Retired or Unemployed????
Is it reasonable that people retiring from the school system and receiving retirement benefits be carried as "lay-offs" and receive unemployment benefits also? Is the county being hit financially twice as hard through our contributions to the retirement system and the unemployment benefits? While, on the surface at least, it may seem like a nice benefit for some it is being paid for by others and the cost keeps increasing each year. This is unconscionable and should be stopped immediately. Allen Barrett
posted by Allen Barrett | 1:47 PM
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Well that gives new meaning to "have your cake and eat it to"
If this is documented as occuring, then the offenders should be turned into the TN Department of Labor immediately.
Or better yet, call Phil Williams at Channel 5 and let him do an investigative story.
The teachers in question did not ask for this "benefit". If the state law says they can draw unemployment because they received notice they would not be rehired, I guess they can draw unemployment benefits. Is this the moral thing to do? Each teacher receiving the notice from Mr. Jackson will have to look within themselves and decide if they want to apply for unemployment benefits. It is probably legal. The real question you should be asking is why did they receive these notices in the first place? They were probably "100 day contracts", which to my knowledge does not have an automatic renewal clause. Do you also feel the non-tenured teachers that received pink slips should not apply for unemployment? They have NO guarantee they will be called back in the fall. This is nothing more than a scare tactic to get the county commission to give the school board more money to squander. All concerned citizens need to go to the school board work session tomorrow at 5PM at the central office. They will be discussing budget items - for the current school year as well as next year. Find out how much money they got from the taxpayers of this county they plan to move to that black hole they fondly call "fund balance".
If it's wrong, it's wrong and should be corrected. But if you're going to call that Williams guy, you might as well call in the assinine and totally insane Michael Del Journeau from 99.7fm while you're at it.
Speaking as one who is soon to retire from the Giles School System I would like some more info on this. I certainly have not been offered any such retirement
"benefits". I would like for Mr. Barrett to give us more facts with detailed info on this. I would hate to think that I am not one of the pampered who have managed to get extra feathers for their nests!!!!!
It absolutely correct that teachers who were let go can and SHOULD collect unemployment and the school board and commissioners knew it before the pink slips were issued. This "aint our first rodeo" with this game. Mr. Little did it because, (in my humble opinion) his wife and therefor HE benefited DIRECTLY from this action.
Don't really know about the retirement and collecting unemployment issue...need more info before automatically jumping to conclusions that there is a great big conspiracy of corruption on THAT particular issue. I do know that the law states that in order to collect unemployment, one must be AVAILABLE for work.....
The ones legally drawing the money have a absolute right to it; they lost their job and they paid into the system, call it a refund if it makes you feel better. (a side note here, please try and comprehend this folks) teacher's do NOT EARN, EMPHASIZE EARN!) an income during the summer. The checks they receive are in reality an interest free loan just like IRS refunds, to the school system which during the summer they must pay off that loan. Their salary is simply divided by 12 pay periods instead of ten. They have already earned and paid taxes on those $$$$$. Huge difference in those who collect after "quitting" a job, which is basically what retirement is.
Three teachers that were pink slipped are Fed. programs employees. They were pink slipped and will be immediately rehired under the stimulus money. They were getting their previous pay from General Fund money. This way they will free up some GF money and the board will highly recommend that at least 3 new teachers being let go continue using the federal fund money. Believe me the board has brought this to Jackson's attention about pink slippign every TOM, Dick and Harry when some are already retired and working 120 days.
I have never heard anything quite so amazing as the rationalization made by April 30, 12:05 AM when they stated ---"(a side note here, please try and comprehend this folks) teacher's do NOT EARN, EMPHASIZE EARN!) an income during the summer. The checks they receive are in reality an interest free loan just like IRS refunds, to the school system which during the summer they must pay off that loan. Their salary is simply divided by 12 pay periods instead of ten. They have already earned and paid taxes on those $$$$$."---
Teachers are paid an annual salary for which they work approximately 200 days with an option of receiving their salary in ten pay periods or in twelve. Most chose twelve so that they have a steady income year round. Whether ten or twelve the total amount is the same. There is no loan, the taxes are taken out in exactly the same way and that statement was the dumbest by an educated person I have read in some time.
Howard, I don't know where you get your information, but teachers do not have an option of getting paid 10 or 12 months. The only option is 12 months. Teacher contract also calls for 205 days. So, yes, in effect, teachers are "loaning" part of their salaries to the school board and call in the loan during the months of June and July. And, the school board will not let go of the last loan instalment until June 30.
Teachers work a 200 day contract. 180 work days, 5 inservice days, 5 assigned days and 10 vacation days that they are paid for but do not take. They are paid 12 months for 10 months work. Money is set aside from every day that they work so that they can be during all 12 months rather than 10. Some surrounding counties pay their teacher 10 pay checks. During the summer months they get nothing. I believe that most people would rather have 12 pay chekcs than 10 larger pay checks. The average person would not be able to set aside the bill money for the two unpaid months.
Howard, you are watching too much cnbc or cnn...the statements in the referred text are factual, the money is a loan to the school system.Teachers only have a job for 10 months out of the year, the board, (previous poster is also correct, there is NO option regarding 10 v. 12 mo paycheck.)The money that is returned to teachers in June and July is money they have earned during the previous school year, which makes it a loan to the school board until they release it. The board deducts a portion or each employees checks and put it wherever they choose and keeps it until the choose to give it to the rightful wage earners....yes the same amt of taxes are also deducted from each check, however it was obvious to me that the post was referring to taxes over the course of a year, not payroll tax. I have read and re-read that post and cannot find what was "dumb" about the one you referred to or perhaps you are beginning to develop a taste for kool aid and have decided to be one those who attack the character and intelligence of those who KNOW things you do not.
Let's explain this simply, with nice round numbers. Suppose a salary is annually $24 k. Now without taxes, (remember, we are keeping is simple for the "dumb" educator)...Lets see that would come to about 2,400 per month. But the the teacher only makes 2,000 a month...where is the other 400? It is loaned to the school board until June and July and the board "generously" returns it to the one who earned it. I call it a loan...call it whatever you wish, and by all means forget about discussing it with teachers who know...makes much more sense to call that poster dumb and attack the person, not the issue. Funny, I've ready you posts before and you are usually pretty rational, and interested in truth. This time you just attacked and called names. I expected more from you.
Some of you are taking hair splitting to a new extreme! It's no more a "loan" during the 10 months of employment than the employee "loaning" it back to the School Board for the other 2 months. It simply is a way of paying an employee a flat level on an annualized basis.
When I accrue vacation days that I have yet to take, I certainly don't look at that as a loan to my employer. I look at it as a benefit yet to be utilized.
If an employee (teacher or otherwise) nitpicks over issues such as this, then they are more concerned with how “the man has got them down” rather than imparting positive life long lessons in our children.
I reacted based on the terminology used by the poster who referred to the loan of their money to the school board then having that loan repaid during the summer. I continue to believe that is utter nonsense. First you can not loan that which is not yours to control. If teachers have allowed the school system to withhold part of their salary without their approval then obviously teachers are not the brightest bulb in the room. The truth of the matter is most teachers are not fully understanding of what happens with their salary. That doesn't mean they are not intelligent only ignorant of some aspects of life like everyone else. Ask a teacher what percentage of their salary is withheld for tax purposes, for FICA, etc or how much cash they could gain if they instead of the government were paid for unemployment, disability, medical insurance, etc?
If you have been led to believe that the two months teachers are paid while not working is repayment of a loan they made to the school system that's fine but please excuse me if I don't buy into it.
If teachers are not given the option to take ten pay periods or twelve then why? Where is the union that represents them? Why would anyone allow their employer to withhold their money just because the employer wanted too?
Teachers are allowed to have the board divide their 10 months pay into ten pay checks or twelve pay checks. Salary divided into twelve pay checks certainly makes it more likely that we can pay our bills all summer long---since money in the hand has a tendency to disappear quickly even when you try to budget.
What most teachers are not allowed to do is work 12 months--because teachers' classroom work for pay can only cover the months that Giles County students are in school. Taxpayers would really be up in arms if we were working in the classrooms for two extra pay checks when we do not have students.
We would love to have these pay checks for the time spent in planning and preparaing for the next year's activities. But most committed teachers do this during the summer with no pay.
There are however some teachers who work twelve month contracts as needed by the school board to fill summer school positions,summer enrichment programs, etc. I have worked in these positions but I prefer the freedom to be able to spend time with my family without having to schedule them around a work schedule. This way I have time to be with family but I can also work at school and at home on planning activities for the coming year.
So we do have the choice of 12 month pay checks but the 10 month salary is only divided twelve ways instead of being a full twelve months salary---unless there is a need for twelve month contract teachers. You can bet there is a waiting line for the few jobs available.
Giles County Teacher
I hear that Sherry Polly has resigned her position as head of Leaps and Bounds. Does this mean that she is retired or unemployed?
Was there any pressure placed on her to vacate her position? I would certainly hope so as she seemed to have let power go to her head. Guess that can happen easily to a little old county girl.
Who will be her replacment? Mrs. Coleman would make an excelent new director. She is level headed,a very capable leader, an exemplary teacher and Christian lady.
A tremendous improvement from the previous leader.
Since Sherry is a tenured teacher she will return to the classroom, or at least that would be my assumption. Maybe this will heal some of the wounds at Southside. I certainly hope so.
The classroom at the same school where the ones who have always done their job while she received favoritism? Where she wrote lies, which NOBODY denies about employees on school email which is against WRITTEN Board policy? Where she was constantly absent from her classroom? Which teacher who has been there doing their job gets the boot because of her return? Surely the principal at southside has enough smarts not to allow her back there?Would she slap the entire faculty in the face like that?I can't and won't believe that!
Horrified parent
This mess is such a shame for the Polly fmaily to have to endure. They can only hope that "this too shall pass", but with the mean-spirited people on this blog, I'm not sure how long it will take. Shame on you people for this! And NO, I am in no way related to this good family.
I hope some of you found pause to pray over this yesterday while you were warming a church pew!
Because of the pay difference I don't think that someone can be transferred to the Leaps position. It would have to be advertised. Polly would be able to take the position of whomever goes into hers. Might be best for the staff at Southside that she go to another school. That is an executive decision.
The only thing that has been done to the Polly family has been the result of Mrs Polly's behavior.
It is she and she alone that is responsible for the situation, she created it and she perpetuated it.
11:42
So it's your self-appointed duty to noise the message abroad and make sure everybody knows? How tacky. Why don't you and those like you butt out and let the proper authorities and/or procedure take care of things....if the need be to do so. Shame on you. How would you like it someone JUST LIKE YOU were out there maligning your family name? One of these days, one of you is going to mess with the wrong one!
Guess if I deserved it I would have to put up with it.
Most of us have to live through the embarrassments that come with the mistakes that we have made.
To May 18 6:25am Sherry Polly brought on her own problems. It is time you stop whinning about her self-created situation. What about the 'mess' and heartache Polly has CAUSED other teachers in the system - let alone the SHAME SHE brought to her family? You must be blind or never get out of your house. There is another saying you might remember 'what comes around goes around'. Sure this self created situation of Polly's will pass like a gall stone.
Was Leaps and Bounds advertised in the beginning? NO! It is NOT a teaching position, it a grant. Polly got $40,000 a year for travel expenses. I mean to ride the roads! No, Polly would not just take the position of the person who got her position - unless Jacko wanted it. My guess is Polly will go to Southside and get the position she wants. Have heard Polly and principal are joined at the hip. Doesn't really matter that Polly has walked on more than half the teachers at Southside, and hacked off SEVERAL parents. Just want to make Polly happy seems to be the game.
Wow! Sherry Polly must have resigned before being fired or something. I heard the budget was $58,000 short???? What, say what!! I heard the teachers for Leaps and Bounds are working FREE! What a joke! Must have been too many staff parties and 'conferences' out of town or something. Why would someone resign from $87,000 to work for $47,000??? Husband tired of her burning up the roads or something???
This thread turned into something that was not originally intended. If you folks want a "bash sherry polly" thread, ask for it. And, no, she isn't a friend of mine. Really don't know the woman. However, all this got started on a "rumor". Is it a fact? Has anyone called sherry polly to ask her if it is true? I do not intend to as I really don't care. Leaps and Bounds doesn't come into my world.
At the school committee last night it was revealed that $28,000.00 16,000 this year and 12,00o from last year was being moved from the schools general fund into the Leaps program. After much direct questions from Mr Barrett it was finally said that the money being moved was from "gifts" made by individuals to the Leaps program. It was also pointed out in several meetings that Leaps is fully funded by federal and state funds and that is why the director was able to set her own salary and not be under school supervision. What a revelation. Who did the donations come from? If their was money donated last year how did the books get reconciled without the money being passed on to the Leaps program last year?
There is NO, repeat NO love lost beween Ms Polly and myself, in fact, she hates me, but the purpose of this blog is to get accurate info out to the public and in this case, she is not the villian. In fact the $$$$ were actually taken from her budget under questionable ethical situations and placed in the general fund. She had to provide proof that the $$$$$$ did not belong to the BOE and from what I understand, it was not an easy task. This is one time when she was not to blame. Like I said, she hates me, but let's stick to the facts, not personal grievances
In the Know
to May 18, 6:50 p.m.
Well, did you find time to pray for her at church on Sunday? I think you might pray for strength to bridle your own tongue while you are busy praying for all the other "sinners".
Yes, what goes around comes around. One of these days you will find that out first-hand when you mess with the wrong ones and they find out who you are. So, here's another saying: Be aware to beware.
To May 19, 11:19 am Like, ump, if you don't really care, uh why are you on this site! Go figure, like ump!
To May 19, 1:52pm Looks like the IRS would want gifts of $28,000 and $12,000 declared. I KNOW for a FACT Leaps IS NOT fully funded by the State of TN, as far as Polly's salary goes. How you say??? I called the State Department several months ago and spoke to the woman over Leaps for the State of TN. She mailed (snail mail) me a copy of the breakdown of employees and salaries in the Leaps program in Giles County. Polly's 'listed' salary $45,000!!!!!!!! I assured her that must be a mistake. She said NO IT IS NOT. She said the BOE must be supplementing her salary. Call the State Dept. yourself. Better yet, reveal yourself and I will mail you a copy.
May 19, 5:28pm You imply YOU ARE ACTING like a 'Christian'. Where in the BIBLE does it say a Christian should make threats and tell someone to watch their back or some harm might come to them. "mess with the wrong ones and they find out who you are. Be aware to beware." Oh ya! The redneck version of the bible. I did find time to pray for all the lives Polly has so selfishly, arrogantly and willfully placed in pure HELL this year with her TOTAL disregard for the truth!
I also remember a similar statement on an earlier blog, the 'Shirey' thread, with almost the same threat.
Question?? Person who DOES NOT know Sherry Polly, but has great compassion for her. WHAT ABOUT THE TEACHERS, CHILDREN AND PARENTS POLLY HAS BY CHOICE WALKED ON - OR TRIED TO????? Where is YOUR compassion for them 'Christian' person???? Now that Polly IS caught with her hand in the cookie jar we should all feel sorry for her. It is my daily 'prayer' that others who have taken the 'cookies from the cookie jar' will too be exposed.
The $45,000 the state has would be the amount her degree and experience would pay her. The rest is the amount that she budgeted herself out of Leaps funds.
to 7:35
Please point out where I "implied" anything, other than the hypocrisy of it all. In addition, what threats have I made? I simply stated that, one of these days, someone is going to say the wrong thing to the wrong person and there will be a price to pay. If you felt threatened by that, too bad, but it doesn't alter the fact that some people out there will NOT tolerate such activity. Actually, I was issuing a warning rather than a threat. By the way, with all your wisdom and superior intelligence, why would you assume that what I said came from the "redneck version" of the Bible? How ridiculous! I suppose those of us who lack your brilliance would be considered rednecks, particularly when our thoughts do not align perfectly with yours. Please don't talk about arrogance to me. It appears that you may need to look the word up in your dictionary.
You seem so full of hatred that I am having a very hard time believing that you, as the Christian you say I'm not, prayed for Mrs. Polly. Surely, you can see why I would feel that way. Right?
To May 20 4:15 Get a grip! You need to go back and read YOUR posting of May 19 5:28pm. I encourage you to read YOUR words sloooooowly. Hopefully, you can comprehend YOUR OWN words. It amazes me how you try to talk out of both sides of your mouth to cover your REAL intentions. If you can't manage to comprehend YOUR OWN words, I just say 'Bling!' to the empty cavity you carry around on your neck. Forgive and forget, relive and regret. Some of 'us' DID 'forgive and forget'. NOW 'we' MUST 'relive and regret'. Until YOU fully understand the situation YOU so KNOWINGLY are commenting on, I suggest you blog - off!! Redneck FOR SURE!!!
May 20 6:49am You are so right! Polly's degree and years of experience equal $45,000. However, YOU are saying Polly GAVE herself $42,000 MORE????? That would be MORE than half the Leaps budget. ($165,000) Do 'we' like ourself or what? Do 'we' care about the children of Giles County?
The parents of the children in the Leaps program were charged $40 each. POLLY CHOSE TO CHARGE THE PARENTS. THIS WAS NOT A REQUIREMENT OF THE STATE OF TN. Take the $42,000, Polly GAVE HERSELF, divide it by $40 it will equal 1,050! Only about 100 children in the program. The poverty level in Giles County is HIGH! State records show the free and reduced lunch persentage at southside in the 90% range. Why did Polly see fit to GIVE HERSELF a LARGE salary when children who could hardly afford food HAD to pay a fee to participate?! Because she is self-centered, self-serving, greedy and uncaring that's why! Oh, let me be fair. I forgot to mention the mysterious $12,000 and $28,000 from the Leaps budget. Maybe this mysterious money was used for the good of the Leaps children or maybe not. Who resigns from a job making $87,000, especially in this down turned economy, if that person has not done something wrong????
6:59
Are you really as stupid as you portray yourself on this blog? Surely not. And you have the nerve to talk down to me? What a joke. And why am I not surprised that you would have to get in the last word...and I am sure you will have a rebuttal to this post as well. But please don't talk down to me as if I'm a backwoods illiterate.
Since you are so much smarter than the average Giles Countian, please tell me why you aren't running for an office. You and your intellectual cohorts really should be "in charge" of things around here, but there's just one minor problem. You can't get elected. Have you ever asked yourself why that is? Oh, I'm sure your answer would be that people around here are too dumb to appreciate you folks' brilliance!
As for my "blogging off", don't hold your breath. The last time I checked, this IS a free speech forum, and I fully intend to speak up when I disagree with someone. Isn't that precisely what you guys do? Why is it wrong for me to do the same? Again, something smacks of hypocrisy, wouldn't you say?
Hypocrisy set aside. It sounds as if the big rat has had his hand in the cookie jar yet again. How many other goverment entitlment program accounts have had money taken from them to suppliment other programs?
What does this do to the integrity of the origninal target programs?
What teachers have been given pink slips because of misplaced funds?
Just wondering what repercussions are we in for because of this??????
7:26pm Careful! Anger is one letter from Danger....... The facts REALLY upset you. Um, why?
One needs a little inward look to figure this one out. Good luck!
Can't help but say this....if I have never run for office (even though you don't know who I am and I not you) how can anyone know if I COULD be elected or NOT. Yep! "Are you really as stupid as you protray yourself on THIS blog?" Ump, uh, YEP!!! Don't have to talk you down. Just have to address you in the place where YOU put yourself. What I would say is YOU need to check YOUR temper BEFORE YOU post.
7:54 You are so right! However, it seems like the 'rat' had a helper who 'Leaped' in to help him, again. However, this time they leaped into quicksand. The VERY bottom line is: lives have been hurt or ruined, children denied, faith in public education damaged and TAX PAYERS ARE PICKING UP THE BILL, AGAIN! It is time for citizens to stand up and GET RID of the dishonest ones.
5:23
I don't think readers are nearly as impressed with your remasrks as you are. Who said I was angry? You are onviously reading more into my posts than is there. May I suggest that you go back and read them sloooooooowly, and perhaps you might be able to understand. I am not so sure that you are the sharpest knife in the drawer at this point. However, your blatant arrogance is noted.
If the kids in Leaps are from low income and can get free and reduced lunch can they not apply for a fee waiver for the $40. I don't think you can make low income kids may that fee. Someone who has a child in the program needs to check into this before they pay a fee like this. I
7:26pm Please don't act like a 'backwoods illiterate' and I won't have to respond to you like one.
Uh, ump, where do you get the 'you guys' stuff???? You may have more than one personality rattling around in the empty cavity on your neck, but I am ONLY speaking for one person - ME! Hello in there.... 'you and your intellectual cohorts should really be 'in charge' of things around here....... You really need to lay off the 'koolaid' really! When one assumes something one is usually wrong.
LOL
7:10
Perhaps what I should have said is "people like you and those who think like you do" instead of you guys?
Again, as for my "blogging off", don't hold your breath. This is a free speech forum and I intend to speak up when I disagree with someone. Isn't that what you do? Please answer my question. Why is it wrong for mr to do the same thing you do? Totallly hypocritical.
8:50 I don't do what you do....YOU speak out of ignorance. You also get stuck on one thought (blogging off), condition of having an empty cavity on your neck.
Perhaps you should find something ELSE to do with your extra time than show YOUR 'redneck' ignorance to everyone who reads this blog.
By the way, 'totally' does not have three l's. Also, me is not spelled "mr". "Totally" ignorant of you not me. Calm down, type s-l-o-w-e-r. "Please" try to make a rational point when speaking freely.
9:31 It is not very nice of you to bait 8:50. The poor soul does not appear quick enough to catch on to your game. Try to be nice.
Why don't both chill out and stop acting like children?I have gone back and tried to follow their argument and neither one makes a point.Just endless drivel.
This entire BLOG is better the reading the sunday comics.
9:31.
You're full of yourself, aren't you? You finally made a point; I should read over my posts for typos before I submit them to such an intellectual as you. I truly stand in awe.
By the way, shouldn't you have put an A (lower case) before the word "condition" in the first paragraph? You should have used quotation marks and not accent marks around the word "redneck" in the second paragraph. Finally, shouldn't you have used either a dash or a comma to separate "you" and "not" in the second sentence of the third paragraph? Of course!
But, with your brilliance, I'm sure your errors were mere typos as were my misspelling "me" and "totally" in the heat of the moment! When my mind races, so do my fingers. You understand the concept, don't you?
As for "your game", I am very aware of what you are trying to do, and I'm not impressed. Even a dumb "redneck" native Giles Countian like myself can figure that out.
Here we go again. Why don't you both swap phone numbers and disagree on the phone? I want to read something with substance versus your childish rants. Get over yourselves! So now we are calling in the grammar and spelling police?Don't even attempt to go there with me you can pick my punctuation, spelling and many more things apart.It is the message that is important, not how the message is delivered.
So, what's the message?? Anyone know??? I can spell, you can't, I can use quotations, you can't. Who cares let it die already!!! Don't waste space on this blog or the time it takes to read your jibberish only to find out you said NOTHING.
5:14
Look, I only responded to a know-it-all who tried to impress his audience by pointing out a couple of typos I made in haste. When he or she did that, I had to point out some discrepancies as well (tit for tat). I realize it's totally childish, but I just felt one good turn deserved another.
I agree with you (to a degree) that it IS the message and not how it is delivered. That is the ideal. But when people get on here and include mean-spirited and hurtful remarks, and name-calling with the message, the way it's delivered DOES matter. This has been my position all along, and I've not waivered one jot or tittle.
I apologize 5:32 and I realize you are a rational person. Thank you for pointing out what I did not think about. I agree with you. Everyone needs to stay on point and once in a while we all get off topic and personalities get wrapped up in it. I have been guilty of doing the same. It gets nerve wracking I know.I look forward to hearing more from you. I really appreciate the fact that you politely and rationally, explained to me what you were trying to do. I can really respect that!
5:54
Your apology is accepted, and I am glad that you finally came around to seeing things in a new light. I am absolutely astounded by your politeness and sudden clarity of thought.
This has been a defining moment for you. Be proud of that. Perhaps more importantly, consider the benefits of living in peace rather than with malice toward your fellow man. The emotional and physical benefits are immeasurable.
Congratulations!
Are you kidding me? Did anybody buy any of that??? Call me cynical but that was the silliest thing I have ever read, and of course I too have been converted and think we should all live in peace and harmony and speak softly and name our children moonbeam and starlight and flower power and never ever ever upset the karma of the universe by saying something with "bad vibes, man" like "hey we all know that they lied and embezzeled and treated their employees unethically." "No way dude, that's negative; let's ignore it, that's a better plan, they probably won't get bolder more greedy for money and power if they get away with all that negative stuff."
The name is "STILL GAGGING"
Are you serious 9:02am?? I didn't finally come around to seeing things in a new light. I happened to see that I failed to see things from someone else's point of view. You really disappoint me with your arrogance. I was trying to be polite to you because I really thought you to be a rational and humble person. Why did you come back with such an arrogant attitude like you have converted me to your side. You are lecturing me on peace and harmony when you are on this blog about to blow a gasket over some person who points out your faults and disagrees with me. Sorry I'll get my pointers from someone other than you. You are confused. If you think I am the one you have been arguing with you are mistaken. I am the one that was trying to get you both to stop acting like children. You have just lectured to the wrong person. I will however give you the benefit of the doubt and the opportunity to clarify yourself. Perhaps even admit you misunderstood me. As of right now, I remain in shock by your comments to me and in awe of your arrogance. Maybe I am wrong?
8:14
Actually, you were both right and wrong about me. The truth of the matter is that I was merely being facetious. I never intended that to be taken seriously. Anyone truly postulating such a position would indeed be incredibly arrogant. Sorry, but that's just not the way I am.
If I offended you, I truly apologize and beg your pardon. I honestly thought your post was just another jab by the know-it-all who calls people rednecks, so I responded accordingly. I just get tired of these people who think they are so smart that they should tell people here how to live and what to think. Again, my sincere apologies to you.
Sat, May 23 7:33: I cannot help but be amused by your post. Your dry humorous comedic relief is actually quite refreshing. The seriousness of the topics is a weight on all responsible tax payers and we should laugh at ourselves once in a while. Thanks for the break...I tried saying your statements in the mirror since I don't know who you are, with a straight face, just so I could see if I could pull it off too. Couldn't keep a straight face, though. I'll keep practicing.
"I just get tired of these people who think they are so smart that they should tell people here how to live and what to think. " hahahahahaha-I couldn't stop myself, and looked straight at that mirror and said to the reflection, "well then stop reading the blog, Einstein!" Thanks again for the laugh!
Dixie Morrison
dixie..
I fear you need to seek professional help. Rehearsing in front of a mirror is fine if you are practicing a speech or if you are rehearsing your part in a play, but what you are doing seems a bit strange, wouldn't you think?
I would almost bet that your therapist will advise you to stop reading the blog before you lose it all. But, if not, please continue to read and enjoy. I am just thankful that I can bring a little humor to a blog that's full of seemingly desperate people whose agenda means more to them than the lives and feelings of those who might get in their way!
My therapist would have understood the sarcasm of my post and would have been more interested in someone saying the were tired of reading something but kept on reading and contributing.
Dixie Morrison
7:33 Isn't a child it's a moron who can't see the forest of existing problems, even when they're plainly pointed out in the most elementary terms, because of the self serving trees in its self righteous arrogance.
dixie
Then by all means continue to read and contribute to this free speech blog. But, since it is a free speech forum, count on me to differ with you on occasion.
To 2:19
I understand that people who run around calling people names and attempting to stir up trouble for those they dislike are a serious problem here in Giles County. Oh, I see that very well. You just don't like it when I do. By the way, your compassion for those of us who are not as informed and intelligent as you guys is commendable.
Dixie - GREAT post 8:53 You are SO RIGHT!
2:19 I say let's get a 'chainsaw' and 'clear' the forest!
You people are ALWAYS right, aren't you? It's a shame you have to tolerate the ignorant who cannot appreciate your collective brilliance. That has to be frustrating, particularly since it is that ignorant body of people who keep preventing your candidates from getting elected to county offices. That's a hoot.
6:49, Thank you for your offer to allow me to continue to post. I accept, but am confused because I could have sworn you said you were tired of it. Whoever is twisting your arm and forcing you to reply should stop because it supposed to be voluntary and any statements made under duress aren't really credible.
6:49 and now 5:50, if I may be so bold as to ask, who exactly is "you people." Just wondering, they sure seem to get under your skins.
Dixie
hey dixie,
Yes, I am very tired of it. BUT, it is somewhat entertaining, isn't it? I left this free speech forum sometime ago, but just recently came back to see if it was business as usual...and it is.
as Ronald Wilson Reagan used to say, "There you go again." You read something into my post that's not there. Nobody is twisting my arm and/or forcing me to reply. No, this is something I do on my own and pro bono. But, in all honesty, I see no use in continuing, because I will always be wrong while those I take issue with will always be assumed right.
So, enjoy!
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