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Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr is neither a RINO (Republican in Name Only) nor a RITNO (Republican in Trump’s Name Only.)  His solid conservative credentials mirror those of our late U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, which is appropriate since he once served as Isakson’s chief of staff in Washington. He is about to lay the wood to a bunch of creeps who are doing their best to … [Read more...] about October 29, 2023: Attorney General Chris Carr Out To Stop Police Training Center Violence

Georgia Congressman Austin Scott, of Tifton, is what a Republican should be and used to be before the rightwing crowd took control.  Never in my long life I have I witnessed such a debacle as has taken place in the United States House of Representatives who, as of this writing, can’t agree on a permanent speaker.  This used to be the second most powerful position in our … [Read more...] about October 22, 2023: Georgia Congressman Austin Scott A Good Role Model For GOP

Rats!  Can you believe it?  Once again I have been passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature.  This is beginning to get on my nerves.  Some guy named Jon Olav Fosse won it this year.  As you may know, the Nobel Committee is located in Sweden and the award went to a Norwegian.  Am I am smelling a little Scandinavian home cooking here? Admittedly a few Americans have won … [Read more...] about October 15, 2023: Passed Over For Nobel Prize For Literature Again This Year

Eighteen years ago this week,  I ventured off to Iraq to report on the brave men and women of Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team, located in an accurately-named area of the country called the Triangle of Death.  It is thought that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in that general area.  If so, Adam and Eve were lucky to get out when they did.  The serpent, too.  It was … [Read more...] about October 8, 2023: Remembering A Visit To Iraq With Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team

I just had to call Skeeter Skates with the news.  As many of you know, Skeeter is the owner and operator of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia.  He is also the current presiding chair of the Ryo Morning Coffee Club, a collection of Great Americans which includes Walleye, who runs the bait shop over in Red Bud, Booger Bledsoe, who operates a local … [Read more...] about September 24, 2023: Talking Southern With The Ryo Morning Coffee Club