Jay Bookman

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

My Vents:

Was there a country music award show last night? Sadly, everytime I tried to watch all I saw was rap, reggae, pop or something else.

When do the bailouts stop?

I hate Halloween. Now I’m addicted to Milk Duds again.

Faith is the ability to not panic.

I just bought gas for $1.96. If that had been the price a month ago and we had not had the supposed economic crisis, McCain would be the President Elect.

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Jay

Here’s another weird one:

The Obama transition team is sending a seven-page, 63-item questionnaire to every candidate for Cabinet and other high-ranking positions in the incoming administration.

One of the questions asks if a family member has a gun?

There shouldn’t be too many of those but what’s up with that ??

By TW

November 13, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

The answer is ‘B.’ Did the research - did not think from the gut or make haste by not taking time to blink.

How about the over/under on the legitimate GOP telling Simple Sarah to take a hike?

The woman is nothing but cover art - a $150k paint job on a car that won’t start.

Wait…could there be a liberal conspiracy to keep her around????

hmmmm….

By lrd

November 13, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

Jay How about D: In relation to a a* walking down the road?

Corporal, I am not sure you have been background checked, its not a fun experience and some of the questions asks makes you rub your noggin going ” And that matters….how??”

Vent for the day: why is it that the drought subsides the same weekend that one is to go camping in the mountains?

By Amelia

November 13, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

And the world is going to end on December 21, 2012. LOL! Whatever gets you through the night baby.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

Conservative voters didn’t swing one way or the other, they stayed home.

Which is bad news for the country.

Why do you think the libs are so happy?

By lrd

November 13, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

OH Corporal.. I agree and wonder if and when the bailouts will end… and will we ever really know how much it has costs us, and who got what and for why… Maybe Mulder and Scully can figure it out for us… cuz it is as strange as any X file

By @@

November 13, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Summum, straight from the vineyards of a California “Corker”.

Discarding all the fancy schmancy words, in the culture of politics and life in general, it’s called backlash. It’s inevitable.

A tad late to respond to your “Labor Vote” column, but when I first heard of Obama’s intentions, (long before you obviously) I couldn’t help but wonder what legal ramifications it’s passing would have on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”

And I would just like to say, that I’m surprised by all this concern you and other democrats have shown for the future of the GOP. It’s rather comforting…….and somewhat revealing I might add.

By T

November 13, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

MMMMM, milk duds. Can’t eat them. Paid too much for these teeth.

Interesting line, Jay.

Are Repubs polar opposites of Demo’s? Maybe?

So where does that leave our other parties?

Freedom of religion is a tricky animal. Where do one persons rights end and where do the other persons rights begin?

HHMMMM.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Finally, out from the wilderness we emerge-

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Former Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin sharply questioned expanding the federal economic bailout plan Thursday during her first extended remarks since the end of the presidential campaign.

Boehner Assails Auto Bailout Proposal…

It’s like music to my ears.

Where has this been?

Oh yeah, McCain was in favor of it.

Just like all the other libs.

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

To Ird

I held a Top Secret Clearance for 27 years. There are a lot worse questions than that ……….. :o)

More Fun

1) Headline: “President-Elect Obama On 60 MINS; Sits Down For First Interview Since Election “. Shouldn’t that be “sits down for first interview since about three months before the election” ?

2) Headline: “Bush warns against ‘too much’ government in markets - defends capitalism”. That’s like saying “too pregnant” and it’s a little to late Mr. President.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

Let’s all guess what the difference is between these two entities:

Mayor: Atlanta needs a ‘rescue’- Drastic measures: City workers’ hours, pay will drop 10% each week and hiring will freeze amid a budget shortfall.-Urinal

Georgia revenue stable. Income tax collections were down, and sales tax collections were up in October, according to the Department of Revenue. The two provide most of the state government’s revenue.-Urinal

Hmmmm.

By getalife

November 13, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

Try to keep up Andy.

Due to the lack of gop support, the bailout for auto is dead.

By Dusty

November 13, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Let’s see…the subject subject de temps:

Now I will go check.

By Dusty

November 13, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

Awww I lost. No fair, Jay. You did not put all the fancy embellishing words with that sentence. I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!!

By Dusty

November 13, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

I would like to change the subject subject of 5:45 to subject. Do U mind if I change the subject? NO? Thank you.

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Po Pourri

“I do not know how the third World War will be fought but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth - rocks.”

Albert Einstein

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

The abuse of power, the ethical nonchalance and the possible criminal behavior by top officials documented within the Bush Justice Department rivals that of the Nixon administration!!!!

The investigation focused on the removal of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006, a step that the administration and its defenders at the time tried to dismiss as routine!!!-kookman, Urinal

Aahhh, yes, we will soon have 93 new cases for kookman to freak out over.

Should be fun.

By Abomi Nation

November 13, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

When I applied to be the Presidential Limo Operator, or PLO as its called, (which seemed crazy to me because they’d always call up and say “We need the PLO to drive the President today.) Yikes. Anyway I was asked a lot of crazy questions, like….

If you were driving at 75 mph and suddenly three things appeared ahead of you. Would you (A) Swerve to the left taking out Michael Moore? (B) Would you swing to the right and run over Rush Limbaugh or (C) Would you stay straight and smash over Bambi?

I would tell you which one I picked but I can’t. It’s still classified. I often wonder if I got that one right.

By @@

November 13, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

Abomi:

Unless you’re a cannibal, the logical choice would be to take out Bambi.

By AmVet

November 13, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Now, if all of those supposed conservatives will just stay home in future elections, we may be able to get our country back…

By Amelia

November 13, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this

Now, you just know some group, probably atheists, made up this “religion” to make a point and/or be a thorn in Christian sides. Just take some physics, add some philosophy and mysticism and a dash of Jimmy Buffet, Voila! instant religion. I think the meaning of the name is “sum mumbo-jumbo”.

Speaking of driving maneuvers, here’s a riddle for you. What’s the difference between a dead possum in the middle of the road and a dead lawyer? Answer: There are skid marks in front of the possum. I apologize if there are any lawyers reading this.

Thanks for the article Jay. It was amusing.

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 5:30 PM

Jobs, baby, jobs.

Never fear, the miracle worker is here!

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

~George H. W. Bush

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 5:36 PM

Comparing apples to apple juice.

Think the record number of foreclosures might be hurting the city more? I guess you think having to use your credit card when you lose your job is a good thing.

In their own words.

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

~Dick Cheney

(Not a single one, Mr. Secretary of Defense.)

By TW

November 13, 2008 7:07 PM | Link to this

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”

Plans to destroy the USA having been put on hold by the election of Obama, the rightwing’s attack on Christianity intensifies…

By RW-(the original)

November 13, 2008 7:12 PM | Link to this

Still up on the previous thread and really confounding the speech codes around here.

By AmVet 3:08 (While the right-wing poosy just runs away…)

Somehow it seems to be in violation of two of the doctrines of civility supposedly in play here, but I guess not.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Looks like Ted isn’t down with all the “assistance” from the left on how to be good Republicans.

RINOs are Fedzilla punks who feign support for conservative principles only when it serves their political interest. RINOs are also known for their moderate positions such as supporting tax increases, federal “bailouts”, “comprehensive immigration reform”, advocating more counterproductive gun control that guarantee more innocent victims, opposing the death penalty, and growing and sustaining Fedzilla and all its toxic mongrels by going along with the liberals. RINOs have forgotten President Ronald Maximus Regan’s admonition that government is the problem, not the solution.

RINOs reach across Fedzilla’s aisle to cut deals and build consensus with the liberals. Consensus building means compromising values and cutting deals with the socialist prankster punksters whose goal it is to turn America into EuroAmerica

Consensus building is for wimps and soulless people who stand for nothing. Compromise is not about being tolerant: these days, it’s about giving up conservative principles

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

Let me get this straight.

It’s o.k. for a U.S. senator running for Vice President to call the sitting Vice President dangerous but it’s not o.k. for a Georgia Congressman to call the President Elect dangerous?

By getalife

November 13, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this

The market rebound is due to the election of President Obama.

Right Andy?

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 7:31 PM | Link to this

getalife

November 13, 2008 7:17 PM

It won’t mean a thing if it is all given back tomorrow.

Unless you were fortunate enough to cash out today. Hopefully the rally will continue.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

~Davy Crockett

By Midori

November 13, 2008 7:45 PM | Link to this

So Corporal,

what’s it gonna be?

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

By getalife November 13, 2008 7:17 PM The market rebound is due to the election of President Obama. Right Andy?

Well actually, 8000 seems to be some kind of psychological floor, we’ve flirted with it twice and both times people thought it was time to buy in.

But now there is all that excess capital to feast on tomorrow.

A 5000 point loss in the Dow since Bruno conceded to Boy Wonder, now I’m starting to figure out what you libs mean by “historical.”

By getalife

November 13, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

TN Gelding,

Doubt it will, just a bump on the way down.

The gop are cutting off further bailouts and the Dems:

“Some Senate Dem staffers considering making health care reform a part of the pending economic stimulus package.”

By getalife

November 13, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this

Andy,

NBC reported that Hillary Clinton is being considered as Secretary of State.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this

al-Gitmo: That’s nice, we’ve had at that post a woman, then a black GOP turncoat and then a black woman, now it looks like we’ll have our first moron.

Can you just imagine Bruno addressing the Chinese delegation, ah so, me very goodie with um chop stickies.

And you?

By Soixante huitard

November 13, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this

The Obama transition team is sending a seven-page, 63-item questionnaire to every candidate for Cabinet and other high-ranking positions in the incoming administration.

I was going to apply for official blogmeister, but the following nixed it for me:

1) I won’t be alive long enough to finish filling out all the application materials and paperwork

2) I would have had to disclose my postings to this blog (no joke, that IS one of the requirements) and that would have no doubt disqualified me

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this

All of the above!

Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

~Duke of Wellington

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this

I like Bruno as Senate Majority Leader better, just so I can see the hairs on Blinky Pelosi’s neck stand on end for two years solid.

Can you imagine the screeching, hair pulling catfights that would produce?

These two dimwits would be scratching at each others eyes the whole time.

Let’s do it.

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 7:49 PM

7,773.71 is the 52 week low.

They were saying the rally was due to short covering. What time did Bush complete his remarks at the Manhattan Institute?

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this

Considerations for Obama cabinet.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 8:36 PM | Link to this

There’s hope for us.

War settles nothing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this

By TN Gelding November 13, 2008 8:24 PM AJC/DNC Management November 13, 2008 7:49 PM 7,773.71 is the 52 week low.

I wouldn’t be so certain about that, Horsey.

Give it a bit more time.

I’m thinking 6000 by the time Super Socialist takes the reigns.

And then it will really drop.

By getalife

November 13, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this

Hell Andy,

The President is bringing back the Clinton team but would prefer her to be SC for life.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this

War settles nothing. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Horsey: You may wanna double check me but Ike killed about a million or so Germans, you really should research your spineless wonder quotes just a bit more in depth.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 13, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this

al-Gitmo: Such fools you Klinton people are.

Oblahmi knows what a total disaster his first term will be, people will be comparing Dhimmi Carter to George Washington after they see this bottom, he’s just trying to clear the opposition out for 2012.

If he hasn’t been recalled by then, that is.

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this

I guess no one including Midori wants to answer this one???

Why is it o.k. for a U.S. senator running for Vice President to call the sitting Vice President dangerous but it’s not o.k. for a Georgia Congressman to call the President Elect dangerous?

By Answer

November 13, 2008 9:11 PM | Link to this

Because the U.S. senator running for Vice President’s statement was factual, while the drivel from the Georgia Congressman was not.

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this

Gore not interested.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 9:24 PM | Link to this

To Answer

Nice try but that kind of biased, infantile answer just won’t cut it.

Bottom line: Typical double standard.

By the way, Obama couldn’t even answer his own 63 point employment application without embarrassing himself based on his personal acquaintances and associations.

By TN Gelding

November 13, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this

I believe President-elect Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that, coupled with his brilliance, and, of course, his eloquence, brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By Greg Mendel

November 13, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this

This blog is so Algonquin Round Table.

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 9:44 PM | Link to this

Back at ya

I believe President-elect Obama possesses an instantly recognizable slyness of soul that, coupled with his shrewdness, and, of course, his doublespeak, brought quite unimaginable and long-dreaded fear to the country.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

~Sir Edmund Burke

By Mr Snarky

November 13, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this

Corporal, 52.7% of the people disagree with you. That’s enough. He’s hired. Deal with it.

By Answer

November 13, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this

Perhaps “The Corporal” could post an address to where one could send him some Kleenex?

By Midori

November 13, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

it’s plain and simple Corporal: one is the truth, and the other is a lie constantly barked on right wing radio.

It’s a given that Cheney is an evil, greedy, torturing, partisan loser who has dishonored the office of the vice presidency.

his record and THE record speaks for itself.

on the other hand, where is the proof/record to solidify the wingnut claims against Obama? other than the lies and hot air that Rush pulls out of his posterior?

it’s not slander when you’re telling the truth about someone

that’s what’s wrong with you people. you equate slander and false allegations with truth — but only when it’s directed at Democrats.

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this

Hey guys

I love it when I get your goat !

In some ways, the next four years is actually going to be fun ………..

Ooo Rah!

By Mr Snarky

November 13, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this

Oh, and we all know Cheney’s dangerous. It’s just proven fact. He pushed the rush to war, advocates for torture, and is the muscle behind the unitary executive. If he were around much longer and had his way, based on his rhetoric, we’d probably invade Iran. And nobody cares what some idiot congressman from GA looking for headlines says. Its just more cr@p to fill up the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t waste your time with it.

By Mr Snarky

November 13, 2008 10:04 PM | Link to this

Count on eight. :)

By Greg Mendel

November 13, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this

“I love it when I get your goat !” — The Corporal

It should come in handy:

“And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.” — Numbers 15:27

By Soixante huitard

November 13, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this

To Corporal’s: Why is it o.k. for a U.S. senator running for Vice President to call the sitting Vice President dangerous but it’s not o.k. for a Georgia Congressman to call the President Elect dangerous?, I’d go one step further than Answer:

Because in the first case the danger pertains to a short-circuiting in the functioning of the executive leadership of the world’s most powerful country, with all the implications that has for its citizens and those around the world affected by its power, that short-circuit — not accidental and not innocent — being well-described as follows:

The Decider decides that Cheney will decide what the Decider decides, as Sidney Blumenthal put it.

And there you have it. It is no more or less simple than that.

As to any ‘danger’ associated with the president-elect and his alleged dictatorial tendencies, that lies in the fact that you have a pasty-headed, bespectacled scarecrow from the provinces representing his state — shamefully — in the House of Representatives where he does immeasurable harm to the good name of his state and to the opinion observers around the country and world might have of the intellectual capacity of that country’s provincial leaders.

An added danger arises through any acts that may potentially be committed by already unstable individuals with latent tendencies towards paranoia who might be ever so slightly pushed towards seditious or other violent action based on the man’s very public remarks.

By Greg Mendel

November 13, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this

ATTN: Corporal

Soixante huitard got her chevre back.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

November 13, 2008 10:36 PM | Link to this

This is for Jay

Several times in the last few days I’ve tried to post and it says I’m not allowed to post. Server problem or something? I don’t think I’ve violated any rules.

By "The Corporal"

November 13, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this

To Soixante huitard @ 10:14

A little rambling but at least you tried. Have you been drinking tonight? You usually do better than that …… just asking …. :o)

To Mr. Snarky

Could be eight. If Clinton did it anyone can.

To Greg Mendel

“And He shall separate the sheep from the goats”.

Make sure you are a sheep. It’s very important.

Taps for tonight. See everyone tomorrow.

By Dusty

November 13, 2008 11:08 PM | Link to this

Brainwashed liberals!! What a shame.

Cheney is one smart, loyal man who has served our government well for many years. He has not overstepped his bounds. He is a very able man who fights liberals with the best weapon in the world. That is INTELLIGENCE. How you libs hate that!

Listen to all the chatter about short circuits and other laughable accusations. It doesn’t work. Cheney is straight arrow and for all the digging Democrats have done, they find nothing illegal because there is nothing to find.

So keep admiring your elegant emperor until you realize he has a lot of missing clothes, ‘specially anything resembling regal garments.

But I will wait until he has governed and then we will know. I will not treat him like you ingrates have treated a president that kept you safe and has given two countries a chance at freedom. You hate Bush no matter what.

Democrats lost two elections and now that they have won one, they don’t know how to behave. It shows with every ugly lib post..

You keep up the bad behavior and let the world know what losers you are even when you win.

Goodnight and sweet dreams. Keep them in mind. I think you are going to need something good to remember.

By Soixante huitard

November 13, 2008 11:16 PM | Link to this

G’nite Dusty.

By Greg Mendel

November 13, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this

“Make sure you are a sheep. It’s very important.” — The Corporal

Do I hear bangos?

By AJC/DNC Management

November 14, 2008 5:40 AM | Link to this

After seven solid years of government expansion that would have made LBJ blush, federal regulations on free speech, unchecked illegal immigration, just to name a few of the horrors that have befallen the Republican party during his watch, but have heart Conservatives, now that we are at the end of this travesty and it don’t matter anymore, Bush pulls his head out of his as-s and says this:

Bush Warns Against ‘Too Much’ Government In Markets…

Are you freaking kidding me?

Now, out of all the times in the world to choose from, he isn’t going to roll over the Republicans Congress and play Good Lapdog Lib like we need him to do?

You can’t even count on this guy.

P.S. We’re supposed to be giving all of the businesses tax money so that they can pay for the tax hikes when Chief Dimwit assumes command of this sinking ship.

Plus, emptying out the treasury, before the drunken lib sailors in Congress get to it, won’t hurt my feelings none.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 14, 2008 5:45 AM | Link to this

Gay marriage bans point to too much government At first glance, this issue might not seem the likeliest one on which to build bipartisan consensus. With the addition of Arizona, California and Florida, 30 states have now enacted gay marriage bans-Urinal

We The People voted in favor of these “bans.”

Government had nothing to do with it.

Why do you lie, Urinal?

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this

GOP Intra-party Squabbles Continue:

Here

By AJC/DNC Management

November 14, 2008 7:34 AM | Link to this

I got an idea, instead of giving advice to the Republican party on how to run their affairs, how about if you libs concentrate on the operations of your own business, like making the link to the new column work properly?

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

I got an idea, instead of giving advice to the Republican party on how to run their affairs, how about if you libs concentrate on the operations of your own business, like making the link to the new column work properly

But it’s so much more fun to watch Republicans writhe after their self-inflicted shotgun wound to the groin.

You know it just don’t get much better than that…..

By TN Gelding

November 14, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Dusty

November 13, 2008 11:08 PM

Bush kept us safe?

He was out to lunch on 09/11.

If he had been swatting those flies they might not have swarmed on the WTC and Pentagon.

Cheney was competent but misdirected. He was “fighting” liberals while UBL went free.

By TN Gelding

November 14, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Dusty

November 13, 2008 11:08 PM

CHENEY THREW OUT THE BABY WITH THE BATH WATER FROM THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By TN Gelding

November 14, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

November 14, 2008 5:40 AM

The treasury has been empty since “The Gypper” looted it.

This world of ours…must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By PinkoNeoConLibertarian

November 14, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Hey Corporal.

I voted up for your milk duds vent. The rest…meh…

By GMAN

November 14, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

The Corporal says…

I just bought gas for $1.96. If that had been the price a month ago and we had not had the supposed economic crisis, McCain would be the President Elect.

If you use that logic, if my aunt Mary had testicles she’d be my uncle Marty!

Stop whining, suck it up, and shout “Hail to the chief”!

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?

Change?

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

To GMAN

Were/are you an 1811 ?

P.S. I would stand when he enters the room but sing? ……… Naaaa

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

“A planned (socialist) economy may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. How is it possible in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected?”

Albert Einstein

P.S.

Is anyone having trouble getting into this morning’s current blog ?

By RW-(the original)

November 14, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

I got an idea, instead of giving advice to the Republican party on how to run their affairs, how about if you libs concentrate on the operations of your own business, like making the link to the new column work properly

Andy,

They probably figured that since he has a dozen columns in the last couple of days that say the exact same thing there was no point giving this new one a link. Jay B. really missed his calling. An assembly line worker would be praised for successfully duplicating his efforts day after day. A writer, not so much.

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Is anyone having trouble getting into this morning’s current blog ?

Yep, appears to be a problem with the link or URL, so we’ll have to wait out here till they notice it.

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Morning, Corporal, how are you?

I have to take exception to what I suspect is your main concern in saying *A planned (socialist) economy may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual.

I no longer believe in the market’s self-healing power.

Josef Ackermann, Deutsche Bank CEO

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Sorry, Corporal, I mangled that last one. Let me try that again.

You quote Einstein from 1949, apparently to suggest he was opposed to anything leaning towards socialist. The problem is that you neglect to include the preceding paragraph in that very statement which reveals his actual position:

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

Monthly Review, New York, May, 1949.

By Dusty

November 14, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

TN gelding,8:14

Poor baby!! Doesn’t even know that he has been safe for almost eight years. Ingrate! Still pushing the ol’ Bush hate, aren’t you? Pitiful but typical of Democrats who would undermine even the protection of this country to get a vote.

Then when they get the vote they can’t give up the hate. It shows all the time.

Cheney never threw anything out that was worth saving. Clinton had cut the military to minimum strength before 9/11. Bush and Cheney had only EIGHT MONTHS to build up the entire US military before 9/11 came.

Democrats can try to change history but it cannot be done.

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

To Soixante huitard

Thanks for adding that but his concerns for what it does for individual freedom still hold true. If you have one … you lose the other.

Here is a much, much better solution

“Fellow employees:

As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to choose who will have to go.

So, this is what I did. I strolled thru our parking lot and found Six Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem.

These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.

Sincerely,

The Big Gun

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

P.S. To Soixante huitard

I’m sure you also know that Einstein wanted a one world government with one army to control all the others.

Like Obama he was a Citizen of the World !!!

By Taxpayer

November 14, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Ahhh!. Can you smell it. Take a big whiff. Yes. That’s it. That’s the smell of fear in the air. I’ve never seen so many fearful of the world around them. It must be something in the water. Jon Stewart was certainly having fun with the Republicans and their latest round of fear-mongering. I see the Corporal is absorbed in it as well. Good morning, Corporal Fear. We’ll protect you. Just stay behind us. OK.

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

Corporal: (Thanks for adding that but his concerns for what it does for individual freedom still hold true. If you have one … you lose the other.)

You’re of course exactly right. Liberals/progressives in the mid-20th C were very divided about the threats of collectivism and there were lots of splits, esp. after what happened with Stalinism in the Soviet Union.

Many however like Einstein insisted on a socialistic vision of the economy while rejecting Soviet collectivism, whether you agree with that or not.

I think though that to engage in this argument now in light of what has happened in the last year we must acknowledge that we have reached the next big turning point in the whole debate, having tried the neo-liberal solution, which has now, it’s virtually universally agreed, been proved to have been a failure.

Are we now at a point where we will all soon say we’re all Keynesians now?

I don’t know, but stay tuned.

By BDAtlanta

November 14, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

I was against the Fairness Doctrine but now I’m thinking maybe reinstating that would be a huge step in helping the Republican Party get it’s sh*t together.

Those guys have been filling listeners heads with sand since the mid 80’s. Jay is right, all they care about is keeping people on the radio so their nielsen numbers balloon so they can get the fat paychecks. The single theme that runs through all their shows is the rant against anything that might cost them a few more dollars in taxes.

By TN Gelding

November 14, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Dusty

November 14, 2008 10:42 AM

A categorical aversion to the ideas of the Clinton years?

Al Qaeda is waiting for the confusion of a new administration. 1993! 2001! 2009?

And speaking of brainwashed liberals.

Almost 90% of American troops serving in Iraq think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don’t blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks.

Zogby - February 28, 2006

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Ahh, Corporal, can you spell lawsuit?

Thanks for helping America’s trial lawyers.

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

And just what company would that be, Corporal, whose Chief Financial Officer was such a brat that he would fret this way in an internal company memo (I assume that wouldn’t have been something addressed to other stakeholders), in effect saying: ‘waanhhh! we’ll just take our marbles and go home!’

Apparently not a CFO who’s cut from the same cloth as say an Eric Schmidt, to name one exec who was out front supporting Obama, and not doing to badly with the profit-loss statements either.

By Taxpayer

November 14, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

Soixante,

Corporal is just one more in a line of fear-mongers that is out spreading the childish little rants about how everyone’s life will be changed for the worse at the hands of the Democrats. He is so pathetic.

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

To GodHatesTrash and Soixante huitard

Good grief it’s a JOKE !

By Midori

November 14, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

did anyone catch William Ayers on ABC Good Morning?

good interview.

“America rejected the politics of fear”.

By Midori

November 14, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Sir Trash/Soix/Taxpayer:

Corporal reminds me of this guy

By BDAtlanta

November 14, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Dusty @ 10:42,

Bush and Cheney had only EIGHT MONTHS to build up the entire US military before 9/11 came.

Uh, no. They went to war with Clinton’s army. They didn’t build anything up…hence the lack of proper armor.

Mario Cuomo busted Hannity on this on TV. He got the “True American” to admit the US forces did really well in Iraq and then showed him it was Clinton’s military that fought in the war, not Bush’s military.

You can’t build a military in 8 months… heck, Republicans can’t even get the lights back on and the water running in Iraq in 7 years.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 14, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Now the new post is gone.

That’s what you get for telling the Repugs how to run their affairs, you should have gotten your’s in order first.

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

William Ayers is a coward and a punk.

By Midori

November 14, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Corporal,

he probably feels the same way about people like you….

By TN Gelding

November 14, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Dusty

November 14, 2008 10:42 AM

Where have you been for the last 7 years, 9 months and 25 days?

They’ve decimated the Army and Marines.

How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

By getalife

November 14, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Andy,

Maybe Jay is taking over for the retiring Jim Wooten.

I could give a crap about cons and there are better things to discuss like the bailout and Obama hiring the Clinton team.

I think Hillary will be SoS until a Supreme Court position is open.

By "The Corporal"

November 14, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

You show you true colors Midori.

I’ll let the other bloggers on this site vote:

The Corporal: Serves his country faithfully in the U.S. Marine Corps and Federal Law Enforcement for a total of 37 years.

The Punk Ayers: Conspirator in blowing up American institutions currently spreading his treasonous ideology through a professorship.

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the clip, Midori.

Man, with puffball pinko liberal media interviews like this, who needs blowhard masters of distortion behind AM radio microphones?

That’s some liberal media, I tell you what, being so product not to stoop to merely repeating conservative talking points (“you claimed after 9/11 that you wished you did more” - a completey misleading statement - and darkly implying that there must be some greater association there than’s being portrayed). Glad to see our media is so principled and balanced that we don’t have to worry about wildly exaggerated claims of bias by conservatives. No, there’s no bias there at all.

By Midori

November 14, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

What “true colors”?

What are you talking about?

I see you’re still trying to impress others on this blog with your phony resume.

I can keep telling people on this blog that I am next in line to succeed Queen Elizabeth, but does that make it so?

Did you even watch the Ayers interview?

Try thinking for yourself for once.

By AmVet

November 14, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Some of the empirically challenged “conservatives” mistake that the “advice” to them is meant to instruct. That would be like trying to teach a snake to stop slithering.

Simply put, it is just immensely satisfying to see these arrogant gang-banging neo-con screw ups/bullies and their cheer leading airheads get hung up on a clothesline and beaten like a Dusty rug.

In a few weeks the novelty will wear off and the nation will go back to ignoring the lunatic fringe…

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

William Ayers is a coward and a punk.

Why do you call him a coward though, Corporal?

I can understand you disagree with his position, but he is after all a person who probably doesn’t get to sleep quite a comfortably at night as say you or I do, what with the possibility that some wacko might decide to come track him down and do a lilttle justice on him. Nonetheless, he calmly and patiently listened to the arguments against him and in a civil manner refuted them.

Isnt there a little courage in that, Corporal, on some level?

By RW-(the original)

November 14, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Are you claiming to be Prince Charles now?

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I see that Jay B has replaced the post we couldn’t get to with another one we can’t get to. Good job, AJC.

By Soixante huitard

November 14, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

And besides, Corporal, don’t you have to admit that it takes guts for an American to state outright - even while being hassled by an unfriendly interviewer - that “the crimes and atrocities being committed during the Vietnam era were being committed by our government”? And to do it in a calm and civil manner — even if you disagree with that. I mean, that’s our democracy and our open civil society functioning at its best, right? You have on the one hand a person being permitted to make unpopular statements that the majority might be unable to share, and at the same time you have that person showing the independence of mind to oppose the majority and espouse those views.

Regardless of what you think of the content of those views, Corporal, don’t you have to admit that that’s our system working at its best here?

By Midori

November 14, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

RW - no. Prince Charming.

In a Senate hearing room in September, weeks before Barack Obama won the election, a series of law professors, lawyers and civil libertarians outlined one of the biggest challenges that will be facing the next president: bringing the United States government back under the rule of law.

Over the past eight years, they testified, American legal traditions have been degraded in areas ranging from domestic spying to government secrecy. The damage that has been done by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others is so grave that just assessing it will be an enormous task. Repairing it will be even more enormous.

This was not a new complaint. Civil liberties advocates have been sounding the alarm for years. The difference now is that a Democrat is about to assume the presidency, and one of the most ardent defenders of civil liberties in his party — Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin — is dedicated to putting the restoration of the rule of law on the agenda of the incoming government, with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups.

Mr. Feingold, who is chairman the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, already has left his imprint on campaign finance, wit