06 August 2021

Libertarian Support Rising: An Affiliate of the Libertarian Party To Have Local Presence in Newton Co., GA for the First Time in Almost a Decade

 First-ever meeting of the Libertarian Party of Newton Co. to Occur Wednesday, October 11th in the upstairs section of The Social Goat in Downtown Covington at 6:30pm


A new county affiliate of the Libertarian Party of Georgia - the Libertarian Party of Newton Co. - will be holding their opening, basal meeting on the east side of the Covington Square here in a few days.

This, in & of itself, is a big deal as it will signify the first time that the home county has been a tripartisan one in over 8 yrs. 

Previously, as some readers may remember, the East Metro LP had a presence in Covington & Newton Co. from 2005 until, officially, 2013. The party then went defunct. 

As several folks that this writer has spoken to have attested -- the time had definitely come to remedy that situation & that's where we are at now. 

According to party Chair Ryan Ralston, it was way past time for a return of 3rd-party politics to our area & the party is very excited about "shaking things up ...& [challenging] the status quo.' 

In addition to Mr. Ralston, the rest of the new party's executive committee is comprised of Beth Moye Shaffer, Gabbie Fox & Renee Fraudy. 

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In the spirit of full disclosure, your semi-esteemed Editor was involved w/ the East Metro LP back in the day & is planning on being involved w/ the LP of Newton Co as a regular member. 

I know some will tell you that you shouldn't officially be involved w/ a political party if you're a journalist but I'm fortunate in that I am not your regular run-of-the-mill journalist, but rather a Citizen Journalist.

Plus, 

 I Do What I Want! 

(and ain't that just so damn Libertarian?)

By all accounts, this is looking to be a big get-together for lovers of liberty in & around the home county as well as being a historic evening by virtue of a new, vital entity becoming part & parcel of the Body Politic of Newton & the Great State of Georgia. 

Again, that will be this Wednesday, August 11 in the upstairs section of The Social Goat (1115 Church St. Covington, GA 30014) on the east side of the Covington Square. 6:30pm. 

*Stay Tuned for a follow-up piece covering the meeting*

Cheers, 

MBM 



04 August 2021

Newton Co, GA, USA: It Was The Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

By MB McCart, Ed 



Dickensian references aside (and that's two in the last week here at the ole site for those keeping score), things are definitely interesting on the home county front. 

There's a definitive duality/juxtaposition thing going on w/ the Newton Co. BOC at this point. 

On the same night this "august" body did quite possibly enact one of the largest millage rate DECREASES in county history, they then brought back the mask mandate for county-owned properties. 

JC abstained from the budget vote, per usual, while Alana Sanders was the lone dissenting vote against a county budget that has pleasantly surprised many political watchers, this one included. 

I'll always tip my hat when it's due, so I will certainly publicly do so at this time:

To BOC Reps Edwards, Mason & Cowan -- Thank you, Gentleman. 

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Make My Card the P-Card!
 

Parliament-Funkadelic references aside, our old nemesis - The Covington News - actually did some legit reporting here lately. 

Well, sort of... 

After their intro-piece of last week, the general consensus was that Pt II would be a little underwhelming. 

The good news, though, is this: 

Now that CovNews has filed & paid for these ORRs, they are now available to anyone & everyone who is interested. 

This is gonna be some great fodder for a long, long time... 

But them boots, though? 

DEVELOPING...

Stay Tuned

- MBM 









 

30 July 2021

Quick Friday Check-In: A Tale of Two Governments - Newton BOC Being Surprisingly Somewhat Fiscally Conservative; The COV? LOL!

By: MB McCart, Ed. 

As I mentioned in this space a few weeks back, it's a helluva note when the Newton BOC - longtime target of TPC ire - comes across as fiscally-conservative libertarians compared to the City of Covington Council. 

I mean, really. As I told a couple of the network chiefs - I was pleasantly surprised w/ the number the BOC hit on last month. Not saying I was thrilled about it, but pragmatically, it wasn't too bad. But then, they go back to the drawing board & shave off another half a million dollars. 

C-Town Representin'!

Meanwhile, the city that got taken back by itself a couple years back & has turned into an absolute financial dumpster tire fire in which we just saw the highest budget dollar increase in the city's 199-yr history w/ a 14% year-over-year increase in size & scope of government. 

By the way, even though the COV started up their own economic development to the the tune of way too much money last year, if you'll notice in this year's budget - they're going to start funding the Newton Co. one again as well. To the tune of $50K per annum.

Oh well. The Covington Way & all. Somebody needed a job but now they realize that they actually need some folks who know what they're doing. 

Also, word is afoot that they're going to purchase the additional property for the Central Park. A lot of money there. It's on the agenda for their next meeting. 

But hey, Folks: 

CoViNgToN tOoK bAcK TheY,,re CiTy!!1!1! 

- MBM 



Perrin Lovett: Homeschool Or Hoax

 If I had to guess, and this is just a guess, well-reasoned but inexact, then I’d say that only around .01% of US government schools are worth not burning down. It’s probably 1% of US private schools. Almost all of them are anti-education, anti-human, anti-freedom, anti-civilization, anti-Western, anti-White, and anti-Christian.* Almost all of them are run, directly or indirectly, by feminists, homosexuals, communists, and other globalist satanic trash. They are worse, much worse than useless. They are utterly destructive and evil, being far beyond reform. 

So it is that I take this opportunity to thank, in a very narrow context, the Fauci-Gates-DARPA-DOD-CIA-SIS-Mossad-CCP axis of darkest evil for the Sars-HIV-mRNA “Coronavirus” hoax pandemic, war, and war crimes. You are, all of you, bound for hell, but the public did derive one benefit from your malevolence. I’m sure it was unintentional, but you bastards managed to do something novel in all the ruinous history of post-modern society – you closed the damned schools! 

I wrote about this same subject, with some statistics and then-current news, over a year ago: The Coronavirus Hysteria May Be The Best Thing That Ever Happened To The Schools. That was and is a great one – please read or reread it, now. I closed by admonishing intelligent, decent people to build something better. Guess what? 

They did!

The associated presstitutes reported a Census finding that the prevalence of homeschooling (aka, education) increased from 5.4% of US households in the spring of 2020 to 11% for the 2020-2021 school year. That means that somewhere around 6 million American and USian children had the chance to learn last year. That’s more children than attended private schools and about an eighth of the number of children tortured in the government’s concentration camps. Hooray!

The results varied by region and by demographics though all generally moved in the right direction. Over a quarter of Alaskan kids learned last year along with almost a fifth in Florida. Some areas with the absolute worst “schools,” like Detroit, saw a huge jump in education. Blacks leaped from a dismal 3.3% rate of education to 16.1%, the largest increase by race. The new rates for Hispanics, Asians, and Whites are, respectively: 12.1%, 8.8%, and 9.7%. While a majority of American and USian children are still locking into the devil’s system of idiocy and slavery, this improvement is monumental.

Let’s hope and pray it not only lasts but expands. Because of the hoax, the “schools,” government and private, simply abandoned the people. Accordingly, for once in a century or so, many of the people took a good look around and then took independent action. The POW camps masquerading as academies will continue their stupidity and wickedness – just read a newspaper wherever you live. The great hope is that the people will continue their newfound trend of intelligence and responsibility. 

Much of last year’s gains may turn out to be transient, with less-than-dedicated parents allowing their offspring back into the system, lured and lulled by a variety of promises, lies, and threats. However, many will stay out, stay in the books, so to speak, and stay ahead of the curve. This bodes very well for the continuance of civilized society regardless of what happens to the remains of the United States this decade and beyond. All the people, not just the rescued children, stand to benefit.

For parents struggling with a sense of not knowing what they’re doing and wondering whether they’re doing the right thing, I say this: anything (or even nothing) is better than the alternative and there really is no way to mess up home education. As I’ve written before, all students learn differently and possess different levels of ability. Some go farther. Some move faster. Some find it easier. Let the natural course of learning unfold as it does, driven in large part by the interests of the subject child and with as-needed adult guidance. There’s a program for just about everyone and all of them are radically better and less expensive than what the luciferians offer in their prisons.

For the evil-mongers fretting about how to deal with this rebellion, I say this: Go to hell. We know you’re worried. You should be because you created a disaster and now, at long last, even ordinary people are noticing it. We know you’re eventually going to use your government violence in an attempt to ridicule, diminish, or ban legitimate education. We know you would happily have everyone else suffer, struggle, and fail. Know too that we’re ready for you, we’re going to fight you, and we’re going to beat you. Badly. In fact, your time is already running short. Tick, tick, tick…

Good people, let’s keep this great movement going steady! Thank you to all the wise parents out there. Congratulations to all the happy, learned children. Three cheers for knowledge, wisdom, and cultural refinement.

*Over the past few years, I have noticed a distinct collapse among many private schools, some costing around $50,000 per year. They are “going woke.” That, of course, means they are headed the same way as the government’s camps, except they cost more (generally, the pricier the school, the worse the problems). 

- Perrin Lovett



27 July 2021

Ellis Millsaps: Baseball Edition 2021, Pt II

 The rules rarely change but the way the game is played has changed markedly in the past few years and those changes along with superman power pitching and sticky substances are contributing to record low batting averages.


 The infield shift, which has come to be almost universal, works. Sabermetrics show that batted balls are less likely to result in baserunners when the shift is employed. ( If I'm a left-handed hitter leading off an inning where my team is behind by two or more runs I'm going to bunt to the unmanned third base position. I'm not going to hit a two-run homer.)


 The recent emphasis on "launch angle” increases strikeouts and lowers batting averages. The theory behind this approach is that a homerun is worth more than two singles. The launch angle hitters ( that isn't everyone) no longer practice what we were always taught: swing level and put the ball in play. Accompanying the upward swing phenomenon is the idea to swing as hard as one can, which also decreases the likelihood of making contact.


 The way teams employ starting pitchers has radically changed. It used to be that starting pitchers were expected to go a complete game or die trying. Now all starters are pulled so that they don't have to pitch through the order a third or certainly not a fourth time. Stats show that the starting lineup starts to figure out what the starting pitcher is throwing during their third at bat. Now most starters are pulled after five or six Innings and the opposing lineup will likely see four or five pitchers during a game.


 On the homefront, going into the second half the Braves have been treading water with no life buoy in sight. That's beyond the scope of this essay but I mention it as I transition to talk about Jacob deGrom. 


A few weeks ago the Braves opened a three-game series with the Mets in which the home team needed to win two in order to gain on the league leader. That outcome seemed highly unlikely because after they split the first two they faced in the third game Jacob deGrom.


 deGram is the best pitcher on the planet, some say in the history of the planet.

Coming into this midseason game he had an era of .69, way better than any starter in history at that point in the season. He had driven in more runs than he had allowed. Active debate began as to whether he was better than Sandy Koufax, Tom Seaver and Bob Gibson.


 It's almost an apples to oranges comparison. As of the date of that Braves start in which the Braves put up three runs-- half as many as the deGrom had allowed in the season to that point-- there had been 24 complete games thrown in all of Major League Baseball. DeGrom had one of those. In 1966 over 700 were thrown. In ‘68 Juan Marichal alone threw 30. In ‘66 Koufax posted a 1.73 ERA while completing 27 games, the record low ERA to that date. Two years later Gibson blew that record away with a 1.12 ERA and 28 complete games. Carl Yaztremski led the AL in hitting that year with a .301 average. As I mentioned earlier, the next year MLB lowered the mound height from 15 to 10 inches.


 deGrom is challenging Gibson’s record although in his last three starts his era has “ballooned” to 1.01 (now 1.08). One can't help noticing those outings came after the sticky ball ban. That may well be a coincidence. In that game against the Braves he struck out 14 in 7 innings, but the fact that he didn’t have to go through the order a fourth time is verifiable. On the other hand he doesn’t get to pitch off a 15 inch mound.


- Ellis Millsaps



20 July 2021

The Return of Ester Fleming: Ronnie Cowan to Appoint Former BOC Rep to Water & Sewage Authority

By: MB McCart, Editor 

*updated

As confirmed by this writer last week, BOC 5 Commissioner Ronnie Cowan is planning to appoint Ester Fleming, a former longtime member of the BOC, to the Newton Co. Solid Waste Water & Sewage Authority at this evening's BOC meeting. 

Let me be clear. 

This is: 

A TERRIBLE IDEA 

Ester is widely considered to have been the driving force of the Great Selling Out of The Home County (along w/ Hubert White) during his tenure on the Board back in the late 90s & early-to-mid 00s.

Furthermore, Fleming was actively involved with the Newton Co. GOP's establishment in the early to mid 2010s when the party time & time again violated GA GOP bylaws to keep newcomers out of the party until the GA GOP finally put a stop to it in 2015. 

Also, it is widely known by many (and known to me firsthand -- because he told me), that he fully supports Democrat Ezell Brown & has supported him in his last several elections. 

Finally, this part-time employee of Clerk of Court Linda Hays has been known to be very friendly with the infamous former county attorney, Wm Thomas "Tommy" Craig. 

Tim Fleming (left), Ester's son & Brian Kemp's long-time right hand man; Ester in the middle; Gov Kemp to the right. 

What is Ronnie Cowan thinking? That's a great question. Perhaps you should ask. 

His contact info can be found at TPC's Newton Co BOC Contact Page

As a quick aside, I tried working on this under the radar, but it didn't accomplish anything (it usually never does). Ronnie has been & is now definitely listening to the wrong people. There are other dynamics in play that I will talk about in a future piece if Fleming is indeed appointed. 

Again, this appointment is supposed to happen at tonight's BOC meeting. 

I believe this is not a good move for the home county. Why look to the past in such a divisive manner? Seems to not make sense. It's ALL politics. 

Sad. 

- MBM 



17 July 2021

Past Perrin Lovett Column: The Amazing Truth About Guns

 

The Amazing Truth About Guns in America: A Piece by Perrin B. Lovett

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The Amazing Truth About Guns in America
A Piece by Perrin Lovett, C.F. Floyd Feature Writer of National Affairs

It was downright embarrassing. Especially for me. Perrin Lovett, the gun guy, … was wrong about guns. I was wrong for the better part of two decades. Horribly wrong.

Specifically, I had been citing a rounded, general statistic: 1 million defensive gun uses every year in America (sometimes phrased as a million lives saved every year by guns). It was a very handy number to refute the claims by various gun control freaks that guns take X number of lives per year (usually in the 10,000 - 30,000 range). It was an order of magnitude of positive difference. And it was dead wrong.

Guns do not save 1 million lives each year in America.

They save 2.5 million lives. The CDC says so. Well, they say it quietly and only when pushed. You see, dear readers, the CDC did a study from 1996 through 1998. They discovered 2.46 million defensive gun uses each year. With inflation, let’s call it 2.5 million. Every. Single. Year.

That’s about one life saved every 12 seconds. That’s two or three saved since you started reading this article, you speed reader.

The left, in their zeal to disarm the people and enslave them in the chains of communism, somehow miss these stats. The CDC part was easy to overlook; it was unpublished for some reason. (I can’t imagine why…). But, Gary Kleck, John Lott, and others had presented similar numbers - always unrefuted. Curious.

The Founders had this crazy idea that the people should be armed. That’s why we have the Second Amendment. They believed the old adage: “When the government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Wait. That explains the CDC silence.

That’s why some gun grabbers want to repeal the Second Amendment. At least the more honest ones, like John Paul Stevens, do. Some, like Young Hogg, want to make noise, blame the NRA, and agitate with pre-planned marches and rallies. Others, like Stacey Abrams (Georgia’s next governor?), want to do it by executive order or some other fiat. Rumor has it she wants assault rifles banned in the Peach State. But why?

Here, again, the numbers are against her. Some people are wrongfully killed by assault rifles, it’s true. One life is too many. But, in the numerical order of the killings, rifles are one of the most miniscule sources one could center on. The facts (from 2014, a relatively “modern” year):

248 people murdered with rifles (all types including “assault” rifles);

435 people murdered with baseball bats and hammers;

660 people murdered with punches and kicks;

8,124 people murdered with guns of all kinds (offset by 2,500,000 lives saved);

14,249 murders of/by all weapons (and unarmed murders);

32,744 killed by automobiles;

Approximately 200,000 killed by doctors and medical professionals;

Approximately 300,000-500,000 killed by obesity and fat-related issues; and

652,639 murdered by “legal” abortions.

Maybe it’s not just the guns. Not to worry - or really to worry - the gun grabbers are starting to whisper about knife control too. And, hey, knives are used to murder more people every year than all rifles and shotguns combined.

But we’d better ban ARs and AKs first, right Stacey?

Americans are far and away the most heavily armed people in the world. Yet, when gun murder rates are tallied by nation, we’re not even in the top 100.

Better repeal the Second, huh Justice Bow Tie?

Young Hogg, personal experience and book presales aside, should consider that America’s schools are safer now than they were before the Columbine shooting. He won’t.
But, anyway, back to the good news! What, exactly, is a “defensive gun use?” Simply put, it’s an incident involving a gun that ends well - from the perspective of the law-abiding participant(s) in said incident. The vast majority do not involve anyone being shot, even in self-defense. It’s 2.5 million lives saved. Not taken. If 2.5 million criminals were killed each year, then the uniparty would soon run out of voters.


Usually, there is no shot fired. Usually, the gun is never drawn. Frequently the criminal or would be criminal doesn’t even see the gun. He just sees a hardened would be victim, a woman emboldened to resistance by the mere fact she knows Smith and Wesson have her back. Think of the young lady who (because she’s packing) has the wherewithal to assertively tell the thug to back off. The thug, sensing he’s picked the wrong victim, leaves without committing a crime. Without anyone getting killed. Without anyone getting hurt. He might even, thanks to the encounter, rethink his ways and life. Everyone wins.


Those who ramble ineloquent about “common sense” gun control have no sense. Or at least they are ignorant of the real facts. That, or they are evil and have an agenda. If the latter is true, then it’s likely the same agenda of mass control and slavery practiced by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and every other gun-hating, people-hating dictator in history.


That’s what free people in America are up against. Fortunately, we have the guns and those amazing benefits. Hallelujah!



Picture by Perrin.




Fellow Terry College of Business (UGA) grad Brother Perrin Lovett is a true renaissance gentleman & scholar. A recovering attorney, he's into guns & cigars, and the US Constitution. A published authorPrepper columnist & YouTube personality, and an acclaimed blogger, TPC is very proud to have our old friend on board as the C.F. Floyd Feature Writer of National Affairs


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