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I'm here. For you.
So the big topic of discussion here in the home city is the hubbub pertaining to the fact that our beloved Square may soon count amongst its merchants & purveyors a tattoo parlor (GASP!).
Well, that does it! C-town's goose is cooked for sure this time.
At least according to some.
In a surprise last second addition to the agenda of Monday's Covington Council meeting, a 4-2 preliminary vote was made to approve this new use to the ordinances for the downtown business district. It'll still have to go before the Planning Commission & a review of Staff & then another final vote by the Council.
My take?
Basically, whatever.
However, a little something to think about:
With last year's approval of being able to have a cigar lounge selling distilled spirits w/out a food requirement (and apparently that's not happening, at least for the time being) & then if this new use is approved, I believe it becomes harder for the City of Covington to continue to prohibit straight-up bars w/ no food requirements - just a joint slinging drinks & maybe offering bags of peanuts & corn nuts, maybe some pork skins.
Now talk about pearl clutching...
REAL Politick, Great State of GA Gubernatorial Race Edition
Action Jackson, FTW!
Can't lie. I kind of like this guy (not that I'm necessarily going to vote for him).
Considering his main competition at this point consists of Truck Stop Burt, Judas Brad & Kemp Boi Carr, with his money, he might have a legit shot of at least making a runoff.
ICE Facility Coming to Social Circle?
The word on the street for the last few weeks seems to have been fully confirmed - an ICE detainment facility is coming to Social Circle, GA.
Holding approx 5-10K detainees at any given time, it would effectively double to triple the current population of the city. Also, it's going to be pretty close to the new elementary school.
This is something that nobody wants; however, it's the Feds, so there's really nothing that can be done to stop it in terms of zoning, permit approval, etc.
I've seen a comment or two about how maybe this is just desserts for "The Circle" & their track record of Annex Abuse, but I don't feel that way. Yeah, sure, they were starting to piss me off a bit, but I hate this for them. I really do.
A Slice of the Epstein Files
Bringing back memories of the Podesta email dump w/ all of the references to pizza. A previous write-up here at TPC by former contributor Perrin Lovett hit on both Epstein as well as the at-the-time-supposedly-discredited PizzaGate situation.
Of course, that was all just conspiracy theory. Snopes & the mainstream media assured all of us of that at the time.
I've been sifting through some of the emails in the DOJ files. Some of those emails are rather interesting, and some quite concerning. Correspondence w/ folks like Deepak Chopra, Peter Attia MD, Elon Musk as well as NFL team owners, various diplomats & politicos, and many, many more.
Of particular note is the fact that conservative firebrand & former Trump confidant Steve Bannon was apparently in fairly close communication w/ Epstein.
With some of the more suspicious emails, the identity of the other party was still redacted. Does that mean there's an ongoing investigation? Or is it due to "national security," or is it just a coverup?
Also, as mentioned, lots of references to pizza.
I'm working on a dedicated future piece.
Of course, if your FB feed looked anything like mine for a few days then no doubt you saw some of your friends telling you it was proven, verified & incontrovertible fact - based solely on anonymous tips from crazies & anti-DJT partisans - that Trump had not only abused kids, but was also eating them & auctioning them off when he wasn't burying dead bodies at one of his country clubs that didn't yet exist.
Look people, there's a whole lot of bad things you can say about the man, but when you make this stuff political & are pushing total falsehoods, it does no favors for your cause, but most importantly it does no favors for getting to the truth.
And that's a memorandum & moment from MB.
Still millions of documents left to be released.
So long for now,
- MBM
