Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Blogroll / Add it up Atlanta blogs today: 'This lack of water thing'
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 8:18 PM
If the City of Atlanta runs out of water, I say we stink - and we would be the first large American city to allow it to happen.
-- Ashley at Random Atlanta, in a post titled "This lack of water thing is freaking me out"
I don't know about you, but I'm gonna start referring to the drought as "this lack of water thing."
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Imagine an ice cream cone upside down lined with rooms and squashed a little so its cross section is more oval than round... Then make it 500 feet tall and take the elevators up to the 41st floor (higher ones need keys).
-- Chris at Food, Travel And Exercise is impressed by the Marriott Marquis Downtown, designed by Atlanta architect John Portman. The atrium he describes is the supposedly the world's tallest.
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The pushback here-the claim that those of us who dare to suggest that Marshall support this legislation are just short of being socialists-is a classic Roverian technique, and in this instance has strong overtones of race-baiting. It's not working.Do the right thing, Jim. Vote to override.
-- Amy Morton at Georgia Women Vote wants Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., to vote to override President Bush's veto of legislation funding health care for uninsured children.
What a coincidence. So do I.
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