Reichert Proposes 2011 Budget

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Mayor Robert Reichert presented his 2011 budget to the City Council last night, and it isn't bad.  It spends nearly half of all the money on fire and police, includes no new taxes and a pay scale for city employees.  I'm just wondering how the city can afford to spend more money in 2011 than it did in 2010.

 

The City Council last night voted to give the contract for the pools to the second lowest bidder rather than going with the local guy.  The local guy took to the Telegraph to defend himself, but it was too late.

 

Why is it necessary for the search for a new Bibb Schools Superintendent to include bringing in five specialized search firms?

 

This is more like it:  local musicians are going to try to raise money for the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

 

Charles Richardson claims that the county will have to raise taxes to balance its budget this year.

 

Macon and Bibb County have agreed to merge animal control.

 

Three thugs were indicted for a murder that happened in December.

 

The Macon Telegraph is wrong in calling the failure to read about 900 mammograms a "mistake."  It was not a mistake, it was laziness and incompetence.

 

The Houston County Board of Education decided that they will get rid of many of the part-time retired employees.  They also claim to have cut a lot of fat from the Central Office.

 

After watching the second part of the Fox5 report on Highway 96, I am even more convinced that this was nothing but an attempted hatchet job on Governor Perdue by Dale Russell.

 

After sending out an e-mail to alumni asking them to tell the General Assembly to preserve funding for Mercer University, President William Underwood is happy to send out another one pointing out that Mercer will actually get more tax dollars this year than they did last year.

 

The AARP and other welfare-baiting groups are asking Governor Perdue to veto the bill that eliminates the refundable portion of a tax credit for poor people.

 

Tuition at schools in the University System of Georgia will increase by up to 16% next year.  Thank goodness the students are already home, so we can be spared campus protests.

 

Former State Senator and current Republican candidate for Governor Eric Johnson wants students to be required to prove that they are legal citizens of the United States before they are allowed to attend Georgia taxpayer-funded colleges.  Makes perfect sense to me.

 

Don't believe this claim that taxes are lower this year.  The only reason people are paying fewer taxes is because fewer people are paying taxes.

 

Young people today trust the federal government.  If you notice, however, that is only because they have extreme feelings of hopeychangeyness.

 

Here's a shocker:  As people move left on the ideological spectrum, they also tend to know much less about economics.

 

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) thinks that climate science should be explained on a sixth-grade level.  That's still too advanced for most members of Congress, and for many of their constituents.

 

In a real emergency, a drifting satellite could threaten cable television programming.  We have to nuke the drifting satellite.

Confusion Over Highway 96

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A 14-year-old girl stabbed a boy in the arm on Sunday.

 

A woman swung her purse to prevent it from being stolen yesterday morning in Macon.

 

Shots were fired at two women and two children on Shurling Drive.

 

We have a description of the Tattnall Square Park shooter from Sunday night.

 

Three teens were arrested after a fight at the Georgia State Fair on Saturday.

 

A man was arrested after an apparent drive-by shooting last Thursday night.

 

In something we hear far too little of, a Lizella teen was given a life sentence for the third of the gas station murders.

 

The NAACP and SCLC are leading marches in Dublin because two black principles did not get their contracts renewed this year.  Note to the race-baiting groups:  they are not entitled to jobs.

 

Environmental groups have filed lawsuits to prevent construction on the new coal-fired power plant in Washington County.

 

The Perry Hospital says that about 900 mammograms were never read but the patients still received clean bills of health.  I smell a much-deserved lawsuit coming.

 

Students in the University System of Georgia will find out today how much their tuition will increase.  Expect the usual whining from college students over having to actually pay for a service they want.  Over 40% of those students won't graduate anyway.  Maybe the college students can blame the University System for allowing some criminal aliens to receive in-state tuition.

 

After reading the article and watching the Fox5 piece, I honestly do not see what the big deal is about the Highway 96 widening.

 

Congressman Tom Price changed his endorsement in the race for Governor from Nathan Deal to Karen Handel, which Deal blamed on the fact that Price has not been a lifelong Georgian.

 

Some Georgia schools are now installing "calming rooms" for kids who won't behave.  If you feel bad about cuts to education, stop.

 

The American Family Association wants Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, to answer the rumors about whether or not she is a lesbian.  They think that being a lesbian would disqualify her from the Supreme Court.

 

People are turning down jobs because they can make almost as much money on unemployment.  This is why we have Mexicans doing jobs like landscaping.

 

Scientists say that they have found sunken islands in the Caribbean.  I guess Hank Johnson was right.

Bibb Considering Tax Hike

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Macon Thugs Busy Again

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Bibb County deputies busted a meth lab in south Bibb County Tuesday night.  The mug shots are pretty much what you'd expect from people running a meth lab.

 

A woman was robbed and shot at an ATM drive-through on Bloomfield Road Wednesday night.

 

Macon police are investigating an alleged rape, but the local media won't let us help them find the suspects.

 

A man was attacked by the same robber twice in one night yesterday.  Here's your description of the suspect.

 

A lover's quarrel turned violent when a 17-year-old girl stabbed her 16-year-old boyfriend.

 

Macon Police tasered a man for trying to steal deodorant from the CVS on Pio Nono Avenue.

 

Houston County Schools Superintendent David Carpenter says that the schools will be facing more budget cuts because the state didn't raise taxes enough for his liking this year.

 

Some confidential records were stolen from the Warner Robins Redevelopment Agency offices, and it looks like it was somebody who knew what they were looking for.

 

Thanks in part to their protected class of senior citizens, Centerville's budget shortfall could be as large as a half million dollars.

 

The state has fallen in love with sales taxes because ultimately we are the ones who do the tax raising and the politicians come across looking innocent in the matter.

 

In continuing to prove that the government education system has nothing to do with education, seven school districts are suing the state over the Georgia Charter Schools Commission.  It's all about money.

 

Voters in Bartow County on Tuesday will have their Driver's License scanned to verify identification.

 

A 14-year-old student in Athens was arrested after he brought a sword to school.

 

United States Attorney General Eric Holder called Georgia's proposed new gun law allowing permit holders to carry in airports "very worrisome."

 

Those well-known homosexuals from the Westboro Baptist Church were upstaged by peacefully-protesting students.  Good for the students.

 

The South is home to more momma's boys than any other part of the country.

 

Does the United States Constitution really need a warning label?

Back On The Air!

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The Bibb County Commission is pushing forward with a July SPLOST vote.  I think if Charles Richardson could vote for it today he would.

 

The Twiggs County Sheriff's Office has released a composite sketch of a guy who broke into a woman's home and stabbed her Monday morning.  It would be nice if Macon and Bibb County would do that from time to time.

 

Students at Hawkinsville High School responsible for the senior prank gone bad face felony charges.

 

Two men have been charged with a string of church burglaries in Washington County.  There has to be a special place in hell for people who steal from churches.

 

A Bibb County first grader was suspended after a BB gun was found in his backpack.

 

The Macon Police Department had its accreditation renewed.  Now if only they were able to get a hold on the crime in the city.

 

In the "Why are we spending taxpayer money on that?" file, the Booker T. Washington Community Center, which was taken over by the city last year, still can't pay its bills.  Macon City Council can't decide who they want to manage the city's money-losing pools.  Bibb County is working to crack down on abandoned homes by demolishing many of them.

 

Tommy Stalnaker, who is running unopposed for Houston County Commission Chairman, understands that people feel that they are already being taxed enough.  Good for him.

 

White County, in North Georgia, recently started allowing alcohol to be sold at restaurants and stores.  It turned out to be a very lucrative revenue source.

 

A kid pulled a gun on a school bus in Lafayette after being hit by a Twinkie.

 

Only 7,400 "Super Speeder" tickets have been given out so far this year.  If this is true, it's a big problem for the state.

 

Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, in an attempt to use his current office to try to become Governor, is investigating Blue Cross Blue Shield and their parent company for rate increases.

 

The girl with whom Ray McBerry had an inappropriate relationship is finally going public with her story.

 

In response to the McBerry issue, Karen Handel is refusing to participate in any debates in which McBerry is participating.  She's already gotten her wish with one this weekend, although McBerry is threatening the organizer of the event until he gets his way.  Handel may miss the big Atlanta Press Club debate as a result of her principled stand.

 

Thurbert Baker released a jobs plan yesterday, and he still can only get second billing to Roy Barnes releasing his tax returns.

 

The wailing and gnashing of teeth over teachers losing their jobs continues as the state's second largest teachers' group formally opposed Georgia's attempt to get Race To The Top federal funds because it would require more teacher accountability.  Remember, the government education system does not exist to educate; it exists to create jobs for teachers and bureaucrats and votes for politicians.

 

A cake to honor Braves manager Bobby Cox in Washington, DC had a very unfortunate and inappropriate misspelling of his name.

 

There are more blacks running for Congress as Republicans this year than any year since Reconstruction.

 

A chef in China died after his friends put an eel up his rectum while he was passed out drunk.  The eel ate his bowels.

 

Lindsay Lohan is going to play a porn star in a movie.  No, it is not a porn movie.  Not that I'd be surprised by that either.

Austin Scott to Challenge Marshall

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Austin Scott made it official yesterday.  He will be challenging Jim Marshall.  Now the other candidates need to get out of the way.

 

A man was attacked with a baseball bat at his home Wednesday night.  Another man was shot in the thigh on his own front porch early yesterday morning.  Police have also arrested somebody for arson after the home of a murder suspect caught fire down last week.  In Warner Robins, shots were fired at the same home on Suzanne Drive for the second time in a week.

 

The contract for the G-RAMP environmental assessment should be ready soon.  Middle Georgia taxpayers should hope that they find an endangered worm or something.

 

The legislature passed two bills to ban texting while driving.  California's experience has been that not only is a ban nearly impossible to enforce, it also does not keep people from doing it.

 

The legislature passed a lot of bills yesterday, including a ballot referendum on an increased car tag fee for trauma funding.

 

The state budget includes funding for the arts, for the College Football Hall of Fame, and to fund the Sports and Music Halls of Fame for another year.

 

Poor people are losing their welfare check disguised as a tax credit.

 

The legislature did pass a bill to fix the zero tolerance discipline policies in the state's government schools.

 

Drivers will be allowed to keep road kill under a bill that passed the legislature yesterday.

 

While school districts prepare to cut their budgets even further, the Macon Telegraph's Charles Richardson is upset that school superintendents didn't throw public temper tantrums like the starving artists to encourage the state to raise taxes for education.

 

States' rights Republican candidate for Governor Ray McBerry had sex with a 16-year-old girl in 2002.  That's reason enough for me to be finished with him.

 

The companies doing work at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport don't have a problem with hiring criminal aliens to do work funded with tax dollars.

 

Al Gore now has an ocean-view villa in which to enjoy the money he has made scaring everybody about rising sea levels from global warming.  Do you need any more proof that he's full of it?

 

Here's another one of those stories showing how much more the people whose paychecks you're forced to fund make more money than you do.

 

The Mistake thinks that there should be a maximum wage that people are allowed to earn.  I just wonder whether he would apply this standard to athletes, musicians, and authors like himself.

No Consolidation Vote This Year

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The Georgia State Fair starts today in Central City Park.

 

State Senator Robert Brown has killed the idea of a consolidation vote happening this year, and he doesn't care what the public thinks about it.  He wants to see a restructuring plan that would be designed for racial tension.

 

Mayor Robert Reichert has included a pay scale for city employees in his fiscal year 2011 budget.  This is a step in the right direction for fighting the crime problem.

 

The woman arrested last month for giving oral sex to a Macon police officer before he arrested her is planning to sue the city over the incident.  It doesn't help that the police officer is still at work.

 

A man was stabbed in a fight Sunday night after going to a bootleg house to buy beer.  That's another criminal act that could have been avoided without prohibition.

 

A man was robbed and carjacked at gunpoint Monday night and yet again 13 WMAZ refused to give a description of the thugs who did it.  There were also two armed robberies Tuesday evening at the Eisenhower Crossing shopping center, but no description of those suspects either.

 

Macon is getting a pilot program meant to stop criminals from turning back to crime after getting out of prison.

 

Bibb County Sheriff's Deputies have issued a warrant for the arrest of a woman for leaving her children in a car while she went shopping.

 

The Houston County Board of Education voted to make more budget cuts yesterday, but they couldn't bring themselves to cut retired part-time employees.

 

The state budget is finished.  No word yet on what they have done with regards to funding for the Sports and Music Halls of Fame.

 

The legislature will now allow government schools to accept private donations for field trips.

 

The attempt to ban texting while driving could prove to be a lawyer's best friend.

 

How screwy is this whole debate over carrying guns in a bar?  Pretty screwy considering the attitudes towards alcohol in the General Assembly.

 

Austin Scott may drop out of the race for Governor to challenge Jim Marshall instead.  This would be a very wise move.

 

A third of married women say that their pet listens better than their husband.

 

A woman bit a man for calling her fat.

What, No Descriptions?

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The cancer that is crime in Macon/Bibb County continues to run rampant.  The Mr. Pizza on Hartley Bridge Road was robbed by three thugs yesterday morning, and this time the Macon Telegraph decided to give us a description of the suspects.  Shots were fired at a vehicle entering an apartment complex yesterday morning, and a woman robbed a couple who were watching TV in their own apartment.  No descriptions of the perps in these.

 

While the streets of Macon are rotting, the Gang of Fifteen is busy considering spending the money for a new marquee for the Centreplex and trying to have affirmative action for city contracts.

 

The principal at Rutland High School is leaving at the end of the school year.  She says it's unrelated to the investigation into student misconduct on a field trip in February.

 

New-age shop owner Courtney Bibb has settled her lawsuit with the City of Centerville, and she will be allowed to do business.  Good for her.

 

The legislature was busy yesterday.  Travis Fain has a rundown of just a few of the bills that passed, including the bill to crack down on massage parlors.  I especially love the quote from Rep. Tony Sellier in this AJC piece.

 

At least now we'll be able to identify felons on their driver's licenses.

 

The state legislature was not able to agree on a bill to require student performance be included as part of teachers' job evaluations.

 

The state House passed a bill to eliminate the seat belt exemption for pickup trucks.

 

Watch your wallets.  There may be another "fee" increase coming tomorrow from the General Assembly.

 

Georgia's roads rank as the best in the country.  Why, again, do we need a new tax for more roads?

 

The state House voted unanimously last night to sell the property of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame that never was.  How long before they're doing the same thing with some properties in Macon?

 

Nathan Deal says he would support implementing the same style immigration law they have in Arizona if he is the next Governor.

 

Over 70% of Americans are opposed to the censoring of Muhammad in South Park by Comedy Central.

 

Will C-SPAN face fines from the FCC for airing the Goldman Sachs lynch mob yesterday?

 

Two women attacked a man for not holding a door for them.  The women's names are included in the story as a public service announcement.

Victory for Warner Robins

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In a victory for the city, the Warner Robins City Council voted down the proposed FoodMax location for the Law Enforcement Center, instead deciding to start over.  Chuckie is pretending that he's not very upset about it yet.

 

The Macon Thugs were out in force on Sunday, with an attempted carjacking at a stoplight and a robbery in the parking lot of the Macon Mall.

 

There were 394 complaints filed against Macon Police last year, two-thirds of them being internal complaints.

 

Samples from the burned house of that old murderer are being sent to the GBI.  All signs point to arson.

 

The Houston County School System is detailing how they are going to make staff cuts in response to budget shortfalls.  Have they even considered not opening the new Veterans High School to save money?

 

The child who died after being left in a car seat in Forsyth had been left all day while his mother was working at Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary School.

 

There appears to be a new youth movement developing within the Republican Party.

 

Ray Boyd, who appears to be certifiably nuts, will run for Governor as an independent if he can get the necessary 50,000 signatures after refusing to sign the oath of allegiance to the Republican Party.

 

The state House is going to vote today on a proposal to include student performance as part of a teacher's evaluation.

 

A DUI chase in Gwinnett County led police directly to the driver's marijuana grow house.

 

The Obama Administration knew that health insurance premiums would go up under ObamaCare before the House voted on the bill, but hid that information so as not to influence the vote.

 

The Mistake doesn't want white men to turn out to vote this year.

 

More Americans living overseas are giving up their citizenship over taxes and banking regulations.

 

Economists say that the stimulus didn't work.

 

What happens when a bunch of Stanford education professors create a model school to show everybody else how education is properly done?  It becomes one of the lowest-achieving schools in the state.

 

If you don't see a problem with this, please for the love of God do not vote.

 

The Boobquake yesterday didn't seem to have any effect on the Earth.  Science 1, Radical Muslims 0.

 

Apparently people who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not.

Saxby Didn't Learn His Lesson

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Experts told the Macon Telegraph that there is human trafficking going on in Macon.  It needs to be stopped, but the current attempts to regulate massage parlors will do nothing to stop it or prostitution.

 

A Macon murder suspect's home caught fire Saturday, shortly after his victim died.

 

Warner Robins City Attorney Jim Elliott didn't even follow city rules when he destroyed those "secret files" found in the office of former Mayor Donald Walker.  Why is this guy still City Attorney?

 

The Warner Robins City Council is going to meet today about the Law Enforcement Center.  They couldn't meet Friday because they couldn't get enough members of Council to show up.

 

An 18-month-old child is dead in Monroe County after being left in a car seat for too long.

 

Jackson is going to get a distillery.  Too bad Jackson is in a dry county.

 

The AJC shines some light on what happened the night Ben Roethlisberger was accused of rape in Milledgeville.  The accuser's story looks fishy.

 

Over a quarter of the funds raised by John "The Walking Ethics Complaint" Oxendine come from the people in industries that his office regulates.  Can you say "shakedown artist?"

 

Some members of the state legislature are retiring due to low pay, the long sessions, and the bad economy.  Good riddance.

 

In a new poll Johnny Isakson leads Michael Thurmond 51%-35%.

 

Travis Fain has the details on that transportation funding bill that passed last week.  Here's the process for any of the taxes or funding to actually occur.

 

Georgia Right To Life wants Georgia to be the state to get sucked into an abortion lawsuit to challenge Roe v. Wade.

 

A man was stabbed and a woman was shot over an argument about a parking space.

 

Florida's Charlie Crist is considering dropping out of the Republican Primary to run for the United States Senate as an independent.  Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized Crist and urged him to either stay in the Republican primary or drop out of the race.  Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss says that Cheney's comments were "probably not" helpful for the GOP.  A certain Sen. Chambliss didn't learn his lesson in 2008.

 

The 2010 Ford Mustang emits less pollution while driving than the 1970 Mustang did while sitting still.

 

In response to the intimidation of "South Park," May 20 is going to be "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day!"

 

Since a radical Muslim cleric has decreed that cleavage causes earthquakes, today is "Boobquake," in which over 150,000 women have already agreed to show their cleavage for science to test the theory.

 

A Muslim cleric wants to gather 1,000,000 signatures to stop a law meant to ban child brides.  The religion of the pedophile prophet is living up to its founding.

 

Left-wing nutcase "intellectual" Noam Chomsky says that the Tea Parties persecute Latinos and blacks the same way the Nazis did to the Jews.

Anything Goes Friday On WMAC!

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There will be a special Warner Robins City Council meeting at 2:00 this afternoon to discuss the law enforcement complex.  Just as a reminder of why the building is needed on the north side of Warner Robins, a man robbed a Citgo at gunpoint and about eight gunshots were fired at a house yesterday in north Warner Robins.  The law enforcement presence is needed where the crimes are being committed.

 

Courtney Bibb, that hippie who owns the new-age shop that Centerville has been trying to shut down, will have her day in court on Tuesday.

 

Unemployment dropped last month in both Macon and Warner Robins.

 

The state legislature has agreed to allow bigger class sizes, but only for the next three years.  Governor Perdue is also pushing for a statewide teacher evaluation system in an attempt to get more federal money.

 

Attorney General Thurbert Baker will not file a lawsuit against the Justice Department over their refusal to accept the state's voter ID law.  Baker is really just using his position as AG as a political football for his campaign for Governor.

 

A watered-down version of the gun bill passed a House committee yesterday.

 

While the state is still paying $10 million for the College Football Hall of Fame, plus operating expenses for the Sports and Music Halls and money for the Georgia Arts Council and a new $6.5 million health and human sciences building at Georgia Southwestern University, the court system is seeing a growing backlog of cases due to budget cuts.

 

The Republicans are upset over the fact that SEC staffers surfed porn on government computers.  I say that beats having them actually "working" and coming up with phony lawsuits meant to create support for Obama's new desired financial regulations.

 

Comedy Central censored even the mention of Muhammad's name in this week's episode of "South Park."

No Macon-Bibb Consolidation Vote

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The Macon Transit Authority has begun phasing in new, smaller buses for its fleet.  These will still probably be mostly empty, but it won't be quite as obvious.

 

An Ingram-Pye Elementary student was suspended for bringing a toy gun to school.

 

It looks more and more like there will not be a vote on consolidation in Macon and Bibb County.

 

The Houston County Board of Education made some budget cuts yesterday.  They whined about how horrible it was, but finally they did it.  I still think they will increase taxes this year.

 

Ben Roethlisberger will be suspended for 6 games this season by the NFL for his personal conduct.

 

The General Assembly passed a watered-down joke of an ethics bill yesterday, but now they can say that they did something.

 

Out of nowhere yesterday, both houses of the General Assembly passed a transportation bill that would allow for regional sales taxes to be imposed to pay for transportation projects.

 

Attorney General Thurbert Baker questions the legality of the package of tax breaks and increases that the legislature passed last week.

 

The state Senate passed the budget yesterday.  It does include funding for the Halls of Fame in Macon and for the Georgia Arts Council.  It does not include one welfare check that the state has been sending low-income residents, which really bothers the redistributionists at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.

                                                           

Here's a list of some of the other stuff that passed the House or the Senate yesterday.

 

State Rep. Mark Hatfield (R-Waycross) has gone legislative birther, introducing a bill that would require any candidate running for President in Georgia to show documentation of their eligibility to serve as President.  Meanwhile, Hawaii is about to pass a bill telling birthers to leave them alone.

 

Will Austin Scott drop out of the race for Governor and run for Lieutenant Governor instead?

 

Some Henry County parents are not happy about rapper T.I. making a visit to their child's middle school as part of his community service.

 

Environmentalists are already trying to scare people about the new nuclear reactors set to be built outside Augusta.

 

The group of closeted homosexuals who call themselves the Westboro Baptist Church are coming to Atlanta next month.

 

Those Hitler parodies are being pulled off of YouTube.

General Assembly Proves Me Right

I will be on News/Talk 940 WMAC 6-9am for the rest of the week.  You can also listen online at www.wmac-am.com.  The phone number is (478) 742-0940.

 

The Macon City Council is warning that the city's swimming pools may not open this year.  Horror of horrors!

 

Macon and Bibb County can't even agree on who is going to pay for a study on double taxation on service delivery.  They might as well just save us a lot of time and money and go on Judge Judy.

 

The funding for the Georgia Music and Sports Halls of Fame was restored in the Senate's budget yesterday.

 

Two teenagers led Macon police on a mo-ped chase yesterday.

 

The bill in the state legislature designed to crack down on the massage parlors passed a House committee yesterday, as the Macon City Council on Monday had a public hearing on an ordinance designed to do the same thing.  The problem is that these measures will not work, and even Charles Richardson says so.

 

GCSU went on lockdown yesterday and two men were arrested over a knife incident on campus.  Remember, college campuses are victim zones, and they are kept that way by the administrators.  That could change if a concealed-carry bill passes the state legislature.

 

The parasites are complaining about the Milledgeville Housing Authority cutting down a few trees.  The story also provides a bonus look into the quality of bureaucrats in Milledgeville!

 

Warner Robins Mayor Chuck "C. Jack" Shaheen has drawn up a Nixonian enemies list.  He even told one member of City Council that he needs to "support your mayor."  E-mails are also showing that Shaheen is publicly lying to harm his political enemies.

 

The Warner Robins City Council also delayed any action on the Law Enforcement Center, but that didn't keep it from coming up in Monday night's meeting.

 

Everybody is trying to make sure that their favored spending is not cut by the state legislature:

 

The Senate Appropriations Committee restored the funding (which I told you they would do last week) for the Georgia Council for the Arts after protests on Monday against cutting the funding.

 

Supporters of MARTA and MARTA itself got involved in publicly lobbying and marching for more money.  Of course, that might be a harder sell after a MARTA driver was caught urinating in the middle of a public street.

 

Lobbying is intense as the session winds down and every lobbyist tries to make sure that their funding is not cut.  Of course, that is made easier by the fact that there has been little movement on an ethics package until now.

 

The Georgia Voter ID law has been upheld again by a Fulton County Judge.

 

Fundamentalist Muslims have threatened the creators of South Park over their depiction of Mohammed, Muslims' pedophile prophet.  This is the same religion that came up with the theory that promiscuous women cause earthquakes.

 

A surgeon in Britain cut off a man's testicle by mistake because he was taking the same medicine that he had used to sedate the patient.

 

Face cream made from breast milk could cure teenage acne.

Bibb BOE To Take Out Loan, Cut Teachers

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The Macon City Council will have a public hearing on Monday regarding the massage parlors and prostitution.  The Macon Telegraph has an op-ed piece today supporting the ordinance to crack down on the parlors.

 

The Bibb County Board of Education approved taking out a $25 million loan to cover their bills while they wait on property tax revenue to come in.  The Telegraph's Charles Richardson already seems to be asking for a tax hike as he complains about cuts to education.  Of course, the federal government is already considering another education bailout.

 

At last night's Warner Robins City Council special meeting the members of council who are stuck on stupid (and the Mayor, for whom that is a permanent condition) patted themselves on the backs for trying to save taxpayer dollars by building the LEC on Russell Parkway.  The City's Chief Financial Officer also exaggerated the cost of building the originally planned building.  As for the question as to whether or not city residents will be allowed to vote on the matter, don't count on it.

 

Warner Robins and Houston County are getting nearly $900,000 in federal "stimulus" funds to renovate government housing.

 

There appears to have been a good turnout for the Dublin Tea Party yesterday.

 

According to the GBI report, Ben Roethlisberger forced a Milledgeville woman to have sex with him.  If this is true, why are they not pressing charges against him?

 

The State Board of Regents is going to delay setting tuition rates until May because they have to wait for the budget to know how much students will actually have to pay for their own education.

 

The last member of the former Glenn Richardson Republican leadership team will not be running for re-election this year.

 

The state could lose nearly $900,000 in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts if they eliminate the Georgia Council for the Arts.  Knowing the Republican leadership in Atlanta, they will probably change their minds about this now.

 

Best wishes to Travis Fain, who will be leaving the Macon Telegraph and getting married.

 

Weekly jobless claims were up last week.  In Georgia, the unemployment rate is at a record high.  The foreclosure rate also jumped 16 percent in the first quarter.

 

Global warming alarmist scientists are worried because they can't find all of the heat that they think exists in the oceans.  Maybe that's because it doesn't exist.

 

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez thought that Iceland would be too cold to have a volcano.

 

Fixing a problem that didn't really exist, President Obama ordered hospital visitation rights for gays and lesbians.

 

Obama's new strategy for space is to aim for asteroids.  Apparently he's seen that crappy "Armageddon" movie too many times.

 

Iran could build a nuclear weapon in a year.  Do you feel safer with the Messiah yet?

 

The Supreme Court wants more money for security.

 

An assisted-living community in New Jersey is using Big Brother to keep an eye on residents.  In addition to watching for falls, the sensors can even tell if somebody's diabetes is changing or diagnose a urinary tract infection.