Tides are slowly turning in Iraq:

BAGHDAD - A battle raged Thursday in west Baghdad after residents rose up against al-Qaida and called for U.S. military help to end random gunfire that forced people to huddle indoors and threats that kept students from final exams, a member of the district council said.

What a relief! I am so glad to hear from posters that our experience in 2003 was not about race! It was the only negative experience that we have had from retailers in Georgia - and being new to the south - we thought it was about race.

If Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is found guilty of involvement in dogfighting -- I would be surprised if he isn't -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will likely suspend Vick.

It’s been a bad week for proponents of ignorance…err, excuse me, “abstinence” only based "sex education".

As more and more people realize that abstinence only-based sex education simply does not work, abstinence supporters are struggling mightily to justify the existence of their failed dogma.

I know that it isn't even June yet, but doesn't it look like the Mets are pulling away - much like they did last year - while the Braves are in a state of disarray? Chipper on the DL, Smoltz hurt, Gonzalez gone for the year and Andruw striking out like Andruw of old.

Vick's Dog House

Over the past several months I have come across several residents (including my wife) that have been to Dentist Gillikin in PTC. Every single person (over 12) I have talked to has had the same experience. The good dentist seems to tell all new comers that they have either the beginning stages of or already have “gum disease”. You can actually be in the chair and hear the same conversation being told to others, while it was just told to you. When the concerned patient falls for the bait, the good dentist is quick to send you off to visit a gum specialist, in Fayette County (name to remain anonymous for now). In one case, a person that went to this specialist noticed that the billing information for Dr. Gillikin and his specialist are the same.

I just read Bush speech on immigration delivered at the Federal Law Enforcement Center in coastal Georgia. SHAME!

How did we get deceived by this president? It seems that now, lawbreakers will be rewarded with amnesty while legal immmigrants efforts to bring their relatives LEGALLY into the U.S.

Don't you just love how Mayor Logsdon is rounding up his yes men for the June 19 panel on growth.

Just like the used car salesman with only two models on the lot, he'll try to convince us that we would look great in a TDK Extension or a low mileage Big Box Store.

Jeezy

I have noticed that there are several complaints about spelling, sentence construction and such here on the blog. I am hereby sharing the proper rules taught to me by my writing classes. From now on, please follow the following rules and your writing will be much improved:

"Good-bye America, you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it."

Without John & et al "Citizen" reporting every siren we hear, is there any where to see the PD reports on-line?

I understand that while I was at the McIntosh graduation, someone was life-flighted out by the lake.

Did I miss the comments on the wonderful weekend that we had in Fayetteville? We had guests from California and Washington D.C.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly

What will we call it next?
It is truly amazing just how little the current generation (18 - 40) knows about all this. Those under 18 know even less.

So my son this morning asks (not ax) me, "What is that awful smell?" To me it smelled like a fried motherboard so I went to see if my computers were ok.

This week Smokey Bones will close its doors. In just a few short years we have lost Valentinos, Macaroni Grill, Buckhead Brewery (soon to become new home to Walgreens), Ginza and the due to the tax man at the Avenues.

I'll say right off that I think the USA made a terrible mistake many years ago when we had the best chance to annex Canada and everything south of the USA, at least through Panama. We could guard the border pretty well at the Panama Canal, and at the straights across from Russia. It would now be most difficult due to the French element in Canada.

Are people leaving the theater by an emergency exit? Sounds like it if those outside can just walk in when the door is opened for exit.

Counties all around us do. Why can't Fayette County? Why do we have 5 high schools all graduating on the same night, a

Edwards interview comes back to haunt him:

We will stand wit

Check this breaking story from the AP out regarding another corrupt Republican. Basmati, Bladder Q, and SkySpy ought to take much joy in this corrupt scumbag getting caught.

Is Starbucks or Hooters going in there? I've heard both???

Do you know what they are building behind Best Buy?

I find it hard to understand the complaints of the children of famous people. Many of them say that they live a life under extreme pressure and find it hard to live up to what is expected of them.

1. Extending TDK was never about relieving traffic. Steve was right.

2. Some of the same Fayette County developers and their Chamber of Commerce mouthpiece promoting TDK are the same people wanting to load it with houses and big boxes.

Greetings Jeff. Just had the pleasure of flying your folks to Dakar on the way to the big J. Burg. Their SS folks are some of the nicest I've had the pleasure of meeting, and your folks are quite doting. Very pleasant people. Your father personally covered the plane bow to stern, meeting all of our passengers. The folks seemed to appreciate that quite a bit. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend, and thank your mother and father for me once again, for flying with Atlanta's own!

All this hullabaloo in the Iraqi, Afghanistan, and Israeli, Lebanese areas, is a simple distraction that we fell for, so that China and Russia would have time to get ready for world intrusion, while we expended our whole army and most of our equipment, for no good cause, in the perpetual warring area of the world, the middle-east.

I haven't seen anything about an accident on County Line Road Tuesday evening, around 8 p.m. or for the Wed. evening accident at McDonough Road & Hwy.