Posted on 05/05/2005 4:57:02 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
Good point. I'm still trying to figure out how the new seal is a better representation of agriculture, but what do I know? I'm an Aggie. Gig'em!
Insanity! My relatives chopped cotton, as did the relatives of many of my friends. It's what people did to provide for their families. The proponents of this stupid idea need to head North where their rewrite of history will be appreciated and celebrated by their own kind.
And when those "general vine-like images" bolls get rotten,
You can't pick any more "general vine-like images"
In them ol' "general vine-like images" fields back home.
Nope, sorry, it's not going to work.
Read "Born Fighting" if you get the chance. Learn about the people who are backbone of traditional America. THe Scots-Irish. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767916883/102-9820260-2374530?v=glance
you're right about the cross, though I've just noticed that myself
Looks more like crossed olive branches to me . . . as on the Cypriot flag or the UN flag . . .
Whatcha wanna bet it's a UN plot?
There was a thread about it on FR, listing among them folks like Rosa Parks and MLK which some people too offense to. I don't get it though. BTW, after the independence of Trinidad, Scotsmen and Irishmen cut sugarcane with the best of them. Some people have this idea that anyone white never work hard because of white skin privilege. A lot of that privilege went out the window with being of an Irish background in this country anyway. It's hard to believe, but my mom meets a lot of Irish families who've been here forever and don't like America.
They do form a definite cross. Wonder if it was intentional.
What were the Tech regents smoking the day they hired a lefty chancellor? Bobby Knight should have finished him off last year at the United salad bar. Cotton pays the ever-increasing tuition bills for a sizable chunk of Tech's students. You'd think this clown would have more to do than having an AUSTIN firm redesign the seal. I'm surprised they don't have the gay rainbow flag on the new one.
>>Some background: The TTU Chancellor is a big lib. His wife, Dr. Donna Bacchi, is responsible for banning smoking in restaurants in Lubbock, and attempted to pass a CAT-LEASHING law a couple of years ago.<<
She's the one who should be leashed and muzzled.
These PC revisionists should understand that history can't be "cleaned up". Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, etc. will stay in the history books forever unless, of course, the libs take charge. They probably wipe out references to Hitler and Saddam and magnify Stalin!
Libs: get it through the vacuum between your ears; you can't DELETE history!
Educratic slight of hand..."We're not really ACCOMPLISHING anything by removing the cotton, we just want to LOOK like we are!"
(and spending wads of someone else's money in the process, I might add)
Definitely not! The fire would contribute to global warming as would the savage, clear-cut stripping of vegetation from the fig tree forest. Tie off the sleeves of your tees and use them over and over as grocery bags, thus saving us from burial under tons of paper or plastic bags.
Hey! It's not my fault. Get off my general vine like images pickin' case, will ya?
nice try though...
Texas Tech may have bigger problems - no?
David Smith and Donna Bacchi sound like a couple of boll weevils. No statue for these two.
Cotton was King and Buddy Holly would sing. Lubbock was quite different in the late fifties. I was born into a farm family in Post, just south of Lubbock - caprock,oil fields, cotton, tornadoes, hail and dust storms in a dry county.
Keep the cotton in the T-Tech Seal.
Every time Smith's in the news, it's an embarrassment. As for stripping the cotton from the seal, just a month ago Tech announced groundbreaking work in cotton textiles >>>
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
New anti-bacterial, anti-chemical wipe win-win deal for West Texas
BY JOHN DAVIS
Lubbock AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
The fabric of our lives may help save lives in the war against chemical and biological weapons.
Scientists at Texas Tech University's Institute of Environmental and Human Health unveiled a new cotton fabric wipe Monday that can neutralize these weapons from the human skin as well as machinery.
The project came out of the Admiral Elmo R . Zumwalt Jr. Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats.
Seshadri Ramkumar, an assistant professor at the institute who headed the program to develop the product, said the new fabric is a marriage of existing technologies.
The final product is called Non-particulate Sensitive Equipment CBW Decontamination Wipes.
The technique of creating the fabric isn't new, he said. Nor is using charcoal as an absorbent layer. However, sandwiching the charcoal between the cotton fabric is new and gives it an instantaneous absorption against chemicals.
"No one has used this technology for defense purposes," Ramkumar said. "It's kind of a marriage of the technologies."
Entire article at: http://lubbockonline.com/stories/040505/loc_040505034.shtml
Also, FWIW >>> http://www.universitydaily.net/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/03/4276e62c21a36
Because of a shortage of laborers and the destructiveness of sudden storms, cotton growers in the Lubbock area developed a means of rough-harvesting cotton during the 1920s. The first mechanical harvester consisted of fence posts attached to a draft animal and dragged between rows to dislodge the cotton. The method also broke off bolls, leaves, and sticks and mixed them in the fiber. A wagon or sled with an open groove down the center of the bed proved to be a better device. Horses or mules pulled the sled through the fields to harvest the cotton. Though these methods were faster, however, they both resulted in cotton with a high trash content that brought a much lower price than hand-picked or hand-snapped cotton. Mechanical strippers, which followed, pulled the boll off the plant by means of revolving rollers or brushes.
"A lot of people had a lot of extra time today," Smith said. "It was kind of ridiculous."
Make time today to tell Smith what's ridiculous >>>
DAVID R SMITH
CHANCELLOR
CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE
Phone: (806) 742-0012
Email: DAVID.SMITH@TTU.EDU
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