Archives: January 2010
Sun Jan 31, 2010
Crossing The Border
This Just In From A Dear Friend In South Georgia
A paper I came across laying on a desk.....
"Let me see if I got this right,
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor,
If you cross the Iranian border, you get detained indefinitely,
If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border, you get jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally, you never get heard from again,
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally, you get branded by a spy and your fate is sealed.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally, you get thrown into a politcal prison to rot.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET......
~ A JOB
~A DRIVERS LICENCE
~SOCIAL SECURITY CARD
~WELFARE
~FOOD STAMPS
~CREDIT CARDS
~SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE
~FREE EDUCATION
~FREE HEALTH CARE
~A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
~BILLIONS OF DOLLARSWORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE
~THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DONT GET ENOUGH RESPECT
~AND, IN MANY CASES, YOU CAN VOTE."
"I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION"
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Sat Jan 30, 2010
KROK
v.
LUCAS
The Gloves Come Off
v.
LUCAS
The Gloves Come Off
Chris Krok, the Bad Boy of local morning talk radio, has been on Councilwoman Elaine Lucas’ case since the very first day he graced Middle Georgia’s airways.
It might have passed had the good lady not taken the bait and called in to the Talkmeister’s show half way between Macon and New Orleans. If I remember a’right, he had made a disparaging comment or ten about Elaine, friends of hers called her cell, and she responded in high dudgeon without having heard exactly what Chris had said.
Over the past eighteen months, things have gone downhill from there. Krok recently “filed a complaint against her under the city’s ethics code.” The quote comes from This morning’s (Saturday) MACON T’GRAPH feature “POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Krok Files Complaint Against Lucas”, which details the kerfuffle between the two similarly stubborn antagonists. You can read it here: http://www.macon.com/local/story/1004615.html
Among the several subjects touched upon in the T’GRAPH piece was the newly raised question: WILL C. JACK HAKIM MANSOUR ELLIS ride again, or attempt to ride again into the first floor corner office at City Hall? The ex CEO has made threats about running for various offices in the past.
And speaking of C. Jack, a little trip through You Tube discovered this musical feast called “C. Jack Ellis Retrospective By WMCC News” which you can access directly at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwOSW2e3dBs Check it out before you let your children under twelve or so view it.
And speaking of musical tributes to the former mayor, Kenny Bergamy played what was once an oft-requested hit on his old radio program when he partnered with Jami Gaudet called “YAKKITY JACK” one of the funniest parody songs of all times. Maybe we can get a copy for this b’log.
This is the GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE and I am Don Brunel.
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EASTMAN GUN and KNIFE SHOW
coming to the
MACON CENTREPLEC
February 13-14
coming to the
MACON CENTREPLEC
February 13-14
I get emails and phone calls all the time asking about upcoming gun shows in the Middle Georgia area.
The wait is almost over, friends, Matt Eastman is bringing his mammoth gun and knife show to Macon in just two weeks. Hoorah!!!
Matt’s show runs from 9:00-5:00 on Saturday, February 13th and 10:00-5:00 Sunday the 14th. Tickets are only $8.00 at the door. Kids under 12 get in FREE. A family can enjoy a full day together for less than the cost of movie tickets. Get your hand stamped and head out for lunch, then come back no charge.
Eastman Gun and Knife shows feature vendors from all over Georgia. The huge variety of firearms, new and used, clothing, hunting supplies, accessories, blades, and some just plain old interesting stuff is among the largest found anywhere in the Southeast.
Speaking of families, Matt’s outings are thoroughly family-friendly. We see more and more every year groups consisting of Mom, Pop, and the ankle biters taking in an exciting day looking, purchasing, and simply enjoying outdoor adventure. Be a hero to your kids….let them ask all the questions they want and answer them with all the knowledge and lore at your command. Dad rules!!! Sometimes Mom.
See you there….The Marion Road Gun Club has already reserved a table to meet and greet the public.
Next Mid-state show is in Perry, the last weekend in February.
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Fri Jan 29, 2010
Kop Korner 2
01/229/2010
01/229/2010
FROM OUR PARTNERS AT THE WARNER ROBINS POLICE DEPARTMENT:
Wednesday January 27, 2010 11:37 AM EST
Be aware of a possible scam in your neighborhood.
The Warner Robins Police Department has received several reports concerning the company Face to Face Technologies. Reportedly, young adults are selling magazines door to door. These solicitors often say they are selling magazines to earn money for a trip. Some have also been reported to invite themselves into a home. As of January 27, 2010, the City of Warner Robins does not have a solicitation permit for this company on file. At least one fraud report has been made regarding Face to Face Technologies.
BIBB COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE:
Google search “Face to Face Technologies” to view multiple complaint reports. No door to door permits have been issued for this company in unincorporated Bibb. If you live outside the city limits of Macon in Bibb County and encounter “representatives” of this group, contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 746-9441 to report illegal solicitation. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office strongly urges the public not to encourage door to door sales. There is no need to converse with solicitors beyond saying “no thank you” and “please leave”. In addition, there is no need to open your door to them and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office recommends you do not.
LT. GEORGE MEADOWS
BIBB COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
CRIME PREVENTION UNIT
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH / BUSINESS WATCH / YOUTH PROGRAMS
110 CONFEDERATE WAY
MACON, GA. 31217
OFFICE: 478-744-9700
gmeadows@co.bibb.ga.us
JERRY MODENA SHERIFF
DAVID J. DAVIS CHIEF DEPUTY LE SERVICES
RUSSELL NELSON CHIEF DEPUTY CORRECTIONS AND COURT SERVICES
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Kop Korner
01/29/2010
01/29/2010
B.O.L.O (Be On the Look Out) FOR A DARK BLUE OR BLACK TOYOTA MINIVAN OCCUPPIED BY UP TO 3 WHITE MALES. THIS VAN AND OCCUPANTS ARE SUSPECTS IN THE THEFT OF SHEET COPPER (GUTTER MATERIALS) FROM SEVERAL BIBB SCHOOLS. ANYONE SPOTTING A SIMILAR VEHICLE / OCCUPANT COMBINATION AROUND SCHOOLS OR BUSINESSES AFTER HOURS IS ASKED TO CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT IMMEDIATELY. OBTAIN A TAG NUMBER ONLY IF SAFELY POSSIBLE. A CRIME IN PROGRESS WARRANTS A 911 CALL. RECYCLERS: PLEASE NOTIFY LAW ENFORCEMENT IF A SIMILAR VEHICLE ARRIVES AT YOUR LOCATION WITH THESE MATERIALS.
LT. GEORGE MEADOWS
BIBB COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
CRIME PREVENTION UNIT
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH / BUSINESS WATCH / YOUTH PROGRAMS
110 CONFEDERATE WAY
MACON, GA. 31217
OFFICE: 478-744-9700
gmeadows@co.bibb.ga.us
JERRY MODENA SHERIFF
DAVID J. DAVIS CHIEF DEPUTY LE SERVICES
RUSSELL NELSON CHIEF DEPUTY CORRECTIONS AND COURT SERVICES
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Some Headlines That Give Proofreaders and Editors Nightmares
Proofreading is a Dying Art these days!
Here are some gems, with commentary, sent in by a reader and a friend.
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
This one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this. It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next day.
I just couldn't help but send this along. Too funny..
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
No crap, really? Ya think?
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Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Now that's taking things a bit far!
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Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
What a guy!
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Miners Refuse to Work after Death
No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-so's!
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Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
See if that works any better than a fair trial!
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War Dims Hope for Peace
I can see where it might have that effect!
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If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Ya think?!
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Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Who would have thought!
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Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
They may be on to something!
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Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?
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Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
He probably IS the battery charge!
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New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Weren't they fat enough?!
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Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
That's what he gets for eating those beans!
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Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Do they taste like chicken?
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Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Chainsaw Massacre all over again!
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Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Boy, are they tall!
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And the winner is....
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
Did I read that right?
An insider at the MACON T'GRAPG tells us that none of this gems cvame from the local daily.
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HE’S BACK?????
Will C. Jack Ellis Run Again?
Will C. Jack Ellis Run Again?
(What a coincidence….two almost identical headlines on the same day.)
Former two-term Macon Mayor C. Jack Ellis, AKA ‘Hakim Ellis’ may run for this city’s highest office once again.
According to Chris Horne’s article in today’s T’GRAPH, Ellis is reported to have said, “Some people have asked me to consider it and I’m considering it.” You can read the short piece online at: http://www.macon.com/local/story/1003406.html (of particular note are the many, many comments that follow).
Elaine Lucas has introduced Mr. Ellis as “Our future Mayor”. Ms. Lucas must know something we other denizens of East Macon know not.
We, personally, welcome an Ellis candidacy for one reason. He’s a great target to shoot at. I interviewed him once for a local, bi-weekly publication, pressed him in a news conference about gangs, whose existence he denied*, and was verbally, savagely attacked by him on the steps of city hall. It would be fun to pick up from whence we left off. I could promise to become the man’s worst nightmare.
On the other hand, a second Ellis Mayorship would most certainly complete the ruination of our fair city.
Said one brazen poster among those commenting on the article, “He left some money that he forgot to embezzle.” \
*When pressed by yours truly at a news conference following immediately on the heels of a stabbing at the Macon Mall, Hizzoner replied, “We have no gangs in Macon, only wannabes”. Those wannabes are responsible for the current infestation of Bloods, Cripps, Folk and other groups of kids who heed the clarion call of ‘Gangsta’.
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SHE’S BACK?????
Will Hillary Run Again?
Will Hillary Run Again?
With the President’s approval rating hovering around 50%, with expectation that it will sink lower, there is much speculation throughout the land that his chief rival in 2008, none other than Hillary Clinton, is likely to take a run at the roses in 2012.\
Mr. Obama, heeding the ancient wisdom of ‘keep your friends close; your enemies closer’ appointed her to be his Secretary of State, a position she has filled about as successfully as has the President fulfilled his.
The itch is likely deeply ingrained, the only way the former First Lady can scratch it is to run again. Then there is, of course, her age. Botox and face lifts cannot hide the fact that the good woman is rapidly nearing her years as a certified ‘Old Bag’.
There is an interesting DRUDGE article on this subject by Peter Ruff. You may read it here: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2010/01/27/a-hillary-clinton-primary-challenge-to-obama-in-2012.html It first appeared in U.S. NEWS.
Check it out than file it away for future reference.
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Wed Jan 27, 2010
DOWN
but not
OUT
but not
OUT
Guys and gals....yours truly has been under the weather the last two days. But is much better tonight (Wednesday) than he was forty-eight hours ago. May not post much for a day or two, but absence makes the heart grow fonder, or so 'tis said.
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Mon Jan 25, 2010
”GUTLESS and SHAMEFUL
The Fort Hood Report
The Fort Hood Report
I love Monday Mornings. There is so much stimulating material to read from places including Lew Rockwell Dot Com, Erick Erickson’s RED STATE, the columnists of Townhall dot com, and Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT For America. There are others, of course, many other worthy outlets. But right now you are invited to take a look at what an ACT columnist has to say about the government’s report concerning the Fort Hood Massacre, which stands as one of the most weak-kneed documents in the history of modern Political Correctness.
Says Ms Gabriel:
“Dear Don,
How bad is the cancer of political correctness in the Defense Department?
So bad that the 86 page report on the Ft. Hood jihadist massacre mentions "Islam" or any of its derivatives only once—in a footnote.
So bad that CNN commentator Jack Cafferty called it a "joke."
Unfortunately, the only ones laughing are the Islamists.
They must be looking at our military and political leadership and thanking Allah for their good fortune. It's easy to envision discussions among Islamists where they tell each other "surely Allah is with us; the infidel leaders are so blind and stupid they won't even acknowledge who is fighting them!"
Ralph Peters' column below is RIGHT ON POINT!
We believe American outrage at this suicidal level of political correctness is only going to grow. Let us resolve together to make 2010 the year that "main street America" shouted back at Washington that we've had enough!!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/
hood_massacre_report_gutless_and_yaUphSPCoMs8ux4lQdtyGM
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Sun Jan 24, 2010
Two From
RIVERSIDE RED
RIVERSIDE RED
I don’t think it wrong to use the word ‘tearjerker’ in a positive sense.
Two such came our way this weekend from Riverside Red. I enjoyed them thoroughly even as each brought a little tear to my eye.
The first is a video made about three years ago of a little seven-year-old boy singing the National Anthem.
Not the “Oh say can you see….?” As warbled by those so-called ‘divas’ who dominate the Anthem’s presentation at many sports events across the fruited plain, but as it was meant to be…a hymn to America filled with passion, conviction, and profound meaning.
Click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR2rvxSUr7w
For the second you will have to click MORE to read a heartfelt essay called BURIAL AT SEA.
Subject: Burial at Sea
Powerful, to say the least....
To only those who would and could appreciate it. This account is one of a kind.
A power that touches your heart. Tough duty then as it is now.
More...
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Paul Jacob:
Political Ground Beef
Political Ground Beef
”Again, as far as it goes, the President is correct. Americans have been sick and tired of dishonest and destructive policies emanating from the Feds of both R and D varieties for longer than his single year of fiddling, and, in fact, longer than George W. Bush’s eight years. For several decades, at least, Americans have been spitting mad about the state of their federal government.”
Paul Jacob, as you probably know, is a prolific writer who posts a daily column called COMMON SENSE. Once a week he writes a longer piece for TOWNHALL dot COM that allows him to delve deeper into a given subject.
Today he takes on not only the President, but the entire Washington establishment in the aftermath of the GOP victory in Massachusetts less than a week ago, and the President’s seeming turn-back from health care to fiscal policy.
His article really revolves around a commonly held definition of ‘insanity’: that is attacking a problem by doing exactly the same thing that hasn’t worked in the past. In the wasteland that is our nation’s capitol, that usually translates into spending ever more money to fix a problem real or imagined. It’s the old “We’ve always done it that way’ syndrome.
Great little column You can read it here: http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2010/01/24/the_nothing_burger?page=2 He calls it “THE NOTHING BURGER”, an interesting title whose meaning comes clear near the end of the piece.
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Edward R. Murrow
on
WINSTON CHURCHILL
on
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Forty-five years ago today, Winston Churchill, perhaps the greatest among the larger-than-life lions who determined the course of the twentieth century, died at the age of ninety.
I heard a quote earlier today made by Edward R. Murrow on CBS Sunday morning news. It speaks volumes about a man who was not only an able politician, but a prolific and brilliant author. Said the journalist:
“He mobilized the English Language and set it into battle.”
Not bad, eh?
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WHERE THE HELL ARE THE BLACK CLERGY?
A few days ago (please scroll down) we asked the question WHERE THE HELL ARE THE 100 BLACK MEN?
The reference was to this so-called association of Black Leaders which seems to be doing little or nothing to help those ‘Lost Boys’ of Bibb County who are dropping out of school, selling drugs and committing crimes and killing one another at an ever increasing rate.
Today Sir Charles Richardson, he of the MACON T’GRAPH and early AM talk radio and TV, has penned a most penetrating editorial aimed squarely at the question, “Why aren’t the Black clergy of Macon, a city ‘boasting’ several hundred churches, doing more to help with the seemingly insurmountable problems we are having with the city’s youth.
He might have called it WHERE THE HELL ARE THE BLACK CLERGY?
A few weeks ago Mr. Richardson mentioned editorially several clergypersons who are fully engaged in helping our at-risk kids. But now he speaks to the majority who do little or nothing to take back the mean streets from the rising tide of quasi-organized thuggery.
You can read this fine piece online at: http://www.macon.com/151/story/995699.html or in today’s Sunday Print Edition. Charles calls it: BLACK CLERGY: WHERE ARE YOU? Mr. Richardson is much more sensitive than I.
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Sat Jan 23, 2010
Quote Of The Day
01/23/2020
01/23/2020
Europeans are experiencing a very hard winter. My sister who lives in Great Britain sent in this quote by Albert Camus, one of the truly great writer/philosophers of the mid twentieth century. Said he:
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer"
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Fri Jan 22, 2010
I Return To Professional Wrestling
BRIEFLY
BRIEFLY
The last time I saw ‘Professional’ Wrestling Son Rob, now forty-one was seventeen and we were home alone on a Tuesday night. For some reason we captured on of our TV sets and turned the dial to a cable channel that featured the pros. The kid had a ball explaining both action and nuance to his old man.
In those days Hulk Hogan ruled and characters like “Gorilla Monsoon” provided color commentary. Gorilla must have selected his professional moniker after a bad acid trip. I cannot imagine calling somebody either ‘Gorilla’ or ‘Mr. Monsoon’ in any kind of a social setting.
Tonight, cable-less by choice, my boobus toobus is once again tuned to ‘Rasslin’, every other channel blocked by some inane telecast designed to raise dough for Haiti…..and to expose the talents of the largely talentless.
It hasn’t changed in nearly twenty-five years, wrestling hasn’t. It is all hype and fake with a huge admixture of very bad acting.
To the wrestling fan, it represents the ultimate battle between good and evil. Good doesn’t always win; evil doesn’t always lose.
It is cliched, hackneyed, dumbed down to some low level common denominator, but maintains thrills a plenty for the thousands of fans filling this venue’s vast arena.
The only thing missing is the un-nuanced voice of Mr. Gorilla Monsoon.
Hell!!! Why not?
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Thu Jan 21, 2010
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE,
ANYWAY???
ANYWAY???
MACON T’GRAPH’s editor, Charles Richardson, penned today a lead editorial entitled WHO RUNS MACON?. You can access this excellent piece here: http://www.macon.com/203/story/992865.html
Our rotund guru begins, ”Tuesday, Macon’s City Council pushed forward its effort to rein in Macon Mayor Robert Reichert’s executive powers. A new ordinance, sponsored by Councilman Rick Hutto, which passed 9-5, makes it a requirement that council approve such layoff decisions. This comes after the layoffs, probably the first in the city’s history, which became effective last Friday”.
He urges the mayor to veto the proposal. A great idea, by the way.
What we are seeing of course is the age-old tug-of-war between the executive and the legislative branches of government. It was a commonplace in ancient Athens and, later, in Republican Rome.
Last night I was talking with the sixteen-year-old son of a neighbor, a kid I sometimes call ‘Sag’, for reasons the most noticeable component of his customary, haut culture habiliment.
We were discussing local gangs and thuggery and I asked him outright why there is such a culture of violence and revenge among our young people. He was expecting to have to fight another boy who had ‘dssed’ him only yesterday.
His answer was both thoughtful and interesting. Said the lad, “They (the thugs) want to take over the city.” Hmmmmm.
And so we say to sir Charles, the problem as to who sitteth on Macon’s cat-bird seat is much more complex than a power struggle between elected elements of the city government. You now have to consider the local ‘gangstas’, teens mostly, who infest every area of our fair city, causing the FBI to take notice of our tragically high crime rate.
Imperial Rome, whose citizens lived largely on a generous dole (welfare) system, was often ‘ruled’ by violent city mobs, who ran riot beyond the power of the state to control. Thousands of citizens could spill into the streets simply at the rise of the cost of a loaf of bread or the outcome of a chariot race. Mobs sometimes made and unmade emperors. Unlike the United States where we largely cherish our ex presidents, there were no ex-emperors in Rome. An ex emperor was a dead emperor. Emperors needed to be very, very careful.
Mayors and city councilors also need to be very, very careful. Their jobs come up for renewal every four years.
This is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE and I am Don Brunel
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Wed Jan 20, 2010
WHERE THE HELL ARE THE 100 BLACK MEN?
And the NAACP and our Black educators and most of our Black clergy and business leaders?
Why the hell are a majority of the leaders of Macon’s Black community sitting on their comfortable behinds while young men, many mere children, are committing serious felonies and slaughtering one another on the streets of a blighted city.
We will never clean up this city and reduce the complex problems of crime, teens having babies, rampant poverty, decline of the nuclear family, and education unless the African-American leadership steps up to the plate and begins interacting with kids and with the shattered families wherein lie the root causes of these seemingly insurmountable difficulties.
Why aren’t the one hundred black men, or how many of you there are, hitting the mean streets peopled by drugs, thugs, and drop-out teens? What is the local NAACP doing other than marching, protesting, pissing, moaning, and blaming others for the putrid mess in its own back yard? Where are the educational leaders? Do we have any educational leaders?
Government cannot and should not fix the foulness we have with our children. It’s up the community at larger, and the Black community in particular.
Where the hell are the one hundred Black Men>
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WE OWE OUR SOULS
TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE
TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE
This just in from a reader and friend.
A parody song about the Obama year in office...song in the style of T. Ernie Ford's SIXTEEN TONS.
Watch and listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c10O9IR1rs
Enjoy
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BAY STATE BOOGIE
Be Careful, GOP
Be Careful, GOP
I often get ribbed about ‘being from’ Massachusetts.
Probably not today. Republican Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley, both running for the seat vacated by the death of long time Senator, Teddy Kennedy.
It’s being hailed as ‘the Massachusetts Miracle’, ‘the Second Shot Fired Round The World’, the ‘beginning of the end for Obama-styled socialism’.
It is no such thing. One state-wide election does not a trend make. We urge the GOP, itself a party rent between what is considered ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ elements to avoid gloating, self-congratulation, and over-confidence. This nation has a long, long ways to go if it is to reverse the socialistic tendencies of both the Obama and Bush administrations.
Remember the Republican revolution 0f 1994. Those bozos took control of congress under the banner of the GOP’s Contract with America. In the weeks following the election speaker New Gingrich appeared daily on the 24/7 news channels telling us what the new majority would accomplish. Too much talk, too little action. Newt is addicted to the TV camera. The GOP majority eventually disintegrated into nothingness, and even gave the Democrats in the Senate, at least, a filibuster-proof, super majority in 2008.
Either party entrenched thinks the good times will go rolling on forever. Just like the idiots who run Wall Street. Members become corrupt, venal, complacent, and just plain stupid. Poof!! All gone.
I lived and worked for almost two decades in The Bay State. But I hail from Upstate New York, twenty-five miles from Syracuse, in the heart of the snow belt. Moved to Georgia in 1976, more than thirty-three years ago.
So to all of you who consider my sojourn in Massachusetts a blemish on my immaculate reputation, please remember I came to The Peach State out of choice and have remained here more than three decades, also out of choice. You my friends were mostly here because you were born here and don’t know whether the grass be more verdant elsewhere or not. I am a loyal of Georgia because I want to be and have good reasons for that choice.
Politicians: Talk Less, Work Harder and remember you, too can be replaced. Probably will be. Many as early as 2010 A.D.
This is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE aqnd I am Don Brunel
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Mon Jan 18, 2010
Is There Anything In A Name?
From a Brit paper (linked to DRUDGE) that proper names from the movie AVATAR, that's the flick featuring blue people some have claimed to be racist, are now being given to babies in England and the United States. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2811820/Boom-in-Avatar-names-for-kiddies.html
Quoth Our Cousins From Across The Pond: "MOVIE fans are rushing to name their babies after characters in sci-fi smash Avatar. Choices include Neytiri - after the film's Na'vi warrior-princess - and giant flying creature Toruk.
Another favourite is Pandora, name of the blockbuster flick's fictional planet.
Pandora is tipped as top choice among US fans, with UK parents set to follow."
We don't see why this should surprise us. We already have sizeable segments of society boasting names like Quintavius, Shaniqua and the ever popular Nos Moking.
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REDNECK JIHAD
Conscience Of A Conservative Academic
Conscience Of A Conservative Academic
Mike Adams is a particularly favorite conservative columnist, Of mine, that is.
He is an academic, a professor of criminology, who takes a no-nonsense approach to his teaching; he is a strong Second Amendment supporter and, therefore, a constitutionalist in these days when governance seems to be losing any rational raison-d’etre; he finds himself in trouble almost constantly because he flies furiously in the face of modern, socialist, neo-feminist college professors, most of whom couldn’t make a living outside their restricted, tenured ivory tower world.
So today we find Mike’s latest gem in TOWNHALL wherein he answers plaintive emails largely from young people who have real concerns about being ‘the only’ conservative in a department run by communist jackals.
Read it here: http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/01/18/i_will_survive?page=full&comments=true He calls it “I WILL SURVIVE”.
At this point in time I do not think Mike will do as I did and pull out of teaching because, as I often say, any longer and I would have killed one of the little bastards.
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Sun Jan 17, 2010
DISSING MLK, Jr.?
If I were a black American and particularly if I had a healthy respect for the memory of the late Martin Luther King, Jr, I would be in high dudgeon today, the day before his national holiday.
Why? Look in your Sunday newspaper. Were this President’s (or Washington’s) Day, Christmas, July Forth, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day, or any of the other nationally declared long weekends Americans enjoy, our papers would be clogged with advertising. Ditto on the airways.
Just got through poring over the adverts in the SUNDAY MACON TELEGRAPH and found not a single, solitary Martin Luther King sale flyer in the entire thing.
As was said, were I Black, I might be upset that we do not celebrate the national holiday of this iconic hero of the Civil Rights movement just as we do other such days off.
Come to think of it, maybe it is better this way…we don’t need to glorify this outstanding American by shopping for those tawdry baubles that nowadays seem to define the way America honors her great men and her rich history.
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1720 TECHNOLOGY
I have been called ‘Old Fashioned’ many times over.
There are only 15% of the people in this country who are without cell p[hones.
Guess I just don’t like the idea of having somebody reach out and touching me when I prefer to be away from the wide world of intrusive technology.
Yesterday I took a little journey back in time and attended (as an observer) a black powder shoot at our local gun club.
Hadn’t planned to attend, to be honest, but another chap and myself showed up on the wrong day thinking we were to participate in another kind of match. Misread the calendar.
We found almost a dozen men, and not just old timers like myself, assembled for a morning’s shoot in the chill and the drizzle of a January in Georgia. I arrived twenty minutes before the start of the match and was treated to coffee boiling in an ancient pot over an open fire. Had that and a forbidden donut….nothing ever tasted better.
Then it was, “Gentlemen, Lock, Load, and Fire at will”. Most of these fellows had what looked like ‘Kentucky Long Rifles’ of the percussion cap genre. There were a couple of custom builts; only one ‘modern’ in-line. Except for the plastic furniture on the in-line, the rest boasted beautiful wood stocks and fore-grips, some had custom made brass patch boxes and trim. Quite a sight to somebody who loves firearms and appreciates craftsmanship.
The meet lasted more than two hours: fellows firing from the line, returning to load these single shooting antiques, returning to fire again. The drill was reminiscent of American Civilians shooting at British troops emerging from the fog at New Orleans almost two centuries ago.
I own a couple of reproduction flintlock rifles, can’t hit much of anything with them…yet…and these guys were miles ahead of me in knowledge, ‘lore’ even, and practice. It really was a trip to the past with men who care about tradition.
What a way to spend a couple of hours. I learned more in the time spent with these guys by observing and asking what were probably stupid questions, than I have in the decade since purchasing my flintlocks.
Tomorrow is a holiday. So tomorrow shall witness yours truly in the warmth of a sunny afternoon blazing away with a rifle whose technology dates back to 1720 in hopes of being able to join this band of intrepids a few weeks from now.
Can’t wait for another cup of that delicious coffee.
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Fri Jan 15, 2010
Pants To The Ground
You may have seen this video clip on TV. It originated during American Idol auditions in Atlanta.
If your neighborhood is plagued right now by teeny-boppers running around without parental supervision, their pants sagging low, you might enjoy this short clip.
By the way, you Dads everywhere, you can help cure this problem with a judicious application of leather across that part of your son's anatomy where the seat of his pants used to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dFWaIpd6Q&feature=popular
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More On
TROUBLED KIDS
the lost children of Bibb County
TROUBLED KIDS
the lost children of Bibb County
A fifteen year old girl is sentenced to a year in the juvie slammer for bringing a gun to Howard High School. Said she wanted frighten a football player who had pushed her. She has a lengthy disciplinary record including two sessions in alternative school. http://www.macon.com/198/story/986161.html?storylink=omni_popular
A Northeast High Sophomore was found guilty of slugging a (female) senior band member with the metal mouthpiece of his instrument. That after she rejected his advances after he swatted her on the backside. The major charge against him was ‘sexual battery’. He will be sentenced later in the year. http://www.macon.com/198/story/986126.html?storylink=omni_popular
The sixteen-year-old son of a family I know well was sentenced this week to something called ‘Drug Court’. It was his second trip to juvenile court. He had violated his probation from sojourn number one by testing positive for smoking weed.
Busy week in juvie….and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Kids are out of control. I patrol our street every afternoon after school and intercept baby thugs almost daily. They are always going somewhere, often to link up with like-minded children for an afternoon of drinking and drugging. I have asked our Neighborhood Watch folks to call the cops when they see small groups of youngsters not from this immediate neighborhood wandering about or loitering. Cops take their names, that puts them into ‘the system’. Damn!! Hate to do it. Baby thugs become grown-up thugs before they end up in jail, dead of an overdose or bullet, or elected to the Macon City Council.
Currently listening to guru Charles Richardson on local radio pleading for a meaningful alternate institution for our troubled kiddies….not a warehouse, not a jail, not an alternative school ….but a place where they can learn, change lifestyles, get some real help, and their families, however dysfunctional, can be be brought into a reasonable facsimile of what traditionally passes for normalcy.
Get these boys and girls some help and remove their disruptive selves from the regular schools, where, in theory, other children can now learn without distraction.
Pie in the sky? Probably, but well worth a try….education has tended to be one-dimensional. Here, at least, society could utilize several of its best institutions to rescue the next generation: law enforcement, social services, school system, the family, and the always effective woodshed.
This is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE and I am Don Brunel
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Thu Jan 14, 2010
THE ANTI GUN U.N.
Video Report
Video Report
I am no fan of the United Nations.
I would like to see it moved....lock, stock, and barrel to the nutria rich swamps of southern Louisiana.
The notion of a one world govwernment where Americans are ruled by that organization rather than the United States Constitution is one of the very worst things that could happen in the history of civilization.
Americans are 'different', dammit, don't care what the socialists in D.C. Think. A blue UN helmet standing guard on the streets of America would make a most excellent target.
Is the UN out to seize the firearms owned by American Citizens. Here is a video sent in by a friend and fellow fiorearms owner that claims so.
Is this video overblown? I don't know, but intend to find out.
Go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMeDmV0ufU
And let me know what you think.
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Out Of The Tragedy In Haiti
comes
Sheer Stupidity
comes
Sheer Stupidity
Been busy for a couple of days, which gives very little b’log time. Haven’t even caught up with the fact that some outlander just purchased the Macon Mall, intending to turn it and the neighborhood into a viable entity once again. Good luck!!
But the earthquake in Haiti has got my attention. It likely stands as one of the greatest natural disasters of my lifetime. The irrational ‘million dead’ headlines among the first reports we most likely exaggerated.
But one video clip on DRUDGE yesterday grabbed my attention. It is a video clip featuring Pat Robertson, the once and future Uber Christian, letting us know in no uncertain terms that Haiti’s woes are God’s doing.
Access it here: http://www.breitbart.tv/they-have-been-cursed-pat-robertson-says-haiti-swore-a-pact-to-the-devil/
This guy, once a presidential candidate, is a low-carat gem.
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Tue Jan 12, 2010
Kop Korner
01/12/2010
01/12/2010
This just in from GEORGE MEADOWS.
To protect your identity, the Better Business Bureau and the Census
Bureau want the public to know:
• Legitimate census workers carry an identification badge, a
hand-held device, a Census Bureau canvas bag and a
confidentiality notice. Residents should ask to see their
identification before answering their questions. However, you
should never invite anyone you don't know into your home.
• Census workers are knocking on doors now only to verify address
information. Do not give your Social Security number, credit-card
or banking information to anyone, even if they claim they need
it for the census. Legitimate census workers might ask for a salary
range. Other financial information, such as account numbers, is not
being sought. In addition, census workers do not solicit donations.
• Census workers might make contact by telephone or mail or in
person at home, but never by e-mail. Consumers are advised to be on
the lookout for census-themed e-mail scams and are cautioned not to
click on links or open attachments in such e-mails.
• Consumers can call the regional census center at 1-800-432-1495 to
confirm whether someone claiming to be a census worker is employed
by the Census Bureau.
Sources: BBB, Census Bureau
If a census worker comes knocking at your door, the Better Business
Bureau wants you to answer. But it's warning the public to be sure
that the person is a legitimate census worker, not a con artist looking
to steal your identity.
The census, which is an official count of the population, is conducted
every 10 years. The field workers, also known as enumerators, go
door to door to help residents complete census forms.
Census forms will be mailed in February and March and will ask
for a person's residence as of April 1, the official count day.
Between April and July, census workers will visit households
that did not return a census form by mail.
But people shouldn't speak to anyone who can't produce a
census ID and confidentiality notice, said Joan Coughlin,
spokeswoman for the central Ohio BBB. And no census worker should
ask for Social Security numbers or money.
"Most people are rightfully cautious and won't give out personal
information to unsolicited phone callers or visitors," Coughlin said.
However, the census represents an exception to the rule, and
scammers are gearing up to take advantage of that, she said.
"Scammers know that the public is more willing to share personal data
when taking part in the census," she said, "and (they) use it as an
opportunity to ply their trade by posing as a government employee
and soliciting sensitive financial information from consumers."
Census spokesman Kim Hunter said the public should know
that Census Bureau ID cards don't contain the workers'
pictures, but residents can ask for a state-issued ID card from
workers to compare with their census ID.
Hunter said that most residents won't see a census worker at their
door until at least May, and then only if they have not filled out their
census forms.
No census-related sca ms have been reported, he said, but "that
doesn't mean they aren't out there."
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CONSOLIDATION
merging Macon and Bibb County
Some Thoughts
merging Macon and Bibb County
Some Thoughts
It is well known that the city of Macon (Georgia) will be bankrupt in two short years or less.
Decades of ineffective, self-centered, short-sighted, racist, moronic leadership in city government has brought a once vibrant city to its historic, all-time low. Most of our leaders are incapable of seeing beyond the bridge of their collective proboscis.
And so now comes the rush to consolidate, to merge the governments and services of this city with those of the larger geographic unit called ‘Bibb County’.
Bibb County isn’t broke. It has limped along for decades balancing its budget and doing a reasonably good job in the service of the people. While Bibb County is larger than Macon, it does not have the population the city boasts, although in recent decades the county’s head count is growing, while that of the city has gone into sharp decline.
Property owners inside Macon pay both city and county taxes. County dwellers are spared the city tax, of course.
Leaders (but not all leaders, remember the City Council AKA ‘The Gang Of Fifteen’ wants to merge the two entities over a ten year span, at which time they will be largely retired, voted out of office, or dead making it a moot point for them) like the mayor and chairman of the Bibb County Commission want to merge just as soon as possible, this year, even. Hurry up please, I’m hurling my lunch.
County dwellers often ask the question ‘what’s in it for me’? The answer is largely dead air silence. Why would a county dweller vote to raise his taxes to bail out the end result of profligate waste on the part of the city?
City dwellers are positively panting after the increased sources of revenue consolidation will bring. With smaller government, combined services, and a larger tax base, maybe their property taxes will go down…for a change.
Me? I rent. My landlord is a decent fellow, a preacher with six kids (two in college) who can use a tax break.
If I were a county property owner, I would probably vote against the Big C, seeing nothing in it for me. Maybe the county powers need to educate its population base better on the advantages of consolidation.
I don’t plan to buy any property at any time in either Bibb County or the City Of Macon. Things too uncertain here.
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Mon Jan 11, 2010
PURE JOY
Here is a video clip called "HAMSTER DANCE", guaranteed to brighten your day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3G5IXn0K7A
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TELEGRAPH CITES ERICKSON AS AMERICA’S 69th. MOST INFLUENTIAL CONSERVATIVE
Second Year In A Row
Second Year In A Row
The LONDON TELEGRAPH’S online edition has named Macon’s Erick Erickson the sixty-ninth most influential conservative in the United States. You may read the article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1435461/The-most-influential-US-conservatives-1-20.html
Says the T’GRAPH of Mr. Erickson: ”Founder and CEO of the conservative website redstate.com who also blogs on his personal site erickerickson.org, entitled Confessions of a Political Junkie, and on Georgia politics at peachpundit.com. A Republican political consultant and self-described “recovering lawyer”.
At just 32, Erickson epitomises the new power of the internet. A small-government fiscal and social conservative based in the south, he taps into and influences the Republican “base” that the GOP’s 2008 candidates are courting. Only started blogging in 2003.”
Our question at this time has to be: “What ho, Erick, No upwards ranking in a year now? Why are you mired at number sixty-nine?”
Actually that’s pretty damned good for a local guy who also represents some lily-white district on the Macon City Council.
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MIKE ADAMS ON THE ATTACK
Damn your eyes, Mme. Chancellor;
Yours, too, Mme Speaker
Damn your eyes, Mme. Chancellor;
Yours, too, Mme Speaker
”That scene mirrors the way our politicians view us today. They are increasingly afraid of us because they are increasingly aware that we do not approve of what they are doing to us. But our approval is, in their eyes, increasingly irrelevant. And they try to shut us out of the process by ignoring difficult questions.”
I love a good, knock down donnybrook among academics. Been in quite a few of them myself.
Those outside the rarified realm of academe tend to think that disagreements among docents to be polite, gentlemanly, genteel afafairs, laced with high rhetoric, followed by agreeable high tea.
They’re not. They are lowdown, dirty, no holds barred set-to’s lacking (usually) roundhouse fisticuffs and concealed weapons. These guys play for keeps.
Mike Adams, our favorite Criminology Professor and wit teaches at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington and has been locked in mortal conflict for some time with Rosemary DePaolo, chancellor of that university. It has even risen to the level of an ongoing lawsuit, for Adams is suing her and the UNC-W for its failure to promote him to full professor.
In this column Mike unleashes his wit, wisdom, and strong dislike of feminists upon Ms. DePaolo, comparing her to another feminist leader of ill repute, Nancy Pelosi.
It is a delicious piece. A great Monday Morning read. Access it directly here: http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/01/11/respect It is called “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Tolle! Lege!! Take Up And Read!!!
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PLEASE JOIN ME IN A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST ALGORE
Two years ago, on a cold January morning (though not as cold as THIS I experienced one of those epiphanies that cause men and women of good will to rush forth into action.
A TV news broadcast, combined with a article in a journal I usually respect and a radio interview with ex VEEP Al Gore all combined to convince me that I needed to do better in helping husband the precious and limited resources of this planet.
When I learned that purchasing those funny looking, pig tail shaped light bulbs would not only help the environment, but also keep my wallet a little fatter, I sprang to action.
So I did. Replaced every incandescent bulb in my house with an earth-friendly version boasting a promised burn-life of seven years. That was a great feeling…,,,the pure joy of doing something altruistic that would also save dough. Cost a bundle, to be sure, but this was certainly a sane investment in the world’s future.
Things rocked along for a while. There was no reduction in my Georgia Power bill, to be sure, and the new bulbs were not as bright as the old, causing not a little eye strain when typing or reading, but we grew used to the dimness. Maybe my inability to see as well as I once did had something to do with age.
The cats knocked over a lamp about six months ago, breaking the bulb. I considered calling the HAZMAT guys, but didn’t. Swept up the broken pieces, mopped and vacuumed the area, then carefully placed the remains in a plastic bag, depositing them in a distant neighbor’s curbside trash bin. Not one of us, neither the cats nor myself have shown no signs of wasting illness. Can’t speak for the distant neighbor. A hearse showed up there a few weeks later. The house went up for sale shortly thereafter.
Then just last week, exactly two years since the change over, the bulb on my desk lamp died. Two years, mind you, not seven. The next day The main bulb in my frigid bathroom aabruptly stopped working. They were both replaced by the incandescent versions I had saved in a garbage bag. I do have enough of those to last for decades.
So, friends and neighbors, I am looking for two things. First, a lawyer who will help me sue Algore, he being the most visible nut who wants us to replace our old incandescents with his twisted, frankensteinian creations. Al’s pockets are very, very deep. Second, I beg you good citizens, solid Americans who have experienced similar failures with over-priced bulbs dying before their allotted span of seven years. These to join in a class-action suit against the ex Vice POTUS.
Get back to me on this, folks, today we begin to take back our Nation from the kooks who rule us.
This is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE I am Don Brunel
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Fri Jan 08, 2010
HAPPY 75th., Elvis
Had he lived, Elvis Presley would be an aged icon of seventy-five years...today.
He didn't, of course, live. He died about thirty-two years ago, in August, 1977, his existence snuffed out by drugs and crazy living.
I had been in Macon exactly one year, when I walked into the local mall and saw the headline in the DAILY BLATT and BUGLE, "THE KING IS DEAD".
I was so ignorant that I had to read some of the lead article to find out just who 'the king' was.
Thirty-two years ago I didn't like Mr. Presley nor his music very much. I have mellowed over the years and have developed an appreciation for much of his work...it was original, entertaining, and often uplifting.
I morphed into a Southerner during that time and have come to love Deep Dixie as the only part of this country I choose to live.
Glad I live in the land of cotton.
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Quote Of The Day
01/08/2010
01/08/2010
Sir Charles Richardson, during a discussion on-air about the lack of discipline in Bibb County schools and homes,
I had a child who said, 'I'll Call DFACS (ON YOU)" I replied, 'THAT'S THE WRONG NUMBER. YOU BETTER CALL THE CORONER.'
Don't you wish you had said that....at least once?
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Wed Jan 06, 2010
Kop Korner 2
06/01/2010
06/01/2010
This came through late afternoon today....good common sense stuff about cars and the crooks who steal them. Sound advice
Top 10 Cars Stolen In Georgia
1. 1994 Honda Accord
2. 1994 Honda Civic
3. 2004 Ford F150 Pickup
4. 1994 Jeep Cherokee/Grand Cherokee
5. 1990 Chevrolet 4x2Pickup
6. 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass
7. 2002 Ford Explorer
8. 2000 Dodge Caravan
9. 1999 Ford Taurus
10. 1997 Toyota Camry
According to the NICB (National Insurance Crime Bureau) the list above contains the most popular vehicle makes and models among auto thieves in Georgia. A common denominator you may notice is that most of the vehicles are older models. Experts tell us this is because older cars are easier to steal than newer ones. Also; people are keeping their old cars longer creating an increasing demand for parts. Vehicles, in most cases, are worth more “chopped” (sold in parts) than in one piece. Although the auto theft rate in unincorporated Bibb County rose slightly in 2009 over 2008 figures, the rate has decreased approximatley 31% since 2006. Older model Honda Accords, like the NICB top 10 list, comprised the largest single group of vehicles (20%) stolen in unincorporated Bibb in 2009. Recently, Bibb Sheriff’s Patrolmen responding to a report of suspicious activity, recovered four 1990’s model Honda Accords abandoned in a secluded area off Nisbet Drive. Older model Chevrolet passenger cars and pickup trucks made up the second largest group of stolen vehicles in unincorporated Bibb. Sheriff Modena is asking for the public’s assistance in preventing auto theft. If you own one of the vehicles above you should pay special attention to the list of auto theft prevention tips below. Please take the time to read them no matter what type of vehicle you own.
1. Always lock your vehicle including closing all windows and the sunroof
2. Do not hide a spare key on the vehicle (thieves know where you hide them; they’re good at hiding things themselves)
3. Never leave valuables in plain view. This tempts thieves to break into your vehicle and steal the vehicle as well once inside.
4. Never leave personal documents in the car that could be used by a thief to commit ID theft.
5. Don’t leave the vehicle registration or title in the car. This makes it easier for a thief to sell the car. Store the registration and title in a safe place with other important documents.
6. Park in well lit areas with lots of pedestrian traffic or attended lots.
7. NEVER LEAVE THE VEHICLE RUNNING UNATTENDED. THEFTS IN THESE CASES OCCUR MOSTLY AT CONVENIENCE STORES.
8. If you have a garage, use it and lock it.
9. If you are storing or parking the vehicle for an extended time, remove the ignition fuse, coil wire or distributor cap.
10. Engrave major parts of the vehicle with the VIN or “GA” and your driver’s license number. This makes identifying stolen parts easier for law enforcement.
11. Use your car alarm if you have one. If you don’t have one, consider having one installed.
12. Use anti-theft devices such as steering wheel locks (the Club).
13. Have the VIN number etched on the vehicle windows. This service is free at some events.
14. Be alert when approaching your vehicle for suspicious persons loitering around your vehicle that may intend to carjack you. If in doubt, do not go to your car; go to a safe place to notify law enforcement and management if appropriate.
15. If confronted for your vehicle, remember it isn’t worth getting hurt or killed for. If at all possible avoid letting the thief take you with them. Your chances of surviving unharmed are much less if you are kidnapped.
16. Commit your vehicle’s tag number, make, model and color to memory. The tag number of course is most important. Also keep in mind any damage, stickers or aftermarket equipment that makes it easier for law enforcement officers to spot.
17. When driving, especially around town, keep your doors locked.
18. When stopping at traffic lights or intersections, be sure that you can see the road surface between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you. This allows room to maneuver in an emergency situation.
19. If bumped from behind and it seems suspicious (especially on deserted streets after dark) stay in your vehicle and call 911 while moving slowly to a well lit, busy area.
Lt. George Meadows
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office
Crime Prevention Unit
Neighborhood Watch & Youth Programs
Bibb Sheriff’s Training Range
110 Confederate Way
Macon, Georgia 31217
Office: 744-9700
gmeadows@co.bibb.ga.us
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Is This What They Mean By
”I’M LOVIN’ IT”?
”I’M LOVIN’ IT”?
Tape from DRUDGE this morning shows an irate woman customer in a McDonald’s who was dissatisfied with the hamburger she purchased. Her reaction is violent, irrational, and just plain stupid. See for yourself:
http://www.kctv5.com/video/22144014/index.html
Would you like fries with that?
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Tue Jan 05, 2010
HIDE YOUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS, BOYS, THE GEORGIA LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN
DAMN!!!
DAMN!!!
It is no secret that the pathetic state of K-12 education in Georgia ranks us near the very bottom of the fifty states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C.
Georgia has always been able to look down its aristocratic nose at states with even lesser educational achievement such as Mississippi, West Virginia, and New Jersey.
As a direct result of our state’s decrepit record in education, it stands to reason that Georgia politicians are, relatively speaking, less well educated than elected officials of most of the other states.
Understanding that simple truth. Be aware, oh ye Georgians, that the members of the state Senate and General Assembly are about to embark on their annual forty-day orgy of legislative taxing, spending, passing laws with unintended consequences, wallowing in extra marital sex, gluttony, alcohol and drugs, and gorging on personal enrichment through fawning over the special interests boys and their deep pockets.
These elected bozos need to be watched like hawks because they forget, and forget each and every passing year, the motto that should guide them: “FIRST DO NO HARM”. It doesn’t seem to matter who is in charge up in Atlanta, Democrats or Republicans, our boys and girls under the golden dome are as pure as are the prostitutes many hire during their forty-day hiatus from the legal, wedding bower.
We will be watching you guys and gals. My gut feeling tells me that the next two years are going to witness a lot of entrenched politicians being tossed out on their behinds by an irate citizenry which may not be as bamboozled by platitudinous ‘hope and change’ as it appeared a year or so ago.
That goes double for local pols, in our case, the Board of Education and the Macon City Council.
Beware, the winds of meaningful reform are just beginning to stir.
This is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE and I am Don Brunel.
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”NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT A REPUBLICAN IS ANYMORE”
Erick Erickson On Colbert
Erick Erickson On Colbert
It happened late last night. I was busy wrestling five of six cats for a corner of a heating pad purchased primarily to keep my toes warm on cold nights, and missed the cable TV outing.
Oh….forgot. I dropped cable a couple of years back freeing up time for that fashioned nonsense called ‘reading’. Good move!!
Local Pundit (and freshman member of the Macon City Council AKA ‘The Gang of Fifteen’) Erick Erickson appeared on the Colbert Report, a product of The Comedy Channel.
According to the British Press, Erick is the “sixty-ninth most influential conservative in the United States’. How our cousins across the sea arrived at that conclusion is unfathomable, but it stands for truth in an era where truth is a casualty of both peace and war.
Mr. Erickson sat patiently and answered rapid-fire questions posed by the more frenetic Colbert, which is ok when one plays second fiddle to the show’s Top Conchita. I hope he was well recompensed for his efforts. On the tube, Erick seems to appear as something of a cross between Mr. Peepers and an extremely bright high school computer nerd.
Were it a contest, who won? It was a contest and I have my own opinion. If you didn’t see the six minute segment yesterday, please click here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/258313/january-04-2010/erick-erickson and make up your own mind.
And, Erick, you do so much better on radio than on the boobus toobus.
Ciao,
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Mon Jan 04, 2010
Kop Korner
01/04/2010
01/04/2010
An Email Update member contributed information on a scam. In this case the intended victim received a notification notifying her that she had won the amount on the accompanying counterfeit check. This is a scam designed to gain personal and financial information. Many times you can use internet search engines to research these scams by entering the company names, phone numbers etc on the document in the search window of your internet home page (MSN, Google, Yahoo etc). Never respond to such correspondence. If it sounds too good to be true it most likely is. If you didn’t enter a contest it is most likely you didn’t win.
On another subject, when receiving alarming email messages describing occurrences such as chemical laden business cards, kidnapping attempts using notes on car windows etc you can check many of these stories at the following site for authenticity.
www.snopes.com
Lt. George Meadows
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office
Crime Prevention Unit
Neighborhood Watch & Youth Programs
Bibb Sheriff’s Training Range
110 Confederate Way
Macon, Georgia 31217
Office: 744-9700
gmeadows@co.bibb.ga.us
SORRY: Couldn't get the photo attachments onto the b'log entry
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Professor Mike Adams
vs
POST MODERN ACADEMIA
vs
POST MODERN ACADEMIA
”The problem between the professor and the student was that the former subscribes to a philosophy of postmodernism, which is largely a rebellion against the certainty of objective efforts to explain reality. It is a philosophy that stems from a belief that reality is not mirrored in human perception but, instead, is “constructed” as the mind tries to comprehend its own personal reality.”
This column represents, in my humble you-know-what, Mike Adams at his best.
Here he, once again, takes on contemporary academe, scoring points with logic, common sense, and not a little sarcasm.
The problem is a screwy notion that started small and blew into a kind of monster inside the mind set of most college teachers who are so busy passing down this core belief to their students that they ignore other points of view…the truth, even.
We called it relativism back in my school days…the belief that one idea is always just as good as the next, ‘truth’ being a non-existent sham. I could never buy it simply because I have been a latter day Platonist who believes passionately in the absolute. In 2010 it goes by the idiotic misnomer, ‘Post Modern’ thought.
Whatever moron selected that term must have just experienced an extremely damaging chemical or alcohol fueled trip.
Mike is also an absolutist. We disagree in certain key areas….he is a devout, conservative Christian, I am an un-repentant pagan….atheist pagan, for I do not hold any stock in Wotan, Zeus, or Ra. But in many respects we think alike.
Please click on this link, which will take you directly to: http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/01/04/oh_lord,_please_don%e2%80%99t_let_me_be_misunderstood It’s called “Oh Lord, Please Don’t Let Me Be misunderstood” and was one of the great pieces in this morning’s TOWN HALL DOT COM.
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CELEBRATORY GUNFIREPart Three
I have a recurring dream…started a couple of years back.
I am walking down a near-by street, a main thoroughfare in our neck of in-town suburbia, and it’s a bright, sunny, chilly New Year’s Morning.
(For years now, ever since I was able to kick an addiction to demon bourbon (one day at a time, of course) I have wallowed in the delight of an early, sprightly A.M. New Year’s Day walk while many of our hung-over citizens suffer the effects of too much celebratory drinking.)
Before getting very far, I see a little girl, six or seven years old, lying on the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk. She is dead, her upturned face ashen, a neat, almost bloodless bullet hole through her forehead She is a casualty of gunfire from the night before when her idiot neighbors saturated the lower atmosphere with many hundreds of rounds of rifle, pistol, and shotgun ammunition. This is a dream recurring three or four times a year. It ends immediately upon the sight of the slain child.
I have personally appealed to the Macon City Council for help in this matter. None has been forthcoming. Gave a copy of an audio tape made around midnight of 2008 to Virgil Watkins, head of the public safety committee. The upper echelon of the Police Department seems to be taking no note of this woeful situation. As far as I know the only police taking action are a handful of men and women in this, the First Precinct, who have made a good dent in the amount of gunfire heard in our immediate neighborhood. Trouble is they are spread too thin and when one arena dies down, another erupts.
A thoughtful reader yesterday suggested the problem was manpower. Probably is, but here is a possible solution that could even streamline the entire body of the MPD.
Dissolve the ‘specialty’ squads. Assign the personnel thusly freed up to the precincts. By one estimate such a move would double the number of officers available to ‘protect and serve’ in each quadrant of our fair city. ‘Specialty Squads’? Sure, outfits like the drug and and strike units. Integrate them into the precincts and let them continue to work their specialties as needed, but within the more local jurisdiction.
Here is a challenge to (1) the media, which does not see fit to cover this deliberate and illegal gunfire; (2) the Macon City Council, which seems content to rest on its haunches. (3) The Mayor in whom ultimate authority rests; (4) The Macon Police Department which, in this important area, is doing little to protect the citizens. Let’s get together and concentrate on solutions to this problem….we have almost a full year to make something happen.
Do not try to tell me this shooting is ‘harmless’ or ‘traditional’ or just ‘good old boys having a high time’. This harmless activity will, eventually, kill or wound an innocent.
This is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE and I am DON BRUNEL
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Sun Jan 03, 2010
CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE
Part Two
Part Two
We shall have much, much more to say about last Thursday’s (New Year’s Eve) so-called ‘Celebratory Gunfire’ that was found all over town….and not just in Macon, but throughout the state.
A small child was killed in Atlanta by a celebratory round. It is only a matter of time before we lose and innocent to the illegal and insane custom of firing rifles, pistols, and shotguns into the air to usher in the New Year.
Two years ago I sent a twenty-minute tape to Virgil Watkins of the macon Council. Watkins is chairman of the Public Safety Committee. It is obvious that nothing is being done to correct this dangerous situation except for an occasional foray into the battleground by concerned police officers.
A concerned citizen sent in the following article which should be of interest:
http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/boy-most-likely-shot-264997.html
Boy most likely shot by a rifle fired into the air
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The 4-year-old boy shot and killed while in church, apparently by New Year’s Eve revelers, most likely was hit by a bullet fired from a rifle, said a firearms expert Saturday.
Photo Family Photo Four-year-old Marquel Peters was killed by a stray bullet during a New Year’s Eve service at his DeKalb church.
“I would suspect this was a rifle. An AK-47. That’s the most prolific [weapon found] downtown,” said Kelly Fite, who was the top ballistics expert with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s state Crime Lab for almost four decades.
The circumstances that led to young Marquel Peters’ death are not uncommon on New Year’s Eve.
“It’s not impossible at all” for a bullet to travel some distance then pass through a roof and kill someone inside a building, Fite said.
“This is New Year’s Eve and people are out shooting their guns,” Fite said.
The boy, playing with a video game, and his mother were waiting for a 12:30 a.m. concert to begin at Church of God of Prophecy near Decatur when Marquel was shot in the head by a stray bullet. Marquel was on the floor, crying and bleeding, when medics arrived, but he died later at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.
The child’s family has called for the person who fired the shot to come forward, but Fite said it’s unlikely that person even knows what happened. And police are unlikely to find the shooter unless the bullet is traced to a gun recovered in another investigation, Fite said.
The shooter could have been as much as two to three miles away, Fite told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But most likely, the shooter was about a half mile away and the gun was tilted at about 30 or 40 degrees, not straight up, he said.
“This bullet that hit this kid was not shot straight up because it would have come down near the shooter,” Fite said.
Investigators discovered Friday the bullet had passed through the roof of the church.
It’s not uncommon – though illegal -- for guns to be fired to mark the start of a new year.
-- In 2005, stray bullets hit two people at different locations in downtown Atlanta on New Year's Eve. Aimee Buff from Hampton and her fiance were celebrating her 27th birthday at Underground Atlanta's Peach Drop when she was wounded. A bullet hit Buff in the ear and became lodged about two inches from her spine.
-- A few blocks away, Merritt Tidwell, a University of Georgia freshman from Douglasville, was struck below her right knee by a bullet that pierced the roof of the Georgia Dome, where she was watching the the 2005 Peach Bowl .
-- In 2004, 86-year-old Dorothy Young of Atlanta was wounded in the arm as she was leaving a New Year's Eve church service in Bankhead.
-- A fan at the 2001 Peach Bowl was grazed by a stray bullet that came through the roof of the Georgia Dome.
-- In 2000, Crystal Garrett, a college student from Easley, S.C., was hit by a stray bullet moments after she watched the Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta.
And in the summer of 1996, a National Guardsman providing security for the Olympics was hit in the chest by a bullet believed to have been fired from an AK-47 into the air. Sgt. Thomas Bentley, 43, of Monroe, was among three standing guard on the Georgia Tech when he was wounded.
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Riverside Red
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GREETINGS FROM OKLAHOMA
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GREETINGS FROM OKLAHOMA
An update from Oklahoma :
Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9, had a few liberals in the mix, an amendment
to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol.
The feds in D..C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake.
Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values....! HB 1330
Guess what........... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants,
and ship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green
card and become an American citizen. They all scattered. HB 1804.
Hope we didn't send any of them to your state. This was against the advice of the
Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake.
Guess what.......... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Recently we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all illegals
to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes.
Pelosi said it was unconstitutional. SB 1102
Guess what........ Oklahoma did it anyway.
Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign
state, not under the Federal Government directives. Joining Texas ,
Montana and Utah as the only states to do so. More states are likely to follow:
Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,
Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Florida. Save your confederate money,
it appears the South is about to rise up once again. HJR 1003
The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns.
Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have
the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. I'm sure that
was a set back for the criminals (and Obamaites). Liberals didn't like it -- But ...
Guess what........... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Just this month, my state has voted and passed a law that ALL driver's
license exams will be printed in English, and only English, and no other language.
We have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of our road
signs are in English only. If you want to drive in Oklahoma , you must read
and write English. Really simple.
By the way, Obama does not like any of this.
Guess what....who cares... Oklahoma is doing it anyway.
To Verify this information, follow the link:
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-state-capitol-to-display-ten-commandments/article/3370730
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-09-immigcover_N.htm
P.S.: Red isn't IN Oklahoma, he's still in the Peach State....but this missive comes from Oklahoma.
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