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Tundra: You guys, with the help of Delta and other out-of-county forces conspired to submarine the contract and breach the provisions that required the county to proceed with projects and efforts to obtain 139-A designation. You may be surprised that Propeller is not eager to pony up additional cash and instead require that the county cease its breach and, in an effort to show it was a two-way street, withhold promised payments. We all know the three on the BOC would, if they could, file a suit alleging breach by propeller. Frankly that is what is being played publicly even in this t

The inch, foot, ounce, quart and 'gallon' ... ever heard of it referenced as the "imperial" gallon? ... are from our English legacy. The metric system was just a good idea and allows for mass standardization of components, fasteners, tools etc. Only the US, Myanmar and Liberia have not adopted the metric system. This choice, on our part, probably confounds the issues we have with exports from American manufacturing. And, I think the pointing of the finger at that Reagan period as when we took a massive step backwards in this area is fitting. It really should have been calle

I think it is a really silly idea and I'd hate to embarrass you but if you're serious, I'm negotiable down to doing the test live. pubby

I think you need to re-read who posted those comments. I wouldn't want to be accused of plagiarism. pubby

From the beginning I've believed that the voters should have a say on any expansion of the facility beyond a 6500 foot single runway. Getting OCD in your old age, I see. pubby

How convenient for the monopoly that you feel that way. pubby

They didn't publicly call out a competitor. They kept what they were doing under wraps until it was appropriate to announce and then holy hell came back on them because, despite doing something as modest as was planned, was considered high competition and an insult to the monopoly. After all what good is to be a monopoly if you don't act like one. pubby

I still don't get your feeling that I lied ... as if it makes any difference. Do know that I have about 12 hours of course work in sociology and am quite familiar with books like C. Wright Mill's "The Power Elite" ... which was a study of the power structure of a midwest city that identified leading families. Why I object to your statements that I identified Paulding as being run by "six" families is because there are two factions traditionally at play in the county that, from the 1960s, would trade control over the courthouse; making a point of running the county broke at the end of

I don't think anyone believes that raw sewage being dumped into creeks is a good thing. Just because folks don't want to crucify the city of Dallas mayor and council doesn't mean they approve. pubby

I don't think anyone believes that raw sewage being dumped into creeks is a good thing. Just because folks don't want to crucify the city of Dallas mayor and council doesn't mean they approve. pubby

You got a problem with government and you have a problem with me. Hell it is so bad a problem I suspect that if I pulled out a .38 and plugged government in the gut, you'd claim I was holding back because I should have used a .45. Your slanders are indicative of a sick, pathetic person who dwells on hate and you should get some help. pubby

So, I should write down your name as being among those who favor a $150+ million bond issue for sewerage treatment facilities? We'll solve the problem with a rapid expansion of the system financed on the front end with taxes instead of all the rigmarole of a revenue bond. I'll start a PAC in favor of such a thing if there is interest and we'll go to the city and county and demand they authorize expansion of the system and address issues such as failing septic, etc. Can't promise it will serve your home nor can I promise it will open more land to development. It can, however, be based on

You forget the Pinto ... and the cost-benefit analysis that went into the decision to avoid a $11.00 a car fix that would have saved 100s of lives ... (or the key issue in GM cars or the TATA airbag fiasco, etc. etc.) The difference here is that no one died from the effluent and the unwritten part of it is that one of the issues is that the effluent may be partially treated but not treated up to standards. The city of Atlanta is in the same boat with antiquated sewerage treatment facilities. Also consider the attitude of no new taxes for any new reason pledges placed by politicians ...

My gut is after they were arrested here, they flipped on Chucky ... pubby

I said no such thing. I simply observed that was being done just as you have observed car accidents that have taken millions of lives over the last hundred or so years. Would I be correct to say that you think it is okay that millions have died in car accidents? I'll ask one question ... Who is the salesman ... and what are they selling. Show me who is paying? Ultimately, the question regarding the airport is what is so bad about planes that carry people on a schedule - i.e. serve people in a predictable way? What makes that use and utility worse than planes carrying cargo

Local drug arrests predated Cobb's "Chucky" Baza drug supermarket bust Dallas (Paulding County), GA – Back in October 2015, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Haralson Paulding Drug Task Force and the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office arrested Antonio Mendoza, age 19, and Edgar Alejandro Montoya, age 19, for trafficking in methamphetamine, trafficking in heroin, possession of firearm during the commission of a crime, and theft by receiving stolen property. The two were involved in the big bust of "Chucky's" drug supermarket - the name Cobb County investigators assigned to the drug

Good ... I guess. I would have thought that since the folks fighting the airport had fought the taxi-way extension and even sought at one time to have the work 'undone' that they would, on principal, fight making the payment so that the bond holders would come take the airport away from the airport authority and they could show Delta how loyal they were. I guess they aren't that loyal. And to those who assert that the Pownall Administration wouldn't consider trashing the credit rating of the county; one can only observe they've trashed this deal and a good part of the economic develop

LPPT: He knows he is mortal. That the time 'will come.' They have hospice for the home services so it can be set up and they come into the home on a regular basis ... depending on how they are doing. I know my dad had hospice for like two-three months before he passed. Hospice doesn't have to be an institutional thing. They just make available palliative care - those with cancers would get pain killers, etc. - and obviously there is no crash cart in the home. Family members can still call an ambulance if there is something like a fall and from my recollection, it is really just a ma

I think it was his way of saying that I said the emperor has no clothes ... the twist being that I called Todd the emperor. pubby

Truly a must see ... if only to see that Todd Pownall says that if he were the investors behind Propeller, he wouldn't pay the bond payment either ... "I don't blame them." Still, Pownall, while suggesting that he wanted the commission to somehow rewrite the laws enabling the Airport Authority and IBA, made no mention of how his administration planned to make the bond payment, only stating that he would NOT cooperate with Propeller, the AA or the IBA who ask only that the commission stop trying to roadblock the 139 application. So, with the Pownall administration turning down the o

Frankly, that whole element of the discussion was in reference to the exaggerated danger to the Richland Creek reservoir that Whitey alleged was going to be showing floaters from the dump in Dallas. No so; the amount of fecal matter from runoff of creek land, pastures, and woods will far exceed the paltry 67,000 gallons of untreated sewerage from the city of Dallas after it meanders through the dozens of streams and creeks and enters the Etowah River just west of the Allatoona dam ... especially considering that the majority of the flow into Richland Creek will come from Allatoona's mandatory

Actually, the government can print money. It, however, created the federal reserve banks and delegated that task to them. It also created a web of laws that allow banks to literally create money on the spot. Yes, redneckkhikchikk, of the money in circulation, 95 percent of it has been created by the banks. There are many videos on youtube explaining this. pubby

That is not my point at all ... it is my observation of what they decided to do. I just find it hard to get excited about old news - that news being that the city of Dallas is a chronic violator of the state's laws regarding dumping of effluent and will likely remain one until the plant responsible for the violations is closed. pubby PS: I think the perception of old white men who are generally conservative does make me sound more Republican than a woman like Patti Smith ... I do think that helped her in the Democratic Primary ... given the Republican's war on women - especially out

Whitey ... that was the general election. All the decisions of who would be the Republican candidate and odds-on favorite was made in the May 2014 primary. I obviously was not a candidate in Nov. and the observation that Todd won in Crimson Red Paulding County over the liberal lady and Democratic Candidate Patti Smith is superfluous. Neither Vernon or Tony even had Democratic challengers. pubby pubby

Whitey: I was generally aware of the city of Dallas issues with sewerage treatment and know the long range plan for the city's sewerage service is for it to 'go away' ... literally close down its treatment facilities and have the county provide the service to city residents through modern plants. This, as I understand it, was a Dept. of Community Affairs decision that impacted the city's ability to borrow money, etc. for new sewerage treatment plant construction. This has been the case for the last ten years - i.e. the decision is for the city to exit the service by something like 2025 .