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Thursday, November 15, 2012

30,000 Georgians (and Counting) Want to Secede from U.S.

Georgia residents are among people in more than 30 states petitioning the White House to dissolve the union in the wake of President Obama's re-election.

Residents of Georgia and more than 40 other states have filed petitions to secede from the United States. Residents of Alabama, North and South Carolina, New York, Michigan, Texas and other states have filed the petitions under the "We The People" program, featured on the White House website, according to the Huffington Post. The Georgia petition, which had nearly 30,000 signatures at midday Thursday, quotes from the Declaration of Independence: "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..." The petitions come in the wake of …

TONY FERLAND

5:07 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013

LET'S SEE : WE HAD AN ELECTION THAT WAS PROBABLY STOLEN? WE HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT IS PROBABLY A COMMUNIST? WE HAVE A CONGRESS THAT REPRESENTS ONLY. ITSELF ! A DEBT SO LARGE IT WILL DESTROY THE DOLLAR! NOW, CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY WE SHOULD NOT LEAVE THE US ?   more ›

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

32 Bathrooms in One House?

Students at Timothy Road Elementary in Athens, Ga., share their work.

  By Lydia Owens and Montana Smith That’s right! There are 32 bathrooms, 132 rooms, 147 windows, 412 doors, 12 chimneys, 3 elevators, 1 swimming pool, 1 movie theater, 1 library, 1 bowling alley, 1 horseshoe pit, and 1 putting green, for golfing, and an office shaped like an oval.  It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.  You’ve probably guessed by now that it’s the White House. Did you know that there have been several different White Houses? When our country first began, in 1776, the White House was located in New York.  Then there was a second White House in New York, and then one in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eventually, it was decided that the White House should be built on new land, donated by states, between the…

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