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DEL.ICIO.USLiberals go nowhere with same old deal
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
About noon on Monday, a school day, about 15 teenagers - none, presumably, old enough to buy liquor — sat around an apartment complex drinking and “thinking about” a 14-year-old shot to death by a pizza delivery driver who was being robbed.
Either scene — the small business from which the pizza was dispatched or the one where the shooting occurred — speaks volumes about the pathologies that afflict communities, pathologies that incubate poverty and destroy neighborhoods.
Reporter Ernie Suggs describes the small business, Super Crown Pizza in southwest Atlanta: “Bars are on all of the windows and doors … cashiers and cooks work behind bulletproof glass. Counterfeit bills are taped to the wall, along with a long list of people not to deliver to, who have obviously cheated Super Crown in the past.”
The 44-year-old delivery man, a Pakistani immigrant working two jobs to support his two daughters, has been robbed and beaten at least twice. Delivering to an apartment complex late at night, he told police he was approached and robbed by a group of “three or four” people. During the confrontation, he shot and killed one of the alleged assailants, the 14-year-old.
Flash back now to an appeal three prominent Democrats made in the days leading up to November’s general election.
“On November 7th,” said U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), “we face the most dangerous situation we ever have. If you think fighting off dogs and water hoses in the ’60s was bad, imagine if we sit idly by and let the right-wing Republicans take control of the Fulton County Commission.”
“The efforts” of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others “will be lost,” warned Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.
“Unless you want them to turn back the clock on equal rights and human rights and economic opportunity for all of us,” elect the Democrat, said former Ambassador Andy Young. Concluded Lewis: “Your very life may depend on it.”
Step back and reconcile the facts on the ground with the rhetoric on the air.
Lewis, whose rhetoric was most incendiary, clung to his contention that “there are radical branches of the Republican Party who want to take us back,” as he wrote in an op-ed just after the election. He continued: “They want to undo the New Deal and Great Society programs … These neoconservatives make no secret of their desires to turn back the clock. And for many voters, especially minorities, that would represent a state of emergency.”
The various slurs can be disregarded, for it is abundantly clear that to some deeply partisan liberals, any conservative or Republican to the right of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is “right-wing.” The question does arise, though, as to how the Republican threat the three prominent Democrats envision relates to the needs of the besieged business and the culture of crime along Campbellton Road.
The problem with liberalism is that its New Deal-Great Society programs are spent. Some have been tried — in a dozen, or a score, or 50 iterations and designs — and none changes the facts on the ground, either in the apartment complex or for the pizza store.
Nobody’s going hungry in that neighborhood because food or help’s not accessible. Nobody’s unsheltered or cold, as poor farmers, tenants and urban slum-dwellers were half a century ago. Nobody’s income status blocks their access to medical care. Schools and textbooks and education options are universally available.
And yet a company like Crider Poultry in Stillmore, the object of considerable press attention because of the large number of illegals it employed, is hiring felons bused in daily from a Macon diversion center 96 miles away. Half the free-world applicants since the illegals left don’t pass drug tests or reference checks, and of those who do, many have poor attendance or quit quickly, said Crider’s president, David Purtle. “Our challenge is — in hiring unskilled people — their ability to understand what’s expected of them,” Purtle said. “Attendance is important. No acting up, no mouthing off. They just haven’t learned.”
New Deal? Great Society? Both addressed worlds that existed generations ago. That Big Government Democrats cling to them, while governing the world that exists at both ends of the pizza delivery man’s journey into the dangerous night, is a measure of how dated their solutions have become.
- Jim Wooten is associate editorial page editor. His column runs Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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By getalife
December 2, 2006 12:22 PM | Link to this
Liberals, blah, blah, blah…..
From the Washington Post:
“Historians are loath to predict the future. It is impossible to say with certainty how Bush will be ranked in, say, 2050. But somehow, in his first six years in office he has managed to combine the lapses of leadership, misguided policies and abuse of power of his failed predecessors. I think there is no alternative but to rank him as the worst president in U.S. history.”
Much better editorial.
By getalife
December 2, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this
Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont pledged greater scrutiny of such government database-mining projects after reading that during the past four years millions of Americans have been evaluated without their knowledge to assess the risks that they are terrorists or criminals.
This is the guy Cheney told to go f******* himself.
Oh, the irony, the karma, payback is hell.
Investigate.
Indict.
Impeach.
Incarcerate.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this
I think the pizza in Bloomberg’s New York City is without peer.
And I think that Jim Wooten should blog AFTER he has his lunch.
Conservative’s tone has changed since the election sweep. It’s getting rancorous.
Are we headed for a civil war? The pepperonis vs the cheeses?
I prefer just cheese on my NY pizza. Anything else is a sacrilege.
Pizza in NYC: worth the drive from atlanta.
(ditto the pastrami on rye at the carnegie deli)
By Vincent Calamari
December 2, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this
Jim is right on with his assessment. Democrats have nothing unless they can keep the black community thinking that they are still victims. Racist Democrats by the likes of Lewis, Franklin, and Young don’t want anyone to think that they can accomplish anything. They want to keep reminding them that they are all victims. Democrats and Black leadership in general have nothing to offer but victimhood.
By getalife
December 2, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this
“Kicked Out: Hastert Surrenders Speaker’s Office… Harris Sulks Alone At Starbucks… Santorum Giving Away Cubicles On Craigslist”
Yep, karma.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this
I thought Wooten’s use of the word “score” was very Lincolnesque.
By Aquagirl
December 2, 2006 01:01 PM | Link to this
Uh, Jim, that delivery guy’s daughters will be paying for a loooong time on the Republican Medicare drug benefit. Entitlement isn’t a Democratic idea.
And Crider Poultry doesn’t pay enough for decent people to work there. If they didn’t have to compete with all the other chicken processing plants that employ illegals, then they could raise wages and pass that along. But we don’t see the Republicans cracking down on all employers and restoring a free market economy.
And what does a urinalysis have to do with processing chicken? Who cares what chicken processing workers do in their off time? Oh, the nosy conservatives. I forgot.
By Plastic Pelosi
December 2, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this
Yes, the Liberal fight song (is it 100 hrs. yet?) for all the Laverne and Shirleys:
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Schlemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated.
We’re gonna do it! Give us any chance, we’ll take it. Give us any rule, we’ll break it. We’re gonna make our dreams come true. Doin’ it our way.
Nothin’s gonna turn us back now, Straight ahead and on the track now. We’re gonna make our dreams come true, Doin’ it our way.
There is nothing we won’t try, Never heard the word impossible. This time there’s no stopping us. We’re gonna do it.
On your mark, get set, and go now, Got a dream and we just know now, We’re gonna make our dream come true.
And we’ll do it our way, yes our way. Make all our dreams come true, And do it our way, yes our way, Make all our dreams come true For me and you
By New Life Church
December 2, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this
Our Minister can’t pass them silly drug tests either.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this
Wooten’s Blog
Here is what I read:
A pizza delivery man shot and killed a 14 year old mugger. This is a symptom of poverty, but how does ‘06 campaign rhetoric relate to the culture of crime along the pizzaman’s route?
No social legislation has ever altered this country’s culture of crime, yet utopian features of equal access to food, housing, medical care and education have emerged in the last half century.
Felons dont work or play well with others at the Crider Poultry in Stillmore.
Old social programs are old social programs.
By sct
December 2, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this
Welfare reform was a big Clinton Administration victory. Welfare roles declined by 57%, child poverty decreased greatly as well.
Public Housing units have been demolished by the thousands. These New Society dinosaurs were torn down by the Atlanta Liberals. The murder rate has gone from nearly 300 a year a few years back to 90 last year.
Significant, verifiable progress.
What exactly has been done the past 6 years. Nothing. Don’t Republicans have any ideas? Oh, yea you do. The $241 million dollar a year abstinence only program that has turned out to be a total failure. Big Government liberal Republicans just want to keep wasting money on things that do not work.
Here’s another part of the Republican “plan”. Take away scholarships for people on Welfare. Welfare recipients I guess are not allowed to get their lives back from drugs and adolescent behavior.
You may get a waiver for past drug use if you are a famous Evangelical though.
Or a right wing radio commentator, or a wild oats sowing future president. Or a….
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 01:36 PM | Link to this
Jim Wooten I’m asking you what happened to the 15 teenagers sitting around at noon on a monday drinking and thinking……
….you almost referenced them with the phrase, “either scene”, but you failed to include it as a third scenario in the passage that followed which redundantly surmised the previous paragraph using the same amount of words…..
…are you drunk? stoned? just hungry? what?
Come on. I take heat when I miss, now you need to own up when you miss.
what happened?
By Diogenes
December 2, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this
Jim,
Thank you for addressing the issue of the Great Society. I will respond later after I’ve time to consider a rebuttal, but thank you for answering.
By Howard
December 2, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this
Jim…why anyone takes the ramblings of racists like John Lewis or Shirley Franklin is beyond me. Where the hell do they live? In these neighborhoods where all these hoodlums and druggies and thugs live?? Go let Lewis, Shirley, and Jesse and Al Sharpton go park their racist butts inside these bastions of liberalism’s Great Society and I guarantee you they would turn and run away. These evil people are after one thing…votes and power!!! Yes…blacks can be racists…these people are proof positive!!!
By venter
December 2, 2006 01:47 PM | Link to this
New Life Church,
Your comment: “Our Minister can’t pass them silly drug tests either.”
That’s not particularly important. The real issue is whether or not he pass the homophobic test. Because if he can’t accept homosexuality, then he needs to have an ungrade on his humanity.
By waz
December 2, 2006 01:51 PM | Link to this
getalife has no rebuttal except blah, blah, blah. “wow” a brainstorming liberal.
By getalife
December 2, 2006 02:05 PM | Link to this
waz,
waz u talkin bout?
By Midori
December 2, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this
Gee, I must have missed something - d*mn that “liberal media”.
I could have sworn that it was Republicans who were scrubbing voter rolls of blacks, and denying them the right to vote.
silly me.
the Republicans love us after all
Howard: what, exactly, makes Shirley Franklin, et al “racist”?. Because they call a spade a spade? Is that it?
By Midori
December 2, 2006 02:16 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
Waz, like most of his ilk, just can’t handle the truth.
Hey - what ever happened to Andy? Did the AJC finally tire of his idocy?
By jbmlaw
December 2, 2006 02:19 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon all. Jim raises two questions worth considering: (1) Do the goverment “welfare” programs do any good? (2) How do we cure slum mentality, primarily, but not exclusively, an African-American characteristic?
For the former, I think we have to concede that the programs do good. People eat more and better than they might otherwise. Fewer people freeze in winter, or die from summer heat. Whether the programs are cost effective is another issue. I often believe the real purpose for the programs is to provide government jobs for people whose educations provide no meaningful skills. Jim, validly, criticizes the way the programs were sold to the US public - as the “cure” for poverty, part of LBJ’s “War” on poverty. As either a cure or a “war” the programs have failed.
As to the second issue, “we” cannot cure a lifestyle choice. We can punish it, as we do with drug laws, we can impoverish those who embrace it through fines and parole fees (not hard to do, given the topic), but we cannot extinguish it short of doing what the government does best. A couple of recent books discuss the culture, Steven Levitt’s “Freakonomics” and Tom Sowell’s “Black Rednecks.”
By RW-(the original)
December 2, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this
sct,
How many times can you name that abstinence didn’t work to prevent a pregnancy?
By getalife
December 2, 2006 02:26 PM | Link to this
Great link Midori.
Andy’s last post included his name and has not posted since.
By sct
December 2, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this
RW, ironic isn’t it.
I’ve mentioned the “failed abstinece program” as many times as Jim Wooten has said “Big Government,tax spending liberal” this week. A LOT!!
Its amazing that anyone would think we ought to trust the liberal Republicans anytime soon.
Snap out of it!
By getalife
December 2, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this
“abstinence”, changing human nature is a joke.
Preach your abstinence but pass out condoms at the end of that joke.
Get real.
By Dusty
December 2, 2006 02:50 PM | Link to this
What d’ya know,
Andy isn’t posting and we get Getalife instead. Now that ‘s a bad swap if I ever heard one.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this
I adore Midori!
But with Jim Wooten, I be expectin’ that I donts be respectin’ no man whats donts live by the code: the writin’ code.
I have to give Waz the point in that last exchange with takemylife. Waz was funny, brief, germane, and beach-slapped takemylife like he was a dizzy little liberal twang-wang.
Love a good slapdown. Just love it.
point set match; WAZ!!!!
By getalife
December 2, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
I feel bad about Andy’s meltdown because I ruled him so bad the day before, I am probably responsible for him going all the way off.
I have been trying to get him to see a doctor so I hope he finally listened.
By Dusty
December 2, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Republicans WERE scrubbing the voter rolls of blacks and not allowing them to vote. That is the DEAD ones.
We even kicked a few dead WHITE ones off the rolls. How about that? Equal opportunity for one and all.
By Dusty
December 2, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
Andy doesn’t give two cents for your opinions. Don’t ask me just whom I think needs a doctor. I wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings. Besides, you already have a doctor.
By getalife
December 2, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this
Crusty,
I feel the same about your and Andy’s opinions.
Its all the same.
Liberals, blah, blah, blah.
Muslims, scared, scared, scared.
gop, rah, rah, rah.
By Dusty
December 2, 2006 03:19 PM | Link to this
Now, now, Getalife,
Take your meds. I am going to make peanut butter cookies. I will save you a warm one if you don’t get all bent out of shape before I get back. Cheers!!
By Midori
December 2, 2006 03:22 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
don’t you have a new vibrator to purchase?
it must have worn out awfully bad during the past 5 years.
By getalife
December 2, 2006 03:23 PM | Link to this
Oh, now you want to poison me like Putin.
Waz up with that?
By RW-(the original)
December 2, 2006 03:33 PM | Link to this
sct,
I thought it was a fairly simple question that didn’t really require your bizarre obfuscation. If you prefer not to answer just say so, but I’ll post the question again just in case you’d like to answer this time.
How many times can you name that abstinence didn’t work to prevent a pregnancy?
By sct
December 2, 2006 03:40 PM | Link to this
RW, I didn’t answer the way you wanted because I choose not to play your little blog games.
By RW-(the original)
December 2, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this
sct,
If a straight forward question is now a blog game I think you’re in over your head.
By Diogenes
December 2, 2006 04:09 PM | Link to this
Jim,
The Great Society is moribund, but that doesn’t mean the work is done. In fact, it may be that the work has only begun. It is unfortunate that three prominent Democrats chose to evoke images from the 60’s as a form of 21st century political rhetoric because it evades the issues just as totally as Republican rhetoric. To someone who lived through the political battles of the 60’s, these three are anachronistic and humorous. The fear is that someone might actually take them seriously, without realizing that they put on their motley only for that day. I wish they had chosen to deal with the real issues, the most important of which is the Republican disregard for human rights. Your comments that “Nobody’s going hungry in that neighborhood because food or help’s not accessible. Nobody’s unsheltered or cold, as poor farmers, tenants and urban slum-dwellers were half a century ago. Nobody’s income status blocks their access to medical care. Schools and textbooks and education options are universally available” show the success of the New Society programs (no matter how open to debate your assertions may be), whether in their 12th or 20th or 50th incarnation or iteration, to use your rhetorical forms Crime and drugs are still issues. Wasted human resources are still an issue. Wasted human lives are still an issue. Minimum wage is still an issue. Stem cell research is still an issue, Social Society reform is still an issue; Medicare reform is still an issue; global warming is still an issue; alternative fuels is still an issue; immigration in its many permutations (in an effort to keep up with your rapid rhetorical shifts) is still an issue, and I could go on and on and on with the failings of this administration, and you well know I could. Jim, the job is just began and the Republicans have failed the American people. We need to put an end to Bush’s War and concentrate on the real issues at home and aboard, Democrats and Republicans all.
By RW-(the original)
December 2, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this
Diogenes,
I know you are addressing your manifesto to Jim, but you well know Jim doesn’t stay on and discuss much here. Not to mention the tiny little factoid that his editorial addresses his thoughts on your issues.
Just for kicks why don’t you pick an issue or two and offer a solution. It seems that you fall into the typical liberal hole of whining about problems while never once offering a solution to the perceived problem. Chances are it’s because most of them aren’t real problems at all, just political rhetoric.
By Buy Danish
December 2, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this
Diogenes,
When you’ve finished designing Utopia could you put in some paragraph breaks to your manifesto, or are your nonexistent editing skills the fault of Republicans too?
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this
Now even Rent Norway is getting into the act?
Another great beach-slap from Midori. My oh my, there’s nothing left of dusty.
Dusty: dont feel bad. Midori is adored. You are tolerated.
See the diff? Maybe you should try the cop with a view blog. They’ll love you over there.
bwa
By Buy Danish
December 2, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this
If anyone is unfamiliar (as I was) with the term “New Society” which both sct and Diogenes used today, here’s all you need to know on the subject.
Bring your No-Doze.
Here’s what they recommend as a holiday gift. Hurry while supplies last!
By Ernie Logman
December 2, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this
in 50 years history won’t rank Bush as the worst president ever, that honor is now and will always belong to JIMMY CARTER
By sct
December 2, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this
Nothing beats Republican utopia! A population of virgin single people mixed in with married people that will have affairs and later divorce at will.
This utopia has successful gay conversion clinics too!
In the Republican utopia, Republican Congressmen advocating for the display of the 10 commandments in courthouse’s can actually name all 10 of them!
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 04:43 PM | Link to this
After reading RW’s and Buy Danish’s comments, I think it’s high time our government took another hard look at allowing midwives to use forceps when birthin’ babies.
The damage is permanent and complete. And I think it’s a damn shame.
By sct
December 2, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this
Gosh how fun Buy Danish, another blog game.
Jim, whats your position on Internet addiction? Is it as bad as Meth? Does it also destroy the fabric of life?
By RW-(the original)
December 2, 2006 04:51 PM | Link to this
Deep stuff from sct and Polly. Sadly those comments are what pass for enlightened debate in liberal circles.
Probably like the staff at New Society.
By Buy Danish
December 2, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this
sct,
Here’s a blog-game for you. What is this paragraph about?
The bill was hammered out in a compromise with the Republican-controlled Congress, and many Democrats were critical of Clinton’s decision to sign the bill, saying it was much the same as the two previous welfare reform bills he had vetoed. In fact, it emerged as one of the most controversial issues for Clinton within his own party.
PoFO (forceps casualty),
Since our comments actually make sense, by the process of elimination that leaves YOU as the brain-injured party.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this
I almost cancelled my subscription to the AJC. My wife’s the only one who reads it anyway. My plan was to print out just the parts of the newspaper that my wife is interested in from AJC.COM. But then I realized that it would cost $60 a week for the Macy’s one day sale ads alone.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 05:02 PM | Link to this
Getalife: do you think that you are the famous Analchord? I mean, do you expect anyone to believe that you are He?
By sct
December 2, 2006 05:07 PM | Link to this
Welfare reform-Great, the system worked. Our government compromised. We need more of that. The extreme left LOST!
It just proves the point. Where are these big bad liberal Democrats? Who is the liberal enemy?
Medicare Part D, Liberal.
Highway bill, Liberal.
Deficit, liberal.
Nation Building, Liberal.
Abstinence only, Liberal.
You people need to look in the mirror, you may see W’s NCLB friend Teddy Kennedy as a reflection.
What big bad liberal created theNEW DEAL, NEW SOCIETY-LIKE- MEDICARE PART D????
Answer that!
By Qwacker
December 2, 2006 05:18 PM | Link to this
And of course yes, sct busts a nut.
cry baby cry, make your mother sigh…
By getalife
December 2, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this
So ,how much money are you willing to give for Iraqi welfare before you start whining about that?
Get real.
By @@
December 2, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this
The New Deal, The Great Society. Since their inception, we’ve had Democratic leaders, Republican leaders, and still it goes on, and is getting worse.
A 14 year old child is dead. Who is going to tell us why. I guess in the eyes of today’s America, our kids are disposable.
A war on our own homefront. Who is responsible for this one?
By Diogenes
December 2, 2006 05:31 PM | Link to this
Jim,
I see that while I was away, a couple of the harpies which guard your blog from more moderate opinions challenged my assertions to a debate. With the possible exception of my misuse of the term “New Society,” when I meant “Great Society,” for we were indeed discussing King Lyndon’s experiment in social democracy, I see nothing there which is even debatable. I agree that some of your exuberant praise for the success of the Great Society programs (got it right that time) could be toned down a bit, but the failures of the Republicans are open for all to see.
By getalife
December 2, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this
A war on our own homefront. Who is responsible for this one?
w, of course.
Get use to it.
By RW-(the original)
December 2, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this
Diogenes,
How is asking you to pick a problem and outline a solution guarding the blog from rational debate or moderate opinion? It sounds to me like the textbook definition of rational debate and if you would give us your solution to a problem we could see just how moderate it is.
Did you libs get a memo that said to just answer any question with a comment about blog games or to insult the questioner? It really makes you look like fools to the lurking readership.
By Dusty
December 2, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this
Hey, I made the best cookies yet, even some peach-coconut bars.
So I read past postings. Oh well, Getalife doesn’t get a cookie. He thinks they are plutonium filled.
Midori will have to explain vibrators since I’ve never had one. What do you use them for,Midori?
Low marks from PoFo are like a badge of honor. Much to be cherished as a reject by a reject. Going to Little Five Ponts tonight, PoFo, or did they kick you out for good?
Well, I will keep my cookies. My family eats them so fast I don’t see much of them anyway. Now stay happy. Christmas is coming in 23 days.
By Buy Danish
December 2, 2006 05:46 PM | Link to this
Diogenes,
Let’s stop the revisionist BS right now.
Read this book and then tell me how great the Great Society was.
Scroll down to “Todd Wiener”s review to get the picture.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 05:46 PM | Link to this
Who is responsible for the war on our homefront? Osama bin Laden.
Who is W not concerned about where he is? Osama Bin Laden.
Who is W concerned about where they are? the Dixie Chicks.
Tell me W isn’t a total failure as a commander in chief.
By RW-(the original)
December 2, 2006 06:00 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
Can’t we harpies get a cookie? It’s tough work trying to guard the blog from gasbag socialists.
By Political Foreskin
December 2, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this
Little five points is on my schedule. Star Community open mike at 8:30 across from that skull restaurant.
Jim’s blog today was a test which all of you failed, BTW. I won 25 bucks.
bwa.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this
TOP 10 JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
10). Brittany keeps complaining that there’s no guys to date. Three words, brittany: fruit of the loom guys.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this
TOP 10 JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
9). I think Al Gore, the environmental guru, should chaperone me and brittany’s nite outs. Brittany would never shoot a beaver with Al Gore in the car.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this
TOP TEN JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
8). I think Brittany’s dislexic. She was actually trying to moon the papparazzi.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
December 3, 2006 08:28 AM | Link to this
RW, you do make a good point. But since you are a very ugly 400 lb. man/woman, abstinence comes very naturally to you, especially since you need a mirror or a camera to even see your genitalia.
Do you see why your solution might not work for everyone?
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 08:50 AM | Link to this
TOP TEN JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
7).. Brittany takes her love of animals too far. She’s always trying to rescue roadkill, and then she brings it in the car.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 08:54 AM | Link to this
TOP 10 JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
6). When we ride in limos, Brittany is very inconsiderate. She always makes me sit in the wet spot.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 09:02 AM | Link to this
TOP 10 JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
5). I dont want to say that brittany’s dumb, but she keeps letting me try to resuscitate the roadkill she brings in the limo.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 09:05 AM | Link to this
TOP 10 JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
4). Brittany and I are best buds, but when we have a spat, we sit in the limo and air it out.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this
TOP TEN JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
3). My dislexic friend Brittany is auditioning for a superhero role, you know, the woman who fights crime in her underwear and flies an invisible plane?
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this
TOP 10 JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
2). Would an anorexic bulemic make a good wine taster? I think so too. Someboy get Nicole on the phone.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 09:18 AM | Link to this
TOP TEN JOKES REJECTED BY PARIS HILTON
1). The thing that makes me the maddest is when foreigners say that all american women look alike.
By I Voted for the War Even Though I'm a Coward
December 3, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this
Did you miss me?
I’m back.
By Mallory
December 3, 2006 09:42 AM | Link to this
J.Wooten, The government’s New Deal & Great Society haven’t panned out the way they were intended? Do tell!!!!!
Blacks in America won’t want to hear that news, unless it comes from race baiting politicians like Sharpton and Lewis. I’m new to Georgia so I don’t know much about Mayor Franklin.
The struggle for independence should be from government, not under government. The democrats will never relinquish control over blacks willingly. The weapons they use are invisible but not concealed.
Too much circulation of the same old game makes the value go down. It’s my opinion that the more you’re seen & heard from, the more common you appear. Old civil rights activists are an established & outdated group. Withdraw & regroup. Let go of the tried and failed. Find a new sales pitch. The end product will receive more attention. Nobody is buying the old. Create value through scarcity.
Haul the old black activists off to the goodwill of bad government.
It’s a marketing game. Career politicians don’t have the skills.
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this
Jim,
On Friday, you confidently asserted of George W. Bush: “He’s the guy I want in my foxhole.”
Today it appears that not even Donald Rumsfeld wanted to share a foxhole with George W. Bush.
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 10:13 AM | Link to this
Jim,
While we’re on the subject of your endorsements, perhaps we should review once again your ringing endorsement of the Atlanta Police Department on November 23. I hope you’re not of the “endorse ‘em and run,” school because the investigation into the killing of Kathryn Johnson is going to get interesting before it’s done. I suspect we’ll see a complete revision of the way no knock warrants are issued in the city of Atlanta. At the least, I hope there are some judges who have enough conscience to say “but for the grace of God, go I,” and review their personal attitudes about no-knock warrants.
By Curious Observer
December 3, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this
Ah yes, the Great Society programs.
My memory returns to the 1950s—the shacks inhabited by poor blacks, the “Whites Only” signs in Carolina bus stations, the grinding poverty and hunger afflicting children whose sin was being born to poor parents, the blatant discrimination in law enforcement, schooling, and residential sales.
And now Wooten claims that there is no need for these programs any longer. In a thinly disguised version of “Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?” he claims that everything is just hunky dorry. Perhaps he doesn’t recall the real state of affairs during his childhood. Or maybe, as a member of privileged white society, he never encountered them.
I did, and I’m grateful that enough statesmen saw fit to place decency higher in the pecking order than the size of individual wallets. The Wootens of the world would return us to those days, all the while claiming the moral high ground. Such is the sad fate of truth these days.
By Jim's a Tired Old Man
December 3, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this
Hi Jim,
Disturbing how you continue to cherry pick the most frustrating attempts of the left to galvanize their base while simulatneously ignoring smiliar attempts of the right to do the same.
Seems to me that the GOP is continually telling me that I’m going to Hell for not voting Republican. Is that the “plan” that you prefer?
And btw, you did’t wrap your column up very well at all. Where are your new ideas? Where are your grand solutions?
By getalife
December 3, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this
Andrew Sullivan writes: “It’s over, guys. Your beloved Bush administration botched this so badly it’s irrecoverable. You enabled them. You never fully took them on when it would have counted - and you trashed those of us who did. You knew this before the 2004 election and still cynically played the anti-Kerry card for all it was worth”
An apology to your readers is in order Jim. I will not hold my breath waiting for any wingnut to admit w is a disaster or apologize for voting and blindly supporting the worst President ever but it would give some sort of decency.
By JK
December 3, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this
Wow. Sounds like Mr. Wooten needs a vactation before he goes “all Zell” and loses it completely. Please take care of yourself, Mr. Wooten!
non sequitur, noun Etymology: Latin, it does not follow 1 : an inference that does not follow from the premises; specifically : a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent 2 : a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
By I Voted for W, But Have Since Cut and Run to the Dems
December 3, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this
“He’s the guy I want in my foxhole.”
When he had the chance to put his money where his mouth was, W was stumping for some gop hack in Alabama!
Wooten is famous for making idiotic statements, but when I read the above the other day, I laughed out loud! As if Bush or his chickenhawk buddies would ever put their arses on the line for someone else!
I’ve coined a new word for it - faketriotism. It’s sufficient to pretend to have valor in today’s gop; or better yet, to slime real war heroes who they disagree with. Certainly, and shamefully, these neo-cons have never demonstrated any courage under fire. And that is one of the reasons they got their butts kicked so badly last month. Inexperience and ineptitude when it comes to real battles with real bullets.
But yeah, I too, would like to see W in a foxhole! (Before he got fragged by his own men!)
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this
JIm,
Let me suggest that you pull out your print copy of the AJC and take a look at Cynthia Tucker’s editorial (“Misguided drug war claims another victim”). Jim, intellectual integrity demanded that your (November 23)editorial be something of this ilk instead of a ringing endorsement of the Atlanta Police Department. I know that I keep coming back to this topic, but you disappointed me greatly with that ill advised editorial. I had more respect for you than you had for yourself, it would seem.
By WFA
December 3, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten,
You will never convince the victims of liberal government social engineering that they have been had. They will always look to the police as the problem.
They need to look closer to home where they can find Neighborhood where cops shot woman plagued by drugs, crime but nooooooo. It’s the cops fault for trying to root out the criminal element.
With an investigation in the works we may find answers to the questions. What was the lady afraid of? It was either her neighborhood of the fear of being caught.
By Midori
December 3, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this
Good Jesus Gravy!!!!
Does Bush even know what a foxhole IS?
Someone actually said they wanted Bush in a foxhole with them? What a bizarre statement.
I suppose it’s better to stay with the cowardly cretin you know rather than an unknown.
The mind boggles. I just can’t image one bit of good having Bush share a foxhole with anyone. Bush would probably throw you out in order to make room for all the liquor bottles.
By getalife
December 3, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this
Yes, this wingnut statement is an all time funny classic:
But the good news of the week is that George — you gotta love him — Bush firmly opposes premature departure and timetables. He’s the guy I want in my foxhole.
I think I will post this at Mike Luckovich’s blog and sure he will get a big laugh out of it like I did. Maybe do a “Wootoon” on this all time classic for the local readers.
By Dusty
December 3, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this
Why don’t you bloggers relax and enjoy yourself for one day? Jim Wooten does not need your permission or even your pompous perspective to write his editorials. Just give him your opinion. That is all any of us want to read. Jim has been writing editorials a lot longer than any of you. Keep that in mind.
PoFo,
Those were jokes? Really? I thought jokes were supposed to be funny. Did you write those? Paris Hilton is smarter than most people think. She made a good move rejecting those duds.
By Midori
December 3, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this
getalife,
I’m still reeling. I can’t believe someone actually said that. Out loud. In public.
Scary stuff.
I hope the author doesn’t have access to weapons.
By I Voted for the War Because I Love Abu Ghraib
December 3, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this
I would want George in my foxhole too - let the man on man action begin!
Most of us chickenhawks are gayer than Elton John’s chihuahua…
By jbmlaw
December 3, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon all. Looks like the leftists have been unable to offer any solutions despite 70+ strident posts, not that such a failure is unusual.
Just for the fun of it, may I remind all of a Milton Friedman-esque solution, to abolish all non-military spending and send to everyone who files a tax return in the previous fiscal year a monthly check for $100. That nice subsidy for the normal expenses of living would be cheaper than the present outlays, much of which goes for bureaucratic salaries, and would enhance tax law compliance (eliminating many non-filers). No pretense of eliminating the ghetto mentality, but would foster some personal responsiblity - spend it all on alcohol, or buy all of your food for the month, your choice.
By getalife
December 3, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this
Midori,
I know.
Jim has lost it every since the elections.
He is scared of the panda blog and I have been suggesting him to retire.
I think he has the same mental illness as Andy and should see a doctor before he goes all the way off like Andy.
By Midori
December 3, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this
ROFL!!!
The Panda Blog????
:)
By getalife
December 3, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this
Oh, and this “jbmlaw” thinks he is a lawyer.
Too funny.
By Midori
December 3, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Getalife,
you’re too much.
looks like ole “jbmlaw” wants dibs on that foxhole, huh? :)
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this
Jim,
On Friday, you confidently asserted of George W. Bush: “He’s the guy I want in my foxhole.”
Today it appears that not even Donald Rumsfeld wanted to share a foxhole with George W. Bush. http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/12/02/1203natrumsfeld.html
What does it take to get the President to comprehend the implications of the war he has started? Donald Rumsfeld, whom I previously believed to be Bush’s lap dog, actually had a spine and tried to tell his boss the truth.
I comprehend the ripples truth might send through the Bush administration, and it is terrifying to contemplate. Jim, I actually feel sorry for you, shilling for the guy as long and earnestly as you have. It’s hard work, I know, trying to pretend that the man has a glimmer of truth, although he has repeatedly shown that he does not. I think the Iraq Study Group is likely to meet with the same fate that Donald Rumsfeld did — total dismissal of its conclusions. Bush seems intent upon continuing Bush’s War heedless of his advisors (remember Colin Powell?) and the voice of We the People.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this
Paris Hilton canceled an appearance at an awards show next week because she didn’t like the jokes the show’s writers came up with.
Here are some of the rejects: “Brittany is up for a movie role as a female superhero, you know, the one that fights crime in her underwear and flies an invisible plane. Which makes me think she’s dislexic because she was also trying to moon the papparazzi in the limo…..”
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this
“Me and Brittany are private people, so when we have a disagreement we air it out in the limo.”
By getalife
December 3, 2006 12:59 PM | Link to this
Midori,
At least he does not quote Mann Coulter like RW.
Check out this crazy wingnut question :
By RW-(the original) December 2, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this sct, How many times can you name that abstinence didn’t work to prevent a pregnancy?
I think they all have Andy’s mental illness.
By getalife
December 3, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this
I better stop now before PF tells me to stfu.
Next up, please put your hands together and welcome the comedy of this years 25 buck winner of the laughoff in Little Five Points, PF.
applause
By RW-(the original)
December 3, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this
getalife,
If that’s such a crazy wingnut question, why don’t you dazzle us with your brilliance by answering it?
By Midori
December 3, 2006 02:09 PM | Link to this
Ann Coulter is the biggest slut this side of the Alantic - and she wants to talk about abstinence?
It’s all detailed in David Brock’s book.
Preaching abstinence is all well and good, but what about reality? What do you tell teens who don’t want to hear the “a” word? There are hundreds of thousands of them out there.
Like Nancy Reagan’s “just say no”, just another unrealistic wingnut catch phrase.
For every teen who said “no” to drugs, there were 20 more who couldn’t wait to score some.
For every teen who says “yes” to abstinence, there are 20 more who just don’t want to hear that crap.
By RW-(the original)
December 3, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this
Midori,
For one thing my question doesn’t come from Ann Coulter and for another it says nothing about teaching.
Which David Brock do you believe, by the way? Maybe his next book will be how he really meant he was lying the second time around instead of the first.
By RW-(the original)
December 3, 2006 02:18 PM | Link to this
Diogenes,
Are all your questions directed to Jim so that you’ll never have to engage in a debate?
What’s the point in posting if that’s what you want? You could just email him or write a letter to the editor. A blog is for conversing with the other contributors on the blog. By the way, did you ever complete your assignment of finding out why Bookman doesn’t have a blog?
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this
Diogenes:
Your comment:
“For every teen who says “yes” to abstinence, there are 20 more who just don’t want to hear that crap.”
Just make sure that the teacher hands out condoms as they leave the abstinence classroom. Nothing prevents pregnancies better than classes on abstinence and an ounce of prevention in the wallet.
By Midori
December 3, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this
RW,
Funny, when David Brock was on your side and writing all of that anti-Clinton crap for the American Spectator, to your side he was the cat’s meow.
I happen to believe that a person can come to grip with their sleaze and change for the better.
I have no reason to think he’s lying — then AND now.
He admitted he lied about Clinton. And Anita Hill. He even went out of his way to apologize to both of them. He admitted that he took the right wing sleaze money and was happy to do so. So when he says he’s truly sorry for the harm that he has done, I believe him.
Find another argument - that one is more worn out than Bush’s moronic slogans and catchphrases.
P.S. - I’d believe Brock any day over Bush.
By Midori
December 3, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this
What’s the point in posting if that’s what you want? You could just email him or write a letter to the editor. A blog is for conversing with the other contributors on the blog.
funny, I’ve never seen you chastise Andy like that. Half the garbage he posted - not not half, but 90% of it - fits the categories you describe above. All the moron did was talk to himself and post dipwad articles from the looney right to back up his delusions.
and what about all of those posts to Mike Luckovich from your coven, day in and out, wanting to know why he drew one cartoon or another.
Give it up, loser.
By CJ
December 3, 2006 02:39 PM | Link to this
RW: “How many times can you name that abstinence didn’t work to prevent a pregnancy?”
RW,
I’ll answer your questio — none.
Congratulations! You successfully changed the subject. Now why don’t you address the issue that sct originally brought up — whether money spent by Big Government (i.e. Republican-led government) for abstinence-only programs was money well-spent.
Was that money well-spent RW? Is there any credible evidence to suggest that abstinence-only programs funded by Big Government reduced the pregnancy rate of those who went through such programs? What about it, Mr. Conservative? Answer the question.
By RW-(the original)
December 3, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this
CJ,
I would prefer the government stick to spending money on the very limited things provided for in the Constitution, so I would say it isn’t money well spent regardless of the success rate.
The reason for my question is because it is now being reported that a US study shows that abstinence doesn’t work, not that teaching abstinence doesn’t work.
I take it you don’t believe in the birth of Jesus.
Midori,
When did you ever see Andy direct all of his posts to luckovich and refuse to discuss his questions with anyone else?
By Midori
December 3, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this
RW,
this is you. and Andy. And Buy Danish. And Dusty. And Honu. and the rest of your coven.
that question is too easy. even for you. just take a stroll thru the archives.
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this
“Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution
TOPEKA, KS—In response to a Nov. 7 referendum, Kansas lawmakers passed emergency legislation outlawing evolution, the highly controversial process responsible for the development and diversity of species and the continued survival of all life.
“From now on, the streets, forests, plains, and rivers of Kansas will be safe from the godless practice of evolution, and species will be able to procreate without deviating from God’s intended design,” said Bob Bethell, a member of the state House of Representatives. “This is about protecting the integrity of all creation.’”
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55807
By Dusty
December 3, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this
This is certainly liberal lollygag day. I hope ml opens early and the liberals here rush over there to exchange insults. Please hurry cause this is how it is going here: 1-Bush foxhole “jokes” adorned with the usual trash of whiskey bottles and other insinuations. 2-Getalife repeats yesterday’s line about Andy, meds and doctors. 3-Midori tells dirty joke. 4-PoFo tells dumb joke. 5-CJ, Midori & Dio discuss teenage sex but are too old to remember it. 6-Getalife repeats again the repeat he already used . 7-Midori has laughing spell over dumb foxhole joke. 8-Ann Coulter is called bad names. All conservative posts are said to be copied from her. 9-Keep repeating 1 through 8 and you have the liberal agenda, a copy of Saturday Night Live on a really bad night.
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this
Bush May End Drilling Ban in Alaskan Bay
President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska’s Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
Leasing in a portion of the area rich in oil and natural gas ended nearly two decades ago — while Bush’s father was president — in the outcry after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
But with natural gas prices higher, the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service proposed reopening up the North Aleutian Basin. That includes Bristol Bay and part of southeastern Bering Sea.
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel confirmed Saturday the president was considering taking that step.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/USPresidentAndWhiteHouseAdvisers/BristolBay.html
Thomas Friedman seems to have a better idea:
We need to end our dependence on this part of the world for energy, because it is debilitating for us and for them. It is terrible for us, because addicts never tell the truth to their pushers. We are the oil addicts and they are the oil pushers. The only way we can be brutally honest with them is if we undertake the necessary conservation measures, investments in renewable fuels and a gasoline tax hike that could make us energy independent.”
print edition, although RW can probably find a web link; AJC, November 3, 2006, page c7.
Who said Bush’s War wasn’t about oil? He spends barrels of money on silly programs like teaching abstinence to teenagers but ignores our need for alternative fuels research.
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this
Now that they have outlawed evolution in Kansas, I suppose that some of our churches will soon be signing a petition to have it outlawed in Georgia, too.
By CJ
December 3, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this
RW: “…The reason for my question is because it is now being reported that a US study shows that abstinence doesn’t work, not that teaching abstinence doesn’t work.”
RW,
Very clever with Jesus joke – good stuff.
Obviously, contrary to your assertion, nobody is reporting that abstaining from having intercourse (i.e. abstinence) doesn’t prevent pregnancy. Nor, as you correctly pointed out, is anybody reporting that teaching abstinence doesn’t work.
What is being reported is that teaching “abstinence only” doesn’t work (which is the exact phrase that sct used in his or her original post). If you have evidence to the contrary (that is that “abstinence only” programs do work), then feel free to share.
(P.S. Mr. Conservative, when you write a letter to your Congressman and Senators asking them to eliminate funding for abstinence-only programs, please post a copy for me to copy and paste to my Reps as well. Thanks for the help.)
By RW-(the original)
December 3, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this
Cj,
Are you sure that nobody is reporting that?
Abstinence only programs probably work for those that abstain.
Oh and if it helps, you can just call me RW. If you feel the need for all the name calling, though feel free as it reflects far more on you than it does on me.
I doubt seriously that you would copy and paste my letter because it will have very many more requests to eliminate funding, but I write a letter every year when the new Congress is seated and I’ll be more than happy to post it for you.
I’ve got to run, but would you or someone explain The Onion to Diogenes.
By Midori
December 3, 2006 05:07 PM | Link to this
Crusty,
I see you have awakened from your cave, and are looking for some charcoal to munch on.
Is that the only cure for dragon breath?
so now we need YOUR permission to post on this blog? after dealing with your nitwit, insufferable droolings and rantings over at the Luckovich blog? after you cheering that numbskull Andy on nonstop on the Luckovich blog for completely disrupting and poisioning and stinking up the place?
here, have one of these to go with your charcoal snacks.
Idiot.
Moron.
Cretin.
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 05:13 PM | Link to this
Gee RW,
I thought you’d get a kick out of such well written satire. Catch up with you tomorrow and see if you enjoyed the ragging The Onion is giving fundamentalist Kansas (and Georgia, too, by extension). Good clean fun for the Intelligent Design crowd. The only time they have any is when they are committing evolution. If they outlaw it in Georgia, too, then they wouldn’t have to worry so much.
Gee, RW, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more.
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this
Paris rejected this joke too: “I think that Al Gore, the environmental guru, should chaperone me and brittany on our nites out… there’s no way brittany would shoot a beaver with al gore in the limo.”
and this one: “I dont want to say that Brittany is dumb, but she keeps letting me try to resuscitate the roadkill she brings in the limo.”
Paris kept this one: “After reading RW’s comments, I think that our government should take a real hard look at allowing doctors to use forceps when birthin’ babies. The damage is complete and permanent, and I think it’s a damn shame. “
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 05:20 PM | Link to this
I have to give the point to the adorable midori, (who I adore), on that last exchange with the dented dittoheadwound. Midori was funny, incisive, and yet, only teased instead of beach slapping, which she could easily have done, leaving the mutant mute.
Also, notice how RW never posts on topic, because he’s afraid to reveal he cant summarize a Wooten blog or comment relevantly. He’s knows I’ll trash his gripped gribbs to hell in a hand basket.
What a waste of a keyboard. RW only blogs myspace/facebook chit chat like a underdeveloped teen whose puberty retrofired and back up in his own mojo.
bwa.
By Diogenes
December 3, 2006 05:28 PM | Link to this
Boy, it’s nice to see another state besides Georgia ridiculed for being backward.
By T.Sturdivan
December 3, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten-I’ve read your columns often online and would like to commend your efforts in discussing the difficult topics. It is too often that columnists will avoid controversy.
You have some regulars here who impress me with their creative writing skills. A few come to mind, but I’ll avoid mentioning their names. I wouldn’t want to offend by omission.
I participate on a paid subscription blog. The topics are thought provoking, but contributors tend to be a little stodgy in their assessments. I assume they’re all older like myself.
Creative writing is an artform I very much appreciate but can’t quite emulate. Your Friday columns offer the best opportunity for everyone to display their talents. I do enjoy reading them.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely, T. Sturdivan
By Political Foreskin
December 3, 2006 05:46 PM | Link to this
Did you get in your 50+ posts today, RW? Simple minds. Simple deeds. Simple hineys love those beads.
Get lost, you simpleton. and quit blashpheming. You blog about Jesus and it’s so disgusting, that even the Shia put a hit out on you..
Paris also rejected this joke: “Brittany is so inconsiderate in the limo. She makes me sit in the wet spot.”
and this one: “What makes me the maddest is when foreigners say that all american women look alike.”
By Dusty
December 3, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
Woo Midori, I wouldn’t stop you for the world. You proved my point and Jim’s. “Liberals go nowhere with the same old deal” and the same old rhetoric. But hang in there. Tomorrow will be here soon and you can spout off at ml’s. He’s your hero so enjoy.
By JS
December 3, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
RW, the answer if you believe the myth would be one: Mary of Nazareth supposedly never had sexual relations with a mortal man; but somehow was impregnated, just food for thought… Homegirl needed some RU-486…
It’s the 21st century, you’re welcomed to join us in it…
By Buy Danish
December 3, 2006 06:10 PM | Link to this
Midori,
After (David Brock) declared he is gay, he claims that he became a liberal and now works to dismantle the conservative media “machine” of which he was once a part.
David Brock outs himself and crosses the aisle. I find that rather odd, but then again I’m not a liberal.
I wonder how he feels about people being outed involuntarily in a gay witch-hunt?
That’s what vicious Liberals do with their “lists”. Would it be fair to call it an “Enemies List”? Sounds fair to me.
Liberals have been misrepresenting themselves as being the champions of “tolerance” and the “right to privacy” - among other blatant hypocrisies.
Just one more reason to follow Andy’s advice and “frisk the Liberal first”.
By CJ
December 3, 2006 06:16 PM | Link to this
RW @4:50 “Abstinence only programs probably work for those that abstain.”
Probably? Abstinence only programs definitely work for those that abstain.
Actually, Mr. Conservative, I know exactly what you meant, but since you and Rush Limbaugh take things literally when the obvious meaning is something very different, then I thought it would be fair to do the same to you.
Your Limbaugh link parsed words from an article comparing pregnancy rate declines among teens that used contraceptives vs. teens who committed to abstinence. These rate decreases were due 86% from contraceptives and 14% from abstinence. In other words, contraception was over 600% more effective in reducing pregnancy rates than committing to abstinence.
You see Dittohead, when your article used the word abstinence, the persons speaking didn’t mean that actually abstaining from intercourse wasn’t effective; they were saying that committing to abstinence wasn’t as effective. That meaning would be obvious to anybody who read the article without their Limbaugh goggles on. Fortunately, I don’t need a partisan hack to explain the news to me.
As far as any rate drop resulting from abstinence — excellent! Teenagers should be taught that abstinence is an option. The issue that sct brought up was concerning abstinence-only funding.
Also, the Daily Mail article doesn’t say whether the group of teenagers who participated in the study came out of a comprehensive birth control program (teaching abstinence and contraceptives), or came out of an abstinence-only. The problem, Dittohead, is that many who commit to abstain through abstinence-only programs, don’t. Then, since the program is abstinence “only”, the teenager isn’t properly educated on birth-control options. Sometimes teenagers coming out of such programs are worse-off than teenagers that are uninformed, because they are misinformed. Many of these programs use scare tactics such as teaching that STDs and pregnancy cannot be effectively prevented with condoms.
Also RW, what name-calling are you referring to? Mr. Conservative? Does that offend you? I don’t understand why that would be offensive to a Dittohead.
By RW-(the original)
December 3, 2006 06:33 PM | Link to this
Look at this! You announce you’re leaving and every one of the moonbats suddenly wants to talk to you.
Diogenes,
Frankly I;m shocked that you didn’t tell us what page of The Onion your story was printed on and I’m proud of you for finally providing a link that worked. Good job Dio!
CJ,
You can’t offend me with any name so go right ahead. You might be surprised to know that I think Rush unfairly parsed the words from that article too, although I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find that the 86/14 takes study data and manipulates it just as badly.
You certainly seem bitter, maybe you should become more informed on the issues and then you could just discuss them. I won’t hold my breath though, you seem happier making a fool of yourself on a daily basis.
JS,
Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suit, you should work on that before you start chirping.
By MOC
December 4, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this
The most compelling reason to keep “right wing republicans” off of the Fulton County Commission is to keep Atlanta from becoming an even bigger urban concrete and glass hell. Keep them and their developer buddies off the rest of our backs. Never ever vote developers and realtors to commissions. Especially Republican developers and realtors.
By Political Foreskin
December 4, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this
Paris Hilton cancelled an award show appearance because she didn’t like the jokes the show’s writer had written for her. Here’s one of the rejected jokes:
” I think Brittany is dislexic. She’s up for a female superhero role, you know, the one who fights crime in her underwear and flies an invisible plane”
That is a great joke, Paris, and you should reconsider.
Here’s another reject: “The whole flash incident was a misunderstanding. I was teaching my little dog new tricks and Brittany thought I was talking to her. All I said was, “Sit, roll over…….beg!”
By Van
December 4, 2006 08:55 AM | Link to this
MOC
Yea, right, the democrats have done such a wonderful job.
By Van
December 4, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this
This morning in the Al Jazeera Constipation, the AJC, I see where the lefties are starting to complain we are not paying enough taxes, the national debt is too high, on and on. I guess Bela Pelosi will address that as soon as she gets her new office space.
Hang on, its going to be a bumpy ride.
BTW, did you ever notice - the Runaway bride and nacny pelosi have the same expression on their face - the bulging eyes and everything.
By Political Foreskin
December 4, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this
You know, when I think of those two women out there at night with no undewear on, well, it makes me howl at the moon. It’s probably the only thing that keeps me hanging on……… I need Paris and Brittany….the only thing better would be if the Dixie Chicks emulated the paris/brit fashion statement…then I’d pass out…..wait a minute, how about if Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary did the same thing? No, even better: Tipper Gore!!!!…….excuse me, I have to go to the restroom for a minute…….we can govern ourselves, my fellow americans, without underwear, for it is underwear that is the only common thread that runs through all the pitiful years of wars and poverty and strife this country has endured….so it is with flexible bipartisan loom that I implore one and all to….I just realized something: Baker’s Iraq Study Group? They’ve concluded that we cant get out of Iraq, I mean, not because of the fear of cut and run, or stay the course, but because we cant get out. We are stuck. OMG! When this country realizes what Bush has done, that we have now a 51st state called Iraqia, I predict that Bush will be impeached and imprisoned. He’s ruined our experiment in democracy. He’s undone 200 years of ‘hard work’.
Wait till the american people realize that we can never leave iraq. ever. we simply cant. we cant leave.
Think about it. How? The option to leave was probably never there. When we opened that door, it shut permanently behind us, as if it were a trap. Osama? Osama tricked bush into this?
Or was it Saddam Hussein’s pretending to have WMDs as a military strategy to deal with Iran, and that posturing fooled our intel, (what little there was). This disaster happend by accident of geo-political vogueing.
We cant leave iraq. Now I’m worried.
By Van
December 4, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this
Political Foreskin,
I do not know if Saddam was pretending to scare away Iran, but he did have some nasty stuff.
1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
1,500 gallons of chemical weapons
Roadside bomb loaded with sarin gas
1,000 radioactive materials—ideal for radioactive dirty bombs
17 chemical warheads—some containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent five times more powerful than sarin
By Markus
December 4, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this
Hey MOC-
It’s attitudes such as yours who continue to lose Fultoon County taxpayer dollars, either from the northsiders moving the hell out off that cesspool county or with areas like Milton, Johns Creek, and Sandy Springs incorporating themselves. Let’s let you southsiders pick up the slack for a change and see how you fare.
By RW's Double Standard
December 4, 2006 05:49 PM | Link to this
RW @5:11 “DebbieDumbA$$ is posting…”
Yesterday – RW @6:33 “you can just call me RW, if you feel the need for all the name calling…you certainly seem bitter…”
Although RW likes to dish it out, he doesn’t take it very well. Poor RW.
By Matwoman
December 5, 2006 08:52 AM | Link to this
Jim,
The most interesting thing in this story is the statement “since the illegal workers left”. I suppose that meant when they were run off by INS, doubt they left voluntarily. Got me thinking as I was listening to CNBC this morning covering the downnturn in the housing market. What is going to happen to the influx of low wage semiskilled construction illegals that have been the backbone of the housing boom? Will they just leave and go back to points south of the Texas border or will they find another line of semi-skilled work? The headlines of late seem to increasingly detail the uptick in bold crime sprees by illegals, maybe this is a foreshadowing of the employment transition if the housing starts take a tank. Drug running and trafficking seems to be one of the favored next job of choice rather than going back to their native country.
By Matt
December 8, 2006 12:42 PM | Link to this
I would imagine that there were those under the New Deal who had the same apathetic attitude and who made these programs seem futile. While it may be more rampant today, I don’t think apathy and poor work ethics are limited to this generation.
Wooten also mentions the “big government Democrats”. The Republican Congress and President have overseen more domestic spending since LBJ. At least Democrats try to help our fellow man with spending. This last Congress simply spent it on people who will fund their campaigns. The hypocracy is sickening.
By Meleek Toombacca
December 10, 2006 08:45 AM | Link to this
Folks, the real problem is those “people” moving in from the suburbs. The City of Atlanta is losing its identity. Those “people” keep moving in, cleaning up, driving up values and thereby the taxes of the poor. Something must be done. Otherwise, local city government as we know it, will become dominated by those “people”.
By candide
December 11, 2006 08:39 AM | Link to this
Wooten and I agree: put all black young men in concentration camps and all will be well.