Mama Carol
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You should ask your President these questions, after all he was the one that threatened to withhold Federal funds from California when these fires broke out.
who says he is my president. I am no party affiliation, voting for the best person for the job. IMO, NPA is the only way to have an election.
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The very idea that public safety and fire prevention would be based on anything remotely political is nauseating. What's next? You don't get hurricane relief if you have no party affiliation? Why don't we use criteria such as only prevent fires surrounding areas of one particular religion order? People of all political (and non-political) persuasions lost homes, families, jobs, pets and even their lives in the fire. Take politics out of it.
I can't think of anywhere that needs to do MORE to prevent and lessen the devastation from forest fires than California. Do whatever the hell it needs to make that happen!
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You haven't had a ten year drought or do you have 60 mph Santa Ana winds either.
We don't have those but those would be all the more reason to do controlled burns. Get rid of the undergrowth and fuel for the fires.
If controlled burns didn't work, they wouldn't be used.
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We have controlled burns in this area. We don't have huge forest fires in spite of the fact that we have over 250,000 acres of forest just to our east. In fact, small forest fires here are rare. There's a lot of wisdom to what he says. My husband and I have often asked ourselves "do they do controlled burns in California".
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Hubby is sick for the second time in about a month. Cold symptoms. Some cough and chest congestion but not a lot. More upper respiratory. He has felt so bad it took him three days to change the brakes on the truck. LOL Normally that might have taken two days.
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Prayers to Jody and family.
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I highly, highly recommend Jason Vaughn. He's on 92 at East Paulding.
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I read one service was having outages in the Atlanta area today. Can't remember which one but likely the one that gave the problems.
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Our condolences to Keith, Joseph and Justin.
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You damn straight the GOB and Good ole Girls club is alive and well in PC.
If it's like it is around here, it's just a new batch of 'em.
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Ok, first of all, what purpose do you think 'making an example' serves? To deter others from doing something so ugly and stupid, that's what. If this sends the message that such behavior is just simply unacceptable, ever, and prevents someone from harming or killing someone as a result of doing something equally abhorrent and wrong-headed, I think society will have been well served in this instance.
But yeah, lets do get real - I can't believe you are defending people who terrorized children/families who had done nothing to provoke them besides having the unmitigated gall to exist, and pointed a weapon at them while threatening and denigrating them & for what? The color of their skin. That is about as ugly as it gets.
This could have ended badly and I think the sentence was entirely fitting; even better would have been for all involved to be charged and sentenced just as harshly.
I imagine your thoughts on the matter would be vastly different had you and/or children you care about been in attendance at the party.
A straight-up charge of murder does not bring a 7 year sentence in this state. Maybe something like involuntary manslaughter but not murder. Someone convicted of murder might be paroled in 7 years, but that is not being 'let off'. I worked for the parole board in Atlanta years ago and never saw a murder conviction with anything less than a life sentence either with or without possibility of parole.
I did not defend their actions. What they did was despicable. No two ways about it.
Had I been in attendance and had my children been there (in theory because my children are in their late 30s and 40s), I would have simply turned and walked away.
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Sheesh. What a question.
Bodily harm should carry a stiffer sentence than calling someone names. Granted, there is emotional and mental injury when one is called names and certainly if one is threatened, but if nobody was physically hurt why should there be a stronger sentence than if someone was, say, murdered? Punishment and the crime need to correlate somehow.
That's not to say that what they did was despicable and they should be punished for it. But let's get real. I've seen murderers who were let off with 7 years. And one, who murdered a friend of mine, had his conviction overturned. Never mind he was guilty as homemade sin.
Seems the judge wanted this to be an example, not a deterrent.
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If the consequences are not sufficient to deter others, what is the point?
The punishment should fit the crime.
Was anyone physically harmed?
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I wondered where that happened. All I had heard was "suburbs of Atlanta".
I had, and still have, strong ties to both counties.
Is it enough or too much? Hard to say. Does look like they are being used as examples. And that's wrong, regardless of how despicable what they did was.
Makes me ashamed to be from that area.
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If you claimed an earned income credit, the IRS started processing those refunds last Wednesday.
You can check the status of your refund at:
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He will be missed.
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Looks like they misspelled mexicans.
Might be some of the same people who vandalized a park here. They misspelled Satan. Or else they were really into frilly clothes.
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Prayers for Tess and her family on their loss. I never met Mr Hardy but everyone I know who ever had met him spoke highly of him.
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I am very sorry to hear of your loss.
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Is 92 & Morningside remotely close to where the body was found on Ridge Road, or are the two completely different things?
92 and Morningside is closer to Hiram. Ridge Road is maybe a mile or so down 92. Close but not real close.
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Prayers to Dan and Cheri and their families.
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Do you think that other trash carriers don't carry liability insurance?
Sure they do. It's just that it's probably minimal coverage. Liability insurance is quite expensive.
Shooting in Rockmart
in Paulding County NEWS
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As of a couple of minutes ago, apparently there is a BOLO for the shooter.
This literally right there where my niece lives.
Prayers for all of y'all out there in Rockmart.