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To my knowledge, no other candidate has claimed to have the answer. An entire building full of Georgia Representatives were unable to fully fund education at anywhere near 2007 levels. I am asking just what that answer is beyond "I support education and will straighten out those in Atlanta". That is why I opened with the one word sentence "How". I trust that Mr. Avery should be prepared to answer that question. We are talking about a lot of money, far beyond "pork". The State has been in the throes of this recession for 3 fiscal years now, and beyond the small headline making earmarks like

How? By raising taxes? Which Taxes? By cutting other important programs? Which State funded programs will you cut that will yield over $30 Million for Paulding County and similar percentages state wide? Every politician in Georgia will likely have said the same thing as you just did by this November, but nobody else seems to know the secret formula that will preserve education funding without breaking the back of the taxpayer or seriously compromising other critical functions of Government. We are all in this together, and every department within State Government has shouldered a larger

Madea, I know several developers throughout the state, and when I mention that I'm from Paulding County, they literally laugh out loud. We had a state wide reputation as being wide open to whatever any residential or strip mall developer wanted to do. No zoning law, transportation problem, density regulation, environmental concern, runoff problem, or strain on infrastructure could stand in the way. PRD was a license to rape the land and the taxpayers of this county. We are , or at least were, a literal laughingstock. It is the responsibility of the BOC to control development to balance

:good: It is just that. A threat. The same threat they use every time they get their panties in a wad because they want more of our money. NO SPLOST. SPLOST only makes "others" pay as advertised in counties and municipalities that have a large tourist base or that have commuters coming to work in the area. Paulding is the exact opposite of that. The residents of Paulding pay the vast majority of the Paulding SPLOST and a fair chunk of Cobb and Fulton's also.. Paulding is not a destination community. You can thank our previous BOC for not courting industry to augment the resident

As soon as the weather clears, NOAA will continue to post satellite images HERE. Because of the bad weather, the latest image currently posted is April 29th.

Same here. Went to get a Hummingbird tag for my camper and they were out. It came in the mail in about 10 days from the state.

Ditto my friend. I thought about you when I saw the house passing the cars in Nashville. Stay dry.

Not trying to minimize this, but a small correction. It will be about 2 months for a PERMANENT fix, which is a relief well. The plan is to move a dome into place and start redirecting the flow onto tankers or the shore within 2 weeks. This is a temporary repair. Quite honestly I don't see why such a thing takes 2 weeks, since the domes are stored in New Orleans. I guess that it must be modified somehow to fit a particular well. They should also be able to start a burnoff and resume skimming as soon as the weather breaks, which is expected to be Tuesday. As I said in another thread,

Yes. It is in my advance healthcare directive, Healthcare Power of Attorney, and medical records on file with my PCP, cardiologist, Wellstar, and Tanner. There is a good chance that most organs will be unsuitable for transplant, but if they want them for research, that's good too. They can also use other tissues. I sure won't be needing them any more.

That is only the REFUNDABLE portion of the tax credit. In other words, you can't pay less than zero state income tax. The article also ignores the fact that the state sales tax was modified to exclude certain necessities in order to provide sales tax relief for the poor.

Yup. Higher taxes will solve everything. While you're at it, why not have Cape Wind pay all the costs of their development in Nantucket Sound, instead of getting over $700 Million of our Bucks. Isn't that Corporate welfare? Why don't they pay their fair share like the oil companies that have to pay for leases. Environmentalists are just as against Cape Wind as they are ANWR, even Patrick Kennedy is about to file suit. So once again the Government is picking winners and loosers without regard to science or economic realities, "Just like Europe". Don't get me wrong, High speed rail an

I just saw on the news that BP wants to inject dispersant directly into the flow from the wellhead at about a mile down. They are waiting for approval from the Federal Government to do so. Which begs the question, why do they need Government permission to do everything possible to mitigate the damage? Do we really need Bureaucrats second guessing the people with experience and expertise in the field? It may or may not work as thought, but it certainly can't do any harm.

I talked to a friend of mine who is an engineer for another Oil Company in New Orleans. He has worked for 30 years on and off oil rigs in the Gulf. It is his opinion that the rig hit a high pressure gas pocket while drilling, and for some reason the Blow Out Preventer, a "super cap" if you will, failed to activate and close the well head. The pressure blew out the piping on the rig and set it on fire. He said that such a failure is not unheard of, and that, in his opinion, neither BP, Transocean, the Coast Guard, or the State of Louisiana activated their major spill action plans early enou

My mother used to get her Medicare nebulizer meds from a mail order place. It was set up by her Pulmonologist. She never even saw a bill, and they called her to see if she needed more every month. It's a great service.

The Strip Projest-Calling All Atlanta Hippies Great Pics and stuff

It doesn't smell like just wood. It's in Powder Springs and Hiram too.

It was also in Powder Springs and Hiram.

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There is a reason why they are issued a salvage title. 9 out of 10 flood damaged vehicles will be complete pieces of Shiite. There is no way to properly correct flood damaged transmissions, engines, rear ends, electrical systems, fuel systems, etc... without completely taking them apart and rebuilding them. If they did that the car would cost more than a brand new one, so nobody does that.

Two words.......Book Deal.

When you boil this down, and wipe away the rhetoric directed a things the other side never said, what you come to is the idea that we need to stop drug addicts from continuing to be a drain on society and a danger to themselves and others. As much as it would be great to not be paying them to lay out, what's the alternative? Who here thinks that a true addict will stop using when the Government checks stop coming???? Anyone???? I didn't think so. So what do we do? If they no longer receive assistance, they may just turn to other means such as prostitution, burglary, or worse. On the othe

Any reasonable discussion of when one must and must not use quotation marks in order to avoid a charge of plagiarism, should also include the doctrine of fair use. That is in fact the defense for the retelling or reprinting of jokes in a non commercial setting. Intent and damage are at the heart of copyright law.

Is the telling of a joke without crediting the creator allowed under the doctrine of fair use if it is not used for commercial purpose, the teller did not claim the work to be his own, and it has no effect upon the potential value, if any, of the original work? Must the teller of a joke in any format attribute the original work even if the average person would have a common understanding that the joke was being retold? Edited to add: The example statement used by Juggie above is not plagiarized. If that is unclear to anyone, please know that I don't need to steal another person's words to

Why is that simple premise so difficult for so many people to understand? I have been on both ends of that equation, and I can tell you that it is 100% true. I have gone without pay for weeks to keep on good employees that come to actually work instead of bitch, and I know that in my younger days my bosses have made concessions for me. If folks will just take that chip off of their shoulder and put it with their sense of entitlement on the back shelf somewhere where it can't get in the way, pay attention to what they are supposed to do, and learn something, they will get a lot farther in li

Dr William Henry Cosby Jr Ed D has some very insightful points to make on the state of the entitlement mentality, when he says that Brown vs. Board of Education is not the white man's problem any more. He points out that people fought for equal access to education and opportunity, only to see it frittered away for $200 sneakers and an attitude that separates the youngster from the opportunity. If you remove the strictly racial slant of Dr. Cosby's statements which he utilizes to get the attention of his target audience, and read his remarks as they relate to the working class and the entit