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Of trailers, cleavage and Vick — oh my

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

• Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, 78,000 house and travel trailers are still occupied. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is being accused by a Democratic congressman, Henry Waxman of California, of ignoring the dangers of living in trailers that reportedly “may be contaminated with dangerously high levels of formaldehyde gas.” During those two years, probably more than 300,000 homes have been built. But it’s easier to bash the administration by concentrating on the Katrina trailers. Congress doesn’t govern. It politics.

• More politics: The House Judiciary Committee’s party-line vote to approve contempt citations against the president’s chief of staff and former counsel for refusing to testify in its fishing expedition into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. They’re political appointees who can be fired at any time; Bill Clinton fired almost every one of them when he took office.

• Headline: “Poor families run out of rental options as costs eat up checks.” Featured is a 23-year-old mother of two, in a story suggesting that taxpayers are providing too little housing assistance to the poor. And the father or fathers contributing? No mention. Men don’t matter in stories about poverty, crime or the suffering of children.

• It is simply amazing that DeKalb County would limit the options of parents exercising their right under No Child Left Behind to flee bad schools to either technical/vocation schools or online courses. If the Georgia General Assembly ever needed an incentive to offer parents of children in nonperforming public schools real choice — vouchers —DeKalb should provide it. Bad options are no options. It’s what educators do to defeat reforms they hate.

• Women excoriate male reporters and commentators for making a to-do over what women — but not men — in politics and business wear. So what dunder-headed man went on and on about Hillary Clinton wearing a dress on the Senate floor that revealed a hint of cleavage? Oops, it’s a female, Robin Givhan. Come to think of it, just about everybody writing about what political women wear is female.

• One lesson from the Genarlow Wilson case: Hire media-savvy spinmeisters as lawyers. There are two court systems in America. One does law. The other does emotion. Sometimes the latter trumps the former.

• Henceforth when attending arts and crafts festivals, my new line — stolen from a New York arts dealer attending the National Black Arts Festival — will be this: “If that were a Jackson Pollock that would be going for $10 million.”

• The federal minimum wage got a 70-cent hike this week to $5.85. But, as the AJC reports, “it’s relatively hard to find people earning” the $5.15 wage in metro Atlanta. The real minimum wage is zero. If your skills are not worth $5.85, you’re unemployed. And if you’re still making minimum wage after a few months, you need to rethink school.

• If U.S. Sen. Joe Biden had a real shot at getting the Democratic presidential nomination, I’d be concerned. But fortunately he’ll never be in a position to follow through on his willingness to commit American troops to humanitarian police missions. “Where we can, America must. Why Darfur? Because we can.” Once again, some problem are the United Nations’ or the European Union’s or regional players. Others — those that pose a threat to us — are ours.

• Michael Vick needs legal/public relations help. Somebody better be gathering information that those fighting dogs bit children, snapped at grandmothers or were engaged in consensual misbehavior, or Michael Vick is in real trouble. Better yet, his campaign should make it clear that whatever happened between him and those two dogs was consensual.

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By jbmlaw

July 27, 2007 8:12 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Kimberly Strassel has a sharp observation on the “criminal contempt” charges levied by our noble leftist overlords: “Congress gave itself the right to issue criminal contempt citations long ago, and bully for it, but there’s nothing in legal history to suggest that in this case it has the right to apply that power to the president or his subordinates. It’d be one thing if Mr. Conyers had proved beyond doubt that a crime had been committed. He hasn’t. Instead, this is a straightforward battle between Mr. Bush’s claim of executive privilege and Congress’s claim of oversight. Both sides, in theory, have a legitimate case.

“So the idea that Congress now gets to win this battle by simply declaring the other side criminal is bizarre. Under that twisted logic, Mr. Bush has just as much right to grant himself a similar power and hold Mr. Conyers in criminal contempt for interfering in executive-branch business. This is not, obviously, a very grown-up way of settling constitutional disputes.” I don’t think you’ll find many legal scholars who would suggest there is any real chance the leftists will prevail in court on this one. The branches are co-equal under the Constitution. As the Executive has the sole power to appoint and to fire, there is little role in the area for the Legislative. Or does anyone here suggest Congress will do the honorable thing, and pass legislation requiring the Executive to say “mother may I” before disposing of worthless bureaucrats?

The poor mother of two is an excellent argument for Mr. Newt’s idea of reviving orphanages, for those desperate women who cannot care adequately for their progeny. Where is this woman’s church? Why is the church not helping?

Re the NCLB, The Peoples Republic of DeKalb County operates under a different theory of government.

Real Men don’t really notice what women wear – indeed, our imaginations are hardwired to eliminate such as we contemplate the female form.

Re the practice of law, while most attorneys are equipped to offer knowledge, the real product we sell is “hope.” You sell the sizzle, not the steak.

The note on Joe Biden reminds us of the bind the leftists suffer now, highlighted by Osama Obama’s ill-conceived commentary on the significance of a potential Khmer Rouge-style bloodbath in Iraq; “Preventing genocide is not a good enough reason to stay in Iraq.” That image is not a winner with the American public, and I think Biden’s is (even if it is impractical.) Maybe we need a compassionate leftist, instead of one who embraces Nazi-like sentiments.

Funny non-political column by Peggy

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010385

By Jeff

July 27, 2007 8:28 AM | Link to this

Biden’s comments:

Mr. Biden: You said “Where America Can, America Must”. Thank you for your support of the war, sir. You see, this was essentially the President’s motivation for going there in the first place. You seem to think that your statement only applies to policing actions, but the US Military is NOT a police force. As Bruce Willis says in “The Seige”: “We are a broad sword, not a scalpel” The US Military has become good at a variety of tasks due to the men and women in it, but above all it has a single purpose: The DEFENSE of the United States of America. Not Darfur. Not Kosovo. Not Chechnya, Afghanistan, South Korea, Japan, or Germany. The United States of America.

Minimum wage: The higher the minimum wage, the higher the unemployment. Flipping burgers simply is not worth $10 an hour.

By Filster

July 27, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

Lots to comment onthis a.m. I too find myself somewhat mystified at all the bruhaha (other than pure political posturing) over the firing of the U.S. Attorneys. As pointed out, it’s pretty much standard practice with administration changees that some will go and some will stay. I will say, however, that Gonzales lying cannot be tolerated. It shows a disdain and arrogance that reminds me of, dare I say, the democtratics elite. Alberto has to go! You can tie the story on unwed mothersin with the story on Vick. Whether you like it or not, the crisis in Black America and the disintegration of tradtional family models produces thugs like Vick who, if placed in a position of being “special” simply don’t know how to handle it and think they can do anything and everything wherever and whenever they like. Things will never get better until we stop crying “foul” to defend abhorrent actions by individuals such as Vick. Being black has nothing to do with it. Being stupid, arrogant, immature, and self-centered does. As for U.S. troops in humanitarian missions, Biden would have to re-implement the draft. Our troops remain loyal to each other and the to the ideals they signed up for. Not one of our current politicians, included the President, is worthy of the respect and loyalty of our troops these days. Here’s hoping for a miracle in 2008, cause that’s what we need.

By Redneck Convert

July 27, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

Well, people in N.O. got perfectly good trailers and they are griping about them. Its every boys dream to grow up and be able to buy a double wide and a pickup, but in N.O. all they can think about is a few chemicals. I say kick the freeloaders out and let them live on the street if they don’t like it.

So this Hillary person had some body parts showing. Not as bad as Sister Dusty and @@ though. They hang out all over the place. Too many trips to Ryans, I guess.

The cat fight between @@ and Debbie yesterday was intrusting. Leastwise I learned what @@ stood for. If I had a name like that I’d change it.

All the libruls in Congress want to make My President look bad. They throw around words like empeachment and perjury like it was Saturday night at Billy Bob’s. I say just don’t talk to them. Its none of their business what My President and his people do. If somebody wants to get the scribble of Ashcroft on a piece of paper while he’s out of it in the hospitle, then get it. It ain’t no worse than old Newt serving divorce papers on his wife while she was dying from cancer in the hospitle.

Well, I’m a little off my feed today. It was bad enough somebody brought up doing You Know What with Sister Dusty and @@ yesterday. Then last night I learnt this Obama guy was gaining on the Hillary woman. Its the most worst thing that could happen. One of Those People in the White House and a bunch of mad libruls running over good white Christian Republicans in Congress. I guess I’ll go to the Church of Holiness Sunday and pray for a big truck to run over this Obama. Its about the only way us good Christians can stay in charge next year. The libruls are good and mad just because we can put good Christians on the Supreme Court and block their giveaways.

I see the astronauts have been flying while they are lit up. Its a big stink about nothing. My buddy Jim Earl drives a school bus while he’s drunk and he says it helps him put up with all the noise and the fighting in the back. At least the astronauts ain’t going to run into nobody way up there.

Have a good weekend everybody. I got a bunch of stocking up to do so the bars will be ready for the Baptists after Sunday services. They can pray up a storm but they can put it down too. I reckon its one way to deal with all the dry sermons.

By Anonymous

July 27, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

Gosh, Wooten’s unhappy about a “fishing expedition”?

Give us a call when it’s hit the seven-year and $50 million mark, Jim. If you’ll recall, that’s what your boys spent on Whitewater.

By Dennis

July 27, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

Ah! Again, today, we have Mr. Wooten struggling to do his best.

He says, “More politics: The House Judiciary Committee’s party-line vote to approve contempt citations against the president’s chief of staff and former counsel for refusing to testify in its fishing expedition into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. They’re political appointees who can be fired at any time; Bill Clinton fired every one of them when he took office.”

Mr. Wooten says nothing about Republicans voting their party line in support of the Bush COVERUP as to the REAL reasons why Attorney Generals were being replaced with “our kind of Republicans.”

Nor did Bill Clinton replace all of the Attorney Generals at once after getting into office. He did allow some of them who were on high profile cases to complete their work.

NOR, did Bill Clinton try to bypass the Congress in getting his appointments approved.

Strange…strange…. After all of the lying testamony of Gonzales this week, Mr. Wooten goes on with his propaganda like it’s all truth and we are all supposed to believe it.

His is an example of why the mainstream media cannot be trusted.

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

By Anonymous

July 27, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this

Sorry, that should be SIXTY million. How soon we forget.

By TW

July 27, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

Vick will be vindicated, as we will all soon come to understand that his actions were part of the war on terror.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

It seems that the Democratic strategy seems to be the same. Investigate any thing and everything, even though there is no crime, then see what you can find. If you forget or misspeak on any factual matter that then becomes the crime.

By zeke

July 27, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

10-4 on all!!

By MamaS

July 27, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this

Only one in six people actually professes membership in a denomination, let alone a church. Instead of asking where the poor woman’s church is, ask why the poor woman isn’t in church. Did anyone ever think fat people have fat friends because other overweight people are less likely to be insulting or judgmental about their weight?

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this

You cant use a cultural reference, (Oz), if the only match is in the number of syllables. There was supposed to be a sound-alike or an alliterative cloning of the “Lions and Tigers and Bears”. The only other time you can get away with “oh my” is if you preface it with “Paris in Prison”. (oh my)

The 2 cardinal rules of writing: Subject dictates tone. Tone dictates structure. (Jackson Pollock: “Paint is Paint. Surface is Surface”)

There’s a well written guest column on page 13 today by Meghan Daum. She reviews a book about vainglorious volunteers who flaunt their philanthropy. She accesses pop-cultural references with the aplomb of someone working an Iphone. It’s a succesful column in spite of her unwillingness to resist the word “duh”, (85% of Leno’s punchlines).

By zippity

July 27, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this

• Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, 78,000 house and travel trailers are still occupied.

And socialist libs want the government to run our health care too. The government runs our space program and lets drunk astronauts fly. When I first heard the words “drunk astronaut” I thought they were talking about vodka and Russians.

• The House Judiciary Committee’s party-line vote to approve contempt citations against the president’s chief of staff and former counsel for refusing to testify in its fishing expedition into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. They’re political appointees who can be fired at any time; Bill Clinton fired every one of them when he took office.

The president’s lawyers don’t have to say one word to anyone, and anyone who demands that is overstepping authorative and constitutional limits. That, of course, is what the Dems currently call “checks and balances.” Wait until a Dem gets in the White House and witness out how checky and balancy they are. They want to pull a Libby and ask ludicrous questions like “what did you eat on the night of November 3, 1983 at 7:48pm?” If you answer differently than a witness, GOTCHA! Jail time. How many “I do not recalls” did we get from the Clintons during Whitewater? You think Republicans would have learned to spine up and shut up like the Democrats when under the gun.

Vick is the AJC’s idol. The AJC can’t go one day without bringing up race somewhere, and Vick could support baby fighting and the AJC would be behind him.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this

Dennis “Nor did Bill Clinton replace all of the Attorney Generals at once after getting into office. He did allow some of them who were on high profile cases to complete their work.”

What? I guess the attorney working on “White Water” didn’t fit on a high profile case. Or maybe it was to high?

By Carolyn

July 27, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

Gee,Wooten, someone actually remember all the money spent during the Clinton Adm trying to get something on him such as Lewinsky, lying under oath and Whitewater. I guess it only stupid if the Dems are doing it. I still say Clinton’s lying about his personal life did not get any over 3000 troops and over 300,000 Iraqi killed. Jim, you do the math.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Do fat people tend to become drunken astronauts because they weigh less in space?

By catlady

July 27, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Where were the poor woman’s parents, also? One of the mistakes made a few decades ago was the replacement of the family by the government (taxpayers). If you have to explain to mama why you need more money to pay for housing for your children, you’d find yourself working 18/7 and on depo or more likely sterilized. At least if it were me and my mama. Of course, when mama has done the same thing (depended on the taxpayers for sustenance, housing, etc) it is hard for her to come down too hard. Unlearning the entitlement behavior and replacing it with responsible behavior will take more than a half generation, but we have to start somewhere. I think I am pretty liberal, but I do get tired of supporting my family and others only to hear them whine about more, more, more. “Got to” is a stern taskmaster.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

Juxtaposed next to Wooten’s column on page 15 today is an article about Yucca Mountain and Senator Reid’s attempts to kill it.

It doesn’t take a nuclear physicist to put the two together.

We can simply store all our nuclear wastes in those Katrina Trailers which are hermetically sealed with formaldehyde from which no radiation (or human) could possibly escape.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

Catlady

Well done. Now lets get the Deadbeat father and make him pay instead of us.

By Homer

July 27, 2007 9:26 AM | Link to this

I still say Clinton’s lying about his personal life did not get any over 3000 troops and over 300,000 Iraqi killed.

That’s not the issue, Carolyn. If he merely lied about sex, what else did he lie about? China secrets? Not capturing Osama? Hiding pre-9/11 intelligence documentation? It’s that credibility thing that lawyers use all the time. If the man can’t tell the truth about the simple things to save his skin, then what else is he or his wife for that matter capable of hiding?

“We didn’t want Chelsea to have unlimited press interruption in a public school. It was a tough decision for me to put Chelsea into a private school.” — Hillary Clinton when questioned on why Chelsea didn’t attend Washington DC public schools. One would have to be pretty stupid to believe that.

By Peter

July 27, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this

HA HA HA Jim………

Yes White water was more expensive, not to mention the 1.2 billion given to dead farmers……

The attorney general is lying under oath, or is it the FBI head……..gee under the Bush administration hard to tell just WHO is telling the truth?

So Jim which one is telling the truth?

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

I just realized we can call Barry Bonds, “The Juice”, and forever forget about OJ.

Barry Bonds as “the Juice”!

Love it.

By Fed-Up

July 27, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

I’m still fed up with all the government money going to support illegal immigrants. They get free services claiming they have no money yet they have enough to send to their country via Western Union. I see kids wear expensive contact lenses, give expensive valentines gifts and pull out large wads of money yet we still give them welfare. These people have no reservation about stating they are illegal.

Another thing stuck in my craw is the black man sitting in jail for having sex with a 15 year old girl while there are tons of girls under 15 years old attending middle school. Most are hispanic stating it is their culture to have kids by a certain age. Why aren’t these guys deported or in jail like the black man “or” the black man set free. Illegals are given too much preferential treatment while Americans pay the price.

Go Figure!!!

By kay

July 27, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

SORRY MOM…yea sorry i was caught…mom should be sorry she raised such an evil so and so like VICK. She is too busy enjoying all the money he makes from greedy people like Arthur Blank. Yes trot mom out there to shift the light..we see right through you…vicious son of a gun with such a smirk on your face…its over man. the gig is up. we see you for the ugly human you are and mom can’t changed you —she raised you to turn out this way..a free ride for all—look for the free ride.

By Curious Observer

July 27, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

It is well past time for the U.S. Senate to get rid of the 60-vote requirement that prevents many bills and judicial confirmations from being passed. With that requirement, the will of the majority of U.S. citizens gets frustrated repeatedly. Let’s recall that only when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist threatened to override the filibuster rule did the last two Supreme Court justices get confirmed.

And it’s time the Democratic majority in Congress grows a gut and refuses to pass a budget in support of the war and Attorney General Gonzales. All we are seeing now is political posturing. The attempt to issue a contempt-of-Congress citation is but one example. Any nitwit can see that such a citation is futile. Guess who is charged with enforcing it? Why, none other than the Attorney General’s office. We will be waiting a long time for the AG to enforce a contempt charge against himself and for Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate himself.

Either develop some guts or shut up, Congress. The Democratic majority is scared to death that a charge of its not “supporting the troops” will stick with the public. Congress has the power of the purse strings. Either it uses it to impose the will of the majority and also stops this nonsense about needing 60 votes in the Senate even to bring a matter to a vote (no where in the Constitution is there such a requirement), or it chooses to go along with whatever the Republican minority decides.

It’s that simple. The current system is broken. It allows an imperial presidency to ride roughshod over the will of the representatives of the people. Cabinet members can lie and obfuscate with impunity, knowing that there is no penalty for doing so. Congress has no power to enforce a subpoena witnesses. A president can issue a signing statement declaring that a bill he approves means exactly the opposite of what it is intended to mean. It is time to reload.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

By calling Barry Bonds “the Juice”, maybe we can derail his homerun quest and shame him into quitting.

It’s the Juice. (barry bonds, not OJ)

“The Juice takes the first pitch, and it’s 0 and 1. The Juice steps out of the batter’s box, and flips off a young boy wearing a Hank Aaron t shirt. Here’s the pitch, the Juice swings and there’s a drive to left field, this could be….it hit a bird and fell into the playing field where the left fielder caught it and the Juice is OUT! Boy, when even the birds are against you, it may be time to retire….”

NO! The Juice is safe! The left fielder caught the bird by mistake. The ball is still in left field. The Juice is running out of the dugout for second base, the left fielder is scrambling after the ball….the Juice is……..a groundhog has emerged from shallow right and is preventing the Juice from reaching second base…there’s a standoff…..the Juice is reaching in his back pocket…he’s got a needle and is jabbing it into the groundhog….the groundhog is becoming larger and stronger….the Juice is suddenly running for his life…..oh the humanity…….”

By deegee

July 27, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

It’s not the toxic trailers that are going to create problems for the administration, it’s the coverup of FEMA’s knowledge of the problem.

“Recently discovered documents make it appear FEMA’s primary concerns were legal liability and public relations, not human health and safety,” said Rep. Tom Davis, the top Republican on the committee.

JW speculates that 300,000 homes in NOLA have been built since Katrina as if the government had something to do with that. I would like JW to speculate on how many of the 78,000 FEMA trailers are being occupied by former homeowners that have yet to see a dime of insurance money after losing their property. Well, so much for compassionate conservatism. If you have the money to rebuild after being wiped out by a catastrophe that could have been avoided, great. If not, you just suffer.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

Remember everyone! Barry Bonds is now “The Juice”.

Pass it on! We’ll rid ourselves of the both of them, OJ and the juice.

barry bonds is the juice. this is a blockbuster. Bonds is the Juice.

By msbzzy

July 27, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

kay: do you blame the barbie bandits’ parents for raising their thieves, or lindsey & paris’s parents for raising rich, spoiled, thugs—after all, they are habitual drunk-drivers!!!

By Carolyn

July 27, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

Yes Homer,and if Bush only lied about WMDs, what else did he lie about? Maybe what he was doing in Alabama during the Vietnam war, for instance.

By getalife

July 27, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

More politics: The House Judiciary Committee’s party-line vote to approve contempt citations against the president’s chief of staff and former counsel for refusing to testify in its fishing expedition into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. They’re political appointees who can be fired at any time; Bill Clinton fired every one of them when he took office.

Yep, definitely time to retire Jim.

Get on that train before all of your soul is gone.

Not politics, contempt, lies and utter incompetence.

The worst AG ever but he fits right with this failed administration.

Geez.

By Jef

July 27, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

deegee:

The only way to avoid a hurricane is to run away from it. 1.2 million did just that. 300,000 stayed and expected the government to bail them out. Since when is it the government’s job to bail you out of your OWN mistakes??? These people lived BELOW SEA LEVEL in an area that they KNEW had a history of flooding.

I personally went to MS to work with people who were TRYING to help them selves. THOSE people I have sympathy for. NOT the ones who sat there and demanded the government bail them out.

By DebbieDoRight

July 27, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

I wasn’t gonna post today, I have a wedding to attend this weekend and I still haven’t found the grooms an appropriate gift!! (a good friend is getting married in Ontario because he can’t marry legally here in Georgia, something about Sodom and Gommarah revisted if they, repuglicans, allow it to happen here), but I couldn’t let Dementia Jim get away with his obvious distortions, lies and vague “recollections” of history. So here goes:

Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, 78,000 house and travel trailers are still occupied. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is being accused of ignoring the dangers of living in trailers that reportedly “may be contaminated with dangerously high levels of formaldehyde gas.” During those two years, probably more than 300,000 homes have been built.

NEWSFLASH DEMENTIA: FEMA didn’t rebuild any houses, neither did Congress!!! Duh.

They’re political appointees who can be fired at any time; Bill Clinton fired every one of them when he took office.

Appropriate sentence is when he took office and not when they didn’t do what he TOLD them to do in order to enhance the repuglican party. Can you see the difference? Maybe not so much with your limited faculties these days.

Headline: “Poor families run out of rental options as costs eat up checks.” Featured is a 23-year-old mother of two, in a story suggesting that taxpayers are providing too little housing assistance to the poor. And the father or fathers contributing? No mention. Men don’t matter in stories about poverty, crime or the suffering of children

Dementia Jim, what have YOU PERSONALLY been doing to offset this problem? Have you volunteered in a mentoring program? Have you given your time helping someone or are you just talking divisive rhetoric again? Even SonnyDoo was a Foster Parent for the state of georgia. HE can talk about the problems because he has TRIED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You on the other hand, not so much.

One lesson from the Genarlow Wilson case: Hire media-savvy spinmeisters as lawyers.

Another lesson would be that if you’re a prosecutor don’t send out Child Porn.

There are two court systems in America.

I’ll say, one for the rich and connected, (Scooter) and one for the poor and disenfranchised, guess which one always wins.

If U.S. Sen. Joe Biden had a real shot at getting the Democratic presidential nomination, I’d be concerned. But fortunately he’ll never be in a position to follow through on his willingness to commit American troops to humanitarian police missions.

What do you call Iraq? (“They’ll greet us as liberators!!”, “Saddam Hussein killed his own people!!”, “Saddam is a dictator gone mad with power”), seems like a humanitarian police mission to me.

Michael Vick needs legal/public relations help

Jim this is a PERFECT OPPORTUNITY for you!!! You can do that job Jim!! The way you shill, lie, cajole, misinterpret, vindicate, and just ignore repuglican misdeeds, (See Scooter Libby et. al) makes you a shoe in for this job!! If anyone can get Vick back into the public relations “good pool” that’s you!! All those years of being the repuglican spin master has finally paid off!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!! I’m off to a wedding!!

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

Where was W during Vietnam? W was at Kent State during the massacre, as a guest sniper with the Ohio National Guard, no doubt about it.

W flew to Ohio, that much we can prove, the day before the Kent State Massacre. He was invited to “go along” with the guard when they were called to quell a disturbance on the campus. We have film footage of an awkward little sh!t holding a rifle and pointing it brazenly at passing students on their way to class. it’s gotta be W.

Then someone yelled “Will Fire, uh, er, Fire at Will” or something equally stupid. After the smoke clears, the video shows the same little sh!t running away laughing and doing the fist pump thing.

Frame by frame computer enhanced detailed reconstruction of the facial characteristics of this lunatic on the video shows a young W.

That’s where W was during Vietnam: at Kent State, my fine friend.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

getalife None of the fired attorneys were working on cases against Bush were they. See my blog at 9:07.

By catlady

July 27, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

Is there anyone besides me who wonders how our “good, moral” president has so many incompetent and/or lying s.o.b.s in his administration? Perhaps it is like the obsese study: overweight people who hang out with other overweight people tend to become obese together?

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

Dont forget that Bonds is the new “The Juice”!

Vick’s face on AJC’s front page sez it all.

He knows.

It’s so over.

Amazing.

By WTF

July 27, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

RCH said “It seems that the Democratic strategy seems to be the same. Investigate any thing and everything, even though there is no crime, then see what you can find. If you forget or misspeak on any factual matter that then becomes the crime.”

While I’m certainly not advocating that we go on and on with political payback, I do have two words for RCH to ponder: “Whitewater” and “Lewinsky”. If there’s some reason that you can’t insert “Republican” for “Democrat” in RCH’s statement, please explain it to me.

By NICK

July 27, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

DebbieDoRight,

Or should I say DEUSCHEBAG…………

Genarlow Wilson is a CONVICTED FELLON, but he should be “cut some slack”, because he is not rich and white, correct? I hope when he gets out in eight years he sticks his c**k in your daughter or son’s mouth.

As for the so called Katrina victims…How long has it been? Two years? When the hell are they going to get off their LAZY ASSES and work to rebuild? Guess what? They will not. They will use the race card like they have for the past 140 years, to blame everyone but themselves for their unaccountable behavior. No other country in the world would take care of the TRASH that we do. These people are animals and should be treated as so. If they can not contribute to society then have Mick Vick step in. He’ll know what to do………..

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

Why do fat people tend to become drunken astronauts? Cause they weigh less in space.

By getalife

July 27, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

RCH,

Duke Cunningham case not w.

This one is Rove’s.

They found a document that proves this.

By JoJo

July 27, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

Filster,

If being Vick’s being black has nothing to do with your opinion of him then why mention race at all in your commentary on his behavior? And last I heard he was raised by both parents.

By The other Loser

July 27, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

hey JBMLAW - does jim give you the super secret password every morning so you can be the first poster to prostrate yourself in front of him? “Oh Jim, I love you, I love you. You are so wise the way you reduce everything to overly simplistic terms so the rightwing masses can lap it up without having to think about how hipocritical, classist, and unAmerican it all is”. What a life.

By getalife

July 27, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

I should add the illegal wiretapping is w.

They should get Mrs. Rumsfeld to testify on the phone call that night at the hospital.

That was w.

By catlady

July 27, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

Analchord (can I call you Anal?) You are obsessing. Lay it down.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

I wonder when The Juice will break Hank’s homerun record. (you all get it, right? Bonds is the new “the juice”, right? okay, cool)

Yeah, The Juice sure is getting close to that homerun record. I wonder how the pitcher who serves up the record breaking pitch will fare? He’ll probably be banned from baseball like Pete Rose, (The Gambler).

HEY! I just renamed Pete Rose, as the Gambler, instead of Kenny Rogers!!

love it.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

getalife We are talking about cases directly linked to the president.

By deegee

July 27, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

Jeff, the topic is post-Katrina housing. Are you implying that 1.2 million people ran away from the hurricane and took their house with them? BTW it wasn’t the hurricane that destroyed New Orleans. It was the government’s job to build and maintain a levee that would withstand a Category 5 hurricane. The government didn’t do their job and the government bears the responsibility for that.

There are thousands of homeowners that were ripped off by their insurance company and will never recover from that. Over a thousand people lost their lives during the catastrophe and only time will tell how many more will die from the effects of long term exposure to toxic fumes. I am happy for your friends in Mississippi that are rebuilding. They are human beings in need of help just like those in New Orleans. They made a decision to settle in a coastal area that is prone to hurricane damage and their property was destroyed by the hurricane, not government incompetence.

By holdingAJCaccountable

July 27, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

You think Arthur Blank’s got it bad now? Wait till it comes out that Michael Vick and Bernie Marcus built a secret tank in the basement of the Georgia Aquarium in order to stage piranha fights.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

Remember, Pete Rose is now “the Gambler”, not Kenny Rogers.

So, to sum up today’s blogging, we’ve accomplished alot. We’ve renamed two sports figures so that they might forever just go away: Bonds is now “the Juice”, (instead of OJ), and Pete Rose is now “the Gambler”, (instead of Kenny Rogers).

whew, I need to get suited up for the next shuttle launch so I have an excuse to grab a beer!

By DebbieDoRight

July 27, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Nick: Your response popped up and even though I usually don’t talk to ignorant retards from BugTussel I will however break my rule and “speak” to you, (I’ll break down my response in such a way that even you can understand what I’m saying)

FROM NICK: Genarlow Wilson is a CONVICTED FELLON, but he should be “cut some slack”, because he is not rich and white, correct? I hope when he gets out in eight years he sticks his ck in your daughter or son’s mouth.

Nick you are stupid. You are too stupid for the train, you are too stupid for a brain. You are too stupid for here, you are too stupid for there.

Stupid Stupid Nick, your stupidness is everywhere!!! Stop Nick Stop!!! Your stupidness is a shock!! You are too stupid for this blog. You are too stupid for a log — NICK you are dumber than your dog!!!

Have a great day Nick. Gotta go but remember, intellect is in the eye of the beholder, but stupid is bone deep!!!

By Lee

July 27, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

A few observations:

  • Should we be surprised that freeloaders and welfare queens, who lived for generations in public housing, are still in FEMA trailers two years after the hurricane passed? I’m not.

  • Maybe Michael Vick should hire Genarlow Wilson’s attorney to handle media relations.

  • When is the National WHITE Arts Festival? I must have missed that press release.

  • Hillary’s got cleavage? Who knew? What this means is that her handlers know she has the liberal feminist vote locked up, now she’s going after the male chauvenistic pig vote. Show me your t**, indeed.

  • Sorry. Lost my train of thought there. The image of Hillary naked just sent cold chills down my spine. Sorta like when I stepped out on the deck and there was a rattlesnake under the grill.

  • Come to think of it. Hillary. Rattlesnake. You never see the two of them together. Do you think they may be one in the same? Just asking…

  • One final thought. If you’re only making minimum wage and you are not a high school student, you might want to wait on starting that family. I don’t think we have any extra FEMA trailers available yet…

By Gretta Scott

July 27, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

THis e-mail is in regards to the mis-treatment of Michael Vick. I feel he should be able to play football until he is found guilty. This is suppose to be AMERICA. I wonder what would have happened if it was Manning or Elway? GIve the guy a break and let the courts decide what should happen instead of PUBLIC OPINION!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not approve of any killing an animal but what about your stupid president and other people killing PEOPLE! Get a life G

By Go Jimmy!

July 27, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

Well done! I couldn’t have said any better. You are the only ray of hope for AJC.

By harold

July 27, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

Harold figured out what Blank was doing in Kenya.

Vict is still on the salary cap, so they have to find a replacement at minimum wage.

Where do you find somebody who can run like hell but is dumb as a stick and will work for $5.85 an hour thinking they won the lottery?

Kenya!!!

A previously unknown Vict replacement will surely arrive from Kenya for next week’s practice. And he will do just as well at Vict. OH I GOTS TEH BALL WHAT DOES I DO NOW? RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN FORREST RUN!

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

I have been so remiss about a subject that I should have pounced on: Hillary’s Cleavage.

Hillary does have sex appeal. When she is sworn in, this country is going to break wide open, just like it did when the very sexy Jackie O became first lady. I remember getting to second base for the first time that day.

Anyway, Hillary will bring back Camelot and the magic of having an elegant administration with white house dinners that become must attend social events of the season and everything.

Hey! I just renamed the Clinton Administration as “Camelot”, (instead of JFK’s).

bwa

By Jeff

July 27, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

deegee:

If the people needed the levee, they should have worked to build it themselves. As is, they CHOSE to live BELOW SEA LEVEL, and then they CHOSE to not leave when ordered to do so. Note that it was a MANDATORY evacuation. Forecasters had warned for a FULL WEEK that it was going to hit NOLA. Those people CHOSE to remain there, thinking - as usual - that it either wouldn’t happen to them or that the government would save them.

I’m sorry, but the baseball rule applies here:

Three strikes and YOU’RE OUT!

By Harold

July 27, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

Speaking of what the ladies is wearin’… Harold would like to give a shout out to all the fine ladies who got caught out exercising when that sudden cold downpour happened yesterday. Thanks, ladies! Yall was lookin find! (and cold!)

By deegee

July 27, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

Gretta Scott, do you know something we don’t know? Shouldn’t that have been “…until he is found innocent.”?

THis e-mail is in regards to the mis-treatment of Michael Vick. I feel he should be able to play football until he is found guilty.

By Mid-South Philosopher

July 27, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

Running late getting online today. Had to have my 3,000 mile check-up this A.M.; together with the general deposit of bodily fluids, etc.

Just some comments on various points you enumerated in today’s Thinking Right:

The House Judiciary Committee is off base with its investigation into the firing of the eight U.S. attorneys. You are 100 % correct that these folks are political appointees and can be fired by the President for any reason or no reason. Heck, if Georgie wakes up with a bad case of hemorrhoids and wants to let the whole passel of them go, he has that option! Was it a political decision? Was Karl Halderman… excuse me…Rove involved? Of course! That is why the President has him around! If Georgie had any real political courage, he would admit the same and tell the Democrats to go peddle their papers somewhere else.

The real problem with the Justice Department is with Attorney General Alphonso…excuse me… Alberto… Gonzales. Clearly this political appointee is either the dumbest occupant of the office in history or else he is teetering on the brink of perjury before Congress…indeed, if he hasn’t already fallen into the chasm. Of course, what is a little perjury by the Attorney General? He is only following in the footsteps of other great Americans like John Mitchell, not to mention Billy Clinton!

In the continuing saga of Genarlow Wilson, you made an interesting observation this morning:

There are two court systems in America. One does law. The other does emotion.

Strange, isn’t it, how that in too many cases, neither do justice!

Your comment on Michael Vick’s situation is deep, Jim, very deep. Most of the readers won’t get it, and I am not going to enlighten them here. Suffice it to say that in your use of the consensual analogy you have reached a new height in the use of the sophisticated insult. I tip my hat to you, my friend.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Gretta Scott

If it had been Elway , Manning, or the man on the moon, I would expect the same treatment. Vick brought this upon himself. The NFL is trying to clean up its image. When you sign that big contract , part of your responsibility is to represent the NFL.

It seems that thugs may no longer be welcomb in the NFL. Gretta, what color is a thug?

By What are they HIDING?

July 27, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

I’m confused, Mr. Wooten. If asking questions is a “fishing expedition,” then Congress has been fishing for YEARS, not just since the Dems took the majority away from the Repubs who had it for many many years.

If “fishing” is so wrong, why did they do it in the 90’s? And if this administration is above-board, honest, true to their job descriptions, and faithful to upholding the Constitution of the United States and serving the American people, then WHY DON’T THEY JUST ANSWER HONESTLY? WHY ALL THE REFUSALS TO ANSWER SIMPLE QUESTIONS? I mean if they’re not HIDING anything bad, what’s the problem?

Please explain!

By Jay

July 27, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

“Featured is a 23-year-old mother of two…”

This is the underlying problem. Why does she have two kids? Should I feel sorry for or obligated to support a young woman who’s too dumb to use contraception? Surely she understands children cost money—especially after having her first one. Regardless, she went ahead and got pregnant again. “What the hell, the government will pay for it.”

And then our backward-a**, nauseatingly PC society lauds these young single mothers as courageous, enabling, nay, encouraging other girls to follow in their footsteps.

Three words: Use a condom!

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Why are there no female bank robbers? Cause the security camera adds at least ten pounds.

If Hillary, with all that cleavage, were prez when Katrina hit, and she responded quickly by going to new orleans, would she have been pelted with those mardigras beads?

And if so, would she have had to go girls gone wild?

And if so, would we all then be forced to surrender to the Islamists?

I’m thinking Al Queda may be better for this country than a topless Hillary as our prez.

It’s a close call. you make it.

You make the call!

By sean

July 27, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

I don’t get the Vick paragraph at the bottom. Was that supposed to be funny? I’m all for gallows-humor Wooten, but you know, it needs to be funny in order for it to work. Wooten, buddy, you seem to be losing it more and more recently. Maybe it’s time to hang it up, eh? Naw, then they’d have to make the noble effort of putting in a younger conservative columnist with half a brain (and we all know how hard it is to find a supposed “Conservative” these days with anything but a quarter of their brain left). Vick is scum by the way, in case anyone had any doubts left. He’s trash and he needs to go NOW. get that waste of life off of my team.

By Elton's John

July 27, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Analchord: You remind me of the following quote:

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

Oscar Wilde

By deegee

July 27, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Jeff, the hurricane didn’t destroy New Orleans. The people that stayed in New Orleans to ride out the hurricane are not unlike people that ignore evacuation warnings in Key West and Naples except that many of the people that stayed in New Orleans didn’t have transportation to evacuate. Remember the immersed school buses parked in New Orleans? Another example of government incompetence.

By Freddy K.

July 27, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

Why doesn’t Congress stop wasting time and money with the contempt crap. It will be like Clinton’s poop, they will waste millions of dollars to prove this that or the other then nothing will come of it. Just let it go and move on. Stop trying to bully Mr. Bush, it ain’t working. Go to something that will actually amount to something let’s try illegal immigrants and what to do with them. How to stop more from getting in, something worth them big salaries they voted for themselves. That would be the working man’s dream, that ability to vote yourself a raise. Ain’t done nothing to deserve, but they voted and got it anyway.

By Elton's John

July 27, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

Jim and Jay: You make the point that the young lady in question has two children, and then you automatically assume that same said young lady is single and sitting at home doing nothing. Why?

The young lady could be one of the millions of “working poor”, could be a widow, or divorced, etc. Since Jim supposedly read the article he didn’t elaborate on anything about the article just highlighted the part that she was 23 with two kids.

However, you Jay and others on this blog, automatically made assumptions based only on the the brief facts of (a)The lady is a 23 y.o. and (b) she has two children and is living in government assisted housing; that this young lady was “milking the system”. As I stated earlier, this young lady with her husband, could be getting up every day going to work, yet you and others, automaticaly condemn her with little or no knowledge of the article in question, (Jim did not reference where he supposedly read the article, for all we know, he could’ve made it up), since no one here has seen nor even read the article or even know what newspaper Jim got the information from.

It makes me wonder if you come to all of your conclusions with little or no knowledge of the facts, just someone else’s word — if so, that’s a very scary future for america.

Elderly, Handicapped, etc., also live in government assisted housing. Are these people worthy of your contempt also? If so, Why?

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

Wow, you compare ME to Oscar Wilde?

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

I love my fans. Without fans, I mean, what? nothing, that’s what.

You go, girl.

By time for the truth

July 27, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

That murderous hippety hop “Black Mafia” drug dealing crew which was finally rounded up by the feds in Atlanta this week - though six black thugs are still on the run, the human scum Vick and his three thugish dog killing chums, the killer/s of a NINE year old girl in her own home … just three of the more infamous stories from this weeks litany of never ending black (on black) crime.

How come the smug self appointed self serving concerned racebaiting black clergy never ever noisily march and whine about these crimes and actually push the decent folks - a.k.a. the victims - to keep on taking back ALL THE gangsta hoods, working with the local plod? … their silence is nauseating and says more about black hypocrisy and black indifference when it comes to the cancer of black crime than anything racist scum like the KKK could puke up these days? Yet the vile racist NAACP and its ilk sullenly expend crystal meth abusers like energy on racebaiting Bush and any whites who simply reject their racial spoils hate.

Yet the black racebaiting and screeching about the evil assuredly guilty white boy Duke rapists was loud and proud for almost a year … The racist corporate extortionist the micky mouse reverend Jackasson (whose no more a real reverend than I am) even gave the lying falsely crying rape for a second time black wh ore money for a micky mouse black college.

And vermin like inbred rednekkk just sullenly sits there are and endlessly pukes up its semi-literate liberal black hate like an energiser Grand Wizard!!

60% of passengers on the Nuuu YaaaawKKK City tube trains say in a survey they have been molested by sicko perverts. This just further underlines what a sick bunch of sickos nasal whining yanKKKees and the illegal third world detritus that infest Nuuu YaaaawKKK City are. SO NOTHING NEW THERE THEN!!

Lets lynch a load of (say 50) cocaine sniffing alcohol abusing white yanKKKee northern supercilious ivy league Kennedyesque liberal scum on Martha’s Vineyard … this folks is exactly a sardonic mirror image of the bigoted sicko peeping tom’s witty, clever murderous joke about killing 50 white N. Georgians late yesterday afternoon. Better still lets just cheerily push peeping tom under a speeding lorry on I-75. That funny enough for ya peeping tom??????

Anyone know if the illegal greasball getaturd was arrested in that glorious round up of illegal leeches at the Pilgrims Pride chicken plant in TX? At least the new much too long delayed ICE directive about illegals’ abuse of SS#’s and finally heavily fining employers of illegal leeches stealing SS#’s looks like being a magically effective round up and deport the scum tool!!

Lsst night I sat through MISSISSIPI BURNING again on IFC, although I do own the dvd. Its one of my favourite films - watching the moronic plodding legalistic approach by the well intentioned FBI incompetents who brainlessly provoke many more needless murderous dark of night cowardly Klan outrages against local blacks suddenly transformed by simply playing the evil racist KKK lynchers at their own thuggish game is always uplifting. Its also a modern parable about Iraq for us all. Being directed by an ENGLISHMAN is just the icing on the silver screen cake.

By Canus

July 27, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Nobody on “the left” would give a nickel for Sen Biden (D-MBNA) and his candidacy. He’s a washed out corporatist hack. Perhaps we can find common ground on this point? The man has as much chance of becoming President as Redneck Convert.

As for Jim, RCH and the rest of you wingnuts swimming in denial — the dismissed fed attorneys were either working on cases that had potential to be very harmful to republicans (Cunningham, Abramoff, etc.) or who refused to bring charges against Democrats because of insufficient evidence. This has been readily established. You need to put your “CLINTON DID IT TOO” hysterics to bed on this one. It makes you look weak and stupid.

In re: the squabble over privilege v. oversight — if Congress asks for information in their oversight capacity, the White House is obligated to provide it. It’s called checks and balances, and it was one of the genius innovations of the Founding Fathers, conceived in response to the excesses of some crazy guy named King George. You can look it up.

Gonzales simply has no legal standing to refuse to answer questions in sworn Congressional testimony. Several times he refused to answer without even invoking privilege. And several times he lied outright, as demonstrated by several pieces of documentary evidence, as well as testimony from Mueller and Comey. The man is mocking the law and Congress, exemplifying contempt for our Constitution and system of governance. And you so-called “conservatives” cheer him on. How do you sleep with this dissonance?

Miers and Card have no legal right to refuse to appear before Congress when subpoenaed. They may invoke privilege once before the Congress, and let the legal chips fall where they will. But the law is clear — they must appear when called.

And besides, to borrow from you law&order extremists who support increased domestic surveillance to fight “terra”, I offer one of your favorite rationales: If you’re not doing anything wrong, you don’t have to worry. If your Prez and his cabal are so upright and noble, why don’t they throw open the books and let the sun shine?

(cue the wingnut shrieking harpy brigade)

By RCH

July 27, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

I have no fear of man or beast, untill you liberals pull out the WMD. Yesterday debbiedoright threatens me with Janet Reno and today they pull out Hillary’s cleavage.

Notice I said man nor beast. Both of these (ladies?) fall in neither category.

P.S. Debbiedoright I ask you yesterday if you resembled Janet. You never responded. Should we now call you Debbiefrightnight ?

By time for the truth

July 27, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

for the concourse of sadly resident anal leftist pedants … I know that Mississippi has an extra ‘p’ … just a rare typo.

By kay

July 27, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

GIVE VICK A BREAK—NO WAY!!! He doesn’t deserve a break. Good law abiding citizens that live beyond reproach deserve a break. VICK IS A THUG. The perfect description from a previous writier. He is a thug based on every action he has taken since becoming a football warrior in the limelight being paid millions of dollars by the greedy Arhtur Blank. He has no upbringing and no conscience a,d YES lets blame his mother…she is raised this monster..and now she is there for the free ride from all his money…my poor baby…save him….I hope they roll him, wet him down and electrocute him and the other thugs that are involved in this horrible horrible crime!

By deegee

July 27, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

Only a narcissistic psycho would read their own blog, spellcheck it, then blog again to correct their own spelling mistakes, as if somebody really cares.

By Charles

July 27, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

Michael Vick needs legal/public relations help. Somebody better be gathering information that those fighting dogs bit children, snapped at grandmothers or were engaged in consensual misbehavior, or Michael Vick is in real trouble. Better yet, his campaign should make it clear that whatever happened between him and those two dogs was consensual writes Jim Wooten.

The people in America just don’t get; especially the integrationist Negroes. Your sins have reached high heaven and the God of the Bible has rendered judgment. The hand of God is against the integrationist Negroes for selling their children into slavery in exchange for food, clothing, shelter, education, employment, and security provided by the federal government.

How are they so sadly mistaken? The integrationists Negroes thought they could sell the younger generation into slavery via integration and refer to it as freedom. Today we vividly see how God has manifested their evil ways through their children.

The integrationist Negroes are indeed stiff-neck and refuses to repent. They continue to blame their children for the mistakes and sins committed by prior generations.

As Martin Luther King Jr. would say, this present generation of young people did not do this to themselves. It was done to them by the previous generation and their facilitators, The United States Federal Government.

No amount of legal/public relations can trump God’s punishment. Information showing that those fighting dogs bit children snapped at grandmothers or were engaged in consensual misbehavior won’t trump the judgment rendered. Try making it clear that whatever happened between Michael Vick and those two dogs was consensual. It will amount to nothing.

The most disheartening thing about the insurmountable vexing human problems in The United States of America is that Americans and especially African Americans don’t realize that they are in real trouble. Primarily because they don’t really believe that there is an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient force and power call God.

If they were really believers, they would not have sold their children into slavery called integration for a season of pleasure, materialism.

There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God…for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Americans, and especially integrationist Negroes, you have been weighed and found wanting.

By getalife

July 27, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

When are the gop going to start saying enough is enough with this AG and failed administration?

When will the gop think about their country instead of making excuses like Jim?

What has the gop done for this country since the 06 election?

Why in the hell would anybody vote gop?

Geez.

By time to goad the leftist tw@ts

July 27, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

@ the black racist b itch heebeedeegeee

or a clever “psycho” (smirk) might just be innocently seeing how many far left dumbf@cks would eagerly and very swiftly bite at such a blatant goad … cheers for biting little Ms dumbf@ck!!

to (slightly) paraphrase Ol Blue Eyes YOU’VE GOT ME/I’ve gotten … UNDER YOUR thick black racist SKIN!!!

By sharkphen

July 27, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

-“The worst AG ever but he fits right with this failed administration.

No ‘getalife’, that would be Janet Reno. Remember her?

The fact remains that the Clinton administration did not consider foreign terrorist groups to be a real threat to national security.

President Clinton declared that domestic terrorism was the No. 1 threat following the Oklahoma City bombing. Clinton went so far as to blame talk radio for the attack.

During her recent testimony before the 9/11 Commission, former Attorney General Janet Reno stuck to this same line, asserting that the threat from domestic terror was still very real. This flies in the face of al-Qaida’s history and the mounting evidence that now links the Oklahoma City bombing to Iraq.

Where was Janet Reno before 9/11? Unfortunately, for America and the world, Janet Reno demonstrated her priorities in U.S. national security when she sent machine-gun-armed agents to seize a Cuban child refugee in Miami instead of pursuing Al-Qaida agents around the globe. Ms. Reno spent more time, money and effort hunting down wheelchair violations in North Carolina than finding Osama bin Laden.

-“Yes Homer,and if Bush only lied about WMDs, what else did he lie about?

Carolyn, I have to jump in here. Bush didn’t lie about WMDs any more than anyone in the Clinton administration did, which, by the way, was when plans for taking out Saddam originated. But you probably don’t remember that far back, do you? Has anyone told you brilliant liberals that overusing and misusing the LIE word decreases it’s meaning and impact? A LIE is saying something at the time you know at the time is not the truth. By you liberals’ logic, if I post at 12pm that I’ll be posting at 3pm and don’t get around to doing it until 4pm because my internet was down, that’s means I LIED at 12pm according to your pointed heads. Foolish children.

By Jay

July 27, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

“As I stated earlier, this young lady with her husband, could be getting up every day going to work…”

You know how much money you make before you get pregnant. If you’re struggling to support yourself, what would lead you to believe you could afford to support a child, as well?

The bottom line is the young woman in question exercised poor judgment and is now—along with her hapless kids—suffering the consequences. I don’t feel guilty. But she should.

By Charles is a sad black dweeb

July 27, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

Charles

STFU you demented brainless negroid!!!

By StopCriminalLegislators

July 27, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

Georgia’s legislators are criminals. That is another lesson from the Genarlow Wilson case. They have proved they are criminals over and over again with their continuing illegal, immoral, irrational, anti-factual, anti-American, anti-religion, retroactive attacks on people on their Godforsaken Sex Offender Registry. They will try anything they think they can get away with. They will violate any cherished American right or ideal. They will violate any religious ideal. They will try anything they can until a court tells them it is illegal. But the one thing they won’t do is put much effort into trying to reduce sexual offenses. That, it is obvious, is something they don’t care about much.

By Charles

July 27, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

To the haters of truth and God,

My words have life and power. They will impact people in many ways.

I won’t comment extensively on your words. I will briefly say that they have no life.

By Global Warming nazis

July 27, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

Well..this is one way to bully those who don’t believe human activity is the root cause of any global warming we may have had lately. This sounds like an Al Gore hero, and I hope he gets the hell sued out of him for defamation of character if nothing else. Fascist liberal snake oil seller.

By Barak the brainless magic negro lies in D.C.

July 27, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

DEATH TO ALL LIBERALS … AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE

just testing a possible Ted Nugent campaign slogan for 08

By Mid-South Philosopher

July 27, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

Sharkphen

I don’t want to get into an argument on the matter of WMDs today, but since your 11:59 post indicates that you feel strongly strongly about this issue, I invite you to perform this little task for me.

Assuming that President Bush was acting upon the best American intelligence he could muster concerning Iraq’s possession and intentions for WMDs, assuming that he embraced the position of the Clinton Administration on the subject which fully supported his inaccurate determination , assuming that he swallowed (hook, line, and sinker) the intelligence reports of the Russians, the Germans, the French, the British, and the Munchens, please tell me of one, (JUST ONE)American intelligence officer who has lost his or her job for providing the President with (at best) incompetent information or (at worst) blatantly false data.

By Charles

July 27, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

Let me reference the haters of God to people who have life and power.

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By time for the truth

July 27, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

Why in the hell would anybody vote gop?

that’s blindingly obvious getaturd - to stop the corrupt, treasonous, cut and run hate America far left demoNcrats from completely destroying the USA.

By Charles

July 27, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

To the haters of God and truth,

These people can help you face reality. Quite living in a fantasy world.

www.americandeception.comwww.worldaffairsbrief.comwww.gregpalast.com www.ccir.net www.williamhkennedy.com www.patholiday.comwww.thepowerhour.comwww.jerryesmith.com www.dickmorris.comwww.antichips.comwww.beareroflight.comwww.gregpalast.com

By StopCriminalLegislators

July 27, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Georgia’s legislators are criminals. That is another lesson from the Genarlow Wilson case. They have proved they are criminals over and over again with their continuing illegal, immoral, irrational, anti-factual, anti-American, anti-religion, retroactive attacks on people on their Godforsaken Sex Offender Registry. They will try anything they think they can get away with. They will violate any cherished American right or ideal. They will violate any religious ideal. They will try anything they can until a court tells them it is illegal. But the one thing they won’t do is put much effort into trying to reduce sexual offenses. That, it is obvious, is something they don’t care about much.

By Charles is a sad black dweeb

July 27, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Let me reference the haters of God to people who have life and power.

DON’T BOTHER YOU SAD PSYCHOTIC TW AT!!

Now bugger off!!

By @@

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

Dang Jim, the trailer that the liberals have got me living in don’t smell funny…Yours?

On the House Judiciary Committee. When the Democratic pundits are joking about their own party’s “wasted efforts”, it’s time to take that “fishing expedition” out to open waters where they might catch something worthwhile….something other than the “filleted” bottomfeeders of the liberal species.

Men haven’t mattered in our society since the NOW movement of the 60s & 70s. They (NOW) had to push their agenda through radically. Problem is, the unsuspecting got caught up in their wide net. NOW we’re seeing the consequences. What a catch?

Whenever I see NCLB I’m often reminded that it was Hillary Clinton’s program for Arkansas education. But then Bill WAS America’s “First Black President”. Maybe Hillary and Bill should pay a visit to DeKalb County to see how their “baby’s” being served.

What women wear in politics? That paragraph put me in mind of what John Edwards had to say on the YouTube debate. Every candidate was asked to point to something negative about their fellow candidate to the left of them. John to Hillary…”I don’t like that hot pink suit she’s wearing.” Female? Yes…when John gets his healthcare plan for his “two americas” rolling, he should get a sex-change operation” on our dime.

Everybody can say what they want about Biden. I appreciate his “nekkid” honesty. All the others? They’re dressed in pink. (code word for “panties”) Origin: Democrat

If Vick is found guilty, then he will have been screwed by his dogs? The way it’s looking, he’ll probably claim it was “rape”.

By jm

July 27, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

of course Mr. Wooten never seems to mention the stalling tactics being employed by insurance companies in settling claims for those affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It seems only the politically well connected, like Senator Trent Lott are able to get equitable reimbursement for their loss. A side effect of litigation on those claims is that cleanup cannot begin since that would remove the evidence.

By StopCriminalLegislators

July 27, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Georgia’s legislators are criminals. That is another lesson from the Genarlow Wilson case. They have proved they are criminals over and over again with their continuing illegal, immoral, irrational, anti-factual, anti-American, anti-religion, retroactive attacks on people on their Godforsaken Sex Offender Registry. They will try anything they think they can get away with. They will violate any cherished American right or ideal. They will violate any religious ideal. They will try anything they can until a court tells them it is illegal. But the one thing they won’t do is put much effort into trying to reduce sexual offenses. That, it is obvious, is something they don’t care about much.

By Charles

July 27, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Bringing you the Story behind the Story, the News behind the News. Hoping to convince you that reality is usually scoffed at and illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of Western civilization it will be reality and not illusion or delusion that will determine what the future will bring.

Radio Liberty is hosted by Dr. Stanley Monteith.

www.radioliberty.com

By Charles

July 27, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

Bringing you the Story behind the Story, the News behind the News. Hoping to convince you that reality is usually scoffed at and illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of Western civilization it will be reality and not illusion or delusion that will determine what the future will bring.

Radio Liberty is hosted by Dr. Stanley Monteith.

www.radioliberty.com

By Jackie

July 27, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

The contempt citations issued by the House against Carl Rove for his role in the U.S Attorney firings is indicative of how the neo-cons think. Anytime the rule of law has a negative impact on this psychology, they jump up and down and declare everything is unfair.
Bill Clinton fired ALL the U.S. attorneys when he elected, each time. They U.S. attorneys are political appointees and they served their four years. Alberto Gonzalez has no credibility with anyone except those that believe Dubya is being persecuted. Where are these supports of Dubya who believe in the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution? Is the Constitution just a small matter that gets in the way of policy objectives?
In a clear and concise manner, could the neo-cons help us understand what we are missing about this criminality?

By deegee

July 27, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

The story behind the headline about rental options is inflation, but JW won’t mention that. The price of energy is socking everyone in the pocketbook and those with the least amount of disposable income are feeling it first. It’s just a matter of time before all of the people that bought expensive homes they couldn’t really afford with an interest only mortgage get socked. The expectation that they would be able to sell in 5 years and pay their balloon note with appreciation are going to start crying foul. Let’s hope your 401K and pension plan aren’t full of hedge funds and REITs that are just now starting to collapse. I don’t want to hear a peep from the Wootang klan about how they never saw it coming.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

Imagine someone renaming ME as Oscar Wilde.

I’m the new Oscar Wilde. Maybe. But I see myself as the new John the Baptist, for I herald the second coming.

I can look at my fellow man, and know the time is at hand, the Kingdom of God is at hand.

I can look at my family, and see the repetition of ancient ills: people enslaved by rancid DNA, and know the time is at hand. (alcholics, homos, and cold cold hearts)

The scriptures were fulfilled by one Man’s voice in the past.

It only takes one man to say it again…

Did you ever wonder how Christ knew he was the Son of God? How did he know? The devils that kept appearing to him? (He’d be rehabbed fast today) or the many times he caused an event simply by spontaneously voicing the event? (He’d be president today…”crusade”, remember?).

Christ in Rehab. There’s a title for a book that would sell millions. He did change the water into wine, you know. Imagine getting pulled over by LA police and your Perrier is now Sangria? Then we’d have a video of the Scouraging of the King ala Rodney King

I dont think Christ was 100% sure that he was the Son of God, because of his conversation with his Father on the cross. “Why have you foresaken me”???

If he was really sure, he would have simply STFU and took it, knowing full well he would be resurrected. But he didn’t stay quiet, he panicked, and cried out, complainin, questioning and bitterly blaming his Father.

Astonishing, isn’t it? Then why cant one of us herald in the Second Coming? We dont have to be sure about it, we simply have to observe it.

IF the universe was created when man first observed it, and the math is all pointing to that fact, (string theory and the new super collider should confirm this very soon), then why cant man cause the second coming?

Look, at woodstock, I was the guy who started the naked conga line, and also I started everyone chanting, “no Rain”.

So, I think we should all start shouting, “The End is Nigh, The End is Nigh, The End is Nigh!!!”

They’re shouting it in Atlanta, they’re shouting it in Cleveland, and New York. They’re shouting it in Miami!

What’s that in the sky? it looks like a big….”Johnson, what the radar say?”…..”I dunno, it appears to be…” Two Balls, one strike on The Juice as he attempts to break the all time homerun record……”

By Charles

July 27, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

To the haters of God and truth,

Think about it. If there is no God, you would be free to do the worst kind of debauchery imagined.

The existence of God limits you perverted freedom.

Sorry.

By StopCriminalLegislators

July 27, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

My apologies - I did not intend to post my comments several times. I think what may have caused it was that after I hit the Post button my browser went to a page that was displaying an error. I refreshed that page a few times so perhaps that did it.

Sorry.

By jbmlaw

July 27, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

Dear Anonymous @ 8:44 and Dennis @ 8:46 and wath @ 10:59, if I read your notes correctly, you applaud stupidity, but only when exercised by Democrats?

Dear Getalife @ 9:59, I’m not a big fan of Alberto, but he’ll have to execute a cult of 80 leftists if he wants to make the finals of “worst AG ever.”

Dear Catlady @ 10:17, I think you are close. To borrow (scatologically) from your mid-day argument yesterday, politics is dung, and it attracts those dogs who enjoy rolling in it. Also, to your 10:28 note, I think our friend Analchord is the same person as our old friend Political Foreskin; he is a humorist, an artsy type, and he tries out his new material here. A lot of it is pretty good. Some of my conservative friends dislike him, but I suppose I am easily amused. Lee @ 10:39 is pretty good too. Same with Harold @ 10:49, one of his best riffs in a while. Analchord @ 11:03 rises to the competition. This is pretty good, competition is making these guys even funnier than normal – markets work.

Dear tol @ 10:27, actually the secret is that conservatives do not stay in bed all day. Instead, we get up and go to work at 6 AM, and by 8 AM we are ready for our mid-day break. I know that must sound bizarre to you, the idea of getting up early and going to work, but that is one of those rituals peculiar to conservatives.

Dear Camus @ 11:31, you falsify several points. You have just enshrined a new “tenure” device for the incompetent, to merely claim to be working on a case hostile to the boss. And you undermine the people elected to make changes, by prohibiting them from making changes (e.g., the US Attorneys who refused to investigate ACORN-style election fraud.) As you well know, the true cases underway stayed underway. You seemingly do not understand “checks and balances” – Congress’s check is the budget. That is their only check.

You also said, “Gonzales simply has no legal standing to refuse to answer questions in sworn Congressional testimony.” That is patently untrue (at least as to Gonzales and Meier and Card) – the deliberation privilege (part of the broader “Executive Privilege”) is upheld by the Supreme Court in every case where there is no crime proven first, as no branch is superior to the other. I attribute your false statement to ignorance rather than deviousness.

And as to your silly post on “domestic surveillance,” I assume you are similarly uninformed on what is going on. Great explanation today, one that will give you some idea how much damage you mindless leftists have inflicted on the country, at http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010389

By Charles

July 27, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

To the haters of God and Analchord,

It’s obvious that you are convicted by your response. God is filled with mercy and will forgive us of any sins.

It is not the will of God that any should perish, but come to repentance.

I wonder what your response would be confronted with the name King Jesus.

By Tigger`

July 27, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

RE: Headline: “Poor families run out of rental options as costs eat up checks.”

You don’t mention the origin of this headline. Was it the AJC? If so, then shame on the paper you work for that they would do such a shoddy job of journalism. If it was the AJC, then you should be on somebody’s a* about it.

By Analchord

July 27, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

Mathematically, there is no god, because the universe has no bounds, and infinity cant be measured.

Just like time passes differently for everyone, it also is relative to the observer and cant truly be defined.

Thus, undefined, God can not exist.

However, if a man decides to see god, then he is alive to that man.. We observe god and then God is.

God needs to be observed by a man to exist, he lives only through man. (that’s the rub).

Even if one man observes God, then God will live through him.

But it takes a man, not a fish or a monkey or a bull.

God? It’s up to you.

By Redneck Convert

July 27, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

The man has as much chance of becoming President as Redneck Convert.

Well, I about upchucked my weinies and pork rinds when I read that. All I got to say is when this Obama guy that’s black as the Ace of Spades is in the White House you will be mighty sorry you didn’t support my campaign for president. He will bring the Reno woman back to be AG and she will stomp you flat. You will be seeing all your tax money sent to N.O. to buy big houses for Those People.

I see its about time for TFTT to go back in for treatment. The poor man is ranting again. My buddy Jim Earl says its the Gay Rage. I guess I would be mad too if I was wired funny like that.

By Still Waiting on Wooten

July 27, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

I’m confused, Mr. Wooten. If asking questions is a “fishing expedition,” then Congress has been fishing for YEARS, not just since the Dems took the majority away from the Repubs who had it for many many years.

If “fishing” is so wrong, why did they do it in the 90’s? And if this administration is above-board, honest, true to their job descriptions, and faithful to upholding the Constitution of the United States and serving the American people, then WHY DON’T THEY JUST ANSWER HONESTLY? WHY ALL THE REFUSALS TO ANSWER SIMPLE QUESTIONS? I mean if they’re not HIDING anything bad, what’s the problem?

Please explain!

By Jackie

July 27, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten points out the Wilson case is an example of the law having dual tracks. One for the administration of law and justice, the other for those who shout loudest. If that is true, why hasn’t indictments been issued against the Douglas County DA for distribution of child pornography?

By NASA Calling

July 27, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

Earth to Anus Horde

Whatever worm hole you crawled through to get to that alternative universe you inhabit, don’t come back. We’ll send the beer.

NASA

By Chui

July 27, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Ya. Wooten is nothing by a right wing, old Lilly White, good old conservative republican with his perverse ideology of inequality and rights only of his kind. Besdide being a racists, segregantionist, he may be still belongs to the KKK and the hood is hidden some among his other possession. All is writes about is the cause of his ancestors and more BS then anybody else. High time AJC retire this has been and his crap. As far a Vick, the man with his $190 Million or what ever he is paid, is pure simple stupid and an idiot,

Who knows if he is gulity or not but there are one too many white folks out there that want him out of Atlanta. He has made one too many enemies with his out look and conduct on the field and off it. Just any other football player, with brains full of crap that just cannot stay away when the s** hits the fan.

So the Feds found parts of some dead dogs. The technical question boils down is how old and who burried them. After over a year’s investigation, all they have come up with a charge of cruelity to animals and threats of more, that they may never be able to prove.

Beside cruelity to animals, in the South, there is much bigger issue of cruelity to human kind in terms of the gun ho racist police, the conservative republicans with their perverse ideology of inequality and rights only of their kind. How about the cruelity that is dished out to immigrant workers, their families etc.

There is yet more cruelity as to to the treatment of minorities, and cops killing 92 year grand mother and cover it up.

By getalife

July 27, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

“The Bush administration is deeply frustrated with Saudi Arabia over its role in Iraq, accusing the Saudis of trying to undermine the Baghdad government and failing to stem the flow of volunteers joining the insurgency there.”

But he spewed it was all al Qaeda.

Are you sick of being disrespected with all the lies?

No credibility and no special prosecutor for ganzo.

Geez.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

Jackie I guess showing the clip to the Jury can also be conscued as distribution of pornography. Lets let the stink rest where the source is; Mr. Wilson.

By cj

July 27, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

Where in the world did Jim Wooten get the idea that probably more than 300,000 homes have been built? Habitat New Orleans has been working furiously since Katrina and as of last month only completed its 1,000th home. And the City of New Orleans, as of last month, had issued a total of 150,000 building permits since Katrina and that’s for everything, not just homes. Where did compassion for people hit by natural disasters go? And where did responsible journalism, like getting facts straight, go?

By BS Aplenty

July 27, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Re: Charlie the Brown Shirt

Chuck, as long as this guy “King Jesus” is not an illegal, I’m OK with him staying here. Just to be sure, ask him who the first president was (no, it’s not George Jefferson).

By Freddy K.

July 27, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

Charles, there is a God and people do it anyway. Now moving on: Vick, boot him out of the NFL period. And anyone else with the “Thug” mentality. Clinton’s dressing habits, who really gives a rusty rats a. Congress wasting time an money, now that alittle different. They appear to be more interested in then there firings than trying to fix their screw ups. Seems like it getting about time for the States to once again take charge and start taking care of themselves. The fereral government and congress are becoming a joke. They decide what’s best for us, yea right. I have not been ask one damn question by any of the SOB’s so how can they know what’s best for me. They don’t even know most of us exist, except for the endless supply of revenue we supply for them to p** away on frivilous committes, foreign countries and any other laim a idea they come up with. I have read alot of you guys comments and agree with a large marjority. Politicans are crooks, liars and yes even law breakers. Each one has his/her own personal agenda. It is not about the people they supposedly represent, but about what they want and what they to be written the books that they did. Let’s clean house and get a new crop with no political debts to repay. That way maybe they can do what is best for the people and state they represent. I say again,”It is a States right to govern itself and State law should trumph federal law”, because State law will address the issue happening in that state. the way each state needs.

By Charles

July 27, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

NASA Calling gets it. Analchord needs assistance, fast.

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By analchord/analwart

July 27, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

The fenian pompous vainglorious queer Wilde or John the Baptist … aborted foreskin/analwart makes it so easy to humiliate it.

J the B was BEHEADED long before the days of murderous towel head terrorists … so aborted foreskin/analwart is saying it wants to be beheaded. That works!!!

A guillotine or a razor sharp Saudi pig slicing scimitar?

NASA calling summed up analwart perfectly!!

Poor old AIDS infested inbred rednekkk is prissily playing its usual drunken, badly bewildered I hate blacks queeralicious dickhead today!! So what else is new?

By RCH

July 27, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

Chui

“Beside cruelity to animals, in the South, there is much bigger issue of cruelity to human kind in terms of the gun ho racist police, the conservative republicans with their perverse ideology of inequality and rights only of their kind. How about the cruelity that is dished out to immigrant workers, their families etc.

There is yet more cruelity as to to the treatment of minorities, and cops killing 92 year grand mother and cover it up”

What ethnicity is the mayor of Atlanta? The police chief? Most of the government structure?

What party affiliation does our current mayor have?

Maybe Shirley Franklin’s KKK outfit is at the cleaners.

By Bill

July 27, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

With regard to contempt citations against White House officials, the President’s authority to hire and fire U.S. attorneys is not unlimited. He can’t fire them to interfere with ongoing investigations or hire them for the purpose of election tampering (which is exactly what happened when U.S. Attorneys brought charges against Democratic candidates just before elections and then dropped the charges just after the elections).

The White House used U.S. Attorneys to interfere with specific investigations and tamper with elections — just one of the many reasons that Bush should be impeached immediately.

By time for the truth

July 27, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

THIS VISIONARY CHAP IS AN ALL AMERICAN HERO …

A perfect VP pick for the next GOP winner in 08

Why can’t ALL police depts be run as brilliantly and sensibly as Joe’s?

http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=552520

By Charles

July 27, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

The founding fathers understood that America can’t remain free and exist if there is no God. America was founded upon the principal that our inalienable rights come from God. They don’t come from the Constitution altogether.

I wonder why some of their great, great, great, grand children don’t understand their correctly stated position.

To believe that there is no God is to promote tyranny and fascism.

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By JB

July 27, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten sets the bar pretty low when he thinks it’s acceptable for the FEMA to supply trailers that kill people.

“So your kids are suffering from respiratory problems from the extremely high levels of formaldehyde. What are you complaining about? We put a roof over your head, didn’t we?”

Despite Mr. Wooten’s lack of confidence in the Bush Administration, they could have done something to prevent these problems, but didn’t.

Whether it’s greed or incompetence, Bush kills.

By jbmlaw

July 27, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

Dear Jackie @ 12:26, I see you have resumed your anti-Jewish language today. You are consistent.

Dear SWOW @ 12:48, you appropriately as, “WHY DON’T THEY JUST ANSWER HONESTLY? WHY ALL THE REFUSALS TO ANSWER SIMPLE QUESTIONS? I mean if they’re not HIDING anything bad, what’s the problem?” The short answer is that leftists criminalize policy differences. Since the collectivists will always lose any discussion of policy – because their beliefs and intentions are broadly repugnant to normal people – they manufacture crimes by magnifying meaningless disagreements over irrelevancies. The American public sees the corruption at the heart of the leftists’ game here. Every trial in every court features a plaintiff who says “A,” and a defendant who says “B;” if every court was managed the same way as the Democrats ran Congress, the loser in every court case would be charged criminally for lying under oath. Scooter Libby is a great example of the phenomenon, one who was prosecuted for remembering differently from another, in a case where there was no underlying crime. That is why leftists investigate and simply hurl mud – they cannot offer an intelligent alternative policy.

By Freddy K.

July 27, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this

Hey Chui, If you don’t like the South then move North, DA.

By Sharon

July 27, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

On No Child Left Behind, the measuring stick is inaccurate. Every teacher and PTA member knows how silly the definition of “success” and “failure” is under this act.

Mr. Wooten should learn a little about the problems associated with NCLB before he bashes the public schools for the benefit of the for-profit schools that he’s promoting in his post day after day.

By Charles

July 27, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

I’ve got to run an errand for the big boss man. I will talk to everybody on Monday; God willing.

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By Charles

July 27, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

Michael Vick needs legal/public relations help. Somebody better be gathering information that those fighting dogs bit children, snapped at grandmothers or were engaged in consensual misbehavior, or Michael Vick is in real trouble. Better yet, his campaign should make it clear that whatever happened between him and those two dogs was consensual writes Jim Wooten.

The people in America just don’t get; especially the integrationist Negroes. Your sins have reached high heaven and the God of the Bible has rendered judgment. The hand of God is against the integrationist Negroes for selling their children into slavery in exchange for food, clothing, shelter, education, employment, and security provided by the federal government.

How are they so sadly mistaken? The integrationists Negroes thought they could sell the younger generation into slavery via integration and refer to it as freedom. Today we vividly see how God has manifested their evil ways through their children.

The integrationist Negroes are indeed stiff-neck and refuses to repent. They continue to blame their children for the mistakes and sins committed by prior generations.

As Martin Luther King Jr. would say, this present generation of young people did not do this to themselves. It was done to them by the previous generation and their facilitators, The United States Federal Government.

No amount of legal/public relations can trump God’s punishment. Information showing that those fighting dogs bit children snapped at grandmothers or were engaged in consensual misbehavior won’t trump the judgment rendered. Try making it clear that whatever happened between Michael Vick and those two dogs was consensual. It will amount to nothing.

The most disheartening thing about the insurmountable vexing human problems in The United States of America is that Americans and especially African Americans don’t realize that they are in real trouble. Primarily because they don’t really believe that there is an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient force and power call God.

If they were really believers, they would not have sold their children into slavery called integration for a season of pleasure, materialism.

There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God…for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Americans, and especially integrationist Negroes, you have been weighed and found wanting.

By WHOTF

July 27, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

is the Charles idiot? Is he a nut drop or a liberal taking shots in the dark?

By catlady

July 27, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

Open question: was anyone prosecuted for MAKING the porn G. Wilson film? The others that were prosecuted and pled (or were found guilty)—what were they charged with?

By Still Waiting

July 27, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

Dear jmblaw @ 1:22. You’re not even trying anymore. It’s sad. Retire and go fishing. You might actually snag a brim for dinner.

The short answer is that leftists criminalize policy differences. WTF are you talking about? A question to a gov’t offical about said official’s gov’t duties deserves an answer. How can one “criminialize” something that they refuse to even define on the record? Does this lame stuff work for you in court? I doubt it.

Since the collectivists will always lose any discussion of policy – because their beliefs and intentions are broadly repugnant to normal people – they manufacture crimes by magnifying meaningless disagreements over irrelevancies. OBJECTION! Stating facts not in evidence. Stating opinion as fact. Making baseless accusations. Did you also beat down the Repugnican congress for “magnifying meaningless disagreements over irrelevancies” when they were making someone’s private p-nis behavior somehow relevant? Answer truthfully.

The American public sees the corruption at the heart of the leftists’ game here. Close, but not quite. We see the corruption at the heart of those who cannot answer a simple question. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? If nothing, then just answer.

..if every court was managed the same way as the Democrats ran Congress Congress can be, but is not necessarily a courtroom. The sad little county rooms in which you are unbelieveably allowed to represent clients in for a fee you no doubt never earn is NOT the same as the US Congress, whose job it is to oversee the Executive Branch via prescribed checks and balances which entitle them to, and in fact dictate that they DO ask questions. Numbnut. Did you ever graduate from anywhere?

That is why leftists investigate and simply hurl mud – they cannot offer an intelligent alternative policy. Tell me again why the Republican Congress investigated “travelgate?” Geezusss. How stupid do you think the American people ARE anyway? Oh yes.. Very. You presume every day that we’ll believe the load of dung you deliver.

By jbmlaw

July 27, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

More evidence of how leftists react when someone disagrees with them: “The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he will investigate a threatening letter sent by the leader of an EPA-member group, vowing to “destroy” the career of a climate skeptic.” http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070727/NATION02/107270089

So funny, our friend TFTT took a lot of heat for some intemperate remarks on Princess Di a couple of days ago. Report today that his ideological opposite, Germaine Greer, is saying pretty much the same things as TFTT. “ Feminist Germaine Greer has caused outrage in Australia for calling the late Princess of Wales, “slow”, “devious” and “disturbingly neurotic”. The controversial academic claims Diana is partly responsible for the car accident that killed her almost a decade ago - by initiating a love triangle between herself, Dodi Fayed and heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.” http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23406026-details/Diana+was+’devious%2C+slow+and+disturbingly+neurotic%2C’+mocks+Germaine+Greer/article.do

By jbmlaw Caught Lying Again

July 27, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw wrote, “…deliberation privilege (part of the broader “Executive Privilege”) is upheld by the Supreme Court in every case where there is no crime proven first

I know it goes with out saying for the regulars here, but jbmlaw is telling fibs again.

U.S. Supreme Court: UNITED STATES v. NIXON, 418 U.S. 683 (1974) —

“A President’s acknowledged need for confidentiality [418 U.S. 683, 713] in the communications of his office is general in nature, whereas the constitutional need for production of relevant evidence in a criminal proceeding is specific and central to the fair adjudication of a particular criminal case in the administration of justice. Without access to specific facts a criminal prosecution may be totally frustrated…”

By Still Waiting

July 27, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

Lookie! Fake lawyer man finds fun in obfuscation. He won’t answer the question: WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? Instead, he drags up alleged quotes from a “leftist” on an unrelated issue. This does not explain why members of the Bush administration refuse to answer questions honestly. But he thinks you are stupid enough to believe he is smarter-er that you are. Stop insulting everyone’s intelligence.

By me again

July 27, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this

I agree with little to nothing that Wooten comments on, but I must give him credit…HIS opinion column keeps the most comments!

Not sure if that’s good or bad…but whatever.

By Freddy K.

July 27, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

Sorry Chui, that was ment for RCH.

By RCH

July 27, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

Freedy K

I was reminding Chui who was running racist Atlanta.

By BS Aplenty

July 27, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

Re: to the legion gotnolife/still-born&waiting/charlie the brown shirt and the other liberal Demon-crat personas you inhabit

Ladies/Legion/The Many:

The rest of America without an extremist liberal agenda agrees with jbmlaw’s post on your legal nit-picking. Please relay this message to the rest of your “inner-people” as they are apparently not talking to each other.

By jbmlaw

July 27, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this

Dear SW @ 1:55, my opening line @ 1:56 seemingly knew you would post. I suspect my argument went right past you, forgot to dumb it down. “Anyone so stupid that he testifies in front of Congress will see the most minor differences in his words twisted into a ‘lie’ and a ‘violation of law.’” I know that is a hard concept for you to understand, but that is exactly why I tell my clients to not speak with any legal authority in DeKalb. If you cooperate, you will be charged falsely; Congress is worse. It is run by people like the corrupt head of the American Council on Renewable Energy I cited in my earlier post. Everyone else will get it, and if you read it 30-40 times, you will too.

Dear jcla @ 2:00, you assert that US v. Nixon revolved around Congressional subpoenas issued before a crime was proven to have been committed? The Watergate break in was discovered the same night of its occurrence. I am certain leftists agree with you and do not regard a “third-rate” burglary as a crime, but the upright among us disagree with you – it is a crime, listed in the statutes in most states and DC. (I would say “all,” but I don’t know that to be true.) Or perhaps you do not understand my language, “…deliberation privilege (part of the broader “Executive Privilege”) is upheld by the Supreme Court in every case where there is no crime proven first…” Requires some minimal reading comprehension, but if you have a really smart friend, they will be able to explain it to you.

By Anonymous

July 27, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

Charles: If that were true, atheism would be illegal. Therefore, it’s false.

Gosh, that was an easy one!

By Camus

July 27, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw again proves himself as supercilious as he is ignorant. (one good name-calling deserves another, eh law?)

In fact, the “worthies” of the Bush raj have every right to sit in front of Congress and state clearly their invocation of the 5th Amendment or Executive Privilege. What they do not have, under any sentient creature’s reading of the law, is the right to i) not show up just because they don’t wanna, ii) to refuse to answer without invoking privilege (as Fredo Gonzales clearly did several times in his last testimony, or iii) to answer untruthfully (again, as Gonzo did several times).

You also let rip the following howlers:

You have just enshrined a new “tenure” device for the incompetent, to merely claim to be working on a case hostile to the boss.

The Executive is clearly within its legal right to dismiss attorneys who are investigating cases that touch their own interests. (Nixon did so several times. Nice company to keep.) But lets at least be honest about motive…those particular attorneys were getting uncomfortably close to the boss and his gang and were thus fired to protect administration and party (not that there is any difference for these guys…Comintern, anyone?).

Is it Legal? Perhaps. Is it a clear indication of Republican “respect” for the rule of law? Absolutely. As is your argument.

e.g., the US Attorneys who refused to investigate ACORN-style election fraud.) As you well know, the true cases underway stayed underway.

A true statement as far as it goes, but exemplary of your intellectual dishonesty. The “true” cases under way stayed underway. But the vast majority were shown to be without merit or utterly insignificant. Do you truly suggest that those ACORN yahoos registering fake names had any impact whatsoever on any election anywhere? If so, you are either a fool or a tool. Point to a single significant indictment or conviction.

You seemingly do not understand “checks and balances” – Congress’s check is the budget. That is their only check.

As per your infallible President’s assertion that the Congress has the right to fund the troops, but nothing else. That’s like saying that the “advise and consent” function only gives the senate to power to consent to every nomination or treaty that comes down the pike. Dude, for a lawyer, you have an amazing capacity to ignore nearly 250 years of evolving law and practice of governance. But given that such acknowledgement is so horribly inconvenient for your sycophantic worship of the current adminsitration, I can understand your reluctance to look at what the legal history of the nation really indicates in this area.

Given your posting history, none of this is surprising. What continues to amaze is your willingness to debase yourself with such transparently weak argumentation. Even an anonymous blog toad should keep a little self-respect.

By jbmlaw

July 27, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

Dear Camus @ 2:45, I stand by my posts, which have a stronger foundation than yours. I find no need to supplement, as your arguments are without substance.

By Camus

July 27, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

jbm stands eviscerated by a series of points that factually undercut his entire rationale, and the best he can do is a “nanny nanny boo boo, I can’t hear you” defense.

God help this poor man’s clients.

By Southern Born

July 27, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this

I think I need to invest in Reynolds Aluminum. Lots of tin-foil hats on display today.

By time for the truth

July 27, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

jbm

see I was absolutely right about Princess Diarrhea. I had thankfully long forgotten all about the noxious, sickening “queen of hearts” tag. I was nauseated every time I heard this pathetic fawning bollocks on the wireless/telly. Diarrhea was extremely dim and stupid, it was no better dressed than some snooty Harvey Nichols dressed newsreader and - away from the fawning cameras for which it endlessly preened itself - it had all the morality and charm of an adulterous puff adder!!

The fact that a far leftist feminazi kangaroo molestor has similar views on this manipulative, thick as a P Hilton spoiled airhead does NOT change the facts!!

There is some truly BRILLIANT NEWS from the UK today though. It seems the world’s furiously fast growing number of self absorbed cannabis abusing pot head pixies and bitter burnt out cut and run hippes are at vastly greater risk of triggering serious mental disease when firing up their bongs and reefers - as if the sleeping sickness of liberalism were not already a severe enough mental handicap.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ pages/live/articles/news/news. html?inarticleid=471106&inpage id=1770

So don’t bogart that joint all you hate America hippies …

By .

July 27, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40%

There are great risks in smoking cannabis, a new report has revealed A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing study warns.

The Government-commissioned report has also found that taking the drug regularly more than doubles the risk of serious mental illness.

Overall, cannabis could be to blame for one in seven cases of schizophrenia and other life-shattering mental illness, the Lancet reports.

The grim statistics - the latest to link teenage cannabis use with mental illness in later life - come only days after Gordon Brown ordered a review of the decision to downgrade cannabis to class C, the least serious category.

The Prime Minister is said to have a ‘personal instinct’ that the change should be reversed, with more arrests and stiffer penalties for users.

Cannabis has been implicated in a string of vicious killings, including the recent stabbing of fashion designer Lucy Braham.

The authors of the latest study, the most comprehensive of its kind and commissioned by the Department of Health, said: ‘Policymakers need to provide the public with advice about this widely-used drug.

‘We believe there is now enough evidence to inform people that using cannabis could increase their risk of developing a psychotic illness later in life.’

The analysis does not look at the age at which schizophrenia is likely to develop. However, previous studies have shown that smoking the drug as a teenager raises the risk of developing schizophrenia in one’s twenties or thirties.

The researchers, from four British universities, analysed the results of 35 studies into cannabis use from around the world. This suggested that trying cannabis only once was enough to raise the risk of schizophrenia by 41 per cent.

At greatest risk, however, were heavy users, with those who took cannabis over 100 times having more than double the risk of those who never touched the drug.

With up to 40 per cent of teenagers and young adults in the UK believed to have tried cannabis, the researchers estimate that the drug could be behind 14 per cent of cases of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses.

‘Although individual lifetime risk of chronic psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, even in people who use cannabis regularly, is likely to be low - less than three per cent - cannabis use can be expected to have a substantial effect on psychotic disorders at a population level because exposure to this drug is so common.’

Cardiff University researcher Dr Stanley Zammit added: ‘Even if cannabis does cause an increased risk of developing psychosis, most people who use cannabis will not develop such an illness.

‘Nevertheless, we would still advise people to avoid or limit their use of this drug, especially if they start to develop any mental health symptoms, or if they have relatives with psychotic illnesses.’

In an accompanying editorial in the Lancet, Dutch psychiatrists said the focus on heroin, cocaine and other Class A drugs meant the dangers of cannabis had been overlooked.

‘In the public debate, cannabis has been considered a more or less harmless drug compared with alcohol, central stimulants and opioids.

‘However, the potential long-term hazardous effects of cannabis with regard to psychosis seem to have been overlooked, and there is a need to warn the public of these dangers, as well as to establish a treatment to help young frequent cannabis users.’

Previous studies have shown a clear link between cannabis use in the teenage years and mental illness in later life.

Research completed by leading psychiatrist Professor Robin Murray in 2005 showed that those who smoked the drug regularly at 18 were 1.6 times more likely to suffer serious psychiatric problems, including schizophrenia, by their mid-20s.

For those who were regular users at 15, the stakes were even higher, with their risk of mental illness by the age of 26 being 4.5 times greater than normal.

It is thought that, used during teenage years, the drug can cause permanent damage to the developing brain.

Professor Robin Murray, of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, warned yesterday that the risks were likely to be heightened by the increasing use of powerful skunk cannabis.

‘My own experience suggest to me that the risk with skunk is higher. Therefore their estimate that 14 per cent of cases of schizophrenia in the UK are due to cannabis is now probably an understatement.’

Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, said: ‘This analysis should act as a serious warning of the dangers of regular or heavy cannabis use, doubling the risk of developing schizophrenia - a condition in which a person may hear voices and experience strange thoughts and paranoid delusions.

‘The debate about classification should not founder on statistics but take into account the potential damage to hundreds of people who without cannabis would not develop mental illness.

‘While the majority can take the drug with no mind-altering effects, it is estimated that 10 per cent are at risk.

‘You only need to see one person whose mind has been altered and life irreparably damaged, or talk to their family, to realise that the headlines are not scaremongering but reflect a daily, and preventable, tragedy.’

By George Soros

July 27, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

I support the legalization of cannibus, a harmless drug that robs individuals of their motivation.

Bwahahahahahaha

By time for the truth

July 27, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

Watch the results of how Paki/Afghani scum have brainwashed towel head kiddies - at the end a 12 year boy is about to use a long knife to behead a bound adult hostage on camera - the 2.30 secs Sky News report doesn’t show that - it stops the film just before the sick young mohammedan b******* commits the cowardly murder.

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=3628

These are the murderous scum the demoNcrat lefties want to cut and run from!!

By Mike Vick

July 27, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

I am going to say this one more time..”I did not have sexual relations with those pitbulls. I do not know how they all were infected with herpes”. Maybe you should ask Marcus???

By jbmlaw Caught Lying Again

July 27, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw at 2:42,

As you know, President Nixon wasn’t being investigated for a burlary? He was being investigated for a different, albeit related crime — not yet proven.

I agree with Camus that you’re supercilious, but I don’t agree that you’re ignorant. You’re simply an unabashed liar, and obfuscation is your weapon of choice.

By getalife

July 27, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

OMG, reefer madness again.

Hey George,

For us retired folks( join us Jim) we do not need motivation.

Just good munchies.

Bwa.

By G Spot

July 27, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

Analchord; You may be the least entertaining person that thinks they are funny that I have ever had the misfortune of reading. You have not written ONE thing that anyone has found remotely amusing.

By deegee

July 27, 2007 4:14 PM | Link to this

Life imitates sports:

Here’s another example of an Anglo guy that gets a job making big bucks, shows up late, leaves early and nobody knows when he’s coming back to work.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/sports/beckham+still+doubtful+for+saturday/631017

Then there’s the Mexican guy that is making less than half of what the Anglo guy makes to do the same job, he plays the whole game, actually scores a goal and we know he’s coming back to work. Where have I heard this before?

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2007-07-22-289386719_x.htm

By Screw the resistance

July 27, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

Columnist ‘Ali Sawaha, writing in the Syrian daily Al-Thawra, protested against those among the Arabs who questioned the ability of the resistance: “Our nation, at the moment, is experiencing disintegration and a rift of unprecedented proportions.

Inhale.

By Rasta Man

July 27, 2007 4:32 PM | Link to this

DEBBIEDOITRIGHT you steal oxygen from all of us, mon. Stay at the wedding and off the internet, you liberal dolt!

By Annoyed

July 27, 2007 4:32 PM | Link to this

Chui

As for the “the cruelty dished out to immigrant workers and their families”, I do not think cruelty can be defined as allowing non- U.S. citizens to live and work in our country illegally, free of taxation. All the while U.S. citizens work hard to have 30% of their income used to pay for illegal aliens who recognize the opportunities that America provides for people of all races, genders and orientations, yet do not have enough respect or self-pride to take the steps to become a legal, law-abiding U.S. citizen.

As for the 92 year old grandmother who was shot by “gun ho racist police”, the fact that she was a 92 year old grandmother is not relevant. The fact is she pulled a gun on a law enforcement official, period. Her age, race, and gender do not matter. When it comes to endangering the lives of the underpaid men and women who put their lives on the line to protect the general public on a daily basis, anyone who pulls a gun on a law enforcement official should be treated as an immediate threat. Regardless of her age, race, or gender the woman was capable of pulling the trigger and killing someone who was doing their job. If I saw a gun pointed at me, I would shoot too.

By Peter

July 27, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

Funny how this administration is fed up with Saudi Arabia…….

Can anyone remember what family was the ONLY persons in the US to FLY out of the country after 911????

Gee funny what country do THEY live in ???

Funny how we have not gotten their Kin after 911 ????

Come on you NUT WING Right Wingers… can you answer that question?

Seems like you can’t buy everyone, though Bush would like too !!!!!!

HA HA HA…….

By JD

July 27, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this

deegee@4:14,

Your inane attempt at comparing apples to oranges only proves your keyboard is the closest you have ever come to an athletic field.

Keep playing the race element, that is what you libs do so well, even when your argument is vapid.

By Killin' Time

July 27, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

I’ve been wondering about this myself for quite a while, but Atrios went ahead and checked Nexis to get the answer.

  • Number of times the term “Clinton fatigue” appeared, according to a Nexis search, in major papers during July of 1999: 27.

  • Clinton Gallup poll approval rating in July of 1999: 64

  • Number of times the term “Bush fatigue” has appeared, so far, in July of 2007: 1, courtesy of Byron York’s hair.

  • Bush Gallup poll approval rating in July of 2007: 31.

  • Now, perhaps so-called conservatives will say the comparison isn’t fair because July 2007 isn’t over yet. Maybe, they’d argue, there will be a rash of “Bush fatigue” references in the remaining four days that would show something closer to parity.

    With that in mind, I went ahead and checked June 1999 to June 2007. Eight years ago, there were 29 references to “Clinton fatigue” in the major newspapers. Last month, there was just one reference to “Bush fatigue.”

    Because I’m a big geek, and it’s a relatively slow news day, I kept digging to take this comparison even further.

    Try this one on for size — last month, June 2007, there was one story in a major newspaper that referenced “Bush fatigue,” but there were two references to “Clinton fatigue.” Yes, just last month, “Clinton fatigue” references still outnumbered “Bush fatigue” references, despite the fact that Clinton left office seven years ago.

    Better yet, so far, for all of 2007 to date, “Bush fatigue” has garnered 21 references. “Clinton fatigue” so far in 2007? 35.

    Eight years ago, the major papers set a pretty high standard. In August 1999, :Clinton fatigue” references climbed to 44. In September 1999, it reached 99. By October 1999, it was 106. (Remember, these are major newspapers; Fox News isn’t included in the mix.)

    Given the recent scandals and Bush’s abysmal public standing, the “liberal” media really needs to pick up the pace on highlighting “Bush fatigue” — which is far more real than “Clinton fatigue” ever was.

    By Redneck Convert

    July 27, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this

    Well, maybe now I know why TFTT is so nuts. Maybe he smokes weed alot. He should try meth like us rednecks do. It don’t make you crazy but you will need some false teeth.

    By time for the truth

    July 27, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

    heebeedeegee is just a spiteful racist anti-white b itch with NOTHING of note or worth to say!! All it ever does is puke up its anti-white, anti-US hate!!

    what’s even funnier is heebeedeegee’s utter pig ignorance of real football. if it went to a game in England it would be verbally slaughtered at half time for such imbecility. Beckham is a creative right sided midfielder - not a striker. he doesn’t even play ‘in the hole’ behind the front two.

    Use of “anglo” shows us that heebeedeegee is either an illegal mexican type leech or a just a bitter mexican type who sadly managed to get a green card under a previous pandering amnesty. no white folks ever use “anglo”.

    what is even more revealing about heebeedeegeee’s bitter race hate is that this doltish greasy sad cow posted the same racist drivel several days ago - its STILL an old NOTHING story which this bigoted silly trollop had to repeat to have anything to post. trying (in vain) to get me back for efortlessly humiliating it again earlier today!!

    well - I’ve had me 10 min break - back to mowing the bloody lawn - its a wee bit hot out there this afternoon!!!

    heebeedeegeee … next time make sure my enchiladas are a bit hotter before you bring them to my table!!! otherwise I’ll complain to the manager!!! … snigger

    By Bush Screws Joe Public

    July 27, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this

    Notwithstanding the roughly $50 billion already lining the pockets of defense contractors during the Bush years and the $49 billion that the U.S. Missle Defense Agency expects to spend over the next five years, the United States still possesses no capability to intercept even one ICBM.

    What a surprise.

    By deegee

    July 27, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this

    Oh, really, JD? Show me where my argument is substantially vapid.

    By time for the truth

    July 27, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this

    the hypocritical nutter Edwards is getting more paranoid than inbred rednekk at one of its fiery cross workshops - NOT EVERY ONE IS UNDERCOVER FBI rednekkk … the most telling thing are the hilarious biting comments about Edwards and his paranoia on the blog.

    he must be having major problems with the sudden tangerine withdrawal his deranged wife is bleating endlessly about … smirk

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0707/EdwardsTheywanttoshutmeup.html

    By @@

    July 27, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this

    OMG, that Edwards video is too funny. Another vast right-wing conspiracy I suppose.

    The funniest part:

    “I’m out here talking about healthcare and the…..aahhhh….POOR.”

    Dang, THE POOR must have slipped from his mind with his hair gel.

    Aahhhh…..THINK JOHN, THINK!!!!!

    By Analchord

    July 27, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this

    Hillary is a done deal as our next prez. The only thing that could stop her is if Bush used the war powers act to suspend the electoral process for reasons of national security. Then we’d be China. (the danger here is that only a half hour later, Bush would suspend the electoral process again)

    I’ve been resisting a Hillary/Edwards ticket, but as the race is shaping up, and they charge into turn one, it seems to make sense.

    Hillary/Edwards For a United America.

    Hillary in 08. That would be great.

    Dont forget that Bonds is now “the Juice”.

    By jbmlaw

    July 27, 2007 5:28 PM | Link to this

    Dear TFTT, perhaps my short term memory is failing, but it seems to me around this time last year you proffered an belief that testing our leftist friends would produce a correlation between their drug use and the degree of their leftism, or something like that. Looks like you may have hit another homer on a pitch out of the strike zone. The note @ 3:34 seems to support your thesis

    Dear jcla @ 3:54, regrettably your reading skills are unimproved - you hurt your team’s NCLB score. The 1972 burglary (i.e, the crime) was proven. The connection to John Dean was not. Thus, with evidence of the crime in hand, the Supreme Court ruled that the privilege cannot be used to cover up the crime. That is how your Gonzales argument fails - no crime.

    By jbmlaw

    July 27, 2007 5:35 PM | Link to this

    Dear TFTT, I am with @@, your Edwards video is hilarious. Someone send the poor man a tin hat.

    By Analchord

    July 27, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this

    Fox just reported that Hillary mixed Bill’s viagra with the date rape drug and then told him to go fook himself.

    Hillary in 08.

    By time for the truth

    July 27, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

    you are absolutely right jbm

    Indeed I have periodically suggested this, and the proof appears on here daily. MOst liberals excuse/promote pot use - which is increasingly proving very deleterious to one’s mental health. I spotted this about 30 years ago just by simple observation of a number of hippie types I used to know.

    heebeedeegee is so “stuck” for new bigoted bile it literally posts a repeat from a few days ago of the same non story about an ageing English footy player. not realising that in England Beckham is NOT fawned over like he is here. That happily ceased after a very petulant, totally unnecessary red card in the world cup a few years ago. Most English footy fans are p!ssing themselves laughing he’s getting that much in such a pathetic low level meaningless league. Clearly he’s got more than half an eye on Hollywood.

    It isn’t hard to predict such leftist (druig induced) idiocy. They simply aren’t used to be challenged in their smug little latte liberal world. Facts and reason are beyond most of them. To a lefty a bigot is a conservative using facts and logic. Honest differences of world view are fair enough of course.

    Its very amusing to see how effortlessly you manage to daily goad some of the more pompous, self important leftist wankers on here into self humiliation. They gleefully bite every damn time!!

    By time for the truth

    July 27, 2007 5:47 PM | Link to this

    any one else noticed how Edwards is increasingly trying to sound like the Arkansas rapist!!

    By jbmlaw

    July 27, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this

    Dear Analchord, you have published well today, most of this material is ready for performance. (I know you are not a conservative, but you played it pretty neutral, good humor.) Maybe you can get Conan’s spot in 2009.

    By Deranged squared.

    July 27, 2007 5:55 PM | Link to this

    Killin’ Time @ 4:47 -

    Why don’t you replace Bush fatigue with Bush Derangement Syndrome and see what you come up with.

    By the way, when the Dem party cowers in fear over a debate hosted by FoxNews and refuses to go there, and the Republicans debate on PMSNBC with Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman (who is such a coward he won’t even have debates on his own pathetic show), you can smoke another joint and tell us all about a non-liberal media and the spine of Democrats and the spineless Republicans.

    You probably think the editorial boards of the New York Times and Atlanta Journal Constitution are evenly balanced too. Moron.

    By Jethro Tull

    July 27, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this

    Oxymoron of the day: To the haters of God and truth

    1 In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

    2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names,that he might be Lord of all the earth when it was suited to Man

    3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good.

    4 And Man formed Aqualung of the dust of the ground, and a host of others likened unto his kind.

    5 And these lesser men were cast into the void; And some were burned, and some were put apart from their kind.

    6 And Man became the God that he had created and with his miracles did rule over all the earth.

    7 But as all these things came to pass, the Spirit that did cause man to create his God lived on within all men: even within Aqualung.

    8 And man saw it not.

    9 But for Christ’s sake he’d better start looking.

    By Analchord

    July 27, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this

    The possibility of a National Healthcare System is growing daily as the Hillary Express (ref. to cleavage) gains momentum.

    She’s unstoppable. (ref to train)

    Healthcare for sick people. makes sense to me. Those that can afford their own plans are free to do just that. Those that can afford their own private doctors can do that too.

    Healthcare. It’s as American as Obesity.

    By Jackie

    July 27, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

    @jbmlaw

    I see you are still having brain cramps. I thought you were going to get some medication for that condition?

    By Analchord

    July 27, 2007 6:04 PM | Link to this

    With Miller time dead ahead, when you’re drinkin’ w/your buddies, at some point tonight use a sarcastic tone and say, “Did the Juice break the homerun record yet?”

    Then sit back and watch the high fives, in fact the waitress will probably flash her teets at you for being such a pop culture guru for thinking of such a great line!

    Just looking out for my fellow men, we have to stick up for our own kind.

    Enjoy the view.

    By jbmlaw

    July 27, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

    Dear jackie @ 6:01, not brain cramps, merely a pain in the rear. Suffer it every time I deal with moonbats

    By Shrillary Goose Step

    July 27, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this

    What we need is a raunchy democrat socialist like Shrill to take over Washington with the pathetic democrats in congress. Eight years of that will be long enough for the Republicans to make a massive come back and be true Conservatives again. Newt’s victory was only 13 years ago. True Conservatism is not dead. Far from it.

    The definition of oxymoron: Martin Sheen narrating a PBS documentary of World War II and mentioning war heroes.

    By Commander Guy

    July 27, 2007 6:11 PM | Link to this

    It warms the heart to see the likes of jbmlaw and tftt giving each other congratulatory reacharounds. The well-known human craving for the approval of others is not dead even for these withered little creatures.

    Why jbm even has begun to butter up to the A-chord in a pathetic display of friend trolling. Perhaps we can look forward to a rolicsome threesome?

    You may know a person’s character by the company they keep. jbm and tftt’s little mutual admiration society simply reinforces the general perception of their characters.

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