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I think it's terrible that these state legislator people are going to take away G-Boro's uniqueness. Now it's going to be like every other simply mediocre town in NC.

Many world cultures, including American Indian tribes, had what they call "contrarians". These were individuals who would kind of re-inforce the duality of existence and do stuff like wear heavy clothing in the summer, and run around in loincloths in the dead of the winter etc.

One can think of G-boro in the same way. For instance; most places would want to protect their citizens against developers. Not neccesarily G-Boro. Most places; a town mgr. and local press would be sympathetic to a police chief who is trying to clean up a police dept. Not G-Boro-Get rid of the chief.

The Boro's a wonderful, unique place, and these outside whippersnapper legislators trying to change things can just kiss off!

Not to mention blog commenters who don't live here either.

allen some of those bloggers from out of town got the ball rolling on reinstatement, who had the protest petition for greensboro blog?
Allen and it was people like us who saw through the bs of a compromise that it was

That's true, Keith. But the Savage threw me a hanging curve over the middle.
I should have restrained myself.
As for the protest petition, you played a key role, and helped inform people.
But ultimately the impetus needed to come from Greensboro residents, as it did.

and as Mark Binker has informed us it is on the fast track to passing. Now once it get passes there is another angle as to how they are going to have this as a part of process will they bury it or will it be online for all to see like high point and raleigh does. Will have a post once it get passes on that angle.

Greensboro is a sorta kinda kind of town, and its city council is a sorta kinda, have it both ways kind of council, is it not?

I must admit Allen, you knocked it out of the park on me there, no question. I'm heading for the showers.

Allen, in 1776 English historian Edward Gibbon published the first of like a six volume set called "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" which today is still highly regarded as defintive on this subject. This was 1300 years after the fall of the empire and he lived in ENGLAND!!!

Dwelling on people's origins or skin color or place of origin or residence on a blog, where ideas are the only currency, is the last refuge of people who are bereft of ideas.

I would wager I spend almost as much leisure time and spend almost just as much money in G-Boro as you do, but that's irrelevant.

Sorta kinda.

Well said.

Your baseball analogy was quite apt Allen.

I tend to use more of a siege analogy myself-the never ending battle, played out in front of the walls the medieval city between the forces of St. David the Martyred and the Mitchnied Turks. Every few days, the would-be Mitchnied vassals, Allen of Johnson and John, Caliph of Record, emerge from behind the walls, post a thread er..I mean, shoot a few arrows, never really engaging, then bob and weave, evading returned fire before retreating back through the gates. This goes on and on, despite year after year the courts (and the police blotters) show more and more the justness of St. David's cause. The Caliph and Allen of Johnson deep down inside both wish they could bail, but alas, this would entail a collapse of their whole belief system and perhaps the city itself and even more everlastingly damning-ADMITTING THEY WERE WRONG.

Anyway. I obviously have got to get a life.

Later.