Where is Chris Krok?
The Atlanta-area weather forecast for New Year’s Eve 2008: a snow shower —- an extremely isolated one.
Stone Mountain Park is creating Snow Mountain, officials announced Tuesday. For two months, the lawn where people usually watch the park’s laser show will be a glistening expanse of snow made of water drawn from the [...]

Very neat.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Southeast Region, located at 5780 Jonesboro Road in Morrow, will capitalize on the interest people have in genealogy by holding a Genealogy Fair on Saturday, from 9 a.m., to 4 p.m. A pie contest will be held from 3-4 p.m., in conjunction with the fair.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from death-row inmate Troy Davis, refusing to consider his case.
The court turned down Davis’ appeal without comment.
Outstanding.
Davis’ sister, Martina Correia, was furious with the high court’s decision. “I’m truly disgusted by these people,” Correia said. “I don’t even know what to say. I wonder why [...]

Wow.
A woman who forced a Hispanic man to the ground at gunpoint Sunday morning later claimed she did so in the interest of national security, according to Savannah-Chatham police.
Kelly Obrien-Dickey, 42, told detectives she pulled the handgun on Ramon Ortiz, 37, at Broughton and Price streets about 10 a.m. because “he matched the [...]

You’ll recall that Atlanta Police Department Maj. Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis, who was fired last summer for her involvement in a botched sex crimes investigation, recently got her job back after Atlanta’s Civil Service Board (what a socialist utopia we’ve created), which has the power to reinstate a city employee’s job, reversed her termination.
That’s clearly the [...]

Just depressing.
More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have been arrested or cited for a crime, according to a review of their job applications. The arrests ranged from minor offenses such as shoplifting to violent charges including assault. More than one-third of the officers had been rejected by other law enforcement agencies, and [...]

Finally, Erick has something new to listen to in the mornings.

Former Macon City Council President Anita Ponder is teaming up with a radio partner for a morning talk show that’s scheduled to begin Monday morning.
It’s part of big changes at WIBB-AM, 1280 on the dial, in what Clear Channel is billing as the Macon market’s [...]

Praise Obama God.

Your WTF moment of the day.

I don’t like politicking from the pulpit.
The Rev. Jody Hice fired a verbal volley Sunday in a battle that he believes will return the United States to its American Revolutionary roots.
From his pulpit at Bethlehem First Baptist Church outside Atlanta, he urged his congregation to vote for Sen. John McCain and to not vote for [...]

For the General Assembly.
Georgia General Assembly
Approve: 29%
Disapprove: 44%
No Opinion/Don’t: 27%
But do people really even pay attention? Hell, they only meet a few months a year anyway. Towery adds this:

Voters cannot distinguish between Congress and state officials, hence the very low ratings for the General Assembly.

Are voters really that stupid?

Details here.
A touchstone to America’s founding moment - a broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence - will be on display Saturday in Savannah.
Printed on July 4, 1776, the same day the Continental Congress passed the Declaration, it’s one of the copies produced by the shop of Philadelphia printer John Dunlap. There are 25 known [...]

Just a personal vent here, I have to say the problem with Baptists, other than the not drinking thing, is the organizational structure of most of the churches that let the preachers run roughshod over a lot of the congregation.
Yeah, yeah, in theory, the congregation can boot him, but most congregations are too intimidated [...]

The United States Supreme Court has interceded in the case of Troy Davis by granting a stay of execution, according to 11 Alive.

Be prepared for my master’s arrival.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will be the guest of honor Friday at the 145th Battle of Chickamauga’s opening ceremony in Walker County.