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WHITEWATERGATE
(With Apologies To Richard Nixon)
Letters To The Editor
Get On Knees To God
Dear Editor:
One of mg' increasingly favorite phrases is
“Whom God would destroy, He first makes
mad.” I feel a little like Rush Limbaugh. He hit
the air the day after Clinton’s election mutter
ing manically that he had four years worth of
material. And a fortuitousliy former Atlanta
talk-show host, Tom ‘“Help, I'm stuck in a '6os
time wars)" Houck used to have a sign — more
accurately, his Lechery License — on his office
wall declaring ‘“So Many Women and So Lit
tle Time.”” To paraphrase, ‘‘So Much Madness
and So Little Space.” T g
The . . . Atlanta Journal/Constitution car
ried several stories indicative of the insanity:
* Page Al 3 carried a piece by a Scott
Shuger (rhymes with Ruger, the firearm
maker!) which tells us, ‘“‘Buying ammunition
should at least be as difficult as getting a
Ritalin refill.”” Scott . . . is one of those utopian
elitist imbeciles who: (A) Believes that even a
bad government is good ... Nor does Scott
Shuger (rhymes with Ruger) care that the law
abiding masses will no longer be able to defend
themselves from the predators Scott’s utopian
judicial system looses ugon them.
Which brings me to the second item in the
AJC of New Year's Eve day, 1993.
* The entire top half of page F 6 was oc
cupied by the saga of the Donnie Ray Romines
family, complete with a large color photo of
Donnie Ray, brandishing his trusty six-gun at
the door of his home. From March through
November, the Romines have been crime vic
tims seven — count 'em — seven times. ..
Quoting Donnie Ray: ‘“‘We're left to defend
ourselves, we're forced to defend ourselves. And
then, if you defend yourself, you face the con
sequences of the laws on that.” I think you've
heard that before, no? And this gem of truth:
“I believe in the Atlanta Police Department. I
just have no confidence anymore that they can
control it. IT'S A LOST CAUSE.”
Not to worry, Mr. and Mrs. Romines. Scott
Shuger (rhymes with Ruger) is going to prevent
the bad guys from buying ammo!
Riiiiiggghhhttt! "
The other piece from this noteworthy edi
tion of the AJC appears on Cl. HeaXlined
“Questions about the failure of Arkansas thrift
dog Clinton,” it recaps the progress of an ongo
ing ostensible Justice Department investiga
tion of possible wrongdoing by Bill Clinton and
some of his cronies while governor of Arkan
sas. Even a few ‘“liberals’” are calling for the
same sort of sgecial prosecutor detailed to pro
be past Republican administrations. . .
And, finally, page D 1 screams ‘‘5260.5
million in bonds sold to finance Federal
Center.”” Put aside for the moment the huge
question of why — in a market with a 30 per-
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pensive space —the feds need to tear down the
old Rich’s building to erect a palatial $l6O per
square foot domicile for our federal employees
— non-essential and otherwise. And put aside
for the moment the equally pregnant question
of who will eventually pay off those
bonds . . . Now, I'm all for the private sector do
ing as much as possible. But, not when it comes
to white elephant soon-to-be monstrosities like
this new Federal Plaza. e ¢
And a controversy has developed over the
involvement of Jackson's campaign treasurer,
Raymond J. McLendon, in the deal. But, heck,
with $2.6 million in fees at stake, what'’s a lit
tle political heat for a guy who's leaving office
anyway? ... I'm not alleging any illegali?' by
Jackson or McLendon. But, like Best Fest,
these deals sure smell bad, don’t they?? But,
heck, the only parties damaged by such goings
on are a bunch of dumb old taxpayers, and,
Lord knows, we have plenty of tgem i
Let me try to connect all of these stories for
you:
* We have the utopian elitists like Scott
Shuger . . . doing their gead ... level best (as in
Best Fest) trying to disarm us while poor souls
like Donnie Ray Romine do what they can to
defend themselves from the criminals.
* And if you want to know why we have so
much crime, you have only to look at the ex
amgles being set by many of our so-called
leaders. If Clinton skates the fraud/theft/cover
up charges, and Bobby Inman ‘“‘forgets’ to pay
Social Security taxes and Maynard Jackson
and his friends do a little ‘‘shucking and jiving”
(to use one of Maynard's more memorable
phrases) along the line between ethical and
unethical, what message does that send to the
street thug who, because he lacks the intellec
tual ability to “get his” the way these white col
lar t)épes get theirs, sticks a pistol in your ribs
and demands your wallet?
It makes you wonder what sort of world the
utopian elitists would construct for the rest of
us. A utopian elitist, by the way, is one who
adheres to the Marxist/Humanist belief that
the state can create, through correct social
engineering, the perfect man.
The total error of that ought to be plain to
them each and everi time they look at tfie cross
of Christ. He was the onlzjferfect man to walk
this earth! The absolute fallacy and lie of man’s
“perfectability’’ is visible to them each and
every time they look in the mirror.
If they desire a fierfect. man, may I respect
fully suggest that they get down on their knees
andy ask éod to start the process with — them.
Dick Bachert
Norcross
MIKE STEED
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Conservative Dogs?
ONE OF THE treasured newspapers
carrying this column, the Carroll County
Times-Georgian, frequently prints col
umns by William Doxey, Professor Dox
ey is on the faculty of West Georgia Col
lege and in the publish or perish world of
academia, he should have a long life. He’s
written poetry, several novels including
“Cousins to the Kudzu’’ (Louisiana State
University Press) and articles too
numerous to mention.
No one I know dares to criticize the
work of this highly regarded English pro
fessor and everyone pretends to unders
tand whatever he writes. Sometimes I
scare myself because I think I actually do
have a peyote-like understanding of some
of his stuff. Recently he wrote a column
for the Times-Georgian suggesting a cor
relation between political persuasion and
the type pet one might own. Predictably,
he left the reader with the impression that
a political liberal would be more likely to
be a cat person while a conservative would
likely have a dog.
" *
I'M NOT READY to agree with this
premise. In the first place, the notion of
‘“‘owning a pet” is not politically correct
from the get-go. It’s not supposed to be
called a “‘pet” and “owning” sends the PC
crowd off into a frenzy of self-flagellation
or worse. So, Professor Doxey, if you are
reading this, be advised the correct ap
pellation is ‘“‘animal companion.” In the
case of cats, ‘‘animal acquaintance” is
acceptable.
Secondly, it’s just not quite as simple
as Liberal/Cat and Conservative/Dog. His
column has made me think through this
notion because — Gee, this is hard for me
— I have a cat. And if there is any doubt,
Ich Bin Ein Conservative!
* * *
QUOTING FROM Professor Doxey’s
piece, “My opinion is that conservatives
love dogs because dogs are such wimpy
apple-polishers that they’ll put up with
anything, so long as they’re fed. Dogs are
good companions for conservatives
because, unlike cats, dogs are spineless.
They can’t take care of themselves, so they
make willing slaves to willing slavers —
conservatives.”
I reject Doxey’s theory as invalid. Not
only am I living proof of its flaw, it is bas
ed on a generalization suggesting liberals
are more nurturing and gentle (cat-like)
while conservatives are more brusque and
Smoke Clears County Jail
No one was injured when a
blower motor in the heating
system burned out at the Chat
tooga County Jail recently.
Sheriff Ralph Kellett said
an electrical short circuit in the
blower motor serving B-block
where accused felons are hous
ed occurred about 6 p.m. this
past Thursday.
It filled the block with
smoke, causing all 34 inmates
in the jail to be moved to the
salley port at the northwest
corner of the facility, he said.
Some smoke entered A-block
where accused misdemeanor
prisoners are housed, he added.
FIREMEN
The Summerville Fire
Department was called im
mediately, Kellett said, and
firemen set u? high-speed
smoke removal fans to get rid
of the smoke. It took about an
hour to clear the jail, he added.
Bill's Heating & Air Condi
tioning, Summerville, checked
the furnace and heating
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insensitive, “slavers’ if you will..
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MY THEORY goes like this: deter
mination of liberal or conservative traits
is not evidenced by the choice of the
species of animal companion, but by how
the individual relates to its animal
companion.
For instance, a conservative who has
a cat will not suppress the natural in
stincts of his animal acquaintance. The
conservative would never feed a cat moist
food from a can served in a crystal bowl.
Nor would a conservative permit a cat to
live inside the house all the time. A con
servative would not have a cat de-clawed
or require it to do its daily business in a
litter box.
* * *
TO DO THOSE things would cause the
cat to become totally dependent on its
human companion. Why, it would be just
like providing welfare for an able bodied
cat! The cat would forget how to hunt and
be quite vulnerable if it couldn’t climb a
tree because it had no claws. It would
cease to be adaptable to the changes in
weather if it lived inside a climate controll
ed house all the time. A liberal would ruin
the cat. A liberal would act like big govern
ment and provide for the cat’s every need
to the point where the poor cat couldn’t ex
ist without the liberal.
A liberal with a dog would tend to buy
clothes for it. A liberal’s dog would pro
bably live in the house. A liberal’s dog
might be neutered to make it more docile.
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A CONSERVATIVE might actually
allow his dog to hunt or retrieve — do
something to earn the delicious dry dog
food offered up every night in the garage.
The conservative’s dog would continue to
be a dog while the liberal’s dog would be
a dependent.
You see, it’s not whether one’s animal
companion is a dog or a cat which indicates
political persuasion. It’'s how one relates
to the animal.
* * *
LAZY ANIMALS should adopt
liberals as human companions. They will
be pampered to a fare-thee-well. Animals
who want to retain their instinctive traits,
remain proud and true to their species,
should run and claw their way to a conser
vative’s home. There they will be
respected and admired.
Conservatives can have cats and many
do. They just don’t like them.
system, Kellett said, and deter
mined that a short circuit had
occurred. All the inmates were
returned to their cells and a
propane-powered infra-red
emergency heating system was
used in B-block that night and
art of the morning on Friday,
lS)heriff Kellett said. A-block
continued to be heated with a
separate jail furnace.
Town Of Trion
Meeting Set
The Trion Town council is
;,lo aH)eet at 7 p.m. today at town
The agenda will mostly con
sist of regular business, accor
ding to Mayor Allen Plunkett.
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A new motor was installed
by 9:15 a.m. Friday, he said,
and the regular heating system
placed back in operation.
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