herbiejuan

He looks just like his dad :)

Cool I like your premise. Criminals cost society plenty, there should be a way to offset that. The South had a chain gang system where inmates were shackled together and made to work on roads or on the farm. CC has both county and state inmates picking up trash and bushogging the right of ways while others do maintenance and cleaning. It works well if you match the right inmate to the right job, some inmates are unsupervised while others are under the gun so to speak. When I heard that the EPA cannot clean up all the toxic sites in this nation due to budget restraints and figured labor costs had to account for a good portion of that, something clicked. Operating a bulldozer isn't rocket science, neither is driving a truck. For that matter working in a disposal facility doesn't require much more than a certificate if I'm not mistaken. The National Park Service cannot perform maintenance because fo budget cuts. If a campground needs rebuilding or trails cleared or buildings painted then put the inmates to work doing it. Heck some of them prolly did some of these things in the real world and have the knowledge and skills to go right to work. For others it could be an opportunity to learn something that will have a significant effect on thier ability to get a good job when they leave the system.

I like Geo's chicken and egg example I spent more than my fair share of time at tittie bars... I went because it was cheap entertainment while getting plastered. The girls danced for tips and a percntage of the bar tab, I'd buy them a drink every now n then but mostly slipped a bill wherever it wuz supposed to go ;) It got boring after awhile. And then I quit drinking There is a wide variety of porn flavors online some are now airbrushing their models to entice membership interested in the younger look. I think part of the problem is the easy access to pornographic material. I mean give me a break, a kid with half a brain can access plenty and not pay a penny for it, from beastiality to golden showers. It is out there free for the taking. There was just something special about being a teenager with a copy of Playboy...

Same to ya Folks I hope its a good day for juan and all

Why Thanks Roy :) I think the beginning of theend come when we realise GOD loves us (and each other) where we are right now after that there is no big fight between people there is no cause for disagreement between nations (we are all wrong) there is no reason for folks to hate because we all realise we are flawed ROY you post alot why not respond to some of my questions, suppostions and thoughts?????

Roy thank you for your thoughts In the beginning was GOD Everything that comes after can be led directly to that one statement in the beginning was God, after that He created the earth sometime inbetween lucifer decided to meet the darkside he met it which meant we got fucced over but ROY... in the beginning was GOD HE created it all so if he created it, then perhaps he created good and evil? with a holy kiss and a damned good earnest feeling Mikey

Wow Rascal what an ordeal you experienced!! I feel kinda sheepish saying this but I was asleep while the storm passed through here. I did wake up @ 4 and turned the tv on and saw where the Atlanta area got hammered. It looked bad but not nearly as serious as what you guys faced. When I lived on Elm St. we had several twisters pass overhead and drop down just to the east of us. I recall being hunkered down under the stairs in the hall with three kids two cats a dog and wife praying like crazy that it wouldn't hit us. Scary moments for sure, glad you weathered it ok.

I think thats a provisional yes but I'm not sure.

I'm speechless which in itself is a rare event

I think society can and should hold the recipients of society benefits accountable for the gift. Given that society has an investment in that education, society should reasonably expect a return on that investment. I would also expect this to transcand politics and become a major factor in our diverse economic portfolio but I suspect I am dreaming.

It's Bowdon not Bowden, it's named after some confederate general that did something magnificent before being captured I think. I've heard many opinions on legalizing pot. I don't think it will happen because too many people are feeding at the trough. DEA, FBI State County and City interdiction efforts, not to mention the Border Patrol, Customs and the Military. Then you can count the revenue this trade brings into the host country in terms of legal and illegal investments and add to that the humdreds of folks making money cultivating processing and transporting the product to market and it constitutes a sizable amount of cash floating around a country. Too many hogs at the trough as somebodies grandpa used to say...

Africa was seen politically as a european problem. They colonized it, let them deal with it. Add to that the lack of coverage in the media and me thinks ol Bill said, let sleeping dogs lie.

Happy Birthday Hope

Funny you should mention the WGDTF Some years ago there was moonshine made in these parts. Folks made it, folks bought it and everybody took care of each other, things ran smoothly and everybody was friends. :)

I heard at the barbershop that a quarter of Alabama Dirtweed goes for $35-40 and you'll pay close to $100 for hydro. Apparantly the hydro system allows more complete control over heat light humidity and nutrients and therefore produces a higher quality product. He said you could get instructions and everything you need online. Really he did

Sure Tom we believe ya

The salon was across the street from the chiefs' restaurant The Southern Lady and within spitting distance of the police dept. I do remember (fondly) those four finger lids going for 5-10$ ahh those were the dayz Lord Lord Lord...we made it to the national news ROFLMAO!!!!

Bowdon Police Chief Mark Brock was on routine patrol Saturday night when he came across a burglary in progress at a hair salon. According to police, the suspects were after more than 200 pounds of marijuana being stored in a freezer chest at Crane and Co. Salon on Shirley Avenue in Bowdon. The pot had a street value of a quarter of a million dollars. The salon owner, Erica Evette Crane, 33, her brother Howard Bernard Crane, 20, and Kareem Lee Evans, 18, all of Carrollton, were arrested and charged with trafficking marijuana. West Georgia Drug Task Force Agent Mike Fritz said Erica Crane’s brother was apparently trying to steal the large amount of marijuana in his sister’s shop with the aid of Evans. I asked Mark if he needed any help recounting the pot, he chuckled, I guess that was a no ;)

Last year while sipping whiskey (not a good idea)and watching a movie I came across a somewhat repressed memory from my childhood. Memories of a sexual incident but mostly of shame and humiliation. It involved the nuns from Nativity School and 6 yrs of physical and emotional abuse. Now these memories weren't totally repressed, I had taken them out a bit at a time and examined them over the years but that night they came out altogether in a rush of anguish and pain. When that happened I felt an incredable amount of rage towards the perps and had they been in my living room I could, in that rage, quite easily have killed them with little or no regrets. What made my circumstance so unusual was that the originating event was known, not only to my parents (who confronted the nun) but also to the other parents whose children attended the school and THEY did NOTHING. I think realising that (as an adult) made my anger/rage that much more intense as I felt (as that small child), abandoned and foresaken by those entrusted to my care and safekeeping. Since I had used alcohol to self medicate before I knew I needed to stop so I started going back to AA for support and brought up my experiences with some trusted friends there. What I learned was many, many people in recovery (and not) had similar experiences, that we were the walking wounded and we self medicated to forget those experiences. I called the SF Archdiocise and spoke to their abuse liasion about my experience. She wrote me a long letter acknowledging and apologizing for what happened and repeatedly reminded me it was not my fault. When I read that (and I had to read it several times before it sunk in), I felt the greatest release from the chains of my past. I realised the shame and the disgrace belonged on the nuns and the church for allowing that to happen and not on me. I am grateful to you ladies for baring your souls it's silence that permits these things to continue

Ed Harris or on a bad hair day Max Von Sydow

Happy Birthday Abi I sure hope it was a good 'un