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Lot's of booming in NE Paulding
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Dang, I'd better run out and put some fertilizer on the grass. Fastest way I know to keep the rains far-far away...
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Thank goodness that most criminals are stupid.....who wouldn't at least attempt to cover their face during a robbery?? It couldn't have been any clearer if had have waved and smiled. And to ask this question again....why was he carrying a trashcan?
LOL, sounds like he had his face covered with the bandana until he locked all the employees in the vault. Then he couldn't wait to pull it down. Guess he kinda forgot about electronic cameras.
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I would have kept it up, but the company that was used when our house was built went out of business and the others I talked to all wanted to do a $1200 "treatment" on a three year old house before they would even do inspections.
HIOP - Do you guys have actual damage coverage or just re-treatment?
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What didn't they listen to the parent's about?
An example -- Let's say that due to forced budget cuts, they are thinking about cutting out Middle School Sports and/or Middle School band.
200 parents say they should cut out the sports, but keep the band.
200 parents say they should cut band, but keep sports.
200 parents say they should keep both.
and 200 parents say they should cut both.
Which parents should they listen to?
In the end, you'll have 200 parents happy and 600 parents saying the board never listens to the parents.
:D 
Sounds like this line often heard in my family:
"We never do what I want to do!!"
I am forever trying to explain this to my three kids that if we treat everyone equally, they *still* will only get it their way 20% of the time.
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Yep, accidents can happen to anyone. My father in law blew a hole in the floor of their house clearing his 30-06 one day after a day's hunting. However, the safety rules still helped because he was pointing it *down* when he pulled the trigger after he thought he had cleared all the bullets from the magazine.
This was after 30 years of hunting.
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It would certainly have been better if this had come out earlier. I have had a number of people tell me that it would have changed their early vote.
I posted this in the other thread:
I wonder if this would make people leery of using early voting in the future? I doubt it will for me.
One interesting affect of early voting seems to be to reduce the effectiveness of political opponents trying to drop "dirty laundry" type stories a few days before an election. They now have to make a choice: Do they drop the story before early voting starts and give the opponent time to respond or do they wait until just before election day and lose the chance to change the minds of those who early vote? Also, an early release of the story would also give time for people to trace the story back to another candidate or their supporters to identify the source of the negative campaign, which many people claim to dislike and could also affect votes.
It seems to me that having a heavier turnout during a longer voting period may turn out to be a good idea to help save our system from negative campaigning.
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Interesting comment Pat about early voters wishing they could change their votes.
I wonder if this would make people leery of using early voting in the future? I doubt it will for me.
On the topic of early voting, one interesting affect of it seems to be to reduce the effectiveness of political opponents trying to drop "dirty laundry" type stories a few days before an election. They now have to make a choice: Do they drop the story before early voting starts and give the opponent time to respond or do they wait until just before election day and lose the chance to change the minds of those who early vote? Also, an early release of the story would also give time for people to trace the story back to another candidate or their supporters to identify the source of the negative campaign, which many people dislike and could also affect votes.
It seems to me that having a heavier turnout during a longer voting period may turn out to be a good idea to help save our system from negative campaigning.
Thoughts? Will this campaign affect your use of early voting?
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No, while they do a great service, it's a Pandora's box. It's kinda like the property tax exemptions we have now. Huge hunks of private property either are not taxed or pay a reduced rate of property tax and more get added by amendment every year. Sure it sounds good, but remember the money has to come from somewhere, that means you and me that don't have an exemption.
<off topic> Come to think of it, dang, if they revoked all those special exceptions we have now, I wonder if *that* would balance the budget? </off topic>
Anyway, adding income tax exemptions in our current situation would just add to our financial mess and we'd all pay for it in either increased taxes or fewer services. Everybody with a government job, would want the exemption. Then you'd have people that work on contract to the government wanting the exemption. We need *fewer* people on the government payrolls, not a reason for more to fight to be on them.
<sigh> The idiots under the gold dome are supposed to be trying to find a way to balance the budget, not make it worse.
SG
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That is not a bad thing!
It is if you want to them to help fund your campaign!!
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Let me preface this by saying that I am very serious about this - I think either Lots to Do or Sound Guy need to run for this office, obviously not for this upcoming Special Election as qualifying has aended but for the next election. Which one of you will it be? Do we need to do a coin toss?
Truly I am serious - I think either of you would do a great job!
LOL Beach. You know from our other conversations that I would have a problem with any party I tried to join since I tend not to follow the party line and will call out other members of that party I disagreed with.
And without party funding now a days, a candidate doesn't have a chance even in a local election. 
However, if I ever win the lottery and can run independently,... look out political world.
What I have to do now, is do more to influence the candidates we do have. With the kids growing up, I hope to find more time to do this. I'm learning that we all have to take part in the system or it doesn't work.
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I'm not sure when the disclosures are due. So Far none have been filed. Surely they will require them prior to the election. If not what's the point?
When the information is available, it should be posted HERE on the Secretary of State Website.
I looked at the schedules on the Secretary of State website, but there is not one for a special election in Feb.
I found these general rules:
Personal Financial Disclosure Schedule
Candidate for Public Office:
A Personal Financial Disclosure Statement covering the period of the preceding calendar year shall be filed no later than the fifteenth day following the date of qualifying as a candidate. Candidates for state wide office file not later than seven days after qualifying for office. Only one Personal Financial Disclosure Statement is required per calendar year.
Notes for Candidates
* Persons elected to office in each year following the year in which the election occurs
* Contributions of $1,000 or more, if received between the last report due before an election and the election must be reported within two business days of receipt.
* Persons leaving office with excess funds until such funds are expended as provided in the Act
* Unsuccessful candidates with excess funds, or who receive contributions to retire debt incurred, until such funds are expended, or such unpaid debts are satisfied December 31 filing only)
Notes for Independent Committees
* On the first day of each of the two calendar months preceding any such election.
* Two weeks prior to the date of such election.
* Within the two-week period prior to the election date any contributions or expenditure of more than $1,000.00 will be reported within two business days.
* December 31 of the year in which the election is held.
So it looks like 2 weeks before the election. But they can go a week over that with no fine, and it looks like the fine is only $25 up to the date of the election, and only $75 if you go past the election.
So I doubt we'll see any reports. Don't you love toothless ethics laws?
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I agree. I believe that there was a proposal a while back for a constitutional amendment giving school boards the power to directly assess impact fees without the approval of the BOC. I believe that it may have gotten stuck in committee thanks to the Reynolds brothers and their ilk. We have to do something to reassert taxpayer control over growth, Right now, the rate of growth is entirely controlled by the developers and their buddies on the BOC. The School Board, however can and should do more than simply bending over and taking it. If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. When you threaten the property owners with a drastic increase in millage rate if they don't go along with the bond, then that is blackmail. School taxes are the largest part of local government, and the one over which the taxpayers have the least control. We need to stop Developers from shifting the cost of their projects on to the taxpayers. Uncontrolled growth for the sake of growth leads to outrageous taxes.
Oh, I agree that the school board played their part... my biggest gripe was that they were proposing the bond before any of the schools promised for the SPLOST several years before were even started and threatening us with double sessions at the same time.
However, with them stuck with a BOC that loved developers and state representatives that didn't care, they only had two legal options that they alone controlled: Raise the money for new schools through a bond/base tax rate or let the schools go to double sessions sooner or later. Do you see another option they had that did not require the BOC and State to assist? So they put the two options they had up to the voters. I knew if it failed the first time we would see it again, it was their only option.
The BOE does not have the legal power to force the BOC or the state to do their bidding and give them another legal option that would work. That is our job as voters. Jerry is gone, but others from that developer based commission remain.
We just have to remember that this bond was only a five year band-aid. As soon as growth in this area picks up again, we'll be right in the middle of it again and will see another bond if nothing changes.
I strongly urge any voter who doesn't want to see another bond on the ballot in the next five years to bombard your commissioner, BOE representative and state leaders with letters asking them to fix the impact fee law NOW, while we have time and for those in the 19th, to ask the candidate they are planning on voting for how they stand on the matter.
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<SNIP>
Beach and I may not get along at time, but that is uncalled for. IMHO
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The last thing the builders and the school board, and the county commission would want to do would be to place a roadblock in the way of that gravy train. The real problem occurs when you don't balance that residential growth, leaving you two choices to prime the pump. You either raise revenue off of the backs of the taxpayers and property owners, or you impose an impact fee on the builders, making them pay at least a portion of the extra burden the high residential growth rate places on school infrastructure. The previous commission and the school board have never seen the obvious benefit of actively controlling growth, and the school board particularly was in a reactionary mode that for whatever reason, favored the builders over the citizens of Paulding County.
I was against the $200 million dollar bond and I agree with most of the above post, but have to state that this problem cannot totally on the school board or even the county commissioners, the state law causes it's share of the problems also. The Impact Fee law that Georgia has is very close to unusable, it places many restrictions on the use of the fees that have serious drawbacks. Cherokee is one of the few counties I've heard of that even tried to use it.
I felt during the bond campaigns, and still feel, that the proper solution should have been a smaller bond, with Speaker Glenn and Sen Heath and Rep Maxwell, working together to change the Georgia Impact Fee law into a valid solution that wouldn't handicap the school board with worthless restrictions and has the builders and county citizens to fund the required schools *together*, without a overly heavy load on either. After a small bond to get us past the critical needs, an impact fee and the SPLOST should have been enough to supply the funding for growth in the schools as needed, since the more homes built, the more money the board would get.
However, when I wrote Sen Heath, Rep Maxwell and Rep Richardson about changing the law, only Sen Heath even bothered to reply, (though to give Maxwell the benefit of a doubt, I heard later than his wife had been very sick at that time), and his reply was that in their meetings with the county commission and school board, no one had shown any interest in changing the law and he wasn't going to work on it without a county request. Of course, when I brought Heath's letter up at a county public meeting to Chairman Jerry, he said in the meeting that Heath was wrong, they had strongly asked for it. Of the two, I think I believe Heath. That was one of the primary reasons I voted against Jerry, I won't vote for someone I no longer trust.
We have to get politicians in office at *all* levels that are willing to write laws that *work*, not screwed up by special interest exclusions.
This recession has slowed building, giving us a special chance to build a better solution for the growth issue before the problem become critical again and the School board gives us another 200+ million dollar band-aid like Obama's stimulus.
I don't care if it's a Republican, Democrat or Independent. If someone will show me they want to *fix* problems, I'll vote for them at this point.
I will be writing again to all of my elected officials directly before the next election as Beach Bum has suggested to see just what they support. If they don't have some good answers, (or don't answer at all, like Richardson) I'll do my best to find someone that does and vote for them. While I can't vote in this special election, I suggest to those that can, you should do the same for the candidates you have.
Good luck, for all our sakes.
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I just installed it. Looks like there are several new features and the promise of better performance.
More here.
Well I might try it. I was having a problem with 3.5 hanging on close and using 100% of my CPU, had to use task manager to kill it each time. Hopefully that is fixed now.
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Now, for this person. If she is innocent, which I hope she is, then she needs to reevaluate how she ended up in this position. Why did she allow herself to be in a position where an accusation could be made? If it is a student or a former student, why did she allow herself to ever be alone with them at all? That is a big no-no for a teacher. Never be alone with a student. If in a classroom, then the door should be open, or at least have windows in the door. If they are at your home, never be alone with them in a room. I taught school and I had kids the same age as my students, so sometimes my students ended up spending the weekend at my house. I never put myself in a position where any accusation could be made. If you aren't alone with them, it is difficult for it be an effective accusation.
Yep. Within my church, if you are going to work with children/youth, you have to take a class on child abuse each year. While 2/3 of the class is on recognizing the signs of neglect or abuse, the other third is on procedures to protect yourself from accusations. I.e. Never be alone in closed room with a child, never offer to take a child home unless there is another adult going (note that is should be a non-related adult, Husband/Wife doesn't count), don't enter the bathroom to assist a child without multiple adults, etc. It's sad in a way, but it does protect both the children and the adults.
Can any teacher on here comment on if the schools require such a class?
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I guess the voters of that district have no house representation until that time....
Well, since Richardson couldn't vote anyway due to being speaker, it's not a big change for us...
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I personally believe it is not of anyone's business of every single detail of Glenn's personal incident.
As a private citizen's incident I would agree, no. As Speaker of the House and perhaps Governor candidate's incident... I think so. This man is representing ME and controlling money that I'm FORCED to give to the state. If he's not firing on all cylinders then I think I have a right to know.
SG
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Yep. I was amazed when I looked at the specs of my new blower a few years back to find that the engine was only rated to run for 50 hours lifetime.
Junk.
SG
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And that is the subject of this particular story... the AJC, because the SO didn't do back-flips to get them the info requested, basically went off and pouted because the SO, in this case, didn't immediately cooperate as they are accustomed.
Why didn't they?
Well, I can only assume that the Sheriff is the Speaker's friend and he's not going to do anything that he doesn't have to do ... which frankly, is as it should be. But he will do it, as that is the law and his office will comply with the law.
pubby
Pubby, perhaps you would answer me this: What is the story here?
I have to wonder, if it was an incident where anybody else in the world attempted to kill the Speaker of the Ga House (whoever it might be at the time) do you think there would there be such a delay in releasing the reports? If not, then why the delay because he himself attempted to kill the Speaker of the Ga House? What's the difference? Seems to me that the story is that we almost had a major change in our government that could affect all of Georgia, for whatever reason.
There are incidents of this type in the area all the time that don't get press because they are not public figures. Lets face it, it's not called "Public Office" for no reason. Any politician knows going in that anything that happens to him will be news.
That said, I don't agree with his politics and won't vote for him, but I do wish him well as a person. Our family just a close incident with something like this, so from my heart I truly hope he will do whatever is required to get well.
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I hear you Subby.
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Another issue I have is with the the mandatory $30-$50 assembly fee that a lot of places charge. You can't get around it because they assemble everything before you get the chance to buy it!!
The orange box was *bad* about this one, don't know now, I quit buying stuff from them because of it.
I guess they are so afraid that you can't follow instructions that they let some guy who doesn't give a rats butt about it put the power machinery *you* will risk your life with together. He doesn't care, he's not going to be using it. Dang, I had them tell me I couldn't buy a *wheelbarrow* without the assembly fee!! Gimmie a break!!
Sorry, I CAN read directions and if I paid for it I want to know that it's put together right, which means I do it. I don't want crossthreaded bolts and who knows what else done to it that won't be covered under the warranty.
Arrrrggg
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Back to your regular scheduled programs citizens.
SG
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Surprised the second one in Dallas (near the McDonalds) survived. It's only what, 3 miles from the downtown Dallas one?
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richard bach is about as spiritual as i get, but i'd recommend jonathan livingston seagull to anyone.
You know, I've heard about Seagull forever, but never read it. I loved his book "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah".
Found "The Shack" to be quite thought provoking, nothing like I thought it would be.
SG
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
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Hope it's not flash flood time again...