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• The poor person who can’t understand “Lost” needs to turn off their TV, back slowly away from it and go back to grade school.
• Many parents are choosing alternative methods of schooling for their children but still have the burden of paying school taxes. There are also those that have no children who must also bear the burden of school taxes. Perhaps one solution would be requiring school taxes be paid by those who have children in the public school system and increase taxes for each child that any family has enrolled.
• Having a Northern Arc run through Cherokee County is like having the neighbor on one side of your house come in your front door, walk through the house making noise and leaving trash, exit the back door, and visit the neighbor on the other side, when they could've used the sidewalk.
• That’s not chemical fertilizer permeating your air and lungs. It’s chicken poop.
• You anti-global warming buffoons crack me up every time there’s some cold weather. You poor things really have no idea what you think you are against do you? Bless your chilly little hearts.
• Cherokee County teachers do spend hundreds of dollars, not on their classroom, but on your kids to educate them. And we do not receive a box of paper, nor do we receive money from the PTA.
• There are 120,000 teachers in the state of Georgia. If the state would deduct $10 out of each teacher’s check each month, in one year you would save about $10 million.
• In reference to Washington being closed down by the snow and it’s too bad it can’t snow every day: It does. Any time you want snow in Washington, just call them. You’ll get a snowjob.
• Now that the Woodstock senior center is serving full meals, do they have to comply with the county sanitary regulations and inspections?
• Who watches my house and my business for drug dealers and burglars in Holly Springs while its officers are out on the freeway playing Georgia State Patrol?
• Thanks to the Republican geniuses for explaining that Dick Cheney wasn’t the president for the belly-laugh. The joke is what a joke as a president Bush was and who was really pulling his strings. Simple sarcasm lesson 101 is definitely in order for you dim bulbs.
• Why does the city of Woodstock send the same man every time out in the rain and 20-degree weather to pick up trash on I-575? It seems like it would be more productive to send a crew.
• In reference to the person who asked, “Who stole my floor mats; I hope they don’t fit”: They don’t. Next time, buy some good ones; those cheap ones are no good.
• If I slow down when I am being tailgated, is that road rage or am I just being passive-aggressive?
• I don’t know anybody more incapable of independent thought than the Canton City Council. They don’t know state law; they don’t even know their own charter; and they’re only capable of making decisions if someone on their staff tells them what to do.
• What kind of legal counsel does the city of Canton have when all he says to them about any changes in city policy or ordinances is that public participation is not required. Unfortunately, they’ll all follow him off a cliff.
• Sonny has no money for education, but he has millions of dollars to spend on building a horse farm in his home county. What a great governor.
• NASA at Boling Park? No way. Cherokee Impact knows they would lose another 280 players.
• You think Dick Cheney needs to retire? It’s been a long time since Bill Clinton has been out of office, and he really needs to retire.
• Now that I’m a senior citizen, I spend half my time looking either for my glasses or my teeth.
• The school superintendent doesn’t drive an Escalade; he drives a Tahoe. Who died and made you the king of what people are allowed to drive with their vehicle allowances? Did you check with us about whether you could drive the car you drive?
• The next time the SWAT team needs to break down a door, they should just use a Toyota.
• Why does it seem like 75 percent of these TV commercials are trying to scare me into buying their product?
• Why do they have to show the Rid-X septic tank commercial right around dinner time?
• Every day when I drive down Towne Lake, I can’t help but notice the sign in front of the Walgreen’s that talks about Madison Pointe in Towne Lake opening in the summer of 2007. We should probably take that sign down; it’s 2010.
• Thank you, Big Springs United Methodist Church on Sugar Pike Road for opening up your ballfield to the community as a dog park. It is much appreciated.
• I have a brand new Toyota Tundra. I’m afraid to drive it, and I have a fortune tied up in it. I want to know why Toyota is not responsible for giving us back our money so we can buy something that we can drive. They can just make us take the loss?
• They want to raise taxes on cigarettes. They should add a $5 tax on liquor and beer. Drinking causes wrecks, and that is dangerous for other people on the road, or abuse in the family, especially the children.
• Can someone tell me where I can find some climbing and rappelling gear so my child can play baseball at Waleska Park? Way to go, Cherokee Parks and Rec.
• Dick Cheney was never president; he was vice president.
• Kids whose parents feel the need to drive them to the end of their driveways to wait for the school bus simply because it’s raining out are destined to become complete wimps.
• I was refused a beer in a restaurant recently, because I had no ID. I served in World War II and Korea, and I am 87 years old. And they just refused to sell me a beer.
• If you think everyone should vote, just walk into Walmart on any given day.
• I do believe we should have that bus line, and we should have a train, too. It will save legs, lives and headaches, too.
• There’s another typical Republican who doesn’t have a clue. George Bush was elected president, but Dick Cheney acted as the president. Oh, wait a minute, actually Al Gore was elected.
• Yes, be proud of the Republicans who stood up against the health care bill, just like they stood up against Medicare and Social Security.
• Try wagging your tail more and barking less.
