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January 12, 2006
It has been an interesting experience watching the Senate hearings on
Judge Samuel Alito
. I haven’t seen the proceedings cover to cover, but plug in while I am exercising at the YMCA every morning. One thing I know for sure, and that is I do not want to see or hear any opinions from
Senator Ted Kennedy
. He is so off my chart! The fact that he has been allowed by the voters of Massachusetts to remain on our national scene after that tragic Chappaquiddick incident in 1969 is without conscience. I think Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick is mostly unknown to anybody who is under the age of 50, so I have provided a link to an article in the
National Review that pretty well summarizes what happened. Click on:
http://www.nationalreview.com/blyth/blyth200407200944.asp
How Kennedy managed to get reelected after that remains an everlasting mystery to me. At the least, I certainly think it is highly offensive that he should ever be allowed to sit in judgment of others.
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Whoa, Nellie!! Employers, would you please tell your paint crews that it is highly illegal to pour paint down Gwinnett’s storm sewers. This stupid bunch working in my neighborhood connected a garden hose to the water connection in the yard of the home in which they were working, ran it way down the street to the storm sewer and proceeded to wash out their big paint buckets. My husband stepped over to tell them to stop, and the man who could speak English said, “It’s water-based paint; it’s okay.” My sweet husband told him it was NOT okay, that he was breaking the law. One of the workers, obviously a non-English speaker, kept right on pouring paint down the storm sewer. The English speaker got him to stop and told my husband that the man didn’t speak any English. Then, my husband asked if he was an illegal, and everybody froze and clammed up. Just nuts to this sort of thing! How much ignorance do you think we can all afford? How do you fix a fish kill? The creek where all this paint went flows right into the Chattahoochee.
We did try to report it, but law enforcement said they couldn’t do anything because the perps weren’t pouring paint down the sewers
now. You know, sometimes I don’t like my own species very much.
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I hope the political reporters in Atlanta are wrong. Almost to a man, they are all predicting that our state legislators will hasten through the state’s business so they can all get on with their reelection campaigns as soon as possible, since 2006 is the year they must all be reelected. No staggered terms in Georgia. I hope our elected representatives to the General Assembly will do what we elected them to do and that is to acquit themselves well in conducting the state’s business and to accomplish as much as possible in the allotted days of the 2006 session. In fact, I propose we voters keep an eagle eye on the proceedings to make sure we don’t get short shrift from the politicians who are so anxious to ask us for contributions to pay for their campaign ads. Remember, they are supposed to be working for us!
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I’m watching the scales tip over on old
Ralph Reed’s
campaign for Lieutenant Governor. State Senator Casey Cagle
is my personal choice for that office, my friends. There is nothing malodorous about
his campaign or
his business behavior! You can read about him at
www.caseycagle.com
. The Democrats have a good candidate as well in
Jim Martin
, who has been chair of the Judiciary and the Ethics Committees. You can read about him at
www.jimforgeorgia.com
. Will Georgia voters pay enough attention to this particular political race so that they will ultimately elect an ethical man? We’ll just see, won’t we? Reed has been too besmirched for me by his association with
Jack Abramoff
, who, by the way, will be singing like a canary up in Washington, D.C. on his way to the slammer. That is more than enough for me. I do not want crooks or associates of crooks to be elected to public office in Georgia. Lord, have mercy! We have enough trouble with those legislators who are not very smart.
This all reminds me of a saying my neighbor has: He can’t stand three things-- live snakes, dead snakes, and sticks that look like snakes.
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My sweet husband and I had a special treat today. We watched six of our deer friends meander around our backyard. They were sampling the ivy that is growing up the trees and enjoying the honeysuckle vines that run along the back fence. They are quite affectionate creatures, touching noses with each other and licking the little ones. In due time, they happily strolled back down the path to the creek where the dumped paint went. No wonder the deer were drinking rainwater which had collected in the birdbaths.
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Hope all is well. Thanks for reading and thanks for sticking with me. I’m pleased to report that the Big Fish Seafood Grill at Spalding and Holcomb Bridge Road had a banner night last Friday, thanks to many of you.
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