Comments

• On the article Should This Church Get So Much Attention?

  

  Observer

  3:48 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Hmmm. So even though these people have not engaged in any act of violence, you label them as terrorists.

  And just who would do this "classification" that you speak of?

  I do not support these people or their actions, which are reprehensible, but as Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote in her biography of Voltair , "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it", and so will I.

  When you become an adult in our society, which is based upon law, you accept that
  there will be those who hold opinions that are contrary to your own and whose actions are repugnant. That is the price we pay for upholding concepts such as freedom of speech.

  Let them be shunned, let them be mocked. But don't trample on everyone's constitutional rights just because we disagree with them.

• On the Blog Post The $500,000 mistake in Smyrna

  

  Observer

  2:00 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013

  "not happening and nowhere in the budget."

  That comment shows you the thinking process of our current elected officials. The response should have been immediate "it's not happening" when first proposed and not qualified by "nowhere in the budget".

  The city's first priority should always be taxpayers, not city workers.

  Local government should concern itself solely with delivering water, sewer and emergency services at a reasonable cost to the taxpayer.

• On the Blog Post The $500,000 mistake in Smyrna

  Observer

  12:27 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013

  Hmm, Isn't Planet Fitness opening in the old Kroger building at the corner of Concord and South Cobb.

  Also, don't they only charge $10 per month.

  Let's see, at $10 per month, assuming all of Smyrna government employees participated, that would cost $3,000 per month. Of course the truth is that perhaps only about 10% to 20% of the workforce would actually use it and then for not more than a couple of months.

  Well, we know for certain why Max Bacon supports it. He already has what amounts to a private swimming pool at the Aline Wolfe Adult Recreation Center. Now if this passes he gets to have access to a private gym.

  Must be nice to be the Commissar!

• On the Blog Post The $500,000 mistake in Smyrna

  Observer

  9:20 am on Wednesday, May 8, 2013

  The trend of accelerating benefits and wages for public workers is continuing unabated from the federal down to the local level.

  How long until government workers have their own stores to shop in and their own government supplied dacha?

  Hey, it only taxpayers money and there's a never ending supply of that right?

• On the article Campbell Is No. 1917 High School in USA, Says Newsweek

  

  Observer

  4:38 pm on Tuesday, May 7, 2013

  There are approximately 27,000 public high schools in the United States

  That would put CHS in the top 7% of all high schools.

• On the article Fake iPad Sold in Smyrna Was Piece of Glass

  Observer

  2:23 pm on Tuesday, May 7, 2013

  No, they are not getting rid of the Pilot.

  In the original plans the Pilot would have been removed, but Pilot's lawyers and a little money given to the right people prevailed and instead DOT changed their plans.

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• On the article What’s Your Driving Pet Peeve?

  

  Observer

  1:13 pm on Tuesday, April 30, 2013

  When did we as a society reach the point where it is commonly believed that it is right and proper that other people should pay for the things that an individual being an adult should be personally responsible for?

  It doesn't matter if the cost is 63 cents or 100 dollars. You should not expect me to pay for your transportation. I already pay for the education of other people's children, which I acknowledge is proper as an educated populace is essential, but when did it become my responsibility to provide them with breakfast, lunch and dinner as well? Now I am expected to pay for their means of transportation after they have reached adulthood?

  When does the entitlement stop? The country is already broke and still the clamor is "give me more, more, more".

• On the article What’s Your Driving Pet Peeve?

  

  Observer

  9:56 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013

  Cobb County provides a subsidy of $12,000,000 yearly to CCT (Cobb County Transit) that covers 48% of it's expenses.

  Passenger fares only cover 27% of the costs of operating the system.

  The obvious answer is to triple fares so that they reflect the actual costs involved for providing the service.

  But, that would go against the "progressive" mindset, wouldn't it?

• On the article What’s Your Driving Pet Peeve?

  

  Observer

  5:29 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013

  Which is what people are doing right now. Not taking public transportation because it doesn't meet their needs.

  As for your comment "then you really don't need to comment on the issue of public transportation since it doesn't affect you"

  Yes I do, as it is money that is lifted from my pocket to pay for these boondoggles.

  Don't ask me to pay for something and then expect me to be silent.

• On the article What’s Your Driving Pet Peeve?

  

  Observer

  4:17 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013

  "People would have to go along with it"

  By that you mean that people need to be forced to take public transportation by making travel by private vehicle as expensive as possible.

  I do not take public transportation, as well as the majority of people in Cobb County or Greater Atlanta for that matter, because it doesn't go where I/we need it to go.