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You're making perfect the enemy of the good with that kind of thinking. No one is perfect and while you may rail against the choices, that you don't have more choices is your fault. For my money, there is a big difference between Michelle Nunn and David Perdue. For instance, I heard a David Perdue ad on the radio touting his business skills in particular in turn around circumstances. Seem he has a plan to cut the cost of welfare by outsourcing the agents to China and India. Sure the former agents will be unemployed by with the communication difficulties with the out-sourced age

I think the more modern description of your circumstance comes from Janis Joplin: Freedom is just another word, for nothing left to lose ... sums it up for me. pubby

Whitey: FWIW ... Todd never brought the surepips up in any public setting and all discussions in executive session were secret and we don't know for a fact what he said, what the vote or anything. Todd has also been adamant that he doesn't speak of what goes on in closed sessions and he has never told me anything of the sort. So, to hear that he has broken the confidence of the other commissioners regarding this also begs the question what other confidences has he broken and for that matter, when. I mean if he had a reputation of breaking confidence, no wonder the other commissio

If you do something along those lines, call me. pubby

You know, all I'm seeing is escalating conflict. If you want to start a boycott, start a new topic and speak how positive you think it is. I know that will be hard, because boycotts are never positive. If you want to disrupt things, heck, why not call a general strike or do a sit in ... heck, Whitey, you could sit in one of the seats normally reserved for the county's staff and have the marshalls carry you off. Personally, though, because I am on strike against covering the commission because I don't want to go through the shakedown - I mean security point - I'd rather folks

Let's assume that you're involved and active ... would the group you're engaged in be liars? The reason things are the way they are is because YOU ... and me and all the other good intentioned people let it become that way. While perfection eludes us all, I can say that it eludes some more than others and things can and do get better if we insist upon it. I know that involves coming together as a group - something that libertarians have a problem with given their individualism - but some things require concerted action. pubby PS: Don't forget this: The number one goal of all

No hero of mine ... Remember that growing up in the one-party south, every one you liked and everyone you dislike carries the same label. And Earl Long was from Louisiana. The only college team I like less than the LSU Tigers is Texas A&M. The people who are driving this are for the most part far removed from the daily exchange or trade - those most effected by a boycott. That simply means that a boycott would be misplaced and harm the innocent. You might be selective in whom you may use for litigation or who may preside at your real estate closing but those tend to be ra

But look on the ballot ... Your options for change are limited because Georgia is and has been, by tradition, a one party state. Used to be that it was a one-party Democratic state (up until about 2002) but now all the major players have switched sides and now it is a one-party Republican state. Party labels are just that, labels. What we need are two parties (or maybe more) operating and viable and competing for votes and loyalty. I recognized that back in the 1990s and welcomed the GOP into the fray but they liked the one-party system the Democrats had for 100 years. We ne

There you go channeling that first Republican Secretary of War under Abe Lincoln, Simon Cameron again. pubby PS: You can tell he is a true Republican (Cameron) by this quote in 1861:

A one party system is waaaaay to easy to manipulate. At a minimum, two viable parties are needed; if a community can come up with three or four, even better. pubby

I understand the general feeling; people say this about all politicians in general. It would be so much more instructive if the poll listed individuals. To wit, those whom you may want recalled, I like and those who I want recalled you like I do think the mood of the citizenry is such that some odd - maybe even unexpected - things might happen come November 4th. pubby

I should add, that in my role as a stand-in for Max Bacon, I did know better than to actually act like Max would ... You were passionate and if I had been back in your face like he is known to do, it could have come to blows. pubby

Yes it is. It may seem silly, but it is much easier to address these issues politically. pubby

STRADIAL: you didn't scare me ... you were, as they say, animated ... but I've been there too Those of us who do have the ability to, as they say, loose our tempers, do learn something from our past experiences ... which is that we know how to get loud and appear threatening while still having perfect control. Yes, it is an act but it is an act that draws on our passion. You were, in essence, reliving a prior emotional moment in a great performance that would have made Stanislavski proud if it were a part you were just acting ... However, your performance, which was a real recrea

Everything on Wheels, our newest Commerce Member (they have a car lot just south of Downtown Hiram), is sponsoring along with Area 41 Stereo - car stereo specialists - a car show at the Shell Station on Ridge Road and Bob Hunton road on October 25th. There will be dozens of cars, truck and motorcycles and registration for the show begins the day of the show at 11a.m. The show begins at noon that Saturday and continues until 5 p.m. Everything on Wheels will post in this and we'll be updating this as more details are established. (Their banner ad links here.) The proceeds of the sho

I think you need to point out that you need a ground floor restroom as well as you can't get up stairs. I did have a call Friday from a fellow who had a motherinlaw basement apartment with two bedrooms that is furnished but I'm thinking that would only be good for short term. pubby

I think it instructive that the things that the Morrisons say that would be newsworthy have never been uttered in court - indeed the only phase of this case to ever make it to court was the Anti-slapp which they won on the local level but had overturned. Basically, the entire court record was highly managed by the county and its law firm to keep the relevant facts away from scrutiny. Hence, the guts of the case have never been heard. SLAPP ... which stands for Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation is very much a constitutional issue as well as a state law. From what I've

I would think it is legal if what they said was true. If what they said was untrue and detrimental, I would believe that could be slander which is a tort. I'm relatively sure that you've repeated what you were told to other interested parties and if they felt they were slandered, I'm relatively sure they would have filed suit by now. Truth, however, is a defense in cases of libel and slander and that these folks are litigants in a highly public issue, discussion of their past would be a legitimate - i.e. not an unwarranted invasion of privacy. In reading this, I'm struck by one of the

I'm going to opine just a bit more. I think we were better served by the political parties when they thought of themselves of broad-spectrum entities that each sought to provide the best middle of the road, practical and pragmatic solutions rather than some ideologically based 'conservative' answer or 'liberal' answer. It used to be that there were conservative Democrats (there still are but they are fewer) and liberal progressive Republicans (the purge came in the 1990s and early 2000s). But the real issue is the influence of money on politics. Equating money with speech and othe

Actually Soundguy ... if enough folks would do that ... I think the threshold is something like 10 percent, it would make it possible for other libertarians to get on the ballot without having to get tons of signatures in the summer heat. The issue in my book is the one-party system we have in the south. If it takes three parties to break the tradition of a single party (which dates back to the century-long dominance of the Democratic Party in the south) then that is what needs to be done. pubby

Since there were objections to the discussion of what to do in a broader sense that was considered off topic by some, many of those posts were moved here: http://paulding.com/forum/topic/312212-split-from-hammer-comes-down-on-surepip/

Cmorg: We have political process. It is there for people to use. It provides a mechanism for choosing the very people that you are criticizing and say ought to be different. It is the method that is used by the people to effect such change. State law endorses and establishes a two party system and makes provisions for ways to establish a third party. The idea is that change is effected through the electoral process instead of by armed revolution on the presumption that if if you try to force change through killing, you're taking about ten steps backwards as far as forming a peacef

This is pretty much an issue across the south and, for that matter, is becoming an issue in other places. The issue here is the one-party system where on the real election day, there is no choice. This is true in the local races ... only one local office has a challenger this November (Patti Smith vs. Todd Pownall). The plain fact is that unless there is really an exceptional attitude to throw the folks out, we will elect the winners of the Republican Primary in every race in Paulding meaning simply we have no choice in the election when most folks go to the polls. I remember back

As folks may remember or know, Georgia is one of those states where all it takes is an administrative procedure to push a property owner off their land. In many other states and locales, there are much better specific tools available to homeowners to fight foreclosure and dispossession. This is a matter of state law and even that conservative Glenn Richardson, in making his comeback bid, said that Georgia's foreclosure law is too one-sided in favor of the financial institutions and one of this campaign promises was to strengthen the rights of homeowners vs. those who hold mortgages.

Saturday Oct. 11th was a pretty day for many Paulding residents as the Fine Arts folks and Public Safety folks had events set to take advantage of the cool days in early October. It was an an interesting day that ended up with a lesson on why you shouldn't drink and drive at the public safety event. But take a stroll with us through the Paulding County Fine Arts fair and you'll see that Paulding County's folks do care for the arts ... We did see something that a lot of folks haven't in Paulding in some time ... Real Live Big D Democrats ... who were at the Arts fair challenging the status