@grove600: "Well, ya gets what ya pays for." If that be the case, I assume Sherill Abney was pretty much working for free.

@grove600: If Oglethorpe County is not providing emergency medical services with "professional, competent, well trained personnel" (and OBVIOUSLY to me Sherrill Abney did not show ANY of those characteristics), they should stop making it appear that they do. I don't think the taxpayers were getting their money's worth out of Mr. Abney. And then he got promoted???? They must be really bad off for employees in Oglethorpe.

Hoping he makes the cut and has a super tournament!

@Joe Johnson: [quote][b]Joe Johnson[/b] - @Taxed: I counted 5 cars one afternoon last week -- seems to really be catching on
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They will probably say they need to start building another one any day now, just to be ready for the overflow.

@retiredandhappy:

[quote][b]retiredandhappy[/b] - We have paid money for stupid things (Park and Ride for example) so pay the legitimate debt you owe.[/quote]

When I went by the park and ride lot not long ago, there was a whopping big total of three (count 'em, THREE) cars parked there. Lots of empty asphalt and three cars. Just out of curiosity, I would really like to know whose bright idea the park and ride lot was. Does anyone know?

@Lady of the Lake:

[quote][b]Lady of the Lake[/b] - I would like to know what the felony charge of making a false statement was about. Can someone tell us what that false statement was?[/quote]

I think the felony charge of making a false statement was made against the tipster, not Mrs. Jones.

@CharlotteLadyGardner:

[quote][b]CharlotteLadyGardner[/b] - Hood has a constitutional right to defend himself if his decision to waive his right to be represented by an attorney is “knowing and intelligent,” Mauldin states in the motion.
I don't know if anyone could classify Hood as "intelligent."
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I suspect in many ways he could be considered above average intelligent. He has certainly proved he knows how to manipulate the system from the get-go.

"Mauldin cites in the motion a 2004 Georgia Supreme Court case in which a murder defendant’s conviction was reversed because the trial judge did not grant his request to represent himself at trial." It's entirely possible that Jamie Hood was counting on using that as a loophole for himself. Glad Mr. Mauldin and his staff anticipated that and took preventive steps!

One consideration in favor of foreign adoptions, rather than adopting here in the U.S., is that there is not likely to be a change of heart by the biological parents at some point in the future and a demand to have the child returned to them.

E.J. says: "I know it's late, but I have been advocating legalizing all vices (marijuana, gambling, prostitution, etc.) in order to avoid the layers of criminality that grow up around such illegality and to clear out our jails and prisons and to stop this unwinable war on drugs. "

Gosh, E. J. has just solved the entire problem of crime in this country. Legalize everything and presto, there are no crimes committed. No law enforcement or jails needed. (sarcasm intended here)

But we HAVE to keep trying to win the war on drugs. We just have to.

This is one of the saddest stories I know. God bless this young man's family. What a wonderful person he must have been.

"Am I missing something? How can twins be two years different in age?"

Really great questions, swhitney!

I understand that when I go to renew my GA driver's license next year I must provide several very specific things, most of which I seriously doubt that an illegal immigrant can provide. So do they get a pass, while a lifelong citizen has to round up a whole bunch of stuff and go to the DMV and hope that they will have exactly what is required? An American citizen doesn't get much consideration any more, do we?

Lowe did not win the election. He is no longer relevant. I am talking about the person who did win the election, and who I think should be upholding the laws instead of breaking them.

[quote][b]itscomplicated[/b] - I am not going to burn Kip on selling it because I know that type of stuff happens all the time.[/quote]

So if that type of stuff happens all the time, it makes it okay for the chief law enforcement officer of a county to break the law?

[quote][b]itscomplicated[/b] - Personally, I am not upset about him taking the money in the hand vs. waiting for the auction [/quote]

So you're okay with him breaking GA law 17.5.54 which specifies how items (other than those seized in drug deals) MUST be disposed of? And the grinder was not seized in a drug deal.

"Saying Kip is evil based on Lowe's record is the pot calling the kettle black." I didn't say any such thing. You are the one who called him evil... "...the more I wanted people to vote for Thomas, he was the lesser of two evils."

@itscomplicated: "There are none so blind as those who will not see." I can tell that you have made up your mind to defend the grinder deal, regardless, so I will not try any further to give you facts. Waste of my time. I'm going to lunch.

[quote][b]itscomplicated[/b] - the more I wanted people to vote for Thomas, he was the lesser of two evils.[/quote]

Isn't sad that the sheriff has to be any kind of "evil", lesser or otherwise?

[quote][b]itscomplicated[/b] - but I see no more wrong doing with that deal than 99% of the other deals that sheriffs all over the country perform. [/quote]

So... because 99% of the sheriffs all over the country are doing dirty deals (you say), that makes it okay to do?

How do you think the people who went to the auction interested in buying the grinder legally felt? "On the day of the sale Thomas told him (the auctioneer) that the grinder was gone." Sold PRIVATELY to an individual, and a few months later it shows up to be auctioned in South Carolina.

Judge Bailey: "As far as auctions are concerned, you can't do it outside of that process. If something is advertised to be auctioned, then it should be sold at auction."

"Official Code of Georgia 17.5.54 prescribes in minute detail how property that is abandoned or no longer needed is to be disposed of and it clearly says that if it is to be sold, it is to be sold at auction and it provides for no deviation from that." Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, the Georgia Sheriff's Association.

[quote][b]itscomplicated[/b] - As for the property....well, if what you say is true (I would like to see a link to that too..first I heard of this), he broke a law and should/could be prosecuted. Why no prosecution?[/quote]

See Madison County Journal, July 12, 2012 issue, front page story titled "A Tale of Two Auctions."

[quote][b]kconner[/b] -
Donnan was the coach before Adams became president. Adams didn't hire him, but he did fire him, going against Dooley's wishes; and rightfully so.
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I'm with you, Mr. Charlie W -- I could certainly be wrong, but I'm remembering that Jim Donnan was brought here AFTER Michael Adams arrived, and from Adams' former school, Marshall.

Thank you ppensyl, you read my mind. ESPECIALLY about the military. And my grandchildren, working in the summer, have to file an income tax return and, if I remember correctly, have Social Security and Medicare withheld from their checks. Let's give them an exemption from having to pay anything.

Is this connected in any way with the three P.A. football players who got into unspecified trouble during the summer and left school? Now transferred to North Oconee, I believe.

Who is the ABH protecting here? I think one of them is John Berry's son.

@Tewise: Thank you for clarifying.