http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ga-news/ en-us Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:52:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387187/posts Knockout strategies have demonstrated that the function of many genes cannot be studied by disrupting them in model organisms because the inactivation of these genes does not lead to a phenotypic effect. For living systems, this peculiar phenomenon of genetic redundancy seems to be the rule rather than the exception. Genetic redundancy is now defined as the situation in which the disruption of a gene is selectively neutral. Biology shows us that 1) two or more genes in an organism can often substitute for each other, 2) some genes are just there in a silent state. Inactivation of such redundant... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387187/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:52:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386753/posts CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- Police said a love letter on the social networking web site Facebook sparked an on-campus, profanity-laced fight between two teachers at Rex Hill Middle School in Rex. The altercation allegedly got so out of hand, an officer ended up arresting both instructors. Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones spent the day in Clayton County and was able to obtain the police report that detailed the love triangle that erupted into fighting and cursing in front of students. The school district didn’t have much to say about the altercation, but parents did. Police: Teachers Fight Over... WSB TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386753/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:33:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386608/posts Billy Carter's Old Gas Station: A National Monument? Legislation calls for the National Park Service to take over the storied building, making it part of the Jimmy Carter Historic Site. Some say that's not the best use of taxpayer money right now. Billy Carter's gas station would become part of a proposed Jimmy Carter National HIstorical Park under legislation before Congress. (Mark Davis) By Richard Fausset November 15, 2009 In the age of the $787-billion stimulus package, it is, perhaps, a modest question: Should the American taxpayer foot the bill to enshrine the gas station run by the late Billy... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386608/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:28:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386028/posts Former Governor of Arkansas and host of Huckabee on the Fox News Channel will be speaking at First Redeemer Church on Sunday, November 22nd at 9:15 AM & 10:45 AM. Following the 10:45 service, Huckabee will be signing his new book "A Simple Christmas". Address: 2100 Peachtree Parkway Cumming, GA 30041 Phone: 678-513-9400 First Redeemer Church http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386028/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:12:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386004/posts A Houston County sheriff's deputy accidentally shot himself in the finger while struggling with a runaway shoplifting suspect in Centerville, a GBI agent says. Deputy Derek Collins suffered minor injuries in the shooting, which was part of a wild chase from the Centerville police station into a neighborhood. Craig Rotter,assistant agent in charge of the GBI's Perry office, said Friday night that the suspect himself was also shot, But investigators are still trying to figure out who he is and who shot him, he said. He said the unidentified suspect was in stable condition in the Medical Center of Central... 13WMAZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386004/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384773/posts While Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species has been described as “a grand narrative—a story of origins that would change the world”,1 ironically his book very pointedly avoided the question of the origin of life itself. This ought not be surprising. Darwin’s theory of the origin of species “by means of natural selection”2 presupposes self-reproduction, so can’t explain the origin of self-reproduction. Unfortunately, many proponents of evolution seem unaware of that. They don’t acknowledge that natural selection requires pre-existing life. As leading 20th century evolutionist Theodosius Dobzhansky lamented: ... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384773/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:53:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384453/posts With so many armed robberies it's no surprise south Georgians are arming themselves in staggering numbers. Dougherty and Lee County probate courts have already had more applications for conceal carry permits in ten months this year than all of last year. Dougherty County has had 1,374 applications for conceal carry permits and Lee County has had more than 667 applications. walb http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384453/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:45:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384583/posts Dick's Sporting Goods informed GeorgiaCarry.Org that it permits lawfully carried handguns in its stores in Georgia, so long as the person carrying the handgun is abiding by state law. This issue arose when the President of GeorgiaCarry.Org, more precisely, me, was kicked out of the Fayetteville, Georgia store because of a lawfully carried H&K USP 45 pistol. I was carrying a holstered pistol, as is my daily habit, and wearing a GeorgiaCarry.Org T-shirt when I brought my eight year old son to the store to look at the Davey Crickett rifles that I knew to be in stock. My eager... Atlanta Gun Rights examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384583/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:41:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383975/posts A salamander allegedly “18 million years old” is the latest fossil to produce astonishingly well preserved soft tissue. This time, it’s muscle tissue, and it is supposedly the most pristine example yet. Background—the “dinosaur connection”... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383975/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:29:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383474/posts Two more parents are charged with making false statements to get their children into Houston County schools. District Attorney Kelly Burke says a grand jury Tuesday indicted George and Debra Lucas of Peach County on two counts each of making false statements. He says they told school officials that they lived in Perry. Earlier this year, a grand jury charged two more sets of parents with giving false addresses so their children could go to Houston schools. He said charges against two of them, Cliff and Tammy Pulsifer of Fort Valley, were dropped after the couple removed their children from... 13 WMAZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383474/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382683/posts The Tea Party Express II came to visit us in the Peach State this evening. Please post your pictures and comments here. Thanks to all who came out to support our Republic!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382683/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:53:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380645/posts Justin M. DeCrow had been in the Army for 13 years. At 32, Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow had been in the Army for 13 years and -- with a wife, 13-year-old daughter and bothersome case of sleep apnea -- had decided it was time to become a civilian. His mother, Rhonda Thompson, said Friday that DeCrow had returned over the summer from a year's deployment in South Korea to Evans, Ga., where he had built a house several years ago. His wife, Marikay -- whom he had known since the start of elementary school -- had a business there... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380645/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:03:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380563/posts ATLANTA, GA—STEVEN H. BALLARD, 53, of McDonough, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. to serve over five years in federal prison on a wire fraud charge involving a real estate investment scam that lasted over five years and defrauded a dozen victims in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson said, “I am gratified that the U.S. Attorney’s Office was able to present the losses of so many victims to the Court, and thereby obtain justice for those who relied on this former attorney and his ‘legal’ papers. In... Department of Justice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380563/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380555/posts ROME, GA—KENNETH LANE GRAVETT, 42, of Cedartown, Georgia, a former Deputy with the Polk County Sheriff’s Department, pleaded guilty today in federal district court to mail fraud relating to the submitting of a false insurance claim on a motorcycle. According to Acting United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, the charges and other information presented in court: In 2008, GRAVETT was a Deputy with the Polk County Sheriff’s Department. GRAVETT fell behind on making monthly loan payments on his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He then conspired with another individual to make it appear that the motorcycle was stolen, so that he could... Department of Justice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380555/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:34:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379318/posts The ideal of the coolly rational scientific observer, completely independent, free of all preconceived theories, prior philosophical, ethical and religious commitments, doing investigations and coming to dispassionate, unbiased conclusions that constitute truth, is nowadays regarded by serious philosophers of science (and, indeed, most scientists) as a simplistic myth... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379318/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:29:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378652/posts Those high-profile gubernatorial and congressional races in Virginia, New Jersey and New York got most of the headlines, but the genuinely revealing contests may well have been some of the down-ballot contests held in Maine, Georgia and Pennsylvania. In Maine, a referendum to repeal the state's recently enacted gay marriage law won 52-48 percent. despite a massive outpouring of resources by gay rights groups. Gay marriage advocates spent an estimated $4 milion defending the law, while opponents reportedly spent about $2.5 million. Turnout was higher than expected for an off-year election, according to Maine officials, and there were about 100,000... Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378652/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:51:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378709/posts Memory cards in seven voting machines were unintentionally left in Atlanta precincts Tuesday night, in a poll worker error that election officials say is not expected to affect the outcome of any race. Fulton County Board of Elections Director Barry Garner says he expects to gain access to the memory cards Wednesday morning and tally the remaining votes. Garner says poll workers in the seven precincts were in a hurry and did not ensure that all the cards were removed from the machines. He called the oversight unacceptable and said his office would put procedures in place to prevent such... 13 WMAZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378709/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:11:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378379/posts Darwin’s bulldog—Thomas H. Huxley --snip-- Huxley, although an unbeliever, was thoroughly familiar with the gospel, and had little time for Christians who compromised their position by supporting the anti-biblical belief of evolutionary naturalism. He wrote: ... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378379/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378114/posts Atlanta has one more month and one more election to go before it chooses the city's next mayor: Councilwoman Mary Norwood and former state Sen. Kasim Reed will face each other in a runoff Dec. 1. With 100 percent of the vote counted, Norwood led the race with 45 percent. She maintained a comfortable margin throughout the vote counting Tuesday night but was unable to muster the 50 percent required to put the race away. Reed finished a strong second, with 37 percent, and City Council President Lisa Borders faded to a distant third with 14 percent in the eight-way... Atlanta Journal Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378114/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376970/posts ROME, GA—AARON FREEMAN, 49, of Rome, Georgia, and eight other Georgia men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly taking part in a scheme that caused FREEMAN’s employer, Temple Inland Inc., to pay more than $4.8 million for timber that did not exist. FREEMAN and seven of his co-defendants made their initial appearances in federal court in Rome today before United States Magistrate Judge Walter E. Johnson. “Temple Inland operates a paper mill outside of Rome that processes hundreds of truckloads of timber every day,” said Acting United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. “FREEMAN was a scale... Department of Justice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376970/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:05:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376703/posts ...Today, let’s talk cameras. Cameras on utility polls. Cameras on the corners of buildings. Cameras following you as you walk through town, a college campus, or your own neighborhood. Upset? Seems quite a few Atlantans are... The Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376703/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:31:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375981/posts Sanford Bishop (GA-2) WASHINGTON OFFICE 2429 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC 20515-1002 Phone- (202) 225-3631 Fax- (202) 225-2203 ALBANY OFFICE 235 Roosevelt Avenue Albany Towers, Suite 114 Albany GA 31701 Phone: (229) 439-8067 Fax: (229) 436-2099 COLUMBUS OFFICE 18 Ninth Street, Suite 201 Columbus, GA 31901 Phone: (706) 320-9477 Fax: (706) 320-9479 THOMASVILLE OFFICE 137 East Jackson Street, Thomasville, GA 31792 Phone: (229) 226-7789 Fax: (229) 226-7860 Contact him http://bishop.house.gov/display.cfm?section_id=13 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sanford-Bishop-Jr/18910585219 Dan Boren (OK-2) Muskogee Office 431 W. Broadway Muskogee, OK 74401 (918) 687-2533 (918) 686-0128 fax Claremore Office 309 W. 1st Street Claremore, OK 74017 (918) 341-9336... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375981/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:22:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375881/posts ( Atlanta has thrived in SPITE of it's useless, tax everything, do nothing, give perks to officials city government, NOT because of it!! It's the entreprenuers, transportation hub, and the climate that have Atlanta humming!) White candidate scrambles vote, attitudes in Atlanta race By Joseph Curl For decades as white residents fled to the suburbs, Atlanta's black political establishment, led by a string of strong mayors, revived the moribund economy and so revamped the city's image that it earned a national reputation as "Hotlanta." Ironically, that success - including a winning bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympics and a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375881/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375672/posts August 8, 2006 These are the Blue Dog democrats to pound on obamacare Part #1 Jason Altmire (PA-4) Aliquippa Office 2110 McLean St. Aliquippa, PA 15001 ph: 724-378-0928 fx: 724-378-6171 Natrona Heights Office 2124 Freeport Road Natrona Heights, PA 15065 ph: 724-226-1304 fx: 724-226-1308 Washington DC Office 332 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515 ph: 202-225-2565 fx: 202-226-2274 Satellite Offices Cranberry Township Office Cranberry Township Municipal Building 2525 Rochester Road Cranberry Township, PA 16066-6499 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm - First and Third Thursdays of every month Ellwood City Office Ellwood City Municipal Building Lawrence Avenue Ellwood City, PA 16117 2:00... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375672/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 03:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375602/posts The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) has announced election of The Reverend Bernice King, the youngest daughter of The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (the organization's founder), as its eighth president. The announcement has raised concern among the LGBT community and its supporters. Bernice King has been vocal against marriage equality and has stoked the homophobic fires when she said, "I know in my sanctified soul that he (Dr. King) did not take a bullet for same-sex marriage." SheWired.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375602/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:34:36 GMT