[ale] Off topic - And now, Arizona

[Greg Clifton]

OK, I wasn't familiar with that plan, but such a route would connect say
McDonough with Cumming/Dawsonville/Dahlonegah rather than P'tree City w/
Woodstock.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Larry Johnson
<larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com>wrote:

> No.  I'm thinking of the actual proposal Oxendine has on the table to
> connect GA 400 with I-675 by obliterating Morningside, Virginia Highlands,
> Inman Park, and East Atlanta.  Oxendine actually took a bit of heat for it
> early in the campaign, but basically stated that he loved East Atlanta, but
> we all had to make sacrifices for the greater good (as in destroying some of
> the best neighborhoods in Metro Atlanta).
>
> Larry
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Larrry,
>>
>> I was thinking that Michael Moore calling someone fat would be much a more
>> apropos comparison.
>> Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Vogon?
>> I live in and grew up Fayetteville (10 miles East of Peachtree City). My
>> father, about 50-52 yrs ago, as a Delta Airlines pilot tried to build the
>> first house in P'tree City but couldn't get a loan from the Atl banks
>> because it was too far out in the country. That's not relevant to the topic,
>> but you comment about destroying East Atl for a Mega Bypass to get from
>> P'tree City to Woodstock makes no sense, both are on the West side of Atl
>> and one can go straight up Hwy 74 to I-85 to I-285 to I-75 to I-575 and be
>> in Woodstock much quicker than any conceivable "eastern passage" as you
>> propose. Are you perhaps thinking of the roadway that DID destroy some of
>> East Atl but Jimmy Carter killed the project when he was Gov. and the road
>> now takes you to his Library and on to E. Ponce?
>>
>> GC
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Larry Johnson <
>> larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>   On 07/09/2010 03:50 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>>> > Especially the Roberts Supreme Court.
>>>> >
>>>> > Don't worry about Georgia being passed by Arizona though - at least
>>>> one of the Republican gubernatorial candidates has something in their ad
>>>> about how we should follow Arizona's lead.  I forget which one though.
>>>> >
>>>> That would be Nathan Deal. He's doing his best to out-wingnut the other
>>>> candidates. I don't think he can catch Oxendine or Handel, though.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I live in East Atlanta, and grew up in Grant Park, so Oxendine holds a
>>> special place in my pantheon of wingnuts, since part of his platform
>>> includes destroying the east side of Atlanta  to create some sort of
>>> mega-bypass, so that the Vogons can get from Woodstock to Peachtree City
>>> without encountering any inhabited places in between.
>>>
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