TalkBacks for Jan. 22 1/22/2009 1:57 AM Out of the loop
I notice Sheriff Hunt wasn't informed of a decision regarding the disgraced deputies. Wasn't that one of Barbara Morgan's responsibilities? Yet another thing she left undone. I hope she does something constructive with her retirement.
It's our money
The City Council isn't spending their money; they're spending our money. I approve of them not putting up the fence but I'm not real sure I approve of the medical facility on Silver Bluff if it's only going to be to help the rich folk.
Hunt is great
Sheriff Hunt is a wonderful sheriff and I don't appreciate the negativity.
Run on time
I live on Highway 78 between Montmorenci and Windsor and the school buses out here have different times that they show up for picking up the kids. I call the school but nothing is done.
Get a job
Why would someone cut back school to give to Medicaid when all these young girls don't want to work and are getting help from the system. They need to get jobs and take care of themselves.
Education first
The residents of Aiken County need to worry more about our children's educations instead of the birds, the golf courses and the rednecks. The cuts they've made to funding are what really matter. Children are our future.
Library first
Why can we find money for everything in the county but can't do anything with the library. People use it and we need to do something with it. There's money being spent on old railroad cars. How many people are going to go there? More people use the library.
Crazy man's job?
All the president's break their election promises. You'd have to have a mental problem to run for president and have to put up with all the stuff from citizens and other countries.
Fairness
Why should I have to buy a permit to have a yard sale within the city but a new restaurant can do interviews and take pictures of girls applying in a red car in a parking lot. That doesn't seem fair.
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The whole picture thing is really creepy... In a Chester the molester kind of way.
Posted by: On: 1/23/2009
Comment Title: Andrew
The Standard censored NOTHING about this subject. One person just ASSUMED it was about what people choose to eat.
Posted by: Bri On: 1/22/2009
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The reason why the owner was conducting interviews in his car was because the building is uninsured at this moment so it is a liability to have people except the construction workers ( who have helmets, safety glasses, etc.) and in case you haven't noticed it's been effing cold outside and windy so I would choose to sit in a car thankyou than stand outside. I don't know the reason for pictures, but seeing as how it's a new restaurant opening, they probably have an extremely high volume of applicants, so they take pictures to remember who's who. I don't know. Seems kind of reasonable when you think about it. And anyone has the right to refuse to have their picture taken.
Posted by: Andrew On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Food
I've worked with Europeans who ate Horses……. Phillipinoe's who ate ducks eggs where the duck had already formed in the shell... crunch... crunch and on a flight to Korea on Korean Airlines I watched a health program on the benefit of eating dog. Did I eat any of these things? No. I declined when offered but I respected there right to eat what they wanted too and they respected my right to eat what I want too. I really don't think we can throw stones at anyone when were eating steroid filled, genetically altered foods. If someone can explain to me what did the Standard censor on this issue?
Posted by: Andrew On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: BRUCE
Bruce I was talking about a tree turning into a fossil just like the dinasaur nones they dig up in Southern Alberta. What they found was trees that they knew had fallen a few decades earlier had turned into fossils. When they carbon dated these pieces of wood they found there not decades old but thousands if tens of thousands of years old. Not Fossil fuel. Its an interesting fact and I learned it from a Science program look it up Science certainly does not answer all the questions and I doubt ever will.
Posted by: Tinker On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Redneck GED Sheriff
Barbara Morgan didn't give valley boy GED redneck Sheriff Mike Hunt the time of day. Why would you expect her to tell him anything about a case she wanted to dismiss. This wasn't the first time she did this to little valley boy Mike Hunt.
Posted by: On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Fairness
Wow. Talk about discrimination. Are you telling me in order to be eligible to apply for the job you have to be a girl in a red car in a parking lot? Now I understand why the city wants you to buy a permit for a garage sale. That is a way for them to know why there is extra traffic in the neighborhood and also a way to be sure you collect sales tax and submit it to the state coffers.
Posted by: On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Education first
You are wrong if you think a redneck uses the system. A real redneck is a proud to be born southern person and proud to work for a living and too proud to ask for one red cent from the government or any one else for that matter. So before you label maybe you should read the label, GOT IT?
Posted by: On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Fairness?
To the person who wrote about fairness, it is fair for you to have to pay to have a garage sale, it's a permit. However your complaint about the manager of the new Italian restaurant taking applications in his car and photographing females (I am assuming males as well, otherwise this would be highly illegal) should have sent a red flag up. You should be worried that the girl you are talking about thought it was okay to get into the car of someone they don't know and further allow him to take her picture. To the manager of the establishment, you should have rented a storefront in the vicinity in order to conduct more appropriate interviews, that way if your intentions were valid, you could have been saved from any embarassment. = Long story short, the person claiming fairness has no ground, as the two problems have nothing in common.
Posted by: On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Library
The Railroad Depot is more important than the Library. Its going to attract more Yankees for us to sell to!
Posted by: On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Education first
Wrong. We are the childrens future, and the only people who should have to pay for education are the people with children! YOU MAKE'EM YOU PAY FOR THEM!
Posted by: On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: medicaid
Medicaid is not just for "girls who don't want to get a job", we are taking care of somebody elses kids because they can't and the only insurance I can get for them because we haven't adopted them is medicaid. My husband and I both work full time, so before you lump us all together, let me introduce my children to you who benefit from medicaid, or else we could not go to a dr. but of course why would you care about my kids.
Posted by: Proud Aiken On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: The Sheriff
I give a big hand & a high 5 to Mr. Hunt! I think he is doing a wonderful job. No he is not God nor will he ever be perfect enough to catch everyone doing their own "Dirty Work", but i believe himself & his Deputies are working to make Aiken, a safer community! His Special Ops divison especailly! Pearson, Wilson, Chad, Fox, Shaw, & the late Powell & Warchol! Hopefully soon we will see Warchol back in the mix as Srgt! Keep up the great work guys!
Posted by: Tax Payer On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Silver Bluff Medical Fac.
I would rather see the rich in the new medical facility rather then the individuals on Medicade coming in, all decked out in the name brand clothing and purses, nails and hair did. Medicade is for people that can not afford health insurance or health insurance is not an option at their place of employment. It should not be given to people that are just too darn lazy to get a job! And dealing dope is not a job!
Posted by: On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Mayhem
News flash: The middle class and also some of the poor pay Aiken County/City taxes too!!! The
Posted by: Mayhem On: 1/22/2009
Comment Title: Silver Bluff Medical Facility "for the rich"
News flash: Rich people pay Aiken County/City taxes, too.
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