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| Friday, May 18, 2012 ∙ 2:19 pm EDT |
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These Here Parts
Coweta County, Georgia, where I -- for want of a better term -- live.
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December 2011
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rain
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Four weeks ago when we had our special election to choose a new state senator, the candidate I voted for didn’t make the runoff. So I wasn’t really sure how to vote in the runoff.
Until one candidate pointed out that the other had been a backer of Democrat gubernatorial nominee Mark Taylor back in 2006 against Republican incumbent Sonny Perdue. That made it a lot easier.
Apparently 60% of the voters in the district agreed. Mike Crane will be taking office in the General Assembly’s upper house shortly after the votes are officially certified.
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November 2011
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56°
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Newnan, GA
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Not that one—I wish.
Here in Coweta County the only elections normally held in odd-numbered years are for city offices, and Castle McGehee is outside of any city limits. So it should have been an election day of no direct concern to me.
But then Gov. Nathan Deal appointed my state senator, Mitch Seabaugh, to an executive-branch post, creating a vacancy. Which led to a special election. Which is today.
One item to vote on.
Usually when we only have one item to vote on it’s to extend a sales-tax hike. The local powers-that-be love to have special elections for those because only the motivated bother to turn out—and the motivated tend to be the people who benefit from all the projects the local powers-that-be promise to fund from the tax if it’s extended.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. Instead the tax vote is scheduled for the same day as the Georgia presidential primary.
Bet that won’t happen again.
Update, Wednesday: As might be expected with 275,000 candidates in the race, there will be a runoff on December 6. Will the candidate I voted for yesterday be in it? No.
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October 2011
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57°
sunny
Newnan, GA
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Twelve years ago when Chris and I moved here from Alaska, one of the first orders of business was finding a house to live in.
One place we looked at was kind of nice, though the colored wallpaper in some rooms was a little bold for our tastes. And it was in an HOA neighborhood with no real amenities. Still, it was close enough to Chris’ new office and in a nice enough area, we thought, that we made an offer on the house.
The owners’ counter-offer was higher than the listed asking price.
So, we resumed our search and wound up where we are, in a different nice area with no HOA fees and not all that much farther from Chris’ office.
Apparently quite a bit has changed in that other house since then.
More than half the 236 cats removed from a Coweta County home last week have died, but dozens survived and are expected to take their first steps toward adoption later this week, a county spokeswoman said.
Thirty-six cats were found dead in the house, and 105 had to be euthanized because “they were either wild, or feral, or sick,” said Patricia Campbell, public affairs director for Coweta.
The sick cats had tested positive for feline leukemia or the feline version of AIDS – both fatal, untreatable and highly contagious, Campbell said. “You don’t want them in your (shelter) population, or the other cats have a good chance of getting them,” she said. ► Of 236 cats taken from Coweta home, more than half died
According to public records, the people living there have owned the house far longer than 12 years, so apparently they never did find a buyer.
The linked story is from a couple of weeks ago; we first learned of it while watching TV news on an Atlanta station. Coverage in our local paper contained enough detail to confirm it was the same house and to determine when it had last sold.
I’ve complained in the past about having four cats in our house—but they are all happy and well looked after and there is certainly no danger of our collection getting any bigger.
Maybe if I watched one of those TV shows about extreme hoarders I’d have some grasp of what causes people to do that. But I’m actually kind of happy not to know.
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55°
sunny
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...ish.
I can’t remember the last time the temperature was expected to top out still in the 60s, but that’s what they’re saying about today. It won’t last, but I’ll enjoy it while it does.
I’m not sure how much credence to give the expected low temperature for tomorrow morning though: 39°.
Fahrenheit.
Liking… liking…
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September 2011
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mostly cloudy
Newnan, GA
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A couple of weeks ago, the Newnan paper’s website carried a reader poll asking whether people thought the Atlanta Braves would go all the way to win the World Series, or not make it to the playoffs at all, or something in between.
As I have done each year when presented with a question like this, I predicted the Braves would not make the playoffs. At the time it looked like a foolish prediction, since in fact the Braves were in a pretty good position for claiming a wild-card spot.
I could be more sympathetic to the Braves if they’d change the name of the home ballpark and stop being in damn near every baseball game that gets broadcast in the regular season around here. If it weren’t for WGN one might think the Braves were the only team in major-league baseball.
Not everybody that moves to Atlanta automatically transfers all their allegiances, however much longtime Georgians might wish they would. Then again, as much as longtime Georgians complain about carpetbaggers you’d think Turner Field and the Georgia Dome would be empty and silent during home games so obviously a lot of newcomers do embrace Atlanta sport teams.
The expectation of total assimilation may be at the root of my longstanding discontent with living here; apparently paying taxes and obeying laws—to arrive here as well as while living here—aren’t enough. You have to like the Braves and the Falcons, drink Coca-Cola, and just love having too much mayonnaise on everything you eat. I didn’t used to be such an anti-mayo heretic until I wound up here. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t mayonnaise in the drinking water. But I digress.
Anyway. So. The Braves’ season has ended before the playoffs. Again.
In a just world Red Ted Turner would be rolling over in his grave.
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May 2011
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There have been some ripples out there lately about the Obama Administration’s somewhat unhappy relations with the less sycophantic of his sycophants in the Establishment Media.
Well, it’s not just Obama, and it’s not just Democrats. Last week:
Georgia State Patrol troopers stopped FOX 5 reporter Justin Gray and a photographer from entering Governor Deal’s office for the bill signing. One of the troopers told Gray, “We’re following the governor’s press office’s instructions to prevent you from coming in at this time.”
Moments later, a representative from the governor’s press office came to the door. Video shot by FOX 5’s cameras shows the press agent telling Gray his crew would be allowed in, ”As soon as FOX 5 apologizes for the lies you all told about us.” ► Governor Deal’s Office Bans FOX 5 Reporter from Immigration Bill Signing
Deal was a member of Congress before winning last November’s gubernatorial election.
It’s not just Democrats. It’s not even just Senators. It’s Washington.
Corrupt Bastards
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April 2011
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Coweta County, GA
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Last night was pretty interesting here in Coweta County, with multiple tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings, but we were monitoring emergency dispatch traffic during the one tornado warning that really seemed headed our way, and even while the National Weather Service was saying the tornado was “near Newnan,” the radio traffic was more in line with a more or less ordinary, if intense, thunderstorm. And today’s local headlines don’t really seem to indicate much of anything happened in our immediate area. I’m not complaining.
It’s a little different story west and north of here of course. Chris’ mother lives in Chattanooga, as do an aunt and uncle. A middle school in Ringgold, Georgia, not far off the route we take to go up and visit, was damaged by a tornado, and downtown Ringgold was hit hard. Chris’ father lives in Newport, Tennessee which also had tornado damage. We’ll be a little concerned until we’ve heard from everyone.
It’s looking like this has been a record-setting super-outbreak, surpassing the one in 1974 for which the term was coined.
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I supported Casey Cagle for lieutenant governor in 2006 and 2010. In the latter instance he opted to seek re-election rather than run for governor because of health issues. I wasn’t pleased that the GOP-led state Senate stripped the lite-gubnor of his Senate powers while organizing the chamber for the current session, but this is the same tactic that got Democrat then-Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor out of the senators’ hair after Republicans took control in 2003 so clearly it’s within their prerogative. And Cagle had been a party, though in my opinion not an instigator, of Republican-on-Republican tension during then-Gov. Sonny Perdue’s second term.
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March 2011
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If you thought the zombie apocalypse would happen suddenly, I have to ask you: why would anything having to do with zombies happen fast?
And if you don’t believe the zombie apocalypse is shambling among us even now, just try going to Sam’s Club on a Saturday. Hell, in Coweta County, try going anywhere on a Saturday.
Jeebus.
You know what? It must be the mayonnaise. I’ll bet it’s the mayonnaise.
Which, at Sam’s Club they sell it in gallon jars. By the case.
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February 2011
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38°
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Coweta County, GA
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Tomorrow it’s supposed to get up into the 60s here at Castle McGehee, which some would like to regard as a sign that winter is finally on its way out.
Of course, it got into the 60s here a short while before the last snowfall too. That’s how things work in subtropical west Georgia.
Last night I reminded someone that last year it had snowed in March as well as in January and February, but he allowed as how he didn’t think this winter had been as harsh as last winter. Maybe.
But duration and intensity are two entirely unrelated metrics, as almost any phenomenon can be used to demonstrate.
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