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4 hours ago, CitizenCain said:
The moral to the story is of course you hate Trump.
I knew that was coming but I didn't expect it from you.
Actually, you point to one of the social media manipulation techniques in a typical threaded message board. The rule says that you will win when you distill someone's too long post (like the one I just posted) into whatever meme you want to promote betting on the fact that a majority of people won't read the dang thing. That statistical fact means you can influence the 'majority' with topics of your choice.
What they discovered is they can throw out any kind of bs - make stuff up sometimes - because they can. It is kind of like the political campaigns these days where trope-based lies fuel the attack ads which have at most a flimsy link to truth. That hatefulness is goes back to Newt and his daily efforts at outrage 40 years ago.
We're where negative campaign ads lead.
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QuoteYou don't have to wear a tin foil hat to know that our government is corrupt. As I have said many times, it's not just the Democrats, much of the GOP is involved it it as well. It runs throughout our intel and justice systems, and much of the media is on the take.
At least I'm big enough to state that it's both parties, instead of continuing to worship one party like some here do.
All you've done is confirm that there is sin the world. If there was corruption in Georgia from 2002 to 2020, it would have to be 99.9 percent Republican because there have been no state wide elected Democrats here since then.
For that matter, the GOP held both houses of Congress from 2011 through 2019 and basically delegated the Democrats to the powerless back benches.
I also kind of resent the idea that you think 'everyone' is corrupt ... they are not.
Here's a story from me in 1977. The road house and compound at Canton, OK, one of the smallest bergs in Blaine County, OK, was a notorious mob hangout where drugs, gambling and prostitution happened.
I visited the place a couple of times being of age and the editor of the local bi-weekly newspaper. On one particular night, I left the joint and when I came to a rail crossing on the way back to town, I goosed it as it was a natural ramp that at the speed I was going, sent me airborne up to 100-feet. As I foolishly careened from one side of the highway to another as I sought to maintain control at 60 some odd mph, I resolved never to do that again
About two weeks later, also late on a Saturday night, I found myself rather pleased with the $20 I won playing pool as I returned over that stretch of highway, this time accompanied by wind-driven snow and taking it very, very easy.
I am very glad that I was because this time there was a freight train hiding behind the wind-driven snow blocking the road at the bottom of the hill as I crested it at 20 mph. It was maybe a seven percent grade to the tracks but unlike the other parts of the roadway, the combination of the train and wind had caused the entire area between the crest of the hill and the train to be covered with over an inch of snow. I pumped my brakes ten times as the car lost traction and slid, just hard enough to bend my fender and send my headlight shining high into the air as I hit the train broadside.
Anyway, I was cited for failure to yield to a train
as the folks at the gypsum company called the state police out.
That next Thursday edition of the paper listed my accident along with other accidents and damage associated with the light snow storm ON THE FRONT PAGE.
About a month later two things happened. The first was the insurance adjuster for the railroad. I had no idea they had illegally been blocking the highway for over an hour it appears. I didn't find that out until the adjusted offered me a low-ball amount of $250 for my damages and I took it. He let loose the salient fact as he actually did, what at the time was known as the tea-berry shuffle.
The other thing that happened was that a guy who had been caught up in Okeene with an open container in his car and, as the newspaper "The Watonga Republican" was a paper of record; we published that ticket. When the guy came before publication and asked I remove it saying, "If you were the one, you wouldn't print it," ... I said, no. Grabbed one of the two-three week old newspapers that had my 'ticket' announced on the front page. It would have been corruption had I suppressed that.
To further emphasize the point, I mentioned the mob connections to Canton Lake. (The rumors were that 30 years prior, John Dillinger, the most wanted man in the nation at the time, was recovering from his 'plastic surgery' at a cabin on Canton Lake. The owner of the bar - it was always open except when police raids were expected from tips - offered me continuing cash under the table if I'd just keep his and possibly some other names/photos 'out of the paper.' I told him I don't think so ... and he replied ... if my name comes up, just do it and left.
About two or three months later, I noticed one of my reports included that he had been picked up for something and I put his name in the paper. I never heard from him again.
I mentioned the attempted bribery (corruption) when I was visiting at home and one of my parents friends - his accountant - suggested I should when offered such compensation, I take the money and run.
Didn't then and never have. And as far as writing about corruption, lest you think the former Republican Paulding County Sheriff's conviction for child molestation is 'it' let me remind you that the last Democratic commission chairman, who left office in 96, was discussed in length over his attempts to extort businesses going into the north industrial park and especially the peculiar efforts made by the chairman to place the county employees health insurance through his wife's insurance agency. (Thwarted by outrage over the stories told by the county comptroller and published under my byline in the local newspaper.)
I mention the above because I frankly, I resent you calling everyone, politicians, reporters/media, party members, etc. corrupt. Certainly some are but what is rather genius about our two-party system (when it works - it has hardly ever worked in the American south because of a single-party dominates historically - is there is usually a vocal 'minority' keeping the elected officials honest with the help of the press.
In states and nations where only one party exists for all practical purposes, is where you find widespread corruption because anyone who complains is silenced. Two party states (or multiple parties) tend toward less corruption as competition intensifies because there is always someone from the other party with 'standing' and a voice that can be heard.
But the reality is things aren't black and white. Sometimes no parties are corrupt and other times both are but what your dark cynicism suggests is it is all corrupt. The reality is the United States, despite way too much corruption is still relatively low in terms of aggregate corruption and the way we got that way is primarily through the over-influence of money that has only gotten worse since Citizens' United.
Misinformation is also part of the corruption so when the fossil fuel industry started their campaign to undermine climate science, they were choosing to pollute and poison the common air for everyone freely and without cost. When those of us who see this massive billion dollar campaign to understand it is an effort to keep, for perpetuity, the option to destroy the commons by injecting billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air annually AT NO COST.
When I mentioned the doubling of knowledge of mankind literally daily these days, know that a portion of that increased knowledge is increased granularity as to the truth of climate science and the damage being done to the environment by people whose path to profits include trashing the earth and leaving it to the poor to clean it up if they can. (Most responsible corporate citizens now recognize this and are in the process of exploring mechanical extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere as yet another way to offset and mitigate necessary use of carbon-based fuels.)
Frankly, discovering, pumping and refining oil is not inherently corrupting anymore than growing tobacco is. Where corruption comes in is when you know better than to seek increasing the consumption of cigarettes or gasoline and fighting, and calling corrupt, efforts to mitigate such stupid consumption.
Still, the things that bother me most about saying 'everyone is corrupt' is that for a certain class of clever cretin, doing so is more like a pass and endorsement of corruption.
We should demand good, honest, efficient, wise government that doesn't coddle the stupid but rather educates them. ... You know like, now that we've told you two-masks are better than one and that going around in public without a mask covering both your nostrils and mouth is more reckless and irresponsible than driving 90 miles an hour through residential stop signs and their ought to be sanctions.
(I mean it is as if people who choose not to wear a mask, are actually bullies who have been empowered to go around and kick one out of five people in the shin (or hit them in the gut or in one-of every 80 or so cases, knife them with the intent of causing a sepsis infection and death.) and the rest of us are too intimidated to call them out for their boorish, ignorant behavior.
The point is they just as "free" to not wear a mask as they are to speed through subdivisions full of children. And considering the PRESENT risk, the penalties for violations should be the same.
(PS: To those cities rumored to fund portions of a city's obligations on traffic fines imposed on visitors; I personally think enforcing mask rules would be less an indication of corruption and probably more remunerative as I know I don't spend as much in stores these days because of the presence of mask-less idiots. More shopping, more sales tax, more fines, less cost of indigent care of the sick; what's there not to like.)
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You wrote: "God help us!"
My post just suggested that he did and is.
The entire problem with Trump was that he wanted us to live in an alternate reality where there is only one arbiter of 'truth' ... which was what Donald Trump said it was.
His coup, executed by a mob he gathered and sicked on the Article 1 power (Congress) in an effort to enforce an 'untruth' is just evidence of your, and his, attack on the truth.
Bottom line you can't have unity based on lies. I reject your assertion I was attacking Republicans. I was just celebrating the continuation of a constitutional system which has rebuffed one of the most serious challenges to our democratic order in 230 years. I say this because the only other time an enemy of our country and Constitution occupied by force our Capitol, it was the Red Coats of the Royal Navy that burned the building.
Frankly, I don't see many local Republicans, and I can begin with Governor Kemp and Secy. of State Brian Raffensberger, willing to sacrifice their careers, much less their lives in defense of the lies that lay at the heart of the sedition at the Capitol on 1/6/21. (Hell, even Mitch McConnell is indicting Trump for inciting the riot on that sad, sad day.
But as to the intersession of God; I called it a miracle as he protected Mike Pence and other congressional leaders on 1/6/2021 and preserved our democratic system of government. As conservatives had said in regard the consequences of elections, if you don't like and can't stand it ... leave. You have the choice.
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That was a great sermon by the pastor. I find their choice to limit youtube distribution blocking play here is a bit short-sighted - almost anti-evangelical - but as you noted in the other topic, they are powerful words in that they put the divisions into a context that emphasizes our commonality and humanity.
What perplexes me most is the apparent riling of emotion is all aimed at having people kill (murder) for a obvious lie about the results of the election.
Beginning with Roger Williams and William Penn, the former founder of Rhode Island and Penn founding Pennsylvania, religious freedom counted the theocratic efforts of New England's puritans who hatred for those peace-loving Christians of Quaker descent resulted in many Quakers' being hung and Boston, not to mention atrocities like the Salem Witch trials.
We all know the terrorism associated with fundamentalist Muslim groups - the 911 attack being the most notable and in some respects, America's fundamentalist religious right and its willingness to swallow lies and manipulation by political interests, is as obvious as the 71 million votes the former president got in November ... followed by the insurrectional mob on January 6, 2021.
While I've heard a lot of chatter on how bad that attack on the Capitol could have gone wrong, do know that if the mob had captured and assassinated Vice President Pence (Hang Mike Pence was a chant by the mob) they'd have taken out the sole person capable of invoking the 25th Amendment. (Given Trump's lack of interest in conducting proper business in the transition including periods of silence from the White House since the rampage of the 1/6/mob, I'm not sure the 25th Amendment wasn't, for all intents and purposes, invoked and Pence is calling the shots behind the scenes.)
Throw in the fact that the number one and two in order of succession were also Pence and Speaker Pelosi. Had they successfully disrupted the count of presidential electors and removed the top two individuals in succession - this appears to be the plan - Trump could have cited this 'attack by antifa' as reason for invoking martial law and ignoring the election especially if the elector's vote confirmation were thwarted by murder in the Capitol.
Continuing with succession, I don't think the President Pro-tempore of the Senate, Chuck Grassley, is up to the task and would have declined pushing succession to the cabinet. ( a lot of folks still wonder why the Secy. Defense and other top cabinet members were fired in the final days? Consider the DOD secretary is high in the order of succession. We might have ended up with either Trump or Mike Pompeo ... the first senate confirmed and therefore eligible cabinet member in the order of succession ... because the 'acting secretaries' are not qualified for succession.)
Given the numbers of the 1/6/mob and the apparent lack of security around the Capitol, my gut is that we all were witnessing a miracle - an act of God that separated the success of the coup from failure by mere seconds - that preserved our democracy on that fateful day. God Bless America.
But the issues we face are complex and will require that we approach our differences with greater understanding, not only of the facts and law, but understanding of our common humanity, an approach based on the real 'golden rule' - that one should love others as oneself.
One of the fundamental areas of conflict is the meaning of freedom of religion. Rather than proselytize, this article on the Wiki details the concept through history and is worthy a read.
And things are getting more and more 'complex' with suggestions that human knowledge as measured by data catalogued and subject to analysis, could well be doubling daily.
QuoteKnowledge Doubling Curve
Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months. According to IBM, the build out of the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.
Human Brain Indexing Will Consume Several Billion Petabytes
In a recent lecture at Harvard University neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman, who is attempting to map the human brain, has calculated that several billion petabytes of data storage would be needed to index the entire human brain. The Internet is currently estimated to be 5 million terabytes (TB) of which Google has indexed roughly 200 TB or just .004% of its total size. The numbers involved are astounding especially when considering the size of the human brain and the number of neurons in it.
Linear to Exponential Growth of Human Knowledge
A transition from the linear growth of human knowledge to the exponential growth of human knowledge has taken place.. According to researchers dealing with this information will necessitate the development of vastly more complex software, shareability, and artificial intelligence.
Author Clem Chambers, in a Forbes article on Amazon’s “Mechanical Turk” believes leading edge computer technology will be combined with artificial intelligence allowing collective problem-solving on a larger scale and the creation of vast amounts of data.
The implications of this kind of data in fields as diverse as space exploration to criminal justice are enormous. I suspect that certain policies from our war on Drugs to the militarism of international relations will, by necessity, be re-thought and policies change to encourage efficiency, environmentalism, health, growth and responsibility. I do believe we will be better off for effort.
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Lieutenant Mark Parker Retires From the Sheriff’s Office
(Paulding County, GA) On Friday January 8, 2021 Lieutenant Mark Parker officially retired from the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic an official retirement celebration was unable to be held, but the Deputies and civilian staff at the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office were able to send him away with well wishes from afar.
Lieutenant Parker began his law enforcement career with the Birmingham Police Department (Alabama) in 1978. He worked there until 1989 where he enlisted in the United States Army and was on active duty until 1995, during which time he was deployed to the Middle East for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Lieutenant Parker began his career at the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office on July 16, 1995 as a Detention Officer. During his over 25 year career with the Sheriff’s Office, he served under two different sheriffs.
Lieutenant Parker began his career with the Sheriff’s Office like most, working in our Jail Division. Since he had several years of law enforcement in Alabama and military experience prior to his employment with the Sheriff’s Office, he was quickly sent to Basic Mandate training where he graduated and became a Deputy Sheriff. Lieutenant Parker worked in the Uniform Patrol Division for five years until he formed the Technical Services Unit (Crime Scene Unit) under the direction of then Sheriff, Bruce Harris (deceased). Lieutenant Parker was responsible for creating and streamlining crime scene processing in our county and acquiring all of the most up to date equipment we needed to process crime scenes.
In April 2001, Lieutenant Parker graduated from Polygraph School and became the first polygrapher at the Sheriff’s Office, where he conducted criminal specific polygraphs only. In 2006, Sheriff Bruce Harris promoted Lieutenant Parker to the rank of Lieutenant where he continued to oversee the Technical Services Unit and the Polygraph Unit. During his time at the Sheriff’s Office, Lieutenant Parker was also responsible for developing a forensic computer investigation unit within his division as well. He attended numerous hours of training and was very skilled when it came to technology. When he retired, Lieutenant Parker oversaw three Detectives in his unit.
In addition to his regular duties, Lieutenant Parker was also a founding member of the Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team where he served as the Sniper Team Leader for a number of years. He was also a founding member of the Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard unit as well.
Sheriff Gary Gulledge stated, “Mark is one of the smartest, most hard working people I have ever worked with. Without him, this agency would likely not have advanced the way that it has. I am thankful that he had the wherewithal and perseverance to create and operate our Polygraph and Crime Scene Unit with such success for so many years. I wish we could have sent him off with a huge party, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic we were unable to. Once everything gets back to normal, we will host an official retirement ceremony for him along with several others at a later date. I hope he enjoys time with his family and gets to relax as much as he wants.”
Lieutenant Parker’s law enforcement and military career has spanned over 42 years. During his tenure in law enforcement, he has seen many changes. We want to wish Lieutenant Parker a happy and relaxing retirement. Now he will have plenty of time to enjoy life and spend time with his family.
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OFFICIAL NEWS RELEASE FROM PAULDING COUNTY ELECTION SUPERVISOR DEIDRE HOLDEN
NOVEMBER 30, 2020 DALLAS, GA
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR AND MISLEADING INFORMATION REFERRING TO ELECTION FRAUD
Recently a lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division naming 5 Georgia Counties for alleged election fraud. The counties listed are as follows: Forsyth, SPALDING (NOT PAULDING), Cherokee, Hall and Barrow. Paulding county IS NOT a part of this lawsuit or named in this lawsuit. Paulding County conducted the November 2020 General Election with integrity and transparency and has had NO issues or discrepancies. We appreciate the concerns that have been voiced. However, we are not responsible for typographical errors, mispronunciation of county names by the media or word of mouth reports that are causing confusion throughout this County and State. AGAIN, PAULDING COUNTY IS NOT in any way associated with this lawsuit.
Please share this information with as many people as possible.
Here is the link where the lawsuit can be found: www.defendtherepublic.org COUNTIES NAMED CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 3 OF THE DOCUMENT.
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Heard something was up earlier today so thought I'd check it out and this is what I found.
Said differently, this ain't Spaulding.com :)
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Actually, the media is just reporting the literal fear being expressed by those concerned with the national security.
If you haven't gathered, all those folks we used to think were our 'friends' in foreign policy were pushed away by Trump who cuddled up with the worlds' authoritarians (Putin, Xi, Kim, Erdogan, Duarte). The prospects of war and conflict have been literally taken from a relatively stable situation to one that has the prospect of descending into ever greater chaos.
For instance it was announced today that Trump just surplussed the only aircraft that is being used for world-wide, shared intelligence under a treaty negotiated by GHW Bush during the fall of the former soviet union and still in effect today. It was basically an intelligence sharing agreement amongst the US, Russia, most of eastern and western europe, etc. It gives all the countries military's intelligence on the movements of their potential enemies but in effect, because there are no troop movements that look like a surprise attack, it works to mitigate the peace in a very efficient manner.
The unnecessary and odd personnel changes at DOD doesn't inspire a belief in a controlled state of affairs if a crisis were to arise. I mean if you live in a world of make believe. While I don't believe we may be attacked in the homeland, I would have concern for Russia's expansion ideas in eastern Europe. After all, this is nothing new for them if you recall Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
Covid and other circumstances are all in the mental mix not only of our allies but especially our enemies and, if they sense that we are too internally confused, they may do these things.
We're all still dealing with the realignments after the 2008 crash and, with the pandemic afoot (not to mention the dislocations being caused by global climate change - check out the DOD report on that sometime for a fright show) we find ourselves in what can only be described as 'interesting times.'
Considering the current circumstance, most of us can conjure the meaning of that ancient Chinese curse - May you live in interesting times.
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got a notice this morning that this young man has been found, safe and sound and has been reunited with his family.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dallas, Georgia, September 18, 2020 – As Paulding County’s population continues to grow so does demand for Emergency Medical Service. Today, PCFD announced the commission of a new EMS Division, which will focus on meeting the rapidly increasing emergency medical needs of its citizens.
Battalion Chief Timothy King, a 25-year veteran of PCFD, and an experienced Paramedic, has been promoted to lead the newly formed Division. Chief King, who assumes his new duties on October 19th, is tasked to enhance Paulding Fire’s medical response capabilities and to improve the tools which are used to care for patients. Chief King will also serve as Paulding County’s liaison to Metro Atlanta EMS, the State’s licensed emergency medical transport/ambulance agency for Paulding County, as well as Wellstar Paulding Hospital and other hospitals that treat patients transported from Paulding.
According to Chief Joey Pelfrey, “Paulding Fire has been working hard to meet the evolving needs of our County. In 2019 we responded to ~12,250 calls for medical service. That represented 75% of our total 911 call volume. Our new EMS Division will partner with Metro Atlanta Ambulance Service to ensure we quickly respond to medical emergencies with the right personnel and equipment at the right time.”
“Over the years many of our Firefighters earned Paramedic and EMT credentials on their own time and at their own cost,” Chief Pelfrey continued. “As part of our comprehensive long-term plan we launched a PCFD-sponsored Advanced EMT training program in 2019 - which is close to graduating it’s second cohort of certified Advanced EMT’s. Everything we do as a Department is designed to ensure the very-best emergency services regardless of the type of incident we are responding to. Under the leadership of Chief King in our newly formed EMS Division, we are another step closer to delivering world-class services to the citizens of Paulding County.”
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15 hours ago, November Rain said:
Does anything good happen around 2:15 AM?
duh; you're the one in Vegas
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Here's a screen capture from the CW series Stargirl. Does anyone know what time it is?
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I've confirmed a couple of things. First, the series Stargirl, produced in 2019 for distribution in 2020 is an ongoing sci-fi series produced in Paulding County; presumably at the Paulding studio.
Apparently there is some debate as to the nature of this production given its employment of the tunnels. Some think this is just another idiotic conspiracy theory about the tunnels, much like the one centered around Texas and the military operation called Jade Helm back in 2015 that tried to incorporate the Paulding Tunnels.
It seems some of the most dramatic videos regarding that were disappeared by Youtube as I recall some of these having massive viewership (over 200,000 views) whereas it is a rare one in the latest search that had over 1000 views.
Here is one based on a paulding.com post from way-back when.
Now most people don't believe people are being disappeared and any video depiction of such is part of this TV series that some say is produced here and in Georgia generally.
That said, the conspiracy theory of tunnels in Paulding that reach out across the south east and nation would be make the disappearing of people somewhat feasible considering the overall lore surrounding the Paulding Tunnels.
Maybe someone could ask the gal that is running as the Republican to replace 14th District Congressman Tom Graves since she is in tight with "Qanon," whom I understand is her most trusted source and knows about this kind of stuff.
On the other hand, the TV show seems to rate high on rotten tomatoes and IMDB which speaks to either the genius of the powers behind this conspiracy - its a perfect cover - or their professionalism as program producers. I'm going to have to watch to see, 'cause in this world where truth can stranger than fact ...
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An apparently frustrated pcom member sent us this video of a person literally stealing the video security cam from her back porch on Confederate Ave at 2:30am I'm thinking Thursday night/Friday morning.
She wrote us:
QuoteGood morning! Can you post this on Paulding.com for me please? This guy went all around my house at 2:30 in the morning and stole all my cameras. I went to work as usual after the cops left. But I could not sleep Friday night knowing I didn't have cameras I was so terrified I didn't leave my house yesterday. I am a wreck right now I have a girlfriend coming over to spend the day with me today.
Here's the video
I'll leave it to the member to identify herself and I'm sure the Dallas PD would be interested in any information on the whereabouts of the perpetrator of this crime.
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I get an email every day or so highlighting news from the website "Futurism.com" and thought I'd share a taste of variety of topics covered by the site.
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I get an email every day or so highlighting news from the website "Futurism.com" and thought I'd share a taste of variety of topics covered by the site.
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A guest came by and asked how one might order this item.
You don't have to order it, you can go by A &M and buy it. They are in the business park just west of the hospital and if you're coming from Hiram, you'll have to go up to the next intersection on 278 at Palisades SD and make a U-e to get there.
Need an address? Click on A&M's 'logo-image' anchoring the post and it will take you to a profile page where their address and phone number are immediately available.
Hope that helps
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Here is how to get your FREE Mask... PLEASE Post in this TOPIC.
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so we can SNAIL Mail the Face Covering to you.
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(Paulding County, GA) On Sunday June 7, 2020 at approximately 7:29 PM a 911 call was placed to Paulding E-911 reference a person shot at 99 Summer Glen Trail Dallas, GA 30157. When Deputies arrived on the scene they located the victim, Kevin Mack Murr, (W-M, 56 YOA), deceased inside the residence. Evidence at the scene suggested that Murr died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.
Deputies were able to interview all of the parties at the residence and determined that the suspect, identified as Clark Chandler Anderson (W/M, 22 YOA), was alleged to have shot the victim. Anderson is the son of the victim’s girlfriend. Detectives learned that after some type of domestic dispute occurred between Anderson and Murr, Anderson retrieved a handgun from a room inside the residence and fired multiple rounds at Murr striking him several times.
Deputies were able to arrest Anderson on the scene without incident. Anderson was subsequently charged with the following offenses:
-Murder (F)
-Malice Murder (F)
-Aggravated Assault (F) 2 counts
-Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime (F)
-Hindering a 911 Call (M)
Anderson is currently being held in the Paulding County Jail with no bond.
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Paulding County Firefighters Rescue Victims Trapped in House Fire Dallas, Georgia, June 11, 2020.
At 6:25 pm on Thursday, June 11th, Paulding County Fire & Rescue was dispatched to a residential structure fire located at 195 Hillside Drive. The initial 911 call, placed by a neighbor, reported heavy black smoke coming from the residence. 2 minutes later an occupant from inside the home called advising his stove was on fire and that they were evacuating - but that two family members were trapped inside.
PCFD Engine 3 arrived on the scene at 6:30pm and encountered heavy fire coming from the front and right-side of the home with extension already into the attic. Family members met Engine 3 in the front-yard and advised that a 70 year-old disabled female and a 15 year-old special-needs female were both still inside trapped in the house. Fire Department personnel immediately commenced fire suppression and search & rescue operations.
Engine 3 was able to quickly locate and rescue the trapped 15 year-old using a bedroom window where Paulding County Sheriff Deputies rendered first aid. Engine 3’s crew returned inside the structure, along with Engine 8 and Heavy Squad 1 who had arrived on the scene, and were able to locate and rescue the 70 year-old out of a rear bedroom window and down a ladder. Both victims suffered smoke inhalation but no life-threatening burns or injuries. Metro EMS transported them to Wellstar Paulding Hospital in stable condition.
Although still under investigation, the preliminary cause appears to have been a grease or cooking fire originating in the kitchen. No Firefighters or Sheriff’s Deputies were injured. Personnel from the American Red Cross are assisting the family with temporary housing and providing necessities as the home was significantly damaged by the fire. Additional details will be released once the investigation is completed.
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Murder Arrest Made in Domestic Dispute
(Paulding County, GA) On December 22, 2019 at approximately 12:44 AM a 911 call was placed to Paulding E-911 reference a possible suicide attempt. Deputies along with Fire/EMS personnel responded to 83 Braemill Court Dallas, GA 30157 where they discovered Daniel Akers, (W/M, 36 YOA) deceased at the residence with a gunshot wound to the head.
As Detectives began their investigation they discovered some inconsistencies with what Akers’ wife stated in relation to what the evidence indicated. The evidence lead Detectives to believe that something else had occurred at the home rather than what was originally reported as a suicide. Due to the inconsistences in this case, the death of Akers remained an open and active death investigation pending an autopsy. Akers’ body was subsequently transported to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Crime Lab in Atlanta for autopsy.
Due to the complexity of this case combined with the COVID-19 pandemic that temporarily closed government entities down, it took much longer to get the full autopsy results back from the GBI. However, on May 29, 2020 the autopsy report came back from the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office. The report determined that the gunshot wound suffered by Akers was not self-inflicted and that the cause of death was listed as a homicide.
On May 29, 2020 Detectives from the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division secured warrants and arrested Lacy Jolee Boles (W/F, 37 YOA) without incident. She was ultimately charged with the following offenses:
-Malice Murder (F)
-Murder (F)
-Aggravated Assault (F)
-False Statements (F)
-Tampering With Evidence (F)
Boles was granted bond by the Paulding County Superior Court on June 5, 2020 and was released from the Paulding County Jail on a $100,000 bond on June 6, 2020.
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Paulding County Health Department offering free drive-up COVID-19 testing
DALLAS, GA: Free COVID-19 testing is available to all Georgians who request it, whether they have symptoms or not. The Paulding Health Department, 451 Jimmy Campbell Parkway, Dallas, is offering free drive-up COVID-19 testing from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
Anyone wanting to be tested should go to the health department, remain in their vehicle, call 770-443-7881, and say they want to be tested for COVID-19. A nurse will come to the vehicle, obtain contact information for follow-up, and collect the specimen needed for testing. Test results will be reported just as soon as available.
“We encourage everyone to get tested for COVID-19 infection to determine who is currently ill and contagious,” says Dr. Gary Voccio, health director for the Georgia Department of Public Health Northwest Health District. “This helps us identify people who might transmit the virus. We can then isolate them to prevent transmission, ensure they’re cared for, identify and interview their close contacts, and quarantine and monitor these individuals as necessary to slow the spread of the virus.”
The Northwest Health District is now conducting free COVID-19 testing at health departments or other sites in Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Paulding, Polk, and Walker counties.
For the locations of all Georgia COVID-19 testing sites, please visit https://dph.georgia.gov/locations/covid-19-testing-site. For contact information for these sites, go to https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-testingdirect-patient-lines.
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Logan Boss
Public Information Officer/Risk Communicator
Georgia Department of Public Health
Northwest Health District
1309 Redmond RD NW
Rome, GA 30165-9655
www.facebook.com/NorthwestHealthDistrict
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Sheriff Gary Gulledge would like to announce the partial opening of the new Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and Jail complex. The new complex which has been under construction for the past several years is officially opening tomorrow morning to the public.
Although full Jail operations will begin in the coming weeks, all other law enforcement operations will be conducted out of our new facility which is located at 180 Constitution Boulevard Dallas, GA 30132 (directly behind the Paulding County Courthouse). Sheriff
Gary Gulledge stated, “We fully intended to host several public tours of the new facility, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing guidelines, we were unable to. We have been working on a virtual tour video that we will share with the public in the coming weeks via our social media pages.” He further added, “I am so appreciative to our community members for their support during this massive undertaking.
This facility will fill the needs of Paulding County citizens for years to come.” As many of you may remember, the approval to construct the new Sheriff’s Office and Jail facility was voted on and approved by the citizens of Paulding County in the 2016 general election.
The culmination of this project will be a complete enhancement of law enforcement services for the citizens of Paulding County. On Tuesday May 19, 2020 at 8:00 AM the lobby of the new Paulding County Sheriff’s Office will be open to the public. We want to remind everyone that social distancing guidelines will be strictly enforced and we encourage everyone to wear an N95 mask if possible.
We will also be limiting the amount of people in our lobby. If you can conduct your business by phone, we still encourage you to do so. Please feel free to call us at (770) 443-3010 if you have any questions.
We also want to remind everyone that our old Jail facility is still housing our inmates. If you need to bond someone out of jail or add money to an inmates account, please go to 25 Industrial Way North Dallas, GA 30132 or visit our website at www.paulding.gov/sheriff for more information. If you would like to conduct a video visitation with an inmate go to www.gettingout.com . Once the new Jail opens, we will make sure the public is aware of the change of address. -
Happened to be checking out something entirely different on Youtube when I came across this documentary on the 1918 Flu epidemic which killed about 3 percent of those infected - sometimes within hours of contracting the disease.
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There was a fellow named Jim Griffards, if memory serves, who was one of the 'players' in the early ebay.
Your post here, reminds me of what Griff, as he was known as moderator on what was the main ebay chat board back in 1997.
It was a simple chat, open to everyone and when someone posted something stupid, wrong, libelous or whatever, as the chief mod, he'd just start making chat line entrees in rapid succession and as new entries appeared at the top of the page and old one's dropped off the bottom of the page, that was the prime way to moderate the conversation. He actually had a few 'extra' friends around to add dittos to his devastating onslaught.
GD, you get an A+ for loyalty to Donald Trump but you got to know that is different than loyalty to the nation.
There is no excuse for what was done. He asked people to die for his lie.