Read the pitiful story here–> Georgia ranks near the bottom in SAT scores. IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN OR EMPLOYEES THERE IS NO MORE IMPORTANT CONCERN FOR YOU THAN THIS.
OK, we are losing ground educationally, so now what are we going to do about it? Our children are all we have. If we abandon them, we abandon everything.
We had a good turnout at the 8-9-08 Conservative Forum where Rep. Doug Collins was the featured speaker. Doug is heading to Iraq as an Air Force Chaplin. Our prayers go out to him for taking The Lord to that country and coming back home safe. Doug gave a rousing talk about duty, honor, and County (my words not his). Doug also expressed the need for our party to constantly change to get better and move forward.
Sen. Hawkins, Rep. Mills, and Rep. Rogers all discussed legislative issues. Carl reported that Diversion Center will be converted to a “day reporting” facility not closed as previously reported. James talked aoubt the need for poof of citizenship to register to vote. Currently no birth certificate is required to register. No telling how many fraudulent voters we have recently registered in Georgia. You have to show you birth certificate to play soccer with other kids–I don’t think showing the certificate to vote is such a big deal (unless you are a fraud of course). James also talked about the need to collect money from deadbeat homeowners who seem to have been able to keep $8M.
Just when you think it was safe to go back into the water, another whiner shows up. The “do nothing” crowd is large. And RINOs charge when threatened. Unlike in the wild, Hall County RINOs run in heards.
I keep reading about people “saying” and “asking” and “telling” me lots of things in public forum(s). I read about things “said” and “done” at our own executive committee meetings. The only problem is: almost all these things were not actually said, asked, told, or done. These reports are like a tabloid–all rumor and gossip. Apparently the sayer, asker, teller, and doer was ashamed or afraid to say, ask, tell, or do anything to my face. (The lone exception was former GOP Chairman P. Martin Ellard who was upset about the State Court Judge race. I’ll give Martin his props for being man enough to come to me directly with his concerns.)
For all othe other gripers and carpers (who whine and mutter under their breath from a safe distance) I have the following quote for you:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Oh and at the top is a picture of what a big set looks like.
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