Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this

Companies eager to conserve cash are trimming their contributions to their workers’ 401(k) retirement plans, putting a new strain on America’s tattered safety net at the very moment when many workersare watching their accounts plummet along with the stock market.-Urinal/Pravda

Evil companies!

“We will have to work more years and retire with less money,” said Lee Higham, a 44-year-old senior aircraft mechanic at FedEx, who has worked there for 20 years. “That’s what we are up against now.”-Urinal/TASS

Pardon me if my crying rag remains holstered but I’d like to think that 44 is this generation’s 28 (because of all the medical advances in the Bush years) and retiring at 28 with full benefits is just a little bit ridiculous and come to think of it, might just be why the United States is in financial turmoil in the first place.

People do not retire and then go on a lavish spending spree, they immediately get tightfisted and become somewhat insane, AmVet, didn’t you say you retired early?

But people who continue working have a stronger financial future and tend to spend more money, driving the economy forward.

What we had the last few years is all of these 50 years olds bailing out of the employment ranks and taking a vast amount of spending with them, even worse, started collecting unsustainable legacy benefits from their former employers, see Makers, Auto.

And he we are this morning with the Urinal whining and moaning right along with the same workers that are doing in our whole entire economy.

And guess who they are blaming?

Business.

Do tell us, geniuses, without the “businesses” and their profitability, where does all this money come from?

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 7:59 AM | Link to this

Christians ought to be good stewards of the planet-Queen Pinko, Urinal

This coming from the confines of the City of Atlanta, one of the most filthy and run down hovels in all of the nation, drugs, prostitution, trash, soot, blight, crime and miraculously, we found time to get a shot in at Christians for being “nasty.”

That spirit of cooperation is frail right now, bruised and bloodied by the wedge politics that found favor over the past several years.

Karl Rove and his ilk

Yep, insane in the membrane.

In a lifetime of Christian worship —- including a childhood spent in Alabama, among the reddest of the red states —- I’ve sat and listened to countless ministers with whom I disagreed, some railing against abortion and homosexuality, some disparaging the ordination of women, others questioning evolution.

Still, I have usually found their prayers sincere, hopeful and uplifting.

Uh-huh:

06/18/2005 HOMOPHOBIA AMONG BLACKS FUELS HIV/AIDS CRISIS!!! QUEEN PINKO, URINAL!!!

The gay-bashing from black clergy continues unabated, as well. In December, a leading black Atlanta minister, Eddie Long, staged a march to highlight his opposition to gay marriage.

Now we want everybody to “get along,” eh?

I wonder why?

You reap what you sow.

bwa

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

The Urinal has become a shadow version of the NY Times, a cut and paste of all the good exciting treason, but look at one article that was conspicuously overlooked and did not meet the AJC’s high standards-

Video: Iraqis Aren’t Laughing at Shoe Tosser

By spankmonkey

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

One the one hand we have workers $10,000.00/hr driving the Big three into bankruptcy, now we have workers retiring early causing the economy to tank. It seems the only workers you don’t actually have any issues with are the unskilled migrant workers whom you want to kick out of the country.

Poor Big Business, it’ll be OK. You may have to lay a couple thousand employees off, but you will still get private jets, trips to the Spa, and huge CEO bonuses…

By GodHatesTrash

December 21, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Atlanta and its ‘burbs - lots of Xians, lots of filth, lots of trash, lots of nastiness.

Shouldn’t be that way, but lots of hypocrisy, too.

By DB, Gwinnettian

December 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Looks like yesterday RW linked to a Rassmussen poll rigged to give single-digit congressional approval numbers.

I actually read the piece. Here’s the money quote:

“Thirteen percent (13%) of voters say Congress has passed legislation to significantly improve life in America”

I know it’s a little tough for some to suss this out, butt the low numbers are about what the Congress has been able to accomplish. Obviously since 2006 the GOP has worked to prevent anything meaningful from being passed (see SCHIP expansion for an obvious, pretty shameful example). If you were to ask me, I’d probably give them low marks too, as an honest assessment of their accomplishments as a legislative body.

That doesn’t mean I loathe “Nancy Pelousy” or “Dirty Harry Reid.” They’ve got their faults but basically they’ve had a herding-cats role these past coupla years.

Oh, and as to why we’re even hearing about these “congressional approval numbers” at all, I weighed in it at my old, crummy little blog awhile ago if anyone’s interested.

Off to worship. Later folks.

By Ray

December 21, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

I wonder how Tucker would feel about going to Eddie Long’s church and bowing her head when Long rails against gays. Long would have probably been accepted to pray at the inauguration since he is black but Warren, who holds many of the same views as Long is not acceptable because he represents “Rove and his ilk”. Is Warren so out of touch with the general, as well as the black,community? I doubt it. When you crank in that close to 70% of Black America and Conservatives across the board in the same percentage are against gay marriage and gay lifestyle, who is out of touch with the mainstream? Non-black Democrats came in at about 40% in opposition and were much more tolerant. If even half of America opposes something such as this, the issue is not clearcut, just debatable. Who is to say that you are right, Cynthia, and I am wrong when I support prop 8? I oppose your selection of President of the United States but 52% of Americans voted for the clown and we are stuck with him. But that does not make 46% of us wrong, just nearly half with a different opinion. Nearly half of America opposes same sex marriage. Does that make the other half wrong?

By GodHatesTrash

December 21, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Mega-church Xians are buffoons, add Eddie Long to the list. Near the top.

Nothing but Magick practiced in the mega-churches. They are Satan’s dwellings.

By Mrs.Godzilla

December 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Jay asked we weave something good. How’s this for the first thread?

[Founded in 1979, the Atlanta Community Food Bank currently distributes almost 2 million pounds of food and other donated grocery items each month to more than 800 nonprofit partner agencies in 38 counties in Metro Atlanta and North Georgia. Distributing these donations to low-income Georgians, our partner agencies provide dynamic links between the local community, the Food Bank and our supporters.](http://www.acfb.org/info/about/]

And now some good cheer

Anybody have a recipe for a Beacon Hill Cookie? Meringue-ish, chocolate and nuts…

Can we weave something good?

By Chad Harris

December 21, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

A big shout out to George Moron Bush for giving a nearly 18 Billion Dollar throwaway of everyone’s money to the dead auto companies in Detroit who have a huge gas guzzler featured on the ole AJC auto section front page posing as a “hybrid.” All the Michigan politicians should be fired. Bush paid no attention to your Wingnut beloved Senators.

A little unfinshed biz:

One AJC/DNC requested reasons why we should pursue embryonic stem cell research (I suppose since with less than a month of the clusterf*ck to go) we will be pursuing it and there isn’t a thing AJC can do to stop public funding long overdue. I’m happy to answer.

I have asked AJC/DNC and all the religious hypocrits who bible thump as a way to refute medical science as Bush does, why there is never a peep out of you as to the 400,000 embryos the IVF clinics throw away every year in the US, but I haven’t had an answer to that yet.**

I’d like to hear your wives are ready to receive those embryos and implant them into their uteruses although IVF has a very large failure rate, is very painful, is more expensive than many of you could afford anyway, and embryonic stem cell research at Stanford is moving closer to revalutionize successful fertility. After all that’s what Republicans love isn’t it? To preserve life and then to neglect it the nanosecond it leaves the womb, as Bush waited until 2 days after his party got trounced in the election and then enacted medicaid cuts that will greatly jeapordize pediatric care.

December 20, 2008 11:36 PM

@AJC/DNC:

You asked the question why there needs to be public funding of embryonic stem research and I answered it.

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

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 21, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

The Corporal, Mr. Secret Service for 30 or so years has become repeatedly hot and bothered about what appears to be a photoshoped picture (poorly done I might add of Obama smoking a joint). It evoked this response:

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 sunshine and thunder

December 21, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

MIDORI

Don’t have any cookie recipes but, if you want something really different (and good) this Christmas:

Try this.

This recipe assumes you know how to slow smoke a pig’s shoulder. If you’re Southern, you do.

By Abomi Nation

December 21, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Gallup released a poll yesterday on Congressional approval.

Bush- 29% approve….67% disapprove

Republicans in Congress…25%approve….67% disapprove.

Democrats in Congress… 37% approve…55% disapprove.

Republicans in Congress have a LOWER approval rating than Bush!!!!

Spin that!

(Btw Ray, your 9:01, good post.)

By Road Scholar

December 21, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Mrs G: Have you Googled the cookie recipe? There is a slew of them, and most are the same. I google a particular recipe, read many , and modify the recipe I like best to where we like it. Works all the time! I have a great fruit cookie recipe- chewey and loaded with fruit and nuts; I also have a great sour cream, ricotta cheese cake that will knock your socks off! Got the cheese cake recipe from on line with modifications.

Sorry, got to go. I am making 2 batches of french coffee cake. Yum!!! been making it fo 32 years.. My mom got me hooked…now the neighbors are addicted to it!

By RW-(the original)

December 21, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

DB Nanny,

If you really and truly want to put your ragger days behind you why are you constantly pimping the crummy little (your description) ragger blog?

By GodHatesTrash

December 21, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Long, the Osteens, the aptly-named Creflo Dollar, etc. etc. all preach variations of the Prosperity Gospel, which is a “spiritual” doctrine glorifying greed and conspicuous consumption.

These Mammon-worshipping folks are conmen and women extraordinaire, and if there is a Xian God, they will surely slow-roast in Hell.

Bernice King grabbed hold of Coretta’s early remains, and had her buried from Long’s theatre of hate and hocus-pocus. She had the nerve to say, during her eulogy over her mother, that God wanted us all to be billionaires.

Perversion, blasphemy, sheer foolishness.

Bishop Long became nationally famous because of Coretta’s funeral, and he recently made an appearance on Real Housewives of Atlanta - what a charming bunch they are…. a perfect venue for his bling-bling hucksterism.

By Billy

December 21, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Sifting through the ignorant comments here reminds me why I am so glad that Obama has avoided appointing southerners to his administration.

By Midori

December 21, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Sir Trash,

I think Eddie Long looks like a pimp.

I had to go to Lithonia on business yesterday, and drove past his new megachurch.

Good Lord!! That complex is HUGE!!!!

And I feel something is completely wrong with it. The area it sits on looks the size of a football field.

I hear that church even has a credit union for its members.

By Bitter EX democrackkk

December 21, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

WHY has the Clintonista Robert Rubin’s scandalous $122 Billion fleecing of taxpayers been publicized like Madoff or the UN Food for Oil scandal?

Can you say media agenda bias?

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a vile corrupt democrackkk!

By Midori

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

hey, Sunshine —

thanks for the recipe. It looks yummy!!!

You know, I never heard of Brunswick stew until I moved to Georgia?

By Chad Harris

December 21, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

@ Abomi—

Historically since before you were born Congress has had a dismal approval rating. This Congress deserves it. They rubberstamped a moron and they left this country in Clusterf*ckville. There are more messes than 25 dog pound with a Parvo pandemic.

The idiots have over a trillion dollar debt and they’re literally printing money taking damn good care of the Uncle Bernie Madoff set.

That means you’re screwed. Get used to it.

Southerners aren’t appointed to this incoming Adminsitration because they are largely illiterate, red-necked, uneducated hicks.

And Shirley Franklin took herself out of contention for a cabinet post when she displayed a Bernie Madoff type oversight of the funds the city of Atlanta owes. All of these hucksters sucked multi-millionaires into their fund who were more casual with their money than Bristol Palikn in the back seat of a Chevy with some igonrant red necked kid.

The multi-millionaires and billionaire hedge fund types didn’t get off their butts (you can’t say a**s here apparentely) to do due dilligence and neither did the people who had no clue who they were giving their millions to.

All of them deserved to lose their money, because you get the Democracy you deserve and they chose a moron who had the hapless Chris Cox, the happless Arthur Levitt, and the other morons who ran the SEC.

By GodHatesTrash

December 21, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

That church is obscene, Midori, and so are most of the sermons. Bishop Eddie’s Church of the Bentley and the Bling-Bling.

But it’s getting hard out there for all those “religious” pimps… 10% of nothin’ is nothin’.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

By Chad Harris December 21, 2008 10:23 AM One AJC/DNC requested reasons why we should pursue embryonic stem cell research (I suppose since with less than a month of the clusterfck to go) we will be pursuing it and there isn’t a thing AJC can do to stop public funding long overdue. I’m happy to answer.*

Which, of course, you didn’t.

As a matter of fact, you strengthened my argument with your rambling dissertation, you are absolutely right to say that the Euroweenies and other socialists have been happily destroying human life at an even greater clip than you would like to, but yet they haven’t produced any embryonic stem cell cures either.

I have asked AJC/DNC and all the religious hypocrits who bible thump as a way to refute medical science as Bush does, why there is never a peep out of you as to the 400,000 embryos the IVF clinics throw away every year in the US, but I haven’t had an answer to that yet.

First of all, the Hypocritical Oath that you are required to swear to, if in fact your are a medical professional, states that first do no harm.

Hahahahahahaha.

You liberals have blown right by that obstacle and even have the nerve to harangue me about “Bible thumping” when I do no such thing. Any decent, normal human being should be protective of life and should not look upon it as so much trash and fodder for random research, especially, especially you freaking liberals who you can count among you those who boycott the “Honey Baked Ham” stores because they dare to serve turkey on Thanksgiving day.

Liberalism is so depraved and retarded, sick wretched filthy excuses for human beings (not near as foul as some of what hasn’t been pulled lately, Bookman) you have the damn nerve to whine and moan about animal research, which by the way I abhor, but you run human beings through your grinders for no apparent reason whatsoever.

Where’s the cure at, Chad?

(Embryo donation for IVF is a private enterprise, dearie, why are you clubbing me with it?)

By AmVet

December 21, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G,

Thanks for changing the tone here from crabby to cookie, albeit for a moment.

Here is a “nice weave” about one of my favorite organizations - the Georgia Vietnam Veterans Alliance.

They provide Transitions & Homeless assistance; Employment Services; PTSD & Substance Abuse; Leadership and Scholarship Programs; and other essential needs of human existence.

http://gvva.org//pages/communityservices.php

Happy Chanukah.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

By the way-

(I suppose since with less than a month of the clusterfck to go) we will be pursuing it and there isn’t a thing AJC can do to stop public funding long overdue

I sincerely hope that you liberals do enact every single one of your sicko, depraved and degenerate legislative agendas, you know, all those perverted things that you worked so hard to hide during the kkkampaign, go for it, let all of the decent people of the United States see what you are really all about.

Hopeandchange my as-s.

By The Corporal

December 21, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

To Corpsman Chad Harris

My you’re touchy on this subject.

I never said it was a disqualifier for President (to be his own bodyguard maybe). Anyone can change stupid habits - President Bush did with the alcohol thing.

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

What happend to all this transparency we were supposed to see ?

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

This is what we need more of right here-

In a blunt, unapologetic interview on “FOX News Sunday,” Cheney fired back at Biden for declaring in October that “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history.”

“He also said that all the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch are laid out in Article I of the Constitution,” Cheney said in a interview that was conducted on Friday. “Well, they’re not. Article I of the Constitution is the one on the legislative branch.”

“Joe’s been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can’t keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive.

bwa

Take the gloves off.

By FrankLeeDarling

December 21, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

remind you of any one? Maybe some certain president?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlNQojJ0eQ

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Aahhh, yes, going back to an old scrum-

He (Bushie) pushed hard to expand homeownership, especially among minorities, an initiative that dovetailed with his ambition to expand the Republican tent — and with the business interests of some of his biggest donors.-NYTimes

I remember a certain editorial writer who challenged me on the notion that minority home loans was the cause of the mortgage meltdown but he we are, the treasonous sister of the Urinal not only saying just that but ridiculously blaming it on Bush.

Anybody want to make a bet that Bush wasn’t around when the CRA was first schemed up?

Anybody want to make a bet on what would have happened to the Pinko Nation if Bushie had decided to repeal the CRA and force lenders to ask minorities for proof of lending eligibility?

Can you just imagine the diaper filling that would have commenced had that happened?

ew

By getalife

December 21, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Give it a rest wingnuts.

Your arguments are teh suk.

Go out and buy something.

Geez.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

The plot thickens, ew-

Big deal, Blagojevich said. He said he’s “always lawful” whenever he speaks, and he was confident Wyma has been “an honest person who’s conducted himself in an honest way. That’s the John Wyma I know and it’s the John Wyma that Rahm Emanuel knows and a lot of other people know.”

Blagojevich is right. Wyma does have ties to both him and Emanuel, those close to both have said. And Wyma’s clients contributed to both - more than $100,000 to Emanuel’s campaigns and causes, and more than $445,000 to Blagojevich’s, according to campaign finance records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Chicago democrat style incest.

“We’re not going to end corruption in Illinois by arrests and indictments alone,” the prosecutor said. “What’s going to make the difference is when people who are approached to ‘pay to play’ first say no, and, second, report it.”

Gosh, I wonder who that was a reference to?

By Chad Harris

December 21, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Gosh I hate to disappoint you but unless you have some specific statute Rom Emanuel has violated, you’re P*ssing in the wind. There is no code section that you can prosecute called “Chicago Style Politics.” And you can have ties out the wazoo, and you can have campaign contributions out the wazoo, as long as they’re legal and right now the laws are full of loopholes that are exploited by both parties.

And what’s funny is if Blago is allowed to dance down State Street nude while shocking Fitz every five seconds with a cattel prod, it’s not going to impact you a friging bit.

Blagoiovich says he’s going to trial. He deserves a fair one. There is no NDI rule to stop you from having a good time with what you think happened, but… there is one for the DOJ and Fitz violates it all the time.

What will impact you is the money your President and Paulson have hemorrhaged doing bailouts.

Speaking of federal justice, I keep seeing Former Fed in the Northern District of Georgia aka Corporal uptight and panties in a wad over whether some mockup of Obama is a joint.

Here’s the skinny. The average cigarette smoker is in far more danger than the average THC smoker.

But if someone is so concerned that Obama smoked grass over 20 years ago, close to 30 yerars ago, let’s take a look at how the Feds in the Northern District of Georgia protect their own and back off when a Senatorial family member faces life in prison.

Feds Protecting their Own Failing to Prosecute their Own

http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:e2G3Gb23aFcJ:norml.org/pdffiles/NORMLpoliticianschildrensarrests.pdf+claude+shelby+hashish+bust&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Claude Shelby (32) , youngest son of Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL)

Shelby was arrested at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport on drug charges, where a US Custom’s drug-sniffing dog found 13.8 grams of hashish in his possession. Shelby was given a $500 administrative penalty and turned over to Clayton County Sheriff’s Department for prosecution. Source: USA Today; 7/29/98

On July 24, authorities at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport arrested Claude Shelby, the youngest son of U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R_AL), for possession of 13.8 grams of hashish. Claude Shelby, 32, is married and has one child. Sen. Shelby is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (“Drug Charge,” USA Today, July 29, 1998, p. 6A).

U.S. Customs Service inspectors found the hashish in Shelby’s possession using a drug_sniffing dog. Shelby, who had arrived on a flight from London, was issued a $500 fine, which he paid on the spot. He was then turned over to the Clayton County Sheriff’s Department for state prosecution.

Responding to the incident, Sen. Richard Shelby responded that he and his family were “shocked and saddened” by the charge but that he would “stand by him through this difficult ordeal.” The senior Shelby added, “My position on fighting drugs is well known. It continues to be a priority for me regardless of personal circumstances.”

“The senator may find it hard to be stoic if his drugfighting colleagues in the House have their way,” said Monica Pratt, communications director for Families Against Mandatory Minimums, in an oped in the Atlanta Constitution. Pratt was referring to the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act” (HR 41), introduced by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R_GA), which would mandate a life sentence without parole for offenders who import “100 usual dosage amounts” of a controlled substance, and a death sentence for such offenders with a prior conviction for a similar drug offense . The measure does not define what amounts constitute “100 usual dosages.” Pratt said, “Under this broad definition, Claude Shelby’s 13.8 grams of hashish could be enough to qualify him for life imprisonment (Monica Pratt, “Congress comes into the courtroom,” Atlanta Constitution, August 12, 1998). The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines provide that 1 gram of hashish is the equivalent of 5 grams of marijuana and that 1 gram of marijuana is two doses.

“Luckily for the senior Shelby, he will not know the pain of visiting his son in prison for the rest of his life…Perhaps his son’s brush with the law will convince the senator that lifeanddeath sentencing policies are not trifling matters to be bandied about during election_year politicking,” said Pratt.

Welcome to law enforcement in the NDG Corporal and AJC.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

As someone who ran on an anti corruption agenda, I sure hope Oblahmasan thinks the same way you do Chad.

Here’s to hoping he stonewalls, schemes and plots his way out of the obvious involvement that Emanual has in it.

Knock yourselves out.

By Midori

December 21, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

Chad,

you are to be commended for your tireless effort to engage in intelligent conversation/debate, however, it appears you’re just wasting your time.

It’s not as if there’s very much for you to work with.

Each point/fact you present is refuted with stupidity and personal generalities disguised (not very well) as fact.

Regardless, I enjoy reading your posts.

By The Corporal

December 21, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

To Corpsman Chad

You obviously didn’t read (or comprehend) my 1:11. It’s NOT a disqualifier. Everyone makes mistakes including you and me. I’m just curious about the timing/transparency.

The Constitutional standards for President are not that high. We both know standards are higher in Federal law enforcement and the medical profession. That was my point as to why he can be president but not his own bodyguard.

Now, you can pick and choose favoritism vignettes all day long but just make sure you go across both sides of the political aisle. I could tell you a thing or two that would raise the hair on the back of your neck but we’ll have to wait for declssification.

Just be fair.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

BAGHDAD — Along a road a man sells hot, fresh rotisserie chicken under a string of lights. Nearby, two men stand in warm coats and knitted caps casually sipping a hot drink at a store front where another man in a blue “USA” sweatshirt moves quickly back and forth behind a glass counter tossing fresh ingredients in warm pitas for a growing line of patrons.

It’s just a typical evening along the street market near the Jamilla and Al Quds Road in Baghdad’s Sadr City district, Dec. 18.

USA! USA! USA!

By The Corporal

December 21, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

Headline:

OBAMA WAR: Afghanistan could see 30,000 new US troops next year…

Johnson’s war became Nixon’s war.

Will Bush’s war become Obama’s war?

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to write off 80 percent of Iraq’s foreign debts, the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) said on Thursday.

During its meeting, dated December 17, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund completed the second review of Iraq’s economic performance under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), according to a CBI statement received by Aswat al-Iraq.

The bank has expressed its great relief at the cancellation of over $100 billion dollars of Iraq’s external debts as a result of successful economic policies.

USA! USA! USA!

By GodHatesTrash

December 21, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

I doubt Dr. Harris took the original Hippocratic Oath, which was written in Greek, 2400 or so years ago. This is an “updated” oath that many physicians have taken:

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.

I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

Oops - nothing in there about do no harm….

Dr. Harris, the RightWingnuts on this blog are an amazing bunch of dullards. They are ignorant and uneducated, and smarmily happy to be that way. They think their high school science coursework has prepared them to engage in scientific and medical debate which, of course, is laughable.

Anyhow, if I am in need of a medical professional, I seek out board certified physicians, not a high school graduate who’s main claim to fame is an ability to cut and paste at high volume.

By Chad Harris

December 21, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

Yo AJC—

I’m not the least bit worried about Blago’s situation and it’s a big yawn for me. It doesn’t have anything to do with the coming adminsitration—that’s clear and maybe you were comatose about the request from Pat Fitz that Obama not address the issue until middle this week. Try to stay awake that long.

You knock yourself out. I see a lot of f*ckups that neither you nor I can change a wit. I put my energy where I think I can impact. I’ve wanted government funding for embryonic stems which is one ofthe most important avenue of medical research and we’re getting that.

I can’t do a damn thing to stop the bailouts waisting my money and yours, but I can make damn sure I know how every penny is invested unlike the poor schumcks who stupidly invested with feeders for Madoff.

You don’t have a clue yet what Blago’s defense will be and you don’t know much about what Fitz will charge. You are the perfect sucker Fitz preys on, though, picking bits and pieces and hyping his cases. You also aren’t aware that Fitz has lost more than 50% of his terrorism cases even with FRCrP on his side.

I’m not a scintilla worried that Obama or Ram Emanuel have any legal liability and you know damn well that Fitz has asked Obama to hold up until this coming week (for what f*cking stupid reason I have no idea).

I guess you can mentally masturbate that Blago somehow spells trouble for Obama and his transition team and his hires, including Ram Emanuel but you’re wearing a tinfoil hat as usual.

By the way, with all that energy AJC, you can’t answer why you and your right wing Bible thumpers haven’t said a thing about the fact that very expensive IVF clinics discard 400,000 embryos a week. How about stuffing them into Anne Coulter’s uterus I(you almost need phenergan to think of that picture don’t you?)

I told you why very soon there will be public emb stem cell funding but you never answered my question. Why don’t you take a shot at it. What about those 400.000 plus embryos that deteriorate on refrigeration and get thrown in the garbage? Why no squaking by the bible thumber scripture quoting phonies about that?

By spankmonkey

December 21, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

You know exactly why they weren’t released, it’s called politics. Quite honestly, I seriously doubt it would’ve made a difference to anybody but people like yourself, and there was never a chance in hell you would vote for a democrat, even if jesus came back and ran as one.

Gosh let’s hope Bush’s war becomes Obama’s and he winds it down, that way he can turn our attentions to the real war on terror in Afghanistan where we should’ve been focusing our efforts all along. Maybe we can finally get the man who truly threatens our country, instead of going after a man who threatened Dubya’s daddy.

I saw this morning that aviation corp are heading over to Afghanistan, I guess I can expect my younger brother will be heading off since he now flies a Cobra.

By spankmonkey

December 21, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

You know exactly why they weren’t released, it’s called politics. Quite honestly, I seriously doubt it would’ve made a difference to anybody but people like yourself, and there was never a chance in hell you would vote for a democrat, even if jesus came back and ran as one.

Gosh let’s hope Bush’s war becomes Obama’s and he winds it down, that way he can turn our attentions to the real war on terror in Afghanistan where we should’ve been focusing our efforts all along. Maybe we can finally get the man who truly threatens our country, instead of going after a man who threatened Dubya’s daddy.

I saw this morning that aviation corp are heading over to Afghanistan, I guess I can expect my younger brother will be heading off since he now flies a Cobra.

By Chad Harris

December 21, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

Thanks Midori. There’s always FDL, Kos and all the blogs they link.

There’s a silver lining though. As long as the mindset of wingnuts stays the dame, they’ll continue to lose Congress and the White House for a never ending number of years.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 21, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Like I care what new oath the perverts came up with, were you feeling a bit guilty?

I WILL FOLLOW that method of treatment which according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient and abstain from whatever is harmful or mischievous. I will neither prescribe nor administer a lethal dose of medicine to any patient even if asked nor counsel any such thing nor perform the utmost respect for every human life from fertilization to natural death and reject abortion that deliberately takes a unique human life.

That’s when men were men and freak liberals were………..caged.

Aaahhh, the good old days.

By Frederick Douglass

December 21, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

Well here’s some good news, another drug pusher has been taken off the streets. Sherry L. Johnston, a 42 year old Wasilla Alaska house wife, has been hit with 6 felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance. Mrs. Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, the alleged father of Bristal Palin’s soon to be delivered baby. Now if McCain/ Palin had triumphed, and there’d actually been a marriage, this woman would’ve been the grandmother of the vice president’s grand child.

By The Corporal

December 21, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

To GodHatesTrash

I will walk my post in a military manner keeping always on the alert (for liberals) and observing everything which takes place within my sight or hearing …… sir!

By The Corporal

December 21, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

P.S. To GodHatesTrash

The Pharisees … asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick….. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

By Miggie

December 22, 2008 2:05 AM | Link to this

Bookman has a very flawed memory of the situation in 2002. NOBODY said we would be nuked. The President said that if we waited for the threat to be imminent, it would be too late.
Here is what all the Democrats said at the same time, which he neglects to disclose:

“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.” President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 This was a quote from President Clinton during a presentation at the Pentagon defending a decision to conduct military strikes against Iraq.

“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.” President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 Bill Clinton went to the Pentagon on this occasion to be briefed by top military officials about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. His remarks followed that briefing.

“Iraq is a long way from USA but, what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.” Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998 This is a quote from Albright during an appearance at Ohio State University by Albright, who was Secretary of State for Bill Clinton.

“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.” Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998 This was at the same Ohio State University appearance as Madeline Albright.
“We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S.Constitution and Laws, to take necessary actions, (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.” Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998 According to the U.S. Senate website, the text of this letter was signed by several Senators, both Democrat and Republican, including Senator John McCain and Joseph Lieberman.

“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998 The text of this statement by Nancy Pelosi is posted on her congressional website. “Hussein has .. chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.” Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999 This was from an appearance Albright made in Chicago. She was addressing the embargo of Iraq that was in effect at the time and criticism that it may have prevented needed medical supplies from getting into the country. Albright said, “There has never been an embargo against food and medicine. It’s just that Hussein has just not chosen to spend his money on that. Instead, he has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction, and palaces for his cronies.” “If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.” President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998- Bill Clinton went to the Pentagon on this occasion to be briefed by top military officials about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. His remarks followed that briefing.

“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force— if necessary— to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.” Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002- Senator Kerry’s comments were made to the Senate as part of the same debate over the resolution to use force against Saddam Hussein.

“In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.” Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002- Senator Clinton acknowledged the threat of Saddam Hussein but said she did not feel that using force at that time was a good option.

“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation … And now he is miscalculating America’s response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real …” Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan.23.2003- In a speech to Georgetown University. “We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.” Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 This and the quote below was part of prepared remarks for a speech in San Francisco to The Commonwealth Club.

“Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.” Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002- “We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.” Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002-Part of a speech he gave at Johns Hopkins.

By Copyleft

December 22, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

I will walk my post in a military manner keeping always on the alert for liberals

I hope so! You should always be ready to salute your betters when you see us.

By The Corporal

December 22, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Copyleft

Only if you were in the military and very, very few liberals ever were or are ……… just the way you are. You leave the fightin to the conservatives.

By Copyleft

December 22, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Fine, as long as you leave the decidin’ and runnin’ of things to those smarter than you—i.e., the liberals.

By Mrs. Godzilla

December 22, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

corporal

I wonder why this was?

Troops contribute more to Obama campaign

Maybe those troops are secretly, frequently more liberal than you think!

By The Corporal

December 22, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

to Mrs. G.

Nice Try

“Considering the overall size of the military and the number of people deployed, the number of military personnel making contributions to the presidential political campaigns is very small, making it difficult to draw any conclusions about what the data say about overall support for the candidates.

Another factor is that the total contributions show military members favor Republicans over Democrats when money given to candidates who have dropped out of the race is included.