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Nope ... The chick flick "The Notebook" (the one with James Garner in old age reading the love of his life a set of letters bringing her momentarily in and out of the fog of Alzheimer's Disease giving two lovers who missed the boat in their youth, moments of joy punctuated by the misery of the disease ... which is also an odd movie to stir one's libido. Frankly, I'm hoping some police supervisor stumbling on a similar circumstance will see the utter foolishness of this and suggest to his officers they leave the charge at something like prowling. Hell, the cost to the community o

The centerpiece of my failed campaign was that things (contracts included) should sit on the table until the next meeting before a vote is made to pass or amend the measure. My impression of the other candidates is that they don't approach process with the seriousness to make that happen ... so good luck. pubby

We know there are a lot of voters in Georgia (as well as politicians here) NJ ... who are extremists ... and Tom, being a member of the Tea Party Caucus in DC, is right there among them. pubby PS: From politico:

This from Agence France-Presse -AFP journalists cover wars, conflicts, politics, science, health, the environment, technology, fashion, entertainment, the offbeat, sports and a whole lot more in text, photographs, video, graphics and online ... via Raw Story. Notably, this may affect the local market at our own fledgling movie studio. pubby

It is 29 miles from the Riverfront in Savannah ... the county line literally runs along I 95 which is the major Interstate north and south which I associate with getting to 'Savannah' ... As far as the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" ... one of the characters is a drag queen called Lady Chablis ... who if memory serves, was in the process of a sex change ... and when you throw in walking the imaginary dog, the other rather odd characters in the movie including the various trysts and other relationships (and lazziefaire attitudes toward them) ... a idea of former brother now

I know ... it is so gross I'm surprised the deputy didn't say ... ugh ... get the effingham out of here ... I don't want the world to know this happened. pubby

If you had the feeling that you need to go to Louisiana to St. John the Baptist Parish to get dunked for Jesus, wait a few months because a brain-eating amoeba has been discovered in that county's public water supply. Yep, a brain-eating amoeba that public health officials point out can be drank and can be bathed in but the users are cautioned seriously to keep it out of their noses. This is because the amoeba gets into the human brain through the nasal cavity and once in your grey matter, starts feasting and multiplying. Infection by the microbe is traditionally fatal although an Arkan

No ... but you know that. As far as extremists ... our congressman is "I don't believe in compromise" Tom Graves. For a MOC (member of congress) an aversion to compromise is ... well the essence of extremism. pubby

I wouldn't call him my hero. I would blame the holds placed by GOP senators and the inability of the body to invoke cloture as among the roadblocks in the senate. pubby

Really, I was just thinking that was a delaying tactic. pubby

Those opposing the airport are going to do anything they can to delay the project. Those who support it aren't happy about it. What else is new. pubby

This 25 year old man (right) and his 20 year old half sister were charged with incest, aggravated sodomy and prowling in a parking lot across the street from Effingham High School in Effingham County, adding a new dimension to the county's name and high school. According to WJBF, channel six in Savannah, two Effingham County siblings 20-year-old Christopher Buckner, of Guyton, Georgia and her half-brother, 25-year-old Timothy Savoy, of Jackson, Georgia, admitted to having sex in a parking lot The Sheriff's Office says the two were caught in a semi truck in a parking lot across from Eff

Well, it sounds like you think that everyone (including yourself) is a criminal and since it is okay to shoot and kill criminals, maybe we ought to just line every one up and shoot them. The the cops, who also happen to be human, can take their last bullet and kill themselves and, like a miracle, we have a perfect society with no crime, no hunger and no want. You know stradial, I never ever did peg you for a utopian. pubby

This from Yahoo News! (which ripped it off from somewhere else Whether by attrition, incompetence (loss) or down right thievery, it is obvious that in practice there are problems in numerous police departments regarding the misappropriation of some serious equipment. The losses reported in Georgia from the originating article: I think it also important to add from that story that "This is still a developing story. Specific information about the individual causes of suspension are still trickling in from various local sources across the country." BTW, the comments in th

Anyway, from reading reports, including those in the AJC and the Dawson News, it appears that the GOP Insurance commissioner Ralph Hudgens - the one that got caught and had is words broadcast and netcast nationwide saying he would do everything he could to obstruct Obamacare - was speaking as this citizen journalist was in the audience on the front row recording the stump speeches at this gathering at a place of public accommodation. - It is a private venue where they hold the pumpkin festival in Dawson County so pictures are generally considered okay ... I mean it is a place for celebration

Yep, Teddy Roosevelt was a trust-busting progressive who didn't took the country back from the oligarchs. Our choice in the last election was between someone who didn't take the country back from the oligarchs ... and an oligarch. pubby

There have been numerous congressional hearings with the persons being grilled being under oath ... and those circumstances didn't return a true bill ... but what are you bitching about. I didn't take any of your rants down. BTW: You know that your congress - the 231 Republican members - constitute a majority and if those things are so egregious the remedy is to impeach. I think folks would actually welcome such an action but I doubt that it will happen because the GOP is all talk and - drum roll - NO ACTION. And the NO ACTION is really the truth. pubby

I don't claim to be a forensic scientist but I am a friend of physics. What you need to realize is that there were ten or more shots fired; at least four missed their mark. Are they in the pavement 40-60 yards behind the youth - the location you'd expect the rounds to be given an officer firing from shoulder high to mid torso ... i.e. the trajectory would be slightly downward. Or are the bullets lodged in the exterior of a tree or house that show a general trajectory of shoulder high to shoulder high on a taller person making those locations - slightly elevated from the scene on the

what gets me stradial is that all those folks who are so suspicious of anything that government does, except shoot unarmed people in the middle of the street in broad daylight is fair game. I just heard my former opponent accuse the county commission of being corrupt and crooked and these are people that I know and believe are in the case of the airport, doing something to bring business and industry to the county. Yet apparently more people - given the results of the May 20 election - feel otherwise. Why do you say that this is their fault? Could it be that you're just skeptical of Pau

Look at the placement of the shots to the arm for a moment. Consider that Michael Brown was not laying down when he was shot and the shots entered the inside of the arms. Typically, unless you're really, really 'gay' and walk like a woman, the location you'd like be shot in the arm would be on the 'outside' of the arm - especially if you were 'charging' a target. In fact, if you were presenting the insides of your arm while standing your posture would be downright weird. Now, think about arms in the air. Now the inside of your arm is exposed to the front of the body. Also with arms

Here is the AP report on this incident from youtube: pubby

I didn't commit her testimony to memory. I'm reading that he fell to his knees as he fell. I think the vice.com article entitled "Cops are liars that get away with perjury" that came up on the testilying search pretty much states the case: Cops are like everyone else... when it is easy for them to do the right thing, they'll do the right thing. Bringing a brother officer up on charges frankly, is never an easy thing to do and the average cop, even though it might be the right thing to do, will avoid bringing a brother officer up on charges because it is a very hard thing t

I don't know. I want a full public trial to determine what happened. BTW, as I pointed out in an earlier post, some 18 years ago, a prosecutor in New Orleans, got a lab report saying that John Thompson was not the robber in a case that left the clerk dead because the blood from the shooter was a different type. The prosecutor got that information from his lab days before the trial and had not shared the presence or availability of blood evidence with the defendants counsel. Only, in a last-minute appeal was the presence of blood evidence - true forensic evidence - made known to the def

Actually, the woman who drove up on the scene said that she saw Brown stop, turn around then begin to charge and then, went down on his knees. She is the one who said that he held his hands up when he turned around. She also stated that during the time before Michael Brown turned, raised his hands and charged, the officer was chasing him which suggests that his aim may not have been accurate if he was running toward the youth. I can say with certainty that I don't take any of the specific eyewitness reports as gospel. Rather the information - and at this point we're talking pure d

I think this kind of response is what is also being criticized when critics of today's policing start railing against the militarism of the police. It is kind of strange but I remember back in the 1950s when my great aunt ... a matriarchal woman who lived in Connecticut and had retired from teaching in the New York City public schools remarked how she hated the Highway Patrol show featuring Broderic Crawford as Dan Matthews ... It was a typical situation ... a guy running from the police and them cornering him and the resulting shootout with 10-15 police against this lone guy with his