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PAGE 4 - THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 Opinions expressed by writers on this page are their own and not necessarily those of The Georgia Post CODE OF ETHICS: Seek Truth & Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. - Thomas Jefferson Raising Your Sights How’s your outlook these days? Are you mostly opti mistic, positive or satisfied? Or are you discouraged, dis illusioned, and sad? In spite of life’s challenges, we can live full and meaningful lives - if we choose to. Where do we start? We begin by taking full responsibility for our feel ings. Sure, we can blame the problems around us for our feeling of defeat. Down deep we don’t want to take respon sibility for our joy. We try to blame others and decide that if someone else will change, we will be happier. When we come to realize that our feelings are not based on outside circumstances but on internal decisions, we will find a greater joy. We cannot delay until we feel like do ing the things we were cre ated to do. We must simply get started and determine to persevere. Secondly, we must live in truth. When we make mis takes and follow those mis takes by self-condemnation, we are feeding ourselves lies that will ultimately make us miserable. When we make a mistake, we should immedi ately correct the offense, re alize that we are only human, and be determined to learn something from the mistake. Too many people never re cover from mistakes simply because they won’t forgive o Ge/eforafe. /r/e Nancy B. Gibbs Motivational Speaker/Writer www. nancybgibbs .com themselves. Thirdly, we should be busy building up other people. Many people try to make themselves look better by putting other people down. It doesn’t work. When we encourage others, encourage ment rubs off on us. To live full and meaningful lives, we need to help others have meaningful lives as well. Lastly, we should realize our worth and value. God loves us dearly. It doesn’t matter who we are, what we do, where we live, or even how we act. God adores us and wants the best for us. If the Creator of the uni verse wants the best for us, shouldn’t we be busy striving to make our lives better with each passing day? Taking responsibility for our feelings, being truthful with ourselves, reaching out to touch those around us, and acknowledging that our true worth comes from God will ultimately make us the peo ple God created us to be. to Save Peaches to Beaches Editor, The Georgia Post: We are writing this letter with the hope that an annual event that brings thousands of visitors each year to area counties can be saved. Since 2005, Golden Isles Parkway Association has spon sored the Annual Peaches to the Beaches Yard Sale the second Saturday of the year with the goal of promoting tourism and economic development to the communities located along Highway 341. Golden Isles Parkway Association (GIPA) utilizes a vast advertising campaign to promote Peaches to the Beaches Yard Sale. This campaign includes print, radio, digital, and direct mail adver tisements aimed at tourists across the United States. GIPA pays for these adver tisements through the vendor fees collected at each official site during Peaches to the Beaches Yard Sale. The com munities keep half of the ven dor fees to advertise next year’s Peaches to the Beaches within their communities, and GIPA collects half the vendor fees to continue their advertising efforts for the next year’s event. GIPA is comprised of volun teers dedicated to promoting the vast potential for tourism along Highway 341; as such, no organization profits from any vendor fees collected during Peaches to the Beaches. Communities, however, profit from increased tourism See LETTERS, Page 5 ~ Quotable Quote ~ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King, Jr. What Would Dr. King Think? With Monday being Martin Luther King Day, I find my self wondering what Dr. King would think about everything going on today with our gov ernment and the direction our country has taken. I did not know him and nor can I second guess him, however, by studying his life and reading the things he said you get a pretty good picture of how he felt about various issues. Personally, I do not think he would be happy nor would he be impressed. We have gone in quite a different direction. Martin Luther King had pride in America and he was a registered republican. He would probably not be happy with either party today as both have gone awry in their cours es of action. King, of course, wanted equality for all people. We have not yet reached that pin nacle as there is still a gap be tween genders in the business world as far as salaries. But, we have made some strides in other areas. Some would say, not enough perhaps. Though violence often broke out at marches and other ven ues, King actually was a fan of Gandhi’s teachings of non violence. People may have attributed some violence to him, but it was due to the fact that he had no control over the people in the movements with which you can associate him. He was a complex person who was fallible, yet he was a visionary leader. FBI files re veal he was under government surveillance and even sug gested communist influences but what would you expect from government files about someone who was a threat to the current state of affairs? He was deeply committed to striving for social justice through nonviolent means. When trying to cross a bridge once being met with troop ers and barricades, he and the group dropped to their knees in prayer rather than incite violence. King was imprisoned one time for violating his probably on a traffic conviction. This news actually entered the 1960 presidential campaign. John F. Kennedy made a phone call to King’s wife, Coretta, and expressed his concern for the harsh treatment over the traf fic ticket. King was soon re leased. Young black power leaders began to criticize and pub licly challenge him. His non violent approach and appeal to white middle class citizens alienated black militants who considered Kings’ methods weak and a little too late. They deemed his passive manner non-effective. In response, King sought to broaden his base and formed a multi-race eolation to address economic and unemployment problems for all disadvantaged people. Regardless of the criticim ,King had an impact on race relations and he gained na tional notoriety and has a na tional holiday and other things named after him. He eloquently spoke of love, non-violence, dreams, justice and equality. I think today he would be disappointed in the many who have become slaves to the government as he believed in hard work. He would not be happy seeing our rights stripped away and our Consti tution shredded to pieces as he felt it applied to all men. Below are a few of my fa vorite King quotes. “We must learn to live to gether as brothers or perish together as fools.” “Right, temporarily defeat ed, is stronger than evil trium phant.” “Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.” “When you are right, you f EVERYONE N SHOllLP INSIST ► ON CLOTHES THAT'RE MAPB IN AMERICA... f IFTHEYDlD X INSIST ON IT/THEY'D HAVETOGOAROUNDIN THEIR BIRTHDAY V SUITS! //^ Respect Your Elders, Mr. President For my column this week I want to share a letter to our president from a very smart and opinionated old man. This is a post from Facebook that I felt everyone should read. He makes some very good points and I hope his message makes it to the White House and is heard by our president. Dear Mr. President, My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t be lieve my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert. I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II, retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of ser vice to my country. One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes. I am amazed, angry and de termined not to see my coun try die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish. I can’t figure out what coun try you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: ” We’re no longer a Chris tian nation” ” America is arrogant” - (Your wife even an nounced to the world,” Amer ica is mean-spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no oth er reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.) I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in any thing you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House. After 9/11 you said,” Amer ica hasn’t lived up to her ide als.” Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, broth ers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, be cause we stand for freedom. I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is bet ter than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected. Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man. Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy Pay at a Time Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons vsimmonsS4@gmail.com cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.” “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most danger ous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.” “He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” “The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral uni verse, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an al most universal quest for easy answers and half-baked so lutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” “The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.” Be blessed and be a blessing to someone this week. From Moo To You Abigail ”Abby” Adams abbyadams@pstel.net rental on Pennsylvania Av- enue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves. And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclu sions and condemn that Mus lim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black col lege professor in Massachu setts, who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offend ing the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by See ABBY, Page 5 published every week by Crawford Publishing, Our Staff Floyd Buford - President Victoria ’Vicky” Simmons - GM/Publisher vsimmons54@gmaiLcom or byronbuzz@pstel.net Abigail Adams - News Reporter/Editor’s Assistant Office Assistant - Michael Fleming Kelli Johnson- Marketing Executive Robbie Robertson - Distribution Carey Lee - Sports Photography Trenesia Y. Stubbs, Charles Cook, Nancy Gibbs, Billy Powell, Angie Carr, Jeff Cook, Wade Yoder, Dan Gatlyn, James Earnhardt Robert Tharpe, Rev. James Snyder, Spencer Price - Contributing Columnists Our Policies Deadlines are Noon on Friday prior to issue. 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