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Emory aid, Durham DA and USS Ford

By Jim Wooten | Friday, January 19, 2007, 07:39 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Thinking Right’s free-for-all Friday. Pick a topic:

• The best book yet to be written is the Duke University rape case. Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, who probably should be disbarred, has turned the case over to the state’s attorney general, who appointed two special prosecutors. The story here is the rush to judgment by Nifong, Duke faculty and others. Who said and did what and when — and why — would make a great tale of hysteria driven by political correctness to the point of ruining lives.

• President Ronald Reagan’s defense buildup contributed significantly to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The headline “Builders push poor out of central Beijing” suggests another possible secret weapon in America’s arsenal. Send the American Civil Liberties Union to China. It won’t survive the litigation.

• Unless it’s a crook, the state Department of Education should be careful not to go overboard in cracking down on the tutoring firms that have sprung up under No Child Left Behind. Ultimately, the state and parents should decide whether the tutoring service is doing their child any good. The focus always should be toward pushing parents to make decisions and accept responsibility — with information gathered and disseminated by the state.

• Colleges and universities would have to keep the visas of foreign students on file, track their immigration status and prohibit students with expired visas from attending class under a bill sponsored in the House by state Rep. Burke Day (R-Tybee Island). And the controversy is? Do it.

• No problem here with Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle’s decision not to push Voter ID right now. The election didn’t change last year’s vote tally. Clearly, until four Senate Democrats sign on to the required constitutional amendment, the GOP lacks the two-thirds majority needed to pass it.

When we know the outcome in advance, why bother with the speeches?

• Super new program at Emory University will commit to families with incomes between $50,000 and $100,000 that their child won’t have to take out more than $15,000 in student loans over four years. The rich can pay and the poor get financial assistance at expensive private colleges; the ones out in the cold are children of the middle class. This throws them a lifeline, too.

• The U.S. Navy will name its next aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R. Ford. It’s right in two respects: Ford loved and served in the Navy during World War II. And the honor comes after his death — which is when names should be attached to public buildings, roads, facilities and vessels.

• Praise be. The U.S. Senate voted this week to require senators to publicly reveal their pork, both the earmarks tucked into federal spending and all nonfederal appropriations. Passage is a tribute to U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who has long championed earmarks reform, and U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who insisted on toughening up legislation passed by the House earlier this month. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) originally opposed DeMint, but capitulated after Coburn pointed out that the Democratic bill would cover only 5 percent of the 13,000 earmarks passed last year. It’ll be a great day for taxpayers when earmarks disclosure becomes law.

• “Paper kills,” says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Not this one … our competitors, maybe. Well, not kill. Mostly bore. All of which is beside the point. The old system of physician hen-scratches is dangerous. A new Internet site, a joint venture of technology and health care companies, enables physicians to prescribe electronically for free. This is one of those dozens of reforms needed in the way we deliver, pay for and consume health care services. Gingrich, its champion, could be a serious contender for president if the nation makes health care costs and outcomes its top priority.

• When there are fewer mourners and drier eyes at your funeral than at Ralph the whale shark’s at the Georgia Aquarium, the moral is not that you were a nobody, but that you’ve left a world that has lost its capacity to recognize the difference between humans and other forms of life. Soon we’ll be holding wakes for mink coats.

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By Brian Curtis

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

“you’ve left a world that has lost its capacity to recognize the difference between humans and other forms of life.”

Lost the capacity? No, not at all. It’s more an indicator of whose life was more meaningful. And plenty of animals have led FAR more meaningful lives than many humans I’ve seen.

Exciting news, by the way: President Bush announces willingness to obey the law! (http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0119.html) This is widely regarded as a HUGE setback for Republicans who had previously considered themselves above such petty concerns.

Incoming Democratic freshman rejoice. “Never has the bar been set so low,” one crowed. “All we have to do is not rape a dead goat on live television, and we’ll look like saints by comparison!”

By jack

January 19, 2007 08:25 AM | Link to this

The End Is Nigh!!! I actually agree with every point in this column today. Surely that’s a sign for the superstitious.

Good Job Mr. Wooten.

By jbmlaw

January 19, 2007 08:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. The only reason I yield to Jim’s evaluation of the Nifong book is that the more interesting story of our Gwinnett brothel has already been made into Broadway musical and Hollywood movie. They would have to move the venue from Texas to Georgia, but the story is the same.

Thank goodness we have the Department of Education interfering with the private right of contract, between parents and potential tutors; no telling what children might learn in a free environment. That sort of big brother superior thinking is what happens when you create a bureaucracy with no end product.

The Senate earmarks vote is much funnier than the story Jim tells. Reid had proposed his non-change window-dressing, and (I think it was) DeMint proposed amending the restriction to parallel Nancy Pelosi’s house rule. Reid knee-jerk opposed the change (not knowing the similarity to Pelosi’s rule), but lost on the proposal to change; when the WSJ mocked Reid publicly, he yielded.

While I like the idea of Gingrich’s new medical internet site, it does not go far enough. Why should we not have public access and allow private right to “write” prescriptions, get doctors out of the mix entirely?

By The Truth Hurts

January 19, 2007 08:29 AM | Link to this

When do all the wingnuts wake up on here?

By Brian Curtis

January 19, 2007 08:56 AM | Link to this

“When do all the wingnuts wake up on here?”

In truth… they never have.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 09:21 AM | Link to this

Where is all the black and liberal outrage at the disgusting uppity bigotry and lemming like rush to judgment over the shameful, infamous Duke Lynching. The mentally unbalanced, lying black stipper/prostitute has thus far got away with one of the most despicable of crimes that any woman can ever perpetrate - falsely and maliciously crying rape in a purely racial spite case.

Blacks and liberals, and especially the evil liberal DA Nifong, owe the completely innocent legally lynched white students a grovelling apology for their bigotry, racebaiting, lemming like hysterical rush to judgment and implaccable refusal to actually objectively investigate and assess ALL the facts and overwhelmingly exculpatory evidence. The stripper and Nifong belong in jail for their crimes.

Libby’s Lynching in DC is already being badly affected by the presence of sick and twisted Bush haters in the jury pool.

This GA Voter ID Bill should be pursued as soon as possible, its one of the finest bills to emerge from the legislature in decades. Its only hatepig liberals and racebaiting blacks who know the truth about their corrupt vote buying, dead people voting, multiple voting etc scams. Practices that are far too common in many demoNcrat areas of the US. This is just part of the dark legacy of over a century of arrogant corrupt demoNcrat control of GA.

The state legislature also needs to crack down much harder on illegals in every way possible. Target the employers as well as the liberals who pander to them and empower their abuse of tax payer and other benefits they have no moral/legal right to.

Pork barrel projects from both parties should be prevented, at county, state and national level. Taxes for all of us can easily be reduced by stopping pandering to any special interests, any racial group, consumer group or industry. Even the far left Republican Yankkkee Bloomberg in New Yaaawk City is reducing taxes for everyone on certain goods because of the surplus billions already ‘extorted’. Always give the money back to the folks.

Hilarious to see the Pelosibitch and corrupt Dingy Reid already publicly humiliated in just a week or so by their arrogant abuse of power in their new supercilious liberal regime. At least Bush can still veto the worst of their chicanery.

Still no news on the corrupt Willie Campbell’s life in a FL federal prison. Hopefully he’ll soon be joined by the corrupt congressional black caucus chappie who had $90,000 in his freezer. And why the stony silence on the official investigation into sick willie’s venal pardon selling scam. Looks like this will be swept under the carpet, just as if Butch Reno was still blocking investigations into the most corrupt post war administration.

There’s something rather queer about all this limpwristed screeching:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01182007/tv/gaysanatomytvdonkaplan.htm

By Political Foreskin

January 19, 2007 09:21 AM | Link to this

Epithaph for Ralph on his tombstone: “I was a Big fish in a small pond, well, not really even a pond, more like a puddle, honestly I’ve seen larger goldfish bowls, what did they expect me to do, I remember this one time at Hammerhead Camp….”

The best book yet to be written is about how we communicate, after all, Mr. Wooten, you called it the “Duke University Rape Case”.

You cant make a silk parse out of a neo’s earmark.

One of the classes tutored for No Child Left Behind is “How to stay in school after your Visa has expired”. We are our own worst enemy. Those tutors probably make more than our teachers, paid for by the neo-newts, who have obviously never been tutored in constitutional law.

Doctor’s handwriting goes to the core of our inability to communicate properly. We never ever reveal our intentions. We might think we say it like it is, but we merely emote disquised cultural war whoops, like our ancient ancestors, who would move through the dark and tangled jungle communicating coded oral signals that wouldn’t betray their position, yet would broadcast intel to allies.

That’s why I never understand a word you write, Mr Wooten, the problem’s in our genes.

Strangely enough, in WW2, the Japs painted the decks of their aircraft carriers a bright yellow, making them easy targets for our dive bombers. The Japs just never quite got the concept of stealth. (or radar)

By Van

January 19, 2007 09:22 AM | Link to this

The Truth Hurts and Brian Curtis,

Some of us have jobs, you know “work”.

I see that section 220 of S 1 has been defeated, that goodness. Jim Wooten would have had to register with Congress as a grassroots organizer.

I can not imagine the Congress actually allowing earmarks being made public with their names attached. I do not think it will survive to make it to the Presidents desk.

Outside of that, I think this column is what I needed, a bit of comic relief after a long work week - oops, there I go again using words not meaningful to the lefties.

By Redneck Convert

January 19, 2007 09:25 AM | Link to this

Sorry to see Wooten slamming the private tutor outfits. If Ida had one back in the day, I mighta learnt them multiplying tables and not dropped out in the 5th grade. Then I could be using big words like jbmlaw and tftt without saying nothing but “your mama’s another one.” They went to school, but they sure didn’t get no edumacation.

Glad to see they are naming that aircraft boat after President Ford. It will probly fall off the skids when it’s launched and get showed all over TV. Or maybe it will run into two or three other boats like his golf balls run into watchers at the golf course. He was a librul. He called hisself a Republican, but he was for race-mixing and abortion and all the other librul causes.

We don’t need no doctors offices for perscriptions. Let people get their medacin on the net. If Sen. Bill Frist can tell everything about a womans condition just by watching her on TV, somebody that operates the net can tell what medacins we need.

Well, it’s off to the beer run for me. I want to get off this blog before the name calling begins. Besides jbmlaw and tftt, there will be Dusty calling everybody a trader for not seeing things the way she does, and Van and Markus will be chipping in. I’m glad I didn’t get much edumacation. I could learn to cuss people and call them names on my own, without wasting my time in a class room. Have a good weekend, everybody.

By JoeD

January 19, 2007 09:28 AM | Link to this

Just curious: Where were Senators Coburn, Demint and McConnell on this earmark issue when the GOP had control of the Senate the last 6 years? The “fiscal conservatives of the Republican Party sent more pork home than Hormel while they were in charge. Reid may have opposed the amendment initially, but at least he got the issue on the table. Senator Frist was too busy watching video and trying to diagnose patients to address the real problems of this country. Don’t try to co-opt the Democrats’ success on this issue by crediting the GOP for another round of fiscal responsibility forced on them by the Democrats. The GOP is late to the table on this one.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 09:32 AM | Link to this

aborted foreskin has finally decided to confront his conservative betters in the open rather than shamefully hiding behind a troll id. This cretinous afterbirth leftist pond scum has been perpetually stalking me by falsely attributing sullen remarks to me. Aborted foreskin should the world a grand favor and boldly jump in front of a train with the lying Durham black w*******!!

By zeke

January 19, 2007 09:34 AM | Link to this

SEND THE ACLU TO CHINA OR ANY OTHER COMMUNIST OR SOCIALIST COUNTRY AND LET THEM DESTROY THESE COUNTRIES THAT NEED TO BE DESTROYED!! HOW ABOUT VENEZUELA? BOLIVIA? EQUADOR? CUBA? MICARAGUA? GET THE ACLU BANNED BY LAW IN THE US AND SAVE US FROM THIS SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST, POPULIST LIBERAL CRAP!

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 09:39 AM | Link to this

@ Jim

I truly cannot believe that my comments were censored! Surely my intellectually honest assertion of calling the black hooker in Durham by her proper label doesn’t merit a censor. Play fair and be sure to censor some of the wanton venom spewing from our resident leftist nutters.

By Ms. Writer

January 19, 2007 09:41 AM | Link to this

Time for the truth: sure the chick lied and should be punished but how many white woman have been guilty of the same crime for decades…spare me the white tirade….wrong is wrong in black or white…racist.

By Southern Democrat

January 19, 2007 09:43 AM | Link to this

Apparently, Sheik Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji, one of al Sadr’s right hand men, has been arrested. Let’s all pray together that this will help reduce violence in Baghdad!

By Curious Observer

January 19, 2007 09:44 AM | Link to this

time for the truth,

Seek psychiatric help immediately. When even a rabid rightist like Wooten finds it necessary to edit your posts, you should develop an idea that you have a mental illness.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 09:55 AM | Link to this

I see snivelling pinko observer and Ms. Wanker have dishonestly accused me of racebaiting whilst glibly giving the DA Nifong a free pass. Leftist vermin like you two pathetically inconsequential marxists often fail miserably at debate with your conservative intellectual superiors thus feverishly and perpetually throwing out the racist label.

It’s quite sad but yet blindingly revealing just how hypocritical racist leftists can be!!

By Brian

January 19, 2007 09:57 AM | Link to this

When do all the wingnuts wake up here? We’re alive and well, thank you lefties. We just don’t dwell on planet Utopia, that’s all. We live in reality.

“If you are 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are 40 and not a conservative, you have no brain.”

By Deborah

January 19, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this

Hey Wooten - what’s your opinion on allowing the people to vote on Sunday beer/wine sales. I’m disgusted that Perdue wants to stop this legislation from passing. I thought Repubs were about personal responsibility. LOL.

By Watta Load

January 19, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

When there are fewer mourners and drier eyes at your funeral than at Ralph the whale shark’s at the Georgia Aquarium, the moral is not that you were a nobody, but that you’ve left a world that has lost its capacity to recognize the difference between humans and other forms of life. Soon we’ll be holding wakes for mink coats

I know that this is just another snide Wooten snark, but it is just a completely stupid statement…why is empathy and compassion for the rest of the creatures here on earth supposed to limit our capacity to still show compassion for our own species? It doesn’t actually.

It has been my observation over 47 years that the people who are the least compassionate towards the lower species of this planet, are in fact the closest to them in intelligence.

I hope a bird craps on you today Jim.

By Ms. Writer

January 19, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

time for the truth: 50, yr old, unattractive white male, has narcisstic tendencies brought on by disappointing his military father and passive mother. Spends Friday nights watching Hitler documentaries with take out from the local Chinese spot.

By Political Foreskin

January 19, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Sounds like Deborah cant wait for miller time. At least wait till noon, girlfriend. Dont you wish your boyfried was a freak like me?

By JoeD

January 19, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

TFTT, Not every post has to address every issue to be valid. Failure to acknowledge every single point you think you make is your own fault. You bury whatever sensible points you might have inside of so much ugliness and anger that most of us don’t even bother trying to find them. Give the venom a rest and try to making your points without the ugliness. We might find you actually have something to say.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

the sick anal stalker’s obsession just keeps on keeping on.

now its ludicrously attempting to drag other forum members and even Mr Wooten into its pathetic, losing battle with yours truly …

it’s now getting to the point where one is not always able to trust the ‘authorship’ of posts from several members. if the intent is simply to trash this forum and prevent free speech then this anal obsessive inadequate troll does need to be dealt with.

this is EXACTLY what happened on Access Atlanta several years ago - one nutter, over several months, single handedly destroyed the open, free speech forums and AA inevitably just dumped the forums.

hopefully this won’t be allowed to happen here. lefties are obviously hopelessly wrong on virtually very issue - but they absolutely have their right to say whatever they want - just as we on the right do!!

By Dennis

January 19, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten says; “It’ll be a great day for taxpayers when earmarks disclosure becomes law.”

Bring it on, bring it on!

Next to the Iraq war, that is the next biggest thing that is bringing the Bush administration down; al la, Cheney, Cunningham, Abramhoff, et. al., right on in to the White House office where “the buck $$$ stops here”.

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 19, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

joey

I ain’t angry at all bubbakins … just having some fun exposing you (mostly) hateful lefties … DONT arrogantly TELL ME HOW TO POST … and I wont tell you!!

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

MS. WANKER, unattractive 70 year-old black female hooker, has a tendency to generously charge half price on Fridays. Spends most of her time proffering leftist bollocks and sullen racebaiting comments!!

By Political Foreskin

January 19, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

The collapse of the soviet union. attributed to Reagan’s Star Wars program? no sir. there was always a disconnect between official soviet news and the reality on the ground in Minsk and Moscow, but after the Kremlin’s Bushesque spin about the quagmire in afghanistan became so divorced from the soldier’s letters home, the institution that was the USSR eroded into nothingness, and no consequences could be impended on treason.

Like the Roman Empire, which ended up being but a cartographer’s doodle, people simply stopped being soviets. Like when John Lennon told Paul, “I aint no f’in beatle”. People just decide for themselves what they are when you remove the gleam from the institutional ivory towers.

Fortunately, in our country, we have a mechanism called elections that allows for the country itself to survive when the people lose faith in the spin.

That’s why Bush is finished. that’s why Newt Gingrich has totally separated himself from bush. Ginrich is like the Steve Bushemi character in “Reservoir Dogs”, who thought he could hide from the mexican standoff and massacre that ended the movie. he saw it coming and survived only to be nailed by the cops closing in on the hideout. Newt Gingrich might survive the political rinsing of the vestiges of neo-conism, but he’ll be nailed by the sentries of truth that are closing in on him, (the dirty little weasel-boy)

By @@

January 19, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

I can’t tell the real TFTT from the troll anymore..the troll has gotten the language, tone, and venom to a tee.

By Joe

January 19, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

Still waiting to see if TFTT can produce a single post *without the need for name calling and blind partisan cheer leading.

Or is this just your idea of debate?

Be proud of yourself. Your free pass to one side for the last six years brought us to this point.

By Political Foreskin

January 19, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

(o)

(now watch the freakshow, folks)

By Buy Danish

January 19, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten,

Sorry to be off-topic with my first post, but since you think that Political Foreskin’s daily trash has merit, I thought you’d enjoy his latest entry, which he made next door:

No, RW, you call Brian Curtis “brainless” because you’re a hack who stole the idea from Dye Brainless.That’s why you post to yourself all day long, and reply to yourself, because nobody, and I mean nobody reads you. Except your own aliases, and dirty fellow trolls, like dye brainless, fat fat, and that other 23 point criteria match for imbecile, Luckoblow.bwa-t-t-tard!

In case you’re wondering, “Fat fat” is his name for @@, who this worthless pos likes to nickjack, something he enjoyed doing yesterday.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

JoeDim, you nasty little turd … you’re almost as anal as the other sad should have been aborted leftist tw@ts on here … these termites pathetically spend hours and hours posting the usual homofilth and sneers at (mostly) yours truly and some other conservatives. JoeDim is a dolt - I LMFAO off their leftist bollocks all day … niggling the lonely wittle wankers just enough to keep them going- kind of like feeding a crack habit … JoeDim’s empty assertions show what a dishonest rabid little wankpig he is … and cheers for the stock puerile defensive “hurl more insults at me shiite” … JoeDim - you lefty vermin are fabulous fun to goad …

being able to goad leftist scum into doing this all day long - even when I’m not posting - is priceless.

I am smarter than feckpigs like U bubbaturd - I trust that’s abusive enough for ya …

have a great evening working on the fries station

NOW F^ck Off!!

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

DEATH TO THE ANAL OBSESSIVE ID stealing TROLL!!

By Van

January 19, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

Political Foreskin,

You must be a true leftie idealist. No practical, rational thinker would ever buy into this dribble of nonsense.

By Buy Danish

January 19, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

@@,

Yes, the wanker does a good imitation of TfTT, but this blog is headed for nuclear annihilation if this atomic jacka$$ isn’t stopped.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

@@

you see how easy it is to wind up the obsessive anal id stealer … a few choice barbs and its off and running. this is just Pavlov’s dog like manipulation

the more one varies the verbal pugilism, the more the obsessive troll — who obviously saves it/prints it out slavishly replicates it… WOT A SNIVELLING STUUUUUUUPID WANKER …

joey

all I do is mirror back the venom and LEFTIST “blind partisan cheer leading” on here from so many unthinking partisan lefties. your smug empty lectures are just that. when I see you actually upbraiding ALL the Bush haters for their unremitting bile etc … then you might actually have a point worth discussing. Until then you’re just an INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST leftist dissembler - with wholly one sided criticism.

now watch the inadequate anal obsessive troll mangle this post!!

By jbmlaw

January 19, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Dear JoeD @ 9:28, good question. Coburn and DeMint were where good-government advocates would wish; they are not late to the party. September 18, 2006 http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110008960

November 27, 2006 http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009304

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

@ joey

Goading leftist vermin hypocrites like you make for an endlessly joyous day you insignificant vapid marxist feckpig!! Is that enough venomous abuse for ya? SMIRK

@ Crap Crap

It has become blindingly obvious that dim bubbaturds like you cannot discern the ludicrous rubbish spewing from our resident anal id stalker from the intellectually superior and honest posts of yours truly!!

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

@ the anal obsessive troll

come on wankface … tell us exactly how many hundreds of my trenchant posts and phrases have you commandeered and compulsively saved on your hard drive or printed out … and then feverishly drooled over BEFORE YOU ENDLESSLY edit/post them as I effoftlessly goad you into making a complete tw@t of yourself … over and over and over… LMFAO

By Buy Danish

January 19, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

TfTT,

I’m a Bush supporter, but I agree with Joe. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.

Just a suggestion, but maybe you could try using an indoor voice.

By Charles

January 19, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

In my opinion, Duke University’s Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, NJ, and Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, NY and David Evans, a 23-year-old senior from Bethesda, Maryland should go to prison just like the untold number of Negroes that the system has falsely convicted. I’m sure the authorities can find some similar transactions in North Carolina. Try Essex Fells, Garden City, and Bethesda. We can clear many of our unsolved rapes by holding them responsible. There is no need to be concerned with the evidence. We have the power to send them to prison and they should go. Release them after having served thirty years in prison. They can face the American public via television and state whether or not they harbor any bitterness. We can then get them a job with MARTA or some similar corporation to show how compassionate we are as a nation.

After their unjust confinement, they should be compensated monetarily by the state through an emergency fund. It’s only fair according to our standards.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

@ 10.57

Our desperately anal obsessive id stalker has mangled another of my posts. This putrid cretinous leftist snake has done a jolly good job of imitating my intellectually superior prose and corrupting it in order to silence his conservative betters…and they say that marxists like this tw@t are more open minded!! Such leftist TROLLS deserve a rightful place standing in the middle of I 285 waiting for a glorious and much DESERVED collision with a freight lorry!!

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

@ 11.07

This bleating and dishonest feckpig anal id stalker is unrelenting and is headed for a vainglorious end!! COME WANKER…DO US PROUD AND SHOOT YOURSELF…YOU MISERABLE LEFTIST AFTERTBIRTH POND SCUM!!! Your sad attempt at mimicking your CONSERVATIVE BETTERS will expose the desperate pinko rat that you shamelessly are!!

By Good work if you can get it

January 19, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

OK, so the AJC’s George Chidi is probably not the only reporter ever to get a trip on the company dime to cover stripping, BUT he gets my lucky dog of the day award.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

@ Butchag Danish

It has become more and more blindingly obvious that you are really a leftist saboteur posing as a conservative. Your and your boyfriend Rabid Wanker’s perpetual blather has ludicrously exposed you for the ignorant WANKERS that you are!! Now SOD OFF!!

By jm

January 19, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

wow, it is amazing how when the Republicans are no longer first in line at the feeding trough they decide it is time to put everyone on a (earmarks) diet.

also, fighting an open ended, death of a thousand cuts war in a muslim country (afghanistan) contributed to the downfall of the soviet union.

By @@

January 19, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

Jim:

I’m just stopping in to protect my @@.

The 10:35 was not me.

By Buy Danish

January 19, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

@@,

Thanks for the clarification, although I stand by my response to the faux-@@

By Brian Curtis

January 19, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

JM: True, but realistically this was the only way to get “earmarks reform” instituted. It had to wait until the Republicans (who would be dead-set against it if they were stil the majority) were pushed into a corner, and the Democrats are stuck trying to look ethical.

None of them are happy about it, which is a key indicator that it’s a good thing for the American people.

By Markus

January 19, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

The Duke case is one of the most shameful modern events to ever to come out of that part of this nation. But let’s remember, it wasn’t just about race. It was about class as well. Those rich people. Duke U in the greater Raleigh/Durham area has a long distinguished history of class warfare and those people who can’t afford to live on the right side of the tracks. This case was a classic. We had some rich white boys from up Nawth who were going to show those dumb Southern demoncrats a thing or two in Durham. Those boys drive those BMWs and Audis with “W” stickers, and those people like that stripper who live on the wrong side of the tracks who drive beat up piles of smoking sht like a 1992 Honda Accord with a Kerry/Edwards sticker on it are jealous. *Those people have to get their revenge somehow, so they make up stories and go to the flaming p!ssed off class envy liberal demoncat from hell, DA Nifong.

Those rich white boys were lynched in the media before they even had a fair hearing. I doubt very seriously this case would have gained much fanfare if the alleged victim were a rich white chick from a privileged uppity New Yawk family. But mention racial and class inequalities, and you have a media hell storm, even before the freaking facts are out. But that DA was sure going to show them rich white boyz a thing or two about how to treat those people from the other side of the tracks. I hope he gets the hell sued out of him and the state of NC pays for it all. In any event, those rich white boyz are now going to be even richer with all the book deals and possible movie deal. Ain’t that a b!tch you jealous class warfare liberal neoMarxists?

Disclaimer: *Those people herein above two paragraphs is not reflective of any specific race.

Another major United States Navy Vessel gets named after a Republican president. Let’s see, that’s three for three now! A nuclear sub didn’t deserve to be named after Jimmy Carter’s candyass. The limpwristed liberal demoncat terrorist/dictator lover should have only had his name on a C.A.I.R. building. In any event, poor old Sick Willie will never have anything named after him from a federal standpoint with OUR taxpayer dollars. YOUR taxpayer dollars going to the military industrial complex with Republican names. Ain’t that a b!tch liberals? Heh.

“The focus always should be toward pushing parents to make decisions and accept responsibility.”

Ah yes, making personal decisions and accepting responsibility. That used to be the norm before the disease of liberalism and socialism crept into this nation’s policies. In any event, according to Pelosinanni and Shrillary, we Americans are too stoopid to raise our own children. Pelosinanni can run the nation and take care of our kids all on one freaking hand. Shrillary can speak from the Village Town Hall Gazebo and The Village raises our children. Our kids are being brainwashed in the liberal neoStalinist fascist concentration camps known as public education. Not long ago I posted a link where a girl was asked how people got their money; her answer was the government gives it to them. This is the sickness and warped thinking that must be reversed in this nation.

Visa tracking? That damned Bush and his privacy violations! The very idea! Of course, the second a dirty bomb goes off in San Freaksicko (Allah willing) what’s the first thing these candyassed limpwristed liberals are going to scream? BUSH DIDN’T DO ENOUGH TO STOP IT!!! Meh, I don’t pay attention to what the assbandits on the left b!tch about anymore. Meaningless. Useless. Worthless.

Voter ID? I have yet to hear one liberal ‘splain to me how in the hell showing an ID is voter or racial intimidation. These same jackals don’t wet their beds about having to show a freaking ID when writing a check or buying booze. These same jackass liberal neoStalinists don’t get their pretty pinko panties in a wad when having to show an ID to get a car tag. The correlation on why they b!tch about Voter ID while not b!tching about other ID whipouts is as straight as a San Freaksicko waiter. No, the real reason is because they know their shoe-ins for demoncat votes: dead votes, felon votes, repeat votes… the cesspool of their voter bloc.

Dirty Harry “Mr. Sin City Land Shiester Don’t-Tell-Congress” Reid and Nancy “$3/hr Canned Tunalegs” Pelosivich talking about earmarks and ethical oversights is a farce. The asspirates on the left are in power now, and everything they promised on “The Most Ethical Congress In History” have been flushed down the toilet to the sewers of liberalism. Barney “Short Man Complex” Frank can’t even keep his filthy RAT sewer shut long enough for a Republican to get a word in on the Floor. Filthy RAT vermin.

Paper DOES kill. The New York Slimes and Washington comPost have done more to damage our efforts in fighting islamofascism than ever. Every time Osama or that other islamotowelhead gets on TV, they regurgitate nearly word for word OpEds in those liberal hellhole rags.

Not only will we eventually have funerals for mink coats, we’ll eventually be able to marry them. The disease of liberalism will eventually grant mink coats rights too, right after they grant bestiality marriage rights to animals. After all, animals are people too. Sick.

By Julia Wallace

January 19, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

Dear Readers:

Because of the language and lack of respect shown to others by users of this blog, I am leaning toward requiring users to use their names and verifiable contact information before posts are displayed.

While I am a firm believer in free discourse, this blog has deteriorated into being simply coarse.

There is a long tradition in newspapering of using language fit for a general audience. The comments posted here violate that worthwhile tradition.

Until a final decision is made, I beg you to please post responsibly. Passion can be expressed without filthy language. Thank you for your consideration.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

jm

Your intellectually dishonest post blatantly displays leftist vermin’s high regard for mohammedan thugs. The demoNcrat controlled congress will undoubtedly snigger and rabidly dismantle everything that Bush has rightfully done to keep this country safer. Leftist morons such as yourself glibly refuse to recognize the cowardly and reptilian nature of politicians like Jackasson, Sharptongue, chappaquiddick Kennedy and Pelosibitch whom you so adore.

In two years, leftist vermin will be exposed and DESERVEDLY sent back slithering into the putrid holes from whence they came!!

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

Ms. Wallace

Gently goading the resident anal leftist pond scum on this blog provides for fabulous entertainment. I merely replicate the intellectually dishonest bollocks that they proffer and throw it back at them. Allowing leftist trolls on these blogs is a sure way to jeopardise the much appreciated privilege that we on the right enjoy. I truly hope that all of our resident marxist vermin comport themselves accordingly.

By jbmlaw

January 19, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

Dear Julia @ 11:38, your choice of language offends me. I am reasonably certain that I have posted nothing coarse – pointed maybe, but not coarse. I think that is also true of most of our regulars. There is admittedly a second thread on the blog that gets pretty wild, but for most of us I think there is no language unfit for a general audience.

By Joe

January 19, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Julia

I wish you would institute the changes you mention.

Question though. You’re really surprised? What has Mr. Wooten done to foster civil discourse? It’s rare for his columns to be anything more than partisan rants.

I recall his column where he announced this forum and his excitement in its prospects. What I see however is very little interaction. He drops a bomb then apparently sits back and watches the effects.

I realize the Bookman Q&A sessions are fewer in number and a different type of forum. At least in his, he will stick around, listen to opposing views and respond.

There are some posters here who at least make an attempt. Unfortunately there are far more who do nothing more than call names and Mr. Wooten is more often than not MIA.

By getalife

January 19, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

Julia,

Yay, rules on free speech.

W and Newt will be proud.

Geez.

By Van

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

Julia Wallace

It appears that if we did institute your suggestions, there would be no lefties on this blog.

If the lefties stopped spewing that someone lied or history is wrong and we are are idiots to believe it, this would be a boring blog.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

so as expected the anal obsessive stalker slithers away from answering a simple enough question…

come on wankface … HOW MANY OF MY superbly entertaining POSTS HAVE YOU SAVED/PRINTED OUT?

Clearly its at least well into the dozens … to spend hours and hours editing/cutting and pasting my sparkling, witty, erudite yet oft sententious prose shows how ludicrously obsessional you are.

See the power of the written word - I fulsomely sneer and juxtapose witty/caustic imagery etc and you - like one of Pavlov’s simpering parrots now almost immediately compulsively regurgitate it. LITERALLY playing follow my right wing conservative leader!!

Knowing that an execrable twonk like you is sitting there, breathlessly and endlessly doing this is reward enough for a ‘job’ well done …

huge KILL ALL LEFTIES NOW SMIRK

Danish,

it is quite naive to (perhaps) think that the vast majority of lefties take ANY meaningful notice of any points made on here. Regardless of how polite or reasonable the tone. That rather beguiling notion seemingly reflects your own desired approach and/or (cyber) persona.

Making the exact same points I do in a slightly less pugnacious tone would NOT have any effect on dishonest dissemblers like Joey et al. When he and others on here actually start to similarly decry the left for their everyday anti-GOP bile and unremitting, irrational Bush hate on here, then maybe I’ll take note.

By Markus

January 19, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Who let in Al Sore’s wife, Mrs. Censorship herself, Tripper?

Julia-

Perhaps you would find the Martha Stewart & Oprah blogs more to your liking. Like I tell liberals here, nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to read this blog.

You can reach me at any of my dozens and dozens of verifiable Hotmail and Yahoo accounts.

By ICEMAN

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

Jim Wooten,

How dare you trivialize Ralph’s funeral. Has Ralph cut you off in traffic? Hacked your computer? Called you terrible names? Bombed your home?

He served no purpose other than to bring joy to mankind and he deserves every celebration of life he can get.

By ckt

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

it’s almost unbelievably funny how the right-wing nutjobs on here (and i’ll say this here, not all republicans are crazy, a majority aren’t - but things are just different here in the south) seem to believe that no “lefties” work. and yet they’re here, at 10 am on a Friday morning (which, I can’t remember, I’m a leftie, is a work day I think??) posting on a freaking BLOG on the AJC!

When will these crazies realize that NOT EVERYONE LIVES THE SAME LIFE YOU DO. PEOPLE WORK DIFFERENT HOURS, THEY WORK FROM HOME, THE OWN THEIR OWN BUSINESSES, ETC so they aren’t just unemployed morons. Because me, a “leftie” I work to cure Cancer in a lab supported by several millions of dollars worth of funding. So, when you’re dying of idiocy and your suburb diet of Chili’s and casserole, don’t come crying to me - this isn’t “work” apparently.. because I have a differen political idology than you, right?

as far as the duke case - I agree that Nifong should go - handled almost as badly as could be. but to say he did it because he’s a leftie and not just a publicity w*******, that’s moronic. what’s even more moronic you may ask? i say the mother of one of the accused who said, and I quote, “what’s so scary about this is how boys can have their lives ruined so quickly, and mothers should be aware of what can happen” i say, “mothers should be more scared that their 19 year old kids are drunk at a party with strippers putting themselves in these situations.

take responsibility for some of it - you aren’t an angel (ohh.. wait.. yes you are, you’re republicans! republicans are saved by jesus, democrats who reform are just waiting to fall back to vice!!!)

i can’t wait to move away from this freaking state… you nuts are ruining everything special about america…

By jm

January 19, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

time for the truth

Sorry to disappoint you but I am not a leftist. I do not believe in open ended commitments, whether they be social or military in nature. I also do not believe in giving unchecked power to anyone (unless of course that person has demonstrated the ability to walk on water).

I support a strong defense but I believe in judicious use of military power. There is a lot of truth to the saying “you catch more flies with honey than vinegar”.

Invading Iraq was not a judicious use of our military power. It was a classic example of hubris on the part of this administration. It also detracted from Afghanistan (and our “friend” Pakistan), where the people who attacked us were and probably still are.

Then again, if being against the war in Iraq makes me a leftist in your eyes, I will be glad to consider Pat Buchanan and Chuck Hagel fellow leftists.

By Buy Danish

January 19, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Joe,

This blog is called, “Thinking Right” not “Turning Left”, so I don’t know how Bi-Partisan you expect him to be.

That being said, I am a conservative Republican yet myself and others often disagree with Jim Wooten’s positions on issues, so we’re not in lockstep here.

You’re also free to leave any time you wish.

Julia Wallace,

I would welcome a registration system. The language is occasionally coarse, but what is worse is the endless nickjacking of other blogger’s names.

By It wasn't really Julia

January 19, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

I was just making the broader point. Who is Julia Wallace? Only the person who runs this stinkin’ newspaper. Here’s to hoping she will one day have the good sense to pull the plug on Markus and all you others. Proudly I sign, Bill Farmer

By Markus

January 19, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

ctk-

That was a beautiful liberal hissyfit. As Buy Danish said above brilliantly to “Joe,” if you don’t like what you read here, you are free to make like a sheep and get the flock out of here, liberal.

By Jim's a Distractor

January 19, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

Sorry to see that you’ve let your own supporters ruin the spirit of your blog. How many references to self-flagellation were you going to allow before saying something? How many strident personal attacks are enough?

This blog is filthy; I wouldn’t want my name on it as it currently exists, but I’d be fine using my real name if it were moderated. In fact, I think it would be an interesting little research project for some budding young reporter over there to analyze the content of the posts from those who support you most ardently vs. those who take issue with your stances.

We all know what the results would be, but it’d be nice to see them affirmed.

And now that I think about it, this blog is really a metaphor for society in general…when people know they are being watched, or when there is accountability, they will typically behave and play well with others. If they feel that they are unmonitored or can somehow supress accountabiltiy, they will lie, cheat, steal and abuse others until someone comes in and has to clean it up.

Cheers Julia!

Good luck cleaning up your nasty sandbox Jim. I hope it works out.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this

jm @ 12.20

you have been suckered by the anal obsessive id stealer.

By rarringt

January 19, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

Afternoon all,

It’s been a while since I’ve been on, but I wanted to chime in briefly on what I’ve noticed and have previously commented on regarding the tone in this blog.

Jim, if you recall, there was a discussion several months ago about imposing some sort of accountability to the posters on here in the hopes this blog would not devolve into the crass name calling forum that sadly predominates. Little if anything was done.

As a result, whether it’s to the right or left, there’s relatively little “thinking” going on, absent a few faithful regulars. Most others simply spew out vitriolic bile that is only considered “clever” or “shrewd” by those who are inclined to disagree.

TFTT rails against the alleged troll on this site who has misappropriated his/her/it’s ID, but the fact is, I honestly can’t tell the difference sometimes. I see senseless namecalling which does not move the discussion forward and only serves to undermine the credibility of the writer, and simply scroll to the next post. I imagine others do the same, which kind of results in a waste of Andy/TFTT’s time. But I do admit it is his time to waste.

My point? We have global issues (Iraq, terrorism, global warming, regional instability, trade), national issues (economy, health care, social net programs, infrastructure, 2008 elections, military concerns), and local issues (education, tax reform, economy, legislature, renaming Cynthia McKinney Parkway while preserving the roads/buildings named after secessionists/segregationists, etc.) that should take priority over how many different and clever ways you can call someone who has an ideological difference of opinion an idiot.

Jim, if you want real discourse to return to your once interesting blog, something needs to be done. I know your traditional point has been that no controls are necessary, open discussion is a good thing, and that the knuckleheads will eventually bow out of the market of genuine discussion. Unfortunately, the opposite has clearly happened. How many people who made decent contributions have disappeared, while a select few tend to poison what was once fertile grounds for debate?

We’ll be hearing Bush’s SOTU address next week, where he gives his vision (or version) of how it goes in the world and the nation. I think it’s time you did a State of The Blog assessment and determined if what we have is really what you wanted, and what best serves the subscribers.

PS. Good to see you’re still around, jbmlaw. As usual, I still disagree with most of what you say past “good morning, all,” but at least you have something worthwile to contribute. Same goes for CO and MSP. Liberal, Realist, RetiredLTC and others, you voices are missed. That means you too, Barbara. :^)

By Here's some more for ya

January 19, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

I’ll bet that George Chidi was a budding young reporter covering Lisa Ann Taylor and her stripper colleagues last night.

By r

January 19, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

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By Curious Observer

January 19, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

Julia Wallace,

Your motives are laudable, but I fear a registration system will do nothing to restore civility to this blog. Many of the worst offenders have multiple e-mail accounts and mailing addresses, and shutting down the privileges of one ID will merely give birth to another.

Perhaps a better screening system for posts would be more effective. A post that contributes little to further debate on a topic should be rejected out of hand. It is, believe me, frustrating to express thought on an issue only to encounter the riposte “pinko observer.” I suppose I should be grateful that I don’t encounter the even worse epithets thrown at some contributors who do not share Wooten’s political philosophy. If only conservative points of views are to be tolerated on his blog, he should say so at the outset.

By getalife

January 19, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

It is Markus (time for the lies) that is the filth of this blog.

He smirks like w.

By Darth Vader

January 19, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

Hello everone. I’m depressed because CBS will not be showing “the Unit” tuesday night because we need more lies soved up our a$$.

By Ms. Writer

January 19, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

lol @ time for the falsities …. I got to you…lol made you mad huh? But for your information, since you seem to lack it, I am not a democrat…lol

By I'm telling you, it wasn't really Julia

January 19, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

It was me, Bill Farmer, but I’m glad it got some of you talking about being a little more decent on here.

By Hey Wooten

January 19, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Would you get on here and let everyone know it wasn’t really Julia Wallce, but me, Bill Farmer, who made the post.

By Van

January 19, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

I see in the news that the lefties here will be having a celebration tonight.

“CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s National Assembly gave initial approval Thursday to a measure that would let President Hugo Chavez enact laws by decree for 1 1/2 years, a key step in what the leftist calls an accelerating march toward socialism.”

This must make them all feel great and wish the same could happen here. I can just see Madam Pelosivich deciding on which decrees to issue in her first 200 hours.

By Buy Danish

January 19, 2007 01:02 PM | Link to this

CO,

If I may interject, your suggestion is completely impractical. I dont’ think the AJC wants to hire a full time Pravda blog nanny, and I certainly don’t want you deciding what has merit and what doesn’t.

Believe me, I have had many personal attacks lobbied in my direction (“liberal pinko” is mild in comparison) and I am theoretically on Wooten’s side of the aisle, so the insinuation that opposing views are being silenced is false.

Registration systems work fine at other blogs. There is nothing to lose by trying it here.

By SUGAR

January 19, 2007 01:03 PM | Link to this

Its a SLOW AND BORING no news day. Jim, you have my permission to take a half day off!

By Sam

January 19, 2007 01:04 PM | Link to this

By Markus

January 19, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

ctk-

That was a beautiful liberal hissyfit. As Buy Danish said above brilliantly to “Joe,” if you don’t like what you read here, you are free to make like a sheep and get the flock out of here, liberal.

I am so glad that there are people like you around Markus. The 10%ers that show and wear their ignorance and stupidity like a badge of honor without realizing that you are the morons that lost the country to the Dems in 06. The best thing that you can do for other Republicans and true conservatives is STFU! You sound like redneck central with your unintelligent rants. You, Buy Danish, and several others of your ilk need to go start the Stupid Party or something, before you give all Republicans and conservatives a bad name.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 01:09 PM | Link to this

Shrill Farmer…How appropriate is it that a glib poof such as yourself finds the necessity in lurking behind a female false id. DAMN!! I believes I learns my lesson now..LMFAO!

rarrington…Unlike other reptilian marxist trolls on this blog you proffer less bollocks and more common sense. I wholeheartedly assure you that I dont incite the venom slinging on this blog but rather it’s th fault of resident leftist cretin afterbirth such as aborted foreskin, NAMBLA, and maggot brain. I merely spit their venom back in their collective weasel faces!

Gleefully and gently goading leftist afterbirth pond scum is a fabulously joyous hobby and the utter shame is that this is not a salaried job!!

By DebbieDoRight

January 19, 2007 01:10 PM | Link to this

I’ve heard through the grapevine, (BBC) that on Tuesday night Dubya will finally admit to the US that there is such a thing as “global warming”!! I wonder what all the doubters of the theory of global warming will say now?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2023835.stm

By Randy

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

Wooten, I’m not ashamed to admit I felt bad when I heard Harry died. As a guy I also wondered if he was belly-up in the tank. Was there a toilet big enough?

It’s a guy thing.

Whale sharks aren’t aggressive predators. Your minks comment made me think of PETA. They’re carnivores.

Take a look at their diet. It includes librul fools.

PETA collected almost $29 million in donations in 2004 alone, but few donors understand exactly where their money is going. During the past ten years, PETA has spent four times as much on criminals and their legal defense than it has on shelters, spay-neuter programs, and other efforts that actually help animals.

A libruls oversite is self-indulgent.

By time for the truth

January 19, 2007 01:18 PM | Link to this

Ms Wanker…You feverishly attempt to goad your intelllectual superior(s) whilst ingnoring the mere fact that your verbal attacks and VENOM fail miserably to garner any extra attention that a reptillian troll like you deserves!

Your utter DISHONESTY and immaturity shows that black hookers such as yourself should retire permanently from political blogs… and instead better serve the world by gracing your natural habitat outside of the Five Points MARTA station…SMIRK

By JoeD

January 19, 2007 01:21 PM | Link to this

Van, If Julia is a real person, I doubt she was referring to the type of language you reference at 12:08. Mere disagreement and allegations about the truthfulness of this administration or the wisdom of some of its policies is not offensive, or shouldn’t be in free society. She’s referring to the insults, derogatory terms and just plain ugliness that infests some of the posts here. We should be able to disagree and debate without debasing each other.

By Buy Danish

January 19, 2007 01:23 PM | Link to this

Sam,

Is this you?

“I do not like green eggs eggs and ham I do not like them, Sam, I am I would not like them here or there, I would not like them anywhere.”

That’s about how juvenile you sound, so I wouldn’t be surprised it if were.

TfTT,

I engage Leftists all the time at another location, so your theory that they don’t pay attention unless you’re “coarse” (as Julia would put it) does not hold up.

By ICEMAN

January 19, 2007 01:24 PM | Link to this

Randy,

His name was Ralph you mindless dolt!!!

By DebbieDoRight

January 19, 2007 01:27 PM | Link to this

I can honestly say that although there are people whose views differ from mine, that they are still classy when they either dispute my ideas or try to disprove them.

They don’t resort to hideous name calling, (a little name calling on this blog is expected), racial baiting, or being downright nasty. In the past I would bite back at them with equally nasty posts, (the “how to beat the school bully at his own game” mentaliity); but what was so heartening to me, and made me more apt to listen to their opinions and posts, was when Buy Danish and jbmlaw, (who are NOT one of my admirers; believe me), and a few others stood up for me.

That made a big impression on me — because they don’t like my stances or some of my opinions; but they were “classy” enough, (can’ think of a better word than that), to know the difference between a debate and a character assassination and just outright putrid hatred. There’s hope for this blog because of people like them. Classy people.

By jbmlaw

January 19, 2007 01:30 PM |