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Billy Payne, Resident: Well, the winter of '27 it started raining early in the year that year. January, February, it rained it seemed like every day.
Sarah Percy, Resident: It rained and rained and rained and rained some more. It just looked like it would never stop.
Mildred Commodore, Resident: The river kept coming above flood level and it was rumored in all of the papers and things that if this levee would break we'd have a flood that would wash away from Memphis to New Orleans.
Narrator: On April 15, 1927 -- Good Friday -- as another violent storm battered Greenville, Mississippi, a party held in one of the town's finest homes. As the rain intensified, guests were drawn to the windows. Just beyond their view the Mississippi River was rising to unprecedented heights. A burst of thunder shook the house and the party fell silent. All eyes turned to one man-LeRoy Percy. The former senator was one of the most powerful planters in the Mississippi Delta. "Senator Percy," one woman asked, "will the levees hold?" Percy gathered a group of men and rushed to the levee protecting Greenville from the river. The levee was holding, but barely.
Staring at the angry water, Percy could see that an epic battle was looming-pitting man against nature. What he couldn't see was that a human storm was also approaching-one that would pit money against honor, black man against white, even father against son.
The people of the Delta fear God and the Mississippi, a saying goes. The river punishes with great destruction and rewards with great wealth. Floodwaters leave behind some of the most lush and fertile soil on earth. For half a century after the civil war, Delta planters had been richly rewarded by the river. By the early 1900's, they presided over one of the most productive cotton growing regions in the world. In an age when cotton was king, self-styled planter aristocrats ruled their domains like feudal lords.
The most ambitious of them all-was LeRoy Percy. His empire extended far beyond the cotton fields to the boardrooms of railroads and banks. As a prominent lawyer and businessman, he was determined to bring the plantation economy into the 20th century.
John Barry, Historian: LeRoy Percy saw the Delta as this great, bursting, industrial region. But the industry in the Delta was agriculture. That did not mean that it would be any less efficient than a Northern factory. It would operate with every bit as much efficiency. And of course the labor was the key to that.
John Tigrett, Resident: It was mighty easy to make a living with cotton. And you had the benefit of human labor there that was about as inexpensive as you could get. And these big plantations, they'd have thousands of these blacks that worked on there. I mean that you couldn't raise it without the blacks, without human labor there, you couldn't exist -- not only important, it was vital.
Narrator: The plantation system offered African-Americans work -- but very little else. Most families scraped out a living from sharecropping. The planters provided a small plot of land. Everything else was advanced on credit and deducted from the worker's share of the crop. It was a system ripe for abuse.
Mildred Commodore, Resident: It was known on some plantations that the only thing that the people would gather in life is what you would call three m's-meat, meal and molasses. And they would work from sun up to sun down and when the season was over the only thing they had left was an indebtment of $400-$500 -- something they couldn't afford. Because the white owners, see, during the time they had worked for the seed that season, they had used up all the meat, meal and molasses. But they had nothing, and when I say nothing, I mean nothing.
Pete Daniel, Historian: The planters looked at black people as workers. They looked at black people as people who should be willing and eager to work for them to produce their cotton and when they weren't eager they could be coerced.
Maurice Sisson, Resident: Well, I won't call his name, but there was a plantation owner that carried a bullwhip all the time and he spoke with that whip. And I seen him beat the blacks on Washington Avenue because they didn't get out of his way.
Narrator: Like his fellow planters, LeRoy Percy feared losing his black labor force. But unlike many, he believed, the best way to keep African-Americans in the Delta was to treat them fairly. Decency, Percy insisted, was part of the Southern code of honor.
Margaret Washington, Historian: The Percys had a sense of noblesse oblige. They thought of themselves as having more empathy with people of African descent. They saw themselves as being more understanding, more tolerant of them, more friendly with them, they saw themselves as being noblesse oblige incarnate.
Maurice Sisson, Resident: They were real business people. The Percys were real business people. They knew that their livelihood came from the blacks, so why destroy what makes you money? That's how I looked at it. So it was all business.
Narrator: In 1910 LeRoy Percy took his views on race relations and business to Washington, when he was appointed to a vacant Senate seat. A year later, Percy ran for reelection against a bitter political enemy. Former Mississippi Governor, James K. Vardaman, was a populist and an unapologetic racist. "If it is necessary," he warned, "every Negro in the state will be lynched to maintain white supremacy." Vardaman defeated Percy in a landslide.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Biographer: The effect of the defeat of 1911 on LeRoy Percy was to send him into the deepest gloom he'd probably ever experienced. He felt that he had let down the side so to speak, that his honor had been violated. Because not only had he lost the election, but he'd come in third. A sitting senator coming in third.
Narrator: Retreating to Washington County, LeRoy resumed his work and consoled himself with the diversions of a country gentleman.
John Barry, Historian: LeRoy was a classic man's man. Hunted, fished, played poker and he knew how to operate. He was not naive about anything. And as his son said, no one ever made the mistake of thinking he wasn't dangerous.
Narrator: LeRoy's commanding personality was altogether different from that of his only son and heir, William Alexander Percy. Soft-spoken and introspective, Will was ill-suited to the stringent code of Southern manhood.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Biographer: He felt himself an outsider, almost from the start. He worshiped his father. He thought he was the grandest man, and the most heroic that one could possibly have. At the same time, he thought I'll never be like him, and I should. It's my duty as a Percy to be as much like my father as possible, but he couldn't. It wasn't in his nature.
John Barry, Historian: He was smaller, physically. He saw no pleasure whatsoever in hunting or fishing. Would never go on these trips, even as a young boy he wouldn't go with his father. He was a poet, uh, and he was he was gay.
Narrator: Will had tried to live up to his father's expectations. He went to Harvard, earned a law degree, served with valor in WWI, and joined his father's law practice in Greenville. But, in his own mind he never measured up.
"It was hard having such a dazzling father," Will recalled, "no wonder I longed to be a hermit." Will often walked alone on the levee, his thoughts turning to poetry.
"What I wrote," he explained, "seemed more essentially myself than anything I did or said."
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Biographer: Will Percy wrote a piece called "Falling Leaves." And he wrote about how he was walking along the riverbank and he says, "I know it is Fall because I am loneliest now. I go home to my family and I see my mother pacing up and down, and my father saying hush, don't say those things." It's a very moving piece of writing, but uh, it indicates how he recognized his parents' dissatisfaction with him, and his inability to do anything about it, and even to speak of it was impossible.
Narrator: Despite his feelings, Will continued to live in his father's house on Percy Street-placing the family empire above his own happiness. In the spring of 1922, that empire would come under direct attack. The Ku Klux Klan was gaining ground throughout the country. Klan supporters dominated the state governments of Colorado and Indiana. They helped elect the governors of a dozen states. By the 1920's, the Klan had swept over the Mississippi hill country and several counties in the Delta. They now challenged LeRoy Percy in his own domain. Percy despised the Klan. They attacked those closest to him. His wife was a Catholic. His business partner -- a Jew. His empire dependent on black labor. When he learned of a planned Klan rally in Greenville, LeRoy decided to fight back. On March 1, 1922 a tense crowd packed the Greenville courthouse. The Klansman spoke first.
John Barry, Historian: The Klansman starts out with his usual spiel. He's against the Catholics, the Pope's got this plot here, the Jews are doing that, the blacks are a threat to Southern womanhood -- it was a rousing speech. It had never been opposed.
Narrator: Will watched his father step up to the podium. No one knew what to expect.
John Barry, Historian: He starts out with humor. He goes on to say that he's got a partner who's a Jew, and he agrees that the Jews need to be held in line because he points out, that his Jewish partner had loaned $150,000 to people who had lived in Washington County at below market interest rates. And Percy had a real problem with that. Uh, so all of a sudden he's got the audience laughing. And he starts mocking the Klan. In the end however, he gets serious.
Narrator: "I know the terror the Klan embodies for our Negro population" Percy declared, "and I am here to plead against it. We have feasted together at the weddings of our young people. We have stood together around the graves of our loved ones. We have stood together and undivided."
John Barry, Historian: And he asks even the Klansman, he said, we want you to come home, come back to this community, leave the Klan. Uh, it was just a tremendous speech.
Narrator: "At the close of Father's speech," Will wrote, "the crowd went wild-shouting and cheering." That evening, they passed a resolution condemning the Klan.
Tony Dunbar, Author: This didn't happen anywhere else in the South. That the leadership of a rural community would stand up and confront and defeat the Ku Klux Klan at that period is unprecedented.
Narrator: "Our town was saved," Will wrote, "righteousness had prevailed." LeRoy's victory had brought the Percys closer together -- uniting them with a sense of honor and purpose.
But the Mississippi River would soon threaten Greenville and test the bond between father and son.
In the autumn of 1926 violent storms pelted the northern United States engorging streams and rivers. The arteries drained south funneling the waters of a continent into the Mississippi. By March 1927 huge swells reached the top of the Delta. Greenville was only a hundred miles down-river.
John Barry, Historian: Just imagine a force that's more than a mile wide, maybe a hundred feet deep and it's moving at nine miles an hour. Think of what's behind that. Clearly, it is something to be feared. I mean it's the greatest geological force in the United States.
Narrator: It was a force the Army Corps of Engineers thought it could control. The Corps had built levees, some four stories high -- on both banks of the river -- running the 1,100-mile span from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans.
John Barry, Historian: If you looked at these levees at low water, they looked like great, impregnable, fortresses. In 1926 for the first time in the official report of the Army Engineers, they say that they are now in a position to prevent the damaging impact of floods on the lower Mississippi Valley. Classic hubris.
Narrator: April brought record downpours. By the middle of the month, the first government-built levee crumbled in Dorena, Missouri. The surge of water pushed south bursting more levees, flooding more than a million acres of land and leaving 50,000 people homeless. The Delta was next.
Pete Daniel, Historian: So here comes this crest down the river at such a volume that some rivers are actually backing up because the Mississippi is so full of water that, for example, the Arkansas River, it starts flowing backward because the Mississippi is so high it pushes it back. So that's the kind of water we're talking about, this enormous amount of water coming down the river.
Irene LeLouis, Resident: When that river gets to the top of the levee is lapping over, it is guarded. Arkansas people guard the levee against Mississippi people; Mississippi people guard the levee against the Arkansas people. Afraid somebody will blow the levee and turn the water loose on the other side. If I blow your side of the levee, you're going to get washed off of the face of the Earth and I'm going to stay dry, because the water didn't come my way. It went your way.
Narrator: The wall of water kept pushing south. Levees began to collapse along the Arkansas River. It was already the worst flood on record and it was aiming all its force at Greenville. In desperation, Percy and his fellow planters pulled their workers from the fields to do battle with the river. They became part of an army of 30,000 men, including convicts, who struggled to raise the height of the levees with rows of sandbags. Still, the river continued to rise. When even more men were needed on the levees, Greenville's police resorted to force.
Mildred Commodore, Resident: They started going through Greenville and taking all of the black men -- this is another thing that I can remember so plainly -- all of the black people, even kids out of school, to go and protect the levee and almost man for man or boy for boy the whites had guns on and the others had nothing but picks and shovels.
Maurice Sisson, Resident: Shotguns, they just herded them up and drove them to the levee. Right down Nelson Street, that was the Negro drag at the time and they just got them off the streets and just carried them right down to the levee, started them to work.
Narrator: White residents began to panic. Those who could afford it boarded trains leaving the region. Upriver from Greenville, at a great bend in the river -- the Mounds Landing levee was showing signs of trouble. On Good Friday, the Delta was battered by the most savage storm of them all. As much as 15 inches of rain fell in 18 hours. One resident recorded in his diary, "Heaven spare us!" The Mounds Landing levee was beginning to crumble.
Pete Daniel, Historian: It's cold, damp, raining. The break is increasing. The water's washing over top of the levee and, according to some accounts, the-the levee starts feeling loose.
John Barry, Historian: The water started rising an inch an hour. That's fast. That's two feet a day. There is a limit to how high you can build sandbags.
Billy Payne, Resident: They didn't think it was going to hold. In fact, it was getting worse by the minute. They throwing all the sandbags in there they could, and it just, but it just kept getting bigger and bigger and they couldn't stop it.
John Barry, Historian: The men working on the sandbags know full well that there's no way that this thing is going to hold... and they start to abandon their position, and the national guard officer orders rifles held on them and threatens to shoot them if they leave.
John Tigrett, Resident: And these fellows were filling their sacks with sand. And my stepfather, he noticed that at the bottom of the levee some water started coming out. And he grabbed my hand. Grabbed my arm I guess and he said, run Johnny boy. Run for your life.
John Barry, Historian: And the levee starts shaking and rumbling. And men start running and all of a sudden, a big section of the levee, several hundred feet wide, just sort of pushes out, and carries men with it.
John Tigrett, Resident: You could hear them screaming, yelling, blood curdling levels. And uh, they were gone. See, you let the Mississippi out, and uh, you could almost hear it yelling. It's free. I'm free again. And man it came out with a roar. Oh. My step-father said to me, God damn, now remember Johnny boy, you'll have a lot of close calls in your life, you're not going to have any closer one than this one tonight.
Narrator: The break at Mounds Landing released more than double the volume of Niagara Falls. It flooded an area 50 miles wide and 100 miles long. It put water over the tops of houses in Yazoo city -- 75 miles away. The deluge was cascading south through the cotton fields of Washington County. It was only a matter of hours before the water reached Greenville-inundating the city from the rear. LeRoy Percy now faced total disaster. The river was seizing his empire. Up in his room, LeRoy's son was writing poetry. Will had been working feverishly through the night. "I was in a writer's tantrum," he would later confess. The water rolled towards Greenville, wiping out whole forests and farms.
Maurice Sisson, Resident: It was a sight to see, there's no doubt about it. It's hard to describe. It's just...it just had a force to it. It was just (MAKES NOISE).
Josephine Thomas, Resident: Oh, my Lord. It was coming from every which way. I was so scared. I didn't know what had happened. I'll tell you the truth. Come late that evening, you couldn't see nothing but water, and you had people hollering, you know scared and running every which way, you know. And people get in their boats and things and go searching for them.
David Cober, Resident: When it got light enough for us to see, you could see horses, cows and dogs and everything else, right in that water, drowning. I thought we was all going to drown.
Narrator: The flood finally reached Greenville in the early morning hours of Friday, April 22.
Sarah Percy, Resident: I looked up and said, oh, I see it coming. It's coming. And it was creeping into the gutters. But it was coming fast. Not heavy waves, just seeping in, but I tell you, seeping in a hurry.
Narrator: Ten feet of water inundated downtown. The current at the intersection of Broadway and Main turned deadly.
Maurice Sisson, Resident: You could just see the livestock floating dead in the waters. You know young children at that time knew everybody's horse and everybody's cow, you'd say, there goes Mr. Fowler's cow, there goes Mr. Williams' horse, you know just bloated and floating.
Narrator: Some residents found safety in the upper floors of stores and churches. Others clung to rooftops. Anyone with a boat was pressed into service.
John Tigrett, Resident: I had a sea sled at that time with about a 25 or 30 horse power motor and I became a rescue captain. Which was a great event for me at that time, fourteen. And so every day we had assigned certain routes, and we'd go out, pick these people up and bring them back to the high grounds and keep going on my route.
Well I saw these three people. Two kids and what I thought was a very fat black woman on top of a cotton house. She got in. She said, fore god that child my baby's coming. And I said what did you say? She said, I said fore god my baby's coming. Well I said, can you just wait. It'll only take forty minutes to get to get you to the high ground and they'll look after you. She said no. She said he's coming now. And I thought what in the world. What I do? And she said don't worry, said just be real gentle with it. Said just take his head and pull him slowly, and said he'll come on out. I'll push. And she pushed, and I pulled, and here was a little baby boy. I then dipped him in the Mississippi River floodwater and uh, hit him a couple times, and he started crying. And she says give him to me, I'll take him on my breast, and she lay down, she's still in the dirty water, and she took this baby and put him on her breast.
Well, I think I cried. That's all I remember. Uh, my first experience at being a midwife. Anyway, I untied the boat and when we got close to the high ground I hollered I said look I've got a new baby, just born, got the mother up, and as she stepped out of the boat, she turned to me and said what's your name son? I said John. She said, I'm going to name this baby John. That's the last I saw of her. An amazing woman. Bless her. Amazing woman
Narrator: "For 36 hours the Delta was in turmoil, in movement, in terror," Will wrote. "Then the water covered everything, and a great quiet settled down."
"Father looked somberly over the drowning town," Will noted. "He was tired."
But there was work to do. LeRoy immediately began raising money for his devastated community, and appointed his son head of the flood relief committee.
The task before Will was enormous. Up until now, Will was known only for being his father's son. Now at age forty-two, he would have the chance to prove himself worthy of the Percy name.
Within days, the deluge had covered 27,000 square miles, an area the size of four New England states. "The flood," one preacher said, "had spread as wide as God's arms." More than a thousand people were dead. Washington County was hardest hit. The water washed away 7,200 buildings; damaged or destroyed thousands more. It displaced tens of thousands of people.
Josephine Thomas, Resident: We lose a few clothes and furniture. We lost everything we had. What little we had. Ain't nobody had too much, but you know whatever it mean a whole lot to you because you ain't had nothing else.
Narrator: As the rescue efforts expanded, rowboats and skiffs followed power lines to farms and houses.
Many whites were evacuated from the region. Blacks were rounded up from the countryside and deposited on Greenville's levee -- a narrow island of high ground with the river on one side, and flooded land on the other.
Two days after the Mounds Landing break, more than 10,000 refugees crammed the eight-foot-wide crown of the levee- in a line that stretched over five miles.
Pete Daniel, Historian: There were no tents to start with. It was just a few blankets to start with. You can see them stretching across a little frame to try to make a tent-like place to stay out of the weather, which was really bad. It was April. It was rainy. It was cold. These people had been out in rescue boats. It was miserable.
The city's water supply was contaminated -- its food supply destroyed. With no sanitation facilities, the refugees were at risk for typhoid and cholera.
For Will Percy, there was only one honorable course to take. Evacuate the black refugees to safer havens down-river.
Will immediately called a meeting of the town's relief committee. Convinced that he spoke for his father, the committee agreed to Will's call for an evacuation order.
When a group of planters learned of the plan, they were furious. Afraid that they would lose their workers, they demanded that Will rescind the order.
The planters reasoned that if these people ever got away, they may never come back. They wanted to ensure that they had laborers to try to finish out their cotton crop if the water went down that year.
This was a perfect example of that mentality that Mississippi planters had. It didn't really matter if these people were uncomfortable. It didn't really matter if they were starving. It probably wouldn't have really mattered a whole lot if a lot of 'em had died for one reason or another. They were gonna keep their laborers and that's just ruthless contempt for human beings.
Narrator: Will was appalled by the planter's demands, and refused to budge. Undaunted, they took their case directly to his father. The next morning, LeRoy Percy went searching for his son.
John Barry, Historian: LeRoy finds Will on the levee. It's a war scene. There are refugees everywhere. They begin to take a walk. LeRoy is suggesting gently that perhaps evacuation was not the best decision to make. Will is saying it's the only decision. LeRoy disagrees. Will is stubborn, insists, there is no way he could do anything else.
Narrator: While they are talking, 500 white women and children are loaded on one of the barges and the loading of the blacks has begun. Steamers and barges had come from all over the river. There are enough steamers essentially to evacuate the entire city in a day. The captains are told to stand by. Finally LeRoy gets out of Will one concession, that he will meet with that committee once again to discuss the decision before everyone is loaded.
Then, without Will's knowledge, LeRoy approached each member of the relief committee. He too, feared that an exodus of blacks would prove disastrous. His son, he said, had spoken only for himself.
When the committee reconvened a few hours later, they dealt Will a stunning blow. To a man -- the members now opposed the evacuation.
John Barry, Historian: Although he does not admit it he had to know right then at that moment that the only way this committee reversed himself, was because his father had betrayed him. Had betrayed him personally. Had chosen Washington County and the empire he had built over his son. The evacuation is canceled; the steamboats that are standing by leave empty. Every captain absolutely infuriated, over the waste of time and resources.
Narrator: For Will, it was a wrenching moment. Ever since he was a young boy, he had tried to live up to his father's ideals of honor and decency. Now those principles seemed to have lost their meaning.
The next day, April 26, an emissary from the federal government was on his way to Greenville. Secretary of Commerce -- Herbert Hoover. He was in charge of coordinating what had become the largest rescue and relief operation in the nation's history.
There were 600,000 refugees in the flood region. Food, supplies, and medical care would come from the Red Cross, which was setting up tent cities on high ground.
By the time Hoover arrived in Greenville, he was expecting to see an evacuation underway. But when he met the younger Percy on the levee, Will proposed a completely different plan: Greenville would become a Red Cross distribution hub. The blacks on the levee would provide the labor. Hoover approved the new plan, then left town.
For the whites who remained in Greenville, daily life was settling into a dreary routine. A boardwalk was built throughout the downtown area. Some merchants opened up their doors for business.
For African-Americans, life was very different. The lucky few found shelter in towns. Most others were herded into tent cities patrolled by the National Guard.
David Cober, Resident: You were on the levee and you stayed on the levee unless you got a pass to be able to go in to town. You had to have a tag on you. You was tagged. When you got ready to give you a shot, you had to get another tag. Your chest was full of tags. You don't go nowhere unless you got permission to go. You had to have a tag on you. And it was just...it was really slavery.
Narrator: Some guardsmen began to abuse their power. Reports spread of beatings and rapes in the tent cities. Blacks outside the camps were infuriated, but powerless to help.
David Cober, Resident: My own brother come down there to see about us, but he couldn't come in the camp. So I went down in the bushes to see him. While I was down there. One of them soldiers walked up on me, get up. Put the pistol on me. And my brother had a pistol too. Now my brother wasn't a refugee, but my brother put the pistol on him and made him leave me alone. And of course my brother hit the road, went on, came on back to Greenville. But it was some awful times.
Narrator: A week into the flood, life in the camp was becoming unbearable. Beyond the lines of tents, thousands of starving livestock shared the narrow stretch of levee. Dead animals were thrown into the foul water. The stench was overwhelming. When the first Red Cross supplies arrived in Greenville, they were not distributed on the basis of need.
Mildred Commodore, Resident: The whites would take it, take what they wanted or give it to who they want, and naturally the whites had better means of getting it.
Maurice Sisson, Resident: First come first serve with the whites. Blacks, they were at the end of the line. They got whatever was left. Sometime there was nothing left.
Narrator: The National Red Cross grew concerned about Will's leadership and launched a secret investigation into profiteering and theft in Washington County.
John Barry, Historian: Will lost control of the situation. There were ultimately 154 refugee camps run by the Red Cross. Greenville, Mississippi became the single worst refugee camp of 154.
Narrator: LeRoy Percy was not there to help his son. He was crisscrossing the country trying to rebuild the Delta's finances. "To falter or fail now, he warned, "would mean the abandonment of an empire."
In June, two months after the Mounds Landing break, the flood finally started to recede. Some residents began returning to their homes.
More and more boatloads of Red Cross supplies were now arriving on the levee. Will desperately needed laborers to unload the cargo. Once again, city blacks were pressed into work gangs.
Maurice Sisson, Resident: They forced them into service and I think they could have gotten enough without it. But that was the only way they knew, and that was the quick way to do it, by force.
"I became a dictator," Will recalled. "But the consciousness that my judgements were often wrong was a continuing nightmare."
John Barry, Historian: There's all this internal hostility. He could not take this frustration out on his father. Will had been humiliated, and in his humiliation he began to humiliate uh, the black men and women and children on the levee and there was no place else for this frustration to go.
Narrator: An influential black newspaper proclaimed that Will Percy's prejudice against blacks "is as bitter as gall."
Two-and-a-half months into the flood, racial tensions came to a boil.
John Barry, Historian: There was one black gentleman who actually had just gotten off the levee after working all night. He had gone back to his house to sleep. The police were going through the black neighborhoods, going looking for men to bring back to the levee. A police officer went up to this gentleman on his porch and told him to get into the truck.
Mildred Commodore, Resident: He told him, "You get up and go to work." And the answer was, "No. I've been to work." So he says, "You're supposed to work. Go when I tell you." And the man got up to go in the house and he shot him down on his front porch. And I don't think it was a black person with dry eyes in that town.
John Barry, Historian: All of a sudden in Greenville the whole city is electrified, incredibly tense over all this. Uh, there is real fear in the white community that, who are vastly outnumbered, that there is going to be a race war.
Narrator: Will Percy marched into the center of the storm. He called a meeting of the black community at a local church. When he arrived, the church was empty. One at a time, the black leaders began to enter. Amid an uneasy silence, Will rose to the pulpit. The quiet poet suddenly transformed himself into an angry preacher.
"You sit before me sour and full of hatred," Will declared. "You think I am the murderer. I am not the murderer. That foolish young policeman is not the murderer. The murderer is you! Your hands are dripping with blood."
Margaret Washington, Historian: It was the most amazing speech that he could have made to the African American community. After all they had endured, after all the work they had done. He told them that the city of Greenville had done them a great service. The city of Greenville had saved them, and how did they pay people back? They paid them back by being lazy, being indolent, and refusing to work.
Narrator: He demanded that they all get on their knees and pray to God to forgive them for the murder of that poor black man. If you're going to keep your heel on the neck of thousands and thousands of people, and keep them as downtrodden laborers, ultimately you can't be nice about it. And that's what LeRoy Percy knew when it came down to it. And that's what Will Percy was finding out, and going along with. The fragile bond between the Percys and Delta Blacks was broken.
"Our people have the most troubling road to travel," LeRoy Percy wrote to a friend. "Some will be able to make it. Many, broken and discouraged, will fail." In a year and-a half Leroy was dead-his dream of empire swept away with the torrent of water.
Shortly after his speech at the church, Will Percy resigned as head of the Greenville Relief Committee. The following day, he left the Delta for an extended trip to Japan.
He would return to Greenville to rebuild his father's plantation. There, Will would live and die in the house where he was born. He would never write poetry again.
For many African-Americans, the flood of 1927 marked the end of an era and the start of a journey. As the Mississippi River finally retreated to its banks, they began heading north.
Mildred Commodore, Resident: When you go North, there were chances of work, you know, getting something. If they had remained there with cotton 50 cents a pound and meat, meal, and molasses, how long could they have existed?
Maurice Sisson, Resident: So many people wanted to leave here to go to Chicago. I believe some of them rode free so many got on the trains. In Greenville you had the train was at ground level, and they were pushing to get on the train. I surely wanted to go to Chicago. Everybody was going but me. They just knew they were going to the promised land.
Narrator: A great river of humanity was flowing out of the Delta. Within a year of the flood, tens of thousands of sharecroppers would turn their backs on the planters of the Delta. The exodus LeRoy Percy had feared so long could not be stopped.
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Back on March 1, The Oil Drum kicked off a discussion of nuclear energy. Here we are 10 days later and the discussion is still going on. Be sure to stop by and add your two cents.
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Thanks for the tip. I probably wore out my welcome in that conversation already, but there were so many opportunities for engaging that I ended up posting about a dozen different comments over the past hour.
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Music Legend Prince Dead at 57Pop music superstar Prince has been found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis.
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Officials Investigate Gambling By Whitney Houston's DaughterState gaming regulators are looking into allegations the underage daughter of Whitney Houston gambled on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Yilmaz DIlber needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 141 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Clobber Australia is a manufacturer of Australian Made sheepskin footwear and associated products. The company has been in operation for over 30 years. In the last 5 years our products have become increasingly popular in the Northern Hemisphere hence we are wanting to establish a fresh new logo that will help develop and grow our branding in this part of the world. Besides the functional aspects of sheepskin footwear (ugg boots) they have also become a hot fashion item, particularly in Europe and North America, and Asia. We focus on the more quality end of the market using only the finest quality sheepskins and other materials. We would want to appeal more so to the younger age-bracket (12-35). The key points to consider in designing the logo would be fun, fashionable, cool, premium quality product, Australian, simple yet effective. An example of the leading company within our industry is "UGG AUSTRALIA" - http://www.uggaustralia.com. We will aim to position ourselves at a similar level.
We are targeting a younger age group (12-35) in both Australia as well as Europe, North America & Asia.
The main emphasis should be on the word "clobber" with the word "Australia" being smaller. The logo will need to be simple enough to be used in different applications e.g. embroidery etc..
Font selection should be easy to read. Keep in mind that this logo will appear on the footwear itself so we do want it to stand out.
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Why Cuccinelli Lost: Hard-Right Conservatism Became A Liability In Virginia
Cuccinelli's hard-right approach contrasts with recommendations Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus laid out for his party in an "autopsy report" released in late December of last year. That memo urged Republicans running for office to prioritize winning over women and Hispanic voters, stay away from divisive stances that could come off as callous, and emphasize economic growth rather than social issues.
One demographic where Cuccinelli clearly lost was among women voters. Even before the race was called polls showed Cuccinelli as much as 24 points behind McAuliffe. Though Priebus's memo stressed the importance "of developing a forward-leaning vision for voting Republican that appeals to women," any attempt at appeal to women voters fell flat with Cuccinelli's campaign, leaving an opening for pro-choice groups to swoop in.
While stumping for McAuliffe, Planned Parenthood Action Fund president Cecile Richards first alluded to Cuccinelli's hand in implementing new, strict, abortion clinic regulations before saying that the attorney general has "the most extreme" agenda of any attorney general on women's rights.
"McAuliffe is a strong supporter of women's rights and women's healthcare, while Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli has been trying to get rid of Planned Parenthood," Richards said. "The record of Ken Cuccinelli is the most extreme of any attorney general I can think of in the country."
"Ken Cuccinelli drove women voters away by being the human embodiment of the Republican War on Women," EMILY's List spokeswoman Marcy Stech said. "He's championed the very worst of his party's backwards agenda - only he goes so far as to say out loud what the other Republicans try to just think quietly. There was a historic gender gap in 2012 because of precisely this agenda - and the Virginia governor's race looks like it could break even those records."
Cuccinelli's problem wasn't just winning over women voters. McAuliffe's campaign successfully tied Cuccinelli to tea party conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and painted him as an ultra conservative.
"They have portrayed him as someone who doesn't care about women," J. Kenneth Klinge, the former executive director of the Virginia Republican Party, said of the McAuliffe campaign's attacks at Cuccinelli on issues relating to abortion and birth control.
Thompson, who served on Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's (R) transition team on government, told TPM that Cuccinelli wasn't able to get most Virginia Republicans to understand that he was a social conservative but may not necessarily govern as one. "And for whatever reason, I think a number of people think those issues are driving the bus. I don't think they are with Ken but I think the other side has done an effective job of presenting him that way."
Through much of the race Cuccinelli chose to appeal to tea partiers and Christian conservatives in the state by stressing his hard-right stances on limited government, abortion, gay rights, gun control and opposition to raising taxes. And tea party favorites like Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Paul's father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), Dr. Ben Carson and Christian conservative darling Mike Duggar all campaigned for Cuccinelli alongside more mainstream candidates like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Former Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore (R), who ran unsuccessfully against now-Sen. Time Kaine (D-VA) in the state's gubernatorial race, said Cuccinelli should have tried to focus more on the economy.
"The way you deflect social attacks is to focus on the economy and jobs and things that are going on in Washington," Kilgore told TPM.
But even that strategy didn't help the attorney general, who suffered on the coattails of congressional Republicans who bore the brunt of public blame the federal government shutdown.
"The shutdown did not help Ken Cuccinelli in that time period," Kilgore said. "I mean it sort of put this race in limbo for those two weeks while the whole country was looking at Washington and believing they couldn't get anything right and they mostly blamed the Republicans for it."
The McAuliffe campaign quickly and eagerly used the shutdown against Cuccinelli, flooding advertising space with negative spots linking the attorney general to Republicans at the center of the shutdown like Cruz and portraying Cuccinelli as a conservative extremist on both social and economic issues. Cuccinelli tried to distance himself from Cruz in response but by then the damage was done.
McAuliffe also dominated fundraising for most of the race. From Oct. 1 to Oct. 23 alone he raised $8.1 million while Cuccinelli raised $2.9 million, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. The majority of outside spending in the race went toward McAuliffe as well. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's (I) Independence USA PAC spent $1,568,550 in support of McAuliffe and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which spent $462,215 in opposition to Cuccinelli.
Still, observers are cautious about overly broad takeaways from the race. After all, it's just one gubernatorial race in one state that was more sensitive to politics of the shutdown than most. Cuccinelli's loss may be as much of a fluke as it is a teaching moment. Cuccinelli, after all, certainly suffered from the candidacy of Libertarian Robert Sarvis, who siphoned off up to 10 percent of the vote in certain polls at the end of Election Day.
In the last few days of the race, Cuccinelli hoped that Virginia voters' attention had moved away from the shutdown and toward Obamacare thanks to the less-than-perfect rollout of the healthcare exchange website. Republicans suggested that Cuccinelli's campaign was still salvageable if he relentlessly hammered McAuliffe on Obamacare. In a conference call with reporters Cuccinelli said if he could go back he would have focused more on Obamacare throughout the campaign.
"I think the only major difference would have been that, and of course as you know we're in Virginia on the other side of the Potomac so a lot of other people are personally involved in the federal government and [the government shutdown] just drew attention away from the race more than anything," Cuccinelli said. "Obamacare began Oct. 1 effectively, I was the first person in the country to fight it and that didn't get as much attention in the first half of the month as it's gotten in the second half of the month."
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In 2000, census records showed 28,439 people living in Jackson County. Countless resources exist for tracing genealogy in Jackson County including legal records, cemetery records and a genealogy society. For more information about genealogy in Jackson County, resources are provided below.
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Jackson County Courthouse
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Records available: Court Clerk has marriage, divorce, probate and civil court records from 1907; County Clerk has land records.
Jackson County Website: http://www.jacksoncountyok.com/
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Search for cemeteries, highways and scenic sites, or examine county and township lines with this detailed map of Jackson County.
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While researching your family history in Jackson County, be sure to visit Altus, the largest town in the county. The following towns and cities are located in present day Jackson County, Oklahoma.
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Natsume a worldwide developer and publisher of family-oriented video games, announced that it will publish "AFRIKA" for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment
system. The company's first title for PlayStation 3, "AFRIKA" takes layers on a photographic safari of Africa and its exotic animals. The game will be available at retail early fall 2009.
"We are very excited to be releasing "AFRIKA" in North America, and hrilled to be working with Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios," said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO of Natsume. "The team as put an incredible amount of work into replicating the African safari experience, and the results are simply breathtaking."
In "AFRIKA", players step into the role of a freelance photographer exploring a brand new conservation area. They'll document the wildlife and photograph incredible sights such as a titanic clash between hippopotamuses, a pride of lions watching over its playful cubs, and a cheetah's lightning-fast chase as it runs down its prey! All of the game's animals and environments are rendered in photorealistic detail with animals that move, behave, and interact with each other just like their real-world counterparts.
The photography in the game is as meticulously modeled as the animals themselves; players will need to learn from the game's innovative photo-grading system and compose their photographs with the eye of a professional photographer if they want to earn top dollar. The money they earn can be used to purchase new licensed lenses, cameras, and Safari equipment. If players are good enough, they just might find their photograph on the cover of National Geographic.
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A Biedermeier settee and club chair in the living room are upholstered in velvet from Stark Fabric. The gourd lamps are from Daniel Barney, the wall-mounted hurricanes from Charles Edwards. Round Russian occasional table and Swedish sofa table, both in birch, from Colefax and Fowler and Talisman, London, respectively. AM Collections made the rug to a Diamond Baratta design.
Ralph Lauren mohair covers a Diamond Baratta sofa in the family room. The custom rug is by Country Braid House, the wrought-iron table from Ball & Claw, London.
Kips Bay 2007 - Christopher Peacock Cabinetry
In the breakfast corner, the lacquered chair is from Room, the Saarinen table from Knoll. Microwave and wall oven by Viking
Leather from Keleen brightens vintage chairs from Wooster Gallery in the dining alcove. Macassar ebony dining table is from Niedermaier.
The Viking Professional Series gas range, paired with a Viking hood, packs six burners into a compact 36 inches. Franke's Pot Filler PF-1080 swivels back and forth for easy access. Cabinets are painted Pratt & Lambert's Silver Lining and, inside, Benjamin Moore's Burbank Blue. Harlequin triangles, Diamond Baratta's trademark, even found their way onto the backsplash.
The custom-made island is topped with a two-inch-thick slab of statuary marble. All faucets by Dornbracht. The circa-1960 Italian lamps played right into William Diamond and Anthony Baratta's color scheme.
Diamond Baratta designed the boomerang chair, lacquered chest, and mirror. The wall is covered in Ralph Lauren's Spectator Pink in linen.
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The Sheraton was great and we really enjoy our stay there. We were a bit surprised to have to pay extra when we wanted to use the Spa / Gym within the hotel. This additional change was added to our bill. This is the first hotel that I have every stayed that have these facility had the guest was changed extra for the use of them.
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pools, restaurants, beach high prices of food & beverage
The location, room and staff were all excellent. Value for money, it was spot on, in fact we would have happily paid more for our accommodation. Small things like cleanliness of the poolside toilets, slowness of service at the pool bar and at reception were a little disappointing. Especially the pool toilets which didn't seem to get much attention during the day and after a couple of hours were dirty with overflowing rubbish bins.
Hotel room and ambiance of hotel was great. Pool toilet facility was generally poor. Dark, dirty and not cleaned often enough. It was not Sheraton standard.
Relax and kindness of the staff They lost my nightgown during the cleaning and daily changing of the room... They forgot for one day to clean the room
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food prices very high for what you get
the huuuge room! The area.
I loved the hotel in general, was an oasis and really was a great place to stay I didnt like having to go home :(
Very clean hotel, outstanding food, nice pools, good localisation (in the middle of Fuerta), nice hotel beach with lagoon, lovely and quiet garden Close to the airport so sounds of planes flying just above the hotel was little annoying especialy in the morning, beach with no waves
pool area slow service at bars some staff more competent than others !
The Food was fantastic and very good value for money, so was the evening entertainment While the hotel is very new, the bath had rust in it which was very off putting so I kept covering it with a towel and the washing line outside was broken which was very unsightly
My fiance and I were very impressed with how well the staff spoke English, and other languages, that was a big help. We also liked that the hotel had a listing of things that we could book to go do. I would recommend the Jandia trip, and deep sea fishing. The hotel is right on the ocean and just a 10-15 minute walk up the beach to a lot of different restaurants. I think it had to do with either the weather or just what side of the island we were on, but it was very windy. It was less windy on the south side of the island.
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The food at dinertime was often cold. The employees weren't aware of each others ways of working. For example. The emloyees in the bar didn't know where you can get your towels?
all inclusive food was great, lovely clean beach and hotel, very friendly staff Having to pay for sunbeds and parasols at the beach while being on an all inclusive holiday
Very relaxing, close to lovely beach, short walk to main resort , relaxation, relaxation!!!!
Food popup ads, using internet connection it drove me crazy. There was no No live Euro 2008 matches shown n the hotel. I had to watch in bare outside the hotel even though they told me there will be euro2008 in the hotel when I called them before I booked.
Location, public areas free wi-fi , also public areas beautiful. Reception staff rude, and unhelpful. A very bad smell in room all week. Sun only shine on balcony for 10 mins a day. Requested Sea-View, tried to charge me extra, even though this was never mentioned when booking. At breakfast in restaurant, cups and glasses allowed to run out, never replaced. And surfaces not wiped.
Fully equipped kitchenette, large clean rooms, quite friendly reception, interesting architecture. Situated few km from the airport, but I didn't hear any aircraft noise. No major problems but following things could be better: - Looks like no Visa card terminal on reception, receptionist had to use terminal in another room, so I lost sight of my card for several minutes. - If you'd like to use free private parking as stated on this site, I recommend bringing with you printed hotel specs (as I did and afterwards I could use parking for free) because otherwise they may try to charge you with 5EUR per day for parking. However, there is a lot of available parking places around the hotel in case you won't be lucky.
Very friendly staff, good price for good quality. There's no beach and very little shopping around but there is a free shuttle to Caleta and public transport is very cheap. Even taxis are quite cheap
perfect hotel ,perfect location....
The hotel room was a roomy one with fainted equipments. The staff was friendly and helpful. We ate once the dinner which was average level, nothing too good, nothing too bad. Pool area was large and well maintained. I think this hotel is ideal for families.
That the rooms were not cleaned until later in the day so you did not have to rush out in the morning I thought the staff were particularly rude, and the food at breakfast time was awful. The sausages and eggs were cold, the bacon was simply streaks of fat.
value for money. quite place. ok for family or as a base to visit the island by car. there is nothing in Costa de Antigua, but it is near Caleta de Fuste and the airport.
the cleaners were very nice and also helpfull the food it was very bland
Quiet, friendly place and staff.
Staff were lovely. Rooms were kept very well. I would have like more computers available
Especially the reception staff was very friendly and helpfull
Value for money. Quiet place, perfect for family holiday. :Clean nice apartaments. Tasty food, wide range of drinks. (all inclusive). Good weather guaranteed.... Topless women sitting around the pool is not a good idea in a family resort packed with kids....
quiet ants in apartment
good location 15min downhill wolk to nice beach and 8 min to centre of things,yet peace and quiet if u want child friendly, cheap and cheerful,wonderful weather, staff were very accomodating when there was a problem, no air conditioning, ants in the apartment. you need ant spray to stay here, they were everywhere.
clean rooms, nice buffet bfst, close to the airport and tourist places, good for family holidays no air condition in the rooms, swimming area very busy- most of the sun beds booked since early morning hours, not great place to stay for honeymoon
The friendleness of the staff working in reception, very helpful with booking taxi's and excursions etc! Not only that, the fact that on previous reviews it was worrying to see a few comments on the security of the appartments. However, I did not see any reason to feel unsafe! To be honest for what we paid for the hotel, I couldn't really complain about anything. We went self catering so we spent alot of the time out of the hotel! If I was to complain about anything it would have to be maintenace in general. I think if they were on top of the maintenace then The hotel would be even more of an attractive stay.
I chose this hotel purely because I needed somewhere to stay for 4 nights, the trip was for a family wedding and accommodation was not a priority for me. I already knew the hotel, which is one of the older ones in Caleta de Fuste, and it was picked for the location. Having said that, the Elite pool bar was friendly and very reasonably priced, and the hotel staff helpful. Also plenty of room at the pool. The Elite apartments are clean but a bit scruffy, but I already knew this so it wasn't a problem for four days.
a lot of the resort was run down .the apartment needs some work even the door step was falling apart
the weather some staff were very unhelpful. Food in pool bar was awful
i thought the pool area was excellent and the poolside bar was lovely the food was goregous and the staff were extremley friendly. we had a two year old with us and the concrete outside was all broke and there was a big hole in ground outside the door it was very dangerous.
the room had no kitchen facilities even though it is aself catering room (no kettle etc) room next door had kettle and coffee maker.
I liked the 2 bedroom room. It had plenty of space for my big family. It was a lot bigger than expected. My children enjoyed the pool. The hill on the way back from the beach.
A lot of work needs to be done on this site to improve its standard, work is on going at the hotel but you do not expect to find a swimming pool empty and being retiled in the middle of June!


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Nobody had the week of March 11 circled on the political calendars last fall. The week after Super Tuesday featured two contests in the Deep South, two on the islands, and a caucus in a state that had already hosted a meaningless, if well-attended, primary. But last week may end up being more significant than most in the bizarre and meandering Republican presidential nominating process. It was the race in a snapshot: Rick Santorum did better than expected. Mitt Romney failed to win over very conservative voters but continued to add delegates. And Newt Gingrich underperformed but vowed to continue.
Still, something changed: The campaigns for two of the three leading candidates acknowledged that their strategy is not to win the nomination outright but to prevent Romney from doing so. That means their goal is a contested convention.
Gingrich said this directly in a March 13 interview with Bret Baier on Fox News. We just got two out of every three delegates in Mississippi and Alabama for somebody other than Mitt Romney. I dont think thats what he wanted. . . . The first goal has to be to get to a point where theres an alternative to Romney. Otherwise, he becomes the nominee.
The Santorum campaign was not quite as blunt, but the message was the same. In a strategy memo released March 12, adviser John Yob argued that the delegates selected at local and state conventions are likely to prefer the most conservative candidate in the race. Santorums real advantage, he wrote, is at the national convention. Mitt Romney must have a majority on the first ballot in order to win the nomination because he will perform worse on subsequent ballots as grassroots conservative delegates decide to back the more conservative candidate. . . . Santorum only needs to be relatively close on the initial ballot in order to win on a later ballot as Romneys support erodes. John Brabender, Santorums chief strategist, tells me the campaign has hired experts on delegate allocation and convention rules.
If the Gingrich and Santorum campaigns agree on strategy, they differ on tactics. Gingrich wants a partnership with his conservative rival; Santorum doesnt. The Gingrich campaign claims its candidate must stay in the race for two main reasons: (1) With two conservatives in the race Romney wont be able to end the race by training his fire on just one opponent, and (2) Gingrich can fight Romney for delegates in places where Santorum didnt do the procedural groundwork4 congressional districts in Illinois (10 delegates) and Washington, D.C. (16). A Gingrich adviser tells me that Gingrich and Santorum together could be a powerful team.
Santorums campaign isnt interested. Its very clear that the ultimate goal is to unify conservatives around a candidate thats not Mitt Romney, says Brabender. Either were going to unify around Rick Santorum or were not. This is the game. Were in it now. Were trying to win. To that end, Santorum has bought ad time in Illinois ahead of the March 20 primary there, and also in Louisiana (March 24) and Wisconsin (April 3).
Romneys campaign insists that the math favors their candidate. And while theyve overstated his inevitabilityone adviser said itd take an act of God to keep him from winninghe is still well ahead in the delegate count. University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato puts the likelihood of a Romney nomination at 80 percent.
Romney has had some very good moments in recent weeks. When he took a question from a father whose son, a veteran of service in Afghanistan, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, Romney answered with compassion, sincerity, and just the right amount of indignation about the poor treatment the Marine has gotten from the government that sent him to war. And while Gingrich has gotten lots of attention on gas prices, Romneys critique of the Obama administrations energy policy decisions is precise and persuasive.
But Romney hasnt won over a majority of Republican voters who identify themselves as very conservative, and talk of delegate math and inevitability by his campaign doesnt exactly generate excitement.
Thats a problem. A Gallup poll last week found that just 35 percent of Republicans would enthusiastically support Romney as the nominee. By contrast, 47 percent of Republicans told Gallup in February 2008 that they would enthusiastically support John McCain. Its not just Romney. Last weeks poll, in a confirmation of polling throughout the campaign, found that Republicans arent thrilled with the field. Just 34 percent said theyd enthusiastically back Santorum, and just 28 percent said that of Gingrich.
This lack of enthusiasm has reignited talk of a contested or brokered convention. Im pushing for a floor fight. . . . Id like to see a good old-fashioned convention and a dark horse come out, Maine Republican governor Paul LePage told Politico in late February. I just believe we ought to go to the convention and pick a fresh face.
Romney last week dismissed such talk. Were not going to go to a brokered convention, he told Foxs Bill Hemmer. One . . . of us among the three or four that are running is going to get the delegates necessary to become the nominee. But its a possibility, however slim, that Romney did entertain just two weeks earlier.
On Saturday, March 3, Romney stood with Santorum and Gingrich on the floor of a shuttered DHL warehouse in Wilmington, Ohio, next to a makeshift set constructed for a presidential forum hosted by Mike Huckabee. Each man had filmed individual question-and-answer sessions with Huckabee and panels of economic experts and local Ohio business owners. With a brief break before they gave their closing statements, Romney approached Santorum and Gingrich (Ron Paul was busy campaigning in Washington).
The three candidates discussed the nominating process. Romney raised the possibility of an unvetted candidate getting into the race and spoke of the perils such a scenario presented for the party. Not surprisingly, the other two assented and each agreed that he would reserve his support for someone now in the race. R.C. Hammond, a spokesman for Gingrich, said the consensus that emerged from the conversation was that the Republican nominee was among the four of us and not an outsider. Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior Romney adviser, agreed with that characterization.
Despite the consensus that emerged from the discussion in Wilmington, Gingrich twice raised the possibility of a new entrant in an interview last week with Bret Baier on Fox News. Gingrich pointed to Romneys difficulty winning support from conservatives. Im just saying analyticallythe way we campaigned out here, the fact that two out of the three delegates from each state is not going to be for Romneyis a significant advantage. We can argue later on whether Santorum is the right person to nominate or Gingrich isor something else may happen.
Moments later, Baier asked Gingrich to describe his path to the nomination. Theres a 60-day period between the last primary to the convention. We live in an age of television, radioyou knowYouTube, video . . . what have you. I could imagine a dialogue would break out that says, Whos the right person? And whether its one of the four of us or someone elsebut the question is, Who is the person who is capable of defeating Barack Obama? (Emphasis added.)
Is this just the rambling of a candidate with no direct path to the nomination? Perhaps. But even before he spoke, a prominent Republican strategist unaligned with any current candidate emailed me: Cant someone else get in?
Kirby Wilbur, chairman of the Washington state Republican party, says a convention fight that ends with a new candidate would be good for the party. Wilbur, whose position makes him neutral in the race, says those who argue that such a scenario would be disastrous are mistaken. Theres simply not a real broad-based candidate that appeals to everybody in the party, he says. The longer this goes on with Romney winning small states big, but winning just 30 or 35 percent in other statesthats not a mandate. Theyre arguing: Lets accept inevitability. Thats not happening.
The risk, Wilbur acknowledges, is a chaotic convention that sets up well for a proverbial white knight who never shows up. And the candidates most often mentioned as saviors have all said theyre not interestedat least for now. Wilbur says there would be two possibilities for a late entry: In the two months between the final primary in Utah and the convention, and at the convention itself. If Romney doesnt get 1,144 [delegates] and would go into the convention without a majority, I think then theres a period of negotiation before Tampa where Romney approaches Santorum and Gingrich and Paul and negotiates for delegates. If they dont agree to help him, and he doesnt win on the first ballotmost delegates are released after the first ballot, and itd be wide open. Its not hard to see a Marco Rubio, a Mitch Daniels, or a Chris ChristieIm not preferring any of them, but those are the names out thereand on the second ballot theres an incredible sweep toward him.
Wouldnt that look like the establishment simply shoving its choice down the throats of party rank-and-file? Wilbur, a strong conservative and former talk radio host in Seattle, doesnt think so. There would have to be a consensus among the delegates, so it wouldnt just be the party leaders. It would have to be somebody with grassroots support. The delegates are the grassroots and theyre conservativemore conservative than the leadership.
That process, Wilbur argues, would energize the Republican base, not discourage it. The eyes of the nation will be on the conventionno one is paying much attention before then. What they see is a candidate come to the forefront, get the enthusiasm and excitement of the conventionand thats contagious.
How likely is it? In the 1994 movie Dumb and Dumberjuvenile, but classicJim Carrey plays Lloyd Christmas, a dimbulb who battles with his good friend and fellow idiot, Harry Dunne, to win the heart of Aspen, Colorado, socialite Mary Swanson. Swanson finds the men repulsive, but an indefatigable Christmas pursues her despite her obvious lack of interest. At one point, he asks her to level with him about his chances.
Not good, she replies.
You mean, not good like one in a hundred?
Id say . . . more like one in a million.
After a brief pause, a wide smile creeps across his face, and he pumps his fist. So youre telling me theres a chance!
No, they dont end up together. Even in Hollywood theres no guarantee of a storybook ending.
Stephen F. Hayes is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard.
Steve's kinda late to the party, seems many of us have been talking for weeks about how both Newt and Rick need to stay in the campaign to gather enough delegates between them to force an open convention. Romney's gameplan is to win 1144, the gameplan for the others is to prevent him from doing so.
Mitch Daniels is so boring compared to Rubio and Christie.
I'm afraid that Rick Perry would get clobbered by Obama. His short stint in the Primary Process, and especially the Debates, have shown America what we Texans have known for a long time; Perry is a light-weight. The real power in Texas is with the Lt. Gov. The Governor is by-and-large, ceremonial, except for veto power. The GOP machine keeps Perry getting the nomination every election and Texans will not vote for a Democrat. But, after his embarrassing Primary showing, he will never win another election here in Texas.
Palin/West is unbeatable!
Mitch Daniels is so boring compared to Rubio and Christie.
To add to that, I was under the impression that Daniels is NOT very Conservative. I know he did say that if he was the candidate, social issues would be OFF the table. As far as Christie.... after he publicly dissed that Navy Seal (when his fat ass never served a day in the military) that was the final straw for me. I wouldn't vote for that gluttonous, fat ass slob for anything. Now, here's the ticket:
Rubio's parents did not hold American citizenship at the time of his birth, and thus he doesn't qualify as a natural-born citizen.
But Perry held the position of Lieutenant Governor for two years...
How about Thomas Sowell for president?
Let's see you stop Marco Rubio from being the GOP VP nominee.
Other than Palin, Perry was my choice early on. I agree with you on successful conservative Governors, they were always our best bet.
Sowell for President? Works for me!
Now we're talkin'.
While I would LOVE to see this happen, I certainly hope SOMEONE in the 'stupid party' is behind the scenes vetting potential nominees....closely.
People like Demint (my choice), Ryan, Cantor, Rubio or any governor need to be screened by SOMEONE.
Demint/Ryan would be a good ticket!
That may be a winning combination for some conservative political junkies, but the average Republican voter has little idea of who those guys are.
Won't sell, won't win.
The man will be 82 in June. Other than that, Hell Yes!
SARAH PALIN. Neither Ryan nor Rubio have been sufficiently vetted and it's too late after the convention.
Spot on, no dems! That ticket would sew up the White House for the next 16 years.
I assume he did not know the guy was a SEAL when he did that, and the video I saw only showed part of the exchange, so I don't know about the SEAL. The media calls Jesse Ventura a SEAL, so I will give the Gov a little bit of slack.
Thomas Sowell is eighty years old.
I kid you not.
Romney is the "Jim Carrey" character: "Not a chance in a million" that I support him.
"Can't someone else get in?"
You Betcha!
I would settle for Ryan/Anybody else!!!
Amen to that. I'll add Newt and hope a brokered convention will result in a combination of any two.
Thanks for the link to this piece, Smooth.
Until Rubio puts up his parents naturalization papers a big thumbs down on that.
No way.
I further see the truth being better served by the white hot light of pitched contest right out on the convention floor and a chairperson running the microphone with an iron clad sense of fairness!!!
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And Walter E. Williams being his V.P.!!!
Yeah, there is no way on earth I'd vote for "Rombama."
From the posts on this thread and others on the subject, freepers appear split between brokered and contested, but leaning toward brokered.
A contested convention is much more likely than a brokered one,IMHO, assuming of course that Romney falls short of 1144 on the first ballot.
Dream Act Rubio?
No way.
YES WAY; for those of us who are not a "Johnny-one note" on the issues and realize there are a whole slew of issues facing this nation in crisis and we have to look at the big picture, not just one frame. BTW, when you find the perfect candidate, please let us all know. I'll be watching here for your reply, but I won't hold my breath.
PAUL RYAN / MARCO RUBIO...the average Republican voter has little idea of who those guys are. Won't sell, won't win.
Surely you jest. After months of Kook-Daddy and the Three Stooges, you don't think America would be thrilled to see two fresh, new, Conservative faces come out of Tampa on the Ticket? I guarantee you; they will become a known quantity as fast as Sarah Palin did; OVERNIGHT. Take it to the bank.
Until Rubio puts up his parents naturalization papers a big thumbs down on that.
Give it a rest. You're making a fool of yourself.
See my post #16 on that thread, Newt has made some interesting comments on the subject.
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No perfect candidate, but if you don't think illegal immigration is one of those "whole slew of issues facing this nation in crisis," not part of the "big picture," well, then I'll have to disagree.
And I have several disqualifiers for any potential candidate who wants my vote, so I'm not a "Johnny One-Note," either.
Rubio's parents only gained American citizenship in 1975, that is a matter of public record. Therefore, since Rubio was born in 1971, he would not qualify. He is certainly an American citizen, but not a natural born one. It would be hypocritical for us to grant Rubio a dispensation on this simply because he happens to be a conservative.
Remaining contests:
Loophole (delegates run on their own) - IL, PA, WV
IL and PA are officially unpledged
state convention - MO, MT, NE, NM, UT
Santorum not on ballot in DE; Gingrich Romney Paul are.
WTA by CD with statewide slate: CA, CT, IN, KY, MD, WI
CT - bonus at 50% statewide otherwise proportional
IN - statewide slate is unpledged
KY - statewide slate is proportional
Proportional - AR, OR, PR, SD, TX
AR & PR - WTA at 50%
LA - proportional for statewide slate; CD delegates chosen
at state convention
Dare to dream! The sound of liberal heads exploding would reverberate around the world!
Are you serious? Ryan and Rubio (fine men though they may be) can't hold a candle to Sarah Palin's star power. Not even as a team.
The eventual Republican nominee is going to be someone who the Republican right already knows -- not some last minute 'daring duo' who have yet to become household names.
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Upgrade Fedora to next version using yum upgrade.
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[edit] Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 19
- Last updated: 2013-01-16
- Percentage of completion: 40% - Well it is 100% devel done for upgrading from F17 to F18, I reserve those remaining 60%
[edit] What works
- wiki page, which worked for several releases in past.
- Script, which can upgrade from F17 to F18 and from F18 to rawhide
- package is already in Fedora
[edit] What needs work
- testing - a lot of testing
[edit] Detailed Description
In past (until Fedora 17) we could upgrade Fedora using Anaconda Upgrade and PreUpgrade.
Now (in Fedora 18) we have only FedUp and previous methods are obsoleted.
I propose to have FedUp and FedoraUpgrade in Fedora 19.
FedUp is in fact yum-upgrade as well, but in dracut environment (aka off-line upgrade). Some devels say that offline upgrade is only way. But on-line upgrade is possible. E.g in Debian world it is even prefered method. In Fedora exist upgrade using yum as unofficial method for long time.
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I propose to support both FedUp and FedoraUpgrade and give user option.
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Currently support only upgrade from N-1 version.
Test it on all supported platforms and probably on Secondary Arches as well.
Test it with different comps groups installed (Desktop, web server...)
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Download https://raw.github.com/xsuchy/fedora-upgrade/master/fedora-upgrade to machine with Fedora 17 and run it. You should end up with Fedora 18. Check if everything is correct.
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Upgrade without interruption of service. Only interrupted for approximately 50 seconds needed for reboot.
Upgrade script is bash script, which is for power user like receipt. So if somethings breaks, admin can easily continue by investigating script - unlike Dracut, which is black box.
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A major recent announcement by the Obama administration has raised the hopes of many undocumented immigrants. But some lawyers say it's still too early to tell if optimism is warranted.
SAN DIEGO The new Obama Administration policy on prosecutorial discretion grants officials and arresting officers the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether an undocumented immigrant should stay in the country or be deported.
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Funny how the Nativists get all worked up over something that simply si not true.
HarryStreet | September 4, 2011 at 3:25 p.m. ― 5 years, 6 months ago
We should make it easier for people to obtain citizenship, but not encourage people to come illegally simply because that's the way it's always been done. It does not teach or represent to anyone that our laws are there for a reason. Look at the immigration problems in France and England. They allowed an influx of legal and illegal immigration to the point they have racial tension unmatcheds since the Civil Rights Movement in the US.
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