[quote][b]matt1141a[/b] - There are more trees in the US now than at anytime over the past 200 years. [/quote]

That's probably true, but the article speaks of ACRES of trees, not NUMBER or QUALITY of the trees.
The trees today are much wimpier than the trees that were cut down building America. Those were 'old growth forests'. This article doesn't mention this obvious fact. 'Apples and oranges' for the ignorant to consume.

My statistic was the number of trees world wide divided by the number of people.

[quote][b]Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass[/b] - Sludge hammer?
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Why aren't you writing for the Associated Press? They can use a better proof reader and you are it. Or maybe it was their attempt at toilet humor?

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

[quote][b]Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass[/b] - How does a company like CSX get a competitor to do maintenance on their infrastructure?
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One tenth of one percenters have pull and use other people's money (taxpayer's money in this case) to get the job done.

[quote][b]exevans[/b] - This is the first that I've heard of ANY development using white reflective roofing, and I must commend them for that. I'm no expert, but it just seems that given the albedo effect, white reflective roofing, less heat-absorbing road surfaces, etc, must do at least a little to stop global warming, if enough of us would do it. I'm just surprised it hasn't been legislated yet. But I think a lot of politicians are burying their heads in the sand about global warming. So I applaud this voluntary effort to use reflective roofing. I wish more of us used it, and I thank the Epps Bridge Center developers for setting the example.
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YES! White roofs can save 30% on A/C costs. They should be mandatory for all new construction and re-roofs. So easy to save money.

I hadn't heard about the white roofs for the new mall. Thanks!
That just might make up for the loss of the cooling trees.

[quote][b]Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass[/b] - This development is going to kill Downtown. I'm gonna write a song....
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Write it and post a link to YouTube so we can hear it, songsmith.

[quote][b]Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass[/b] - This development is going to kill Downtown. I'm gonna write a song....
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It's also going to put further strains on the stores in the Georgia Square Mall area, the sprawl that roads forgot.

[quote][b]Whynotme[/b] -
Sounds like we just need to get rid of a few people
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Which ones?

[quote][b]Abbesays[/b] -
Who needs jobs? We do.
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We are both correct. Trees for the long term and jobs for the short term. A tree may live several hundred years. A job only lasts a couple of decades at the most.

They mulched the rest of the oak trees on that property, next to the Lowes and Walmart propeties that held hundreds of big oaks before the explosion of development in Oconee county.

Who needs trees? You do.

A UN study has found that there are only 61 standing trees for each person on the planet.

[quote][b]pokey[/b] - GA code sets the maximum fine for not wearing a seat belt at $15. [/quote]

This was true when they first passed the law. Is it still true now several years later?

The State Department has been selling this as news for the past 2 weeks.

How many Americans have been tortured or unlawfully imprisoned during that time? That depends on who you ask and how they answer.

If nuclear power plants are so safe, how come they don't have to buy commercial insurance like a coal plant would? In the event of a nuclear disaster their liabilities are limited by law to some very low amount and the taxpayers pay the rest.

Here's proof that a person can fail an IQ test.

Since this is an Atlanta story, maybe the hope is to get people to think:

"If people are getting bit in the big city, it must be scary terrible out in the country."

Many will agree that we don't crowds of Atlanta people walking around our rural countryside. This news story helps keep them there. Good.

When are elections for PUBLIC Service Commissioners going to be held again?

[quote][b]Follow the Money[/b] - There simply are too many chiefs pulling in fat paychecks, and too few indians actually working with the students. Trouble is, those with the ability to make the needed changes have no incentive to make them. The school district salaries are way too top heavy, it is very obvious where the cuts should come from. Showing up at the meetings isn't going to convince these "leaders".
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Why not let a committee of teacher volunteers administrate the budgets? That probably would be better than what we have now. The teachers know where the money should be spent and its NOT on administrative salaries.

Bread and Circuses require performers for the show.

[quote][b]jlscott[/b] -
Don't forget terminating YOUR job. He's got my vote!
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Isn't that how the whole right wing operates: terminate liberals and replace them with right wing corporatacry true believers; make sure only right wingers can find jobs.

[quote][b]daveb[/b] - Once a bully always one? Assuming the story is true. The alleged victims family says the story is not factually correct. So who do you believe. The guys family or team Obama? And they've expressed the wish that team Obama not try to use their family in a propaganda campaign.
Once a drug user always a drug user?
Once a Bill Ayers fan always one?
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Do we need a Bullier's Anonymous with it's own 12 step program?

[quote][b]SIGNOFF[/b] - Mitt shouldn't lie. He remembers.
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Spot on! You win the thread.

[quote][b]grove600[/b] - Don't enact new laws, let the Ess Oh Bee's crash and burn and suffer the ire of the investors. [/quote]

Just make sure they get a chance to vote AFTER the bad news has been broadcast, not before, as by the people mailing in votes before the election day at JPMorgan.

Jamie Dimon should share a cell with our very own Jamie.

@JoeJohnson:
Music to listen to while you're waiting.

I've already said it.

[quote][b]JenniferMartin[/b] - That sucks. Looks like McKillip is going to run away with it.
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Vote. Quick!

Conyers? Isn't that Cooter country?