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FreeSpeech for 03-25-09Tue, 03/24/2009 - 3:48pm
By: The Citizen
Attention law enforcement: If you are going to stop someone for “speeding,” how about stopping folks for not having their headlights on in the rain? Both are against the law and can be just as dangerous at times. As an added bonus, more people drive without their lights than speed, so look at the extra revenue you could collect. - - - - - - - - - - - Driving Lesson 101: When two vehicles at opposite sides of an intersection are waiting at a traffic light, both wishing to turn in the same direction onto a multi-lane road (like our new, six-lane Ga. Highway 74), follow this procedure. When the light turns green, they each should turn into their closest lane. Thus, the person turning left to head north would turn into the leftmost lane and the person turning right to also head north would turn into the rightmost lane. There is no need for the person turning left to wait until several oncoming vehicles have all turned right, although obviously she should proceed cautiously. And brickbats to those “courteous” drivers who can’t bother signaling. Here endith the lesson for today. Sheesh, it’s no wonder there are so many places in this town where you can’t turn left without a green arrow. - - - - - - - - - - - What’s the deal with everybody driving around with their fog lights on? Do you have no consideration for other drivers? You may as well be driving with your high beams on, since you’re blinding all oncoming traffic. Thanks a lot. - - - - - - - - - - - Does everyone know that the median stretch of Ga. Highway 54 in PTC from Hwy. 74 to City Hall was landscaped so beautifully by Floy Farr (God rest his soul) at his own expense to the tune of $10K? This stretch is where Harold Logsdon whines all the time about the traffic backed up. Now, what do we all do when the traffic is backed up? We sit and look at the surrounding landscape. Who has looked at it lately? Weeds, no pruning of plants that need pruning every spring, no mulch, and more weeds. No Public Works crew to do this simple task, and it is one of the most obvious examples yet of our crappy government decision-making. Mr. Farr was so proud of this city, and he left this (once beautiful) legacy, and this is the gratitude our mayor and council show. - - - - - - - - - - - To the lady that wants to continue to trespass on a “certain association” private path because it’s the neighborly think to do, why stop there? Wood Creek has a great water slide you should have the “right” to use, even though you don’t live there. And you should have the “right” to ride your cart over to Whitewater for a free round of neighborly golf. That should help relax you in this time of “stress and strain.” Oh, by the way, when can you get me a key to your private club house? We don’t seem to have one, and that would be neighborly thing to do. Please don’t expect me to pitch in and pay for the upkeep or your bills or clean up after myself, because that wouldn’t be “fair.” Your parents obviously forgot to pass on some basic rules of life, so here is what I teach my children: Use your manners, obey the law, take responsibility for your actions, don’t take what is not yours, and the hardest one to learn, life is not always fair. - - - - - - - - - - - Dear new neighbors, welcome to the neighborhood. Now that you have been here for a while, here are a few rules for you to remember. Number one, please do not park your cars on the yard beside your driveway; it is tacky and against the covenants. Number two, please do not place your garbage can in the street. Look around and you will notice that you are the only ones in the entire neighborhood doing this. Everyone puts them on the edge of their driveway for a reason. On school days, the traffic is heavy in the morning, and you are blocking traffic. Number three, I know you are new to golf cart driving, but please do not drive down the middle of the street when there are cars behind you. Pull over to the curb and drive so that we can pass you, and please, please, please do not let your underage children drive your golf cart. It is unsafe and illegal. - - - - - - - - - - - I am incensed at the person who questioned why there are five interpreters on payroll for the Fayette County Board of Education. You are so consumed with money and numbers (because all you looked at was the government website giving salaries) you couldn’t get out of your tunnel to think maybe their purpose was for needy children. Your answer as to why they are employed was because the children didn’t speak English. For your information, the truth is four of the five interpreters listed on that webpage serve our deaf population. I can’t help but believe if you have children that they were blessed with the sense of hearing. Unfortunately not all parents are that lucky. You also felt very strongly that to save money, one interpreter could meet all the students’ needs and travel from school to school. I am sure the deaf population would gladly give up their deafness to speak any language. How would you like your child to only hear science class or only hear math class during the day because the one employed person who can give them equal access to the world around them has to run across the county to allow another deaf student to hear only one subject that day? Fayette County is blessed to be able to give each of our deaf students an interpreter for the whole school day. This allows them what is rightfully owed to them: a free and equal public education, just as all students are entitled to. The bottom line is not always money. Get your facts straight before you insult those of us who work with the students of the Fayette County School System, deaf or not. - - - - - - - - - - - I am appalled and dismayed at the person who wrote in about the Fayette County Superintendent’s pay and the five interpreters. I thought folks in Fayette County were more intelligent then that. Dr. DeCotis salary is in line with surrounding counties, and I feel he does an outstanding job. You really need to look at the board and see what kind of job they are doing. Fayette County still is considered the best county to send your kids. Just check the Internet for statistics and you will see that this is true. As for the comments about the five interpreters, four of them serve the deaf population and the person needs to quit looking at webpages that post salaries and that is all they see. They don’t go around the county interpreting Spanish or Japanese or any other speaking children. These folks do an outstanding job and the deaf children are afforded the same rights to an education as all other children by law. I feel everybody is up in arms about the cuts and the budget concerns. You know if you don’t receive the tax dollars from the county and the state funding due to the economy, you have to balance the budget and make some very serious decisions. Please get off the whiner train and let these folks do their job and still support the children’s best interests. - - - - - - - - - - - My son came home today from Starr’s Mill High School and mentioned casually that in three of his classes, they’d watched basketball due to the March Madness games. I am sorry. I had assumed he was in school to get an education. He informed me that one of the classes had a substitute teacher and “had nothing else to do” so the TV was turned on. I have absolutely nothing against educational videos in the classroom, but was unaware that tournament basketball was part of the curriculum. Also, I had no idea that betting on the tournament by minors was condoned in a school setting. My student was really taken by surprise by his parents’ shock. He mentioned it as a casual, off-the-cuff remark. In other words, he was not lying to get anyone in trouble at all. Neither his father or I were amused. Way to go on instilling a sense of the value of education. - - - - - - - - - - - Real estate people — where do they go after this big bust? There is much less of a need for the marginal performers now. A lot are gone — Realtors, mortgagebrokers, lawyers, etc. The ones that scare me the most are the bad builders. The good builders will hang on and come back. But what about the bad builders? You know, the “wood butchers.” What are they doing? I fear that they are going in to “remodeling.” I think I’m going to google “remodeling nightmares.com” and see what comes up. - - - - - - - - - - - To the Free Speecher who thinks she deserves free natural gas: where does your reasoning end? EMC is a business, not a charity. The people employed by EMC are your friends and neighbors, but you don’t seem to care if the company makes enough money to keep them employed. So where do you expect your payment for what you decided to use come from? The government? Do you think American taxpayers are responsible for your debt? Any way you look at it, you are expecting those that have and do to bear the responsibility of those that don’t, won’t, and in small cases, can’t. The benevolence of Americans has always taken care of those in need. And why does Fayette County, disproportionately, offer more help to those in need than any surrounding county? Because Fayette citizens earn more and give more. This class warfare and entitlement mentality that our liberal government and biased media have brainwashed you with is destroying our collective “Can-Do!” spirit. But not to worry; you won’t be able to bite the capitalist pig hand that feeds you for too long, since your leaders have decided to reduce charitable contributions through taxation and take on the role as nanny-state. And since the government has NEVER run anything as well as the private sector, you’ll be lucky to get your daily allotment of natural gas at all. Then the only person you’ll have to blame will be yourself, for subscribing to such anti-American, socialist ideology in the first place. It seems you are of the mentality that you won’t be happy until all of America is equally ruined. Shame on you! - - - - - - - - - - - I’m old, not stupid, and I have enough sense to know that no one is going to walk up to me and give me something for free. So go to the grocery store and drug store and quit talking to people that walk up to you in the parking lot. - - - - - - - - - - - To the AIG whiner of last week: How gullible are you? Do you not understand that when you throw a bunch of money at a junkie, they just do more of the same? Don’t you expect that your government knew exactly what it was getting into before they decided, against the will of the people they represent, to give away your money to those who showed egregious bad judgment and business practices in the first place? And why in the world are you upset that a legal, binding contract be upheld? And lastly: you are more concerned with less than 1 percent of where your tax dollars went than the several hundred millions that went overseas, to special interests, to the banks your congressional leaders’ spouses run, to terrorist nations, etc. Grow up, and stop being a sheep. login to post comments
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