Glitch in the System

Google has again made some changes in its Chrome system. Those changes have resulted in several problems with blog administration. One problem is that it's now much harder and more complicated for me to sign in and post a topic.

Another change that has taken place and effects readers and posters is the unintended glitch that no longer allows viewing posts past 200 without actually making a post to that thread. Hopefully this problem will be resolved soon, I apologize for the inconvenience caused by this situation.

Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!

Liar, Liar Pants On Fire is the only thing that can describe the re-election speech given as a State of the Union address by one Barack Hussein Obama last night.

Was the speech out of desperation or just out of a character void of all integrity? Grandiose ideas with no way to pay, lies so blatant that even my cat left the room to vomit.

More debt accumulated during his three years than all the presidents combined. Ten trillion in debt when he took office and now sixteen trillion in debt but he claims to have cut the debt. The only budget he has submitted, which is required by law, got not a single vote from his own party. Under his administration the country doesn't even operate from a budget his party has approved.

Never has one person worked so hard to divide this nation and set its people against each other.

Success is not presented as something to condemn while underachievement is now celebrated and subsidized.

It is amazing to me that Obama can condemn others for not paying their share but the year before he became president he made over four million dollars and gave only one percent to charity. This is the most arrogant liar ever to grace the public stage in such a high position but that's what you get when more than half the country has become parasites without any sense of responsibility to the nation or their-selves.

Charter for the County

This comment was posted on another thread. I have used it to start a new Thread to open discussion of the proposed County Charter or home rule.

Common Sense said...

http://www.mtas.tennessee.edu/KnowledgeBase.nsf/0/C9DD85972D740F6B8525702A004EBFCA?OpenDocument

This document gives a little more information about the charter. Only 13 cities have the charter. 3 have repealed their charter. 5 people asked said they would like to repeal it. There are more disadvantages on the list than advantages. I am NOT for the charter. There is no GREAT benefit for the citizens. The only reason this thing has been brought up is becasue a few people keep getting upset over not being elected. They can't get their way, so they want to try and force their way. I talked to several people over the last couple days that said they thought they had to vote for a charter commissioner. Leave Giles County if you don't like it. Property is just as cheap in surrounding counties and according to some of you, those counties are the only place to get a job. Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:16:00 AM

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Allen Barrett said...

Seldom have I read a more one sided, dishonest and purely political hit piece than what’s contained in the document mentioned.

The dishonesty comes primarily from the lack of full disclosure that the MTAS (Municipal Technical Advisory Service) is funded by taxpayers through the municipalities and like its sister organization CTAS (County Technical Advisory Services) does and says whatever the controlling organizations request of it. I have yet to see a report by the MTAS or CTAS that did not support whatever the legislative bodies of the county or city wanted.

Very little of what was written by Mr. Don Darden even applies to counties in the same way it does to cities and the cities in Giles County will be no more altered by the proposed Charter than by any changes made by the State Legislature by means of a private act.

The Charter is posted on http://www.pulaskicitizen.com/Charter for everyone to read. It’s been there for several months. Misinformation will be abundant in the next few months, even more so than in the past few months. A person should become armed with the truth in the face of this onslaught by those wishing to remain in the past. Commissioner Campbell made the statement and even posted a large sign in the Courthouse, in violation of anti-political signage, that the county has worked fine for the past two hundred years and don’t need any changes now. If you agree with that assessment then by all means vote against the Charter but if you are fed up with being governed via their inaccessible meetings, private dealings and their way or the highway then you will want to consider the Charter form of government for the county.

None of the cities mentioned in the article have had a request initiated by the citizens to revoke their Charter every request has been from the management. It’s interesting that the article states that most of the cities have not had a tax increase in more than twenty five years leading many to believe that their taxes have stayed the same. Hogwash, there is not a city in the state that has the same tax income they had twenty-five years ago and while their rates may be similar a simple consideration of the change in property assessments during that time is enough to blow your mind.

Mr. Darden subject as stated on the paper was “Home rule; Home rule--Laws and regulations; Charters--City; Charters--City—Tennessee”. His focus was clearly not on counties and his information as presented is as flawed as the unemployed numbers that come out of Washington D.C.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:22:00 PM