Friday’s Weekly End Musings

Heading out Friday morning, it was a bit chilly which is of course welcome depending on your view of comfort. On my way to work at the cop shop, I came across a car verses motorcycle incident which was being worked by the guys from my cop shop. Unfortunately like most car verses motorcycle crashes, the motorcycle lost but the driver of the bike did survive despite being tossed like a rag doll after being hit by a Mercedes Benz “S” Class. The driver of the motorcycle tossed skyward actually landed on the hood of the car, narrowly being missed by his motorcycle which crashed back to earth on the opposite side of the car. The driver of the Mercedes has been cited for failure to yield while making a left turn. Folks, one may be in a hurry however that does not justify speeding and being reckless during morning rush hour.

Arriving at work, I found my old computer screen on the work station being replaced with a larger unit which will make things easier to process during the course of the day. It was a light load of a work day and the only thing that had been taking place during the afternoon were criminal history walk-ins and processing requests for incident reports from outside agencies for cases involving individuals that my cop shop had previously encountered.

Finishing up, I shut the office down and headed out to eat dinner with my mother at a local restaurant called the Southern Skillet. Good country cooking at inexpensive prices and it is close to home too. Heading home, I caught up with some DVD’s I had wanted to watch then I relaxed till I started writing the blog.

Earlier in the week I commented about the US Navy assisting the North Korean cargo ship Dai Hong Dan which had been boarded by pirates off of Somalia. It is a strange turnabout of events for many and with the recent agreement to dismantle the nuclear reactor in North Korea, could there be hope that North Korea will be willing to return the only active duty US Naval vessel still in enemy hands? Yes that is correct; the USS Pueblo which is on display at Pyongyang, North Korea taken by force in 1968 is constantly toured by North Korean’s whose government uses the captured ship to flaunt their power.

Since the rescue of the North Korean vessel, the actions of the US Navy Destroyer USS James E. Williams were heavily reported by the KCNA news agency which is the mouth piece for the North Korean government. Washington D.C. officials are down playing the part of the Navy’s action calling it a humanitarian mission. Whatever one may call it, the actions taken reflect the highest standards of the United States Navy, ignoring the matter of each countries respective status. Can we have future hope that we will eventually reunite two Korea’s into one and make their people whole again, and that will happen in our respective life times? I pray so that it will happen.

With the four day weekend I will have, I of course have some plans to take care of. With just a week left before my surgery on Friday, I have to take care of grocery shopping and I do need to get my flu shot. I should get the shot now, so as to not have a short recovery period. I am of course going back to the hospital on Monday to finish the prelims for the surgery.

We had all hoped to have a water use agreement with Florida and Alabama in regards to how much water we could release from Lake Lanier. Unfortunately, Florida is backing out of the agreement and wants MORE water released so that their “tourist” activities will not be harmed along with aquatic species. I have to say to Florida that if you do not believe that we are low on water, then come up to Atlanta and someone will be happy to drive you up to Lake Lanier. Stop being so damn selfish and realize that there will have to be alternatives. As it is now, we have about 88 days of water left that can go through the dam before we have to put a barge or barges with pumps to pump water out of the dead zone of Lake Lanier.

There is an alternative and that is start building desalinization plants on the coast line, so that you can send the water up the road by truck and then dumping it into the river at a predetermined point satisfy the demands of your tourist and aquatic needs of your state. Your state can pay for the fuel and the trucks along with the plants to make the fresh water. I hope someone will smack the Florida governor to wake him up from his daydream stupor.

Have a great Veteran’s Day Weekend and stay safe.

Stephen E Sauls

Chamblee, GA USA