Thinking Right

By harold

July 6, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this

Harold still aint sure why we aint swimming in indoor pools of free Coca Cola with free air conditioning from Georgia Power after all the subsidizing we did to get them where they are today

Why subsidize businesses? They NEVER return the favor.

By harold

July 6, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

aint that frenchie president a conserative? seems harold remembers somebody around here yapping about how even the french elected a conservative

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I’m playing a 1970 recording of Bizet’s Carmen on my mp3 at this moment, but Jim’s opening note displaces that music with the Al Yankovic classic recording, “I’m a Genius in France.” I’ll bypass the subsequent Austin Powers joke.

I have to admit that I had given little consideration to the wants and needs of “progressive” SurrenderCrats like Johnson and McDermott this week – it is so much easier to celebrate all that is good and worthwhile in our country on the 4th of July week.

Mr. Wooten, I respectfully suggest you cut out the pc crap – call the foreign physicians in your note what they really are, “Islamists.” We need not limit Buddhist physicians, or Jewish physicians, or Taoist physicians – just Moslem physicians. The physician-ness is not what makes them evil.

Bottled tea is sui generis – I don’t think any rational soul compares that to real tea.

By R.J.

July 6, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this

“Good choice. France awards its Legion of Honor to Barbra Streisand. “You are the America that we love,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy.”

If Jim Wooten wants to hate all things French, then he’s welcome to. But I, for one, am glad to have them as our military ally in both the Balkans and Afghanistan. I’m also glad to have them as a member of NATO.

By the way — the World Health Organization ranks France’s health care system as number one in the world (we’re number 37). Maybe we could learn a thing or two from them.

Their feelings about Barbara Streisand notwithstanding (I never thought to ask), but I’ve met a lot of French people, and the ones I’ve known through the years were actually very nice.

(Note: Isn’t Sarkozy the guy that Jim Wooten recently commended the French for electing? Apparently, it doesn’t take much to loose Mr. Wooten’s respect.)

By harold

July 6, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

Harold reckons everbody else got runned off. Good that makes it easier to achieve the ultimate plan:

No Cars on Peachtree by July 4, 2012!

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

Dear Harold @ 8:34, you credit the French mind with greater powers of discernment than is valid. Until the French elected their version of a “conservative,” they were inclined to condemn all Americans. Even if they err in their judgment of what is a worthwhile American, we can credit them with a change in attitude.

By Jack knife

July 6, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

Harold, let me help you out here friend. A French “conservative” is a moderate democrat here. A French “liberal” is a full blown Marxist here. You just can’t compare everything as equalities when dealing with foreign nations and making comparisons. You’d probably like their mandatory 34 hour work weeks, available paid family leave for months, unrelenting government meddling in corporate affairs, and the 9% unemployment that comes along with all the above for us too, wouldn’t you?

By Redneck Convert

July 6, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

If you can’t be happy without money, you won’t be happy with it.

Well, I want everybody that is unhappy with all the money they got from the big tax cut to send it to me, to see if I can be happy with it. That includes bigshot lawyers like jbmlaw and business owners like Van. I figure I been waiting about six years for the money to trickle on down to me, and it don’t look like they got enough of it yet to turn any loose.

Up here at the trailer we don’t worry about GA Power bills. We just run the line from the power pole to the trailer and get rid of the middle man. Its called Private Enterprize. Same with cable TV. I figure if the cos. can rip us off legal-like we can rip them off too.

I don’t recall seeing anything from Sister Dusty yesterday. Must have had too many PBRs while firing up the grill for the big lynching party on the 4th. Too bad this GodHatesTrash guy had to spill the beans about her weight and fambly relations.

Glad to see Captain Freedom is back from a stretch in the pen. He really socks it to the libruls. Well, I’ll close now. Markus is probly barreling down I-75 on the way home in his 18 wheeler and he’ll be winding up on this blog soon. Won’t nobody get a word in then.

By Craig also

July 6, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

If not for the French, Mr. law, you’d still be a subject of the Queen. The constant whining about them by righties is tiring.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

Dear Mr. Wooten, one additional observation, the “London” company selling the tea business is selling an American company it purchased a few years ago – repatriating a non-English entity. Guess they are telling us what they think about American liquid cuisine.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

Some good Cherry Picking today. Especially on Gore’s boy.

I really like Lex’s quote…that’s about right…but it’t ain’t America. This is America Jim: “SHOW ME THE MONEY”.

Phil Kent can shove it. Nothing like a small-time has-been trying to spin, spin, spin for a lost cause.

Babs can shove it too. She’s a joke. She can take Jane with. They’re both distractions.

With regards to classes of villans that should be pursued to the ends of the earth…how about those villans who blow up buildings? How about Osama?

Shouldn’t we be pursuing Osama to the “ends of the earth”?

By CJ

July 6, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

“We can place any environmental, social and regulatory burden on local governments and the private sector to achieve any objective we want — affordable housing, purer air and water, fuller employment and minimum wages — so long as we realize the costs are passed on to consumers. Georgia Power Co. is asking for a 7 percent increase in the monthly bill next year, or about $6.67 on the average user. Half the spending is for upgraded environmental controls at its coal-fired plants. We demand, they provide. Pay the man.”

Atlanta’s poor air quality can, quite literally, kill. Even at very low levels, smog can burn people’s lungs and make their airways inflamed, red and swollen; this can cause chest pain and hacking coughs. In some cases, it can also cause permanent lung damage. Smog is bad for healthy adults-but it puts children, with their young, developing lungs, at particular risk. For people with chronic respiratory diseases like emphysema, smog pollution can even be fatal.

I never understood why Jim Wooten and others believe that it’s okay for The Southern Company (parent of Georgia Power) to make bigger profits and rate-payers to save money at the expense of those who literally suffer because of smog.

Pain and suffering aside, I also never understood how Mr. Wooten and others of like-mind can call themselves conservatives while ignoring our fundamental economic need to eliminate “externalities” (i.e. external costs to a transaction passed on to households and/or taxpayers who aren’t party to the transaction). An example of an externality is health care expenses incurred by taxpayers and/or households with children suffering from asthma as a result of smog. Such externalities are actually an impediment to free markets. There’s nothing conservative about benefiting from an economic transaction while passing some of the cost of that transaction to random outside parties.

It’s appropriate that we should pay, via higher electricity rates, for clean air. If all goes as planned, the result will be that our health and the health of our loved ones will be better, health care costs of families and taxpayers arising out of smog will be reduced or eliminated, and the entire cost of the transaction (the sale and purchase of electricity) will be borne entirely by the parties to the transaction. That’s a trade-off I can live with — literally.

By Rob

July 6, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

If not for the French, Mr. law, you’d still be a subject of the Queen. The constant whining about them by righties is tiring. - Craig also, you left out the part where the French agreed to assist us solely because they were at war with the Queen. You know, that old ‘an enemy of my enemy is my friend’ thing? The French haven’t done anything for us since, irrespective of us giving them major assistance twice in the 20th Century. The constant whining for six years about Bush by you lefties gets tiring too.

By Rod

July 6, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

My oh my, how Jim is falling.

He points out how Congress’ approval rating is 25% - and brags about how that’s lower than Bush. Jim is actually bragging that Bush has a 30% approval rating? Shameful.

You’re pathetic when you use Gore’s son as a political weapon. Grow a set of balls, Jim.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

CJ!

My Man!

Externalities!

How about life cycle costs? Like the cost to state and local governments of treating all those tobacco-ravaged old people? The companies get all the profit, but the locals get all the external costs.

Can anyone think of any others? I’ve got a bunch but don’t want to hog them all up.

By saywhat?

July 6, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

JBMlaw, Don’t forget to add Pete Domenici to your evergrowing list of SurrenderCrats in the US Senate.

As for Phil Kent, we can of course assume that super-rich right wing foundations haven’t done anything to undermine America. (PNAC anyone?) The guy is clearly a partisan hack.

Democratic do-nothing house? Its amazing how in 6 months, Jim can forget the last 2 years, where his precious republican congress couldn’t even pass a budget, and had to let the following Democratic congress do their work for them.Of course with all the republican obstructionists in the Senate, and Mr. “look, I found my veto pen” in the White House, anything the House passes will have trouble making it into law anyway.

By Lauren

July 6, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

“Far too little research and reporting has gone into examining the role of foundations in framing public policy issues and in influencing legislation. Kudos then to fellow conservative Phil Kent, whose new book, “Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America,” makes the case that, as he writes, thousands of them “doggedly fund their own ideological objectives in myriad ways that harm the United States” while ignoring medical and educational needs.”

Did Phil Kent happen to mention Richard Mellon Scaife in his book about rich people who use their money to doggedly pursue ideological objectives? You remember him don’t you? The guy who created and funded the Arkansas Project — a fund established specifically to prevent, then end Bill Clinton’s presidency. I think most would agree that this was money well spent (not).

Did Mr. Kent happen to mention Rupert Murdoch in his book? What about Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell or the good Reverend Sun Myung Moon? Any mention of the Heritage Foundation, Newt Gingrich’s now defunct GOPAC or Tom Delay’s political action committee that was used (allegedly) illegally in Texas to launder corporate money to influence elections?

Oh that’s right — this silly book was written by a “conservative” — so of course, a double-standard is applied.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

Thanks Jim for this excellent news:

“U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, a DeKalb County Democrat, signs on to impeach President Bush.

Yes!

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Man! You’re really taking a beating today!

I hope you have something fun and relaxing planned for your weekend.

Maybe you and Kelly McCutchen can get together and discuss some blue sky stuff like digging traffic tunnels under the city, or privatizing the police.

I’m sure you’d enjoy that.

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

Oh good!! Jim Wooten came out this morning firing away. I love it. Liberals are so sneaky. Look at “letters” this morning. Dem headquarters sent out a “call” and they all jumped to. You would think Libby was “Americas Most Wanted” and Bush pardoned him. And I won’t mention a former Dem president on whom the liberals have now placed a halo. The sweetest, most loving husband a girl could want when she’s trying to get in the White House again.

Well, anyway, I see RedNeck has come out from hiding behind his trailer. He wanted to welcome the return of Captain Freedom. Both will soon be starring in Michael Moore’s new movie”PHONY”. Inbetween they will be “stand-in” for Moore’s super frog physique, both having robbed the beer truck too much.

But I’d better run. MidSouth will be here soon to tell us that Democrats are finer than silk and Republicans lower than mud. He’s a nice guy, just a bit misguided. You know. A Democrat!!

By oldpunk

July 6, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

All right! We can whale on the Bush twins again! Maybe they can go to rehab with Gore’s kid.

Make up your mind about the Democratic Congress, Jim. Of course they can’t get anything done - Republicans are filibustering everything. Seems just a while ago you thought that was bad.

For the power surcharge, every time a business gets tax breaks, that costs others money as well. Jim gets behind eliminating corporate welfare!

And for the Katrina ripoffs, please mention the Bush administration’s built-in ripoffs of you and me for their corporate buddies. Almost as bad as what they did in Iraq moneywise.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

Actually, Libby is just a distraction. Osama is “America’s Most Wanted”.

But evidently Bush is more tied up with protecting himself and his cronies to get busy on that.

What’s it been? Six years?

We took down Hitler faster than that. And with a “soft on defense” Democrat in the White House to boot…go figure.

By jm

July 6, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

On the off chance that W is actually impeached, I wonder how Cheney will handle the demotion to President.

By GrayGayGeek

July 6, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

jm @ 9:53

That’s why the order should be to impeach Cheney first, then have the Senate and/or House keep the nominee for V.P. tied up with filibusters until King George can be impeached as well.

If the Retreaticans despise the existence of Speaker Pelosi, think of how they’ll react to President Pelosi.

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

oldpunk 9:44

Senility is no excuse.

The Bush girls were not going 100 mph in marijuana laden car like Gore’s son who has been in rehab before. Didn’t your mother tell you that it is not nice to try and tell “fibs” about someone’s family? I guess not.

What filibuster in Congress? Democrats are making a mess without any help from Republicans.

You don’t bother much with facts, do you? Better describe “corporate welfare” specifically. I’m sure Jim would like some factual information so he can write an expose’.

So you don’t want any government help when your city is flooded? Katrina ripoffs involved everybody from local contractors in NO to motels in Atlanta. Such a huge immediate surge of help to New Orleans came with a lot of hitches. It wasn’t supposed to reward anyone but those in trouble. Crooks came like buzzards at roadkill. Better to blame the lack of honesty on predators than the government trying to help. Don’t know how you pin that down to “corporate buddies”. Sounds more like the Dem Syndrome, the main symptom being an effort to blame “everything” on President Bush.

By harold

July 6, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

cheney would not become president. he is in the legislative branch remember?

By catlady

July 6, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

On the off chance that W is actually impeached, I wonder how Cheney will handle the demotion to President.

From All-Powerful Omnipresent God to President. What a let-down.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

Jeb’s daughter and Rush are two people Jim will not write about with drug problems.

The problems with America, Republicans

By E. Cox

July 6, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

“Be thankful for small favors: “We don’t have quite enough votes to get done everything we want,” says U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) of the Democratic do-nothing House.”

Mr. Wooten,

Your comment about the Democratic do-nothing House makes no sense. If the President vetoes a bill, as he did with the bill containing benchmarks for Iraq and the bill funding embryonic stem cell research, there’s nothing the Democrats can do without more votes from the GOP to override those bills.

If the Democrats pass a bill to increase the minimum wage, an important priority to most Americans, and the president signs it (as he did), but the mainstream media fails to cover it, the Democrats can’t be held responsible for that (although they need to work harder at communicating such accomplishments).

If the Democrats seek to eliminate taxpayer subsidies of oil companies and the Republican in the Senate threaten to filibuster, there’s nothing Democrats can do until we have more Democrats in the Senate.

If Democrats pass bills to implement the 9/11 recommendations or to reduce Medicare drug prices and the Senate minority promises to filibuster while the President promises to veto — what can we do until we get more Democrats?

If the Democratic Senate passes a bill to raise fuel standards, close the SUV loophole and allow cheaper drugs to be imported from Canada (likely to pass in the House), and the mainstream media doesn’t report it — again — who’s fault is that?

McDermott was right when he said, “We don’t have quite enough votes to get done everything we want.” Hopefully, after the ‘08 elections, we’ll be able to make some progress.

By Curious Observer

July 6, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

You won’t see a pardon of Scooter Libby until the Bush administration is heading out the White House door. The reason? A pardon now would force Libby to sing like a canary, because he couldn’t plead the 5th amendment. The brilliantly conceived commutation keeps Libby silent about the participation of Cheney and others in the outing of Valerie Plame.

This insidious scheme is what differentiates Clinton’s infamous pardon of Marc Rich from Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence. At least Clinton did it for the campaign contributions, not to keep Rich silent. Neither act is commendable, but let’s not equate them.

By Adam

July 6, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

A quote from Hank Johnson’s website regarding his reasons for running for Congress:

*Johnson said he decided to run because he viewed McKinney as “ineffective” and “divisive.” Johnson credits his win to the voters’ desire to elect a representative who offered “solutions, not politics.”

“I think a lot of people felt that it was a new day for politics in the 4th District,” Johnson said. “One of unity, one of bringing people together and representing disparate interests.”*

Oh well, I guess Hank, feeling ignored in his first term, needed something to get his name in the paper and decided to fall back on the old tried and true. Sorry Hank, you don’t have the charisma to top Cynthia. Try slugging a cop, maybe that will help bring back the old spirit of the 4th District and inspire your constituents.

By Longshanks Wooten

July 6, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

The problem with the Democratic Party is that it’s filled with Democrats. I think it’s time to resurrect an old custom: Prima Noctes. On the first night of any democratic congress, we’ll bend all the democrats over and have our way without the courtesy gel. If we can’t GET them out of this country, we’ll breed them out!

By Lenny

July 6, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

“U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, a DeKalb County Democrat, signs on to impeach President Bush.”

That’s great news.

Bush, Cheney and Gonzalez should be impeached for election tampering, misleading the public to start a war and maintain support for that war, endangering our troops by refusing to comply with the Geneva conventions, illegally spying on Americans without a warrant, ignoring Constitutional duties to enforce all laws, whether they agree with them or not, refusing to comply with Open Record (“transparency”) laws in areas that have nothing to do with national security, and outing a covert CIA operative (and possibly other operatives she had worked with in the past).

Let the impeachment hearings begin!

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Oh my, Democrats are here hallucinating again this morning.

Impeach Bush? Impreach Cheney? What a joke. Another wild goose chase from the Delusive Democrats trying to keep from doing real business.

Approval of Demo Directed Congress may soon drop to ZERO. Maybe we should impeach the so called Dem leaders of Congress who can’t lead.

I noticed that Harold is losing his err “wheels”. Cherry Picker falls from his ladder. What next in these rants? Another investigation? How about…. CIA janitor suspect in outing Valerie Plame so Fitzgerald needs another two years even though the case is solved before it starts?

Please, Democrats, stop the entertainment and get down to business. We have a war going on, in case you haven’t noticed, and it would be nice if you SUPPORTED THE USA, SUPPORTED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, AND THE TROOPS for a change. Thank you!!

By harold

July 6, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

harold aint no democrat. good lord what is it about stupid republicans that makes them think anybody waht aint a republican has to ben a democrat??? it just aint so yall. democrats are equally as useless and selfish and corrupted as republicans. teh whole government needs did away with. harold is for the north american union to be ruled by canadians.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

I think the cons who love cons do not understand the role of the CIA to find the next 9/11.

Do they think they will put their lives on the line to be outed by w?

Do the cons hate the CIA like they do liberals?

The mind set of the cons is unbelievable.

Soft on crime, national security and traitors.

Why in the world would anybody vote for cons?

Geez.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

Please, Dusty, stop the entertainment and get down to business. We have a fake war going and in case you haven’t noticed it’s distracting you from the real target.

Six years. No Osama.

By squid pro quo

July 6, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dream on Lenny. Even Obama says no to impeachment. Only the lower life forms in the Democrat congress are supporting impeachment. As Zell said, that dog won’t hunt. I thought Bush was stupid. How could he mislead Congress into supporting a war? I thought Democrats were the smartest people in the world to have one put over on them. Election tampering? Black helicopters too!

By Jackie

July 6, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

The Repubs are trying to mitigate the expected electoral pounding in 2008. Notice how the Repubs are trying to back away from the Iraq debacle, especially those that are in political trouble. At least 6 Repub Senators and 6 that have implied they will support the measure to stop the war. Hopefully, those same “towers of courage” will see the light and begin impeachment proceedings against Cheyney and Bush. The US House of Reps are deemed to be non-significant, but, the Repubs are terrified that they elections will be a tidal wave of rejection. If not significant, why the concern?

By Jim

July 6, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

“A “greenie” possessing marijuana and prescription drugs of unknown origin who is speeding down the highway at 100 miles an hour in a statement car for the environmentally conscious, a Toyota Prius, need not be too concerned about global warming as a threat to life. But a lad such as Al Gore III clearly needs help more than he needs criticism.”

Isn’t Jim Wooten contradicting himself here? First he sarcastically calls Al Gore III a “greenie” and refers to the car he drives as a “statement car”, then implies that this is not the time to criticize the young man.

Take the opportunity to get your digs in first, then express sympathy. Well done.

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes, ” Coca-Cola, located in the iced-tea capital of the world, considers a bid for Snapple, an iced-tea brand owned by a London company.”

This kind of move is nothing new on the part of Coca-Cola. In the 50’s there were four drinks (all GOOD, chocolate, grape, orange and grapefruit) put out by a company by the name of Birley’s. Coca-Cola couldn’t beat them, so bought them out.

And to make a big switch here; the Wall Street Journal apparently wasn’t conservative enough for Rupert Murdock.

Give it a year at most, watch the quiet ousting and exit of the present top executive, editorial and journalists and expect more slanted, FOX type news.

Moderately conservative Americans will pay a big price for this too - they just don’t know it yet.

Hell, who knows, this may be just the conservative opportunity Jim Wooten’s been waiting for all of his life.

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

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

The ONLY worth while technological achievement the snail and cheese eating surrender monkeys across the English Channel ever invented was the guillotine - and the arrogant cheeky gallic bastards then had the cheek to stop using it!!!

The fawning hate America frogs should have imprisoned for life Streisand’s huge Pinocchio like shrill caterwauling nose on the Maginot Line -another massive frog military success. We English once spent over a hundred years fighting the sodding french - and we should never have stopped!!!

At least the tree hugging frogs have had the sense to plant trees in Gay Paris (gedditt??) for a while now. Clearly the trees on the Champs Elysees were only planted so the German Army could march in the shade.

The alBore’s pathetic worthless spoiled brat pot head pixie demon seed needs to spend at least 31 months in jail, thereby beating Scooter’s unjust sentence. Happily he can’t get his vainglorious Billy Liar global whining nutjob pappy to buy yet another library slush fund Klinton pardon to get him out. At least alBore jr was driving the car of choice for smug, self absorbed eco whacko wankers. So clearly this preppy little tool was only being partly hypocritical - i.e. recklessly speeding/recklessly burning up petrol in a 40/50 mpg car.

Wasn’t the junkie alBore brat carrying WITHOUT a prescription some of the same drugs Rush had an actual PRESCRIPTION for? Doubtless the leftist vermin on here and nationally will excoriate the albore brat the same way they endlessly sneered at Rush for an addiction to painkillers for his severe back pain??!!

I see (Mental Health) care in the community in GA still isn’t working - as inbred rednekkk’s slightly educated treasonous alter ego L Cpl Syphilis has at long been puked up by the state mental hospital after its longest yet emergency sectioning. Funny how its always lefties who irrationally hate America and lash out at their mother country!! Did you actually manage to complete your intermediate cross burning workshop that I read about on here yesterday inbred?

Maybe Barak the “I’m all ears”- and almost as thick as J Conyers - magic negro can clone its AfriKan elephant ears and raise campaign funds selling huge hand held dingy white fans to its idiot pandering supporters sweltering in the summer heat waiting in vain to hear about just one actual political achievment its managed - other than being a half black shrill cut and run far leftist!!.

By WJP

July 6, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten wrote, “Two classes of villains should be pursued to the ends of the earth at whatever expense. One is adults who don’t support their children. The other is people who exploit tragedies.”

I agree. Jim Wooten should be fired for exploiting the tragic personal issues within the Gore family in his comment above regarding Al Gore III.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

“To lead this nation to a responsibility era, a president himself must be responsible. And so, when I
put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not only uphold the laws of our land, I will swear to uphold the honor and dignity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God. Our country is ready
for high standards and new leaders … An era of tarnished ideals is giving way to a responsibility era.”
— Dubya, swearing to his God that he won’t break any laws”

And the cons cheer on the crimes . I thought they were religious. Hello, 10 Commandments.

Hypocrites.

He will break more laws until he is stopped.

Geez, again why in the world anybody vote for a con?

By Adam

July 6, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Dennis

So THAT’S what happened to Birley’s. Man, I loved those drinks but I don’t remember the grapefruit though. Non carbonated, clear bottles, my favorites!!

Now there’s a clear example of externalities that CJ@9:16 was talking about. We’re all still suffering from that one.

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

The remarks by “By WJP July 6, 2007 10:51 AM.”, are correct. Nor has Wooten ever bewailed the griefs the Bush administration has caused the Iraqi people.

I guess that isn’t the kind of thing a real conservative is supposed to do.

But he goes to church and sings, “Jesus loves the little children, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight.”

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

By Rush's doctor

July 6, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Yes, I wrote Rush a prescription for oxy-C’s.. twice… for 20 tablets each. He consumed THOUSANDS he obtained without a prescription (Remember when he weant deaf? OD on the Oxy-C and you will too), but really that’s okay, as long as he makes it on the air to spew hate every day and pays my jacked up fees, I’m okay with whatever he does. By the way, he was caught coming back from the Dominican Republic, the primo vacation spot for gay pedophiles, with a Viagra ‘script that was NOT his. Jim Wooten never wrote about THAT because Jim Wooten enjoys trips to DR himself once or twice a year, often sharing a suite with his favorite English blogger. You don’t REALLY think he was in CUBA for a whole week, do you?

By Economics for Voters

July 6, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Great posts about externalities at 9:16.

Every American should familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of economics. Some great books on the subject include “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science” and “The Undercover Economists”.

A word of caution — don’t take everything these guys say as scripture — think for yourself.

That said, these books are very educational, entertaining, and will give you a lot to think about.

By JD

July 6, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

Dennis the Dolt is back. Coca Cola is the villain because, according to Dennis, the owners of Birley’s sold their souls, and the business, just for a little money.

Spoken like a true Democrat who has supped at the public trough his entire life. Government is great and business and individuals are bad according to Dennis. Be a lemming - Join the Democrat Party!

You do not have to be an envy-filled Liberal to understand his thoughts, but it sure helps.

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Isn’t Jim Wooten contradicting himself here?

NOPE … he’s just fairly politely, and undeniably effortlessly, winding up pathetic leftist morons like your criminally obtuse self!!!

you have to be a brain dead leftist wanker not to see it … right dennis?

snigger snirk snigger

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

By Adam July 6, 2007 11:00 AM “So THAT’S what happened to Birley’s. Man, I loved those drinks but I don’t remember the grapefruit though. Non carbonated, clear bottles, my favorites!!”

I had forgotton the “non carbonated” part. They were GREAT. Especially a cold grapefruit on a hot summer day!

Even an ignorant conservative couldn’t deny it.

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

I see I very predicktably, very swiftly and quite effortlessly goaded one of the resident homo-queeralicious dogturds into puking up a magical unhinged homo hissy fit in (implicit because there is no actual legitimate) defence of the pathetic hypocritical alBore junkie brat!!!

well done indeed mister dogsqueeze … that was very nearly enormously amusing.

how was your blind date with Liberace’s corpse last night - everything Mrs Oedipus-NAMBLA delightedly told you it would be?

By harold

July 6, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

neither limbaugh nor the gore boy should get in any troubles over their drugs. who cares what they do to themselves. not our problem. all drug laws should be abolished. the FDA should be abolished too.

however, if the gore boy was driving high like the Big Guy’s boy allegedly did while alledgely murdering other road users, well that’s a problem. driving should be abolished. the gore boy should be able to take the train as high as a kite whenever he wants

By Dennis

July 6, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

By JD July 6, 2007 11:07 AM “Dennis the Dolt is back. Coca Cola is the villain because, according to Dennis, the owners of Birley’s sold their souls, and the business, just for a little money.”

Oh, my goodness, JD. On the one hand you conservatives say that competition is good for business, yet here you are admiting that Coca-Cola couldn’t match a little competition.

Maybe “big bidness” isn’t so smart after all.

Years ago, there were a lot of mom and pop grocery stores and gas stations. But, big oil couldn’t stand the competition, bought them all out, and THAT is one of the reasons you’re paying more for the gas to fill your car. You’re wrong if you think that the prices you now pay all have to do with Iraq and, an increase in oil prices throughout the world.

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

By Dustbuster

July 6, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Dusty for reminding us that we are a nation at war. While the Wooten klan was waving their flags and passionately blogging their patriotism, we Americans triumphed on July 4th, 2007 under a patriotic red, white and blue backdrop. An American hero named Joey Chestnut consumed 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes thereby defeating the foreign invaders in our great nation. God bless America. May freedom from foreign aggression reign.

By DJ

July 6, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

EVERYBODY should sign on to impeach SHRUB, particularly the “apologize for anything and everything any republicans ever do” right-wingers who are responsible for this historic tragedy.

SHRUB is a national disgrace and a national response to kick him to the curb MIGHT (only might) help to restore some of the US’s credibility around the world, where they all hate Shrub too.

PS - I think it’s fair to blame everything on the republicans lately, considering they have been “running things” (into the ground) for the past six years and doing everything they can to keep the democrats from having ANYTHING to do with any decisions or input in Washington (anyone remember the anti-citizen bulls#hit called a “super majority”?? what a bunch of crap). the Republicans refused to let the democrats have any input for the last six years so the republicans alone get 100% of the blame (and there is a LOT to pass blame on, for anyone who pays attention to the actual news, instead of these “full of themselves” pundits like Jim “which republican’s a## can i kiss next?” Wooton and his #1 loverboy JBLAW. Karma is a b***.

By @@

July 6, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Oh no Jim, I see you are in need of a translator. Allow me…

To Barbra: “You are the America that we love”

Sincerely,

/Sarc/Uzi

Here in America I’ve learned the nuanced language of the Democrats. Let me demonstrate…

To voters:

“You are the America that we love.”

Translation:

We want to get in your pants er…pockets.

You really have to know what the definition of love is/was.

Do you see the difference Jim?

By harold

July 6, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

the problem with impeachment is there has to be an articulable crime

they may well be common criminals, but as of yet nobody can catch them

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

I think that instead of having this worthless nauseating mindless execrable global whining puke musik concert this weekend we sensible and selfless conservatives should throw a huge lets really help mankind global acid party in every town/city around the world where there are liberals and multi-story carparks. give the smelly hippy liberals as much acid as they can freeload and then once they’re partying like cut and run dervishes on the TOP floor of the multi-story carpark we should play them some extra loud hippy music and tell them repeatedly they can fly … and then watch ALL the fab fun as they find out they cant!!

UP UP AND AWAY … IN MY BEAUTIFUL HIPPY BALLOON

By getalife

July 6, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

“What sacrifices have you and your friends made, Mr. Bush? As Keith Olberman said, he has ceased to be the president.”

They profit and not sacrificed a damn thing in the lie of the Iraq occupation.

The worst and most pathetic of Americans.

Geez, cons.

By Bush is Above the Law

July 6, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

So you people whining about “law” and “liberty” can just SUCK it. Dusty, jmblaw, Jim Wooten and I don’t care what you think America is supposed to be about. You can suck it. Fascism RULES and there’s nothing you little sucklings can do about it!!! We win! We win! You suck!

Breaking news:

CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.

In a 2-1 decision, two Republican appointees on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against allowing the lawsuit. A Democratic appointee judge disagreed, saying it was clear to him that the post-9/11 warrantless surveillance program aimed at uncovering terrorist activity violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Although the Bush administration said in January the program is now overseen by a special federal intelligence court, opponents said that without a court order, the president could resume the spying outside judicial authority at any time.

The ruling Friday vacates an order by a U.S. District Court in Detroit last August that found the surveillance unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech and the separation of powers.

U.S. Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, one of the two Republican appointees who ruled against the plaintiffs, said they failed to show they were subject to the surveillance and therefore do not have standing for their claims.

U.S. Circuit Judge Ronald Lee Gilman, a Democratic appointee, disagreed, saying he felt the plaintiffs were within their rights to sue and that it was clear to him that the surveillance program violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Although the Bush administration said in January the program is now overseen by a special federal intelligence court, opponents said that without a court order, the president could resume the spying outside judicial authority at any time.

The American Civil Liberties Union led the suit on behalf of other groups including lawyers, journalists and scholars it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by the government monitoring.

Other groups have filed challenges to the program in other courts; this case has proceeded the furthest. The case will be sent back to the judge in Michigan for dismissal.

By Seth

July 6, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

“Jim” @ 10:46 - Take the opportunity to get your digs in first, then express sympathy. Well done.

Well at least Jim Wooten has the class to express sympathy for his political foes and their offspring unlike you vicious people on the left who pour gasoline in the wound of your foes and their offspring and light it. You leftist hypocrites have no class.

By TeaLover

July 6, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

How do you suppose the concept of sweet tea started?

Perhaps several years’ supply stored in the hot humid south caused deterioration of quality perhaps, turning it very bitter? (In pre-refrigeration and a slower global economy days, of course).

Result? Let’s add tons of sugar/cane syrup to soften it up and make it drinkable.

And of course ruining the great taste of tea for generations to come.

By jbmlaw wannabe

July 6, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this

Dear CJ @ 9:16, Welcome back. Your comments are always thought-provoking. Unfortunately, your position on externalities contradicts the writings of Thomas Sowell. According to St. Sowell, the private market will address any and all externalities. For example, if one family, due to smog, incurs additional medical expenses to care for a child who suffers from asthma, another family might have their medical expenses reduced as a result of an elderly parent dying prematurely (even better if the parent leaves a large inheritance). So as you can see, some externalities arising out of pollution are negative (higher medical expenses) and others are positive (lower medical expenses and a large inheritance). Externalities will always cancel each other out in the private marketplace, and government intervention is, therefore, unnecessary.

Dear Dusty @ 10:33, I’ll never grow tired of reading your repetitive posts admonishing others to support this commander-in-chief, regardless of how little he supports us. You’re a patriot’s patriot, and I admire you greatly.

Dear K.O.E.W.A.S.P.A.Y.S.L.T. @ 11:17, My compliments. If only I had the capacity for such incisive commentary.

By georgia 74

July 6, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

Did it ever cross your mind that Congress’s approval rating is so low is that it is almost 50% Republican?

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Arguments getting weak here.

Libs getting tired of “explaing” Libby’s extenuated conviction, started as a trial for “outing” but turned into a two year conviction of memory loss (“blocking justice”). Bush has a taste for justice and commuted the comic carryings-on.

Cherry Picker isn’t even original enough to use his own words. Has to take mine and do the “twist”, (an old liberal dance step). Use your own lines, Cherie!

And an exciting revolution over tea. Another Boston tea party? Cane syrup in tea? Never heard of it. Oh well. I like mine with a little lemon. No sugar. I guess conservatives just like things straight and pure. Yep!

By @@

July 6, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Lex Luger Jim? Upon first glance I kept thinking “Superman”?

Not too bad for a wrestler whose greatest bulk isn’t found between his ears.

His philosophy kind of puts me in mind of a quote I’ve heard.

“When going after Moby Dick, bring along the tartare sauce.”

OR….there’s the one about Luck.

Don’t wait on it to find you. “Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”

Life’s little lessons…

Learn ‘em and live ‘em.

By jbmlaw wannabe

July 6, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

Dear CJ @ 9:16, I couldn’t help but wonder if your disrespectful questioning of the scripture of the Oracle Thomas Sowell has something to do with the fact that he is a darkie.

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw wannabe@12:14,

Is Michael Moore stil recruiting here today for his new movie “PHONY”? We’ve got yet another one.

Sorry, bub, you’ll never be a match for jbmlaw. You may “wannabe” but you haven’t got the “stuff” or the savvy.

You need to go back to headquarters to get a new “line”.

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST TURDS

July 6, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

JBMhomoGROUPIE

Cheers for the richly deserved kind words, it was wonderfully generous of you to so nobly publicly validate my rather restrained, sparkling sardonic excoriation of the resident anal queer obsessed leftist dogturd. keep up the groupie like fawning - but NO more physical stalking of jbm or or you’ll have to be chemically castrated again at Emory.

I suggest that you try dabbing those pesky queeralicious bathhouse piles with some liquid oxygen, Mrs Oedipus-NAMBLA swears it works for her every time.

By Thos Paine

July 6, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

How does Wooten still have job? He does nothing but lead the ignorant to illogical conclusions, propagate deceit, and defend an ill-conceived movement that is wholly antithetical to the very principles on which we base our national pride.

We want to read something inspiring, insightful, perhaps enlightening. Our tolerance for fear mongering, pandering, and thinly veiled bigotry is at an end.

Fire this man.

By Foghat

July 6, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

“Jim Wooten should be fired for exploiting the tragic personal issues within the Gore family in his comment above regarding Al Gore III.” — WJP 10:51

That’s original. Looking for a weak excuse to get rid of Wooten and yet another Conservative voice there, WJP? Sure you are. Then by the same sword so should all those Oped columnists in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, and LA Times be fired for comments made about the Bush twins. I don’t think the Bush twins were ever a threat to the public for what they did, irrespective that that happens on college campuses around the country. I do however find a danger in driving on public highways at 100mph in an exploding battery on wheels with pot and illegal prescription drugs. That’s not the first time Barney Oldfield has been caught doing at least 100mph on our highways either. Don’t hand me that nonsense about Gore not being in the White House as an excuse to not bring attention to his son. The man is more of an influence globally, albeit fraudulently, now than he ever was as vice president. I will say this though — at least Gore III didn’t drive around the Capitol drunk at 2am and crash. This is one of the many definitions of leftist hypocrisy — they can rabidly attack their political foes, but you dare not say anything about them. They’ve got nothing on Fred Thompson and go after his son on lobbying, while totally ignoring what Harry Reid did for his son on lobbying. The hypocrisy reeks like low tide in the Chesapeake.

By Shut Opposing Speech Down

July 6, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Thos Paine, what are you so afraid of little man? Thoughts that don’t coincide with yours? It’s always easy to say bigot to someone who you don’t agree with in the hopes of shutting them up, isn’t it? Perhaps Cuba is more to your one-way frame of mindset, nutter boy.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Ok, here are my own words:

George Bush hasn’t found Osama yet. After six years. No Osama. Billions and billions and billions of dollars wasted. No Osama.

Where’s Osama Dusty? Is Bush gonna pardon him?

Jbm,

So people have to get sick or die for the market to take care of externalities? Is that compassionate conservatism?

I hate to dig on someone who looks as bookish as Sowell, but he’s as bad as Wooten…shoving square pegs into round holes and saying that the hole is the wrong shape. The market won’t take care of externalities because there is no incentive to do so. Why should Coke lift a finger to do anything about the amount of garbage it is contributing to the waste stream? It shouldn’t…that’s someone else’s problem. And so long as folks like yourself are out there whining about what a pain recycling is, Coke has fantastic cover to sit back and…do nothing. Nada.

Let me know what Sowell and Phil Kent have to say about companies hiding behind their privately funded interest groups as a means of distracting the public away from externalities like millions of pounds of rubbish flowing into and filling up publically funded landfills.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

Dear Craig also @ 8:50, I would respectfully suggest that all of the good French were killed off by Robespierre, shortly after our revolution ended. (Yes, I am being funny. Two of my favorite movies are French, Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire and Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain.)

Dear say what @ 9:34, the correct term for Mr. Domenici is RINO; you may appreciate Joe Lieberman’s essay in today’s WSJ, urging military action against Iran, except that I suspect you really would not. Your last paragraph, blaming the prior Republican control of the House for its current unprecedented low ratings, sounded like a classic baseball joke, I think it may have been Lefty Gomez’s line– “they got it so screwed up nobody can fix it!” Seriously, though, Kim Strassel has a great essay in the WSJ editorial page today, outlining the self-inflicted wounds of the Democrat, excuse me, SurrendarCrat leadership, at http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrasselpw/?id=110010303

Dear Dusty @ 10:33, all of the meaningless investigations sought by our leftist, excuse me, “progressive” friends have only a single purpose – full employment for under-worked attorneys. Every dollar they spend on one of the fruitcake investigations ensures at least two will be spent defending – diverting more of our precious resources flushed into the holes so favored by our progressive friends.

Dear TFTT @ 10:49, that is your best new name yet. Funny rant, too, my compliments.

Dear jbmlaw wannabe @ 12:14, well said, I could not say it better. You show some promise, kid. Now that you are thinking intelligently, we’ll ease you into the battle against the surrendarcrats.

By J

July 6, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Thos - I think you misunderstand the Wootster. He’s amongst that breed of 3rd-rate conservative commentators who are clamoring to be the next Hannity.

Or, as Stalin used to put it, “useful idiots”. He’s sort of like the AJC’s Todor Zhikov.

PS - Dusty, with all due apologies to the mentally handicapped, you, Ma’am, are a retard.

By J

July 6, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this

Thos - I think you misunderstand the Wootster. He’s amongst that breed of 3rd-rate conservative commentators who are clamoring to be the next Hannity.

Or, as Stalin used to put it, “useful idiots”. He’s sort of like the AJC’s Todor Zhikov.

PS - Dusty, with all due apologies to the mentally handicapped, you, Ma’am, are a retard. Learn the difference between a commutation and a pardon.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

Dear jacp @ 12:57, what the heck are you talking about? Are you imagining conversations again?

By KEEP ON ENDLESSLY WHINING ABOUT SCOOTER'S PARDON ALL YOU SAD LEFTIST OBSESSIVE TURDS

July 6, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

cheers jbm and the decidedly effete jbm wannabe for the wise, kind words.

By Jim Wooten

July 6, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

Note to all:

Hank Johnson’s office corrects me. He’s signed on to impeach Vice President Cheney, not Bush. My mistake.

By @@

July 6, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

I’m taking a leisurely stroll through your column today Jim.

Waiting on a call from my daughter in the U.K.. Cambridge University’s most recently installed three day genius. After her brief education there, it’s off to Scotland and the English countryside.

Anyhoo…

How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America,” makes the case that, as he writes, thousands of them “doggedly fund their own ideological objectives in myriad ways that harm the United States” while ignoring medical and educational needs.

Let me get this straight Jim.

Are you saying that the Democrats/liberal Super-Rich have tools (foundations?) at their disposal?

I believe it…

Would those foundations be “a cornerstone” or a “footing”?

tools can be useful when applied properly, but I steadfastly refuse to be the victim of them. It’s clear that there are liberals out there who not only want, but need a hammer & sicle to do THEIR work.

A little bump on the head; cut ‘em off at the knees and the Democrats have themselves some mental midgets to throw around.

The Democrat’s “mental midgets” UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Dear Jim Wooten @ 1:07, thanks for the clarification. When I go loon spotting, I hate to confuse the species

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this

Dear @@ @ 1:08, my heartiest congratulations to your daughter on her achievement. You are deservedly proud.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

July 6, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Jbm,

My bad. Jbmlaw Wannabe referenced Sowell @ 12:14.

By @@

July 6, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Whoops!

“We don’t have quite enough votes to get done everything we want,” says U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) of the Democratic do-nothing House.

So in other words “They (Ds) can’t bring others on board with their ideas?”

“They (Ds) don’t have the ability for compromise?”

Sounds like excuses to me.

My gawd, what miserable failures the Ds are.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

Jim,

cheney is the president.

He learned a lot from Nixon and took it to a whole new level.

At least you have one politician reading your incorrect drivel but unlike most wingnut pundits, you admitted your mistake.

GFY (good for you).

Geez.

By @@

July 6, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw @ 1:17:

Thanks. She gets class credits and a European Vacation.

At orientation for her trip, it was painfully obvious to all of us, including her, that this was a money-making venture for the university she attends here in the states.

Our “little moderate conservative” can’t be fooled.

She wanted the experience, and she’s worked hard to earn it.

By GrayGayGeek

July 6, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this

getalife @ 1:22

Jim may have admitted his mistake, but if you’ll notice, his original post back up at the top is uncorrected and still making the Bush claim.

By jbmlaw wannabe

July 6, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this

Dear Economics for Voters @ 11:05, In the interest of full disclosure, one should note that the economics books that you recommend were not written by Mr. Thomas Sowell. Therefore, they are undoubtedly flawed, and I would respectfully suggest avoiding them. In lieu of the books on your reading list, I’d recommend the economic teachings of St. Thomas (not to be confused with that other great darkie, Justice Thomas). If one limits one’s self to only one book on economics, and I recommend that one does, then one should read “A Citizens Guide to the Economy” by Sir Sowell. Contrary to the advice you provided, Sowell readers should not think for themselves, but instead, should regard his teachings as sacrosanct. If one’s thirst for knowledge remains unquenched after completing this book, then perhaps any book by Chairman Ann Coulter will satisfy.

Dear Dusty @ 12:42, I concur with your observation that I will never be a match for the great jbmlaw. I only adopt this moniker to honor him.

Dear jbmlaw @ 1:00, Thank you for the kind words. As Dusty correctly observed, I would never be able to lower myself far enough to meet your level of wit and intelligence. But thanks to this great country of ours and despite the efforts of leftist moonbats, I can dream — and I do.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this

@@,

I am guessing “Honu” is your daughter.

How intellectually dishonest not addressing the gop obstruction.

You are right, there is no compromise and nothing gets done.

I see some more gop are caving on the failed Iraq occupation.

There is your compromise.

By Stacey

July 6, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this

I’m relieved to learn that House Democrats have their priorities straight. It would do more harm than good to impeach Bush before Cheney has been removed from office.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

GrayGayGeek,

You are correct.

Jim, please update your drivel.

Geez.

By @@

July 6, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

The other reality is that terrorists will indeed employ low-tech weapons like the car bombs in London and Glasgow.

Damn Jim, did you have to mention that?

Does my daughter need to check for “dust-bunnies” under her bed at Cambridge?

Naaaahhhhhh! But the liberals would have the world believe that Conservatives are collecting them.

But a lad such as Al Gore III clearly needs help more than he needs criticism.

Agreed Jim, but when the media goes after the children of one party’s representatives, and liberals follow suit (Bush family, Giuliani family, Romney’s sexlife and pet) on their leftist blog sites, is it any wonder that this country finds itself in the gutter when it comes to topics of a personal nature.

Rabid leftist bloggers and rabid journalists SHOULD be put down for the evil they do.

By AmVet

July 6, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this

I know fully well that the First Amendment to the US Constitution provides for the right of free speech, and notwithstanding the efforts of 7 US Congressman to impeach the Vice President, to all of those who keep clamoring for the impeachment of president Bush, PLEASE STOP!

He has not committed treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Those are the facts and they are irrefutable.

And the case against Cheney is going to go nowhere. The only possible impeachable crime he may have committed is IF during his closed door Energy hearings, it could be proven that he profited personally.

Shamefully, the leaders in the GOP have mastered the technique of getting as close as possible to breaking the law, or being careful enough to never caught if they do. Every once in a while they slip up, but remember they have had nearly 35 years since Nixon to get really good at this.

George Bush is arguably (and the argument grows greater every week) one of the very worst Presidents in US history, but sheer incompetence and mismanagement is not impeachable.

By the stopper

July 6, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Jim, I see you’ve got a correction from Congressman Hank’s office.

Had a look at the polling on where American stands re: impeaching Cheney?

I have:

54% favor “US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney;” 40% oppose.

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/pollargpardonimpeachment.php

The question to ask is: why shouldn’t Hank Johnson support impeachment proceedings against Cheney? Isn’t he supposed to represent his constituency? Do you imagine that his district is actually less likely to support this than the nation at large?

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Dear @@,

Sounds like your daughter will have a great time. She must be a smart one all right. Runs in the family I think.

I know seeing them off is a bit of a proud-sad time. I watched my son load on a World Airlines transport when he was going to a new post in Europe. Not a lot of fun even when you’re proud. My son didn’t get back to the states for three years. But he said the experience was great. I am sure your daughter will say much the same thing when she returns.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

@@,

Willard had sex with his pet?

He does like torture.

Geez.

By Janine

July 6, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

“He has not committed treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Those are the facts and they are irrefutable.”

AmVet,

I respectfully disagree.

As Lenny wrote above, “Bush, Cheney and Gonzalez should be impeached for election tampering, misleading the public into war and to maintain support for that war, endangering our troops by refusing to comply with the Geneva conventions, illegally spying on Americans without a warrant, ignoring Constitutional duties to enforce all laws, whether they agree with them or not, refusing to comply with Open Record (“transparency”) laws in areas that have nothing to do with national security, and outing a covert CIA operative (and possibly other operatives she had worked with in the past).”

Only one high crime and misdemeaner is grounds for impeachment — they committed several.

By the stopper

July 6, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this

Another thing, Jim. You write:

“Think Bush’s poll numbers are in the pits? Congress is 5 points lower — and under 25 percent.”

You do realize that all Congress has to do to get those numbers back up to >50% would be to do as the nation wants—i.e., withdraw from Iraq and punish the liars who got us in there. Yes?

Since you righties keep on harping about Congress’s low polling, I really have to ask—is that what you want?

By Sewing Circle Commander

July 6, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

@@ and Dusty would you please join our club and we can talk about little dearie doos all the live long day. This seems an inappropriate venue to carry on and on and on about them and I hear that the good people on this blog could really give a flying f* about your kids and their travels. Please consider it as you seem to contribute so little to that political stuff anyway. Thank you.

By Adam

July 6, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

Stacey@1:38 I’m relieved to learn that House Democrats have their priorities straight.

Funny you should bring up the topic as we would all like to hear what those priorities are. What do they propose and what have they accomplished? We are 6 mos into this Congress, don’t you think it’s time for them to find SOME direction? Lots of hot air and smoke but what’s the plan? I suppose we should wait until they have the votes as Jim McDermott whines and maybe they’ll tell us then.

During the last campaign we heard incessantly all about Bush’s lies, consipracies, cronyism etc etc. But we never heard their plan, especially regarding Iraq. Disagree if you will with Bush, at least he does pursue a mission undauntedly. The dems didn’t present an alternative then and don’t have one now. Over in the Senate the “leader” Reid only announces failure and his plan after withdrawal is to …….?

Come on dems tell us the grand vision you have to confront the fanatics and bring about peace. I guess maybe ignore them and they will go away? We tried ignoring leftism and unfortunately it’s still around.

By @@

July 6, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I am guessing “Honu” is your daughter.

You’d be wrong again my friend; just like you’re always wrong when you think I’m Buy Danish or Dusty.

I may be mistaken, but I believe Honu is a few years older than me. If you can figure out how I could give birth to someone older than myself, THAT would be a truly great accomplishment albeit impossible to believe.

How are the sockpuppets doing over at ml’s? Anything worthwhile being discussed?

Nevermind, I know the answer to my question.

Nooooooooooo……

By @@

July 6, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

Needle Commander? I find myself in stitches over your 2:00 protest.

Dusty:

Thanks, but I think the “Circle Commander” would rather we discuss people’s sexual proclivities. THAT is more appropriate for a public forum dont’cha know.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

@@,

Am I wrong about this being pathetic and sick?”:

“Sen. Tim Johnson’s new announced GOP rival, SD State Rep. Joel Dykstra. Dykstra is most well known for saying, during the abortion debate: “I think ‘rape and incest’ is a buzzword. It’s a bit of a throwaway line and not everybody who says that really understands what that means. How are you going to define that?”

He is your sick puppy, own him.

Geezuz fereaking kerist.

By AmVet

July 6, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

Janine, thanks for your repost. And let me state the obvious, I am no expert on the US constitution, but I cherish reading it and trying to understand it.

And, trust me, I agree that much of what this administration has done from day one is truly reprehensible. But according to the US Constitution, it is NOT impeachable.

(Gawd, what a terrible situation I’ve put myself in! To be an apologist, of sorts, for this administration!)

But my hope that the laws of this land will be ever cherished and upheld, FAR trump my great disgust with Bush and Co.

1) They were never legally found to tamper with elections. 2) Many presidents have mislead the people - it is of itself not impeachable. 3) Ditto for endangering troops. 4) The Geneva Convention deals with international law and probably is not applicable to the US Constitution. 5) Apparently, the spying by our government on US citizens is, in this context, not illegal.

Given your standards as opposed to the extremely rigid ones set out by the Constitution, no US President would have made it through their entire term! The Founding Fathers knew the only way for it to work at all was to make the grounds for impeachment exceeding difficult to reach.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

Dear jacp @ 1:18, thanks, I was afraid I missed something. Not a problem.

Dear wannabe @ 1:30, your parody may be as good as PoFo, my compliments, and I am flattered.

Dear @@ and Dusty, ignore the sewing circle commander – you know progressives have little joy in their lives, and they certainly resent those of us who do.

By @@

July 6, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I would have to research the Dykstra comment in full context before I can respond

I’m opposed to abortion as a means of convenient birth control resulting from mismanagement of one’s sexual responsibilities.

Can I assume that you, Getalife, are responsible for any unintended consequences?

(ISH)

By Brothel madam

July 6, 2007 2:32 PM | Link to this

@@ and Dusty would you please join our club and we can talk about most delicious desires all night long. This seems an inappropriate venue to carry on and on and on about them and I hear that the good people on this blog could really give a flying f* about your lascivious and promiscuous behavior. Please consider it as you seem to contribute so little to that political stuff anyway. Thank you.

By getalife

July 6, 2007 2:33 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the update Jim.

@@,

Your words are like crusty and hard to tell the difference.

I must go now to attend my illegal immigrant contruction projects.

If Libby gets amnesty , so should they.

Geez.

By black racebaiters anonymous this case is for you

July 6, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this

WHERE ARE all THE smug bigoted CONCERNED BLACK CLERGY in this case?

Why isn’t the racist dogturd Sharptongue screeching all over liberal pandering TV about this depraved case? NO proper legal prison term (yet) to endlessly whine about here - just the sickest of sick unrepentant bestial black yoofs literally torturing and forcing a 12 year boy to rape his own mother!!!

not much media coverage yet either - funny how blacks always seem to get a pass or get off scott free in depraved cases like this - like the black w hore in the Duke lynching, Whacko child molestor Jacko or OJ Slasher Simpson to name but three!!

be nauseated folks - be very nauseated!!

http://www.breitbart.tv/index.php

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this

Dear AmVet @ 2:24, well written. Sometimes we can do our best work for those with whom we are not ideologically aligned; certainly we can rarely do as well as we would wish for those with whom we hold full sympathy.

By jbmlaw

July 6, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

Dear bm @ 2:32, you are confusing conservatives with moonbats – search elsewhere. This is not a “political” blog – thinking right also invokes ethics and morality, concepts alien to all too many of our “progressive” brethren. (Specifically excepting many well-grounded non-conservative friends here – you know who you are.)

By @@

July 6, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

Well Jim, I’m thrilled to hear of U.S. Attorney Nahmias’ efforts in prosecuting those “Patels” who robbed the Katrina victims of what was to be their future.

Nahmias, however, was of no help to me when I approached him regarding mortgage fraud which is out of control in Clayton County. He quickly referred me to a division within the FBI. I had names, addresses, appraisals AND contracts. The FBI, without seeing my documentation, said I had nothing.

Not to worry though, I dealt with it. I now have two vacated houses, no convictions though. Most likely they have moved on to someone else’s neighborhood where they will perpetrate their crime once again on the unsuspecting.

Who maintains the vacated properties to meet my expectations?

The bank that holds the mortgage loan. I thought it only fair to share the love. I don’t even have to call them anymore, they’re johnny-on-the-spot every other week.

Now ^^^ THAT is why I have no confidence in government to function efficiently.

I’m not a Democrat who believes them to be all things to all people. I’m just not that stupid.

By Janine

July 6, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

“1) They were never legally found to tamper with elections. 2) Many presidents have mislead the people - it is of itself not impeachable. 3) Ditto for endangering troops. 4) The Geneva Convention deals with international law and probably is not applicable to the US Constitution. 5) Apparently, the spying by our government on US citizens is, in this context, not illegal.”

Dear AmVet at 2:24,

With all due respect, plenty of evidence has been found to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this administration has tampered with elections. The hirings and firings at the Justice Department were, in large part, to accomplish this goal. I think we both know that the White House is hiding additional evidence behind the claim of “executive privilege”, which as you know, didn’t work for Nixon when he tried to prevent the release of the Watergate tapes.

With regard to spying on U.S. citizens without a warrant, doing so was and is illegal under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and is unconstitutional.

With regard to the Geneva Conventions and deliberately misleading us into a war, like you, I can’t speak on the legality of these crimes — but they are crimes, just the same.

If previous administrations are deliberately guilty of such corruption, election tampering and other activities that undermines us all, then I believe that it’s time to raise the bar and set an example for future Presidents and their administrations. The American people should never accept such behavior.

I understand and share your concern that the result could be that Republican Congresses will always attempt to remove Democratic Presidents and Democratic Congresses will always attempt to remove Republican presidents. However, I believe that impeachments will continue to be rare and justified if the bar is raised for future administrations and the Congress looks to the American people for guidance (the Congress that impeached Clinton ignored the wishes of the American people).

This American seeks impeachment, and I hope that other Americans will join the choir. I don’t hope to replace Bush and Cheney with Democrats — obviously Republicans would take their places. But a man of integrity replaced Richard Nixon and our country needs men of integrity today.

By @@

July 6, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this

Last but not least Jim.

Do we really want to save chitlins and grits?

My personal opinion and answer is a vehement NO!!!!

Sweet Tea?

Rabbit Stew….sorry, that’s a Right Wing inside joke.

By WF

July 6, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

Jimmah used to be a man of integrity. Now he’s a communist sympathizer.

No thank you. Never ever ever allow the enemy scourge to rule this country again. Do not vote for the dem/communist party ticket.

By Dusty

July 6, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

Oh oh I like one of AMvets’ paragraphs. It almost sounded fair. He is going to lose his liberal credentials if he keeps that up. The lines about the troops, Constitution etc. were good words indeed.

getalife,

I am guessing that you are an armadillo with bony head plates.

When I drove through Louisiana armadillos were out in the road trying to get attention. Many got splattered. Do you ever get that feeling, geta’dillo?

By R.M.S.

July 6, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

In the case before the Supreme Court, United States v. Richard Milhous Nixon, President Nixon was claiming “executive privilege” to prevent the release of the watergate tapes that had been subpoenaed by the prosecutor.

The vote was 8-0 against Nixon(Rehnquist recused himself).

Burger wrote the following in his opinion for the unanimous court —

“The Supreme Court does have the final voice in determining constitutional questions; no person, not even the President of the United States, is completely above law; and the president cannot use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence that is ‘demonstrably relevant in a criminal trial.’”

Impeach Gonzalez, Cheney and Bush!

By JD

July 6, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

Dennis,

Is there any item substantiating your claim of Coca Cola buying the company because Coke could not compete with their product?

You on the Left are the worst at reading unspoken thoughts into posts. I never admitted Coke could not match competition - you made that assertion. Can you not even remember the trash you spout? Speak the truth sometime then you do not have to remember what you said and to whom.

I know nothing of the transaction for Briley’s – that was well before the time I was interested in such things.

As for oil prices, the major factor contributing to the price of gasoline is the lack of refining capacity not crude oil supply. Saudi Arabia, for one, has been overstating their reserves for years in order to sell more. The refining capacity has been constrained by the Liberals who fear another Exxon Valdez more than they fear Islamofacism.

OPEC controls each member’s ability to sell based upon proven reserves. When Aramco turned over the oil fields to the Saudis in 1979 the proven reserves were reported to Congress as less than 200 million barrels, but now without any new fields the Saudis claim to have over 250 million barrels in reserves, after almost 30 years of sales.

The oil shale in our Western states is reported to have reserves of 2.1 Billion barrels, or more than the rest of the world combined. If true, then the US will become the biggest exporter of oil as opposed to one of the biggest importers. Where do you suppose the Arab states will find money once they are no longer in control?

By JD is Misinformed

July 6, 2007 4:05 PM | Link to this

“…the major factor contributing to the price of gasoline is the lack of refining capacity not crude oil supply.”

Unfortunately, JD swallowed this oil industry lie hook, line and sinker. He heard it on “HANNITY & combes” (or something of the sort) and parrots it for us today.

According to JD’s sources, if only the mistreated oil companies would be allowed to build more refineries (they don’t maintain the ones they have), then there would be more oil, gasoline prices would fall and they wouldn’t being enjoying record profits anymore.

I gotta call bull$hit on that one.

By harold

July 6, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

there is not a refinery shortage

if there were, ther would be a gasoline shortage

there are enough refiernies operating to meet the needs

they have nothing to do iwth the price of gasoline or there would be SHORTAGES

remember? when there were shrotages because of katrina? That is what would be happening, but it isnt. prices are just high and stay high because it is profiteering. more power to them. if people built their cities and lives around cars, too dang bad for them! they now reap what the sew

By JD

July 6, 2007 4:14 PM | Link to this

Janine,

Opinion is not proof and all you have offered is the standard Liberal talking points. The only thing shallower than your argument is your conclusion:

-obviously Republicans would take their places. But a man of integrity replaced Richard Nixon and our country needs men of integrity today.

If Bush and Cheney were impeached, and then found guilty of a high crime or misdemeanor, the next President would come from the Constitutionally directed line of succession.

So, not only would we not have a Republican President, we would not have a man and would certainly not have integrity. We would have Pelosi.

By JD

July 6, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this

Harold and the coward with no name of his own,

You both follow the Liberal line and believe the refineries we have now, without any new in more than 2 decades, can produce refined product to meet the need of a booming population. Your writing and thinking are dim-witted and oblivious to the obvious.

All either of you can do is blame the evil corporations when in fact it was and still is the Liberal opposition to drilling and refineries that drive up the price as demand exceeds capacity.

The pile both of you stepped in was of your own making and that stuff sure does stink!

By RL

July 6, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this

I’m with Misinformed at 4:05. The government isn’t preventing oil companies from building additional refineries. That’s a bunch of crap fed to the JD’s of the world so they can justify their ideology. Oil companies prefer when supplies are limited (in the short-run). It helps their bottom line.

“AAA said a report from the U.S. Department of Energy last week reported refineries were operating at a 17-year low for this time of year at 87.6 percent capacity. Refinery output in June should be closer to 93 percent to ensure adequate inventory for the high-demand months of July and August.”

Get it JD? The oil industry is deliberately refining at below capacity to limit the supply of gasoline. That helps to maintain high prices and high profits.

By Killin' Time

July 6, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

I can’t speak for Janine, but I suspect she’s well aware of the line of succession that the imperceptive JD is referring to at 4:14. However, I strongly suspect that she is advocating/hoping for one impeachment hearing at a time. In such case, a new Republican Vice President would be appointed that, if her wishes were followed, would eventually move into the position of President.

By harold

July 6, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

actually moron JD, Harold said if people built their cities and lives around the automobile too bad for them, and more power to the oil companies.

reading is fundamental, but unfortunately never has reading been fundie-mental unless it was the bible.

By GrayGayGeek

July 6, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

RL, harold, et al -

JD has no need for facts. He knows what he knows, thanks to True Patriots like the Faux Noise Kennel…

By JD

July 6, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this

RL and others,

The price of a barrel of oil in the world market is near an all-time high, exceeded only by the price earlier this calendar year.

China’s move to an industrial, rather than an agrarian economy has placed great stress on the world’s supply of oil. China made the decision to move their population into the cities and away from the rural communities.

The population move put the onus on the Chinese government to create jobs for the new workers. Creating the jobs meant a huge increase in the demand for oil and the new inhabitants of the cities now wanted automobiles. So, in addition to the industrial demand for oil from China the demand for refined gasoline also multiplied.

The demand for oil is the major contributing factor in the increased cost of a gallon of gas.

The refineries are incapable of operating at 100% of capacity if that number is defined as the maximum output. I do not know the reasons for the reduced refinery output but I do know the way to maximize profits is to sell all you can produce.

So why would the oil companies willingly produce 15% less than they could? The marginal cost to produce that additional 15% of what they do now would hardly seem a reason. In the $3 dollar a gallon range the additional price per gallon would have to be in excess of $.45 to justify a willful limit on output as you propose.

Prices are lower than in the spring, so are you asserting that the refinery output in the winter and spring was another 10-15% less than now? The numbers do not work.

By AmVet

July 6, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this

Oh oh I like one of AMvets’ paragraphs. It almost sounded fair. He is going to lose his liberal credentials if he keeps that up.

Oh oh, indeed. As much as some of the extremists dislike it, I have liberal, moderate AND conservative credentials. In other words, it’s really hard for people to pigeon-hole me. Ask me about one topic and you’ll swear I’m a lib. Ask me about the next and you’d bet I was a conservative.

I am a quasi-traditionalist-liberal-moderate-independent! So put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Seriously, unlike many (most?) Americans today I really try to keep an open mind about things. A lot of things. I am not as Jefferson said a “slave to my own ideas.”

But why do I get the extremely strong feeling, Dusty, that you will never join me? It wouldn’t hurt to find some common ground with your adversaries instead of the usual endless back and forth sniping. But hey, everyone gets to choose and it is their prerogative how to approach these matters.

But there is one thing I am sure of - we’re all Americans and we all deeply care about our country.

By Shannon, M.Div.

July 6, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this

Here’s a fun stat for you. The majority of Americans support the impeachment of Vice-President-Not-Of-The-Executive-Branch-Cheney, and well over 40 percent of Americans support impeachment proceedings for President Bush! Perhaps that’s why so many are dissatisfied with Congress—because Congress hasn’t started impeachment proceedings! Check out this link for polling information: http://americanresearchgroup.com/. Oh, and during the Clinton impeachment hearings, support for impeachment never even reached 40 percent. 2008, baby—come ‘09, we’re going to pull the Constitution out of storage and actually follow it again!

By JD

July 6, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this

*By harold

July 6, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

there is not a refinery shortage

if there were, ther would be a gasoline shortage

there are enough refiernies operating to meet the needs

they have nothing to do iwth the price of gasoline or there would be SHORTAGES*

So, by your way of thinking the demand for gas has not increased since the last refinery was built over 25 years ago, or the oil companies were so omniscient as to build refineries to meet a demand they saw 25 years in the future. None of that makes sense. Cost/benefit problems and all that.

Further, your compatriot RL has asserted the oil companies are intentionally limiting output so as to create the SHORTAGES you allege do not exist.

Triple G

You and your fellow oil company haters offer one spurious “fact” from AAA to support your hate.

Give me some FACTS and I will be glad to listen, otherwise …

By Amber

July 6, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this

The oil industry is using the same smoke and mirrors today that Enron used in California just a few years ago?

Remember when California had the rolling blackouts because, as the industry claimed, demand was exceeding the industry’s capacity to provide supply? The mainstream media accepted this B.S. without question, but as it turned out, Enron (and others) were deliberately shutting down power plants to manipulate supply and gouge Californians.

The oil industry is using the same tactics today to keep gasoline prices high, and yet again, all is quiet in the mainstream media.

By Janine

July 6, 2007 5:35 PM | Link to this

Killin’ Time at 4:43,

You nailed it for me. Thank you.

JD at 5:06,

I know they’re not always kind, but folks are trying to address the issue of gasoline prices with some facts and applied logic. However, when you respond with comments like, “…refineries are incapable of operating at 100% of capacity…”, it becomes nearly impossible to take you seriously.

AmVet at 5:11,

To distance myself from the likes of Dusty, I want to say that I’ve read many of your posts over time, and you are always articulate, respectful, thoughtful and open-minded. I sometimes agree and sometimes disagree, but you’re definitely one of the classiest. Please keep your posts coming.

(I guess the structure of this post makes me a “jbmlaw wannabe” as well. God help me.)

By Courtney

July 6, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this

JD wrote, “You and your fellow oil company haters offer one spurious “fact” from AAA to support your hate. Give me some FACTS and I will be glad to listen”

Apparently, the difference between a “fact” and a FACT has to do with whether or not it supports JD’s ideology.

By JD

July 6, 2007 5:46 PM | Link to this

Statistics from the US Dept of Energy:

The average price of a barrel of oil for the calendar year 2003 - $28.42, and for the calendar year 2006 - 58.30.

The average price, nation wide, for a gallon of regular gas at 7/7/03 was 1.48.9, and for a gallon of regular at 7/3/06 was 2.93.4.

The oil increases by slightly more than double and the gas increases by slightly less than double. So where is the American oil companies’ manipulation of the price by decreased refinery output?

The increase in the price of gas almost exactly mirrors the increase in the price of a barrel of oil.

Again, give me some facts to support your positions, RL, Harold, Triple G, not just more of your Liberal ideology.

By K-Squared

July 6, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this

JD,

The “fact”/FACT that contradicts your falsehood did not come from AAA (not that their reputation is in doubt); it came from the U.S. Department of Energy (re-read the post at 4:35).

You’ve heard of the Department of Energy, right? It’s an agency operated by the Bush Administration.

Does the “fact” qualify as a FACT now?

By AmVet

July 6, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this

Janine, I don’t post here to get accolades, or insulted either, for that matter! The latter just sometimes comes with the territory, I guess!

I just care a great deal about this country and though pretty new to blogging, find it entertaining and a way for me to learn some new things along the way.

But your comments at 5:35 were some of the nicest things I’ve read in a long while. I’ll keep trying to do my best to sometimes, provoke (in not too mean-spirited of a way) and to sometimes challenge those here, including myself, to really examine their beliefs.

You too are a class act and you’ve made my evening and weekend! Thank you.

By JD

July 6, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

Janine,

Once again you display a lack of knowledge, or at least an inability to articulate the complete thought as in your Presidential succession theory.

Oil refineries, as paper mills, as any business that relies upon machinery, or humans, is inacapable of operating at 100% of capacity in the long run, even for a year, or likely even a quarter of a year.

In the case of refineries, we have storms along the Gulf coast that close them for periods of time, equipment failures and personnel problems also contribute to down time. Just as you hear athletes claim they gave 110% when we all know that is not possible, the charge that a refinery can operate at 100% but chooses not to do so is also inaccurate.

See the earlier post on oil and gas prices as example of Liberal thought disproved by the facts.

By Courtney

July 6, 2007 6:04 PM | Link to this

JD at 5:46,

You wrote at 3:50, “the major factor contributing to the price of gasoline is the lack of refining capacity not crude oil supply”

But at 5:46, you seem to imply that the supply of crude is “the major factor” when you wrote, “The oil increases by slightly more than double and the gas increases by slightly less than double.”

Is “the major factor” the lack of refining capacity or the supply of crude?

Make up your mind, dude.

By JD

July 6, 2007 6:04 PM | Link to this

K-Squared,

Mea culpa.

By JD

July 6, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this

Courtney,

Gas prices in the US have mirrored the increases in the price of crude and the increases of crude are due to incresed demand, primarily from the China policy changes.

Refineries in this country are constrined by several factors, some obviously of their own doing and some by governmental regulations and Greens opposition to new construction.

I am not one to trust either the government or the oil companies to treat the public fairly but I also do not accept blanket condemnation of oil companies. I am more inclined to accept blanket condemnation of government, both sides of the aisle in Congress and the Executive Branch.

In short we need a better brand of politician and the current 2 parties in Washington are each too beholden to special interests to represent you and me.

By Analchord

July 7, 2007 8:31 AM | Link to this

The French have a particular genius with the beaver shot.

Forgive me, but I seem to be going through the requisite beaver shot phase of my male menopause.

The Uni-Sunni, the crazed hermit carbomber who organized the Glasgow Incident last week, has released his manifesto on U-tube. It seems he thinks Allah wants him to kill the infidel, or something. These Islamist pablum pukers go to the Allah well as much as Hollywood dips from the OK Corral. Just once I’d like the hear Osama blame his mother. “She made me wear a burka till I was 14!”

By Carbon Footprint

July 7, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

Luckovich has a pretty good one for Sunday. Is Cheney the most powerful man in der verld? Will the fireworks promised with the congressional subpoena confrontation for Cheney’s already shredded evidence deliver the goods?

The arrogance of a man who would out an agent and then pardon his way out of it! “Well, Pa-a-a-rdon Me!”

Some of our worst CIA spy leakers would hide classified documents naming CIA agents under bridges in out-of-the-way parks. Cheney simply told newspapers.

The USA is diverse and multi-cultural. It’s possible that the white-bread Cheney doesn’t feel responsible for the nation or bound to it. It’s possible he thinks that Americans are an expendable part of his golden parachute.

Cartoon Idea: As Cheney parachutes to safety, and his parachute opens, Valerie Plame’s name is seen in block letters on the parachute like a floating billboard.

By Carbon Footprint

July 7, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Correction to cartoon idea: Cheney’s golden parachute should read, “Valeria Plame is a CIA agent, Mr. Putin, and she’s given us lots of good stuff against your country and she laughed about it. She Laughed at You, Mr. Putin. R U gonna just take it, and do nuthin’?”

By Carbon Footprint

July 7, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

No, a better cartoon correction would be if Cheney’s Golden Parachute would read, “To all the Chinese People: Valerie Plame is a CIA agent who has spied on all of you to help us target our nukes when we launch the attack she herself has planned. Are U gonna just sit there and take it? I suggest the Chinese Water Torture, or the Bamboo up the fingernails, or that finger trap thingie.”

By Just the Facts

July 7, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

As of 07/07/07 Iraq Casualty Figures

3601 Americans KIA.

26,558 Americans Wounded.

35,013 American Non-hostile Injuries.

116 Americans Died of Self-inflicted Wounds.

29,686 Deaths - Iraqi security forces and civilians (These are reported deaths and are not definitive. The actual number may be 10 times higher.)

286 All other national combatants KIA.

150,000+ Americans In-country.

Americans KIA Since “Mission Accomplished”(5/1/03): 3462

Americans KIA Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3140

Americans KIA Since Handover (6/29/04): 2742

Americans KIA Since Election (1/31/05): 2164

By Just keeping Perspective

July 7, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this

The vast majority of D-Day deaths occurred at Omaha Beach where around 2,200 Americans died during that single day.

No one knows precisely how many people died during WWII as a whole between ‘41-‘45, but it is believed to be around 50,000,000 of which some 6,000,000 were slaughtered in the holocaust.

The Russians lost around 22,000,000 civilians and some 8,000,000 servicemen.

The Germans lost around 3,500,000 servicemen and around 500,000 civilians.

British casualties were comparitively light with around 350,000 deaths in total of which around 100,000 were civilians.

By Dusty

July 7, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

I see that “Just the Facts” @ 11:49 is posting all his excuses for “cut’n’run”.

Attaboy, “Just the Facts”. Why don’t you just declare that you are an anti-war protester, a conscientous objector,a liberal or a plain coward? That way we will know why you don’t want to fight a war against terrorism. That you would rather sit around like a clay pigeon waiting for them to attack the USA again.

Yes, just give us the facts.War is hell but so is loss of freedom.

By Redneck Convert

July 7, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

I’m all with Sister Dusty. We need to lock up the cut ‘n runners as traders and go all out with the war in Iraq. And while we’re at it, let’s just drop a few A-bombs on Iran and maybe China. I see China weapons are being found in Iraq.

What kind of country are we coming to if we can’t have wars? If this keeps up pretty soon I’ll go down to the Church of Holiness and have someone point a gun at me and tell me I have to become a Muslim or else die. Or they’ll put a car bomb right outside Billy Bob’s when I’m in there.

Long as me and mine ain’t listed as dead or wounded, I say lay it on the towel-heads in Iraq. We got plenty of ground to bury our dead. All the people in Iraq got is a bunch of sand. We got more people than them so we can outlast them. I don’t know none of the people that’s getting shot or blowed up, so I’m cheering the war on.

It looks like me and Sister Dusty are the only True Patriots on this blog. Put that little weasel getalife and the other libruls in uniform. They might be good to stop a bullet or two. Or they can bicycle messages back and forth. Its for sure they won’t fight.

A nice day for 4-wheeling up muddy hillsides here in north Forsyth. We got an OK to water the hill because this is important for us rednecks. Joe Bill had a axident when his 4-wheeler fell on him, but it just landed on his head so he wasn’t hurt.

I see tftt or whatever he calls hisself is still jawing and calling names and wishing ill on people. His mother didn’t raise him right. But I don’t wish nothing bad on the head cases like him. No word from Markus yet, but he’ll be here soon.

By The real Dusty

July 7, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

We already know why I am a gutless POS yellow chickenhawk neo-con cravenly coward scumbag bigot as-swipe who just loves seeing other people’s kids killed and maimed so I can feel good about myself and my president. I mean I love it! And what really turns me on is knowing all those Iraqi men, women and children, especially the children, are getting blow to little bitty pieces every day. That is freaking great! Its pi-sses me off to think that this will someday end! But hopefully our glorious leaders will find other places to bring peace and freedom to! And as long as it isn’t my kids, or George Bush’s kids, why should I care? I mean those idiots all enlisted, right? Serves them right for doing so with my man W at the helm!

I am someone who personally won’t fight a war, has never fought in a war and will never, ever, ever fight in a war. Guaranteed. I have lots of great excuses too! Too old, too ugly. And besides, every single relative in my entire family history has served and fought valiantly in combat! But really I am just sucking off the blood of other Americans. It’s easier that way. I just can run my disgusting polluted filthy mouth all day long and pretend to be courageous and some people actually fall for it! They don’t need to know that I really have no courage whatsoever and would soil my panties at the first sight of violence.

By Patina

July 7, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this

Hey guys, it’s the weekend. Why don’t y’all go do something productive? Get outside and get some fresh air. Give it a rest.

By getalife

July 7, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

“During a Pentagon press briefing yesterday, Gen. Rick Lynch was asked what would happen in Iraq if the troops added for George Bush’s escalation were withdrawn:

It would be a mess, Jamie. It’d be a mess.

And today in Iraq:

Suicide bombings across Iraq killed nearly 150 and injured scores, including a massive truck assault in a northern Shiite village that ripped through a crowded market, officials said Saturday.

The violence came as the U.S. military on Saturday reported the deaths of eight American soldiers over the past two days…

Actually, there have been 13 American soldiers killed in the past two days, but who’s counting? Certainly not Lindsey Graham, who two days ago said:

The military part of the surge is working beyond my expectations. We literally have the enemy on the run.

Yes indeed. It seems that the insurgency is in its last throes. Again.”

Only gullible fools like crusty the clown believe this propaganda.

Geez.

By @@

July 7, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Let’s hear it for LUCKOVICH’S SOCKPUPPET who is all too eager to display their (ahem) “STAR PERFORMANCE” (cough cough) here at Wooten’s on the weekends.

Let the credits roll:

ANALCHORD

CARBON FOOTPRINT

JUST THE FACTS

JUST KEEPING PERSPECTIVE

THE REAL DUSTY

All portrayed by that notorious CAST OF ONE…..Political Foreskin.

How’s it hangin’ PoliFore? Do you plan on making your usual cameo appearances using Conservative names?

Enjoy your fun-filled Wooten Weekend.

By Dusty

July 7, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

RedNeck Convert,

Getting support from you is kinda like feeding the hungry with Chinese pet food. It looks good but don’t touch it.

Real cut’n’runners don’t show up in uniform. They are too busy protesting and blogging.

How’s your new career with Michael Moore’s liberal-luv-‘em-and-loquacious-lies movie coming along? You know. The new movie “PHONY”!

I thought you and Captain Freedom would be Hollywood stars by now. Yes!Chumming around with Barb Streisand and getting your picture made in a Muslim IED shop with Jane Fonda.

I’ll be watching the news for you and the missus in tinsel town. Polish up that gold tooth and don’t forget to smile.

By Dusty

July 7, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

@@ @1:50,

You really have it down right about the “sock puppets”. Very liberal sock puppets at that.

Hmm… I’m afraid “the real Dusty” has a “real problem”, one of those that requires “real help”. Let’s hope he gets it “real soon”.

Well, I’m still going to get one of those SuperShooter water pistols. Would you believe there were TWO, not one, squirrels on the bird feeder dumping everything on the ground a few minutes ago. The towhees and the chipmunk like everything on the ground but the chick-a-dee likes it in the feeder. So do I. At this rate I may have to buy stock in a bird food company.

By The real Dusty

July 7, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

Real carpet munchers don’t show up in uniform. We are too busy whining and blogging. And telling everybody how courageous we are. And what patriots we are. And what good Christians we are. And what great citizens we are. And…

By @@

July 7, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 2:31,

Some of the funniest videos I’ve ever watched were those of determined squirrels raiding birdfeeders.

Take ^^^ your pick, but don’t take your “sharp-shooter” off the two raiders in your yard.

By Just the Facts

July 7, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

Cost to date for Iraq War

$456 Billion

$4,100 for every American household

$1,500 for every American

$3,400 for every taxpayer

$11 million per hour

$275 million per day.

Original estimate by George W. Bush - $50 Billion

New estimates - $750 Billion by end of FY 2008*

New estimated total cost $1.2 - $2 Trillion*

*Excludes rehabilitation and health care costs of returning troops

By Megatron

July 7, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this

getalife is a loser beyond measure.

By Dusty

July 7, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

@@ @2:48

Those squirrels really made me laugh. I need one of those twirly bird feeders. And I must grease the poles. My feeder hangs from an old setup for “pull ups” my sons liked to use. The squirrels run right up them or drop down from the trees. My two work together and don’t run each other off. It’s a conspiracy I tell you!!!

But with these new ideas, I may outwit my squirrels yet. That one water skiing is really smart. Have you ever seen squirrels as big as those spotted ones? Don’t know what state they were in but they looked well fed.

Thanks for linking me to the riotous squirrel life. It is really fun (except on my bird feeder.)

By Duh stands for Democrat

July 7, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

The liberals at the AJC making up the rules as they go, just like little children would:

In last Sunday’s paper, the AJC ran a short article that generated a dozen or so telephone calls and e-mails from readers who felt the newspaper was showing its typical liberal bias by printing partial remarks made by conservative author and political pundit Ann Coulter……Several readers asked why the AJC hadn’t reported on Maher’s original comment about Cheney….. Cox Washington editor Carl Rauscher said Maher is paid to make jokes as a comedian while Coulter is a political pundit.

By Duh stands for Democrat

July 7, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

Hitler killed 6,000,000 Jews and countless others, should we have blamed ourselves for that and run from the battlefield, like getalife is suggesting we do with Al Qaida genocide?

By getalife Suicide bombings across Iraq killed nearly 150 and injured scores

We should all be thankful that our greatest generation had courage, unlike these Angry Left libs.

By Phil Kent

July 7, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

Of course there are “right-wing” foundations like Scaife, Heritage, etc. with ideological agendas. So what? The focus of my new book is to spotlight the thousands of U.S. left-wing, tax-exempt private foundations that work to undermine our sovereignty and culture. I don’t know of a single “right-wing” foundation that has funded Mideast suicide bombers (like the Ford Foundation) or given grants to radical Islamic “charities” (like Ford, Rockefeller, George Soros’ Open Society Institute and others). And “right-wing” foundations don’t undermine the U.S. military— unlike leading left-wing foundations that massively fund Greenpeace, which actively tries to block shipments of food and supplies to our troops.

By Be Matt Glavin's Buddy

July 7, 2007 5:01 PM | Link to this

Hi Phil - it’s me, Matt. Meet me at the Chattohoochee River Park.

It’s neo-con cruisin’ night in the parking lot.

By The Surge Could Work...

July 7, 2007 5:22 PM | Link to this

Our armed forces, under the leadership of the Chickenhawk in Chief have 3599 deaths in the war in Iraq. It took FDR and Eisenhower, two people that weren’t incompetent, 300,000 dead Americans to defeat German fascism.

Since there are many more Muslims than there were Germans, (a factor of 20 times) it should require approximately 6,000,000 dead Americans to defeat Islamo-fascism. That is if we had competent leadership. With Dumbya in charge, make that number probably 7 times higher, around 42M or so. If the clowns that voted for Dumbya enlisted and got themselves killed, then we could defeat Islamofascism.

So this should be Dumbya’s new strategery. You neo-cons should support it by enlisting, and (hopefully) dying.

By @@

July 7, 2007 6:06 PM | Link to this

Surge:

The Germans surrendered to the formidable force known as the U.S. Military. After that, those who fought for the Nazis retreated to their homes and resumed living normal lives.

You’re right, the surge…given enough time could work. How much patience do you have? Obviously not much.

Would you like all of the conservatives to die now or sometime in the immediate future?

High blood pressure is the silent killer. Have you checked yours lately?

The Washington Post is describing Gore as Giddy

The Democrats have Gore who is Giddy and Edwards who’s pretty.

Do the Democrats have any men in their ranks?

By Sean

July 8, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

Phil Kent wrote, “Of course there are “right-wing” foundations like Scaife, Heritage, etc. with ideological agendas. So what? The focus of my new book is to spotlight the thousands of U.S. left-wing, tax-exempt private foundations that work to undermine our sovereignty and culture…“right-wing” foundations don’t undermine the U.S. military.”

Personally, I seek to avoid books which are ripe with fabrications, misrepresentations and one-sided demagoguery. Therefore, I won’t be reading the rantings of Phil Kent.

By Carbon Footprint

July 8, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this

I think we have to put the Surge in perspective.

What is the Surge? It’s a police foot patrol in any neighborhood in the world; where the police surge on foot, crime decreases. Fact.

What the Surge’s success is telling us is that we’ll need to police patrol on foot these Baghdad neighborhoods for at least a generation, so that young Iraqi children can know a childhood of peace, (on the way to becoming a suicide bomber), and then maybe he’ll opt to only throw rocks or molotov cocktails annually in a ritual rite of passage like the south koreans do.

Ever notice how the S Koreans let their young blow off steam once a year with the mob scene and rock throwing and fist waving, and “off the pig” chants? Then everybody gets tired and goes home.

Maybe, just maybe, if we patrol those Baghdad neighborhoods for one or two generations…….or three or four…..HELL, we aint nevah gonna git outta Iraq.

I SAID NEVER!

(but that’s a good thing. Why is a perpetual presence in Baghdad any worse than the one in Seoul, or Berlin, or Tokyo?)

So what. I’m sick of edifying you uber-pundits about Iraq. We’re there. Bush done did it. Let it go. Move On dot bomb.

We dont know what future was foiled by Bush. That future may have been worse than this war we’re in. Most americans are only against troop casualties. They aren’t against responsible occupations of globally consequential hot spots.

That’s what we’re doing now: Occupying a hot spot so dat da globe dont go boom.

It’s simple. Accept the Surge. Admire the courage.

One more thing: This partisan posturing about troop reductions or timelines for withdrawal is all polling. All Polling. THere’s no way we can take any more troops out of Iraq other than a cosmetic photo op number of troops. We’re there to stay. Iraq is our 51st state, (New Alabama). Oh, it’s a red state.

By Redneck Convert

July 8, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

Well, I couldn’t hardly sleep a wink, worrying about the squirrels getting in the bird seed of Sister Dusty and @@. Its a terrible problem, much more worrysome than things like our troops getting kilt and wounded. It must be pretty flustrating for them when all people want to write about is Iraq and they have more serious things to deal with.

Today I will go to the Church of Holiness. Maybe I’ll see Sister Dusty there and tell her how sorry I am about them terrible squirrels. They remind me of the moochers such as Those People that want to take things not meant for them and make us pay for it. Anyway, I can come over and blast them with my 12-gauge. They make mighty fine eating when they are all gravied up.

I guess TFTT is getting his treatment this weekend. He’s been mighty scarce here. Maybe they can tighten the loose screws and get him back to normal. For that matter, Markus ain’t showed up yet. Maybe the cops got him.

By Carbon Footprint

July 8, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

In a column about the General Assembly’s options concerning Grady’s accident trauma center, Wooten referenced the advise Mac gave JFK about ‘Nam: “Never get involved in a land war in Asia”.

I think a more appropriate bromide would have been, “Never gamble with death when there’s an Assembly involved.”

By Claire

July 8, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Cynthia Tucker, who would immediately release from prison every pervert and mass murderer directly to your neighbor, for the first time in her extended child hood, has found some one she wants to send to jail:

Bill Campbell richly deserved his prison cell. Of course, the same could be said of Libby, couldn’t it?

So using the power of the Atlanta City government to accept bribes, promote cronyism and commit wire fraud are equal crimes compared to forgetting what you told Tim Russert?

Even three year olds don’t make stretches like that.

And Luckovich, either sensing that the “impeach Bush” opportunity is running short or in service to the democrat party strategy, has let Cheney Derangement Syndrome rule over his every waking moment:

Star performance

And when you think of “global warming” and what the liberals would like to do to stop it, look no further than what they tell you in their newspaper:

The human-free Earth: Q&A / ALAN WEISMAN, author: Life would still go on ‘just fine’

Who’s life would “go on?”

You have to be pretty slow to not realize what thoughts like that one mean to you, average reader. It wouldn’t be them that got gone, just like Bin Laden, these liberals want others to commit suicide for their ideas.

And what does it say of a so called family newspaper that doesn’t relegate notions like this to the crackpot file but instead promotes them on their most read day of the week?

Think of how sick this really is, killing all humans to save the Earth, does it get any more depraved than that?

By getalife

July 8, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

Al Gore’s leadership on global warming is something we have not seen in a long time.

Live Earth was amazing and the world needs great leaders like Al Gore.

He made good history this weekend compared to w’s tragic history of the Iraq disaster.

This is a good first moral step to show the world, we are not all disgusting cons that want peace and a better place to live for future generations.

Thank you Al Gore for showing real Americans to the rest of the world.

By getalife

July 8, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

Watching Ron Paul on ABC and can see why he outraised McLoser.

This guy is on a roll and the best the gop have to offer.

He wants to get out of the ME while the rest want to keep occupying.

Congress is shifting to his position.

By time for the truth

July 8, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

Sinthia Sucker is just yet another black far left pandering nutty Bush hater who has her job SOLELY because of her minority racist quota colour and her poisonous leftist politics that the far left unthinking lemmings virtually all robotically puke up daily in the Urinal. Which explains the UNREMITTING CIRCULATION FAILURE of the Urinal!! In a fast booming with new nasal whining yanKKKee and FL transplants metro area this leftist rag is hilariously continually losing readers.

Whilst some circulation loss is likely down to the ‘new media’ and the welcome actual diversity of news sources now available, much of this richly deserved Urinal circulation failure is undeniably caused by the incessant blatant pandering to blacks and illegal leeches and ‘at best; what one might equally ‘neutrally’ call the Urinal’s odious neutral coverage of America hating towel head killers. Which is why these Urinal “causes” are NEVER EVER actually really criticised in the multi-culti Urinal. Rarely is the endemic often murderous black on crime and thuggery ever denounced - though the odd blatant black criminal outrage is. Towel head terror outrages are invariably reported on through a lets undermine Bush and the military lens. Illegal leeches are invariably portrayed as poor wittle victims of racist America and/or poor semi-literate downtrodden hapless folks cruelly exploited by grasping (corporate/small business) Americans. The unremitting illegal criminality is usually in most, if not every aspect - except occasionally with a stark reminder that can’t be ignored - is usually just glossed over and ignored.

It isn’t that hard to be a sodding journalist these days. The need for shorthand and years of unionised apprenticeships and formal training is pretty much gone with all the digital/electronic technology and the labour saving bells and whistles now available. Several folks on here for example could easily replace Sucker and her ilk and no one would even notice in terms of the quality of writing. Obviously biting sardonic blog humour would not be appropriate in official Urinal editorial pieces but the notion that these vile leftist pandering hacks are qualitatively the BEST writers in the metro area is a freaking sick joke!!!

Hilarious to see that VT based Mrs Oedipus-NAMBLA has at least temporarily split up from its depraved Jon-Benet obsessed hubby Mrs JM Karr who has been gutlessly physically battering his ageing should be deeply ashamed pappy.

inbred rednekkk’s deranged anti-black racist bigotry oozes out once again. why can’t inbred eat a box of e-coli flavoured moonpies and wash the pies down with a case of arsenic flavoured RC Cola?

that global whining concert was a worthless pointless fooking joke!!! happily I managed to catch not one second of this pathetic self absorbed bollocks. watching dried up hasbeens and narcissistic wannabes puke up the same old lying garbage about their now undeniably completely discredited deranged moronic eco whacko obsession has all the repugnant lure of watching a corrupt perjuring pardon selling Klinton rapist or an alcoholic deranged pandering hypocritical Kennedy incessantly lie on TV for 22 hours - WITH NO FACTUAL CHALLENGE OR OPPOSING VIEW!!

amy chance of someone shutting up the sad sack aborted foreskin for about a decade!! this snivelling psychotic wanker is hysterically obsessed with posting its unending funny as an end stage brain tumour drooling drivel on here!!

at least Claire has some real vision and intellectual honesty this weekend!!

its long past time to publicly baseball bat all the useless, incompetent TV weather forecaster LIARS/IDIOTS in Atlanta. These worthless glib “watch my usually utterly incorrect tease after the break” scum are hellishly overpaid cretins!! And these smug bastards never ever apologise for getting their forecasts hopelesly wrong!!

By time for the truth

July 8, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Teachers and parents and others should read this devastating article and note how leftist Stalinists treat those who simply expose how life really is at the chalkface these days. A competent, credentialled teacher turned TV producer is hounded by lefties and supported by countless ordinary folks for lifting the lid on classroom thuggery. Its a tale of life in the lefty run world … after all this occured in Tony B.Liars lefty run Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?inarticleid=466899&inpageid=1879

By Carbon Footprint

July 8, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

CBS did a piece this morning on Don McLean and “American Pie”, his big top 40 hit.

What do the lyrics mean?

I remember 1971, at Papa Luigi’s in Detroit, on a Friday Night, watching college kids get a pitcher of beer and a pizza and discussing the song for four hours. Now there are college courses that teach what the lyrics mean.

I remember a good close college friend of mine really being passionate about his thesis in his college class in which he wrote profusely about the song, long before there were classes devoted to it, and to the delight and approval of his professor.

I hated 1971. I hated that song. I still dont know the lyrics, nor what they purport to mean. In fact, I’d rather stick my head in a prison commode than listen to the lyrics or any discussion of the lyrics. (or listen to the song ever again).

I think everyday about Buddy Holly and what a tremendous loss to rock and roll his death was, but I dont pretend to extrapolate my grief to the overall effect on popular culture that another Peggy Sue would have made.

And McClean trademarked the title, “American Pie”, when it’s obvious he ripped it from, “As American as Apple Pie”. Its not fair, and I didnt’ know you could copyright a title.

Thanks to that song, the 70’s were totally ruined for me, so were the 80’s, 90’s and this far into the aught’s.

ISAIDRUINED!!!

By getalife

July 8, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

“Senior Iraqi politicians, with possible tacit backing from US Vice President Richard Cheney, are planning to ask soon for a no-confidence parliamentary vote against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a step toward bringing him down, CBS News reported Saturday.”

Can we get one of those on dick.

Geez.

By Midori

July 8, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

@@’s idea of a ‘real man’

thanks, but no thanks.

By Dusty

July 8, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

RedNeck Convert, 9:16

Your undercover petticoat is showing and it has liberal written all over it. But you got some attention, didn’t you?

Poor baby! Still trying to pawn off your real politics as something else.

I don’t blame you. I’d be a faux redneck any day rather than let anyone know I was a backstabbing liberal. Now that would be a disgrace that should be kept undercover.

By getalife

July 8, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Midori,

One of Mike’s best toons.

The man has talent.

Still looking for why the AJC has wingnut Wooten writing this drivel.

Geez.

By @@

July 8, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

Midori @ 12:49,

Mike’s latest toon? Hell, I thought that was Castro with his hand up Michael Moore’s dress.

ml’s liberal sockpuppets…Heeyyyy, it could be ml with his hand up YOUR dress.

Makes you all giddy just thinking about such a “slick willy” maneuver by ml, doesn’t it?

“The Democrats have become the women’s party, but in the general election men show up too,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at Virginia University. “And men find her off-putting.”

See ^^^ there, even Sabato thinks the Democrats are a bunch of women.

Getalife:

I don’t have time right now, but I’ll share an exchange between two participants at Stratfor’s discussion forum. One of them portrayed himself as Ron Paul, the other guy served as an interviewer with some hard questions that needed answers.

It was a very interesting approach with a predictable conclusion.

By getalife

July 8, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this

@@,

In the real world, Paul was answering questions on the issues this morning on ABC.

He has principles and abides to the Constitution.

You will not see that at your fake debate in la, la land at your site.

Geez.

By time for the truth

July 8, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

Not even the far left LA Times can ignore this horrendous black murder epidemic on its doorstep.

funny how the professional black racial spoils racebaiters and concerned black clergy types never really ever say ANYTHING about this topic!! mostly black on black killings … but not all.

bet the likes of crackpipe and rabingt and heebeedeegee et al have bugger all to say about this!!

this is a Kalifornia killing field in 07.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/homicidereport/

look at this stunning map linked on the LA Times web site for murdered blacks and mexican types in LA in just 6 months of this year … just see the laundry list of names of the innocent and not so innocent victims and remember this is actually happening in America!!!

http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/mqteclo5043/38003

By Curious Observer

July 8, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

I hope others are as sick as I am of TFTT’s rants.

They always take the same approach:

This guy needs some new material, not to mention a real life and some sessions with a competent psychiatrist.

By getalife

July 8, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this

Fox Noise Sunday: Hillary Derangement Syndrome?

No ideas, no solutions, just hate.

Clinton/Obama, the ultimate karma.

By @@

July 8, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I’ll put my la la Stratfor site up against your DailyKos/Huffington Post fever swamp site any day of any week. (ISH)

I’ve caught Ron Paul on interviews before. The guy is an idealist…a dreamer…a libertarian. In the discussion at Stratfor, the guy portraying Paul started the discussion with an Iraqi pullout and non-intervention policy approach to all things global.

The guy portraying the interviewer presented worst-case scenarios as a result of our pull-out. Not just those as they relate to the U.S., but on a global scale. The impact it would have on the world and the world’s economy.

The potential for nuclear attacks, economic extortion of the resources (oil) necessary to sustain world trade.

BTW, I’ve read that Paul has been opposed to bills supporting energy independence in the past. I guess he’s had a recent revelation or something.

This was a very civil back and forth exchange which ended up with the Paul guy being forced to acknowledge that intervention in the Middle East would eventually and once again become necessary. But, before he actually had to admit that fact, he suggested that the guy portraying the interviewer contact Paul personally and ask him the questions. In other words, he hightailed it off of the board because he was backed into a corner on some of life’s realities.

The guy portraying the interviewer was most gracious in asserting that Stratfor’s Ron Paul character was a great debater. I’m pretty sure it was delivered with sarcasm.

I know why you like Ron Paul so much. He looks like a skinny version of your Grandpa Murtha.

Here’s a politicial that isn’t lying to you.

How do I know he’s not lying in ^^^ that campaign ad?

Because he never says a word. His lips did move, but he never…said…a… word.

Redneck @ 9:16,

Please feel free to discuss Iraq at any time. Don’t fixate on Dusty, myself, TFTT or Markus. In other words, don’t let us be the source of your frustration.

Talk about “loose screws”, yours hit the ground with the birdseed in your attempt at 9:16, to raid the “twirly squirrel” feeder. But hey, it was, no doubt, a fun ride. It made you Dizzy.

By raisedanidiot

July 8, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

TFTT - You’re a rabid freak, aren’t ya fella? I don’t even know where to start with you. You sure are an Andy-sounding bugger though… Wooten’s rantings wasn’t much better. Is it my imagination or are all the neo-con’s sounding like spoiled children that finally got caught in their mischief…whaaah, but Billy did it…whaaah waaah, the democrats are the real bad ones, waaah waaaaaah They’re all just rambling this morning like their computer chips got scrambled or something. Bush’s house of cards are coming down, yall…watch out you don’t get hit! Cheney’s going down hard first…his own conservative hard-liners are abandoning him…not to mention that special place in hell he’s got going on. Bush should have to take his executive priviledge to Guantanamo and share a cell with one of those 350 pore blokes.

Good afternoon, getalife…superlative day, isn’t it?

Good afternoon, getalife

By getalife

July 8, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

@@,

Does Stratfor have Professor Smarta-ss?

I think not.

Good afternoon, raisedanidiot.

By Duh stands for Democrat

July 8, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this

Baghdad —- A new video by al-Qaida’s deputy leader Thursday left no doubt about what the terror network claims is at stake in Iraq —- describing it as a centerpiece of its anti-American fight and insisting the Iraqi insurgency is under its direct leadership. But the proclamations by Ayman al-Zawahri carried another unintended message: reflecting the current troubles confronting the Sunni extremists in Iraq, experts said.

Sounds like Zawahari and his merry band of Al Qaida suicide bombers desperately need some help.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are expected tomorrow to announce a new coordinated effort to force votes in July to end the Iraq war, according to Democratic insiders.

Coincidence?

Hey, at least the Democrats in Congress are doing something.

By @@

July 8, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

Are you kidding me?

Does Stratfor have Professor Smarta-ss?

My gawd, let’s hope not.

This isn’t conspiracy theory stuff, it’s how you guarantee public support for policies that aren’t in the public interest.

I’ll bet the good Professor is heavily invested in tin-foil.

I did read something about that “suspiscious” /sarc/ map over a year ago. It wasn’t what the nutjobs think it was. I’ll see if I can locate the article.

You’ve got me tickled here Getalife with your Professor Smarta-ss link.

By getalife

July 8, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this

They got help from Rumsfeld

By getalife

July 8, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

@@,

Actually, Professor Smarta-ss and Bartcop have been reporting the theft of oil in Iraq since the beginning.

Its hit mainsteam consenses now.

I know you are not a member of the reality based community but can you tell me what do the cons stand for besides hate?

By getalife

July 8, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this

Nevermind @@,

I found what cons stand for now:

“Look at the debate we had a few weeks ago. You had Democrats debating what was the best national healthcare plan they could offer the country and you had Republicans debate which method of torture would be best employed if they could bring in Jack Bauer.”

Geez.

By @@

July 8, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

You’re gonna have to show me that comment I made as it relates to national healthcare and Jack Bauer. I have no recollection of having made it, but I’ll believe it if you can provide the date and time I posted it. Was it made here or at ml’s?

I vaguely recall Paul joking about Jack Bauer’s torture techniques.

I don’t see a lot of hate coming from the right. In all honesty…and I do mean this sincerely Getalife, I’ve become shocked by the verbal hatred that’s put out by the far-left. I don’t visit right-wing sites, but you guys take me to the fever swamps with your links, and WHOOP, there it is, the HATRED.

I’m not saying that the right doesn’t engage in it, I’m just saying it has no impact on me coming from either side.

Now when an innocent, unsuspecting bystander is used directly or indirectly in implementation of the left’s hatred, I get a little riled.

You’ve seen it done from those on your side, and you know how angry it makes me. Innocent victims shouldn’t be used to take hateful jabs at anonymous posters. Even when “idjets” try to do it in humor, it’s tasteless, crude and vile.

As a conservative I stand in favor of a reasoned debate supported by logic. The emotions of the left are O.K., they just shouldn’t take precedence over logic. Emotions are the kind of things that only the individual can control. On a blog site we have no way of physically restraining the emotionally overwrought liberal patient.

By getalife

July 8, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this

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Andy.

Nuff said about hatred.

Geez.

By @@

July 8, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this

O.K. Getalife, let me draw on an occasion long ago, when everybody was using the word “retard”, Andy included.

I really got tired of reading it. On behalf of the kids I work with, I expressed my disdain for the term. I even asked Andy not to use it.

He apologized and refrained from using it for a lengthy period of time. The liberals continued unabated and without ANY apologies.

After a considerable amount of time Andy resumed using the term when describing liberals.

I never mentioned it again. I decided that I was taking the term personally when there was no need. My kids don’t read this site. They were unaffected, and if they were unaffected, then I could afford to be as well.

I have to give Andy credit for having apologized though. The liberals never bothered.

By @@

July 8, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

Oh, and Getalife; I’ve never seen you use the term “retarded”, “retard”, “tard” or “retardo”.

I appreciate that.