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Governor Swill

On Fri, 05 Aug 2016 23:07:14 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2016 23:29:32 -0400, Governor Swill
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:54:36 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:46:47 -0400, Governor Swill
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Jul wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul Leon wrote:
On 7/29/2016 Swingman wrote:
Don't normally re-post in entirety, nor cross post, BUT, IMNSFHO this
deserves to be seen, taken to heart and disseminated far and wide.
Sadly, it might be too late for the country, but you hit the fark'n nail
on the head, Bubba!
It all started when we started living in air conditioned comfort every
day instead of when company was expected. That and color TV. ;~)

Air conditioning was what allowed the South to grow (good or bad).
Atlanta would still be a wide spot in the road without cheap AC. It
didn't take off until the '60s.

Atlanta was a regional city even before the Civil War. But you're
right about cheap ac and the city taking off in the sixties.

Sure, I was being a "tad" hyperbolic. The growth has been amazing,
though.

Metro population:
1950 - 1960 - 1970 - 1980 - 1990 - 2000 - 2010
1.0M 1.3M 1.8M 2.2M 3.0M 4.1M 5.3M
30% 38% 22% 44% 37% 29%

When I first moved there, the tallest building in town was 22 floors
and there weren't a dozen of what we'd call "skyscrapers".

I first moved here in '11 (three years earlier we moved 70mi down the
road)

I first moved there back in 1969 when the Hyatt's "flying saucer" was
a local landmark. Now it's completely obscured by taller structures.

Today, it's skyline rivals all but the very largest of cities.

It's not all in one place, making it look smaller than it is.

Depends on your point of view. The 'scrapers are spread in clumps
northward from Five Points along the Peachtree ridge, so a view from
the east or west makes it look bigger. The majority of the tallest
ones have addresses on Peachtree Street.

But *everything* in Georgia is named "Peachtree" something. I work in
Peachtree City (where there are tons of cherry trees, pear trees, and
golf carts but no peach trees).

Then there's the growing Buckhead cluster along Peachtree Rd and the
^^^^^^^^^^^^ see?

Lol! "Peachtree Battle Avenue"

The local joke is that when Sherman took Atlanta, he should have
trimmed the peach trees.

Marietta cluster at 285 and 75 in the nw corner.

Buckhead and Marietta were what I was referring to.

Swill
--
The only time NATO has ever invoked Article 5 and rushed to
the aid of a NATO ally in response to an attack was on September 11,
2001. On that day, monsters murdered 2,977 people in New York
City; Washington, DC; and Shanksville, PA.

Almost 3,000 Americans were murdered by monsters and our NATO
allies for the first time in the history of the NATO Alliance
rose as one and defended American airspace and American interests
around the entire freaking world while we wrestled with what had happened.

Donald Trump wants to turn NATO into a damn shakedown scheme and
you people are cheering him on.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
You should be ashamed of the fact that your cult leader who claims
to have been personally affected by 9/11 does not even know our NATO allies
protected his ass that day.
You should be ashamed that he wants to turn one of the strongest military
alliances in the history of the world into a racket where
protection is bought.
You should be ashamed that you are not ashamed. -- Eric Erickson