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DEL.ICIO.USState’s high court shouldn’t be a mystery
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A measure of how successful judges and lawyers have been in seizing the judiciary from Georgia voters is reflected in a poll released Friday that asked 500 likely voters their impressions of the state’s most powerful court.
Buckle up. This civics class is in for a rough ride.
“A stunning 71 percent said they didn’t know or had no answer,” said Shelley West, project director at The Polling Company in Washington, which conducted the survey Oct. 11-13 for the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal organization.
When asked to volunteer any impression about the high court or any decision it has rendered, 2 percent mentioned voter ID and 1 percent each mentioned abortion, gay marriage, immigration, sex offenders and eminent domain — most of which are pure guesses.
Only 17 percent of Georgians know how many justices (seven) sit on the Georgia Supreme Court. Twenty-seven percent guessed fewer, with five the most popular response and 25 percent guessed more than seven, with nine the most popular guess. The U.S. Supreme Court does have nine. Twenty-nine percent refused even to guess at a number.
The “stunning” lack of familiarity with the most powerful court in the state is the consequence of decades of deceit. While the Georgia Constitution provides for election of judges, voters almost never have first choice. That’s because traditionally, judges resign as they approach the end of their terms, enabling the governor to choose their successor. If they resign within six months of an election, the new appointees are not required to stand for election until the next election cycle, more than two years away.
The gentlemen’s agreement among lawyers — a gentlemen’s agreement based on hard-knocks practicality— is that nobody opposes an incumbent. When they do, the establishment bar rallies ‘round. And who can blame lawyers? It’s their livelihood.
That system, a corruption of the plain requirement of the state constitution, is so pervasive that most Georgians have forgotten, or never knew, that the right to pick judges belongs to them. In the poll released Friday, 42 percent guessed that governors appoint justices to the Supreme Court. Another 12 percent had no idea. Only 41 percent knew that voters elect them.
There exists this year a serious challenge to a sitting judge. Mike Wiggins of Atlanta, who served in the Bush administration as deputy associate attorney general, is challenging incumbent Justice Carol Hunstein of Decatur, a 14-year veteran. It’s the choice voters should have routinely.
Wiggins, who graduated first in his class at the University of Georgia School of Law, has all the credentials needed to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court. While serving in the U.S. Department of Justice, he oversaw the civil division and the civil rights division. He served, too, as principal deputy general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, the No. 2 legal officer in a department of 1,400 lawyers.
By every measure it’s a top-of-the-line choice for voters in a race that would rank, with the attorney general’s race, as second in importance to the governor’s race. And yet, a legitimate contest is regarded as the arrival of the Visigoths.
Both sides here are well financed. In addition, a national business coalition concerned about what the Manhattan Institute think tank calls the “litigation industry,” is airing television commercials, independent of Wiggins, that raise the race’s profile.
The fact that an actual judicial race involving two candidates with bases of support alarms those who are unaccustomed to actual campaigns has drawn the hand-wringers, including Bill Bozarth, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, who advocates public funding for statewide elections. Others express alarm that business would take an interest in judicial elections, as though its interest in the leanings of courts with the power to bankrupt it is illegitimate.
Clearly, Georgia needs higher-profile judicial campaigns to educate voters about the high court and their right to elect judges. In the absence of full and fair judicial contests, judges should be nominated by the two political parties. Public financing, as Bozarth suggests, is another guarantee that the incumbent wins.
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By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this
If the Georgia Supreme Court exists to ensure that the Georgia Constitution is respected, then we might be observing the supreme irony.
On behalf of all Georgia voters, I’m filing a class action lawsuit against the Georgia Supreme Court and the Governor for corrupting our constitutional protocol.
Whose with me? Lets do it!
By Aquagirl
October 21, 2006 09:31 AM | Link to this
Jim, maybe 71 % of those potential voters had no idea because they’re stupid.
Voters are quite ignorant on many candidates and issues without “decades of deceit” by lawyers.
If we start electing judges who are populists, then all they do is rubber-stamp legislative and executive decisions. The existence of a judiciary that doesn’t have to defend themselves from cheap-shot political ads or raise money from special interests is vital to our system of checks and balances.
By Brian Curtis
October 21, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this
You’ll seldom see a political model that’s worse for democracy than popular election of judges.
The judiciary branch is meant to be a check on the popularly-driven and -controlled legislative and executive branches. It’s supposed to be beyond political fads so it can focus exclusively on legal interpretation and application, without being beholden to “the folks that put you there.”
And it’s the only branch that’s not currently under far-right control, which is why we’ve been hearing so much about “activist judges” and “legislating from the bench” lately. Neocons hate what they can’t control.
By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 10:27 AM | Link to this
The only judges I respect are hangin’ judges. It’s been months and months since I’ve been to a good legal hangin. Did they find Osama yet? I’ve got a good rope and a sturdy tree. I say we hang him.
George Bush? Do you have a strategy or a plan to get Osama yet? Oh, that’s right. We had him cold. But then your pal Rummy dragged his feet because you let the CIA be the boss in Afghanistan and he took his army and stayed home till it was too late.
Only when George relented and let Rummy be the boss, did he send his army reinforcements to Afghanistan.
Rummy is a traitor for that. W is a deserter during time of war,(vietnam). In a military court, deserters in time of war could get the death penalty, which I think is hangin.
Everyone knows it, but nobody does nothin.
That’s why I only respects da hangin judges. Roy Bean, we hardly knew ye!!
By time for the truth
October 21, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this
And it’s the only branch that’s not currently under far-right control, which is why we’ve been hearing so much about “activist judges” and “legislating from the bench” lately. Neocons hate what they can’t control.
brainless curtis hilariously humiliates itself again!! what brainless is REALLY whining about is that there are no branches under far left control. leftists always HATE what they can’t control, just look at the Bush hate on far left blogs, its systematically on a par in tone and bile with nazi hate of jews or mohammedan fascist hate of jews.
funny how brainless abjectly lies elsewhere in its pathetic post. the notion that leftist activist judges are “beyond politics …” is laughable. the far left nutters in the Kalifornia San Fran Sicko based appeals court get reversed 75% of the time because of their far left extreme liberal rulings. Brainless is about as honest as Clinton being asked about his rape of Juanita!!
By Eat mor Dawg Livers!
October 21, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this
Only the courts can save american democracy from the neo-fascist bushie’s. If the supremes give us the green light, those of us who have taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States are at the court’s disposal. If the courts fail, Canada beckons as the last bastion of freedom and democracy in North America.
By Curious Observer
October 21, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this
The only court that the wingnuts in Georgia can respect is one that routinely rejects any challenge to GOP-passed law and any challenge to the big-business-always-wins philosophy.
Who would want a Georgia Supreme Court consisting solely of Sonny’s appointees? You can bet it would give short shrift to ordinary people.
The wingnuts love to speak of the rule of law, but they gush contempt whenever a court ruling determines that a legal measure is unconstitutional. The only law they respect is the one that rubber-stamps their own prejudices. I, for one, am grateful that most judges are not subject to the whims of the electorate. Otherwise, we would already have seen a return to the Jim Crow days in this repressive political environment.
By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this
zzzzz
By Markus
October 21, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this
Aquagirl-
“Voters are quite ignorant on many candidates and issues without “decades of deceit” by lawyers.”
Now that’s an ironic observation considering most Democrat politicians in Washington are ex-lawyers.
By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this
(o)
By Markus
October 21, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this
Brian Curtis-
“And it’s the only branch that’s not currently under far-right control, which is why we’ve been hearing so much about “activist judges” and “legislating from the bench” lately. Neocons hate what they can’t control.”
Oh, and YOU Neomarxist liberals on the left aren’t like that? Hell you idiots on the left have been acting like you were never out of freaking power. Puh-leeze.
By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 11:07 AM | Link to this
<=3
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
October 21, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this
These people think you’re stupid, I wonder why:
By Angela Tuck The Atlanta Urinal-Constipation Published on: 10/21/06 Recent scandals involving members of Congress have some readers wondering whether The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is trying to justify the actions of Democrats while vilifying those of Republicans on the eve of several key national races that could alter the makeup of Congress.
Hey, the AJC’s gonna come clean, what do you know:
The few subsequent stories the newspaper has run on Reid’s actions have also appeared inside the newspaper.
Huh? That’s it?
Editors at the newspaper are mindful of reader concerns about disparate treatment of Republicans and Democrats. But decisions about how much is written and where stories appear are based on their news value.
Hahahahaha, yeah, O.K.
While Foley has resigned and admitted his transgressions, the story isn’t likely to go away anytime soon, nor should it. The man who once chaired the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus and introduced legislation this year to protect children from being exploited by adult Internet predators has now acknowledged doing exactly that.
Say what?
SEN. HARRY REID: Jim, it’s taken a while for this culture of corruption the Republicans have developed to come into fore.
The Washington Times, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, they don’t assume that I’m an idiot. The AJC thinks you pinkos are.
And they’re right.
{^*^}
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) called for the Pentagon to oust any CNN reporter embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq. “I think Americans like to think we’re all in this together,” Hunter said. “The average American Marine or soldier has concluded after seeing that film that CNN is not on their side.”
Agreed, it’s about time. But what can we do if their embedded with Al Qaeda?
{^*^}
WASHINGTON - House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra has suspended a Democratic staff member because of concerns he may have leaked a high-level intelligence assessment to The New York Times last month.
And the New York Times passed to Al Qaeda as soon as they got it.
{^*^}
“Hillary Clinton and I are from the same generation,” Elizabeth Edwards said Thursday. “We both went to law school and married other lawyers, but after that we made other choices. I think my choices have made me happier. I think I’m more joyful than she is.”-
Maybe John doesn’t get around quite lick Bubba does, either.
{^*^}
Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the committee, has protested strongly against the staffer’s suspension. Harman for several years has been a responsible member on the committee. But during the course of this calendar year, she has been making more shrill partisan statements and fewer thoughtful critiques. The most likely reason: pressure from the Democratic left.
{^*^}
The tragedy triggered three weeks of violence in which (Muslim) rioters throughout France torched cars, trashed businesses and ambushed police officers and firefighters, plunging the country into what President Jacques Chirac called “a profound {{{{{malaise}}}}}.”
Look at this, all pinko failures think alike, Carter and Chirac, two peas in a pod.
They should be making the Muslim rioters think of “malaise” but he’s too much of a weakling to drop the hammer.
{^*^}
Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
October 21, 2006 11:14 AM | Link to this
Gee, I wonder if Polly Foreskin just might be a child or maybe even a pinko?
By time for the truth
October 21, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this
The wingnuts love to speak of the rule of law, but they gush contempt whenever a court ruling determines that a legal measure is unconstitutional. The only law they respect is the one that rubber-stamps their own prejudices. I, for one, am grateful that most judges are not subject to the whims of the electorate. Otherwise, we would already have seen a return to the Jim Crow days in this repressive political environment.
just more empty twisted pathetic assertions from one of the biggest ignorant wankers on here. just vacuous unsupported bigotry - but enormously entertaining.
these dissembling leftist pricks smugly and utterly dishonestly forget that the vast majority of those appointed (for life) judges in GA are appointees of demoNcrat governors. Sonny sadly hasn’t been there long enough yet in his less than four years to make serious inroads into this demoNcrat ‘cabal’ that existed for well over a century.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this
Political Snakeskin-
Yeah, that’s about the size of yours I’m sure.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 11:38 AM | Link to this
Top of AJC newsbeat: Melissa Etheridge and her “partner” celebrate being “parents” of twins. How did Melissa do it?
Awe, that just makes me feel so good all over. Two times in six weeks the AJC’s Sunday Homefinder section has chosen to do a front page story on “domestic partners” and where they chose to live. Man I just want to join that kind of world.
Careful what you say liberals, remember your hatred and venom towards Foley.
By Ultar Maximum Secret
October 21, 2006 11:40 AM | Link to this
The much whinned about re-evaluation of the strategy in the Illegal, immoral, and Incompetent occupation of Iraq that has been called for this weekend is a sham, a cover for SOMETHING ELSE. That something else involves the arrival on station off Iran of an attack force loaded with cruise missiles, and attack aircraft. This weekend a decision will be made on launching a sneak attack on pearl harbor, eh, sorry, Iran. If Iran has half a brain, they will immediately launch all long range missiles at the TRUE enemy in Toilet-Aviv. I for one hope those missles are loaded with long lasting nerve agents. Persians, use your long range missles now, or lose them to a first strike is the advise that comes from the American Launch on Warning policy. What is good for america is good for Iran.
By Yo Markus
October 21, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this
Get off your fat A*, and get a job, you pimple faced puke. Get in shape, you Fuher will soon need you as a shock troop in the invasion and extermination of the Persian people, per the wishs of “he who must not be named” (You know, Izrael and it’s fascist spies high in the Bushie administration, may there names remain secret (am i doing good wolfie and libbie?).
By Markus
October 21, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this
Raise Taxes-
Go easy on the AJC. Their oasis is Midtown and other areas ITP. Moving outwards, their followership drops faster than Slick Willie’s zipper.
By F* are ok, pervert child molesting G0P Neo-scum are not
October 21, 2006 11:48 AM | Link to this
F* are good cause: They keep their property up, pay their bills, and don’t try to steal your girl friends.
G0P perverts are bad cause they molest your children, steal your shrubs, p** in your yard, and are easily purchased by a foreign government like izrael, start wars of aggression, draft your kids, destroy the american dollar, and yes, they are just plain ugly.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this
Uh oh-
I upset a resident liboloon RAT.
Hey JACKASS marxist liberal pig: I WORK DURING THE WEEKDAYS WHICH IS WHY I’M NOT ON AT THOSE TIMES MUCH.
Why don’t YOU get a life? Trash.
By Markus is a Liar
October 21, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this
You post all the time during the work day, and work week you lying dog. Now sew your a* up, you’re still dribbling on the floor from your gang bang last night at the Pink_Pony G0P fundraiser.
By time for the truth
October 21, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this
in the invasion and extermination of the Persian people
PLEASE DONT TOY WITH THE FOLKS arsewipe … say this is “true” … I’m ordering the popcorn now … only thing is will it be worth getting a bigger TV to watch Tehran go up in dusty greyish mushroom clouds? decisions, decisions!!
BTW NAMBLA - your spelling is pathetic today!!
By Yo Markus, you sound too much like that coward Kimmer
October 21, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this
I only pray I meet the kimmer sob at an anti-war march, and he and his goons try to take my sign away. Sonny says I can stand my ground, and I will, with extreme prejudice, if you get my drift.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this
I have come to a conclusion: we should have never intervened in Europe against Nazism. We should have just allowed Hitler to take over Europe, and north Africa.
The horseass left here apparently has such wicked hatred for Israel and Jews (like Hitler, like Billy McKinney & his freak ex-congresswoman daughter), has such passion for the State running companies (like Hitler), has such hatred for those that don’t think like them (like Hitler), and wants to shut up the voice of opposition (like Hitler), there was no reason for America to defend Europe.
Hitler is the left’s ideology. They would have made good little Eichmanns.
By Buy Danish
October 21, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this
Jim Wooten,
Personally I am torn between the benefits of elected versus appointed Judges. One reason I am wary of elections, particularly “non-partisan” ones is this sort of political maneuvering:
Judge hopeful hit by ethics charge Wiggins denies donation complaint
Is it safe to assume that Gary B. Andrews, the lawyer who lodged the complaint, is a Liberal Democrat, or are we supposed to believe a fairy tale that he is above politics?
If Judges are to be elected, I would much prefer that elections be partisan, and that nominees declare themselves members of a political party.
The idea that there is any such thing as a non-partisan Judge, or a non-partisan election is absurd.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:05 PM | Link to this
Yeah, our resident liberal freak from hell is off the chain now!
“You post all the time during the workweek.”
Everyone knows the times I post, which AREN’T MUCH, you filthy lying worthless RAT. You pathetic lying worthless to society anti-American communist pig.
By time for the truth
October 21, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this
SICK WILLIE CLINTON IS DYING?
This heartwarming story of karma revisited is the headline in this weeks National enquirer which I saw yesterday in the local shops.
The gist of the story is narcissistic sick Willie is so anally obsessed with his legacy and trying to force impeachment from the obituaries that he’s manically pushing his corrupt disbarred perjuring rapist arse into doing so called “good works” to try and wipe clean the human stain of his existence. So, given his health probelms and early deaths of other Clinton men he’s effectively “killing” himself according to insiders.
If there is a hell sick Willie certainly has a front row seat!!
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this
France scared of “youth uprising” again. Gee, what’s missing from this article? Clue: the word starts and ends with the letter “m.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/20/news/france.php
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this
Hey liberal clown-
I heard Kimmer beat the hell out of an ex-60s hippy anti-war POS. Be careful little mouthy boy, you never know what that other person is capable of.
By Markus, your ignorance is showing, again
October 21, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this
We (america) did not save europe from hitler, you idiot. The Russians are the real saviors of Europe, the they took the full might of the German blitzkreig, suffered terrible losses, and faught back, alone. They drove the best 2/3 rds of the German army all the way back to Berlin. The pussyassed americans fought only the bottom 1/3rd of the German Army, and almost lost. If Stalin had half a brain, he would not have pressed for the opening of the second front (D-Day), because if we had not invaded in 1944, the Russians would have been waiting for us on the beaches on Normandy in 1945. They would have repelled our invasion, and driven our pussyassed army into the sea.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
October 21, 2006 12:14 PM | Link to this
Markus: Precisely.
The ITP liberals are disciples of junk science, advertising and all the latest fads, which they worship as though they were in Church. Putting two que-ers on the front page and calling them “parents” makes the pinkos feel like some kind of bold pioneer, going where no pervert has dared to go before them.
They incestuously score points with each other by calling rednecks “stupid.” It’s just another form of self gratification, self congratulation on being “so advanced” and self justification so that they can sleep at night. They’ve never call each other on the hypocrisy, so truth doesn’t even matter anymore, if they don’t like what they hear, they’ll get a judge to rule in their favor.
Anything that gets printed in the AJC is gospel no matter how outlandish or naive. Their “ombudsmen” is a bald faced liar, a non fact checking, kook web blog watching, fever swamp story telling harlot who thinks that just saying it makes it all true, regardless of whether it’s based on reality or not.
This is on par with actions of your run of the mill three year old being caught in a lie.
And their stupid stooge pinko following can’t get enough of it.
By RW-(the original)
October 21, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
I would like to see judges be appointed and then every (fill in the blank) number of years face a recall election. They would never run against another person for their job, they would just have to face voter scrutiny of their record.
By Markus, put a kotec in your arse, at least stop the dribbleing on the floors
October 21, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this
Strange how similar van, time for truth, and markus all sound, eh!
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:18 PM | Link to this
The hero of the jackass left, AHCKmadenejad, now says that Israel will collapse and it’s allies will face the “boiling wrath” of Iran if they continue to support Israel.
I’m so sure. Twenty six years ago a four-pack of Israeli fighters (two F-16s, and two F-15s) destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. Go ahead little AHCKmadinejad, mess with Isreal. PLEASE.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/20/061020113636.w7x4yvau.html
By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 12:20 PM | Link to this
How about Melissa Etheridge having all those babies! Her first two children were from David Crosby’s donated dna, which is so ironic for David Crosby.
I mean, he bought his guitar in the first place so he could get laid. He finally scores and it’s in vitro: and he ends up having sex the same way he did before he bought the guitar!
By Wrong Again, Markus puke
October 21, 2006 12:23 PM | Link to this
It was three on one, kimmer and his two bodyguards against one 55 year old man. They were unfair odds then, but odds I would relish. Against 3 to 1, I can legally kill them all, cut off their heads, and play kick ball with their heads, while still carrying my anti-war sign. I will be out there with my signs, boys, so bring it on!
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:24 PM | Link to this
Our resident liberal anti-American POS must be smoking weed today:
“The Russians are the real saviors of Europe”
This must be what happens when you smoke pot in high school, skip classes, and read anti-American propoganda.
Still doesn’t change the fact that Hitler had more in common with current jackass liberals than anyone else on the entire planet right now.
Wow. On such a beautiful autumn Atlanta day, a flaming Ahole liberal is wasting energy on anti-American hatred.
Good, GOOD. Keep it up, asspirate liberal. You represent the Jackass Party well.
By another sneak attack by jew-bastard-cowards
October 21, 2006 12:27 PM | Link to this
Using american built and paid for F-15’s and F-16’s on one of their neighbors. No wonder every country in the world where jews have lived has come to hate and dispise them, eh!
By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this
Cartoon Idea: Show Paul McCartney singing one of his old songs but with new words….”Amputees and Irony, with judicial decree subpoenaed me, and has me stymied without a nuptial pre……”
Ebony and Irony (with Michael Jackson).
Hey, you could have Foley singing that song with M. Jackson too. “Molestees and Irony, ruined my rep with my constituency…..”
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this
To our resident filthy psychotic schizoid liberal garbage insinuating we Cons are the same:
Jim knows who is who and who posts from what IP. Take another toke.
By Buy Danish
October 21, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this
RW,
That’s not a bad idea!
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this
Gimmie a link to that Kimmer story to back up what you say, liberal garbage.
“Against 3 to 1, I can legally kill them all, cut off their heads, and play kick ball with their heads, while still carrying my anti-war sign. I will be out there with my signs, boys, so bring it on!”
Be careful, there might be a sniper scope 250 yards away zoomed in to your forehead zit, kid.
Anyway, you can do whatever the hell you want! Your little pinky picket protesting won’t affect the bubbles in my hot tub.
By Like I give a shiiit what the brainless dolk knows
October 21, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this
Markus Pussyass, your vailed threat is joy to my ears, bring it on, you fat arsed bigot. When I finish with you and your pals, I will have a little talk with your allies.
By Andy
October 21, 2006 12:44 PM | Link to this
Dye brainless, time for the tard, and Dorkus are part of a cadre of trolls who have been posting together on yahoo, Aol, and myspace.com for years.
They post to each other and with themselves as aliases. They are total trolls, and expect no more out of life than to be trolls.
They post 24/7 , and comprise 95% of the comments on this blog, (luckovich’s too).
They rep the right, but they dont know where they land on the spectrum. They cant even form the language to place themselves how far right of center they are.
They dont dare, because in trying to express that position, they would reveal themselves for the blog-simple dullards they truly are.
They are the dime a dozen denizens of every chatroom that every was. That’s why they have to post to themselves, everyone spots them in a flash, and ignores them.
and think just it’s damn shame that their mums didn’t raise them to be nicer girls.
Notice how easily I made them come unglued this morning with just six characters of type? (o) and <=3?
How easily manipulated the dented heads from the right are! I wasn’t even trying. Nor was I directing anything at them, they just tripped over themselves like they always do. I only have to gesture in their direction and it enlists a cornucopia of tard talk. True fallguys. Honestly.
Time for the tard has been trying to rehabilitate himself from the last time I tricked him into becoming unhinged. He actually made up an alias and posted these long comments to his own alias about why he “stopped blogging so much”.. BWAAA!!
He was posting to himself, trying to fool any possible naive lurkers out there who still doesn’t know what a cheek he is.
I dont think you fooled anyone, HandsThatGrip, and you may as well just drink the Jim Jones Koolaid and improve yourself cause that’s the only way you can impact this blog positively.
By Dye Brainless
October 21, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this
zzzzz
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this
Where are the Democrits? Where’s the Party Of The Jackass? Where’s Pelosi? Where are all the gloating comments about Gestapo-jackbooting the minimum wage to $7.50/hr? Where are the libonazis? I haven’t heard this much silence since Vincent Foster.
What, are the liberal girlie men afraid their real agendas might get out in the next two weeks?
Well, we’ll see if any of them have the ovaries to proudly say what they support on Georgie Steponanoctopus, P!ss Matthews, and Russert. We’ll see if the asspirate liberals will be manly enough to brag about their true intentions.
I know one thing: if I owned a small business and was forced by the libonazi movement to jackboot up my employee’s wages to insane levels, I’d close up shop and move to the internet faster than corn through a goose:
“YOU’LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT, STALINIST LIBERALS”
By bill capelman
October 21, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this
Justice Hunstein is an ethical, capable, and most of all,EXPERIENCED judge with an impeccable track record!
It’s not surprising that Wiggins was the only candidate that would even attempt to run against her. (inexperienced, and un-qualified.. As far as andrews stating he “is above politics”,…. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!! LOSER! GO JUSTICE HUNSTEIN!!!
By getalife
October 21, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this
macaca is an able bodied chickenhawk scared to fight in a real war.
Just all talk and not man enough to walk the walk.
Typical pathetic coward from the gop.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this
Who’s unglued, resident libonazi? I’m having a GOOD time. You’re the jackass freakozoid liberal that won’t give it up. And your 12:44 said it all, you sad, pathetic, no-life freak.
By Dye Brainless
October 21, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this
Dorkus: STFU!
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this
How many libonazis here have volunteered to build a Habitat For Humanity home for the “poor?”
By Political Foreskin
October 21, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this
And eye be just a tosser who thinks my opinion is more important than your opinion so I jack your name and post long, ignorant screeds with it, clueing everyone but myself into how much envy I have of your intelligence.
Heaven forbid I would honestly debate anyone.
Hahaha, hell, I can’t, 12:44 is the best you’ll ever get from me!
By RW-(the original)
October 21, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Thanks! I see ml got back from his UK tour of celebrogossip and got his Bush bashing crayons back out.
Jim,
Sorry about the scribbler comment sullying your blog, mikie doesn’t want his blog open when he doesn’t have his folks ready to threaten to ban every Conservative that posts.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this
Freak liberal @ 12:38:
Don’t kid yourself. You aren’t worthy of my time of a “vailed threat.” In fact, you aren’t worthy of my time other than insults. There’s lots of sun out there, foolish one. Get that shiny tin hat on and see if you can pick up Muhammed’s muthaship circling the planet that Louis Fairykhan keeps looking for.
I’m out now to spend some insane money on some stuff while the poor in downtown beg for money. It’s good to be me.
By RW-(the original)
October 21, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this
Markus,
It sounds like this clown stalker of yours is the one who got his a-ss kicked by the Kimmer.
By getalife
October 21, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this
W is strategizing on Iraq today.
Too bad his cut and run bs has painted himself into a no win corner.
The biggest clusterfuk known to man kind will be his legacy.
Of course, everything is documented and history will be easy to write for the worst President ever.
By Dye Brainless
October 21, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this
Time to exFoley-ate congress! Skin the GOP of pervs. (would there be any left?)
We need to repeat the experiment that Thomas Edison did when he used alternating current to electrocute the Republican Elephant. That is the feel good video of the last two centuries!
Hey, he killed the GOP with AC/DC! GET IT? Foley swings both ways, and he killed the GOP’s chances this november!!
Oh the irony! no wait! this would be ivory.
Oh, I’m good. Now watch Dye Brainless become unhinged and start ranting with his cadre of troll girlfriends: Time4thetard, Dorkus, and Realisp.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Yo Dog Breath Markus
October 21, 2006 01:30 PM | Link to this
You asked “How many libonazis here have volunteered to build a Habitat For Humanity home for the “poor?””
The answer would be “None of your business, buttt boy.”
By Mallory
October 21, 2006 01:48 PM | Link to this
J.Wooten, I’m unable to comment often during the week. I work. I do read your column & comments after hours. I’m interested in views expressed by others on the topics you present.
With all due respect, the poster below offers absolutely nothing aside from some incoherent sense of humor that he puts forward and alone finds funny.
He is a namejacker by his own admission, who has a hard on for a select group of visitors here.
I, for one, would appreciate him taking his woody brain elsewhere. I find his sexual innuendos offensive. I’m not in favor of censorship, but this guy is a verbal flasher who should be removed from Wooten Street unless he can agree to act like a normal human being.
By Political Foreskin October 21, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this
(o)
By Political Foreskin October 21, 2006 11:07 AM | Link to this
<=3
By Andy October 21, 2006 12:44 PM
Notice how easily I made them come unglued this morning with just six characters of type? (o) and <=3
On topic. I’m for appointments to state supreme courts. The voting public is too irresponsible and uninformed to participate in the process. I do, however, believe that transparency of individual rulings & ratings by special interest groups could serve as public recourse & recall if warranted.
By time for the truth
October 21, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this
The biggest clusterfuk known to man kind will be his legacy.
actually MAGGOT BRAIN … mohammed, your heroes stalin, mao and karl marx, hitler, sherman, mugabe, amin, the ayatollahs, soddom insane, the kennedy’s, clinton and the albore and a number of other similar POS are the real evil doers in history.
Bush is primarily a force for good.
By There Ain't No God
October 21, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this
I find Political Foreskin to be a breath of fresh air on this dog breath scented excuss for a blog. Keep Political Foreskin, but if you must waste someone, try Van, Marcus, the time for truth. Sincerely, he-who-hates-kimmer and his ilk.
By Mississippi State has Tied the Mutts 7-7
October 21, 2006 02:08 PM | Link to this
Stafford being intercepted right and left.
By Mallory
October 21, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this
Of course you would There Ain’t No God. You’d probably write your own name in on every political ballot while demanding no voter ID too.
Woodenbrain for trash collector. You’re qualified.
By Blog Dawg
October 21, 2006 02:43 PM | Link to this
They’re playing “The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart on Public Radio right now.
By Mallory
October 21, 2006 03:11 PM | Link to this
PBS is the left-handed master of the willing servants. Slap the servants often enough and they’ll lose their ability to stand up on their own accord.
By Blog Dawg
October 21, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this
End of Act Two.. Bravo. Fine Performances all around but the Countessa….wow.
Lets ExFoleyate Congress. Lets skin the Repudlickans of all pervs. (will there be anybody left?)
I think we should repeat the experiment that Thomas Edison performed when he electrocuted the Repudlickan Elephant using Alternating Current. That was the feel good video of the last two centuries!
Hey! Foley also killed the Repudlickan Elephant with AC/DC! GET IT? He swings both ways!
Now that’s Irony. or is it Ivory?
I dont know.
Now watch Dye Brainless act like the cheek spreading tincture swab he truly is!!!!
Becoming unhinged, Dye Brainless?
Whoops, Act Three and Four!.
The marriage of Figaro.
It doesn’t get any better than this.
By Buy Danish
October 21, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this
Actually, it doesn’t get any worse than this.
BTW, Countessa is not a word unless you speak Jibberish. Which you do, so I guess that explains it.
Freaking moron.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this
As this weekend sees the opening of the Iwo Jima-based movie, “Flags Of Our Fathers,” I would like to point out to you all the mentality and the attitude of the anti-American left in this nation.
Please reference the post here by our resident multiple-ID no-life freak liberal from hell.
Keep this mentality in mind over the next few weeks if you are really, REALLY that PO’d at the GOP right now. Think about it…
By Mallory
October 21, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this
Somebody needs to drop the curtain on Political Foreskin a/k/a There Ain’t No God a/k/a Blog Dawg.
His taste in opera in limited by his wooden brain.
By A real moron
October 21, 2006 04:54 PM | Link to this
Jibberish is not a word. Unless you speak ebonics or are referring to a computer game.
Man, stupidity and arrogance, so common in wingnuts, are just flat out fall down funny sometimes!
By Sell Strudel
October 21, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this
Let’s exFOLEYate congress of all pervs!! That’s right, remove the dead skin(heads). (will there be anyone left?)
We should repeat the experiment Thomas Edison performed where he used alternating current to electrocut the Repudlickan Elephant!
Hey! Foley also killed off the Repudlickan Elephant with AC/DC. Get it? He swings both ways: children and the underaged.
Very satisfying performance out of Houston today of the Marriage of Figaro. That last act, and the andante next to the finale….sublime perfection….the musical equivalent of true acceptance and love….
after I hear this opera, I always go to an Italian Trattoria. Shrimp Parmegian. Fetticini alfredo. Veal Marsalle. Wine wine and more wine!!!!
BTW: If you are one of the chaffed rectums who blog for the right, I strongly urge you to learn this opera. It will save you.
Until you do, become a Nathan Hale patriot and stfu.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this
Hey libonazi freak from hell-
I’m not into that artsy fartsie liberal opera crap. Don’t shove that artsy fartsy crap down my throat. Classical, I can Handel. But keep your stage queers to yourselves in San Freaksicko and New Yawk.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 05:17 PM | Link to this
100,000,000 million people in 1915, 200,000,000 people in 1967, and 300,000,000 people this week. The good news is that jackass liberals are non-breeding themselves right out of existence. Yeah that’s right jackhole liberals… keep aborting, shacking up, doing drugs, committing crimes, experimenting with the same sex, and joining anti-American groups. You ungodly asspirates won’t be missed. Oh yeah, and keep calling us “breeders” too, pinheads.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/09/29/notes092906.DTL&feed=rss.mmorford
By Buy Danish
October 21, 2006 05:18 PM | Link to this
If you speak Jibba Jabba, like the Opera Queen, then it morphs into Jibberish.
Would you like to argue that point?
By Mallory
October 21, 2006 05:22 PM | Link to this
The Marriage of Figaro. Outwit the master. You can’t even master your own repetitive nonsense. How many times are you going to repeat your exFOLEYate obsession?
Maybe I hit a nerve with the gay opera link. Maybe the pedophile Foley has your bowels in an uproar.
Ergo your stfu woody.
By A real moron
October 21, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this
Back and fill, back and fill….
If you’re going to correct someone’s use of language, use correct language in your correction.
sorry Danish— you’re a pompous illiterate. Probably an illegal, since English is your second language.
By G0Pers Suck Whatever's available
October 21, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this
Markus quote “Don’t shove that artsy fartsy crap down my throat” Hey big boy, that’s not what you said last night at the pink-pony G0P Gala, Ah believe ya kept scream “more more, give me more, Mr. President.”
By Ah pass Natural Gas in the Face of kimmer
October 21, 2006 05:30 PM | Link to this
you sorry excuse for a human being, you need a good bbiittcchh slapping.
By Mallory
October 21, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this
Political Foreskin with all his other persecuted personas is closeted. A big woody with a big chip on his shoulder.
Why make your problem everybody else’s fault.
What a loser!
By Markus
October 21, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this
Libonazi-
What’s up with your infatuation of this “pink pony” thing? Last I heard, that used to be a fleabag dump where RAT politicians did their “business” on Buford Highway with fellow skank before the Democrit voter constituency took over.
That’s ok. The more you and your ilk trash the traditional family, the more your internal hatred of this nation and God will be your downfall, Lucifer’s son. Know it. Learn it. Live it. Do it. Communist anti-American sewage.
By m
October 21, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this
Libonazi-
Yup, you’re the little liberal pantywaste that got your @ss kicked by Kimmer, arentcha? Too f’n funny.
By Buy Danish
October 21, 2006 05:47 PM | Link to this
5:23,
I chortle as you burble on.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
October 21, 2006 05:49 PM | Link to this
BAGHDAD — Dozens of Iraqi Shi’ite and Sunni clerics meeting in the Muslim holy city of Mecca yesterday called for an end to sectarian violence that many fear could lead to civil war in Iraq. Sponsored by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the meeting approved a declaration prohibiting the killing of Muslims in Iraq and called for safeguarding the unity of the country.-WashingtonTimes
Getting tired of killing each other for no reason?
About time.
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Recent events highlight the growing isolation of the jihadists and their Saddamite allies: A tribal alliance has joined together all Arab Sunni clans of western Iraq in a united front to “chase al Qaeda out of Iraq.- NYPost”
Getting tired of Al Qaeda killing you for no good reason?
About time.
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Around the time the country’s population hit 200 million, biologist Paul Ehrlich, always good for a bit of doom and gloom, compared “America’s pride in her growing population … to a cancer patient’s pride in his expanding tumor,” according to Time magazine. Stewart Udall, a former Secretary of the Interior, thought 100 million sounded like a better number than 200 million. Messrs. Ehrlich and Udall are still among our 300 million, but their population bomb has conspicuously failed to explode, which may go some way toward explaining why, in the popular imagination at least, this week’s milestone did not prompt widespread anxiety about the future.-OpinionJournal
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If you suspect there are forces eager to suppress Republican turnout, you are right. Rarely has the press echoed Democratic themes as relentlessly as it has in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign. And the main theme is that Republicans are about to be blown away. The question now is whether this message will persuade Republican voters to stay home on Election Day. It shouldn’t, so long as Republicans—and especially conservative Republicans—act like adults, not like petulant children angry over one thing or another that didn’t go their way. Would Democrats join with social and religious conservatives to curb abortion and block same-sex marriage? Never in a million years. Would Democrats please small-government conservatives by cutting taxes and limiting spending growth? Not a chance. Would they thrill libertarians by pursuing privatization of Social Security or by resisting the demands of the global-warming faddists for a full-blown regulatory state? Don’t bet on it. Would they satisfy moderates by compromising with conservatives? Only under duress. Rather, the prerequisite for attaining any of these goals is a Republican Congress. It’s as uncomplicated as that.-WeeklyStandard
Don’t be a cut and run Conservative, vote!
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What bothers me is the way “interactive culture” has given way to a general lack of accountability for the written word. There are plenty of intelligent voices on the Web, but too often “shared opinions” becomes a euphemism for insane spewing.-LATimes
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Bonus cartoon that doesn’t suck!
By Markus
October 21, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this
I sincerely hope Kerry runs again. I can’t wait for him to be the MAN and take on the Swift Boat Vets again. Meh, he never even sued them for SLANDER stating he had “run out of money.” Yeah riiiiiiiight… with Heinz at the Helm? Dumbaasss liberal.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 05:55 PM | Link to this
Boy, I sure am glad Al Sore told us about all those hurricanes we’d be having this year. Gas shot down on the immentent threat that wasn’t to be… kinda like Y2K where Clintoon’s economy started going titsup. What kind of economic advisers did that jackass have anyway? The same ones Sore had on weather patterns?
By Buy Danish
October 21, 2006 05:57 PM | Link to this
Mallory,
Whatever you do, don’t go hereor hereto dine tonight, unless you want to bring someone with you who would like the honor of beating the Opera Queen into a well-deserved pulp.
Perhaps Markus will volunteer.
By Son of the Morning Light
October 21, 2006 05:58 PM | Link to this
Your soul is mine, Markus, I will feed it slowly to your children.
By Ah pass Natural Gas in the Face of kimmer
October 21, 2006 06:00 PM | Link to this
and your slut daugher is going to give it to you, Marky Mark Markus up your assets.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this
If Republicans hold on to power in a few weeks, I’d like to thank the liberal media for scaring mainstream America into voting by gloating that Republicans are destined to lose.
Then of course, we’d have to deal with the lies and cries of fraud.
By Dead neocons walking
October 21, 2006 06:04 PM | Link to this
I can’t believe how the GOPugs are now BEGGING the disenchanted to vote. Too little too late!!
Meanwhile, a US official kisses butt on Al Jazeera!!!
BAGHDAD, Iraq Offering an unusually candid assessment of America’s enterprise in Iraq, a senior U.S. diplomat said the United States had shown “arrogance” and “stupidity” in Iraq
Glad to see a few score Iraqis are talking peace. Wonder if they’ll get the other 23 million to dance?
Bring the troops home. Vote the fools out November 7.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 06:06 PM | Link to this
You are already dead, libonazi. I knew that. God is on my side. I knew that too. You don’t know it yet, but you will in time. In time.
By Markus
October 21, 2006 06:13 PM | Link to this
Hey deadbeat-
If you haven’t heard the phrase “silent majority” yet, I’d suggest you do a little research. Just in case you lose yet again. For once I’d just like to see you asspirates on the left concede an election you bungholes lost fair and square.
By Brian Curtis
October 22, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this
Love to, Markus, as soon as the neocons actually WIN one “fair and square.”
Meanwhile on the actual topic: popular election of judges = bad idea. Populist control is for the other two branches; the judiciary is for protecting UNPOPULAR positions and rights (like child-labor laws, integration, freedom of choice… you know, all that stuff that the mooing herd is against because they don’t understand their own Constitution).
Forcing judges to kowtow to the far-right agenda… making them another set of puppets on neocon strings… is their fondest wish, and one their brain-dead fundie followers fully support. (“Maybe we can finally outlaw all religions but ours! Yay!”)
By DublDawg
October 22, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this
People are not familiar with it because they don’t care. Why learn about that when there is a re-run of Seinfeld followed by Sex And The City? If people did care about Goergia’s judiciary, virtually none of the judges on the Superior Court of Fulton Co. or State Court of Fulton Co. could get re-elected.
Yes, an elected judiciary has tons of downside, and they don’t do a lot to get unelected. I generally disfavor it, but every now and then an experience with life-tenured federal judges and the arrogance displayed there makes me re-examine my position. The threat of getting booted might temper some of that black robitis the feds display.
One could easily find seven accomplished lawyers who could do a better job than the seven currently sitting on the bench of the GA Supreme Court. None of them were highly accomplished, revered practitioners, and they epitomize the problem with judges today: the candidates are not successful lawyers who made it in the private sector, but are instead retreatists who couldn’t hack it and were looking for a government check. Highly accomplished lawyers can’t afford to go on the bench and many don’t like the idea of being on the govt payroll.
Wiggins is not a better alternative, he spent way too little time in the private sector and way too much time on the government payroll. “I don’t want people on the bench that have the mentality that those representing the govt are good people representing all of us, like I once did.” The last thing that benefits the public is a “government is always right justice.” You can disregard Wiggins’ claim to be number one in his class; book learning without the practial application and experience are useless in the law. I’d rather have a top-half graduate with a lot of experience and accomplishment than a paper tiger like Wiggins.
I’d rather have a guy straight out of private practice going onto the Supreme Court with a lot of experience representing people and experience living with sorry decisions that the courts have made than a political hack who wanted on the govt payroll. Avoid govt lawyers and academics on the bench like the plague! Unfortuantely, the trend towards selecting those two types of candidates has become pronounced at the state and federal level, because the ones making appointments want a predictable loyalist. Just look at the appointments mande by both Bush and Sonny.
BTW, Zell Millers appointmnets sucked too, because they were based more on race, gender, and political patronage to keep the leftists happy than they were on ability.
Unfortunately, ability and personal accomplishment in the private sector representing PEOPLE, not large corporations, insurance companies, and government are not the top criteria as they should be.
By Brian Curtis
October 23, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this
DDawg: In that case, maybe another approach would satisfy us both… such as term limits for judges. Still keep them out of the election fray (nominated, reviewed, and appointed), but set limits on how long they can stay on the bench.
Whattaya think?
By Pompano
October 23, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this
I would personally like to see more non-lawyers on the bench. Individuals exercising good common sense would fashion better and more consistant decisions that the current batch of god-complex jerks.
By Van
October 23, 2006 01:54 PM | Link to this
Why is appointing Judges, after review by the State Senate, for a term of 5 years,10 years or whatever is legislated, not a viable option?
Seems to work for the US Government.
By Edwin Williams
October 23, 2006 03:17 PM | Link to this
The problem with all of these arguments against judges being accountable to the electorate on the state and local level because somehow that would make the court too “populist” is inane on its face. That same argument has often been used in favor of dictatorships and monarchies.
By Brian Curtis
October 23, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this
Edwin: I don’t think so. We’ve got a three-branch government, and two of those branches are already accountable to/controlled by what’s “popular.”
The third needs to be looking out for what’s UNpopular, i.e., the rights of minorities. Otherwise, you’d just need to collect enough votes to overthrow freedom.