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Bill Simon, Monday, February 9th, 2015
Prelude Now, just, for a moment, picture the scenario we have in this state with regards to our public school education system: We still rank somewhere in the bottom 10-percentile (46th, 47th, 48th, 49th or 50th) where we have been for, likely, at least 50 years. Every budget year, we hear cries and lobbying for […]
Posted in Georgia Politics, Georgia State Senate, Law and Justice, Life & Liberty, Rumors, WTF | Comments Off on The Origination of SB 72 (aka “Police Dogs are Human Beings”)
Bill Simon, Friday, February 6th, 2015
Rumors have it that the Georgia State Senate is set to pass a bill that will turnover thousands of years of societal and legal precedent in this country (if not, perhaps, the entire world and/or universe) that will officially award “person” status to the species of animal known as the canine. State Senator Jeff Mullis […]
Posted in Georgia Politics, Georgia State Senate, Rumors, WTF | 1 Comment »
PV, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
AboutForsyth.net has an interesting 26-second bit: Georgia Governor Nathan Deal greets a Democratic tracker at the Roswell Republican Rally on August 2, 2014. GOV. DEAL: Hey, how are you doing? DEM. TRACKER: Good morning, Governor. GOV. DEAL: Very nice to meet you. DEM. TRACKER: Thank you. GOV. DEAL: I hope my people treat you with […]
Posted in Georgia Politics, Georgia Races, Georgia Republican Party, Governor Race, Rumors, WTF | Comments Off on Governor Deal’s Cognitive Dissonance in the Treatment of Commoners
Bill Simon, Thursday, August 28th, 2014
Introduction If you are not “up” on the bullshit that happened over the weekend on August 23rd at Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in Dawson County, where someone was thrown-out and subsequently arrested for videotaping speeches, these are the links for you to read to get-up to speed very quickly so you can follow along with the […]
Posted in Burt's Pumpkin Patch, Georgia Politics, Law and Justice, Life & Liberty, Odds and Ends, WTF | 1 Comment »
Bill Simon, Thursday, May 1st, 2014
Introduction Back on March 17th, 2014 a Political Boxers email was issued that covered an event dealing with the Nancy Jester campaign for State School Superintendent. (See here for the article in case you missed it) It seems that the Jester Campaign’s antics exposed by that article failed to stop…and they failed to stop to […]
Posted in DeKalb County, Education, Georgia Politics, Georgia Races, WTF | Comments Off on Nancy Jester Campaign: Fascists Extraordinaire
PV, Monday, March 3rd, 2014
Folks, if you ever wondered how it could be that some legislators tell you one thing at a GOP meeting, and then you learn later how they voted for something that completely contradicted what they said…well, all you got to do is take a read of Representative Sam Moore‘s description of “Corruption as far as […]
Posted in Georgia Politics, Georgia Races, Georgia State House, WTF | 2 Comments »
PV, Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
[Source for below post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/alt.law-enforcement/dYyFpuVBGcQ] GIVE US BACK OUR CHILDREN, & NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY COURT JUSTICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Vicki Pierce August 5, 1998 KLEIN ENDORSED BY CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY GROUPS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL After reviewing past records of Republican Attorney General candidates, mothers interested in protecting children from child abuse and sexual exploitation, […]
Posted in Georgia Politics, Georgia Races, Georgia State House, Press Releases, WTF | Comments Off on From 1998: David Ralston’s Record of Fighting for Child Molestors
Bill Simon, Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE MEMO TO the following Ga State Reps: (1) Dempsey, Katie 13th HD (RS)* (2) Benton, Tommy 31st (RS)* (3) Clark, Valerie 101st (RS)* (4) Brockway, Buzz 102nd (RS)* (5) Kaiser, Margaret 59th (DS)* (6) Powell, Jay 171st (RS)* CC: Governor Nathan Deal CC: Ga Economic Development Department CC: Everyone Else From: Bill Simon, […]
Posted in Georgia State House, Georgia State Senate, WTF | Comments Off on HB290: State House Members Want To Kill Businesses
Bill Simon, Friday, January 24th, 2014
Prelude Over in DeKalb County, in the indictment process of former county CEO Burrell Ellis, some intriguing developments have made their way to the public eye via this article. What is of significance to this post is the following statement made by Don Geary, DeKalb County’s former chief assistant district attorney, in response to the […]
Posted in Georgia Attorney General, Georgia Politics, Odds and Ends, Rumors, WTF | 2 Comments »
PV, Thursday, January 16th, 2014
“Olens could not be reached for comment about why he attended the private meeting.” Rumors have it that, in a top-secret meeting held last Tuesday between representatives of John Williams, et al. (for his Cobb County Riverwalk project, which is seeking multi-millions of dollars in tax exemptions/abatement from the Cobb County School District), members of […]
Posted in Cobb County, Georgia Attorney General, Georgia Politics, WTF | Comments Off on AG Sam Olens Meddling in Cobb County School Board Business
Bill Simon, Monday, January 13th, 2014
“No Bill” Do you know what the legal term No Bill means? No Bill is a legal term associated with a grand jury’s determination that communicates several messages, not the least of which is “There is no evidence to support a prosecution of this person for what she is accused of doing.” No Bill was […]
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Bill Simon, Thursday, December 19th, 2013
Imagine, Ladies & Gentlemen, for a moment that you met this wonderful person whom you know from the moment you saw them that that person was who you wanted to be with for the rest of your life (or, at least 33 years of the rest of your life). You went on a whirlwind courtship […]
Posted in Cobb County, WTF | Comments Off on The ‘Bad Faith’ Braves