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Foxmeister:
Rep. Earl Erhart has introduced a child support reform bill every year for the past five. I am sure that he will again this year and it has a much better chance of passing since the Republicans took control of the House.
From reading this thread, it would appear some reform needs to take place in child support in the state. I think this is an issue one of our representatives in the State House and Senate should be working on.It's rough on children whose parents are divorced, especially nasty ones. I have seen parents place their children in the middle in their "war" with each other. I have also seen parents use child support as an issue to hurt each other, but in all reality, it only hurts the children.
It is sad when a custodial parent who receives child support payments on time, and they are an equitable amount, will claim it's not enough. The claim is bogus, but only made for the purpose of vengence.
It is also sad when the parent who is obligated to pay child support does not because they want to hurt the custodial parent for the purpose of vengence.
In either case, the parent looking for vengence is only hurting the child or children.
I have also experienced where one parent will tell the children the other parent doesn't love them because if the other parent had, there would not have been a divorce. Parents like that are just using the children to hurt the other parent. "I hate him/her, now I want the children to do the same." What is it really doing? It's making the children feel as if they are to blame.
It may appear that I have gotten off topic so I will clarify my point. Even though I agree there is a need for child support reform, I also believe there is a need for the reform of behavior in many parents because of a divorce. If one parent wants to have a war with the other as the result of a divorce, then they need to keep the children totally out of it.
As parents we have to make sacrifices for the benefit of our children's welfare. Perhaps one of those sacrifices would be the need to seek vengence due to divorce. Fight for what is right for your children, but be sure your motives are pure.
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You must have some sense of relief, armymom. I am happy for you.
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It seems that the trial lawyers are really out in full-force with this one. What if I am unable to find a doctor because of the cost of malpractice insurance?
I am torn over this one because I see both sides and I don't know the answers for either. The doctors are going out of business but I don't think a $200,000 cap is reasonable either.
Today and this week, the Georgia Legislature is considering Senate Bill 3, which would significantly limit your child's rights to hold their physician legally responsible for negligent medical treatment if your child is seriously injured or killed. In effect, this Bill would force parents to sign a permanent release of their child's rights to hold their medical provider fully liable every time they went for a visit, surgery or treatment.Would you sign a Permanent Release that gives up your child's right to hold their physician responsible for your child's injuries or death by agreeing to limit the compensation for your child's lifetime of pain and suffering or death to only $250,000.00 of the physician's insurance policy? (For example, if your 3-year old child is rendered paralyzed because of his/her physician's negligence, the State of Georgia proposes to limit the child's recovery to about $10.00 a day for the loss of their quality of life for the rest of their life.)
If you would not voluntarily sign such a release, then why should the State of Georgia force you to sign it? This is not a Republican family value, nor does it reduce the role of government in our lives.
Please contact your legislator immediately and tell them to VOTE NO to Senate Bill 3, VOTE NO to engrossment of Senate Bill 3 (scheduled for a vote today), and vote no to any other similar bill which limits your child's rights of recovery. The Paulding legislators' names/numbers are listed below.
Sen. Bill Hamrick - 404/656-0036
Sen. Bill Heath - 404/463-1361
Rep. Glenn Richardson - 404/656-5020
Rep. Howard Maxwell - 404/656-3904
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Yes. I know someone that lives on West Memorial and they were approached by a real estate company working for Lowe's.
Are you talking about the sheriff's department on acworth-dallas hwy? I live right there and I haven't heard anything like that. So if anyone knows anything let me know. -
At least you have the golf carts, I am dealing with a fourth grader on one of those blasted mini-motorcycles.
I hope you have a large lot to ride it on. It drives me nuts to see kids riding around in the subdivisions on those things. I have almost driven over 3 of them. -
Isn't Lowe's in the process of buying up land near the Sheriff's Department?
Lowes wants to build in Hiram, but could not agree on the land, plus county said it would add another traffic light.Publix is empty cause they want a big $ for a lease on the store.
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A vet told me about this about three years ago. She is a "holistic vet" off of Cobb Parkway. But, Georgia law states something different.
I received a post through the KittyVillage Yahoo Newsgroup that "a bill [is] proposed in Maine whichwould force vets to inform pet caretakers that yearly vaccines are unnecessary in most cases and, especially in cats, potentially harmful. "
Post was taken from the National Vaccine Information Center mailing list.
See article at MaineToday.com's Morning Sentinel
It starts ... Because many veterinarians have failed to disclose that most core veterinary vaccines protect for seven or more years, pet owners, unaware that their animals don't need multiple yearly vaccinations, have overvaccinated their companions -- taking an unnecessary toll on their finances and animals' health. Rep. Peter Rines of Wiscasset has introduced legislation -- LR883, An Act to Require Veterinarians to Provide Vaccine Disclosure Forms -- to solve this problem.
Does anyone out there know if this is true?
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Some places are reserving spots but others (like Ivy Hall) work on a lottery system and you have to get your name in this week.
As for the area, it is all local and I don't mind a drive.
what is in your area? from what i understand, you should go ahead and find a place you like before all the spots are filled. -
They don't have the state sponsored Pre-K program which is what I am looking for!
The highest recommendation I can give is Youth Christian School on brownsville Road in Powder Springs. You really can trust them and the tuition is very reasonable. -
I need to add that it needs to be a place that I can keep him all day since I work....
My daughter went to Grace Baptist Pre-k. It is excellent. -
My youngest will start Pre-K in the fall. Can anyone give me some good recommendations for centers?
Thanks!
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I am laughing! Hills and turns?! This ain't Blue Ridge, baby!
You know, it's kinda funny, they cut a road through the middle of no where so you don't have to drive all the way around to 61 or sit in rush hour traffic on 92, and then you bitch about the speed limit. Gimme a break! I don't know what mountain you live on, but WHP a straight road? With all those hills and turns 45 mph is plenty fast enough. Slow down and enjoy the lack of traffic while you can. In five years there'll be so much traffic on there that they'll have to lower the speed limit to 35 mph. If you want to fly, get a plane...or better yet find yourself a desserted road some where so you can tear it up and wrap your dumb a-- around a tree. Some people are never happy.C.W.
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I will have to agree with the others about our area's church consignment sales. I used to feel a little icky about buying used clothes but, since #2 came along, I am all about cheap. I hit Hope's, FUMC, and McEachern UMC sales. I know that Hope's sale is February 11 and 12. I think FUMC is in March sometime. You can sign up to sale and get in on the early sales. This is the first time I will be selling this year and I am already tagging items that I want to get rid of.
I am looking to buy cloths for twin girls. I can't keep buying everything new...gets way too expensive with 2 (have 4 kids total though), and consignment shops have nothing for twins! One day, I will open a consignement shop for twins
I need anything from 3-6 months up. Also, mine have finlly begun to outgrow some of thier 0-3 month old cloths, so if you are having (or know anyone) twin girls...i've got some goods. Once they outgrow their baby items...I have all that stuff too (swings, activity centers, exersaucers-these don't match----walk behind toys, etc. If we get "hooked up" it will be a continual thing as mine outgrow, yours will "move-into" the items. Most of my cloths either match exactly (same color and all) or are the same piece but in different colors. If anyone is interested please reply or PM me.
Thanks
busymom
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The AJC has an article about this bill in today's newspaper:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/leg...legprivate.html
Private property plan causes stir at Capitol
By JIM THARPE, CHRISTOPHER QUINN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/28/05
A state Capitol imbroglio has erupted over a proposal critics say would permit governments to hand over private property to developers with too little oversight.
Senate Bill 5 would permit private developers to build public projects such as fire stations, parks, office buildings and roads for local governments without competitive bids. The governments could form public-private partnerships with developers to finance the projects, condemning any private property needed under eminent domain — the legal right to seize land.
UNDER SENATE BILL 5
• A contractor may propose building a new school, park, sewer plant or any public facility, and submits a conceptual design, schedule, financing plan and location. Or a government may invite a company to make a proposal. Financing can include bonds, grants, leases back to the government or the charging of fees for use.
• The government has 30 days to review the proposal without public input. The details are kept secret until the government approves the deal.
• If it approves, the government can publish a notice that it is considering the project with a general description. Other companies can send a notice saying they will submit a bid within 90 days. The government does not have to submit a project for competing bids.
• The company can request the government condemn or buy land it has chosen for the project.
• The government works out details of financing and length of leases or payments. Fees and tolls are not subject to regulation by key state agencies. Prices can be renegotiated during the term of the agreement.
• The company would build the project, with the right to own and operate it. It would deed the property back to the government after a certain time.
The process of selecting projects also would be secretive, with no details released until the government essentially approves the project. The companies would operate and build the facilities for a profit, in some cases leasing them to local governments or charging fees for their use.
"You're taking from one private party and transferring to another private party," environmental lobbyist Neill Herring said. "It's a tyrannical, dictatorial use of power."
But state Sen. Dan Moody (R-Alpharetta), the bill's main sponsor, said the proposal allows governments to build infrastructure sooner than they would be able to under traditional financing arrangements. He said the involvement of the private sector would provide alternative financing not available to governments and not dependent on tax collections.
Moody said the proposal, which died in a House committee two years ago, has been miscast by its detractors.
"It has nothing to do with allowing someone to take advantage of someone else," Moody said. "The paragraph on eminent domain could be extracted from the bill in its entirety and nothing else would change."
Opposition mounts
The proposal has struck a nerve. Environmentalists, property rights advocates and others are lining up to bash the bill.
A recent editorial in the Bainbridge newspaper compared the proposal to the 1795 Yazoo Land Fraud in which the state's lawmakers took bribes to sell the state's western land claims. The Savannah Morning News also criticized the proposal in an editorial.
Radio talkmeister Neal Boortz alleged during his Thursday morning show that the proposal gives developers the ability to "to rape private property owners." Telephone lines were soon jammed at the Capitol offices of the bill's sponsors. "They're threatening our college interns who are answering the phones," said state Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson (R-Savannah), a co-sponsor of the bill. Johnson posted a defense of the plan on his Web site, contending that it would allow communities to tap private sectors' resources for projects of public interest, without raising taxes.
Moody stressed the bill, which has not yet been debated in committee, is at the very beginning of the legislative process. "I'm open for suggestions as to how we can perfect this bill to eliminate anybody's concern about anything in it," he said.
The Virginia-based law firm of Hunton & Williams was a primary force behind the proposed law. The firm consults for governments using such statutes to build projects with private help.
Mark Grantham, one of the firm's Atlanta-based attorneys, said fears about the abuse of eminent domain are unfounded. Local governments still would have to go through a legal process — just as before — to condemn private property.
"As a practical matter, a privately built project is not going to succeed if the public opposition is there to the ball field or sewer treatment plant," Grantham said.
He said the law has been used successfully in Virginia and Texas, other states where growth has outstripped the government's ability to keep up with new infrastructure.
Case considered
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a New London, Conn., case that could clarify when localities can take private property for use in economic development. The city decided to develop a 90-acre site including a waterfront hotel and new residences. The city argued the improvements would revitalize the area, and used eminent domain to seize property from owners who wouldn't sell voluntarily.
The proposed Georgia law concerns even some of those who generally favor public-private partnerships as a way to assist government.
Georgia Public Policy Foundation spokeswoman Benita Dodd said the organization is concerned about the secretive way the proposals can be considered by governments and the lack of competitive bidding. "Competitive bidding has got to be part of the process. That's a way to protect the public," Dodd said.
OH NO EDDIE, you are not by yourself. I'm an " old protest, picket sign carrying person", and will GLADLY GO WITH YOU TO PROTEST THIS BILL!!!I fear that this type of "governing", is just a sample of what this country is heading for. Thi s proposed bill is just an example of what is happening all over this country.
You let me know when you are ready..... and I will be right beside you.
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I'm with you! I can live without the ice but bring me the snow!
I hope yall got yer farwood stockpiled! 'gonna be a chilly-willy out there tonight. Hope everyone is safe and sound over the weekend. This would be a great weekend for renting some movies and just being plain ole lazy. That is, as long as we have power. I HATE ice storms. Why can't we just have a foot of the fluffy stuff instead? -
What concerns me the most is if you look at the sponsors of the bill, they are all in the Senate leadership.
MrsHoward, found this the other day... don't have time to post anything else right nowArticle by Bill Shipp
January 25, 2005
"After reviewing Senate Bill 5, a noted authority on eminent domain gave us this unbiased and scholarly analysis:
'This is the worst piece of legislation I have ever seen in my life - 50-year leases with financing deals using state property - all shielded from public scrutiny. Huey Long in his heyday would not have gone this far.'
In another time, we would have dismissed the absurdity of SB 5 with a mild rebuke for wasting the legislature's time. Not now. This measure springs from the leadership of the Georgia General Assembly - leaders who have already adopted rules to silence debate, quash dissent, eliminate amendments, operate in secrecy and grease the tracks for their desired legislation.
At his inauguration last week, President Bush promised to battle tyranny wherever it reared its ugly head. He wasn't very specific. But he could have been talking about the administration of New Georgia right in his own backyard."
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I read that but I have nothing but good things about mine. I have a dog that shreds something awful and this is the best suctioning vacuum I have found. So, I would have to disagree with Consumer Reports on this.
Edit: I will have to point out that most new vacuums will start out with great suction but, in time, they will peeter out. Not the Dyson. It has been strong and steady. I would like to see a follow-up study and see if most new vacuums keep their suction which, in my mind, is the beauty of my Dyson.
Consumer Reports dings the Dyson big time. Says the suction isn't real great, compared to most new vacuums. -
I have a Dyson which I really love. No filters and the suction is amazing.
I have never heard of a Rainbow!
Does anyone have and user a Rainbow vacuum. What are your thoughts on it? We're in need of a new vacuum and don't really want to buy one that we'll have to replace in a year or two again. We looked at the kirby, but it's to heavy. I heard that they changed the new ones though. Any other thoughts on a good vacuum that will last?? -
I can't imagine the speed limit being lowered. It should be raised!
Well, there is also the Water Department. Look at the skid marks near the entrance. They will also object to it being raised. It will probably go down, once all the housing is completed. -
I love this story. Personally, I could never shoot with one hand and dial 911 with the other so my hats off to the lady!
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It is the same story with all the Super Walmarts. They start out fresh, clean and well-stocked but, within two or three years, they all smell, have dirty floors, you can't navigate the aisles for all the crap in the center. Just for comparasion, take a stroll through the Super Target and then tell me which is cleaner and nicer to shop in.
Why would you say that? You have pictures for why your saying that? I dont see anything wrong with it,I go to it all the time.Maybe it just shows its allways busy maybe it is a little dirty.as in what ? the floors or what.Im just trying to understand how you mean by that,thats all. -
I have used the Free File for the past couple of years and love it. I had always assumed that my hand written taxes would automatically send up a red flag so I am thankful for Free File.
Heard this on the radio this morning - the IRS is offering Free File this year.Also check out Turbo Tax for the Web. It is also free.
Start now so you can get that overpayment from the government early and take us all out to lunch.
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My guess would be Piedmont!
Here too, hey ms-shellie, maybe we should take him some flowersdoubt the hosp. would tell us if he's there.
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Ugh, I'm with you on that.
Now if they could fix the timers at Hiram Sudie & West Hiram Pkwy.. Can't wait til they finish the paving around there so they can put in the sensors on the pavement... I hate sitting at that red light late at night with no traffic...
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Yep (and the food was better there). I wonder what happened to that duck that stayed on the front deck....