HATE CRIMES!

I read something very sad today and I think you should read it too!



On February 19, 1999, Billy Jack Gaither, a thirty-nine-year-old gay man who worked at the Russell Athletics apparel company near Sylacauga, Alabama, was brutally beaten to death. His throat was cut, and his body was bludgeoned with an ax handle before being thrown on top of a pile of tires and set on fire. In the weeks following the killing, two men came forward Previewto police as the killers: Steven Mullins and Charles Monroe Butler. Butler, the younger of the two, came forward to police first. He described the night of the murder in great detail: how he had never heard of Billy Jack Gaither prior to the night of the killing; how his friend Steve Mullins found him at a bar playing pool and asked him to take a ride into the woods with himself and Billy Jack; how Billy Jack started "talking queer stuff" that set off a violent reaction in Butler; and then how he stood by as Mullins beat Billy Jack to death. In June of 1999, Steven Mullins pled guilty to capital murder; Butler stood trial and was found guilty of the same charge by a jury. In August of 1999, both Mullins and Butler were sentenced to life in prison without parole.

This was from PBS and you can visit the site yourself at:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/billyjack/

You can also find there the statements of family member and of the killers themselves.


My best friend is Gay and if someone ever hurt him because of who he is....I dont know what I would do. Someone but it quite well when he said: The gay community is the only community in which our country has laws that discriminate a group of people. Every other law about groups of people are their to protect them.....


MY BEST FRIEND

Good Cop vs No One

Something werid happened to me the other night. Maybe not werid but unpredictable. I threw a party for my boyfriend, William's 21st bday Sat night. I got a keg and my roommate made hunch punch. We were all having a great time when...
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!!!
...the cops.
I have never delt with cops for something I did before and I flipped out. I grabbed my roommates hand and we walked to the door. There was one cop. Which I found werid at first cause when something happens in statesboro they ALL have to come. He asked us to get our ID.
GREAT. My idea...looks NOTHING like me. As when I go to bars bouncers go and get their managers to look at my ID. (I have black hair in the pic). But he believed me. He told us he wasn't going to give us a ticket but to keep the noice down. So as he was writing our warning all the people in my apartment started getting LOUD. The cop finally came in and told them to be quiet for us. Everyone agreed and the cop gave us our IDs back.
BUT THEN....instead of leaving, he stood on our front porch with a group of us and began to tell us stories about being on the job. He just stood their making us laugh and having fun with us.
I would have to say a cop to do that in STATESBORO, who is from STATESBORO....would be considered unpredictable.

Lets go for a Swim

Japan is surround by ocean. One might think, wow you could go to the beach all the time. However temps dont usually go over 73*F. But there is a speacial beach that citizen of Japan love to visit. This beach ia 300 by 100 meters and its is indoors! In a large dome! Thats right this beach is in a dome that not only provides a ocean to swim in, but entertainment too.
Every 15 minutes or so a volcano inside this dome starts producing flames and the ocean starts to boil. Surfers and jet skiers show off their skills as they ride 3.5 metre waves! After the show, the ocean calms down and people are allowed to go play in the ocean again. For more information visit:
http://www.gluckman.com/IndoorBeach.html










Leave me comments and let me know what crazy places you been!

New Drink Coming Soon

Situation: You come in from work and your craving a soda. You know those days where water is just not going to cut it. Your taste buds are screaming at you to get a soda in your mouth. You open the fridge to get out a can of...what?

There are so many choices, Pepsi, coke, sprite and fanta. You also have your cherry coke, vanilla Pepsi you name it. You might be wondering, "What will they think of next?"

Well I have that answer.....

And the answer is cow-urine!!!!



Thats right! India is producing a cow-urine based soda to compete with pepsi and coke. Dont worry they say it will taste great, and there wont be a smell!

BONES

Lets talk about bones shall we?

According to many resources when we are born we have 300 bones in our body. But as we get older some of those bones conform together and when we reach an adult we are left with 206! That's just weird! Not to mention, did you know that you don't develop a knee cap until your between two and six years of age!

When I asked the question, what if we didn't have knee caps, I found that we would walk with straight legs...but that cant be true because I was defiantly walking at three!

Can somebody answer my questions?