Couple of things
- Listen, it's jobs and jobs are good, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed about this. There was a ton of potential at the Homewood Village Shopping Center, and a rare opportunity to work to bring in an anchor retail store, preferably a grocery store, to this location. Now, the folks all along the Jefferson Road corridor and back up places like Lavender Road realize their have fewer options for groceries. It's Bell's and that's it unless you feel like driving out to Publix. Quite honestly, and I mean this as no disrespect to DialAmerica, but I think the folks who manage that property dropped the ball.
- I'm just trying to understand Sen. John McCain's logic ... voters are upset over high U.S. casualty rates, we should expect a massive offensive from insurgents which will most likely result in a spike in casualty rates and we should more U.S. troops over there. Yep. Sounds like a winning strategy to me.
- These are the kind of questions Bob Smith needs to be asking, but I don't know if I'd say the University of Georgia was too secretative or anything. It sounds more like Smith just wanted to know what was going on his neighbor's backyard, which I suppose is understandable.
- To tell you the truth, I honestly didn't realize you couldn't already do this with the proper permit.
- Nicki explores the land use issues a little more, primarily talking about spot zoning and the 'McMansion' issues. She makes good two points, though I will be completely honest and say that it's very difficult for me to work through the entire 'preserving the historic character' argument. Not that I'm not sympathetic to it, but I would have a difficult time supporting an ordinance which somewhat inhibited what a property owner could do with this property (again, on a philosophical level). However, her latter point involving unnecessary and inflated property value increases is something I'm in total agreement with, and is what I think needs to be most in consideration in this discussion. So, we kinda agree, but for different reasons ... sort of.
- Don Nelson catches us up on 'Project Bamboo' and who is actually behind it.
- Hillary likes Bam's Unholy Union, while I hate it ... and this can largely be attributed to the genuine dislike I have for Bam Margera and other no-talent, disrespectful spoiled celebrities who shouldn't be celebrities.
- Jeff Emmanuel is all up in arms over Dan Matthews's rant over Charlie Norwood. Listen, this whole thing is stupid. Dan's rant was in poor taste, full of absurd partisan language in a time when partisan politics shouldn't be employed and was fairly ignorant. I've met Dan, and I like Dan, but that post was dumb and should be disavowed. However let's also remember this is Jeff Emmanuel getting all worked up over this (I mean, he cites Red State as a beacon of civility). You know ... the same Jeff Emmanuel who loves guilt by association, bashes groups which differ from his worldview, thought Republicans did a nice job handling the Mark Foley debacle and then proceeded to get his facts completely wrong when attempting to unnecessarily slander the opposition party and blames the media for the situation in Iraq.
- I'm just trying to understand Sen. John McCain's logic ... voters are upset over high U.S. casualty rates, we should expect a massive offensive from insurgents which will most likely result in a spike in casualty rates and we should more U.S. troops over there. Yep. Sounds like a winning strategy to me.
- These are the kind of questions Bob Smith needs to be asking, but I don't know if I'd say the University of Georgia was too secretative or anything. It sounds more like Smith just wanted to know what was going on his neighbor's backyard, which I suppose is understandable.
- To tell you the truth, I honestly didn't realize you couldn't already do this with the proper permit.
- Nicki explores the land use issues a little more, primarily talking about spot zoning and the 'McMansion' issues. She makes good two points, though I will be completely honest and say that it's very difficult for me to work through the entire 'preserving the historic character' argument. Not that I'm not sympathetic to it, but I would have a difficult time supporting an ordinance which somewhat inhibited what a property owner could do with this property (again, on a philosophical level). However, her latter point involving unnecessary and inflated property value increases is something I'm in total agreement with, and is what I think needs to be most in consideration in this discussion. So, we kinda agree, but for different reasons ... sort of.
- Don Nelson catches us up on 'Project Bamboo' and who is actually behind it.
- Hillary likes Bam's Unholy Union, while I hate it ... and this can largely be attributed to the genuine dislike I have for Bam Margera and other no-talent, disrespectful spoiled celebrities who shouldn't be celebrities.
- Jeff Emmanuel is all up in arms over Dan Matthews's rant over Charlie Norwood. Listen, this whole thing is stupid. Dan's rant was in poor taste, full of absurd partisan language in a time when partisan politics shouldn't be employed and was fairly ignorant. I've met Dan, and I like Dan, but that post was dumb and should be disavowed. However let's also remember this is Jeff Emmanuel getting all worked up over this (I mean, he cites Red State as a beacon of civility). You know ... the same Jeff Emmanuel who loves guilt by association, bashes groups which differ from his worldview, thought Republicans did a nice job handling the Mark Foley debacle and then proceeded to get his facts completely wrong when attempting to unnecessarily slander the opposition party and blames the media for the situation in Iraq.
posted by Jmac at 7:17 AM
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I think McCain's reasoning is that more troops will lead to less casualties, because we'll be more effective fighting the insurgents.
I mean, and remember that I'm against the war too, the argument can't be that we need to get out because it's hard, or because we've gotten bogged down, or even because the majority of Americans don't want to be there. I think it's those kinds of arguments that McCain is probably resisting, former military man that he is.
Though Bob may enjoy occasionally twisting the tale of the Athens-Clarke County establishment, his interest in the finances of UGA and MCG is entirely proper. One can infer from the article that he is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, but that is not stated explicitly. That he is also the vice-chairman in charge of the Appropriations for Higher Education Sub-Committee is omitted altogether. For the record, he also sits on the Athens Technical College Foundation’s board of directors. Thus, his concerns about the budgetary implications of higher education are directly related to his committee assignments.
We are not talking about loose change. The Board of Regent’s budget request, i.e. “State Funds,” for FY ’07 was just under $1.936 billion, which got trimmed to just under $1.93 billion in the governor’s recommended budget. The Board anticipates spending an additional $2.75 billion in “Federal and Other Funds.” For details, see pages 274-287 of the state budget (www.opb.state.ga.us/Budget/BudgetBook_Final_07.pdf). These figures so not include the budget for the Department of Adult and Technical Education.
On a somewhat related note, about six weeks ago I commented on the Clarke County Board of Education’s per pupil expenditures ($9038 in 2005). Since then, the state Department of Education has put up the figures for 2006, which amounted to $9617 locally. That means that the BoE will undoubtedly hit $10,000 per pupil in the budget to be adopted a few months from now.
"I honestly didn't realize you couldn't already do this with the proper permit."
Before, you could conceal a weapon in your car only with a CCW permit in GA, otherwise it had to be on the seat or in the glove box. Apparently, now you can conceal a weapon in your vehicle, license or not.
For more on the Bob thing, see Walter Jones' blog over at the Banner-Herald.
Russ, not yet now. The bill has not yet become law.
I need to rewatch School House Rocks, because I totally missed that one.
Just watch the version from the old Simpson's episode. It's the same thing...
And man, JMac, you bring the pain against Emmanuel, don't you? Link bomb!
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