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The broad point I am making is this isn't a Paulding County 'thing.' We have a coroner because the state constitution says so. Granted, there are some legislative provisions that allow for 'abolishing' the office and creating a medical examiner for the purposes of post mortem examination, etc. However, this has to be done by the General Assembly via local legislation and this individual still cannot perform any of the constitutional duties (inquests, impaneling a jury for such, etc..etc.). Just to clarify: 1. I agree the office of coroner being a holdover from common law England--a

The other 158 counties in Georgia have a coroner as well.

They still have a coroner.

There is no choice. The office of coroner and the election thereof is created/mandated by the state constitution. This doesn't preclude the employ of a medical examiner, however, they exist for necropsy only--and at the behest of the coroner. Coroners have other constitutional duties beyond dealing with deaths. The coroner can fulfill the duties of the Sheriff and is usually who serves the elected Sheriff with court papers. The coroner is also the only local official who can arrest the Sheriff. Etc. etc.

Happy Prime member for two years. Never had an issue.

Did you actually check the math on that? It is horribly incorrect.

My favorite is 'We're No Angels' with Humphrey Bogart.

Poncho and Lefty? It is indeed a great song, eh?

I love this post. Starting with the premise of not relying on government to 'help you in everyday situations' and ending with letting kids 'grow up' by putting them on a school bus; funded by the tooth-fairy I suppose.

I don't really see what the big deal is. I don't know that I would post random flyers around, however, you can't blame a parent for trying to make Halloween a fun time for their child. Personally, if I were in that position I would just buy what was safe and distribute around to neighbors to drop in my child's bag.

I use BLD. Locally owned and operated as well.

I just simply have a friendly conversation with them, take their literature, explain my great-grandmother was a Jehovah's Witness and they are usually on their way. I personally don't see what the big deal is. I am sure the narrative of those who complain would be quite different if these were local baptist youth groups doing the same thing. At least they aren't knocking on doors selling drugs.

Totally off topic, however, who in hell vacations in Chicago?

In college, I ate the Frisco Burger all the time. Don't think I have had one since I graduated college. Perhaps I will get one and reminisce when the Dallas location opens.

Uverse traverses the same copper lines that plain phone service does. It operates over two DSL signals that are bonded. So technically, yes, it can hit the 'phone lines' at any point and travel until it finds ground or is shorted at some point and the energy is discharged via plasmic arc. Edited to add: It is most likely that the same lightning strike that fried your stuff traveled bi-directionally and discharged somewhere along the lines or at the VRAD. Electrical plasma is hot enough to instantly liquify copper. Usually, after enough lightning strikes, copper wiring will becom

For ten bucks, the dump (I know..I know...transfer station) will take anything just short of a dead body or paint.

There is no doubt that fiber optic lines can handle the traffic. However, that logic begs the question. The question being: Is fiber optic the appropriate media. To my knowledge, no. All 911 call centers have DS0 signalling via copper back to the CO. Therefore, you could light a few strands with 100Gbps optics on each end--and it would be useless. Please, please, please, let's not go back to the Tony Crowe statements. He made factual assertions based on what he was told in a meeting with the contractor. Also, HE NEVER SAID IT COULD BE AS LOW AS 20k/mile. He simply used that figur

I would be glad to look at it for you, however, if you can, try this first: Press 'CTRL-ALT-DEL' Click the bottom entry 'Task Manager' Click the 'Processes' tab There will be a column named 'Processes.' Click the top of the tab until the memory use for each line is in descending order. Make note of the processes closest the top and post here or PM me. Also: Click the 'start' button. In the search box type 'event viewer' Make note of any recent errors and post here or PM.

For the record: I am well acquainted with the First Amendment and the protections therein. I was speaking strictly in terms of a person, in public, making a hand gesture--not a privately owned message forum. The he-said she-said scenario put forth by pubby is moot. Sure, anything you are arrested for that is circumstantial with no footage is your word against the officer. If the very act you are arrested for has been determined to be a protected form of expression, the he-said she-said element is moot. Lastly, I find pubby's comments in a thread last night to the effect of 'do you

No, it is not against the law. In fact, a federal appeals court ruled earlier this year that it is indeed protected expression--even when giving the one finger salute to a police officer.

I wasn't asserting anything pertaining to the concert. I hope it is a success. I have personally seen .38 Special several times and just have no desire to see them without Donnie Van Zant (he retired from touring a few years ago). My assertions were elicited by pubby's playing dumb. That's all.

I agree with you. I think the agreement was fastidious and protected the IBA; particularly the partial payments and termination with thirty day notice option. I also applaud the IBA decision to exercise the termination clause given the current facts. Personally, I feel pointing fingers at the IBA for the malfeasance of the company in question is misplaced; especially when said company's current issues are totally unrelated to the film studio. With that said, should the decision to have hired them in the first place be scrutinized? Maybe, maybe not. I imagine Blake and company were

No pubby, you just don't have the balls.

EDITED: Deleted my comments. Not worth it.

I guess you are not making any real journalistic effort to find out, eh? (it is the IBA afterall)