Thinking Right

By jbmlaw

August 24, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Seemingly issues of the underclass are to dominate our discussion themes today. Michael Vick and his ilk will not listen to sound advice, so expect the homies to stay in the posses. The tragedy – I use the term correctly – of Sidney Dorsey is indistinguishable from that of Michael Vick; Dorsey just did not fall so far, as he was a mere politician. On McMansions, Jim Wooten publishes the first intelligent line I have read anywhere: “Big houses are welcomed next to my starter move-up.” Anyone who knows anything about real estate knows you always want to own the smallest house in the best neighborhood, to boost your rate of return; complaints about McMansions are undoubtedly the lament of the ignorant. As to Grady, maybe it is beginning to dawn on our Leftist friends that this is simply another plea for corporate welfare – the defense of the transfer of funds, from taxpayer to another “for profit” entity draws a less spirited representation from the nanny-staters. Finally, we white folk probably ought to stay out of the sagging pants debate; I assume from Jim’s respectful comments that C. T. Martin is a black fellow, and our words of informed support may make his meritorious efforts more difficult.

Now to get to the non-ghetto issues, I don’t care about smokers, and I wish our social controllers did not [full disclosure, my precious older son smokes, much to the disgust of Mrs. jbmlaw and me.] Leona Helmsley strikes me as a funny case – normally people of wealth, who are otherwise willing to be controversial on public topics, are politically active, at least as contributors (and usually in support of leftist causes; something about leftism causes them to be unable to keep their mouths shut.) I have read nothing, in her case, suggesting a political bent. The PSC could learn a lot about the risks of “ex parte” if they would talk to any judge who has been on the bench more than six months.

“… lenders aside, what business would invite customers to … consume services before determining whether they could pay the bill?” Answer: dumb attorneys, but I always assert it as a virtue; my “pro bono” would have allowed me to retire in style.

By TW

August 24, 2007 8:07 AM | Link to this

How about that flip-flopping, cut and run John Warner, Jim? Said he cleared his conscience yesterday? Leading GOP military voice kneeled quietly, if not cheered, as the frat boy in the White House played with our military like a child does with the plastic green soldiers that come in bags of fifty – and now his conscience is clear? Glad you feel better, Mr. Warner.

By SimplyAmazed

August 24, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this

I just love it when you right-wing drug warriors bemoan the “nanny state” attacks on your drug—the Godly drug tobacco. Priceless.

By RCH

August 24, 2007 8:30 AM | Link to this

Through the generations. young people have worn clothing or altered personal styles as a punch against the establishment. We all did it. Twenty years from now this style will be a distant memory.

I am sure the Atlanta Council has more urgent buisness than this.

By One

August 24, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

I just love the fact that you prejudiced fools are constantly harping on Vick (even his drug addicted dad), but hardly get this riled up over our crooked thug of a president Bush!!! He is truly a white collar thug if ever……….Cheney too!!! So Vick fought dogs. Look at how many innocent people have been killed thanks to President Thug Bush!!!! And not nearly as many people are outraged!!! Yes, I love dogs too, but human beings are just that… HUMAN BEINGS!!!! If Bush can lead all of these people to their deaths, spend trillions on a stupid war (just so he can get his hands on more oil!!!), break laws right from the Whitey House, and stiil deliver his ignorant nationally televised speeches………then y’all need to leave Vick alone!!!!! But of course if he looked more like most of you, then this would not be nearly as horrific!! Bunch of freakin hypocrites!!!!!!!

By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I

August 24, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Greetings from Your Pope.

Last night We had the pleasure of watching three episodes of Squidbillies on Our On Demand.

Hats off to the guys at Adult Swim for capturing so accurately southern family life. We heartily recommend it. Redneck Convert - were you on the technical advisory team?

By Dave the First

August 24, 2007 8:42 AM | Link to this

I LOVE wind turbines! It is my dream to build a house with alternative solar or wind power. Is it because I care about the environment? No! Its because I like being independent and having my own source of electricity is worth the extra cost.

The added bonus would come from upsetting the liberal quasi-environmentalist down the street who wants alternative power, just not in his neighborhood.

When I heard that Grant park residents were upset about the turbine, I recall how many people I met there who would qualify as environmental activists. Its more than amusing to see them squirm.

By Mid-South Philosopher

August 24, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim

TW’s @8:07 comment is just about what I would expect from the Bushites. Anyone who questions their junior high perspectives is suddenly a “cut and runner.”

Better than being lost in Alabama, I suppose.

As for me, I will cast my lot with General Petraeus. When his report comes, if he says stay, then we should stay. If he says we are flogging a dead horse, then let the withdrawal begin.

Georgie Bush is finished for all pratical purposes anyway. Anything positive from this point is damage control.

As far as young men showing their underwear, I have no problem getting them to pull them up. I just ask them how they got so many track marks back there. It works everytime!

By KR

August 24, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

I don’t see the point of the wind turbine in Atlanta, but I don’t think a neighborhood association should be able to stop it either. Same holds for the McMansions.

Typical Grady board: pay consultants to give recommendations; ask business leaders to give recommendations; then ignore it all and ask for more money to do the same thing they’ve always done. Grady can be fixed if the “stakeholders” will stop playing the race card and make some sound business decisions.

By Charles

August 24, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

Shame on you, Jim, for faulting Clark Atlanta. You of all people should know that these young people are responsible for their own actions. By blaming the university, you’re basically telling them that they are not at fault for moving into the dorm and making a financial commitment to pay for school without being able to repay. While the school is responsible for helping the students process the paperwork, the students are ultimately responsible for their own financial plans. By learning this lesson of personal responsibility early, these students might be better off in the future. To teach them that their finances are someone else’s responsibility perpetuates the myth that so many young people today believe - that their well being is someone else’s responsibility. That they deserve, rather than they have to work for.

By KR

August 24, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this

I don’t see the point of the wind turbine in Atlanta, but I don’t think a neighborhood association should be able to stop it either. Same holds for the McMansions.

Typical Grady board: pay consultants to give recommendations; ask business leaders to give recommendations; then ignore it all and ask for more money to do the same thing they’ve always done. Grady can be fixed if the “stakeholders” will stop playing the race card and make some sound business decisions.

By Scott Lange

August 24, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

Come to think of it, I’ve never seen the attire in any place where people are successful.

Keep at it Jim, the successful people may let you visit one day.

By Charles

August 24, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

As for the wind turbine, who doesn’t think that it wasted more energy to make, transport, and set up the turbine than the device will save over the long run? And who doesn’t think that the cost of the device will exceed the savings over time? (C’mon, buddy, if you’re using that much energy, finding where to conserve would have been much easier.) So basically Grant Park just got a giant phalic symbol.

Well, I guess if you put a Barber Pole outside a Barber Shop and a Giant Fish outside a Fish Market, then the house is probably now correctly marked to identify it’s ownter.

By Shar

August 24, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

Good Morning to all: I don’t think the Michael Vick lesson is to necessarily leave the friends of one’s youth behind. Catapulting from poverty and obscurity to immense wealth and fame must be dislocating, and associations from the difficult past would seem more trustworthy and untainted by opportunism than those made through money and connections. The trick appears to be selectivity. Bring along only those friends - and even family members - who do not insist on bringing the desperate part of the past with them. For those who find it too hard to say no, perhaps teams could assist in finding a representative who could shield the player by setting up lists of approved/unapproved petitioners and maintain contact with posse members who are importunate or amassing criminal records. Sure, Mr. Vick should have been able to do this for himself, but he is not alone in being unprepared, stupid, arrogant and too soft a touch. After all, he’s been allowed to escape the consequences of his actions for years by teachers, coaches and boosters who didn’t feel he needed to be an educated, responsible person as long as he would run and throw. Of course, his bestial interests are another problem, along with contempt for the law.

If we’re to have a nanny state, I’d rather it was saving us from tobacco than from saggy pants. Ridiculous and uncomfortable as they appear, the pants are neither addictive nor lethal (although the face plant that I saw one young man take when he incautiously released his grip on his pants in reaching out for a pass in pickup football and gravity took over may have done him in through embarrassment).

I don’t understand Mr. Wooten’s collocation of Leona Helmsley with Democrats. She seems to have despised nearly everyone, and advertised herself as “The Queen” in her “Palace”. Not the sort of dame you’d expect to find in The Big Tent.

And as one who lives in the middle of rampant infill building, there are pros and cons. The overall tax digest grows but existing housing stock is compromised in value, as the older building is no longer viewed as an asset. Also, the character and “look” of the neighborhood is fundamentally changed. Since that is what attracted the longer-term residents, it is difficult to see that as a plus.

By brian

August 24, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

you dismiss anti smoking zealots with “The nanny-staters won’t be satisfied until smoking is driven out” yet you encourage The nanny-staters to oppose the showing of underwear?

One kills, the other is poor fashion.

Which should we be concerned about again?

By WFC

August 24, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this

I appreciate CT Martin’s efforts but the “underwear ban” is unenforceable. One good thing about this style of dress is that it allows the public to identify early the future losers of America.

How long will it be before somebody calls for taxpayers to bail out poor old Clark college. My guess is six months.

By Charles

August 24, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

My wife and I just had an idea for Michael Vick’s punishment while in prison. Since the dogs at his home have been deemed to be too dangerous to be adopted why doesn’t the judge have Vick be responsible (under the prison’s supervision) for their care while he’s there? Let him clean their cages, feed them and give them the affection they were deprived while being trained for killing. Maybe this ‘punishment’ would be more humane than what most of us want Vick to suffer. That punishment could be left up to the dogs under his care. :)

By Typical Georgia Redneck

August 24, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Right on Mr. Wooten.

I’m sure I speak for most Georgians when I say that the sight of a young man’s drawers fills me with so much lust and desire that I find it almost impossible to concentrate on the heady demands of my Walmart greeter job.

There needs to be a law!

By harold

August 24, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

harold says give it a few weeks and the georgia power loving NIMBYs wont even notice the wind turbine anymore

get a mcmansion next door, though, and the drainage issues are yours for keeps

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Now Charles - wouldn’t you be happier if they lynched Mr. Vick? You could sic the dogs on him first, of course.

You silly old redneck POS you.

Trash.

By Freudian Slips

August 24, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Cigarette ads beguile. Kool offers a free doggie chew toy with every carton. Who are they targeting? Next they’ll show pitbulls with saggy pants. Yeah, that’s real Kool.

Kool enough to be stupid.

By Watta Load

August 24, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this

You can’t legislate a fashion trend, no matter how stupid it is…there’s not a cop in Atlanta that would enforce something like that..

There’s only one way to end the “baggy pants-show off your butt” look and that is for the mainstream to embrace it…when middle-aged, white, bald men started wearing baggy jeans just under each cheek, the style will fade faster than Mitt Romney’s next flip-flop.

Come on Jim Wooten..put your money where your mouth is…let’s see you in some baggy pants…and wrinkled up boxer underwear.

By Watta Load

August 24, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

You can’t legislate a fashion trend, no matter how stupid it is…there’s not a cop in Atlanta that would enforce something like that..

There’s only one way to end the “baggy pants-show off your butt” look and that is for the mainstream to embrace it…when middle-aged, white, bald men started wearing baggy jeans just under each cheek, the style will fade faster than Mitt Romney’s next flip-flop.

Come on Jim Wooten..put your money where your mouth is…let’s see you in some baggy pants…and wrinkled up boxer underwear.

By Howard

August 24, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Jim…always look forward to Friday and your great observations. I loved the one about the cigarette companies. That money was “extorted” from them though…under the direction of trial lawyers and a Bill Clinton-led Justice Dept. What happens to liberals and their silly programs to help the children when they kill the “goose that laid the golden egg”…otherwise known as evil tobacco? They’ll go after another product they deem evil and unfit for the poor, ignorant masses and try to tax and litigate it into oblivion. As for the baggy pants legislation…good luck. Government trying to pass laws taking the place of parents won’t work. Baggy pants and such never bothered me unless that underwear thing was involved. Make those hoodlum wannabe kids either keep their shirt-tails out and covering their choice of BVDs for the day…or pull ‘em up and fasten them with a belt. That should satify the “go along with any abherrant behavior” ACLU.

By Typical Georgia Redneck

August 24, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

This guy is from Florida, but I’m sure lots of Georgia folks can relate! Those colored folks can be pretty scary - at night - when you’re walking into a park bathroom - banging on stall doors.

Actually, I know I speak for most Georgia gents when I say that I find homosexuality disgusting, yet extremely arousing, especially when the duskier types - with their droopy drawers - are involved…

And there’s a certain English gentleman that posts here frequently I’m sure I speak for too.

*On July 11, Sen. John McCain’s Florida campaign co-chair Bob Allen, a state assemblyman with an unrelentingly anti-gay record, knocked on a park bathroom stall in Titusville, Fla., and offered the man within a $20 bill to give him a blow job. The man was an undercover officer.

At first it seemed to be a familiar kind of tale — the secret passions of a conservative who had taken a strong moral stand against gay adoption, and even presented to his state’s Committee on Homeland Security & Public Safety a bill that would have tightened the loopholes against public masturbators.

Recently, however, the story has taken on new dimensions with various accounts from Allen. To see the big picture, he explains, you must take into account that there was a lightning storm (from which he took refuge in the bathroom, he says), the park’s “stocky” black people (i.e., their presence scared Allen into paying), and his panic that he might “become a statistic” if he didn’t act fast.

Fearful of being mugged, the awfully jumpy Bob Allen told the police that he cut the blow job deal so that he could reach a guarded security area, the nearest of which was several miles away from him — a plan which resists easy understanding. Maybe Allen hoped the oral sex could somehow stun his adversary?

Rather than quit his duties as assemblyman, Allen has apologized to the local NAACP for his “stocky” comment, explaining that in the course of being “accused of being a bathroom cruising pervert, and then a racist,” he has come to understand the black (not gay) civil rights struggle better.

He plans to run for the state senate in 2010.*

Good for him!

By Johnny Reb

August 24, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

Trash, Glad to see you finally popped you head out your a*s and had a good idea of what to do with Vick.

By Redneck Convert

August 24, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

Well, a guy ought to be able to put up a wind turbine in his own yard, no matter what the neybors say. Just like a guy should be able to own a couple machine guns and maybe a artillery piece to pertect his property and keep the trash away and maybe do a little hunting. I keep getting ragged by my neybors because I have the only double-wide in my trailer park. All the rest is singles. Well, it’s none of their beeswax what I put on my property. This is America, and I’ll darn sure do what I like. I beleive in Private Property and Private Innerprize.

I don’t want to see nobody’s underwear, so I hope they pass that law. It’s Those People that like to run around showing their shorts and it ought to be against the law. If God wanted us to show our shorts he wouldn’t of invented pants. Showing bra straps is alright though. You got to have a little You Know What to make life intrusting. We ain’t homos, you know.

Tell this Pope guy it ain’t none of his business what I do with my spare time. I don’t know why he hates rednecks. He’s a real sicko.

I don’t care about Grady, long as they don’t use my tax money for it. It’s a bunch of Those People running a place to doctor Those People and trying to get us godly Christian conservatives to pay for it. If God wanted them doctored free they would of been born with a little doctor to grow up with them.

And I see the anti-smoking nuts is still at it. It has got to the point a guy can’t light up nowhere. You can’t hardly go to a eating place these days and smoke. So I just bring my Skoal and Redman and order half a cup of coffee and nobody even notices the cup is filling up, not going down.

Well, I got a heavy beer run to make. The Baptists and other godly Christians like to stock up on the weekend so they can quinch their thirst after church. By Sunday night the bar shelfs will be as empty as a collection plate passed amongst a bunch of Jews. Have a good weekend everybody, and pray for Sister Dusty and tftt. Both of them have made theirselfs pretty scarce because of their diffrent problems. No doubt Sister Dusty is waiting for the likker store to open right now and tftt is waiting at the street corner for his fix.

By Dusty

August 24, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

Good one, Jim

I liked the comments about the baggy pants. Saw Mr. Martin on TV and he looks like a caring grandfather. I understand his perspective.

As I walked from the parking lot to the grocery store last week, I was behind a “gentleman” with cell phone whose pants were headed for ground zero.

I thought I would have to get my emergency blanket from car trunk to keep him from being arrested for indecent exposure. Fortunately, someone else dashed to his rescue. He, himself, never stopped talking on his cell phone.

Maybe we could set up rescue stands, “Jerk-up pants stations for jerks”, or something like that!!! Any male over two years old with suspicious sagging should have a pants “uplift” or be strapped into Pampers.

(When RedNeck Convert comes in from the golf course, someone remind him that lifting heavy beer bottles puts him in the same fashion coterie as plumbers. Hope he doesn’t forget his big red suspenders.)

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

Someone must have turned over a rock - Johnny Reb is here - along with Typical Georgia Redneck - coincidence?

Probably not.

Filthy trash.

By candide

August 24, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

When O.J. murderss two people the blacks find him innocent. When Michael Vick kills dogs with great cruelty blacks, joined by the NAACP, find him a victim of racism and equate killing dogs to hunting deer. When will the blacks acknowledge their own misdeeds?

The trouble with blacks is that they have no SuperEgo. That means, no self-control, no postponement of pleasure, no planning for the future. As Earl Butz, in the Nixon administration Sec. of Agriculture, one remarked: what blacks want is tight p….y, loose shoes, and a warm place to p…s.

By joyce

August 24, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

HEY “BY ONE”. IT’S PREJUDICED PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT HELP KEEP THE “N” WORD ALIVE. BE THANKFUL YOU LIVE SAFELY IN THIS COUNTRY WITH ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUCCESS AND NOT IN MOST OF AFRICA OR THE MIDDLE EAST WHERE THEY WOULD CUT OFF YOUR HEAD FOR ALL YOUR DRIBBLE.

By Reason

August 24, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this

It is very easy to tell what color “One” is. You are exactly the moronic type that gives your entire race a stereotype. You are an idiot beyond help. The “Whitey House” is now and always will be!

By Freudian Slips

August 24, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

Captain Bush. An American Hero.

Faster than an evangelical mullet. Exercises his Power with loco motives. Leaps tall bldgs with a single megaphone.

Yes, it’s Captain Bush. Strange visitor from Texas who came 2 DC (Comics) with powers and abilities not constitutionally assigned to, and far beyond those of mortal presidents…

….and who, disquised as a mild mannered incompetent incumbent for a once-great country, fights the never ending battle against truth, justice, and the american way.

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

Typical Woo-ten KKKlan board today - kkklowns that want to sic dogs on Vick, lynch him, send black folks back to Africa… and a genuwine Johnny Reb, off the bottle long enough to post her usual BS.

The usual drivel that passes for kkkonservative “thought”.

Trash.

By Deborah

August 24, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

I live in Morningside where a lot of the infill building has been going on. They just torn down the house next door to me to build two on the lot. The lot has been sitting vacant now for 3 weeks. I wonder if the new restrictions have messed up the builder’s plans for the size, style of houses he was going to build. I don’t mind newer, bigger houses being built in the neighborhood as long as they fit the lot size properly and the style of the neighborhood. I’ve put a lot of money into my house renovating it. If it’s only going to be viewed as a tear-down, then all the money and work, won’t pay off when I’m ready to sell.

By harold

August 24, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

Harold gave up wearing underwear because he did not want to risk jail time if somebody assidentally saw it.

By Bernadette

August 24, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Redneck Convert you is the best.

By BReal

August 24, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

Redneck Convert you is the best.

By Freudian Slips

August 24, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

This country has sheriffs who cant spell assassination, a president who cant pronounce nuclear, men who cant pull up their pants……cartoon idea: show vick with his pants down around his buttcrack, but not because of hip-hop style or homie-think, but rather because pitbulls are biting them and pulling them down, like that 60’s sunscreen ad featuring Jodi Foster as a child with her bathing suit bottom being pulled down by a dog.

Like that one?

By deegee

August 24, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

Please send the fashion police to the Walmart in Forsyth county, exit 14 on Ga 400. Baggy underwear would be an improvement on the sight of 300lb women in tank tops and daisy dukes.

By Johnny Reb

August 24, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

Truely is doesn’t matter what happens to Vick as long as it goes in line with all the other professional athletes that have been caught gambling, law breaking and running an illegal gambling operation. The NAACP can hush up and sit down now that they have embarrassed themselves, no class on that one. Even the national chapter tried to do damage control and just screwed it in the ground worst. Now let’s go back to Vick. Whatever time the law requires that hs spend in jail and fines be paid and be banned from professional sports as have been his predicessors in the gambling area have been. Tabacco and advertising. If there has ever been an industry more targeted by the governments to put out of business please tell me what it is. Every jackass politician that wants more money for his or her pet project first thing is raise the tabacco taxes, next it is the gasline tax. But that is another time. The Tabacco Industry needs to sue the Federal and State governemnts for unfair taxation with pis poor representation. No one was forced to smoke, they all choose to. As an ex-smoker, I can honestly say that I choose to, advertising was not an issue. OK saggy pants. Don’t like looking at some guy with his pants down and his skid marked drawers shinning. Should have more class and respect for himself. Maybe it did start in prison and that is where is should stay. It does make it easier for the law to catch them and for a rival gang to beat their ases cause they cann’t run or fight holding up them pants. But truely who cares. There are more serious things that need attention. You can slam Bush if you want to, don’t matter to me. But who is the say Billary or Oblama will be any better. I honestly can not. Billary will pick up where Bill left off and that will screw us all again just like Bush or any other carear politican. Billary will try to censor out what she feels we do not need to see, read or talk about and Bill as the first lady will go back to lieing and whoring. Oblama will try to convert us all to the Muslim faith and the Koran. Then will come th idiots thinging if I kill innocent people in what I veiw as Holy War I will be a marter and go straight to Heaven. Does matter if is a Holy War or not as long I am told by the grand goomba it is then it is. Let’s just not vote for any person that has made a carear of deceiving the public. Then we get new batch. Atleat that we we might hear some new lies. Subprime lenders, now that is just wrong and these companies should get a major time out, behind bars. That is just taking advantage of the working people who to try and better themselves. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Thanks to everyone.

By stuffedshirt

August 24, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

after watching the monkey on the evening news salivate in his thousand dollar size xxxxxlarge suit over getting his fat gready hands on 100 million dollars, i became convinced that it is better to let grady fail than to keep the current ten clowns collectively called the hospital board. these same jungle bunnies spent the 100 million dollars slick willy clinton gave to grady in the mid 90 s on granite and marble surface treatements rather than on health care. i feel certain the criminal board and their family members pocketed tens of millions of those dollars, imho. close grade, fire the board, and maybe later reopen it as a non profit with a volunteer board from the ranks of atlanta s major corporations. no jungle bunnies need apply

By stuffedshirt

August 24, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

after watching the monkey on the evening news salivate in his thousand dollar size xxxxxlarge suit over getting his fat gready hands on 100 million dollars, i became convinced that it is better to let grady fail than to keep the current ten clowns collectively called the hospital board. these same jungle bunnies spent the 100 million dollars slick willy clinton gave to grady in the mid 90 s on granite and marble surface treatements rather than on health care. i feel certain the criminal board and their family members pocketed tens of millions of those dollars, imho. close grade, fire the board, and maybe later reopen it as a non profit with a volunteer board from the ranks of atlanta s major corporations. no jungle bunnies need apply

By Adam

August 24, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

I believe an earlier poster nailed it on Vick. Many of the pro athletes need to be more selective about who they hang out with and where they go with them. Everyone has had a friend who sometimes would get out of hand. On the other hand, I can understand the players’ view. You’re talking about abandoning friends you have had since you were 6 maybe younger. It’s easy for someone else to say dump your friends. That’s a tough decision to make. As for Grady, I find the accusations of corporate welfare laughable. I think it’s also highly hypocritical to criticize Grady for begging, especially when Delta and many other Fortune 500 companies do the same every year. And the federal government gives them the money!! All the while, the average American is raked over the burning coals for seeking help from the government whom he pays taxes to. As for the wind turbine, I think the Grant Park residents are right to want him to take it down. The turbine is designated for 8 mph winds. And the wind doesn’t typically blow that hard on a calm day. I think they said it blows at about 5 mph. Basically, the turbine does nothing. It’s just an eyesore. Wanting to take it down has nothing to do with them being hypocritical. It has everything to do with it being ineffective. As for the baggy pants law, I think this law should not be put in place. First, you cannot legislate morals!!!!! You either have it or you don’t. No law is going to change that. Second, passing this law is a slippery slope. By passing this law, you are stating that the government has the right to tell you how to dress. Not only that, but where does it stop? I don’t like people who wear the cap backwards. I don’t like women who wear hats. And it keeps going and going.

By jm

August 24, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

well, considering that the baggy pants look originated in prison (no belts, since they can be used as weapons), I wonder why anyone would want to emulate it.

My old man had a take on property values. While he was living there, he wanted the place to have the value of a lowly hovel (reducing his property tax burden) but when it came time to sell, he wanted the value of Versaille. It is gratifying to know that Mr. Wooten would be happy to have his neighbors with their McMansions drive up his property tax burden. I am sure he will appreciate that when he finally decides to retire and goes on a fixed income.

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

Ah yes, “jungle bunnies” - the Woo-ten Kkklanners are so erudite, aren’t they Jim?

Gawdamn animals! Trash.

By Johnny Reb

August 24, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Hey trash, It was your idea jackass I just agreed. So here we go with your racist name calling bulls**t cause of your lacking of education or is it just simple ignorance. Not going to play the game today. If you some of substance to add please do, other wise your dismissed to back to your crack pipe.

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Deegee, we need to get some imams up there to Forsyth to do some evangelizing - those slatterns up there are powerful arguments for the head-to-toe burka. Of course, the amount of canvas we’d have to import would be staggering…

By time to lynch yanKKKee racists

August 24, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

Nice to see the resident homo obsessed yanKKKee COCKroach(es) on here spewing its trademark depraved queeralicious filth and anti-black hate. Welcome back yet again Mrs Oedipus-NAMBLA the VT based child rapist and its many psychotic personas.

Stretching the yellowbellied puss ridden neck of this vile northern dogsqueeze is about the ONLY sensible option left to normal decent folk.

Poor old sonofabitchofsquashedflatcoonroadkill - the abortion bucket escapee inbred rednekkk has obviously been at the fave yanKKKee tipple again, stale rabid possum p!ss. This sorry excuse for a demented yanKKKee anal wart needs lancing with a razor sharp brimming with polonium 210 XXXXL cattle prod.

POST OF THE DAY THUS FAR is by Candide!!

Watching the human scum Vick being oh so predicktably defended by racist racebaitin’ snouts deep in the black racial spoils trough naacp scum and their loathsome execrable ilk is just too funny. Even funnier is seein’ how all these sullen despicable criminal defendin’ blacks NEVER EVER admit wrong doing by blacks - its always - gasp, whitey’s fault.

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT Whitey made these hippety hop maggots systematically butcher, torture and murder countless dogs for sick depraved pleasure for a number of years. Whitey of course had unlimited power over this remorseless hippety hop dog killin’ crew. And Vick and these hapless helpless poor shuffling negroes, WHO WERE USING HIS MONEY AND PROPERTY just went along like good little sheepish oppressed slaves.

But - as ever - the cold hard truth is that ITS A BLACK THANG!!! How many whites were doin’ this with the human scum Vick??? NOT SEEN ONE white boy indicted (yet) or making the usual nauseatin’ I’m sorry for my pesky wittle mistake ‘pitch’ on the lard arsed self obsessed smugger than smug Oprahbitch puke fest.

Vick is actually lower on the missing link scale than a negroid troglodyte. Vick’s educational ebonics spoutin’ level is hilariously lower than most moderately eloquent parrots. Including white cockatoos and green amazons. This sullen, utterly unrepentant should have been aborted braided hair totin’ barely literate VA whelped dogturd is undeniably the modern day homie poster boy for boyz from de knuckle dragging, crack abusing, black on black crime ridden hood.

Put that in ya Lexus goldplated crackpipe and smoke it homies!!!

By deegee

August 24, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

Good idea GHT but I think it has already been tried. I wondered what religious tracts were but now I think I know. What better place to hand out canvas tents than at the Cumming Fairgrounds?

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/northfulton/stories/2007/08/23/lawsuit0824web.html

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

TFTT has truly hit the mother lode of hilarity today. Hilarious post bubba (if I may).

By Breed

August 24, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

Reb, You seem to have some good points in your opinion there, that I agree with. Not the ones where trash is babbling but the other one. Vick is a criminal, period and should be treated like one. His monkey a* (no pun intended, just a saying)is not special. His associates damn sure thru him under the bus fast enough, low life gansta wanta be’s. But all I can add is like you let it be to the letter of the law, as for the NFL he should be done there. I see that between some of the comments here and naacp, stupid is running rampid again.

By RectilinearPropagation

August 24, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

Why is it a nanny state when it comes to tobacco but not when it comes how people dress?

“One of the few”? Please, plenty of people care. They just aren’t trying to legislate their personal opinion.

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

Well, Klan costumes then. North Georgians have always been fond of them, and they do cover the zaftig quite well. Microcephaly is just one of the many genetic diseases in the populaiton, so the pointy hats are a good choice too.

White is not a good color for them, though. Rednecks have always disregarded the aphorism “cleanliness is next to Godliness.”

They’re pigs, frankly. Trash.

By Just Thinking

August 24, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this

In a few days Vick’s dog will be put to sleep, if someone does not adopt them. HOW IRONIC and what is the difference. We are hypocrites that do not allow animals to do as nature programmed them. TO FIGHT, BREED AND TO DIE? May the best species win.

By Charles

August 24, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

Poor people who escape the ghetto life on talent and luck should never take the boys from the old neighborhood with them. They end up like Michael Vick.

Jim Wooten’s statement above is correct given African Americans have decided to become integrationist Negroes. It doesn’t matter if you are a bourgeois Negro or the average nine to five, you shouldn’t take the men and women from the old neighborhood with you. They must be approved by the white power system, or you will end up like Mike Vick. Without reservation, the statement is one hundred percent true.

I remember being a younger man employed by Eastern Airlines. One Friday afternoon, I allowed a friend, Larry, to visit my office for the remainder of the day; about three hours. My coworkers had allowed friends to visit their offices when work was average to slow. I introduced Larry to some of my coworkers. You all understand why; to get their tacit approval. An hour had not passed before individuals on a much higher pay scale took a slow walk through my office. This isn’t unusual. That’s the natural behavior of people when they have complete dominance over others. It matters not what your salary is, six figures, or otherwise. The same message is sent to all African Americans at one time or another. Evidently, Mike Vick didn’t bow like most Negroes under duress. Mike Vick continued his relationship with Purnell Peace, Quanis Phillips, and Tony Taylor.

Poor people who escape the ghetto life on talent and luck should always take the men and women from their neighborhood with them if they want to be free; or receive the favor of God. They should work with others of like mind to build a system of black power to ensure that no group other than African Americans can completely determine our destiny. With the resources which some of us stumble upon because of talent and luck, we should build businesses and institution which are capable of servicing the basic needs of African Americans. The days of other groups dominating, controlling, and intimidating us will have ended should we succeed marginally.

The billions of dollars other groups receive by servicing our basic needs, food, clothing, shelter, education, jobs etc., grants them the power to subjugate us, African Americans. Mike Vick and his business partners should secure those billions of dollars for themselves and the men, women, boys, and girls from the old neighborhood throughout the country.

Don’t be naive concerning this challenge. This will be a tremendous undertaking. Integrationist African Americans and other beneficiaries of negative African American integrationist exploitation will reject any notion of real black self sufficiency. Integrationist Negroes and others are awarded millions of dollars, fame, status, and job security in return for their complicity against the masses. They will not surrender their ill-fated gains without a pit bull fight; a fight to the death.

Considering all the players in the integrationist scheme, the so-called educated Integrationist Negroes play the most significant roles that lend support to black persons in the United States ending up like Mike Vick.

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

My own pappy, originally from Ole Miss was a KKK Grand Cyclops. He was very much the pride and joy of all our kin. He defended our race with a stout heart and a kindly smile.

These hateful posts about southerners posted under my name are just someone with a sick sense of humor trying to rile me.

Deo Vindice

By deegee

August 24, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

It is absolutely amazing to me that so many people are interested in what Michael Vick does and what happens to him. He pled guilty to a crime and he is being dealt with by the court system. If the NFL sees any value in him when he gets out of jail then they will hire him back. Can’t we find a NFL player that is doing something right and concentrate on him? Well, maybe that was a stupid question.

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

My own pappy, originally from Ole Miss was a KKK Grand Cyclops. He was very much the pride and joy of all our kin. He defended our race with a stout heart and a kindly smile.

These hateful posts about southerners posted under my name are just someone with a sick sense of humor trying to rile me.

Deo Vindice

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

My own pappy, originally from Ol Miss was a KKK Grand Cyclops. He was very much the pride and joy of all our kin. He defended our race with a stout heart and a kindly smile.

These hateful posts about southerners posted under my name are just someone with a sick sense of humor trying to rile me.

Deo Vindice

By Freudian Slips

August 24, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

A rubber finger fooled a sheriff who thought it was real enough to order lab tests on it to determine the victim…..

The rubber finger was apparently all that was left of a Michael Vick doggie chew toy…….

By Tony

August 24, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Laws about Pants, I thought conservatives were all about smaller government. Wooten is not a conservative he is like all the other ones. A hatemonger using conservative as the excuse. Also how do you talk about the rich like your part of their class, working for the ajc I highly doubt it.

By Jackie

August 24, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Sen. John Warner (R-VA), a supporter of the war, is calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq; Gen. Peter Pace, USMC, Chair Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, has recommended that half of the troops need to be out of Iraq by spring. Wonder of the neo-cons call these men “cut-and-run?” Dubya has the nerve to stand in front of a VFW convention and let the words “Viet Nam” come from his lips. For those of you that say he was a member of the Air National Guard who piloted a F-105, have anyone EVER found a copy of Dubya’s pilot license? If you are a pilot, you must have one of those!

By getalife

August 24, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

This says it all

Told ya, they will burn in hell for the needless slaughter in Iraq.

Repent wingnuts or you will follow your hero.

†

By Freudian Slips

August 24, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

CNN just reported that Hurrican Dean did 300 Billion Dollars worth of improvements to Mexico…..

Birds of Pray: The collapsed bridge and the collapsed mine: One was caused by pigeons, the other by canaries.

If there was ever a justification for unions, it’s for the miners. Owners of mines go deep and cheap.

By Bill

August 24, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

We should all have a wind turbine to lessen our dependancy on oil and work toward a clean way to produce energy. If it is an eyesore to you to see things in the air like that…cut the unsightly power lines to YOUR house down, they are unsightly to me! You see, before long you will not even see the turbine..you just want to whine about something.

By Freudian Slips

August 24, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

The rubber finger that fooled a sheriff into lab testing was apparently all that was left of a Michael Vick doggie chew toy…..

Cartoon idea: Show Michael Vick with saggy baggy pants, not for hip hop syle, or homie-think, but because pitbulls have pulled them down with their sharp teeth…..ow!

Hurrican Dean did 100 billion dollars worth of improvements to Mexico…..

By Bill

August 24, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

We should all have a wind turbine to lessen our dependancy on oil and work toward a clean way to produce energy. If it is an eyesore to you to see things in the air like that…cut the unsightly power lines to YOUR house down, they are unsightly to me! You see, before long you will not even see the turbine..you just want to whine about something.

By Bill

August 24, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

We should all have a wind turbine to lessen our dependancy on oil and work toward a clean way to produce energy. If it is an eyesore to you to see things in the air like that…cut the unsightly power lines to YOUR house down, they are unsightly to me! You see, before long you will not even see the turbine..you just want to whine about something.

By jm

August 24, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

wel, since this blog is turning to Iraq as it always does, I see the republicans are trying to swiftboat Al Maliki

By Bill

August 24, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

We should all have a wind turbine to lessen our dependancy on oil and work toward a clean way to produce energy. If it is an eyesore to you to see things in the air like that…cut the unsightly power lines to YOUR house down, they are unsightly to me! You see, before long you will not even see the turbine..you just want to whine about something.

By Bill

August 24, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

We should all have a wind turbine to lessen our dependancy on oil and work toward a clean way to produce energy. If it is an eyesore to you to see things in the air like that…cut the unsightly power lines to YOUR house down, they are unsightly to me! You see, before long you will not even see the turbine..you just want to whine about something.

By RCH

August 24, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

Bill

As I have argued so many times in the past. Ocean water turbines. Out of site, no emissions, last forever, ongoing source to drive them. (ocean current or tide)

By hdd3

August 24, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

Candide (and other ignorant Racists take note),

You wrote:

“The trouble with blacks is that they have no SuperEgo. That means, no self-control, no postponement of pleasure, no planning for the future.”

To make this general statement shows just how ignorant you are. I am a black man who worked 30 hours a week while going to college full-time. I have always been able to pay my own pay and take care of my family without public assistance. Also, my friends are just like me. The problem you have is you are so blinded by your racist point of view that you don’t notice people like my friends and me. Granted, there is a segment of the black population that engage in undesirable behavior but they are not the majority. The situation for many blacks is the social structures many grew up in were created by a racist system that kept them segregated, with sub par schools even after the civil rights movement. It is ridiculous to think that a society can segregate a group of people from the mainstream, don’t allow them to take part of the “American Dream” place them in housing projects with other under-educated people and expect that there will not be a negative outcome. But I am sure you are too blind to see that obvious fact.

By hdd3

August 24, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Candide (and other ignorant Racists take note),

You wrote:

“The trouble with blacks is that they have no SuperEgo. That means, no self-control, no postponement of pleasure, no planning for the future.”

To make this general statement shows just how ignorant you are. I am a black man who worked 30 hours a week while going to college full-time. I have always been able to pay my own pay and take care of my family without public assistance. Also, my friends are just like me. The problem you have is you are so blinded by your racist point of view that you don’t notice people like my friends and me. Granted, there is a segment of the black population that engage in undesirable behavior but they are not the majority. The situation for many blacks is the social structures many grew up in were created by a racist system that kept them segregated, with sub par schools even after the civil rights movement. It is ridiculous to think that a society can segregate a group of people from the mainstream, don’t allow them to take part of the “American Dream” place them in housing projects with other under-educated people and expect that there will not be a negative outcome. But I am sure you are too blind to see that obvious fact.

By No Laughing Matter

August 24, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

Jim, in case you missed it, Leona Helmsley was convicted of tax evasion and spent some time in jail. So your ridiculous statement that taxes affect the little man before they even touch the rich is even more inane than your usual blather. Taxes didn’t touch Leona because she consciously refused to pay them. Please think about what you write before you write it, and at least before you print it. Not everything that happens in this world can be or should be directly traced to those of us who do not share your “band of conservatives” particular brand of stupidity.

By Proud Momma

August 24, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

Instead of stating whose fault it is that the students at Clark Atlanta were not properly enrolled. Find the bottleneck and fix the problem. It is clear that the communication at the school between administrative staff and students is not effective. I am a parent of a freshman at Clark Atlanta and I have to say that as a Family we should have been more proactive and asked more questions when we were told things that didn’t add up. As a University Clark should make sure that they have individuals on the front line who are able to deliver correct and consistent information. And people who really want to help the students understand the process. This may entail paying people a 1/4 of what the president of the school makes (joke) but so be it. My daughter has received incorrect information, she has been robbed and gun point, and she has had funds from her school account misappropriated all in the span of three weeks. She still is proud to wear the black and red, but as a parent I must be honest I am ready to kick some black until I see RED!

By Dave the First

August 24, 2007 1:13 PM | Link to this

I’m sure that someone has mentioned this, but the “racist” posts are not only annoying but obviously contrived.

I am sure that the person(s) behind those posts is just a liberal trying to act like the stereotype.

Hint: most of the dumb redneck types you seem to be acting the part for would not post in a forum like this.

By CONVict Vick

August 24, 2007 1:24 PM | Link to this

hdd3-one comment and the black community yells RACISM-Blacks are THE MOST racist because they blame EVERTYHING on white people and accept NO responsibility. Candide is Right. When are you liberal democrats going to take responsibility for YOUR OWN actions? Better yet-jsut go back to Africa where you all think it is just grand, and take their offer in Zimbabwe-40 acres and a former White Farmers house if you renounce your American citizenship and become a Zimbbawean. There-you can live in peace among negroes adn we in America can live in peace among people who act in a Civil manner. blacks are LESS than 15% of the population, but commit more than 60% of the crimes. maybe there are no laws in Africa-any blacks can do what ever they want in their racist country, but In America, laws are designed to protect all. America is the land of opportunity-you have to work for it. Africa is the land of entitlement-you are handed everything on a platter, food, money, a white person’s house-just for proving that you are black and were oppressed for a hundred years.

By Thisisrediculous

August 24, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this

Why is it that when white people like linsey,Paris,Britney etc get in trouble and do serious crimes nothing is made out of it. But let Mike Vick get in trouble with dogs and you would think he killed some body. They kill dogs in Greyhound dog racing all the time, and dog sledge racing but nothing is said about that because the state and white people make money from it.The same people that kill deer and and other animals just for sport and game are the one that try and yell the loudest about how these dogs were treated. (Hypocrites) Being caugth with cocaine and DUIs is also serious but treated as a minor joke when you are a white celebrity. 2 hours in jail. If they had been someone black it may have been 10 years. Why didn’t the Feds and the Senate get involved in this. Where is equal justice in America. If justice was equal than Mick Vick should only get a 1 day in jail.

By Dr. StrangeVick

August 24, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

Danke, Herr Thisisrediculous. Dogs can be bred und slaughtered!

By GodHatesTrash

August 24, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

As usual, the fakirs and cross-dressers of the Woo-ten KKKlan rob my screen name and post their blithering bollocks/idiocy under my good name.

They same that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but alas, I have been flattered by stumpbroke redneck Georgia trash - and a poofairy from a Manchester trade school.

Trash one and all.

Huge smirk

By time for the truth about hippety hop scum

August 24, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this

Beholding the usual filthy black apologist racism on here when a black neandertahl is caught lying about its innocence and actually pleads guilty to a bestial crime it enjoyed for years is freaking hilarious. These little black Eichmans (paraphrasing the sicko traitor Warped Churchill) despicably forget the unremitting level of the decades of black crime. Which is why the latest stats show 49% of people murdered in the US are black - motsly by other blacks - even though blacks are but @ 12% of the population. Blacks and the thuggish yooofs glorify crime and drugs/violence/racsim/sexism etc in the sick knuckle dragging cancer that is slavishly perpetrated as the ebonics spoutin’ noise/visual pollution of gangsta hippety hop.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070809202217.9us2orhu&show_article=1

The blonde bimbo vacuous white trash a few black kkklan types have fulminated on here about sadly get soft treatment in the far left celebutard obsessed cesspit of Kalifornia. Kalifornia jails are so crowded with black and mexican type thugs that these worthless narcissistic trollops get kicked out of jail much too swiftly.

Perhaps these racist black wankpigs would care to comment on this heart warming graphic. An LA Times map of every single black/mexican type homicide perpetrated JUST this year in LA…Jan - June 07.

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

By getalife

August 24, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this

“Texas Carries Out 400th Execution - Bush Wants To End Appeals Process For Death Row Inmates”

Pro life eh?

More like pro death.

Repent wingnuts.

By time to deport racist yanKKKee trash

August 24, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

@ godswiftlykillthistrash

I see you’ve stopped molesting kids in VT for yet another unhinged hate filled envious rant about your intellectual and genetic conservative betters down in Dixie. I suppose being the product of a pot bellied extra chromosomed syphilitic yanKKKee racist pig and a bi-sexual mulatto rabid possum is a heavy burden to bear - eh rednekkks NAMBLA!!

Like Pink Floyd said … LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE!!!

Please have a pint of liquid nitrogen on me tonite … slurp!!

By jbmlaw

August 24, 2007 2:23 PM |