conehead

Can you afford to extend your hours to three days a week? Just asking.

I have read in the past (It's been a while, but the source was reasonable), that one of the biggest groups lobbying against Sunday liquor sales were liquor stores and such vendors. This was not specific to Georgia, but to all states having a battle over this. The stores lobby against Sunday sales because (I know this sounds weird) allowing Sunday sales lowered their profits. They had documentation that showed that states which voted for Sunday sales drank a little less overall. The reason should be obvious to all the Alkys out there: Knowing that they couldn't get the six pack on Sunda

You stole my thunder. OP, Lost is not a series on the Discovery Channel. I was, however, reading an interesting article in Scientific America in the last month or so, where... Oh, never mind. Locke is the Debil.

I had no idea that eight days ago when I started this that anyone would take it seriously. I thought that everyone with any brain cells would realize that we owe our souls to the gomment now because of the deals we signed in the desire to be cooler than everybody else (And the profit motive). 1. We are sucking off the Federal teat on this, and we could not back out in our wildest dreams. 2. There are still wide eyed dreamers out there that believe this big long flat thingie will be the savior of the county. 3. I am a pilot, and really. I mean really, why would I put a plane down

ONCE a week would be fine with me. AND, since it is in the Constitution that we have to have a Postal Service, let's raise the price of a stamp to $8.00. Sending a letter is so Twentieth Century, anyway. I haven't seen anything in my mailbox in years that I really needed, or could not have gotten another way (And probably cheaper). My bills come online. I have email to talk to people. And let's not talk about the number of trees they kill over the endless, endless, ENDLESS junk mail and circulars. Honestly, is there any sensient homo sapien that could not make other plans within 24 hou

Stupidity is a choice, not a disease.

WOW! Sounds like Obama's 17 minute response to a simple question. Why do you still believe that this is just a blip on the timeline? Sooner or later we will have to grow where we are planted, even if we don't make a profit off of other taxpayer's money. What big companies? What big companies would earnestly desire to move here? If you know, please email me with their names, because I want to make sure I have no stock in them. My house is a home, not an investment. My community is not an opportunity to shake hands and promote my greed. That is what you carpetbaggers haven't yet comp

And breathe several times a minute. They teach you that in Chiropractor school, too. Not much money in it, all things considered.

Thank you for your concern. Chiropractors always bend over backward for us. Backbreaking work, if you ask me. I don't have the spine for it myself. I like you already.

Logging onto the internet and reading PCOM by torchlight.

...Or maybe we can put the hog farms on the bankrupt subdivision lots. We get barbecue, and who cares if the hogs move in. Well, maybe the hogs would, but if a hog dies in an empty subdivision, do they make a smell? (Hint: Yes, but not as much as politics). Question: What do you call a pilot landing at Paulding airport? Answer: Lost.

Actually, everyone who knows me would tell you that I am usually quite gruntled. I think "smart growth" is a reasonable and desirable thing. What does that have to do with the way the airport was built? Is it really smart to overbuild with other people's money, then saddle the LOCALs with the cost? (And without the LOCAL's consent, if I remember my facts. Didn't we turn the airport vote down?) As for the hog farm: If the hogs can stand us, I guess I can, too.

OMG, I never thought I would say it, but I am getting tired of being a capitalist pig. It is such a fine line between capitalism and rape. JR: 1. Rotate on your property values. They were inflated in the first place. Nice hat though. Pretty teeth. 2. Chattahoochie Tech is a nice little school. Georgia Highlands has a chance of being the Little Engine That Could in a decade or so, if you can get the Dallas elders to loosen up and make it a place where people would like to go. Good luck with that one. 3. Property values are only important to someone if they are only trying to mak

I remember an episode of The Andy Griffith Show whur Aint Bea composed a song by hand about Mayberry and had it published, hoping that it would turn the town into the next next big deal city. It ended badly. Personally, long term, I don't want to live in a polluted industrial park, and I doubt that many people who live here do. So I don't care about giving it a shot, no matter how much free money we can get from the government tit. Besides, there are too many Republicans around here to get much from the Feds, so good luck with that.

Coincidentally, I am a pilot also. You are saying that when you can get the things you need to fly in and out at the taxpayer's expense mostly, you would be glad to land there at little expense to you. Yeah. I got it. Field of Dreams, right? I don't land my plane on dreams. It gets bumpy.

Since the airport is unquestionably a paper tiger, can we land paper airplanes on it?

So we all agree that we should not be spending a penny as taxpayers on this turkey?

But it's not finished yet! Everybody will come when we finish it! How could we be so blind? We need to spend more money on this turkey, then we will see the world come to us! And all will be well. And then we can talk (Even laugh) about it.

Maybe a Fantasy Island experience? Look, boss, der plane, der plane! Honeymoon suite at the Holiday Inn Express, a coupon for a dollar off on 3D glasses at the movie, a free calendar at Chick-fil-s (with a $12 purchase), and extended hours at Wal Mart. All for 29.00 per day. I'd do it and take my sweetie, if they would change the sheets first. Somebody gotta come up with a way to pay off this debt!

I think the airport is cool. And I hope that someday my great great grandchildren will see an airplane land there on their own accord. I may not be there with you, but I have seen the promised land... In the meantime, we will continue to pay the bills. Because we are taxpayers, and we don't question anything.

Conehead, you're an idiot. The airport is a big cash cow for the county. I read it in the New Era. We need the airport as a place we can go to for refuge if Paulding county is ever attacked by air from a foreign country, because we know that no airplanes will ever get near that place.

Not from what I remember. I think everyone was pretty cool with it. But then again, 278 has it's uses (Like going 80 to Rockmart and back to blow out the gunk before emissions testing. Just saying. Not me, of course). 278 has it's charms. The airport does not. Maybe the airport could be repurposed: 1. Replacement for the old Hardy dragstrip. 2. Overflow parking for West Ridge Church. 3. Nuclear weapons testing (That would also calm the poster that liked to see the flashy lights coming from the vicinity.

What if we just park an old junk car there and leave the emergency flashers on?

Not exactly.

We are spending a lot of money on our useless airport in maintenance. Why not shut it down and spend the maintenance money on better uses? I mean, really, who cares about the airport? You could make more money for the county charging to use it as a motocross track. In the future, if someone actually wants to land an airplane in Paulding county, we can move the cones and let them land through. Call us up and we'll send someone over to move the cones. Otherwise, land VFR and have a good day. Aren't there a lot of stupid things, like the airport, that we are still spending our tax d