Thinking Right

By Mid-South Philosopher

January 12, 2007 08:04 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim

Busy week with the return of the General Assembly…why does the phrase, “much ado about nothing” keep running through my head?

Well, “Georgie” Bush finally admitted that I was right…too “few” troops in Iraq for the occupation. So now we are going to send some more…another phrase running through my head, “too little, too late!” This time, I hope I am wrong.

Danny Porter… first, “School Administrator Investigator” now “Escort Slayer”…metaphorically speaking of course…wonder how soon he will run for the General Assembly…or is he positioning for Governor in 2010…or does he just plan on “investigating” all of them?

Lt. Governor Casey Cagle…do we sense the hint of statesmanship?” We shall see.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 08:09 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. On ethanol, socialist interference with the market disrupts at all levels; our friend Diogenes is obsessed with the marginally-useful Keynesian concept of “multiplier,” but Jim gives a concrete example here.

“Pay-go” sounds better than “tax and spend.” Just as “liberal” became a bad word when the leftists adopted that as cover for their policies, so “pay-go” will be reviled by the next election. Same principle with “Fulton” county government, code for “big spender.” Same principle with Atlanta Police Department, code for “beats up women at airports and old men downtown.” Same principle with the “100 hours,” code for “spend it before anyone looks at the numbers.” Form never fully supplants substance, but works only as a temporary mask.

Cannot improve on Jim’s funny note on global warming. This time next week we’ll all be wishing for some more global warming.

Why is it that all of the silly court cases arise in Gwinnett County? If I ran a criminal enterprise, and was determined to keep detailed records of the immoral predilections of my clients, you can rest assured that there would be dummy entries for the mayor, the congressman, the sheriff, and the DA. I always marvel at dumb criminals, though; why do they keep detailed records?

Not poets! Where is freaknik, when we need it?

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 08:19 AM | Link to this

I think we need a surge of fish over at the Georgia Aquarium.

By CJ

January 12, 2007 08:23 AM | Link to this

Inspecting all cargo on all U.S. bound ships and passenger planes was an important recommendation of the 9/11 Commission and, really, common sense. These new requirements are just one measure in a comprehensive homeland security package that this Commission offered. It’s refreshing to see that we’re finally moving toward real security.

By Mid-South Philosopher

January 12, 2007 08:24 AM | Link to this

My friends, Jim and jbmlaw, The poets do not want, To wander into Atlanta Their lines and rhymes to flaunt.

‘Tis interesting to note, Where ever we may roam, Most metaphor and hyperbole are found Beneath the Capitol Dome.

By Jackson

January 12, 2007 08:25 AM | Link to this

I’d rather pay more for a hamburger and Coke than leave a plundered and pillaged planet to my children.

By Me

January 12, 2007 08:27 AM | Link to this

Do we, the US taxpayers, still pay corn farmers susidies not to grow corn as we do with certain other crops? If US Airways relly wants Delta they should include the reinstatement of Pilot pensions that were taken away as a part of their package. If Perdue wants the fishing industry then clean up our lakes & rivers. You could not pay me to play, fish, or eat fish from the chatahootchie river down stream from Atlanta.

By Carry

January 12, 2007 08:27 AM | Link to this

Apparently Jim Wooten hates poetry and poets. I’m ignorant about poetry too, but unlike Jim, I don’t wallow in my ignorance. What a redneck.

By Lee

January 12, 2007 08:28 AM | Link to this

As I recall, Jim was first out the gate with a commentary on using the police as “rent-a-cops.” Now, we have an off duty officer being paid by the hotel who wrestled a professor to the ground for having the audacity to question the policemans authority to ask for his ID. (That’s what is really is about, the jaywalking was a smokescreen…)

The professor has a editorial in the AJC today and in it he noted that he was advised by an attorney to sue the city. That is the real reason many businesses hire off duty cops - something goes wrong, and the city gets sued. The business is insulated from liability.

All police departments should adopt a policy; if a cop wants to moonlight, they must go through a private security firm. No more using taxpayer resources.

Good call Jim…

By moc

January 12, 2007 08:33 AM | Link to this

So, Jim. The call girls should be prosecuted but the johns get a pass? Attack the supply, but ignore the demand? That is exactly why the so called “war on drugs” is an abject failure. Until total war is declared on the demand, there will always be a supply. Or is it that, that way too many “upstanding” persons would be snared in demand side prosecutions? And minus eye witnesses or video evidence, using your logic, it would be just as hard to convict the women. And also using that same logic, if a johns name on a list is only that, why should the word of an “informant” be all a judge needs to issue a no knock warrant? Sounds like a little cherry picking Jim. It is only common sense that the demand is the side that needs to be attacked.

By KLS

January 12, 2007 08:38 AM | Link to this

Bush made a speech yesterday to 4,000 men and women at Fort Benning who are being sent back to Iraq early, as part of his surge, for their third tour of duty. I kid you not, this is part of what he said to inspire them: “The terrorists and extremists are as brutal an enemy as this country has ever faced. There are no, you know, rules of warfare. They don’t…[stuttering]…they will kill ya in a minute!”

Somebody needs to inform Bush that he’s the Commander in Chief, not a Paris Island drill instructor.

By Brian Curtis

January 12, 2007 08:38 AM | Link to this

Even for a Friday grab-bag, this was pretty incoherent stuff, Wooten.

Ethanol: Given how many free-market cheerleaders you have here, will any of them point out how you’re flunking Econ 101? “If you can eat it, you can’t afford to put it in a gas tank”—unless what we’re putting into our gas tanks already is even MORE expensive.

Pay-go is bad because it doesn’t directly address another issue I consider a bigger problem. Really? That’s the BEST criticism you could come up with? Heck, I’m dissatisfied with my trash service because they don’t deliver library books to my door! What nonsense.

Global warming: Did you even HAVE a point here? Meteors striking the earth is a natural phenomenon, but bullets fired into the air aren’t… and neither happened before we knew about global warming? HUH? If this was an attempt at satire, it flopped.

Fulton County’s budget: So, everything in Fulton County’s infrastructure and services are already top-notch and in no need of additional improvement, huh? No need to spend any money on long-term problems that have been going on for years, without the money to fix them. I assume you have some facts to back up this assumption…. nah, who am I kidding?

Funding for the cargo inspections: Gee, that’s funny. When Bush was implementing a ton of pointless and counterproductive crap to create a false sense of security, no one was allowed to question the cost. In fact, anyone who did was branded a “traitor who wants terrorists to kill us all.”

Oh, if only Bush could stay in the White House for another decade! Right; I mean, why care about the few tattered shreds of the Constitution he HASN’T violated yet? Because clearly, only a powerful and effective strategy like Bush’s can work with Syria and Iran… just like it has with Iraq!

Wooten really wasn’t even trying today. It’s sad that conservatives can’t come up with better material, even now that they’re back in their favorite position of “oppressed minority.”

By candide

January 12, 2007 08:39 AM | Link to this

Wooten: Did you get the free=Friday idea from Rush Limbaugh? Even dumn conservatives ought to think for themselves, not just take Rush’s nonsense as their own.

By Ted

January 12, 2007 08:39 AM | Link to this

• A telling and ominous sentence in a tally of Pelosi Democrats’ first 100 hours: “The Democrats advanced the bill without even a bare-bones accounting of the estimated cost, which is likely to be in the billions.” The funding, we’re told, will be addressed later. The bill commits to inspecting all cargo on all U.S.-bound ships and all passenger planes. This country could go broke buying a false sense of security.

The above is a much better alternative than attacking a country willy nilly. Searching cargo containers is a tangible way to keep the nation safe. A much better use of money than the Iraq war, which is yielding no return on investment whatsoever. Use the money that is being wasted on the boondogle in Iraq. There’s your funding right there.

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 08:39 AM | Link to this

EVERYONE!!! ALERT!!! Read the british historian jaywalker’s review of the atlanta police and jail.

Wow! This is the best stuff I’ve read in twenty five years.

WOW!!! It’s in the @Issue section, right next to Wooten.

WOW!!!

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 08:40 AM | Link to this

The truth about cargo inspections of ships entering our ports (or What the Democrats Won’t Tell You):

Critics complain that U.S. Customs and Border Protection physically inspect just 2 percent of containers. The actual percentage of containers actually unpacked in the United States is slightly higher, but it is simply irrelevant.

In fact, as Chief McCabe told me, “100 percent of containers coming into the United States from overseas go through our screening process. It begins 24 hours before they are ever loaded at a foreign port.”

Customs has built up an extensive data base of shipping companies, shippers, freight forwarders, importers, container terminal operators, and other actors involved in the movement of goods, as well as other criteria, that allow them to make a preliminary assessment of the potential terrorist risk from any given container. Every single container is run through this Automated Tracking System. At risk containers are then singled out for further passive or intrusive inspections.

Thanks to the Container Security Initiative (CSI), which Robert Bonner helped bring to life, forty-two ports around the world that account for 80 percent of the cargo coming into the United States now allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to inspect cargo before it ever leaves for the United States.

All containers – no exceptions – that are identified as a potential security threat are inspected, most of them before they ever reach the United States. Customs and Border Protection uses radiation detectors, gamma ray inspection equipment, and X-ray systems to identify suspicious cargo without opening the containers and immobilizing global trade.

Container terminals “are the end of the line,” Bonner says. “We’ve pushed our borders outwards. If they get a weapon into one of our terminals, it’s all over.”

Let’s hope that cooler heads prevail, and this economy-crushing proposal is unceremoniously squashed.

By Tara

January 12, 2007 08:42 AM | Link to this

Contrary to U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston’s assertion, pay-go doesn’t “ignore” entitlements. Before the heady days of Bush and the Republican Congress, pay-go was used as an important tool toward eliminating our seemingly endless years of deficit spending. Pay-go actually helped to put our country in a position to pay down the national debt. Much of that debt was money borrowed from the Social Security trust fund. So, to the extent that we weren’t borrowing money from this trust fund anymore (and paying some of it back), we were securing SS benefits for all Americans.

By Southern Democrat

January 12, 2007 08:44 AM | Link to this

I’ll respond to two of Jim’s points today: first, a slight rise in the price of groceries to subsidize ethanol and/or other alternatives to foreign oil pales in comparison to the price in blood and dollars we’ve spent trying to secure our oil interests elsewhere.

Second, conservatives condemning the Ports and Cargo bill is laughable. As I’m sure my friend Jbmlaw will agree, this administration is responsible for the most expensive expansion of bureaucracy with the least return ever. Department of Homeland Security anyone?

Speaking of wasted tax dollars, seems Secretary Rice has a problem filling her deputy positions. She was turned down by no less than four qualified applicants and the president had to strong arm Negroponte into accepting a step down. Meanwhile, the millions we’ve spent in pretending like we’ve torn down the Chinese walls between the intelligence agencies goes out the window as everyone jockies for position again under the new “Intelligence Czar.”

By Redneck Convert

January 12, 2007 08:52 AM | Link to this

I saw that picture of the Sugarloaf house where them women was charging $10,000 and remembered I did some work there back when I was a washing machine repairman. Before I got the real good job as a beer truck driver. I was greatful I didn’t do nothing there but fix the machine. 10,000 bucks worth would cripple me up for months.

It all reminds me of my buddy Jim Earl and the scam these two women pulled on him at the Home Depot last month. Whilst he was putting stuff he bought in his truck in the parking lot, the women walked up to him with everything hanging out and finally got in his truck and started fooling with him. Once he started home, he noticed his billfold was missing. Anyway, he finally had to go to the police, cause he had his billfold stole on the 15th, the 16th, the 18th, twicet on the 20th, and the 22nd.

I bet there is some rich people sweating it out right now, wondering if their name is going to show up in the records that Gwinnett DA has got. I figure they are all in the hospitle trying to get over a 10,000 buck meeting with one of them women.

And a good weekend to all.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 08:54 AM | Link to this

Senate Democrats refused to give John Bolton less than an interim appointment at the U.N.

But look! He negotiated an inspection treaty through the U.N. that makes us safer!

The most important provision, however, is one of personal accomplishment for Ambassador Bolton; the authorization of cargo inspections to expand the legitimacy of the Proliferation Security Initiative. The PSI was an international coalition composed initially of Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Singapore, Norway, Canada and the United Kingdom. It now numbers over 60 member states. Its purpose is to facilitate the sharing of intelligence information, the tracking of suspect international cargo and the conducting of joint military exercises to interdict the shipments. It is this last point that is the key to the PSI’s effectiveness, and the one that has made it contentious.

We will be weaker as a nation because of this partisan stonewall of the Ambassador the Dems loved to hate because he was reportedly “mean” to one of his employees.

Democrats are dangerous to our national security. Period.

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:11 AM | Link to this

The police found the names of the entire Duke Lacrosse team in the $10K mansion hooker’s computer files. Talk about horndogs.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 09:12 AM | Link to this

Philosopher’s wit, Spread in verse Reflects a heart with scars. But PoFo’s stuff, Immensely worse, Sets even lower bars. Burma Shave.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 09:15 AM | Link to this

Dear Danish @ 8:54, I’ll add one thought on Mr. Boulton: he is a principal player in the one huge success arising from Iraq, Qaddafi’s abandonment of his nuclear program. Boulton was the primary US negotiator, back when he was a mere deputy something or other.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 09:17 AM | Link to this

Apologies, not enough coffee, mispelled Bolton twice.

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:18 AM | Link to this

One way to get tourist dollars flowing would be to race whale sharks at the Georgia Aquarium. Nemo Nemichek, Shad Blenny Jr, and Goby Gar Gills would be the frontrunners, I’m sure.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 09:18 AM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

Regarding port security, please read the factual, informative links I provided above^^.

Regarding corn prices and ethanol, you do realize that this will hurt the poor don’t you, by making food more expensive? Oh, not to worry! No doubt there will be some proposal where taxpayers are required to pick up the tab.

Secondly, were you for or against drilling in ANWR in order to provide a domestic source for oil, and thus keep us less dependent on the Middle East and Argentina?

Moreover, if Secretary Rice is having difficulty finding people to fill positions, do you think it might have something to do with a reluctance to be grilled by disgraceful people like Ted “Chappaquidick” Kennedy, who despite their own numerous personal foibles, and the fact that he went to the KGB to undermine Reagan’s policies with the Soviet Union, employ the politics of personal destruction to smear good men who apply for jobs?

Running out…later.

I’ll be back with more facts about how Pelosi and company are going to undermine our security at airports by proposing enemy-friendly politically-correct legislation.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 09:22 AM | Link to this

Dear Southern @ 8:44, every time I remove my shoes before flying, I contemplate the same thought you published. That may not be technically true – lots of waste in practically every department of government, practically no benefit anywhere – but your argument rings morally true to me.

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:22 AM | Link to this

It’s a good thing for me that the atlanta police’s Homeland Jaywalking swat-team dont enforce grammatical laws too.

By Courtney

January 12, 2007 09:24 AM | Link to this

The US Airway bid shouldn’t be approved by the Justice Department (it will be). Also, in the future, we need to make sure that we elect a President who will give us an Attorney General who will enforce our anti-trust laws.

By Markus

January 12, 2007 09:25 AM | Link to this

I’d just love to know where all that land is going to come from to grow all the corn necessary to make even a drop in a bucket’s worth of impact on automobile oil dependency. You know, those Red states, a.k.a “flyover” states (as some demoncats call them), may just tell you Pelosicommie liberals to grow your own damned corn and shove it in your tank (or somewhere else).

“Paygo” sounds so cute, doesn’t it? Sounds just like something some Amerinanni-wannabe woman from San Freaksicko would come up with.

PAYGO!

“We’d love to cut your taxes, but it’s against the rules”

Thanks for acting like jackasses, Republicans. Thanks a lot. The producers, job creaters, and investors in this nation will be taking it good from the Party Of The Jackass. How many poor people invest in T-bills, T-notes, and T-bonds instead of Lotto tickets? Mmm-huh, that’s what I thought. Sorry RATs, you won’t be able to blame the future downturned economy on Bush.

Besides, the left sees any excess money still as theirs, or as something they need to “deal with.” As the brilliant CBO director June Oneill said during the Clintoon years, “if [government] receipts exceed outlays, the amount of the deficit is negative.” Yep, that is the mentality of the left in this nation… a positive is STILL magically transformed into a negative and must be dealt with. Pathetic.

Global warming is a fact. So is global cooling. Greenland used to be green. Ice ages occur about every 10,000 years. There are still hot and cold records around the world unbroken from the 1800s (the last I checked, there were no Alpharetta housewives driving gas-guzzling Navigators back then). The sun is in the middle of a “hot spell.” There are massive gas hurricanes on Jupiter (yet no Algore factory smokestacks are there like on the cover of “An Inconvenient Truth”).

Fultoon County and excess taxpayer revenue. Milton, you had better RUN, not walk to incorporation or becoming a county. Each year that goes by is more of YOUR money going south of where you are. You could not pay me enough to own a home in Fultoon County. Let the fools bend over and take it from those neoStalinist Robin Hood liberals that run that county.

Judging from the mug shots of those women at Sugarloaf, I wouldn’t touch either with a neighbor’s 10 foot pole, let alone my own. And the ex-Penthouse pet at age 42? Yeesh. Talk about dried up used skank (and probably a liberal too). That old phillie needs to be put out to pasture.

Cargo inspections are needed, before the ships and planes ever hit our shores, not after. The business inventory managers around the nation can worth with that as long as the know when it will get here. However, they can’t work with inventory sitting on our docks for months waiting for the government to send in some government employees to do a government inspection. The bigger threat is our border with Mexico. Everyone knows terrorists can make a run for the border with a suitcase nuke, yet nobody wants to do anything about it.

Talking tough or even acting tough will get the attention of islamogoons in Syria and Iran. Talking like a limpwristed woman like Jimmy “444 days” Carter will not. Just ask the former Iranian hostages how quickly they were released after the world found out who Jimmy’s successor was.

Being “homeless” has it’s advantages. You can sit on a street corner with a sign at a traffic light and collect upwards of $100/day from suckers, depending on what part of town. Then you can get in your Expedition parked a block away and go to your government-subsidized home. Those “homeless” on drugs and booze who can’t even do that don’t deserve the title of “homeless.” Choices indeed. Numbers indeed.

Fishing promotion? Not for transplanted Atlantans, especially those from New Jersey. They couldn’t bait a hook.

Newflash! Pelosivitch makes exception for a tuna packing company on the minimum wage.. in HER district! If Newt had done this, all hell would have broken loose in the media. Nah, there’s no liberal media bias, is there?

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:31 AM | Link to this

“If you can eat it, you cant afford to put it into your gas tank”

So THAT’S how the Sugarloaf Callgirls propositioned their johns! No wonder they’ll get off scott free. No court in the country could decipher that. Is that what they were doing to their johns? I wonder what part of my twinkie is the gas tank? Ever since I got a load of that blonde sugarloaf hooker, I’m feeling the global warming. Hot all the time here. Wishin’ I had fun neighbors here. Life could be a dream. Sha na na nahhhh.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 09:33 AM | Link to this

Dear Southern @ 8:44, our friend Danish raises a valid argument on the Democrat’s practice of Borking competent nominees – not mere rejection, but total destruction. I know I would not accept a nomination for anything even if I did not have lots of skeletons.

By Markus

January 12, 2007 09:41 AM | Link to this

The hypocrisy and sickness of liberalism knows no bounds. Any day of the week the Party of the Jackass and liberals will raise a woman who chose a career over being a stay-at-home mom on a pedestal. “That’s a smart woman” they’ll say. “Women can do the jobs of men” they’ll crow about. In fact, a lot of liberal women make FUN of stay at home moms.

So what do have we here in our latest pile of demoncat hypocrisy? Non other than queen ex-60s hippy libokook feminazi herself, Barbara Boxerwad, mading a snide condiscending comment about Condi Rice not having kids.

I tell ya, these jackals on the left make me want to PUKE. SICK these neoStalinists are.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01122007/postopinion/editorials/boxerslowbloweditorials.htm?page=0

By Mid-South Philosopher

January 12, 2007 09:41 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw,

I don’t think Maya Angelou is shivering in her shoes over competition from me as a poet.

Jim,

Since today’s contributions are varying, I am going to offer the following. It has no redeeming social value, but there is a hint in it of the underlying good in the basest of men.

My sources close to the execution of Saddam Hussein inform me that not all of the Shi’a executioners and guards were ugly toward the condemned former tyrant. According to reports, as Saddam was mounting the steps to the gallows, he stumbled. One of his Shi’a guards steadied him and barked in, what I am sure was a concerned voice,

“Be careful, Infidel, you might fall and break your neck!”

And with that totally worthless story, I will bid all of you a good weekend.

Doesn’t the day seem brighter?

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 09:42 AM | Link to this

Jim’s upset about the call girl johns being punished? Hmmmm…. Jim’s name must be on the list.

New Iraq Commanders Differ President Bush is installing two experienced commanders from vastly different backgrounds to carry out the new Iraq policy. Bush will substitute them for generals who had qualms about a fresh buildup of U.S. troops in the war zone. Will they succeed?…

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,121769,00.html?ESRC=dod.nl

General Wants Gay Ban Lifted In an op-ed published in the New York Times, John M. Shalikashvili, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says Congress should give “serious reconsideration” to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the ban on openly lesbian, gay and bisexual military personnel

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,121509,00.html?ESRC=dod.nl

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:42 AM | Link to this

Dont jaywalk while your out there, Buy Danish.

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:43 AM | Link to this

Didn’t James Brown invent a dance called the Jaywalk? And wasn’t that what Rodney King was doing when he got beat up by the LA cops?

RapRule: Dont Jaywalk nowhere, no how, no way

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 09:45 AM | Link to this

A telling and ominous sentence in a tally of Pelosi Democrats’ first 100 hours: “The Democrats advanced the bill without even a bare-bones accounting of the estimated cost, which is likely to be in the billions

Jim worried about the government spending money!?! I can’t recall his being worried when it cost hundreds of millions to investigate the Clintons……or he doesn’t seem so upset about the current Trillion Dollar deficit; but now, suprisingly he’s upset! Partisianship at it’s finest!!!

By getoveryourself

January 12, 2007 09:49 AM | Link to this

Sorry, Markus…you LOSE…BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

By Southern Democrat

January 12, 2007 09:51 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

The absurdity of your argument is that, if ethanol subsidies do in some way raise prices at the grocery check-out line, those prices can be offset by a variety of things:

1.) The lower cost of the fuel it takes to run the mills, move the trucks, light the stores, etc.

2.) Perhaps we could simply reduce the amount of subsidies we pay to American farmers to not grow crops, thereby allowing the market to function (and satisfying our WTO/GATT obligations).

3.) I was, am, and always will be against drilling in the ANWR for several reasons: many have shown that it is a complete boondoggle meant to further line the pockets of both Repubs and Dems in Alaska. Like deep water drilling, the cost incurred offsets any gain in supply. Thus, we are still left buying oil on the OPEC-inflated market (btw, I assume you meant Venezuela and not Argentina).

As to your UN knowledge, you do realize that the Resolution to which you referred was directed at North Korea? And that China refuses to allow inspection of its cargo for weapons? If the other article you cited states that our inspection regime relies on the exporting country’s compliance and China is our second-most prolific exporter, how are we keeping our ports safe again? And 65% inspection and claiming that an algorithm-designed program to screen “100%” of all foreign-based cargo sounds like some more “truthiness” for which this administration is famous.

I also am laughing heartily at the fact that you place the blame for Sec’y Rice’s lack of management skills on our Senate confirmation system. And, further, that you blame Senator Kennedy for it! I am sure that his ego (which seems to expand at the rate of his waistline) appreciates it.

I have a humble suggestion (and I mean this with all candor and not as a way to insult you): read both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times everyday. Avoid publications with an agenda like frontpagemag… they are no different than moveon.org. The truth always lies somewhere in the middle.

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 09:51 AM | Link to this

Bush message to Syria and Iran: A day of reckoning will come if they continue to feed terrorism in Iraq. They might be tempted to change — if they believed that Bush, and somebody like him, would occupy the White House for the next decade

Sure…..I’d be scared too, if I was Iran and Syria of another dubya taking control of the white house!! he/she might decide to invade us because we have “pretzels” of mass destruction!!

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:51 AM | Link to this

I’ll see Buy Danish’s raise (of a valid argument), and go all in. I’ve got a full mouse. That beats a pair of hookers.

I dont know what that means. Did I win?

By harold

January 12, 2007 09:55 AM | Link to this

Ralph the whale shark must have seen the headline about the Nardelli severance package.

By the way, CAN WE BUY BEER AND WINE ON SUNDAYS YET? THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS A WASTIN’!!!

By zeke

January 12, 2007 09:57 AM | Link to this

10-4

By Political Stiltskin

January 12, 2007 09:58 AM | Link to this

An airforce sargent posed for playboy and has been relieved of her duties… She trains airmen at Lackland Airbase in San Antonio, Texas.

Perhaps the airforce would feel better if she had worn a burka.

Why do we prosecute the babes, when the walking talking violation of the laws of nature are the fat chicks?

War is hell.

By MELO

January 12, 2007 09:59 AM | Link to this

Bush message to Syria and Iran: A day of reckoning will come if they continue to feed terrorism in Iraq. As long as the message is coming out of your Bush mouth, the message wont be listened to. There is just no more credibitlity for yu out there, with his friends and let alone the terorrists.

somebody needs to remind Bush that he is the commander in chiefKLS Thats payback America gets when she entrust her young fighting soldiers to deserters and draft dodgers who used every excuse and connections to avoid serving their country in Vietnama, let alone the National Guard!!

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this

Moreover, if Secretary Rice is having difficulty finding people to fill positions, do you think it might have something to do with a reluctance to be grilled by disgraceful people like Ted “Chappaquidick” Kennedy

Her security detail does not have to be grilled by the senate or the congress before they take the job! Perhaps no one wants to work for her! Has anyone ever considered that?

By harold

January 12, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

Harold says “hells yeah” to the gay kids in White County who stuck it to The Man.

Churchies pulled some stupid sheet, got sued, lost. YET AGAIN.

They fall for it every single time! WHen will they ever learn?????

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

A funny story in the WSJ today: yesterday the Senate considered a proposal to rein in earmarks, using the same language Ms. Pelosi pushed through the House. One devious senator moved to kill the bill, thus preserving the pork-barrel raids, but was out-voted 51-46. Now the funny part: 38 of the 46 senators who voted against the Pelosista full disclosure requirement were Democrats, and the devious senator leading the fight against the Pelosi standard was Harry “Clarence Thomas is stupid” Reid. Reid invoked a procedural stall, preventing the Pelosi restriction from attaching to the Senate, to give himself time to persuade two of the Pelosi-style Democrats to bury the disclosure rule.

By Dennis

January 12, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten says:“The Democrats advanced the bill without even a bare-bones accounting of the estimated cost, which is likely to be in the billions.”

Aren’t WE being a little hypocritical here? Sounds like a plan right out of Bush’s personal play-book, but I don’t recall any complaining of “This country could go broke buying a false sense of security” then, nor do I hear it now.

What I read hear is more approval of an unnecessary war and needlessly putting more American soldiers at risk to satisfy the ego of a lunatic.

Can I wonder if Jim Wooten approves when he quotes Jack Kingston, “The big money, as we know, is in entitlements,” noted U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). “Pay-go completely ignores this.”

In short, if you have money you can get “entitlements” like sound medical care, but if you can’t pay for it, then “tough”?

Keep it up, tho, and one day the wealthy will be paying for the highways, fire and police protection, the military, the crooked politicians in Washington, and everything else, cause the poor won’t have anything to pay with. Serves the greedy right, too.

“If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor could make a nice living.”

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Curious Observer

January 12, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

It’s mildly amusing to read all these complaints about the refusal of the Senate to confirm John Bolton as UN ambassador. I seem to recall a few issues that go well beyond “being mean to an employee.” Issues like lying in response to a question about whether he had ever been part of an investigation. Issues like trying to get intelligence analysts who disagreed with him fired.

This guy was a stinker. There’s a genuine question about the bone fides of anyone who wants to serve in an institution he claims could withstand the instant removal of ten floors of its building without any impact on the organization.

The UN haters will go on and on about how poor Bolton got the shaft. The truth is that Bolton was Dubya’s payback for the UN’s refusal to authorize his invasion of Iraq. Like a petulant child, he took the ball and went home.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

Related funny story in the WSJ: House minority leader John Boehner removed the most-senior member of the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Flake, apparently because Flake was so out-spoken on the evils of earmarks. But king of the earmarks Jerry “I am not a comedian” Lewis retained his position on the Appropriations Committee. It is now apparent that Boehner is a mole for the Democrats, working as hard as he can to keep Democrats in control of the House.

By getalife

January 12, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

Well Jim, after w attacks Iran, oil will go over $100 a barrel.

But lets keep sacrificing Americans for oil.

Geez.

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

Grilled by Kennedy? Secretary Rice’s nominees will cross that bridge when they get to it. (camera to hand in the clenched fist w/thumb pointed straight ahead thing that JFK invented and everyone copies now).

JFK lives in that gesture for public speaking, which is used for emphasis. It really works. Try it on your wife. Say, “Dear, I’ll be home on time for dinner after work today”, but use the gesture.

She’ll want to play intern/prez. right there under the kitchen table. I guarantee it.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

I assiduously avoid papers like the New York Times which has a big fat liberal agenda, leaks national security secrets, and who is probably going to get rid of its ombudsman because he did too good a job of catching the paper at alarmingly bad reporting on a faux-abortion issue, among other embarrassments.

I do read the Wall Street Journal.

Sticking with the Borking theme, Barbara Boxer’s despicable tactics:

[Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush’s tactical change in Iraq, and quickly encountered Boxer. “Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price,” Boxer said. “My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. “Then, to Rice: “You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family.” (http://www.nypost.com/seven/01122007/postopinion/editorials/boxerslowbloweditorials.htm?page=0)

Ethanol facts to follow…

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

Swo funny stories from the WSJ in one morning? Somebody needs to show up at the Star Bar at little five points on monday nite at 8:30 and make it more challenging for me to follow…..hell, I’ll even bring a laugh track and fool everyone.

By IC

January 12, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Jim,

That’s the best you can come up with on the ethanol?

Have you looked at the air quality issues, the reduced mileage you’ll get from your vehicle (-10%), or considered the growth factors that apply when one mixes ethanol with gasoline? Are you aware of who profits from that growth? Are you aware of tax incentives that will be given to the petrol industry?

No my friend, what we pay at the grocery store is a mere pittance compared to what we will pay environmentally and at the pumps.

Reformulated gasoline is just another hoax being perpetuated upon the ignorant masses by politicians and their oil industry buddies to transfer wealth from the middle class to their coffers.

By Lee

January 12, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

Inquiring minds want to know: Exactly what does $10k get you in a house of ill repute?

Second thought. No, I really don’t want to know. The old ticker might not handle it….

By MELO

January 12, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

*A funny story in the WSJ today….jbmlw

Yu have a rather weird sense of humor!

By jm

January 12, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Maybe if the government removed all the price supports for sugar (corporate welfare), companies would return to using that instead of corn syrup. Jim you are old enough to remember what a coke tasted like (and how much better it tasted) when it was made with sugar instead of corn syrup. Of course, you could also look at Brazil’s model where they are using sugar to make ethanol.

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Poor Ralph the Whale Shark. We hardly knew ye, Ralphie Boy. So that’s what happens when you attack lasers (air quotes) to the heads of sharks trapped in an aquarium. I knew it was an evil idea when Mr. Blank first proposed it, and I’ll never forgive him for that or the Falcon Coach disaster.

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

What does $10K get you from a hooker?

I think I can field that question: the counter-clockwise swirl and the Venus Butterfly.

By Southern Democrat

January 12, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I, respectfully, do not understand what the problem is with Boxer asking tough questions to Dr. Rice regarding the surge plan. Aren’t they both doing their jobs? Isn’t Boxer’s point that a very small segment of our population is paying the price for this war a valid one?

Further, please see my above point on Michelle Malkin. I’m curious how her trip to Iraq to uncover the AP’s source that has already been arrested will go.

I understand that you may disagree with the Times’ editorial slant or built-in bias (I feel the same way about the WSJ), but I do think it is helpful to read them both. They are the only truly nat’l and int’l newspapers in our country and provide the widest coverage.

You are incredibly well-read and intelligent and I am simply suggesting that reading unlike-minded sources or points-of-view might soften some of your stances or cause you to look at some “facts” differently. I think when we all take a step back we all agree on a lot more than we realize. Or maybe I’m just in a good mood since it’s a 3 day weekend.

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Maybe it were a randomly falling bullet what kilt the whale.

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

Aquarium officials have been reviewing video of the last hours of the whale shark’s life, and it appears it was jay-swimming.

The British Historian guy is right: The Atlanta Scuba Squid Squad should be investigated cause they are out of control.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

Ethanol, from that Right Wing rag, Popular Mechanics -

One acre of corn can produce 300 gal. of ethanol per growing season. So, in order to replace that 200 billion gal. of petroleum products, American farmers would need to dedicate 675 million acres, or 71 percent of the nation’s 938 million acres of farmland, to growing feedstock. Clearly, ethanol alone won’t kick our fossil fuel dependence—unless we want to replace our oil imports with food imports.

Next, from Cornell…

Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what Cornell University agricultural scientist, David Pimentel, calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces.

From Edmunds.com -

On average, when flexible fuel vehicles are powered by E85, the vehicles have about 5-percent more horsepower and a 10-percent drop in fuel-efficiency. The added power comes from ethanol’s higher octane rating (ranging from 100-105). The fuel economy decrease comes from the fact that ethanol has a lower energy content than gasoline, which means you have to use more of it.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

Don’t you think that Condoleeza Rice’s status as a mother should be off limits as a line of questioning? These so called “tolerant” and “caring” Democrats are as nasty as they come.

But, hey! The next time there is an abortion or stem-cell debate in Congress, why not question every person who provides testimony whether or not they, or their wives or girlfriends have ever had abortions.

Clearly, the Democrats have decided that irrelevant personal questions like that are germane and perfectly appropriate.

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

Wait a minute, So Dem, how can Buy Dane be both well-read, and yet ignorant of diverse material? I think buy danish is just another jaywalking self-basting turkey-talker who foils for fun and she needs plucking by alert drumstick-weilding members of the Atlanta Swat-a-pesky-fly literary blog team.

That’s what I be a thinkin’…yep… yep……yup!

By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

Word of blogging caution: Buy Danish’s links may contain viruses. Click on her irrelevant links at your peril. The AJC accepts no liability for the criminal acts of the commenters who blog for the right.

word.

By MELO

January 12, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

The war in Iraq was waged because Mr Bush believed Sadaam had weapons of mass destruction. Sadaam was given a couple of days to vacate the country to avoid the war and possible bad repurcasations. He did not. The rest is history.

Now, no weapons were found when in fact that was the principal reason for going there. Thousands of Americans and many hundreds of thousands of Iraqs were killed…..in VAIN. Now we know Bush is going from one reason to another to try and justify the war.Grasping straws BUT still NO WEAPONS and there is not even a mention of them or is there a TEAM still HUNTING for them. NADA!!!!! QUESTIONS FOR ALL OBJECTIVEAND RATIONAL THINKERS AND HISTORINAS ON THIS BLOG REGARDLESS OF YOUR POLITICAL PERSUASION Shouldn’t Bush be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer for War crimes and mileading the world resulting in all these deaths. Should the standard that is used to convict or arraign Third world leaders like Slobadan Milosovic and Charles Taylor be applied here as well and is there no justification? Does Bush escape because he is leader of a Superpower? How can an individual like me sponsor that move. HELP, please those in the Know!

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Rule of Law AKA Political Foreskin,

Here is a website that has links to all sorts of “comedy” websites, including links for bloggers.

Perhaps you might find a venue where people will appreciate your attempts at humor, and give you the attention you so desperately crave. Scroll down.

By JK

January 12, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Wait… we shouldn’t put corn sugar in our cars because we should be eating it? I have to disagree. The prevalence of corn syrup solids in proessed food is one of the main contributors to obesity in America — and the resultant medical costs. (If you ever travel, you know that we are indeed a big fat obese jiggling blob of a nation.) Read the labels, folks. It’s jam-packed with calories and the kind of sugar molecules that go straight to your gut, thighs, and arteries, juice up your brain chemistry to want more, and slowly kill your pancreas. Diabetes, anyone?

Perhaps energy solutions can be found much closer to home than we thought. Little Debbies and Fritos are sacrifices I am totally willing to make!! (Does anyone remember how good Co-cola used to taste, back when it was made with cane sugar?)

By Southern Democrat

January 12, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

If Dr. Rice was offended, then certainly Boxer should apologize as Dr. Rice’s personal life is not relevant to her abilities as Secretary of State.

But wait… could President Clinton also get an apology for the inquiries into his personal life and “status as a husband”?

And could I also get an apology from my president who came into my state and called my senator, a trimple-amputee combat veteran, unpatriotic?

As a point of clarification, I am no huge fan of ethanol… I simply support any and all creative thinking to help rid us of our dependence on foreign oil that has driven our foreign policy for 60 years. I would love to see a return to developing electric cars and couple that with an increase in generating energy through nuclear, solar, and wind power.

By Aquagirl

January 12, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Buy, I consider your links irrelevent for a different reason. Ethanol isn’t a perfect, or the only solution to our energy problems. Neither is drilling in ANWR, but the cry from the Right on that seems to be “any little bit will help!” So why doesn’t the same standard apply to ethanol?

By Captain Freedom

January 12, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

The Captain arrived at his Mighty Keyboard of Freedom this morning, on fire to lay waste to the Islamoliberalfascist bedwetters who spew their inanity on this forum of robust idea.

Alas, since Mr Wooten couldn’t be bothered to put in any effort today, neither shall I.

By Southern Democrat

January 12, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

MELO,

Several responses (legally speaking). First, the U.S. is not a party to the Rome Treaty and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. Second, no crime that you allege that the president committed is under the ICC’s jurisdiction. Third, Milosovic’s and Taylor’s crimes were against their own people, and their own criminal justice systems were insufficent, therefore obligating their cases to go to the ICC, as it is a court of last resort.

So far, the only cases that the Office of the Prosecutor is pursuing have been referred by States Parties (countries who have signed on) and the UN Security Council.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

Well, I never!

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Boy oh boy, if only Lee (@ 8:28) were Brian Nichol’s defense attourney.. With all that legal and liability expertise right at his fingertips we might have another OJ loose, eh?

Maybe this guy can solve who done went and kilt Ralph.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

Now that the vepid shrilling demoNcrats have taken congress their intrepid imbecilic manners have become blindingly obvious. The hot wind eminating from Shrillary and her ilk should provide a sufficient source of alternative energy or even better yet my own wanking would power all of GA.

the racist fulton county commissioners utterly dishonest shenanigans will expedite the formation of Milton County as well as any other corner that may wish to escape the shamelessly corrupt disposition of the commission.

now that i have bleated and proferred i am nearing the end of my perpetual wank…almost…alomst…AAAAAHHHH!

SMIRK

By silver

January 12, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this

It sure looks like the people on this blog who were critical of the altanta police for murdering the old woman were right. The cops just admitted that they lied to get the search warrant. Now the cops are beating up on elderly historians for jaywalking - but markus and his ilk will say that was justified, because the historian was not respecting the authority of the police!

By Redneck Convert

January 12, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

Deliverys is going good and I’m on my lunch break.

I see some guy has innerduced a bill that would let citys and countys vote on whether they would allow beer and wine to be sold on Sunday. That ought to make drunks like getalife mighty happy. I guess Sister Dusty and me is to just sit by and watch our religion get trashed. My bible says no selling booze on Sunday. You need to get your liver back in shape before you go to work on Monday.

And I’m sick of these do-gooders that want to put good roastin ears in gas tanks. If you can eat or drink it, you shouldn’t burn it up. If people are too lazy to go to the gas station to fill up, they should just stop driving. Don’t go out to a field and try to stuff a bunch of grain down the gas tank.

Anyway, Wooten is most always right. If he says it, I believe it.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

The leftist sickb!tch Boxer - who is (by marriage) actually part of the Arkansas rapist klan - has yet again compulsively slithered deep into the shameless guttersnipe gutter … funny how the party of hate media have said so little about its disgusting, hysterical attack on Sec: Rice. A white sullen feminazi attacks a classy erudite black lady and SILENCE from the leftist vermin!! Just imagine the endless screeching if it had been the other way around.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01122007/postopinion/editorials/boxerslowbloweditorials.htm?page=0

The black whoralicious stripper [with FIVE MEN’S DNA in its underwear] in the evil Duke Lynching changes its grasping gimme a big ol’ payday LIES yet again. And still the despicable leftist racebaiting demoNcrat Durham D.A. wants to lynch them. Wanna bet the bigot Crackpipe is silent on this!!

By IC

January 12, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

were the money spent on oil exploration to be spent developing hydrogen powered vehicles, we’d not only clean the air but be producing pure water which many of you are paying upwards of $4 a gallon for.

By silver

January 12, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

Actually, ms rice’s failure to procreate is very important, as she has no dog in this fight in iraq. In a larger sense, the architects of this illegal, immoral, and stupid war have no kin in harms way. No Bush, Rumsfeld, Chaney, Wolfowitz, Libby, Pearl, Feith, etc have any kin fighting in Iraq. The one time wolfie was in iraq, when he heard a bomb go off, he turned deathly white, began to shake, and asked to leave immediately. So much for the hero chicken-hawks.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

Aquagirl,

Is someone jacking your name, because that was an exceptionally stupid response.

I’m not a psychic like the Democrats in Congress who love to pass regulations that depend on inventing cars and technologies that don’t yet exist, so I have no idea when we will have alternative fuels that actually work efficiently.

If you read the Popular Mechanics link you will learn about all the problems that exist with each “alternative” that we have at this point in time.

It could be decades from now before we have something that really works. In the meantime, it would be nice to have our own auxilliary supply of oil, which has been blocked for no freaking reason.

Southern Democrat,

Still pushing the tired old “it was all about sex” line, eh?

Quick review: Clinton, through his attorney, prepared an intentionally false affadavit for Monica Lewinsky to sign to use as evidence in the Paula Jones case. He ultimately lost his law license, which was taken away by an Arkansas Judge, not by the Republican Party. The guy should have resigned, like Republicans do. The good news for us is that we didn’t get the mentally-unstable dork, Al Gore, to take his place.

Regarding the New York Times, I have an RSS feed and scroll through some of their stories. However, having grown up a Democrat in toney Manhattan, and having worked in the Entertainment Business, I am somewhat of an insider into how the Elites think.

In short, almost without exception, they are shockingly anti-semetic, think that the Jews run our country, and that Pat Robertson and George Bush are more evil than any Al Qaeda terrorist.

The Times is a reflection of that viewpoint, and is complicit in encouraging that sort of outrageous and congenital bigotry among its readership. I have little use for it.

By JK

January 12, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

But wait… could President Clinton also get an apology for the inquiries into his personal life and “status as a husband”? And could I also get an apology from my president who came into my state and called my senator, a trimple-amputee combat veteran, unpatriotic?

Yes, I would also like to hear these apologies. I mean, anyone with any principles at all would have the grace, class, and integrity to apologize after such deplorable breeches of etiquette, right, Purveyor of nutritionally-void caloric excess?

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

Clearly, the Democrats have decided that irrelevant personal questions like that are germane and perfectly appropriate.

@Southern DemoNcrat

Jesus Christ man!!!….how utterly intellectually dishonest is the bleating bile that you proffer! and you proffer that the cretin clintoN RAPIST is owed an APOLOGY by his conservative betters??? damn man, how incredibly obtuse you is!!!

By Dennis

January 12, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

Southern Democrat said, “And could I also get an apology from my president who came into my state and called my senator, a trimple-amputee combat veteran, unpatriotic?”

Not in this life-time. That’s the kind of guy Bush is - he has all of his limbs and wealth, but if you don’t have what he has, that’s tough.

And don’t expect him to share it, either. After all, that would be an afront to capitalism and foster more liberalism.

And if he shares, then that might make you/me dependent, unable and unwilling to lift ourselves from our poverty - which we “chose” by making “bad decisions”.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

Clearly, the Democrats have decided that irrelevant personal questions like that are germane and perfectly appropriate.

@Southern DemoNcrat

Jesus Christ man!!!….how utterly intellectually dishonest is the bleating bile that you proffer! and you proffer that the cretin clintoN RAPIST is owed an APOLOGY by his conservative betters??? damn man, how incredibly obtuse you is!!!

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

Clearly, the Democrats have decided that irrelevant personal questions like that are germane and perfectly appropriate.

@Southern DemoNcrat

Jesus Christ man!!!….how utterly intellectually dishonest is the bleating bile that you proffer! and you proffer that the cretin clintoN RAPIST is owed an APOLOGY by his conservative betters??? damn man, how incredibly obtuse you is!!!

By Van

January 12, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

I see Madam Pelosi is up to her normal democratic tricks again. Her minimum wage bill exempts exempts American Samoa, a US terrritory, from the minimum wage law. Why you ask. It seems that a San Francisco based company, in Pelosi’s district did not want a minimum wage increase in American Samoa. StarKist Tuna, which runs one of the two fish processing plant there, got a present from Madam Speaker.

Look it up here

By Mark

January 12, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

• Global warming of Exxon’s heart? Jan. 11: The oil giant is pulling its money from an anti-global warming think tank, saying the issue has evolved. “On the Money’s” Scott Cohn reports.

Interesting.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

feminazi JK’s bleating with southern demoNcrat about apologies leaves me with utter shock. leftist afterbirth glibly demanding apologies from their CONSERVATIVE BETTERS reflects the shameless disposition of their kind. go ahead luv, continue with your DISHONEST blather about apologies!!!!

By Dusty

January 12, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish is doing so well refuting the flaming mistruths of liberals with her factual reports, may I interrupt a minute? Just my two cents worth of poetry:

POETS IN TOWN

Now, do you hear a voice a’singing

A new voice lifting and bringing

Life and love and tender times

Their words of heart and songs a’ringing?

Poets come and poets go.

But we tell you poets as we have before,

“Please come and stay and say some more.”

By Southern Democrat

January 12, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I am simply trying to bridge the gap (a little) between us, so I’ll respond to your points:

if you want to make that argument about President Clinton, that is fine, but then, by YOUR logic (not mine), President Reagan should have resigned when his subordinates were shown to have lied to Congress and the American public about arms sales to Iran and money to Nicaragua. I have no problem saying that Bill Clinton made serious, grave mistakes for which he should have been punished. I do have a problem with self-righteous conservatives not keeping perspective.

Ummm… the New York Times may think that Jews “run our country,” but they also “run the paper.” Or did you not know that Arthur Sulzberger and his family are Jewish? Are you insinuating some sort of remarkable self-loathing?

If you recall, the Times and the WaPo were roundly criticized by the leftists for being overly harsh on Clinton… but that seems to be forgotten.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

I see the obsessive homosexual leftist afterbirth ID stealer/stalker is enjoying smoking a few bad rocks again today!

By Ted

January 12, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 09:18 AM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

Regarding port security, please read the factual, informative links I provided above^^.

Buy Danish, your sources are always just a wee bit suspect.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

Show Mr. Peabody into the library please……

By Aquagirl

January 12, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

Hey, maybe we’d have some alternative energy technologies if we put effort into developing them. Oil production certainly has its downsides too, but we’ve spent much more time and money to develop ways to find, extract, and use oil. It’s not surprising that technology in that area is more advanced.

No one needs a crystal ball to figure out two points: One, other people have more, and more readily available oil. Two, a lot of those people don’t like us.

Why is it that Republicans are so happy to have us dependent on such an energy source? Conservatives seem to go after oil with all the self-control and forethought of Bill Clinton pursuing a nekkid intern.

Nope, no id jacking on my handle. Your failure to understand basic logic seems to be the problem. Thanks for your concern! What a touchingly bipartisan moment! I’m verklempt.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

Do you think that Greek terrorists have a dont ask, dont tell policy?

By Dennis

January 12, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

Southern Democrat said, “And could I also get an apology from my president who came into my state and called my senator, a triple-amputee combat veteran, unpatriotic?”

Not in this life-time. That’s the kind of guy Bush is. He has all of his limbs and wealth, but if you don’t have what he has, that’s tough.

And don’t expect him to share it, either. After all, that would be an afront to capitalism and foster more liberalism.

And, if he shares, then that might make you/me dependent, unable and unwilling to lift ourselves from our poverty which we “chose” by making “bad decisions.”

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

Its side splintingly hilarious that some desperately inadequate leftist pond scum has become a compulsive, obsessive homosexual cyber stalker of its conservative betters. Clearly this festering pile of knuckle dragging marxist lite sewage has little else in its drab wretched empty worthless life and thus needs to vicariously leech off its moral and intellectual superior(s)!!

huge LET’S KILL ALL inbred LEFTIES IN THE WORLD TODAY smirk

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

Yep, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Many members of the Jewish Elite are notoriously anti-semitic and “self-loathing”.

I can tell you that from personal experience with the “Our Crowd”crowd, but scroll down and read some of the reader reviews for further affirmation of my experience.

I’d also point out the fact that Hollywood, where Jewish liberals abound, invariably takes an anti-Israel Pro-Palestinian position, as does your garden variety Marxist peace protester of Jewish heritage.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

The leftist afterbirth id stalker shamelessly steals my prose and minces my words and then points fingers at me in a Naginesque manner as if I am the id stalker @ 12:20!!!

this pathetic pisant of afterbirth shall return to the bottoom of the heap of biowaste from whence he came…or other words HOME!!

By 911

January 12, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

How much you want to bet the “johns” that they catch are card carrying republican conservatives,who are married and a deacon at the church? I wonder if “peaches” was running a whore house and selling drugs on metropolatian ave would they have kicked the door down with guns a blazing??As opposed to running a whorehouse & selling drugs in Sugarloaf!

By Darth Vader

January 12, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

It sure would be nice if all of the people on these blogs got jobs. That way you wouldn’t have so much time to jerk each other off so much!!

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

It is utterly unbelievable that this obsessive marxist afterbirth scum continues with his/her dishonestly misleadinig id stealing posts such as those @ 12:32. now it’s time for the PINKO slithering vermin to crawl back into the marxist abyss from whence you came.

huge let’s round up all leftist traitors on trains and dispose of them SMIRK!!!

By ICEMAN

January 12, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

I am very intrigued and excited by this prostitution story. This society is demand driven not supply. We spend too much resources on attacking the suppliers and not enough on those who want the product.

By Discriminating consumer

January 12, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

Wonder if Lisa Taylor and Naughty Nikki ever had a free-for-all Friday. It would be worth lining up for.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

Well … aborted foreskin now has a lifetime gig as a stand in sewer rat for Rentokil, so the less literate/numerate new hires can eagerly practice poisoning/gassing on something of no consequence in the hopefully marvellous likelihood that the dosage might be just a bit too high!

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this

Where were the professional racebaiters like Jackasson and Sharptongue and Conyers and Rangel and Franklin and Lewis and McKinney et al? DUH!! WRONG CAUSE of course!!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEWORLEANSVIOLENCE?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-01-11-15-31-52

By The original RWTFTTJMBetc

January 12, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

OK, so ethanol makes prices of stuff go up. Are we supposed to just burn oil and coal until we, and our food sources, can no longer breathe and then just revert to being cave dwellers? Wooten’s gonna be dead by then so he doesn’t care.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

Thank you for bringing up Iran-Contra, as it give me an opportunity to remind everyone how disastrous the Democrats are in foreign policy, who seem to have a knack for choosing the wrong side.

Here’s Ronald Reagan, describing the situation (coincidentally to Jewish leaders) before the vote in Congress to support the anti-Sandinista resistance took place. Read it and see how prescient he was about the role of Useful Idiots in the Middle East.

Some excerpts. The Sandinista Communists have matched their words with actions, joining the PLO in terrorist assaults in the Middle East, including the attempted overthrow of the Hussein government and the hijacking of an El Al airliner. The Sandinista terrorist killed in that El Al hijacking, Patrick Arguayo Ryan, is revered as a hero by the Nicaraguan Government. They even named a large power dam after him.

Managua has also rolled out the welcome mat for terrorists from around the world, not just Cubans, Bulgarians, Libyans, PLO, and Iranians, but members of the Baader-Meinhof gang, the Basque ETA [Basque Fatherland and Freedom], and the Italian Red Brigade. These criminals and lunatics now camp out on the doorstep of the United States. Let’s not kid ourselves; the Sandinistas are avowed, dedicated Communists. And Communists since the days of Lenin have advocated terrorism as a legitimate means to attain political ends. Incidentally, Mr. Lenin’s picture is quite prominent on new issues of postage stamps in Nicaragua. If the Sandinistas are allowed to consolidate their hold on Nicaragua, we’ll have a permanent staging ground for terrorism. A home away from home for Qadhafi, Arafat, and the Ayatollah — just 3 hours by air from the U.S. border.

The Democrats are a disaster when it comes to foreign policy, and have been for decades now. That’s just one reason I’m no longer one of them.

Ted,

If you don’t like my sources, find some of your own. In the meantime, why not find something to specifically argue with, say in the Popular Mechanics story on alternative energy, or in Reagan’s speech.

By Dusty

January 12, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Err Jim,

Do you know a good place to fish in Georgia? I don’t have a recipe for Toxic Trout, a Chattahooche catch. North Georgia rivers have rocks slippery as glass on which to stand.(One son got a green stick fracture there.) To conserve energy like a good citizen deletes long trips to the coast. They won’t let me fish at the Aquarium. I await your suggestions.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Will somebody show Mr. Peabody into the library, please……

By Darth Vader

January 12, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

time for a lie,

McDonalds is hiring. Do you need a reference?

By moc

January 12, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

My Honda Civic Hybrid gets 60+ highway miles to the gallon. Drove to Savannah and back last week on less than a tank of gas. And there is no trade off in performance for the mileage. It is a self generated, no hassle vehicle. Hybrid technology is the way out of our gasoline woes.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 01:00 PM | Link to this

Well, I never….!

By ICEMAN

January 12, 2007 01:03 PM | Link to this

We need to acknowledge the death of a loved one everybody. Ralph the whale shark died this morning and the aquarium officials don’t know why. Has anyone heard anything about this?

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:05 PM | Link to this

A marxist leftist trolling afterbirth calling herself DARTH VADER makes a sardonic attempt at humor and glibly refuses to acknowledge her own SHORTcomings with an id of a 3-yr-old…keep up the good work little boy and you’ll get a bisuit at the end of the day…with a razorblade in it!!!

huge I love wanking SMIRK!!

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:09 PM | Link to this

Darth Wanker

I knew McDonald when he only had a farm … and on that farm he had some cowardly cut and run LEFTIST PIGS … with an OINK OINK HERE AND AN OINK OINK THERE … EEEEEEI EEEEEEI OH!!!

By Aquagirl

January 12, 2007 01:11 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Iceman, I’m dressed in sackcloth right now and in deep morning for my fellow fishy. I will accept condolences posted here.

An e-mail announcement from the aquarium said they had administered emergency treatment. I wonder what that was? I hope they at least tried mouth to mouth.

By Darth Vader

January 12, 2007 01:14 PM | Link to this

time for a lie again,

Be very careful. The force is with me Hitler!

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:16 PM | Link to this

Iceman

sadly someone showed Ralph a picture of the Pelosibitch and then rather nastily played the poor old shark a podcast of Pelosibitch’s triumphalist abject lies and treasonous bile … the shark just couldn’t stand living in the USA with scum like this running the usual pandering votebuying, racebaiting, cut and run hate America demoNcrat stuff.

By flounder flapping liberal

January 12, 2007 01:17 PM | Link to this

*By Rule of Law

January 12, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

Yeah Rule, those pain in the @ss things like links with facts don’t sit well with you brainwashed overgrown babies on the left, do they?

“Whaaaa, she sent a link from a credible source that discredits what I think I know. Whaaaa. WHAAAAAAAAAA!”

Big liberal babies.

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 01:19 PM | Link to this

Hey, maybe we’d have some alternative energy technologies if we put effort into developing them. Oil production certainly has its downsides too, but we’ve spent much more time and money to develop ways to find, extract, and use oil. It’s not surprising that technology in that area is more advanced

I read somewhere that there was a big shortage of oil back in the 70’s, (gas lines galore). If this is true, why didn’t we take ACTION since we (the government), knew that there was a problem and soon to be a bigger problem with America’s dependence on oil? We have some bright and intelligent people in Washington; it seems to me somebody could’ve came up with a bill to promote the search for alternative solutions.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:19 PM | Link to this

Darth Wanker/Aborted Foreskin … I hear the Gestapo have just one lil’ ol’ butcher’s hook left - ALL for your puffy p*** perfidious throat …

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:22 PM | Link to this

The force is with me Hitler!

Darth Wanker

You make it way too EASY mate!! I am gleefully enjoying winding you up with one hand and wanking with the other! Go home and play with daddy’s lightsaber…just don’t play to HARD!! GEDDIT??!!

still wanking quietly SMIRK

By Why cause

January 12, 2007 01:22 PM | Link to this

How come Cindy Tucker and Ms. Bookman don’t allow comment on their columns as Mr. Wooten does? Is it because they are afraid of reading opinions other than their own? Did anyone notice Tucker had comments enabled on one column recently? Was the web designer responsible for that new? If not, did they get fired. Inquiring minds, etc. …

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 01:22 PM | Link to this

Will somebody please show Mr. Peabody into the library….?

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 01:23 PM | Link to this

I wonder if “peaches” was running a whore house and selling drugs on metropolatian ave would they have kicked the door down with guns a blazing??

Of course. Money buys you anything. Ask Dubya and OJ.

By ICEMAN

January 12, 2007 01:25 PM | Link to this

Thanks time for the truth and aquagirl.

I hope Norton can hang in there and be a strong fishy.

By Curious Observer

January 12, 2007 01:28 PM | Link to this

Much like Iceman, I have a morbid fascination with the Sugarloaf prostitution case. I want to know more, more, more—and in particular I want to know the identities of the customers who shelled out $10,000 for the privilege of visiting that house.

We got the names of two of these customers in this morning’s AJC. And we are promised that more names will be forthcoming. My prediction is that when all the names are released, they will include

The world awaits the release of the names of these johns and johnnettes.

By Darth Vader

January 12, 2007 01:29 PM | Link to this

time for you to end,

Why don’t you just admit that your deeply repressed sexual deviances has propelled you to launch out in disgust for all those who disagree with you.

Its definetly time for the truth all right. The truth that your transgendered state of mind needs an oil change.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:36 PM | Link to this

How quaint … I see the sad embittered inadequate Curious PeepingTom has had way too much marxist kool aid today!!

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 01:37 PM | Link to this

For $10K — I wonder……….what could be worth $10K a session? Did they use animals or something? Or maybe they were using some new improved stuff that no one has ever heard of before.

They need to post a list of all the guys/girls who came back more than once!

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:38 PM | Link to this

Christ Curious PeepingTom … your daughter aint half been busy up there in SugarLoaf!!

By flounder flapping liberal

January 12, 2007 01:39 PM | Link to this

Ms. Tucker and Bookman are like those who used to be on Air America [what a shame] like Randi Roades who wouldn’t take dissent calls: hearing from their opposition gets them upset and they can’t handle it. They couldn’t hanlde a blog like this. Why? Because their way is the way. Just look at how upset the wacky left gets on this blog hearing from the opposition. They even resort to stealing id’s. How childish.

By ICEMAN

January 12, 2007 01:40 PM | Link to this

Curious Observer,

Your ID is a perfect way to describe how I’m feeling concerning this case. I once knew a young lady who charged between $250 and $1000 for visits. She lived in Roswell in a very nice house and we were good friends until she got busted. With the type of money these women in Sugarloaf were charging, there has to be some familiar names involved.

By JBM is a condescending...

January 12, 2007 01:41 PM | Link to this

Whick one of JBM’s “leftist friends” attacked the US Embassy in Greece?

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 01:44 PM | Link to this

jesus .h. chirst…now i have two marxist afterbirth scum that i have wound up…all with ONE hand wanking myself!!!

The good thing to emerge from the death of Ralph is the blindingly obvious opportunity to throw all lefties in his tank and lock the hatch. this way they can blather to their hearts content and there conservative betters can wank in PEACE!!!

By time for tthe truth

January 12, 2007 01:46 PM | Link to this

Darth Wanker,

Just because I like to take in the a$$ doesn’t mean the lefists should have a place here.

By Southern Democrat

January 12, 2007 01:47 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

President Reagan also had the courage to pull out of Lebanon when he realized that our presence there was unnecessary and contrary to our foreign policy goals.

Out of curiosity, if Democrats are so inept at foreign policy and Republicans are so much better, why are esteemed Republican strategists (e.g., Scowcroft, Baker, Powell, etc.) being ignored? Is it just because they make too much sense?

I can say, unequivocally, that this administration’s foreign policy is the worst in my lifetime. They make Carter look capable.

As for your remarkable (!) views on the “Jewish elite” or Hollywood, where exactly did you grow up in Manhattan? The Upper East Side is full of both secular and practicing Jews who are constantly lending money and support to Israel. As a member of the New York Bar, I can tell you that there are THOUSANDS of prominent Jewish lawyers whose political views are similar to mine, yet are ardently pro-Israel. Your conspiracy theories are a little reckless.

Sadly, it seems to me that you would rather we go t**-for-tat today than talk about where our ideas might converge. I find this exhausting and so, with that, I will bid you a safe and restful weekend.

By getoveryourself

January 12, 2007 01:51 PM | Link to this

For $10K — I wonder……….what could be worth $10K a session? Did they use animals or something? Or maybe they were using some new improved stuff that no one has ever heard of before.

They probably used an some blogging English-immigrant gimp!

Buy Danish has a great justification for Iran-Contra…funding a bunch of baby-killers that slaughter innocent peasants so we can have cheap fruit at the supermarkets. At the same time, we can sell arms to avowed Islmamic fundamentalists who held 400 of our fellow citizens hostage. How patriotic!

By Darth Vader

January 12, 2007 01:54 PM | Link to this

time for a job,

I knew there was something special about you.

By Under-served

January 12, 2007 02:03 PM | Link to this

Debbie, all you’ve got to do is see Ms. Taylor’s pix on her Web site to see any man with 10 grand to spend would gladly pay it. Had I known it was available, I would have.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 02:05 PM | Link to this

Now I have wound up THREE leftist afterbirth pond scum…welcome getalegoveryourself!! The perpetually dishonest bleating of the marxist vermin on here make my job WAY TOO EASY!!

HUGE watch me wank with my eyes closed…hold it…almost there…ahhhhh!!! SMIRK

By harold

January 12, 2007 02:15 PM | Link to this

the sugarloaf whores will have been smart enough to put names of people with airtight alibis (such as air travel) into their book as having been customers at a time when they were known to be out of town, and this whole thing will collapse on the idiot DA over there trying to make a name for himself. the name he will make for himself is FOOL and SUCKA

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 02:25 PM | Link to this

Dear Debbie @ 1:19, you ask a question right up my alley: “I read somewhere that there was a big shortage of oil back in the 70’s, (gas lines galore). If this is true, why didn’t we take ACTION since we (the government), knew that there was a problem and soon to be a bigger problem with America’s dependence on oil? We have some bright and intelligent people in Washington; it seems to me somebody could’ve came up with a bill to promote the search for alternative solutions.”

The US government itself caused the oil shortages, through its misguided effort to manipulate the market. When our-friends-the-Saudis declared their oil embargo (to punish the western world for its support of Israel in the six-days war) the US, President Nixon, in the worst “we are all Keynesians now” tradition imaginable, determined to control the price of oil by regulation. As is always the case in a market with comparatively inelastic demand, fixing the price below market guarantees shortages. (For you minimum wage fans, the converse is also true: fixing a price above market guarantees surplus, i.e., more people than there are jobs to go around.)

It was nearly a decade later before Ronaldus Maximus, seeing the stupid government interference in the market, reversed the self-destructive policy. Although our leftist friends decried the “lunacy” of removing price controls in such a tight market, shortages disappeared forever immediately, and the short-term spike in price led to much greater production of oil supplies.

The short answer to your final question is, “The bright people in Washington did learn their lesson, and no longer interfere with the free market.”

By Amazed

January 12, 2007 02:26 PM | Link to this

I am so astonished. Who is desperate and stupid enough to give 10,000 to two chicks that ugly? omg. they are road hard and hung wet. My god man why are men so damn pathetic and desperate?

NO woman on earth is worth 10,000 for a weekend of sex.. Sorry but if I was to ever get that desperate or pathetic I would go buy a porno movie, a bottle of lubricant, and introduce my thing to my hand. Men are so stupid and pathetic.

This is why women now wear the pants, make the decisions, run the business world, control men, cheat, men are no longer men, now they are pathetic women. Women are now men and men are now women.. God i am embarrased to be a man now because men have become weak and pathetic. Men chase after women now, pay for sex, cry and groval over women leaving them, put up with women treating them like crap, let their wifes and girlfrienda cheat and they still forgive them and love them.. omg.. what happened to men? It’s sickening.

I could see paying 250.00 for sex with some hot girl like Miss USA or some hot 21yr old model. and paying for sex would only be acceptable if the guy was super ugly and was tired of his hand. NO girl could possibly be worth more than 250.00

Guys be men and take control of women like men did in the old days.. My goodness what happened. Women now know that they hold the gold, make the rules because they own the kitty and they know men are desperate, pathetic enough to put up with anything or do anything for that kitty.. sad…sad…sad…

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 02:28 PM | Link to this

An additional note, I assume those of you who are shills (for additional subsidies for ethanol) are fully invested in Archer Daniels Midland, as they control the market for ethanol. If you are going to advocate for corporate welfare, I hope you are smart enough to own shares of the company you are subsidizing.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 02:37 PM | Link to this

Southern Democrat,

How was our presence in Lebanon contrary to OUR foreign policy goals? Ronald Reagan pulled out of Lebanon because of a terrorist attack on our Marines. Was that the right thing to do in retrospect?

Here’s a little Deja Vu -

Mr. Reagan’s short-term gain is, of course, indisputable. He has extracted his administration from a potentially messy situation in a presidential election year. The nation will not have to agonize over Marine hostages, as it did four years ago when the American embassy staff was held and humiliated in Tehran. The president can claim he gave Amin Gemayel 18 months to put something together and it just didn’t work out.

Well, international politics in that part of the world isn’t so cleanly executed or dismissed. Since the United States has broad and enduring strategic interests in the region, its quick (though justified) decision to pull troops out will leave it in a diminished position of power and influence. To what degree only time and further experience will tell.

….For U.S. allies in the region, the lesson is to stay out of trouble because if you call on Washington, the Marines might come but you’ve got about six months before American public opinion sours….

Hezbollah is now holding a frightening amount of power, getting aid from Syria and Iran, while threatening Israel, with the current pro-Western government hanging on with a thread.

Is that what you consider to be great results?

As for my jewish “conspicacy theories”, yes, that would be the Upper East Side. I’m not asserting that all New York Jews are anti-Semitic or anti-Israel - obviously that is not the case. I’m talking about members of the so-called “Elites” who hold the views I stated earlier.

I might add that upper-echelon W.A.S.P.s are overwhelmingly anti-Israel too, and of course the peanut farmer Jimmy Carter is making a fool of himself with his “Jewish Apartheid” scenario.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 02:42 PM | Link to this

Dear Amazed @ 2:26, I confess I am unfamiliar with these Sugarloaf working girls, but the amount you quote is barely a week’s worth of regular billable hours – does not sound like a big deal to me, although I don’t know the standard prices in that field or market generally.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 02:55 PM | Link to this

By getoveryourself January 12, 2007 01:51 PM

Buy Danish has a great justification for Iran-Contra…funding a bunch of baby-killers that slaughter innocent peasants blah blah blah

How many tens of millions of people need to die before you leftists give up on your idea that Communism is good for the “peasants”?

Here’s a more recent example of your hero Marxists, in the “Shining Path” of Peru, whose leader is now in jail after being responsible for 70,000 deaths. But “Shining Path” sounds so sweet doesn’t it!

Shining Path, established in the late 1960s by the former university professor Abimael Guzman, is a militant Maoist group that seeks to install a peasant revolutionary authority in Peru. The group took up arms in 1980, and its ranks once numbered in the thousands. Experts consider it one of the world’s most ruthless insurgencies; Shining Path often hacked its victims to death with machetes.

By Brian Curtis

January 12, 2007 03:03 PM | Link to this

Wow, I can’t believe someone brought up Iran-Contra in an attempt to DEFEND Reagan!

That’s like pointing to the multiple homicides as evidence that Charles Manson’s a good guy.

By getoveryourself

January 12, 2007 03:07 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I never said that communism was good for peasants. Where do you get that idea from?

The Shining Path was an awful guerilla group responsible for the death of tens of thousands of peasants, whom were killed in the most atrocious ways.

Slaughtering is slaughtering, no matter the political motivation. The Contras were God-awful war criminals that rivaled the Shining Path or any other death squad. It was immoral to fund them.

By FKitchner

January 12, 2007 03:08 PM | Link to this

President Carter broke the back of OPEC by phasing out price controls and introducing fuel economy standards. When OPEC cracked in 1982 and the economy rebounded, it is Carter we should thank, not Reagan (just as it is Reagan we thank for the breakup of the Soviet Union after he left office). Also, no other president has made as much progress toward peace for Israel since Carter.

If subsequent presidents had continued to increase fuel economy standards, and focused on Middle East peace as much as Carter did while they were in office, we could have prevented or reduced the magnitude of many of today’s problems…recent spikes in oil prices, financing terrorism, global warming, struggling American automobile manufacturers.

The “Carter was our worst President” mantra is a myth born out of ignorance.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 03:11 PM | Link to this

Dear Brian, only the leftists opposed Reagan’s consistent and ultimately effective anticommunism programs. Ultimately that was the definition of “Iran-Contra” – they Reagan administration’s apparently legal and effective circumvention of the constraints the Democrats passed in an effort to preserve communism in the Americas. Danish is right – give it up, your side lost the 50 year war.

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 03:12 PM | Link to this

Dear FKitchner @ 3:08, you forgot the part about “and survives because there are still people around who remember.”

By Amazed

January 12, 2007 03:13 PM | Link to this

Dear JBMLAW: It does not matter what the standard prices in prostitution are, holy cow the point is why are men stupid, deseperate and pathetic enough to pay for sex? The dumb women who are pathetic whores give it away for free so why pay for it? Go to a club or bar and unless you are just dog ugly then you should be able to get laid for free. When I was single I never had to pay for sex, I would just go out on a friday or saturday night with the boys, pick up a cute drunk chick, and boom you was somewhere at 3am getting laid.

NO girl is worth 10,000 bottom line. That kitty is not that good and its not that wet. Men that go to strip clubs or pay for sex are weak, stupid, pathetic, desperate men.

Now if a man was rich and did not want the headache of a wife or serious girlfriend then I could see him paying 250.00 for a night. But once agian no kitty is worth more than 250.00 no matter what the market says its worth..

By harold

January 12, 2007 03:18 PM | Link to this

there are plenty of women worth $10,000

as long as you are paying them to leave!

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 03:19 PM | Link to this

FKitchner @ 3:08, you will persuade few with your post. You argue that President Carter’s preservation of price controls on oil ultimately broke the back of OPEC – you cannot argue that with a straight face. CAFÉ is a silly, and almost inconsequential interference with the market; “almost” only because it fooled the American car makers into thinking they did not really have to adjust to the market but merely conform to the law. I credit President Carter with realizing the folly of price control only too late, and only because Paul Volker took control from those who were not quite ready for prime time.

As to “progress toward peace for Israel,” the only way peace is achieved, in the Democrat formulation, is by concession, a slippery-slope, and one never negotiated successfully over the long run.

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 03:19 PM | Link to this

I see the anal moronic aborted foreskin is still obsessively monitoring my posts. And like a demented energiser bunny with a butch puff adder persona is effetely attempting, as if its still a vexed pasty faced spotty school playground nancy boy to witlessly AND ENDLESSLY parody my blunt, call a spade a spade style.

To indulge in such overt, obsessional, feverish cyber stalking shows a truly sick, empty and warped mind completely at ease with itself. Knowing that I have so easily and effortlessly goaded this rancid humourless gormless maggot into wasting virtually half its precious mental hospital PC access afternoons on this is mighty amusing.

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 03:20 PM | Link to this

The short answer to your final question is, “The bright people in Washington did learn their lesson, and no longer interfere with the free market

OK but why isn’t someone searching for alternatives to our addiction to arab oil? (or OIL period — I drive a hybrid, I can drive for 3 weeks on a tank of gas!) If the Arab nation got mad over America’s support of Israel and started an embargo once, what makes anyone think that it won’t happen again?

By jbmlaw

January 12, 2007 03:23 PM | Link to this

Dear FKitchner, I agree with you in part. President #42 proved to us there was worse.

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 03:25 PM | Link to this

Debbie, all you’ve got to do is see Ms. Taylor’s pix on her Web site to see any man with 10 grand to spend would gladly pay it. Had I known it was available, I would have

LMAO!! that is too funny!!! For $10K she’d have to look like Helen of Troy AND perform like Gypsy Rose Lee! I didn’t know we HAD that many rich men in Atlanta!! They must all be married football players or something.

By getoveryourself

January 12, 2007 03:25 PM | Link to this

Danish is right – give it up, your side lost the 50 year war.

C’mon JBM! Are you serious? Since when does being liberal make you a Cold War era communist? With that logic, then your side lost WWII!

We didn’t win the Cold War because we willingly supported low-down SOBs with a blind-eye. Reagan was wrong and highly unethical in Iran-Contra. Selling weapons to Islamic fundamentalists that held 400 of our citizens hostage in order to fund a death squad in the Nicaraguan countryside? Reagan may have done well in diplomacy with the USSR and outbuilding the Soviets militarily, but funding mass murderers is a blemish not only on his record, but on that of other presidents who have done likewise.

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 03:26 PM | Link to this

Amazed: Would you feel better if it were MEN who were commanding that much money for “services” instead of women? I honestly don’t know any women who’d pay for it though, especially when you can get it for free! Maybe Janet Reno………

By time for the truth

January 12, 2007 03:31 PM | Link to this

And lest not forget that this sick twisted pisant of aborted forskin afterbirth pond scum has witlessly AND ENDLESSLY parody my blunt wanking style. It’s called twist and shout mate!

Watch as I effortlessly twist and pull whilst dreaming about getting rid of vepid marxist vermin such as forskin.

Twist…pull…twist…pull…twist…ahhhhh…SMIRK

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 03:39 PM | Link to this

NO girl is worth 10,000 bottom line. That kitty is not that good and its not that wet. Men that go to strip clubs or pay for sex are weak, stupid, pathetic, desperate men

Hey, Strip clubs serve a much needed purpose for the male society!! Besides, I’d rather have a horny, undisciplined man in a strip club, then out on the streets searching for some unsuspecting female.

By Dusty

January 12, 2007 03:40 PM | Link to this

FKitchner,

I found your post “‘Carter was our worst President’mantra is a myth born out of ignorance.” as interesting.

Even today, people who once admired Carter seem to be leaving in droves, 200 at a time at the Carter Center.

Carter seems intent on staying in the public eye even if it takes a book proclaiming the “righteousness” of a government fighting with subversion and suicide bombers against our ally Israel. Hamas, one of the strongest political parties in Palestine, is a terrorist group refusing to recognize Israel as a country.

Carter’s book includes “Apartheid” in an unjust reference (and title)to the affairs of Israel and Palestine.

AT one time, Carter worked on Peace Accords as his goal. That was a long time ago and evidently forgotten by Carter. It continues the mantra of “worst president”.

By Amazed

January 12, 2007 03:45 PM | Link to this

DEAR DEBBIEDORIGHT: It would not matter if it was a woman paying for sex. NO man/mans pole is worth 10,000 come on how desperate, pathetic, STUPID would one have to be to pay that much money for a weekend of sex. My god, one hour, boom you orgasim and its over. 10,000 for that? whatever…

Why would anyone pay for sex? Like I said in previous blogs, their are way to many people both men and women that will give you sex for FREE….FREE…..FREE….FREE….FREE

I have even gotten in a chat room at 10pm, met a cute girl in the chat room and at 2am that same night, boom I was getting laid.. No trick to it, NO money paid, just a cute horny chick wanting a cute horny guy for a no strings attached night of orgasims.

How pathetic, sick, stupid and desperate can one be? If you have to be in that catagory 250.00 is the most its worth whether you are man or woman.

By Dennis

January 12, 2007 03:55 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw said, ” they Reagan administration’s apparently legal and effective circumvention of the constraints the Democrats passed in an effort to preserve communism in the Americas.

If the “circumventions” had been legal, (which they weren’t) there would have been no need to do any of those illegalities in secret. And no one in the Reagan administration ever accounted for several million dollars that went missing in the Iran-Contra deal.

Keep in mind, too, that almost every Central and South American terrorist “general” during that era was taught at the so-called, “School of the Americas” in Ft. Benning, Ga.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Dusty

January 12, 2007 03:55 PM | Link to this

DebbieDoRite,

There is another place besides strip clubs for undisciplined men seeking out unsuspecting females on the street. It is called jail.

By quote of the day

January 12, 2007 03:56 PM | Link to this

Friday, Jan. 12, 2007 I think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it’s carried out.

— Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NB) to Condoleezza Rice at Thursday’s meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

By harold

January 12, 2007 04:01 PM | Link to this

this rube’s defense is that he did not know he should not jaywalk? well the officer told him not to jaywalk, so then he claims he did not know it was an officer. who cares if it was an officer or not? if i were in another country and somebody told me rather urgently not to do something, i would say “THANK YOU.” this guy obviously had a chip on his shoulder against somebody telling him he shouldnt’ jaywalk. if harold sees him harold will beat him up too for using such ridiculous doubletalk to dance aroudn teh issue taht he thought he was too good to be told what to do

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 04:06 PM | Link to this

I hope that Jim Wooten remembers how this conversation deteriorated the next time he decides that subjects like the Sugarloaf house of ill-repute are a good topic of discussion.

getoveryourself,

I’m not going to waste my time re-arguing the Cold War with you. The Sandinistas were treated as heroes by the Left in this country, and are to this day, despite the fact that they were allied with Castro and the Soviet Union.

The only thing that threw some water in Cuba’s enthusiastic support of the Sandinistas was Reagan’s handling of Grenada which made then realize that he was no paper tiger.

By Britain planning to pull out some 3,000 troops by May.

January 12, 2007 04:07 PM | Link to this

http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/12/stories/2007011203591700.htm

By getoveryourself

January 12, 2007 04:17 PM | Link to this

No Buy Danish—I’m not going to sit here and let you get away with spreading outright LIES about people who disagree with you politically!

You know damn well that the Sandanistas were not popular among anybody. Never had anyone in my family celebrated the Sandanistas, Castro, or any communist.

And if Grenada proved anything, it proved that he was an over-reacting clown. Really…invade an island with a population of less than one million people?

Maybe you should really get rid of your fears and get to know someone of the center-left persuasion…you may learn something. But if you want to get all of your info from Breitbart and the Freepers, then have at it.

By DebbieDoRight

January 12, 2007 04:31 PM | Link to this

Grenada proved anything, it proved that he was an over-reacting clown. Really…invade an island with a population of less than one million people?

This is interesting. Why did Reagan invade Grenada, (Im going to google this later, but I’d like your viewpoint), what were the circumstances? Was it sort of like Thatcher and the Falkans? More balls swaggering then brain bashing? More to do about Pride then Politics?

By john lennon

January 12, 2007 04:32 PM | Link to this

Every man has paid for sex,whether you take a girl out to dinner and a movie. Or you buy your wife a B-day gift,x-mas gift,v-day gift you are paying for sex! because if you don’t,I guarantee you won’t be getting any! And then you have to go to a prostittute! And lets not forget all the guys paying child support,they will be paying for sex for 18 years!!

By Crooks and Liars

January 12, 2007 04:32 PM | Link to this

http://www.crooksandliars.com/category/culture-life-entertainment/the-daily-showjon-stewart/

By Brian

January 12, 2007 04:33 PM | Link to this

Fkitner -

“The “Carter was our worst President” mantra is a myth born out of ignorance”

Well I hate to break you bad news, but in November of 1980 all but 5 states, and Georgia was a given, threw Carter’s butt out of office in one of the biggest political smackdowns in history. Yes, he was politically reviled that much. You can remanufacture history all you want, but Carter’s history and failures both economically and internationally and during a time of international crisis during his presidency are all that we need to know. He was and is a failure.

By Dusty

January 12, 2007 04:33 PM | Link to this

Dennis,

I guess you are one of those protestors who stand outside the gates of Fort Benning every year. The trouble is, the Army heard those accusations many years ago and took steps to change the training for foreign officers at the Fort.

Time and again, the Army has offered free access to facilities, text books and official interviews to those representing the protestors. But they have had few interested in proving that the Army does not teach terrorist tactics.

What may have been a worthy cause at one time, has now beome a sympathizing front to those who continually find fault with American government.

I am sorry that those who really seek the truth are sometimes led by people who are not. That now appears to be the case of protestors at Fort Benning regarding the “School of the Americas”.

By silver

January 12, 2007 04:37 PM | Link to this

What type of government another country has is none of america’s business - but the busy body cia scum has for decades been meddling in other countries, killing their leaders, destroying business, etc. All cia people are scum, and one day all will be recognized as war criminals and treated as such. And I for one american will not lift a finger to defend them.

By CIA

January 12, 2007 04:41 PM | Link to this

can we say world domination?

By silver

January 12, 2007 04:41 PM | Link to this

Wrong dusty, your pals in the army at abu grab or what ever its called learned torture, humiliation, and murder from the army, most likely at fort benning. I really wish the army would take you into the fort and use you as a teaching tool. Actually, I wish all the righty tighties on this blog could experience the “army of one” at the the big B.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 04:50 PM | Link to this

Will someone please show Mr. Peabody into the library…..?

Barbara Stanwick rocks!!

By Dennis

January 12, 2007 04:59 PM | Link to this

Dusty said, “The trouble is, the Army heard those accusations many years ago and took steps to change the training for foreign officers at the Fort.”

Actually, nothing changed, but the name. The mission is still the same; keep the natives under control so that American corporations can benefit from low waged labor.

What I don’t get, and maybe some of you conservatives will explain, why are there so many examples of the U.S. establishing a dictator here, another one there, and when the people try to overthrow them, you still refuse to admit it.

What is this fear that some of you folks have that will not allow you to admit this or even to consider it?

Are you afraid of being “unpatriotic”?

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By deegee

January 12, 2007 05:05 PM | Link to this

Brilliant, JW. Before mankind came along we didn’t hear about environmental occurrences. I don’t see how we could have heard about anything. Before the Gutenburg press we didn’t read about much either. What’s you point? The earth will likely survive the environmental changes that have taken place over the last 4.6 billion years but the human race may not. Kinda makes you feel a little less important in the grand scheme of things to understand that.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 05:09 PM | Link to this

getoveryourself,

Great job admitting that you’re a Leftist and come from a whole family of Leftists.

[Here’s how Jimmy Carter helped ]http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0100carter.htm)

running out…later

By Markus

January 12, 2007 05:18 PM | Link to this

Curious Observer @1:28…

I have a major bone to pick with you. You said this in regards to those poor men (and maybe women?) who will be busted for the ho’s in Sugarloaf, and used Conservative bloggers with a cute little liberal description of each who will be busted:

A well known AJC blogger who boasts of living in a gated community and claims those earning the minimum wage deserve nothing better because of the bad choices they have made.

Assuming you are referring to me, get your facts straight liberal. For once. I never boasted about where I live. You liberals attacked those who live in gated communities and I attacked back. So gated communities are exclusionary. That’s just tuff tiddie for you limpwristed bedwetting liberals. It’s not public property. Get over it.

Second, I never said minimum wage earners earn the minimum wage because of bad choices in their lives. You show me where I have stated that. What I have stated is that minimum wage earners who stay at minimum wage day in and day out are not doing anything to better themselves. Now THAT, I have stated. If you can’t see the difference between the two statements, well, that just means you are a blind liberal that only reads what you want to read and regurgitate what your emotions tell you to say.

Oh yeah, and another thing for the record CA… I don’t ever have to pay for sex.

By In case you hadn't noticed

January 12, 2007 05:19 PM | Link to this

getoveryourself is just another way of saying “Brian Curtis”

By FKitchner

January 12, 2007 05:26 PM | Link to this

Friends,

Your rebuttals to my assertion that Carter was a great president were weak. jbmlaw responds with ideology (all interference with free market is bad), false information (jbmlaw doesn’t know that Carter phased out price controls as soon as he could - when the law signed under Ford expired), and more ideology (diplomacy bashing). Dusty counters with an irrelevant mention of Carter’s recent book (Dusty should be informed that Carter left office in 1981). Finally, Brian’s retort is that Carter lost re-election overwhelmingly — also irrelevant.

My original, fact-based post stands.

By Darth Vader

January 12, 2007 05:32 PM | Link to this

I believe the SugarLoaf ladies should be pardoned for their good will toward man. I love America!!

By Dusty

January 12, 2007 05:52 PM | Link to this

FKitchner

Perhaps it is you who has forgotten that Carter has not been president since 1981. You talked about his “mantra” which still exists. But you don’t want to talk about any subject but that which suits you.

If Carter could relax and remember that he is no longer president and stop writing books every year, perhaps I could forget that he is a past president who is still considered “the worst president ever”.

By KO

January 12, 2007 05:58 PM | Link to this

“Because this was a guy who tried to kill his dad.

Because — 439 words in to the speech last night — he trotted out 9/11 again.

In advocating and prosecuting this war he passed on a chance to get Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.

To get Muqtada Al-Sadr. To get Bin Laden.

He sent in fewer troops than the generals told him to. He ordered the Iraqi army disbanded and the Iraqi government “de-Baathified.”

He short-changed Iraqi training. He neglected to plan for widespread looting. He did not anticipate sectarian violence.

He sent in troops without life-saving equipment. He gave jobs to foreign contractors, and not Iraqis. He staffed U.S. positions there, based on partisanship, not professionalism.

He and his government told us: America had prevailed, mission accomplished, the resistance was in its last throes.

He has insisted more troops were not necessary. He has now insisted more troops are necessary.

He has insisted it’s up to the generals, and then removed some of the generals who said more troops would not be necessary.

He has trumpeted the turning points:

The fall of Baghdad, the death of Uday and Qusay, the capture of Saddam. A provisional government, a charter, a constitution, the trial of Saddam. Elections, purple fingers, another government, the death of Saddam.

He has assured us: We would be greeted as liberators — with flowers;

As they stood up, we would stand down. We would stay the course; we were never about “stay the course.”

We would never have to go door-to-door in Baghdad. And, last night, that to gain Iraqis’ trust, we would go door-to-door in Baghdad.

He told us the enemy was al-Qaida, foreign fighters, terrorists, Baathists, and now Iran and Syria.

He told us the war would pay for itself. It would cost $1.7 billion. $100 billion. $400 billion. Half a trillion. Last night’s speech alone cost another $6 billion.

And after all of that, now it is his credibility versus that of generals, diplomats, allies, Democrats, Republicans, the Iraq Study Group, past presidents, voters last November and the majority of the American people.

Oh, and one more to add, tonight: Oceania has always been at war with East Asia.

Mr. Bush, this is madness.

You have lost the military. You have lost the Congress to the Democrats. You have lost most of the Iraqis. You have lost many of the Republicans. You have lost our allies.

You are losing the credibility, not just of your presidency, but more importantly of the office itself.

And most imperatively, you are guaranteeing that more American troops will be losing their lives, and more families their loved ones. You are guaranteeing it!

This becomes your legacy, sir: How many of those you addressed last night as your “fellow citizens” you just sent to their deaths.

And for what, Mr. Bush?

So the next president has to pull the survivors out of Iraq instead of you?”

By Billy Carter

January 12, 2007 05:59 PM | Link to this

Give it up Rosalyn nobody is buying that FKitchner routine.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 06:00 PM | Link to this

getoveryourself,

John Kerry and the Sandinistas

By Dusty

January 12, 2007 06:06 PM | Link to this

Silver,

You really think the Army taught the army jailers at Abu GHarib how to torture people? Don’t you think the torture would have been more than water, embarrassment and dogs? And why were these “jailers” put in prison for breaking Army rules? They were, you know.

What happened at Abu Gharib was wrong and punishment followed. But what happened there had nothing to do with the “School of Americas” which trains officers from Central and South America. But you want to indict the Army no matter what.

When those countries you want us to ignore come after your loved ones, your protest won’t be heard because you have lost your freedom.

Stop making false accusations. The time for protesting at Fort Benning is over.

By Buy Danish

January 12, 2007 06:14 PM | Link to this

getoveryourself,

Tom Harkin and the Sandinistas

This is all I’ve had time to find in time for the curfew, but your “nobody supported the Sandinistas” line is not quite true, which makes you, not me the “liar”.

By RW (the oravaginal)

January 12, 2007 07:52 PM | Link to this

Will someone please show Mr. Peabody to the library…?