Why do students attend Fayette county schools illegally by giving false addresses? Because Board of Education members serve on the BOE illegally by giving false addresses.

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That was some Mother’s Day present, Mayor Harold. You said you were going to get the TDK extension project moving. It was nothing but a propaganda-filled lie. There was no plan. You never had a plan and we get absolutely nothing. The nastiest part is you took the city out of it completely and dumped the whole thing on the airport authority; now that’s leadership. We are stuck with nonstop excuses, traffic delays and a mayor in full retreat. When our Braelinn Shopping Center goes under, we’ll remember your broken pledge. When my wife returns home late from working in Newnan, well try to forget we ever listened to you.

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Harold Logsdon is advancing toward genuine delusion. Not since the days of Fred Brown have we witnessed such a reckless escalation of development and abandonment of standards. Love them or not, Howard Morgan, Bob Lenox and Steve Brown knew the importance of structured growth. Logsdon is just an inexperienced puppet. Jumping to the master’s beat, he let sewer into the county, moved to abolish greenbelts and is paying off dishonesty and sleaze. Logsdon is out of tune with the ideals that made Peachtree City great. He can’t command worth a darn. We’ll have to wait and see how many thousands of houses he wants to build on the city’s westside. He’ll probably try to attract more annoying big box stores. Regrettably, you can’t recall someone for distorting the city’s values. Fred Brown has got to be smiling like the cat that ate the cute little canary. His man and his ideology are in city hall.

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The North Fayette Park is a boondoogle. It is what Dunn and his cohorts want and not what the county needs. Dunn originally pushed this North Fayette park and did so when the cost estimates were $2.5 million. One would like to assume that some care was given to planning and oversight (although we know that rarely happens with government spending, even locally). Did they carefully study this proposal in the first place? Do we NEED this park? Is there demographic evidence to support the park ? Obviously this park is a WANT and not a NEED. If it was needed, then the original concept at $2.5 million was justifiable; it would accomplish the goal. Now that the price is $10 million those original assumptions are now out the window. It remains of concern to me that no one is really giving our county finances any strict form of overview.

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So many people, including Citizen reporter John Thompson, have been fooled. Many people will watch a Commission meeting and be convinced that the strident opposition to small spending must mean that they are cautious on large-scale spending as well. Not true. Therein lies the logical fallacy. They may abuse the sheriff over $20,000 but will frequently spend huge sums of money on large projects. The Taj Mahal and the bloated legal bills are just two multimillion dollar examples. Look at the North Fayette Park. If it was a wise expenditure at $2.5 million, fine; go ahead and do it. But when the price quadruples, it should be obvious that no one is minding the candy store.

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There are enough banks in Peachtree City alone so that every subdivision can have one of their own if they so want. My question is: what will happen to all of them when people can no longer refinance their home, get a second or third mortgage, and have all of their credit cards maxed out? If anyone owes more than the federal government, it is the American family. Just how much longer can we exist in such circumstances? Our economy is totally dependent on service jobs alone and borrowed money. It will not continue to work. All of this has been done by politicians wanting to be reelected and we are at fault for voting for such people.

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The “share the road signs” are telling you four-wheelers to share the road with two-wheelers, hence the bicycle rider pictograph on the sign (that’s not too big a word for you, is it?) Bicyclists are to be treated just like pedestrians, with caution, just like large boats must yield to sailboats; the weaker vehicle can’t maneuver like the stronger ones. Being courteous for a few seconds won’t delay your time at McDonald’s. Oh, yeah, let’s not forget: It’s the law as well.

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From the looks of the quality of people running for county offices here in Fayette it is becoming very obvious that we don’t care who serves and certainly don’t want to serve (ourselves) with such incompetence. The two-party system is dead here. If one can get more votes calling himself a Democrat, then he is a Democrat, and vice-versa. These people run for office on statements that are given to garner the most votes, not what principles they have. For instance: one cannot be against abortion, but for raising the minimum wage; cannot be against federal interference in local government, but for getting all of the pork available, and so forth. I think we are out of “servers” and into self-gratification.

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How do you say Kumbaya in Spanish? ¡Viva la raza!

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Why would not the controls at the sewer treatment plant be connected to another city or county function so that if an alarm sounded it would also be forwarded to the secondary indicator? I realize that even this would not guarantee to be fail-safe due to human nature, but it should be relatively simple to do if consultants aren’t hired, running the cost out of the roof for something wouldn’t function right anyway. (There is no money in simple things). I’m really worried about our county and its towns not being prepared for epidemics and terrorists. It doesn’t do anyone any good to criticize the state (a joke) or the feds (Katrina) after the damage is done. Look at the county health department: so ill-prepared that if we had an epidemic they either wouldn’t have ordered enough of the correct medicine or wouldn’t have enough trained volunteers to do anything to help. They don’t even want to give high school students flu shots. Oh, I forgot, they are a state function. The facts are that we never thought we would have to contend with great disasters and refuse to prepare.

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Why was the town of Tyrone Web site altered so that it no longer carries the individual e-mail addresses of the Town Council? This sounds like another power grab by Mayor Lee and Councilman Smola with all of the e-mail having to be funneled through one site address. It would be interesting to know what Grace Caldwell and Gloria Furr think about this.

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To the green people in PTC: I have lived here for 22 years and have seen thousands of our trees simply die or be expunged. They are getting thinner all the time. That is rather normal for a growing community. What is not normal is the fact that our government has not replanted one tree of which I know. Some developers have added a few pitiful looking, crappy trees in road dividers. Plant one every time you see one has fallen and quit just verbalizing for the government to do it. They will not. Just loving birds or trees or cats or anything is not enough. Spend some money, kick a politician.

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A bunch of us went to the Family and Friends night at the new Three Dollar Cafe in Peachtree City. While it took us quite a long time to get our food, the staff was cheerful, apologetic and working their tails off. Once they get their kinks worked out, I believe this will be a great place to go. The food was delicious, good atmosphere, and thumbs up to the manager.

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I think Lauren Yawn has done an excellent job so far at The Fred. The management staff is a big improvement over last year and the ushers are more helpful and friendly.

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Bravo to all the band students who performed at The Villages Amphitheater May 11. They were outstanding. On the other hand, to the 5th grade band student’s dad who insisted on talking very loudly to another 5th grade band student’s mom about six people away from him: you both were very rude to the FMS Percussion Ensemble performing at the time. You apparently didn’t consider those students’ parents were in the audience and actually wanted to hear and record their performance. If you didn’t care about the other groups performing after your child finished, you should have gone home, or at least taken your conversation outside. You were way out of line to tell the dad who asked you at least three times to be quiet that he “can’t talk to you that way,” and glare at him. Why not? That dad was not rude to you at all, in fact, he may have been too nice. You were inconsiderate, rude and impolite. I know, because I was there and saw and heard the whole exchange. I thanked that dad for speaking up.

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The big argument about the sheriff’s department is a last gasp by a dying organization. When a county starts to become urbanized, as Fayette gradually is, then there is no need for anything to be done by the sheriff but to serve warrants and take care of the jail and courthouse. No need to cover Nottingham Woods. The city police will cover nearly everything else. It is silly to have little spots here and there in the county that are not annexed by cities. My goodness, we have federal officers, (of a dozen types) state police, Georgia police, ATF police, county police, and I’m sure some I didn’t think of for now. They spend more time now “coordinating” than anything else. Also, we now have Homeland Security, and in many places, a director of public safety. Not to mention scores of PI and Internet officers. The National Guard is also available, and the U.S. Army when needed. The jail is full because we sentence people we are afraid of to 20-25 years (the poor and unfortunate) and send our white collars to the tennis clubs. If all of these people were located to patrol directly in the ghettoes where the bad crime comes from (as they do in England) we would prevent most of it. Hard to do when nobody wants to walk or ride a bike or patrol a golf cart path at night.

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OK, all you pilot bashers, time for you to get on with your lives. We are no longer “highest paid.” We took the additional 18 percent cuts so that we could “preserve all those other jobs.” We are now among the “lowest paid” in the industry so your fares don’t have to go up. So get on with your lives; we are. As for “pilot skills”? Guess you’re right. I finally agree. Why pay for highly trained pilots when, as you so intelligently point out, “anyone can do it.” My question is, Why aren’t you doing it? Oh, one other question, why, if anyone can fly an airplane, as you seem so righteously to believe, were you so worried about a strike? Surely any gate agent, mechanic, flight attendant, manager, or simply a select passenger could have jumped into the airplane and flown it. That’s what you believe, right? But even if that isn’t possible, surely Delta could go to any private airport and find a Cessna 150 pilot with 40 or 50 hours and throw him into the plane, right? Anyway, it’s over. Let it go. It was never any of your business anyway. So here is a request. I will keep my nose out of your private business with your company if you’ll keep your busy-body, uninvited, unwanted, unintelligent opinions out of mine.

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Congratulations, you are the one millionth Delta basher this year. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the pilots, nor anyone else, took a pay cut to purchase new uniforms. They were planned several years ago, pre-bankruptcy. If you are that upset, maybe you can get Wal-Mart to have someone draw up some new “designer” blue vests for you. Granted, the timing was awful and past management has screwed up, but these were not designed, ordered, and implemented overnight. Besides, how many times have you gone out and bought something you shouldn’t have, didn’t need, or couldn’t afford? I’ll bet more times than Delta. For folks tired of hearing about Delta’s woes, they sure keep bringing them up a lot. We’re down; you can quit kicking now.

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Better than paregoric? When GWB says that we will lose our national soul if we turn away millions of aliens who break our already generous immigration laws, it’s cookie-hurling time.