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• I like Ga. 20 the way it is. Speeding traffic, running bumper-to-bumper, with a lot of big trucks mixed in. Thank you, governor, for killing the outer loop.
• Here’s the way I look at it: If all the liberals die, Rush Limbaugh would rejoice. If Rush Limbaugh died, all the liberals would rejoice.
• I’m so proud of John McCain and all the other Republicans. It is great that they have done their homework and spoke against that abomination of a health care bill.
• People would be a whole lot more courteous in traffic if their name and address was on that license plate instead of some anonymous number.
• I’d like to know how many Yankees who moved down here ate snow ice cream when we had our snow the other day.
• Give me a break, a guy kicks a dog and all he gets is a misdemeanor?
• If Woodstock takes over that section of I-575, will we have to slow down to 25 mph?
• Please explain to me who is going to profit with health care reform. Is it the insurance companies, the politicians, who? We, the citizens, certainly will not profit.
• The Fair Tax is an American citizen thing. It’s good for everyone, except politicians.
• It’s ridiculous putting a Food Lion at the intersection of Bells Ferry and Wyngate Parkway. It’s just another big box store that’s going to be empty within a year and a half.
• Remember, when you vote for the one-cent proposed transportation tax how much big-ticket items, such as a car will cost you.
• Extending pouring hours is going to destroy more and more lives.
• I planted tomato and pepper seedlings in my garden last week. It’s early, but I’m an American and can do what I want knowing the rest of you will compensate me should the plants freeze.
• Good-bye, John Linder. Good riddance. I just wish Chip Rogers, Chambliss, Isakson, Tom Price and the other good ol’ boys would go with you.
• I can’t believe I saw blooming jonquils on Oak Grove Drive on Feb. 27. I guess spring is real close.
• How much did it cost us to dig up a perfectly good concrete strip down Wade Green Road and replace it with a decorative concrete strip? Talk about wasteful government spending, there’s an example.
• Is Cartersville a maze or does it just have a lot of dead ends?
• If this global warming keeps up, I’m going to have to invest in some snow boots.
• It makes no sense for people to put flowers and wreaths along the highway where someone has been killed. It’s distracting to drivers, and they need to place them wherever that person is buried.
• At all levels of government they are having a budget crisis. But you never hear of them offering to cut their salaries or any of their perks.
• I’ve seen every episode of the TV show “Lost” until a couple weeks ago, when I missed the first 15 minutes of an episode. Now I have no idea what is going on.
• Personally, I don’t think I’d trust my kids education to anyone who makes less than $65,000 a year.
• One thing is for sure, this county could use an extra lane on 575 both ways. But, one thing we don’t need is a bus lane to and from Atlanta. Our social services are strained, and we don’t need more vagrants.
• I like it when it snows. That’s the only time I’m not being tailgated.
• If you really want to cut down the school expenses, get the school board that has no backbone to get rid of Petruzielo.
• Speed traps only affect those who are speeding.
• Would someone tell the rocket scientist who called in that
Cheney was never president, so his term couldn’t expire. He was vice president. Simple civics lesson 101 is definitely needed.
• What’s going on with the office of the marshal giving out violations to business owners who have their signs outside, harassing the business owners and no continuity from one business to the next?
• There’s another typical brilliant Democrat, thinks Dick Cheney was president.
• I cover one mile of roads picking up aluminum cans that people have thrown out. My husband and I enjoy grilled ribeye steaks once a month from the money I get for the cans. No, I am not poor, but money is money.
• I’m a Cherokee County educator and the person who said we get money from the PTA was wrong. The funds we get are minimal. If you would purchase school supplies for your child, I would not have to use my own money to do that.
• Next time you have a wreck on 575, don’t call 911. Call the sheriff. Holly Springs and Woodstock would appreciate that. See how long it takes the sheriff to get there.
• Who’s brilliant idea was it to make April 1, April Fool’s Day, the national Census Day?
• No teachers in Cherokee County make $65,000. They barely have a four-year degree, and they sure don’t have a master’s, so they're not making $65,000 a year. Give me a break; look at the teachers in Cherokee County.
• That Cherokee County animal control truck still spends a good deal of its time parked in front of a private residence. And, I ditto the previous comment; is that what my taxes go for?
• Councilman Rush is trying to represent the city of Canton by bringing it into the 21st century, supporting small business and keeping competition viable.
• I’m so happy that spring is coming to Cherokee County, and I won’t have to look at the junked cars in my neighbor’s yard, because the leaves will cover the view. Thank you, lords of spring.
• I wonder if the northern arc task force grieves every time somebody is killed on Ga. 20. Bring on the northern arc.
• Why does the Hickory Flat area have hills?
• Is it legal to have nine employees in city-owned vehicles?
• It seems to me that a lot of people reading the Soapbox feel they’re entitled – entitled to have filthy yards, entitled to have trash in the driveway, entitled to drive down the middle of the street going ultra-slow or ultra-fast. If that’s the case, how are we all going to live together if each of us feels entitled to do exactly what we want?
• Definition of middle age: When your broad mind and narrow waist begin to trade places.
