News of the day

If you're interested in World War I, you might be interested in this. On the NBC news tonight, Williams reported on a man who had found his (I think) grandfather's letters from WW I. The grandson decided to share them, and they are being published in a blog. Each letter is being published on the anniversary date of its original writing. Click here to get to the blog.

There have been multiple big news stories here this week. The Presidential Primaries, of course, and the tornadoes. In North Georgia, a deputy in a sheriff's department was charged with the murder of his wife, who vanished last Spring.

Some Georgia legislators want to move the GA/TN border one mile north. This would give Georgia access to the water in the Tennessee River. The Tennessee River does not now flow through GA, so GA has no claim on that water. And GA has coveted that water for a long time. Their claim now is that the surveyor who marked the line nearly 200 years ago had poor equipment, and miscalculated where the line was supposed to be.

But maybe the biggest story is about the Hamilton County Sheriff (Chattanooga's county). The FBI has been building a case against him since March. He was charged with extortion, money laundering, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, making it possible for a convicted felon to purchase a firearm. The FBI's informant was a felon known to the sheriff. If only half of this is true, it was SO dumb!

Our friend, Dalton Roberts (one-time County Executive), wrote in his column this morning: (Politicians) need to behave as if the eyes of little school children are on them at all times. These are very sacred things. They control the destiny of our nation. We are strong enough to stand almost anything except greed, corruption and prostituted power in high places.

Today's photo is a petroglyph from the Four Corners area of the Southwest US. Perhaps the spiral is to remind us that everything comes back to its beginning.