For the last week I have had a coon tear through my screen door and break my skylight while trying to get into my crappy old motorhome that I go to on the weekends to mellow out from tha Dallas rat race. He has run off my outdoor cat or killed him because I haven't seen him in 3 days... but the cat is huge, smart and a stray that has always lived outside so he may just be staying away since the coon is around. The coon may have rabies because he tries to get into my motorhome while i'm inside, the TV blaring loud with me walking around so he knows i'm here. When i open the door in this video you can see where I patched the screen after his attempt to tear it down 2 days ago. I closed the door and he tried to tear off my skylight yesterday. So I went and bought me a badass .177 caliber single shot pellet gun today, and the pointy pellets... put a crappy old laptop with my webcam on the porch, and took care of my problem.One shot between the eyes. I just shot him through the screen since he already tore it up.
Hopefully my homeless cat will come home tonight.
Maybe i'll skin him and make me a Daniel Boone coon skin hat.
--MOD-- I don't know what catagory this belongs in so put it wherever you think is best. Thx --
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Damn Coon
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Boone County Indiana jail deputies beat handcuffed inmate....send him to hospital.
Jail supervisor D.T. Wright loses his job for trying to discipline and report the jail deputies who beat this handcuffed inmate.
D.T. Wright writes:
The handcuffed arrestee spat toward a city cop, a corrections officer punched him in the head. Within a minute of being struck the man fell limp to the floor and had to be transported to the ER via ambulance. The corrections officer was an old friend of the sheriff with a very checkered past that I didn't learn about until after being terminated. He was never disciplined! The sheriff and chief deputy - now sheriff - said it didn't happen despite the video from two security cameras in the booking area. I assured them I would testify truthfully. Both admitted to saying they were "disappointed."
I filed a lawsuit for retaliatory termination - a very tough case to make. They finally settled after more than three years. It helped my cause when it was revealed last summer that the law and order white-hat-wearing sheriff Ken Campbell was four years into an illicit affair with a high-priced hooker. He was allowed to retire with his pension and is now CEO at Gunsite Firearms Academy. I'm now officially retired.
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Oscar protest planned over all-white nominees
African-American civil rights
groups plan to protest outside Sunday's Oscars show, where every single
one of this year's 20 acting nominees is white.
However small,
the demonstration will revive debate about diversity at the
Oscars-awarding Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose
voting members are overwhelmingly white and with an average age in their
60s."The goal of the protest
is to send a message to the Academy, send a message to Hollywood, send a
message to the film industry," said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, head of the
LA Urban Policy Roundtable group."And
the message is very simple: you don't reflect America, your industry
doesn't reflect America. Women, Hispanics, African-Americans, people of
color (are) invisible in Hollywood."Halle
Berry and Denzel Washington were famously lauded as having made a
breakthrough for winning best actress and actor Oscars in 2002, but
while there has been some progress in the decade since, it remains too
little.Critics rounded on the Academy as soon as the nominations
were announced last month, with all-white acting categories for the
first time in nearly two decades: the last time was in 2011, and before
that, 1998.Notable snubs included Britain's David Oyelowo, widely
tipped for playing Martin Luther King Jr. in "Selma". The film's
director Ava DuVernay, was also left out, although the movie is among
eight picture nominees.The Academy has defended itself. Its first
African American president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, said shortly after
nominations were unveiled that they spurred her to accelerate reforms to
make the Academy more inclusive.
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Halle Berry and Denzel Washington were famously lauded as having made a breakthrough for winning bes ..."Personally, I would love to see and look forward to (seeing) a
greater cultural diversity among all our nominees in all of our
categories," she said at the time.But Darnell Hunt, head of the
UCLA center for African American studies, and author of "The Hollywood
Diversity Report", said the Academy is heading in the wrong direction.Hunt,
who plans to release an update on his diversity report in a couple of
weeks, said that 93 percent of the Academy's members are white, about 70
percent male, while the average age is 63."In many ways the Academy is falling further and further behind because America is more diverse," he said."In
about two or three decades, we are going to be majority minority (with
minorities making up most of US population) and you are going to have an
Academy with 90 something percent white? That makes no sense."Peter
Saphier, a member of the Academy since 1978 and former Universal
executive who produced "Scarface" (1983), acknowledged that the body has
some work to do."There should be more diversity within the Academy itself," he told AFP. "They
are trying to do something about it. We have an African American
president. She is doing all she can to increase the membership
diversity."William Smart Jr, president of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, said: "This is unjust, to see the lack of African
Americans in the presentation. So we're mad! We're upset!" He stressed that there are "so many" actors from various ethnics and racial groups."But the process eliminates them," Smart said. "There
is an invisible ceiling over their heads, that the Academy has put
there. We're calling for them to tear down that invisible ceiling."Sunday's
diversity protest is planned for 2:00 pm (2200 GMT), only minutes
before Hollywood's finest begin taking to the red carpet for the
pre-show fashion parade, and barely three hours before curtain up on the
2015 Oscars
This is getting totally ridiculous. If no blacks acted good then that's that. Why give an award to someone based on there skin color? Bullshit, fuck off I mean really!! When is enough enough already?
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Randomish
Fast fountains a dog and Daniel Boone taking a selfie.
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Arrested Islamic State supporting American says he planned to kill Obama, bomb the Senate and Israeli embassy
Christopher Cornell, claiming sympathy with Islamic State militants and charged with plotting to attack the US Capitol said in a television interview that he would have shot President Barack Obama in the head.
Cornell, 20, told Cincinnati's FOX 19 WXIX TV that if he had not been arrested by FBI agents in January, he would have carried out an alleged plot to plant pipe bombs on the Capitol and at the Israeli Embassy.
"What would I have done? I would have took my gun, I would have put it to Obama's head and I would have pulled the trigger," Cornell, of Cincinnati, said in a telephone interview from the Boone County, Kentucky, jail aired on Friday."Then I would have released more bullets on the Senate and the House of Representative members, and I would have attacked the Israeli Embassy and various other buildings full of kafir (a Muslim term for infidel) who want to wage war against us Muslims and shed our blood. That's what would happen," he said.
Cornell was arrested after he researched how to make pipe bombs, purchased a rifle and ammunition and made plans to travel to Washington to carry out the plot, according to court testimony from an FBI informant.
He is being held without bail. The charges include attempted murder of government officials, possession of a firearm to commit a crime and solicitation to commit a violent crime.
"I got orders from the brothers overseas because I'm with the Islamic State. My brothers over there, in Syria and Iraq, gave me specific orders to carry out jihad in the West, so I did so," Cornell said.
Islamic State militants rule a self-proclaimed caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security warned police on Thursday about US youths wanting to join the Islamic State in the Middle East.
Cornell began plotting the attack in August, according to his indictment. He was arrested after he posted on Twitter that he supported Islamic State.
According to court documents, Cornell met with an FBI informant to discuss his plans.
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Photographs of Kentucky State Guard Militiamen at Camp Boone in Louisville, Kentucky (1860)
Photographs of militiamen from the Kentucky State Guard on the grounds of the South-Western Agricultural Association in Louisville, Kentucky in August 1860. The salt print images were taken by Louisville photographers Garret & Nickerson. Future Confederate leaders Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner and Captain John Hunt Morgan are possibly visible somewhere in these photographs. Only a year later, many of these men would be fighting each other in the American Civil War.
Sources: University of Kentucky
http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7x959c6497/guide
http://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/29206/kentucky-garrett-photographers-nickerson/sketches-of-camp-boone-the-first-encampment-of-the-kentucky-state-guard-held-near-louisville-from
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1 dead 7 injured from tornado in Rochelle Illinois
ROCHELLE, Ill. -- One person was killed and seven were injured in a
tiny northern Illinois community after at least one large tornado
touched down in the area, authorities said Thursday night.
One person was killed in the tiny community of Fairdale, James Joseph with the Illinois Department of Emergency Management said.
Rockford Fire Department division chief Matthew Knott told ABC7-TV
that seven people were injured. Knott says "every single" one of the
approximately 50 structures in Fairdale has been damaged.
He says "most" have been flattened.
The National Weather Service confirmed on Twitter around 7 p.m. that a
tornado was on the ground in nearby Rochelle and urged residents to
seek shelter immediately.
Robin Biggs, an employee at the Super 8 motel in Rochelle, which is
about 80 miles west of Chicago, said she took video of the storm, which
she said "took everything out in its path.""I have lived here for 18 years and I have never seen a tornado that big
or stay on the ground that long," she said. "What we have is a small one
touching the ground and going right back up, but this just stayed down
and went all the way across the horizon."
Koleen Kessen, who works at the Comfort Inn & Suites in Rochelle,
said she went outside and spotted the tornado a few miles away after
hearing sirens. She said hotel guests told her the tornado leveled a
restaurant.
The Daily Chronicle in DeKalb, citing fire officials, reported that
14 people who had been trapped inside Grubsteakers restaurant in
Rochelle had since been rescued. The newspaper reported the restaurant
collapsed during the storm. No further details were immediately
available.
Around 9:30 p.m., the Weather Service said it could not confirm how
many tornadoes struck the area but said one long-tracked storm moved
across DeKalb, Boone and McHenry counties, sporadically touching down
and causing damage.
Winnebago County Sheriff's spokesman Ken DeCoster said funnel clouds
also were spotted near Rockford, a few miles north, but did not touch
down.
TV footage from Fairdale showed first responders sorting through debris in what appeared to be a residential area.
The system, packing hail and damaging winds, was headed east as
storms rumbled through the Midwest and Plains during the region's first
widespread bout of severe weather.
The severe weather forced the cancellation of more than 850 flights
at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and dozens of others at the
city's Midway International Airport.
Source: Youtube BasehuntersChasing
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T. Boone Pickens On The View
T. Boone Pickens appeared on The View to talk about his energy plans, and gets some dumb-ass questions from Joy (SHOCKA!)
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My Dog, My Drone, and Ledges State Park, Boone, IA
Took my dog to the ledges state park. Droned the park and a few cliffs. Most people think Iowa is perfectly flat but there are some cliffs. Don't look down! A few geese, some baby geese and an unknown animal enjoying the start of summer.
Thanks to Hippie Sabotage for letting us use "Waiting too Long"
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T. Boone Pickens on US Energy Independence
interesting watch
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T. Boone Pickens On The View
T. Boone Pickens appeared on The View to talk about his energy plans, and gets some dumb-ass questions from Joy (SHOCKA!)
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Flying With Arthur Godfrey 1953 in the Lockheed Super Constellation
Arthur Godfrey was born in New York City on August 31, 1903. Mr. Godfrey
was a radio and TV host and had his own television show The Arthur
Godfrey Show, (1948-1959). During his career, he discovered and show
cased many new talents including Pat Boone, Julius LaRosa, Marion Marlowe,
and many others. Known affectionately as "The Old Redhead," Arthur
piloted his own plane and was an early pioneer and promoter of civil
aviation.He was rated as a Naval Aviator in 1950 (his previous attempts to serve
during the war were thwarted by a leg injury). He was certified to fly
virtually every type of aircraft in existence during his lifetime
(rotor, jet, multiple engine, helicopter, holding FAA type ratings from
the DC-3 to the Constellation) and was an honorary pilot for Eastern
Airlines. He appeared in a 1953 Eastern Airlines film with famed pilot Dick Merrill at the helm of a Constellation. His friend Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
gave him a customized DC-3 in 1947, which he more than returned in kind
through plugs for the airline along with his endorsements about flying
safety to his millions of flying-wary listeners during the 1940s.This gives an idea of what it was like flying in the early days of passenger aviation
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Do Democrats actually listen to T Boone Pickens
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Franklin Graham pulls Wells Fargo accounts over ad with gay couple
Franklin Graham is calling on Christians to boycott corporations that feature same-sex relationships in their commercials. And he says he'll do his part by moving all the bank accounts for his two ministries out of Wells Fargo because of its ad featuring a lesbian couple."This is one way we as Christians can speak out - we have the power of choice," Graham wrote on Facebook over the weekend. "Let's just stop doing business with those who promote sin and stand against Almighty God's laws and His standards. Maybe if enough of us do this, it will get their attention."
During an interview Monday, Graham - the CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte and Samaritan's Purse in Boone - said he was not targeting companies that hire or serve gay and lesbian customers. "There's lots of businesses out there that do business with gay people," he said. "That's fine."
He wants Christians to stop giving their money to businesses, like Wells Fargo and Tiffany jewelers, "that use shareholders' advertising dollars to promote homosexuality. ... It's promoting a Godless lifestyle. ... A bank should be promoting the best interest rates they're going to give me and what they can do for me as a business. But they should not be trying to get into a moral debate and take sides."
Graham specifically objected to a Wells Fargo TV and online ad that features a lesbian couple learning sign language for their adopted daughter. "Hello, beautiful," the couple in the ad tell the little girl in sign language. "We're going to be your new mommies."
Reached Monday, a spokesperson for Wells Fargo said the bank has proudly supported the LGBT community for a long time - a commitment echoed by the ad.
"At Wells Fargo, serving every customer is core to our vision and values," said Christina Kolbjornsen. "Diversity and inclusion are foundational to who we are as a company. Our advertising content reflects our company's values and represents the diversity of the communities we serve."
Wells Fargo, based in San Francisco, has its largest employee base in the Charlotte area.
Graham said in Monday's interview with the Observer that "we've decided" which bank will get the accounts the BGEA and Samaritan's Purse are moving from Wells Fargo. Based on their own reports, the accounts could total in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Asked whether he would identify the chosen bank, Graham said: "Not today because I haven't talked to that bank and I'm not sure they want to be part of your story."
Bank of America, Charlotte's other big bank, has not yet made commercials featuring same-sex couples, but it has run same-sex ads in programs for some events as well as in LGBT publications. Would that be enough for Graham to rule out Bank of America for the accounts leaving Wells Fargo?
"I'm not going to answer that question," Graham said.
Bank of America officials could not be reached for comment.
For now, Graham said, the closing of the Wells Fargo accounts is "in the works. To close these accounts, it may take 30 days."
The BGEA, started by Graham's famous evangelist father, spreads the Gospel via worldwide crusades and Charlotte's Billy Graham Library. In 2014, it received contributions and other income totaling $107.7 million, according to the BGEA's most recent ministry report.
Samaritan's Purse, a Christian charity that helps people cope with natural disasters, had contributions and grants in 2013 - the most recent report available - that totaled $460 million.
Banks would usually line up for those kinds of deposits. But Ken Thomas, a Miami-based independent bank consultant and economist, said the bank that receives Graham's bank accounts will have to answer some tough questions.
"The bank that takes this account will be in a higher visibility position because you're going to ask them, 'What do you think of that ad?' ...And they will face some potential reputation risk."
Banks, Thomas said, "don't like controversy and they don't like reputation risk."
Whichever bank receives these accounts will have to combat the perception that they stand counter to the ideals of Wells Fargo.
"It's one of the best-run banks in America," Thomas said of Wells Fargo. "To take your money out of one of the best-run banks in America, and for another bank to accept an account that came out of Wells Fargo, some people might ask questions like, 'Does your bank not agree with Wells Fargo?'"
Thomas said the unanswered question will be: "How many banks said 'no' to touching that account?"
Corporate America has increasingly come to the defense of the LGBT community. Governors and legislatures in Republican-leaning states such as Indiana and Arkansas retreated this year from legislation that would have permitted people to decline services to gays and lesbians for religious reasons. The reason: corporations in those states opposed the measures as discriminatory against the LGBT community.
In North Carolina, a similar bill went nowhere after it was opposed by GOP Gov. Pat McCrory and legislative leaders in Raleigh.
Leaders of Charlotte's big banks played a visible role going back to the late 1990s on issues involving sexual orientation.
Ed Crutchfield's First Union, now part of Wells Fargo, and Hugh McColl's NationsBank, now Bank of America, amended their policies to state that no employee will be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation. At that time, many other large companies in the area didn't use such specific language.
Also, after announcing in 1998 its merger with San Francisco's BankAmerica, which had domestic partner benefits, NationsBank agreed to offer the benefits to its employees.
Graham said in the Observer interview that he plans to compile and publicize a list of companies that feature same-sex couples in their advertising. "I want people to know," he said.
In his Facebook post, Graham singled out another company - Tiffany & Co., which sells jewelry - for advertising wedding rings for gay couples."There are plenty of other jewelry stores," Graham wrote.
Two others that have featured same-sex couples in their ads: Cheerios and Allstate.
It's too early to determine whether Graham's call for a boycott will have much impact.
As of Monday afternoon, more than 93,000 people had approved of Graham's Facebook message by clicking "Like." More than 41,000 people had shared his message with their own Facebook friends.
But Graham's call to "fight the moral decay that is being crammed down our throats by big business" also brought negative reactions on Facebook."In my opinion, moral decay is using the pulpit to spread bigotry and hate," wrote one Facebook commenter, who then alluded to Jesus's teachings in the New Testament. "Perhaps you should take some time and chip away at that block of wood sticking out of your own eye."
On Twitter, where Graham also announced that "we're moving all the @BGEA bank accounts from @WellsFargo to another bank," he got some supportive tweets."Yes, I have moved mine to another bank," wrote @garystreet1. "Not a lot but it will add up. It's time to move in unison!"
The ad also moved some viewers.
"@WellsFargo A commercial for a bank has never made me cry before. That was beautiful," wrote @CaitlinKimmet.
In recent weeks, Graham has been using Facebook - another gay-friendly company - to urge mass action against same-sex marriage. He called, for example, for Christians to pray for the U.S. Supreme Court justices - whose nine members are Jewish and Catholic - to make what Graham considers the right decision in what could become a landmark case involving the rights of gays and lesbians to marry their partners.
Graham said he uses Facebook because "it's free. ... I want to be a good steward of our monies."
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Rock Lockegee -- Daniel Boone National Forest, Morehead, Kentucky
This is a drone flyover video of Lockegee Rock in the Daniel Boone National Forest located near Morehead, Kentucky. Lockegee Rock is a summit in the Daniel Boone National Forest that stands at 388 meters above mean sea level. It over looks the forest, rolling hills, and man-made Cave Run Lake on the Licking River. The summit is popular among locals and students attending Morehead State University. I grew up in this area of Kentucky and have been to Lockegee numerous times. The rock is accessible from a dirt logging road and can be easily climbed in a few minutes.
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Evangelical Pastor Franklin Graham Calls For Boycott Of Gay-Friendly Business's: Hypocrisy Involved ?
Rev. Franklin Graham is calling for a boycott of gay-friendly businesses, beginning by pulling his ministry's accounts from Wells Fargo after the bank ran an ad featuring a gay couple.
Graham, son of the famed evangelical pastor Billy Graham, runs the church his father started, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which had net assets of $295 million in 2014, according to the most recent data available on the ministry's website.
Hypocrisy Maybe ?
Usury, or the lending of money for interest is forbidden in the Bible. Why isn't Evangellical Pastor Franklin Graham outraged with ALL banks ? Why would he do business with a bank at all ? After all, usury is a sin.
Bible speaks of Usury, There are many Scriptures on the topic of usury to consider in the Old Testament, such as where God forbade the Israelites to exact usury from each other.
There are MANY examples of God forbidding usury in the Bible. Here are a couple:
"Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: " (Deuteronomy 23:19) KJV"You shall not charge interest to your brother-interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest." (Deuteronomy 23:19) NKJV
More Hypocrisy ?
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which had net assets of $295 million in 2014:
Jesus also more than once discouraged the laying up of earthly treasure
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth..." (Matthew 6:19)
In an other Scripture we read of a parable Jesus told of a rich fool, who had been blessed with a prosperous season of farming, and so he built bigger barns to store the great harvest. He expected to live a care-free life for years to come, but instead died suddenly. Jesus provides an explanation to the parable saying""So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God" (Luke 12:21)
He goes on to teach about living a life free from worry, and encourages us to:
"Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?" (Luke 12:24)
Jesus goes even further and provides practical instruction on how to fulfill His teachings by saying:
"Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys" (Luke 12:33)
Here is a short story in the Bible about how Christ dealt with punishment and sin from:
(John 8:2-7)
2 " And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them."
3" And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,"
4 " They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act."
5 " Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?"
6 " This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not."
7 " So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
Franklin Graham has only to look in his own back yard to find sin to be outraged with. Hypocrisy maybe ?
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Humans Are Good At Heart!
Known around town as 'Boone', he and his best friend Paul Lenardo
play the streets of Sarasota daily for tips, however they have
not been able to gather enough to provide for shelter.
Blown away by Donald's street performance, locals volunteered to
help him by launching a GoFundMe campaign, which has already
gathered over $ 12,000 raised by 536 people in one day.
READ MORE: 'Killed by cold indifference':
Protestors decry 'plight' of homeless
"Donald needs a second chance at life. He is extremely
musically talented and can play or teach any instrument that
comes his way! Let's help make this man's dream come true. He's a
very sweet soul!" the initiators of the campaign urged.
In a recent interview taken by passers-by, Donald said he trained
as a clarinet player and went to college to study music theory at
Spring Arbor University, Michigan, but he never finished it.
"Actually I played the clarinet in the Marine Corps,"
says Donald. "But then I decided to go back to college, I had
to learn how to play every instrument from the piccolo all the
way down to the tuba...I took ear training and I play a lot by ear,
I can read music too, I can read parts just like a
book."
According to US media reports, 'Boone' sometimes even plays his
rendition of Bach's 'Toccatain Fugue' and Billy Joel's 'Piano
Man'.
READ MORE: Fedor the pet raccoon takes Russian
Instagram by storm (PHOTO, VIDEO)
However, Donald needs rehab treatment for his substance abuse, as
well as counseling, the GoFundMe campaigners said.
"He deserves a chance to make his dream of teaching music
come true!" the campaigners believe. "We are of course
making our first priority to seek counseling and rehab services
for him as well. We want him to have every opportunity to get
back on track to his true potential."
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WHAT PART DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!
Gordon's mayor did not have the authority to appoint a new
city attorney after a vote to fire the man who'd held the job for more
than 35 years, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday.It was the
second ruling from the state's high court this month involving decisions
that Mary Ann Whipple-Lue has made since she became mayor last year.According
to Gordon's city charter, the mayor has the power to "appoint and
remove, for cause," all officers, department heads and employees of the
city "with confirmation of appointment or removal by the council." The
charter says it takes four votes of council members to adopt any
ordinance, resolution, or motion.Although the Gordon mayor is
allowed to vote in the case of a council tie on an issue, a council
member's abstention did not count as a "no" vote as they considered
removing Joseph A. Boone during a May 2014 meeting, the court ruled.Whipple-Lue counted the abstention as a tie and then improperly voted to remove Boone, the court said.
That
vote was followed by another one giving the mayor the authority to
appoint an interim attorney, and Whipple-Lue again broke what she
considered a tie. The day after the meeting, the mayor sent out a letter
announcing the appointment of Ronny E. Jones as the new interim city
attorney.In September 2014, Boone sued. He contended that he was
still city attorney because Jones was never confirmed by the council, as
required by the charter, and that the mayor did not have the authority
to vote because there was no tie.After a hearing, a Jasper County trial judge ruled in Boone's favor, saying the mayor's vote was invalid.
In
Monday's decision, Justice Carol Hunstein, writing for the majority,
said, "We find no authority permitting the mayor to count the council
member's abstention from voting as a negative vote, thereby creating a
tie."While Jones argued in his appeal that the mayor had the
authority to treat an abstention as a negative vote, he cited "no act,
law, charter provision or rule of procedure granting either the mayor or
the City Council such authority," the court's opinion said."Accordingly,
in the absence of any clear statutory, charter provision, or rule of
procedure authorizing the mayor to treat an abstention as an actual vote
by a council member, either in the affirmative or negative, we hold
that the council member's abstention from voting on the May 21, 2014,
motion to delegate to the mayor the power to appoint a city attorney
was, in fact, no vote at all. Therefore, there was no tie vote on the
motion, and Mayor Lue was not authorized to cast a vote in its favor.
The sole authority to appoint a city attorney thus remained in the City
Council."Two weeks ago, the high court ruled that Whipple-Lue could remain in office, but a lawsuit seeking her ouster could proceed.
Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2015/06/29/3820303_ga-supreme-court-rules-gordon.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
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Just a little of what city employees and citizens have to deal with.
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Gordon Mayor
had no right to remove former City Attorney Joseph A. Boone from his
position, or to fill it with someone else. As you will see they are still working hard for the city. How many times does a person have to be told they can not move money without council vote. City clerk has the authority to pay the bill if city council has approved it.
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Guy Stays On His Pink Cellphone During Robbery
Atlanta, GA - Robbery took place at the BP gas station on 1617 Joseph E Boone on July 2, 2015.
APD is asking the public for your assistance. If you have any information on the two men shown in this video, please call Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS(8477)
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