November 24, 2004
Don't shit where you eat
And don't shit where you drink either. The Georgia Supreme Court denied Gwinnett County's permit to
dump 40 million gallons of sewage into Lake Lanier.
Sewage has been dumped there since before there was a lake. This permit was axed because it would allow Gwinnett to dump sewage that was less clean than they already have the capability to process and would allow them to avoid the per instance fines for violating the sewage quality requirements.
Lake Lanier is the main drinking water source for Atlanta and the sole source for the 700,000 residents in Gwinnett County. That number includes the five local members of the Peacock clan. Poop water, ewwwww. Thank god for Britta filters.
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Why would the county even begin to think that this was a good idea in the first place?
Posted by: RP at November 24, 2004 10:05 AM (LlPKh)
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It's got to go somewhere and the Chattahoochee watershed is the traditional dumping spot. If it's done correctly it really isn't an issue - Lake Lanier has a humongous biobuffer. If it's done wrong it can set off algae blooms and other nastiness because it puts too much protein into the cycle.
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2004 10:13 AM (tyQ8y)
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I 'member a time when I happened to catch a toddler in my care comin' out of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston spittin' out a bit of the saltwater that had gotten into his mouth. "That tastes yucky!" he said.
I replied, "Yeah, whales whizz a lot while they are swimmin' 'round in that water. That's what makes it taste that way."
They gots lots of fish, turtles, and frogs crappin' the lakes, too, I bet.
Posted by: Tig at November 24, 2004 05:28 PM (G5PGV)
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November 23, 2004
Sexual predators
They rape women and children, force people into prostitution, and run sex slave rings. It's all in a day's work for
United Nations Peacekeepers.
The United Nations has dispatched two teams to investigate 150 charges of sexual exploitation and abuse by civilian and military personnel serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a senior UN official.
The allegations include criminal activity, paedophilia, rape and solicitation of prostitution, said Jane Holl Lute, an Assistant Secretary-General in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), at a press briefing Monday.
And people look to the UN as a proto-governing world body? It staggers the mind. That's like putting Clinton in charge of the secretary pool.
Now after these investigative teams come back with the results of their investigations the UN will issue recommendations. Yes, recommendations! They're not going to actually do anything about it at all. They're just going to go have a look-see and then say "Hey guys, please don't do that any more". Wanna know why? Because the UN has no authority over UN troops! Ain't that grand? There are 10,000 troops from fifty countries and each country is responsible for disciplining their own troops. If the boys from Stickitinmyassoslavia (that's a made up name, don't bother Googling it) don't have a problem with their troops raping kids and extorting sex from women then nothing at all happens.
Wow. Just...wow.
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Screw the separation of church and state. I'll settle for the separation of school and the DMV
The Georgia legislature has made the Department of Motor Vehicles subservient to the Georgia public school system. Schools may now tell the DMV to suspend student licenses for up to a year. The idea behind it is to give the schools another stick to threaten truant and disruptive kids with. The reality is quite frightening, especially when you consider how existing school legislation, zero tolerance laws and zero tolerance policies aggravate and interact with each other.
Much more on this at Zero Intelligence.
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Well, since you home school, can you do that? Both for your kids and other kids who piss you off?
Posted by: RP at November 23, 2004 01:56 PM (LlPKh)
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My kids won't be driving until they can buy their own cars. Incentive to get them out of the house. ;-)
I honestly don't know how this will affect homeschoolers yet. Homeschoolers in Georgia are required to submit attendance forms to the superintendent of their local school system. Depending on how the law is worded it could very well give the school systems the power to take licenses away from homeschooled kids.
Posted by: Jim at November 23, 2004 02:05 PM (tyQ8y)
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The law for homeschooled children beeing able to get even a learners permit has just recently changed.They can't get it unless they show good grades and eventually a highschool diploma or equal.It sux.....you homeschool and still the damn school district tells you what you can or can't do.
Posted by: LW at November 23, 2004 02:42 PM (GCA5m)
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I ask myself anyways lately since when I carried my kids over to the damn goverment?As parents we have little to say over our kids.
Schools should ultimatly stick their nose into their own fucking business and stay out of peoples private lives.I think it should be up to the parents to decide weather or not a kid should have a driverlicense!Whats next?The kids have bad grades and the kids get grounded and priviliges taken away at home by the school???
I wanne see that happen.....really!They would have a hard nut to crack in me.
Posted by: LW at November 23, 2004 02:47 PM (GCA5m)
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Well, I wonder what the consequences will be vis a vis insurance. Will those with bad grades suddenly find themselves in a higher risk pool because the state has decided that they cannot be trusted to drive if they get a C in Spanish?
Posted by: RP at November 23, 2004 03:43 PM (LlPKh)
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I cannot even begin to fathom what driving licences and schools have to do with each other. Why not link paying taxes with giving out passports? It's the same kind of logic.
Posted by: Simon at November 24, 2004 01:25 AM (FUPxT)
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November 05, 2004
Death and Destruction Construction
So, the world's oldest terrorist
lies in a coma and the world is waiting for him to breath his last. Anybody else thinking of this as an early Christmas present?
Don't get the wrong idea here. I'm not the sort that goes about wishing that people die or wishing bad things on anybody. Doing things like that tends to warp you. But that doesn't mean I can't be just as relieved as the next guy when the right person buys the farm.
Does that make me inhumane? Cold? Twisted? No, I don't think so. Look, if you have cancer do you cry when the surgeon excises it? If you've got a tick on your arm do you feel sorry for the tick when you're putting the lit match up against its shell and it pops like the world's smallest firecracker? Of course not.
Arafat is a parasite, just like that tick. Nobody got through to him with a lit match over the past decades but we can be just as happy when the bloated blood sucker dies naturally.
Israel and the Palestinians have serious problems. One of the worst of them is going away. For that I am very, very happy.
Side note: Anybody else notice that once again the French military is trying to keep an Arab dictator in power? Humanitarian aid, my ass.
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Jim I"ve been talking about this on my blog and the satisfaction, joy whatever I feel that he is soon/has (story still isn't quite straight) worm food.
A couple of people have called me on this feeling; I don't know. Is it wrong to feel happy over this?
I guess that is the darker half to me; I think most of those who have come to know me know I'm don't relish in the deaths of others; but this man has caused so much pain in the world.
Yeah, the French are such wonderful pals of the free world.
Posted by: Rachel Ann at November 05, 2004 07:17 AM (UcIYP)
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It's an overused analogy and it's trite, but I look at this way:
Who'd feel bad if Hitler was in a coma?
Not me, that's sure.
Posted by: ilyka at November 05, 2004 07:53 AM (tiIYC)
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Did you hear Dennis Miller on the subject? He said something along the following lines: "Yeah, the French know how to deal with terrorists, they HEAL them."
Posted by: RP at November 05, 2004 09:35 AM (LlPKh)
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Yeah, but come on, Jim, it's the French Military (leadership). Yes, i know, the principall of the thing and all that, but come on, aren't they a lot like your terrier towards Kota (i can't forget that one, i've tried)?
:-D
Posted by: tommy at November 05, 2004 11:07 AM (haOzA)
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The truth is, the world can't help but be a better place in his absence. I feel favorably freshened by his imminent demise. Good riddance!
Posted by: Mick at November 05, 2004 12:29 PM (VhRca)
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I like coma. Coma is good. You aren't a martyr (yet) if you're in a coma. You can't issue orders from a coma. Your successor isn't fully empowered if you're still alive, even if you're in a coma. There's confusion, when you're in a coma. You feel no pain, in a coma. So I don't have tp pray for the end of your suffering, or your coma.
Can we get the Smiths to rerecord their song?
"Arafat in a coma, I know, I know..."
Posted by: Elizabeth at November 05, 2004 01:45 PM (ehQxN)
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