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    "Taste of Paulding" Saturday

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    I attended with the wife and kid but I was not impressed with the participation. But it was nice to pick up 5.00 game cards for Stars and Strikes.

     

    Agreed. I was expecting A LOT MORE...the Hiram Days are much, much better. There wasn't enough "to taste" and I was disappointed by the lack of small business participation. Downtown Dallas can be a great venue for events like this, and it was such a nice day. Maybe include a chili cook-off, or a pie eating competition. SOMETHING!

    C-5

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    I wonder if this is the same plane that we saw in Carrollton as we were leaving the band competition. I told my hubby that it looked like it was flying awfully low.

     

    I remember seeing quite a few of them at Kelly AFB in San Antonio, and over Carrolton could be the flight path of one travelling from south Texas to Dobbins.

    C-5

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    LOL all of the guys at my duty station(ROTA) loved going to Athens $$$$$$

     

    I probably would have stayed in if I could have been stationed there!

    C-5

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    Lockheed was actually doing a C-141 mod program back in the eighties(because the smiley pops up on eights!!!). I am sure they are still flying them in and out of Dobbins for certain repair work.

    Where are they flying out of now? I thought the C-17 replaced (and enhanced) the capabilities of the C-141.

    C-5

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    The C-5 has a very distinctive whining/roaring sound to it. Lots of people often mistake the C141 for the C-5. It is almost an identical "mini C-5".

    I worked on the C-5 program in the 80's. Front fuselage.

     

    Isn't the Starlifter retired? I could be wrong (experience with C-17 and C-130), but it sounded like a C-5 and its tail structure (didn't have my glasses on, but I saw the tail lights) seemed to be a C-5.

     

    I was never lucky enough to break down in Spain or other places with high per diem. Those pilots...

    Nick Saban ARRESTED!

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    Authorities arrested Alabama head coach Nick Saban in the predawn

    hours Monday at his home in Tuscaloosa on animal cruelty charges.

     

    Saban, 56, was charged with 85 counts of animal cruelty in an alleged attack which occurred

    Saturday night in Athens, Georgia. Police said that as many as

    92,138 witnesses saw Saban and a large group of violent young men under his control hit, kick,

    crush and destroy a large pack of mostly-docile bulldogs. One officer was quoted

    as saying, "I haven't seen bulldogs treated this badly since the Michael Vick case."

    Developing...........

     

     

     

    :p :yahoo: :yahoo:

     

    One of the funniest things I've seen on here. My wife hates football, and even she found that hilarious.

    Interesting E-mail I recieved....

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    It would be interesting to know how many Democrats and how many Republicans each of these cities have sitting on the City Council since they are the "Congress" of city politics.

     

    Thats a fair point. I'd still imagine the Democrats to have the upper hand in total numbers, but the cities receive much of their funds from the state level, really making the mayor about as important as a local congressman.

     

    I doubt most people can name 5 mayors of large cities off the top of their heads. Heck, I'm a political science geek, and I can only think of Villaragosa (LA), Newsome (SF), Nagin (New Orleans), Nickels (Seattle), Bloomberg (NY), Franklin (ATL), and that former idiot mayor of Detriot (Kwame something). Everyone else are really just minor political figures who don't mean nearly as much as the state governors, senators, and congressmen.

    U Ga to Discontinue Football

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    Maybe Coach Richt should have been putting more time into keeping his players out of trouble, recruiting players who don't have histories of getting into trouble, and developing a better gameplan instead of becoming a corporate shill. I sincerely hope he is donating the proceeds to the school, as he wears his public institution clothes on TV. Is he the highest paid public employee in the state?

    Interesting E-mail I recieved....

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    I wasn't going to put my two pennies in, but while that list does point out an interesting tie to the poor and disadvantaged with the Democratic mayors, here are a few caveats:

     

    1) The general consensus of mayors is that they have ultimate power within a city. This isn't entirely true, as there are different types of interactions a mayor can have with the city council, often limiting the mayor to the amount of power they might actually wield. The strong mayor - council version is on the way out, in favor of the city council - manager form. The mayor is often times just a mouthpiece for a city, an ambassador to the state congress in an effort for more funds.

     

    2) Some of those states listed have had very strong Republican governors over the past few decades, including the Bush brothers (Texas and Florida), and Rockefeller, Pataki, and Spitzer (NY).

     

    3) Urban cities usually lean towards the Democratic candidates.

     

    4) Cities with large immigrant populations lean towards Democratic candidates (Miami, El Paso).

     

    5) Some of the cities on the list are "rust-belt" cities; cities damaged heavily by the "rust" of the steel belt.

    House approves militay pay raise

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    http://www.military.com/news/article/house...-pay-raise.html

     

    What will "they" complain about next? Looks like the Democratic Congress isn't worried about retirees.

     

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    I'm confused. The Democratic Congress prevented the President's and DOD's plan to raise medical premiums for retirees. If everyone's premiums have gone up (mine went up 26% this year), it seems that by blocking an increase in medical premiums, Congress acted in the best interest for retirees by keeping costs, at least temporarily, stable.

     

    Also, the House approved a pay increase of a half percent more than President Bush's plan.

     

    What am I missing?

     

    Disgusted......this is so maddening.........Need to vent

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    Well, hey, when all else fails, blame the government! Don't blame the people around you who all freaked out and went and bought gas in a panic, creating the shortage. Don't blame all the folks who got loans on homes they really couldn't afford, creating the giant mortgage debt. <_<

     

    Or blame the banks who ignored standard and intelligent financial principles and GAVE the loans out.

     

    We are all to blame.

    Military Service

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    USAF, 1 tour active duty with 1 trip to the sandbox. Brother in USAF (deployed once, going again), brother in law USMC (not deployed in 12 years...WTH???).

     

    Trying to go back. I miss the military very, very, much. I do not like being a civilian. The civilian world is much more dangerous ;).

    Government Announces $85 Billion Loan to Save AIG

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    Must be done. You can't have a insurance giant like that to fail. It would affect all economies worldwide as it has over a trillion dollars in assets. Much like oil, much of our mutual funds have AIG tied to it one way or another, so we are all taking a hit.

     

    I would love to see those C level employees of AIG dragged around town behind their Bentleys and Rolls for this financial mismanagement.

    protestors in St. Paul...

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    Or maybe it means all the crazys or Democrats!

     

    These "riots" have nothing to do with the democratic party. Zip, zero, zilch. These "protestors" are simply animals and need to return to the scum from where they came. They have no interest in solving our nations issues with diplomacy, rather, they want to destroy all our nation has worked for.

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