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Mar 2008
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Things Must Not Be Going Well in ‘el Tercer Imperio’
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Sun 2 Mar 2008 22:07
by Kevin McGehee
51° and clear
in Coweta County, GA
1 comment
[War]
[Wackadoodle]
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Sic semper tyrannis. Whenever the homefront gets troublesome, they make threatening noises against a neighbor.
Warning that Colombia could spark a war, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent tanks and thousands of troops to the countries’ border Sunday and ordered his government’s embassy in Bogota closed.
The leftist leader warned Colombia’s U.S.-allied government that Venezuela will not permit acts like Saturday’s killing of top rebel leader Raul Reyes and 16 other Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas at a camp across the border in Ecuador.
“Mr. Defense Minister, move 10 battalions to the border with Colombia for me, immediately—tank battalions, deploy the air force,“ Chavez said during his weekly TV and radio program. “We don’t want war, but we aren’t going to permit the U.S. empire, which is the master (of Colombia) ... to come to divide us.“ » Chavez Warns of War With Colombia
Hugo, por qué no te callas?
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Feb 2008
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Just Enough to, er, Wet Our Appetite…
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Wed 27 Feb 2008 0:24
by Kevin McGehee
39° and cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
4 comments
[Our Times]
[Wackadoodle]
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The mayor of Chattanooga isn’t willing to part with the Tennessee River (let alone a certain distillery in Lynchburg), but he has offered a small compromise:
The city of Chattanooga, facing a possible Georgia land grab as part of an effort to get access to the Tennessee River, is sending a truck load of bottled water to Atlanta.
Mayor Ron Littlefield said the water will be delivered on Wednesday by his aide Matt Lea wearing a coonskin cap.
The mayor has officially proclaimed Feb. 27, 2008, as “Give our Georgia Friends a Drink Day.“ The proclamation comes as a result of the Georgia Legislature passing a joint resolution that seeks to pursue reestablishing the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee.
The truck load of bottled water along with the proclamation will be delivered to the Georgia Legislature Wednesday morning.» Chattanooga Sending Truck Load Of Water To Atlanta
The water will be a refreshing change of pace from sweet tea, especially for those of us who are still sitting at the computer at half past midnight.
H/t Dustbury.
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She’s the Queen of the Moonbats
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Sat 9 Feb 2008 20:07
by Kevin McGehee
51° and clear
in Coweta County, GA
4 comments
[Wackadoodle]
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People have been saying $#!t like this for a while now, and I’m sick of it.
If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here Saturday.
Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, “would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him,“ Lessing, 88, told the Dagens Nyheter daily.» Obama will be assassinated if he wins: Nobel winner Lessing
Piss off, witch.
If Barack Obama becomes president, he will be my president. After the last few presidents we’ve had, I do not say that lightly.
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The Great Georgia-Tennessee Border War Over Water
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Sat 9 Feb 2008 8:00
by Kevin McGehee
31° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
2 comments
[Our Times]
[Wackadoodle]
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If you haven’t already heard about this, the current drought conditions in most of Georgia have caused some of our lawmakers to rediscover an old surveying error that resulted in Georgia’s northern boundary being about a mile south of where it should have been.
Seems if the surveyors had done their job right, the Tennessee River would have just kissed the northwest corner of Georgia, thus offering the Peach State access to its water.
Tennesseeans reacted with humor, anger and defiance Thursday to Georgia’s legislative attempt to move the border north so the drought-plagued state can tap into the Tennessee River.
“Us good Tennesseeans will take our long rifles up to Lookout Mountain and fire when ready,“ said Justin Wilson, a Nashville attorney and former deputy governor.
Sen. David Shafer (R-Duluth) and Rep. Harry Geisinger (R-Roswell) introduced resolutions this week to, in essence, move the state line a mile north which would run the border right through a bend in the river. Then, the legislators say, Georgia could send billions of gallons of water to parched Atlanta without Tennessee’s permission.
Shafer, Geisinger and others say an “erroneous” survey completed in 1818 placed the border 1.1 miles below what Congress had earlier established as the boundary.
Virtually every Georgia legislator signed on to the resolutions (SR 822 and HR 1206), which direct Gov. Sonny Perdue to remedy the border dispute with his Tennessee counterpart.» Water war between the states is for real
We’re already at war with Alabama and Florida over water, so why not also Tennessee?
Of course, shifting the border wouldn’t only affect that one corner of Georgia…
The mayor of McCaysville, Ga., Buddy Finch, 78, said it’s hard to say what the long-term repercussions will be if the border dispute between Georgia and Tennessee becomes more than just a political dust up over water.
The Tennessee-Georgia state line cuts through the heart of McCaysville, separating it from Copper Hill, Tenn. If the line moves about a mile north—where some Georgians argue it belongs—Copper Hill will be swallowed by McCaysville.
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Vest and Finch said they hadn’t heard about the latest fracas, but it didn’t surprise them. “People have been talking about the border up here for years,“ said Finch.
Robert K. Ballew, a Blue Ridge, Ga., lawyer who was born 82 years ago in Copper Hill “50 feet inside the Tennessee line,“ said he was not sure what the legal ramifications might be if the line moves, but he might end up Tennessean by birth, but Georgian by Supreme Court decision.
“Locally it’s always been known to be wrong and in error; that’s not in dispute,“ he said. “But there’s never been a concerted effort to change that.“ » Georgia town at the heart of border dispute
My mother-in-law in Chattanooga lives within a mile of the Georgia line. If this silliness were actually to happen, she would end up living in Georgia without having lifted a finger.
This would also affect Georgia’s border with North Carolina, and probably Tennessee’s borders with Alabama and Mississippi and North Carolina’s border with South Carolina. So I think what’s most likely to happen is the courts will simply direct Georgia and Tennessee to make nice and negotiate on Tennessee River water for Georgia.
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Jan 2008
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Is Opposition to Terrorism Really ‘Islamophobia’...?
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Wed 23 Jan 2008 15:31
by Kevin McGehee
50° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
6 comments
[War]
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[Wackadoodle]
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Anti-GOMLP commenter Samir seems to think so.
He’s offended by the fourth plank in the GOMLP’s provisional platform:
You want to kill me and everyone else who doesn’t share your belief in the holiness of a meteorite in Mecca? GET OFFA MY LAWN! PLANET!
Remember the Mohammed cartoon riots? Utterly bereft of irony, Islamic Rage Boy and his ilk threatened to behead anyone who dared say Muslims were violent.
I’m not Islamophobic.
I’m stupiditiphobic. And Samir, judging from your comments so far, you’re stupid.
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Were There Climate Change Protests in Atlanta Yesterday?
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Thu 17 Jan 2008 23:01
by Kevin McGehee
39° and cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
0 comments
[Wackadoodle]
[Nature]
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...‘cause that might explain the weather we had. Like in Maryland:
It snowed, but they still came. A heavy snowfall blanketed a global warming protest outside the State House in Annapolis this morning, but it did not dampen the shouts of about 400 activists who urged lawmakers to pass the nation’s toughest greenhouse gas control law.
As supporters waved signs, chanted and banged drums, 18 legislators walked down a symbolic green carpet to sign up as co-sponsors to a bill that would mandate that all businesses in Maryland cut emissions of global warming pollution by 25 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050.
“We are going to pass this bill this year,“ said State Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Democrat from Prince George’s County and chairman of the senate’s environmental matters subcommittee. “We are not going to rest, we are not going to stop. ... We are going to keep going until we pass this bill.“ » Global warming protest frosted with snow
Spewin’ an awful lot of greenhouse gases, aren’t they?
Anyway, why bother with legislation? Seems they don’t even need to invite Al Gore to an event to cause immediate localized cooling. They should just stage permanent anti-global-warming demonstrations all over the world.
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