Squawkbox – August 5, 2025

Our pastor chair, mayor, and commissioners should do these things rather than spend our money at conferences: Sit at a busy intersection to enjoy loud Charger racing; hang in the parking lot of a slum motel to experience the chaos; wait in line at the broken Probate Court; watch people parking illegally in handicapped spaces; pick up trash of litterers they refuse to ticket; time APD and AFD responses.

It is telling how many ethics and oversight employees have been fired throughout the Trump administration and how the Justice Department and, ultimately, the Supreme Court, are allowing these firings.

A home burned down on Byron Plantation last year. The day after the fire, a safe that withstood the fire was broken into. A large sum of money and guns were taken. Two weeks ago, a home on Quail Hollow burned down. Two days later, the owner found jewelry boxes that survived the fire, but the jewelry was gone. A credit card survived the fire and an attempt to use it was made the next week. Nobody had been in those homes but firemen. 

You can’t spell corruption without a T-R-U-_-P.

Fifth and sixth abhorrently intolerable: (5) taking cellphone pics during mob beatings of the defenseless (6) Putin. “There are more important things than peace.” Time to stand and deliver against evil where ever its found. Revelation implies three-fourths of earth’s population will be killed during tribulation. Let’s have at it, Who knows, you might be one of the lucky ones.

Don’t watch TV news anymore … might have to glimpse him. I miss reading World and Nation in Albany Herald. Gave me at least a bit of that news. 

Fletcher, you can’t blame our school demographics on parents who enroll their kids in private schools or homeschool them. Our school system leaders have made it clear that the local schools are meant to “educate” black students on specific issues, not teach them to interact with those who differ from them. Sad but true.

There is a need to curtail the growth of Welfare families. One way to do that is to not increase the stipends for an increased number of children. Flat rate family support for one child, no more.

I’m struggling a bit with the articles by Randall. I wasn’t sure why and still I’m not sure. One thing my life experiences have taught me is listen to what people say but pay attention to what they have done and are doing. Trying not to be a detractor but …

A wise man once said, “If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.”

When the department of labor statistics reported that things were going well, Orange Boy praised them as being very accurate and very competent. When the numbers did not look good to the orange one, he fired the department head and picked a new staff for the department that would produce the numbers that he wanted, not the real numbers.

Teachers in Dougherty County teach the students they have. The fact that there are so few whites in the system is not on them.