November 27 2019
" Reporter
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
by Don Daniel
Oflicials love to claim
they’re ‘non-readers’
et me get this out of the way first before I get into
what I really want to espouse. As you know in the last
couple of columns I have wondered what happened to
the Segways former Forsyth Police Chief Keith Corley
used to “motor” around town.
Well, I didn’t have to file and
Open Records Request with the
city manager which I was hoping
not to do. Here’s the explanation
from Forsyth’s City Manager Janice
Hall: she called explaining that the
only thing I would have had to do
was call her and ask where they
were. She further went on to ex-
plain she does not read this news-
paper but had received a couple of V :
phone calls from obvious readers
of this newspaper and column in ., _, I .
regards to where the Segways were. g
Well the personal devices are stored
down at the police department.
Ms. Hall has joined Forsyth City ’
Council Member Chris Hewett as
“non-readers” of this newspaper. They join District 1 county
commissioner Larry Evans, an adamant non—reader who gets
his local news from the Macon paper and television station.
Also, County Manager Jim Hedges is a non—subscriber. Guess
all four take pride in non-supporting a local business and not
wanting or needing to know what is happening in our county.
I’ve said it before, here it is again: ignorance must be bliss. I
think to keep them from wallowing in ignorance I will give
all four a year’s subscription to this newspaper as a Christmas
present.
BACK DURING the summer I attended the Sunday service
of a non-denominational church and was surprised at how
many of the attendees were dressed: Bermuda shorts, t-shirts,
flip-flops, cut-offs, blue jeans, you get the idea, casual beyond
casual. Don’t consider that as being critical because how you
practice your religion is between you and God, no matter
where you are or how you are dressed.
BY THE time you read this you will either be anticipat-
ing Thanksgiving or either lying on the couch moaning, not
believing you ate the whole thing. ‘
Thanksgiving is the official day that I put up my Santa Claus
stuff, hanging the grandkids’ stockings and maybe just wrap-
ping some presents that I ordered from the two-foot stack of
catalogs I have received so far.
A couple months ago I decided to begin attempting to
renew my faith and start back going to Sunday morning
church services. I chose Paran Baptist Church which is right
up the road. It is a small community church with a live piano
and organ player. Often the songs are the kind I remember.
Although a Baptist Hymnal is available, the words are on two
big computer screens.
The preacher, John Tarrer, is what I have determined to be
practical/applied Bible'preacher. Not a hell—fire and damna-
tion preacher, but a God-fearing and God—praising student
sharing his faith. .
When I was growing up, getting ready to go to church was a
ritual. My grandfather paid me a dime to polish his shoes on
Saturday night. My mother and grandmother always went to
the beauty parlor on either Friday or Saturday, getting ready
for Sunday preaching, Sunday school church and Sunday
night church BTU.
Always on Saturday, it was car wash day since the car was
going to church also.
I never saw my Dad or my two grandfathers go to church,
Visit a church, without polished shoes, shirt, tie and suit. It
is a habit I have inherited since I am now attending Sun-
day church and there is something about “getting dressed
for church” that brings back a lot of growing up memories:
“Gimme that old—time religion memories”
JUST IN time for the holiday and stocking stufling season
the “they think they are the fabulous fiVe” found the money
to give 249 full-time county employees a raise. There are 250
county employees and now I wonder which county employee
didn’t get a raise. We had to pay $23,000 to determine which
county employees should have a raise.
Not to be outdone, Forsyth’s city
Christmas bonuses for fifty-one eligible city employees.
GET READY to welcome Santa Claus at the not Christmas
parade but Hometown Holiday Parade at least celebrating
30 Years of Christmas Magic, next Thursday in downtown
Forsyth starting at pm. See you there.
THERE’S A lot of scratching of heads and wondering why
Superior Court Judge Tommy Wilson “sealed”---no view-
ing, no seeing, no public access---—the results of a residency
dispute of a Mary Persons homecoming queen. County and
school board attomey---double duty--—-Ben Vaughn wanted
the case sealed.
I DON’T like to promote non—Monroe County businesses,
but here is an exception: Yahola Creek Restaurant up in In-
dian Springs. They are open Friday 4 pm. to 9 pm, Saturday
11 am. to 9 pm. and Sunday 11 am. to 4 pm. One of their
specialties is oysters on the half-shell.
ON A deadline now that demolition of the Old Colonial]
Big Star is underway and is nearing completion. Construction
of the ultra-modern Forsyth City can begin. Still wonder why
there was not a celebration and selling of the bricks.
THE CORRECT answer to last week’s The Question was
' Joe Evans’ mother who was featured in the Monroe County
Hospital ad and Marcia Linton was the first with the correct
answer. She receives a certificate for a Dairy Queen Blizzard,
whistle Stop fried green tomato appetizer, dozen Dunkin
donuts, slice of Jonah’s pizza, slice of Shoney’s strawberry
pie, single dip of Scoops ice cream and a Forsyth Main Street
t—shirt.
Here’s The Question for this week: Trippe Moore signed a
letter of intent with what college? First correct answer after 12
noon Thursday gets the goodie certificate.
Don Daniel is the founder and former publisher of The Mon-
roe County Reporter. Email him at tullaybear@bellsouth.
council found $21,000 for v
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Thanks Save A Pet for my Sug
To the Editor:
y little dog, Sugar, just
passed away. I loved
her for 17 years, and I
miss her. She had been
with me since she was six months
old.
I saw her on a Save A Pet segment
on TV and called Pat Corley, the
.director of Save A Pet, and told her
I wanted her. Pat told me someone
else was looking at Sugar, but if they
didn’t take her she was mine. Pat
brought her to me. She was a great
pleasure and really made me happy.
Thank you to Pat. She deserves
a crown with many stars. She has
so much love for both people and
animals. Our community is so lucky
to have someone like her and many.
of the others who work with her at
Save A Pet. It’s a no-kill shelter, and
they’ve worked hard so it’s paid for.
I’m so grateful for Pat Corley and for
what she does.
Sugar passed away by my chair. I’m
going to plant a tree in my yard that
it
will bloom in memory of her.
Carolyn Brown Sugar modeled tor the Reporter in
Forsyth
December 2015 to help promote
Shop Small Saturday in Forsyth
LoVe seeing my family in The Reporter
To the Editor:
continue to enjoy the Reporter even though my
wet macular makes it harder to read the fine, light
print. I enjoy seeing articles that mention my
nieces and nephews. I am the last in my family
The schools have grown tremendously. (There were
of seven children: Fred, Butler, Lee, Maurice, Doris
(Grant) and Alice (Cromer).
JUST THE WAY IT IS by Sloan Oliver
Dems desperate to take out Trump
e study English to
have a common lan-
guage to understand
one another. Along
with English, we study word mean—
ings. One word whose meaning is
now in question is “favor.” A favor is
“an act exhibiting kind, gracious, or
a friendly attitude” IfI ask someone
for a favor, students
of English agree, the
hacked them. Conveniently, the
DNC told us that Crowdstrike fin-
gered the Russians as the computer
hackers. This accusation has never
been proven; the Dems claim it to
be true, and they demand we believe
them. Apparently, Ukraine has
something to do with Crowdstrike;
possibly the DNC computer serv-
ers are in Ukraine. This
Ukraine-Crowdstrike
next sentence from gyflg 1:83:33;
my mouth 15 the favor Zdensky
I’m asking. Appar- '
ently, Democrats and ALSO, DURING
the media (I repeat the phone can, why did
myself) dont 9*de President Trump ask Zel-
and don’t understand ensky about Ukrainian
English. They thiIIk corruption centering on
if a favor is asked, it Joe and Hunter Biden?
isn’t the verynextg- . The obvious answer
sentence, the" fivor is ‘ “ I, .\ ,x 1 is because when Joe
actually 500 words 2&1 13..an‘t’billttst/\~ Biden was Obama’s
vice
and 10 minutes later president he was corrupt
in the conversation. and scored a “sweetheart”
Ascrazyasthat sounds, that’s the positionin aUkrainian energy
spin the mediacrats (Media+Dems)
are putting on President Trump’s July
25th phone call to Ukraine’s Presi—
dent Zelensky. The mediacrats want
you to believe that the favor Trump
asked of Zelensky was to investigate
Joe and Hunter Biden, and if they .
didn’t investigate Biden’s corruption,
Ukraine wouldn’t receive military
aid The Dems say Trump asked the
favor for political gain, and for that,
he must be impeached Problem with
the mediacrats narrative — it’s 100%
FALSE. They know it’s false which
means they’re lying.
DURING TRUMP’S phone call,
he asked Zelensky for a favor. Trump’s
next statement after “favor” was: “I
would like you to find out what hap-
pened with whole situation with
Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike. . . I
guess you have one of your wealthy
people. . . the server, they say Ukraine
has it. There are a lot of things that
went on, the whole situation.” (Read
the transcript by searching the inter-
net for “Transcript of Ukraine phone
call.’ ’) About 10 minutes after asking
the “Crowdstrike” favor, Trump men-
tioned Joe Biden. Two questions are
in order: What is and why ask about
Crowdstrike? Why ask the Ukrainian
president about corruption and Joe
Biden?
IN 2016, the Democrat National
Committee claimed their computers
were “hacke ” Instead of asking the
FBI to investigate, the DNC hired
Crowdstrike to do a forensic analysis
of their servers to determine who
company for Hunter. So, when our
tax dollars are going to Ukraine, it’s
Trump’s duty to insure allegations of
corruption are investigated — espe—
cially when the corrupt individual
wants to be our next president. The
other answer: In 1999 President
Clinton signed an “anti-corruption”
treaty with Ukraine that obligates
us, and them, to investigate corrup—
tion — especially when we give them
hundreds of millions in military aid.
Remember, since May 2019, Federal
Prosecutor John Durham, has been
conducting an investigation into
the genesis of the Russian-collusion
hoax His investigation is uncover—
ing corruption in several countries,
to include Ukraine. It appears likely
that Ukraine’s previous government
worked with the Dems to fix the 2016
election in Hillary’s favor. .
SOMETHING ELSE, Trump’s
July 25th phone call was the day after
Robert Mueller testified to Congress
about his Mueller Report (MR). The
MR was the 2-year investigation that
Dems knew would provide proof
that Trump colluded with Russians
during the 2016 election. The Dems
wanted Mueller’s report to implicate
and impeach Trump. However,
instead of implicating Trump on
Russian collusion, the MR did the
opposite, it exonerated him. Ad-
ditionally, the MR exposed that the
Dems tried to “frame” Trump with
the phony collusion accusation. (This
attempt to frame Trump is what
John Durham is investigating.) So,
on July 24th, Mueller bombed with
his testimony to Congress. Thus, no
37 in my graduating Class of 1945)
I enjoyed the articles by Mr. Likens. I’m sorry he
moved. Tell us something abut the “Little Johnstons.” I
enjoy their programs.
Helen (Vaughn) Parsons
Jasper, Tenn.
impeachment based on Russian-
collusion was possible. The Dems im-
mediately moved to their next Trump
removal plan. The very next day, the
Dems found a phone call; made by
Trump, overheard by a third party
“whistleblower’i they claim was an
impeachable phone call.
FUNNY HOW the media claims
all accusations against President
Trump are valid and must be thor-
oughly investigated, regardless of the
political leanings of the accuser. Now
we’re to believe this Ukraine phone
call “whistleblower” is “unbiased” and
cares deeply about the country. The
whistleblower’s name is Eric Ciara-
mella. He’s not a whistleblower; he’s a
registered hard-core Democrat work—
ing at the CIA, attempting a coup.
Ciaramella worked with the DNC
to create the Trump-Russia collu-
sion hoax. He worked directly under
James Clapper, Obama’s National
Security Advisor, an anti-Trumpet
Ciaramella worked at the White
House but was fired for leaking classi-
fied information but ended up in the
WH again. Also, Ciaramella worked
with John Brennan, former CIA
Director and ardent anti-Trumpet:
Finally, the day after Mueller’s tes-
timony bombed, Ciaramella began
working with Adam Schiff(D-CA)
to craft and write his “whistleblower”
memo. Unbiased? NOT.
QUICK REVIEW: before the
2016 election, Dems said they would
impeach Trump should he be elected
Then, on inauguration day, the
WashPost ran an “impeach Trum
article. Next, Mueller and the Dems
tried to remove Trump via collusion.
“lynching” sorry, I mean collusion
investigation. Plus Dems have said
that Trump must be impeached
or he will be re-elected Now, the
Dems have created a false claim of
Ukrainian “ uid—pro—quo” during a
phone call to the Ukrainian president
),
' in which Trump discussed Biden’s
corruption. So, it’s OK to spend two
years investigating a bogus collu-
sion hoax but it’s illegal for President
Trump to ask anyone to investigate
the origins of the Russia collusion
scam?
WEEKLY THOUGHT: This
Ukraine impeachment hoax is
another attempt to overturn the 2016
election and to undermine President
Trump in 2020.
Sloan Oliver is a retired Army of-
ficer who writes a weekly column for
the Reporter: Email him at slounoli—
ver@earthlink net.
161 Days in {
Back in June, Monroe County taxpayers paid $2,765 for an investiga-
tive report into a county employee's allegation that commissioner Larry
Evans harassed her for not hiring his "niece". But commissioners
have
refused to let the taxpayers, who paid for the report, see it. They've
kept it hidden from public view. Only District commissioner John
Ambrose and now perhaps District 4 commissioner George Emami
support letting the public see it. It you think you have the right to see
the report, tell your commissioner or call the office at 994-7000 and
let them know. Meanwhile, we will count the days they've kept their
constituents in the dark until it's released.
