theories of race and racism? I do. I remember the less-than-knowledgeable anthropologists were given top ranking in commercial encyclopedias to espouse their nonsense.

Years following the correction of their problems with science and fact, these encyclopedias were still found on library and family shelves to mislead eager learners. This does not happen with Wikipedia. See Critical Race Theory, Beware Of Elites Bearing Racial Theories, The Evolution of Racism, THE GERMAN INVENTION OF RACE An Interdisciplinary Conference,
and my comments:

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This myth, story, began with the German anthropologist Bloomenbach in the late 18th century. ( See The Geometer of Race by Stephen Jay Gould, below). Mixed with various sorts of bigotry and fear of others, racism grew to monumental, institutional proportions. "Blumenbach provided the formula; the Dred Scott Court acknowledged it; Hitler perfected it." Nevertheless, we know through genetics and history that humanity has existed as one race for many thousands of years. We hope to combat the ignorance of racism with the articles and links below.>>

Like I said, the Internet's place is first and foremost for learning, not commercial advertising. I suppose that we're condemned to commercials, but it's important to keep first things first.
Wikipedia exemplifies the best of the Internet and the best in human dreams come true.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleaners

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