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by Don Daniel
May you relish true
JUST THE WAY IT IS by Sloan Oliver
liberals are hypocrites, Part XXIV
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he best way to celebrate Christmas is to live all
year long with the idea that every day is like
Christmas. This special time of year just means
more than I can really express. My memories
of my earliest Christmases
seem to haVe become just as
important as this Christmas
and having believed in Santa
and becoming a Santa has been
and is a pleasure. I have distinct
memories of my three children
at the age where they believed
in Santa. I relish the memories
they recreate.
Then, there are the seven .
grandchildren who have . g -'
reached the age of having ' '
discovered who Santa Claus is M
and realizing that there is more W
to Christmas than Santa Claus.
Accepting the true mean-
ing and reverence of the season has been instilled in
their growing up ages and can be directly attributed to
their parents, grandparents and great grandparents. No
great grandchildren, yet, but I am sure the real and true
meaning of the season and day will again be passed on to
another generation.
MY FIRST job after college was advertising manager
for the Swainsboro Forest-Blade newspaper. I always
looked forward to selling Christmas greeting ads because
they were the easiest to sell. Some businesses that didn’t
believe in advertising jumped at the once-a-year oppor-
tunity to wish the community a Merry Christmas.
Even when I owned this newspaper, the Christmas
greeting ads were an easy sell. Some merchants who were
“Scrooges” at other times took the opportunity to wish
Monroe Countians a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year just as last week’s edition again proved with the Let-
ters to Santa from the children of Monroe County.
I learned something way back in my Forest-Blade days:
reading the Santa letters give merchants a good idea what
they should be selling. Even today, Santa letters’ editions
in newspapers across the country are studied extensively
by marketers and merchants. And if you want to “discov-
er” what items those who still believe in Santa Claus hope
they will find in their stockings, left by Santa or under the
tree, read the letters.
CONGRATULATIONS TO Evelyn Chappell identify-
ing Dasher, Donner and Prancer as three of Santa’s rein-
deer per last week’s The Question. Evelyn gets a certificate
for dozen Dunkin donuts, Dairy Queen Blizzard, Whistle
Stop fried green tomato appetizer, single scoop of ice
cream from Scoops, slice of Jonah’s pizza, slice of Shoney’s
strawberry pie and a Forsyth Main Street t-shirt.
Here’s The Question for this week: according to last
week’s Reporter, the counting of what is showing that
they are disappearing worldwide? Discuss it while you
are waiting on Santa Claus. First correct answer after 12
noon Thursday gets the certificate.
SEVERAL FORSYTH City Council members were
caught by surprise when the city attorney announced a
judge ruled that Norfolk Southern could and would close
the railroad crossing on Indian Springs Drive. The vote
was six zilch in favor of the judge’s ruling contrary to the
gnashing of teeth opposing the closing when it was an—
nounced a couple of months ago.
Norfolk Southern made several concessions to appease
the Forsyth godfathers causing a rise of in—favor hands.
Read the details in the story in last week’s paper.
Here are a few unattributed council member com-
ments: “the stage is set”; :”re-purposing”; “I have a
daughter-in-law”; “It rattles the church”; “I got ahead of
my time”; “What I have been hearing”; “I didn’t know
a
what to tell them’ ; “Think about it and come back”.
AND THEN on Tuesday night, over at the county com—
mission, as Richard Dumas is reporting, some more tax—
payer money was spent to purchase a couple of vehicles.
Commissioners also raised building inspection fees,
reappointed Phillip English to the hospital board, and
voted to pay Rev. Rufus Whatley a salary as jail minister
to name just a few.
Here are a few outstanding unattributed commissioner
comments: “Allow us to congregate”; “We got into the
meat”; Let’s kick it around”; “Correct me if I am wrong”;
“I kinda agree with Larry”; “People will stay around if
they have facilities”; “Here’s the thing”; “Everybody with
me?”; “What I am saying is”; “I’ll give you one example”.
As of last week, $131,794.33 of taxpayer money checks
were written. Of the 51, here are a few: Warren Associ-
ates Inc. $47,016.53 for application/certificate”; 13 checks
were written for Utility Refund water with the largest
paid to Andrew P. Dennis and Blue Magnolia Homes
getting checks for $134; County Attorney Benjamin A.
Vaughn got his November bill paid, $5,045.10; we rent
mats/ uniforms, paying Cintas Corporation, $1,235.31;
Consolidated Pipe and Supply sold us some meters to
keep in inventory at $21,145; turnout gear costs us $2,857
paid to Georgia Fire Rescue Supply; we had to send
Nebraska Child Support $266.77 for an employee’s child
support garnishment
My friend Dave says taxpayer money should be spent
on good stuff.
LISTEN TO The Reporter On The Radio on Majic 100
Sunday mornings at seven and anytime by choking on the
radio icon at mymcr.net. Watch us on Forsyth CableVi-
sion.
Again, I wish you a true meaning of Christmas!
Don Daniel is the founder and former publisher of The
Monroe County Reporter. Email him at tullaybear@bell—
south.
Hypocrites”, pub-
lished 9-18-2019, would be. That
very day, Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau displayed a level of
hypocrisy that stunned even me. It’s
difficult for libs and Dems to surprise
me because I know them so well. I
know that Dems and libs lie about
everything. I know they’re complete-
ly dishonest. I know
they project their
sins onto others. For
you libs, that means
ASIDE FROM hating Trump,
identity politics is the driving force
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about being Native American for
profit and political gain? Trudeau’s
“culture appropriation” was all in
among Democrats, libs, and the fun; though, it’s funny and ironic that
media. To that leftist cabal, EVERY- the most self-righteous, holier than
THING is about race, gender and thou North American was caught
one’s ethnic identity. Their prem-
ise is: “white, Christian men are
evil; all others are victims of white
oppression.” Anything that dimin-
ishes Christianity or white males is
praised. This identity politics is also
called “Intersectionality”
and is based on victim sta-
tus. Here’s how Intersec-
tionality works: Conserva—
you accuse others of tive, white Christian men
doing exactly what are evil because they have
you do. I know that oppressed EVERYONE.
Democrat voters ARE Thus, blacks are victims,
NOT very intelligent, but not black conserva—
and I know they tives. Christianity has op-
don’t care about the pressed homosexuals, thus
dishonesty and deceit gays are victims. Men have
of their masters. Yet, \ oppressed women, thus
Trudeau showed that ,\ ‘j {LEA MM women are victims but
Canada has liberals ” ‘ ’ " not conservative women.
who are as dishon- Lesbians trump heterosex-
est, hypocritical, disingenuous, and
not intelligent, as are liberals here in
America — proving that libs and left-
ists are one-in-the-same regardless
of the country. (Remember, leftists
don’t claim allegiance to any coun-
try. They’re globalists and embrace
a world government with Leftists in
control.) ‘
WHAT DID Justin do? First, for
years, Trudeau has been lecturing
Canada about his righteousness. He
regularly calls his opponents “rac—
ists” and white supremacists — just
like the Dems, libs, and the media
do here in the United States. Get
caught dressing up in “blackface”
and you’re labeled a racist; get caught
NOT criticizing such blackface and
you’re labeled a racist. Criticize a
black person, it’s because you’re rac-
ist. Criticize a woman, it’s because
you’re sexist, etc. etc. So, guess what
Justin Trudeau got caught doing?
That’s right, he' was caught wearing
blackface. Not once, not twice, but
multiple times. Now, I don’t think
that Trudeau is racist; I don’t think he
discriminates based on skin color; I
don’t think Ralph Northam (D-VA),
governor of Virginia, is racist because
he wore “blackface” in college. How-
ever, let a “blackface” photo of a con-
servative be published and the media
lynch mob would chase them down
and ruin their life. It’s called “identity
ual women, and black lesbians trump
white lesbians because black lesbians
are 3X victims — woman, black, and
doing exactly the same “racist” BS
that he hurls at others. Even more
dishonest, Trudeau blames society at
large for his racist actions. Trudeau’s
“ “blackface” was sophomoric but
done in humor. Not so with Eliza—
beth Warren. “Pocahontas” Warren
lies: to the very core of who she isn’t.
President Trump calls her Pocahon-
tas because she claims to be Native
American. She peddled her “person
of color” claim for three decades and
used that victim status to score jobs
reserved for minorities. Warren has
1/1,024th Indian blood, less Native
American than anyone reading this
article. Her actions are egregious. For
decades, Warren knew she wasn’t
who she portrayed herself to be. To
advance her career, she stole an iden-
tity and used that stolen identity to
play “identity politics.” Warren and
Trudeau once again prove Universal
Truth #2 — Liberals are Hypocrites.
gay. Muslims (despite Islam being WHAT’S UP with Democrat politi-
an ideology that subjugates women cians that cause them to lie about
and executes homosexuals) are better everything? Recall some of Hillary’s
than Christians because .... .. Islam famous lies: Hillary claimed she was
is not Christianity (refer back to the named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the
original premise — Christianity is
evil.) The more memberships you
can claim in “oppressed” groups,
the more aggrieved you are, and
the higher you rank in victimhood
status, and on and on the victim
“crap” goes. Realize, all victim groups
first person to climb Mount Everest
(Problem she was born in 1947,
six years before Sir Hillary climbed
Everest); Hillary claimed she ran
from sniper fire when she visited
Bosnia in 1996 (Truth there was no
sniper fire when she visited Bosnia);
have complete freedom to criticize Hillary claimed the attack on the US.
and “hate on” white men. But white consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012
men CANNOT criticize any ethnic was due to Muslims protesting a
group or gender because white men
were born with “white privilege.” The
exception is “woke” white liberals,
those who’ve acknowledged that
their ancestors oppressed previous
generations, are given a complete
pass. So, a white male cannot criticize
anyone but liberal, white males can
because they’re “woke.” That’s how
intersectionality works. Elizabeth
Warren is proof that the Left engages
in identity politics. Warren claims
Native American ancestry for the
sole purpose of victim status. Yes, ID
politics are disgusting which is why
Democrats embrace it.
SO, WHAT’S worse, Justin ‘
Trudeau dressing up as a black guy
Youtube video (Disgusting — The lie
Hillary told to the nation and to the
faces of the victim’s families); and
Hillary has lied for 3+ years about
her culpability for her hacked emails
and disclosure of classified materials
related to 33,000+ emails stolen from
her unsecure computers. Now, all
Democrats have lied about all things
related to impeachment. Dems sim-
ply can’t help themselves.
WEEKLY THOUGHT: Merry
Christmas. Let’s pray the Dems see
the hypocrisy of their ways.
Sloan Oliver is a retired Army of-
ficer who writes a weekly column for
the Reporter. Email him at sloanoli-
politics” in which one’s race, gender, or as an Arab sheik for costume
ver@earthlink. net.
and ethnicity is all that matters. and fun or Elizabeth Warren lying
said they witnessed the might have come from the stand on his own be-
Confinued from From beatings. Krystle Jones was spankings he received, he
half, noting his work in his
also charged with cru- said the most significant church and in the commu-
Artaeus Jam a1 Jones 33 of elty to children in the first wounds on the
boy’s back nity as a basketball coach.
ForSyTh H of cn’lel ’ to degree in the incident, and could have
occurred for Jones admitted to causing
hfldrel; til; fir t dc tile her case has not yet been other reasons,
like running marks on his stepson’s
if u . 2 d .alg e adjudicated. Family mem- into a stick in the woods arms
and legs but denied
0 owmg a 'Cay “In ' bers testified the boy was or through a
briar patch. causing the back wounds.
P305“??? datro ee stripped down to his un- Moody said spankings Despite
the charges
:10“ S 01:6 Juror}: f derwear and hit with the that leave marks are not
against him, Jordan said
. “min”? p (21’0ng t: o , switch with thorns. Jurors excessive to the
point of Jones stated in his testimo-
Lnjurles 311.!“ t“; e 0Y8 also saw an interview the being child abuse.
ny: “Children, that’s part of
Ottom’ lghs’ egs’ arms’ boy gave at the Monroe Instead, Moody
specu- my gift.”
back and face from the . . .
beatings. They were so se_ County C.A.R.E. Cottage lated in his closing
state— The abuse was first
th t hm h d t when he told then-director ment that the boy wanted
discovered when a school
Eire “11a d“ SF; ff}: 1: ,0 Lt. K.B. Ayer: “I had a bad to leave his
stepfather’s counselor saw the marks
bacpk Jada: Sid Ignosys day,” in reference to a day house and go back to
live on the boy and notified
h l . t b P e ’ when he was beaten by his with his grandmother,
Department of Family and
w 0a? 0 e a “me stepfather after he misbe- where he lived before
Children Services, which
E::L_b1281238§: it 10365“ f haved at school. his mother married his told
the Monroe County
Life Through 1:531:63 i; Jones’ attorney, Bradley stepfather. Moody also
Sheriff’s Office (MCSO).
Ministries (Jones is not Moody, said his client’s questioned the boy’s
Inv. Adam Blanks of the
listed as a staff member on typical punishment meth- brother’s
credibility, noting MCSO was the lead in-
the Churchh website) also ods weren’t working so he the brother’s
testimony of vestigator in the case, and
forced his ste son to’ mit used a belt on his stepson, the nature of the
abuse was Jones was arrested abOut
in an effort top go who was having “behav— more dramatic than the six
months following the
b d f d purge dls ioral issues.” Moody de- accounts given by every- .
attacks.
“dytfi . erlg’ns' Jot an nied that Jones ever used one else
involved and had After the jury came back
S? be Incl ems “00k a switch with thorns on changed from his original
with a guilty verdict in
poace “green AP “1 29’ the boy, noting there was story. Moody also
attacked about an hour on Wednes— ,
121, 1161 an May t 20163131 no evidence to prove the Krystle Jones’
credibility, day, Monroe County
R18 dome on IO nston e boy’s injuries were a result pointing out that she
con- Superior Court judge Wil-
91; 'b tifi . of Jones’ beatings. While tinued to live with Artaeus
liam Fears sentenced Jones
e 0y Fesh. ed agamst Moody contended that Jones for more than two to 10
years to serve with
Long? as (“shim Oldte}: lesser injuries on other years after the
incident. an additional 10 years of
K138551216, $23130: parts of the boy’s body Artaeus Jones also took
probation to follow. ‘
COMP
pay Jamison an initial lump sum of
’ $57,766 with annual payments of
to remain in a fund to be paid out
over time. But Hall said the city’s
Continued from“ Front
although documents show the date
of the incident was March 11, 2006.
An Oct. 30 settlement agreement
with the Georgia Board of Work-
ers Compensation says the city will
$10,695 per year beginning Nov. 1,
2020 for 22 years as long as he’s alive.
The agreement also says the city
will pay attorney John Christy
$7,500 for his work on the case.
The city has already cut the check
for the whole amount for Jamison
workers compensation company will
pay back 99 percent of that amount.
Jamison never returned to work after
going out on workers comp follow-
ing the 2006 incident.
