Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

January 24, 2009 7:24 PM | Link to this

Yes, every liberal should consider drug dealing and prostitution as a career change choice.

??????

What is the meaning of this blog????

What else would you look for in a job other than prolonged prosperity?

By AJC/DNC Management

January 24, 2009 7:38 PM | Link to this

Poor wittle baraKKK, fixing to get trampled-

{{{{Barack Obama picks a fight with Rush Limbaugh as bipartisan spirit crumbles- Barack Obama is on a collision course with his critics after picking a fight with Rush Limbaugh, America’s most influential conservative commentator. After the euphoria of his inauguration, Mr Obama’s team have been handed a cold dose of political reality. A series of controversial policy decisions, mistakes and unforeseen events has brought home the difficulty of bridging the divisions in Washington.-Telegraph}}}}

Barked up the wrong tree, did we?

By RW-(the original)

January 24, 2009 8:11 PM | Link to this

Anybody watching the world change all around them has to know you can’t do the same thing you started doing and never adapt.

I guess “newspaper writer” is one job you would be more inclined to think could just go on indefinitely. The group that has absolutely no business whining and crying is the group of vastly overpaid IT workers of the 1990s. They didn’t have to get taken by surprise because some other industry replaced them, they watched the very technology they were working on making them obsolete and were oblivious to it.

We can go on a crying jag if we want, but progress comes about because of innovation and innovation also creates a certain chaos. Adapt or perish you might say.

Yikes! I sound like one of you Darwiniacs.

By Mike

January 24, 2009 8:42 PM | Link to this

JAY -

Sorry to return to the previous topic, but:

Why do you oppose the detention of terrorism suspects without trial, yet support drone-missile assassination of terrorism suspect without trial?

Is killing someone worse than locking them up?

By Carter is a Fool

January 24, 2009 9:16 PM | Link to this

Thinking about your next job when this waste paper goes out of business?

By Logic

January 24, 2009 9:19 PM | Link to this

Because the failures of Republican George W Bush administration were in large part manifestations of the rightwing ideology propogated by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, is it not a good thing that Mr. Limbaugh disagrees with President Obama? And cannot the same be said about the opinions of any rightwinger who voiced aproval while the Republican Party marched our beloved country to perhaps it’s lowest point ever?

By definition, is a ‘fool’ not one who takes a second helping after having gotten sick from the first?

By Carter is a Fool

January 24, 2009 9:26 PM | Link to this

Where is the uproar over the racist comments from Lowery at the coronation?

Where is the uproar over the deadbeat who would not pay his taxes until right before he was selected to be Treasury Secretary? If anyone who is a Republican had done this — The outrage would be deafening. If one of the regular citizens had done this, he or she would be in Jail.

The silence is deafening on these and other topics from the unbiased press.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 24, 2009 9:37 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Logic January 24, 2009 9:19 PM By definition, is a ‘fool’ not one who takes a second helping after having gotten sick from the first?}}}}

That all depends what your definition of sick is.

sicko

Snatching unborn babies out of their mother’s womb and drilling holes in their head.

Need I say more?

By Midori

January 24, 2009 9:46 PM | Link to this

How were Rev. Lowery’s comments “racist”?

I’ve read more racism on this blog than I’ve heard uttered out of the reverend’s mouth.

By Logic

January 24, 2009 9:49 PM | Link to this

@9:37,

I don’t believe it to be a baby until it is born. If it were a baby getting a hole drilled through it’s head, I believe there would be an arrest. But if you’re right, how about all the half-babies you drop on your magazines? That’s pretty sick.

No? How about making Iraqi stew out of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians for no other reason than to turn a quick buck? Sick? Yes.

But the ‘sick’ to which I referred was the insanity involved in taking seriously one like yourself. You exist for no other reason than to humor those of us who see you for what you are.

Thanks for the laugh. Good night.

By getalife

January 24, 2009 9:52 PM | Link to this

Well, if Cox did not invest in Madoff, you should be okay Jay.

I thought our country was in trouble when jobs were getting shipped to China and cheap labor but it was Wall Street greed that did it.

Yet, our government still gives them welfare. Rewarding bad behavior never ends well.

By @@

January 24, 2009 9:53 PM | Link to this

jay, it was Yogi Berra that said “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”

It can also be said about those who thought they knew where they were going.

Money and success isn’t the be all and end all in life.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 24, 2009 9:58 PM | Link to this

“Logic:” You seem to have a lot of excuses to cover for your own sick behaviors.

I like that, justify killing innocent unborn children in the most brutal fashion imaginable because “other people are doing it.”

Yes, that is how we should advance “civilization.”

And blame our soldiers too, how sweet, here I thought it was al Qaeda that targeted innocent women and children, how naive am I not to see that bloodthirsty American soldiers are the real criminals?

Glad you could clarify that for me.

By getalife

January 24, 2009 10:00 PM | Link to this

Lemon socialism

Geez.

By Mike

January 24, 2009 10:01 PM | Link to this

“By Midori January 24, 2009 9:46 PM | Link to this How were Rev. Lowery’s comments “racist”?

I’ve read more racism on this blog than I’ve heard uttered out of the reverend’s mouth.”

Well, when he says that he looks forward to the day ” when white will embrace what is right”, it is implicit that white people don’t embrace what is right now, and hence, are immoral. That is a racist statement.

The most racist comments I have ever seen on this board came from you. Remember a year or two ago when you made such offensive racist remarks that you begged the AJC to take your racist statements down? I do.

By Frederick Douglsaa

January 24, 2009 10:32 PM | Link to this

Is Pilonidal cyst just another way of saying Lard A$$?

By RW-(the original)

January 24, 2009 10:44 PM | Link to this

What the heck is Frederick Douglsaa babbling about? For that matter, how does one even pronounce Douglsaa?

By Frederick Douglass

January 24, 2009 11:07 PM | Link to this

It’s pronounced D-O-U-G-L-A-S-S when I’m sober, and Douglsaa when I’ve had a snoot full.Right wing rhetoric will drive even a hardened abolishionist to drink.

By RW-(the original)

January 24, 2009 11:12 PM | Link to this

Frederick,

Can we get a phonetic on the non-sober spelling? I’m watching the Australian Open and some of the pronunciations of some of those player names don’t jive with the spelling either.

By Ted Striker

January 24, 2009 11:16 PM | Link to this

Jay, I just discovered the site “talking points memo” and saw it listed as one of your favorites. I see why.

By Mr Snarky

January 24, 2009 11:20 PM | Link to this

I wish I could be a professional blog commenter like some of the people around here. That profession is not likely to go away though I’m sure the pay is low and required credentials are nil.

By RW-(the original)

January 24, 2009 11:21 PM | Link to this

I have an unconfirmed report, and frankly I’m not sure why Jay B hasn’t tracked this news down and made it an exclusive, that the Jose Canseco vs. Danny Bonaduce pay per view boxing match has ended in a draw without even one drop of blood being drawn.

Now that report may have sounded off topic, but it all goes back to the job security thing. Who wouldn’t pay to see Jay B duke it out with MoDo?

By creative loafer

January 25, 2009 12:31 AM | Link to this

salude.

another domineering performance from the conservatives today

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGfRUK8npn8)

By Bud Wiser

January 25, 2009 7:49 AM | Link to this

Lowery has had no credibility with me and most in my neighborhood for quite some time.

Several years back, we had a black couple, no children, living down the street from us, one of the first in our area. They seemed nice enough, but kept mostly to themselves. He collected and restored old cars and resold them, he said.

Then one day .a really bad thing happened.

The couple was out, they came home, and found their house had apparently been burglarized, and whoever did it attempted to set the home on fire. The cars in the basement were destroyed, and upstairs, racial epithets had been spray painted on several walls, all saying “N (n-word) Move Now!”. It was disgusting.

Police were called, news types arrived, one even landing on the street via helicopter, all wanting pictures and hype. Then, here comes Joe Lowery with his crowd, hogging the cameras and mikes, deploring this situation, calling for investigations, and essentially wanting police to go door to door, interviewing everyone until the evil perpetrators were found. He really went overboard, in many opinions.

The county sheriff took over the investigation, told Lowery and the media to leave, and began his work. If I remember correctly, it wasn’t 48 hours before arrests were made - the homeowners. They were subsequently indicted, jailed, tried and convicted of attempted fraud and arson. It seems that they had fallen behind on house payments, and wanted to burn the house down with the so-called ‘priceless’ cars inside, claim a massive insurance loss, and move on. They were trying to play the race card to deflect suspicion from themselves.

Later investigation revealed that this type of occurrence had happened with this couple elsewhere prior, including the death of one of their children, a case that now was going to be re-opened due to these circumstances, and the suspicious events surrounding the juvenile’s death.

So what does this long-winded story have to do with Joe Lowery, you ask?

Well, after the trial and conviction, and incarceration of the black couple, a media type with a camera (yes, I saw and heard it with my own eyes and ears) interviewed Lowery, and asked what he thought of the news. I do not remember the exact quote, but he said (sic) “…. look around, that neighborhood is lily white again, and just because that happened that way doesn’t mean there still aren’t racists living there.”

He has made a living out of racism.

He is a racist himself, and a sad cartoon of an old, old man. Period.

And after seeing him and what he has morphed into with his pathetic show on inauguration day, he is to be pitied.

But he shall have none from me, not that he would want or welcome it anyway, after all, I am white.