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07-05-06Wed, 07/05/2006 - 8:57am
By: The Citizen
Re: The sign case in which local Judge Paschal English will have to decide a sign ordinance case a third time. What I read from this is that the judge simply was too lazy to do his job, or too interested in the county’s position. This is the same judge who was so interested in a Hollywood game show that he took a two-month hiatus from his court work, which I considered improper. As long as we allow “judicial malpractice” we will have judges that will further burden our country (and our taxpayers) with such evils as same-sex marriage and entitlement to benefits for homosexual partners. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The latest growth gimmick in Peachtree City is a new “random survey” that will be mailed to 1,000 residents for return submission. Just how random will the survey actually be and why don’t they want to be more inclusive? After all, there are people (large land owners, developers, real estate agents, builders, etc.) who would love to make us into another Gwinnett County. We have 34,000 residents, but a couple of hundred “random” people who complete the survey will dictate our future growth (unless the mayor beats them to the finish line with his sewer expansions and dense annexations). Our input is really not wanted. The stealthy survey is just another way to obtain an official stamp of approval for the mayor’s surreptitious and excessive development plans. “Oh look, the survey proves the masses want more apartments and won’t mind spending an additional 30 minutes on the way to work each day.” ---------------------------------------------------------------- So the city is sending out 1,000 questionnaires randomly to survey what the next 20 years holds in store for Peachtree City. What disturbs me very much is their concept of “redeveloping older neighborhoods” in the city. Exactly what are we talking about here? People losing their homes to eminent domain? When is this overdevelopment and redevelopment madness going to end? Instead, focus on the future, and do something about the apartment complexes here that are becoming slum-like, and spreading crime through the community. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To the candidates running for school board who think discipline is not a problem in Fayette: Go and substitute teach a couple of days! Your thoughts will change. I taught in Clayton and Fayette. While our students have been better behaved than our neighbors in the past, things are changing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Am I the only one who finds it funny that after PTC hollers about the boogeyman railroad (a/k/a CSX) secretly building a second rail line in the city, they go and feature a picture of it on the back cover of their new city Welcome Guide? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mayor Logsdon is either ignorant or he found a great way to get his massive annexation through on the western portion of Peachtree City. There’s no way on God’s green earth that the city didn’t know about the railroad expansion adjacent to the Centennial subdivision. The new track has become a very convenient excuse for the mayor to push his large annexation and the new bridge near Tyrone. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Are we supposed to feel better now since CSX has promised the mayor that they’ll let us know what deadly chemicals will be parked next to our houses? Knowing the contents of the hazardous cargo can’t save us if we only live within a couple hundred yards of the tankers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I saw in the paper last week that the question of school calendars has come up again. Thanks to pressure from the state legislators our dear school superintendent is willing to let us (the incompetent taxpayers) choose school start dates for next year. I believe the start dates are from Aug. 8 through 13. When are we going to take our superintendent to task on this problem? At first we were told that school would start earlier to coincide with the start of colleges, then it was so the teachers could finish their summer college courses, then to accommodate the winter break and then the fall break. I have two children in the school system, one moving up to middle school and the other moving up to high school, and have spent a lot of time at both schools. In talking with the teachers at these schools they have all told me that with the current schedule they do not have time to work on continuing their education in the allotted time during summer break. They have also told me that the worst problem that they face is getting the students back into the swing of things after one of our numerous week-long breaks. They all agree that going back to the old schedule of starting the last week of August and doing away with the fall and winter breaks is the best for all involved. I know that my kids just set around for the week and whine about nothing to do (and we are an airline family). So, people, it is time that we listened to the wonderful men and women that teach our children five days a week and not someone that was appointed to his post by the governor. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The railroads must be, in addition to being a monopolistic sociological tax burden, also all-powerful wherever they go with their tracks. How could a mile-long track be built right in the middle of PTC and no one in the town government even know about it until nearly the time it went into use? Shouldn’t they at least be obligated to notify local officials of their intent? Or did they? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Are you aware that citizens of Orange County, Calif., line up every July near the railroad tracks to moon the Amtrak passengers as they go by? The “27th Annual Mooning of Amtrak” takes place July 8. Wouldn’t this be a great idea for the citizens of Peachtree City to express their opinion to railroad officials for the new railroad siding along Ga. Highway 74? Any volunteers? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Whether you agreed with Steve Brown’s politics or not, you have to admit he was a “hands-on” mayor, who would respond to e-mails or questions promptly and courteously. Not the same with Mayor Logsdon and his cronies. Guess the little people are not important in your delusions of grandeur. ---------------------------------------------------------------- With the newly dubiously established PTC Flood water authority flush with funds, after the first forced collection, there is absolutely no improvement in maintaining and cleaning the taxpayer-owned storm water gullies on and around the cart paths. Must we once again wait for erosion before anything is done, or are we just contributing to another city-controlled slush fund? ---------------------------------------------------------------- When you look at banker Sam Chapman’s paid political advertising, it’s hard to tell if he is running for sheriff or county commissioner ---------------------------------------------------------------- Parents, How many of you have been allowing your 14-year-olds to drive the golf carts unaccompanied by a licensed driver this summer? It is against the law. ---------------------------------------------------------------- It’s great that the brain trusts we call the Georgia legislature can solve so many social problems with aplomb. Since restricting pedophiles from living 1,000 feet from a school bus stop will undoubtedly eliminate sexual abuse, why not use the same tactic to solve many more social ills. We could restrict alcoholics from dwelling 1,000 feet from a bar and prohibit obese people from housing themselves close to the grocery store. Flag desecrators should be barred from living within 1,000 feet of a flag pole or flag factory. Just think of the creative ways we can use the housing laws for positive social change. Religious fundamentalists would be required to live close to libraries, and creationists would be expected to domicile within 1,000 feet of a science laboratory. Liberals would be obliged to live close to churches, and habitual truants would live next to schools. Before long the Republican legislature could create a truly utopian society full of family values, and then maybe they wouldn’t be bothered by pesky activists who pine for constitutional freedoms. Sonny, call a special session today! ---------------------------------------------------------------- $325,000 fine for airing smut on TV. $250,000 fine plus jail time for copying a DVD. $0 penalty for being or knowingly hiring an illegal alien identity thief ... priceless. ---------------------------------------------------------------- When we blindly idealize the ”nation of immigrants” thing, we forget the valuable lesson that it didn’t used to be “inhumane” or even “unfair” to restrict the number of legal immigrants and expel illegal immigrants. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The true grassroots (not the elite-generated Astroturf) is seething with resentment at being either romanced, ignored, lied to, or lied about. We are not afraid of hard work, but we are not third-world peons. We are not xenophobes, but we are tired of one set of laws for illegals and those who benefit from them and another harsher set of laws for us. ---------------------------------------------------------------- People keep dragging up President Eisenhower as the inventor of the interstate highway system, as they are right now due to the 50-year birthday of those highways. This was just one more of the ideas from the Franklin Roosevelt administrations, along with the WPA and the CCC and other job providers. It is simply amazing the lengths conservatives will go to in order to claim responsibility for all good things and not take responsibility for all the depressions, debts, and dumb wars. Long-term thinkers are pretty much gone from both major parties. Ike did allow the program to go through Congress without a veto. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Is there a teacher exodus at McIntosh High? Heard that 17 left this year. Even if you factor in some to retirement, some to moving, 17 seems extremely high. Is this the norm? Thought the PTC schools were the “best” places to work? Perhaps our BOE needs to take a closer look at what is or what is not happening at his particular school. Is the administration doing what they need and should be doing? If they are not doing what they should be doing, then who is accountable? I am just someone who would like to know and someone who would like, for once, for people to be held accountable for their actions. login to post comments
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