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You can take the boy out of Georgia, but you can’t keep him from swelling with pride while he’s gone. On a recent visit to Michigan and Canada in search of igloos and reindeer, we dropped by Henry Ford’s home in Dearborn. As you know, Henry Ford invented the Model T and created the Ford Motor Company which didn’t need our tax dollars to bail them out for poor management like … [Read more...] about August 30, 2010: Be It Ever So Humble, There’s No Place Like Georgia

If you find any dead squirrels in my backyard, it is because they have laughed themselves to death. It isn’t that I haven’t tried to wing one with my trusty Red Ryder pump-action BB gun with the camouflage stock.  It is just that the rascals know I couldn’t hit a buffalo in the backside at five paces.  I have even had them – the squirrels, not the buffalo – make faces at me as … [Read more...] about August 23, 2010: Don’t Feel Sorry For The Squirrels In My Backyard

“Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December, But the days grow short when you reach September.” — September Song Congratulations, dear reader. Silly Season, aka, the 2010 political campaign, is nearing the end. Most of the wannabes have been shunted aside and we are in the short days of the campaign. On Nov. 2, it will all be over. Can December come soon enough? Georgia … [Read more...] about August 16, 2010: Thankfully, The Days Grow Short On Political Campaigns

I love the State of Georgia better than apple butter, but sometimes the place can try my patience. Like right now. It is just too hot. How hot is it? The squirrels in my back yard used to scurry every time they saw me coming with my pump-action Red Ryder BB gun with the camouflage stock. Now, the little creatures line up and beg me to shoot them and put them out of their … [Read more...] about August 9, 2010: Even The Squirrels Think It Is Too Hot In Georgia

I had considered the recently-constituted Special Council on Tax Reform and Fairness for Georgians just so much political hooey until I saw who was elected chairman of the council: Adolphus Drewry Frazier, Jr. If tax reform is an immovable object, it is about to meet an irresistible force in A.D. Frazier. The 10 member body — which includes Gov. Perdue — is a blue-ribbon … [Read more...] about August 2, 2010: Georgia Tax Reform Council Has An Outspoken Leader