Rumors
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Sex / Rumors The Internet wants everyone to think Atlanta is a filthy herpes factory
Posted by Gwynedd Stuart on Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:54 PM
- WIKIMEDIA
- ALL OF US, BASICALLY
Here's the first version I saw on a site called STR8TMEDIA:
The CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL just released the names of the top 15 cities — with the WORST herpes rates. According to the CDC, the top 5 cities have as high as a 40% infection rate for sexually active young people. DANG!!!15. Norfolk 14. Birmingham 13. Detroit 12. Memphis 11. Nashville 10. Oklahoma City 9. Richmond 8. Baltimore 7. New Orleans 6. St. Louis 5. Newark 4. Milwaukee 3. Chicago 2. Washington, D.C. 1. Atlanta
The problem with herpes is it is easily transferable and it can lay dormant in your system. Some people have it for years and then have an outbreak and think their current person gave it to them when they’ve had it all along. Also, condoms won’t prevent you from getting herpes. It can be transferred any time a person rubs up to another persons sore (which can just look like razor burn, so most the time people are unaware that their partner has it). KNOW WHO YOU LAY WITH. Being in unstable relationships, or hooking up with different people increases the chance significantly. Stay EDUCATED. Stay FAITHFUL. Stay PROTECTED!
Yikes, right? But, as I chopped lines of Valtrex to snort preemptively, I couldn't help but wonder (my internal monologue is basically an episode of "Sex and the City") why the Centers for Disease Control were doing such an awful job controlling disease in the city in which they're based. I also couldn't help but wonder why none of the "articles" on any of these "websites" linked to the "source" of the "information."
This afternoon, a CDC media relations person confirmed my suspicions about the veracity of this list. Basically, it would appear to be total bullshit. "We can't vouch for that information," she said, explaining that their STD division doesn't even collect data on herpes, and the national survey they refer to looks at diseases including herpes, but isn't broken down by city.
This is good news! The bad news: Even if it's not true that we all have sores on our mouths and genitals, no one is going to fuck us ever again. A person named Karmen Tweeted the following comment along with a link to the list: "I'm not fucking anybody in Atlanta. Fuck That!!!"
SEE! Just like a case of the herps, this disinformation campaign isn't going away. Why does the Internet hate us so much?
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Rumors Murder Kroger to get a makeover? Grocer says 'no'
Posted by Thomas Wheatley on Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:20 PM
A Kroger spokesman, however, tells CL via email:
"At this time, that appears to be rumor and speculation only. At this time, I'm not aware of immediate renovations or a remodel for the Kroger location at Ponce de Leon."A Beltline spokesman also tells us that the two parties haven't discussed a possible redevelopment. A source close to the project, however, does say that Kroger reps and Beltline officials have discussed the possibility of building an ADA-compliant ramp in the parking lot to connect with the $2.8 billion project.
The area around the grocery store — one of the city's quirky charms that Atlantans seem to both love and hate at the same time — is sure to be bustling over the next few years.
Jamestown Properties is wrapping up a deal to re-imagine City Hall East as a major mixed-use development over the coming years. Crews are expected — once some paperwork and negotiations with adjacent property owners is complete — to break ground on a 2.5-mile bike trail that would snake past the retro grocery store. What's more, city officials hope the state, metro Atlanta elected officials and voters think a transit segment along that part of the Beltline deserves funding from a one-cent sales tax voters will decide next summer.
It's hard to imagine the company wouldn't eventually consider giving the location a jolt of life — especially when the location will be attempting to attract area residents, new workers in the redeveloped City Hall East, and Beltline hikers and cyclists.
But "at this time," Kroger's saying the beloved Murder Kroger will remain as is.
Anyone have any other info to share? Let us know in the comments or send us a line.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Guv'ment / Rumors Cox to donate old AJC building, property to city
Posted by Thomas Wheatley on Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:13 AM
The mayor is expected to make a formal announcement at 10 a.m. at a City Hall press conference, the details of which have been kept under wraps.
The city has big plans for the 475,000-square-foot building, which county records list as worth $22 million (but which is likely worth twice that amount). City officials declined to elaborate on the deal when contacted by CL last night, but the AJC today says the mayor plans to "put police and fire training academies in the buildings, use the auditorium for public meetings, create a gallery space that formerly was at City Hall East, and use warehouse and parking space."
Another idea we've heard is the city could then rent space to or even transfer the building, either through innovative financing or outright donation, to Georgia State University, which would use the space for offices and classrooms — perhaps for the school's college of journalism.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Guv'ment / Rumors Atlanta's next police chief: won't be long now
Posted by Scott Henry on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Drum roll, please… If well-placed rumors are correct, then the lucky duo include:
>> Robert Crump White, the police chief of Louisville, KY, who's also been chief in Washington, D.C., and Greensboro, NC. Here's his resume (PDF).
>> And Interim APD Chief George N. Turner, who many folks inside the force and out believe has the inside track on the job.
It appears that Dr. Cedric L. Alexander, a former police chief of Rochester, NY., who currently oversees TSA security for Dallas/Ft.Worth International Airport, is out of the running as the selection process grinds to its conclusion.
Whoever gets the job would do well to heed our advice.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Rumors Could the 'significant' Beltline announcement be a bike trail to Piedmont Park?
Posted by Thomas Wheatley on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Thomas Wheatley
The area in the photo above is the approximate location where Mayor Kasim Reed and Beltline officials on Saturday will make a "significant announcement" about the 22-mile loop of parks, trails and transit. They've kept mum on the details. ("Come out on Saturday and find out" is all a Beltline spokesman would tell us.) One source says a giant tent has already been erected near the site, which is near City Hall East, the Masquerade and Barking Hound Vilage.
So what's it going to be?
