I snapped the photo to the right in the CLOB last week. Kindness is symbolically being scrapped. C’mon – it’s a little funny.
Cold blast on the way, but little ice for metro Atlanta. High in 50s today but dropping to 20s tonight.
Georgia
- Our own Mike Hassinger holds out on us. PP only gets rants and gossip-y videos out of him. AJC gets the real writing. Public money for privately-owned Falcons.
- I think this is pretty manufactured, but Congressman Broun is in multiple articles this morning about his comments that Obama Upholds a Soviet Constitution.
- Road contractors shower governor with campaign donations
- Stem cell foe named chair of science panel. Rep Seltzler and I disagree on multiple social issues. He is con.serv.a.tive. We served together on a Resolution Committee and have had opportunities to discuss our views multiple times. Politics aside – he is one of the most direct and straightforward communicators I’ve ever talked to. Einstein said, “”If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” He’ll do well leading any committee, but yeah – I don’t foresee him going against his conscience. We could have worse problems.
- Manufacturing Increasing In Georgia
- Lowe’s hiring 54,000 workers for spring – 9,000 will be permanent
- Metro area poised to grow with mobile technology boom
- South Georgia: State cutting funding for farming visa workers. The Georgia Farm Bureau, the state’s largest lobbying group for growers, does not intend to fight the cuts.”We still have a problem with getting labor and that continues to be a problem,” he said. “And I don’t know how we can have a state solution to this. We need a federal solution.”
- Warner Robins: Sweep at Robins finds objectionable workplace items. Summary: Porn.
- Fayette County: Georgia dads press lawmakers to end synthetic pot trade. Dear Dads, how much time are you spending with your kids instead of in the office or in front of the tv? It’s not a popular point to make, but hey – kids usually don’t smoke dope in front of their parents.
- Cobb: Commissioner Lee, even our newest Dem Commish Lisa Cupid is declining a pay hike. WHY are you undecided??
- A summary of Cobb’s development news. ”While the Metro Atlanta region was creating some 30,000 new jobs during 2011, about one in three of these was locating to Cobb County.” Talenti Gelato is DE.LIC.IOUS and has moved its primary production headquarters to the Marietta Industrial Park. The Blood Orange is good, but the Mango is my favorite.
- Cobb Fun Fact: There are more than 42,000 students enrolled in Cobb institutions, and their presence has helped make Cobb the best-educated county in the nation, with almost 45 percent of local residents holding a bachelor’s degree. Holla.
- The Bibb County school board is considering a buyout offer from Superintendent Romain Dallemand. The board has scheduled a called meeting for 4 p.m. Thursday. The only item on the meeting agenda is listed as “executive session — personnel matters/future acquisition property/pending litigation.”
- Old news, but I’ll post it. Did I somehow miss this video of Barrow talking about his grandfather stopping a lynchin’ and then dramatically clicking a rifle? ”These are my guns now and ain’t nobody gonna take’em away.”
Inter/national
- Pentagon Lifting Ban on Women in Combat. I do not ever want to willingly be in a combat zone. Male, female, gay, straight - God Bless those who willingly want to protect American citizens by putting their life in danger. Thank you.
- Ri.dic.u.lous. Two NJ men sue Subway and claim foot-long sandwiches are 1/2″ too short. Women everywhere laugh and think “who knew you could sue for that?”
- Video: Paul Ryan – The Moral Obligation To Budget Responsibly. This isn’t a Republican or Democrat thing. This is a math thing.
- North Korea to carry out third nuclear test ‘aimed at US’
- 2013 Israeli Parliamentary Elections: More the Same in a Totally New Game (H/T xdog)
- Video: Priorities. Prince Harry has them.
Whatevs
- Dearest Coca-Cola, I beg of you to make a Dasani PR campaign like this. It would pair beautifully with your anti-obesity campaign.
- In polar opposite fashion – Snoop Dogg makes a Pocket Like Its Hot video. SMH….Hottt Pockets!
- Braves make offer for Arizona’s Upton
- Anthony Bourdain’s 3 days in Atlanta. Summary: he complains about traffic and then ends up at the Clermont.
- Haawt. Evan Longoria saves reporter. The video is a year old, but I saw it for the first time this week.
- Styles that take off 10 Years. Ladies, hemlines that hit below the bottom knob of your knee are unflattering on absolutely everyone. Tee-length is worse and gives you both fat calves and shortened stature. Pay a tailor $20 to cut two inches off your favorite suits so that they hit just above the middle of your patella. I use Gill’s Alterations in the Shops Around Lenox. A bonus is that any medium-priced suit looks expensive when tailored.
- Guilty. It’s Time for a “Slow Conversation” Movement. I love social media. And like a smothering relationship, sometimes you need a breather to not lose yourself; to stay interesting and do something worth talking about; to wear high heels versus sweatpants for lack of a better description. A tandem issue to being a Social Media Zombie is being a Multi-tasking Shuffler. Let’s go back to being monotaskers and knowing that something is done.
- Tim Ferris is one of my favorite dorks. 11 Tricks for Perfect Sleep. Highlights: 67-70 deg air temp in a half military crawl position produces the fastest time to sleep. That experiment stinks for women I guess – if you sleep facedown it causes your face to wrinkle pre-maturely, and exactly which woman would sleep in a 68 deg house??
Fun Event Announcement. I will likely forget about this, but if you’re into old British cars or Beatles tribute bands, there’s a free event in Alpharetta on Feb 23 you might want to check out.
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Boy…this is almost like aggregation;)
1) What’s wrong with a 68 degree house?
2) CNN news is kind of Ga-related right? The Daily Show slams CNN for cutting investigative journalism division.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-14-2013/investigating-investigative-journalism?xrs=share_twitter
You may not watch CNN or care, but that’s still a depressing commentary on current journalism and where we place our priorities as a society. Meanwhile, Honey Boo Boo, the Human Thumb, and Co just moved into a new McMansion.
Leave no story un-linked!
FWIW I’ve left the heat off in my house this week. Came in yesterday, it felt warm, checked thermostat said it was 54. I did not complain.
@Bridget:
“Dear Dads, how much time are you spending with your kids instead of in the office or in front of the tv? It’s not a popular point to make …”
Actually such points get made all the time. And I await similar comments the next time there is a Million Moms March. Or the next Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaign.
Oh yeah. Forgot about the gun grabbers group Mothers Against Gun Violence. https://www.facebook.com/MothersAgainstGunViolence
(Blame the guns and not illegitimacy when statistics show that the vast majority of violent criminals were born out of wedlock. There’s something that you won’t hear Barack Obama – or Mitt Romney for that matter – talk about on Mother’s Day.)
Atlanta_advocate, I have a hunch that you dont know about the specifics of either of these two cases or Chase’s law…
Panetta approves of women in combat? What a d****bag! Political correctness is killling this country. Don’t know about you but I protect and try to keep the women in my life out of harm’s way.
It’s the natural thing to do for men. Ready for the stereotypes? because here they come: We carry their books home from school. We open doors for them We put out jackets on them when they are cold. We help them cross the street. We love them. We’re sweet to them. We hope against hope that they’ll check the box ‘yes’ on the note we pass them in junior high asking “Do you like me?” They are truly our life’s treasure. Men have been protecting women since Cro-Magnon man put a newly tanned bear-hide coat on his mate.
They are the glue that keeps a family together. They keep we men from acting like immature fools. There is a reason that as a 51 year old man that I sit up a little straighter when being corrected by my 85 year old Momma. Momma is alwayssssssssssssssssss right.
Our wanting to protect women is probably in a man’s gene sequence somewhere. While scientists are looking for the gene that causes Alhzheimers or some other malady, I hope they take a look and find that part of the spiral DNA ladder that makes men naturally want to protect women. I swear to you it’s there.
Now some politically correct a$$hole wants to put them in harm’s way to be killed, maimed or brutalized in other unspeakable ways? What kind of country are we that we want our women fighting on out battle fields? Anybody that truly wants that is f***ed up beyond repair.
And to those who will call my views “out of date” or “old fashioned”, I’m proudly guilty as charged.
Not sure if serious…
“Anybody that truly wants that is f***ed up beyond repair.”
Live and let live…or the opposite in this case, Mr. Cro-Magnon. Shall we all remain secretaries? THAT’s F’d up.
The men I date have the qualities you describe. The men I work with do not (and should not) offer me their jacket.
And it’s not DNA – it’s a hormone. Oxytocin. The love hormone. The protective nature is connected to people you love. Men for women, women for children, and even women for men or any other combination – there are multiple people (both male and female) I would take a bullet for…because I love them.
For a woman to love her country enough that she would take a bullet for someone she’s never met – let her.
Hey Brig, did I say that you should all be secretaries? Nope. Retract your claws and appreciate a man who wants to protect you from harm at all costs. I don’t want you taking a bullet.
And why don’t them men you work with have that quality? I’m sorry for them.
Bridg, dear, let’s go have a drink and talk about how very apt and fresh it is, as assertive women, to be told something about our claws. lolz
That’s a good idea in theory, but hopefully there will be a man there to pick up the tab – Lord knows I get confused when trying to use my own debit card. A mani/pedi spa date is probably more appropriate for our claws anyway.
Read any one of these 800+ reviews for the Bic Cristal for Her Pen. Hilarious.
http://www.amazon.com/BIC-Cristal-1-0mm-Black-MSLP16-Blk/dp/B004F9QBE6
“I tried using a man’s pen (as soon as my husband showed me how to work one) but I found that when I tried to write out my recipes or my diary, the pens just didn’t have staying power. I even tried using a mechanical pencil once, but I was so confused I just sat in the kitchen and cried, and cried until my husband finally bought me something pretty. Now, finally, with Bic for her I can complete writing out my menstrual calendar without it ‘running out of ink’. Thanks Bic!”
Now there’s a reasonable suggestion… what are you doing out of the kitchen anyways?
lol!
Brig, is that a real ad on Amazon? Funny as hell!
It’s a review. I thought this one was funnier:
“BUYER BEWARE These pens do not, as the packaging infers, have any vibration settings. – Adriana”
Very, very few who have personal experience in ground combat would jeopardize their comrades by supporting this concept.
I take it more of a recognition that the nature of armed conflict has changed. There aren’t really “front lines” and “combat roles” any more. Every soldier in a conflict zone is on the front line and in a combat role, even if they’re nominally in a supporting position. Asymmetrical warfare means everyone is a target, male or female. The new policy allowing female soldiers to enter formal combat roles and go on combat patrols seems like a normal evolution of an army confronting the changing war rather than a paean to political correctness.
Last I checked, nobody is forcing women into the military. If a woman *wants* to serve on the front lines (my mind flashes back to the movie GI Jane) then why should we tell her no?
Ed, 1000000000% serious.
Hey, Ed. The next time you hear a strange noise in the house at 3am, send your wife to investigate while you hide in the closet. She’ll love you for it.
So much fail. So little a post.
There’s a name that I have for the type of situation that you describe of particularly strange (and unwanted) noises in the house at 3am (you know, the kind that break into your house): TARGET PRACTICE!
If I’m traveling on business, should I tell my wife to hide in the closet and wait for a police *man* to show up to protect her or should she just grab one of the guns and protect herself?
Well, David, because you are a caring “man”, I’m sure you’ve taught her or had her trained to handle the weapon in your absence. I’m sure your wife could take care of the task at hand.
Go on…
You’re right, Ed about the ‘go on.’ This is great watching the responses!!!
“Had her trained”….@$$
Bridget..you’re hysterically funnny. “Had her trained” simply means that maybe ol David enrolled her in a gun safety course and now, she can handle the old pistola better than David himself. How am I an ass? Please re-read my posting. There is nothing but love and respect there for the females in our society. I swear I can’t see or understand you’re venom. It’s fun to watch, however!
Because of course being a woman she’s not capable of enrolling in a gun safety course by herself, right?
God, this is great!! I had no clue my response would bring out all of this indignation!! Let’s see. David…I’m sure your wife has the ability to use her cell and call the local NRA trainer and arrange her very, own gun-safety course. Let me re-read this for political correctness…Nothing I can see as totally horrible in this sentence. Ok, let’s hit the ‘send’ button….
Then why use the phrase “maybe ol David enrolled her in a gun safety course”? She’s more than capable of using Google to find the closest gun range / store and calling them up on her very own little cell phone to ask them about a gun safety course. (Yes, I even let her have her very own phone!
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You’re offended that I suggested that you took the initiative in this case to enroll her, or even both of you, in a safety course? The part that pisses you off is that I suggested that you made the call to find the trainer. Sounds like a helpful gesture on your part if that did, in fact, happen. God, this site needs it own psychiatrist!!! Can Charlie take up a collection for one?
I never said I was offended or pissed off about anything you’ve said here. Just providing an alternate point of view. My wife and I consider ourselves equals in our relationship, whereas your protectionist view sounds (even if unintentionally) subservient.
David, you aren’t gonna be mad at ol Noway if I asked you if you held the door open for her at the restaurant the last time yall went out are you? Or or or or or, helped her carry in the groceries from Publix? LMFAO!
Hey Bridget, I’ll be you were pissed when Brent Musburger calle the Alabama quarterback’s girlfriend “lovely!!” To quote Col. Kurtz from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, “the horror, the horror…” LOL!
FWIW I was because I didn’t want to hear the creepy ramblings of an old dude during a football game.
Well, Ed, we’re all sorry you were offended. Isn’t is strange that you were offended when the woman who was the subject of those “creepy” comments told reporters the next day that she wasn’t offended at all and that most women would feel “flattered.” Is your framed photo of Alan Alda personally autographed?
For realz. My wife’s “had me trained” on myriad topics and if gathered around the dining room table and such a comment was made about said training, I promise you’d laugh at the comment.
I probably would laugh, but your wife training you to do things she wants you to do is a bit different than a husband enrolling a wife in a course in something for her in a tone that he’s doing it because she’s unable to. My wife is still working on training me to take out the trash and do the dishes.
You need remedial classes if that’s all you’re trained to do! You aren’t digging holes for plants (annuals, I might add)? Keeping her car washed? Tilling her garden?
Nope!
Actually, I’m the plant guy around the farm. She takes care of the horses, I plant the fruit trees and the garden and what not. But moreso in a self-sufficiency kind of way than a “hey, that’s pretty” kind of way. There’s not much that gets planted for looks around here. From blueberry bushes to apple trees, I look for things that either will provide food or that I can eventually make money on somehow. (Looking at propagating / growing out some Japanese maples for instance.)
As for the car… she drives a farm truck… the rain takes care of that chore for us.
Dude, you’re trained.
I’d disagree. I wouldn’t call myself a radical “prepper” per-se (like on the tv show Doomsday Preppers), but I do read Survivalist Boards and just overall tend to lean towards a self-sufficiency type lifestyle. Wanting to be self-sufficient has nothing to do with being trained. But I did grow up in Boy Scouts where the motto was “Be Prepared”.
My wife is probably more similar to Bridget than the fragile Georgia peach / southern belle you have in mind. She’s a Mechanical Engineer, which is a field that is mostly men. She deals with contractors on construction and job sites on a regular basis just like any man would.
Here’s another example. We were at Tractor Supply this past weekend buying a few things and while I was putting the toddler in the truck, she walked over to grab the 100 gallon Rubbermaid heavy duty stock tank we’d just purchased that was sitting out front. One of the older men said “here, let me get that for you”. Her response? “Why?” as she just picked it up and carried it over to the truck. She said he looked at her like she had three heads.
Younger women tend to be a bit more independent than you may realize.
David, please tell me you’re wife wasn’t mad at his offer to help? And I’m not saying she or the rest of “today’s” woman aren’t independent. I’m sure they are. That poor old man was just doing what men do. No harm, no foul in the offer, at least.
Oh, she wasn’t mad. She just laughed.
She thought his offer was terribly condescnding? Or did she at least thank him? Where is Hellen Reddy when we need her? “I am woman hear me roar…”
Not condescending… just unnecessary. Do you think he would have offered to move the stock tank for me too? (You know, being a man and all.) If you’d stop “protecting” women (which I think some of us are interpreting as you treating them like they’re fragile and incapable of really doing anything for themselves) then perhaps you’d see how capable they really are.
LOL! In all candor, @Noway, there’s no way you’re gonna win this one…
You’re correct, of course, Bob, but I never thought being protective of women on the front lines of war and loving and sweet to the women in my life would evoke the cat-hissing of Bridget or the ‘enlightened-male’ beating around my head and shoulders from Mr. Staples. I think this is the most fun I have had, posting wise, in a long time on here. Let me scroll down and prepare for the latest salvo!!
Yeah, dude. You’ve stepped in it big today
. You just made it worse with your cat-hissing comment, too! Boy, you’re making watching budget presentations tolerable today.
Glad to be of service! Glad to help out there, Bob!
Maybe the dads should support decriminalizing and regulating natural pot so their kids won’t turn to the legal synthetic stuff that presents an actual danger.
From the Warner Robins article…
“A story in the Air Force Times last week reported that the Air Force Times itself, an independent publication that can be found throughout offices at Robins, was among the objectionable items, specifically an issue that featured two uniformed airmen on the cover breast feeding.”
noway: I too love the ladies and I want to know when else should I subjugate my women?
LMAO! How is protecting them subjugating them? Where in any of my posts did I say the needed to be subservient? God, yall are funnier than Carson.
I had forgotten they are far too delicate a creature to withstand the rigors of the contemporary world and must rely on male protection.
They might not have to rely on it, but belivee it when I say that they appreciate the gesture.
David, let me ask you a question. Let’s examine the scenario where a man, much like yourself, I suppose, is ready to leave on a business trip and looks down at his seven year old son and says, “You’re the man of house now. You take care of Mommy while I’m gone.” Now, we both know, he doesn’t have the ability to do so, but he swells with pride and takes the charge seriously. Scenarios like that socialize protective behavior at a very early age. Should men just not say things like that anymore?
Just a difference of personalities. That doesn’t really sound like something I’d say, even if I had a son. I just don’t have a reasonable expectation that a seven year old would be able to protect their mom from an intruder without a firearm, and I’m certainly not providing free and open access to a firearm to a seven year old. If I did have a son, should I direct her to hand the gun over to the seven year old so he can protect her?
I have never said they weren’t capable. I know they are. More women are graduating from colleges than guys theses days. Their competence has never been in question to me. And I will never, ever stop protecting them. It’s not in my DNA or Oxytocin, as Bridget so graciously corrected me.
You miss the whole point. Sure, Dave, have your wife give the gun to your would-be seven year old son. You’re getting ridiculous.
So then perhaps you can explain how you would expect a seven year old to “take care of Mommy while I’m gone”?
Have you never heard of s scenario like that before? The dad tells the young son to take care of the mom, winks conspiratorily at the mom afterward, both enjoying the sweetness of the moment? Is the dad really gonna rely on junior to defend the family against an invader? Of course not. You really are quite literal.
For real. Helps a boy feel like a man for a minute. Shows his dad trusts in him. C’mon, Staples.
Sorry, guess I’m just not feeling it today… I work too much in the literal world.
Just out of curiosity, would you tell your seven year old daughter to take care of mommy while gone as well?
Bobbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, dude, you just stepped in it almost as bad as me!!!!!!!!!!! The “feel like a man” comment will get you slammed to the mat for a three count. If you and I were a tag team, they’ve already slammed my head into the turnbuckle and you are fixin’ to get the Figure Four put on you. I’ll try and recover and come to your rescue!
I think someone has had enough coffee. Or something.
I read John Eldridge’s book. Sorry. A dad needs to instill a sense of masculinity in a boy. Just a belief.
Good question, Staples. I think I’d probably say something to encourage a daughter to take care of her mommy, too, albeit in a manner that may be different. Kind of like you and the advice to a son you don’t have, I’m a dad of boys, so I’m maybe a fish out of water.
No way I’m getting the figure four on me! I’ll grab a chair and whack somebody or pull an object out of my boot and jab them with it while you distract the ref.
LOLOLOL! Fight dirty, my friend!
You guys lost me on the figure four. Is that like half of a figure eight?
You don’t appreciate a metaphor, David?
LOL! David, this is wrestling lingo from the 70′s. One of the finishing moves of the heels and bad guys back then was a leg lock move called a figure four. It was a submisssion move that actually hurt like hell and could literally break your leg!
Somewhat of a slow newsday, I guess; an enjoyable read about a slow moving conversation; a series of threads hijacked by Noway, the guys who’s been slow on reading the past 40 or so years of feminist though… Is he the new Ed?
WTF
Skeptic, Morning Reads, are by definition “open threads” and cannot be hijacked. Thanks for playing.
Ohhhh…, everything makes a lot more sense now. Thanks for the heads up.
Women in combat: It is voluntary, optional and they have to qualify.
Combat assignments also get more pay, big bonuses and more is high tech, less physical.
If momma don’t want to shoot, she don’t have to.
Never met a right winger against those principals.
We should respect individuality and the laws of contracts.
Geez, next you’ll be demanding spousal rights and affirmative action.
modify: principles
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