The Angry Citizen ©

The Macon Telegraph often declines to publish my letters to the editors so I have decided to do a bit of stealth commentary using their comment system.  I may try to post these every so often.

Angrycitizen  wrote on 08/16/2010 09:54:36 PM: Bibb county BOE on new anti-bully policy

“Based on the new law, we will investigate, notify, discipline and follow up,” he said.

Where do you think this will break down?

If you say every step of the way congratulations you could pass Bibb co high school as valedictorian.

I’ll believe it when I see the stats showing how many brats actually got gone.

I think the real solution is to hold the “parents” responsible. If Lil Angel gets expelled mom has to prove she is educating them to state standards or she goes before the judge as well for permitting truancy. I use mom since dad is very often just a Spermatozoa donor from the last failing class.

Angrycitizen  wrote : Macon as likely to have a double dip recession.

Under weaknesses add:

Too many politicians on city council, county commission and the state legislature who prefer to act like spoiled brats rather than public servants.

Need evidence of the above, refer to a recent article in the Telegraph asking some of the above to articulate their vision for Macon and note the responses. I would like to see a repeat of that questioning done much more often.

So Macon Telegraph here is your next assignment.

Ask politicians in all of the above groups this question.

What vision do you have for getting Macon off this list and keeping us out of a second recession?

What concrete steps will you take to achieve this goal?

Give them a week to respond then run the results. If they don’t respond hound them out of the limelight and help voters run them out of town on a rail.

Angrycitizen  wrote on 08/19/2010 07:41:44 AM: Georgia power rate hike.

Georgia Power should get no rate increases until it becomes more alternate energy friendly. The next time you drive by a chicken farm imagine every roof lined with solar panels. If the solar resource in Georgia were tapped GA Power would not need any new plants and could begin exporting power during peak times.

Take a look here:

http://www.clariantechnologies.com/main/page_home.html

Angrycitizen  wrote on 08/22/2010 07:57:18 PM:Felons, thugs, and truly sensible gun control

Simple solution. Make the gun too hot to handle for felons. Possession of a gun by felon should equal a mandatory 5 years without parole to be served only after all other sentences are completed. During that five year period the inmate must wear a jumpsuit with a large negated gun insignia on the back. Possession or use of the gun without injury during any crime equals 10 years as above. Discharge of the gun during a crime equals 25 years as above if there is no injury.

I want felons to see a gun and go the other way or go to jail for a long time. This would be effective gun control.

Angrycitizen  wrote on 08/22/2010 08:03:01 PM: More of the above

I almost forgot, possession of a gun by a felon should be mandatory prosecution without any possibility of plea bargains. After all it is a slam dunk case.

Mr Criminal were you driving the car? Uh yea.

Did the police find a gun in the car? Uh Yea. But it ain’t mines.

Too bad Mr Criminal that counts as possession. Next time search the car and make your buddy take his gun out. Bye bye.

Angrycitizen  wrote on 08/24/2010 06:39:02 PM:New code red phone tree system

EAS doesn’t work very well when you are asleep with the TV off and a tanker truck rolls at the I-75 / I-16 split and spills bad stuff. If you have a weather radio it might go off if the correct sequence of events takes place. But many people do not have one. Having been exposed to one in the past I like the idea of a phone tree system as long as some common sense is used in deciding when to use it. If they start calling for missing dogs and mosquito trucks I may ask to opt out.

Angrycitizen  wrote on 08/24/2010 reply to gun post above

Dmc 7 years may be on the books but gun possession is the first thing the DA plea bargains away and THAT is what needs to be changed. I say Keep it simple so even the simpletons can understand it.

You a felon?

That a gun?

Bye Bye no parole..

And no lawyer wiggle room.

Enjoy

The Angrycitizen

A note to my Facebook friends to explain my pending disappearance.

I have always valued privacy. Unfortunately, Facebook seems to be moving toward the belief that my information becomes their property to do with as they wish.  I have noted many changes in privacy settings recently.  The changes are made without sufficient notice and seem to always result in the sharing of my information without my permission.

What Facebook needs to do is simple.  Change from an ‘opt out policy’ to an ‘opt in policy’.  Under this concept any change made would automatically be set with the strictest sharing policy rather than the loosest. IE nobody but me can view it unless I allow them to.   This moves the decision on what to share back to me and away from Facebook.  This is as it should be.  It is my information; it should be my choice.

What can you do if you disagree with Facebook’s policy?

On July 3rd post a note stating that you are joining the Facebook independence protest.  Then on July 4th deactivate your account for 24 hours.  You can always reactivate your account. If enough people do it it will send a message.

Please don’t get me wrong I enjoy Facebook and hope they see the light.  But I doubt they will.

Unless Facebook changes very soon I will be deleting my account permanently.

You people could really use the public relations course I took at Mercer University.

I watched with great disgust the video on CNN of the Rescue Task force trying to get needed supplies to Haiti.  I am an RN and will discuss this with my class.  Your representative notes that you make exceptions for media but not medicine.

You have lost my business and I will also voice my concern to my Representatives in congress.  I will be sending the IReport link to all my friends and coworkers.

My hope is that congress will look at your policies the way they are beginning to do with financial firms.

Below is the story:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-395940?hpt=Sbin