March 6, 2008 journal, a visit to Union University viewing massive tornado destruction. There is no way television could tell the whole story of the destruction of the campus and dormitories. It is massive, yet the mood of the students was encouraging for me to see. I see the mood as Christian. March 7, 2008 journal, driving home from Jackson just ahead of the major snow storm. Asheville had rain and fog with near freezing temperature but Atlanta had 66 degrees and a major lightning storm with rain and flooding in addition to all the highway construction. March 8, 2008 journal, I cannot believe this president vetoed the anti torture bill against water boarding and other methods of torture. He has gotten by with everything else so why not with torture. Never again should this country have such a mean devil president. We have heard enough fear and created crisis for one lifetime, we now have a real crisis. March 9, 2008 journal, Ohio arresting people for being on the road during the snowstorm of 20 in. the worst in history but is this legal? The Constitution of the United States is for gotten. Must so-called laws be in writing? What if someone because of the snow cannot get off the road? Thank God I missed it and arrived home safely just ahead of the Dallas storm that was sweeping across Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky to Ohio and beyond. This is a serious killer storm but I do not understand how Ohio can arrest people for being out in it. I guess the so-called law is what ever they say it is or what ever they make it out to be. Socialism & totalitarianism is the order of the day with the rulers of evil all levels. 60 minutes reported today that we prosecuted the Japanese after the Second World War for water boarding American prisoners. Why is this commander & thief not prosecuted? A prisoner in Illinois was shown positively innocent and 2 lawyers knew it for 25 years. Because someone else confessed to the crime was their client they had to respect the client privilege until after he died. Now they have come forward with the confession but the innocent man still remains in prison. They said if he had received a death penalty they would have revealed it to save him. The prisoners said either way is death to a prisoner. I suspect the prisons are full of innocent people and the state's will hold them no longer than the dollar last as a spendable currency. In one sense the dollar imprisons people. All this baloney about protecting America is only political because they are not really protecting the American people anymore than they are restoring those in New Orleans. state gem stone orchid http://www.scstatehouse.net/studentpage/gem.htm state stone- blue granite http://www.scstatehouse.net/studentpage/grass.htm indian grass http://www.scstatehouse.net/studentpage/garden.htm clemson http://www.scstatehouse.net/studentpage/bird.htm http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ajackson.html waxhall sc john c calhoun, vp sc on my mind http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/song/sc_on_my_mind.htm Acting on the memorial of the South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution that the patriotic song "Carolina," written by Henry Timrod, South Carolina's most beloved poet, set to music by Miss Anne Curtis Burgess, be made "legally the State Song." The General Assembly, on February 11, 1911, adopted Senator W.L. Mauldin's Concurrent Resolution that it "be accented and declared to be the State Song of South Carolina." Hold up the glories of thy dead; Say how thy elder children bled, And point to Eutaw's battle-bed. Carolina! Carolina! Throw thy bold banner to the breeze! Front with thy ranks the threatening seas Like thine own proud armorial trees, Carolina! Carolina! Thy skirts indeed the foe may part, Thy robe be pierced with sword and dart, They shall not touch thy noble heart, Carolina! Carolina! Girt with such wills to do and bear, Assured in right, and mailed in prayer, Thou wilt not bow thee to despair, Carolina! Carolina! South Carolina on My Mind "South Carolina on My Mind," written and recorded by Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge, native South Carolinians, was designated by Act No. 302, 1984, as an official State Song. At the foot hills of the Appalachian chain, Down through the rivers, to the coastal plain, There's a place that I call home, And I'll never be alone, Singin' this Carolina love song I've got South Carolina on my mind Remembering all those sunshine Summertimes, And the Autumns in the Smokies when the leaves turn to gold Touches my heart and thrills my soul to have South Carolina on my mind, With those clean snow-covered mountain Wintertimes And the white sand of the beaches and those Carolina peaches, I've got South Carolina on my mind. I'm grown now with a family of my own In a place that all my kids are callin' home. And I love this life I'm livin', And thank God for all He's givin', But my heart sings a Carolina love song I've got South Carolina on my mind Remembering all those sunshine Summertimes, And the Autumns in the Smokies when the leaves turn to gold Touches my heart and thrills my soul to have South Carolina on my mind, With those clean snow-covered mountain Wintertimes And the white sand of the beaches and those Carolina peaches, I've got South Carolina on my mind. Thanks for using SCIway.net's SC State Songs guide! Scott c 864-706-2474