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I have always been impressed with the manner in which the Europeans deal with their residential growth areas. Major metropolitan areas suchs as Paris have high speed rail lines which exit the city going to other cities, and their municipal governments only allow residential development along these corridors. This allows a great deal or rural land, right outside of the cities to remain rural and agricultural, while at the same time keeping the schools, retail, government and other infrastructure in easy to maintain areas, and allowing a majority of the population to be able to live well wi

I guess you should have suggested to some of your land owning neighbors to have sold to business park and industrial park developers instead of housing developers so we could have more local well paying jobs. But, since 85% of our work force must leave the county to go to work, various forms of mass transit would certainly help out the local economy. Way too much disposable income in Paulding goes to transportation. Hence, little is left for food and retail locally. Now, it is even worse because the sales tax revenue collection in general, and the SPLOSTS are way, way down forcing increas

Traffic Go Round solve the problems of 4 way stop signs, and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why we have been so hesitant to adopt those here. For 100+ years, most courthouse squares in the South have the equivalent of a GIANT traffic go-round at every courthouse which sits on basically level ground. The Home Depot on 120 put one in. We have one in the new piss ass PRD being built around me. It is simple..... The car in the go-round has the right of way. Those entering have to yield. Blake Swafford, our previous PDOT Director, now Airport Director told me Paulding Drivers wer

They don't seem to comprehend do they ? Thank your State Legislators, the Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson and Gov Sonny Perdue for choosing NOT to renew the Homeowners Tax Credit which WILL increase your net taxes owed on your house by $200 to $300 above and beyond the millage increases which will be coming for the county M&O, the county bond payments and possibly the BOE M&O as well as the BOE BOnd payments.

Some chemicals have an extremely detrimental effect on different animals. Red Dye#4 has a serious side effect in many people. That is one reason the FDA has mandated lable information for chemicals like that The hummers will come and eat the clear sugar water once they find it.

This is not correct. The homestead exemption is still there. The state, Gov Sonny and Speaker Richardson, chose NOT to renew the State Homeowner's Tax Credit, so you will seeing an increase there. Another GOP sneaky tax. Because it was a tax credit which had to be renewed to stay in effect, they can honestly say they did not raise the taxes. But that is semantics in political wording. Your taxes will be going up $200 to $300 because of their decision to not renew the tax credit. As far as I know, the County administration had nothing to do with this, and if you are upset about

The parking lots for schools, and county parks are from 2 completely different budgets, and parks come from the DOT/Parks and Rec SPLOTS which can only pay for capital equipment, land, buidlings, etc. It CANNOT be used for the general Parks and Rec operating budget, payroll, fuel, etc.

Don't laugh, we actually eat on a very meager budget. If you shop with your eyes open you find all sorts of deals. Pheasant is on the dry side, even with brining. But now the caviar I would take you up on. And I do have 1 can of Foie Gras left in the fridge. My travel to France has been rather severaly curtailed with the current state of the US Poultry Industry so I am not visiting Bretagne twice a year. No more foie gras or Calvedos. But plenty of duck still. I have several packages of breast fillets in the freezer.

As I mentioned above, if your eggs are old, and do have SE contamination, this sort of cooking will not thoroughly kill the SE. Custard temperatures are only 150-160 and only for a short period of time. You need hotter and longer to kill salmonella. It is safer always to just make sure you are using super fresh eggs. I hard boil old eggs or use them in other dishes where they reach a higher temperature like souffles.

I cook ducks and geese at least once a month. Kroger and Ingles both carry them on occaision, and I do consulting work for Maple Leaf Ducks in Indiana and Schiltz Goose in South Dakota, who send me product as well. You can get fresh duck at the Buford Highway Farmers Market or Harrys/Whole foods in Marietta. When I cook the birds, I first slice into the skin and fat, without cutting the meat in a checkerboard pattern, and steam them for 10 to 15 minutes a side in a big bamboo steamer over a wok of water. When finished, you simply allow the water to keep boiling on low until it all evapora

We are doing my birthday dinner delayed from Tuesday tonight with the kids, and my granddaughter coming over. Calamari for appetizers, Huachinango [Red Snapper] Vera Cruz style with tomatoes, onions and lemon cooked on the grill, twice fried potatoes cooked in duck fat, hush puppies, cole slaw, and margaritas. I ASSUME someone is bringing me a birthday cake since I have to fix dinner.

The bigger stores will have them in the spice section, but they are very proud of them. On the raw egg scene, if you are that concerned scalding and making a custard will not reach a high enough temperature to kill salmonella enteriditis if it is present [which is a minute possbility from store bought eggs]. However, if the eggs are extremely fresh, and have been properly refrigerated, even if S.E. was present, it would not be in sufficient CFU [colony forming units] to do her harm. Since identifying this strain of Salmonella, which lives in the hen's ovaries, and deposits the c

Some is mandatory for us [pasta, artichokes, several olive varieties, some salami, prosciutto, and perpperocini etc. The rest is what is in the fridge or in cans that have been collecting dust too long. And we found years ago it needs to rest for 24 hours before eating.

Don't worry about the cheesecloth, but make sure it is well dusted with kosher salt, and fresh well ground black pepper. The salt stops any bacteria growth while it ages. You want air moving across it to help remove the excess water. Enjoy, and call if you need some help eating it. After last weekend I ain't cooking much for awhile, although we are having the kids for my birthday dinner tomorrow night. Mrs S is off Friday.

After last weekend, we are having left overs. We had a 100+ person family reunion at the Rome Civic Center and we cooked/prepared: Pasta Salad as per above Cole Slaw Deviled Eggs Hot German Potato Salad Sliced Maters Jalapeno/Cheese Grits Casserole 8 crunchy baggettes 140 pounds of small [2-3/4#] broilers on one smoker 50 Pounds of Brisket and 100 pounds of Pork Boston Butts & Boneless Loins on another smoker And this was after doing 75 hamburgers and 75 hot dogs for lunch. We finished up with a giant Peach Cobbler and a Blueberry Cobbler. And I fo

Do we know you ? or have you just been peaking while we make pasta salad ? Maybe some Feta cheese, hearts of Palm, oil cured olives and some of the water the pasta boiled in.

Old Chinese proverb says, "A stiff pri--- has no common sense and even less conscious."

Spelling Nazi checking in. I assume your Georgia allowed fire crackers are indeed a-loud.

I really like their picante guacamole salsa, and the chicken IMHO is pretty good. But it is overpriced compared to other fast food chicken places. In their defense, they use a very fresh Ice pack small chicken from the Pilgrim's Pride plant in Carrollton. Most fast food joints bring in chicken which has been frozen and comes from a distribution center hundreds of miles away. The chain started in Southern California back in the 1980s after doing well in Mexico. As far as smaller portions and higher prices, I suggest you watch a great many other foodstuff prices as they are goin

But at the same time, you should not have to spend your life savings to try to defend your local government from simply taking your property and giving it to a developer, who just also happens to be a major donor to the politicians who turn and look the other way while he takes what is not his. You can shoot a thief/robber in your house who is trying to steal from you. What do you do when a developer ignores newly surveyed corner pins and simply places the road bed where he wants to regardless of if it is on someone else's land ? How do you deal with a water department who fil

They have almost 80 acres on the sw corner of 120/Bill Corrupt/278. That is more land than they have at any of the other hospitols in their system and will make a rather large "campus". I believe I heard Lowe's back out of their deal across the street and they are grading the land to attempt to obtain another buyer.

Beans, Okra, squash should indeed be blanched. But the way we blanch is to drop them into boiling water. Have an ice bath ready to use and just as soon as the water starts to come to boil again, drop them into an ice bath. We use a seal a meal unit that sucks the air out of the bag before it seals it. Tomatoes and cukes do much better by cold packing them in jars. Or, we have made a basic spaghetti sauce with the tomatoes, without any meat, and canned that.

MrDis, I was only following up to the statement made by NavyEagle: On our lawsuits: The $749,000 spend as of 1/31/09 has been for frivolous litigation meant only to prevent us from getting to the courtroom. We are awaiting a ruling from the judge on this now. To proceed towards the courtroom, assuming the BOC stays with Holland & Knight [Talley, Richardson, and Cable cannot defend the BOC in this suit because they are actually involved in the suit and it would be a conflict of interest] you would be looking at another $500,000 or more paid out to their lawyers. We g

Well, for me, with 20 or so trips a year, I will gladly leave the $1500 in my pocket, and take GRTA. That way I can drink on the plane on the flight back and not have to be concerned with a DUI. I have an envelope full of free in flight drink coupons.

Like I said, for most of my trips, I have to fly in the night before, or leave the house to drive to Hartsfield at 4:00am, and I can work it to return whenever I want. Mid day is generally not too crowded. My expense account is directly tied to what I net, so any money I save ends up in my pocket at the end of the year. It is $0.58 a mile to operate the car, so you are looking at $45 to drive round trip, plus parking, plus you have to allocate the same or more time for an off premises parking, so for me, for a 3 or 4 day trip I save $75 or so, and I don't have to worry about the fatique w