On 3/21/14, 5:40 PM, jps wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:31:39 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

TOPEKA, Kan (WIBW) Fred Phelps Sr., the former head of the Westboro
Baptist Church, died late Wednesday night, according to a family member.

Phelps' son, Timothy told 13 News that his father died just before
midnight. Timothy Phelps works at the Shawnee Co. Jail.

Ironically, another son who is a member of the church, attorney Jonathan
Phelps told us Thursday morning that Pastor Phelps "is doing fine." That
could have been a spiritual reference.

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If ever I am unfortunate enough to find myself in Topeka, and the
location of Phelps' grave is known, I'll consider visiting it so I can
**** on it.

Someone suggested that he'd love to **** on Phelp's grave but hated
standing in long lines.



I suspect it will be a long time before I find myself in Topeka again,
and by then, the line should be a lot shorter.

Topeka was a dreary place 50 years ago, and I doubt it is any better
now, since the entire state has regressed. I had a girlfriend who was
from there, and I visited her at her home a couple of times, and I also
was sent there by the newspaper after a tornado and floods to report on
the cleanup. I do remember paying a dollar and becoming a "life member"
of a bottle club somewhere in the environs of Topeka...this was decades
before the state allowed bars to serve liquor by the drink.

As backwards as Topeka was in those days, Wichita was far worse. I think
it still is. The smaller cities in western Kansas seemed more
progressive, or at least open to the 20th Century. We actually did try
to cover the "big news" all over the state, and had one man bureaus in a
number of towns and "stringers" in most of the rest of the places. I
always liked being assigned "cow and horsie" stories, which is what we
"slick urbanites" called agriculture news.





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