THEBIRD
02-17-2005, 09:22 AM
<TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>OPINION: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, kids
by William Murchison
</TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap align=right>Volume 9, Issue 17
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You have to love those red state folks: meaning, among others, us. Us Texans.<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O:P></O:P>
Who else would auction off a deer rifle to raise money for a security fence at an intermediate school?<O:P></O:P>
Red state people would. Specifically – as is known all over the world, thanks to television and the Associated Press – the people of Lampasas County.<O:P></O:P>
The news came down just before Thanksgiving. Security concerns at Hanna Springs Intermediate School – a registered sex offender had been seen attempting conversation with one of the female students – prompted parents to see what might be done. At breakfast one day at the Country Kitchen the idea dawned on some moms. A raffle, aha! But not just a raffle. A raffle with innate appeal to a locality profoundly, everlastingly, wedded to the ideal of the hunt. A rifle raffle.<O:P></O:P>
And so there was procured, via donation, a 1300 Kimber deer rifle with Leupold scope. So also a Marlin “Ducks Unlimited” 22-caliber rifle. As the news spread, eager buyers snapped up 10,000 tickets. This week the relevant authorities reached into the fishbowl or whatever and produced the winners’ names. Walking off with the Kimber was no hulking hunter; rather, a substitute teacher at the school, Jennifer Beasley.
LINK: http://www.lonestarreport.org/search.asp?topic=51
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by William Murchison
</TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap align=right>Volume 9, Issue 17
View Issue (http://javascript<b></b>:var%20Win%20=%20window.open('../openIssue.asp?issueID=344','displayWindow','width= 600,height=600,resizable=1,scrollbars=yes,menubar= no,status=no'))
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
You have to love those red state folks: meaning, among others, us. Us Texans.<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O:P></O:P>
Who else would auction off a deer rifle to raise money for a security fence at an intermediate school?<O:P></O:P>
Red state people would. Specifically – as is known all over the world, thanks to television and the Associated Press – the people of Lampasas County.<O:P></O:P>
The news came down just before Thanksgiving. Security concerns at Hanna Springs Intermediate School – a registered sex offender had been seen attempting conversation with one of the female students – prompted parents to see what might be done. At breakfast one day at the Country Kitchen the idea dawned on some moms. A raffle, aha! But not just a raffle. A raffle with innate appeal to a locality profoundly, everlastingly, wedded to the ideal of the hunt. A rifle raffle.<O:P></O:P>
And so there was procured, via donation, a 1300 Kimber deer rifle with Leupold scope. So also a Marlin “Ducks Unlimited” 22-caliber rifle. As the news spread, eager buyers snapped up 10,000 tickets. This week the relevant authorities reached into the fishbowl or whatever and produced the winners’ names. Walking off with the Kimber was no hulking hunter; rather, a substitute teacher at the school, Jennifer Beasley.
LINK: http://www.lonestarreport.org/search.asp?topic=51
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