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Seldom
has crow tasted so sweet to me
By CAL BEVERLY
editor@thecitizennews.com
How sweet it is.
Supreme
Court changes ahead?
By
MONROE ROARK
mroark@TheCitizenNews.com
In the wake of last
week's stunning election results across the country, it's a safe bet
that Capitol Hill won't be the only place going through some changes
relatively soon. Another part of Washington could see a few new faces,
ones that would likely be around for decades.
Much
ado about movies . . .
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
Maybe I am the only
one who has noticed this, but it seems that movie ticket prices are
pretty darn expensive. I know why they are high though. They make the
tickets so costly just to lessen the blow of the concession stand prices.
I have a feeling it won't be long before they start charging you for
popcorn by the kernel.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
'Surplus'
PTC workers guilty of new regulation
I believe that there
is a surplus of employees in the Peachtree City government. How else
would employees have the time to think up so many ways to impinge more
government regulations on citizens of Peachtree City, which probably
is already one of the most regulated communities in the state?
Bush
win bad news for deficit spending, environment, unions
Well, the people
have spoken, and we now have a government entirely controlled by the
Republicans. I predicted that George Bush would be successful manipulating
public opinion with his trumped-up Iraqi conflict, I just never realized
how successful. Machiavelli's "Prince" could take a few lessons
from the verbally challenged Bush, who never fails to make his political
opponents underestimate his political acumen.
Perdue
victory heralds good things for Fayette
We've got a President
we can count on and respect, and now he has a Senate and a House of
Representatives that will work with him instead of against him. We've
got a new governor with a new approach and he will have at least part
of our state legislature that will work with him. Many of us have worked
for years for a day like last Tuesday's election.
Cox
win a great day for education
As an educator who
has had the honor and privilege of working alongside of Kathy Cox, I
salute her election as state superintendent of education. Kathy Cox
is someone who is deeply committed to reforming Georgia's educational
system. Unlike Roy Barnes, however, Ms. Cox understands that real reform
involves putting people first as opposed to putting people down.
Legitimate
questions of science remain unsettled
Two readers responded
to my article "Ignorance of Science in Georgia," and I wish
to acknowledge their concerns and clarify why creationism isn't a science
in any sense of the word via a few concrete examples of what science
and mathematics is able and unable to clarify.
Fayette
has one of best-run election operations in state
I happened to be
reading the Citizen one day when I came across a poll worker's opinion
concerning the new voting machines. The author went on to describe how
most of the poll workers in the class were senior citizens and were
very comfortable with computers "well beyond their e-mail function,
but they did look shaken when Elections Superintendent Carolyn Combs
admitted she didn't have all the answers to the questions bubbling out
of our minds."
Let's
take 2 meals' worth and donate to charities
At the Nov. 7 City
Council meeting, it was my honor to declare Thursday, Nov. 21, as "Feed
America Thursday." Mayors across the nation are asking their constituents
to share their many blessings with those that are not as fortunate.
PTC
wisely spending money to upgrade Glenloch facilities
I would like to
give a lot of credit to the Peachtree City government workers who are
responsible for installing the new playground equipment at the Glenloch
Recreation Center. When I first saw the worker removing the old outdated
equipment I thought it would be a great waste of money to replace it
with new equipment. However after seeing how much the children are enjoying
the new greatly improved playground equipment, it is my opinion that
taxpayers' money was well spent.
Kudos
to Dr. Moffatt for wise but tough stance
As a critic of Dr.
Moffatt's in the past, I am happy to express my appreciation for his
column on "blended families." While the article focused primarily
on how to deal effectively with the problems associated with "blending"
children from previous marriages, Dr. Moffatt went on to gently recommend
that divorced parents consider not dating at all.
Kudos
to Hatcher on column about God's second chances
I just wanted to
extend kudos to the Rev. John Hatcher for his recent Citizen column
that proposed that people in second and third marriages could find happiness.
History
of Confederacy is one of shameful elitism
Seems to me Dixie
Parker and others preaching acceptance and understanding for the Confederacy
and Southern heritage have their collective heads stuck in the sand.
They would hope to convince the man in the street that the Southern
cause was noble and righteous. Perhaps a revisionist historical account
sympathetic to the Southern cause has, over the past century, obscured
their minds of the culpability of those Southerners that dared secede
from the United States.
Members
of Congress ignore responsibilities to Americans
I would like to
express my disappointment of our representatives, you know, the representatives
of the UNITED States of America. Since when do the representatives of
our government send back e-mails with this response: "Due to the
high volume of e-mails ... we can only respond to the constituents of
our district ..."? I've never heard of such a thing.
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