For you people in Fayette County that are complaining about yard sales, can’t you find something better to do with your time? Please do me a huge favor and get a life.

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I don’t know Gary Rettmann of PTC, but if I ever meet him, he’s got a cold beer coming on me.

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Mr. Vellegas, an incredibly gutsy letter. From now on, be very, very careful, as the blue-lighted Gestapo will be lying in wait for retribution. Why do we need officers with college degrees? When they write their reports, they all use the same crib sheet, full of terms and phrases that help them twist anyone’s mannerisms, actions and responses in the worst possible way. Then their other little tricks, like telling you to go sit on the fender of your car and reporting it as, “Subject had to lean against her car to steady herself.” Or the conveniently malfunctioning dash camera, one of the primary reasons they never conduct a lone stop. No matter what they do or you do, they can make up anything they like. Both swear to it in court and guess who the judge will believe? Of course, you can always choose a jury trial, made up of these wonderful folks who have been posting on The Citizen’s website telling you, “If you don’t like it, move,” and, “I wish there were six cops waiting outside every bar instead of four.” Wait until they get stopped for coming out of the wrong parking lot some night. Oh, I forgot — they’re all puurrrfect.

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My letter was titled: ”Reader disputes chief’s statements.” The main point was the chief’s stupid comments about short-order cooks, not about drunk driving. I’m not promoting DUIs. Leaving the bar with a beer in you is not drunk nor illegal. Not one time did I approve of drunk drivers; you all have missed the point of my letter. Some of you failed reading comprehension in school. You only remembered the last thing you read about and then took aim at me. When you see a car leave a bar, call the police, you Good Samaritans. Why don’t you people quit your jobs and help the police by joining the force, since you wanna help so much. Or we can have Peachtree City vigilante tryouts. And enough with bashing the mayor. He walks into a disaster just like Bush and people want to jump on him for everything. I voted for Logsdon and Bush and they are both doing better jobs than any of you whiners could do. Remember these four simple words: Vote or shut up.

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I agree with the post regarding the town hall meeting of Rep. Lynn Westmoreland. I would concur that much of what he does is vacuous and inconsequential and indeed this meeting was nothing other than a political advancement. It is very similar to his taxpayer-funded mail-out informing me of the many expensive government services that no one in my family will ever use or ever request. Yet still, we get to pay for the mailer. The video posted by reporter John Thompson from the town hall meeting showing Westmoreland’s response to the question about the pollution in north Fayette and south Fulton was vintage non-responsiveness: “My wife and I disagree 20 percent of the time, but we are still together.” Question: Would your wife keep you if you defended the polluters of her children? I believe that we have such an infected state of affairs in Washington that it will take a major revolution over decades to dislodge both parties from their insatiable bipartisan protection of incumbency and devotion to the large campaign contributor special interests. Westmoreland is a good example of the caliber of congressman that America tolerates. He is a very average person, having dropped out of college and having achieved nothing of value in the Georgia General Assembly or in the “do-nothinger” Congress (his quote). Among his public relations achievements are his embarrassing appearance on the Colbert Report (reciting only three of the 10 Commandments) and his repeated proud announcement, “I voted for torture.” Although proudly sporting the conservative moniker, religious proclamations and an American flag, he has been as aggressive in bringing public funds into his district as any other member of Congress. Wouldn’t a true conservative do the opposite? Sadly, after Westmoreland completes a paltry six years in Congress he will earn a pension of $150,000 per year for life with benefits and he will campaign to move on to the Georgia governor’s mansion.

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Has anyone reviewed the need for the new elementary school to be built in Inman? We have built Cleveland and Minter, and funded an addition to Brooks over the past few years. These schools are all located south of Ga. Highway 54 as is the new site in Inman. Where are the students coming from? Which schools are currently over capacity to justify this construction? Burch Elementary has trailers and has an obvious need for additional classroom space. Let’s ensure that we build schools where they are needed and not have another Bennett’s Mill situation.

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My family and I recently took in a movie at the dollar theater in Fayetteville. What a huge mistake. The front entrance to the theatre was riddled with trash, debris all over the ground and obviously the theater didn’t care to clean it up. When we got inside it wasn’t much better. There was food all over the floor, the counters at the snack bar were sticky and covered with salt, powdered butter and used napkins. We had to wait until almost start time to enter our movie theater because they were supposedly cleaning. We walked into more popcorn on the floor, sticky floors and two entire rows of broken seats. It smelled like an old bar. During the movie my youngest had to use the restroom. It would have probably been more sanitary in the parking lot. I actually held my child above the toilet seats because I didn’t want her touching the bowl. The theater was quiet when we came out of the restroom and I thought it would be a good time for the theater employees to try and catch up on their cleaning. I was wrong. A group of them was standing at the snack bar talking among themselves. I caught one young woman’s attention and told her the restrooms were in really bad shape. She just said, “Okay,” and turned right back around to talk. When the movie was over the hallway was still full of popcorn, the snack bar still looked like a bomb had gone off in it, and the outside was still dirty and filled with trash. I am still wondering how the health department gave them a score of 99 that is displayed near the snack bar. Unfortunately, most of the cars in the parking lot were not from Fayette County, so that tells us that most of the other residents in Fayetteville have wised up and refuse to go to that theater as well.

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So the Newnan blue bloods of Wynn’s Pond are worried about development now along the Fayette border because now it affects them? Pretty funny. They were not much concerned about the explosion in development in east Coweta that will hammer PTC with the extension of TDK but now they are frightened. You see, it seems that their private playground known as the Featherston Fishing Club at Wynn’s Pond, next door to Wynnmeade, is being threatened. Funny that the Newnanites at the Country Club did not think it would end up this way. What did they expect ?

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I was catching up on my newspapers and nearly fell out of my chair when I read Mayor Logsdon’s reply to Mr. Soper’s letter to the editor. The mayor actually writes he thinks following the land plan is a good idea. The plan says don’t annex the Westside. Doesn’t the plan also say stay away from big box stores? Spinning these tales might work at the local saloon, but they aren’t working with the sober drivers stuck in traffic to and from work everyday.

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How did local developer Scott Bradshaw get on the city’s Impact Tax Committee? The guy was part of the development authority. You have a city of 33,000 people and somehow this same tiny group of people keeps on getting reappointed to these groups. Of course he’s not having public committee meetings. How many times do we get burned before we learn?

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Mayor Harold Logsdon’s reply to Mr. Soper’s letter questioning his leadership was just more smoke and mirrors. Mr. Soper was correct saying Mayor Logsdon is dodging his duties as city leader. Yes, the mayor always supported the Lowe’s plan on Ga. Highway 74 and he said so in the past. In another dance around the truth, the mayor says, “While I have said that I think the plan looks good, I have never said that I think it is the right thing for Peachtree City.” This is the same double-talk we got on his cutting city taxes. In a depressing attempt to emulate President George W. Bush, the mayor refers to our land use plan as a “roadmap” but he forgets most men are horrible with directions. How about the Group VI doctor’s office he annexed that produces $40,000 in taxes but consumes $78,000 in city services? Mayor Logsdon said he would “think about” the annexations and big box rezonings although I’m not sure that’s a risk the citizens of Peachtree City can take. The next time Mr. Soper sees the mayor in the Eckerd’s parking lot he should just run away as fast as he can.

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To all of my neighbors who are employed by Delta Airlines, please allow this apology. In an effort to save my company a few dollars, I did something that I’d not done for years: I chose to fly with US Air rather than staying with my Delta. I was quickly reminded why I stopped flying with this poor company years ago. Every airline has challenges and problems; how those problems are resolved makes for lifetime customers or lifetime avoiders of you company. The total lack of any sense of urgency or empathy and the way in which gate agents vanished like cockroaches and in which supervisors were invisible made me feel as though this is a far too common occurrence for this soon to be out of business airline. The audacity that the management of US Air had to propose to buy out Delta is mind boggling. US Air cannot carry Delta’s luggage, much less run their routes. I really hope that once Delta comes out of bankruptcy, they turn the tables and buy out US Air. Fire all middle and upper level managers, show the line workers what it means to at least act like you care, and make it a point to make service a point of pride, not a reason to hide. This Medallion flyer will not make this mistake again.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you to the person who wrote in this week about burning leaves and yard waste in and around subdivisions and polluting the air for the entire county to breathe. We used to love to open our windows on a beautiful spring day; however, over the last few years, it only serves as an opportunity for what appears to be uneducated people (a surprise for Fayette Countians) taking it as their cue to burn leaves, sticks, etc. We are supposedly the most educated adults now living in the United States. Worrying about our environment is more than just putting a bumper sticker on your SUV. Our air, water, and soil in our neighborhoods have a huge impact on my and your family’s well-being. When we burn and put smoke in in the air, it does make a difference. If our local leaders are not going to outlaw this impediment to our health, then please wake up and begin to take responsibility yourselves and model good practices for your children.

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I heard on TV news that gasoline prices had gone up 18 cents per gallon in the last two weeks or so. I guess my elementary school math is not working anymore because one month ago I was paying 1.97 and today it is 2.64. The price went up more than 20 cents in the last two days alone. The failure of the public to protest this gouging is going to be the downfall of this country because greed knows no bounds and the oil company executives are proving that fact. One of the reasons given for the increase in prices was the change to daylight saving time. Does your car use more or less gasoline with your lights on or off? How gullible and complacent we are becoming?

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Janet Starr Hull’s book, “Sweet Poison,” is a chilling eye-opener to the world of artificial sweeteners. Parents in Fayette County must band together to exile this poison from our schools’ cafeterias and vending machines. Do you know what’s in your children’s multi-vitamin? Aspartame’s claim to be a healthy alternative to sugar is akin to the FDA’s claim of protecting us from dangerous food and drugs. Put down those diet sodas, or you may never wake up again.