SWGA Politics

That’s one way to get jobs[ November 23, 2009 – 8:00 am]by Tom Posted in » Local

B.J. Fletcher isn’t like anyone you’ve ever met.  The Albany Herald described her as a “force of nature”, and I haven’t seen a single thing that would lead me to say they’re wrong.  The few times I’ve met her lead me to a similar conclusion.

Now, she’s challenging other business owners to take on more employees.  She looked around and found that there was room to hire a few of the unemployed and has issued a challege for others to do the same.  Obviously, Fletcher qualifies as one of those “real leaders” I’ve talked about, and she’d done it in a way that I can’t do anything but applaud.

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An Interesting Morning[ November 23, 2009 – 6:23 am]by Jeff Posted in » General

So I started this morning laying bare my soul on my FB page with the tragedy that really began my war with legalists within the Christian church (they were called Pharissees during the time of Christ, “legalists” now), and honestly that put me into a funk. There are reasons I don’t talk about that very much, with the primary one being that it is one of the deepest, darkest areas of my life. So I’m not going to dwell on it here.

But that incident, which was the beginning of both my outright war with legalists as well as one of the key turning points in my life thus far, got me started thinking about beginnings. I saw that this post will be the 800th post on this site – in under 10 months.
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