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WASHINGTON — You think gasoline is too expensive? Are you annoyed by the escalating price at the pump?
If so, you've joined legions of Americans, myself included, who have become accustomed to a lifestyle of easy and seemingly painless energy consumption. We believe that we have a God-given right to our fuel-hogging SUVs, two or three refrigerators per household (one in the garage for beer and grocery surplus) and old-fashioned light bulbs that generate as much heat as light. Isn't there something in the Constitution that guarantees our right to most of the world's energy resources?
You'd certainly think so to listen to the complaints that escalate right along with the price per barrel of petroleum. But the simple fact is that our energy consumption is a lot more costly than we acknowledge — measured not just in ghastly environmental disasters but also in the blood spilled by our soldiers.
A confluence of awful events — the slaughter of protestors in the Middle East and a nuclear catastrophe in Japan — ought to serve as a teaching moment, an opportunity to remind Americans that there is a steep price to be paid for our profligate use of energy sources. Instead, we've seen the usual petty politics and finger-pointing, a reflexive avoidance of assessing our old habits and attempting to change them.
President Obama, for his part, is sticking with an energy plan that calls not only for new sources, such as wind and solar power, but also broader use of nuclear plants. He is among many progressives who have lately endorsed nuclear power as an alternative to planet-warming fuels such as coal, used in many utility plants.
But the fragile consensus between conservatives who clamor for nuclear power and environmentalists who hate coal may not matter, even if it survives the Japanese crisis. As Time magazine writer Michael Grunwald notes, nuclear power plants are outrageously expensive to build and even more expensive to insure.
"Since 2008, proposed reactors have been quietly scrapped or suspended in at least nine states — not by safety concerns or hippie sit-ins but by financial realities. Other projects have been delayed as cost estimates have tripled toward $10 billion a reactor. . .." Grunwald writes. So much for a cheap source of electricity.
Despite that, a group of Republicans wants to repeal the Bush-era mandate to retire incandescent light bulbs and switch to technologies that would use about 30 percent less energy and could save consumers as much as $40 billion in energy and related costs over the next two decades. U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), leader of the dim bulbs, says it's about "personal freedom."
Our sense of entitlement about our electricity-fueled gadgets is rivaled only by our conviction that we have an all-American right to hit the highway whenever we choose. But that freedom, too, is bought at a steep price — a foreign policy that is mired in the Middle East. There are other reasons for our forays there, of course, but access to petroleum has always been a prime motivator.
That's why the Obama administration steps softly around the slaughter of protestors in oil-rich Bahrain, whose monarchy is using U.S.-supplied hardware and the assistance of Saudi Arabia to stifle demonstrators seeking a more open and democratic government. How much can we castigate those who supply the fuel we crave? Does a junkie lambast his dealer?
As for those, like Sarah Palin, who insist that we drill here, it's a seductive cry that hardly solves the problem. Much of the oil in and around the continental United States is difficult to get to. That's why the Deepwater Horizon was drilling a mile down — a dangerous depth. Besides, companies like BP are multi-nationals, under no obligation to sell us oil cheaply just because they found it here.
It ought to be abundantly clear that what the nation needs is an intervention, a tough-love strategy that forces us to admit that we have to change our ways. But few politicians are brave enough to call for a steep gas tax. They know a nation of junkies isn't ready to listen.
March 19th, 2011
10:05 pm
We don't need a gas tax, although that would help if used to improve roads and create worldclass public transportation. There shouldn't be a personal vehicle on the road that gets less than 30 mpg. The GOP is on the wrong side of this issue. We simply have to become a less mobile society, as well. We need to live near where we work or work near where we live. Getting those big yellow monsters off the road would save fuel and improve traffic flow. And our children might not be so maladjusted. School them at home, stay home and enjoy it!
March 19th, 2011
10:11 pm
Wind power is the future, no doubt about it. One wind turbine, albeit a large one , can suppy all the energy needs for 750,000 homes for pennies a kilowatt hour. It is the future. There is an endlessly renewable source of energy, the wind. And wind turbines are adaptible, can be placed in the ocean or on land. The only necessity, an average wind speed of 7mph. With a dependence on our own energy sources, we can leave the middle east to fight among themselves, like they have for centuries. Wind turbines are not large users of manpower, which makes them even better for low cost electricity. I have said it all.
March 19th, 2011
10:21 pm
I bet you are already planning on how you will defend your president now. All the hopey, changey stuff was based on playing the growing anger of the other two wars. I admit, he's playing this well and talking about how it's a "coordinated" effort. But we've fired more than 100 missles so far and we all know how this is going to end. We're not done after a few days. We're going to rely on France to take over, REALLY???
March 19th, 2011
10:22 pm
"Getting those big yellow monsters off the road would save fuel and improve traffic flow'…..
What big yellow monsters? School buses? The fact is we do have a gas tax. The Federal Reserve has been persuing a weak dollar policy which is inflationary. The government profits from inflation – especially higher gas prices. The higher the price at the pump, the more tax you pay. When I was schoolboy back in the 1960's, taxes on a gallon of gas were indicated at the pump. That came to an end during the Carter Administration.
If we lived closer to our place of employment and home schooled our children, we wouldn't need public transportation. And I'm not against p/t. I lived in NYC for thirteen years without a car. In 1993, I moved to Atlanta and got around on MARTA for three more before finally buying one.
March 19th, 2011
10:42 pm
"President Obama, for his part, is sticking with an energy plan that calls not only for new sources, such as wind and solar power, but also broader use of nuclear plants"..well that's nice. The fact is the environmentalists have relegated American nuclear power plant technology worthless. In order to manufacture a nuclear reactor you need a very sophisticated type of steel plate to go around the reactor – excuse me for not having the complete facts. This type of steel is no longer manufactured in the U.S. because the environmentalists have suffocated the development of nuclear energy technology through litigation, etc. You're now going to learn the hard way about relying on wind power. It needs to be subsidized as well.
Back in the late 1990's I was in Los Angeles on a business trip. During the weekend I was there, I took a trip out to the Joshua Tree National Monument State Park via Interstate 10. Interstate 10 passes through a windmill farm. If you're enamored of wind power, I suggest you visit one. These windmills are huge and they hum and they act like an avian Quisinart for any birds that fly near them. One day we just might have one in our backyards.
March 19th, 2011
10:50 pm
"One wind turbine, albeit a large one , can suppy all the energy needs for 750,000 homes for pennies a kilowatt hour. " Are you sure? I'd like to see the research on that one. If it sounds to good to be true……..
March 19th, 2011
10:50 pm
Good night.
March 19th, 2011
11:04 pm
Both sides of the aisle have punted on this issue, not just the dumas publicans. We spent a lot of stimuli money on green energy..of course it went overseas. China is now one of the largest makers of solar panels and they STOLE that technology just like they STEAL everything else.
Everyone is scared of nuclear energy. All of this talk of electric cars..LOL. Hippies have decided that they like coal more than oil….that will change in another 20 years. round and round we go kids.
March 19th, 2011
11:09 pm
That is one short sighted energy policy you have there! Higher gas taxes will only drive the middle class down the road to poverty when they are paying more and more for products they use everyday. Didn't you just hear that the consumer price index had it's biggest jumps in years and food prices are at its highest in 36 years! I'll concede we need to be out of the middle east and we shouldn't be using Middle Eastern oil but oil is the most accessible energy source right now. We wouldn't be drilling for oil a mile deep in the ocean if it wasn't for our regulations, Alaska oil isn't that hard to get too, besides, why are we giving technologies to foreign countries to drill of their coasts when we won't drill off of ours. That sounds ludicrous to me!
March 19th, 2011
11:13 pm
Oil is one of the least effective ways to power a home, it should be restricted to plastics and fuel. Solar and wind energies look good on paper, but both are not consistent nor have we figured out how to store it when they generate electricity. Nuclear should work as long as we are careful with it. But a higher gas tax, the government makes more off of a gallon of gas than any oil company any day.
March 19th, 2011
11:19 pm
"a nation of junkies"
Brash words coming from someone who lives in the Global Warming fantasy land. One reason our electricity and oil "aren't cheap" are because of this fantasy land that so many liberals live in. Think about it: Would liberals be in this war against fossil fuels (out to get even our lightbulbs!) if it were not for Global Warming?
March 20th, 2011
12:25 am
CT, we are a nation of energy-junkies. Even the global policy of your great leader in the White House reflects this attitude. Where was the US, the UN and the Arab League, when Idi Amin killed his countrymen in Uganda? Where were they when Pol Pot committed genocide in Cambodia? Where were they when Rwanda, Somalia and other African countries tribally warred and killed each other? I forgot. These places do not have oil as a basis of our policy toward them. Libya does. That is why we jump on the liberty and democracy bandwagon now in following the Big O's global policy. Have you voiced your concern to the White House over our energy-policy? The Big O is no different than Bush and his ties to big oil. Oil dictates policy. Period.
March 20th, 2011
12:28 am
The reactor problems in Japan are not a result of any technological fault. They result from a human failure. That is, the failure to provide for emergency power to allow the continued pumping of water into and out-of the reactor containment vessel. Their reactors are the same boiling water type as used in the U.S. except that we planned to be able to continue normal operation or shut-down even in the even of a total power failure to the nuclear facility. Incidentally, these same reactors power most of our modern U.S. Navy surface and submarine fleets.
March 20th, 2011
5:35 am
You tell 'em CT. Yes, we ought to tax more. In fact, let's only tax those rich people. Then, we will become a better nation. Good job CT
March 20th, 2011
6:58 am
Cynthia Tucker -
March 20th, 2011
7:20 am
Cynthia- Biggest Racists first in Dekalb then in Washington and now in the AJC. What did she do in Washington punch a guard wasnt it? They almost threw her out and as always called it "racism". I grew up in Dekalb and we all know to well about her father and the kinds of shabby dealings he did to get her elected.
She used the same "Chicago Style" politics that Barack uses today to get votes and attain power. Thats right Cynthia i voted you out! You dont deserve attaining a higher office position based not just on your character but the way you have snowballed citizens of Dekalb and African American Community.
You are a disgrace to our brothers and sisters that have tried create change and hope here and abroad and just by your actions both here and Washington, you've sent us back to the Plantations and handed us on a silver platter to our masters.
Its people like you and Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson that are profiteers of the less fortunate and the black community that you bear no shame.
Dekalb county is trying to recoup with all the things you destroyed and get back on its feet. The Uncle Tom is you no matter what my brothers and sisters think. I can only pray that someday youll turn yoiur life around and undo all the bad things you did in the past against man.
You were an embarrasment to us while you were in Washington and now more than ever youre definitely an embarrasment to AJC which by the way is also a failing newspaper company.
If anyone was to read your columns i mean really read them……….they'd see how racists based they are and even you as a columnists would throw your own people under the bus if it got you more readers.
Wake up America if you want to find the biggest racists just read Cynthia MnKinney commentary everyweek.
March 20th, 2011
7:22 am
Raise taxes. Wow. What an ingenious, clever and original idea. I've never heard that idea before. And letting only the rich pay ths tax is another original idea also. I'm overcome with all the wisdom appearing in this article.
March 20th, 2011
7:37 am
"Our electricity and oil aren't cheap" – So she calls for a higher gas tax. That makes sense!
March 20th, 2011
8:52 am
Change our ways to what? Answer the question.
March 20th, 2011
9:28 am
Good morning all. Typical leftist claptrap – "thank goodness the overlords are smart enough to preclude free choices" – but at least it is an honest reflection of how they think.
March 20th, 2011
9:43 am
Drill, Drill, Drill !!!
March 20th, 2011
9:50 am
Solar and Wind are the answer? Ha! that's a good one. If solar and wind are the answer, then both would be abundant by now.
March 20th, 2011
10:10 am
President Jimmy Carter offered a plan to resolve the US dependence on foreign oil. President Reagan immediately after his inauguration said he would push the Carter Plan and try to get it through Congress. So then oil dropped to $20 a barrel. So Reagan said why bother with a plan, oil is only $20 a barrel!
We had a plan. Carter and the Democratic leaders said it would work. Then Reagan and the Republican leaders said it would work.
So 30 years later here we sit with oil at $100 a barrel.
Don't you just love plans that never come together!
You would think the US would have the national intelligence to stop its dependence on foreign oil. To stop its dependence on the whims of the
Moammar Gadhafi types of the world. But no!
As I continually remind everyone – "What experience and history teach is this: that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history." (Hegel)
So we will continue to try to muddle through our dependence on foreign oil. We will continue to send %760 billion US dollars overseas for oil.
We have one of the largest reserves of national gas on the planet but we prefer not to utilize this asset. Habits are hard to break and we are in the habit of holding hands with the King of Saudi Arabia.
Oh, and there is a presidential election in 20 months.
That is much more important, is it not?
March 20th, 2011
10:11 am
Is ignorance really bliss?
Just asking.
March 20th, 2011
10:45 am
If we could harness the wind power that comes out of Obama's mouth every single day at some news conference, we could pay for all the fuel he uses flying all over the world on Air Force One.
March 20th, 2011
10:48 am
We make our own choices. When gas is $2.50 a gallon, we drive the big SUVs. When gas gets to $5 per gallon, lots of people will drive Priuses. I think we could save a lot of electricity by conservation (and some things would have to be legislated), but these is some merit in the arguments that the power-saving compact flourescent lights do not put out as much light as the old incandescents. We had to legislate some code changes such as requirements for more insulaton in houses. It is amazing that people would build houses that cost 2% less but consume that 2% every year in energy costs. Of course, the owner is not usually the builder, it is usually a developer, who doesn't care about energy costs, or flood damage, as long as he has sold his house.
March 20th, 2011
10:53 am
Yes, in certain areas, wind energy could generate power for pennies a KWH, until you factor in construction costs and maintenance costs. Then it is more than power plants cost. Do you not think that power companies would be falling over themselves to put in wind farms if they were less expensive than regular plants?
March 20th, 2011
11:06 am
The watch dog is partly correct but wrong on the supporting facts. Watch dog is right that wind power is part of our energy future. But totally wrong is saying one wind turbine can supply 750,000 homes. It would require more like 500 wind turbines to supply that many homes. And he "says it all" when he says all we need is wind speed of 7 mph – here is really the problem with wind power – what to do during the typical 70% of the time when the wind is not blowing. We have no feasible technology today to store that much electricity to cover the time when the wind is not blowing. So for every wind turbine we build we need to have an equal amount of some other form of generation – say coal, nuclear, gas or oil – to cover when the wind doesn't blow. That is one reason wind power is very expensive, costing many pennies per kilowatt hour and unable to compete without government subsidies. We need to keep building wind turbines, agreed, but don't think this can fill anywhere near a majority of our needs regardless of how many wind turbines we build.
March 20th, 2011
11:09 am
Dependable liberal. Disaster in Japan…raise taxes.
Protests in Libya…raise taxes.
Blame Americans for disasters they had nothing to do with.
Look at Tucker's clolumn. Even if you agree with her point, She makes her argument in incivil, inflammatory unncessarily partisan terms. She is a cancer in the AJC that is destructive to a civil society.
March 20th, 2011
11:18 am
From the Wall Street Journal…. The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas.
But look on the bright side. If President Obama has embraced offshore drilling in Brazil, why not in the old U.S.A.? The land of the sorta free and the home of the heavily indebted has enormous offshore oil deposits, and last year ahead of the November elections, with gasoline at $4 a gallon, Congress let a ban on offshore drilling expire.
Creating jobs I see… in Brazil
Americans are right to wonder why Mr. Obama is underwriting in Brazil what he won't allow at home.
March 20th, 2011
11:34 am
Another idea that I have repeatedly proposed is the incorporation of ground source heat pumps. These heat pumps are much more efficient that current heat pumps; they save electricity and they are not prone to exterior vandalism like has been hitting a lot of Atlanta churches. THe bad news – they are expensive up front to install. But they have a 7 – 10 year payback. If we could incorporate a loan into your electricity bill, then for 7-10 years, you pay your normal bill, then after that, you reap the rewards! The Feds and the State currently offer tax credits, but they no where near make up the difference in the up-front costs, so no one (or very few) is interested in shelling out the big bucks up front to purchase these systems. This plus agressive financing of insulation projects in older homes could shave a lot of electricity off our national use. But you have to make it financially attractive for people to do it. Businesses are unwilling because they can't make a 50% gross margin on it.
March 20th, 2011
11:44 am
Independent's idea of ground source heat pumps is a good one. That technology is sound, it actually works.
March 20th, 2011
11:45 am
Cynthia- Biggest Racists first in Dekalb then in Washington and now in the AJC. What did she do in Washington punch a guard wasnt it?
Cynthia McKinny was the congresswoman, Cynthia Tucker is the op-ed columnist, dumbass.
March 20th, 2011
12:31 pm
Sorry, the gas tax is just a road user fee. If the price of maintaining and expanding roads has gone up the user fees should go up too. What is so hard to understand about that?
March 20th, 2011
1:09 pm
It's Cynthia "McKinney," not "McKinny.
March 20th, 2011
1:17 pm
It's Cynthia "McKinney," not "McKinny.
You're absolutely correct.
That missing "e" makes all the difference in the world.
It's now completely understandable how RMikel58 could confuse the two.
March 20th, 2011
1:30 pm
"They know a nation of junkies isn't ready to listen."
'fraid you're right about that CT. We live in the time of every (wo)man for himself and our sense of responsibility to the community at large is near zero. Only piece of your article I disagree with has to do with light bulbs; until they figure out a way to get the mercury out of the CFL bulbs I'm sticking with the old incandescents.
March 20th, 2011
2:00 pm
@ RMikel58: FAIL!
March 20th, 2011
2:43 pm
the watch dog wrote:
"One wind turbine, albeit a large one , can suppy all the energy needs for 750,000 homes for pennies a kilowatt hour."
Lets do the math…
2000 U.S. Census shows an average of 2.59 persons per household
750,000 homes x 2.59 persons = 1,942,500 persons served by 1 turbine
2009 Atlanta Metro area pop. est – 5,475,213 person divide by 1,942,500
2.8 wind turbines can service the entire Atlanta Metro area !!!!!
the watch dog is a frickin genius ! …why hasn't this been done years ago !
Moron…although in all fairness he did say "albeit a large one"
March 20th, 2011
3:13 pm
I don't get the logic. How does raising taxes on oil solve any of our problems. France and the UK have high gas taxes and they have been involved in the Middle East since WWI.
Canada actual uses more barrels per day than the US and the cost per gallon is higher.
Article sounds more like some desire to punish people for their sinful consumption. The best argument is higher fuel cost will make us use gas more efficiently i.e smaller cars, mass transit.
Some good points were made. Nuclear power is not cheap as some believe. Nuclear power is not as cheap as some would surmise. A nuclear power plant has huge capital cost.
March 20th, 2011
3:17 pm
Tell the TrUTH !!!!!! The biggest reason that prices of oil are skyrocketing is because our government has called for an end to oil subsidies!!! Those subsides where put in place in order to keep the prices at the pump in check…. Without those subsides, $5.00 a gallon is right around the corner… WE TOLD YOU THAT OBAMA was out to destroy our economy!!!
March 20th, 2011
3:22 pm
March 19th, 2011
10:22 pm
The dollar goes up. The dollar goes down. I don't think there is a conspiracy, but I admit it's too complicated for me to understand, tho. There are many factors at work.
I'm troubled by the appearance of a double standard in the ME on killing of citizens. Surely the administartion is putting pressure on our allies behind the scenes to put a stop to it.
Hats off to the Arab League for backing intervention in Libya. If Kadhafi was guilty as charged by Reagan, why didn't he bring him to justice? I don't think we got involved because of the oil. We don't need a drop from there, but Europe and Japan desperately do.
The tragedy is that conservation is so easy. And yes, making sure your tires are properly inflated is one of the many steps you can take. I gave my neighbor some energy saving devises a few years ago and he promptly went out and bought a bug zapper that was on 24/7. I gave up on him at that point. He also left his flood lights on all the time. I replaced the bulbs but it was still costing him more than $5 a month. I retrieved them when he moved and installed them at another neighbor's palace.
The utility companies know who the over-consumers are. Why not give them the "power" to cut off service to the offenders if they fail to comply after an energy audit? Every time GaPower announces a rate increase we do something to reduce our consumption.
The GOP can't stand it because we have a young, energetic president that can do more than one thing at once. I guess they'd rather he be isolated in the WH by himself watching TV so he could choke on a pretzel. I'm disapponted myself, but for different reasons. I'd like to see more Clinton and less Bush. Since he's kept so many of 43's ill-advised policies you'd think the conservatives would be fawning all over him.
March 20th, 2011
3:27 pm
having an opinion about a subject that you have no FIRST hand knowledge, only shows how IGNORANT you really are!!!
March 20th, 2011
3:29 pm
Yeah, it's really in Obama's best interest to destroy our economy. Good grief! He invested in America to lessen the devastation of the recession. But then, I guess that was his fault too since it started about the time he announced his candidacy for president.
Yes, it's expensive to build a nuclear power plant. But where does that money go? Every penny back into the economy. But for GaPower to expect current customers to pay for new construction is absurd, unless they want to issue us stock in the company or future credits to apply to our bills.
March 20th, 2011
3:29 pm
now the DEMOCRAPS want an energy police ??? IN THIS COUNTRY, we have a RIGHT to CHOOSE, keep trying to force policies down the throats of the citizens, and you will see some BACKLASH!!!
March 20th, 2011
3:31 pm
with a country in turmoil, a president can enforce MARSHALL LAW, lets see if this happens before 2012 ….
March 20th, 2011
3:32 pm
the meaning of INVESTING, is not the same as SPENDING!
March 20th, 2011
3:33 pm
March 20th, 2011
3:27 pm
That comment really showed a lot of class. Even the experts disagree, so why shouldn't those on the outside be able to express admittedly limited opinions?
March 20th, 2011
3:33 pm
who did he INVEST IN ??? oh yeah, the RICH… at the cost of the poor and middle class, how is the HOPE and CHANGE working ???
March 20th, 2011
3:35 pm
March 20th, 2011
3:29 pm
You've shown by your contributions here you don't deserve that right. Take off the blinders and get a real look at our world.


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4. Your 401k Rep – If your company has a sizable 401k plan, you may have access to one of the plan's representatives. This person should be at least moderately qualified to help answer what fund or fund combination would be best for your long-term goals. $$
5. Charles Schwab or Fidelity — These are discount brokerage firms. You can go directly to their websites ( www.schwab.com or www.fidelity.com) or drop by a local branch and speak with a financial planning specialist. $$
6. Fee-Only Financial Planners – A fee only planner will charge either an hourly fee, or a percentage fee of the assets managed for you. "Fee-Only" means that the compensation that they receive can ONLY be from you, as opposed to commissions, mutual fund fees, or mark ups on financial products. You should have plenty of face time with these planners, and they should be able to advise you on financial topics (ie. Insurance and mortgage questions) beyond just your investments. $$
7. Full Service Brokerage Firms – The BIG name bank/brokerage firm combinations like Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney…These outfits have thousands of brokers/financial advisors who are more than happy to help invest your money for you. The way these advisors are paid can vary greatly. See my article last week for ways to minimize your investment fees. $$$$
Wes Moss is a certified financial planner and is the Chief Investment Strategist at Capital Investment Advisors in Atlanta. Moss is also the host of "Money Matters" on AM 750 and now 95.5 FM News Talk WSB on Sundays from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. An author, "Apprentice" alumni, husband and father, Moss is committed to helping Atlanta's citizens with financial health.
October 18th, 2010
1:29 pm
Very good information… I use Vanguard which I belive has the lowest fees in the industry. Their investments are good but you are right the Vanguard representatives don't like to give me much advice.
October 18th, 2010
1:58 pm
I would never call "advice" what you get from a full service broker. Those guys are a rip-off! Stick with 1-6 and you will do much better.
October 18th, 2010
2:25 pm
My 401k person doesn't seem to have any idea what they are talking about… the problem is that I don't think I do either. Can you get a financial advisor to do your 401k?
October 18th, 2010
4:00 pm
Wes, can you write a column about the older employee who has been out of work for over 18 months. There is little income, no debt other than our mortgage, already on individual health insurance (thank God we're healthy). Where are we supposed to be saving from at this point? No jobs in sight (ageism is alive and well in Metro Atlanta). Where can we get income?? We have good liquid savings (for now) and IRA and Roth IRA accounts (but God knows how the market will impact those). But no one talks about our situation – no paycheck, no 401K to contribute to and with what anyway. Already have scaled back considerably – don't want to sell our house – won't get what it was once worth (and we have a lot of equity in it) and really can't live anywhere else for less money. I sleep ok at night, it's during the day I don't do so well as I am surrounded by news that scares me to death.
October 19th, 2010
2:08 pm
There is one more important source of information for those looking at long term investing.
There are now web based applications that will give you returns information on specific plans — especially useful in the retirement plan (401K, 403B, IRA) space.
For example: http://www.myplaniq.com/LTISystem/f401k_view.action?ID=673 is the Microsoft retirement plan.
You can see back tested performance and this will help you make more informed decisions.
This is either free for basic strategies or low cost ($100 a year) for advanced strategies.
October 24th, 2010
12:10 am
I bank with Suntrust, and I know FOR A FACT that their financial advisors DO NOT charge for financial advice. Walk into any branch in the company that has a financial advisor or licensed banker (those are people who open checking accounts but can also do other things like life insurance or annuities) and ask for advice, and they will talk to you and help you for as long as you want AND NEVER CHARGE YOU A THING. In my particular branch, they have a licensed banker AND a Certified Retirement Planning (CRPC) specialist. Either one of them will gladly look at your portfolio and give you solutions and free advice based on your future goals, financial needs, and risk comfort level. My mother went in every now and then for nearly 3 years for advice, and she finally decided to go with them because of how they treated her. She happily paid for the services she got because she knew she could trust them to tell her her what was best for HER based on her wishes and needs, and not just what would line their pockets.
It is my understanding that this is not unusual, but is not common practice among the larger banks, and is nearly unheard of in smaller banks and in credit unions. I have not had a problem with them at all, and I have moved my investments to them because the financial advisor there is such a nice guy who tells me honestly when it's cheaper or smarter to do something by myself than if I were to go with the bank.
October 24th, 2010
9:11 am
Nice column, Rana. And good comments from readers, thus far too.
October 24th, 2010
9:38 am
I work in the industry in the banking platform that you mentioned and you are dead wrong. FAs in banks earn commissions and are compensated based on their sales of annuities and other proprietary products. They traditionally do not have the ability to offer fee only advice and are compensated based on what you buy. So you make think that they're not charging you anything, but you are certainly paying for their "advice." And CRPC does not mean "Certified" anything. It's a designation for Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor. You should consult a financial planner for these questions, not a bank.
October 25th, 2010
3:03 pm
Where is this week's article?
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The pervasive attitude has been that as long as the steel mills were hiring, life was good. And it was.
While the mills are still the backbone of the region, they stopped being employment agencies more than 30 years ago.
There have been subsequent efforts to change the face of the region, but too often those plans never got off the drawing board. For some odd reason, those opposed to change get the most attention.
I'm talking about expanded commuter rail, which now is the subject of yet another study.
And then there is the Illiana Expressway, which in the last year has seen promising movement but isn't yet a done deal.
And now there is increased talk about building a convention center in Lake County.
Each of the aforementioned projects requires a source of funding.
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Speros Batistatos, the president and CEO of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority, seems to be renewing his call for construction of a convention center in Lake County. He couldn't be more right.
Batistatos is tired of seeing conventions go to Fort Wayne, South Bend, Bloomington and Indianapolis because Lake County isn't equipped to handle big crowds.
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In the last few months, Lake County has lost the Indiana Music Education Association convention. Some 800 delegates buying 3,500-room nights amounts to a $1 million infusion, Batistatos said. And the Indiana Democratic Party also gave Lake County — the most Democratic in the state — a thumbs-down because of lack of space.
Given that the county just adopted an income tax, this may not be the best time to talk another tax. Or maybe it is.
A 1 percent food and beverage tax would be the least intrusion into the lives of Lake County folks. For a $30 restaurant bill, it would cost an additional 30 cents. If you can't afford that, you ought to eat at home.
Other counties have put up a buck and are benefiting from convention centers.
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Is Knowledge a Curse?
"In an article titled "The Curse of Knowledge", it's noted that as a person learns more about a subject, it becomes increasingly more difficult to discuss that subject with someone who doesn't posses that knowledge. It simply becomes harder and harder to empathise with them.
This means that the more educated and passionate you are about a subject, the harder you will find it to discuss or teach it to others.
This effect is one of the cited possibilities for why teaching is so difficult a career, since it means that eventually teachers will become more and more disillusioned with the endless wave of perceived stupidity they're forced to endure."
All of the above is from the article I read online, not my words.
What do you think? Is knowledge a curse?
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Knowledge........information obtained from experience or education.
A lot has been said in this debate/conversation about knowledge.
One may conclude that knowledge, in and of itself, is not a curse. Knowledge is essential in order to function in society, and in order to help others.
Knowledge though, is just the beginning.......there are other things worth seeking beyond knowledge...........
Among those other things worth seeking are............ understanding.......... discernment............and perhaps, if we are fortunate enough, we might obtain...........wisdom.
How we handle the knowledge we have is strictly up to us.
The world is filled with passionate individuals who hold a wealth of knowledge, and who also possess understanding of that knowledge. Wisely they seek to share their knowledge with others, whenever, and wherever they can.
The example of Nan Hauser which is discussed in this conversation is a fine example for all of us. There are many other examples worldwide.
May we all continue to see knowledge as a blessing and use it wisely to better ourselves and others.
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Oct 16 2013: Knowledge is not a curse Mary M. :)
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." ~William Shakespeare
In my opinion, knowledge is nothing to do with others. It transforms the insight of the knower. Knowledge is not the actual problem which should be consider as a curse Mary M. The actual problem is in sharing it or giving it to others, because everyone get same information differently, limited to their wit and understanding.
When Jonathan Drori talks about 'gaps between trained knowledge and conceptual, connected understanding', he is actually pointing out the distinct understanding of every individuals, due to their confined intelligence of understanding.
Knowledge is always refreshing and new, if there is curiosity and perplexity in the learner. For Learner the knowledge is not limited in a single dimension. There is a vast ground of thinking. Yes but Knowledge becomes stale once it is known. If knower (Teacher) looses his/her curiosity and becomes confident of knowing all, his/her mind contracted to that limited knowledge. :)
Oct 16 2013: Manish, thank you so very much for your insightful thoughts.
I most definitely agree with you when you state that the "actual problem is in sharing it or giving it to others, because everyone get same information differently, limited to their wit and understanding."
This is probable where the knowledge is a curse.....because if the person who is holding in depth insight into a subject matter is unable to share that with others, than the insight dies with that person......they do not get to pass it forward.....
As an educator I am very well aware of the 'distinct understanding of every individual'......our metacognitive skills, and our very learning style makes each of us unique.
In the primary grades there is quite a bit of patience for these differences. Sadly, in higher education it might not be so.....at least that has been my experience.
"Knowledge becomes stale once it is known"...........I really like these words. I had never thought of knowledge in that way before. I think that is why many of us here on TED are continually involved in learning new things, and discussing topics from all sorts of points of view.
Do you suppose that there are other fields of study, aside from education, where this attitude towards treating others beneath them is prevalent? Can you think of any particular example?
Here in our country Manish, people say "Ignorance is bliss". However, I tend to agree with Shakespeare's words.
Thank you again for your thoughtful reply.
I look forward to reading any additional thoughts you wish to share with us.
Oct 17 2013: Hi again Mary :)
No, Its not true that the person holding 'depth insight' into a subject, is unable to share that with others. They do, they share knowledge but its impossible to macintosh the 'insight' with words.... All our languages are just improvised (makeshift). No language is perfect. We can not even express a very small feeling in words to make it understand by others. There is not equally perfect measuring words for any feeling. Suppose you say - 'I love you so much..' to someone and in reply that someone asks - 'How much?' you will found yourself in problem. you may start comparing your 'so much' to the things already known to you. You may say - 'As much as many stars are there in the sky' ...But do you think your information has been delivered correctly and exactly?
Okey, let us take one more example to understand the problem (curse). suppose i do not know anything about butter. even the name butter is very unknown to me. I do not know how it looks, how it tastes, Nothing !! Now Mary, use your words to deliver this information to me so that after knowing only, I can experience all about 'Butter' as equally as you. can you? Even this much of information can not be delivered to other.
When a new knowledge arrives, we start comparing it (to know it) with the other 'known things' or our past experiences. There isn't no other way to know. The only way is to experience. Glance over following quotes-
1) No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.~Khalil Gibran
2) To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.~ Socrates
"Ignorance is bliss" has been said by Thomas Gray in a poem and it goes like this -"A little learning is a dang'rous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain," Its obvious Mary, Thomas want us to either gain full knowledge or be ignorant. Ignorance is better then incomplete knowledge. :)
Oct 17 2013: Hi Manish,
The points you bring out are very interesting. So you are saying that language limitation is also linked to this issue of not being able to communicate your knowledge?
Your example of the butter is really wonderful. Yes, I see your point.
But it is one thing to lack the language, and a completely different thing to have the knowledge, the language, but lack the patience. Don't you think so?
As to ignorance being better than incomplete knowledge, is this your personal view? Or is it part of your explanation of Gray's quote?
Your quotes by Gibran and Socrates are very much appreciated.
Thank you so much.
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Nothing goes better with a 95-degree day than a good old-fashioned beer festival — which is how I spent the day roasting in a black uniform just to make a few bucks and observe the behavior of the upper crust of the beer connoisseur community.
At 40 bucks a pop, most of the lightweights and bar crabs would naturally be eliminated from the crowd — except for about a dozen of them who obviously saved a few payday bucks to hang with the big boys and girls. They didn't last long once they found that Bud Light wasn't on the menu.
Having spent years moonlighting at various establishments such as Good Ol' Days and Scooters (remember Scooters?), I'd seen my share of nickel-pitcher commandos whose motto was fight or — well, most of them ended up either fighting or puking in the bathroom.
What I found was, among other things, this: The difference in the lightweights and bar crabs compared to the refined beer connoisseur is about two hours. I'm kidding. It's more like three hours.
I'm not knocking refined beer connoisseurs — not too much. The problem is that in order to enjoy the humor of those engaged in festive beer drinking, you need to be festively drinking with them. Otherwise, the clichés are dull, repetitive and not well-delivered. I'm not talking about the clichés among the festive beer drinkers themselves, but the clichés the festive beer drinkers save up for the cops.
How many times should I have to hear "I didn't do it!"?
Okay, twice, maybe three times, and you get the courtesy laugh. After that, all I can do is muster a blank stare and drool — a sure sign of heat stroke.
"Hey! You guys gonna give me a breathalyzer if I drink too much?"
"Ha, ha."
"Hey, you guys gonna give yourselves a breathalyzer if I drink too much? — wait, I mean if I drink too much?"
"Hey, you guys gonna lock me up for breathalyzing too much — uh … "
"Move along please."
Let me point out, the organizers did have Safe-Ride people there for free rides home to those who drank to the point of bad clichés. And there were many cabs available.
It was so hot …
Did I mention the 95-degree heat?
After three hours of festive behavior, some of the weak and sickly-but-festive participants began to show the wear and tear of the day, which was evident by the vomiting in the parking lot. (I told you these people were refined. Anyone else wouldn't have made it to the parking lot.)
The end of the night came with cooler temperatures. No one was more appreciative than the cops who always wear the Kevlar vests. On hot days, most of the heat trapped between the vest and your body escapes up through the front of your collar, making your chin melt. By the time I got home, I looked like a Salvador Dali rendition of Jay Leno.
Now don't think it was all painstaking work. Many of the festive gals, after a few samples of beers with odd names, wanted that photo op with the cops. It's ain't all bad. They put their arms around us, smiled for the picture and then asked: "What happened to your chin?"
As the beer festival patrons left, they offered goodbyes and advice on how we should do our jobs, namely stop writing tickets. And, in a really festive flash, they were gone — except a few who found it hard to leave with all that beer left, or those who couldn't find their way out of the portable toilets.
Once rescued, they disappeared into the sunset, in the back of a cab, waving to us. I think they were using all their fingers, but I'm not sure.
June 15th, 2010
4:55 pm
"What happened to your chin?"
LMAO You're welcome to have one of mine. I have LOTS!
I enjoy reading your blog, Lt. Keep it up.
June 15th, 2010
7:00 pm
Remember the comment many gave when they were given the reason for why they were pulled over?
"But ossifer, I only had 3-2 beers!"
Still wonder why SS went the dark uniform route. Granted they hide dirt better but isn't the nickname of Metro Atlanta "HOTLANTA". If it wouldn't add another 10 pounds to an already heavy Sam Browne, a cooling unit for the Second Chance vest would be great.
June 16th, 2010
9:52 am
Shaun, please do not refer to Atlanta as "Hotlanta." EVER!! Its just tacky.
June 16th, 2010
2:58 pm
The black uni's are very hot and sweat drips down so thank goodness my pants are black too or I'd look like i was having bladder-control issues.
June 16th, 2010
5:10 pm
Talking about Scooter's……Thanks for making me feel REALLY OLD (I just found out I am going to be a Grandma) …..Yes, I remember Scooter's, Jerryl's, Breezie's, VIP Club, Elan (met my 2nd husband there!), LIMELIGHT, Casbah, Xanadu,The Library, Krazz….to name a few…I was a regular on the disco scene and was in many dance contests(!) Hey Lt. Steve do you remember the Chattahoochee RAFT RACES..??? Why don't you tell stories from those days….Talk about debauchery….Those were the days….I saw lots of you guys there…..Back then it was WILD. P.S. I lived at Riverbend (WHEN Steve Bartkowski lived there) for a while too. Do I have stories from then, whew !!!
June 16th, 2010
9:16 pm
Great stuff people who never wore the uniform don't always get it. But you told it how it is/was. I remember working bar security 20 plus years ago. They came in all friendly and smiling until they became beer brave and needed to impress someone. It would normally turn out bad with them on the floor in cuffs with snot running out of there noses from the mace.. ahhh the good old days.
Retired Hartford Police Sergeant thanks again
June 17th, 2010
2:19 am
Do ya'll were kevlar when you're hiding on the freeway waiting to fill your quotas? Um, why? Most of you never see any danger pulling over mini vans for tag light violations.
Protect and serve? More like find and solicit (cash). You should all walk with your heads down in shame. We as a public are disgusted and we don't respect you.
June 17th, 2010
12:13 pm
That's a really funny column. Glad you can write as well as police.
June 17th, 2010
12:17 pm
sounds like The Truth about Cops needs a beer festival or two.
June 17th, 2010
1:30 pm
Good stuff – keep it coming!
Atys, HOTLANTA is and always will be cool. But it's tacky to write a contraction without using an apostrophe.
June 17th, 2010
4:55 pm
How do you hide on the freeway? Are you just too stupid "Truth About Cops" to look AHEAD when you drive? Or does paying attention to the road take too much attention away from your cell phone?
That car, yeah THAT ONE the one stopped in the emergency lane with the cop lights. He's a COP. Slow down, ACT like you aren't drunk………..
June 17th, 2010
8:33 pm
"Truth About Cops" should be ashamed about the comments. Just TRY being a police officer you pansy. You make me sick.
June 19th, 2010
12:07 am
"Truth About Cops" should be ashamed about the comments. Just TRY being a police officer you pansy. You make me sick. ditto
June 19th, 2010
8:49 am
Scooters! My 80's den of iniquity! You dropped the bomb on me Steve. Thanks.
June 19th, 2010
12:13 pm
Anyone who takes the time to understand what a cop's life is really like, could not possibly have anything but the utmost respect, admiration, and gratitude. What they encounter from the general public on a daily basis is not pretty, to say the least, and a constant risk to their lives, to say the most. So if you do something wrong, get caught, and the cop is not all cheerful and polite, it's probably because they just encountered "Truth…", or someone like him, or worse. So as they say on another blog, drink a glass of shut the eff up!! (Can I say there here, Lt.??)
June 19th, 2010
3:44 pm
Why would any of us care about how hard you think it is to be a cop? You made the choice. Most people avoid the cops at all costs, not because the people themselves are criminals, but because they are very scared that the cop is a criminal. Why don't you ask yourself why this is instead of telling a member of society that you disagree with to shut the eff up?
Just this week in Atlanta, we (the taxpayers) will be paying an older lady who had committed no crime $20,000 for her false arrest by a criminal police officer (yes, he was a criminal. He had no authority to demand that that she move, nor did he have the authority to arrest her for asking why.) We have also seen a police officer in Seattle arrest a woman for jaywalking (not an arrestable offense) when he did not like her attitude, and we have seen him assaulting her friend for speaking up in her behalf. We had a similar incident here in Atlanta with a German tourist a year or so ago.
Do you get it now? The public does not want you to be the judge, jury, and executioner, yet you act like one and that instills fear and mistrust in the people you are supposed to serve. It also instills intense dislike of ALL police in people who have had their freedoms taken away by these self-decided enforcers of what they decide is wrong. When the police expose the corrupt among them instead of support them, when the law is used as a guidebook for how to behave towards the public instead of the uniform used as the final arbitrator; then maybe people will begin to support the police. Until then, I will continue to cheer loudly every time one of you gets arrested, or shot while performing illegal acts, or sweating your asses off in your polyester uniforms in 100 degree weather; it's the only enjoyment we get out of the cops that we have.
June 20th, 2010
10:27 am
Another great story – and some great comments. It is too bad that there are comments here also from the dregs of society. When I read such comments, I think that the writer(s) has been nailed by an officer for some offense and probably got off much too lightly. Keep up the great writing!
June 20th, 2010
10:54 am
I'm glad people make the choice to have a career in law enforcement, the military,or even teaching. So much sacrifice for a relatively small paycheck. The losers who piss and moan about the police are also the first to call 911 when they're afraid of a stray poodle in their yard.
June 20th, 2010
11:03 am
to retired alive, glad you made it, and you are right, the "dregs of society" have no idea what 90 % of police do. i would say that less than 10 % of dept personnel are dedicated to traffic enforcement, and they are the ones who have been through the accident reconstruction classes to work the fatalities and serious injuries wrecks. 70 % are dedicated to patrol duties to respond to calls for service, and the tickets they write are usually for the lesser car wrecks. 10 % are in the detective division, and the remaining 10 % like myself are dedicated to crime suppression / swat. in my dept, some of the swat officers also work patrol in case that situation arises there is already a swat officer available to take command of a scene, and wait for the rest of the team to arrive. very little government revenue comes from writing traffic tickets. the people who complain and dislike the police that constantly write in this section are highly misinformed about what we do. maybe these people can explain how the fulton county d.a.'s office has 21,000 active felony cases, and the fulton county state court has approx. 15,000 active warrants to serve. i assure that these are not "traffic" cases that are pending. and by the way – you can be arrested for walking or crossing a road in nearly every state including georgia
June 20th, 2010
2:01 pm
. . . or maybe I've misjudged "The Truth About Cops"? Now that I think about it, doesn't he sound more like a "wannabe" who probably couldn't even make it as a night watchman for an empty parking lot? I think that he probably tried to become a police officer and didn't make it due to his background investigation, polygraph results or even psychological screening. Yep, that what it is!
June 20th, 2010
2:24 pm
Just to clear up a couple things.
I am NOT a cop, never have been, don't want to be. I'm just a citizen who is damn glad there are people out there who DO want to be.
Re dirty cops – they're all discovered and dealt with eventually. It's pointless for you to make a generalization like that, when you find people in EVERY group who are dishonest. CEOs, bank employees, retail managers. So when you discount an entire group because of a bad apple, you really are displaying your….well, ignorance and hatred.
The cop in Seattle was fairly restrained, in my opinion. He was alone and surrounded by smartass juveniles, both of whom had extensive criminal records by the way. Do you suggest that he should have let her punch him?? I'm upset about that incident alright – upset that he didn't tase her loser butt.
Have fun with your opposable thumbs.
June 20th, 2010
2:32 pm
How come no one has mentioned Fuzzy's or Johny's Hideaway ??
June 20th, 2010
2:33 pm
Back in that day, it was probably still the "Bearded Clam"? Before my time in Atlanta…
June 20th, 2010
2:39 pm
To Ignorance: You need to re-read the post you made prior to your last one. you contradict yourself. You mentioned Seattle in both posts but seem to alter your view in your second posting. Just be honest and say you are a cop-hater. Cops can deal with it. After all, you are just a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things – and that is all you will ever be.
June 20th, 2010
5:57 pm
10-4 on your last post RETIRED ALIVE. Ignorance will never know how it feels to comfort a child or the elderly in times of need,to try to save a life..even if you fail. So many facets of being a Police Officer. If all of us could just walk in their shoes for a few shifts.
June 20th, 2010
6:37 pm
Chip, the things you mentioned are what make the job tolerable – to be able to help others in their time of need. Sometimes it is no more than just being there to listen and to lend support. I have heard and said that the police see people at their worst, and that is true. The other side of that coin is that the police see people when they are facing the worst that life has to offer: the death or severe injury of a child or other loved one, the loss of their home to fire or other disaster or the loss of treasured posessions to a thief. Just to be able to help, if even in a small way, is important to those who serve.
June 21st, 2010
9:53 am
You mentioned other professions with dishonest people, but quite frankly, none of those other professions have the right to shoot, taze, or remove me or others from the population and into the hell that is our prison system without recourse. Nor do they have a union that stands up for them no matter the crime, their co-workers dislike them and would roll over on them in a skinny minute, not blindly support them because they wear a badge.
There are now around six or seven posts bashing me for various things of a personal nature and assuming I am a criminal, when nothing could be further from the truth. I am a regular member of society with a great wife and kids, and I dread the thought of calling 911 because it has been proven to be potentially dangerous to the person who does. 911 would and always will be an absolute last resort for me and my family, I'll take my chances.
I also notice that on a blog full of officers and their friends and families, that not one of you has taken the time to address the issues that I have brought up regarding the culture of corruption. If Kathryn Johnston was your relative, I bet you'd be singing a different tune. For all who doubt me, why don't you walk into a police station and ask them how you go about filing an anonymous complaint against an officer? Or maybe try calling 911 to report an officer not doing his duty? I did this once when I lived in Atlanta proper regarding an officer who was having carnal affairs with a hooker in his squad car while on duty. Do you know what happened to me? I was hung up on repeatedly and transferred multiple times over a period of almost two hours, while the cop joked and laughed and got bl*&n by the hooker in his car. After the second or third disconnected call, I began by asking for a superior officer, when that officer answered, I immediately asked for his name and badge number, no matter who it was they did not want to give it to me – and this was not just one officer. What was the result? They were covering each other and not giving out information that they are required to give to the public in an effort to not have an external record of their business. All of this while I was attempting to be polite and businesslike on the phone and merely let them know what was taking place. At the time, the area around my condo was very lawless and drug sales and prostitution were rampant, yet there was a police station less than a mile away. After trying to get this situation reported to someone who cared for nearly two hours, I heard (yes, my condo was in earshot of the offense) dispatch call over the radio to the officer in question that someone was raising a stink about his behavior; shortly thereafter, he let the hooker out of his car and squealed off, tires burning rubber, pissed that someone question him and cut short his fun. I would bet you everything that I have that this officer never received a talk about his behavior, a suspension, or any other disciplinary measures. Two days later, my condo was raided by the Red Dog Squad, who found nothing because there was nothing to find. Does this sound like a normal occurrence that would happen in any other profession? Was this guy just one bad egg and the whole rest of the bunch were decent and upholding the law? If so, why did they not care to corral him in? Why did they retaliate against my trying to clean up the corruption in their department instead of addressing the officer who was cavorting with hookers on my time? Try to twist this any way you want, but I can assure you that I could see and hear what was going on in his squad car that night and not one officer I spoke with wanted to have him behave differently; what they wanted was for me to not raise any issue about it.
Everyday across the US there is a story of police corruption and the attempts to cover it up by the police, there are also many stories of people dying at the hands of the police while doing nothing wrong. The same dept I mention in my story above was investigated by to US Dept of Justice and found to have a "culture of corruption" from the top down, which the citizens of Atlanta are still paying for. The incident I reported happened over twenty years ago now, yet twenty years later, the same corruption is going on. Is this how you like your tax dollars being spent? It's not the way I care for mine.
There are many other examples of similar crimes and deaths in Ga. alone, so if you would like to continue bashing me, go ahead, but I would prefer all of you "honest" cops to change this by not allowing it to go on. Same goes for you honest court employees dealing with DA's like Danny Porter and the like, as well as you honest citizens; that is, if you're not too scared to speak up because the people you are complaining about have the right to take your life and liberty away from you with very little recourse for their actions. You officers know this, the other guy has a gun too, and buddies that will be quiet about what he does, which is why you let it slide and become the major issue that it has become.
I will repeat what I said above and dare any of you to challenge it: When the police expose the corrupt among them instead of support them, when the law is used as a guidebook for how to behave towards the public instead of the uniform used as the final arbitrator; then maybe people will begin to support the police.
June 21st, 2010
10:33 am
HA – low and behold, all I have to do is look in today's paper for another shining example of our law enforcement officers behaving as if they don't have to follow the law and the whole system around them trying to protect them instead of doing justice –
From the article:
Police say Dailey was off duty and wearing civilian clothing when he flew off the handle Feb. 1, 2008, and attacked a female motorist he had never met on a Sugar Hill roadside. Dailey told investigators that he had been drinking and had just crashed his car when he flagged down the woman and asked her to call 911. Moments later, he inexplicably attacked her, smashed her car window and threatened to kill her, according to police.
Dailey then allegedly shot and wounded an off-duty Fulton County officer who stopped to intervene.
Hmm – I wonder what will happen to this dangerous criminal, surely they will throw the book at him, let's read a little more of the article to see how we treat dangers to society like this criminal:
Dailey has a documented history of alcoholism and depression. His mother, Janet Dailey of Alpharetta, wrote a letter to the court in August saying that her son "never should have taken that first sip of alcohol" on that day. In his defense, she said, Dailey suffered from sleep apnea and had been drinking to help him sleep so he could work that night.
Dailey's aunt, Elizabeth Cocchiarella of White Bear Lake, Minn., also pleaded with Superior Court Judge Dawson Jackson in a note to the court to impose a reasonable sentence if Dailey is convicted.
"It's hard for me to understand some of the choices Jay made that day, but I strongly feel it was a one-time lapse of judgment on his part," Cocchiarella wrote.
Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said he expects one of the main issues at trial to be what role, if any, that intoxication played in Dailey's strange behavior.
"There is obviously no issue that Jay Dailey shot Paul Phillips," said defense attorney Jeff Sliz in an e-mail on Friday. "I do not believe that he recognized him [Phillips] as a police officer due to his severe intoxication."
Sliz said he also does not believe the aggravated assault charges against Dailey for the attack on the female motorist and two passers-by were well-founded. He said there is no evidence that Dailey threatened the woman with a gun and no evidence that he ever intended to harm the bystanders.
The court gave approval for Dailey to have an extensive psychiatric evaluation. Dailey has no criminal history and relatives say he was both a loving husband and a doting father to his then 5-year-old son prior to the incident. However, Sliz has not filed a notice of intent to use an insanity defense.
Porter said that the psychiatric evaluation, which was sealed prior to the trial, could come into play during sentencing if Dailey is convicted.
Gee – a documented history of depression and alcoholism – wonder how all of those brothers in blue never noticed this and referred him for help or asked that he be removed from his job until he was treated. What else have we learned, oh yeah, he was drinking so he could sleep to work that night. Wonder why this was also never noticed by the quality officers he worked with or his supervisors. Guess it's OK since he only carries deadly weapons and has to interact with society in ways that can tragically alter their lives; I'm sure that his altered judgment due to alcohol won't ever come into play in any of those scenarios.
He didn't know he was shooting another cop because he was so drunk, well poor guy, he was under a lot of stress, let's give him a break. And by the way, pulling a gun on three other people is just a mistake, too. No need for assault charges, cops have guns, cops pull guns, that's why they have them – right?
These stories just write themselves. I bet good old Danny Porter will go pretty hard on him to prove to the public is against this sort of behavior, most especially from sworn officers of the law; let's look at his track record in cases of cop misbehavior resulting in injuries to the public or even death – hmm – seems he's more concerned about protecting the thin blue line instead of punishing it's members who are acting criminally. We are watching, it's up to you police officers and court personnel to change our opinions – it's not our job to put on rose colored glasses and act like there are not two different types of justice – one for us and one for the police.
I'll ad another personal anecdote, this one in response to the gentleman above who suggested that not all police are beat cops, but investigators and such. I have a friend who was hit and nearly killed by a drunk, off duty detective in an unmarked car. My friend was on his Honda CB550 that I had helped him get running a mere two weeks beforehand, he was passing through an intersection when the detectives car crossed into his lane and hit him head-on, sending him into the windshield of this detectives vehicle, breaking his wrist, collarbone, and ribs – he was very lucky to survive and remain conscious during this ordeal. When the regular officers showed up, they became aware of who they were dealing with and did their best to cover up for this detective. They wrote my friend multiple tickets, blamed the accident on him, and sent the drunk detective on his way before any other investigators showed up. This ordeal cost my friend a lot of money to get out of, and had he not had witnesses who could testify to the truth of what they saw – a drunk, slurring and swaying detective cross into his lane – he would have been railroaded into a jail sentence, parole or probation, and a ton of fines and points against his license. As it was, when it was discovered he had witnesses, all charges against him were suddenly dropped and he was told to go about his business. No accountability for the hospital bills and lawyers fees he incurred from the person who caused him harm, just left all of it on his shoulders. I begged him to sue, but he didn't because he already couldn't afford the bills that resulted from this and he felt that it would be of no use with a bunch of police officers testifying a different reality than he was presenting. He was also 20 years old at the time of this incident and I'm certain had he been older and wiser, he'd have sued the city and the officers involved in a heartbeat.
June 21st, 2010
1:45 pm
Hey, this is a pretty good idea…. having LEO's blog about their work exploits. I've often guessed that if we were to hear some of the things that LEO's witness and observe after having dealt with us civil, law-abiding, God-fearing citizens, we'd either die laughing, or maybe even straighten up. Great read!
June 21st, 2010
6:55 pm
"Your ignorance" has presented us with an article describing a cop who has obvious mental issues. Duluth was correct in terminating him. As for "your ignorance's" friend hit while riding a motorcycle, he should have sued if those were the facts surrounding the incident. Perhaps, you should have begged your friend a little more to sue. Perhaps, he could have borrowed money from family or a good friend like yourself. Ultimately, he decided not to do so. He lives with that decision, not you.
June 21st, 2010
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