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I'm using old-time technology, but environmentally I'm on the cutting edge.* Doug

No you are not! You are using a cheap Chinese knock off product bought at Home Depot. In the good ole American Days before NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, you would have cut the whole neighborhood with that ancient American wonder grass cutting machine and pay your way though College. Think of this environmentally, this old machine produce no gas house flumes, no Midget Global warming to the Rose bushes, lots of sweat to keep you out of charging 100 dollars a month at the local Club Paradise, no unseen medical problems for the future with fat and arteries issues. And most important, a decent build to attract the local chicks with your work ethices.

Happy Days really did happen in America at one time!

I'm using old-time technology, but environmentally I'm on the cutting edge.* Doug

No you are not! You are using a cheap Chinese knock off product bought at Home Depot. In the good ole American Days before NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, you would have cut the whole neighborhood with that ancient American wonder grass cutting machine and pay your way though College. Think of this environmentally, this old machine produce no gas house flumes, no Midget Global warming to the Rose bushes, lots of sweat to keep you out of charging 100 dollars a month at the local Club Paradise, no unseen medical problems for the future with fat and arteries issues. And most important, a decent build to attract the local chicks with your work ethices.

Happy Days really did happen in America at one time!

I keep fit, by paying a lawn care service. Leaves plenty of time for golf, can find out what going on in the world. Golfers could care less what TAX HIKE MIKE and the good ole boys in Raleigh think. NO PC there. Best part my wife can not complain to me about the way I cut the grass.

Remember also Doug, you created the Internet.

Glad I'm no longer a resident...

The American Lawn Mower Co. of Shelbyville, Ind., says: "Product manufactured in the USA and throughout the world," so I don't know where my unit was made. But it was assembled in High Point.

Kenny, I don't recall you having a strong relationship with any kind of lawn mower. Maybe a fleeting acquaintance or casual association.

The American Lawn Mower Co. of Shelbyville, Ind., says: "Product manufactured in the USA and throughout the world," so I don't know where my unit was made. But it was assembled in High Point. *Doug

Well! It appears that the American Lawn Corporation gave it away when they said " thoughout the world" Listen Doug! I bought the same dang lawnmower last year at Lowe's and after two weeks, the sucker fail apart. I was shocked to find out that a warrenty did not exsist when taking it back! The manager inform me, the sales staff should have told me for a extra 25 bucks that I could have a warrenty. However, the good news is that the manager told me that their repair department would give me a discount of 10 dollars if they repair it! The repair cost was 75 dollars, less the 10 bucks which bought it to 65 dollars. Considering that I pay 98 bucks for the mower plus tax! I must be a bigger fool than I thought?

Doug, it is kind of outrageous. You editorial writer guys have gone to great lengths in the past to avoid issues that well... you just plain think don't want to be talk about, like race and Wray and Pulpits and all this stuff, you know, stuff that's just stopping the area in it's tracks. I guess you figure nobody will notice etc. but talking about reel-type lawn mowers and Battlestar Gallactica and not saying a word editorially or on the blogs about the recent rebuke of the Pulpit Forum by the DA is just decending into pure pathos. If you guys are just saying the heck with it, what chance do we possibly have? If you're just going to throw in the towel and let weekly's take over, why even bother? I don't understand how the area's only daily newspaper can just say BLEEP IT!

You're reading selectively.

This blog was the first to report that the DA found no violation of law in records disposal (if that even occurred):

http://blog.news-record.com/staff/offtherecord/archives/2008/02/no_crime_in_all.shtml

And in other posts on the subject, I expressed serious doubt about the Pulpit Forum's accusations.

I also believe that all serious writing and nothing on the lighter side will make this a dull blog.

Doug, I'm not talking about reportage and you know that. I'm talking editorially.

Doug, ah...call me crazy, but you are a NEWSPAPER. An opinion editor at a NEWSPAPER. This blog stuff is kind of nonsense. In case you haven't noticed two psychotics(Connie and me) are like 80% of your blog traffic. Now I know this is a radical thiing I'm proposing here so maybe you and Allen and John should sit down-why don't you put your "serious doubts" into a print editorial so thousands can read it? Why not offer some solutions like for instance asking Nelson Johnson publically to get therapy for his survivor guilt instead of attacking people that had nothing to do with 1979 thirty years later.

Instead, you say nothing.

In case you haven't noticed two psychotics(Connie and me) are like 80% of your blog traffic*Skeet

Speak for yourself white man! As a member of the Apache tribe, I suggest you continue to attend your therapy sessions.

Yrs Tonto........

I do take that back, Doug, Nobody expects you to have the answers. It just seems at times that you guys aren't even trying to ask the questions.

Savage, you said "editorially or on the blog" and then revised your statement when I pointed out what I'd done on the blog.

But we did print an editorial Feb. 28 noting it would be "amazing" if those files existed as claimed. We suggested the city should look into it, but only to put the matter to rest.

And so they did. And, Alllen and you...you have seemingly nothing more to say?

After all the hype? Nothing?

You and Allen don't think that a group attacking the city due to disordered thinking, a group that, likely using the same disordered thinking, helped get, to all appearences, a competent police chief fired, now rates no editorial comment when their claims are deemed by authorities to be unfounded, but you deign that push lawnmowers need discussion.

Any way you cut it. That's nuts.

You've drawn some conclusions yourself that so far are unfounded. The city hasn't finished its investigation of the files claim. So far, it hasn't found any substance to the allegations. If that's the final conclusion, will you believe it? You seem to distrust the city when it draws conclusions you don't like - i.e., regarding David Wray. Are you now willing to accept a city investigation of itself that pronounces it did nothing wrong?

The DA's statement, by the way, did not indicate whether police did or did not discard files related to the shootout. He said, if that happened, if wasn't illegal because the records would be more than 20 years old and not subject to any court order that they should be preserved.

Whether it would be good public policy to surreptitiously throw out unique documents related to a historically significant event is another matter.

Again, I don't happen to believe there were such records simply because it's so far-fetched that previously unknown files could have been kept secretly for so long, but I did think it was necessary once the issue was raised for the city to look into it.

See Doug, was it that hard? Would it have been too hard to write this so thousands of people could read it and maybe respond to it, instead of just Connie and me?

Hmmm, so you're going to be skeptical of the city's conclusions? Sounds like a job for ...RMA!!!!

Savage, I was just repeating what I've written before ... and I was suggesting that you would be skeptical of the city's conclusions because, well, you always are.

If this is only for you and Connie, then I'm signing off this string.

Doug, you just gonna walk away, Renee?
Ah...I'm looking. I haven't seen any comment on the BLOGS by you or Allen since Doug Henderson's statement. Am I missing it?

You're just trying to waste my time, right?

http://blog.news-record.com/staff/offtherecord/archives/2008/03/the_alleged_des.shtml

Doug, that's dated March 4. Henderson gave his statement I think 8-10 days ago.

No, Feb. 29:

http://blog.news-record.com/staff/offtherecord/archives/2008/02/no_crime_in_all.shtml

Sorry. Thanks.

Doug, I've decided I am going to downshift. After awhile you see that you're just hurting yourself by worrying about half this stuff.

I am going to start watching Battlestar Gallactica.

Fire the police chief. Pay the ECOC extortionists.
Raise taxes. Rob my house while the police are in the party van. No problem. BRING IT ON!

Time to get a push reel-type mower so I can listen to the tch-tch-tch-tch.