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Post by eddie on Feb 20, 2007 18:42:49 GMT -4
In response to a question on that other site by M4M, this excerpt taken from DAV Feb. minutes.
Norman Cooper presented a request that all participating veteran organizations not do the parade. He felt that it was holding up people wanting to get our of town for the long weekend. He thought that we should do something with the school children before Memorial Day and forgo the parade. The Chapter voted and approved the recommendation Jimmy Morrison to continue the program as we had in the past. We want to have the parade (DOT already approved the route) and the ceremony at the Veterans Memorial after the parade. It was believed that not enough time was left to change the program at this time.
Please notice that he said ALL veteran organizations. I hope that NONE cave in to this. If traffic is such a major concern, lets get rid of all those bicycles that create so much havoc.
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Post by tinkywinky on Feb 20, 2007 19:57:27 GMT -4
What's a M4M? Sounds like some kind of machine gun! I didn't realize that Mr. Cooper had so much power to request that a parade not take place. Especially a Memorial Day parade. I thought he got off on driving his golf cart around taking pictures of all the girls.
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Post by honeybee on Feb 21, 2007 10:41:05 GMT -4
M4M is a poster on the other board.
I could see both sides of the issue. The parades used to be a county event, everyone showed up and they were great. Now they let anybody with anything in and ALL of the parades are boring and tacky. I think people just show up now to see their relatives in the parade.
If it could have some class to it then so be it. But people in their jack up cars and horses don't do it for me anymore. I haven't been to a parade in this county for years. WHY? because it never changes.
Used to go every year with my friends and family, I remember one year it even snowed at the Sorghum Festival parade.
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Post by fairplay on Feb 21, 2007 16:34:51 GMT -4
Let me correct Tinkiwinki. As far as I know Norman is still using a golf cart that belongs to the county owned golf course. At the time I checked several years ago the county is not covered with liability when a cart is taken off the grounds. None of our officials seemed to care, so I didn't push it.
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Post by fairplay on Feb 21, 2007 16:58:20 GMT -4
I went to the parade last year and it was just as cornball as all the others that I have seen in the last 30 years. Thats what makes them so great in my mind. I have been to big parades and they are impressive also, but these local ones are all about the people in Union and thats what makes them unique. The only thing I miss is the military band that used to come over from North Georgia College. One thing I did last year and it was very impressive, was I went to the ceremonies afterward at the Memorial. It really brought home the real meaning of the parade and the festivities and it beyond me why anyone would want to do away with them. Seems kind of un-American to me.
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Post by summerose on Feb 21, 2007 17:08:43 GMT -4
The kids get a big kick out of going to parades. I agree Fairplay, doing away with them seems very un-american!
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Post by fairplay on Feb 24, 2007 14:35:32 GMT -4
Another example of the Bias reporting of the NGN You know I have a certain respect for Jenkins and he has done a better job than I expected. All that brown nosing of our state representative was nice but does anyone remember “Charles Whitlow Norwood”? The NGN ignored it, but he died on February 13 and he was our United States Rrepresentative, I think that was a heck of a lot more important news. I thought Charlie did a good job in spite of his health problems. I know he was a good Christian, war hero (two bronze stars) educated, a doctorate in dental surgery. I know he forced his self to look after his constituents and attended meetings when the only way he could attend was with the help of oxygen. Was his big fault the fact he was a Republican?
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Post by shortcircuit on Jun 8, 2007 20:40:24 GMT -4
Norm didn't get his way on this one. I didn't get to go but from what I was told this years parade had record attendance and from what I saw on cable channel 4 there were some beautiful patriotic floats. The video of the parade should be sent out to some of our troops so that they'll know we support what they're doing.
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Post by sometimeman on Sept 11, 2007 10:53:06 GMT -4
FROM THE NY TIMES "I don't blame George, fire them US attorneys if they wont work for you"September 10, 2007 Editorial Observer The Strange Case of an Imprisoned Alabama Governor By ADAM COHEN Alberto Gonzales is out as attorney general, but there is still a lot of questionable Justice Department activity for Congress to sort through. The imprisonment of Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, should be at the top of the list. Jill Simpson, an Alabama lawyer and Republican operative, is heading to Washington this week to tell Congressional investigators that she heard prominent Republicans plotting to use the United States attorneys’ offices to remove Mr. Siegelman as a political threat. The case should be the focus of a probing Congressional hearing this fall. Mr. Siegelman was a major frustration to Alabama Republicans. The state is bright red, but Mr. Siegelman managed to win the governorship in 1998 with 57 percent of the vote. He was defeated for re-election in 2002 under suspicious circumstances. In the initial returns, Mr. Siegelman appeared to have won by a razor-thin margin. But a late-night change in the tallies in Republican Baldwin County gave the current governor, Bob Riley, a victory of a little more than 3,000 votes out of 1.3 million cast. Mr. Siegelman has charged that the votes were intentionally shifted by a Republican operative. James Gundlach, an Auburn University professor, did a statistical analysis of the returns and found that the final numbers were clearly the result of intentional manipulation. Mr. Siegelman wanted to take back the governorship in 2006, but his indictment made it impossible. If Ms. Simpson is telling the truth, she provides important support for Mr. Siegelman’s claim that his prosecution was political. In a sworn affidavit, she says she was on a phone call in November 2002 with Governor Riley’s son, Rob Riley, and Bill Canary, a Republican political operative whose wife, Leura Canary, is the United States attorney for Montgomery. According to Ms. Simpson, they were discussing the political threat Mr. Siegelman posed, and Mr. Canary said his “girls” — his wife and Alice Martin, the United States Attorney in Birmingham — would take care of Mr. Siegelman. Ms. Simpson said Mr. Canary also said the case had been discussed with Karl Rove. Ms. Martin’s office prosecuted Mr. Siegelman, but the case fell apart after a federal judge cast doubt on the charges. Ms. Canary’s office then convicted him of charges for which he was sentenced to seven years in prison. In addition to the phone call, which has been reported, Ms. Simpson says she will tell House investigators about a second conversation with Rob Riley. In late January or early February of 2005, she says, in his Birmingham office, Mr. Riley told her that Mr. Siegelman would be re-indicted in Montgomery. He was indicted by Ms. Canary’s office in May 2005, and tried in May 2006, one month before the Democratic primary for governor. Mr. Riley denies that the conversation occurred. There are other red flags, besides Ms. Simpson’s testimony. Mr. Siegelman was convicted of appointing the businessman Richard Scrushy to a state hospital board in exchange for a contribution to a campaign for a state lottery to fund education. Elected officials, from the president down, appoint people who contribute directly to their campaigns without facing criminal charges. Decisions about whether to bring this sort of public corruption case are extremely sensitive. A prosecutor must examine an official’s state of mind and decide if he intended the appointment to be in exchange for the contribution, or if he simply ended up appointing a contributor. The extraordinary sensitivity of these cases — and their ability to change the political balance of power in the country — makes it critical that prosecutors be nonpolitical and above reproach. In the current Justice Department, they have not been. Mr. Siegelman’s case has disturbing parallels to the prosecution of Georgia Thompson, the Wisconsin civil servant wrongly convicted by the Justice Department of awarding a state contract to a Democratic contributor. Prosecutors tried to get Ms. Thompson, who spent four months in jail before being freed by an appeals court, to testify against Jim Doyle, the state’s Democratic governor. Ms. Thompson refused — because, she made clear, there was no crime to implicate him in. But her trial was during his re-election campaign, and her conviction was used in anti-Doyle attack ads. It’s too early to say that her case and Mr. Siegelman’s were brought simply to elect Republican governors, but there is certainly evidence that they may have been. The Bush administration insists that the United States attorney scandal is a non-scandal. But the Siegelman and Thompson cases are a reminder that when the power of the state to imprison people is put in the wrong hands, lives can be ruined and democracy can be threatened. Since the Justice Department refuses to appoint an independent prosecutor to examine whether these and other cases were politicized, Congress must provide the scrutiny.
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Post by shortcircuit on Sept 11, 2007 21:08:16 GMT -4
It looks like change is coming to The Sentinel. I agree with the editorial, if they mirror everything that Normie says then they aren't contributing anything. But if they will go after the things that Norm won't print because Lamar Paris won't let him they will grow in popularity. Below is a quote from the sentinel:
"Some changes at the paper
You may have noticed that our small staff at the Sentinel has thinned out a little, recently.
Our latest editor and talented sports writer has moved on to another newspaper in a larger town, where he is slated to handle the sports desk, and of course we wish him well in that endeavor.
Our former publisher, also is no longer with us. He has a thriving business in another county and is really unable to devote sufficient time and energy at overseeing the operations of this newspaper including its editorial, distribution and advertising functions.
We will in time find others to fill these positions. However, there will be a transition period as we regroup, restaff and reorganize to better serve our reading public.
We will also be making decisions as to the kind of news coverage to provide you.
Obviously, we can't do it all. We have limited financial resources. We are a small newspaper in basically a two-newspaper local market. The other newspaper has captured a large portion of the advertising revenue, which of course puts the squeeze on us. Especially under current economic conditions.
We say this not as a complaint, they certainly are entitled to operate as they see fit, but rather as an explanation of the environment in which we operate.
Actually, the squeeze is good for us in that it forces us to make some hard choices.
If we simply repeat the same kind of coverage as our competition, we really bring no great value to our community. It is only if we do things that are important to you and if we do them in ways that are significantly better than our competition that we bring you value. That is just what we are committed to do.
Some will say that one newspaper is all the county needs and that our competition is doing a great job. While we respect that view, we do not agree with it.
Probably, in the near future, the Sentinel will be more focused on governmental and business news than we have in the recent past. We also would like to have a more active dialog with the folks in our communities.
We welcome your thoughts and comments as we undergo this transition."
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Post by sometimeman on Sept 11, 2007 21:52:44 GMT -4
This mother started this news paper in her home. She said she felt like God wanted her to do it! She gave 'em hell and made a little progress. I hope more will realize that news papers bare solemn responsibility. It's tragic Norm don't understand this. www.thecitizen.biz/
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AskTheWiseOldMan
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"Justice denied to one citizen is justice denied to society as whole"
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Post by AskTheWiseOldMan on Sept 12, 2007 11:04:53 GMT -4
There may be two newspapers ... but the area is starving for truthful information. IMO, for evidence of this, just look at the topix sites along with this board, Blairsville.com, the TruthforTowns board, the Yahoo groups and even the information revealed on Skullbunny's blog and others. There was more accurate and timely information disclosed on these sites than the Sentinel, NGA News and Access N.Ga put together.
Norman is NOT a journalist. Without spell check he can barely even write. He is neither liked nor respected by anyone I know. His ill-informed opinions are always backwards and his judgement is devoid of any shred of professionalism.
I hope the Sentinel will exploit the NGA News' glaring WEEKness (sic). For example, if Union County Bank gets raided by the FBI and US Treasury on Thursday, no one wants to wait until next Wednesday to read about it - if its even covered at all. Online news in real-time is exactly the right strategic course for the Sentinel.
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Post by sometimeman on Sept 12, 2007 15:51:19 GMT -4
When "Ribs" was doing his thing, why did all the "good" people have lock jaw? Why didn't Ribs get the support he deserved?
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Post by shortcircuit on Sept 12, 2007 16:16:22 GMT -4
That's easy sometimeman, it's for the same reason that most of us don't use our real names on this website. LOTS of people supported Buchanan in private but they were afraid to publicly because they knew that Lamar and Norman would go after them if they did. Fear brings about oppression, and Liemar knows that.
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