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I really don't think it is an 'idea' thing ... I think that it is more an inevitability in its concept. I mean, why oppose it if it is such a bad idea? Other than some federal investment in fencing, and maybe a few more machines to check luggage, if it was a failure, it would ultimately be shut down as a commercial airport with the reputation like that rock-faced restaurant on 92 that has never seen its first success and is now predicted to be a dog location. If it were, as suspected, a success, it would be under local control and being a success, it would not have been subject to take

You folks have been denying the influence of HJIA and Delta in this whole controversy. If you recall, last year at this time there was room for compromise but compromise was thrown out the window early and its face has never since been seen. Maybe the approach the Commission took in separating the commission proper from the airport authority was a mistake. We don't know. What I believe though is that the folks down in Atlanta, having been rebuked after they purchased the 10,000 acres which is basically adjacent to the Silver Comet Field, haven't given up on their plans. The problem

I'll be around tomorrow ... in and out ... The office number is 770-505-8544 ex 1. I'll answer it if I'm in and advise at the time. pubby

To anyone keeping up with this ... if Melissa gets to the house before picking up her phone, her phone is in the PCOM office. pubby PS: Guard Dad ... that is her account these days ... I didn't consider her statement politicking.

Thad is actually doing pretty good considering. Basically, he's following doctors orders and trying to rest. He was a bit jittery around noon but once he got the office and there wasn't all the activity - he couldn't see his life unraveling before his eyes - he settled down. That folks have come together to get Melissa out of jail, the storeroom solution presented itself and the people self-organized to box, load and transport the stuff and they're confident they've got a place to sleep tonight ... he seemed quite serene. I'm hoping Satellite will stop by the office with Melissa.

Mojo and others are arranging for uhaul trucks - as I understand it, box trucks and I see where Blondi's better half is on his way with some boxes (don't know how many but more may be needed.) Mojo says manpower is needed and if you do bring a pickup, you might get lucky and not have to use it for hauling ... but maybe? .. but your strong backs are definitely needed. Louise is supposed to be there and mojo figures they'll be arriving with the big trucks soon. pubby

Folks stopping bt the office have dropped $850.00 in addition to that above. pubby

Two things. The stuff that surepip has - items like parts for the machines, etc. ... this kind of thing is not an issue. If he has the part for the item of which there are 200 in the world, they'll beat a path to his door wherever it is. Lowrider: They actually will probably have until Monday. I've got five or maybe more of those '10x10' shelters we used for the cookoff a couple of years ago that we can use to cover items but with the storage unit and the help of folks beginning at 5, I'm sure there will be a pretty good dent made in the thing by 7 or so. With what has walked in

The bond is taken care of. Crossroads is taking surepip over to Alpha-Omega to get the space as we speak (they just left) and they will show up at the house after that task is done. I'm waiting to hear from Satellite when he gets Melissa out. She should know the pickup of mine they've been using is here (as am I waiting for my son) but surepip has her purse. pubby

Thought I'd show a somewhat scared, but comfortable picture of Daisy. Boxes, markers, packing tape, items of that nature would be appropriate. pubby

I'm thinking ... and recognize we're playing it by ear and ... that we'll have possession of the storage place by about 5 p.m. and folks can begin working on the moving part of the project then. What will be critical in this are boxes to store stuff and make it easily stackable. Oh, btw, Daisy is safe.

Gary just called and a bond has been set. We'll be getting Melissa out shortly ... or Sat will. pubby

Here is what has transpired. First, we have secured storage at the storage place behind Home Depot which is pretty close by. We have confirmation that Melissa is in jail and has been booked but we are waiting on a judge to set bond. We've put a call in to Martin Valbuena to see we can expedite that but weren't able to reach him. Presumably the bond will be set the magistrate or his deputy when they decide to do that. They do this on their schedule, not ours they had their court appearances this morning and they may have decided not to come back until Monday. Thad just got off

They put their money in the lawsuit and sought justice. They won an anti-slapp action in the superior court but notably lost on appeal. Anti-slapp laws are designed to prohibit entities from litigating into oblivion those with rightful claims by escalating the cost of litigation to the point that plaintiffs have to give up because they are literally run out of money before the matter is ever presented to a judge. That is what happened. They thought they truth and right would prevail. It didn't. The good guys don't always win, especially when the county is funding the litigation wit

The sheriff's office armed with an eviction order is as we speak executing that order on the possessions of Thad and Melissa Morrison. Melissa was away at the store when the officers arrived, about 9 a.m. and when she returned there was an altercation and she ended up being put under arrest. The Morrisons' personal property is now being collected outside their home. The reality is that Melissa needs to be bailed out of jail this afternoon. Thad is currently at the pcom office and they are, by definition, homeless with quite a load of stuff ranging from three freezers full of food

What gets me is that no one on the anti-airport side wanted this discussion given their organization and vote in the primary. Are you afraid that as the candidates you elected to post 3 and 4 (and the candidates who don't disagree on the airport, at least, in Post 2) will flip flop? Given that the positions were pretty well established before that vote that you think that you changed the mind of one supporter with the vote? Do you think that the supporters are any more impressed by the 'anonymous' factions that funded the opposition by the passage of time? The whole point of the

No, but I hear they're pretty rude and arrogant. Hummm? I wonder if Zorro or guard dad are french? pubby

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The idea that anyone who criticizes the country hates the country is a false statement. To make that assertion is to me a flat exercise of false patriotism designed to hush criticism and malign those bold enough, patriotic enough, to raise troubling questions. Think of false patriotism in this context: pubby

It is all about balance ... And as the list of interventions CC showed, consider that a lot of them were muscle in context that had Smedley Butler, author of War is a Racket, said he could teach Al Capone a thing or two in this famous quote that sums up a lot of our International adventurism. Now I don't think General Butler hated America nor do I even entertain the idea the critic in the video behind the spoiler hated America. Yet his criticisms and appeals for balance, also had him in marked support for a progressive income tax, endorsement of social security and massive publi

That is an appropriate response if you want to confirm the reality that no good deed should go unpunished. At the time, not only was TB considered a death sentence, but it was highly contagious and the likelihood was that either he would be sent away to live in a sanitarium - quarantined - until death. There would also be a stigma attached to the entire family and even if they didn't contract the disease, they would have been treated as less than the others. I think this is the fact that you fail to grasp with your perspective of the 21st century. Now as to his actions ... what he

I think the big difference between this outbreak and previous ones is that the earlier outbreaks were in remote villages where, if it killed everyone, 50 people would die and no one else would come along for another six months and they'd all be gone. Of course the recent outbreaks - at least since the 70s - have usually been discovered but because they were taking place in remote locations, they didn't spread and were easily controlled. pubby

Stradial: Tell me, then, what would you do? ... humm; let me throw out some guesses of what one could do once they touched an infected person ... Immediately go blow your brains out with a shotgun before being proven contagious, figuring you'd get buried and in the ground before you did become contagious. Probably a bad idea because you may not be infected. Besides that, the virus doesn't demand a living body and it can live up several days after the person has died. Add to that the blood spatter, which might include the virus and with no notice that you may have it, you could t

I think the questions posed were fair. If the blood from the good doctor that survived was a match and a transfusion, as suggested by the WHO, was not given, it would represent bias in the care. However, if as asserted, the blood was not a match, it is certain that a blood-type mis-match is by definition not the right thing to do (I had a grandfather die of a blood-typing mismatch in the 1930s). As far as 'transport to Emory' is concerned ... that was as unrealistic an expectation in that case as it was in the suspected infection at the Cobb Jail that was explored and discredited (as a

It is a discussion of the way that viruses are transmitted. The idea is that chickens are used an an example. The effort to ridicule is childish. pubby