Even while I'm still stuck in Atlanta, latte-sipping presidential candidate Barack "Barry" Obama was in Starbucks Country today campaigning in the Oregon primary. He made an invitation-only appearance at some fancy-pants, high-tech firm in Beaverton, not allowing the general public to hear his academic, ultra-liberal ramblings because he's such an elitist snob. However, he did allow tickets to be made available to the great unwashed for an outdoor rally at the University of Oregon. Tickets for a town hall meeting in Albany later in the day were available only at the local AMF Lanes, which is pretty funny because he's such an upper-class twit he can't bowl above a 37.
Meanwhile, back here in Georgia, an execution warrant was signed yesterday for the second execution this month following Tuesday's lethal injection of William Earl Lynd. Death-row inmate Samuel David Crowe, 47, is now scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 7 p.m. on May 22. Crowe is condemned for the March 2, 1988, murder of a 39-year-old retail manager of a Wickes Lumber store.
In other Georgia news, a man from the ironically-named town of Woodstock, Georgia, whom police had previously cited on nine occasions for cutting swastikas into his grass and hanging a noose with the words "Jena 6" from his home, vanished while out on bond awaiting trial on weapons-related charges. He allegedly cut his lawn with a rifle slung over his shoulder and had walked his dog with a pistol in plain view. Police say he also pointed a semi-automatic rifle at two men driving past his rented house and pointed the weapon at a young girl walking past his home. But when officers went to re-arrest him, they discovered he had vacated the house, and they did not know where he had gone.
Meanwhile, back here in Georgia, an execution warrant was signed yesterday for the second execution this month following Tuesday's lethal injection of William Earl Lynd. Death-row inmate Samuel David Crowe, 47, is now scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 7 p.m. on May 22. Crowe is condemned for the March 2, 1988, murder of a 39-year-old retail manager of a Wickes Lumber store.
In other Georgia news, a man from the ironically-named town of Woodstock, Georgia, whom police had previously cited on nine occasions for cutting swastikas into his grass and hanging a noose with the words "Jena 6" from his home, vanished while out on bond awaiting trial on weapons-related charges. He allegedly cut his lawn with a rifle slung over his shoulder and had walked his dog with a pistol in plain view. Police say he also pointed a semi-automatic rifle at two men driving past his rented house and pointed the weapon at a young girl walking past his home. But when officers went to re-arrest him, they discovered he had vacated the house, and they did not know where he had gone.
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