NEWTON COLLIER
ENDORSES
ARLAN GIBSON
FOR MAYOR

A dramatic shift is taking place in the Republican wing of the local political scene.

A few hours ago, “Downtown” Newton Collier, Macon’s best known and most visible urban personality, enthusiastically endorsed Arlan Gibson’s candidacy for Mayor of our fair city.

Said Newton, “He (Gibson) brings new blood, new perspective, and the new energy so desperately needed to a city long mired in politics as usual and facing a the prospect of a grim future. It’s high time Macon city proper began gaining its share of the prosperity seen everywhere else throughout the Middle Georgia region. “

The occasion was an informal meeting at Gibson headquarters on Cherry Street early this evening. Present were Mr. Collier, several members of the Gibson campaign staff, and your humble correspondent.

It was following a lengthy give and take, question and answer, get down to the nitty-gritty session that Mr. Collier made his dramatic announcement. Collier, you see was poised to make a run at the GOP nomination himself. He had met with Gibson previously.

I came away from this colloquium with a real sense that the young men of Gibson’s team share their leader’s vision of a city reborn in the strength of it’s citizens working in concert, rather than the old alliances and little political allediances that marked our political history.

This is going to be an interesting campaign. Didn't think I would get fired up this year, but I am.

AND WHO WOULD REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

Such honesty has proved contagious. As Brookings Institution scholar Benjamin Wittes chronicles in the current edition of The New Republic, various liberal legal scholars have come to grudgingly accept that the Second Amendment's meaning and intent include the individual right to own a gun. "(T)he amendment achieves its central purpose by assuring that the federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification," writes no less than the dean of liberal legal scholars, Laurence Tribe. Tribe had to update his textbook on the Constitution to account for the growing consensus that - horror! - Americans do have a constitutional right to own a gun. It's not an absolute right, of course. But no right is.

I am a sucker for a well written article, pro or con, on the subject of gun control.

Here is an excellent piece by Jonah Goldberg, ed-at-large of the NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINEentitled: UNDER THE GUN: LIBERALS GIVE GROUND ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT, Goldberg argues that there has come about in liberal circles some willingness to recognize the Second Amendment as a fact of life.

That's the good news. The bad news is that some left leaners are turning their attention to a repeal of the amendment which, if successful, could alter forever the notion of guaranteed freedoms.

You can read the whole thing for yourself at TOWN HALL look up Mr. Goldberg's columns and read this one for yourself.

Please.

WHO WOULD OF THUNK IT???

In an announcement that seems to have caught every news service, every commentator, every pundit with its britches down, Jesse Jackson endorsed Obama for president yesterday.

Wonders they shall never cease, eh?

IS HILLARY'S CAMPAIGN TANKING?

Americans this year are saying, “We know Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton is a friend of ours. And Hillary, you’re no Bill Clinton.”....... by putting Bill out there next to Hillary, we are treated to a daily reminder of the huge difference between them......He’s funny. She’s not. He’s charismatic. Her circumstances are charismatic, but she, clearly, is not. Bill is intuitive. Hillary’s lips move as she dances — each step is right but there is no innate sense of rhythm or beat.

The writer is Bick Morris. You can read the entire piece, which was first aired on FNC at http://www.vote.com/mmp_printerfriendly.php?id=59

I have come to a kind of conclusion about the party of the Mythic Jackass........If you look at Hillary....stiff, formal, unfunny, uninspiring, you think 'Robot'....just like the dull Algore and the wooden aristocrat John Kerry, you might ask why do the Dems insist on parading people of this ilk in the age of TV and internet where every foible, every flaw, every idiosyncracy is magnified and repeated endlessly around the world?

REMINDER
ARLAN GIBSON CAMPAIGN RALLY
TOMORROW
SATURDAY
MARCH 31st.

I walked by Mr. Gibson's new quarters on Cherry Street earlier today. The corner is all spruced up and rally looks like a campaign headquarters.

Ran this announcement earlier in the week. Please read the brief message below from Nathan Edmonson. Newt Collier and I will be on hand about 5:00 rain or shine.

The importance of this event cannot be under-recognized. Here we have, for the first time, a Black, Conservative, Republican running for mayor of this city. This man is somebody dedicated, through political philosophy and experience in business, to fiscal responsibility, a quality sadly lacking not only on the mayor's wing of city hall, but over on the other side where the City Council, that gang of fifteen resideth.

See you tomorrow. The event will give me a chance to try out my new digital camera.


This Saturday we will have the Gibson Campaign Headquarters open for
you to drop by! Anyone and everyone who feels called or able to
donate your time and energy, please come by between 5-10.

The HQ is located downtown on Cherry Street--you won't miss the
Gibson for Mayor Banners.

Come by, enjoy some food and drinks, chat with us, and bring friends!

We need your help to see Arlan's vision realized. Let's give Macon a
rebirth!

Thank you all, and we hope to see you soon!

Email us here for questions: volunteer@gibsonformayor.org

Nathan Edmondson

Director of Communications,
Arlan Gibson for Mayor Campaign
commdir@gibsonformayor.org

WHY GUN OWNERS CANNOT TRUST THE NEW CONGRESS
H. R. 1022

I am going to tell you that it's long and quite technical.

Unless you have an interest in firearms and/or our freedom don't bother to read it.

But here is the full text of a bill, introduced into the current congress which clearly points out the path of the leftish agendum which would deprive us of many if not most of our firearms.

Go through the list....look at the 'banned' rifles....they include ther venerable M1 Carbine that dates back to WW2 and the Ruger Mini-14, a well-built, American made standard of ranch and range since the mid 1970's. The list also includes other examples of reliable rifles and handguns that enthusiasts have been enjoying safely for many years.

The Second Amendment, many of us believe, is the one guarantee of freedom that ensures the survival of the other freedoms we have enjoyed since the founding of the Republic.

HR 1022 won't survive in Congress this year. But it or its brethern will surface again and again unless we remain strong, wary, and not distracted by what has been an apparent truce by Democrats since Algore took the issue off the table during campaign 2000.

Lawful and licensed gun owners simply do not rob banks, convenience stores, or little old ladies in sneakers.

Read....then write your Congressman

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DICK MORRIS, AGAIN

Dick Morris' latest weekly report on the upcoming presidential election : HERE s

It's the best thing of its kind found anywhere in the wide world of blogdom...or the 24/7 news merry-go-rounds where Mr. Morris is a frequent guest. His views on the potential candidacy of ex-senator Fred Thompson are particularly illuminating.

Personally, and this helps keep my thinking centered I have come to rely on both Dick Morris and Larry Sabato, who sends out his weekly 'Crystal Ball'. Between the raw polling data, and some intelligent interpretation, these guys, as the kids would say, "Rock".

FOR GEORGIA VOTERS
FROM THE NRA

Please read the following...it is a letter from the NRA (National Rifle Association) with an update on a proposed Georgia Law that would allow gun owners to keep firearms in their vehicles wile at work.

STATEMENT FROM NRA CHIEF LOBBYIST
CHRIS W. COX ON SB43


“Georgia State Senate leaders opted not to give SB 43 a fair vote last night. The National Rifle Association is disappointed in their decision. The NRA believes we had sufficient bi-partisan support to pass this common sense, pro-employee and pro-self defense bill.

“The facts surrounding this legislation were polluted by half-truths and bold-faced lies by opponents during the 11th hour. The NRA was forced to engage in an assertive, fact based campaign to counter these falsehoods. While we are concerned that some referred to our effort to defend the merits of SB43 as heavy handed, we are unrepentant as our objective was to counter a blatant campaign of misinformation.

“Nevertheless, the NRA remains hopeful that the Georgia State Senate will still address the essence of SB 43 this legislative session. This is a thoughtful and practical measure intended to preserve the integrity of Right-to-Carry laws in Georgia and to allow hard working men and women to have an effective means of self defense during their daily commute to and from work.

“Businesses quantify their progress by fiscal quarters. Politicians gauge success by election cycles. The NRA has no timeline in our defense of freedom. We will remain committed to this effort.”



To find further contact information or help identifying your legislators
please use the ";Write Your Representative" feature found at www.NRAILA.org.

THAT GOOD OLD GEORGE BUSH SENSE OF HUMOR

President Bush at a Radio and TV Correspondents Association dinner last night:



"A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone,"

and

"I have to admit we really blew the way we let those attorneys go. You know you've lost it when people sympathize with lawyers."

JAMES DOBSON
CLAIMS
FRED THOMPSON
not
A CHRISTIAN

"Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for,” Dobson – considered the most politically powerful evangelical figure in the U.S. – said in a phone call to Dan Gilgoff, senior editor at U.S. News & World Report.

"[But] I don’t think he’s a Christian. At least that’s my impression.”

This story comes from http://newsmax.com which means you can check on it yourself easily and quickly.

Uber Christian and all-around Holier-Than-Crap examplar of American evangelical leadership, James Dobson, did claim over the phone that Thompson, a possible candidate for the GOP golden crown in 2008 just ain't a real, honest to Christ, sho-'nuff good old Christian Boy. A spokesman for Dobson explained later that what he meant by 'not a Christian' was that our LAW and ORDER DA is not an 'Evangelical' Christian.

And here lies the dilemma

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RETURN OF THE GOP
to
THE MACON CITY POLITICAL SCENE

As did many, I received the following letter from the Arlan Gibson campaign....campaign for Mayor that is. Mr. Gibson is a Republican.

This is a welcome change from the last mayoral bout in 2003 when the GOP fielded no candidate whatsoever. David Corr, that year, ran as a write-in 'Libertarian' and garnered about twenty-seven percent of the total votes cast. Think of what might have been done given a well run, adequately financed. co-ordinated, major party campaign.

I intend to attend this Rally, meet Mr. Gibson and Mr. Edmonson, ask a few questions, and take the pulse of the GOP. Hope to see many of you there....maybe help me take that pulse.

Had a phone call a few minutes ago from a close friend and political savant who plans to attend as well.

Read On!!!

To Any and All Interested in Volunteering,

This Saturday we will have the Gibson Campaign Headquarters open for
you to drop by! Anyone and everyone who feels called or able to
donate your time and energy, please come by between 5-10.

The HQ is located downtown on Cherry Street--you won't miss the
Gibson for Mayor Banners.

Come by, enjoy some food and drinks, chat with us, and bring friends!

We need your help to see Arlan's vision realized. Let's give Macon a
rebirth!

Thank you all, and we hope to see you soon!

Email us here for questions: volunteer@gibsonformayor.org

Nathan Edmondson

Director of Communications,
Arlan Gibson for Mayor Campaign
commdir@gibsonformayor.org

AS ALWAYS
JOHN STOSSEL MAKES SENSE
"THE KIDNAPPING HISTERIA"

John Stossel is my favorite news guy.

His low-key, common sense approach whether in print or on television presents a sane balance to the usual much dredged up by the ratings almighty-driven media.

He is so good at what he does that ABC allows him full a range to vent even when his libertarian points of view clash with the rest of that network's left-pointing biasi.

His latest piece is based upon a segment from 20-20 some time ago. It puts the lie to and behind the media histeria over kidnapped and exploited children. This is a must read if you are a parent, grandparent, or teacher. Things are nowhere as band as many would have you believe. Further, the 'histeria' is impacting many youngsters negatively.

Please click on TOWN HALL look for Stossel then check out the column.

It is the sort of common sense anchor our often out-of-control media needs in these days of 24/7 insanity.

(THE AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH)
THIS IS HOW A CIVILIZATION COLLAPSES

Please click on the link and read one of the best columns on the mess in the Middle East I have seen this year. Our source is THE AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH, but the piece was written by Caroline Glick. It first appeared in THE JERUSALEM POST.

It is frightening, yet compelling and is called THE ROAD TO SERFDOM

Please click on the link and read it carefully. The survival of the west, of the United States depends on increasing our knowledge of the goals of radical Islam.

TAKE THIS
SECOND AMENDMENT POLL

Please, if you value our Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms, take a minute to read this letter from the JPFD (JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP) and then take the poll linked to it.

I like this organization very much and have added my name to its mailing list. These guys are direct, hard hitting, and thought provoking. It's not that I agree with everything they say, but it is more than a little comforting to have such folks solidly in the corner of American Gun Rights.

Check out the second link and learn more about the history of the original wording and intent of the Constitution's framers.

Please click MORE.....read the poll carefully, I isuspect it has tricked a few. The wording is not for chowder heads used to MTV and AOL. More...

That's
"CROSSOVER DAY"
not
"CROSS DRESSING DAY"
AT THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

We Georgians deserve the ineptitude we get from our elected officials.

I guess it goes back to the bad old days after the Civil War when the federal government in Washington treated the defeated South as an occupied, enemy territory. The bluebellied troops went home after a few years, but a kind of benign neglect kept us in thrall, barefoot and undereducated until Roosevelt (that's FDR) decided to allow government largess to flow our way beginning in the thirties.

During those dark times we tended to cast ballots for every crackpot, crook, and flimflammer that ever rolled down our unpaved roads. We enjoyed unprecedented bad government for decades and the tradition lives on today.

"We've always done it that way before." More...

MIKE ADAMS
TILTING WITH WINDMILLS,
UNICORNS,
AND COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS WHO CAN'T OR DON'T READ

"But the discussion didn't get too far before the university official stopped to ask me a crucial question: 'Mike, how could you claim to be a born again Christian and say the things you say in your column?'"

Mike Adams seems to be on the point of open warfare with the liberal administration of his own university, UNC at WILMINGTON, which has allied itself with the equally limp-wristed leadership of Kent State U. in far away Ohio.

Why, because Professor (but not 'full professor') Adams has been writing well-publicized columns blasting Julio Pino, a K. State faculty member, Cuban exile, and avowed Muslim Jihadist. Apparently the KS leadership has been in cahoots with the UNCW guiding lights to see what 'can be done' with the impertinent Adams....and the hell with something called 'truth'.

CYA...SPIN....cover-up....lies......chicanery.....dishonesty....not only the stuff of politics, but part and parcel of your modern institution of sometime education.

Adam's current piece is maybe the hardest-hitting column he has written in a long time. It's called UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS BUGGERED BY GAY UNICORN and can be found simply by going to TOWN HALL and looking up among the columnists Mike Adams.

As a quondam and forever iconoclast in the halls of academe, I really enjoyed this one.

MACON, GEORGIA
CAN MAYOR ELLIS READ?

At the opening of this evening's City Council meeting, Mayor H. Mansour Ellis read one of those politican's favorites, a proclamation....this one has the city honoring women.

Fair enough. No problem there.

But in his presentation Mr. Ellis seemed to read hesitantly, stumbling over certain words, mispronouncing others. It was painful.

This raises a question in my mind. If Hizzoner has a reading problem, who is interpreting for him legal contracts, legislation, reports, and the myriad other items a chief exec. must deal with on a daily basis?

Might we have discovered a clue to the inadequacy of the Ellis administration?

AND WAITING IN THE WINGS
FRED THOMPSON

Ex Senator Fred Dalton Thompson's name is being circulated as a GOP prospecti 2008.

As most know, Senator Thompson has had a long career as a lawyer (Watergate) and actor, currently holding down a steady gig on LAW and ORDER.

Politically he is a conservative hailing from a Southern Border State and has spent much of his life in the service of the people. He could be an overwhelming presence in the primaries, and has enough savvy, experience, and personalityl to deal a serious blow to the plans for the coronation of Hillary The Firs.t

If the Democrats want to head off a Thompson candidacy then need to do it now. Their weapon? The Hollywood crowd, of course. Give Thompson a much larger role on L&O, or, better, promise him the lead in a series of his own. Maybe a tricky Southern Lawyer in the Andy Griffith-Matlock mold. Or a Southern Governor faced with terrorist plots. You know, something with fifty-five minutes of kick followed by five minutes of pure, Dixie, wisdom. Keep him acting until 2009 and Hill is home free.

Maybe. I hope to see the man run. He looks better from here than anybody else limping along the Presidential Parkway.

SEX?
EDUCATION??

No, you don't have to send the kids out of the room.

A neighbor's boy came to me one day this weekend looking for help in Latin. He's in a biblically correct private school where the youngsters start learning 'the mother tongue' in the second gradel. It's kind of a holy alliance between classical paganism and modern fundamentalism. Quite a leap, eh?

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SIX STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT
MAYBE

Widely circulated news reports indicate that an illegal alien, on the average, must run afoul of the law six times before he is prosecuted and possibly deported.

The first five times an alien is caught smuggling drugs he goes free?

The first five banks he robs nets him zero jail time?

Five robberies? How about five rapes, or five murders, or five sexually exploited children? Five overdue library books?

As this apparent outrage made its way through the blogs, news and talk shows last week, we received an interesting email from an anonymous sender. Read on. More...

Cherry Blossom Winding Down
Winding Down
Winding Down

The Macon Cherry Blossom is winding down today. You have your choice: some religious services, an arts and crafts fair along Mulberry Street, or the childrens' parade through our hysteric downtown.

Me? I wouldn't go anywhere there might be an overload of ankle biters, arts and crafts are simply not my thing (a little too cxutsey pootsie), and religious services? You can figure that one out all by your lonesome.

So its housework and furniture moving and gardneing as the temp heads toward ninety and the cats are moving with a summery lethargy.

All my fundamentalist neighbors look on Sunday as a day of rest, so they don't do anything except go to church a few times and nap. Heaven help the fundy child who gets too exhuberant in his Sunday afternoon play in this Land of the Unspared Rod.

Still looking for excitement in The Peach State? Head to Savannah....that city's annual music festival has another full week to run.

FIGARO
FIGARO
FIGARO

We’re near the end of act two of the most spirited performance of BARBER OF SEVILLE I have ever had the pleasure of listening to, Live from the Met.

The Metropolitan Opera, especially the Saturday broadcasts in season has been part of my life as far back as I can remember even as a very young tadpole. For years it was simply ‘out there’….scratchy, heard through tinny speakers in pre-war AM radios. Later, as a teen, I began to listen for some reason not sure why to this day. Been listening ever since, sometimes at a distance, mostly with all the passion a human can muster when something delights him to the very foundation of his spiritual nature. More...

DOGS
CATS
and
PET FOOD RECALL

Most of my friends, my close friends, anyway, love animals and have pets.

With most of us dogs and cats provide a kind of companionship we don’t get from other humans. It is not a matter of ‘instead’, it’s a matter of ‘in addition’. A loving animal adds to the quality of life no matter how close we may be to family and friends.

And we don’t obsess, most of us. Over our four legged friends. They are simply close companions whose fidelity is unwavering, whose love is unconditional. More...

THE BEGINNING OF THE WHAT,
MS PELOSI?

Why is Nancy Pelosi smiling?

Poor thing is being savaged by both conservatives and liberals.

Not Republicans, members of her own party unhappy with the bare majority she cobbled together to pass what has to be the most ludicrous, ill-considered, stupidly framed, and moronically contrived bit of war funding legislation that painfully made its way today through the House that Ms Pelosi would like to build.

Not only is the bill laced with unnecessary, porker spending, it requires a set date of September 2008 for all the troops to be brought home no matter what the status of the war might be. Many Democrats are now concerned that the November ’08 elections will be negatively influenced by hideous ethnic cleansing and babies burned and scorched across our TV screens..

Pelosi calls the vote (218-212) the beginning of the end of the Iraq war. But it’s more like the beginning of the end of her hegemony in the House. It will take more than this iron maiden to keep the far lefties in the umbrella that is her fiefdom from driving the Party of the Mythic Jackass into minority status once again.

And the GOP will have learned not a damned thing in the meantime.

DICK MORRIS ON THE
The Phoniest Scandal Of The Century (So Far)

But instead of loudly asserting its view that voter fraud is, indeed, worthy of prosecution and that U.S. attorneys who treat such cases lightly need to go find new jobs, the Bush administration acts, for all the world, like the kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. .

For most of the past six plus years many have wondered why the GOP nationally, both in the Bush Administration and in two houses of congress, has become the gutless 'party of roll over and play dead'.

My own opinion is that this lack of backbone began to be noticed when the GOP put on such a pathetic, mincing little, show during the Clinton Impeachment, possibly the most moronic move any congressional majority ever pulled in the two plus centuries of this Republic.

Why doesn't the President and his advisors take firmer stands, fight harder for what they preach, show a larger set of cojones.?

Dick Morris attempts to answer this question....or at least highlight it...in today's column which you can read in its pithy entirety at http://www.vote.com/mmp_printerfriendly.php?id=41

This is a column I personally recommend for its insight and analysis.

LATEST CENSUS REPORT
BIBB, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

.“That ain’t good,” quoth Doug Bachtel, demographer at UGa, Georgia’s Flagship institution of what passes for higher learning these days.

Just what ain’t good?

Why the latest census figures that shows Bibb County in a flat, no-growth population curve that would register a negative were it not for the birth rate. The official population increase is under 1% between the years 2000 and 2006.

How many of the neonatals in Bibb County are born unto unwed, teen-age, minority mothers who don’t have a clue about raising kids?

So much for the one percent. More...

THERE’S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE
I HAVE SUCKER WRITTEN ALL OVER MY MUG

It must be my face.\

You know, honest, trusting, easily taken advantage of. Pure sucker.

That’s what neighborhood cats, dogs, and kids think, anyway. I like dogs and cats. Kids? Those little bastards fall into the category of ‘useless as tits on a bull’. Don’t like them much. Oh, yeah, have to have a few around to guarantee the survival of our species, but beyond the biological imperative I don’t have use for children. More...

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