It does a body good!
No, not that Georgia over there next to Russia; the one just north of where these people hail from (Tallahassee, Fl).
Conservative protesters are flocking to Washington this weekend to display their displeasure over what they see as the Obama administration’s creeping socialism.
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The bus rolled across the Potomac River and passed the National Mall, where white tents clustered on the green grass. "They’re already setting up for us," one passenger announced. A whoop went up in the bus.
The passengers grew silent when they noticed a banner next to the tents. "Black Family Reunion Celebration," it read. All but one of the bus riders were white.
When I first moved to Georgia from Florida in 1993, I quickly began to appreciate how it happened that Newt Gingrich could rant and rave about big government. Georgia was literally littered with public assets, from mountain retreats in the Appalachians to a whole island off the coast, that private entrepreneurs could exploit for their own profit. And then, as happened with Jeckyl Island in 1947, when the entrepreneurs went belly up, return it to the public coffers for safe keeping.
From all appearances, this public/private partnership has been flourishing for some time. How else to explain that Brunswick, Georgia, a coastal community and port of some 13,000 souls has as much public housing for people employed in the paper mill and the naval stores production plants as Gainesville, Florida had for its 68,000 residents?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. It was a delight to find a public swimming facility for every 13,000 residents, despite the nearness of an ocean that's swimable pretty much year round, instead of the one for 43,000 with which Gainesvillians have to be content.
Now, it seems, there's another public service the residents of Coastal Georgia rely on that might explain how come our Representative, Jack Kingston, better known as the leader of the Republican Theme Team in Congress, could claim that 500 people at his health care town hall in Kingsland (which must have been advertised via the grape vine) are opposed to a public option. You see, Georgians have access to functioning public health departments for preventive care. When Kingston mentions efficiency, they've got a point of reference. But Kingston says,
"I think we can do better than we're doing now, but I don't think we should turn the whole thing over to the federal government."
he's being dishonest since nobody but Republicans is suggesting that.
Drive-through flu shot clinic good practice for coming H1N1 shots
System will likely be used to give H1N1 vaccinations
* By Terry Dickson
* Story updated at 6:12 AM on Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009
BRUNSWICK - Charles Westcott rolled to a stop outside Glynn County Stadium, rolled up his sleeve and took a shot in the arm.
Westcott was one of 170 people who got flu shots Wednesday at the Glynn County Health Department's first drive-through flu shot clinic.
It was a relatively quick process. Patients entered the clinic from Fourth Street, were directed to a parking area to fill out their paperwork, then to a canopy to pay or hand over an insurance, Medicaid or Medicare card and finally along on to one of four stations for the shots. Recipients had to make a final stop on the way out where a nurse asked how they were doing. Some people get a little woozy after shots. Many were in and out in less than 10 minutes.
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The six-hour clinic began at 9 a.m. and even drew people from outside Glynn County including back-to-back patients from Camden and McIntosh counties.
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Around noon, people began arriving in work vans, company trucks and other vehicles tied to their jobs, an indication that some people were using their lunch breaks to get the shots.
About four Glynn County school buses rolled through as did some school resource officers.
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Ah, socialism! Ain't it grand? Just don't call it that.
Kingston's got another town hall announced for September 28 in St. George at 5:00PM in the St. George Church of God on Johnson Street.