Jay Bookman

By RW-(the original)

December 20, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

I would think another factor would be home ownership numbers being higher. Maybe that’s included in the dot dot dots…

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Looks like Democrats need to try to keep their voters unaware that they run Congress

A 9% approval rating! Good job Dems, you’re right there in Blago territory.

By Davo

December 20, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

I always assumed everyone born in Arkansas stayed there.

Do you know anybody from Arkansas?

By AJC/DNC Management

December 20, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

All the people with brains have already fled the north.

Now there’s just Oblahma voters/ hacks up there.

By catlady

December 20, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

The states named are LARGE or very large states. You can move really far and not get out of them. Now, in places like New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, you can move next door and you are in another state. You can chage zip codes by leaving your living room and going to the bedroom. So, did the study factor in state size? (Size is important.)

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

December 20, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

I think foot loose is for the better. The more we change our enviorments, and ourselves the more we grow.

Think of all the legal and illegal Chinese that are now living here. That kind of change is stupendous!

By The Corporal

December 20, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this

To AJC/DNC

You’re right. Jay and I both got the heck out of West Virginia when we were kids.

By sunshine and thunder

December 20, 2008 9:12 PM | Link to this

I’ve lived in Georgia all my life. I feel a great deal of sympathy for those poor, unfortunate souls who must dwell elsewhere.

In the North it’s too cold. In the West it’s too dry. In the South it’s spirichul. Welcome South Brother. If you don’t like it here don’t leave, get over it!

Seriously. The states that experience the greatest exodus of its citizens are always high tax, anti business states such as California.

The states that attracted the most new residents: Florida, Arizona and Nevada. The states that lost the most: New York, California and Illinois.

By Pop

December 20, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this

If you overbuild it they will come.

Oops. Wrong blog. That saying was supposed to go under the blog titled “How to go bankrupt in a Real estate bubble.”

By The Corporal

December 20, 2008 9:42 PM | Link to this

Jay

With all the news out there, this one is a little dull.

Time to liven it up with some information you may or may not agree with …………..

While we’re talking about areas of the coutry:

*Who fired the first shots in the War Between the States?

The first shots were fired on January 8, 1861 at Fort Barrancas in Pensacola, Florida: The 46 artillerymen and 35 seamen under U. S. Army Lt. Adam Jacoby Slemmer, First U. S. Artillery, fired on an advancing Confederate patrol who retreated without returning fire. This act of war preceded the firing on Fort Sumter a full 3 months and 4 days. This overlooked fact is not in our students history books.*

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)

You’re Southerner … But Don’t Know It!by Charley Reese

*Many people today argue the Southern positions without realizing it.

For example, if you argue for strict construction of the Constitution, oppose pork-barrel spending, and oppose protective tariffs, you are arguing the a Southern position. But that’s not all.

When you argue for the Bill of Rights, and that the Constitution limits the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, you are arguing a Southern position.

One of the things that gets lost when you adopt the politically correct oversimplification that the War Between the States was a Civil War all about slavery is a whole treasure load of American political history.

It was not a civil war. A civil war is when two or more factions contend for control of one government. At no time did the South intend or attempt to overthrow the government of the United States. The Southern states simply withdrew from what they correctly viewed as a voluntary union. They formed their own union and adopted their own Constitution.

The U.S. government remained intact. There were just fewer states, but everything else remained as exactly as it was. You can be sure that, with as much bitterness and hatred of the South that there was in the North, the Northerners would have tried Confederates for treason if there had been any grounds. One Attorney General and two appointed special prosecutors refused to indict the South’s leaders for treason as they felt they would lose in court. Nothing would have been worse they said, than to have won the war and lost in court.

Abraham Lincoln’s invasion of the South was entirely without any Constitutional authority. He did not seek to preserve the Union to end slavery. All you have to do is read his first inaugural address. What Lincoln didn’t want to lose was tax revenue generated by the South.

Northerners had announced they would not be bound by the Constitution. What you had was the rise of modern nationalism fighting the original republic founded by the American Revolution.*

So, regardless of where you were born, you may be a Southerner philosophically.

By spankmonkey

December 20, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this

That’s OK we can all swing by Bristol Palin’s mother-in-law’s house for some crystal meth, then we can get back to being footloose…

Back during the election, when the little trollup’s baby bump became public, and they announced she and levi were going to be married, I prognosticated a loveless future for them that includes spousal abuse, alcohol abuse, and crystal meth abuse, I was a litle closer to the mark than even I realized… Boy family gatherings at the VP residence would’ve been a hoot had McCain prevailed, they would’ve partied all night, if ya know what I mean, eh??? wink wink…

The GOP needs to scour some higher class trailer parks for thier 2012 nominees…

Oh, wait, that’s right Bristol Palin doesn’t actually have a mother in law does she??? I think I’ll go over to Wooten’s blog and see if I can get some answers on why not? After all he contends on a weekly basis that children born out of wedlock is the reason we as a nation are going to hell, would having a 17 year old unwed mother in the VP’s residence somehow change that???

Corporal, any thoughts?

By The Corporal

December 20, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

*Hummmmm ………. *

The plot continues:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama’s apoointments show considerable diversity, but there’s little representation from the South.

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=124887&catid=40

By AJC/DNC Management

December 20, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this

Where’s the blog on Blago?

Must we always have PDS?

By sunshine and thunder

December 20, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this

HEY SPANKMONKEY

You are quick to make fun of others’ misfortunes aren’t you? Maybe it is you who has no mother. Or, more likely, no known father.

You can infer methamphetamine from all of this?

By Midori

December 20, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this

gee Corporal - it appears even the website is sick of your bolding everything.

By The Corporal

December 20, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this

To Midori

You may use the following formatting: Bold: this text will be bolded = *this text will be bolded(( Italic: *this text will be italic = this text will be italic

By The Corporal

December 20, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this

To Spankmonkey

Corporal, any thoughts?

*Just one …. *

The photo on the left. Is that a reefer?

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866765_1815160,00.html

By Chad Harris

December 20, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this

@AJC/DNC:

You asked the question why there needs to be public funding of embryonic stem research and I answered it at this linkat this link http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/12/20/thesadinstructivestoryof_t.html#comment-220685303

By Chad Harris

December 20, 2008 11:40 PM | Link to this

*By AJC/DNC Management

December 20, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this

One question, if embryonic stem cells are so “promising,” then why does government need to fund them?*

By Chad Harris

December 20, 2008 11:04 PM | Link to this

The question of why any public funding is needed is often asked.

A lot of time is wasted because now researchers are required to account for every nanomolecule of material they use to proove it’s not publically funded. It’s analagous to having to argue with some moron when a kid or adult has a potential hot appendix and you have to g lean on the HMO to get them evaluated in some private ERs even though they have all the criteria that is compelling including rebound pain migration from the umbilicus towards McBurney’s point.

2) We are falling significantly behind the UK, Israel, China, Singapore, and Australis, the Czech Republic because many university settings can’t afford to do the research which is very expensive particularly in this current pending depression or the environment that Paul Krugman’s newest book analyzes and describes.

These other countries have contributed to a large number of medical advancements that you and your family and friends enjoy and take for granted over the years. They wouldn’t be funding this research if it were a “wild goose chase” as you termed it. They have seen tangible results and realize tha potential and that it is medically crazy not to fund it publically.

The work is going on and we can’t end the progress in the world by legislating against progress, or as been the case with Bush being scientifically stupid.

And lest you think if another country makes a break through discover that furthers the potential to replace sick non-working insulin producing cells in the pancreas, that it will jump here in real time, that’s not how it works. Without the lab facilities and initiative and clinical facilities in hospitals and clinics here, it can take years to realize what’s going on abroad.

From NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine):

[http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/17/1789]Embryonic Stem-Cell Research — The Case for Federal Funding (www.ajc.com)

A recent study widely being cited in Ga. Tech Asst. Prof’s new book details this.

That means that although we have some of the most talented researchers they aren’t getting out of the gate. And although California passed the initative, very little money has actually gotten into the hands of researchers there to begin to this day.

The UK is producing 5.3% more emb stem research and Israel 4.6% according to studies and Dr. Levine’s new book.

The study is in the Journal Cell Stem Cell.

If another country is able to get to the stage to routinely inject the endodermal pancreatic cells into diabetics, and we don’t have trials done here, it will mean that patients here would have to travel abroad to get the treatments and to get the treatments approved here, the trials are an inevitable requirement. Since we have a lot of patients who have trouble travelling a few miles to Grady for various reasons, they aren’t likely to be able to go abroad to get treated.

We are already experiencing a brain drain because a considerable number of the top stem cell researchers have already left the US for Singapore and other countries where they can pursue their research and make substantive clinical progress.

I’d like you to address why your bretheren and sisterin who are against public funding haven’t made a peep about IVF clinics and why you think it’s such a great idea to throw away 400,000 plus frozen embryos every year?

By Chad Harris

December 20, 2008 11:46 PM | Link to this

Corporal —’

No one gives much of a damn whether anyone in a picture is smoking a joint/refer/THC.

Apparently the feds are concerned that the purported mother in law of Bristol Palin was trafficking in Schedule II opiates like Rush Limbaugh(the kind of family the moron Sarah was shotgunning her little girl into because she did a little schtuping with some other kid and produced a baby because they were too dumb to use a condom and she was too dumb to use birth control because her mother was too dumb to know what it is).

LOL you’re obsessed with someone smoking or not smoking a joint because?

I didn’t hear you sqawking when the Right Reverand Dr. (Mrs.) and Senator Claude Shelby of Aabama got their son off a major hashish trafficking charge when he was arrested at the Atlanta airport with enough Hash to put his butt away for years. Shelby, who was all for the Sentencing Guidelines before the Supreme Court had the chance to impact them a few months ago, didn’t think they should apply to his son. The Feds (you know them right) specifically the Northern District of Georgia backed the hell off that case and it was disposed of in Clayton State Court with no time and no probation and a $500 fine.

I guess that was the USSG for a Senator’s son I must have missed somewhere and the part of 18 USC and caselaw that apply to a Senator’s son.

Fancy that!!

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 7:23 AM | Link to this

Chad: Let me try to make this easier on both me and myself and invert that previous question to see if perhaps your response does not bring forth a flood anti Bushie talking points-

How come private industry doesn’t fund embryonic stem cell research if it is so “promising?”

By The Corporal

December 21, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Dr. Chad

No one gives much of a damn whether anyone in a picture is smoking a joint/refer/THC.

Well, I guess some liberals did because that photo of Aytch wasn’t released until after the campaign.

By spankmonkey

December 21, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

It does, but private sector financing has never compared to federal funding. NASA went to the moon in 10 years, Richard Branson has spent Billions trying to get his space tourism thing going, with moderate success, but it’s 10 years in and they’ve barely broke the stratosphere.

As you probably know private money goes to more notable causes, like designer allergy drugs, Viagra, and hair replacement, not curing alzheimer’s.

Sunshine, Levi’s mom was busted selling Crystal Meth, they found a good quantity, it doesn’t look good. Being that wasilla is the crystal capital of the Artic wilderness, that Alaska has more alcoholics per capita than any other state, and Bristol and Levi “hooked up”, it was fairly easy to see what’s in store for poor “doe eyed” Bristol.

Forced into a loveless marriage, in that environment, with a dumb redneck because of her Mom’s political aspirations. Yeah the future’s so bright for “doe-eyed” Bistol, I gotta wear shades.

To think we almost moved all that into the VP’s residence, makes Billy Carter look like a boy scout.

Corporal, this isn’t 1984. Much like having served the country no longer carries weight in our selection of a leader, nor do we care if our leaders may have hit that joint, or in Dubya’s case, maybe snorted a couple lines here and there, got DUI’s, or were alcoholics.

Obama’s joint is nowhere near as destructive as Bristol Palin’s mother in law’s crystal meth BTW.

Give us all a bible verse that makes it OK for Palin to be related to a crystal meth dealer, but doesn’t allow “Aytch” to hit a joint…

By GodHatesTrash

December 21, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

Oops Corporal.

Florida didn’t secede until January 10, 1861, so those boys in the boats were evidently just redneck pirates.

By fed up

December 21, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…..here comes CHAD with his obsession with Sarah Palin.

By The Corporal

December 21, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

To Spankmonkey

I never said is was a disqualifier for President (his own bodyguard maybe). Anyone can change stupid habits - President Bush did. My you’re touchy.

I’m just curious as to why all these photos were withheld until after the election.

What happend to transparency ?

To GodHatesTrash

I guess it would depend if they were just a group of local yocals (liquored up) or part of the organized State Militia ………….