November 8, 2009

Today's Forum sampler

(Editor’s note: The forum appears every day in The Daily Citizen.)

“Walmart selling caskets is nothing, I’m just waiting for them to go into the used car and truck business.”

“Why did they pave Ed Ridley Road in Murray County that only has two people on it but Buford Ridley Road has about 30 families living on it.”

“Murray County needs all new government leadership and needs to go back to a five-man commissioner board. One commissioner has too much say-so.”

“Everything that Rush Limbaugh said on Fox News Sunday was the cold-heart truth, and whether people want to believe it or not doesn’t change the truth.”

“We need a bigger forum.”

“The swine flu vaccination is very detrimental to your health. Do your research at natural news .com. Do not take this terrible vaccination.”

Editor: The swine flu vaccine is highly recommended by a wide range of highly respected health care professionals. A quick look at natural news.com does not impress.

“What’s happening to our post office? I sent a priority package to Atlanta and it took nine days.”

“Thank you Danny Sane for your concern.”

“United Healthcare is nothing more than Medicare.”

“Dalton has a wonderful Italian restaurant up on North Hamilton at Five Points, they’ll fix anything you want.”

“What’s going on at the old fire department on Hill Road, it doesn’t have any signs up but there are plenty of cars there every night.”

“With 237 millionaires serving in Congress, most of the nation's leaders are doing fine compared to many of their constituents living paycheck by paycheck, if they're earning a paycheck at all. We need to start with all new people in Congress.”

“There is a man going around Whitfield County in a little truck selling steaks. Does he have a permit? He has been doing this for two or three weeks now.”

“Some people are driving these $30-40,000 cars because they got them at the bankruptcy sale, or they went to college for 10 years and make the money to afford them. Some people just went to work and earned them.”

“Did they have insurance on the old rock building in Murray County?”

“The caller who referred to wounded veterans as a complete class of unemployable cripples who will forever be the ward of taxpayers should be ashamed of himself.”

“The article in the paper by Mark Hannah was extremely well written and very much appreciated.”

“I have a mascot name for the new Coahulla Creek High School. How about the River Rats?”

“I wish someone would pave the Phoenix school exit and entrance and drive. They have holes out there you would not believe.”

“If we had a ‘spaghetti junction’ at Cleveland Highway and the North Bypass we could save tons of gas.”

“They should crack down on all these pawn shops around Dalton.”

“Commissioner Brooker wants to hire local. We need to work the people we have here first. Community first.”

“Martin’s Italian Restaurant on East Walnut Avenue is a very good Italian restaurant — not overpriced at all.”

“I hope the foolhardy liberal Democrats understand exactly what happened in New Jersey and Virginia. Conservatives are just getting warmed up for 2010 and 2012.”

“If you think Obama’s trillion dollar healthcare plan will make Americans healthier and add to the gross national product, then you don’t have a clue.”

“Southeast has some good players, too.”

“Getting clean underwear in jail is a constitutional right? I guess you could say that being able to buy your own underwear and wash it is a human right, but that’s about as far as it goes.”

“I guess I am a Johnny Come Lately to Murray County. The old rock building needs to be bulldozed down. It’s a waste of money.”

“In Murray County standing up to a bully and putting a fist in his mouth will only get you suspended.”

“Don Cope’s salary is appalling for a small town government job in Georgia. Who allowed this to happen to our community?”

Editor: Dalton Utilities is overseen by the Water, Light and Sinking Fund. Current members of that board are George Mitchell, Tom Pendley, Smith Foster, Frank Robertson and Cathy Holmes.

“Murray County city residents may pay additional taxes but out in the county we don’t have the chance to pay extra taxes and get extra benefits. I wouldn’t mind paying little more to get the conveniences city residents get.”

“I was not surprised that Obama got the Nobel Price without having any accomplishments since America gave him the White House, with the same credentials.”

“Is Coahulla Creek High School the best the school board could do? At least we can be relieved that Suck Creek, Gnatty Branch and Fitified Spring are in Tennessee and not in northern Whitfield County.”

“To some if you write a letter to the editor and it doesn’t agree with their idea, then you don’t know what you are talking about. George Bush and Dick Cheney started two wars and ran up a trillion dollar deficit. We night not be any better off in four years but let’s wait and see. Give President Obama a chance.”

“Will Coahulla Creek High be the Crickets or the Carp?”

“They could have left creek off the name of the new school. I hope they don’t use a mocassin. A bobcat or panther would be a good mascot.”

“Show me where in the Constitution you are guaranteed clean underwear.”

“Had the prisoners had their bottoms paddled and character taught to them when they were young they wouldn’t be in jail without clean underwear. It’s the parents’ fault, to a large degree.”

“The Murray County school board could save a lot of money for the taxpayers during this time of financial crisis by dropping football at Murray County High School.”

“Unemployment is a lagging indicator. It will be one of the last things to bounce back as we recover.”

“We have a lot of talented football players at Southeast. They are not all at Dalton and Northwest.”

Editor: The Raiders went 5-5 this season and earned some impressive wins.

“A great big thank you to the Whitfield County Road Department for the great job they did replacing a drainage tile and cleaning out my ditch on Scarlett Drive.”

“Anarchy begins where leadership ends.”

“I was pleased to see that Dalton College does a have a Republican on the staff. I was shocked by that. Most of their speakers are liberals. Maybe in the future they might have someone speak who is a conservative?”

“Is the rock wall in Murray County safe? If so I say clean it up and make it the center of a park. It could become Murray County’s Stonehenge.”

“I’d like to see Dan Peeples on the back of a garbage truck picking up trash in Varnell.”

“The latest stats have the third leading rusher at Southeast, as well as the leading passer, the top two receivers, the third player in scoring, the second in punting and the first in tackles.”

“To the one who said we are all paying for the stupidity of George Bush: Do Chris Dodd and Barney Frank enter in this equation after causing the housing mess? And what about Obama and his bailout of Wall Street?”

“Will they be the Coahulla Creek Catfish or the Coahulla Creek Minnows?”

“What has happened to chivalry in Dalton. I went to the Dalton Post Office today with my right arm in a sling. I was trying to get the mail out of my PO box and having great difficulty. There were three men standing close to me and none of them offered to help. A lady did help me with the door as I was leaving. Is it the men to blame or the parents who raised them?”

“Who makes all the decisions for Murray County, David Ridley or Tyson Haynes?”

“Due to the great number of individuals who routinely park in the fire lane at the Food Lion in Rocky Face an enterprising police officer could write several tickets.”

“While we are being distracted by talk of healthcare reform the military and financial machinery of this country is rolling right along. Three wars and counting.”

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