THE POWER COMPANY doesn't want to use its profits to build two new reactors and lower their shareholders' stake. They and the people that "protect" us from unfair rate increases figure it's OK for us to pay for it before-hand. What a deal.

IF OUR FOREFATHERS could see the way these hacks have run this nation into the ground, they would be appalled. And they still won't change their ways for the good of the nation. Why is there pork in the stimulus package?

THE WEEK'S IDIOT PRIZE goes to the person who suggested Georgia start having vehicle inspection. Are they nuts ? Do they really want the government in their back pocket even more than they are already?

RAVE FOR OBAMA being gracious enough to not mention the Bush administration letting Wall Street pay those bailout money bonuses. It would have seemed like after the fact whining, which serves no good purpose.

A BIG Rave to Mrs. Coney-Devine at T.W. Josey High. Those students seek her out because they know she really cares.

SINCE THE CITY OF AUGUSTA is always trying to be "all that," why can't it do like other big cities and synchronize all the traffic lights downtown? I have worked downtown for over 20 years, and I shudder to think how much time I have wasted sitting at every single light because they all turn red before you can get through them.

WHOEVER ABANDONED FIVE kittens at Columbia Middle School is a cold-hearted and cruel person. You were a quarter of a mile from the Columbia County Animal Shelter. Why didn't you take them there?

THE UGA ATHLETIC Department should be sure Bob Knight's employment application includes a charm school diploma.

THIS IS TO THE person that was complaining about the sports being on the front page. What you need to do is go ahead and stop taking the paper, because you don't deserve it. You're too dumb.

TO ALL THE PEOPLE hating on Obama: Please give him a chance to do good at running the country because the last eight years we have all suffered, so wake up.

WHAT A MESSAGE to send to our American people. The president of the United States said on the front page of the paper, "I screwed up." Is this what our world has come to?

WHAT A PLEASANT story about Joker, the Labrador retriever being returned home to his family. I am so happy to hear that there are other human beings out there that are Good Samaritans.