@cyou299: I love it when you have the time to reply to these birds. Thanks, with exclamation mark, the top row on my keyboard has died.

Wisdom sometimes progresses with tiny steps.

[quote][b]YoungSarge[/b] - Gotta love that global warming!!!!
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Why's that?

The US coal exports hit an ALL TIME high last month:

"Coal exports from the United States in March 2013 totaled 13.6 million short tons, nearly 0.9 million short tons above the previous monthly export peak in June 2012. EIA is projecting a third straight year of more than 100 million short tons of coal exports in 2013, following annual exports in 2011 of 107.3 million short tons and record annual exports in 2012 of 125.7 million short tons. "

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11751

There's no war on coal. There IS a war on coal pollution in the US but apparently not in China, YET.

[quote][b]Realist[/b] - I expected a full confession and admission of guilt.
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Do you also expect to win if you should ever by a lottery ticket?

I'm sure Kevin's not pleased.

I'll remember Herb pushing a baby carriage down Prince Ave. sometime long, long ago. A great drummer, a great man and a great father has left us.

Dekalb county is in Atlanta, right?

Aw, come on, just let her go. She'll never do it again. Honest.

I've been told by applicants for the CAT construction and plant jobs, that having ever been in a labor union is grounds for rejection.

@matt1141a: What else would you expect from this source?

"The Ludwig von Mises Institute (LvMI), or simply "Mises Institute", located in Auburn, Alabama, is an American organization named for Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973). Its website states that it is "the world center of the Austrian School of economics and libertarian political and social theory," and that it is dedicated to advancing "the Misesian tradition of thought through the defense of the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention."[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mises_Institute

I like penal Kenyattas! He likes gettin' caught with some 'caine.
He's sure not into yoga, 'cause he has half a brain.
He's been makin' love at midnight on the bunk with his 'mate.
Passes what was O'Malley's on his way to his fate.

@Joe Johnson: I guess old Budge was really glad to get out of that place even if it was just to Federal prison: he couldn't stand being near that drama queen.

"We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order."

Well that's a relief, isn't it?

What about all the other service providers and manufacturers?

“I just hid the body in Kingstree behind the old house on 52. Now what?"

That's great, but how much did you save on car insurance?

Can Athens-Clarke be charged with dumping trash in Oconee?

A much better idea is to lower the parking fees in the often unused parking decks and double or triple the fee for street parking.

People who work downtown, or those with a limited budget, will park in the decks and paying customers with bulging wallets will park on the street close to the shops in the now available parking spaces.

No capital expense, no kick backs from parking meter vendors. Or does ADDA have a problem with that?

[quote][b]2dollar[/b] - @YoungSarge: My sentiments exactly, just in different words.
Coward, sissy, weakling, scaredy-cat...these should be the nicknames of the group, not Quint and Tay.
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Just adding BULLY to your list. And thugs.

http://www.xbullying.org/

Was he going to say that he meant to kill the 7 year old girl?

(Better AP headlines please.)

[quote][b]Long Sufferer[/b] - Just a question mpd old boy. How many people who have live here their whole life or have actually become Americans don't speak much English?
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During the 50s and 60s in a Rust Belt city where I grew up, many, many people only spoke Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, and a half dozen other languages. All of these people were legal residents who immigrated here after WWII. Most became citizens later.

Growing up in such a mixed community has made me tolerant of the customs of others.

But unleashing vicious dogs on passers-by is certainly a crime.

Assault with a deadly weapon: trained attack dogs.

Attack dogs worked for the Conquestadoras against the Mayas and Aztecs.

Must have been dark in there without the Lite.

As someone way up on the first page said, you've never had privacy on electronic communications. That goes back to when there were party lines and a switchboard operator. And when the internet just started up, BEFORE the world wide web, the NSA was reading every bit of email and forum postings.

The ONLY right anyone has ever had was that ANY INFORMATION gathered without a court ordered wiretap could NOT be used in a court of law as evidence.

Wake up, folks. If you put it on an electronic device, someone will read it or listen to it, after a super computer tells him it's interesting and requires human judgment, but that, too, will change as computers get smarter.

If you want privacy, whisper it in a room with water running and never commit it to the electronic media.

[quote][b]CharlotteLadyGardner[/b] - What else are they hiding?
With these secret raises, the Mayor and approving commissioners just lost trust, respectability and credibility with Athens citizens. [/quote]

How can you lose what you never had?