Posted on 07/23/2018 2:57:59 AM PDT by Libloather
The Martin Luther King Drive of the Millennium.
Don’t worry, Brian Kemp will be elected governor of GA in November, especially after Trump’s endorsement.
Now there will be two streets I won’t get off the highway to get gas in the middle of the night, no matter how low the tank is. Bad grammar but you get the point.
Demographics...they play a lot of football in Valdosta. Lots of players go to college from Valdosta to play football. Lots of state championships.
Is it a dead end street?
We had a Jefferson Davis Drive which was quietly changed to Davis Drive about 15 years ago
They say that GA is turning so blue that a liberal woman will be elected governor on Nov. 6. With Doug Jones in AL, this can really happen
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Whomever “they” are who are saying that to you is misleading you. Believe me, I know a ton of “they’s” who have been declaring that for 20 years. It will not happen yet.
(However, it will happen eventually if a Dem runs as fiscally conservative, socially moderate, and is clear that they respect the church, guns, and the family... oh, yes, that Dem will get elected in GA. Just as they did for a generation before.)
The gimme dat tribe strikes again
“They say that GA is turning so blue that a liberal woman will be elected governor on Nov. 6. With Doug Jones in AL, this can really happen.”
With Democrats breeding like flies, and illegals moving in in droves, it’s just a matter of time. This is why DJT’s SCOTUS picks are the most important part of his legacy.
Stacey Abrams will have something to say about that. The road to the GA governorship goes through Atlanta and Cobb County suburban hipsters and athletes (Braves, Falcons, Hawks) players. Period.
‘However, it will happen eventually if a Dem runs as fiscally conservative, socially moderate, and is clear that they respect the church, guns, and the family.”
I think that kind of democrat is extinct.
I have an idea, let’s rename all the streets in the USA. Then everyone will be totally lost trying to navigate the roads. Might give everyone a chance to spend some down time considering their ways and attitudes.
They said Forrest was a KKK leader. That meant he was a Democrat.
The fictional Forrest Gump was named for Gen. Forrest... i.e. one degree of separation.
Illinois has topped all these cities. While the state circles the drain into default (if it could go bankrupt it eventually would) the state legislature decided its most important priority was to rename an 80 mile stretch of Interstate 55 the “Barack Obama Presidential Expressway”. With signs that cost money and everything.
Of course Obama and Moochie couldn’t bother to be dislodged from their “temporary” Washington DC digs (or whatever tropical vacation they managed to get someone else to pay for) to show up for the spectacle that was the unveiling of the signs declaring to all that our young Boy-King occasionally travelled this stretch of road (for the few times he could be bothered to actually show up and vote as a State Senator).
Valdosta is also home to Moody AFB; I spent three years at Moody in the mid-to-late 80s during my first assignment as an Air Force officer. Moody housed a fighter wing during those days (I was there for the conversion from F-4Es to F-16A/Bs). We were among the last CONUS units to make the switch to the Viper and inherited all the “cann birds” and hangar queens from places like Kunsan, which were already transitioning to the C/D models.
You’ll never find a more pro-military community than Valdosta. They host a quarterly newcomers BBQ for all recently-assigned airmen and their families, and really roll out the red carpet. True, Valdosta is about two hours from anything, but the cost of living is very low; you can still buy an 1800 square foot house (3 BR/2 BA) for well under $200K.
And, as you indicate, football is the other major industry in Valdosta. When I was stationed there, the city school (Valdosta) was, arguably, the best “large school” football program in Georgia, and regularly defeated Atlanta metro schools for the state title. Part of Valdosta’s success was organization; every team, from 7th grade to the high school varsity, ran the same offensive and defensive schemes. By the time a kid reached high school, they knew all the assignments for their position (or in some cases, multiple positions), and the varsity coaching staff didn’t have to spend a lot of time teaching their “system.”
Valdosta was also famous for its continuity. From 1941 through the mid-90s, the high school had three head football coaches. Two of them, Wright Bazemore and Nick Hyder, remain high school coaching legends. Bazemore won almost 300 games in 30 years (with a four-year break for military service in World War II), and 14 state championships. His successor won 17 games in two years (but resigned under pressure), and was replaced by a guy named Nick Hyder.
Coach Hyder became the first Georgia high school coach to win 200 games in 20 years and 300 in 30 years. Hyder won seven state titles at Valdosta and I met plenty of people in town who praised him for his Christian character and high standards, then whispered “but he’s not the coach that Bazemore was.” BTW, Valdosta High played their home games in the same stadium as Division II Valdosta State University. The high school sold out every home game, while the college team had trouble attracting a crowd, even when Hal Mumme was the head coach.
BTW, I found this about Coach Hyder and the Valdosta “system”: you can see that much of their success was the result of discipline, hard work and character-building; with that foundation in place, getting the kids to perform on the football field was the easy. Gotta believe that Coach Hyder and Bazemore would be against naming the local street for Barry; not because of his skin color, but his mantra of victimization and freebies for everyone was contrary to everything they taught.
Too many people are unaware of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s last public address, before an early civil rights organization in Memphis. By that time (1875) he had left the Klan and clearly repudiated what it stood for. Excerpts from his remarks, which were daring for the time (to say the least):
Ladies and Gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the Southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God’s earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. (Immense applause and laughter.) I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate every man, to depress none.
(Applause.)
I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going. I have not said anything about politics today. I don’t propose to say anything about politics. You have a right to elect whom you please; vote for the man you think best, and I think, when that is done, you and I are freemen. Do as you consider right and honest in electing men for office. I did not come here to make you a long speech, although invited to do so by you. I am not much of a speaker, and my business prevented me from preparing myself. I came to meet you as friends, and welcome you to the white people. I want you to come nearer to us. When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. Go to work, be industrious, live honestly and act truly, and when you are oppressed I’ll come to your relief. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for this opportunity you have afforded me to be with you, and to assure you that I am with you in heart and in hand.” (Prolonged applause.)
Appears to be so.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/abe-lincoln-democrat-plaque_n_4228689.html
I don’t think Obama ever got that many votes in Valdosta.
Yaphank NY at one time had an Adolph Hitler Drive over in Camp Siegfried. It no longer exists. ................ ?????? What is it now? It was on the Carmen River, canoe territory when I lived nearby. Knowing L.I., there are probably condos there now. Legend has it the streets were named for the Hitler gang. It wasn’t too far from Yip Yip Yaphank, made famous by Pvt Irving Berlin who hated to get up in the morning.
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