the sun seems to be racing to the south these days --- more dark coming

losing an election

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax. ---- mitt romney

well, alrighty then . . . .

old roads

cochran road running north from the site of campbellton is my favorite old road in the county --- for a few hundred feet it runs within 50 or 75 feet of the river itself --- one of the very few places anywhere that you can drive that close to the river

it had been even longer since i was on the upper wooten road, which i found was closed to traffic as it crosses the southern part of cochran mill park and nature preserve --- it was an awful road thirty years ago --- two fords that were often impassable --- it's well maintained now and apparently opened on certain occasions

campbellton

i don't get down to south fulton much, but when i do, i will always swing by campbellton --- somehow i had always missed this site until today --- it's just north of the beavers house, kinda hidden up an overgrown bank where one's eye is always drawn the other way --- site of the original baptist church, est. 1828 --- a great antebellum cemetery, too, including graves of englishes and browns ---

great shell mounds added to these graves

view northeast from cemetery

yes, let's . . . .

from atrios:

Friday, September 14, 2012

Let's Keep Saying This Until It Doesn't Sound Crazy Anymore

WaPo's Zach Goldfarb:

Zachary A. Goldfarb ‏@Goldfarb

If Fed could print money and give it to near-prime borrowers, undwater homeowners, and nervous businesses, then we'd have another story.

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11:43 AM - 14 Sep 12 · Details

14m Zachary A. Goldfarb ‏@Goldfarb

The Fed can print all the money it wants, but it can’t give it to the people who need it. Only banks, gov’t, Fannie/Freddie

I don't think Bernanke can legally start mailing checks to us, though I think when hits the "emergency powers" button he can probably do just about anything, but it isn't said often enough by the right people that there are alternatives to giving free money to banks, such as giving free money to me. At this particular point in time, those alternatives are clearly superior.

We have a problem that can be easily solved by giving free money to people, perhaps the most popular solution to a problem ever. And it isn't happening.

by Atrios at 15:00
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Battle for White House

some lovely shades of pink on this map

Battle for White House

hyde farm

abg

there is no better way to spend a thursday evening than spending it in the botanical garden

9/11

a horrible day remembered --- the terrorists won that day, cowing a great country into compromising its principals and civil liberties in the name of a never-ending "war on terror"

nobody's griping about the weather today

atlanta belt line lantern parade 2012

dammit, [insert name of pet here]

the shame of sheer dogginess

obamamania?

gallup has been leaning republican in its sampling, which is what makes the latest obama approval/disapproval numbers so wonderful

gawd

a symptom of what is wrong with this country right now

the viewshed this evening

this is just a great image that i stole from andrew sullivan's blog

the world's largest fish bowl

a first time at what one of the martha train operators calls the "aquarian" --- the jelly fish and the clown fish loving on the anemone were the best

dragon*con, et. al.

what a mess --- the parade was huge with ten million people lining p'tree from woodruff park to baker and down around to the marquis

the jesus protesters in the background here are a new addition --- but they got a lot of devil-worshipers to shake a stick at

don't need to comment on the phalanx of modern-day hoplites

 last night was dragon*con night at the aquarium, with discounted tickets so we finally paid it a first visit

i kept thinking some of the fish  just wanted everybody to go home

her lashes were the best bit of makeup all day, imho

it is a big weekend in atlanner --- football (somebody has already fell out of the stands at the dome and died and there's been an unusual amount of throw-up and what not on the sidewalks), dragon*con (of course), black gay pride (adding its own special flavor to the streets) --- so p'tree was happening last night