Xpinionated

From an AJC story regarding the removal of the ad valorem tax: 

Most Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the legislation. However, Rep. David Lucas (D-Macon) warned that lawmakers might wind up starving state coffers by cutting taxes at a time when the population is increasing, along with the need for services.

“You’ve got to fund state government,” Lucas said, “and state government runs off money, not water.”

Uh, Mr Lucas, this is Georgia…we ain’t got no damn water either!!!

You’re seeing the blood of two Iraqi Christian women slain allegedly by private security firm Blackwater.  As the link indicates, these firm has had its fair share of incidences…Oh by the way, one of the women slain was a mother of three daughters.

Georgia is in a drought.  One of the worse droughts in recent history.  I’ve done my part, partly out of laziness, in that I’ve washed my car twice this summer (if you know me and my car you know that hurts) and I’ve watered my grass exactly zero times.  

What does Coca Cola and Stone Mountain do to show their doing their part during some of the harshest water restrictions ever laid down in Georgia?  They will use 38 gallons of water a minute for 12 - 18 hours a day for the next month as they make snow, yes snow, for Coca Cola’s Snow Mountain event in November.  1.2 million gallons of water for making snow….in Atlanta, Ga…..in 80 degree heat…..for entertainment purposes.

Their rationale?  The number of gallons they are using is but a fraction of what the golf courses in Atlanta are using.  So if I steal but a fraction of what a bank robber steals, it’s all good?  Not to mention, many of the golf courses supply their own water and are not taking from the ever diminishing supply of drinking water. 

I may actually have to ban coke products now.  Wait, I’m a Pepsi drinker anyway and I banned Stone Mountain years ago after that July 4th fiasco.  I guess I can do my part to spread the word….and no, I will not wash my car in protest….but I should!

Wouldn’t it be more prudent to keep our (our being the U.S.) military capabilities and defense mechanisms a secret? What ever happened to not letting your enemy know what’s up your sleeve?

I’m sure the U.S. has other tactics that the media hasn’t storied up on but this reminds me of the warning to Iraq that we would attack in 48 hours. I find that sneak attacks always seem to work better. Like Pearl Harbor, for example. Do you think Pearl Harbor would have been as effective had the Japanese told us their plans?

Or remember, ‘The British are coming, the British are coming’? Remember how well prepared the colonists were now that they knew an attack was inevitable. The British were caught off guard because they didn’t know that we knew they were coming….

Now that North Korea knows at least part of our defensive gameplan, they can re-cooordinate their offensive……Not a great strategic call in my opinion…..