Blunt Trauma

Company being the key word. If you want public works performed by a private employee, then either privatize everything or restructure completely the way public employees are paid. To hire someone and expect them to work for the same money forever is unreasonable. Yeah they can leave but somewhere down the line it's not just you being inconvenienced by someone at say the tax office that isn't up to snuff. It's someone handling your million plus dollar project with half a clue. You want change, then change. Don't punish your employees.

Big raises? Really? Big? 3% after about 8 years of stagnate wages which amounts to $20.20 a week on a $35,000.00 salary which for the most part is about what we're talking about, ........big? Really? I have absolutely no dog in this fight. Other than the fact I pay taxes in this county. But that's just ludicrous. Somewhere along the way the general public has seemingly come to the point where they just openly hate their own employee's. I can tell you for a fact that State employees haven't had a COL raise like this since 2008 or 2007. If you think there are too many of them, if you do

Only been to one. More expensive than the big chain with better food and meatier sandwiches. The one I went to had a manager that was perky to the point of him needin' a good smackin' around. Don't know if that was a "taught" thing or just him.

61 is a state route. Any state project for at least the next 25 years, as it is currently scheduled, can be found at www.dot.ga.gov.

Sometimes I worry about the far left (and for that matter the far right). They'll walk out on a platform supported by one reasonable assumption, and then make leaps in logic that'll probably just end up with them pulling some rhetorical muscle. The one here is a pewter medal at best.

There's a punch line from a very old joke that goes: "That goats a lie'in slut and you can't believe a word she says."

Two sure signs that things they are a changin'. Today August 1, 2:30 pm and this years crop of new parents are lined up a quarter mile deep on Nebo in both directions at the school. Blocking traffic for as much as a half hour. Yesterday July 31, yes that's JULY, as the wind came through from the storms as they died out I go out to the front porch to catch the cool breeze. Sitting there in the swing I look up and realize there is one tree in the yard shedding bright gold colored leaves. There will be a Christmas display in a store somewhere around here in about two weeks.

Nobody wants to see the sausage getting made. But you can bet the person that made the first sausage was inspired by the bravery he had witnessed while watching the first guy eat an egg that saw where it came from.

There are a few deeply held beliefs that I find it possible to filter most of life through. Some apply in more than one situation and can therefore conflict, that's where I believe a persons conscience lies. Two of these beliefs that are applicable to most political decisions are: Everything is a shade of grey when you drill down to where the black and white mix on any issue. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. You may think these are simplistic, but I truly believe we as a people would be better off if we could all keep the former in mind as we deal with each other. And we'd

The stand on 278 were the ice cream store was, next to the helicopter repair place. I was just trying them out. In a separate topic there was a discussion that involved their gyro too. Which was very good, but not worth the 10 dollars it cost. They've got the last of my money they'll be getting.

At the risk of dragging an old subject back up, I have got to put out this PSA for those of you that professed a love of the chili dog. I had forgotten a possibility, but I found myself in Austell about lunch time today. A memory from when I was a kid stirred up and that led me to pull into Wallace's BBQ on Bankhead. Folks that memory served me well, cause this is by far the best local example of the dog I've found yet. Not to mention the cheapest. If there's one gripe it would be that the chopped onions are to big. Absolutely overlook-able. Yes it's better than Fred's, I know that's kind

What's it worth to you is the question. There are services out there that will give you a phone number for next to nothing. Get you one of those numbers and anytime you are asked for your phone number by ANYONE other than a private individual, you use that number and never answer it directly. You'll be amazed at how this cuts down on it. You dont even have to have the number hooked up to a phone. Most will provide you with a notification when a message is left. 90% of the crap calls won't leave a message.

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According to Neighbor News Online: "Commissioners had to approve consideration of the new tax rate Tuesday to give the county government time to advertise it in the county’s official publication for legal notices and hold three public hearings. Not reducing the tax rate and generating more revenue is considered a tax increase under state law, leading to a requirement for the public hearings." So publication, three public hearings and then a vote. There's still hope, how much hope is a question. Enough loud voices and what not.

In the "You Just Can't Write That" department: Very lovely young lady training on her first day as cashier. How lovely you ask? Lovely enough that it apparently required not one, not two, but three young men about her age to train her. Let me set the scene for you. Gathered around the check out are the four youths in question. The aforementioned lovely young lady and three young men. The trio of testosterone could be described as follows. The probable jock, a nice looking young man who seems very casual and at ease. The average guy, probable good personality but obviously trying to har

Newlywed young man arrives back at his family's Alabama home on his wedding night. His father asks him what in the world is he doing there? To which he says "Daddy, she's a virgin and if she ain't good enough for her family, she ain't good enough for our'n.

A lot of it had to do with limited choices. Especially with mountain folk. A particular clan would settle an area and the local population would end up mostly family. My maternal grandparents were first cousins from the hills of NW Ga for that reason (married 1910's). Decades later (1960's) my sister went to spend the summer with my grandma who still lived in that area. She met a guy and dated him all summer until about a week before she came home. That was after they met enough of each other's family to figure out that they were cousins of some degree.

Understanding that this reply is because you stepped in it and then realized it so now we'll go with an English lesson as a personal attack, you're forgiven. No where will you see me shy from calling a thing as close to what it is as I can wrap my tiny little brain around. Everyone of the labels you listed above is warranted and accurate. With the possible exception of the LDS, not sure you can equate the modern church with a child abusing apocalyptic monster surrounded by weak minded, week willed drones. The only similarity there is that you pretty much have to be a weak minded, weak wil

"I think we'd be a lot closer to agreement (I would prefer more precision) if these terrorists were defined as from the Radical Wahhabi sect pubby" OK then Radical Wahhabi Islamist it is. Agreed, as long as the word Islamist is attached to the back. Once again if we keep protecting the image of Islam from itself, there in is the status quo or worse. That shame in their religion being used to lead them to destruction is necessary. The logical conclusion of their inaction has to be hammered home.

Maybe its my fault in that I don't seem to have conveyed my point accurately. I'm not talking about ruling the world. I'm talking about the wider world community coming together. In one voice demanding of Islam that it, if not clean up its own house, at least contain their mess to their yard. The point being made that the wider world community recognizes who's problem it is and that at some point when the outrage becomes unbearable, it will become palatable to the masses for the wider world community to rule the caliphate. (Throw any definition you want at the word, I'll own it) If you

exactly one more: motivation

All other issues surrounding this individual incident aside, we do need to use the words " Radical Islamic" when discussing an act like this which is self professed to be an act of terrorism in support of a extremist organization. I would say that a step further is needed. A more exact phrase for the majority of these tragedies would be "Radical Sunni Islam". Folks this ain't your daddies state sponsored Iranian terrorism. Why should we do this? Because for the last however many years of over the top political correctness, we have approached the rest of the world in a manner that assumes tha

Unless you're older than the game of blackjack, I don't think they were trying to confuse.