Thinking Right

By Mid-South Philosopher

February 2, 2007 08:04 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

In today’s column, you report:

State Rep. David Casas (R-Lilburn) has a poison pill for the Senate-passed bill to provide scholarships, or vouchers, for special needs children in public schools. He’s introduced legislation to apply a host of regulations to private schools that take public school children.

My old father had a saying, not original with him of course, “As long as you put your feet under my table, you eat from my menu.”

Voucher lovers, be careful of for what you ask…public monies, whether invested in the inept public schools or in the elite private campuses, equal public regulations.

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 08:06 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I am a curmudgeon today, so let’s open with a sour word: while President Bush had laudable intentions in requiring a “gatekeeper” to rein in the excesses of the regulators, the devil is in the details. If the gatekeeper comes from the agency, is that not still allowing the lunatics to run the asylum? Each agency gatekeeper needs to come from OMB, or at least be a sophomore majoring in economics at Georgia State.

So the Fulton County DA has actual knowledge of 600 apparently ineligible voters on the rolls. Unfortunately we don’t have the competence of a Mike Nifong to pursue those who would corrupt our elections. 15% false in a sample of 3,500 sounds statistically significant to me.

Taxes generally, and income taxes in particular, serve only to erode the investible wealth of society. Our legislature determines who merits exemption – I cannot imagine why anyone would object to having struggling young couples with children covering the portion not paid by millionaires over age 65. The way out of the thicket is to eliminate the class warfare, abolish stupid taxes. Rule of life: anything labeled as “progressive” is one notch this side of criminally unethical.

On death penalty, I would allow a vote of 3/12 to allow a judge to impose death, at the discretion of the judge. I am more favorably impressed with our judges’ capacity to set appropriate penalties than with the juries (and admittedly judges are easier on criminals, but that is generally good from the jbmlaw view.) Plus, if we put the burden back on the judges, and hold an occasional election, we would have accountability in the system. The fact is, juries are accountable to nobody.

On the lottery, every time they advertise that they have funded $300 billion or whatever in scholarships, I always wonder how much they kept to fund the staff.

By Techmite

February 2, 2007 08:07 AM | Link to this

• Hmmm. “Macaca,” when used by a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, is a crime warranting public execution. When a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions declares Barack Obama to be the first African-American candidate who is “articulate and bright, and clean, and is a nice-looking guy …,” the excuse-makers pour forth. Imagine the reaction if a Republican, say former U.S. Sen. George Allen of Virginia, had used the same language as Sen. Joe

Could it be because right wing trash is openly xenophobic, bigots, racists, and nativists? Republicans wear it like some badge of honor.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 08:10 AM | Link to this

This one is off topic, then I’ll get to the various topics:

I just saw a report on the CBS morning show about the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refilling the First Lady’s coffee yesterday at some event, and forgetting to refill the President’s. So President Bush gets up, refills his coffee, then refills the General’s. Note that the story blamed the general for his gaff. It did NOT point out that the President was being almost the PERFECT example of a servant leader!!!!!! (A perfect example would have been to refill the General’s coffee first.)

Back to topics:

Traffic lights: Two easy solutions: A)Get rid of them all together,. They are an invasion of privacy and the first small step to a true Big Brother system. B) STOP at the lights!!!!!

President Bush’s “watchdogs”: There was a vent that had a VERY good point today: Lenin had “watchdogs” too…..

Death penalty: A 2/3 majority is required to put an ammendement to the Constitution on the ballot (at any level). Sounds good to me for death penalty as well. (Note that 2/3 of 12 is EIGHT!)

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

February 2, 2007 08:18 AM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

Oh, the hypocrisy!

The champion of the same mindset that blocked, prevented, stalled and otherwise handicapped Atlanta from developing a solid mass transit system back in the day is now not only chiding Atlanta for not having one, but snottily demanding that it come up with an affordable plan.

That’s some great analysis Jim. What’s your plan? More busses that sit in traffic with everyone else? Some more hov lanes?

Since you’re such a visionary, I’d love to hear it.

By KP

February 2, 2007 08:21 AM | Link to this

Jim,

In no forum can a comment, macaca, intended as an insult, comes off as an insult, and actually insulted the person it was hurled at be compared to calling a black man “clean”. If Mr. Obama doesn’t feel it was an insult, then who are you to question it? I mean damn, Jesse Jackson didn’t even think it was an insult. As a black man, I don’t find it an insult either. Call me “clean and articulate” and I’ll say thank you. We already know if you speak correct grammar, that a white person will say “you speak so well!” Real Talk

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 08:24 AM | Link to this

Dear Techmite @ 8:07, just to clear the air, I will officially proclaim you “articulate and bright, and clean, and a nice looking guy.” But only if you go take a bath.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 08:30 AM | Link to this

ATL’s problem with mass transit:

Geography.

Other cities with real mass tranist have a few things working for them:

a) Most destinations are within a few square miles of each other (DC, NYC for example)

b) Geographically dense population centers. Look at Phoenix, for example. Due to the mountain ranges at all four corners of the city, most traffic into the city is concentrated within predictable directions. Put mass transit along these corridors and all of a sudden it becomes feasible for many people to use it.

Note that ATL has NEITHER.

By TW

February 2, 2007 08:40 AM | Link to this

• No wonder radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appears to be reining in his supporters. He thinks he’s won. Here, in Congress, not there.

“Any man can make mistakes, but only and idiot persists in his error” - Cicero

By Th

February 2, 2007 08:56 AM | Link to this

I don’t know how many people in comgress think al-Sadr has already won, but there are Americans who are pretty sure of it. This McClatchey article tells what and how al-Sadr has done the deed: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16600612.htm. Bagdad is just a warm-up for the main event in Kirkuk when the Shias and Sunnis take on the Kurds. There is a referendum scheduled for this fall on the final status of the area (and its oil). The two peshmerga armies were estimated at 80,000 before we invaded. The Mahdi army, the Badr brigade and the old Sunni army leaders will have their work cut out for them. The big question is whether our soldiers will be caught in the cross-fire.

By LivingRight

February 2, 2007 09:20 AM | Link to this

Someone just told me that these soldiers of ours are not the green plastic ones that come in bags of 50 at Toys R Us… might have to reevaluate my ‘support’.

By Van

February 2, 2007 09:32 AM | Link to this

Techmite,

When Byrd or Biden make a foot in mouth statement, it gets a pass because the lefties are alway right and have good intentions.

When a Senator says something to put a smile on the face of a 100 year old ex senator at his birthday party, it is deemed racist and calls for a public flogging, because as you said, because the conservatives or “right wing trash is openly xenophobic, bigots, racists, and nativists?”

You make perfect sense, and that is why Al Gore Senior voted against the Civil Rights Act, why Byrd worked against that same bill and why it took republicans to get it passed in a democrat controlled congress.

By Th

February 2, 2007 09:34 AM | Link to this

That would be coNgress. I do not include myself in those who think al-Sadr has won. I think he is the most likely to win in the long run, but he’s not there yet. The dirty little secret of Iranian involvement in Iraq is that they are supporting the same people we are. Now you know why the Clinton administration always preferred a Sunni military coup to take care of Saddam. It would maintain a counter-balance to Iran instead of an creating a new ally.

By azcat225

February 2, 2007 09:35 AM | Link to this

Color me confused regarding the brouhaha over redlight runners getting caught..umm…redhanded. The simplest solution is to not break the law. Sounds to me like one of Richardson’s good friends has gotten one too many video tickets and is cashing in some of his (or her) contribution chips.

Maybe Jeff is right—-let’s just abolish redlights and stop signs and all those other impositions on our expression of free will while driving.

By regulator

February 2, 2007 09:41 AM | Link to this

Gosh Jim, you have doted on Shrub so much that your columns have begun to make no sense at all, like his presidency(with a little p). The special needs vouchers are a joke, check out the special needs programs at Marist, Pace, Darlington etc.,gee there are none. Where will theses kids use these vouchers?

By Jay

February 2, 2007 09:43 AM | Link to this

I don’t get the hostility to “those infernal cameras to ticket motorists who dash through caution lights.”

What happened to law and order? If you don’t want a ticket, don’t run the light! The revenue argument is weak. If no one ran red lights, there would be no money. But because the camera doesn’t differentiate between rich and poor, male or female, black or white, citizen or politician, some people hate it.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 09:44 AM | Link to this

azcat:

I am not opposed to the lights themselves, I am opposed to the cameras. Maybe I should have been more clear in my original post, sorry

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

February 2, 2007 09:45 AM | Link to this

Jeff,

True, but Atlanta’s real problem is a lack of foresight on it’s leaders’ parts in the 70s & 80s, and a tendency to favor unplanned developer-oriented sprawl over planned growth centered on infrastructure development…e.g., build the infrastructure first, then develop the land - or at least do them in conjunction with one another.

Jim’s preference, and that of many “right-thinking” individuals, is to allow developers to do their thing with little or no partnership from local governments. So home builders build homes, strip mall builders build strip malls, office builders build offices and road builders build roads, but none is done with any regard to the traffic congestion all that development would bring, much less the larger consequences to the region.

Viola! A mess.

How nice would it be if that suburban Dad in Marietta with his 2.5 children could drive, walk, bike or take a bus to a nearby marta station and take a train to any one of a number of economic centers…Winward Pkway, Midtown, Dowtown, Duluth, Lawrenceville…heck, even Athens or beyond.

But that’s not what Jim wanted. Jim wanted that Dad to have the “freedom” to drive to all those places. That dad, as well as the thousands of others out there. Oh, and that’s not to mention their teenage children, who are endangering themselves and those around them to the point that Sonny had to change the laws and ask the good people of Georgia in his state of the state address to slow down.

It’s crazy. Driving is for chumps. We got what we deserved.

Thanks Jim!

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 09:48 AM | Link to this

Dear Azcat225 @ 9:35, I think you are on the right path, even if it is not the one you intended to pursue. I can think of no reason a red light or stop sign or speed limit should be anything more than “advisory” for drivers. The only time they should come into play is when there is an accident, where the breach has significance. Otherwise, as a mere tool to impoverish our populace, traffic control devices are reprehensible.

For a broader explanation of the basis for my argument, I recommend an article about the Dutch at http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110009614

By Buy Danish

February 2, 2007 09:48 AM | Link to this

Otherwise I’d exempt, say, one-income married couples younger than 30 with children younger than 10. Their need is greater.

The only reason to exempt seniors from the income tax is to attract self-sufficient people to the state who might otherwise retire in Florida. A cost-benefit analysis would need to be done to determine if the State would reap tangible benefits in the form of additional revenue that could ultimately reduce all our taxes. In Florida the absence of an income tax is offset by higher property taxes.

One problem I forsee is that many counties already exempt seniors from paying school taxes on their property tax (which I disagree with). That exemption only makes the burden higher for those who are not exempt by narrowing the number of people who pay. We all pay for services that assist seniors, why shouldn’t they be responsible like the rest of us to insure that the next generation are educated? If they are now to be exempt from income tax, they would be getting almost a free ride, despite the fact that many of them are very well off.

Regarding Jim’s idea to exempt people under thirty, I don’t know that we should be encouraging 18 years olds to have children by exempting them from taxes, married or not.

Re Biden’s gaffe, Dems are laughing it off and writing him off, but if it was a Republican there would have been no laughter but indignant OUTRAGE.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 09:55 AM | Link to this

JCP:

The basic principle STILL applies:

Either condense the land area where MOST people work

OR

Condense the area where most people live.

Which of those two is easier for ATL to do at this point?

By getalife

February 2, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

If you have relatives in central Florida, you may want to check on them.

By Dennis

February 2, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes; “President Bush signs an executive order requiring each agency to have an appointee acting as gatekeeper to analyze the cost and benefits of proposed new rules and regulations and to make certain agencies act on his priorities.”

“act on his priorities.”

Does that mean Haliburton et.al. cannot get any more “no bid” contracts as well?

Otherwise, it means a stooge in every department to make sure nobody monitors Bush/Cheney when wasting taxpayer dollars.

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

By Redneck Convert

February 2, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

Show me a bus or a train and I’ll show you a traffic jam. MARTA was set up to make working folk pay for the transportashun of Those People. You don’t see but one MARTA station outside the perimeter on the north side where the good folk live. I say get rid of it. It’s like welfare. You pay and pay and pay and get nothing from it for yourself except traffic tie-ups and more paying.

I say make the folk that’s having all the babies pay all the school taxes. If some guy wants to tee off on his missus he shouldn’t expect the rest of us to pay for his sex. Us rednecks get real riled up when it comes to other people having sex. People got to take Personal Responsibility. It don’t matter how old they are. If they got kids they need to pay thru the nose.

And don’t go giving tax breaks to the old coots. All they do is play golf and live off of the fat of the land. Us working folk without kids in school need to get the tax breaks.

Well, I want everybody to have a good weekend and I hope TFTT got the help he needs and can talk without screaming and acting crazy today. It’s just like England to send us their nutcases and keep the ones that’s normal. His heart is right but he’s missing a valve or two in his engine.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

February 2, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Jeff,

Neither of those options are valid at this point…it’s too late.

And that premise smacks of something that is totally unacceptable to a lot of the folks who made the burbs the burbs: planning.

Thos people don’t want nobody telling them where they can build their mcmansion, where they can drive or when. They want it all right now. All of them. Even if they have to sit in traffic to get it.

By jm

February 2, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

jmblaw@8:06 - I would rather that sophmore at Georgia State be a major in accounting than economics.

TH@8:56 - If I am the kurds, I am more worried about the Turks than the shia and sunni of iraq teaming up.

Regarding Rep. Casas poison pill: If the regulations you seem to object currently apply to public schools, maybe you should vent your anger at them. If private schools want access to public money, they should have to play by the same rules that public schools do. Sounds to me that the real problem are the regulations (not all of which are there because of the teacher’s union).

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

February 2, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

You know Jeff,

Now that I think about it, what your’re saying makes me think that there are some real parallels to Atlanta’s traffic mess and Iraq.

A bunch of people with narrow interests and little foresight created a mess that has few viable solutions. And the solutions that are avaialable are very expensive long term, meaning that it will be years and years before the benefits are realized.

Your solution, for example, might have been practical 30 or 40 years ago, as well as much cheaper. But those who benefited from sprawl have already made theirs and gone…they don’t care about a solution to their mess. Just like those who foisted this war on us…they’ll be out off office soon enough, hunting quail in Texas and doing the ocassional guest spot on some conservative talk show…laughing all the way to the bank.

We’re the losers in both cases.

By Symbolic Capital

February 2, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

The problem with Biden’s Obama comments is not the word “clean.” I accept his explanation that he meant “untainted.” Where some, including myself, see the unacknowledged racism is the constant buzz of how articulate and well-dressed Obama is, as if this is something remarkable in an African American. I work at an historically black college (I’m white). Every day, I see hundreds of African Americans as bright, articulate and well-dressed as Barack Obama. College-educated people tend to be all these things, at least those in public office. Everybody in Congress wears suits and is fairly bright, and most of them have been to college. Obama graduated in the top hof his class at Harvard Law School, for God’s sake. Ever met a Harvard Law grad who wasn’t articulate, well-dressed “clean” and bright and all that stuff?

Let’s stop being surprised that accomplished people of any race or ethnicity are articulate, well-dressed, etc. Such characteristics go with the territory.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

regarding Obama:

Does anyone else here see the problem of the JUNIOR Senator from Illinois running for President?

Oh… wait a sec…. the JUNIOR Senator from New York is his major opponent at this point, and the last time Democrats ran for President, they ran the JUNIOR Senator from Massachusetts along with the JUNIOR Senator from North Carolinaas his potential VP!

Why don’t any of the SENIOR Senators run???????

By azcat225

February 2, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

jbm: If we were, as a society, at the same point as the Dutch, I would agree with you. However, I would never venture out in Atlanta traffic if I knew all those other drivers out there now knew all of the various traffic control devices were purely “advisory” in nature. Sorting it out after the accident would be small comfort.

I stand by my original point—-some one called in some chips with Mr. Richardson. That seems to be the way this state works, be it under GOP or Dem control. When I retire, it will be back out West somewhere, where the attitudes and living are more similar to the “Dutch” model.

By jm

February 2, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Jeff@10:47 - I would not worry too much, the last person to go directly from the Senate to the Presidency was John Kennedy, in 1960.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

azcat:

You wouldn’t happen to be from the Great State of Arizona, would ya?

If you are, and can give some advice to a dude moving to Phoenix, hit me up: ajc_jeff@yahoo.com

By J

February 2, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

Really, I’ve had about enough of the pity-party for former Senator Macaca. It would have been one thing if it had been the lone incident - then I would feel like it was blown out of proportion. But this the guy who had the noose in his office, all the confederate flag stuff, and referred to public recognition of his Jewish heritage as “casting aspersions” on him. He dug his own political grave.

I will agree that there is a double-standard between the two parties when it comes to race issues (or, really, racial comments). Of course, there’s a double-standard that cuts the opposite direction on military and national security matters. If you want an example, see Jim’s tripe above about how the Congress wants the terrorists to win.

I love how “conservatives” think that the best way to defend democracy is for everyone to shut the hell up and do what they say.

PS - nobody actually cares about Biden’s presidential “candidacy”, and this flap will probably be the high-water mark for it. Go back to shilling for credit card companies, Joe.

By Howard

February 2, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

Jim…loved your comments on “maccaca” or whatever that insidious words was…you very succintly proved liberals are some of the biggest hypocrites in the world. I offer you my definition of liberal: “A hypocritical busy-body who knows the best way to run YOUR life and spend YOUR money.” As to the state income tax section…I love living here in Florida, but I’m here to tell you that if Georgia would drop their state income tax, there would be more people from Florida moving to south Georgia than you could imagine. The property tax issue and the blackmail-type insurance rates down here have made Florida ripe for the picking by any other state that could provide an incentive to move.

By azcat225

February 2, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

Jim: Are you filtering postings now? I have to say, I had semi-given up on the blog here, with all the rantings from the same 8-10 pitbulls of all stripes and patterns. So far today, it has been pleasant and illuminating (for the most part).

Jeff: Lived in AZ for 12 years, moved here in late ‘90. However, I lived in Tucson all that time, so my opinions would be admittedly biased. If you like, or think you would like, living in L.A., then Phoenix will be a very close second to that. I always made the analogy that Phoenix is to Tucson as L.A. is to San Diego. I can email you more if you’d like, but AZ in general was a fine place to live, with some amazing geographic diversity.

By C.W. Odessa

February 2, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten cries out for an affordable transit system. “Affordable” is his code for “don’t raise my taxes”. Given the choice between higher taxes or environmental disaster, Wooten chooses environmental disaster (unless of course he can either borrow the money and pass the debt to future generations or shift the tax burden to the poor by replacing a progressive income tax with a regressive sales tax).

Raise my taxes if necessary. I’ll pay whatever it takes to mitigate the damage we’ve already done to the planet. If we don’t get serious now, drought, starvation and water wars are what billions of our children have to look forward to. It’s time to pull our heads our of our a*******es. The days of don’t raise my taxes — regardless of the consequences — must end.

By holdingAJCaccountable

February 2, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

If conservatives have been found to be just as spineless on classroom discipline as former Governor Roy (blame teachers first) Barnes, at least they’ve had the sense to tackle the institutional spinelessness in a backhanded way with charter schools and vouchers.

So the Republicans have a little problem to solve in State Rep. David Casas? Simple. Put him on an education committee and as part of a “fact finding mission” let him substitute teach for a couple of weeks.

Not only will he drop the “poison pill” most likely he have to be monitored 24/7 to make sure he doesn’t drop a real poison pill down his own throat.

If conservatives are going to oppose the stem cell reseach that might give them the backbone to actually support teachers on discipline, at least give them credit for the vouchers and charters that will dismantle the status quo as we know it, so that not only parents will have choice, but teachers and administrators will have some free market choices as well in being able to participate in real reform, not the facade we have now.

Don’t be fooled by the knee jerk reactions of the AFT and the NEA. There are plenty of teachers out there who would embrace this.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

az:

Less than a week from now I will be roughly 10,000 feet in the air on approach to PHX. If everything goes as planned that weekend, I will fly back here to GA, pack my gear, and move to AZ within the month. (Planned start date is 01.March) Email me any info you think will be useful. Gracias senor (o eres senora?)

By tired

February 2, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

C.W. Odessa:

It sounds like you believe our current tax system is effective. Is it that you believe the Fair tax would not work? The reduction of mountains of tax rules to basically none. Can you clarify your points on how this would be a regressive tax? Please! I need the information so that I too can understand.

By Th

February 2, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

I don’t know why the link to the McClatchey article about how our soldiers in Bagdad view the Mahdi army of al-Sadr, but it works to copy and paste into your browser. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16600612.htm. For a little teaser, “Half of them are JAM. They’ll wave at us during the day and shoot at us during the night,” said 1st Lt. Dan Quinn, a platoon leader in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, using the initials of the militia’s Arabic name, Jaish al Mahdi. “People (in America) think it’s bad, but that we control the city. That’s not the way it is. They control it, and they let us drive around. It’s hostile territory.”

I’m with you, JM, in that the Turks are much more dangerous to the Kurds. I wonder what deal SOS Rice made with the Kurds to get them to send part of their army to fight in Baghdad with our soldiers. She must have been pretty desperate to be photographed with Barzani in front of an outlawed Kurdistan flag. That had to irk the Turks and Maliki. Anyway, I doubt the Turks will invade until after we leave.

By Denver

February 2, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

One point about suburbs, when I lived in New Jersey, about 35 miles from midtown Manhattan, I could walk to the train. When I lived in Georgia, about 35 miles from midtown Atlanta, I could drive 20 miles to the train. Once I drove all the way down 400, and went through the worst traffic, why would I park and take the train? Get the train to where the people live, and they will use it.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

February 2, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

Denver,

That’s an amazing bit of logic there, but the folks around here don’t seem to get it.

They don’t use Marta because it isn’t convenient. It isn’t convenient because they didn’t want it. They didn’t want it because of the social stereotyping that they’ve grown up associating with mass transit.

Some solid leadership around this joint in the 80s would’ve helped, but we didin’t have any of that.

By DebbieDoRight

February 2, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

• Did anybody notice that Fulton County just sent out 3,500 summons to potential jurors in the Brian Nichols case using current voter lists. Of those, 630 were returned as “undeliverable.” Wonder how many of those voted less than 3 months ago*

OR how many moved but still lived in the same jutisdiction? Your warped mind really need to stay out of the gutter.

The Atlanta Women’s Foundation touts a fund-raiser with this question: “How would you stretch $28,000 into $40,500?” A hint: Get married Another: Marry a man who will pay child support. Another: Raise the minimum wage to a sum sufficient to eliminate men from the equation altogether. Another: Don’t have the first or second child with deadbeats. Just some helpful suggestions

Jim!! How gallant of you!! Are YOU offering to marry all those single parent women? You big he man you!!! I think you forgot one equation/helpful hint: If you were married to the man who got you pregnant then left you to take care of the kids on your own and refuses to pay child support, have him castrated so that he won’t get the opportunity to do the same thing to some one else! It’s not ALWAYS the woman’s fault. Duh!

When a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions declares Barack Obama to be the first African-American candidate who is “articulate and bright, and clean, and is a nice-looking guy …,” the excuse-makers pour forth

Will you EVER stop race baiting? Aren’t you too OLD for that sort of things?

By Th

February 2, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

My solution to the traffic problem is to raise the gas tax enough to make mass transit free or almost free to the riders. I am more than willing to pay 10, 25, even 50 cents more per gallon to get those people who can take transit off the roads. I have to have my car during the day for my job, but I’ll be happy to subsidize those who make my life easier.

By cranky old man

February 2, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

It’s interesting how the left and right of the political spectrum both claim to want minimal government intrusion in the lives of the average citizen. But, with the possible exception of some extreme libertarians, there is always a bit of inconsistency, if not downright hypocrisy, to be found in some of their positions.

For instance, liberals want the government to keep its nose out of your bedroom, your pot stash, your birth control decisions, and what you can watch on TV.

Conservatives, on the other hand, want the government to stay out of your wallet, your gun cabinet, your child rearing strategies, how you treat your employees, and what you do with your land.

But they will readily make exceptions, happily ignoring the inconsistency. For instance, both sides claim to support free speech, but both sides also engage in attempts to limit it in public, particulary over the airwaves, on government property or at government events, and in schools and universities. For conservatives, it tends to be profanity, flag burning, sex, and criticism of US policies that prods them to censorship. For liberals, it tends to be racist/anti-gay/intolerant statements and anything religious that gets them riled up.

But in other areas, oddly enough, they will blindly follow their ideologies to the most irrational extremes without compromise. As an example, liberals will fight any attempt to restrict abortions in any way, even to the point of allowing minors to have this invasive, and occasionally dangerous surgery without parental consent, when parental consent is required for a tooth extraction. Crazy. And conservatives would happily eliminate the Dept. of Labor and OSHA, and return the country to the 19th century, when employers could fire employees for getting injured at work due to the company’s failure to provide safety equipment, and pay workers only in company printed currency, which is only good at the company store or to pay rent to live in the company’s shacks.

By harold

February 2, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

they really do need to build an affordable transit system.

this one we have where everybody pays $300+ a month for owning a car, $70+ a month for insuring that car, $50 to $250+ a month for gasoline for that car, etc, and pays taxes to maintain and expand the public half-transportation system we have, our roads, is way way way way too expensive.

if we want to make ameriker safe from dependence on foreign oil, and if we all want to retire at age 45 instead of wasting on cars what could’ve been $millions in a retirement account, let’s get that public transit system built.

it’ll be far cheaper than what we spend on cars and the roads for them.

By harold

February 2, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

if we are going to keep the death penalty, the jury should be unanimous.

of a pool of 12 people, chances are rather slim that even one of them is intelligent enough to weight the evidence. the rest are idiots.

discount the one smart person and you’re killing even more innocents than you kill now.

by the way statistically yes innocents are killed. death penalty should be executed (sorry) this way:

save up all the death row inmates who are ready and execute them all at once every ten years. That way you KNOW you got an innocent in there and you can proudly claim “look we got all the rest of these guys at the cost of whichever one of them was innocent. too bad for him may he rest in peace.”

By jm

February 2, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

When you can guarantee that there will not be an innocent person sent to the gallows, then I will support the death penalty. Humans make mistakes, as witnessed by the people being exonerated by DNA evidence after serving 20+ year sentences (some of whom may have been on death row). Until that time, I think a unanimous verdict by the jury is not too much to ask for.

By oldpunk

February 2, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

“No wonder radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appears to be reining in his supporters. He thinks he’s won. Here, in Congress, not there.”

No, actually he knows he’s won there. His milia has completely infiltrated the army & police, so we’re arming them for him. He also has democratically elected representatives in the parliament.

So he has an army and a government. How does the US defeat him?

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

Dear CW @ 11:23, granted. You may now pay 95%. Everyone else, however, will not.

Dear Debbie @ 12:00, just to clear the air, I will officially proclaim you “articulate and bright, and clean, and a nice looking girlie.” But only if you go take a bath.

Dear Cranky @ 12:11, I was on your side until you argued, “conservatives would happily eliminate the Dept. of Labor and OSHA, and return the country to the 19th century, when employers could fire employees for getting injured at work due to the company’s failure to provide safety equipment, and pay workers only in company printed currency, which is only good at the company store or to pay rent to live in the company’s shacks.” If that is ok with the employee, what is your beef? Substituting your superior judgment to help him run his life?

Dear Harold @ 12:26, less gasoline yet would be needed for telecommuting. Would you be willing to grant a 2x (hourly salary – perhaps up to $15/hour) corp. income tax deduction to companies that implement telecommuting? Including self-employed?

By diamondgirl

February 2, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

diamondgirl says “don’t raise my taxes for any reason whatsoever.” Diamondgirl already pays too much in taxes, so if you people want to spend money on new projects, please cancel some old programs first. Now where is that country club…..

By harold

February 2, 2007 01:22 PM | Link to this

the subway doesnt use any more gasoline than telecommuting

oh except of course for the “bus rapid transit” crap they’ve proposed for here

but no, no income tax deductions for companies whose employees telecommute. that is political kiss of death as soon as IBM gets a break for having telecommmuters… in india and pakistan.

By harold

February 2, 2007 01:22 PM | Link to this

diamondgirl, harold thinks you seem really cool

By Dr.Doom

February 2, 2007 01:23 PM | Link to this

diamondgirl,

You mean strip club don’t you? How much do you pay in taxes working there?

By holdingAJCaccountable

February 2, 2007 01:26 PM | Link to this

Fifty plus posts (as of 1:00) and I count less than five responses on vouchers. Shows where the public’s priorities really are. You are truly getting the public school system you deserve.

By Techmite

February 2, 2007 01:28 PM | Link to this

By Jay

February 2, 2007 09:43 AM | Link to this

I don’t get the hostility to “those infernal cameras to ticket motorists who dash through caution lights.”

Because it’s not about that. It is about money and generating revenue like every other thing in this world. And more big brother as well

By DebbieDoRight

February 2, 2007 01:32 PM | Link to this

Dear jbmlaw at 12:45 — I think you’re really “clean” too, now that you’ve laundered all that money you bilked out of poor unsuspecting mob clients.

By DebbieDoRight

February 2, 2007 01:34 PM | Link to this

Harold: You’re right. 12 unanimous jurors need to decide on the death penalty. Not 9 and a judge.

By Dr.Doom

February 2, 2007 01:34 PM | Link to this

Harold,

Doom suggests you consider getting a life.

By diamondgirl

February 2, 2007 01:35 PM | Link to this

Diamondgirl likes Harold, he has a lot of class. Dr. Doom however is too low class for this Buckhead babe.

By harold

February 2, 2007 01:35 PM | Link to this

right light camera intersections increase safety.

they wait on presenting green when they detect a car is running the red light. this prevents T-bone crashes which are very dangerous.

tickets for the people who run the red lights do nothing for safety. those generate revenue. they should be discontinued after the installation has been paid for, or the amounts should be reduced to only the amount required to maintain the equipment.

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 01:36 PM | Link to this

Dear diamondgirl @ 12:56, clearly you are brighter than the leftists. Will you stand for office?

Dear Debbie @ 1:32, in truth I am not done yet - the laundry seems to take forever these days.

By harold

February 2, 2007 01:37 PM | Link to this

Poor Dr.Doom cant handle a little perceived competition with the ladies?

Dr.Doom, Harold is not competing for Diamondgirl’s affections. It was a simple compliment based in her referring to herself in the third person. If you want to try to date her, go for it. Harold is not in your way.

By Dr.Doom

February 2, 2007 01:45 PM | Link to this

diamondgirl,

I am the man your parents told you to stay away from. Release yourself from the perch of your middle class safe haven and follow your deepest darkest desires and enter the world of Doom.

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 01:48 PM | Link to this

Dear Debbie @ 1:32, I fear you mock me. You just don’t know how hard it is, bilking people all day, laundering money all night. And cash is so dirty, you could get a disease…

By ICEMAN

February 2, 2007 01:56 PM | Link to this

As an African American, I am not offended by Biden’s comments. We need to learn how to take a damn compliment. The inability to do that is a symptom of Mental Illness. Biden still has a chance because the election is still a long way off.

By Janine

February 2, 2007 02:04 PM | Link to this

HoldingAJC I just got here…but am also surprised at the few posts re vouchers/poison pill… and it is a really important issue in the discussion of vouchers or no vouchers. It is far more important the the Republicans want it and Democrats don’t. I think I mentioned earlier in the week that there is no way that the feds would not inject their odious little rules and regulations into private schools accepting gov’t money. Although well intended, it would be the absolute end of a parent’s option to choose the type of education they want for their child.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 02:08 PM | Link to this

Iceman,

I don’t know which prospect scares me more:

Hillary may get the Dem nod,

OR

Biden could!!!

Personally, the only one of the three that stands ANY chance with me is Obama. Of course, the Dems DO have a history of forcing my vote Republican. (2004 Presidential election, 2006 GA Governor election)

By diamondgirl

February 2, 2007 02:13 PM | Link to this

A restraining order is all Diamondgirl offers to the clown called doom. That, or the taste of diamondgirl’s 38 special!

By C.W. Odessa

February 2, 2007 02:17 PM | Link to this

tired,

You asked how the FairTax would be a regressive tax? The definition of a regressive tax is any tax that takes a larger percentage of the income of low-income people than of high-income people. Sales taxes, by definition, are regressive.

I know that Neil Boortz’s FairTax proposal includes prebate up to the poverty level for all households. So, for the 13 percent or so of Americans living below povery this definition would not apply. For the other 87% of us — the working poor will pay a larger percentage of their incomes and effective tax rates will fall as income levels rise — that’s regressive.

By the way — this isn’t my opinion — it’s fact.

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 02:20 PM | Link to this

Dear Iceman @ 1:56, you are right, but I think you don’t go far enough. I am not particularly a fan of Al Sharpton, but I heard – do not know if true – that his comment on the Biden statement was, “I bathe daily..” or some such. If true, you have to appreciate the humor in his response – why can’t we just laugh at the silly things people say? I think Symbolic @ 10:34 got it right – every time I see a white person use the adjective “articulate” to describe Gen Powell or Scty Rice, I cringe.

I think back to the clever Charlie Pride, who always disarmed and charmed white audiences (in those early post-Jim Crow days) with a little joke, “People always ask me, (affecting a rural ebonics dialect) ‘Why don’t you sound like you s’posed to sound?’” We desperately need humor.

By diamondgirl

February 2, 2007 02:25 PM | Link to this

Diamondgirl also opposses the fairytax because it would subject Diamondgirl’s wealth to double taxation. Diamondgirl has already paid income tax on her savings, not really ugly bald dweep Boortz wants to tax Diamondgirl again when she spends her well earned wealth! Diamond girl hates ugly men! Diamond girl hates bald men! Boortz is both, so Diamond girl double hates the Boortz buffoon!

By Curious Observer

February 2, 2007 02:34 PM | Link to this

Yet another newcomer who says “raise my taxes!” You must move out of the South immediately, back to Vermont or whatever state you come from.

Down here, we never raise taxes for anything. Oh sure, we shift the tax burden and talk about things like Fair Tax, which is just the opposite of its name. But the level of total taxes must always remain the same.

For instance, if we want better mass transit, the last thing we would do is raise taxes to fund it. Rather, we prefer to excoriate the inefficiency of the existing system and use abusive terms to describe its employees.

It’s the same thing with schools. You see, we prefer the WalMart-style big-box approach—build mega-campuses and cram as many students as possible into as little space as possible. Accordingly, we never offer pay levels that would attract the most promising scholars to take up teaching. If, for any reason, the graduates of those systems fail to put down their chainsaws and switchblades and blow down the doors of Harvard, then we need to abuse the system’s employees by describing their moral and intellectual shortcomings and insist upon our right to send our precious children to private schools, using tax money.

A quiet suggestion, my dear: don’t let a Georgian hear you talking about raising taxes. It’s anti-American, you see, and it’s not the way things are done down here. You could get hurt. You don’t come down here and threaten to deprive us of the disposable income to buy NASCAR tickets.

By harold

February 2, 2007 02:36 PM | Link to this

As long as step #1 of the Fair Tax is to refund all state taxes paid on all money anyone has accumulated, Harold has no objections. That would be a nice windfall, and Harold ain’t buying sh-t.

By getalife

February 2, 2007 02:52 PM | Link to this

Our idiot is getting ready to attack Iran.

I said it months ago. It is very dangerous to have an idiot with no credibility and no accountability.

Who will stop him from starting WWIII?

By jbmlaw

February 2, 2007 03:06 PM | Link to this

Dear Getalife @ 2:52, unless you now hold WMDs, I don’t worry that you’ll be attacking Iran.

By Jeff

February 2, 2007 03:10 PM | Link to this

getalife:

The idiot CAN’T attack iran, not yet. Her husband left office 7 years ago!

By melo

February 2, 2007 03:51 PM | Link to this

Imagine the reaction if a Republican, say former U.S. Sen. George Allen of Virginia, had used the same language as Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).

If a Republican had said it, it would be viewed differently coz you’all have a reputation.

By melo

February 2, 2007 03:54 PM | Link to this

You make perfect sense, and that is why Al Gore Senior voted against the Civil Rights Act, why Byrd worked against that same bill and why it took republicans to get it passed in a democrat controlled congress. Are u talking about a dead person and throwing them into a current topic of discussion? Check your brains!!

By harold

February 2, 2007 04:02 PM | Link to this

Heck, why not attack Iran? We have plenty of Lite Brites.

By harold

February 2, 2007 04:03 PM | Link to this

Who will stop him from starting WWIII?

Well, Congress. We took away his rubber stamp.

By melo

February 2, 2007 04:03 PM | Link to this

But this the guy who had the noose in his office, all the confederate flag stuff, and referred to public recognition of his Jewish heritage as “casting aspersions” on him. He dug his own political grave.

J, thanks for your frank comment. U actually have foreskin on you as compared to these ‘brave’ conservatives who want a war when they were deserters during Vietnam. No balls,no dyck,no foreskin on dyck!!

By harold

February 2, 2007 04:21 PM | Link to this

We should send Eunice Stone, the Runaway Bride and Harry Potter Mom to attack Iran. Victory would be achievable.

By Barbara S

February 2, 2007 04:44 PM | Link to this

Ok, I call this a win-win situation, Iran nukes Israel with a ten megaton war head. Israel rightly nukes Tehran right back with a ten megaton war head. Two problems solved without any American intervention, at zero cost to the american tax payer. Win-win always works.

By Midori

February 2, 2007 05:16 PM | Link to this

The idiot CAN’T attack iran, not yet. Her husband left office 7 years ago!

Last I checked the moron was still there.

Demanding bloody grilled cheese sandwiches, at that

Maybe that’s why he’s so honery and war hungry? Being all clogged up will do that to a man.

By Dr.Doom

February 2, 2007 05:17 PM | Link to this

diamondgirl,

Doom loves it when you talk dirty.

By Apocalypse

February 2, 2007 05:29 PM | Link to this

Mark it down: We will go to war with Iran and my dreams will be achieved!!

By Dr Strangelove

February 2, 2007 05:35 PM | Link to this

youtube.com has a great video from the end of dr strangelove, where slim pickens rides a nuke out of a bomber like he is riding a bucking bronc. Lots of pictures of nukes going off, with a sweet song playing in the back ground. I recommend it to play in the background on your Defcon 1 enabled computers. You can play donkey pong on the front end, I have given my player the chimp’s face.

By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 08:03 AM | Link to this

The Urinal headline, front page:

Analysts see Iraq headed downhill

So what would this lead you to believe? The “surge” is making things worse, right?

But look at the text of the article, where most dull liberals will never read, and you find this:

Washington —- A new U.S. intelligence report says Iraq is spiraling downward, with sectarian animosity growing and new Iraqi troops being added too slowly in a precarious mix that could draw the country’s neighbors into the violence if American troops leave.

So Bush is absolutely right to “surge” and secure Baghdad.

Why the play on words, AJC?

The truth doesn’t fit your anti American template?

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Sen. Clinton: I would end Iraq war-Urinal

But….

suggested that calls to cut off funding for President Bush’s troop increase are unlikely to win approval in a narrowly divided Senate.

So it’s a totally meaningless statement to say that “you would stop the war” when you know full well that you can’t, which is something you’d expect from a Clinton.

All air with no substance and lots of moonie eyed dullards clapping for her every word.

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Urinal headline, front page business section:

Payrolls grow less than expected

Yes, let’s see how easy this is, casting a bad light on some good economic news- “I thought we would employ the entire nation of Mexico last month, at least it seemed like they are all here in the US, but it turns out we hired less then I expected.”

Heh, I’m an “AJC business expert” now.

But look at the text of the article, where most dull liberals will never read:

However, revisions included in Friday’s report warn against too quickly pegging January as a weak month: December’s job number was rewritten, rising by 30,000 to a healthy 206,000. Something similar could happen to January’s data.

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By @@

February 3, 2007 08:46 AM | Link to this

Yesterday I read a link someone had left at Luckovich’s regarding the National Intelligence report on Iraq. I think it was from the Washington Post. It sounded so ominous.

This morning I get up and check my e-mail from Stratfor regarding the intelligence report and it confirms what LuckoDull has pointed out. If American troops leave. I confirmed it through various other sources.

Please, people…read carefully before you give a knee-jerk response. Media outlets are playing with your mind and your emotions.

Memri.org is another excellent site. A view from the fractured side of the Middle East.

Excellent!!! Don’t look for what you want to see…look for the truth.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 08:50 AM | Link to this

No matter how much the RATs cry and wet beds about mass transit or rail as the God-sent answer for Atlanta’s traffic woes, Atlanta will never have a successful mass transit system. There are way too many variations in where people live, work, and go for recreation. We have people that live in Decatur and work in Alpharetta. We have people that live in Cherokee county and work in Duluth. We have people that live in Cumming and work in Norcross. We have people that live and work in Midtown yet choose to go to Lake Allatoonah for recreation. We have people that live in Marietta that go to Piedmont Park for recreation. There is no way with Atlanta’s OTP growth that all needs can be met and be profitable. Hell look at Marta’s bus routes at any given time, especially OTP. How many times have you seen buses with more than a handful of people on them? Incompetence.

The RAT pack is consistent about proving one thing: they can get away with saying anything they want to. Condi Rice and other African Americans who happen to serve on Republican administrations are lambasted, shunned, and called every hate-filled racist derogatory name in the book including Uncle Toms and being cartooned as Aunt Jemimas, yet there is no outrage from the Left. Meanwhile, people like Joe Biden can say whatever they want to say on sensitive race matters and get away with it just because they are Democrats. Disgusting hypocritical pigs.

So, Fultoon County had some undeliverable mail sent out to potential jurors for the Nichols’ case? Well I’ll be damned. Now I’m sure some of those people have moved out of the county to an undisclosed forwarding address, but ALL of them? According to the demonRATs, NOBODY CHEATS during election day because it can’t be proven. I must say that I am not surprised. There is a reason the gutter RAT liberals don’t want voter IDs, and they know the real reason. Inconvenience and transportation cost? BULLSHEET. Transportation is free, and if anyone b!tches about inconvenience, they don’t deserve to vote or live in this nation period. Voter tax? BULLSHEET. Cost is free. Intimidation? BULLSHEET. They get carded for cashing SS checks all the time. Yet, like islamoterrorists laying low, the horseass libokook demonRATs don’t want to speak out loud about their true intentions. Pathetic.

I’d love to see Georgia have no state income tax, but that legislation won’t happen in my working lifetime, like the geniuses running MARTA stating it will take 20 years to add 8 miles to a rail line. Sheer brilliant incompetence.

Forget the death penalty. I’d just like to see worthless criminals just simply get back what they dished out to their victims. If you run someone over during a carjacking, you get run over yourself. If you shoot someone in the head, you get shot in the head (or @ss if you voted Demoncat). If you tie someone up and beat the hell out of them before slashing their throat, yep, you guessed it, right backatcha. Of course, the pantywasted bedwetting liboRATs wouldn’t go for that, even though those jackals are for “equality” and everything. Sick.

So long as kookbat demonRATs are in this nation, islamofascist terrorism will ultimately win here. It’s already winning in Europe. After all, we just merely need to understand their resentment of us and open dialogue, that’s all. Just ask the sick liberal terrorist-loving jackasses that were protesting in DC over the weekend. GAG ME.

One of the major sicknesses of the disease of liberalism is making everyone else pay for someone’s wants or needs. Someone wants to have a child and can’t afford it, then by damn everyone else should pay for it. If someone is careless, gets knocked up while drunk or on drugs at a party, then by damn everyone else should pay for it. If someone wants to go to college and can’t afford it, then by damn everyone else should pay for it. Well you know what? I want a freaking LAMBORGHINI MURCIELAGO and 12,000sf home on the lake and DAMMIT I want everyone else to chip in and buy it for me. Sick twisted neoMarxist liberals.

Demoncats ARE perfectly capable of sabotaging choice without Republican help. Except Socialist Security choices, healthcare choices, education choices, what you should drive choices, whether or not you believe global warming is caused by an Alpharetta soccermom’s Tahoe, whether you have the right to question anyone who served in the military and their stance on Iraq, etc. etc. etc. No, the RAT pack is so against the freedom of choice with the sole exception of abortion that they must have used Karl Marx as a role model. Sick.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 08:56 AM | Link to this

Dull-

You have analyzed and posted exactly why I don’t read the al-Jazeera Constipation, even a “free” copy. Thanks for the reinforcement of thought in the event next time someone asks me in a Fry’s store if I want a subscription.

By Whip it Good

February 3, 2007 08:57 AM | Link to this

Markus, please shut up.

By Dr Strangelove

February 3, 2007 09:03 AM | Link to this

Hey @@, you neo clowns broke so you now own the Iraq mess. I sure hope the disaster in Iraq will clue the american people in on the fact that american jews who owe their loyalty to Israel only have infiltrated our government at the highest levels, and have steered into foreign wars that benefit Israel. Need I name names? NO, but I will anyway. Wolfoweitz, Libby, Pearl, Feith and a thousand others like them sit in Washington, at the white house, in congress, at the pentagon, at the cia and the dia, feeding false intelligence into the political machine, intelligence that can be spun up into “a clear and present danger to america,” thus justifying the squandering of a trillion dollars and thousands of american lives and limbs. Wise up america, you have a fifth column in you mist, and it is no muslim.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 09:06 AM | Link to this

Hey whip your meat,

There’s plenty more where that came from.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 09:08 AM | Link to this

I tell ya, woman and their damned cats.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070203/D8N1TUHG0.html

By Markus

February 3, 2007 09:11 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Dr. Smellyglove, for making a post on the Iraq war and including a comment on Israel. I expected nothing less.

By @@

February 3, 2007 09:13 AM | Link to this

Dr:

You seem to have a strangelove affair going on with conspiracy theorists. Your sources?

DailyKos…Truthout…HuffingtonPost…etcetera, etcetera, etcetera?

I’ll leave you here with your paranoia.

I am, once again, bannishing myself from Wooten’s. My infrequent visits are a privelege I give myself.

By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 09:14 AM | Link to this

When James Baker issued his “Iraqi Surrender group” report, the pinkos in Atlanta cherry picked through it and found the parts they liked, elevating Baker to some Elder Statesman Obi Wan Kanobi status:

The Iraq Study Group, headed by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, has submitted its long-awaited report to President Bush and Congress, touching off an impassioned debate. The report, titled “The Way Forward,” offers a grim assessment of the situation in Iraq and offers 79 recommendations for what to do next. Its bottom line: Begin to bring troops home.-Jay Kookman, Urinal

But when the same James Baker, who two months ago was the second coming of Nostradamus in the pinko nation, said we should give Bush’s surge plan in Iraq “a chance,” look at what the Urinal said about that:

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Now Baker is a dolt, a neocon and trying to enrich himself with oil and blood, only the libs can’t say all of this in public, because last month he was a genius.

Many, many pinko “think” tanks are underway contemplating how to trash Baker but yet preserve his Surrender Monkey report.

Until then, he’s a non person in the pages of the Urinal.

Ever wonder why?

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By JP

February 3, 2007 09:19 AM | Link to this

“A handful here, a handful there. Now design an affordable transit system. We missed that bus about 60 years ago.”

By steadfastly refusing over a period of years to engage in any type of smart growth or comprehensive mass transit, you are correct, there is no stopping the cancer that is the Atlanta metro area. Now we see what rampant Republicanism has brought us.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 09:20 AM | Link to this

Iran starts their islamofacsist terrorism indoctrination from an early age. And to think the loonbat liberal demoncats think we can just talk with Iran to solve issues.

BRUSSELS, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Iran’s schools are nurturing a siege mentality in children with textbooks showing preparations for war and depicting Israel and the West as the enemy, an Israel-based think tank said on Tuesday.

One textbook gave 13-year-olds a basic overview of light arms while one early reader book depicted the murder of a Palestinian toddler by an Israeli soldier, a survey by the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP) found. “Iran’s war curriculum is a danger to the world’s peace and security. This is the way the books develop a siege mentality in the minds of the students,” CMIP director of research Arnon Groiss told a news conference in Brussels.

CMIP has produced surveys of school material in Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority and said its survey of 115 textbooks published in Iran in 2004 was the first of its kind. Groiss said all the textbooks were underpinned by the belief that Iran was a world power preparing for global “jihad”, or holy struggle, with the aim of world dominance of Islam.

“This has been a structural component of the Iranian regime since (the Islamic Revolution in) 1979. It is not a product of (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad,” he said of Iran’s firebrand president who has called for the destruction of Israel.

Stories and poems aimed at primary school-age children hailed martyrs killed in defence of their country and faith, such as those who died in the 1980 to 1988 war with Iraq, with one illustrated with a rainbow dripping with martyr’s blood.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 09:23 AM | Link to this

JP sayeth:

“…there is no stopping the cancer that is the Atlanta metro area. Now we see what rampant Republicanism has brought us.”

And there we have the hypocritical sickness of the disease of liberalism trying to tell everyone else how the hell they should live their lives. In this case, we should all live in 800sf government owned condos in Midtown. I’m sorry JP, but this isn’t a communist nation where everyone is equal and has the “same amount of stuff.” If that p!sses you off, go move to Cuba or North Korea, neoMarxist slime.

By Corky Cobb

February 3, 2007 09:24 AM | Link to this

We want traffic relief with out paying for it. We don’t like taxes.

Please, any plan that includes MY money, just forget it.

Two words: Satellite radio

By Dr Strangelove

February 3, 2007 09:36 AM | Link to this

markus, why should any american believe such self serving trash as anti arab comments coming out of an israeli think tank?

By Whip it Good

February 3, 2007 09:36 AM | Link to this

Markus, you sound hysterical. Are you by chance also a sissy Chickenhawk?

By NFF

February 3, 2007 09:41 AM | Link to this

The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that in his just-published memoir, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy tells about a meeting between three European foreign ministers and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Iran’snuclear program, in New York on September 15, 2005.

Douste-Blazy wrote that, after a prolonged fruitless discussion, Ahmadinejad suddenly changed the course of the discussion by telling the ministers: “Do you know why we should wish for chaos at any price? Because after the chaos, we can see the greatness of Allah.”

Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat

By Markus

February 3, 2007 09:50 AM | Link to this

If anyone has any doubts that the demoncats don’t take islamofascism seriously, check this out. An Imam recently opened a DNC meeting with a PRAYER (yes you read that right) that appeared to reach out to Abraham, Moses, and Jesus too. It sounded SO nice. I almost wanted to cry and hug my neighbor like a good little liberal. There’s just one small problem:

Mainstream Islam teaches that all of the above were prophets who taught ISLAM, and that their followers actually corrupted Islamic scriptures to create Judaism and Christianity.

And the Party Of The Jackass says REPUBLICANS don’t understand things in the Middle East? Freaking pathetic.

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/02/video-imam-prays-to-stop-oppression-and-occupation-at-dnc-meeting/

By Corky Cobb

February 3, 2007 09:57 AM | Link to this

You liberals have some nerve. You expect us to accept your gays but you refuse to accept some of our conservative friends that are different. Why can’t conservative cowards such as Markus have a place in society? Blogging is important.

You liberals get your gays out of the military, Markus is a straight gay. I don’t think he is even eligible, so lay off.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 09:59 AM | Link to this

Shrillary’s Excellent Adventure!

“If I had been president in October of 2002, I would not have started this war. I would not!”

Uhm, ok. And the fact that Shrillary voted for Bush’s authority to go to war? No problem dude! That can be fixed during the next travel back in time. EXCELLENT!

Uh oh. Was it bad intel Shrillary? One thing the RAT pack members as well as the horseass liberal media won’t remind the rest of us about is that some of the first intel we received about Iraq’s WMD’s was not from Bush or Cheney; it was from F-R-A-N-C-E. I thought liberals couldn’t wipe their @sses without the approval of France first. What happened?

By Markus

February 3, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

More sickness of liberalism.

On The View yesterday, Rosie O’Pig and Whooptie Goldberg were talking about how the Dixie Sluts were lampooned and shunned because they spoke out against the president. Of course they were too cowardly to do it on U.S. soil, and they did it only on FOREIGN soil, but as usual, liberal kookbats don’t ever sweat the details.

Anyway, O’Pig said this about the matter:

“…sort of a McCarthy era-esque feeling about entertainers speaking out against the government in any capacity.”

Whooptie equated the backlash to 1933 Nazi Germany.

Well isn’t that special. So the neocommunist liberal gutter RATs can say whatever in the hell they want to and the rest of us who oppose what THEY say should sit down and shut the hell up about it?

I’m oh so sorry, but I don’t effin’ think so.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this

Hey Corn Cobb Butt,

You liberals like to use gays to insult your consertavive betters, don’t you? Kinda coincides with my comments on African Americans at my 8:50am. Disgusting hypocrites.

By Corky Cobb

February 3, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

Markus, you love France right? You know, the coward thing in all. Maybe cowards don’t stick together. Sorry, I still hate France.

Ha,ha. You get ‘em though. Over compensating for your cowardice is a great tactic. Love how you swat down the liberal bombs. Virtual bravery, virtual soldier. You have the respect of your neo-con brothers Markus.

By Corky Cobb

February 3, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

Hey Markus, tell us all about how you and France ran away from the Iraqi war.

By Markus

February 3, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

Attention Libokooks!

Markus wants to save you ignoramus buttplugs some time on this blog. Every time you see a post that you either can’t or don’t want to respond to, please use one of these comments in a quick response. You can actually program these as “hot keys” in Windows. If you dumb@sses need help with instructions for that, I’m sure your friendly 10-year old next door will be glad to assist you in your time of need.

“You’re a Nazi”

“You’re gay”

“You’re a chickenhawk”

“You neocon”

“You’re angry”

“You’re full of hate”

“Oh shut up”

Have fun loser liberal ladies, I’m out to enjoy the day and spend an obscene amount of MY money on ME.

By getalife

February 3, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

OMG, macaca, back under your bed. OBL has another warning

Geez, what a scared little girl you are.

By Victoria's Secret

February 3, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

Markus, your special order of pretty pink thong panties in the size triple X Large has arrived at our seconds store outlet near your home in Cabbage Town. Please, please do not try them on at the outlet store, as it took two weeks to get you filthy body hair and odor out of the changing room last time. I know you can’t wait to wear them, but please have a little common sense and decency. Thank you, Vickie the manager

By getalife

February 3, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

Oh no!

By dr strangelove

February 3, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

Markus has gone for the day, he is spending an obscene amount of his social security check buying a special order pair of red thong panties in the obsecenely obese size, which he will be wearing tonight as he prowls Marietta Street looking for johns to supplement his meager income, and to provide the only human contact he will have this long cold week. Everyone should pray for markus, but I admit, I just can’t, he is too un deserving.

By Vickie did you know?

February 3, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

SHillary changes her panties every couple of years. Yuk!

Oct. 10, 2002 SHillary speaks:

In her Senate floor speech, Clinton said, “It is clear … that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape in the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.”

In a speech in front of anti-war organization Code Pink in 2003, SHillary speaks:

“There is a very easy way to prevent anyone from being put into harm’s way, that is for Saddam Hussein to disarm. And I have absolutely no belief that he will. I have to say that this is something I’ve followed for more than a decade. If he were serious about disarming, he would have been much more forthcoming… . I ended up voting for the resolution to go to war” She specifically compared Iraq with Bosnia and Kosovo “where my husband could not get a Security Council resolution to save the Kosovar Albanians from ethnic cleansing. And we did it alone as the United States, and we had to do it alone.”

SHillary’s latest pronouncement January, 2007 deliberately misleading the audience:

“I want to be very clear about this: If I had been president in October 2002, I would not have started this war,” said the former first lady, who has been criticized by anti-war voices for voting to authorize the war and steadfastly refusing to support calls for a military pullout.

SHillary is shiite-ing in her panties and you’re enjoying the smell.

By Jeff Cranston

February 3, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

And this is what happens to all open blogs about six months in…..

By Aaahhhh yes Jeff C.

February 3, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

Jeff, true so true. Underwear was delivered at 10:34 by a lunatic panty waist liberal.

We’re just putting them on their heads where they belong.

They look good, don’t they?

By victoria's secret

February 3, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

Yes, Vickie does know, and we don’t serve her kind here. Mary Chaney may have something for her, Hillary and Mary would make a nice gay couple, but not at Vicki’s store!

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

Alright guys and gals, can we refrain from using disgusting analogies please?

Parrot,

Thanks for that New York Rag story about Bush liking grilled cheese sandwiches and BLTs. It was ever so enlightening - - - - - about you.

If only Bush were a foie gras and truffles metrosexual a la John Francois Kerry, maybe you wouldn’t hate him so.

By Corky Cobb

February 3, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

Markus, please don’t let them libs drive you away.

You were just about to explain to us how you and France ran away from the war in Iraq.

By Vickie did you know?

February 3, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

that your a typical liberal hypocrite?

Is it SHillary’s war flopping that disgusts you or is it the image of SHillary flipping on Mary Cheney that you find distasteful hippo-crit.

By Correction Vickie

February 3, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this

you’re a typical liberal hippo-crit and a moron to boot.

By victoria's secret

February 3, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

Vicky does not serve either gays or chicken hawks, although a few Generals have come into the shop looking for large panties for their “wife.” They were so sweet, they even insisted on trying on the panties themselves, to make sure they were “comfortable enough” for the wife. Strange, the Generals were not wearing wedding rings, and their aides were certainly queer looking, but Vickie does not judge those great warriors who move mountains of paper each and every day to ensure victory over those godless communist f*.

By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

By Buy Danish February 3, 2007 11:20 AM Alright guys and gals, can we refrain from using disgusting analogies please?

Danish: You’re not being fair to the liberals, again.

How else are they supposed to communicate if not with disgusting analogies and mindless insults?

It is mean of you to require them to speak intelligently.

Not to mention a little far fetched.

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By Rev Haggard

February 3, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

That Mary Cheney is a sinner!

Mr Cheney, some family values please.

You may have done irreparable harm to the executive branch. This is worse than the shame Clinton put the office through. We’re not trying to change the Constitution to ban certain sex acts you know. If you were a Democrat we would be even madder, you are lucky. Stop being a hypocrit. TAKE THE BABY AWAY!

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

WootenDull,

Unfortunately, both sides are guilty of gross behavior today. Namely, Vickie did you know?

By Vickie did you know?

February 3, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish, your needling point has been taken to heart.

OUCH!

By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Danish, ‘Vickie did you know?’ is one of my handles. Just messing with them a little. Paybacks.

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By Huge

February 3, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/02/climate.change.report/index.html

Still more bad news for members of the flat-earth society. Every week there are more and more efforts being made by moral and educated people, scientific experts and elected leaders to address the REALITY of this problem.

And every week the momentum is growing to expose the constantly dwindling number of perverse and willfully ignorant, head-in-the-sand neo-cons for what they are - WRONG. Not mistaken. Not credible. Just plain wrong.

And not because they are all necessarily lacking basic knowledge, although, in many (most?) cases on these blogs, that is unquestionably the case; but because their partisan nut job politics are more important to them than ANYTHING and EVERYTHING else. Even the planet. Even their fellow man. Even their children.

So these reactionaries just make up nonsense to see this as an issue contrived by liberals. But thankfully, it now appears they will not have any significant effect in their efforts at stopping the more enlightened and progressive of mankind from identifying and solving the enormous challenges regarding this matter. And that is only good news for the planet and our progeny.

So to you flat-earthers, please each find a corner and jump off…

By getalife

February 3, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

Though shall not commit adultery

The gop have no candidates.

Wingnuts,

Geez.

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

Huge Blowhard,

Here’s a newsflash for you and other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Global Warming Hysteria.

Two new books debunk the junk

Unstoppable Global Warming

And…

Chilling Stars - A New Theory of Climate Change

By getalife HOOEY

February 3, 2007 01:00 PM | Link to this

CROOKS & LIARS?

A liberal is fooled by CROOKS & LIARS every second of every day.

“It’s a lot of hoo-ha about nothing,” said law professor Richard Friedman of the University of Michigan, who described the footnote as a throwaway point, a perfectly straightforward application of the law.

By Excuse the Huge Gas Bubble

February 3, 2007 01:18 PM | Link to this

Opinions require education not gaseous outbursts.

As a West Texas A&M University alumnus with a master’s degree in geology (1991), I was embarrassed that a professor from my alma mater wrote such a poorly conceived position in response to Lusk, who had obviously done some homework whether one agreed with his politics or not.

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 01:28 PM | Link to this

Here are two recent stories that illustrate how ludicrous Global Warming “science” is:

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 01:42 PM | Link to this

Changes in the Earth’s orbit can cause Ice Ages, but not “Global Warming”? How can this be?

A 6 year old could figure this out, if they weren’t blinded by Marxist propaganda that demonizes the U.S. as the world’s greatest “polluter”.

There’s a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years - exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star’s core.

Ice Ages are the result of subtle changes in Earth’s orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles.** One such cycle describes the way Earth’s orbit gradually changes shape from a circle to a slight ellipse and back again roughly every 100,000 years. The theory says this alters the amount of solar radiation that Earth receives, triggering the ice ages.

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 01:44 PM | Link to this

Woops, I forgot to link the story about the freezing Bangaladeshis.

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 01:45 PM | Link to this

Here is how Huge Gasbag’s alarmists prove their science. The just remove history.

Blowhard,

Nobody is saying that the earth isn’t going through a warming cycle, just that we aren’t causing it.

By I wonder?

February 3, 2007 01:54 PM | Link to this

if the Huge Blowhard will pick up on this from Buy Danish’s link?

I wonder if the software promoter’s alias, a.k.a. would kick his Huge brain into overload?

Hi, I’m Noah Vawter, a.k.a. Shifty.

Probably. Simple minded liberals just can’t help themselves.

By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 01:55 PM | Link to this

Look at these two goonies, smiling like some stupid apes in a zoo, trying to coax a banana out of their trainer:

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) takes the stage with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (C) and Majority Leader Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (L) at a House Democratic Issues Conference in Williamsburg

And they got the nerve to call Bush an “idiot.”

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By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 02:07 PM | Link to this

RW,

I just found this link which offers a detailed analysis of the science behind Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, a book Hollywood will never make into a movie.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 02:11 PM | Link to this

It’s absolutely uncanny how bigots and ignoramuses often use words that unmistakably describe their beliefs and attribute them to others! Junk science, fundamentalism, etc.

There are literally hundreds, maybe thousands of reports, studies and findings that “debunk” the theory that these fairy tale believers and assorted misfits and flat earthers make an iota of sense on this topic. They don’t.

Only intransigent, idiotic neo-cons and religious nuts can’t see how pumping 7 BILLION (and growing) metric TONS of carbon emissions PER YEAR into the earth’s atmosphere don’t have devastating consequences. They simply don’t allow themselves to give a damn about protecting and conserving this planet’s natural resources. The hallmarks of their twisted position have always been rampant pollution and rapacious greed are good.

Most informed people see this “thinking” as stuntingly stupid and myopic, and one that is based exclusively on a deep hatred and intolerance for what they can’t understand. And debunk clearly doesn’t mean what one of these goof balls think it does.

But that’s OK, willfully senseless people like these few here, are just getting left further and further behind in this debate and already these earth haters are being rightfully dismissed as loons and uninformed nut jobs with perverted motives.

Keep spinning and spewing. The rest of the planet just keeps laughing at you now…

By Gas Guzzler

February 3, 2007 02:25 PM | Link to this

Keep your stinkin’s hands off my hummer, my cheap gas, and my 20 ounce T-Bone, boy! We already have the cure for global warming, have had it for decades, now be a good boy and fetch me another Corona. We just need it to get good and warm first, then we unleash the cure - Nuclear Winter!

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 02:30 PM | Link to this

The emissions from Stunty alone are probably half of that.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 02:38 PM | Link to this

Because the dork at 2:25 chooses to drink disgusting Mexican swill and call it beer certainly doesn’t help his cause!

Apparently morons with tiny brains and tiny d!cks drive Hummers and drink Corona. Who would thunk it?

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 02:49 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

It may be a first, but I agree with you about what swill Corona is.

By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 02:52 PM | Link to this

Blowhard:

1) No matter what, humans will not be able to stop global warming. No matter what. Even if the Chinese quit laughing at you and got on board with your dreams of economic suicide, the Earth would still heat up.

It’s got something to do with us not being the primary cause of it.

Even a blooming idiot like you should be able to understand this. It would be like facing a tidal wave in a rowboat and worrying about a pinhole leak in the boat.

2) Any plan that you pinkos have put forth will cause far more economic damage than “global warming” ever could.

Duh.

3) It has already improved food production, I thought the world needed more water plus “a moderately warmer climate would be likely to benefit Americans in many ways, especially in health and in satisfying people’s preferences for more warm weather. Most people would enjoy higher temperatures, and the evidence supports the proposition that humans would live longer and avoid some sickness. Less cold weather would mean less snow shoveling, fewer days of driving on icy roads, lower heating bills, and reduced outlays for clothing.”

Are you against happiness?

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By Cobb County Schools

February 3, 2007 02:54 PM | Link to this

Actual exchange in the gifted program:

“A kindergarten teacher one day is trying to explain to her class the definition of the word “definitely” to them. To make sure the students have a good understanding of the word, she asks them to use it in a sentence. The first student raised his hand and said “The sky is definitely blue”. The teacher said, “Well, that isn’t entirely correct, because sometimes it’s gray and cloudy”.

Another student says, “Grass is definitely green.” The teacher again replies “If grass doesn’t get enough water it turns brown, so that isn’t really correct either.”

Another student raises his hand and asks the teacher “Do farts have lumps?” The teacher looked at him and said “No…But that isn’t really a question you want to ask in class discussion.” So the student replies, “Then I definitely s** my pants.”

By Huge

February 3, 2007 02:59 PM | Link to this

Sure ricky. Don’t pretend to be what you’re not. A Keystone Light or maybe a PBR kinda guy?

By NASA

February 3, 2007 03:00 PM | Link to this

The earth is drunk on coronas.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 03:03 PM | Link to this

No, just stupidity. Especially, as in your case, when it’s combined with depravity…

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 03:08 PM | Link to this

Wow! Huge Stunty GasBag won’t even accept the fact that RW doesn’t like Corona at face value.

At least it didn’t take him 4 long-winded paragraphs to deny the truth this time.

By Cobb County Schools Sex Education

February 3, 2007 03:11 PM | Link to this

A boy is at school and he hears the older kids talking about p***, and their b***. The boy confused by this goes to his mother. “Mom”, the boy asks, “What’s a p***?”

The mother being startled by this thinks quick and finds the closest dictionary and opens it up to a picture of a cat and says “Son, that is a p***.” the son then asks “What’s a b***?” The mother again thinking quickly opens to a picture of a dog and says “Son, this is a b***.”

The son walks away still confused, and sees his father watching television. The son walks up to his father and says “Dad, what’s a p***?” The father doesn’t want to miss the baseball game so he quickly whips out his Penthouse magazine to the centerfold, grabs a marker and draws a circle around the vagina and says “Son, this is a p***!”

The son, now starting to understand what the older boys are talking about asks “Then, what is a b***?”

The dad replies, “That’s everything outside the circle!”

By Bartender

February 3, 2007 03:15 PM | Link to this

Brown beer contributes to flatulence.

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 03:20 PM | Link to this

Stunty Blowhard,

“Depravity”?

Is this your scientific theory du jour?:

RW doesn’t like Corona. RW doesn’t believe your ridiculous fairy tales about Global Warming.

Conclusion: RW is depraved.

And to think that we question your “scientific” beliefs!

By Huge

February 3, 2007 03:22 PM | Link to this

Wow! The bigoted ignoramus won’t even accept the fact that she is a nosy fool and a complete d1rtbag at face value.

At least she didn’t misuse, misspell or misidentify any words or try to “debunk” any more theories in her two sentence nonsense.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 03:24 PM | Link to this

I’ll fArt to that, bartender!

By Huge

February 3, 2007 03:43 PM | Link to this

Bigot, you nosy, ignorant fool! I was observing that your other loverboy, that paragon of class, lucko-curl, not RW, is depraved. Can’t you get that stunted brain of yours to follow a simple thread?

For someone who blogs 24/7, you sure are clueless…

By Why Marist Doesn't Have Nuns

February 3, 2007 03:44 PM | Link to this

Three nuns were talking. The first nun said, “I was cleaning in Father’s room the other day and do you know what I found? A bunch of pornographic magazines.” “What did you do?” the other nuns asked. “Well, of course I threw them in the trash.” The second nun said, “Well, I can top that. I was in Father’s room putting away the laundry and I found a bunch of condoms!” “Oh my!” gasped the other nuns. “What did you do?” they asked. “I poked holes in all of them!” she replied. The third nun fainted.

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 03:50 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

Are trying to compete with rushncap and stalker boy to see who can be the biggest classless punk?

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 03:56 PM | Link to this

Huge Joke,

Whatever your “observations” are, they are not grounded in reality.

Please advise, as pithily as possible, where your “depravity” post links to LD.

I’m looking for the “scientific” evidence, and it is mighty scarce.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 04:01 PM | Link to this

RW.

Are (insert the word “you” here dufus) trying to best the bigot and lucko-curl as the most illiterate, uninformed neo-con blogger in the history of the AJC?

By getalife

February 3, 2007 04:08 PM | Link to this

w needs to stop blaming Iran for this

He is a coward, the buck stops with w. Period.

By Mallory

February 3, 2007 04:08 PM | Link to this

J.Wooten, I’m a well known murderer by pen of Boston’s mass transit system. The Boston Globe just doesn’t read too well.

If this great city wasn’t built around a rail system, then it won’t help to build one in the lacky fashion.

Under the best of circumstances, the damn things are a money pit eating up the taxpayers dollars.

The T is in debt and yet it’s priorities are maintainance. It’s always breaking down for excuses as common as New England’s weather. So what? That couldn’t have been foreseen?

The elevators and escalators break down with even less excuse. Months at a time they’re down and the solution is to reassign the repair contract to the same failed service company under a five-year contract. Every five years, they might pull maintainance with an up or down vote on their contract.

The MBTA gets federal money from Homeland Security. I can tolerate the random bag checks in the interest of safety, but the electronic signs that tell you the train is 10 minutes late when you already know it’s 20 minutes late are a joke.

Then you’ve got the garbled PA system that tells you if you see anything unusual, say something.

Man, if I ever see something unusual, it will be seeing that the MBTA no longer operates like a third world system.

Just say NO. It’s a government snow job.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 04:08 PM | Link to this

You want sententiousness, bigot?

How about this?

If you’re looking for depravity, look in the mirror…

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 04:18 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

When YOU have to resort to whining about typing errors it really shows what a moronic clown YOU are. YOU’re dismissed.

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 04:28 PM | Link to this

Huge Charlatan,

I was looking for a link to LD and “depravity”. I didn’t think you could provide it.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 04:29 PM | Link to this

Still more hypocrisy from a guy who has flamed countless people for their typos. Just another do as I say, not as I do neo-con liar…

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 04:32 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

I seldom, if ever, flame anyone for a typo unless they misspell a key word in a post that was calling someone else ignorant. Prove me wrong punk.

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 04:38 PM | Link to this

Huge Jackass,

When “typos” are made in the process of telling someone else how stupid they are (with the implication being how smart you are) then they are fair game.

Like this:

By Huge January 17, 2007 07:07 PM It is becoming utterly uncanny how this mistres of misspeak can misuse so many different words! Last week - her adolescent assertion that the word summit is not a verb. When corrected and if she’d had any shame, humiliated, insisted that it’s use was pretentious. Incredible!

Shall we count the grammatical and spelling errors in this^^^paragraph where YOU scold ME of writing errors??

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 04:41 PM | Link to this

Make that “you scold me for writing errors”.

Later, punk.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 04:47 PM | Link to this

To find the link bigot, you’d first have to pull your head out of your a$$. And I certainly won’t help you with that!

Sheesh, you neo-cons are such losers! Do you really need someone to show you everything all of the time? And to do your thinking for you? Are you so fickin’ lazy you can’t figure anything out on your own? Are you so stupid you have to have the most elementary things explained to you over and over and over again? What the h&ll did you a*******holes do in school?!!

By Why?

February 3, 2007 04:48 PM | Link to this

Markus and Buy Danish started to have sex in the middle of a dark forest. After about 15 minutes of it, markus finally gets up and says, “Damn, I wish I had a flashlight!”. The Buy Danish says, “Me too, you’ve been eating grass for the past ten minutes!”

By Buy Danis is a Bank Teller

February 3, 2007 04:51 PM | Link to this

A man walks into a bank, and after waiting for 20 minutes in line, he goes straight to a customer service rep. and says, “Hey, lady, I got this here check for deposit and I’ll be g******* if I am going to wait my a* on line anymore.” “Please”, says Buy Danish. “I won’t have that kind of language in this bank.” “Well excuse me, but this f***’ check ain’t drawing any g******* interest with you yappin’ away about my language.” “Sir, I don’t have to take this abuse” she says. “Well then let’s get the f***’ manager okay? I mean what kind of s** is this I have to take from you?” The manager is summoned, and says “What seems to be the problem?” The woman says, “This man is using vulgar language and I won’t stand for it.” The man says “Hey alls I’m trying to do in this g******* bank, for Christ’s sake is deposit this f***’ check for 15 million dollars.” The manager looks at the check and then at the man and says “And this f***’ b*** won’t help you?”

By Huge

February 3, 2007 04:53 PM | Link to this

Jeez, bigot, your 4:41 just proves how pathetic you are…

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 04:54 PM | Link to this

I guess the 4:47 is proof enough that today’s accusations are just more gaseous emissions from Blowhard.

Here’s a newsflash punk. When you make an accusation it’s up to you to prove it’s true.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 04:57 PM | Link to this

BTW, it is very creepy and stalker-like that the bigot can pull up other people’s posts from days, weeks and months ago. Does she catalogue them? By topic? Or date?

Obsess much bigot?

By Buy the neocons a flashlight

February 3, 2007 04:59 PM | Link to this

I think they are lost in the dark of iraq and can’t get out!

By Huge

February 3, 2007 05:02 PM | Link to this

Read my 4:53 and substitute ricky for bigot and 4:54 for 4:41.

And for the details regarding your always obvious hypocrisy and nitpicking, write bigot off-line. She’s apparently cataloged the entire history of AJC blogs!

By Silver

February 3, 2007 05:02 PM | Link to this

Three neocons were sitting on the porch. The first neocon said “My wife is so dumb, yesterday she drug home a brand new washer and dryer, and we ain’t even got electricity!” The second neocon said “My wife is stupider than yers, yesterday she brings home a new dishwasher, and we ain’t even got runnin water!”

The third neocon said “My wife is even stupider! Yesterday I was in the kitchen and I saw her purse on the table. Everything was spilled out of it and there was a bunch of rubbers layin there… and she ain’t even got a dick!”

By Silver

February 3, 2007 05:05 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish is having a bed wetting problem, so she decides to go to the doctor. The doctor tells her to go and get undressed and wait for him in the other room. When the doctor goes into the room he tells the lady to stand on her head facing the mirror. She figures he is a doctor and gets in front of the mirror. The doctor goes over to the lady and rests his chin between her legs and looks in the mirror. After a few minutes he stands up and tells the lady to go ahead and put her clothes back on and he will talk to her when she is dressed.

Buy Danish puts her clothes on and asks the doctor what is wrong with her. He tells her that she needs to quit drinking before she goes to bed. The lady asks the doctor why he had her get naked in front of the mirror and stand on her head. He replies, “I wanted to see how I would look with a beard.”

By Silver

February 3, 2007 05:11 PM | Link to this

A neocon woman and a man are involved in a car accident; it’s a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished but amazingly neither of them are hurt.

After they crawl out of their cars, the neocon woman says, “So you’re a man, that’s interesting. I’m a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There’s nothing left, but fortunately we are unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should meet and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days.”

Flattered, the man replied, “Oh yes, I agree with you completely!”

“This must be a sign from God!” The woman continued, “And look at this, here’s another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn’t break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune.”

Then she hands the bottle to the man, The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle and then hands it back to the woman.

The woman takes the bottle, immediately puts the cap back on, and hands it back to the man.

The man asks, “Aren’t you having any?”

The woman replies, “No. I think I’ll just wait for the police…”

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 05:16 PM | Link to this

By Blowhard-And for the details regarding your always obvious hypocrisy and nitpicking

That sounds like you should be able to get at least one example, doesn’t it? Of course it’s just like you moonbats to buy into something with no factual basis and blindly insist you’re right. Midori should be along soon to squawk sweet nothings to you blowhard. Enjoy the rest of your day, if that’s possible for a prig like you.

By The Army in Iraq

February 3, 2007 05:24 PM | Link to this

A Captain in the U S Army was transfered to a desert outpost. On his orientation tour he noticed a very old, seedy looking camel tied out back of the enlisted mens barracks. He asked the Sargent leading the tour, “What’s the camel for?”. The Sargent replied “Well sir it’s a long way from anywhere, and the men have natural sexual urges, so when they do, uh, we have the camel.” The captain said “Well if it’s good for moral, then I guess it’s all right with me.” After he had been at the fort for about 6 months the captain could not stand it any more so he told his Sargent, “BRING IN THE CAMEL!!!” The sarge shrugged his shoulders and led the camel into the captains quarters. The captain got a foot stool & proceeded to have vigorous sex with the camel. As he stepped, satisfied, down from the stool, and was buttoning his pants he asked the Sargent, “Is that how the enlisted men do it?” The Sargent replied, “Well sir, they usually just use it to ride into town

By RW-(the original) is a Redneck, here is his life story

February 3, 2007 05:27 PM | Link to this

Did you hear about the South Carolina redneck who passed away and left his entire estate in trust for his beloved widow? She can’t touch it until she’s fourteen.

How do you know when your staying in a Kentucky hotel? When you call the front desk and say, “I’ve gotta leak in my sink” and the person at the front desk says, “go ahead.”

How can you tell if a Texas redneck is married? Dried chewing tobacco on both sides of his pickup truck..

Did you hear that they have raised the minimum drinking age in Tennessee to 32? It seems they want to keep alcohol out of the high schools..

What do they call reruns of “Hee Haw” in Mississippi? Documentaries..

How many rednecks does it take to eat a ‘possum? Two. One to eat and one to watch for traffic..

Where was the toothbrush invented? Oklahoma. If it was invented anywhere else it would have been called a teethbrush..

Arkansas State Trooper pulls over a pickup truck on I-40. He says to driver, “Got any ID?” The driver says “Bout what?”

Did you hear about the $3,000,000 Tennessee State Lottery? The winner gets $3 a year for a million years..

Why did O. J. Simpson want to move to West Virginia? Nearly everyone has the same DNA..

Did you hear that the governor’s mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas Burned Down? Yep. Pert’ near took out the whole trailer park..

A new law recently passed in North Carolina: When a couple gets divorced, they’re still brother and sister..

What’s the best thing ever to come out of Arkansas? I-40..

What do a divorce in Alabama, a tornado in Kansas and a hurricane in Florida have in common? Somebody’s fixin’ to lose a trailer..

A Mississippian came home and found his house on fire. He rushed next door, telephoned the fire department and shouted, “Hurry over

here. My house is on fire!” “OK,” replied the fireman, “How do we get there?” “Don’t you still have them big red trucks?”

By Huge

February 3, 2007 05:29 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, ricky, it’s real easy to enjoy the rest of my day. Even more so seeing you neo-cons get your panties all in a wad!

Toodles! And enjoy that Milwaukee’s Best!

By RW-(the original) RESUME

February 3, 2007 05:32 PM | Link to this

These are from RW-(the original)’s actual resumes:

“Personal: I’m married with 9 children. I don’t require prescription drugs.

“I am extremely loyal to my present firm, so please don’t let them know of my immediate availability.”

“Qualifications: I am a man filled with passion and integrity, and I can act on short notice. I’m a class act and do not come cheap.”

“I intentionally omitted my salary history. I’ve made money and lost money. I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. I prefer being rich.”

“Note: Please don’t misconstrue my 14 jobs as ‘job-hopping’. I have never quit a job.”

“Number of dependents: 40.”

“Marital Status: Often. Children: Various.”

“Here are my qualifications for you to overlook.”

REASONS FOR LEAVING THE LAST JOB:

“Responsibility makes me nervous.”

“They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45 every morning. Couldn’t work under those conditions.”

REASONS FOR LEAVING MY LAST JOB:

“Was met with a string of broken promises and lies, as well as cockroaches.”

“I was working for my mom until she decided to move.”

“The company made me a scapegoat - just like my three previous employers.”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

“While I am open to the initial nature of an assignment, I am decidedly disposed that it be so oriented as to at least partially incorporate the experience enjoyed heretofore and that it be configured so as to ultimately lead to the application of more rarefied facets of financial management as the major sphere of responsibility.”

“I was proud to win the Gregg Typting Award.”

SPECIAL REQUESTS & JOB OBJECTIVES:

“Please call me after 5:30 because I am self-employed and my employer does not know I am looking for another job.”

“My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I have no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage.”

“I procrastinate - especially when the task is unpleasant.”

PHYSICAL DISABILITIES:

“Minor allergies to house cats and Mongolian sheep.”

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

“Donating blood. 14 gallons so far.”

SMALL TYPOS THAT CAN CHANGE THE MEANING:

“Education: College, August 1880-May 1984.”

“Work Experience: Dealing with customers’ conflicts that arouse.”

“Develop and recommend an annual operating expense fudget.”

“I’m a rabid typist.”

“Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain operation.”

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 05:42 PM | Link to this

BTW, it is very creepy and stalker-like that the bigot can pull up other people’s posts from days, weeks and months ago. Does she catalogue them? By topic? Or date?

RW,

Isn’t it amazing how ignorant Huge Junk Scientist and friends are about search engines?

No wonder they can’t stand the idea of wiretapping Al Qaeda phone calls that originate overseas. They think that doing a simple Google search is “creepy” and “stalker-like”.

Meanwhile the jackass cannot provide any “proof” that LD has a post that illustrated his “depravity”, so he has to hide behind accusations that I’m “lazy” because I can’t find the non-existent evidence.

By Dusty

February 3, 2007 05:47 PM | Link to this

silver,huge and all you other bigots,bar flies and really sick people,

I hope every one of you gets barred from ever posting on this blog again. You don’t need to exhibit your degenerate lifestyle here. We already know about your lack of character. Here’s hoping we don’t encounter any more of it.

By RW, Markus, and WootenDull in a Nursing Home

February 3, 2007 05:48 PM | Link to this

RW, Markus, and WootenDull in a Nursing Home in a Nursing home.

There’s these three old men playing cards one afternoon in the nursing home. One is 70, one is 80,and one is 90. The 70 year old says to the others, “man I sure wish I could take a healthy p** again.” The 80 year old replies “I can take a healthy p**, but sure wish I could take a healthy s** again.” The 90 year old replies ” I have neither problem. I take a healthy s** every morning at 9:00AM and a healthy p** at 10:00AM every morning. I just wish I could wake up before 12:00P.M.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 05:52 PM | Link to this

OK, retarded bigot. One more time I’ll hold your hand and help you see the friggin obvious.

By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 02:52 PM | Link to this

Are you against happiness?

By Huge

February 3, 2007 03:03 PM | Link to this

No, just stupidity. Especially, as in your case, when it’s combined with depravity…

Do you ever feel ashamed for being such a moronic a*******hole who insists on publicly humiliating herself? Nah, I didn’t think so.

By Mallory

February 3, 2007 05:53 PM | Link to this

J.Wooten’s topics for discussion are:

Mass Transit

Traffic Cameras

Joe Biden’s Racist Comment

Government Oversite

Missing Voters

Juries & The Death Penalty

Muqtada al-Sadr

Household Salaries for Single Women

School Vouchers for Special Education

Constitutional Amendment on Lottery Spending

What does J.Wooten get in response?

An online wresting match and a filthy mouthed moron telling filthy jokes.

Suggestion - Take it somewhere else or get IM.

J.Wooten, How long has your blog been open? Why is this allowed to continue?

There’s no point in me or anybody else commenting on the topic in the middle of this weekend melee.

By Huge

February 3, 2007 05:56 PM | Link to this

Hey Dirty,

Here’s hoping you GFY.

By Buy Danish and its Husband

February 3, 2007 05:57 PM | Link to this

A man and his wife (Buy Danish) got into bed for the night. Buy Danish had curled up ready for sleep and her husband put his bed lamp on to read a book. As he was reading, he stopped and reached over to his wife and started fondling her p***. He did this only for a very short while then stopped and went back to reading his book.

Buy Danish got up and started stripping in front of him. The husband was confused and asked, “What the hell are doing, taking all your jammies off?” The wife replied, “You were playing with my p***. I thought it was foreplay for something a bit heavier”.

The husband said, “Hell no! I was just wetting my fingers so I could turn the pages.

By Silver

February 3, 2007 05:59 PM | Link to this

the jokes make more sense to me than the tripe you post, Mallory.

By Buy Danish

February 3, 2007 06:01 PM | Link to this

Huge Junk Scientist,

Let’s post the whole entry, shall we?

{{{By WootenDull

February 3, 2007 02:52 PM | Link to this

Blowhard:

1) No matter what, humans will not be able to stop global warming. No matter what. Even if the Chinese quit laughing at you and got on board with your dreams of economic suicide, the Earth would still heat up.

It’s got something to do with us not being the primary cause of it.

Even a blooming idiot like you should be able to understand this. It would be like facing a tidal wave in a rowboat and worrying about a pinhole leak in the boat.

2) Any plan that you pinkos have put forth will cause far more economic damage than “global warming” ever could.

Duh.

3) It has already improved food production, I thought the world needed more water plus “a moderately warmer climate would be likely to benefit Americans in many ways, especially in health and in satisfying people’s preferences for more warm weather. Most people would enjoy higher temperatures, and the evidence supports the proposition that humans would live longer and avoid some sickness. Less cold weather would mean less snow shoveling, fewer days of driving on icy roads, lower heating bills, and reduced outlays for clothing.”

Are you against happiness?

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You call that “depravity”?????????

Have you noticed your Useless Idiot teammates, like Silver^^^^posting lately? Now that’s “depravity”.

By GodHatesTrash

February 3, 2007 06:02 PM | Link to this

I appreciate the excellent redneck humor today.

If we don’t laugh about it, we’ll have to cry…

God, what pitiful trash the typical southerner is…

By Ok, on topic, schools

February 3, 2007 06:03 PM | Link to this

The kindergarten class had a homework assignment to find out about something exciting and relate it to the class the next day. When the time came for the little kids to give their reports, the teacher was calling on them one at a time. She was reluctant to call upon little Johnnie, knowing that he sometimes could be a bit crude. But eventually his turn came. Little Johnnie walked up to the front of the class, and with a piece of chalk, made a small white dot on the blackboard, then sat back down. Well the teacher couldn’t figure out what Johnnie had in mind for his report, so she asked him just what that was. “It’s a period,” reported Johnnie. “Well I can see that,” she said, “But what is so exciting about a period.” “Damned if I know,” said Johnnie, “But this morning my sister said she missed one. Then Daddy had a heart attack, Mommy fainted and the man next door shot himself.”

A kindergarten teacher comes to class and says, “Today class I am going to give you a letter of the alphabet and I want you to give me a word that begins with that letter.” She begins with the letter “A” and all the kids raise their hands. There is one kid in the back named Johnny that is real eager to answer the question, but the teacher knows that he is always vulgar and likes to use obscenities so she chooses on little Mary to answer. Mary stands and says, “A…Apple” The teacher replies, “That’s great, Mary, good job.” So she moves on to the letter “B”, and again Johnny is still eager to answer the question, but the teacher is sure that he will probably say “B***” or something like that so she calls on Todd. Todd says, “B…Baseball.” And the teacher replies, “Good Job, Todd.” So they start going through the alphabet and the class’ attention dwindles, except for Johnny. The teacher comes to the letter “R” and no one, except for Johnny, is raising their hand so she is forced to call on him. “Okay Johnny, what starts with R?” she says. “R…Rat” Johnny replies. “Rat, …that’s it…rat?” the teacher questions with astonishment. “Yeah,” says Johnny, “Big-a* mother-f***’ rat with a dick 12 inches long.”

By RW-(the original)

February 3, 2007 06:25 PM | Link to this

So the new standard of proof for Stunty Blowhard is whether he said it or not. Got it! No wonder these gullible clown liberals believe in Darwin, man made global warming, the evil in the world being the American President, etc. all without one shred of evidence. One of them said it, so the parrots will squawk on.

I bet if one of them claims that Hillary didn’t say in 2003 that she had been personally studying the Iraq threat for ten years and knew how dangerous Saddam’s Iraq was, they’ll believe it no matter how many times we play the tape for them.

Blowhard,

Don’t you have even an ounce of intellectual curiosity?

By WootenDull

February 4, 2007 08:02 AM | Link to this

I’m prepared to give Biden a bit of a break. He wandered into a thicket of racially charged code words, proving once again that Americans —- even “mainstream” pols such as Biden —- are hardly colorblind. He couldn’t resist, for example, using the word “articulate” to describe Obama, as if even moderately liberal whites are still pleasantly surprised when they come across an educated black person who speaks well. Queen Pinko, 2/5/07 Urinal

Some condemnation that was.

So, correct me if I’m wrong, racist remarks are not abominable but instead are understandable.

Got that?

Let’s not be naïve, Madame Dullard has two institutions to protect here, one being the democratic party, which to the liberals is “almighty god,” their source of life giving governmental power, and then the race baiting industry.

Using the standards that the democrats hold the rest of us to, Biden would rightfully be road kill this morning and Cynthia in Wonderland would be piling on his corpse with all of the other vultures.

But since this “incident” has encroached upon the Pinko Nation, the world of hypocrisy, we have to pooh pooh what Biden said, lest it not harm the party or our blessed claim to fame, race baiting.

Just like if a democrat was in charge of Iraq, America would be winning the war hands down, it would be the right decision to bring freedom and democracy to the region and not finding WMD would have called for giving the CIA a “bit of a break,” to paraphrase^^.

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By phillip

February 4, 2007 08:16 AM | Link to this

Wow the AJC finally has some war coverage. Where have you been?

By Mallory

February 4, 2007 09:16 AM | Link to this

J.Wooten, you look like the only conservative columnist at the AJC. Is C.Tucker one of Biden’s excuse-makers?

Al-Sadr is only buying time. Maybe he’ll be the first cleric to mysteriously die by suicide bomb.

Silver likes yesterdays filthy jokes better than the tripe I posted. It must be a dark, dank, and isolated corner of the world he occupies; one where sickness, mold & fungus make him a happy boy.