May 13, 2011

Online headline/story: "Terrorist Plot New York City: Two Men Arrested In Alleged Terror Plan To Target Synagogues With Grenades * Ahmed Ferhani, a 26-year-old of Algerian descent, and Mohamed Mamdouh, a 20-year-old of Moroccan descent, plotted to bomb a "major synagogue" in Manhattan and bought several weapons and an inert hand grenade from an undercover officer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. * Officials said they had been watching Ferhani for several months and that he had said he was fed up with the way Muslims were treated around the world * They are Americans of Algerian and Moroccan descent. * Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the suspects have no known connection to al-Qaida." -- The point? Just expands the concept of radical Islam hatred for all others.
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L-E headline/story: "Bond, retrial set for Lathan Word * Armed robbery conviction reversed after man served decade in prison * Georgia Court of Appeals reversed Word’s conviction on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel" -- That it is again, an appeal based on "ineffective assistance of counsel". Since every lawyer was/is not #1 from his/her class, convictions of even the most patently guilty are little more than a revolving door away for new trials.
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The Marshal wants $52,000.00 delivery cars? I agree whole heartedly with Counselor Allen. In fact, it's more than past time that Council should look at whether we actually should keep funding the Marshal's office at all. Countryman's assumptions are somewhat megalomaniacal.
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L-E story: "The Muscogee County School District Summer Feeding Program begins June 1 and will operate through July 29. As part of the National School Lunch Program, meals are served Monday-Friday at no charge to children 18 years old and younger. Breakfast is served 8:30-9 a.m. and lunch 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. " -- Our school system is running a feeding program all summer, yet the school system faces huge budgetary problems. Running a feeding program IS a budgetary problem! No wonder more and more citizens believe they cannot do things for themselves; our government keeps pushing more and more nannyism on them.
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Interesting question: Why the disparity over the salaries of the Director of Public Safety, and the Director of Parks & Recreation? isn't our community better served by focus of Public Safety than Public Nannyism?
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Hmmm, speaking of such, why is it we have to go out of town to find a Parks & Rec director? If someone local were hired, it would mean a new for the community would be opened somewhere else as well. Using the same concept of external searching, why not advertise for a new City Manager from out-of-town who could bring in "fresh ideas" in ways to save money. Might not be a bad way to select our Mayor and Councilm either.