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DEL.ICIO.USCelebs who adopt, Reid, traffic relief
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s free-for-all Friday. Pick a topic:
• Good question posed by Pam Wilson of the Johannesburg Child Welfare Society in South Africa on the news that Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie have adopted a 1-year-old Malawian child: “Are celebrities doing it for the right reasons and not to make a statement?” A child rights group in Malawi asks Madonna to help fund programs that allow children to stay in their own communities. Methinks celebrities are making statements.
• Adults can spend their discretionary income on high school booster clubs. Or sports cars or lottery tickets. To excess, there’s danger in all. Otherwise, it’s just another way to connect parents to schools.
• Ten brides in 12 months, including two within four hours. In a world of marriage fraud and mortgage fraud, Democrats are appalled that anybody would suggest that vote fraud is real and that a photo ID is necessary. They don’t kid themselves. Us, they do.
• In metro Atlanta, 4.5 percent of commuters say working from home is a better congestion-relief solution than the 3.7 percent who think public transit is the answer. Makes sense. It’s not a “choice” or “alternative” if transit service doesn’t come where we are, go when and where we want and free up space on the freeway. An option that serves only 3.7 percent of commuters fails the test.
• When Fulton Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall says “now it is my time to speak,” watch out. With repeat-offender child molester Michael J. Pearson, he got right to the point: “Your perverted and morally repugnant conduct is most repulsive and despicable and cuts to the core of evil. Clearly you have no conscience. What you are and do and what you are all about is offensive to the souls and the conscience of a civilized society.” He gave Pearson life without parole. “I am vehemently, adamantly, without equivocation of any kind or type whatsoever, opposed to parole for this defendant ever.” Put him on the high court.
• One good reason not to name buildings, roads and bridges for living politicians: Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland praises Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as “one of the most ethical men I know” in an op-ed that ran just as the news broke that Reid had used campaign contributions for Christmas gifts for the hired help at his upscale Washington condo. Earlier, the Associated Press revealed that Reid collected $1.1 million on Nevada property that he hadn’t personally owned for three years. Reid reveals why naming honors should never go to the living. The breathing can embarrass; the dead can’t.
• Come December, when the partisan political operatives are back in their lair for a season’s sleep, we will reflect on the most-hyped stories of the season. Top candidate now is former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s e-mail sex talk. It should be evident to all, as a venter observed, that House Speaker Dennis Hastert would have been “drummed out of office because of his homophobia” had he attempted to punish Foley in 2003 for overly friendly e-mails to young men.
• Wall Street money-changers failed to get the word that they’re supposed to favor Republicans. Democrat congressional candidates got $6.1 million from bigwigs at 11 securities firms, while Republicans got $5.1 million, according to Bloomberg Markets. Money has no conscience, loyalty or party affiliation. It goes to power.
• If Powder Springs can convey to an individual the privilege of parking and flying his helicopter in another jurisdiction, Cobb County, without its approval and contrary to its zoning, the General Assembly needs to act. Good to know he’s decided to ground his chopper for the time being.
• A Lovejoy City Council member, allegedly a cantankerous sort, is said to have announced “I’m resigning — right now” before leaving a council meeting. Overjoyed, other city officials took him up on it and called a special election. The councilman, Arlie Aukerman, has been wronged. Hotheaded comments in public debate may be dumb, but unless he formally quits, his enemies are just playing games. The dispute is now in Superior Court. Verdict for Aukerman.
• Verdict for Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman, too. Whatever his failings in managing the jail or his department, voters had the chance to inspect the goods prior to delivery. They saw, they considered, they bought. If he’s a lemon, he’s their lemon.
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By The way the truth the light
October 20, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this
Jim, I would ask that you try, on occasion, to be part of the solution and not the problem. Unfortunately, that would put you out of a job. It would be so boring to commend Madonna for adopting a child, as opposed to inciting your sheep with unfair speculation as to her motives. I guess that comment is unfair as well since I don’t know if your comments are speculative or based on your knowledge of Madonna’s true motivation – when did the two of you meet to discuss it?
It’s easy to announce the “final word” on what would’ve happened to Dennis Hastert had he responded properly to the news of Mark Foley’s improper communications. It’s too bad that we’ll never know how he would’ve been treated, since he swept it under the rug. To read your column, Democrats are the only ones guilty of sweeping controversy under the rug, or blindly and belligerently offering support to leaders who do.
I know, I know. You’re laughing all the way to the bank (with your paycheck) because you get paid to improve readership, not to speak the truth. It’s a shame that you can’t figure out some way to make a living that doesn’t tear at the fabric of society by stirring up the flock with one-liners, clichés, half-truths, and shallow attacks.
By Mid-South Philosopher
October 20, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
One of your points today is:
“Ten brides in 12 months, including two within four hours. In a world of marriage fraud and mortgage fraud, Democrats are appalled that anybody would suggest that vote fraud is real and that a photo ID is necessary. They don’t kid themselves. Us, they do.”
Although a “technocrat extraordinaire” (even to the point of supporting the substitution of keyboarding in the place of penmanship for the development of writing skills), I am more concerned about some “cyber terrorist” hacking into our electronic voting machines and manipulating the outcomes of elections. Call me old fashioned, but I favor the paper ballot. It is a lot of work, it is slow, and it is cumbersome. No one ever said the price of freedom was NOT high.
As for “ten brides in 12 months, including two within four hours,” man, I need some of that guy’s cereal, kool-aid, vitamins, or whatever the he** keeps him going!
Have a good day.
By James P.E. (*Professional Engineer*)
October 20, 2006 08:32 AM | Link to this
Good morning all,
In metro Atlanta, 4.5 percent of commuters say working from home is a better congestion-relief solution than the 3.7 percent who think public transit is the answer. Makes sense. It’s not a “choice” or “alternative” if transit service doesn’t come where we are, go when and where we want and free up space on the freeway. An option that serves only 3.7 percent of commuters fails the test.
Are you really going to argue over 0.8 percent? Any scientific study gives a conservative +/-3 percent error, Jim. Even being generous, a +/- 1 percent error makes your statement idiotic! In the real world, 3.7 and 4.5 percent is the same unless you are talking taxes.
I know your journalism degree didn’t include much math, but just damn.
Who are you to question a person’s motive in adopting a child? A statement that says, “I love kids, so I want to take at least one child out of an impoverished situation.”
By Richard
October 20, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this
Jim must have heard that Madonna has gone Democrat.
By Aunt Bea
October 20, 2006 08:40 AM | Link to this
Ouch! Michael Vick was almost as tough on Mora as Judge Schwall was on that repeat offender Michael Pearson.
The phrase, “cul de sac” is actually French for “heliport”.
Wooten is correct about naming roads and bridges after a living person. That’s why Spaghetti Junction is so perfect. After all, we do have a meatball for governor!!
Most hyped story? That we are safer now than we were six years ago.
Voter fraud? How about the way no republican is pointing to the GOP’s performance for the last six years!!
Bush promised to grow the economy and shrink taxes. All he’s done is to grow the hole in the Ozone, and shrink the Polar Ice Caps.
But today I’m very happy and excited. Bush will not ruin my day. Not today. I just found out that the complete third season of “The Facts of Life” is available next tuesday.
By Van
October 20, 2006 08:45 AM | Link to this
As one on the 4.5% that work from home, it is all true. Working from home has lowered my blood pressure and eased my stress levels. Fuel costs have dropped. instead of filling up once every 4 or 5 days, I now fill my tank once or twice a month.
Since I use to work in Alpharetta and lived out east in Snellville, I had no options regarding mass transit, if I had, I would have tried it.
One other benefit to working at home, I am allowed to kiss and hug my co-worker(wife) without fear of a law suit.
While there are many jobs out there that require a physical presence at the work site or to meet customers or clients, if any of you get the chance, take it.
By Trent Lott
October 20, 2006 08:46 AM | Link to this
I for one commend Ms. Madonna’s recent purchase of the dark-skinned child from Malawi. As a proud Southerner, I recognize this old and honored tradition. This was an honorable transfer, with the broker of this chattel collecting his due fee. I understand Ms. Madonna even left behind some salt and beads for the child’s father.
As Republicans, we should applaud this transfer of human capital. If this tradition had stayed in place, we wouldn’t be having all these troubles we have now.
By Renee
October 20, 2006 08:46 AM | Link to this
I notice Jim’s staying away from real political topics (which he’s actually paid to discuss) such as Iraq and N. Korea. Guess there’s no way he can put a positive Republican spin on those anymore.
By brenda
October 20, 2006 08:47 AM | Link to this
If it were Michael Jackson or Britney Spears adopting children, then there should be an outcry. Madonna is a grown woman who has raised two beautiful children. I’d let her adopt me and I’m 25!
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 08:49 AM | Link to this
Ten brides in 12 months, including two within four hours. In a world of marriage fraud and mortgage fraud, Democrats are appalled that anybody would suggest that vote fraud is real and that a photo ID is necessary. They don’t kid themselves.
At least in the bride instance they had PROOF that a crime was being committed. Alas, in the voting “fraud” you do not.
former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s e-mail sex talk. It should be evident to all, as a venter observed, that House Speaker Dennis Hastert would have been “drummed out of office because of his homophobia” had he attempted to punish Foley in 2003 for overly friendly e-mails to young men.
Please look up in Websters the definition for homosexuality, ephebophilia and pedophilia. After you’ve looked those up and you still don’t know the difference then I’ll excuse that ridiculous comparison. Obviously you just don’t understand simple english.
*When Fulton Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall says “now it is my time to speak,” watch out. With repeat-offender child molester Michael J. Pearson, he got right to the point: “Your perverted and morally repugnant conduct is most repulsive….He gave Pearson life without parole.”
This is a case of pedophilia. Now, quick question, why was this not blown into a “But he said he was sorry and resigned” battlecry for redemption? Pedophilia and ephebophilia a disease that keeps on giving.
Wall Street money-changers failed to get the word that they’re supposed to favor Republicans
That was what Jack Abramoff was for.
By Aunt Bea
October 20, 2006 08:50 AM | Link to this
Spaghetti Junction: Why did they bother? This white elephant cost millions and millions of dollars, took hundreds of construction workers years to build, and cost the life of several men.
All that just to “alleviate the flow of traffic through the intersection of 85/75. Hell, I could have accomplished that with two yield signs and a blinking yellow light!
And have you ever tried to navigate that labyrinth of criss-crossing roads and bridges? There’s traffic above you, below you, on both sides, over here, over there, behind you, in front, at all levels and directions, intertwined and entangled.
It’s like trying to merge into Kudzu.
I hate Spaghetti Junction. I really have a problem with it. I cant stand road construction as a general principle, but this horrid cloverleaf from hell……
Aw, who am I trying to kid, I hate everything.
By Political Foreskin
October 20, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this
Hey Van, does your wife have an older sister for me?
By Jim Don't Get It
October 20, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this
Good morning Jim,
First off, mass transit isn’t convenient because individuals prefer to drive to the point that traffic is horrible; traffic is horrible because there’s not enough infrastructure to support it because the developers who bought our government officials led the way and increased density for their own personal gain without proper planning. Now that individuals would prefer an alternative to sitting in the traffic that they created with the help of the developers, it’s too late to build the mass transit system that some visionary leaders might had built were it not for the short sighted, phobia driven views of folks like yourself. Why do you have so much trouble putting all this together?
Maybe it’s because you and your sympathizers can’t see this either: So you may have noticed that I’ve been thinking about the “contract” quite a bit. My main interest in this is how a group of leaders can not only stand in front of a country with enough confidence in their position to not only point out a systemic problem, but completely marginalize and de-legitimize the opposition, and then go about systematically shelving everything they claimed to stand for? And then make all the same mistakes of greed and hubris they so self righteously pointed out as flaws in their counterparts? And then not be challenged on it? At all?
How can that happen? How can a group of leaders claim sole ownership of such things as morality, faith and family, sacred things, then be allowed to govern on the strength of a “contract” holding those things up, and then instantly crap all over those who elected them on the basis of those promises and not be challenged? Don’t you believe that is dangerous for Democracy?
So who is lacking in moral conviction? Answer that for me.
Mid-South Philospher, would you like to take a crack at that one?
Oh, and in case you haven’t read it lately:
REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.
That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.
This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.
Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.
On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:
FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
By deegee
October 20, 2006 09:01 AM | Link to this
What’s the fundamental difference between Madonna adopting a child from Africa and my neighbor adopting a child from China? Everybody knows when Madonna sneezes, not so for my neighbor.
No one is naive enough to believe that voter fraud doesn’t exist. The issue is the timing and motivation of those enacting the law. Here is an example of why it’s an issue. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/19/D8KS2P 100.html
For you fair and balanced fans, here is what you missed this morning at 7:00am. The Today show was reporting on Iraq and the news from Korea. CNN was reporting on the news from Korea. Fox and friends was reporting on the changing of the leaves in Banner Elk, NC.
By Aquagirl
October 20, 2006 09:03 AM | Link to this
Nice recap of Judge Schwall’s comments. There’s a child molester rotting in jail right now! Makes my day!
But Jim, don’t be one of the Republican talking heads. To imply that the leadership(?)(!) didn’t investigate the Foley mess for fear of a vague Democrat/gay rights/liberal “drumming” is a disgusting spin. Now, I haven’t seen that Republican Contract With America lately, but didn’t it say something about restoring the accountability of Congress, and an alternative to “official evasion and posturing”? Oh, okay. Just admit that no one wanted to look for fear of actually finding something, and losing a seat in the house.
And I wish you had cited Cynthia McKinney as a good reason not to name anything after the living. Not that we should name anything after her, ever, except maybe a hair salon.
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 09:06 AM | Link to this
How can a group of leaders claim sole ownership of such things as morality, faith and family, sacred things, then be allowed to govern on the strength of a “contract” holding those things up, and then instantly crap all over those who elected them on the basis of those promises and not be challenged?
Because they’re Politicians — first, last, and always. The added benefit is that they’re lying republican politicians.
By harold
October 20, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this
public transit is an option every time you vote for more roads or taxes for roads, fool
you must just love taxes. harold thought you were conservative?
the most conservative transit is public transit. it costs less than roads!
By Political Foreskin
October 20, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this
Scientists have developed a crude cloaking device. Maybe that’s what happened to the WMDs in downtown Baghdad: They’re right there, just cloaked.
Cheney says, “we are not looking for an exit strategy.” Right. You never had one. Why start looking for one now?
Bush compared Iraq to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. I’m trying to see the connection…..Didn’t Bush desert during the time of vietnam? He’s not fighting this war either, but he’s the commander in chief, so technically he is a soldier…..he had to lie to get out of war during nam…..he had to lie to get in to war in Iraq…. but that’s hardly a parallel construct…..I dont see it at all.
Vietnam was fought against godless communism. Iraq is fought against….????
What are we fighting for? Who is the enemy in Iraq? What is the mission of US troops?
I honestly cant form the language to explain our presence there. anyone?
Be careful. You’ll end up lying to yourself or repeating bromides that have no existential justification whatsoever.
Walk softly boys……
By Humanitarian
October 20, 2006 09:09 AM | Link to this
By Woodward is a back-stabing-jew who uses goim, then betrays, and moves on. Don’t ya get it yet? Goim are mere animals, to be cheated in anyway necessary for the greater good of zionist Izrael. We goim don’t count. Spell it any way you want Goyim, Goim, Goomin, its all the same Yiddish crap. Izrael takes our money every year (lots more than gets reported), makes the arab world hate us, gets us to send our stupid animal jesus-freak christian soldiers to die helping to exterminate the Arabs, and still betrays us at every opportunity. There is no gratitude. Look up Frank Pollard, and see why we have sent him to prision for life. I will summarize, since most of you are too stupid to do the work of looking it up and actually reading it. Frankie-the-jew was an analyst at DOD, where he snuck around and obtained a list of American spies inside the former Soviet Union (this was the early 80’s). Being a good little zionist traitor spy for izrael, Frankie-the-jew gave the list to his masters in the Mossad. The Mossad scum then traded the list to Russia for the release of a few hundred Russian jews to immigrate to Izrael. The Russians arrested the entire network of american spies listed by Frankie-the-jew and their entire families. They were tortured and ultimately executed. For that Frankie-the-jew will spend the rest of his life in an American prision, unless the Butt-Boy-of-Yale pardons him, per the wishes of wolfie, libbie and all the other jew-bastard-traitor spies currently calling themselves neo-conservatives
By Political Foreskin
October 20, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this
Why did they name Spaghetti Junction after our Meatball Governor??
By Traffic Engineer
October 20, 2006 09:14 AM | Link to this
When oil is no longer available for your living-room-on-wheels, you right wing bigots are not welcome to ride on our mass transit. Stay the hell off Marta, CCT, GCT, etc, cause if you didn’t support it in the oil good times, the extra capacity won’t be there to carry your fat butt to work and the grocery store in the bad oil time.
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this
Best Comments So Far:
The Today show was reporting on Iraq and the news from Korea. CNN was reporting on the news from Korea. Fox and friends was reporting on the changing of the leaves in Banner Elk, NC.
I wish you had cited Cynthia McKinney as a good reason not to name anything after the living. Not that we should name anything after her, ever, except maybe a hair salon.
By Phil
October 20, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this
By Woodward is a back-stabing-jew who uses goim, then betrays, and moves on. Don’t ya get it yet? Goim are mere animals So basically what you are saying Mel, is that Jews are the cause of all the wars in the world?
By Aquagirl
October 20, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this
I thought spaghetti junction was named after a meatball DOT honcho. Very appropriate. You made the mess, you put your name on it, so everyone knows who to curse as they’re sitting in traffic.
By Van
October 20, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this
Political Foreskin,
Surely you must remember that the Tet Offensive was a terrible waste of man power. with a kill ratio of almost 15 to 1, the north vietnamese got their clocks cleaned.
The Tet offensive might even be called a pyrrhic victory, except the north did not come out the winner in that fight - a pyrrhic loss would be more descriptive.
While the terrorists in Iraq hae rachetted up the violence, they have taken terrible loses also. After the elections the levels of violence might go down, I guess we will have to wait and see.
By the way, we are fighting goddless people in Iraq, how could anyone proclaiming a belief in a supreme being walk into a crowd of civilians and detonate themself.
By JK
October 20, 2006 09:32 AM | Link to this
Hey I just read that “Contract with America” thing, I LIKE IT! So much so, I think I’ll vote for these guys next month. Heck, why didn’t somebody think of this stuff before things got this bad?
By the way, when will they start implementing these fresh new ideas, and how long do you think it will take once the new Republican majority takes office in January? Three months? Six months? Certainly no more than a year, right? I CAN’T WAIT!
By Lemon Bush
October 20, 2006 09:32 AM | Link to this
• Verdict for US President George W Bush, too. Whatever his failings in managing the war or the country, voters had the chance to inspect the goods prior to delivery. We saw, we considered, we bought. If he’s a lemon, he’s our lemon.
By Mel was Right, just to cowardly to stick by his words
October 20, 2006 09:34 AM | Link to this
Mel ain’t no hero, it takes guts to stand up to the pro-izrael lobby, and the career ending charge of “anti-semitism”. You can’t buy cover like that at any price, lie, cheat, steal, and if caught, yell “anti-semitism” and parade out a few holocaust survivors to tell their true tales of horror and betral. Phyco babblers say victims who survive brutality take on the characteristics of their captors. Holocaust survivors reportely (in the psyco babbler literature) treated their children like prisioners, and acted themselves like concentration camp guards. Israel itself has become more like Izrael the Nazi Germany clone in many ways. Imitation is the fondest form of flattery, so you jews must really admire the methods and brutality of your Nazi masters. The jews of the 1930’s have far more in common with the Arabs of today, and especially the Palistinians of today than with the zionist state of izrael and its efforts to exterminate the Arab peoples of the world.
By Yo Van, your ignorance is showing
October 20, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this
Van said it the Tet offensive “the north vietnamese got their clocks cleaned.” Wrong Van, the North vietnamese were involved very little it the Tet Offensive. It was the Viet Cong, you remember them don’t ya, the South Vietnamese freedom fighers trying to free their country from western domination? In Tet, the Viet Cong was virtually eliminated as an effective fighting force, and from that time on, the battle was taken over by their brothers in the North, the NVA. Read a book sometime Van, cause you are pumping out lies, again.
By sct
October 20, 2006 09:42 AM | Link to this
Mel should adopt a little Israeli baby.
By Aquagirl
October 20, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this
We got our clocks cleaned at Pearl Harbor, but the Japanese don’t exactly celebrate that as a great victory.
It was a tactical win, but a strategic loss, since our joining the war eventually meant they would get their butts kicked. Winning a battle may not mean killing more of them, or taking a city, or whatever. It means doing what will lead to your winning the war.
If only the Bush administration understood the difference….
By getalife
October 20, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this
They saw, they considered, they bought. If he’s a lemon, he’s their lemon.
Yes, w is a lemon and should be recalled.
By JoeD
October 20, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this
I have to comment on what may be the most absurd thing Jim W has ever written (which is truly saying something). Denny Hastert would have been driven out of office for homophobia for addressing the Mark Foley situation in 2003? What? Huh? That remark rises to a new level of assininity, raises the bar for stupdiity to new heights. And it’s repeating something a venter said. What a source! Jim, inappropriate contact with children is inappropriate contact with children and always has been. If you are trying to infer that homosexuals would protect a potential child molester in order to push their political agenda, then you are even more misguided than I thought. This kind of comment is just further proof the GOP and its sheep cannot take responsibility for anything that goes on in the Congress.
By Fat Fuzzy Gay Guy
October 20, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this
Since having a Photo ID is such a good thing to prevent “voter fraud”, why doesn’t Jim also push for its use with “absentee ballots”? Is that because only Good White Republicans vote “absentee” and thus Those Folks don’t need to prove who they are?
By Support the Troops for REAL
October 20, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this
Hey War Lovers: Here is what HERO Pat Tillman’s brother has to say. I think his devotion to duty, sacrifice, and pain have earned him the right to your ear for a minute. Read this and then screech about how THIS MAN “doesn’t support the troops.” You know, if you actually have the ‘nads to read it.
Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
By Ode to the chickenhawks
October 20, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this
We’re determined that the brave sacrifices of the keyboarders be memorialized in an appropriate fashion. Many of them had to watch hours and hours of Fox news to gather strength for their screeds. Some of them refreshed the Drudge Report for hours at a time
Recognize these brave bloggers like Van, Realfake, Time to puke, etc….
By deegee
October 20, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this
Van, you told us last week that you’re screwing around on the job but I didn’t take it literally until today.
By JoeD
October 20, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this
Does anyone see a coherent thought in the first or third paragraphs that Jim wrote this morning? I guess the first one is that Hethinks celebrity adoptions are bad. But he offers no facts to support his conclusion that they are only making a statement. Methinks Jim doesn’t like celebrities. For #3, I’m guessing that he is trying to say that since there is real estate fraud and marriage fraud, there must be voter fraud and the ID is the only way to address it. But what does the sentence “They don’t kid themselves” have to do with anything.
By time for the truth
October 20, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this
the obsessed homosexual rednekkks NAMBLA and the other far left vermin on here get ever more desperate in their pathetic abuse. the more abusive these rabid irrational Bush hating traitors are the more fun it is to read. their effete mongrel like sneers are superb entertainment and the perfect encouragement for all clear thinking conservatives. once can only hope that the likes of NAMBLA and maggot brain et al run into towel head terrorists who have been allowed to go free by the cowardly pig ignorant leftist opposition to the sensible, legitimate measures designed to protect the rest of us. if anyone deserves to suffer badly at the hands of terrorists its their far left AmeriKan enablers.
AS for the supposed comments by the brother of Tillman - assuming these are actually accurately transcribed with NO distortions or ommissions. They read to me as yet another embittered hysterical outburst of someone who lost a relative WHO VOLUNTEERED and is still very angry about that sad loss. But they also read as someone whose self indulgent wilful ignorance and distortions of reality is sadly almost as deranged as that vile b*** Sheehan. Whatever sympathy I had for Sheehan dissipated a long long time ago. Now I have nothing but utter contempt. This odious far left shrew was perfectly happy when she met Bush the first time - there was no deep rancour or abuse or obsessive bile. But the far left manipulated what passes for this feminazi’s mind and now Sheehan robotically spews treasonous lies and hysteria to anyone who will listen .Very amusingly the number of folks now listening is ever diminishing as the folks see her for EXACTLY what she is - a money grubbing grasping far left evil opportunist.
It will be interesting to see if Tillman’s brother is manipulated and used in the same cynical way by the hate AmeriKa left.
By Thinking Right or "NOT" Thinking!
October 20, 2006 10:29 AM | Link to this
JIM WOOTEN,
If you are truly concerned about Marriage Fraud, as you say you are with Voter Fraud - why haven’t “your party” suggested a National Marriage Database, with fingerprints and additional forms of documentation?
Not only that, but keep track of all the divorces; in addition, to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th wives in that same database. Then we can talk about the sanctity of marriage in this country. We have a lot more checks and balances in obtaining a marriage license and we still have fraud. Where is the national cry for something to be done about marriage fraud?
As far as Sheriff Myron Freeman, if he’s a lemon – the Republican Party is Lemonade. That would make our president, the head Lemon in charge. LOL:)
By Watta Load
October 20, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this
Again a truckload of bull manure from Jim Wooten…Hastert would have been “drummed out of office because of his homophobia” ?????!!!!! Are you friggin joking Jim…what planet are you on? Frist and Santorum are still there..so are most of the other homophobic republicans…
This from a member of the party that regularly entertains Perkins, Falwell, Dobson and the rest of the religous, gay hating loonies…
Hastert wouldn’t have been drummed out, he would have been made a hero by the religious nuts that have Bushy’s ear.
How stupid do you think your readers are anyway?
By deegee
October 20, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this
Voter fraud:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/19/D8KS2P100.html
By Rod
October 20, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this
Good Morning,
I think many of these celebrities are adopting for publicity purposes. However - aren’t the children still better off? Can you honestly say that a child being left in an orphanage in a Third World country would be better off than living in a Beverly Hills mansion with a loving Nanny? The child would have a much better chance of living past the age of 10.
By any chance is Fulton Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall running for an election? Sounds a bit like political grandstanding to me.
You stated: “Money has no conscience, loyalty or party affiliation. It goes to power.” This is right after you pointed out that the Wall Street money-changers gave more money to the Democrats. Is this your admission that the Power now rests with the Democrats? hehehe
I guess that’ll be it for now - unfortunately, tftt has thrown in some nasty, vile, irresponsible insults in here to mess up a pleasant blog and exchange of ideas (it was nice yesterday without her though).
By Lemon Bush
October 20, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this
Bush gave Iraq some lemon aid.
By The Pope
October 20, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this
Poster child for abortion: time for the truth
By Dusty
October 20, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this
So Jim Wooten doesn’t get it…Ha!
He’s got every one of you sore losers frothing and foaming at an early hour.
There’s the Siamese twins, Aqua and Debbie twisting the facts, JDGI who obligingly posts the Republican Contract every day (thank you), and all the push to the front of the line baby adoptees celebrating Madonna’s quick process. And Sphghetti Junction is named after a DOT honcho. Was he Italian?
Then there is the liberal joy over their special place CNN. Today it shows the shooting of American soldiers by snipers.
Oh yes, I forgot. “The unvarnished truth” as a CNN official said. Liberals support the troops but not Bush. More “unvarnished truth” by liberals? Even varnish could not cover the defects in that statement.
By sct
October 20, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this
Madonna is bringing democracy to those poor orphaned souls. God bless Madonna and the Republicans for spreading democracy.
By Enough is Enough
October 20, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this
OK Enough of this nonsense.
Pedophilia and homosexuality are not related in any way. Pedophilia is like rape, has less to do with sex than with power and self destructive behavior. Most people who have sexual attraction to children can not be fit neatly into a category of adult sexuality as their sexual thoughts are fixated on children.
This latest line of diversionary reasoning that Hastert would somehow have been vilified as a homophobe for taking action against a pedophile is the most patently offensive thing I have heard in a long, long time. If he had singled out Foley as a homosexual then yes he would have been vilified. But according to this infantile line of reasoning if Hastert had known Foley had murdered his gay lover and turned him in for the murder Hastert would have been considered a homophobe for turning is a gay man rather than a responsible person who turned in a murderer. Ridiculous.
Homosexual men are no more likely to be attracted to little or young boys then heterosexual men are to be attracted to little or young girls. All people, homosexuals included, find the actions of a pedophile reprehensible and disgusting. The very idea of propositioning boys for sex is vile no matter who you are.
For a journalist like Wooten to spout this nonsense as if it is some wise insight is extremely disturbing and to say the least irresponsible. This line of infantile reasoning does nothing but demonstrate ignorance and an unwillingness to see others as real people if they aren’t “just like us.” It is not cute, it is not clever, it is not insightful and it is not true.
To use this scandal as another excuse to take a shot at homosexuals in this country shows how desperate, ignorant, irresponsible and just outright disgusting the true conservative mindset really is.
Wooten, if you are man enough to see the flaws in this line of reasoning then I would hope that apologies would be forthcoming. I won’t, however, hold my breath.
By Enough is Enough
October 20, 2006 10:56 AM | Link to this
If anyone would actually like to read some facts on the subject of Homosexuality and Instances of Pedophilia they are here.
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html
I suspect that most will revel in their opinions though, as facts seem to have no place in debate anymore.
By Support the Troops for REAL
October 20, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this
Hey, Time for Tantrums, Pat Tillman’s brother enlisted WITH him, moron. That qualifies him to comment from a soldier’s perspective, not just a grieving relative. Of course, since you apparently have no loved ones of your own, we can all see why you hold grieving loved ones in such contempt. Please enlist yourself; your questionable citizenship is not a deterrent. When you die in the place of a young father, brother, daughter, or son, no one will miss you, and the life you save will be appreciated by many. What are you waiting for? Time to pony up.
This server is currently overloaded from all the people trying to read this from various links.
You can read the re-post here.
By Aquaman
October 20, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this
Dusty, Glad to see you’re back. And yes as what you and others term a liberal (i.e. anyone who isn’t lock step in support of the President) I am in glee over seeing snipers shooting at soldiers, especially since the video is so bad I can’t tell if they are shooting at my son or not.
What you said was disgusting and as a supposed parent of a serviceman you should be ashamed.
Yesterday you ignored these questions and since you’re here I thought I’d give you another chance to address them.
Exactly how was anything that was going on in Iraq a threat to the freedom you like living in?
And exactly how do you explain away all those quotes questioning Clinton when we were in a state of war in Kosovo? Were all of those people, your hero GWB and his shill Karen “Talk About Hillary’s Cankles” Hughes somehow loving America less then because they were asking the exact same questions regarding mission and exit strategy as the opposition is asking the current administration?
I’d love to see you try and explain this one away! Maybe you can get one of your friends to help.
Oh and forgive me if you feel I am on a “liberal rant” as you did yesterday. I am just looking for a good reason my son has been in Iraq for over a year rather than home raising my two grandsons after his tour of duty was supposed to have ended.
By Brian Curtis
October 20, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this
Dusty: Then why don’t you try to point out the defects in that statement. Just try.
I’ll repeat it for you: Liberals support the troops, but not the traitorous ninny who’s sending them to get killed for no reason.
Now, exactly what’s contradictory or confusing about that statement for you?
By getalife
October 20, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this
It is great to see all these so called “liberals”(Real Americans) posting on this “neonut” (Failed Americans) blog.
It seems most “neonuts” have cut and ran and there is only one thing left to do.
Get out and vote.
By Support the Troops for REAL
October 20, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this
Dusty? Dusty? Will you answer Aquaman, or are you busy checking your favorite hate-blogs for some clever put downs to use instead?
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this
There’s the Siamese twins, Aqua and Debbie twisting the facts
I have begged you continously to seek help or at least TRY to take your medications in the morning before blogging. Again, today, I see it is to no avail.
What truth, Dusty was twisted? The fact that there isn’t any PROOF that voter fraud has been committed, just some mad ramblings of a fanatical right?
Is it the fact that Wooten nor it seems Republicans in general, know the difference between homosexuality, ephebophilia and pedophilia? And they lump it all into one category?
Or that Jack Abramoff made more illegal money for the GOP then the Mob did in Vegas?
By deegee
October 20, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this
Rusty Dusty, He wasn’t Italian.
Tom Moreland Interchange, colloquially also known as Spaghetti Junction, is the intersection of the major roadways Interstate 85 and Interstate 285, along with several access roads, in northern DeKalb County, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named for Tom Moreland, a former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation (1974-1987).
By time for the truth
October 20, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this
I was unaware of that … but regardless of whether the brother is in the army or not … his brother comes across as just another embittered Bush hater of the vile treasonous Sheenhan ilk. Hopefully he wont allow himself to be cynically used and manipulated in the same way by the far left filth.
Funny how you far leftist arsewipes, like the abortion bucket escapee rednekkks NAMBLA, (just wittily mirroring back your abuse bubbaturd) are so glib about others signing up. I passed the age of enlistment a decade or two ago.
The Tillman brothers VOLUNTARILY chose to enlist, ranting about all this, as the post suggested he did, after he chose to do so comes across as very twisted embittered hysteria.
By Dusty
October 20, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this
Dear Aquaman,
Did you get any sleep last night? Well, your worry is understandable. No one with a son or daughter in Iraq could keep from worrying.
But if it is any comfort to you, I believe that our military is fighting terrorism right in Iraq and NOT in America. Those same terrorists that would attack us are causing great forment in Iraq in hopes of defeat there. But there is no doubt that the major target of annihilation by Muslim fundamentalists is America. They have said so. They gave us a preview on 9/11. They continue to plan, as recently as the plans uncovered in the United Kingdom show.
Perhaps in your concern, you have forgotten that our troops are our pride and joy and protection. Your son is doing his duty. He may be unhappy and homesick, but I doubt that he wants to cut and run. If he was in a Reserve Unit, there is always the possibility that he might be called up.
I doubt that my answers will satisfy you. But take pride in your son and the country. They are the greatest. And if you want to “rant” some more, go ahead. Maybe that will make you feel better but I doubt it.
By Van
October 20, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this
Yo Van, your ignorance is showing,
Well, I guess you got me there. I guess the VC and the NVA had no relationship then. I guess the Viet Cong supplied themselves from Laos and not down hte Ho Chi Minh trail
Butt head, the VC and the NVA worked hand in hand for the North.
By Van
October 20, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this
deegee,
Yes, there are benefits to working at home.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
October 20, 2006 11:39 AM | Link to this
[By Traffic Engineer October 20, 2006 09:14 AM When oil is no longer available for your living-room-on-wheels, you right wing bigots are not welcome to ride on our mass transit. Stay the hell off Marta(R)
You know MARTA runs off oil too, right, genius?
By time for the truth
October 20, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this
That qualifies him to comment from a soldier’s perspective, not just a grieving relative. Of course, since you apparently have no loved ones of your own, we can all see why you hold grieving loved ones in such contempt. Please enlist yourself; your questionable citizenship is not a deterrent. When you die in the place of a young father, brother, daughter, or son, no one will miss you, and the life you save will be appreciated by many. What are you waiting for? Time to pony up.
verminous pinko maggots like yourself have NO moral right to lecture ANYONE on any subject. I could care less whether you enlisted or not, its a puerile pathetic empty game that only yankkkeee mutants play.
Tillman’s brother maybe grieving - although his brother died a long time ago now. So the memory is hardly of the raw last week, last month kind. Volunteer soldiers, especially in combat units, which Tillman insisted on joining, fully understand the risk they are taking. Your disgusting (personalised) shiite is typical of far leftist sewer rats. But it is actually very funny that you actually post such deranged dishonest bollocks to a total stranger (thankfully) in cyber space. It shows how pathetically obsessed you are with your irrational Bush hjate etc. Folks didn’t do this in WW2 - they just got on with things, quietly and invariably with great dignity and honour.
time for you to f—- off!! …huge I loathe leftists smirk
By Markus
October 20, 2006 11:43 AM | Link to this
Will someone please tell that buttplug liberal “Jim Don’t Get It” “Jim’s A Distractor” etc. etc. that his/her/it’s “CONTRACT WITH AMERICA” post has been answered? Here is where I responded to that jackass, but never got a response. Idiots.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/thinkingright/entries/2006/10/18/theunonceagainapapertige.html#comment-747422
By Markus
October 20, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this
Adopting international children is just the latest bling in Hollywood. Liberals have to always do something that’s in the public eye that makes them and those they are trying to get attention from get that giddie goosebump feel good feeling all over. From Sean Penn looking like a bumbling idiot in a jon boat “rescuing” Katrina hostages (the tinhat jackass liberal should have taken a few pointers on how to move around in a small boat with a low center of gravity… or at least ensuring the damned plug was secure before launching) to Nicole Kidman’s adopted kids, it’s all about sensationalism and perception. Just like Madonna being asked to fund international children’s programs, I wonder how much Sean Penn donated of his own money to Katrina victims?
The voter or no-voter ID is about as hotly contested as Intel vs. AMD or Apple vs. PC. or Ford vs. Chevy. Both sides think they are right and the other is all wrong. However, voter fraud cannot be disproven, yet it can’t be proven either. There have been allegations of more votes counted than registered voters, “dead people” voting, “dogs” voting; illegal aliens voting, and voting in multiple precincts. If voter fraud doesn’t exist, then someone ‘splain to me how you can track down a voter who uses a utility bill from a neighbor or from a dead relative to verify they are who they claim to be or from a district they claim to be. What are you going to do? Run a poll to get answers? “Excuse me sir! Did you use someone else’s proof of voter eligibility to vote?” Oh hell yeah that would be an accurate data gathering poll. “Where’s the accountability?” Oh I know… it only needs to be in those damned electronic voting machines that Democrits came up with to replace the butterfly ballot that Democrits designed.
Why are liberals so upset at having to show one’s ID to prove who the hell they say they are? Liberal Democrits shout down from the mountaintops about “accountability” to we Republicans and Conservatives, yet they don’t want to address one of the most fundamental necessities to this nation’s very existence: being accountable for who you say you are as one legitimate vote. So, if voter fraud is non-existent as the left likes to claim, they should have no problem with a US citizen proving with an ID that he or she is who he or she says he or she is. It’s all in the meaning of the definition of is. After all, there’s nothing to lose there, except votes maybe.
Congestion relief indeed. Why haven’t politicians at the federal, state, and local level offered incentives for companies to allow more telecommuting? Not all cube jobs can be done from home, but a lot can. Sure companies love to micromanage their employees in their Dilbert cubes, but start giving companies incentives towards the bottom line, and they might just relax their grip a little. In any event, something has to be done. As 400 gets expanded, it’s only going to be temporary relief. Ten years ago Forsyth was in the sticks. There was nothing at Hwy 20/exit 14 but a Waffle House and Racetrack. Now it’s where Alpharetta was ten years ago. Alpharetta continues to see a boom in office park construction. Ten years from now Dawson county is going to be where Forsyth is now. The same can be said in Cobb and Gwinnett as well. The insane metro Atlanta growth shows no sign of dissipating from north to south to east to west to ITP. Oh, but we have that terrible economy out there, don’t we?
I just loved yesterday’s letter to the editor by some clown about the attorney with the helicopter in Cobb. Comments like “rich” just exposes the venom the wallet thief liberals have against those that have more than they do. I’ll bet this jackass doesn’t complain when Kerry flies all over in his wife’s $35M Gulfstream jet or when b!itchin’ Babs Streisand flies around in her private jet. I’ll bet this backyard laundry lifting liberal doesn’t complain when P-Diddy or Puff-D or who-the-hell-ever comes to town with gangbangsta hoodlums and shoots up midtown from Escalade and Hummer limos (go ahead, call me racist now you liberal nazis).
No comment on the Dirty Harry Reid scams. Democrits can do no wrong. EVER. That’s only for Republicans. Democrits can lie under oath, assault and rape women, molest youths overseas, be ex-Klansmen, drive off bridges drunk and run away leaving interns for dead, have shady land deals and not tell Congress about them, steal classified documents from the National Archives related to 9/11 and destroy them and only pay a small fine and say it was a “sloppy” mistake, scream we all need windmills in our backyards except their own backyards, tell us we need to drive hybrids while they ride around in their limos and SUVs and private jets, and they love tell us we are “hate mongers” and “bigots” and “homophobes” when voting against gay marriage yet they use hate epithets when referencing a gay person who just happens to be a Republican (ditto for Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics). No, the Party of the Jackass can do no wrong. Only Republicans can. Of course, Republicans claim a higher moral authority that Democrits, so perhaps the Jackass Party doesn’t have much of a foothold on the issue of wrongdoing in the first place: they have no shame. And that’s why we should have zero respect and trust for them on a personal and professional political level.
By Observer
October 20, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this
Dusty did not answer Aquaman’s questions. She did, however, use a patronzing tone which may or may not impress him.
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this
The Tillman brothers VOLUNTARILY chose to enlist, ranting about all this, as the post suggested he did, after he chose to do so comes across as very twisted embittered hysteria.
To say something like that is asinine and shows clearly the ConServATrons thinking. Compassionate Conservative?!! Ha!! What an oxymoron!
But if it is any comfort to you, I believe that our military is fighting terrorism right in Iraq and NOT in America. Those same terrorists that would attack us are causing great forment in Iraq in hopes of defeat there
Hmmmmm, quick question. How many terrorists factions were actually IN Iraq before America invaded?
By Support the Troops for REAL
October 20, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this
But it is actually very funny that you actually post such deranged dishonest bollocks to a total stranger (thankfully) in cyber space.
Yes, Time for Tantrums (followed by wanking, then a nap), I agree! You ARE too funny for the deranged dishonest bullocks you post here every day. Huge belly laugh at chickenhawk tantrum boy.
By Markus
October 20, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this
Liberman opens up 17-point lead over anti-war Jackass Lamont. Yep, just as I said two months ago when the anti-war media orgasmed all over Lamont being anti-war and giving Lieberman a real challenge, it appears Lamont has flamed out ala Air America. Lamont wasn’t even a splash in the toilet, let alone a flash in the pan.
Why do I call the media anti-war? CNN’s treasonous following of islamobastards shooting our troops… just like Hanoi Jane. Disgusting. They should be lined up and shot.
By deegee
October 20, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this
For those of you who enjoy staying awake during the daytime hours, Markus’ response to the contract with america post says that republicans aren’t happy with the broken contract either. I will respond by saying that you republicans got and continue to get what you asked for so stop whining.
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this
Volunteer soldiers, especially in combat units, which Tillman insisted on joining, fully understand the risk they are taking.
Compassionate Conservatism at its best….
Liberals have to always do something that’s in the public eye that makes them and those they are trying to get attention from get that giddie goosebump feel good feeling all over
At least they’re doing something. What has any of those Compassionate Conservatives done lately? Oh yeah, that’s right……they’ve bought bigger SUVs and hung yellow ribbons on them.
There have been allegations of more votes counted than registered voters, “dead people” voting, “dogs” voting; illegal aliens voting, and voting in multiple precincts.
“The evidence suggests that instances of duplicative voting, impersonators seeking to cast ballots on behalf of dead voters, and illegal aliens attempting to vote are too few and far between to justify the burden that these laws impose on all voters. Illegal aliens, especially, have a strong disincentive dissuading them from voting: For them, to vote is to risk unwanted contact with election officials, police, and ultimately Homeland Security’s immigration bureau - and thus to risk detention and deportation.” Kristin Clark Avery
In short, allegations are not facts. I can make an allegation that you are a closet University of Florid Fan and secretly watch all their games. That is an allegation, but what was said does not make the statement true.
By Van
October 20, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this
Regarding Madonna and adopting a non-orphan in Africa.
The rules for adoption in Britian may be too strict, age wise, for her. It might tie up too much time and money to adopt a black child in Britian.
I do know that the process is about 12-18 months long (30 years ago) in Tennessee. At that time, no one offered employee benefits to cover the legal costs.
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this
Volunteer soldiers, especially in combat units, which Tillman insisted on joining, fully understand the risk they are taking.
Compassionate Conservatism at its best….
Liberals have to always do something that’s in the public eye that makes them and those they are trying to get attention from get that giddie goosebump feel good feeling all over
At least they’re doing something. What has any of those Compassionate Conservatives done lately? Oh yeah, that’s right……they’ve bought bigger SUVs and hung yellow ribbons on them.
There have been allegations of more votes counted than registered voters, “dead people” voting, “dogs” voting; illegal aliens voting, and voting in multiple precincts.
“The evidence suggests that instances of duplicative voting, impersonators seeking to cast ballots on behalf of dead voters, and illegal aliens attempting to vote are too few and far between to justify the burden that these laws impose on all voters. Illegal aliens, especially, have a strong disincentive dissuading them from voting: For them, to vote is to risk unwanted contact with election officials, police, and ultimately Homeland Security’s immigration bureau - and thus to risk detention and deportation.” Kristin Clark Avery
In short, allegations are not facts. I can make an allegation that you are a closet University of Florida Fan and secretly watch all their games. That is an allegation, but what was said does not make the statement true.
By Dusty
October 20, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this
Poor pitiful Observer,
I have four sons. You think I don’t know anything about worry? One has already served in the military.
I don’t agree with Aquaman’s politics but I certainly understand his concern. Why don’t you give it a try?
By Jim Don't Get It
October 20, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this
tftt y Markus,
I’m much more interested in hearing what Jim has to say about how his party lied to America and how Americans such as yourselves seem to justify those lies than reading your tired, filthy prose.
I know perfecly well that Jim will not respond, because there is no way for him to do so without shattering his MO. Like any partisan on either side, he’s a hypocrite. He picks and chooses isolated nuggets of blantant failure and uses them to generalize extremely large and complex systems. Same as you two.
Same reason why Rush doesn’t have guests on his show except for the ones who’s agenda he is furthering. He does not want to be challenged or debated - that’s the first rule of battle. Don’t debate your opponent: attack him.
Same reason why Fox news doesn’t produce documentaries or news stories of depth. They can’t include too much info without having their carefully scripted message tainted.
But, since Jim does make this blog available, and does seem to ocassionally be interested in what people are saying, I’ll continue to post what I think. I think that all politicians are liars, but that the Republicans are particularly offensive due to the way in which they have siezed power and what they have done with it since.
As a reminder of the way in which they siezed power and how they have abused it, I offer the following (their words… celebrate them!):
REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.
That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.
This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.
Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.
On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:
FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
By DebbieDoRight
October 20, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this
I think he/she/etc. wants JIM to answer on the subjct of the Contract w/america.
By Jim Don't Get It
October 20, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this
tftt y Markus,
I’m much more interested in hearing what Jim has to say about how his party lied to America and how Americans such as yourselves seem to justify those lies than reading your tired, filthy prose.
I know perfecly well that Jim will not respond, because there is no way for him to do so without shattering his MO. Like any partisan on either side, he’s a hypocrite. He picks and chooses isolated nuggets of blantant failure and uses them to generalize extremely large and complex systems. Same as you two.
Same reason why Rush doesn’t have guests on his show except for the ones who’s agenda he is furthering. He does not want to b