{"id":938,"date":"2007-08-02T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2007-08-02T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T12:58:08","slug":"938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/938\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dalton Citizen newspaper: Jimmy Espy is really an editor!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Espy: For the common good<\/strong>
\nDalton Daily Citizen<\/p>\n

Dalton City Council is pondering an ordinance that would limit the number of vehicles a property owner could park in his yard and restrict where those cars are parked.<\/p>\n

I applaud the council for its new \u201cget tough\u201d attitude, but fear the ordinance does not go far enough. Why doesn\u2019t council strike while the iron is scorching? <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s really clean this crummy burg up.<\/p>\n

My suggestions:<\/p>\n

1. No one can place on their property any flag of a foreign power. Dang it, This is Dalton, Ga., USA, not Chihuahua or Knoxville. This rule would mean no Mexican or Guatemalan flags and none of those funny looking rainbow flags … whatever country they represent. More importantly, it would mean no more Tennessee puke orange banners or Alabama crimson rags. This is Georgia \u2013 G-E-O-R-G-I-A \u2013 as in Georgia Bulldogs! Support our state\u2019s top team or keep quiet. (Note: For the sake of fairness, council should make allowances for Georgia Tech pennants \u2013 nauseating as they are \u2013 but these should be severely limited in size. No bigger than a dollar bill, for instance.)<\/p>\n

2. Some troublemakers oppose the ordinance, suggesting that larger families might actually need the additional automotive representation. This should not be a deal-breaker. The council can generously give such families a year to dispense with any superfluous family members. In conjunction, local families would henceforth be banned from overbreeding.<\/p>\n

3. Council does not want its citizens parking their cars on grass. Why not move forward aggressively and simply ban grass altogether. No grass, no parking on grass. Problem solved! Henceforth, all grass should be removed and replaced with clean, shiny asphalt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

….read the rest of the wit and wisdom from Jimmy Espy here. <\/a>THEN: Read the online comments line and see just how brilliant this newspaper editor<\/em> in Dalton Ga. really is HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Espy: For the common good Dalton Daily Citizen Dalton City Council is pondering an ordinance that would limit the number of vehicles a property owner could park in his yard and restrict where those cars are parked. I applaud the council for its new \u201cget tough\u201d attitude, but fear the ordinance does not go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}