No signs, no SPLOST?

“Our city council members need a course in economics. How can we expect people from outside of Tift County to spend their money, thus providing SPLOST money, when we do not have adequate signs to let them know what we are selling? No signs, no SPLOST. Vote ‘No’ to the sign ordinance, or only Tift County residents will be paying the tax that they’ve convinced us outside people will be paying more of.”



Thank-you Rave

“This is a Rave for the gentleman from Cottle Pest Control who so kindly stopped to assist me Monday afternoon in the parking lot of First Community Bank. Your assistance was greatly appreciated.”



Let’s see

“In regard to ‘Use your brains,’ tells us that we do need the police on I-75 to raise money to help pay the city’s bills, and we should put burglar bars on our windows… We do have a responsibility to help take care of ourselves, but if we’ve got to have a police force to raise funds for the city while people are breaking into our homes and our neighborhoods are not being patrolled, buddy, you’ve got to have your own brains checked because that ain’t what policing is all about. And by the way, what is your address? I’d like to see how many bars you’ve got on your doors.”



Trained to death

“This is a Rant for school board member Richard Golden. It’s just such disrespectful attitudes as his that set the tone for the general public toward our teachers. If our board members feel this way, how on earth can we expect parents to support teachers? Evidently, he has no idea what the teachers are going through. They are already being trained to death. …Most teachers spend hours off the clock grading papers and attending classes and workshops. This already takes so much time away from their families. Mr. Golden, are you suggesting that teachers should return to the old days when they didn’t marry and have families of their own?”



Happy Birthday

“Miss Vera Goodemote. We love you. We thank you for everything you’ve done, and happy birthday on Feb. 9. Happy birthday. A friend.”



It’s against the law

“Once again, we see Richard Golden for what he is: dictatorial. My way, or else. If he works his employees overtime and does not pay them for overtime, then he is breaking a federal law…”



Disaster recipe

“Parental guidance is absent in many, if not most, homes today. And many a teenager is six feet tall, bullet-proof and stupid behind the wheel. Throw a cell-phone in his/her ear and there is a recipe for disaster.”



More than that

“This is response to the contraband found at the jail. If you have a quarter ounce of marijuana found in the jail, I do not consider just to be a little bit. That’s probably about $150 worth in jail.”



Pet’s Rave

“I want to send a rave to Dr. branch and his staff at Quailwood for taking such good care of me while I was sick, If any of my animal friends ever need a good vet, call mine, ‘Quailwood.’ If it wasn’t for them, I would not be here today. Thank you, Tater”