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Water restrictions have been eased, there is still no long-term planning for more water sources, and it's raining —- I must be in metro Atlanta!

When watering restrictions hit, the water company hiked prices to cover income shortfall. Now that the restrictions are lifted, when will water rates drop back to normal?

I'm converting to no TV. Goodbye to repugnant advertisements, sorry programming and "rabbit ears." My TV is converted to a movie screen.

You can wear your flip-flops whenever and wherever you want, but please don't wear stockings when you do.

Hey, police officers: Perhaps if you used your turn signals, the rest of the city would follow.

There is a 1 in 2,500 chance the Earth will collide with Mars or Venus in about 3.5 billion years. I am starting my survival kit with motion sickness pills.

I'm grateful when the traffic guys remind me to turn on my headlights when it rains. I forget.

The Drought. The Obamas. The Traffic. The North/South. The Bailout. The Georgia Lottery. Now, let's talk about something else.

Know any good secrets to winning the lottery?

I will be the first in line for governmental health care as soon as they get natural gas, the airlines, banks and cable TV right.

The reason people don't understand basic personal finance is that they learn it from advertisers who are out to trick them.

It's a good thing that most Americans are uneducated, or the government might have a revolution on its hands.

The problem is not normal Democrats or Republicans. The problem is the extremists on both sides.

Why can't Congress work from home and do video conferencing? That would save so much money. Oh, that's right —- it's too easy.

Nobody told me that motherhood would smell this bad.

It never ceases to amaze me how we bash the handling of our government as if it's a separate entity from "we the people" when we put people in those high offices to run the country. Go figure.

I never stopped missing Carson when he left "The Tonight Show."

Conan O'Brien has done the impossible: made me watch David Letterman.

GPS devices are no substitute for a sense of direction and good common sense.

If you do not want me to tailgate you, do not place bumper stickers on your car with such small letters. You did place it there for me to read, didn't you?

I was driving on I-85 and doing 70 in the 55 mph zone just to keep up and I was still getting passed by everyone ... go figure.

I think it is absolutely crazy to base a whole year of learning down to one test. Especially when the child has passed every class.

To all TV interviewers: Ask your question and shut up. Don't provide the person being interviewed with all the answers you want to get back.

Cobb EMC, I've been paying my utility bill via checking draft for eight years. Stop sending me the return envelope and take 2 cents off my bill.

Channel 2 News should change their name from "Action News" to "More Details" because they give details over and over and over.

Based on what I have seen with my nephew's education, the grades are about how much work your parents do and how much they spend.

Why are kids taking their iPods to school during the summer? Because they spent too much time with their iPods during the regular school year. They're now in summer school.

No sitting commissioner should be re-elected in Gwinnett.

Does anyone besides me see that the only reason Gwinnett is having financial difficulties is the millions of tax dollars spent on the Braves stadium?

I don't pay my child to do chores. I don't charge them for room and board either.

Since the HOV lanes will become HOT lanes, taxpayers should be reimbursed for the taxes they paid to construct the lanes.

Will someone please tell me why the drive-up ATMs have a panel of Braille on them.

Old money vs. new money —- who cares? Just give me some money, please!

I haven't gotten my Georgia tax refund yet. I called them last week, and they said, "All are not even in the system yet. Check again in a month."

If you really want kids to be kids, turn off the TV, buy a football, a badminton set and a horseshoe set and send them outside.

Babies being or about to be born, smiles, new jobs, son's home from Iraq, gardens we love. We are all blessed if we take a moment to sit back and witness it.

Challenges in life are our wake-up call as to how wonderful the calm really is.

There would be no "activist judges" if legislators wrote laws in plain language without tons of loopholes.

The girl born in Poland is being deported, but the hundreds of illegal aliens in our prisons who are convicted of crimes are staying? Go figure.

In the local radio ad for a Florida resort, a woman talks about "precipitating" hotels. Rain in the lobbies?

Why do we tolerate this one- size-fits-all in socks?

He who whines the most, gets the most coverage.