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Editorials February 3, 2010  RSS feed
Mumbles
Short end of the stick
     I guess Obama is hoping the American people are over the “sticker shock” that is coming with his administration. How else could he have the audacity to propose the $3.8 trillion budget this week that includes a $1.56 trillion deficit.
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What’s happened to common sense?
Other Voices
     With all due apologies to anyone this column may resemble, we’ve become a nation of idiots. I don’t think I’m being too harsh.
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All That’s Fit to Print
Tacky from top to bottom
     So I heard on the news last night that Nancy Pelosi’s trips home over the last two years have cost $2 million for the plane rides and another $100,000 for food. I don’t know what she’s eating on that plane, but I don’t think she’s getting her, no, our money’s worth.
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Easy rider with training wheels
     A few weeks ago my granddaughter, Bella Ruth McRae, celebrated her third birthday. A swell party was thrown and everyone who mattered in Bella’s life was there. All came bearing gifts.
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LETTERS
I’m blessed to be alive
     Dear editor: I was involved in the accident at the intersection of Hwy. 84 and Spooner Quarter Road early Wednesday morning, Jan. 27, 2010. Blinded by the sun, I pulled out in front of a tractor-trailer.
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Capital Impact
We’re waving goodbye to the future
     When Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stopped in Atlanta last September, he was asked about Georgia’s prospects for getting some of the $8 billion in federal stimulus funds being allocated for a network of high-speed passenger rail lines
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Other Voices
A tale of bias and the Washington mentality
     If you want to hear a tale of being beaten up by the Democratic National Party for just delivering an unbiased report, read on. This will tell you more about how Washington works, and about its preconceived biases, than anything you’ll come across for a while.
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From our Files
Ellis opens barber shop
     10 YEARS AGO Feb. 2, 2000 MR. AND Mrs. Joseph Thomas Owen of Blakely announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Amanda Michelle, to William Wesley Brewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray Brewer of Jackson, Tenn.
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