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Friday, December 18, 2009

How many more key people will resign from Henry County and we are all wondering the real reason's WHY?

Now Ray Gibson our Planning and Zoning Director is resigning, before that our county manager, also the fire chief has resigned. Coincidence? it would make anyone suspicious. It is true that Mr. Gibson has the experience Stockbridge needs. With a new Mayor for their city I think there are brighter days ahead for Stockbridge. It is my hope that very soon the citizens of Henry County will feel they can expect brighter days, once they get involved and get some big changes accomplished in their county.

I would like to mention that the Henry Herald stated in their article about the Lambert property and the way the BOC voted on it,that there was not to be a Clorox warehouse on that development. It will be interesting to see if not then, what will be warehoused there?

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Dear Citizens,it looks like we will have 1,000 more concerned for change Henry County voters

After the BOC public meeting last night in which our commissioners voted 5 to zero as usual in favor of big development. It would seem that the BOC won again against the citizens, even with all the valid concerns regarding water run off,contamination,children walking to and from school and of course the ever prominent property value loss. The BOC will only continue to win with this type of voting, if the citizens allow it to continue. Mr. Bowman was right, if we do not like the way they vote, then vote them out!

It is my opinion that from the 83 people against the ball field development off of Jodeco Road that got 5 to zero voting in favor of that development, the 300 residents at Eagles Landing got a 5 to zero vote which will have their subdivision divided for a highway and now, if I heard correctly from one of the residents that spoke last night,there will be about 1,000 more people who have the potential to make a difference in this county in the 2010 election year.
The numbers are adding up, that is a good thing, that is progress, that is a proof that the citizens are not content with the status quo. That prooves that the citizens are NOT being heard on the issues that affect their very lives within this county. The only way they can be sure to be heard now is to VOTE.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Upcoming BOC meeting for Rezoning which will impact more property owners homes

Henry County Board of Commissioners

6:30 p.m., Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Planning & Zoning Services
A. Rezoning Request - RZ-09-10 Lambert Family Investments, LLP of McDonough, GA requests a rezoning from RA (Residential-Agricultural) to M-2 (Heavy Manufacturing) for property located at the northwest corner of the King Mill Road/Iris Lake Road intersection in Land Lots 199, 217 and 218 of the 7th District. The request is for a warehouse development. The property is located within Commission District 1(Presenter: Ray Gibson, Director of Planning & Zoning)  Exhibit #4

This is rezoning for a Clorox warehouse
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VOTERS IN GWINNETT STAND TOGETHER TO RECALL THEIR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, WAY TO GO GWINNETT!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Gwinnett County Elections Office has issued applications to recall three county commissioners. The move comes one week after the five-member board voted 4-1 to increase the property tax rate by almost 21 percent.

Recall applications were filed for Commission Chairman Charles Bannister, District 1 Commissioner Shirley Lasseter and District 3 Commissioner Mike Beaudreau. Commissioners Kevin Kenerly and Bert Nasuti, who both voted in favor of the tax hike, are not seeking reelection in 2010. Beaudreau was the commission's lone dissenter on the vote.

Organizers of the drive have until Dec. 23 to collect the signatures of 100 registered voters living in the district affected. Election workers would have four days to verify the signatures. If the applications are certified, the elections office would then issue recall petitions, which in turn would have to carry the names of 30 percent of registered voters in the district.

This means organizers would have 45 days to get 28,000 signatures to recall Lasseter, 41,000 to recall Beadreau and 126,000 to recall Bannister. If successful, the elections office would schedule a special election to put the recall to a vote.
Lend your hopes and prayers that these citizens prevail

House representative and candidate for Governor Austin Scott has the right idea, we need this in Henry county right away! email,call and write your house representatives and senators.

The 2010 election is now all about ethics. We need a candidate that can credibly talk about it.
Atlanta, GA — In response to allegations of misconduct in the State House of Representatives, Rep. Austin Scott today called again for the creation of state-wide grand juries with the power to investigate any government body or official in the state.
HR 75, introduced by Scott on January 16, 2009, would allow the State Attorney General to empanel a state-wide grand jury to investigate “corruption in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the state, any political subdivision or municipality of the state, or any authority or instrumentality of the state…”

“The need for the people to have a direct means of fighting corruption and holding their elected representatives accountable has been obvious for a long time,” Scott said. “The situation we find ourselves in today shows clearly that allowing government bodies to police themselves is unacceptable. Given the current environment, I expect the people of Georgia will demand the passage of this resolution. I will again seek the support of my fellow House members for HR 75 this session.”

HR 75 can be accessed here. http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/versions/hr75_LC_28_4399_a_2.htm

Scott, a candidate for governor, is a Republican from Tifton who has served House District 153 for 14 years. He is Chairman of the House Governmental Affairs Committee. As a member of the Republican leadership, he has never done business with the state, any political subdivision of the state, or any organization that receives funding from the state.

To learn more about Austin Scott for Georgia visit http://www.scottforga.com/ or follow him on his Facebook and Twitter web pages. He now holds the record for the longest walk (1,068 miles) by an American politician. His summer walk around the state eclipsed the record previously held by former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles in 1970.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

SEVERAL MORE GOOD REASON'S TO TIGHTEN THE HENRY COUNTY BUDGET

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Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Subject: Red Alert: Here's One Of Those Changes They Were Talking About!
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FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT
Belly up: 10 states face imminent bankruptcy
Personal insolvency also surges as tax revenues decline

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Posted: November 16, 2009
1:02 pm Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Red Alert subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users. Annual subscribers will receive a free autographed copy of "The Late Great USA," a book about the careful deceptions of a powerful elite who want to undermine our nation's sovereignty.

Ten states are facing imminent bankruptcy, confounding any possibility of economic recovery as tax revenues continue to decline and unemployment increases nationwide, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

Those states in fiscal peril include California, Arizona, Rhode Island, Michigan, Oregon, Nevada, Florida, New Jersey, Illinois and Wisconsin.

(Story continues below)

The surge in looming bankruptcies among state governments is accompanied by a surge in the number of Americans filing for personal bankruptcy – further indicators the economy has a long way to go before an economic recovery is a reality in Middle America, Corsi explained.

The 10 states, accounting for approximately one-third of the U.S. population, face declines in tax revenue as unemployment now officially tops 10 percent and budget gaps that mean higher taxes loom in the future. State government officials have been laid off, key social services including prisons and police are strained and schools have been closed.

Corsi wrote that most states, unlike the federal government, are constrained by state laws to balance their budgets, meaning revenue shortfalls must result in reductions in state government-financed programs.

At the same time, the American Bankruptcy Institute reported personal bankruptcies surged 9 percent in October, with a 7 percent jump in business bankruptcies. Total bankruptcies in 2009 are expected to top 1.4 million, an increase of 30 percent from last year and the highest level since 2005, according to CNN Money.

The National Governors Association has reported state revenues across the nation were down 11.7 and 16.6 percent in the first two quarters of 2009, respectively.

The study further observed that state revenues will not return to 2008 levels in real dollar terms until fiscal year 2014, under the most favorable assumptions that the economy has already begun a slow and largely jobless recovery.

Red Alert reports that among the most severe problems facing the states is the outstanding liability of about $2.73 trillion in employee retirement, health and other benefits coming due over the next several decades, of which more than $271 billion is unfunded.

The National Governors Association presented the reality that "it will take states nearly a decade to fully emerge from the current recession."

"The truth is that the recovery period could be even longer if the bankruptcy and unemployment picture does not improve," Corsi wrote.

Just last week, Red Alert reported that the real unemployment number, including those who have dropped out of the labor force because they have become discouraged after looking for a job for a year or longer, was 22.1 percent for October 2009, not the 10.2 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Budget crises mean cuts in welfare, benefits to illegals

As Red Alert has reported, Tom Blumer at NewsBusters has produced statistics that show California is in a welfare crisis, especially as unemployment in May rose to 11.5 percent.

Blumer produced charts to demonstrate that California has "chronically failed to do anything meaningful about its welfare population since 2002."

As of Sept. 30, 2008, California with 12 percent of the nation's population had a disproportionate 32 percent of the nation's welfare recipients, up from 22 percent only six years earlier.

The incidence of California residents on welfare is almost three and a half times that of the rest of the country, Corsi noted.

Blumer has argued that if California mirrored the rest of the country, 869,000 fewer of its residents would be on welfare, with the result that the nation's welfare caseload would be almost 23 percent lower.

Corsi surmised that California may have to consider ending state welfare altogether, stopping CalWORKs, the California state version of comprehensive welfare reform under the 1996 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families law.

"Perhaps not surprisingly, among all the proposals to balance California's budget, the politically correct state has yet to consider cutting social welfare benefits for illegal immigrants, including education of children in Spanish in the public schools or restricting access to hospital emergency rooms for nonemergency primary health-care services," he wrote. "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is likely to sell high-profile state property such as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and San Quentin prison before tackling the politically charged issue of controlling the flood of illegal immigrants that continue to head north into California from Mexico."

WND columnist Ben Shapiro has estimated that education and health costs for illegal immigrants compose between 16.4 and 20.5 percent of California's budget deficit.

With President Obama suggesting in Tuesday's press conference that the time for the second $787 billion economic package was "not yet," Corsi said he doubts the White House can gain the political strength to add a California bailout to the list of bank bailouts, the AIG bailout and the GM/Chrysler bailouts.

Still, as Red Alert has previously reported, the California budget crisis is merely the most severe of what are likely to be widespread state budget crises in the coming months, with 47 states likely to face serious budget shortfalls before the end of 2010.

Red Alert continues to predict that as the state budget crisis deepens, the Obama administration will propose federal guarantees on state loans, even though the move would add trillions to the contingent liabilities of the United States.

Red Alert's author, whose books "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command" have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks.

In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.

For financial guidance during difficult times, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, "The Obama Nation."

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

MORE REASON'S WHY SPENDING COUNTY DOLLARS ON PARKS SHOULD NOT BE PRIORITY AT THIS TIME

Celente Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012

http://www.infowars.com/celente-predicts-revolution-food-riots-tax-rebellions-by-2012/

The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions – all within four years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a more pressing concern than buying Christmas gifts by 2012.

Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is renowned for his accuracy in predicting future world and economic events, which will send a chill down your spine considering what he told Fox News this week.

Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches,and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.

“We’re going to see the end of the retail Christmas….we’re going to see a fundamental shift take place….putting food on the table is going to be more important

that putting gifts under the Christmas tree,” said Celente, adding that the situation would be “worse than the great depression”.

“America’s going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,” said Celente, noting that people’s refusal to acknowledge that America was even

in a recession highlights how big a problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of the crisis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MEqEgdLTg&feature=player_embedded

Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.

Celente, who successfully predicted the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis, the subprime mortgage collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar, told UPI in November last year that the following year would be known as “The Panic of 2008,” adding that “giants (would) tumble to their deaths,” which is exactly what we have witnessed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and others. He also said that the dollar would eventually be devalued by as much as 90 per cent.

The consequence of what we have seen unfold this year would lead to a lowering in living standards, Celente predicted a year ago, which is also being borne out by plummeting retail sales figures.

The prospect of revolution was a concept echoed by a British Ministry of Defense report last year, which predicted that within 30 years, the growing gap between the super rich and the middle class, along with an urban underclass threatening social order would mean, “The world’s middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest,” and that, “The middle classes could become a revolutionary class.”

In a separate recent interview, Celente went further on the subject of revolution in America.

“There will be a revolution in this country,” he said. “It’s not going to come yet, but it’s going to come down the line and we’re going to see a third party and this was the catalyst for it: the takeover of Washington, D. C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in this bloodless coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen.”

“The first thing to do is organize with tax revolts. That’s going to be the big one because people can’t afford to pay more school tax, property tax, any kind of tax. You’re going to start seeing those kinds of protests start to develop.”

“It’s going to be very bleak. Very sad. And there is going to be a lot of homeless, the likes of which we have never seen before. Tent cities are already sprouting up around the country and we’re going to see many more.”

“We’re going to start seeing huge areas of vacant real estate and squatters living in them as well. It’s going to be a picture the likes of which Americans are not going to be used to. It’s going to come as a shock and with it, there’s going to be a lot of crime. And the crime is going to be a lot worse than it was before because in the last 1929 Depression, people’s minds weren’t wrecked on all these modern drugs – over-the-counter drugs, or crystal meth or whatever it might be. So, you have a huge underclass of very desperate people with their minds chemically blown beyond anybody’s comprehension.”

The George Washington blog has compiled a list of quotes attesting to Celente’s accuracy as a trend forecaster.

“When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente.”
— CNN Headline News

“A network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties.”
— The Economist

“Gerald Celente has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right.”
— USA Today

“There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.”
– CNBC

“Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute.”
— The Wall Street Journal

“Gerald Celente is always ahead of the curve on trends and uncannily on the mark … he’s one of the most accurate forecasters around.”
— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Mr. Celente tracks the world’s social, economic and business trends for corporate clients.”
— The New York Times

“Mr. Celente is a very intelligent guy. We are able to learn about trends from an authority.”
— 48 Hours, CBS News

“Gerald Celente has a solid track record. He has predicted everything from the 1987 stock market crash and the demise of the Soviet Union to green marketing and corporate downsizing.”
— The Detroit News

“Gerald Celente forecast the 1987 stock market crash, ‘green marketing,’ and the boom in gourmet coffees.”
— Chicago Tribune

“The Trends Research Institute is the Standard and Poor’s of Popular Culture.”
— The Los Angeles Times

“If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.”
— New York Post

So there you have it – hardly a nutjob conspiracy theorist blowhard now is he? The price of not heeding his warnings will be far greater than the cost of preparing for the future now. Storable food and gold are two good places to make a start.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

An open email letter sent to our BOC from Larry Stanley regarding Nash Farm,not one of the BOC have commented or called Larry on this as of this post.

Date: Monday, November 30, 2009 4:41 PM
From: Larry Stanley
To: mathiselizabeth@bellsouth.net, Randy Stamey , 'Reid Bowman' , John Basler , Warren Holder
Cc: editor@henrycountytimes.com
Subject: Nash Farm Resolution
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Dear Board Members,

I wish to address the resolution now before the commissioners regarding Nash Farm. "NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the master plan shall refer to the park as Nash Farm with an area set aside for preservation as Nash Farm Battlefield and the remainder designated for passive recreation. "

The Henry County government is again making a mockery of the honesty and integrity of the people they are supposed to serve. Continued promotion of the T. E. Nash property as the site of The Battle of Lovejoy, or the location of engagements in September-November 1864, is disgraceful. In April 2008 Citizens saw the board of commissioners reverse course on this multi-million dollar cover-up to justify wrongful use of eminent domain.

Continued participation is this fraud cannot bode well for any elected official wishing to maintain respectability. I fervently urge you now to forsake the lies and scandal brought onto the county. Remove the signage designating the property as a battlefield. And, stop the farce proliferated by resolutions that promote the lies.

Specifically the historical significance of the T. E. Nash property has been the subject of controversy because of historically invalid claims and partial truths. The LAMAR Institute report remains highly dubious and Mr. Pollard's stories reveal no scholarly, historical research. Even the quotations from recognized historical documents were used in part, not giving the full meaning or text of the works. Even the board of commissioners, on April 9, 2008, voted to remove the ‘battlefield’ designation and rename the park.

Please note the versions of history portrayed by Mr. Elliott and Mr. Pollard changed over time. As the Nash property became more politically important to certain officials and constituent groups, the "history" was molded and the "artifacts" became the Holy Grail.
The Henry County Board of Commissioners held a Public Meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, August 20, 2007

Mr. Dan Elliott, President of LAMAR Institute, stated August 20th is the anniversary of one of the most famous Calvary Battles in the Civil War at Nash Farms. Henry County has done a great justice to history and heritage by saving the property at Nash Farm. The archeological work was performed in the winter and the results have been reported and the artifacts are ready for permanent curation; the artifacts will be turned over to Henry County. In the research it was discovered there were four (4) battles in Lovejoy. The first battle was July 29th a Calvary action near the railroad and it may or may not have involved the Nash Farm property. The main battle was the August 20th battle; Mark Pollard has also done research on this battle. Most of the relics found pertained to the August 20th battle. The third battle was a major battle that is hardly known called “The Battle of Lovejoy” that took place September 2nd to the 5th. Tens of thousands of soldiers were at this battle. There are no physical traces of this battle on the Nash Farm property. The fourth battle is another little unknown battle. There was a lot of research to find out who was involved in the battles on the different sides so that personalities can be developed for the future museum.

I hope each of you will review research and restating of valid historical records concerning the Battle of Lovejoy Station on August 20, 1864: Henry Borrows from Clayton’s Heritage. Read an analysis, Part One and Part Two, of the county's depiction of the events on August 20th 1864, including the Lamar Institute's report of August 2007, the county website at www.henrybattlefield.com and published comments by the county's Official Civil War Historian.

The analysis resulted from research at the offices and websites of Henry and Clayton counties, the Georgia Department of Archives and History, work compiled by the Atlanta Historical Society. As well as correspondence and quotations from the National Park Service, Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, Georgia Historical Society, and the Georgia Battlefields Association.

Worthy of note are the troop positions drawn by Edward Ruger. The route was south from Jonesboro along the Macon & Western Railroad. The target was the depot and tracks at Lovejoy’s Station. Ruger’s depiction showed the Crawford-Dorsey house to the east, and McDonough-Fayetteville Road to the west.

There was a reason two land lots surrounding Lovejoy’s Station were annexed into Clayton County in 1877. There is reason the history and tradition is so well documented for places like Jonesboro and Lovejoy. The aftermath did spill into Henry County, but the facts are clear: the railroad was the primary target, and the battle on August 20, 1864 occurred in Clayton County.

A personal email to Mr. Dan Elliott asked for comments concerning apparent inconsistencies between (1) Mark Pollard's tale about the engagement on September 2, 1864 and (2) Mr. Elliott's comments (posted at www.jasonpye.com) stating, "NO entrenchments from the September or November battles have been identified on the Nash Farm property."

This point is key to the truth of that day's events. Excerpts from War of the Rebellion Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 38, Part 5 (The Atlanta Campaign) and Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General, US:

The Confederate line entrenchments were described as immediately in front of McDonough road and behind Walnut Creek. That is north of McDonough Road and west of Nash property.

General Howard said, "Confederate works, which, strange to say, were as well constructed and as strong as if the Confederates had had a week to prepare them." Like the ones located, charted and documented on the Dorsey property.

The full text is posted here.

Surely there were Confederates camped on, or crossing, the property between July and November and they may have left some relics - or maybe someone else did. But no record says there was a battle on Nash property. Skirmishes stretching along McDonough Road to the east, orders not to engage.... Even General Hardee said there was “lively cannonading and sharpshooting along the lines, but with no important results.”

In closing please recall Mr. Pollards famous stories about finding the cannon shell in the eaves of the Nash farmhouse. That folktale is interesting because the house was built in 1920. Mr. Charlie Crawford, president of the Georgia Battlefields Association stated, “The Nash Farm buildings are post war.” Historical analysis, therefore, cannot accept the claim the J. P. S. Nash farmhouse was constructed prior to the Civil War. Furthermore, the house could not have been used by J. P. S. Nash and his wife during the war. They were married in 1868 – after the war.


Larry Stanley