Mike's Greater Athens Area Blog and Then Some

June 2010 residential real estate sales volume in Oconee, GA showed sales flat in the 12 month sliding sales volume from May, after being basically flat from April. The volume is holding steadily higher than the same period a year ago. The average Days on Market (D.O.M.)  rose slightly in the sa...

The Obama administration is making another assault on the constitution and personal privacy and liberties. It appears that it wants to make private companies turn over employee's and user's internet access records without a warrant, (and so many of you railed at Bush for wiretapping foreign origi...

  Jeff has a few great things to point out about reblogging here, including a few technical details that I was unaware of. But, and especially, he points out the benefits of "paying it forward". Thanks Jeff for this helpful short series.     Let's have some fun.... I talked about what re-blogging...

The following charts show the month to month residential real estate sales volume of the Greater Athens Ga metropolitan area for the months of June 2009 through June 2010. Sales volume of residential real estate has decrease in June after managing increases for the previous 4 months from February...

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, ...

I find it a bit amazing that with the guidelines here on Active Rain and the numerous articles about copyright violation, there are still some who will post content without permission. Well, if you are still doing it, here is something that might make you want to think twice. According to an arti...

The other day I wrote blog post about BMI (body mass index) and smoking history recording being required in the new electronic health records doctor will be required to use, if they want to get paid for treating medicare patients. But guess what won't be required! HIV history, STD history and abo...

A couple of days ago, Andrew Breitbart aired a segment from a recording of an address to the NAACP by Shirley Sharrod, a black USDA official in Georgia. In the segment released, Ms. Sharrod details how she provided less than essential assistance to a white farmer on purely racial grounds. During ...

I was having lunch at one of my regular sushi places, Inoko's Sushi Express, the other day and it just didn't feel right. After a few moments of contemplation and self analysis I figured out why. Now, most Japanese restaurants, including sushi bars have Japanese music playing in the background, w...

The Obama administration Justice Department has filed its brief in defense of the Health Care Reform bill. It is justifying the mandated insurance as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.” Let's forget about the fact that both the administration and congress declared, e...