He is risen!


Online story: "On Saturday, Obama insisted in his radio and Internet address that the best answer is a long-term drive to develop alternatives to fossil fuel. He also renewed calls to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil and gas companies. "Instead of subsidizing yesterday's energy sources," he said, "we need to invest in tomorrow's. * Republicans contend that high gas prices are the inevitable result of an administration they accuse of stifling domestic drilling, and which placed new curbs on offshore exploration after last spring's disastrous BP oil spill. *"The administration has declared what can only be described as a war on American energy," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. * For some, (Emperor Scarlet Obama) said, the cost of a fill-up has all but erased the benefit of the payroll tax holiday that he and congressional Republicans agreed on last December. -- In other words, if he'd been successful in raising the taxes back to the Clinton era, we'd already reached his oft described desired goal of $5.00 a gallon.
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Online headline: "US Default on Debt Could Be Disastrous Choice for Economy" -- Like raising and reaching such debt ISN'T?
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Item listed in the City Manager;s Agenda: "
STORING, TRANSPORTING & RECYCLING WASTE TIRES (ANNUAL CONTRACT): It is requested that council approve the annual service contract for storing, transporting & recycling waste tires from Containers by Reaves (Phenix City) on an “as needed basis,” for the estimated annual contract value of $21,000, or $1,050 per load. The city generates approximately 20,000 waste tires (20 loads) annually. The contractor will remove and properly recycle waste tires generated at the city’s landfill. A cost for oversized tires is included in the bid; however, the city rarely has oversized tires in the landfill." -- Why are these tires ending up at the landfill? We are already charged a $1.00 per tire for such disposal when we purchase new tires.

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Ditto: "FIRE APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT: It is requested that Council approve the purchase of one E-One 75-foot Aerial Mounted Custom Typhoon & Chassis in the amount of $577,689. as well as required ancillary equipment in the amount of $103,805, from Hall-Mark Fire Apparatus Inc. of Ocala, Fla.; the total purchase amount is $681,494." -- Huh? If the City Manager wants to spend $681,494.00 tax dollars, he should ask for it in plain English. I guess what we're talking about is 'a fire truck', but who can tell for sure

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Dusty Nix always misses the point about 'guns'. Before guns, there were spears, arrows, knives, maces, clubs, and rocks that people used illegally. All those elements still exist today, and are used illegally today, as well, to inflict pain/death or brandished in a way to control others. It's not the guns...it's the lack of certain and swift punishment for those brandishing/using guns (most illegally in possession of its user), and you won't see Dusty on his soapbox raising the need, the issue, to reform such practices.
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L-E "headlie": "No apologies * Alabama teacher tenure reform bill proposes reasonable protection — for students and school employees alike" -- There hasn't been a bill in Alabama, or Georgia for that matter, that actually considers what's best for students in my lifetime. Students are used merely as pawns for adults to enact their own cocoon protection.
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