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Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Triathlon in God's Country
You healthy, athletic types might be interested in this event in my home county of Chattooga.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
No surprise
Did anyone really think the public school system was going to hold itself to high standards? Guess what? The kids who don't pass, do.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Iraq
My lunch buddy Andy Parkinson turned me on to Michael Yon. This site is priceless if you are interested in what's happeningin Iraq.
GOP targets Obama on guns
Obama has been chicken on this issue for months, hoping not to alienate voters in state's like Pennsylvania and Virginia, but the McCain people want to him pushed hard in the wake of Heller.
Heller
Reason offers some interesting views on the Heller decision and the future of the Second Amendment. I am thrilled the court shot down DC's absurd anti-self defense laws and in the process made the case for the validity of the Second Amendment as it has been historically understood. However,the narrowness of the vote (only one Obama appointment from going the other way) and the nod given by even the majority to the state's right to regulate ownership heavily is worrisome.
If this were a football game I'd say we won on a long TD pass with no time left ... and I'd be very worried about playing our next opponent.
If this were a football game I'd say we won on a long TD pass with no time left ... and I'd be very worried about playing our next opponent.
Dalton politics
Dalton Mayor David Pennington ran for office vowing to cut spending and reduce taxes.
He meant it.
Pennington is making a lot of people angry in the process, but he's leading a long-overdue "reassessment" of the city's spending habits, even if it means delivering a swift boot in the backside to some previously comfortable sacred cows.
Pennington has had the audacity to actually say that city government here can be smaller and more efficient. He's right, but that isn't keeping a growing number of critics from lashing out at "King David."
Pennington has had the audacity to suggets that city police and fire departments can withstand 5 percent budget cuts. The reaction on the part of some has been frenzied. Criminals will soon be flocking to lawless Dalton. Fires will burn out of control. The sky is fallling. The sky is falling.
Don't be fooled.
The bureaucrats who are pretty much used to getting what they want from the mayor and council are going to have to work a little harder to justify their budgets. They're gonna scream loudly and try to scare the general public into thinking that disaster is looming.
It isn't .. not if those managers can effectively deal with the new budget situation.
Times are tough right now and local government cannot not be insulated from economic realities.
Hopefully mayor and council will stay on this course.
He meant it.
Pennington is making a lot of people angry in the process, but he's leading a long-overdue "reassessment" of the city's spending habits, even if it means delivering a swift boot in the backside to some previously comfortable sacred cows.
Pennington has had the audacity to actually say that city government here can be smaller and more efficient. He's right, but that isn't keeping a growing number of critics from lashing out at "King David."
Pennington has had the audacity to suggets that city police and fire departments can withstand 5 percent budget cuts. The reaction on the part of some has been frenzied. Criminals will soon be flocking to lawless Dalton. Fires will burn out of control. The sky is fallling. The sky is falling.
Don't be fooled.
The bureaucrats who are pretty much used to getting what they want from the mayor and council are going to have to work a little harder to justify their budgets. They're gonna scream loudly and try to scare the general public into thinking that disaster is looming.
It isn't .. not if those managers can effectively deal with the new budget situation.
Times are tough right now and local government cannot not be insulated from economic realities.
Hopefully mayor and council will stay on this course.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Len Bias, RIP
I was a Maryland basketball fan and loved Len Bias. When he died I was working as a sports writer in Dalton. The news came across on the wire and I was stunned.
I remember telling sports editor Doug Hawley and he was equally shocked.
Bias had just been drafted by the Boston Celtics and looked ready for a long, successful NBA career. He was immensely talented.
At times like those someone always says that maybe someone else will learn from the tragedy. Put me in that column. Any "experimenting" I may have done in regards to chemicals ended then.
I remember at the time thinking what a terrible way to die, what a waste and what an enormous burden for his family and friends to bear.
I didn't want to go out like that.
I remember telling sports editor Doug Hawley and he was equally shocked.
Bias had just been drafted by the Boston Celtics and looked ready for a long, successful NBA career. He was immensely talented.
At times like those someone always says that maybe someone else will learn from the tragedy. Put me in that column. Any "experimenting" I may have done in regards to chemicals ended then.
I remember at the time thinking what a terrible way to die, what a waste and what an enormous burden for his family and friends to bear.
I didn't want to go out like that.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
NFL
Falcon fans won't find William Andrews (or Bubba Bean), but this is a fun story on the NFL's greatest backs.
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