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DEL.ICIO.USLegal vs. illegal gambling; and Don Imus
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s free-for-all Friday. Pick a topic:
• A surcharge on traffic violations has generated $11.9 million since May 2005 to start up a statewide driver’s ed program for 16-year-olds. But only $2.7 million has been spent. Why? No single program has proved to be most effective, said Robert Dallas, vice chairman of the commission designing the start-up program. “All of us involved … would like to today, not tomorrow, roll out a program that the experts and data agree is the perfect program. The reality is that does not exist. All the programs have to be put in the context of their respective costs.” What Democrats know, and Republicans are yet to learn, is that program design is less important than spending all the money.
• The World of Coke closes at Underground, leaving a building that would be a fine place for a State History Museum.
• Warning to gamblers: The state owns that franchise and has illegalized competition. Morally, it might have a hard time prosecuting as a crime the activity it pushes in most every convenience store. One difference, of course, is that the Texas hold-‘em crowd is not giving a portion of the pot to “education.”
• Do apologies matter? Ask Don Imus. Yes, his comment was racist. We live, however, in an era where grievance-bearers are poised for the media moment — the stupid, racist or dumb remarks, and not just about race either — that enables activists to claim the microphone to pursue group or personal agendas. I always have the sense that activists have at-the-ready a thousand marketing plans awaiting the window of public attention.
• More surprising to me is not that three inmate-on-inmate killings occurred in March, but that only five have occurred since 2005. One’s too many, of course. But Georgia holds 52,792 convicts, 8,000 of them with mental illnesses and 60 percent of them considered violent. Thanks, guards, for doing a job I wouldn’t take for any sum of money.
• The General Assembly should rescind its 1993 recognition of the Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee. Four separate groups claim that mantle. One will show up one day demanding a casino license. The feds don’t recognize any tribe in Georgia. But if they do, it would be hard for the feds to deny casinos since Georgia has also declared a fondness for gambling.
• It would be hard for federal regulators to punish subprime lenders more than the market already has. The problem, always, in talking about subprime lenders is that subprime lenders, “predatory” lenders and those who “trick” bad credit borrowers are not the same. Subprime is legit. People pay for the risk they represent. “Predatory” is fraud added to subprime. Trickery is a salesman’s pitch; whether it has occurred is subjective. Don’t yet see anything here that Congress can regulate more effectively than the marketplace has. Spending “hundreds of millions of dollars” to bail out borrowers, as U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) proposes is a lousy idea. Even those who lied about their income? Or bought houses they knew they couldn’t afford?
• When House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) and state Sen. Nan Orrock (D-Atlanta) join forces on any issue, as they’re being urged to do on a resolution urging the feds to become more involved in “family planning,” we’ll know this: We’ve lost one of them. Gone. Reduced to incoherent mumbling.
• Another clue as to whether congressional Democrats have any interest in legislating or simply politicking for 2008 will come on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The Democratic bill, which President Bush has vetoed once, is a slippery slope to embryo farms. The votes don’t exist to override. Georgia’s Republican U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson authored one the president will sign that allows federal funding only for stem cells taken from deficient “naturally dead” embryos. It has risks, too, but is the best deal that supporters of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research will get out of this president. Isakson does have a knack for finding the middle ground on contentious issues.
• By agreeing to return $142 million in excess collections to taxpayers, House and Senate leaders achieved the best possible outcome to their stand-off over the one-time appropriations we call pork — though, clearly, much of it has merit. The state should not fail, for example, to ante up the $15 million needed to acquire the 7,000-acre Paulding Forest Wildlife Management Area, for which Paulding County residents have already consented to taxing themselves $15 million. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation will give $7.5 million when the state antes up.
• Life’s good. It’s spring in Atlanta. I have a great job I intend to keep. And for however long it lasts, the Braves are the best team in baseball.
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By Truthsayer
April 13, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this
Wooten, you have it half right about the Dems and stem cell research. They are playing pure politics with the issue, but even they know that it does not matter. Stem cell research of the kind that they are endorsing is going on every day, but it is not financed by the federal government. And it should not be. There should be some regulation in a field where there is such potential for abuse, but that does not mean that the taxpayers should finance it. The taxpayers in California are already financing it. Isakson’s bill is a good compromise, but frankly, it is all rather meaningless. The research show promise, so the marketplace will take care of it, as it always does in such situations. The government did not finance the Wright Brothers, Edison or Bell and things worked out quite well for them and for society as a whole.
By RC
April 13, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this
There have only been 3 killings amongst Georgia’s 53,000 convicts in the last 2 years? How many killings have there been in Georgia amongst the non-incarcerate population in the last 2 years? Maybe we have the wrong people locked up.
By Morris
April 13, 2007 8:31 AM | Link to this
Will the little streetcar that the transportation study group proposed for downtown still go to Underworld…uh..Underground now that the World of Coke has fled…uh..relocated?
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 8:33 AM | Link to this
Since I have a 16 year old and a 14 year old (and 2 more coming along shortly behind), I am very interested in the driver’s ed courses. Cherokee county stopped offering driver’s ed back in 1987 (I think). Not that I want my children taught by a driver’s ed class; my 16 year old received over 300 hours behind the wheel in my car in the 1 year she had her learner’s permit. But now that they’ve changed the law to make them wait until they are 17 (unless I pay $600 dollars for private lessons), I think the tax money collected should certainly go to either a school-sponsored driver’s ed, or a state-sponsored driver’s ed class that would be free. I am not in favor of the law that puts kids at 17 before they get their license anyway; I don’t think it saves any lives or wrecks; just postpones them. There is no appreciable difference in the maturity level at 16 versus 17 years old. Both ages are still extremely immature.
No embryonic stem cell research! Regardless of whether or not the child died “naturally”, it’s just not right.
By Grampus
April 13, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this
How about offering a remedial drivers ed program for college age students. Please?
By jbmlaw
April 13, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Great essays this morning, Mr. Wooten. I wish I had been the first to write your “gambling” notes, and yours is the first intelligent writing I have seen on the subprime lending. Our leftist friends will be unhappy that you are raining on their regulatory parade, as they truly just want to freeze “those people” out of the credit market (to borrow the slur of our leftist friend, Redneck.)
I’ll offer a minor dissent on Imus. Deconstructing the slur, I don’t find “nappy-headed” cause for offense – back in the disco 70s I had one of those white-guy “afros” and accepted the “nappy-headed” slur with great amusement. I think the “hos” is inherently offensive to my generation, but I perceive it is no big deal to the youngsters. Chairman Ann argued yesterday that an apology to the girls would be appropriate, as they did nothing to insert themselves into the public dialogue, and I think that is a reasonable argument; they deserved to keep their privacy.
If I may offer a cheap shot on the prison guards, Gordon Liddy always had a funny-vicious line, that they had to be the stupidest people in the world, as they “voluntarily sentence themselves to 30 years in the lock up.” I am with you, though Mr. Wooten, every guard I ever met was decent and respectful, and I never had a problem with any of them; I am certain their work lives are no fun.
By Blaney
April 13, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this
Barbara - Tigers eat their young. The left won’t rest till they have us doing the same the same.
By Grampus
April 13, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this
The left will try to leverage this Imus incident into some sort of “public” oversight of publicly expressed opinions, especially those that are in conflict with their own. The backlash to this attempted usurpation of the Constitution will be overwhelming and send the PC police packing. Don Imus has actually done us a favor.
By 10tacle
April 13, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this
RC wrote this Picasso of bloggery -
There have only been 3 killings amongst Georgia’s 53,000 convicts in the last 2 years? How many killings have there been in Georgia amongst the non-incarcerate population in the last 2 years? Maybe we have the wrong people locked up.
What a brilliant observation! The menace to societies are incarcerated because they did harm to society. That aside, they are watched and controlled for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 52 weeks a year. Not only that, they are in lockdown where the only weapons around are handmade and rarely used. Now compare that to the non-incarcerate population that has unlimited access to weapons and is free to do anything without immediate intervention by authorities, including murder. Now of those two scenarios, just where do you think more murders are going to be committed? In a controlled environment or in a mostly non-controlled environment?
Only a liberal democrat criminal apologist could make such an asinine statement.
By Shar
April 13, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this
When politicians of vastly different stripes agree on an issue (which, in the case cited by Mr. Wooten, they have not yet done), why is this indicative of “mumbling” rather than broad support for a good idea?
By RC
April 13, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this
10tacle - Do you not know sarcasm when you see it, or are you just upset because I left the “d” off of “non-incarcerated” in my post?
By Jack
April 13, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
Good thing you’re in the insurance biz Barbara. Hope they give you a break on auto coverage, you’re gonna need it!
By Mid-South Philosopher
April 13, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
The stupidity of government and the bumbling of its idiot players at virtually all levels in the post-modern world would be highly comical were its results not so sad and its consequences so eternal.
By J.A.
April 13, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this
Apologies do not matter! The Imperial Sharpton and his Klan targeted a white man in an attempt to bring him down. They do not want apologies. They want to and have succeeded in surpassing equal rights. White people need to stand up for themselves and fight the injustices done to them everyday. For example, Frank Ski and Wanda from V-103… they make negative, degrading comments about white people all the time. Rappers and other African American media types do the same. Why are we not fighting back? We deserve respect too!
By Neo
April 13, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this
10tacle: I think what RC meant was that most criminals dont get caught, (thanx to the ease of erasing emails, fashioning unsuspecting shivs, and creating diversionary havoc with fake dogpoo).
Maybe if you would spend more time studying law enforcement theory and social conflict resolution then you would understand your liberal/feminine side more and you wouldn’t come across as such a latent yet strangely natty ho-mo.
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this
Jack, when I added my 16 year old, with liability only coverage on her paid off, 10 year old car, the premiums doubled (compared to both the husband and I, with 3 cars, 1 brand new 2006, and the other 2 from 2003 and 2000 with full coverage). And my child is a girl! I couldn’t imagine what it would have been for a boy.
Grampus, I like your idea of remedial driver’s ed courses, but I say we expand it to anyone doing stupid stuff. There should be a hotline we could call in to report stupid drivers of all ages.
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this
Blaney, you may be right. God forbid we use the death penalty to put some dangerous predator down, because that would be wrong! But it’s okay to kill innocent babies. Yeah, it’s a screwed up world we live in.
By 10tacle
April 13, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this
RC, when I read a comment like maybe we have the wrong people locked up it reminds me of all those times I hear the bleeding heart left saying criminals shouldn’t be locked up, should be given second, third, fourth, fifth, and six tries to reconcile themselves, and so on. I saw no concerted effort at sarcasm at all. You merely sounded like one of those leftists who thinks that the criminals are the actual victims in our mean old uncaring society.
Neo, since you brought up the homo-erotic thoughts considering they weren’t a part of my comment or even a topic of this blog, I’ll let you continue with your bi curious pre-pubescent fantasy.
Liberals.
By JP
April 13, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this
It has risks, too, but is the best deal that supporters of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research will get out of this president.
Exactly the key point, Wooten. This is like the President “inviting” Dems to discuss the funding bill, but prefacing the meeting with “but i’m not about to change my mind.” This President has no concept of the word “compromise.”
I cannot WAIT for 01.20.09.
By James (P.E.)
April 13, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this
Jbmlaw, Its hilarious to see you say * Deconstructing the slur, I don’t find “nappy-headed” cause for offense*
I’m married to a biracial woman and she was terribly offended, being that she was called this by her white grandmother and cousins as a child. Its not up to us as white men to try and tell a minority how they should feel or react to these or other words. Anybody with any intelligence would know you should never tell your wife, “Well, you shouldn’t feel that way..”
By time for the truth
April 13, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this
The now hopelessly out of control Imus lynching is both hugely amusing and quite sickening. Amusing to see an arrogant haughty supercilious boorish Kerry loving demoNcrat scumbag finally get his and sickening to see the worst kind of shrill venal snouts deep in the racial hypocrisy trough waving their greasy black racist little trotters at any TV camera pointed in their noxious racebaiting direction.
Any news on the racist corrupt bigot Billy Campbell’s time in the FL big house. Has he become anyone’s nappy headed ho?
I simply can’t wait to FINALLY see the racist bigoted virulently sexist hippety hop scum taken to task for their endless unremitting ‘black culture’ filth. Silly me - its ALWAYS perfectly OK for infamous black criminals and thuggish sullen wannabes to puke up yoof kulture racist/sexist filth, all in the name of depraved urban ebonics and HUGE SNIGGER SMIRK SNIGGER “black artistic integrity”. So no blindingly obvious black hypocrisy there then!!
The sound of Mr Al “burn them alive in Freddies my bruthas” Sharptongue actually apologising to the INNOCENT Duke lads he gleefully helped nearly lynch is likely to be even rarer than the sound of the feminazi hag HiTllary answering awkward questions about its criminal lying past, the pardon selling Arkansas rapist apologising to Juanita Broaddrick for raping her and the soporific AlBore apologising for its hysterical wilful deranged lies about global whining and its hugely entertaining embittered Bush derangement syndrome.
Nice to see the Braves are back at the top of the NL East where they belong … will it last though under Bobby ‘lets lamely choke again boys in the playoffs’ Cox.
Lets hope the Iranians take the Pelosibitch hostage for a long long time if it now goes there in its desperate vainglorious search for a place on the world stage where it can glibly sneer at Bush and yet again undermine the USA and US troops.
How utterly predicktable and typical of race baiting liberals … Ruttgers quite rightly stood behind their INNOCENT black students whilst the liberal white and black bigots at Duke noisily demanded the lynching of their INNOCENT white students.
THIS IS THE REAL SICKNESS OF LIBERALISM FOLKS!!
By ABS
April 13, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this
My 16-year-old son took a Driver’s Ed course last summer when he was still 15 sponsored by the county school system. I thought it made all the difference in the world….he is a much better driver than my niece who didn’t take the course and I want to say it was only $100 (I could be wrong, but it wasn’t much more than this). We also spent a lot of time teaching him ourselves, but he seemed to take driving more seriously when the “rules” of driving were coming from an instructor and not from us. My husband and I can tell him something and the instructor can say the same thing and he thinks we’re just stupid, but of course, the instructor is right. Teenagers…you know how they are.
For me, it was a no-brainer to let him take it…we got a discount on our insurance, and we also got an additional discount because of his grades. Our insurance didn’t got up that much….
Another reason our insurance didn’t go up much is because he is driving an old car….don’t buy teenagers new cars or even a car that was built before 1995! Barbara is right, they will eventually run into something.
By JK
April 13, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this
A back-up frozen embryo (created in a lab by a highly-paid fertility doc for a reproductively-challeneged moneyed couple) that will never be implanted or gestated is somehow an “innocent baby?” Grow up. If you watched one of YOUR children suffer from some horrific, debilitating disease, your heart and voice would cry out daily for a cure, you’d have all your friends marching in every fundrasing walk around to raise money for research, and YOU KNOW IT.
You people who turn your backs on existing human suffering (while blaming them.. “god’s will” and all), while manufacturing outrage on behalf of the non-existent, should post your names and addresses on Wikipedia under the “HYPOCRITE” entry. But that’s just my opinion. As always, y’all have a nice day rationalizing your priorities to match your prejudices, now, y’hear?
By getalife
April 13, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this
I have a great job I intend to keep.
Figures, during lay offs only thousands of low paid workers are fired to keep the dinosaurs.
BTW, the deleted emails are still on the drives and the White House broke the law.
Checkmate.
Game over.
Let the impeachments begin.
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this
ABS, I would gladly pay $100 for the course, but in Cherokee County there is no school sponsored or county sponsored courses, so you have to take private lessons at $600 to $700 a pop! And the break on my insurance (if my 16 year old had taken the course) was only going to be about $80 per 6 months. It wasn’t worth it to me. I was very fortunate because my first-born is extremely serious about everything, and took me and my instruction very seriously. She is an excellent driver. My 14 year old is a completely different story however. I’m not looking forward to that one.
When my siblings and I reached 15 years old, my mother required that the current 15 year old with a learner’s permit drive everywhere the family went for that entire year. I did the same with my daughter, and that equated to 300 plus hours behind the wheel for her. I plan to do that for all the kids, but unfortunately my training, no matter how good, doesn’t count towards the state requirements. So unless the cost of a state-approved class comes down considerably, my remaining 3 kids will be 16 with permits, and 17 to drive. I don’t think it’s fair, and I don’t think it makes a whole lot of difference in their first year of driving anyway. 16 or 17, they’re going to hit something, or do something stupid and perhaps be lucky enough not to cause too much damage.
By Jack
April 13, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this
I taught both of my sons how to drive. My knuckles were white for a week. $100.00 for a driving course would be money well spent.
By ABS
April 13, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this
I think many people who are against stem cell research do not fully understand the issue or understand the methods of how the research is done.
The opponents of stem cell research seem to think that these scientists comb the garbage dumpsters of abortion clinics and hospitals looking for tossed our embryos which is completely insane. All they hear is “human embryo” and their “pro-life” filters shoot up without listening.
By James (P.E.)
April 13, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this
Why would Rutgers NOT stand behind those girls, TFTT? Did I miss something..or were there some charges against THEM? You are comparing oranges and honda civics.
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this
JK, you seem particularly angry lately. I will tell you why I don’t support embryonic stem cell research. I believe that God is the giver of life. God creates children, using us as his life-giving vessels. Human life is precious to Him. Even if a human life is created in a petri-dish, through scientists, that creation is still blessed by and loved by God, and to kill it would be murder. God said, in Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the wombb I knew you. Before you were born I sanctified you….”
I am not faced with a suffering child, or other close family member, but I hope, with all my heart, that I would be strong enough never to turn to embryonic stem cells if faced with that situation. Call me a hypocrit if it makes you feel better. I answer to a higher authority than you, and as long as He’s not calling me a hypocrit, I’ll be okay.
By James (P.E.)
April 13, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this
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By James (P.E.)
April 13, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this
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By rarringt
April 13, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this
Good morning all,
Finally, a bout of spring-like weather. Hope it holds for the Dogwood Festival.
Andy’s comments, without a trace of irony, about “sickness.” I guess it is Free-For-All-Friday.
Also, I note that, once again, your use of the word “snigger” only seems to come up in the context of discussing race.
But I have to hand it to him. He may be racist, but at least he’s proud to be one.
Sure, he’ll launch a tirade like, “geez, I don’t know how anyone who reads ‘Has [Bill Campbell] become anyone’s nappy headed ho,’” or “‘I simply can’t wait to FINALLY see the racist bigoted virulently sexist hippety hop scum taken to task for their endless unremitting ‘black culture’ filth,’” but then can’t see how that’s racist.
Must be part of that “thinly veiled vitriol that covers an ocean of cogent conservatism” that Andy’s right-wing apologists friends claim is there. The same friend who lambaste Redneck Convert for doing much the same thing, by the way.
I suppose such juvenile vitriol is easier to stomach when you agree with the poster’s point of view. Still, I’d rather have someone be up front about who they are (no matter how dark-hearted), than duplicitous.
On to today’s point. I, for one think Imus’ firing was overkill. Note the comment was sexist as well as racist. If we fired every entertainer who did or said something inappropriate, we’d be left with watching Johnny Carson reruns.
I agree that while the ladies at Rutgers were certainly deserving of a sincere apology, Sharpton and Co. were rather opportunistic on this one. I hope they’re just as passionate in lambasting the legions of rappers out there who get a pass for their incessant use of such language.
By For the Record ....
April 13, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this
The “free market” – a highly idealized, theoretical construct – works well when consumption of a product is both rival and exclusionary. Think of a hamburger. My consumption of a hamburger means I outbid you for it, and means you cannot eat it. However, for non-rival and non-exclusionary public goods, free market mechanics break down. Think America’s nuclear arsenal, where my consumption does not affect yours, nor can I realistically exclude you from its protection.
(Aside: this difference between private and public goods can be shown in equilibrium supply and demand pricing on the usual P-Q (price-quantity) graph. With private goods like hamburgers, two demand curves D1 and D2 are added horizontally and their sum moves to equilibrium at a greater quantity Q along the supply curve. With public goods, D1 and D2 are added vertically; both demanders share in the consumption of the fixed Q (say, an island’s bridge to the mainland, which is, to some degree, rival, but non-exclusive), but the increased demand results in a higher equilibrium price, not additional quantity.)
In a republican form of government, the people decide what they consider to be public goods via their elected representatives, who assess taxes to pay for them.
Why the Public Economics 101? Simply, because of all the discussion relating to public health issues like Peachcare, and stem cell research.
It may irritate fringe-type conservatives and libertarians that poor children are receiving health care that their parents didn’t purchase in the “free” market instead of being left to die, but poor children’s health care is considered by the vast majority of civilized people to be a public good, and therefore a legitimate purchase via taxation. The issue, as Mr. Wooten correctly pointed out, is how much of this public good should be provided, and at what price.
The same is true with cutting-edge medical research, like that being done with stem cells. It is highly inefficient to have medical research allocated via some sort of “free” market mechanism, because of the efficiencies provided by a national funding and regulating body such as the National Institutes of Health. Why should the best medical researchers in California duplicate the work of those in New York, when they should be cooperating, working on different aspects of the same problem, sharing data and results? Ideally, this sort of research should be handled on a global basis, but certainly shouldn’t be balkanized on a national level due to some childlike trust in the power of competition versus cooperation.
I understand that stem cell research has bio-ethical issues, and that intelligent individuals can disagree about them. But the simplistic argument that “the free market will take care of it” is bogus and should be summarily rejected, for all the reasons discussed above.
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this
Sorry, that second quote should have been “Amusing to see an arrogant haughty supercilious boorish Kerry loving demoNcrat scumbag finally get his and sickening to see the worst kind of shrill venal snouts deep in the racial hypocrisy trough waving their greasy black racist little trotters at any TV camera pointed in their noxious racebaiting direction,” but I’m sure you already figured that out….
By James (P.E.)
April 13, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this
rarringt,
I see a change happening on the world of rap. Sales are down drastically, premier artists within the world are critical of the hugely popular gangster rap, and this latest attention has only heightened the severity of the damage it’s done. I’m a white guy that enjoys Outkast or the occasional Lupe Fiasco, but those are not the ones getting the corporate machine pushing it over the airways.
My wife informed that BET was headed by a African-American female? Thats crazy!
By Truthsayer
April 13, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this
For the Record - your arguments are flawed, as are your economics. The price of hamburgers are set because there is competition for the product. You have MANY providers because of the competition. No one in a market in which there is mass production of a product is deprived of goods and services. Your argument only works if there is a constricted or very limited supply. Because I outbid you for Sophia Loren’s services, you cannot have her for your film. When an item can be mass produced, such as wheat, and there is a huge, almost universal, demand for that product, then more people will produce it and the price will go where the market takes it. The supply will rise to meet the demand.
This analogy does work for embryonic stem cell research because the diseases which could be cured by such research are common diseases. People stand to make money off of this “product” so they will compete to be the first to perfect it. Those who win the race will obtain a government sanctioned temporary monopoly called a patent. This might seem to fly in the face of free market economics, but it does follow the logic of the third law of economics, the law of self interest. Those who believe it is in their self interests to do this research will do it to get the patent so they can make the money from their monopoly on it. The government will then regulate that price.
This situation is completely different from the development of nuclear technology before World War II because it was done at first purely for the military applications rather than for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. We were not urgently searching for new forms of energy at the time. We were much more interested in blowing our enemies to Satan. We did it. Military applications tend to be the sole bailiwick of governments (or at least that was so in the past). This research will go on in the marketplace precisely because PRIVATE individuals want the product and the profits.
Thank you for your attention.
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this
Yeah, she’s been running BET since Viacom bought it from Bob Johnson a few years ago. It’s regularly criticized by black academics, and regularly watched by all people who could use a bit more education.
I think rap’s down for a number of reasons. For example, bootlegging’s killing the music industry as a whole, and artist development is virtually extinct. Most rappers only have one or two decent songs, then disappear.
Hip hop is, and always has been, notoriously fickle. But keep in mind, the biggest attraction has always been “accessibility.” Kids who can’t sing, dance or act, figured out a way to express themselves by talking to a beat and in time realized (or found a seemingly valid road) a means to fulfilling a fantasy of becoming famous celebrities.
However, your point is valid, but for different reasons. Most rap, especially the sort at issue, is not bought by black kids. It’s bought by white kids at some suburban Wal-Mart. These kids, same as we were at that age, are attracted to the “bad boy outlaw” persona exuded by most of these rappers. After all, the most successful ones talk of gangster origins and drug use and pimping and all that, none of which would ever be acceptable in decent white neighborhoods. (heh, heh)
What’s happening is that these white kids are realizing 1) the music isn’t that good and is pretty derivative, and 2) most “gangsta” rappers are just alter ego characters dreamed up by the artist.
For example, Ice Cube grew up in a two-parent household, where both parents were academics at UCLA. Suge Knight took honors English while a football player at UNLV. Jay-Z is 40 years old and has an Economics degree.
Because they are merely characters, kids have shiied away from them in search of more “realistic” outlaws, or they simply create their own, better music and video (the MySpace-YouTube-Ipod generation).
As Nas says, Rap (as we know it) is dead.
By harold
April 13, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this
harold can buy most all of that except “I have a great job I intend to keep.”
parroting the republican line under this administration is a crap job, but how else are you gonna make as much money? lobbyist?
By harold
April 13, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this
see, it’s the “Thanks, guards, for doing a job I wouldn’t take for any sum of money.” that really gives it away. SOMEOBDY has been thinking about what other jobs he could do and how much money he’d get for it.
By James (P.E.)
April 13, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this
rarringt, For example, Ice Cube grew up in a two-parent household, where both parents were academics at UCLA. Suge Knight took honors English while a football player at UNLV. Jay-Z is 40 years old and has an Economics degree.
Funny you said that, at a local design meeting for some condos in Atlanta a couple of years ago, I met an owner of a construction company named Clifford Harris. Impressive young guy no older than 25…saw him on a billboard a few weeks later under the alias, T.I. My oldest daughter still doesn’t believe me.
By getalife
April 13, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this
So, it started with an investigation into botched firings and developed into this.
I am amazed Ganzo and Rove have not resigned yet.
I guess these criminals will all go down together.
Let the impeachment hearings begin.
Game over.
Going out like Nixon but keep cheering on these criminals wooten’s wingnuts.
This is what happens when you elect the gop into the WH.
Lets not repeat this insanity again.
Geez.
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this
James,
Yeah, and Lil Jon is actually an introverted bookish engineering geek who looks nothing like the character he created, and lives in my area. His wife is a ballet instructor in Midtown.
By time for the truth
April 13, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this
@ Dumbo Jimbo
the BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS point is that @ Duke the sick and twisted lefties and race baiters instantly assumed guilt. which is why the 88 so called academic scum puked up their sick petition, there were wanted posters of the three INNOCENT lads plastered over the campus and other even worse verbal abuses and physical threats against these three guys who were simply - with little or NO liberal/black presumption of innocence ever evinced -assumed to be GUILTY!!
@ RABIDington
Cheers for the now quite preDICKtable hilarious sniggers @ Andy … is Andy your fantasy homo lover?
Obviously I was trying to gently and wittily goad some sad pinko/racebaiter into responding and as ever it was a piece of p!ss to do so!! Thanks for being such a good preDICKtable regimented lemming!!
Wonderful too to see you so swiftly and anally correct yourself with that second equally pathetic post.
NOTHING I posted was racist … it was perfectly fair comment about the arson inciter racist Sharptongue and the countless hippety hop thugs that on occasion kill and shoot at each other, constantly abuse and glorify drugs, unremittingly abuse and sneer at women, indulge in thuggish behaviour all over the world, glorify criminality, are racial hypocrites and yet magically get all sullen and uppity when challenged about their incessant misogynist racist filth!!
Your despicable intellectual dishonesty and witless empty screech of “racist” is what we expect from black bigoted/racist arsewipes … when you can’t honestly discuss/debate … you just screech “racist” … like demented afrocentric parrots … happily these days such cowardly disgusting tactics have little resonance … except as ever amongst the blame whitey, racial spoils scum!!
cheers again RABIDington … effortlessly winding up you and your ilk is fabulous fun!!
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this
Oh, before anyone starts wondering where we’re going with this, here’s the point:
the “thuggish hippety hop” types (as Andy sniggeringly likes to refer to them), are responding to what the free market (namely white tweeners and adolescents) want to see.
Ironic. Rightist adults lambaste black entertainers for giving the kids of rightist (and leftist) adults exactly what they want, namely caricatures of black culture. It’s Amos ‘n Andy for the 21st century.
Here’s what’s most delicious about this: your kids, by mimicing the music, actions and fashion of wannabe gangsta life (in itself, an imitation) actually want to be Amos.
An imitation of an imitation. Too funny.
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this
Andy (TFTT’s previously admitted to real name),
Reread your little huffy tirade of a post, then ask yourself - who’s winding who?
heh, heh
By waz
April 13, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
Gambling, gambling,gambling that starts with G and it rhymes with T and stands for trouble. Oh yeah, we got trouble right here in Georgia. Good thing we have government watching out for us or we might all be in BIG Troouuble.
By time for the truth
April 13, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this
poor old racist whitey hating RABIDington …
it cant debate - all it does is puke up its fantasy homo lover which it doltishly thinks will “wind me up” … snigger smirk snigger!!
The scummy hippety hop thugs are NOT “caricaturing’ black culture they are superbly reflecting black “urban” culture as it is today - and they have undeniably helped shape it … the killings, the drugs, the misogyny, the thuggish boorshness, the bling bling, the shoot/stab/beat anyone who “disses” me mentality, the black racism and all the rest of it.
For christ’s sake even the noxiously liberal Labour PM Tony B Liar now openly says it black (gang) culture that’s to blame for the constant black thuggery and black killings knife/gun in England. Some “caricature” - eh RABIDington??!!
Tell us why there are so many shootings and thuggish ness at hippety hop clubs/events … with the “performers” so often front and centre. This thuggish culture has bled (pun intended) into the NFL and the NBA …
Yes most decent ordinary blacks despise the thuggish black culture - after all they are mostly the victims of endemic urban black crime - but a sh!tload of black yoofs - both in and out of jail love it to death … as Alice Cooper might say (gedditt??).
To disgustingly assert that its just a “caricature” is yet more dishonest dissembling racist/bigoted poison!! This “caricature” has been going on for 30 years or more!!! And the hippety hop scum have been making money vaingloriously glorifying it for nearly 20 years now … although the gangsta sh!~te is more recent than that!!
By deegee
April 13, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this
“I think the tax money collected should certainly go to either a school-sponsored driver’s ed, or a state-sponsored driver’s ed class that would be free.”
This is hilarious coming from the conservative right that believes in cultivating a culture of self-reliance. I would rather have my tax money go to a family that needs it than to a family that is just too cheap to spend $600.00 on a class that may save the life of their child or someone else’s life.
By Van
April 13, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
By For the Record and Truthsayer,
Interesting and compelling arguments on both sides. It is nice to see intelligent debate, especially in this blog.
As it stands right now, stem cell research is going on and making great headway. Adult stem cell that is. Whether the taxpayers fund ethically questionable embryonic stem cell research will always be a source of debate. While research labs are allowed to use embryonic cells, they are excluded from federal funds, unless they are using the cell lines already approved.
The last things I saw about this, was the adult cells are being used to treat/cure or help in 82 different applications and embryonic cells have been found to be useful in zero applications. Or at least something along that line.
By Truthsayer
April 13, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this
Van, thanks. I was just making the point that no matter what we do, the research will go on. Even if we outlaw it completely in the United States, contrary to what some people may say, we do not run, or even try to run, the rest of the world and the research will go on. And as long as people think there may be a market for something and they smell money, they will do it. I am personally opposed to it, but I am also realistic that we as a nation cannot stop it. However, that does not mean that we should pay for it, any more than we paid for the invention and perfection of the telephone, another public good.
By Truthsayer
April 13, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this
By deegee - you miss the point. As long as we conservatives who do believe in self-reliance are having our tax money taken from us forceably, we should have some say in how it is being spent. Drivers ed in PUBLIC schools where most of us must send our children because there is no voucher program as in Ireland, where there are no public schools. Or maybe you believe that we should require all new drivers to take and pass an expensive course as they do in Europe, where the government pays NONE of the cost? I’m not so sure that we can ever really require drivers’ ed, but we should offer it in public schools.
By Boot Strap Kid
April 13, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this
Hey I was writing a List to Impeach and it starts with the most recent lie..
Can you help me finish this list?
Gee thanks..
By jbmlaw
April 13, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this
Dear For the record @ 10:41, I am with Truthsayer @ 11:01. While your economic argument is valid in the first two paragraphs of your post; the Marxism in your penultimate paragraph is pure poppycock. (That may irritate fringe leftists…) Further you confuse economic and political analysis with your comment, “In a republican form of government, the people decide what they consider to be public goods via their elected representatives, who assess taxes to pay for them.” While I recognize the Rawlsian basis for your belief, I reject Rawls philosophically (think of me as a Nozick sort of guy.)
“But the simplistic argument that ‘the free market will take care of it’ is bogus and should be summarily rejected, for all the reasons discussed above.” Too important to be left to the market, only the government can do this? Just as government handles all of our medical research now (forget Sloan Kettering, and Vanderbilt, and Mayo – it’s the CDC that does the really important stuff.) I think our friend Van correctly focuses the issue, this fetal-cell campaign is all about securing corporate welfare for some researchers not competent enough to be hired by corporations. I think Truthsayer’s argument on war-time research is on point – killing is about the only thing the government does really well.
Dear getalife @ 11:31, I partially agree with you: “Lets not repeat this insanity again.”
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this
Andy,
Heh, heh. My, you are a fun one to toy around with. I appreciate your “gentle and witty” insight in (ironically, given this thread) caricaturing my username.
The following comments are not meant to be a means of debate on this particular subject (why bother with someone whose only knowledge of things black is the color of his heart?) Rather, I hope its informative to more openminded folk on the blog (in other words, anyone but Andy).
Sure, there’s a segment of black society that attempts to actively emulate such behavior (versus merely dressing in a fashionable way), but it’s smaller than you surmise. Most shootouts and whatnot frequently involve the same people or groups, which are concentrated in an area for some event (like a gangsta rapper).
But as you don’t actually understand the society (yet still feel like you’re enough of an expert to constantly opine on it), you wouldn’t know that.
Allow me to anticipate your next fallacy-masquerading-as-argument, where you cite the disproportionate representation of black people in jail. Most blacks in prison are there for non-violent crimes (petty drug dealers and thieves).
But I imagine now that Brad and Tammy have discovered meth, the laws regarding nonviolent drug abuse will change to ensure getting caught in possession of or selling won’t dim their chances of getting into Duke.
We’re not a monolithic society, and gangsta culture is not synonymous with black culture. Your belief that it does betrays your appaling lack of insight into black, and human, nature.
Let me guess “Thet’s naught true, Rabidingdon! Some a’ me bestest mates are as dark as a black widow’s arse.”
Wind-d-d-d-d (heh, heh)
By getalife
April 13, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this
Using a different email sytem to conduct WH business is illegal.
Deleting these emails is illegal too.
Its a slam dunk.
By Boot Strap Kid
April 13, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this
Get a Life - Exactamundo.. Feel free to add to the list..
By Van
April 13, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this
Re: Gambling
If the left can’t control it and tax it, it will be illegal.
If the right can’t regulate it, it doesn’t exist.
Enough said.
By Truthsayer
April 13, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this
getalife - get one. And where did you get your law degree and who made you judge, jury and executioner? It is also not illegal, it is probably unethical, but one cannot go to jail just on an ethics charge. If that were so, no Democrats would be left in the United States Congress, either house. I imagine that they will be recovered. This is hardly a cover-up if they have admitted that this is what happened anyway and that they are trying to recover them. If this were a cover up they would have denied that these e-mails had ever even existed.
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this
” believe that God is the giver of life. God creates children, using us as his life-giving vessels. Human life is precious to Him. Even if a human life is created in a petri-dish, through scientists, that creation is still blessed by and loved by God”
So in that case I hope you are picketing all the families that have in-vitro fertilization and implantation and calling them sinners. Because they are knowingly creating life that they know will die. They are implanting multiple embryos knowing most if not all will fail to take. They are creating embryos that are never implanted.
Hypocrisy?
By Van
April 13, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this
getalife ,
Get a gripe.
White House business on the White House email system, other emails on second accounts, some private and some set up by the RNC, same as when Bubba was in the White House.
IT is illegal for staffers to use the White House email system for anything but official business. Certain political activities are not allowed under the Hatch Act on government email accounts, therefore, the “private” email accounts were allowed.
By Watta Load
April 13, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this
Do apologies matter? Ask Don Imus. Yes, his comment was racist. We live, however, in an era where grievance-bearers are poised for the media moment
Sure they are, on both sides of the political spectrum. It’s been that way for a long time and is only going to get worse, so people in the public arena should be smart enough to avoid saying things that will end up ending their employment.
But if the screamers didn’t have a vehicle, i.e., the media..that exploits every dirty angle of an incident, then they would fade away.
Interestingly, this is the same vehicle that allows Mr. Wooten to rant every week. His employer is as bad as anyone about giving the grievance-bearers a voice. But it’s springtime and he’s got a job so why rock the boat?
By Truthsayer
April 13, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this
Joe - you have just hit upon the lynchpin of this dilemma (pardon the mixed metaphores). It is not hypocrisy, though. It is a conundrum. I too believe that God as the creator is responsible, ultimately, for the creation of all life, no matter how it might come about. I do not like the practice of invitro fertilization as I think that it smacks of man playing God and desperation. What is really funny is that anyone who is a pure atheist evolutionist should also oppose it because it is flying in the face of natural selection! Obviously, nature did not mean for someone to reproduce, or he/she would not have fertility problems.
Nevertheless, this does not vitiate the fact that these embryos are human life. What really bothers me is that the practice could lead to “farming” and that is morally repugnant to any right-thinking person.
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
“The last things I saw about this, was the adult cells are being used to treat/cure or help in 82 different applications and embryonic cells have been found to be useful in zero applications”
Gee maybe because the conservatives have hamstrung embryonic research to the point it CAN’T produce results. Of course one area that is completely and totally unfettered is going to appear better.
It’s like tying 200 lbs to Michael Johnson and beating him in a race and insisting that you are “faster”.
For all you “free marketers” make it a fair competition and then see which produces better results.
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this
Joe, I don’t believe in in-vitro fertilization either, but I don’t picket them and call them sinners. We are all sinners, and we will all have to answer for our own sins one day. I too feel that in-vitro fertilization and implantation (and discarding of the leftover frozen embryos) is not right. I believe that some are not meant to have children, and that God knew what he was doing when he made those folks that way. And I believe that messing with God’s plan is just asking for trouble. But again, I am not going to picket them, or call them sinners, for first I must pull the log out of my own eye……
By JK
April 13, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this
Whoa, the braniacs are out today, huh? Haha! If the left can’t control it and tax it, it will be illegal. Riiiiiigggggttt. (I’m gonna google what your Virtue Boy Bill Bennett says about gambling. Haha!) Is that why I can’t grow an indigenous cannibis plant on my own property to take to my friend with a fatal form of cancer, or grow and sell hemp for industrial use? Uh-huh. Sure Sparky. Nanny states are just fine with you when Nanny is a bunch of churchies and campaign-donating pharmaceutical and energy-corp execs. (BTW, love that scientific reference to “something along that line.” So convincing! Haha!)
BTW Barb, honey. Parrot preacher man all you want, but if it were YOUR kid drooling in a wheelchair, your GOD-GIVEN maternal insticts would be screaming for a cure at any cost. Deny it all you want, but that’s the truth.
By getalife
April 13, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this
“Colbert Promotes Donald Rumsfeld for War Czar”.
The Daily show had a very funny bit on the war czar last night.
Rove for email czar.
Geez, what a mess.
By Neo
April 13, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this
Truth, if you dont wear a conundrum when you do the nasty, then you’ll be a creator of life 2.
I’ve heard of people who cant handle a kernel of truth, but you’re the first who panhandles the refried beens of truth.
By Walt Boyle
April 13, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this
What is really funny is that anyone who is a pure atheist evolutionist should also oppose it because it is flying in the face of natural selection! Obviously, nature did not mean for someone to reproduce, or he/she would not have fertility problems.
So how would the concept of treating cancer with chemotherapy fit into that model?
Actually from an evolutionary perspective natural selection has given humans the intellectual capacity to find solutions to our medical problems. This separates us from lower order animals, spiders for example, who have to produce hundreds of progeny in the hope that maybe a dozen will survive.
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this
“What is really funny is that anyone who is a pure atheist evolutionist should also oppose it because it is flying in the face of natural selection!”
Wrong. As someone who is pure atheist evolutionist I also understand that we EVOLVED intelligence and the use of said intelligence allows us 1) to overcome nature and make ourselves superior selectively and 2) have the intelligence to make decisions of morality that supercede the law of the jungle.
It’s actually conservative Social Darwinists that have always co-opted and skewed evolutionary theory to represent what it does not.
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this
JK, you don’t know that, and neither do I. Like I said before, I hope I would have the strength not to scream for a cure at any cost. See, I believe that life on this earth is short, compared to our eternal life, and I know that God does not view our human death as the end, so if my child were drooling in a wheelchair, or facing death, I know that after that period of suffering, the child would be with God, and would have everlasting life with no pain, no suffering, no hate. We all die sooner or later. There is nothing that can save a human life from dying at some point. Compared to eternity, the difference between a 2 year old, or a 12 year old, or a 20 year old, and an 80 year old is really not that significant in the overall scheme of God’s plan for us.
BTW, I like the endearment. Perhaps my conservative charm is starting to get to you?
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this
Joe L, as a Christian, I do believe that science was given to us by God, and that He is proud of us (much like we are proud of our own children) for discovering cures for diseases and overcoming outbreakes, etc. You don’t have to deny science to be a Christian. The part you are leaving out is our free will. God gave us direction and part of that is “Thou shalt not commit murder”. Murder is the taking of innocent life, which includes life that God recognizes “before it was formed in the womb”. While we have the technology to destroy life, we must excercise our free will not to do so, because we are told, through God’s word that it is wrong.
By Pam
April 13, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this
Good idea about using the Coke building for a state museum. I have recently moved to TN and their museum in Nashville is great. Ga needs one too.
By ABS
April 13, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this
Barbara, Why do you think God is a man? Why do you keep referring to God as HE? I’m a Christian just like you, but I refuse to believe that God is some old guy that sits in the clouds on a golden throne…that is just plain silly. I believe that God is supposed to be a mystery to us all and is revealed in many ways….just wondering….
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this
““Thou shalt not commit murder”. Murder is the taking of innocent life, which includes life that God recognizes “before it was formed in the womb”.”
So I guess disposing of sperm is murder then? Because God recognizes life BEFORE it’s formed in the womb? And where did the cells come from that formed that sperm? I guess the cow you ate was a baby! MURDERER!
Look the simple fact is that logic will never work with religion because it’s illogical. All I insist is that you are at least consistent with applying beliefs.
And if you condemn embryonic stem cells and abortion you need to be condemning in-vitro just as loudly. But most of the people that do will gleefully coo when someone they know “finally” gets pregnant through this means.
By Jack
April 13, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this
Define innocent life…
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this
ABS, the reason I refer to God as “He” is because He is our Father in Heaven. Jesus also spoke of God the Father. But to be perfectly honest, I don’t think that God cares whether we call him the Father, or Holy Spirit, or any other respectful title. And I don’t care that he is referred to as a male gender, while I am a female. That just doesn’t bother me.
Joe, cow does not equal human. We can kill and eat anything that God put in our charge. We are the highest life forms, and animals were put here for our food. But God does also command us to take care of them, as well as other things in our care. To whom much is given, much is required.
Back to the embryos, abortions and in-vitros, I do see a slight difference between embryonic stem cell harvesting (murder), abortion (murder), and implanting embryos (messing with God’s plan). A byproduct of messing with God’s plan with in-vitro is the moral delimma of what to do with the frozen embryos once a successful pregnancy occurs. If you discard them, it is murder. Just one more reason not to do it. Again, free will. And I’ll through another one at you too. Giving the control to God. We must do that by not tampering with human life through in-vitro methods. Of all things on earth, human life is the most precious to God.
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this
ABS,
I think people make gendered references to God in an attempt to intimately humanize or personalize something that exists beyond our comprehension. It’s similar to the use of “she” when referring to ships and our countries as mother or fatherlands.
I don’t think any reasonable adult views god as some white-bearded fellow sitting up on Cloud Nine.
I view God as an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent non-linear entity who is Lord and Creator of all things, but instead of running through all that, it’s just quicker to say “He.”
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this
Barbara you are still ignoring that if God knows life “before” the womb than everything that precedes up to that point is life. Or else your point is moot.
So the cow you eat to get the protein to make the sperm and egg is therefore human life.
Consistency in beliefs now.
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this
“A byproduct of messing with God’s plan with in-vitro is the moral delimma of what to do with the frozen embryos once a successful pregnancy occurs”
Oh and it goes beyond that. The process of in-vitro is to simultaneously introduce several (generally 4-6) embroyos. KNOWING that maybe one will implant. So no, just getting in-vitro is knowingly “murdering” in your opinion. The frozen embryos don’t even have to enter the equation.
By your standards in-vitro is the equivalent of abortion and embryonic stem cells. It’s not a different form of sin, it’s the exact same sin.
By Puff Mama
April 13, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this
‘Define innocent life…’
How about a life that can’t sustain or fend for itself? Like those who depend on the government for their very existence and vote straight democrat ticket. Like those that demand that FEMA waste millions on storing perishable goods and trailers for victims of hurricanes before the hurricane hits. ‘Innocent life’ = someone else’s responsibility.
By Boot Strap Kid
April 13, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this
Paul Wolfoshiz gave his bed winch a promotion and pay raise but doesnt understand why he should resign/be fired. I tell you another Bush Boy bites the dust. Indictments, scandals, jail time, big lies, Halliburden you name it - it has been done under this administration..
By getalife
April 13, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this
The war czar is Newt’s idea
Hilarious.
By Truthsayer
April 13, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this
Neo - I could take you a little more seriously if you could spell. I don’t recall insulting anyone or asking to be insulted. So far today we have been able to be quite civil. Please go home, your mamma’s calling.
By rarringt
April 13, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this
Joe L,
In that case, the act of pollenation (another form of reproduction) which also creates life, is directly analogous to “human” life, from your point of view.
Your argument is somewhat of a stretch, Joe. But Barbara’s comment of “messing with God’s plan” is interesting as well.
I believe that a person can interfere and frustrate God’s will to the same extent a drop of water can impact an ocean (although the drop has a better chance).
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 2:27 PM | Link to this
Joe, I give up. You and I aren’t going to agree on this topic. But hey, we found some commonality yesterday, right? Truce? Until next time?
By Boot Strap Kid
April 13, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this
I didnt know God blogged.. Why is everybody so concerned with what someone else does with their body, their eggs, or whatever? If they are going to hell pray for them and you for judging them. I could care less what you do with your life.. I am too busy enjoying mine.. Swing from the rafters, go see a Nascar race, go to a Public Enemy concert, who cares… As long as you dont endanger anyone(especially the kids), do whatever makes you happy.
By Jack
April 13, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
Amen Bootstrap. Life is short, enjoy it while you can.
By REMEMBER THE CHEROKEE?
April 13, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this
Did this state ever apologize to the Cherokee Tribe for the travail suffered on the “Trail of Tears?” I know it was also the sin of Andrew Jackson…but the early white man coveted the Indian’S land…and took it!
Since neither I nor any ancestors I know was involved…I am not offering an apology EITHER!
By deegee
April 13, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this
Thruthsayer, I don’t think I missed the point. A conservative sees a benefit in a service but doesn’t really want to pay for it. The good conservative would rather spend the money on something else. The good conservative lobbies their lawmaker for a taxpayer subsidy for the service and then takes advantage of it. How is that different than the person that gets food stamps when they could afford to buy food if they weren’t spending the money on something else?
I think that if parents had to shell out $600.00 for a drivers ed course then we would have fewer accidents and lives would be saved. I’m sure there are plenty of parents that shell out at least $600.00 a year for their kid’s cell phone.
By The Wootenpoofs
April 13, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this
We are an organization of light-in-our-loafers jelly-spined warbloggers. We warblog because we want to serv(ic)e George Dumbya Bush but are too cowardly for actual military service.
We are tftt, Luckodull, Bi Danish, RW, realisp, @@, poofsprayer (aka truthsayer), jbm, Dusty and the usual cast of LYING WHINING HATE-SPEWING MORONIC GENITALLY AND GENETICALLY CHALLENGED DRUNKEN YELLOW COWARDS.
By getalife
April 13, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this
“LANTOS: The administration’s criticism is particularly pathetic, because two days before we went to Damascus, three Republican colleagues were there, meeting with Assad. We had a distinguished Republican in our delegation. And two days after our delegation, another Republican member of Congress visited with Assad. So if this is not hypocrisy, I don’t know what is.”
It is pure wingnut.
Geez.
By deegee
April 13, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this
And BTW, Truthsayer, I pay plenty of taxes and unfortunately I don’t get any say in where they go. I also don’t understand why people get a deduction for every child they produce. Shouldn’t they have to pay more in taxes since they use up more government services, like schools, police, prisons, halfway-houses, etc?
By Quoterina
April 13, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this
“I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,”and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities.” — Kurt Vonnegut, January, 2003
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this
Barbara - I know we are not going to agree and that’s fine, it wasn’t my point. I merely trying to encourage consistency of position. I find that your position is inconsistent and you apply it differently to justify what you believe or feel.
By Joe L
April 13, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this
“In that case, the act of pollenation (another form of reproduction) which also creates life, is directly analogous to “human” life, from your point of view.”
Actually not from “my” point of view, I was basing that on Barbara’s criteria of when life began (BEFORE conception according to God).
By jm
April 13, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this
well, now we get to see if other CBS owned radio stations refuse to play any songs that make use of derogatory terms. Also, if there new record label (they sold off the old CBS records) refrains from that style of music.
By ABS
April 13, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this
I’m back…had to go see my new boss get sworn in…long, boring ceremony….
I know WHY fundamentalists use HE when they refer to God, it was a joke…it’s still creepy and weird how people translate the Bible so literally.
Have a great weekend!
By deegee
April 13, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this
Imus had little support from the people that worked at CBS and NBC. According to reports, he has had so many complaints over the years that this last stupid mistake was enough to do him in. After the incident occurred, he never really understood that when you dig yourself a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. Every time he opened his mouth he became more defensive.
When the listeners of CBS radio stations decide they don’t like the style of music being played they will either turn it off or protest. The burden is not on CBS to pull the material, the burden is on the victim and the advertisers as it was in Imus’ case.
By Neo
April 13, 2007 5:20 PM | Link to this
Why Imus is gone: He used the string of invectives as one would use the N word. He observed people. He commented about them like it was 1842. He enlisted the battered bard of bigotry to assuage his own inner homeboy with a handy quip that laced the ancient biases to modern epochs of affrontery and he calmly broke the social convenants we had so dearly earned. (Kurt Fornigut, Dec. 1971)
IS there anyone who needs to hear another word from Imus?
By Barbara
April 13, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this
Joe @4:13, I don’t deny that entirely. I am a creature ruled by the heart…… I do like to think I apply what I’ve studied and learned just a little bit, and that it helps me make my good decisions in large part. But I will also follow my “gut feelings” to a certain degree too. Have a great weekend!
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this
Eeeeeeeewwwwww, pig SHRillary, eeeewwwwwwwww
That’s your candidate, (-;
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
Guess what today is:
{{{Rallies to urge action on global warming, Montpelier, Vt. - A group of Middlebury College (Step It Up, or better known as Stick it Up America’s As-s) students looking to draw attention to global warming have sparked a national day of action beyond their wildest expectations: 1,350 actions planned today across all 50 states, including Georgia.}}}
Look Mommy, action!:
{{{While the Midwest Regional News story states that storm’s snow across the lower Midwest states today will not be nearly as heavy as what fell Friday, the storm will be just as potent today as it was Friday in terms of severe weather.}}}
{{{“It’s a cold-core storm, unusual for this time of April in the Northeast. Normally, we’re finished with this sort of thing by the end of March,” Quinn said. “Not only is this a late-season Nor’easter, it’ll be a very significant one at that.”}}}
{{{Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. Windy, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing to between 5 and 10 mph.}}}
It doesn’t even dawn on these idiot socialists that maybe it would be better to hold their “global warming” scare rallies in July?
I wish I could link to this picture in the AJC on page A2 that shows these punk a-ss socialists, unshaven, nasty as-s little Marxists sitting around the table plotting their next attack on the freedom and prosperity of America that they hate so much, but the AJC dare not put it where everyone can see it.
If you have the Urinal look at these pigs and tell me, do they not look like the same scum that “marched” on the Mall in DC against the war? And at the IMF meeting? And at the Republican nomination? If someone has some facial recognition software, it would be an instructive exercise to see if we can’t match up a few of these punks doubling and tripling up on these anti American rallies.
It doesn’t matter to them, “global warming,” DDT, Y2K, capitalism, if this same core group of punk as-s socialists think they can bash America with it, they will be there and the scumbag agenda media will be there too, giving voice to this menial group of wasters.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
Not talking about, not extorting the taxpayers through the media about it, not apologizing for it, Christians simply going straight to the problem, a REAL problem and putting a stop to it:
{{{They’re not the usual people who walk the city’s streets at night. Tonight, people of various faiths plan to take a stand in the dark against child prostitution by doing just that: walking. The event begins at midnight with a worship service and vigil at North Avenue Presbyterian Church, at North Avenue and Peachtree Street in Midtown. The public is invited.}}}
Doing God’s work. If you care, be there.
You libs go break some windows over your FAKE problems, gee, thanks.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
{{{Bushes’ Tax Bill: $186,378 — on $765,801 income…}}}
Which is about $186,378 more than most of you libs paid.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
You libs are going to lose this war in Iraq, just as sure as Al Qaeda is:
{{{{BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament met in an extraordinary session of “defiance” yesterday, the Muslim day of prayer, and declared it would not bow to terrorism.}}}}
Get used to it.
Get out of the way of those giving freedom.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this
Oh WOW what a great time off. Thanks for a third time now for that tax cut Bush! I got away from the liberal neoStalinist slime that infests this city, and didn’t have to hold my nose sliming through that RATs nest known as the al Jazeera Constipation trying to find something interesting other than Bush lied, Halliburton fried, and hippyassed wannabe punk “students” protesting about the horsesnot of man-made global warming (ht WD).
Of course, it’s the samo-samo here. The usual band of liberal neocommunist ID buttbandit suspects from hell.
That reminds me, has anyone in the Bush administration been convicted of outing a CIA covert operative yet? What that’s that liberal girls? Speak U-P, we can’t hear you. no? Ok, just checking.
Now what’s all this fuss about Rove emails disappearing? BFD. The Clintoons taught Washington well apparently. But hey, it’s not like we’re talking about FREAKING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS RELATING TO 9/11 AND AL QAEDA DURING CLINTON YEARS STOLEN FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND DESTROYED BY A RAT NAMED BEREGER NOW, IS IT??? Jackass liberals and their b!tchfest priorities. Filthy gutter RATs.
Now here’s some irony. Apparently after all the histeria after Katrina and all those poor lost souls who sat on their @sses waiting for the gubmint to pluck them off their swamped property and feed and shelter them, FEMA took measures bigtime in 2006. You know, the year 2006? Remember that one? That was the year that all hell was supposed to break loose again in the Atlantic and Caribbean with man-made hurricane aftere man-made massive killer hurricane. At least, that’s what the Gorebots told us ignoramuses.
So, what did our wonderful gubmint-run FEMA do? Spend millions of our tax dollars on warehousing meals for those d******* who don’t know how to get out of the way of a hurricane. Well, guess what? Not ONE hurricane happened last year. Ain’t that a liberal b!tch? We can’t even freaking forecast HURRICANE seasons yet we are supposed to believe that scientist KNOW that mankind is the predominate cause of this whopping global warming average of .8 degrees over the past 100 years?
But back to the meals that were warehoused. It looks like they had to be thrown away due to spoilage.
http://www.sunherald.com/185/story/30456.html
Now isn’t that just like the damned government mentality of waste. FEMA just had to have pre-prepped goods though, because the Bush administration sure didn’t want to be accused of being racist the next time around. Well hell sh!t. Why not just put a freaking National Guard post smack in the middle of the 8th Wardv then?
Side note to WD’s Hitllary pic… she had thunder thighs back then too. Yack.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this
So many dumb@ssed diseased liberal monkeys in the media, so little time. This time, it’s an AB.S. news reporter named Terry Moron… err Moran who is telling us all to not feel too sorry for the falsely charged Duke students. You can read all about it here, and even some hilarious comments. Mine posted yesterday was deleted, and no, there was no cussing other than “jackass.” Nice to know the communists there love free speech too.
Anyway, only a dumb@ssed liberal would say something like “we shouldn’t feel too sorry for the Duke boys because minorities are still treated unfairly in the justice system.” I’ll bet if this SOB had a son falsely accused of something, he’d be crapping his liberal sewage from a different toilet. Effin’ liberal Hitler.
By @@
April 14, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this
How’s it going Jim? The husband was at a poker game just last night. Made it home safe and sound.
His Dad was a big-time poker player. Frequented some hunting (cough) camp deep in the woods. The guy who ran the games made quite a bit of money doing so. Sandwiches, coffee, cots. You even had to pay by the hour, for the chair you sat in.
GeePop (my name for him) would disappear for days at a time. He’d come home and deposit half a year’s salary in the bank after three days of gambling. He also owned the local pool hall. He was such a scoundrel, and I loved him dearly.
My Mother-in-law sent me out to fetch him once after he’d been gone for days. My sister-in-law, his daughter, and I pulled up with the headlights off, rolled down the window, and called his name through a bullhorn.
Grown men scrambling in all directions. You would have thought he’d been mad at me.
Nope, gave me a $100 bill. Said it was the funniest thing he’d ever seen. All his poker buddies running for cover.
Anyway, maybe it’s the “unreported” income that’s got the officials “stirred” up.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this
Highway spotting while on vacation painted on the back of a pickup bed door with Missouri plates…
“In God we trust”
“Not Socialist Democrats!”
“WAKE UP AMERICA!”
The truck was white, and the letters on the first line were red, second line blue, and third line in red again. I’ve got a picture of this posted out there in Google land for you sick stalker liberal demoncats (I fuzzed out the plate numbers, so don’t even think about it, goons). Man I wish someone would re-ignite one of my all time favorite Atlanta websites, TARD. Hmmmm….
Anyway, I followed this guy for about 25 miles just observing other people’s reactions. To my disappointment, no middle fingers were shown. Probably because we were in Florida… where there are a “boatload” of gun owners just like Georgia. Gotta luv it.
By @@
April 14, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this
Getalife:
When you get up, tell me…
Why do you hate Brazilians?
The environmental and social problems created by extensive sugarcane plantations are well known in Brazil. Burning the leaves to make cutting easier pollutes the air and causes health problems, especially respiratory disorders. Sugarcane cutters are subjected to inhuman working conditions, in return for only temporary work at harvest time.
(((A total of 2.6 million vehicles in this country run on alcohol, and their number is rising rapidly. The rest are powered by gasohol, petrol containing 23 percent alcohol.)))
(((Ethanol production, however, has its costs, and is largely associated with heavy concentration of land ownership, deforestation, soil, air and water pollution, and the displacement of small farmers, according to a statement last week by ActionAid, an international NGO.)))
Look what you made them do Getalife…
“Members of the Landless Peasants’ Movement (MST) burned at least 30 tons of unplanted sugarcane this week near the town of Andradinha in western Sao Paulo state, BrazilÕs main ethanol-producing state, Reuters reported April 13. The MST warned that it will “continue the struggle” and invade other farms it says are illegally leasing land to plant suggarcane, which is used to produce ethanol.”
It’s all YOUR FAULT!!!!
Spend some time contemplating “cauliflower”. Maybe you can come up with some way that IT can be useful. (ISH)
By Neo
April 14, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
Wolfawitz proves that there really is a chick for everyone, no matter what.
Rove destroys email evidence. Cyber shredding.
The sunnis in Iraq have infiltrated the green zone like termites. WE may have to fumigate. Iraq Parliament seems determined to perservere. Encouraging!
Iraq war may have turned the corner.
The problem is that al queda and the sunni insurgents are racing toward a WMD. Some intel concedes that 100% within ten years. maybe tomorrow.
Baghdad would be the place to detonate a nuke. The ancient civil war motivates sunnis to destroy the land they covet so that shias cant have it either. Very biblical.
So Bush was right to invade baghdad because he realized that al queda would inevitably obtain a wmd in the immediate future and he had to make sure Saddam Hussein didn’t have the factories to do it. Perhaps they went on shreds of evidence, but were 100% convinced of the inevitability of an al queda nuke and had to act. The architects of “lets finish desert storm” were in Bush’s ear too, and that turned the tide.
It’s 100% certain that Al Queda gets a nuke. But when? The chlorine bombs are evidence that al queda and the sunnis have people working on wmd ideas. Pakistan is a logical nuke broker. Osama spending his days bribing Pakistani officials for nukes?
Bush may go down as our greatest (and most misunderstood) prez. Certainly the economy is helping him. If Iraq starts to shine as a beacon of freedom, as Bush predicted, before the elections, then we may get another republican majority.
The terrorists in Iraq seem only to be able to throw monkey wrenches into the nation building. That’s not enough to stop Iraq from progressing. Israel is the best example of a nation that grew despite constant suicide bombs and IEDs and attacks from every direction.
It does seem probable that Bush will prosper in historical judgements and comparisons. When all the data is known, he may shine like the freedom he prays for in Iraq. Bush-Iraq. Iraq-Bush.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
*”Getalife:
When you get up, tell me…”*
That is way too funny @@. Those liberal poofheard scraggly beard potheads sleep in late.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this
New Joisey RAT governor has horrible SUV crash while on the way to moderate a meeting between Imus and the Rutgers b-ball chicks (is that racist?).
Wait a min-u-ette. SUV? I thought all these clowns on the left were carbon dating, or making footprints out of carbon molds, or some liberal sheet like that.
Anyway, I’ll just say I hope he heals well. Unlike say, diseased sick liberal demoncats who would have wished for Jeb Bush’s death had he been in a wreck..
By Markus
April 14, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this
‘Sup with the Pope? Everyone knows that Catholics are against war, but now capitalism? Sheesh. Now that gives liberal neoMarxist pseudo-Christian cherry picking demoncats TWO things to preach to we un-Godly Conservatives about.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this
Slimes:
“Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud.”
Ok. I guess that ‘splains why the RATs never took Ohio to serious issue as the sick liberals said Bush stole THAT state from them.
Oh but we’re not done here. No sir:
“Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year. Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show.”
That would mean that most of those CAUGHT have been Democrats for you nipple pierced liberal freaks in Virginia Highlands. Voting with a dead relative’s 1997 utility bill is kinda hard to trace. And we wonder why the limpwrist left doesn’t want voter ID. After all, issuing an ID is racist, even if one has to whip out an ID to cash a socialist security check.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this
@@,
We have that problem too down here.
It rains black ash after they burn the cane and gets on everything.
LSU is working on a solution along with Brazil and Hawaii.
Have you ever drove by a gas refinery?
Nasty.
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this
Markus: A pinko®crat in an SUV crash and he was unbuckled from his seatbelt.
New Jersey’s Seat Belt Law:(NJS 39:3-76.2f) Applies to all passenger vehicles including vans, pickup trucks and SUV’s, that are required to be equipped with seat belts.
It just goes to show you that these libs truly do believe they are above the laws that they force on the rest of us.
Do you really believe that after these socialist punks hobble the United States of America with “global warming” regulation and costs that they will start conserving energy?
Puh-leeeze.
If they are so “concerned” about it, why aren’t they conserving now?
Because it’s a scam, a money maker, al-Gore can’t find no other line of work accept scare mongering and junk science.
We should have elected him president, we could have saved money (sarc/ off.)
Cowards.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this
Old news to most, but I’ve been on vacation. CB.S. & Co. appears to love copying and falsifying things for stories. Now the liberal midgets are caught with their panties down copying from non other than the Wall Street Journal. What, can’t these monkeys on the left pick their own bananas?
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OE1PQ81&show_article=1
And to think jackassed liberal demoncats on this blog call FoxNews “Faux News.” Oh the irony.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this
Another example of the disease of liberalism in this nation: dissing an Afghanistan Navy Seal who died in combat. Apparently a gun is too offensive and scary with violence undertones. What’s next, Washington on a horse with a sword is offensive and scary with violence undertones? Sure, these sickassed demoncat liberals support the troops.
http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_5595985
By Neo
April 14, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
Don Imus will prosper on satellite radio ala Howard Stern.
The guy is worth millions. Pretty Wife!
Dana Carvey on Bill Maher last night was very funny. He can clown with the best of them. He does a dead on Bush face mimic.
Al Sharpton didn’t give an inch last nite on Bill Maher. Very gruff.
Jesse Jackson is just incoherent sometimes. He skips over words when he speaks, or runs them together into something unintelligible.
I’ve been losing weight ever since they recalled all that dog food. I miss my kibbles and bits.
Blogdog
By getalife
April 14, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
We should have elected him president, we could have saved money
I agree but would add lives, reputation, freedoms and everything w has destroyed.
Good for you(GFY) Andy.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this
Bush/Cheney seem to tithe very generously which is evidence of their professed faith, which seems to contradict suspicions about their sincerity over bringing freedom to Iraq.
blogdog (the hound’s tooth of truth)
By Markus
April 14, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this
Tom Delay all upset over Imus firing and now wants to go after Rosie. Sayeth Tom: “If the left takes Imuth, we’ll take Rosie.” With what power TOM? Imus is an old burned out ex-60s hippy liberal who liked to offend everyone which is un-liberal ladylike.
First of all Tom, it is your candyassed self of non-fighting the RAT pack when you were IN POWER for the reason you are OUT of power, along with doing nothing about fellow Republicans acting like liberal demoncats drunk with other people’s stolen wallets. Sit down and shut up. You had your chance and you BLEW IT. Now deal with it.
Can someone explain to me why in the hell the only time Republicans EVER stand up for themselves and FIGHT the demoncats is when they are OUT of power?
By Markus
April 14, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this
Hmmmm…
“When Democrats took control of the Congress in January, they promised it would be a new day. They’d get things done. They even had a checklist. Well, a hundred days after taking control, we’ve checked the checklist.” They have no major legislative accomplishments to mark this anniversary. None of their ‘Six for ‘06’ campaign promises last year have made it to the President’s desk.”
I’ll be damned. AB.S. actually duly noted the RAT pack’s competence in going after the Bushies and incompetence in America’s best interest of legislature. No sh!t.
By @@
April 14, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this
Dang! I just love keeping up with the “paranoid personality” of Hugo Chavez.
U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield, asked about Chavez’s remarks, listed more than two dozen accusations that he said Caracas has leveled against Washington recently.
“Look, I shouldn’t do this, but I’m going to mention that during perhaps the last six months more or less, my government has been accused of (attempting) assassination, invasion, coup d’etat … a campaign for abstention in the elections, a campaign to assure that the international observers offer negative opinions … a campaign of espionage, a transport strike …” Brownfield told reporters.
*The U.S. government “wants to have the best relations possible with the Venezuelan government,” said Brownfield, who was attending a conference on freedom of speech. “We aren’t responsible for all the evils, all the problems in the world. If it were so, 300 million U.S. citizens would never have time to sleep and rest with so many plots.”
Getalife, is that why you sleep so late? Are you receiving “telepathic” messages from Hugo that keep you up all night?
By Markus
April 14, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this
While I never listened to Imus nor did I condone what he said, I find his firing alarming. I’ll bet that’s the only reason Rosie O’Pig is opening that hog sewer in protest of his firing. Of course, Chris Rock can trash white people and it’s funny.
Anyway, it’s always nice to see a Black man who has left the slave plantation run by massa’s Jesse and Al be able to speak his mind about the matter.
http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
By Neo
April 14, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this
Bush has succeeded in putting his peculiar pronounciation of the word nuclear into the lexicon.
Blogdog (the hound’s truth of found truth)
By Markus
April 14, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Awe. All you liberal girls and girlie boys get your lavender flavored tea ready for this one. Don’t forget to grab your cats and snuggle. You’ll need their puff tails after this story.
Apparently a group of gays are riding around in a bus circa-1960s going to mostly Christian colleges to “enlighten” students there about homosexuality.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/10/AR2006031001420.html
Tell ya what gay kids. What you do in your bedroom is your business. I don’t need to hear about it and I DAMN sure don’t need to see it or have my kids taught about it as an acceptable lifestyle. Keep your bus out of my neighborhood, and keep your brokeback mountain out of my DVD collection.
The hell’s going on in this nation? Did a bunch of liberal hippies die in the 1960s and become reincarnated during 1980s births?
By Neo
April 14, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this
The difference between flying first class vs flying coach from atlanta to Italy is six thousand dollars.
Cheney has made the scowl fashionable.
Blogdog (The Hound’s Tooth of Found Truth)
By Neo
April 14, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this
More placentas are blogging today than at any time in our history. Witness the witless today.
Blogdog (the Hound’s Tooth of Found Truth)
By Markus
April 14, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this
PMSNBC’s Keith Olberman (yeah I know, WHO???) has pinko thong in wad over Imus firing and not other talk radio show hosts.
“Where’s the other outrage? Rush Limbaugh calls Barack Obama ‘Halfrican-American.’ Michael Savage says the Voting Rights Act means ‘a chad in every crack house.’ Neal Boortz says Cynthia McKinney looks like a ‘ghetto-slut.’ Why have none from the racist right been protested, boycotted or fired?”
Hey Keith old pal, where’s your outrage over Jesse & Al’s racist comments? Where’s your outrage over Redd Foxx’s racist comments years ago? Where’s your outrage over Chris Rock’s racist comments? Where’s your outrage over the lynched-before-trial Duke boys? Oh never mind, you’re just a dumb@ssed liberal marxist pig with a video camera in front of you. No wonder you are on the bottom with Failair America.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this
Awe. A liberal global warming scaremonger on the muffingtonqueefpost.com didn’t like the way she was treated on a CNBC interview with regards to the bullsnot of man-made global warming. See the queefer queef here, and don’t forget to check out the blog comments. Hilarious.
Blogdog neocommielib: if you don’t like what you read here, go milk a goat.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this
Imus thing has run its course. Back to Anna Nicole.
Valerie Bertinelli is still hot. Sort of. Losing weight will help.
Paris Hilton need not worry.
The sex tape of the Principle and the Teacher should get to the internet soon, and watch out when Howard Stern gets ahold of it.
Blogdog (the houndstooth of sound truth)
Note to readers: Ignore the pest leaking all over the blog today, he’s dogturd, the pinched loaf of lynched oafs. (AKA as the raised leg of rotten eggs)
By Neo
April 14, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this
I’m a conservative probably more to the right than the center. There’s no question tax cuts result in a better economy. There’s no question we cant pay for all the entitlements people want.
People who blog hate under the Republican banner need not apply.
We will get the majority back with dignity and a new respect will be installed into our institutions.
Blogdog, (the Houndstooth of Sound Truth)
Note to readers: Hatespeak is not part of political debate, and the fake dogpoo littering this blog today is the Slur-cur: the snipped afterbirth of the stillborn posterpuppy of obsolete caucus.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this
The enemy within Canada. They like to terrorize Jewish communities. I’d like to see how islamofanatics like this would fare down in some Red state communities while attempting the same thing. They’d last about as long as meat in a lion cage.
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
When liberals are confronted with a real enemy, one that kills Americans and innocent children every day, they flee from it, and hide:
Kerry Urges U.S. to Start Withdrawal From Iraq-WaPo
But when a lib is confronted with a fake enemy, one that even might save lives, they man up, pound their chests in self righteous indignation, throw your tax dollars around, scold everyone except themselves, spew rhetoric, such bravery, such courage:
{{{On this historic day, Americans called on their leaders to act immediately to stop global warming. In all 50 states, at more than 1300 iconic places across the nation, we have united around a common call to action: “Step It Up Congress: Cut Carbon 80% by 2050.” Your move, Congress.}}}
Onward pinko® Coward Hawk
Marching on to war
Fighting “global warming”
Even in the snow
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this
Please define “Hatespeak” Getalife.. err “Neo.” Surely it’s not anything you would DISAGREE with, no?
By Neo
April 14, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this
Pelosi’s been quiet lately. Too quiet.
Something’s up. bush’s radio address today seems to bait the democrats to say something as hollow as their plan for withdrawal.
Vietnam taught the politicians that if you frame war-support in terms of supporting the troops, you cant lose.
No true american would ever answer a poll question framed as a troop support question negatively.
Are Iraqis getting sick of it all finally and starting to take control? Seems so. The news out of Iraq now is all encouraging. The bombs dont stop, but the civilian attitude seems invincible now. What didn’t destroy Iraqi’s hope for freedom only made it stronger.
Bush may be on the cusp of a surge of popularity. There may be parades. Big parades. Joy may return to this great country if we can just hold on.
Blogdog (the Houndstooth of soothing truth)
Note to readers. The pinched loaf of lynched oafs (aka The Slur-Cur), is not part of the new Republican Party. We, as freedom lovers, will never accept rancor such as what’s being blogged today.
The New Republican Party: All are welcome, except the haters. It’s time American Grew UP!!!
Join the New Republican Party. You’ll be glad you did.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this
It is time to grow up.
Global warming, yes but it will not end the world.
Iraq, lost, biggest mistake in our history.
w, worst President ever.
gop the majority, not for a very long time.
The next President has an opportunity to unite Americans and clean up the mess to become a great President.
Grow up and stop blaming the liberals.
Cowards.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this
What do Iraqis want? They want jobs. They want Healthcare. They want a strong national defense. They want a strong free economy with market forces driving down prices. They want low taxes on their income. They want secure borders. They want fair elections and a responsive political process as their country grows.
Blogdog (the Houndstooth of Bound Truth)
Join the New Republican Party. We’re family friendly, user friendly, and friend friendly.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this
Please define “Hatespeak” Getalife.. err “Neo.” Surely it’s not anything you would DISAGREE with, no?
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this
Blogs like Little Green Footballs are next in the crosshairs of sick liberals. Make no mistake about it. The neoStalinists left in this nation is hell bent on destroying oppositional thought just like good little fascist Nazis. They don’t even have the spine to admit it and pretend to be “centrists.”
The LA Slimes apparently never questioned the authenticity of the Iranian propogandists back in February of alleged American involvement in two attacks inside Iran.
LGF’s analysis. Dontcha just know the liberal demoncat media and their lapdog followers just HATE blogs like that.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this
“You are a f—-ing a—hole and a liar. You are a hateful bastard that needs to be tied to a stake and burned alive.”
Just another friendly message from your open-minded local liberal demoncat. Such class those people have. I’ll bet that buttplug liberal is a “student.”
By getalife
April 14, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this
No macaca,
The lgf is rabid but harmless. They are just scared and cower from the evil Muslims. No spine.
The cult leaders like Rush who blame libs for gop failures and brainwashed the ignorant, gullible masses like you need to go.
If Rush told you to drink the kool aid laced with poison because the libs took over, would you do it cult freak?
By GodHatesTrash
April 14, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this
You know, cretins, that Sharpton and Jackson are not on CBS’s or MSNBC’s payrolls. Their supporters give them $$$.
Imus is no longer on CBS’s payroll. Send him your cash if you want. Since his mother was a nappy headed ho (have you seen that hairdo under the cowboy hat?), I’m sure he’ll take it.
By Buy Danish (the real deal)
April 14, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this
Markus,
Neo is clearly not Getalife. He could never fake being for the Iraq War and crediting Bush for it.
Moving on, this story that you linked to included this passage -
Sarah Elgazzar, of the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations, expressed dismay that the accused are Muslims and hoped that fact wouldn’t increase the animosity between the Jewish and Muslim communities in Montreal.
“Religiously speaking, Jews and Muslims should be so close,” she said. “Sure there are differences, and there are problems in other parts of the world, but that doesn’t justify these kinds of attacks
“Most Muslims would never even think of doing something like that; it’s horrible.”
Yeah right. How clueless can you get. Maybe “most Muslims” don’t think like that, but C.A.I.R. certainly does. Apparently Sara doesn’t read the newspaper or know anything about the origins of C.A.I.R.
Maybe she isn’t allowed to because she’s a Muslim woman and the C.A.I.R. employees in her “community” may unofficially follow Sharia law which give women virtually no rights.
This isn’t really about Jew “hating” anyway - this is about anyone who isn’t an Islamist. Nowhere in this story are these terrorists called “terrorists”. Nope, they are “haters”.
People who don’t actively embrace gay marriage are “haters”. Rush is a “hater” because he calls Obama a “Halfrican American”. Anyone who opposes embryo farming is a “hater”. If you don’t believe in Global Warming Hysteria you’re a “hater”. Anyone who disagrees with the radical left is a “hater”. I hate the concept of hate crimes and hate speech.
Gosh, I guess that makes me a “hater”.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this
“The lgf is rabid but harmless.”
Glad to hear it gitmo. And you got thrown off because?
“They are just scared and cower from the evil Muslims. No spine.”
And I’m sure you would have stood there with a spine stopping that screaming 500+ mph Boeing 763 (look it up) hijacked by islamofanatics from slamming into the WTC the first time. Oh wait, Bush blew those buildings up. My bad.
“The cult leaders like Rush who blame libs for gop failures and brainwashed the ignorant, gullible masses like you need to go.”
First, I don’t listen to Rush. I don’t have time. If you can find ONE THING I’ve posted here that RUSH has said, POST IT OR STFU. Second, you are MORE than welcome to make me “need to go.” Anytime.
“If Rush told you to drink the kool aid laced with poison because the libs took over, would you do it cult freak?”
If Gorebot told you iceburgs were melting because you were driving a car and heating your sh!thole would you bike to get groceries and sleep outdoors? Sickassed liberal.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this
No BD.
When you spew hatred to fellow Americans because they are the majority and want w to stop destroying our country is “haters”.
You know, all the name calling you, andy, rw , soda pants, sad as zell, etc….. have spewed on ml’s blog.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this
Define HATRED or STFU pantywaste liberals.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this
Glad to hear it gitmo. And you got thrown off because?
Ask that coward Charles. He banned my IP after Mike Stark punked the lizards and we were laughing at them. One of the funniest threads I have ever blogged.
Would you drink the kool aid if your cult leader Rush told you to , cult freak?
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this
A top MP said on Friday the Tehran parliament would favour talks with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after her controversial visit to Iran’s ally Syria, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Talk about what?
Minimum wage?
The most “ethical” congress in history, hahahahaha?
See who can tell the biggest, most outrageous lie? Doesn’t Mullahhead know he doesn’t stand a chance?
Maybe they’ll discuss the surrender of the United States?
Model a new burqa the dude has<——-!!!!!.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
Neo: Who TF made you the spokesman for Conservatism?
Did I miss something?
Bush is nice.
Need I say more?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this
“Ask that coward Charles. He banned my IP after Mike Stark punked the lizards and we were laughing at them. One of the funniest threads I have ever blogged.”
GFY gitmo. (Good for you). Mike Stark is playing with fire. More “power” to him.
“Would you drink the kool aid if your cult leader Rush told you to , cult freak?”
If Gorebot told you iceburgs were melting because you were driving a car and heating your sh!thole would you bike to get groceries and sleep outdoors, sickassed liberal demoncat from hell?
By getalife
April 14, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this
Define HATRED or STFU pantywaste liberals.
You just did.
If not Rush, who is your cult leader that brainwashed you on the evils of the majority of American people.
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 1:46 PM | Link to this
It this nice enough for you, neo honey?:
FRED THOMPSON TALKS: Scooter Libby ‘innocent’, ‘Regime change’ needed in Iran…
A man out to win my heart.
Apparently he hasn’t gotten the “Conservative” “memo” on being a Coward.
Neither have I.
I guess we could sit back and let the traitor libs f themselves up but that wouldn’t be any fun.
So I poke at them.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this
Thanks for that link Andy.
That is great news.
The Speaker has opened the door to diplomacy.
What a great American leader and hope she becomes President soon after the deleted email scandal.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this
“Define HATRED or STFU pantywaste liberals.”
“You just did.”
Cowardly sick liberals mouth off words they can’t even define. Do you need me to mosey on over to one of YOUR favorite sewer holes like muffingtonqueefpost.com or dailykook to define hatred there, gitmo?
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this
Oops, my 1:23 defined hate well, and naturally, from the diseased left:
“You are a f—-ing a—hole and a liar. You are a hateful bastard that needs to be tied to a stake and burned alive.”
By Markus
April 14, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this
“If not Rush, who is your cult leader that brainwashed you on the evils of the majority of American people.”
Listen to gitmopig acting like an islamofascist pig with a whip on an infidel: THINK LIKE ME OR ELSE!
Sickassed liberals. God how sick.
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this
Is this nice enough for you, neo honey?:
Case Closed- Tax cuts mean growth.- BY FRED THOMPSON Saturday, April 14, 2007 The richest 1% of Americans now pays 35% of all income taxes. The top 10% pay more taxes than the bottom 60%. The reason for this outcome is that, because of lower rates, money is being invested in our economy instead of being sheltered from the taxman. Greater investment has created overall economic strength. Job growth is robust, overcoming trouble in the housing sector; and the personal incomes of Americans at every income level are higher than they’ve ever been.
A man out to win my heart.
He’s got a question for you pinkos®:
Are you really interested in tax rates that benefit the economy and raise revenue—or are you interested in redistributing income for political reasons?
Hahahahahaha, why even ask?
Cowards.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this
Thompson is spewing gop talking points.
This country does need another w and the majority of American people will not vote for another disaster.
He should keep his day job on law and order.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this
Hmmmmm… My response to Getalife didn’t get posted. Let’s try again!
Getaclue,
Am I a hater for calling you that^^^ name?
I guarantee you that I have been called more names than anyone else on this blog or MLs - really vile names too - not innocous names like “Parrot”.
In addition I have people wish me dead, and have had creeps like One Punk (there! I used another “hate” word!) use this blog as a forum for their sick, perverse fantasies about me.
I have never seen you call out a single one of your vile teammates out for “name calling” or internet porn fantasies.
In contrast, RW and I have called fellow “conservatives” out for racist speech against liberal bloggers here.
You area a hypocrite (hate speech!) and a coward (more hate speech!) and a fool (piling on that hate speech!).
GFY.
P.S. Soda Pants was before my time.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this
Well the nuclear business is booming
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this
Yes, one of mine is missing too BD.
But thanks for that hatred.
I rest my case.
Anything else I can help you with?
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this
Check out granny blogging from Baghdad
By Markus
April 14, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this
So, the Nuke business is booming from Iran. WFC? It’s the UN’s and Pelosivich’s problem.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this
Kindly note how our resident schizoid liberal demoncat RAT can’t define “hate” yet spouts the word in every other sentence.
Liberalism - when emotions override one’s a*.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this
We got mangos for nukes in India.
Who made that deal macaca?
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this
schizoid liberal demoncat RAT = hate.
Anything else I can help you with?
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 2:33 PM | Link to this
Getapair,
I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you make up a list of words that are acceptable to use and not considered “hate speech”.
So far today I’ve got:
HATE WORDS:
Hypocrite, Coward, fool,
NOT HATE WORDS:
Wingnut, spew, cult leader, cult freak, evil, macaca, brainwashed, ignorant, gullible, cowards.
Yep, coward is a hateful word if you’re a conservative but is just fine and dandy if you’re a moonbat (oops! more hate speech).
By Markus
April 14, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this
I have some expensive goods made in India craponlife. I don’t see India as wanting to dominate the world with Buddha that those hero taliban islamofascists of yours blew up a statue of in Afghanistan prior to our invasion.
India and mangos. Yeah man, what a freaking threat.
Go smoke another doob idiot.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this
BD,
Do unto others as they do unto you.
Anything else?
By Markus
April 14, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this
Give it up BD. You are dealing with a typical run-of-the-mill hypocritical demoncat liberal who can do no wrong. From this sick individual’s perspective, so long as someone is from the left, “hate” doesn’t exist (think KKK Byrd here). I’m long over the disgusting frothing jowl shenanigans of these mental midgets that represent the left.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this
Well,
w gave India American jobs that made those goods.
Anything else?
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this
Oh no, Cheney tags you Cowards:
Thirty-five years ago, the standard-bearer for the Democrats, of course, was Senator George McGovern, who campaigned on a far-left platform of heavy taxation, a greatly expanded role for government in the daily lives of Americans, and a major retreat from America’s commitments in the Cold War. Senator McGovern was, and is, an honest and a straightforward man. He said what he believed and he told people where he stood. And on Election Day, Senator McGovern lost every state but one, and collected just over 3 percent of the electoral vote. That was the last time the national Democratic Party took a hard left turn. But in 2007, it looks like history is repeating itself. Today, on some of the most critical issues facing the country, the new Democratic majority resembles nothing so much as that old Party of the early 1970s.
That nice enough for you, neo honey?
Cheney must not have gotten the “nice” memo.
Cowards.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this
Cheney not being “nice:”
{{{On the spending side of the ledger, it’s enough, I think, to offer this example: Last month, in response to President Bush’s request for an emergency war supplemental, the House and Senate tacked on billions of dollars to cover items on their wish list — from fighting crickets to spinach subsidies. Even though it’s still early in the session, when it comes to the appetite for tax dollars, the new Congress has already earned a place in the big-spending hall of fame.}}}
Cowards.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this
“w gave India American jobs that made those goods. Anything else?”
Yeah gitmo. I don’t see your beloved demoncat UNIONS making rugs by hand.
ANYTHING ELSE?
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this
cheney did not serve.
You are correct Andy,
He is a coward and a liar.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
If I were to follow the golden rule according to the Left, I’d really be using “hate speech”.
Even Democrats like Kristen Powers had to shut her blog down because of the Left Wing “hate speech” and her Wiki profile is constantly being sabotaged by idiot leftists.
You’ll also have to let me know where you’ve heard of conservatives threatening or silencing Leftists on college campuses like this.
Just one example will do. I can come up with hundreds of examples.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this
“w gave India American jobs that made those goods. Anything else?”
Yeah gitmo. I don’t see your beloved demoncat UNIONS making rugs by hand.
ANYTHING ELSE?
OH wait, re-post. India jobs would be due to NAFTA. Now did your wonderboys Clintoon and Kerry sign off on that or NOT gitmo? GOD you are perhaps the DUMBEST @SS I have ever come across anywhere… RAT or not.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this
Yes macaca,
Do you love communist China too?
BD,
Andy at ml’s.
Look it up.
By Sailor
April 14, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this
The only thing Andi or Lady Marquessa ever gave me made by hand was a handj-ob.
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this
Hoping and wishing for America’s defeat:
There’s a very telling poll question, often cited by McCain, that touches on this. Asked in February by Public Opinion Strategies if they “support finishing the job in Iraq, that is, keeping the troops there until the Iraqi government can maintain control and provide security for its people,” the public goes along by 57 percent to 41 percent. A positive note like that is, of course, the last thing Democrats want to hear. A lost war, prolonged by Bush, with American troops still suffering casualties—they think that’s their best issue and their hope for winning the White House and keeping control of Congress in 2008.
Sick, sick sick.
Cowards.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this
“cheney did not serve”
And serving wasn’t important when His Peckership was elected over a WWII hero who “bailed out of a plane and left his fellow fliers to die” according to you sick liberals.
Next.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this
Markus,
Nafta supporters are dead wrong and Perot was right.
See, I bash Dems too when they are dead wrong and destroy our middle class.
w is trying to take Nafta to a whole new level. He wants to end our soverienty and to me it does not get any worse than that.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 3:00 PM | Link to this
Iraq suffered another major catastrophe today, but I dont think the Iraqis want to quit.
Blogdog (the Houndstooth of Sound Truth)
Note to readers: the Synchronized Loaf Pinchers blogging for the right today (BD, Markus) engage only in hate speak, and are not to be read as representing the Republican Side of any debate.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:03 PM | Link to this
I’ve been called a “jizzbag” on this blog and Wooten has been called a “dick.” Nah, that’s not “hate speech” by the disgusting liberal monkeys representing the sick left here.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 3:03 PM | Link to this
Getaclue,
We’re talking about ME right now. What have I said that is “hateful”?
Oh, here’s some more left wing nonsense from intolerant academia - this perfectly describes the mindset of the moonbat bubble:
In the fevered nightmares of these left-wing faculty, the proposed Bush institute, which will function as a thinktank for scholars, will inject neo-conservative contagions into the wider SMU campus. Even geographic proximity threatens these worried professors, who insist that the institute must “not be built on the SMU campus or contiguous with the library and museum.” So infectious are the viral type ideologies that will emanate from the think tank that it must be “geographically separate,” the academics declare, lest they be forced to cross paths with conservatives. Such a calamity might incite mass fainting, hyperventilating, and the need for trauma counselors by the leftist faculty, who prefer to remain in their own hermetically sealed ideological bubble.//So naturally, these professors want to strangle the Bush institute proposal, though the SMU administration has stressed that the institute and library are inseparable. Rather than acknowledge their own lack of intellectual interest in alternative ideologies, the professors allege that the thinktank will impose a police-state conformity, much as they imagine the Bush Administration’s Justice Department has upon the nation.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this
The attacks in Iraq are intensifying and will get much worse.
Escalating more troops into this situation is bigger mistake than occupying their country.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this
NEO,
Name ONE thing that I have said that qualifies as “hate speech” in your, oh so delicate bubble world.
I’m running out, but I’ll check in later…
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this
Gitmo, if you don’t like the results NAFTA, then start your own damned company from the ground up and hire union or non-union people to your liking. Just don’t be a fascist telling others how to run theirs. It’s not YOUR company any more than those profits are YOUR money, neoMarxist liberal. Oh yeah, and give the middle finger to those Toyota, Nissan, Mercedes, and BMW autoworkers here in America when you’re finished.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this
Quiet wrong, Getalife. If we dont open up free trade and no restrictions on access to and from Mexico, we’ll be costing our future economy trillions in expansive growth.
A prosperous Mexico beats a two hundred foot tall wall that stretches from the Texas border to the Baja.
Free markets will work without hatespeak inspired restrictions.
Free markets always work, no matter how much haters try to lie about it.
The New Republican Party: haters need not apply.
Dont be hatin’
Blogdog (the Houndstooth of Found Truth)
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
Before I go -
Getaclue,
If Al Qaeda thought that our entire country was determined to kick their suicidal/homicidal butts they would give up and go home.
You, Madame Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy et al give them so much HOPE they kill more and more innocents in the HOPE that Americans lose their will and leave them with the caliphate jewel of Iraq.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
Already have macaca.
I am retired.
You should heed your own advice truck driver.
Geez.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
Imagine a super Mexico bustling with entrepreneurs and middle class workers. They’ll be reverse immigration then.
Blogdog, (The Houndstooth of Pound Truth)
Note to hatespeakers: Grow up, we Republicans dont need your hatespeak.
The New Republican Party: We love to talk about the bright future we all can share, but not 4 the haters, who need 2 shave their pair.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this
Good luck on obtaining that definition of “hate speech” here BD. It’s always easy to run a mouth without backing it up.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this
BD,
That is as load of crap.
You know I was against occupying Iraq when w cut and run from OBL in Tora Bora.
They are in Pakistan, planning their next attack.
Neo’s corporate utopia free markets make it easier for them to cross the Mexican border in Mexican trucks.
Our intelligence has warned us it is coming just like 9/11.
It is insane.
By WootenDull
April 14, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this
{{{Democratic leaders, furious over President Bush’s recess appointment of millionaire St. Louis businessman and Republican contributor Sam Fox, are contemplating keeping the Senate in session most of August to stop the president from again circumventing the confirmation process.-Robert Novak}}}
Come on.
Who does Novak think we are, pinkos®?
Everybody knows you’ll be lucky if a lib puts in more than three hours a week, where are they now, huh, huh?
Bush could appoint Rove to the Supreme Court, overturn Roe V Wade and save the lives of half a million unborn babies before the libs come back off vacation.
Jeez.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this
“The New Republican Party: We love to talk about the bright future we all can share, but not 4 the haters, who need 2 shave their pair.”
Isn’t it funny how only (closet) liberals constantly use sexual innuendos here?
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:20 PM | Link to this
Has anyone heard Pelosivich’s plan for getting Osama?
Anyone?
Anybody?
Hello?
Echo.
Echo.
Echo.
Echo.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this
Iraqis are very much becoming like Americans. We are rubbing off on them. They want their country to be another USA. We shall destroy the haters there, and silence the haters here. (4 they are all queers).
Blogdog (the houndstooth of mounded truth)
Note to the hatespeak twins: Dont think for one minute that any Republican respects anything you’ve blogged today. You’re a dangerous distraction from the serious issues our country needs to solve. You’re not welcome.
The New Republican Party. Join us today. We need your help. Haters need not apply.
Blogdog (the Houndstooth of Rounded Truth)
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this
Rosie O’Pig: “Don’t be afraid of terrorists.”
Gitmo: “You are afraid of terrorists.”
Words of the true wise in this nation.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this
Has anyone in the Bush administration been convicted of outing a CIA covert operative yet? What that’s that liberal girls? Speak U-P, we can’t hear you. no? Ok, just checking.
Thanks.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this
Yes I have macaca.
Have you ever heard of C-Span or researching on the internet.
You are not too bright are you?
Geez, no wonder you drive a truck.
Politics is not your thing man.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this
So what is it Gitmo? Let’s hear Pelosivich & Company’s plan for getting Osama.
Break it down for us girl.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this
Actually gitmo, I do drive a truck. How’d you guess stalker? I use it all the time to haul stuff from Lowes (F Home Depot). I also drive a couple of cars. And all this time I had no idea you were a clairvoyant. Any other liberal circus sideshow tricks up your panties?
By getalife
April 14, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this
Look do yourself a favor and research before you spew.
Then you will stop asking stupid questions and looking like a fool.
BTW, I am a man punk.
Watch your mouth.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this
There is evidence that like all cults, the GOP, communicates to its base in code words designed to assuage the base and dupe the rest of us. The attack on Social Security was of this form. So, too, the war of aggression in Iraq. There is only one reason a political party would want to communicate with its membership using “code words”: it wants to hide its real agenda. It wants to keep non-members in the dark. That the GOP has eschewed good English for propaganda and “code words” is a dead give away: the GOP is not a political party. It’s a kooky cult.
I rest my case.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this
If you can’t back up what you state on this blog gitmo, then you are credit worthless. The tuff tiddie of reality sucks for you jackasses on the left, doesn’t it.
My apologies for mistaking you for a woman. You appear just about as PMSy and hysterical and emotional as a liberal woman, so forgive my error. You’re just a PMSy and hysterical and emotional liberal male.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this
You are still a punk cult freak.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this
Neo aka Doom,
Lost your power of light, did you?
Getaclue,
Listen, I’m not going to even bother opening up your “kooky” link that calls our straightforward, open, and completely undisguised platform “code”.
We have not “attacked” Social Security, we have tried to save it from certain doom and (OMG!!!!) allowed those who are forcibly required to contribute to this Ponzi Scheme to keep (OMG!!) 1 percent for themselves to leave to their heirs as they, not Big Brother, see fit.
As for this “code” we supposedly speak in, unlike you Lying Libs, we say what our agenda is and our proud of it. Your side (Hillary comes to mind) try to fool the American people into thinking that you are “mainstream moderates” and not the Marxists you really are.
Hillary (for example) would institute her Socialist policies of redistribution of wealth, socialist medicine, tax hikes, “fairness doctrines” and other nightmarish scenarios the minute she (g-d forbid) took office - unless Congress was able to stop her.
Why are Libs so afraid to say what they believe in?
By @@
April 14, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this
Hey Neo a/k/a Polifore. Still trying to be the “bloghog” I see.
Oops…wait a minute, you went from “chimp” to…I read that wrong…
It’s *BLOGDOG GOTCHA!
Whatever tickles your fancy.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this
@@,
I considered the possibility that NEO is PoliFore, but I settled on Doom - although he could be Polly also.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this
BD,
Lying Libs is code for you are in this “kooky cult”.
Do you really want Hillary to abuse power like w.
Think about that for a second.
By @@
April 14, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this
Danish:
PoliFore blogs under so many different names, who can keep up?
He/she needs to be “nasty” and he/she needs to be heard. That’s why he/she’s always wanting everybody else stifled.
I’ve never seen a dog do ^^^ that before. Until PoliFore a/k/a Neo, the FLOGDOG stepped onto the stage.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this
@@, you post some of the most hilarious links ever. No, we never open poor gitmo’s one Godly link of crooks-n-liars bullsnot. I like to keep the liberal RAT trash where it belongs… in the gutter.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this
Getalife @ 4:27,
There is no abuse of power. Just a lot of self-abuse going on by the Left who think that protecting our nation’s national security is a violation of our Constitution.
Your side really needs to get over Watergate. It’s been decades now and you’re still stuck on the same theme - the only difference being there actually was some there there, while now it is nothing but fevered hallucinations.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this
“You are still a punk cult freak.”
Yeah I know gitmo. I don’t think like liberal fascists like you, oh liberal “diversity” preacher. I drink that coolaid as fast as you Gorebot global walarmists, especially after ripping Delay at 11:05am. I’m just a republibot. ‘Nuff said.
By Dusty
April 14, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this
BD and @@,
There is a faint aroma about “true conservative” Neo that reminds me of the methodology of Captain Freedom and RedNeck. And that method is getting a little stale.
Seems all Neo wants is good riddance of “hateful conservatives” while ignoring “hateful liberals”. It is a familiar song and dance routine.
I think getalife must have seen the recent review of Jonestown on TV. He remains “diffi-cult” with all the cult comments.
Have a good weekend. It is going to be cold AGAIN!!
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this
Before the blog closes down, here’s a Final Jeopardy question.
Getalife get’s first dibs at the buzzer:
Who said -
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has divided the Iraqi people, failed to protect the Sunnis and brought the Shia death squads down on the Sunnis by inciting sectarian violence through mass suicide attacks.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq is intentionally targeting members of the Iraqi Army and police forces, who al-Jabouri and other insurgents believe are acting in the best interest of Iraqis.
The goal of the Islamic State of Iraq is to serve as a stepping stone to attack other nations, which endangers the Iraqi people.
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh. Duh duh duh duh duh da duh da duh da…
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 5:16 PM | Link to this
Hi Dusty!
I think that Captain Freedom is Doom, Formerly Doom, Formerly Power of Light or whatever the heck this comic book obsessed loser uses for “inspiration”.
As for the cold, I just hope my trees and bushes don’t get hit by another freeze. They look sorry enough already and need a blooming chance to defeat the new ice age.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this
That’s great BD.
We can leave now.
Drink the Kook aid cult freaks, there is a comet coming.
The comet is a larger Dem majority and total power with a Dem President in 08.
Can you handle it?
The karma will astronomical.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this
One last post!
@@,
Here’s some good news/bad news from Turkey - which happens to have nothing to do with the Kurds but a lot to do with Islamists.
The good news is that Turkey is opposed to these, err, “hater” spreading their Islamist propaganda.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 5:29 PM | Link to this
“Drink the Kook aid cult freaks, there is a comet coming. The comet is a larger Dem majority and total power with a Dem President in 08. Can you handle it? The karma will astronomical.”
Laughable. Just run on a socialist liberal platform and see how far you disgusting RATs get. Oh wait, the dirt on Hitllary being exposed will make swifting sKerry look like a gay pride parade.
Karma? No. Recorded history. And payback.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 5:31 PM | Link to this
Its time to take Obama seriously. He’s on fire and totally gaining momentum every day. He could be the new Roosevelt.
The Republicans will get him in the debates. He’ll have to make some sort of stand about some issue and that’s when we’ll be waiting. He apparently was the only one in the world who didn’t vote for the Iraqi War.
Debates. That’s when we’ll expose him for the empty suit he must be.
If I were Obama, I’d have teams of writers working around the clock at the Kurt Vonnegut level writing every possible angle for every possible issue.
The new Republican Party….We’re just waiting for our chance. It’s coming soon to a poll near you. Be there. Be a part of it.
Blogdog (the canine’s canine of benign behinds)
By Markus
April 14, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this
Has anyone in the Bush administration been convicted of outing a covert CIA operative yet? What? NO? Ok, just checking in.
Thanks.
By Buy Danish
April 14, 2007 5:35 PM | Link to this
Last post retraction!
Getafreakingclue,
Al Qaeda in Iraq is part of Bin Laden’s army, or whoever is running the “show” these days.
The suggestion that we leave is not very bright. The Iraqis need our help, and only a selfish, idiotic liberal would think that our premature departure would either hasten Al Qaeda’s demise or help the Iraqi people find the stability that is necessary for their best interests or ours.
P.S. That comet analogy is a bit weird. Looking for signs from the heavens now? Isn’t that a bit primitive of you?
By Neo
April 14, 2007 5:43 PM | Link to this
The New Republican Party. Haters need not apply.
The total sum of the posting from the regulars who blogged on the “right” today is hate. Hatespeakers are not welcome in the New Republican Party.
We’re Republican. We’re American. We’re patriots, and you better step off if you’re a hater.
BD, @@, and Markus you need to stop the hatespeak. It’s distracting the best efforts of the conservatives on this board. Anyone who casually read your hatespeak today would assume that the Right equals Hate.
You’re simply not welcome, unless you stop hating. Not one of you supports the troops, or our great president. You’re simply hating, and you need to stop. Simple. If neither of you ever posted again, this blog would miss nothing, except hatespeak.
Blogdog (the houndstooth of sound truth).
By Markus
April 14, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this
Just DAMN that man-made global warming. I’ll bet you five clams on creamed milk eventually these sick liberal global warming freakozoids will blame the snow on global warming, just like the sicksters on the left did in the 1970s when global cooling was all the rage. God I’d hate to live a life where my emotions overrode rational and logical thought.
By Neo
April 14, 2007 5:48 PM | Link to this
Hating again, Markus? Try prayer. It’s not true that nothing you ever say could have merit. Prayer has merit. You can pray. I think that’d stop the hatespeak, and you could join us, the New Republican Party. We’re here for everyone except the haters.
Blogdog (the Houndstooth of Found Truth)
By Markus
April 14, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
Gitmo… err “Neo” can’t define “hatespeak” yet clammers on about typical liberal BS cloaking himself as some sort of cape wearing pseudo-Republicon. If there was no better definition of the disease of liberalism, just look at Gitmo’s… err Neo’s posts as of recent. What a sick poser. I can sniff out the disease of liberalism like a bloodhound.
By @@
April 14, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
Well well Getalife, I’ve got exciting news!
We CAN break our dependence on oil. All you have to do is “pee” in a cup?
Scientists are engineering microscopic bugs to extract fuel from a variety of non-corn sources, including the human urinary tract, a Russian fungus and the plant responsible for tequila.
The quest for alternative energy is more complicated than just finding a replacement for petroleum. Scientists and a growing number of biotechnology companies are attempting to remove corn from the ethanol equation because it has created huge demand for the global food staple.
“There is enormous growth potential” for alternative fuels, said McKinsey & Co analyst Jens Riese. “But we need to be smarter than just building the next corn ethanol plant.”
Damn, you might even be a three-fer. The way your thinking has been of late, they’ll probably be finding a Russian fungus and plenty of Tequila up yours.
Sleep with one eye open Getalife. The Democrats are coming…the Democrats are coming. They’re coming with a microscopic bug just for you.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this
Hey Gitmo.. err “Neo,” when you point out the “hate” on your beloved blogs like queefpost or demoncatunderground or dailykook, I’ll listen. Until then, STFU and deal with retaliation. Payback’s a b!tch.
By getalife
April 14, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this
The good news is Turkey has not invaded Iraq yet.
The case on outing Plame is back open with the deleted email scandal.
The hate party reaching out to Thompson is desperate.
The debate on global warming is over, Gore won and is polling higher than Thompson.
Anything else I can help you with?
By Markus
April 14, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this
Oh sure, global warming and Gorebots “won” craponlife. Every day more and more scientists and leaders around the FREAKING WORLD are rejecting that bullsnot.
You sick liberal demoncats from hell aren’t aware that your demise is imminent due to your sick mentality. It’s not my fault you sick cretins on the left are your own worst enemy.
Good riddance.
By @@
April 14, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this
Oh my! Let’s take a look at Syria’s economy. Syria…something between Socialism and Communism.
A report by the International Labor Organization focused on the difficulties underlying the transition of Syrian youth from school to the labor market. The Syrian youth are characterized by a high degree of “lethargy” and a high rate of unemployment, particularly among those with inferior technical education. Those who are employed work long hours for small wages and the incentive for productivity is lacking. Most of those who are fortunate to get employment do so through connections or family relationships while the labor exchange bureaus are neither active nor helpful. The report also noticed the bias against female applicants.
*To keep unemployment figures down, the government keeps redundant civil servants in their assigned positions. By the account of the Minister of Finance Dr. al-Hussein, two million Syrians receive wages and pensions from the state. He estimated that if every wage or pension earner supports four family members, it means that half of the Syrian population lives on a fixed government income. [49] Clearly, such a situation is neither desirable nor sustainable over time.
Now conservatives realize the truth in that last sentence, but the rest of it…it’s a Democrat’s dream, and the Assads in the dem party want to stand and deliver this kind of prosperity to all of America.
One useful tool at a time.
No Thanks!!!!!
By getalife
April 14, 2007 6:04 PM | Link to this
@@,
There are many alternatives.
We do not have to occupy countries for oil.
Alternative energy is the new Internet boon just in time for Bill Clinton’s return to the WH.
The good ole days, when our country was respected and peace and prosperity were the norm.
Can I get an amen?
By Dusty
April 14, 2007 6:05 PM | Link to this
Neo,
Please let me invite you to join our ultra superior group known as the UL (Undercover liberal). We are an outstanding sweet-talking pseudo-religious regimen sometimes referred to in part as the DUH (Democrats Uber Hillary).
Your sincerity is so complete that we are eager for your parsimonious commentary, not to mention your ubiqitous persona. Lollipops for all who join us early. Rush in for a wing and a waggle!! You are perfect for our group of walker, talker, & stalker domain. Happy Obamas to you, you ol’ charmer!! (All love..No hate!)
By Markus
April 14, 2007 6:10 PM | Link to this
Ten hours of blogging about “hate speech” and not one numbnut liberal can put a definition on it. How freaking HARD is that? Liberalism and estrogen don’t mix for a rational thought process.
By Markus
April 14, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this
Has anyone heard Pelosivich & Co’s plan on capturing Osama?
Anyone?
Anybody?
Hello?
Compost?
Slimes?
Constipation?
Hello?
Idiots.
By @@
April 14, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this
Getalife:
The Turks are in already, and it isn’t the first time. It’s been ongoing for some time. It started after the first gulf war. Not standing by your allies can have negative, albeit small consequences.
According to the report, the Turkish army is not planning to conduct large-scale operations in northern Iraq, but rather wants to conduct pinpoint strikes against Iraqi facilities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a separatist militant group composed of Turkish Kurds.
At a time when Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party is positioned to take control of the presidency, the Turkish military establishment must show it retains a considerable degree of power. It is trying to do so by pushing the government on the issue of Kurdish rebels operating in northern Iraq. In exchange for accepting an AK president, the military wants the government to agree to action against the Kurds that indirectly enshrines the armed forces’ position as a paramount player on the Turkish political scene.
The KRG can use Turkey’s aggressive posturing to pressure Washington to ensure the Kirkuk referendum is held on time, in exchange for agreeing to back off from further provoking the Turks. But Turkey, which does not want the referendum to happen for fear the Iraqi Kurds will win control of the strategic city, is moving ahead with the cross-border operations — thereby undermining security in the area in an effort to delay the referendum.
This is all a political game, not unlike the one your tyrannical dems are playing with our troops in Iraq.
Disgusting!
By @@
April 14, 2007 6:42 PM | Link to this
One last post, and then I’ll behave myself.
BD & Getalife:
Some 300,000 protesters reportedly turned out April 14 in Ankara, Turkey, to demonstrate against the religious leanings of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The protesters support a secular Turkish government and oppose Erdogan’s candidacy in the upcoming presidential election. Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party has roots in political Islam.
I’m outta here. Batten down the hatches all.