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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s free-for-all Friday. Pick a topic:
• One sentence in a story “Mortgage shakeout squeezes families” explains how far we, journalists, reach to find “victims.” The victims are a Southern California couple wishing to move from a two-bedroom apartment. The sentence: “But because their timing coincided with a shakeout in the mortgage market earlier this year, their credit now isn’t good enough to get a loan to purchase the house they wanted with no money down.” In other words, their bad credit keeps them from getting a 100 percent loan for the “house they wanted” just now.
• When officers assigned to police the cops submit phony reports to justify taking autos home — four internal affairs officers filed identical reports justifying need — it’s hard to have confidence in the Atlanta Police Department’s culture. Or when the police chief’s meticulous records are to make certain he doesn’t give taxpayers a minute more of his time than they are billed for.
• When my band of right-wingers take over, women who weigh more than Rosie O’Donnell will not be allowed to wear miniskirts outside the bedroom. Some things should not be seen in public.
• An Atlanta police spokesman explains why robbers target barbershops. They see them as “cash cows” and easy pickings, said spokesman James Polite. Maybe I was wrong to think that working people wouldn’t vote for a presidential candidate (John Edwards) who spent $400 for a haircut. I have obviously spent my life in the wrong barbershops, nary a one of which would be thought to herd “cash cows.”
• There are some crimes for which parole should not be allowed. Murdering six people, as Carter Arnold Jr. and his partner did, is one of them. After serving 37 years, he’s due to be released next week.
• It’s reported by the Associated Press as a “triumph for the pharmaceutical industry” but it might just as easily been reported as a “triumph for consumer protection.” By a 49-40 vote, the U.S. Senate required the feds to certify the safety of prescription drugs imported in Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan and New Zealand. Imported drugs can be cheaper, hence the “triumph for the pharmaceutical industry” slant. Yet, as noted by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), both Republican and Democratic administrations have declined to certify safety.
• Of course, if we want really cheap drugs, we can always follow the example of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who effectively seized Merck & Co.’s patent for the AIDS drug efavirenz and announced plans for an inexpensive generic version. Merck had offered the drug at a 30 percent discount. We could, as Hugo Chavez is doing in Venezuela, nationalize everything we see. Oil first and now he threatens banks and steel.
• One marvelous feature of the Senate drug bill, which passed 93-1, is to double the number of FDA researchers studying drug side effects. Another is to create a computerized network to scan insurance and pharmacy records for indicators of problems with new drugs. House action awaits.
• Hint to all: Jane Fonda’s getting a bit over-exposed. I’d put her mug in the panda file. With Ralph, the whale shark.
• Having used the line-item veto to kill the $142 million tax rebate, thus drawing the ire of fiscal conservatives, Gov. Sonny Perdue should now veto everything that oinks. If he starts singling out House bills or House pork for veto, there’ll be lasting consequence, one of which is that somebody from outside the Gold Dome will be the next governor. The Big Three will chew themselves up. I’d bet on U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, if he wants to come home in 2010, or U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, the likely favorite of fiscal conservatives.
• Somebody’s still counting sports teams, in baseball anyway, by skin color. Jesse Jackson’s crew. Atlanta Braves. I’d relate more, but it’s simply too boring.
• The president trusts an aide to tote the code to launch nuclear missiles, but the queen totes her own pocketbook. The precaution was not necessary. When we accuse Washington politicians of pilfering the public purse, we are speaking of pork, not the queen’s pocketbook.
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By jbmlaw
May 11, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. A story about “Mortgage shakeout squeezes families” tells me less about journalistic motivations – the victim seeker – than about journalistic competence; 100% mortgage loans would be exceptional under any economic theory, and that a journalist would present that as “normal” says much.
Cops taking home police cars – why is a report necessary? That seems like a good idea to me regardless, but why are we wasting their time requiring documentation? Would that effort not be better spent on the street? The value offered by the police does not derive from the reports they write.
Funny article in today’s WSJ on the Canadian drugs – http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrasselpw/?id=110010064
I suppose I should be embarrassed to go on record opposed to the 93-1 Senate vote, but anything that doubles any number of regulators strikes me as an “always-bad” idea. FDA regulations every year kill more people – due to delay in introduction of good drugs - than bad drugs.
Jesse will have more credibility with me when he addresses the shortage of white guys in the NBA. Obviously invidious racism, keeping them down.
By catlady
May 11, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this
Well, I agree with Mr. Wooten on another issue! Using the California couple to illustrate the sad fallout from the sub-prime lending debacle is ludicrous, as was, earlier, using the family of 5, soon to be 6, whose dad had quit his job, from northwest Georgia to argue for support for Peachcare. You make your bed and then you lie in it. If support for something is needed, the AJC should find someone who is suffering from no fault of their own. These folks are out there; however, many of us suffer because of something we did and then want someone else to pay the freight. Sometimes I wonder if the AJC is just putting us on about being liberal-leaning. I mean, do the editors have tongue-in-cheek about some of the examples they use?
My impression, Mr. Wooten, re: barber shops is that nowdays they frequently offer a whole lot more than haircuts. Some of what they offer is legal…..
By Jack
May 11, 2007 8:16 AM | Link to this
Carter Arnold Jr should have been removed from the gene pool 37 years ago. I agree with you about Hanoi Jane although many other words can be said about her but they wouldn’t print them. Rev. Jesse & Al should be ignored by all.
By catlady
May 11, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this
BTW, the queen keeps no money or credit cards in her purse. There are probably only tissues for the royal nose, maybe an extra set of gloves, and some hand sanitizer.
By Dave
May 11, 2007 8:28 AM | Link to this
The media reflects the self hatred of the liberal establishment. They cannot take over until they divide us and beat us down. Any sane person would see thier propaganda as what it is. But if you repeat the same garbage in a voice of unison, people might just believe the lies.
By ron
May 11, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this
Wooten, Stop and think for a moment;banning mini-skirts for people heavier than Rosie still leaves Rosie running around in one.Now a Christian Conservative such as yourself probably would be titilated by the sight of a well turned ankle,and you probably get a rise out of the word titilate.Leave the girls alone,my old eyes can handle the strain.
By SB
May 11, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this
Since it’s free-for-all Friday…
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, believes he has “weathered the storm.” He was caught in the midst of a massive scandal he still can’t explain, his Justice Department is divided and dysfunctional, and he’s lost the trust of pretty much everyone who has objectively considered the facts, but Bush is satisfied — so Gonzales is “confident” that he’s going to stay right where he is.
The embattled AG is assuming the scandal isn’t going to get worse. He’s mistaken. The scandal will not only grow more intense, but criminal charges are likely.
However, despite all the evidence, and all the opposition, House Republicans have decided to try a new strategy — offer Gonzales their full-throated support. Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee today will demand an end to what one called an “endless piscine expedition” in the purge scandal. The degree of shameless hackery is almost impressive. These guys wait until new evidence emerges of wrongdoing and then they announce that the investigation should come to an abrupt halt.
So much for the law and order party…
By Redneck Convert
May 11, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this
Well, I’m with Wooten on these fat women in miniskirts. A few weeks ago the missus put one on. She looked like a barrel of salt pork stacked on a couple sacks of potatos. I told her to get rid of it. She’s had a about dozen trips too many to Ryans to wear one of those things. Anyway, I was able to come back to the trailer in a day or so without getting whacked on the head by a frying pan. Them fat women sure got bad tempers.
That California pair sure got a nerve. Wanting to buy a house with bad credit. The houses out there are out of sight anyway. I told the missus the other day we could move the trailer out there and maybe get 200,000 for it. It’s what happens when libruls take over. And libruls always bring along Those People, and pretty soon there goes the neyborhood. You get thugs and people living in 200,000 trailers. And lots of librul boondoggles.
That Edwards guy got more hair than brains. Paying that much for a haircut. I still go up to Joe Bill’s place to get my hair cut. Twicet a year weather I need it or not. If you got a Catapillar or John Deere cap, nobody is going to know weather your hair has been cut.
Anyway, Wooten don’t have to worry about the next governor. Us rednecks will elect a real conservative. One that will hate the bums and Those People and know how to say it without coming right out and saying it. Like Sonny. That’s the way it works in GA. Even I had to give up the N word, but it don’t mean I don’t hate Those People just as much. And libruls too.
Well, I got a heavy load to stock the bars and stores so the Baptists can whoop it up this weekend. It being mothers day and all. Pretty soon Markus will be back from his truck run and then nobody will be able to get on here for all the cussing. I will be back on Monday.
By JohnD
May 11, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this
Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil industry and Hillary Clinton proposes a “Windfall Profits Tax” that amounts to the same thing - just take the money but leave the business in private hands. Can anyone say “Socialist/Communist”?
Aim some of the righteous indignation toward the natural gas providers here in Georgia. All deregulation did was add an unnecessary tier or two of costs to fatten the wallets at Southern Company. The Public Service Commission should be renamed the Utilities Service Commission.
Actually Jesse Jackson is not using “skin color” but whether the teams have enough “African-Americans” as opposed to “African-Dominicans” or “African-anything Caribbean”.
When will Jesse notice that the Braves have a number of native Georgians but none of them are dark skinned? The next Jackson campaign will be to have all 50 states represented by an “African-American” on each team in baseball. Roster limits will have to be raised from 25 to 75 to satisfy the great shakedown artist.
Of course, any team can be excluded from Jesse’s attacks by making a “small”, say $250,000 to $500,000, contribution to Rainbow/Push.
By WhatSayYouMr.Wooten?
May 11, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this
I find it ironic that the AJC, proclaimed by Mr. Wooten as a watchdog, blathers on about Pennington’s alledged quotas, but says nothing about Atlanta Schools Supt. Beverly Hall’s openly admitted testing quotas that have lead to rampant cheating. Ask reporter Paul Donsky about this, and then explain why he wasn’t allowed to do a follow up report.
Very selective watchdog, so it seems.
By getalife
May 11, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this
Told ya this occupation is almost over
While they are playing political games here, the Iraqis are saying to get the f******* out, GTFO, if you will.
Great news!
By Dennis
May 11, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this
By JohnD May 11, 2007 8:52 AM “Aim some of the righteous indignation toward the natural gas providers here in Georgia. All deregulation did was add an unnecessary tier or two of costs to fatten the wallets at Southern Company. The Public Service Commission should be renamed the Utilities Service Commission.”
Well said.
In their twisted way of thinking(?) their are those who would “privatize everything”, expecting, of course, that they and their families will always and forever, be the ones to reap the benefits of such a construction. They hope.
But life has a way of sometimes reversing fortunes, and those on top suddenly hit bottom. And they will reap what they have sewed from deregulation.
“Corporations love the ‘free market’, but they hate competition.”
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Dusty
May 11, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this
Jim Wooten,
I can’t help but wonder about the “triumph of the pharmaceutical industry” and checking the safety of drugs made in foreign countries.
How could the US say such drugs are safe unless they visit and monitor drug manufacturers all over the world? Would they test one dose of a foreign drug and say it is OK?
I understand the prohibitive cost of some medicines but I’m not sure that “cheaper” is the best plan in this case.
We have seen what happened at the lower level of imported pet food ingredients that killed many animals. That was the direct result of an untested and imported product. Foreign medicines are most certainly produced in better manufacturing plants but I am not sure how we could say their products are safe.
By Kelley
May 11, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this
Why the big deal about the Queen’s purse? Ladies of fashion ALWAYS carry a purse.
By Charles
May 11, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this
Somebody’s still counting sports teams, in baseball anyway, by skin color. Jesse Jackson’s crew. Atlanta Braves. I’d relate more, but it’s simply too boring, said Jim Wooten.
We had a group discussion concerning this very issue. The vast majority of people in my circle are just dumbfounded. What can you say?
Larry, a confidant of twenty five years, mentioned how the lower class Negroes has more honor and decency than the so called Negro bourgeois, middle class and the elite. What would be the outcome if the middle class Negroes and the elite in America were being replaced by Mexicans like the lower class Negroes, he asked?
The consensus among us was that Jews and liberal white people could not possibility take the whining, crawling, crying, begging, sad looking faces, hunching, low crawling, pleading, praying, bootlicking, bootlicking, and the buck dancing. Jews and liberal white people would have to relent. They would be struck by pity at the site of people having no regard for their humanity in the face of their ancestors, children, man, and God.
If owners and managers of professional sports teams do not want the service of American Negroes, so be it. We should be creative enough to turn toward each other and exploit our own talents. We would feel better about ourselves. There would see less fibroid tumors and heart attacks in our community.
Here in lies the problem. The elite and middle class Negroes can’t see themselves apart from white people. They call that racism too. This is a classic example of slaves that can’t be free because they love their chains.
By H. T.
May 11, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this
Racism is indeed alive and well, and beats every day in the heart of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Without it they have NO power - or influence, and hence their large paydays - aka extortion - puts them in the soup line. I wonder how those $1500 suits will play to the soup line attendees? As one other alluded to, I’ll get excited about the number of black players on a baseball team when some other “civil rights’ fraud” gets excited about the lack of white players in the NBA. The term is known as Bovine Scatology, and it is practiced by Jesse and Al daily.
By deegee
May 11, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this
If fat women can no longer wear miniskirts then old guys with long, grey chest hair shouldn’t be able to wear v-necks. Yccchh
By James (P.E.)
May 11, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
Lack of African-Americans in baseball is not due to racism, Jesse..I don’t know if Al is a part of this. It is due to the fact that talented African-Americans do not stay with the sport at the high school level. They are pushed by parents, coaches, and peer pressure to play the glamour sports: Football, basketball, and track. Baseball teams draft numerous African-Americans yearly, they just end up playing football instead. Hell, Michael Vick was drafted by a baseball team and he only played in high school.
Talented white kids in basketball..that’s a different story. We are just not that good..so stop comparing the lack of us in the NBA to the lack of black-americans in the MLB. There are scores of white guys playing college basketball..most ride the pine on the better teams.
By Dusty
May 11, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
Charles @9:56
Dear child, the war is over and so is Reconstruction. About a hundred years ago. The only thing I care about with the Braves is whether they can hit that ball and I don’t care who hits ‘em.
I love to see the Jones “brothers” bat. You can usually count on something good. Renteria could catch a hightech butterfly if necessary. And Francoeur is full of sunshine and hits.
Stop the “preaching”, Charles. Relax and enjoy the game.
Just “Try it. You’ll like it.”
By jm
May 11, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten - just because someone’s credit is not “good enough” to purchase a house with 0 down does not mean it is bad credit. The couple in question may have just been trying to buy a house that was outside of their means (of course in southern California, that might be a tar paper shack).
Maybe Sonny Perdue can practice some of that personal responsibility you preach and use that $142 million to help fight the fires in south Georgia or fund peachcare, rather than going to Washington D.C. hat in hand.
BTW, thanks for the mental Rosie O’Donnell image, I really did not need that to start the day.
By GodHatesTrash
May 11, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this
Wooten, you are one ugly mofo to cast aspersions on anyone else’s looks.
Shave your arse and walk backwards - can’t be any worse.
Trash.
By Charles
May 11, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this
Dusty,
Your comment should be directed to “Jesse Jackson’s crew”. It doesn’t apply to me in any way.
I love to see the Jones “brothers” bat. You can usually count on something good. Renteria could catch a hightech butterfly if necessary. And Francoeur is full of sunshine and hits.
Your comment should be directed to people who have a different opinion than we do.
By Charles
May 11, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this
I must those damn educators!
By JK
May 11, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this
I understand the prohibitive cost of some medicines but I’m not sure that “cheaper” is the best plan in this case.
Spoken like someone who has not battled breast cancer, Dusty, like a good friend of mine. The drugs are quite costly, and insurance (as much as you pay for THAT) doesn’t cover as much as you think. The difference between American prices and Candadian prices for the exact same course of treatment could be $10 thousand or more. But then, that’s probably not a hardship for YOU, so who cares, right? (I guess the news isn’t reporting about all those Canadians dropping dead from their socialized affordable drugs…)
BTW, is Mr. Wooten’s rude, shallow, sexist comment o’ the day even worth mentioning? Yeah, I’ll bet he’s pretty as a picture in his plaid shorts and black socks…. Pppbbbbblllllppppbbbbtttt!!!
By Charles
May 11, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this
Let me try it again. It must be those damn educators.
By WTF
May 11, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this
Jane Fonda is “over exposed” because she held an event to raise money for a charity? I’m sure the beneficiaries of her good deeds would disagree with you.
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this
Sigh. Baseball. America’s Game. The only game in history that has to wake up its fans, (7th inning stretch) in the middle of a game because it’s so boring everyone has fallen asleep. Without beer, baseball would’ve died years ago!!!
What’s so great about a “no hitter” if no one hit the ball!?! Gawd!!
By Michelle
May 11, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this
“When my band of right-wingers take over, women who weigh more than Rosie O’Donnell will not be allowed to wear miniskirts outside the bedroom. Some things should not be seen in public.”
How about fat men with hairy backs wearing shorts and tank tops in public? Does anyone really need to see that either?
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this
Only men who look like Brad Pitt, (before the haircut), Tyson Beckford and Oscar Dela Hottie; should ever be seen in public. All others need to stay home until nightfall.
By rarringt
May 11, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this
Good morning all,
Charles, I don’t mean this maliciously so please forgive me, but I have no idea what you were talking about. Lower and middle class “Negroes” being replaced by Mexicans? Er?
Are you personally familiar with any minorities? Are you still liking in the 1950s? What do you mean with the “hunching, bootlicking and buck dancing” remark?
Perhaps you’re more than a bit confused. Perhaps you’re just ignorant and racist. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a free country, and you have every right to be a bigot.
But whatever you are, please be clear and comprehensible.
By Jaynicia
May 11, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this
Jesse, it’s not about the Braves having a lack of black players - nobody in their right minds wants to play for the Braves…LOL
By ckt
May 11, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this
“When my band of right-wingers take over…”
Jesus. Who’s been in charge the last 6 years??? It gets worse than this??? And in what world, because all the polls I see show your “team” losing ground.
By Robert
May 11, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this
Who is Paul Donkey and why would anybody but his mama care?
By Richard
May 11, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this
To your point, “When my band of right-wingers take over, women who weigh more than Rosie O’Donnell will not be allowed to wear miniskirts outside the bedroom. Some things should not be seen in public,” it would only seem fair to please please please ensure the traditionally overweight white man conservatives also ban their rotund selves from being seen in public in anything smaller than a suit coat or a tent. LOOK IN THE MIRROR…what’s good for the goose is good for the gander!
By Charles
May 11, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this
rarringt,
Lower class Negroes are being replaced in the workforce by Mexicans. (Er) Maybe you understand it as Negroes don’t want the jobs Mexicans takes. (Er)Let me refer you to Dr. Monteith, radioliberty.com. He is an expert with people suffering from illusion and delusion.
Are you telling me that you don’t know what a bootlicking, bootlicking, buck dancing, bamboozled, some half baked and half fried, punkified, sissified, pasteurized, homogenized, N**** is? You have not heard of it? My God!
By J
May 11, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this
Wooten, why are you demeaning women? Are you another Imus, another hip-hopper such that you think it is your God-given right as an “alpha”-male to publicly mock women based on what they wear? Perhaps you and all men like you should go back to the Neanderthal cave you came from and leave fashion to the rest of us.
By JohnD
May 11, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this
Dusty,
The drugs are not made in Canada or any other foreign country. The drugs are manufactured in the US and shipped to these countries. The drugs are cheaper because Canada and the others impose price controls.
Before I realized Lipitor is just a scam, I took the drug for a couple of years. I first purchased at local drug stores and then by Internet in Canada. The Lipitor came in the same sealed bottle from Canada as from the drug stores in the US but at 60% of the US price. There was a Canada Drug label attached directly over the label you would see in the US.
Unless Merck and the others are maintaining two different manufacturing processes there is no need to double the number of regulators to insure quality.
By Dusty
May 11, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this
DebbieDoRight@ 10:52,
Now that does it!!! We shall now make you watch those sluggards, the Washington Nationals, while our stunning Braves dazzle the world.
Hmpph! May your beer be warm and the rain drizzle coldly upon you at any game except those of the bodacious Braves..
By jbmlaw
May 11, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this
Dear Debbie @ 10:52, baseball is art. I know not everybody “gets” art – the graphic arts and jazz are totally wasted on me. But Smoltz v Maddux Wednesday is as good as it can be, especially after those masterful performances by the up-and-comers Tuesday. Even Randy’s perfect game was to be admired. I would have given anything to see Bob Hendley’s one-hitter on September 9, 1965, surely one of the three or four best games ever played.
Dear JK @ 10:46, what’s wrong with plaid shorts and black socks? My sandals are clean!
Classy essay from Peggy Noonan: analysis of a striking week in Western Europe – Ireland, France, and Great Britain. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010058
Amusing “French” essay from Chairman Ann: http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
By rarringt
May 11, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this
Charles,
Glad you’re listening to a specialist on delusion. Perhaps it’ll be therapeutic for you, because you clearly haven’t got a clue.
However, you make a convenient replacement for TFTT and Markus. They’re also as long-winded as they are close-minded, which, in terms of intelligent discourse is like shooting fish in a barrel, but kinda fun anyway.
Jim, good news! Looks like you’ve reeled another one in (I’m stuck on fish references today).
I’m sure that, like TFTT, just under the racist, ignorant surface of Charles’ world view is a taut layer of True Conservative Ideology just waiting to bubble to the surface….
By JohnD
May 11, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this
Charles @ 11:22,
In Miami in the early 80’s there was a riot in the Liberty City section that was rooted in the loss of jobs in the Black community to Cubans.
The contractors there indicated that hiring the Cubans meant the contractor did not have to provide breakfast before work, did not have to provide lunch and received 8 hours of work for 8 hours of pay. The pay scale was not nearly as important as the work ethic.
I hear the same complaints from contractors in Atlanta now regrading the difference between hiring Latinos and Blacks.
No one is stealing the jobs from Blacks, the Blacks appear unwilling to give the effort of the Latinos.
I also do not know what you are talking about when you go into that bootlicking rant. Can you explain?
By WhoIsPaulDonsky?
May 11, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this
Robert,
Paul Donsky is the AJC reporter who wrote of the suspicious rise in GRCT test scores in numerous Atlanta Public Schools. The jump in scores was so radical that the only school board member who had actual teaching experience said there was no way that the improved scores were legitimate.
Despite the fact that the only member of the board who had teaching experience had the integrity to call it for what it was, the AJC didn’t allow Donsky to do any follow up reporting.
Does anybody really believe he wouldn’t have followed up a story this explosive if his higher ups would have allowed it?
Yet this is the same paper that Mr. Wooten praises as being a watchdog?
By jbmlaw
May 11, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this
Dear Debbie @ 10:52, words of wisdom from America’s genius, George Carlin: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor7.shtml
By jbmlaw
May 11, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
Dear Debbie, I did not notice, but there is a link at the bottom, so you can hear Carlin do the routine.
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this
JohnD I see you’re rewriting history again. The miami riots were not started because of a labor dispute. It was started because a some Miami cops killed a black unarmed motorist in a fit of road rage; and got off scot free!!!
You and people of your ilk are incredible!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_McDuffie
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this
Dusty and jbmlaw: All I can say is that I record as many baseball games as I can. That way, when the season is FINALLY over, if I have trouble going to sleep I pop a DVD in, push play and by the time the second inning starts I’m knocked out!! Works every time and it’s better than any sleeping pill on the market!!
Also jbmlaw: You wish you would’ve seen a game where one person hit the ball all NIGHT!!! I had no idea you were masochist; you seem so full of joy and hope….
By Dusty
May 11, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this
JK @10:46 and JohnD @11:30
You may be correct about Canadian drugs but all foreign drugs are not from Canada.
I am not trying to stop you from purchasing prescription drugs whenever and wherever you desire. I am only telling you that there CAN BE dangers.
Here are a few lines from a 1998 draft from Marvin Blumberg of the FDA. His job was to investigate foreign drugs.
“However, many drugs sold in foreign countries as ‘foreign versions’of approved prescription drugs in the United States are often of unknown quality with inadequate directions for use and may pose a risk to the patient’s health.”
So good luck and good savings with your prescription drug orders. But be careful.
By Dusty
May 11, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this
rarringt@11:42
Saying that Charles view is undercover “True Conservative ideology” shows no more truth than saying rarringt’s ideology is true undercover KKK.
Your bias is showing.
By Van
May 11, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this
DebbieDoRight ,
Careful Debby, correcting a leftie might get you associated with conservatives.
By Doomhammer
May 11, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this
Ah, the good old Atlanta icon, the black barber shop. How many die per year in these so called barber shops? One has to wonder why in the world a barber shop need be open at midnight?
Me thinks these arent barber shops, but hangouts for pimps and pushers and wannabe rappers to hang out, smoke blunts and conduct other questionable activity until all hours of the night.
Dogs attract fleas, so of course there is going to be trouble at these places.
By jbmlaw
May 11, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this
The Social Gospel after 100 years: http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110010062
Dr Williams on the joyous benefits of the minimum wage: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/05/10/thetemperamentalminimum_wage
Dear Debbie @ 12:13, my perversity is deeper than you imagine. One of my greatest prides in life is that, one week after I taught my older son how to throw a knuckleball, he was throwing it better than I did, and taught five other little leaguer teammates how to throw it effectively that week.
I have always been a pitcher’s umpire - if they can reach it with a bat, it is a strike.
By harold
May 11, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this
if you really don’t want to see the fatties in miniskirts, STOP AXING THEM OUT ON DATES AT THE WALMARTS!
crazy old man!
harold is very surprised Jack hasn not weighed in against Wooten on this one
By larry b
May 11, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
I agree with most of the post regarding Black baseball players,todays black youth are just not interested in baseball,they perfer football&basketball.I have a question,why is o.k for latin players to come to America and make millions of dollars to play baseball,but you guys get upset at a mexican who comes over here and works at a chicken plant or does landscaping for $5.00 a hr?Also why do you people get upset about Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson?Last I check they don’t have any power in America,they don’t own any fortune 500 companies or own any media or internet companies.Don’t they have the right to speak about what they feel are injustices in this world?Are they killers,robbers,rapists,drug dealers?You guys talk about Blacks who are “thugs” and who are being negative,at least they are trying to do things for positive change.Yes they are sometimes annoying,but thats their right,just tune them out.Nobody is making you go to any of their marches or demonstrations,nobody is making you contribute money to any of therir causes,so leave them alone and listen to Rush & Boortz!
By larry b
May 11, 2007 12:41 PM | Link to this
I agree with most of the post regarding Black baseball players,todays black youth are just not interested in baseball,they perfer football&basketball.I have a question,why is o.k for latin players to come to America and make millions of dollars to play baseball,but you guys get upset at a mexican who comes over here and works at a chicken plant or does landscaping for $5.00 a hr?Also why do you people get upset about Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson?Last I check they don’t have any power in America,they don’t own any fortune 500 companies or own any media or internet companies.Don’t they have the right to speak about what they feel are injustices in this world?Are they killers,robbers,rapists,drug dealers?You guys talk about Blacks who are “thugs” and who are being negative,at least they are trying to do things for positive change.Yes they are sometimes annoying,but thats their right,just tune them out.Nobody is making you go to any of their marches or demonstrations,nobody is making you contribute money to any of therir causes,so leave them alone and listen to Rush & Boortz!
By Toni
May 11, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this
Paraphrased from Erma Bombeck:
My most favorite activity is watching a No- hitter baseball game. My second most favorite activity is hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I pass out.
By harold
May 11, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this
who cares if baseball players are black or not? who cares about baseball at all? really? baseball should’ve gone away circa 1994. think how far soccer futbol could have come by now if people were wasting time on baseball.
By DawgBite
May 11, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this
By Jim Wooten | Friday, May 11, 2007, 12:07 AM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• When my band of right-wingers take over, women who weigh more than Rosie O’Donnell will not be allowed to wear miniskirts outside the bedroom. Some things should not be seen in public.
Jim, can we add those skin tight spandex pants with the little stirrup things that hook to their fat feet to that list. Any party or wing of a party that can promise that has my vote for sure.
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this
larry b: responding to your question concerning Al S & Jesse J.; who knows? Not even the majority of black people in America listen to what they have to say anymore!! I have no idea why every word out of their mouths are given such media attention!
My friends and I were talking the other day and our main point of thought is that maybe they should retire. Their words are taken as jokes or punchlines, their credibility has been shot, (Tawanna Brawley, Adultery), and once your credibility is shot you are not effective anymore.
By Jack
May 11, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this
base-a-ball has been very, very good to Roger the Rocket.
By JohnD
May 11, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
Thanks for your concern on the prescription drugs but absent some acute problem I do not intend to take prescription medicine from any source.
There are most certainly counterfeit drugs on the market, so know your source.
I would hesitate to put much faith in an FDA spokesman; the “K” Street boys are surely in bed with them.
DDR,
Al and Jesse will not retire until their ability to “shake down” corporate America disappears.
And do not think that the same activity Al and Jesse use to line their pockets was not rampant in Atlanta with the likes of former Mayors and the rest going behind the scene to assure our corporate leaders that they could convince “Mr. Feed-the-Hungry” to stop marching in front of their buildings for a simple $250,000 to the SCLC or NAACP.
By Jack
May 11, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this
I hope that wasn’t a dig on Hosea Williams. Jesse & Al aren’t even in his league. Did you know that when MLK was shot Hosea said he saw Jesse smear MLK’s blood on his shirt so it would look good for the press? Hosea never liked Mr. Race W******* after that.
By Charles
May 11, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this
rarringt,
I just got back from having lunch with my friends. We had a great conversation. I told them about our conversation, the blogs. Most said they would not give people like you the time of day. Don’t be alarmed. I am being honest. These are men and women who earn a lot of money, one six figures.
See how considerate and thoughtful I am of others. (www.radioliberty.com)
By James (P.E.)
May 11, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this
Charles,
Has it ever occured to you that rarringt, or any other person is not missing out on anything from your “friends”. You sound like a little kid .. I told them about our conversation, the blogs. Most said they would not give people like you the time of day. Don’t be alarmed. I am being honest. These are men and women who earn a lot of money, one six figures
People who earn six figure salaries are a dime a dozen in Atlanta. Who cares what my opinion of you is or your “friends” opinion of people like rarringt is.
By rarringt
May 11, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this
James,
Thanks for pointing that out. This blog is about meritorious discourse, not impressing somebody’s “friends.” Besides, I probably wouldn’t be real popular at a table that tends to view minorities as “bootlicking, buck dancing, ‘negroes.’”
Charles,
Reread your posts. The point I’m trying to get at is what you’re saying makes no sense. TFTT, Dusty, Van, Debbie, Barbara, and a host of other (semi)regulars in here make numerous posts in the week. I disagree with many, and agree with others, but I ( along with most other folks) can at least understand what they’re saying.
Please don’t respond with “perhaps you’re just not that bright,” or some other pithy comment. Instead, state your point clearly.
If you can’t, perhaps one of your “friends” can help you.
By Charles
May 11, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this
JohnD,
I said in the 0956 blog, Larry, a confidant of twenty five years, mentioned how the lower class Negroes has more honor and decency than the so called Negro bourgeois, middle class and the elite. What would be the outcome if the middle class Negroes and the elite in America were being replaced by Mexicans like the lower class Negroes, he asked?
I am assuming that your answer would be,” I hear the same complaints from contractors in Atlanta now regarding the difference between hiring Latinos and Blacks.
No one is stealing the jobs from Blacks; the Blacks appear unwilling to give the effort of the Latinos.”
When I go into the so-called bootlicking rant, in a nut shell, I’m saying that people will not be honest with you. I am brutally honest and a friend. Most Negroes are afraid of white people and will not be honest, but will act out that bootlicking, buttlicking, so-called rant.
By rarringt
May 11, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this
Hi Dusty,
I’m looking forward to your comment to Charles about how speaking in such racist terms such as @2:34 may be his right, but is simply an affront to Thinking Right.
Ok, I’ll step out of the way now. Let ‘em have it!
Dusty? Dusty? Helloooo?
By Charles
May 11, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this
James (P.E.),
No offense man. I just told you what happened at lunch.
I am sure nobody cares about opinions. (www.radioliberty.com)
By rarringt
May 11, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this
Guess there’s no support from Dusty today. Perhaps I should say that George Bush is in fact not the Second Coming, and perhaps that’ll get a response out of her.
I guess that leaves it to me. Charles, you speak as a man who has spent a huge amount of time listening to fools and subsequently making foolish generalizations. You really should stop that, it’s bad on your stomach.
Instead, read a book. When you’re done, pick up another one with a differing view, and so forth. It’ll teach you how to 1)think, 2)acquire facts from multiple sources, 3)formulate an educated and opinion, and 4) express yourself in a coherent manner. Preferably in that order.
Until you do that, I think you’re playing in the wrong sandbox. Best just to be a dittohead and talk back to the radio.
p.s. You seem to equate income with intelligence. That’s a shame. I heard of this poor carpenter back in Israel who, despite his material poverty, seemed to know a thing or two….
By Red Skull
May 11, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this
Charles,
You seriously need to stay away from the drugs. You are nothing more than a broke a$$ brother who needs to blame whitey and whoever else you can think of for your own failures. You are one of those people who like to sound intelligent but don’t know jack sh!t!
rarringt,
I’m suprised at you. You like to whine almost as much, but at least you are educated. Charles is a freakin idiot!
By Red Skull
May 11, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this
rarringt,
Oops, I posted before I saw your response to crackhead.
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this
rarringt, you’re not alone. I don’t think anyone understood what Charles was saying! But I did pick up a new expression…….buck dancing…..
By Charles
May 11, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this
rarringt,
I recently spoke to a group of African American children about their academics. Too many were failing in school. Do you know what their cop-out was? “The teacher does not make her presentation clear enough to us and other students.” When pressed on the issue, we discovered the other students were excelling; a few needed special attention.
It sounds like you have a case of delusion. (www.radioliberty.com)
By larry b
May 11, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this
But its not Blacks that are complaining about Mexicans and illegal immigrants,its White conservatives like Wooten,Rush,boortz and others.But they love Mexican & Latin baseball players!
By larry b
May 11, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this
But its not Blacks that are complaining about Mexicans and illegal immigrants,its White conservatives like Wooten,Rush,boortz and others.But they love Mexican & Latin baseball players!
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this
JohnD: Perhaps someone with a personal relationship with these two gentlemen, (Jesse J. and Al S.), can talk some sense into them. If you are hurting your supposed cause more than you are helping it; it’s time to let it go, retire and go fishing. It’s a shame they can’t see that for themselves.
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this
Charles which A.A. students did you talk to? I’m surprised that you even did so, let alone admitting to it.
By rarringt
May 11, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this
Debbie,
I think he’s just making stuff up to support his “claims.”
I think he’s the one who is deluded (www.thinkforyourself.com)
How’s our favorite Spelman grad doing?
By James (P.E.)
May 11, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this
Debbie, rarringt,
Charles is talking in soundbites from that website or some other fox news type site. This guy is just copying and pasting. Irrelevent! Just kill yourself, Chuck.
By Charles
May 11, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this
I have a meeting to attend everybody. I loved every second of our conversation. Let me leave you with what Muddy Waters might say to you.
On the seventh hour, of the seventh day, on the seventh month, the seventh doctor said: “Charles was born for good luck, and I know you see; I’ve got seven million dollars, and don’t you mess with me
Y’know I’m here Everybody knows I’m here And I’m the liberation man The whole wide world knows I’m here.
www.radioliberty.com
By Red Skull
May 11, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this
Bye crackhead.
By getalife
May 11, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this
WTF was that?
Geez.
By rarringt
May 11, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this
That, was a belabored attempt to “wind” us (as Andy/TFTT was wont to do from time to time).
Problem is, Andy’s brighter (while perversely being darker as well), and infinitely more fun to spar with. Charles was just a bored, semi-literate troll.
Oh well. Maybe I’ll be back when Markus shows up later, for my afternoon exercise. :^)
Either way, y’all have a great weekend.
By harold
May 11, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this
harold is starting to think paris hilton’s blog has more thought and insight than this one
By JohnD
May 11, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this
DDR,
I agree with you on Al and Jesse - there comes a time to just fade away.
Back to Miami, the excuse for the riots was the shooting but the pot had been boiling for a long time over the work issue. I was there and the general consensus was the riots would have occurred whether there was a shooting or not.
I spoke with a Cuban working as a bus boy at Doral CC. He had been a surgeon in Cuba but was not licensed in the US and this same story was repeated in any number of “menial” jobs that I am certain no US citizen, black or white, would work had they been surgeons, lawyers or other professionals.
By ABS
May 11, 2007 4:32 PM | Link to this
No Jim, it’s not just your right wing women friends who won’t let fat women leave the bedroom in mini-skirts…I have to agree with you on that.
Yesterday, I saw a woman in Wal-Mart who weighed about 300 pounds in very short shorts and a bikini top……
By ABS
May 11, 2007 4:34 PM | Link to this
My eyes are still sore….
By Mickey
May 11, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this
WOOTEN IS A MISOGYNIST*
Where’s his attack on fat men wearing too-small clothes? Or bald men wearing toupees or doing a comb over? Why does he just pick on women? **Because Wooten is a misogynist.”“
By DebbieDoRight
May 11, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this
JohnD: My uncle and aunt were living in Miami at the time and they STILL talk about the riots even now; the black community was boiling for years over the jobs thing sure, but it wasn’t just the Cubans refugees it was also the HAITIAN refugees too. But the fuel that lit the fire was not about jobs, it was about blatant police abuse and nothing being done about it. Think back to the LA Riots of ‘90. It was about the cops getting off for beating of Rodney King.
By Jim Wooten
May 11, 2007 5:55 PM | Link to this
OK, when my band of right-wingers take over, fat men wearing too-small clothes, including mini-skirts are banned in public.
By For the Record ...
May 11, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this
Debbie, baseball is by far the best evidence that there is a God. It is the perfect game. Nothing is in second place.
Rarringt, good to hear from you — eloquent and classy as always. God knoweth how you retain your self control when confronted with such … uh … developmental points of view.
So, Mr. Wooten, let’s speculate on who will get what cabinet positions when your merry band of right-wingers seize power.
TFTT should be … what … Secretary of the Interior? Or maybe that should go to Andy, given the vivid interiors of his desparate consciousness.
Markus, Secretary of Transportation. A lock.
Jmblaw gets Treasury, or Attorney General. (Even he couldn’t be worse then Gonzales.)
Of course, there is only one choice for State: Redneck Convert.
Now that’s an administration!
By WootenDull
May 12, 2007 8:02 AM | Link to this
{{{Worried Congress’ support for Iraq is deteriorating rapidly, Baghdad dispatched senior officials to Capitol Hill this week to warn members one-on-one that pulling out U.S. troops would have disastrous consequences.}}}
We have 2843 brave soldiers in Iraq on our side (see below for petition language) and now the leaders of the Iraqi government, all petitioning Congress to grow a pair.
Is that even possible for these sniveling Cowards?
Why do we still wait for the Atlanta Journal Constitution to share this message with their readership:
{{{As an American currently serving my nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to fully support our mission in Iraq and halt any calls for retreat. I also respectfully urge my political leaders to actively oppose media efforts which embolden my enemy while demoralizing American support at home. The War in Iraq is a necessary and just effort to bring freedom to the Middle East and protect America from further attack.}}}
Don’t like what it says, pinkos®?
Blows your stupid retired general anti war message out of the water?
Cowards.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
The AJC, ledger sheet for democrat party second and third hand witch hunts:
{{{ Ex-prosecutor has ‘concerns’ regarding his ‘05 dismissal- A former West Virginia federal prosecutor said Friday the White House fired him in 2005 in the middle of a corruption and vote-buying investigation but never told him why.-Urinal}}}
Gosh, I wonder what jogged his memory about being “concerned” two years later?
{{{Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has been cleared of wrongdoing in an investigation into whether she violated Florida elections law by voting in the wrong precinct.}}}
Meanwhile, Al Franken lives on with the memory of taking $800,000 from homeless boys and girls to start “Airbag America,” no problemo, no candy as-sed Cowards are the least bit worried about that.
But the chance to falsely accuse someone of voting in the wrong precinct, geez.
{{{Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, “Sicko.”}}}
Let’s see here “enemy of the United States” and “embargo.”
Do you sniveling Coward liberals need a dictionary or what?
{{{Cuba angry as U.S. frees bombing suspect}}}
Gee, the libs finally found a country mad at the United States, it must have been an exhaustive search now that Bush has made the whole world our allies, and guess what they’re mad about: freeing a terror suspect.
Drum roll please, let us welcome the candy as-sed Cowards to the War on Terror.
Yay!
They finally found a terror suspect they want to keep safe behind bars.
Yay!
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{{{ It is ignoring the dangerous influence of MoveOn.org. This is what happens when you become a wholly owned subsidiary of the extreme wing of your Party. The only difference between the current situation and the early days of Republican control of the House is: The press give a great deal of attention to the Christian Coaltion.}}}
So what does MoveOn have you sniveling Cowards working on today, government business, bwahahahaha, yeah, right.
Who gets to spy on Bush, see if he leaves the toilet seat up, and who is scouring the country looking for attorney generals fired 5 years ago that still hold a beef?
Who is coordinating with Al Qaeda today, getting those propaganda releases in order, is that your task, al Gitmo?
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{{{CBSNEWS exec blames Couric’s low ratings on public’s preference for ‘older white guys’…}}} I don’t really care to hear that America sucks for one half of an hour from “older white guy” or a chubby little moonbat screacher.
You know what I mean?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
This is something to be happy about?
{{{Happy Mother’s Day to Sheryl Crow — the singer-guitarist has adopted a baby boy. “I am so excited to share with you guys that I’ve adopted a little boy. He was born two weeks ago,” Crow announced on her Web site Friday.}}}
Wait until she goes after that first full diaper with “one square.”
How many squares does your mum use al-Gitmo?
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By JohnD
May 12, 2007 8:21 AM | Link to this
DDR,
Another Black apologist - not surprising. The riots after the Rodney King verdict were across the nation, not just in LA, and not ONE Black leader(an oxymoron), demanded the rioting stop. All we heard was, “You have to understand…”.
Lawlessness is just that and no excuse is credible. The rioters should have been shot on sight until they retreated. They were doing nothing but attacking other races and their businesses, stealing anything they put their hands on. The entitlement society ran amuck, simple as that.
By POD
May 12, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
POD!
unzip…flop….PP-pp…..
Dangit! I forgot that orange juice isn’t just for breakfast anymore!
bwa
By Charles
May 14, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this
I had to leave abruptly last Friday, 0314 pm, to attend an important meeting. I was not able to tell you last Friday. So I’ll take this opportunity. You all remember during in the Olympics, we had the basketball dream team #1. Michael Jordan cornered Charles Barkley after a scrimmage and said you know yall took an a* whipping don’t you? Barkley had problems accepting reality.
To the Jim Wooten bloggers that I encountered on last Friday, “you know yall took an a* whipping don’t you?” If anyone has any doubts, look at the blogs beginning May 11, 2007 0956 to May 11, 2007 0314. I’m not boasting or anything. But you do know yall took an a* whipping?