Jay Bookman

By getalife

November 28, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Yes, they are working themselves to death and this happens

Time to rethink family values.

By Amelia

November 28, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Good for Japan. Here’s the 800 pound gorilla in the room no one wants to talk about. Over population is the root cause of all the major problems we face today. When any species over populates disease, fighting and famine take over to reduce the population. Humans are no different.

Many of us are concerned about saving the planet. Let me tell you, the planet will save itself. If we do not try to control our population by more humane means, i.e. birth control, we will soon face famine, disease and war on an epic scale we could never imagine.

I hate to be a downer here at the holiday season but I think it’s past time we talk about this issue.

By david wayne osedach, san diego/ U.S.A.

November 28, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

It is happening here in the United States. Until the economy gets back on track - it is - work harder for lower wages. No one wants to lose their jobs. And no one knows what’s going to happen when Obama takes over in 2009.

By Dusty

November 28, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

Oh what fun…new names….let’s see:

Ayersols, Wright’r’wrongians, Liberacians, Underbedians, Farrahanians, Organicans,Marijowanians, Cococuties, Potheadians, Hangchadians, Recountems, Photovotians, Porkadders,Jointjujus,Lib’o’Lobbyist,VetoVox, CharmerChumps, CartereCoupes’, Clintonobies, Darthbarfs, Turketwerpalots, Glaciergoins, McKinneyGreens and Barrbabians.

That is high productivity! Did I leave out any libs etc?

By Greg Mendel

November 28, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

I thought birthrate was directly connected to the dramatic expansion of cable television channels, the invention of the remote control, and males leaving the toilet lid up.

By Tarzan of Africa

November 28, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this

The more popular names are missing. There is BushLiesAgain, CheneyLiesAgain, McCainLiesAgain, PalinLiesAgain, ChamblissLiesAgain, etc. And, if you just want to be more generic, RepublicanLiesAgain. Of course some folks like to be more religious in their choice of names so they might choose HolierThanThouBush, HolierThanThouCheney, HolierThanThouMcCain, HolierThanThouPalin, etc. Then, still others choose more specific selections such as InciteARiotPalin, ICanSeeRussiaPalin, BombBombBombIranMcCain, BumGolfKneeChambliss, MissingRecordsBush, etc. Yep, this is really productive and so difficult. Cheetah was really struggling to come up with all those names in under one minute.

By GodHatesTrash

November 28, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

This blog is so much better than usual today.

No wading through miles of unattributed, off-subject, repetitive, shrill, cut and pastes.

And the intellectual quality of the conservative debate (I know, an oxymoron) certainly hasn’t suffered…

I wonder what’s different?

By moonbat betty

November 28, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

ght.

boring.

except for Dusty.

By Midori

November 28, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

MB,

Your slip is showing.

By catlady

November 28, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this

So, by inverse reasoning, the higher birthrate among blacks and Latinos is because they don’t work hard enough? Let’s get these folks some JOBS.

By Tarzan of Africa

November 28, 2008 7:50 PM | Link to this

I’ll bet it’s sized to perfectly conform to the shape of your brain, Mr. Ose.

By Dusty

November 28, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this

Sorry Cheeta who calls himself Tarzan…..

No banana for you. In one minute you fell flat as with No Charm and no personality. Too much repetition. I might add, you sound like GHT. IN other words Cheeta Aint Neat..errr..

Mr. OSE 7:39

Please CLOSE your mouth. There are ladies present.

By ralphie

November 28, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this

we would have been out of iraq 2 years ago had it not been for the liberal anti-war movement that hindered the United State’s objectives and emboldened our enemies.

and now they will try to take credit where credit is not due.

By Cheetah

November 28, 2008 8:29 PM | Link to this

I spell my name with an “h”. Focus, Dusty. By the way, “GHT” does not sound like “Cheeta Aint Neat” but “Dusty” rhymes with “Rusty” and “Musty” and I came up with those while I was just monkeying around.

By Dusty

November 28, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this

Cheeta..(I SPELL your name WITHOUT the H..so there )

If you stop slobbering and pay attention, I addded the …errr… to make “cheat” rhyme with CHEETA..!

You are slow tonight…can’t get it right..U R a fright…’cause U aint bright!!!

I say BOO to YOU at the ZOO!!!!!

By BDAtlanta

November 28, 2008 9:42 PM | Link to this

We would have been out of Iraq 6 years ago if GOPers had been having more sex with their opposite-sex spouses and less with same-sex partners they met in airport bathrooms.

It’s hard to concentrate on the facts and issues at hand when you are busy covering up your past lies and creating new ones all the time.

By Dale Gribble's GOP

November 28, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this

Cheeta(h),

You forgot crusty.

By Joe SixPack

November 28, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this

If you are at work all the time and your spouse or girlfriend is elsewhere….you ain’t gonna get much chance to make a baby w/ them. Or worse, their gonna be makin’ babies w/ someone else. This is Not rocket science, but it’s amazing how many idiots there are around Atlanta who do not understand it.

By Rockerbabe

November 29, 2008 12:50 AM | Link to this

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill, a very tired girl. The real problem is the greed of the Japanese employers who expect their workers to work themselves to death.

By Joey

November 29, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

A “study” shows a cause and effect. A news-service reports that cause and effect. Neither nor both make the effect a result of the cause.

In the 1910s, 20s, 30s, 40s and maybe 50s, (before labor unions) U.S. workers were forced to work long hours. Yet the birth rate was high, very high.

As Labor Unions became more powerful and workers were allow to go home after 8 hours the birth rate began to decreas.

Hence, Labor Unions are the cause of the U.S. decreased birthrate.

Yeah! Possible substitutions for Labor Unions, include TV, education, higher education, computers, more sports on TV, and on and on.

By Deborah Heisman

November 29, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this

Since most of the world’s problems are directly attributable to overpopulation, what in the world is the problem here? Space and food in Japan is the most expensive in the world. Too bad the rest of the world doesn’t try a little harder to get their populations under control.

By Not Again

November 29, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

Re: Cynthia Tucker’s opinion piece today — “In Powell and Rice, Bush broke important ground”.

Geez…can Cynthia write about anything that is NOT Obama and/or race!!!! At least post with an opportunity to comment…

By Tarzan of Africa

November 29, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Some days I’ll get up and get dressed and have my coffee and then head out for a walk in order to get a little exercise and to take in the surroundings. I notice things like the clear sky, flowers, grass, trees, birds, squirrels, even bugs.

Then, I'll start thinking about just how much this planet can take. Where are its limits and how close are we to reaching them. Of course, many people just dismiss such thoughts as those of some tree-hugging ultra left wing fanatic without even giving the simplest of questions any more thought. It's as though some people just have faith that what will be will be and that we are just along for the ride. I think that such thoughts are used as a means of avoiding the more complex long-term issues in favor of the more gratifying short-term items. I think that's why so many things that we do and plan for are limited to one hundred year or shorter cycles -- we'll be dead and gone so who cares.

The same is likely true with procreation. People have their priorities. Raising a family simply does not rank as high up the scale as food, shelter, clothing, etc. Further, when you factor in things like the loss of wages for nine months, the cost of bringing a child into this world, the desire to stay at home versus the need to work in order to provide for the family, etc., making the decision to bring another person into the world can be difficult. So, one might ask such questions as Are we working too much? or perhaps Are we thinking too much? I think Cheeta would have selected the second question were he still alive. Now… where’s Jane.

By spankmonkey

November 29, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

What you have to understand is that about 47% OF US believe the planet is 6000 years old and we lived w/dinosaurs. There’s a museum in KY that is devoted to just this.

This slice of the populace doesn’t see over population as a threat (just Saddam Hussein, and Obama…) as it’s god’s will and the good lord will provide for those of us that are worthy. Therefore global warming and overpopulation don’t matter cause the rapture is near.

For the rest of us it’s very real. We live on a planet with finite resources, and it’s only a matter of time til we reach the tipping point.

By lwwmm7

November 29, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

(With apologies to R. Convert) I think we should spay and neuter all Those People who ain’t like us Godly folk and stop this over-peopling.Why wait on a good old-fashioned famine or war or something when we could be doing something right now?

By DD Debra

November 29, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

Well, at least the Japanese aren’t killing unborns.

By David

November 29, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this

Why is this a crisis? And no this isn’t a dumb naive question, just a fundamental one.

By Enough

November 30, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

“Two wounded in mall shooting”.

We’ve learned to ignore and accept these daily headlines and lead news stories as common as the weather reports. When are we going to do something about these bottom feeder thugs and the unmarried women who ‘produce’ them in massive numbers, each from a different man (note that I did not use the terms “mother” or “father”)?????

By h ryder

November 30, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

When almost all people on the planet are actually educated, common acceptance of term definitions without exception, and nonphysical retribution are the norm for all then we might be able to address problems with the possibility of success worldwide. However, When we permit gay to mean sexual orientation rather than happy or a President to claim that only intercourse is sex with people accepting such a charade, our country has very large problems as well as the entire planet. If, one is permitted to define terms than almost anyone can have never erred or done anything that was other than successful!

By We're Doomed

November 30, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

My solution: if you are a burden on society, requiring public assistance(such as welfare checks, food stamps, etc), you must get MANDATORY birth control by monthly depo-provera shots for women before you get your monthly checks. If your male, there are new male birth control pills and you must submit to sperm counts before you can collect your welfare checks. Let’s face it, you’re never gonna stop the cretins from having sex, but if you hit them where it hurts and hold up the checks so they can buy their cigarettes and crack cocaine, it will go a long way to solving the problem.

Of course, Jay and his ACLU friends will cry invasion of privacy and yadayadayada. That’s b/c they WANT

By Copyleft

December 1, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

David asks a good question. Why is a declining birthrate viewed as a problem? It’s not like we’re in danger of running out of people anytime soon.

By willie b

December 1, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

What a problem-japanese are not attracted to each other any more. Who would have thought this could be the case with all the porn coming out of japan in the last decade. The next question-who really cares? The japanese have always had too many people. A small population allows them to be colonised by hispanics just like us. I love modern living.

Willie b

By williebkind

December 1, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Well I guess those Japanese are not just sex crazed like us libs in the US. You know we invented free love free sex and such in the 60’s. I guess those Japanese got too involved in making a better gadget than to have open group sex. We should send some liberals over there and teach how to go naked in public and have sex more. I think we should make Cynthia Tucker the Ambassador for it. I mean she has race on her mind all the time right?

By SaveOurRepublic

December 1, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Trailer Park Philosopher @ 12:44 AM (11/29) - Bingo! You’re on the right path.

The Globalist Elite have long embraced a Malthusian eugenics agenda. They mandate this via a slew of methods…some overt (laced “vaccines”, etc,) & some (sort of) subtle…materialism, mass distractions (ie - “Sheepletainment”). Population reduction is a top goal for the Elite…just have a look at the 2nd guideline on the Georgia Guidestones…..”MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000 IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE”. The agenda is literally carved in stone!