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DEL.ICIO.USJames Brown, peanut butter, fat
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s free-for-all Friday. Pick a topic:
• But not Vick. That comment window reopens Dec. 10. Pick another.
• Vick’s male parent is, however, another matter. Every troubled kid needs a dad who’ll pile on when he’s down.
• Please continue watching the front driveway. Either the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes crew or the mobile lab offering DNA tests to identify all the children in America caused by James Brown will be arriving shortly. Those identified, and abandoned without acknowledgement, should be doubly compensated from the Brown estate for the lives they missed.
• Ken Bernhardt, a marketing professor at Georgia State University, proves that his expertise is marketing and not peanut butter. In response to the question of whether Peter Pan peanut-butter lovers will return, Bernhardt opined: “People that like peanut butter don’t stop liking peanut butter if one brand goes out. So they’ve switched. The key is, how do you get them to switch back?” The way to get real peanut butter lovers to return to their favorite brand is to put it back on the shelves. Then tell us it’s there.
• Georgia ranks 12th in obesity among 10- to 17-year-olds and 46th in education, as measured by SAT scores. This is a parent problem: Make ‘em put down the fork, pick up the book.
• Clayton County becomes the first, or maybe second or third, county in Georgia to outlaw the death penalty via jury nullification. The jury opted for life without parole for Robert Dwight Foster of Covington, who beat a sleeping 5-year-old to death and seriously injured her 10-year-old brother with a tire iron because their mother had broken off a romantic relationship with him.
• Headline: “Elected office has its benefits.” Those being pensions and health care for part-timers. Run for public office. Part-timers should be getting pensions and insurance from their day jobs. If they have them.
• Truism of the week: “People don’t own rights to the view,” said John Lowery, president of Wellstone Communities LLC, of the Lanier Golf Club in Forsyth County. His company is planning to pay a reputed $24 million for the course, which would be redeveloped as housing. Neighbors object. Half the redevelopment battles are fought over view, the other half over congestion. Can’t keep what you don’t pay for.
• Fidel Castro has a favorable opinion of only one of the 10 U.S. presidents who’ve served during his reign. Ronald Reagan. Just fooling. Georgia’s native son’s the winner of the Friends of Fidel competition.
• A Democratic bias? The three TV networks’ morning news show are “overwhelmingly focused on Democrats” and “are actively promoting the Democrats’ liberal agenda,” reports the conservative Media Research Center. Analyzing 517 campaign segments on the three between January and July, the center found: 55 percent focused on Democrats, 29 percent Republicans; 69 percent of questions to D’s reflected a liberal premise, as did 82 percent of the questions to R’s; D candidates got 4 hours and 35 minutes of interview airtime, compared to 1 hour and 44 minutes for R’s. Rudy Giuliani was branded a liberal 11 times, Barack Obama once, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards never; Hillary got 61 exclusives, Edwards 44, Obama 41. Among the R’s, John McCain got 31, Giuliani, 26, and Mitt Romney, 19.
• Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) urges President Bush to appoint a replacement for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who “will unite the nation.” Code translation: somebody the Democrats want.
• A Swiss-based group that believes “the proliferation of small arms and light weapons represents a grave threat to human security” reports that in the U.S. there are 90 handguns, rifles and shotguns per 100 civilians, highest in the world. In Canada, Switzerland and Austria it’s 31. So? The relevant info is this: “There’s no clear relationship between more guns and higher levels of violence,” said Keith Krause, who heads the survey group. And why should I have three when somewhere in America there’s a poor victim who needed one? Oh, the guilt.
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By TW
August 31, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this
Bite your tongue, Jim! The day Georgia loses weight and grows a brain will be the day it votes Democrat! The ten states that scored the worst on the SAT in 2004 ALL voted for Bush – be proud to be a part of that exclusive group!
By jbmlaw
August 31, 2007 8:05 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. I am amused to see the late Cuban dictator verifying his affection for Jimmy, and his endorsement of a Hilldebeast-OsamaObama ticket. The next president will enter the race next Wednesday, so tune into Leno that evening.
The Gonzales resignation causes me some political anguish. For the longest time I have believed we need to hold-in-reserve Janice Rogers Brown for the Ruth Bader Ginsburg seat, and Ted Olson for the John Paul Stevens seat. The problem is that Olson is also the obvious choice for AG. Maybe we could get Robert Bork to come out of retirement to run Justice for the next year+. If nothing else I would love to see those hearings repeated.
By Charles
August 31, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this
Fidel just confirmed what most rational people knew all along this week. Jimmy Carter was by far the worst President in the past 100 years. He single-handedly brought our country and economy to it’s knees. Thank God for President Reagan who revived our country and brought an end to the Cold War.
It’s no wonder that the leader of one of the few remaining Communist states would endorse another Socialist - Hillary Rodham (minus the ‘Clinton’ if she’s allowed to be elected). I’m sure Fidel would love to see our country weakened yet one more time before he passes away. President Kennedy saw the threat Fidel posed to America and stood up to him (even to the point of attempted assasinations).
Isn’t it ironic that the Liberal’s icon was really a Conservative in so many ways?
By sct
August 31, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this
This just in. Osama Bin Laden has declared George W Bush to be his favorite US President. “We flew planes into their buildings, and my friend Bush goes after Saddam. I am very grateful to him. He’s dumb but I like him.”
By saywhat?
August 31, 2007 8:29 AM | Link to this
The Media Research Center (AKA Brent Bozo) is a joke. Their idea of a “liberal premise” is any fact they don’t want to believe.
As for a US Attorney General who will “unite the nation”, the correct translation is “one who won’t be an underqualified, lying sack of crap toady political hack of the worst president in the history of the United States”. I guess that means Wooten and JBMLaw are out of the running. Sorry guys.
By Aquagirl
August 31, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this
Sen. Leahy should be careful throwing the word “unite” around with Bush still in office. For Republicans it’s code for “screw it if we divide America, as long as we get re-elected and make lots of money.” No telling who they would pick for a new AG.
Oh wait, our resident Bush apologist has nominated Bork! Makes Republican sense. We really need more infighting for entertainment, rather than competent and sane people running an Executive branch.
By KnowItAll
August 31, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this
Jimmy never met a dictator he didn’t like, and they pay him back with compliments.
By Lee
August 31, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this
Of course Jimmy Carter is Fidel’s choice for best president. Let us not forget that it was a naive Carter who allowed a cunning Castro to empty his prisons and other assorted trash during the Mariel Boat Lift.
South Florida has never been the same since.
I don’t fear the citizen who owns 10 guns. I fear the sanctimonious perverts in Washington who use our fine men and women in the military as their personal mercenaries.
Oh yeah, that gun ban thing is working real well for Great Britain. The violent crime rate has what, quadrupled since they outlawed guns.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this
What was that Swiss based group thinking when they called a shotgun a “light weapon”? Obviously, they’ve never seen Steve McQueen use one.
The nerve of that Swiss-based-group for libeling handguns when it’s tire irons we should fear. (and swiss army knives).
Put down the fork, pick up a book. Great advise, Jim Wooten. Did you read that goober-natorial blog Perdue published in today’s @ISSUE? Give the former strike out king credit for getting the math calculations correct. He weilded statistical data with the prowess of a rocket scientist, (the one who designed the space shuttle heat shields).
Was Fidel Castro gay? He was arrested in 1950 for passing a cigar underneath the mensroom stall to an undercover informant. His defense, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
By N-GA
August 31, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this
Hey Wooten,
So you write your drivel simply to pander to people who can’t think past a soundbite. I suppose if Fidel said his favorite prophet was Jesus you and your wingnuts would jump all over poor Jesus by implying he is the worst of the prophets.
Instead of falling into the same rut as O’Reilly and Limbaugh, why not simply report the truth without the spin? Then no one would read your stuff and you’ed have to go back to work for a living.
By Billy
August 31, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this
The three TV networks’ morning news show are “overwhelmingly focused on Democrats” and “are actively promoting the Democrats’ liberal agenda,” reports the conservative Media Research Center.
So, the conservative group is accusing others of being liberal? Is that a surprise? Of course they are! And what qualifies as a question “reflecting a liberal premise”?
Host: What will you do to keep our air and water from killing us? Media Research Center: Question about the environment! Liberal!
Host: Do you feel we should remain in Iraq? MRC: Question that draws attention to Bush’s bungling! Liberal!
Host: Do you believe in equality? MRC: Liberal!
By Old Physics Teacher
August 31, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this
This just in: Putting students in alphabetical order destroys critical thinking skills, says researcher Zane Zipperer. Not so, says researcher Arthur Aaron. I believe conservative political (insert sarcasm) researchers will always find a liberal bias. Just the same as liberal researchers will find conservative bias. Gimme a break.
By GreyGayGeek
August 31, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this
There simply must be “liberal media bias” because the biased conservative media keeps saying so.
You know, that “proof by repetition, not demonstration” thing, and all…
By Rod
August 31, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this
You’re actually citing the “conservative Media Research Center” as being impartial with the TV networks? Hello? Did you wake up yesterday? If the Republicans were on the networks 99%, the conservative Media Research Center would b1tch and moan about that 1%!
You’re upset that the Democrats want an Attorney General that they like? As if the Republicans wouldn’t ask the exact same thing if in their shoes. By the way, the Republican choice (Gonzales) sucked. Democrats can’t do any worse!
sct - love your 8:24 comment. So right!
By RCH
August 31, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this
George Soros has agreed to pay $775000 in fines to the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign laws during the 2004 presidential campaign. ..
Over One hundred fifty individuals have fled the country to avoid prosecution concerning illegal funneling of campaign contribution to the Bill Clinton Campaign.
Now Hillary is getting into the act. How cam a man that is a postal carrier with a salary of $50K and no other salary donate 2ooK to the Hillary campaign.And yes he is a wanted man.
Things you never hear on the major networks.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this
Pick up a book. Put down the fork. When you come to a fork in the road, read it?
Should you read while you eat? Most people read the paper during breakfast.
Is it proper to eat peanut butter with a fork or a spoon?
I’m kinda surprised that Swiss-based-group didn’t include 39-stitch sewing machines in their warning about light weapons. These lethal instruments were the direct forerunners of nail guns which the FBI has classified as deadly weapons…. and which were indispensible to the saggy-panted rebels who revolted in the stretch fabric uprising during the twiggy era in the mid sixties.
We are only now remedying the damage to our society with the saggy pants ordinances now being adopted in 17 states.
This is conservativism at it’s best, and we should all be grateful for our evangelical lunatics on the Right.
hail, BOZO!
Hail! Boz!
HAIL! BOZO!
By Redneck Convert
August 31, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this
Well, my buddy Jim Earl come up with a awful smart thing: fat causes dumbness.
He looked at the list of SAT scores and a map showing the states with the most fat people. They matched up almost exackly. The fatter the state the dumber the people. So if you want to be dumb as a anvil just go to Ryans or Golden Corral and chow down.
I look at the fact the same dumb states voted for My President as a axident. You always get something that don’t fit. The libruls like to make a big deal of it and throw it in our face.
This James Brown needed to be fixed a long time ago. They are still finding kids that old tomcat fathered. Anyway, how he got to be a famous singer I’ll never know. It ain’t singing. It’s kind of a throat clearing like Joe Bill does oncet in a while.
I hope My President don’t listen to the Democrats when he picks the next AG. He needs to pick someone that will go after the US lawyers that don’t toe the godly Republican line in deciding who to go after for vote fraud and such. A guy that can say “I don’t recall” or “I have no memory of that” to answer every question. A guy that has the guts to go to somebody that’s in the hospitle and sort of out of it and make him sign a paper. We don’t need no pantywaist that talks about enforcing the law fairly and such when the next election is at stake and we could wind up with a librul for president.
Well, I see the godly Sen. Craig is about to resign. The libruls finally got their way. Running a good Christian out of office. I guess the next time he needs to go in a airport he will just need to hold it in till he gets home. You can’t even axidently touch the shoe of the guy in the stall next to you without getting arrested for it. The libruls has just about ruint this country.
Well, me and the missus is going to a high school football game tonight. I always enjoy hearing the Revrend Reuben Roy Fitzwater give the opening prayer. He works in the name of Jesus Christ about fifty times so the Jews and towel heads there can’t miss it. It serves them right for having a false religion and I always look around to see them swallow hard and get that look in their eyes.
Have a good weekend everybody and enjoy the beer I’m hauling around today. Just remember if it wasn’t for me you wouldn’t have nothing to wash the memory of that dull sermon away.
By timetopissontheneoconscumandotherrepubicsublifeforms
August 31, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this
phew, this column smells like fresh urine! Old woodenhead must have been interviewing some of his fellow republicans, again.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this
Redneck, when you spell out some onomatopoeia, then use the conservative approach. Your correct that southern women say, “Wonst” for “Once”.
Now what are the choices? Oncet. (no, it looks like On Set) Most will trip on it and stop reading, thinking you’re an idiot. That would be a damn shame, now, wouldn’t it? (and a lie).
Wonst? No, that completely ruins the meaning and no one will get it. They’ll stop reading, thinking you’re a moron, and wouldn’t that be an impossibly outrageous-and-improbable turn of historical events? (and a lie).
Onced? Bingo. Use this. Because it comes from the origins of the mispronounciation, which is bedtime fairytales read by parents to helmeted southern children: Onced upon a time…..(“What’s time, mommy?”)…..”oh, time is when daddy is always late to work & church, but early inside mommy”……(“HUH?”)…..dont worry, sweetheart, you’ll understand someday……..
bwa
By jbmlaw
August 31, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this
Dear Aquagirl @ 8:37, you err – Bork is the greatest legal mind of our time. That was why your team demonized him. Poor Bork was too honest to think anyone would believe the leftist lies, but all conservatives now know you for what you are. Nevertheless, if you have not re-read the transcripts of the democrat witchhunt (aka “hearings” in democratspeak) you may find it enlightening. Truly he is a genius and a man of integrity, in sharp contrast with the inquisitors. In all fairness, however, Arlen Spector is the idiot bad-guy in that case, because his uninformed opposition gave cover to the cowardly evil doers who launched the undeserved attack. The only benefit from the last round of hearings is that they shocked normal Americans into voting Republican again in 1988, to keep the moonbats out of power. Of course, that was why I proposed Bork again. I figured it would draw out the lunatics again.
Dear Rod @ 9:22, Chairman Ann published a funny article on your topic yesterday. My conservative friends will wish to read “Reno 911” if they have not already had their laugh.
By AmVet
August 31, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this
What?!! Again Mr. Wooten shows the slightest modicum of balance? Perhaps I give him too much credit, given the undeniably horrific current condition of his beloved Republican Party and neo-conservative platform.
Make ‘em put down the fork, and pick up the book
Well said. Better if followed by, “And quit blaming the teachers, the schools, the government, the hated liberals, everybody and anybody else for Susie’s inability to find Europe on a world map”.
Stupid is as stupid does.
It is truly sad that any request or demand for the AG to represent and protect the American people against the excesses of Leviathan (thanks jbmlaw!) rather than paying fealty to the President is considered a bad thing for Republicans.
Rod, granted the President has made a seemingly endless list of blunders and mistakes, and I really wish I could agree with your statement at 9:22 that Democrats can’t do any worse.. But a healthy amount of suspicion still exists for me. And even given that your premise is correct, more importantly are the degrees of error involved.
If they are slightly better, Americans still deserve much more than the lesser of two evils who are owned by the same interests and who essentially govern much the same way.
By deegee
August 31, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this
Here’s the paragraph that Jim “boo-hoo the media is biased” Wooten left out of the report on gun violence.
“Hard to track: The report notes that only about 12 percent of all weapons worldwide are registered with authorities, making it difficult to collect exact data on gun possession. Five years ago the group estimated a total of 640 million small arms worldwide.”
When 88% of all guns are not registered, how does one make any conclusions other than the Swiss are more likely to register their guns than Brazilians. Arms smuggling is a problem in Latin America, and they are crying foul with the US because we are the source of the smuggled weapons.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this
OsamaObama is the most clever satirical creation (and the most spatially congruent) ever invented on this blog.
My compliments to an underrated genius.
Move over, Luchovich, dont spend too much time on Vacation. There’s a new tooner in town, er. Gee, it rubbed off on me!
By hogleg
August 31, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this
THE STATES WILL THE LOWEST SAT SCORES HAVE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF STUDENTS TAKING THE TEST.IOWA LEAD THE NATION A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK WITH 15% OF STUDENTS TAKING TEST COMPARED TO 50% FOR GEORGIA. ALSO,GEORGIA HAS LARGE MINORITY POPULATION AND MINORITY’S TRADTIONALLY SCORE LOW ON TESTS.
By jm
August 31, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this
I wonder how many of those mothers and their children made any attempt to contact James Brown while he was alive. Hard to neglect someone when you have no idea they exist.
Wow, Mr. Wooten blaming someone besides teachers for Georgia’s low SAT scores. He must have had his conservative “must blame the teachers for education problems” filters turned off when he wrote that one.
So according to Mr. Wooten, people pay for congestion? Sorry, but if your new development doubles or triples the time I have to spend on my commute, that is robbing me of time I would prefer to spend doing other things.
By Dusty
August 31, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this
Dear jbmlaw,
Please refer no more to Bork. As you correctly stated, “it would draw out the lunatics again”. Of course Aquagirl pops right up and I would guess that Jackie is not far behind.
Since this is the Labor Day weekend of peaceful rest and pleasure, I plan to say only the sweetest and nicest comments. DO NOT TEST MY CONVICTIONS!! Oops, sorry about that. Yes, I will smile benignly in this peaceful kingdom.
How about “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players” or something? Quoting Shakespeare is pretty safe and sedentary, isn’t it?
By Aquagirl
August 31, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this
jb, Bork is 80 years old. He probably can’t find his car keys. He’s going to cut to the quick with incisive comments on Metamucil?
Much talk from the conservative crowd about Jimmy Carter and Bork. Well, if my party was in as much of a mess as the Republicans, I’d be anxious to talk about events of another era too. Quagmire war, Senators playing touchy-feelie in bathroom stalls, high-level officials jumping ship or being pushed overboard…dang, let’s talk about Duran Duran!
By N-GA
August 31, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this
Hogleg,
There is more than 1 test. There is also the ACT. Many states use it instead of the SAT. Hence, those states will have fewer students taking the SAT.
By Dustbuster
August 31, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this
Dusty, go sleep it off.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this
I nominate General Petreus to keep track of all the registered weapons in the USA……D’OH!
The very person responsible for the weapons fiasco in Iraq is now leading the surge. The Peter Principle not only lives in Wooten’s Peter Pan marketing story, but in the Iraq War too.
Hey, there’s a bit that Wooten missed and he tripped all over it! That Marketing professor’s analysis of the Peter Pan Peanut Butter recall proves the peter principle lives!!!
I dont mean to pan Wooten’s article, but that one should have caught his eye. There’s a Jimmy Carter connection too, but Wooten thought it more clever to leave that name out, which may be true. I dont know, most people didn’t hear about Castro’s pick. They probably tripped on the castro item in Wooten’s blog and stopped reading, and moved on to the goobernatorial offering on the next page, thinking that you know who was a goober, (and that’s a lie).
By AmVet
August 31, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this
One can parse the SAT scores in many ways. And identifying the reason is instructive, only if it helps in addressing the problems.
I think that intuitively, and based on personal experiences, most know that some states lag far behind in general aptitude and intelligence than others.
For example, I was born and raised in Kansas. (I know, I know! I’ve heard all of the jokes about Dorothy!) The Jayhawker State has consistently scored very well in any number of ways academically and it was obvious that was because there was a genuine emphasis on education. I mean a real education.
Times have changed and the distractions multiplied but that is just an excuse. Either communities value academic excellence or they don’t. And either way, they reap what they have sowed.
By Dusty
August 31, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
dustbuster 10:12
Puleeze!! I am trying to be nice to all the luntics this weekend. Go get yourself a feather duster and powder your nose or something.
By @@
August 31, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this
Well Jim, I know Evander is still with us but I can only wonder what that mobile lab will turn up when they have to plow his Holy”field”?
So Ken suffers from Peter Pan’s “passive/aggressive” tendencies. Have you ever given your dog a little peanut butter? Oops, sorry! That’s a Vicky sticky.
SAT scores and obesity? Too many “fatheads” of the leftist persuasion possibly?
Clayton County outlaws the death penalty by jury nullification? All this while Eldrin Bell installs a “Task Force” to battle blight. We’ll be lookin’ pretty and eliminating crime? Stay tuned cause the ACLU is already calling Chairman Bell’s tactics into question.
Government officials with day jobs? Well there’s a Hooters for ‘ya.
People don’t own rights to the view? See ^^^ Clayton County’s Eldrin Bell.
Fidel Castro’s favorable “views”. What gives him the right? Well like Ted Kennedy once said….there’s “Osama” Obama. That’s the ticket.
Isn’t it funny Jim, how the leftists here wouldn’t bother to confirm the Democratic bias on the morning news? Nooooo, that would take some effort on their part. It’s easier to discredit the source than to entertain the possibility.
Funny you should mention the Swiss-based group and their aversion to weapons. Lars Vilks, cartoonist, better get his gun because he’s upset a bunch of Muslims with his recent cartoon “dissing” the Prophet Mohammed. He could just poke ‘em in the eye with his pencil I suppose.
By Liberal Drive-by
August 31, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this
Isn’t he that guy who was elected like 30 years ago? Conservative goofballs still fixated on him? Wooten, why don’t you take it a little further back and talk about James Madison or something.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this
My wife is being interviewed at 2PM today on the radio (1620 AM) on a program called “The Artful Life”.
She is an international artist with tens of thousands of satisfied customers. She is showing her latest creations at the Decor Expo (World Congress Center) in Atlanta on Sept. 7,8,& 9.
My wife faces the challenge of a returning bout of breast cancer and double radical mastectomy, but that’s not slowing her down. She’s inspires me. Elizabeth Edwards inspires her.
By timetopissontheneoconscumandotherrepubicsublifeforms
August 31, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this
Time to put the Dusty ball of dirt into a Medicaid only nursing home, the alzheimers ward would be most appropriate, given her mental state.
By Morris H.
August 31, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this
Well, you can say one thing for Clayton County: They take the attention off the morons in Fulton and DeKalb.
By LaughoftheWeek
August 31, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this
the soon to be:
Give a Gun to Charity campaign.
Good one.
By cranky old man
August 31, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this
Well, Alberto Gonzalez did serve one useful purpose - making John Ashcroft look good by comparison.
By AmVet
August 31, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this
And what to make of this?!
Jimmy never met a dictator he didn’t like,
And how to reconcile it with this?
The even the more spectacularly strange, He (Carter) single-handedly brought our country and economy to it’s knees. Thank God for President Reagan who revived our country and brought an end to the Cold War
Much revision of history aside, RR was the penultimate example of coddling dictators around the globe. And he alone deserves that misplaced title.
I could list many examples, but I have done so before, and let’s face the obvious, everybody alive for the past 40 years or so, or those who care to educate themselves, already know it. Some just pretend to not know.
As long as they weren’t commies, Reagan’s administration would turn a blind eye to help them with arms and/or money, no matter how tyrannical or murderous. This first wave of neo-conservatives were busy endorsing bring back prayer in schools, fighting the hated liberals and the war on drugs.
And of course, none of the other equally, if not more important, events surrounding the fall of the USSR are worth noting.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this
You can find my wife’s art at joybroe.com using yahoo or aol search.
google for some reason wont find her.
By Dusty
August 31, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this
what’shisname @ 10:37,
Honey, you are a loser..
Liberal Drive by @10:31
There’s a little place in Atlanta called the Carter Center. No, you can’t buy drinks there. But if you go you might learn a little history later than James Madison. You ought to “drive by” and enjoy it since you are a liberal.
By @@
August 31, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this
Oops, I almost forgot. I wanted to drop off this little opinion piece in response to sct’s 8:24.
But why then does bin Laden hate George Bush so passionately? He serially rants about the president. In October 2004 he even released a pre-election video addressed to Americans, lambasting Bush in hopes that he would lose the election.
“The truth is that, thanks to Bush, bin Laden’s original bases in Afghanistan are lost. His al-Qaida followers in Iraq are being systematically decimated — with the help of Sunni tribesmen repulsed by jihadist atrocities.”
“A recent poll by the Pew Research Center revealed a precipitous drop in support among Middle Easterners for the tactics of suicide bombing, and a growing unpopularity for bin Laden himself.”
“Al-Qaida terrorists no doubt hate every American president. But bin Laden’s venom for feisty George Bush is special, galvanized by the president’s success in eroding al-Qaida militarily while trying to foster enough reform to ruin the terrorist organization politically.”
Sometimes the results are subtle sct. You have to look for ‘em. Kinda like checking out the morning news for their bias in favor of Democrats who favor Osama, or is it Obama?
Ask Teddy.
By deegee
August 31, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this
You mean they don’t register them???
“WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — Weapons that were originally given to Iraqi security forces by the American military have been recovered over the past year by the authorities in Turkey after being used in violent crimes in that country, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.”
“It was possible, they said, that the weapons had been stolen or lost during firefights and smuggled into Turkey after being sold in Iraq’s extensive black market for firearms. Officials gave widely varied estimates — from dozens to hundreds — of how many American-supplied weapons had been found in Turkey.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/washington/30contract.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By Tom
August 31, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this
jbmlaw:
Bork—“the greatest legal mind of our time?” The man who referred to a section of the Constitution as an “indecipherable inkblot?”
What exactly did they teach you in [unaccredited part-time night] law school? Anything at all?
By GaLiberal
August 31, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this
Moron Jim says: • Truism of the week: “People don’t own rights to the view,” said John Lowery, president of Wellstone Communities LLC, of the Lanier Golf Club in Forsyth County. His company is planning to pay a reputed $24 million for the course, which would be redeveloped as housing. Neighbors object. Half the redevelopment battles are fought over view, the other half over congestion. Can’t keep what you don’t pay for.
What Moron Jim doesn’t tell you is this is the result of a pro-business, pro-development Republican controlled legislature. In GA, the landowner can do about anything they want to with their land. And it’s easy to get it rezoned because all the county sees is more taxes. In any other state (except the backward South of course), golf courses are zoned as greenspace or recreational and can’t be developed for houses. You also can’t put cows and chickens on them.
Another thing Moron Jim doesn’t tell you is that when you vote Republican/conservative you vote against your own best interests. So the next time a mini-mart goes up next to your house or someone wants to put in a new strip mall that causes more congestion and increases crime, just remember you put them in office. You have no one to blame but yourself.
By @@
August 31, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this
Hey PoliFore a/k/a Rovespierre, I checked out your wife’s artwork.
I find it difficult to like you, the ID thief, but absent the application of textures, your wife’s art is similar to the more subtle/muted style of Kandinsky.
He’s one of my favorites.
By AmVet
August 31, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this
Whether Mr. Bork scored well on the SAT or not (SARC!), there is something uniquely special about the nomination of our Supreme Court justices.
As many of us are not terribly erudite in these matters or even remotely experienced in jurisprudence, understanding the nuances of the 200 plus years of interpreting the US Constitution and many, many other documents is daunting.
But as over government is such a political animal, and growing in appetite, it is easy to see why many Americans are genuinely concerned about the stacking of the court with ideologues. This is not new, but more worrisome than ever.
And given the events of the past few years, one could believe that given their way, the neo-conservatives will set up a court whereby abortion is no longer legal in many parts of the US, for example.
And if that’s the case, they apparently really do want a revolution in this country.
By Grampus
August 31, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this
I turned 54 today, and it occurs to me that I no longer give a steaming crap what anyone things about anything.
By Curious Observer
August 31, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this
We can have high SAT scores/excellent education systems, and we can have the current mess featuring universal educational requirements, but we can’t have both.
Georgia is simply overrun with families that place no value on education. Their children clog the schools and consume precious resources, all the while posing disciplinary problems, only to drop out at 16. Redneck is as redneck does. These families are sometimes misled into the belief that a piece of paper represents a real education; in that case, their mediocre scholars pack the state’s colleges on Hope scholarships, where they create a demand for a diversion of resources to remedial courses.
A good start to a remedy to the current educational abyss is to eliminate the requirement that children attend school until they reach the age of 16. The state might make attendance until completion of 6th grade or attainment of the age of 12 a requirement, given the basic need for a citizen to be able to read and make elementary calculations.
In this way, little Billy Bob can get an early start on pursuing his life goals of owning a trailer and a pickup truck. In turn, the state can devote its limited resources to educating students who really want to learn, rather than having schools that serve as babysitting institutions.
It’s time we face the truth: no teacher—not even Socrates reincarnated—can generate interest in a group of students who are present only because the law says they must be—students who learn at the earliest ages that education is a waste of time. Let’s eliminate the chaff first and focus on the grain.
By timetogleefullydecapitateBYSLICINGTHEPUSSFILLEDHEADOFFof analobsessiveleftistvermin
August 31, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
watching the witless puke of far left scumsuckingdogturds like the execrable arseholevet is always good for a mid morning larrrrf. keep your pathetic shiiite coming arsehole vet.
KKKarter has grovelled to, fawned over and openly supported just about every far left anti-American dicktator - plus arab towel head (so called palestinian) terrorist killers - slithering around today. KKKarter’s shameful racist racebaiting against blacks in its earlier GA campaigns was as despicable as it gets.
KKKarter’s narcissistic marxistarselicking senility is deeply embarassing. If one could - SIGH … IF ONLY - actually swap the surprisingly, almost uniquely decent Democrat J.F. Kennedy’s fate for the senile sicko KKKarter the world would be a far better place.
KKKarter is by far the most worthless senile surrender monkkkey hatepig and the worst of all self absorbed guttersnipe marxist lovin’ feckpigs of US presidential politics.
A true modern day American traitor!!!
Freakin’ funny to see that earlier this week the spittle spittin’ shrill far leftist surrender monkkkey Chris noballs Maffews of PMSNBC infamy called ex-senator Craig “a depraved pervert”. Not exactly the kind of robotic pro-queer patter a pinko pooftah approving sheeple demoNcrat is supposed to puke up on live leftist TV - even though virtually no one is watching the modern day Lord Haw Haw’s of hate America cable news.
Please would someone swiftly feed -the most obsequiously self absorbed, gormless, witless, desperately unfunniest cyber dogturd in all of Dixie - rovespenisenvy to a Gwinnett taleban sleeper cell. Making sure these bacon munching USAF targets know that Rovespenisenvy chokes daily on usually flaccid non-halal pork sausages in the Hartsfield’s mens toilets and is a secret towel head hating kafir!!
Not very nice to see, happily mercifully only now occasionally blog polluting hatepig scum like aquahag and snivelling moron rod are still out there, as ever endlessly wasting American oxygen!!
LETS ALL ENJOY THE NOXIOUS LEFTIST HYPOCRITICAL DOGSQUEEZE continuing their shameless hypocrisy by NOT ever NOISILY SCREECHING ABOUT all the LEFTIST HATE ON HERE!!!
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this
Google American Cancer Society 4 contributions.
By JK
August 31, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this
The three TV networks’ morning news show are “overwhelmingly focused on Democrats” and “are actively promoting the Democrats’ liberal agenda,” reports the conservative Media Research Center.
Yes, Mr. Wooten, I saw this on FOX “News.” As one who likes to be up on the news of the day, I skim through all the different “news” channels, and make a point of landing on each for a few minutes, to see what they’ll tell me.
Almost every time I land on FOX “News,” they’re telling me about the biases of the other news channels, who has what percentage viewership, or (if it’s O’Really) why they don’t like Keith Olbermann. The other times I land, I see them using three or four different people to explain why Hillary is not really electable.
WHEN do they actually give us any NEWS? You know, stuff that happens in the world, and stuff our government does, that we should know about? I’ve yet to see it.
By sct
August 31, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this
Robert “the greatest legal mind of our time,” doesn’t have time to be AG.
He is too busy with the 1 million dollar lawsuit he filed against the Yale Club.
Seems he slipped in the shower there and suffered “excruciating” pain! Imagine that, the shower floor is slippery!
Wasn’t it jmblaw himself that just the other day said frivolous lawsuits were a major cause of rising health care costs?
1 million dollars for slipping in the shower! What a great legal mind indeed.
By Charles
August 31, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this
• Georgia ranks 12th in obesity among 10- to 17-year-olds and 46th in education, as measured by SAT scores. This is a parent problem: Make ‘em put down the fork, pick up the book.
I can speak for African American children. If parents continue to indoctrinate their children into the scheme of integration, their children will always be confused, dumb, and fat.
Parents teach their children to be responsible, yet the philosophy of many African Americans is integration; a classic case of irresponsibility.
In regard to SAT scores, a nationalist must be concerned with being smart. Logically they are expected to excel in all things. The driving force is being responsible for building a nation; nationalist don’t depend on anyone else for their survival.
The driving force of the integrationist is to excel in school to secure a job provided by others; to find acceptance in the white power system. That’s not a great incentive for African American children.
The brain muscle mass is different between the nationalist and integrationist. African Americans by way of integration are conditioning their group to be inferior, dependent, and dumb. SAT scores will always be on the decline. Brains can’t develop properly by lifting the light weight of integration, minimal brain stimulation, while other people are lifting the heavy weight of nationalism, brain muscle mass formation.
Putting down the fork and picking up the book is more than a parent problem; but it’s good advice. Putting down integration and picking up nationalism is better advice; but it’s more than a parent problem.
By jbmlaw
August 31, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this
Dear Tom @ 10:56, thanks for bringing up Bork’s most brilliant insight, the inkblot that is the Ninth Amendment: Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
In theory the Constitution acts as a limitation on Leviathan, and surely the original intent of the ninth amendment was require a strict construction of the Constitution where there was an effort to expand the powers of government. I think reasonable minds would agree that there is no meaningful limitation on the power of government. We may disagree on the desirability of a “living, breathing” Constitution, but plainly Congress has arrogated unto itself the power to do many things not otherwise explicitly authorized in the Constitution, and pro-Leviathan judges, the bane of the modern world, have always upheld the theft of rights. I suspect there are few law school professors, much less the rest of us mere mortals, with the breadth of view to see what Leftism hath wrought, but Bork surely did. Genius is as genius does; Bork has expanded our wisdom.
By AmVet
August 31, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this
I can speak for African American children.
Uh oh! MAJOR uh oh!
I see this basic lack of credibility happen a lot here - this belief that somehow someone has the apparently innate authority to speak for others without their permission. It is my experience that this is generally a prelude to intentional misrepresentation.
Unless of course, these uncounted, unnamed black children did, in fact, ask this person to speak on their silent behalf.
IMHO, the entirety of the rest of the post confirms that it is merely this individual’s perspective and opinion ONLY and does not, in fact, represent anyone else’s.
As for the exclusive and strangely esoteric either/or premise itself, I think it is rather simplistic if not outright specious.
By time for the harsh truth
August 31, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this
SNIGGER SNIGGER SNIGGER … the beyond vile peeping tom shows its utterly unfounded yet oh so shrill elitist supercilious imperiousness in its latest rib tickling far left rant about edcuation.
peeping tom like the pardon selling Arkansas rapist is desperately economical with the truth - that means peeping tom is a fooking LIAR!!
Few if any GA parents actually evince they put “no value on edcuation”. Its the despicable lefties who have dumbed down the (national) educational system and standards by pandering to decidedly thick - escuse me non-academic blacks who incessantly complained AFTER THE VILE OUTRAGES OF BUSSING in shrill racebaiting ebonics its too hard boss … and now the mexican types are screeching about having to actually learn English and learn in English - so often times they are at least for a while allowed not to - with obvious disastrous results.
if there’s been NO systematic dumbing down of education - then explain why are so many universities now running polish your English/Maths etc classes for kiddies newly enrolled in supposedly degree level classes? Why are blacks in FL allowed to take up to six attempts to pass an ‘exit’ exam that has been dumbed down 14 year old maths and 16 year old English and yet many cannot even pass that with repeated attempts??!!
The truth … pandering lying liberal scum like peeping tom is that for at least three decades far left liberals have dominated educational theory in teacher training ivory towers and along with the ever growing absurd obsession with self esteem and the cowardly non-threatening, non-competitive approach in liberal run school systems … i.e. social promotion and ever more pathetic grade inflation and easier course work, mutiple choice testing instead of meaningful WRITTEN analytical ESSAY BASED exams in English, History, Geography, Sciences etc liberals have deliberately, using all manner of tactics including the horrors of “comprehensive schools in England and Wales” effectively castrated/dumbed down the edcuational system all over most of the western world!!
Given that blacks and mexican types consistently educationally fall below whites in GA peeping tom hilariously appears to have IMPLICITLY IF NOT EXPLICITLY shot itself in the preverbial elitist sneering foot - damn shame it wasn’t quite a bit higher up … huge smirk.
white yanKKKee vermin up north and white kiddies out west hardly do that much better than southern kids in numerous states, blacks do at least as badly if not worse in many states - such as IL. which is why white yanKKKee racist scum keep omitting to actually use blacks for the state’s educational figures because it will drag down the heavily massaged published educational standards up there.
all the beyond vile, should have been aborted peeping tom manages to do with its latest gleeful sneer at “rednecks” is show us how truly bigoted, hateful and pig ignorant it is.
By deegee
August 31, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this
Beckham is the biggest fraud to reach our shores from the UK since Goofey Toofey arrived as a mail order bride.
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/7171088?MSNHPHMA
By time to deport heebeedeegee sluts
August 31, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
the retarded sluttish roly poly herpes ridden w hore heebeedeegee needs to get back to blowing illegal leech day labourers outside the Home Depot in Gainesville!!
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this
Looking at a MRI or a mammagram to see if you have cancer is a lot like Schroedinger’s Cat.
Schroedinger’s Cat was a quantum thought experiment where a photon is released in an apparatus where two slits are provided for passage of the photon. If the photon goes through the right slit, then the cats gets keeled by poison gas (released when the photon strikes the receptor). If the photon goes through the left slit, then the cat gets a fancy feast treat.
So, when a person looks to see the result, then a probability balloon gets popped. The quantum conundrum: is the cat dead or alive, when does that cat actually die, (and what about the umlaut in Schrodinger’s name)
I tried that experiment and the cat died every time no matter what the photon did because the cat food was made in china.
By sct
August 31, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this
So jmblaw, do you think Bork should go after more than a million dollars.
Sounded like some kind of fall. Doesn’t the “excruciating” pain he suffered deserve more than the 1 million dollars he is asking for in damages PLUS punitive damages.
I guess not, as brilliant as he is, I’m sure he’s right. 1 million plus should about do it.
Thank God, for Bork! Robert “tort reform” Bork! Brilliant!
By ?????
August 31, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this
It wasn’t a shower fall.
Bork, 80, who is seeking $1 million in damages, is claiming that he fell while trying to step onto a dais to speak at a June 6, 2006, event hosted by New Criterion magazine. The absence of a handrail or stairs caused him to fall, striking his leg on the dais and his head on a heat register, the suit claims. Over the past year, Bork has suffered “excruciating pain” and undergone extensive medical treatment and surgery to address the resulting hematoma on his left leg, according to the suit.
By time for the truth
August 31, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this
ALL THE BEST TO TONY SNOW … he’s formally resigned and will be off in a fortnight.
Hopefully he’ll beat his cancer - or at least keep it from getting any worse for a number of years. 52 is way too young to die.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this
If I can grab the mic away from my wife during the radio interview at 2PM on 1620am today I’m going to do that bit about driving with saggy pants, (suspendered license, couple of belts).
Stay tuned.
Google American Cancer Society 4 donations.
By jbmlaw
August 31, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this
Leno Line: “Speaking at a forum organized by Lance Armstrong on cancer research, Hillary Clinton told Chris Matthews if she is elected president, she will declare war on cancer, and then she will support the war on cancer for two years, and then she will be against it for a year, and then she will back out of it all together”
By jbmlaw
August 31, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
Dear TFTT @ 11:36, this has to be one of your funniest rants in a long time. Anyone who can weave Lord Haw Haw and “non-halal pork sausages” into a unified logical argument has my eternal respect.
By Rod
August 31, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this
So ????? - you mean Bork is suing because he reached for a handrail that obviously wasn’t there? He couldn’t go up one or two steps without aid and he wants to sue?
By Jackie
August 31, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this
With Alberto resigning, Dubya and the gang are going to have a difficult time keeping out of jail. The Inspector General of the Justice Department expanded their probe of Alberto’s testimony and actions. He was the linchpin of the criminal activity coverup in the White House. Now that he is gone and a new AG is coming in, will he have the integrity to enforce the law and bring criminal charges against the Gang of Four? . . The House of Representatives will start to put Dubya back into his straight jacket with the rejection of the $50 Billion supplemental for Iraq. The White House can not spin enough to make us all believe the Iraqi misadventure is going well and the 18 benchmarks set forth by Dubya himself are not being met according to the GAO. It is time for this bad comedy to end!
By jbmlaw
August 31, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this
Dear Rovespierre, maybe too late to catch you, hope the radio goes well. I’ll try to listen.
By dawg_gone_truth
August 31, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this
Jimmy Carter was the best man to ever hold the office of president, but he was not the best president. He was not the worst. He never attacked a country that did not attack us, although he did not attack a country that pretty much did attack us, but our military was pretty much depleted from ten years of war that just really ended in 1975. He was an idealist who did not suck up to big money that is why congress would not work with him, they are all bought and paid for then and now. Don’t blame Jimmy for being an honest decent man. Fidel said what he said because Jimmy is a great person, fidel would not know a good president from a bad one, he is a evil dictator.
Vick should have bought his daddy another crack rock from Marcus and he would have shut up.
By J
August 31, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
Someone has to be in a position to keep reminding folks like yourself of the copious amounts of disinformation that is passed out. It was one of your heroes, Ronald Reagan that said, “if you keeping repeating a statement over and over, pretty soon it begins to sound like the truth”. . . Seems to me that the noise pollution emanating from you needs to be fined by the EPA. Speaking of James Brown, remember his song, “Talking Loud and Saying Nuthin’?” Hmmmmmm, sounds like a nice fit for you. . . When is Dubya going to bring Osama bin Laden to justice? I know that you will be a part of the group, including myself, that would rejoice in this accomplishment because he has done nothing else but reach into our pockets and take money to “build” Iraqi freedo and schools. Do you think WE could have used some of that misappropriated money, of which $11 Billion is unaccounted for? . . Help me out Dusty!!!
By the stopper
August 31, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this
Upthread we heard:
MINORITY’S TRADTIONALLY SCORE LOW ON TESTS.
How do “MINORITY’S” do on the caps lock thingie?
not to mention pluralization…
By DemDems4Ever
August 31, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this
Jackie,
Your program of self-medication appears to be a failure. Seek help!
By DemDems4Ever
August 31, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this
Jimmy Carter was a long way from the “Best” of anything to hold office.
Iran did attack the US, not “pretty much attacked us”, and in the process made a mockery of the office of President. Jimmy was well over his head and rather than act he sat back and did nothing. Ignoring of course the poorly conceived “raid” he planned that never made it off the desert floor.
Jimmy Carter was, and is, a dismal failure domestically as well as internationally. His game show diplomacy ended with the death of Anwar Sadat in Egypt.
Now people on this blog and otherwise insist on making Jimmuh think he is relevant.
By Curious Observer
August 31, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this
Ah, that the walking English pond scum calling itself TFTT had gotten its neck stretched like its forebear, William Joyce. Leave it to TFTT to blame blacks and Mexicans for the continuing decline in American educational attainment—but that’s not racism, mind you. When TFTT issues a racist rant, why, it’s merely the truth.
Oh, and let’s not forget the despicable liberals. They and they alone dumbed down educational requirements, apparently by instituting multiple choice tests. I assume that these tests alone account for whatever educational certification TFTT has. It’s for certain he can’t punctuate, spell, or develop syntactical sentences well enough to pass a traditional essay examination. His style is the definition of incoherence.
Sorry, TFTT, but you lose again. There aren’t enough blacks and Mexican-Americans in the school systems to account for the continuing decline in SAT scores and other measures of educational attainment.
No, if you look at median SAT scores and other details, it will become clear to you that the dedicated students continue to shine, regardless of whatever novelties in pedagogy are in fashion today. That bottom half, however, is creating a virtual TFTT cesspool. And it appears clear that the mediocre remnant of the redneck crowd is now teaching the students, thanks to antediluvian teacher certification methods, the Hope “scholarship” program, and antiquated school funding formulas.
It’s 10 to 1 that 99 percent of Georgia history teachers don’t know who Lord Haw Haw was, TFTT. Care to take up that bet? (The answer: just another set of English traitors—in the best-known case with a speech defect that more or less matches TFTT’s writing style.)
But then, I suppose we must blame it all on the liberals—coupled with the blacks and the Mexicans, of course.
By dawg_gone_truth
August 31, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this
DemsDems No Iran did not attack us directly, they took hostages that would have died if we had attacked, and yes the rescue was a failure, our whole military was depleted due to LBJ and Tricky Dick staying in a war that politicians would not let us win, what did Jimmy have to work with? Jimmy Carter is a good man, a good heart and speaks his mind, a nobel peace prize winner. He did what he could given the enviornment in which he had to work. Saying he is the worst president ever is showing that you don’t know history, what about Chester Arthur? Grant, Andrew Johnson or Andrew Jackson for that matter?
By Curious is a Moron
August 31, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this
Curious Observer @11:33 - Redneck is as redneck does. …little Billy Bob can get an early start on pursuing his life goals of owning a trailer and a pickup truck.
Isn’t it odd that whenever the issue of GA education comes up it is always the erudite above-the-fray “Progressives” who are always ready to bring out their hate-southern-white rants. The poor ever struggling deprived minorities are never a target of their venom.
The baggy pants “gangstas” who invaded the Inman Park home with guns blazing the other day weren’t frustrated scholars looking for study material for the SAT.
By Bushwanked
August 31, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this
Do you think WE could have used some of that misappropriated money, of which $11 Billion is unaccounted for? . . Help me out Dusty!!!
J - Are you new here? Don’t you know? Dusty doesn’t answer questions. She makes studid statements, then when you question her about those statements, she refuses to back up what she says. (Example, “Liberals are the main ones that says public education is rotton” - see what I mean?) C’mon J, get with the program.
By GreyGayGeek
August 31, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
Bushwanked - Dusty is the Prime Exhibit of what happens when one allows the Faux Noise Network to do all of one’s thinking for oneself.
“We Report (what we want to, and omit everything that doesn’t toe the line of our version of reality), You Decide (based on what we tell you to decide)”
By Bushwanked
August 31, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this
It’s obvious you’re with the program, GGG. Excellent.
By Jackie
August 31, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this
@DemDems4Ever,
I don’t recall your being an MD. Secondly, the wing nuts like yourself CAN NOT make any critical decisions about anything or anybody; you are not lucid in your thoughts and your logic is circular. Refute that! Your own statements point out your use of innuendo and half-truths to build your conclusions. When did Iran attack the US? It is folks like you that do not know when to “scratch their watch or wind their a$$!!!”
By RCH
August 31, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this
Curious Observe
Sorry, TFTT, but you lose again. There aren’t enough blacks and Mexican-Americans in the school systems to account for the continuing decline in SAT scores and other measures of educational attainment.
Sorry,but both statistics and the College Board says otherwise.
Combined math and reading SAT scores for the high school class of 2007 were the lowest in eight years — a trend the College Board attributed to the good news that a more diverse pool of students is taking the exam.number of black students taking the SAT rose 6 percent, and the number of test-takers calling themselves “Other Hispanic, Latino or Latin American” (a group that does not include Puerto Ricans or Mexican Americans) rose 27 percent.
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this
Jbmlaw, you align yourself with a blogger (tftt) who makes terroristic threats against americans in a time of war? That’s like, so illegal. Wooten is liable, and the AJC is liable for publishing terroristic threats and incitements to terroristic violence (against Americans) that infest the blogs of this unibomber wannabe.
I will make a phone call and report this, and also as a lawyer you should know just how liable you are here too.
Try being that clever on a plane, sir. See what happens.
You cant make terroristic threats against americans in any forum. You should know that.
I haven’t been reading tftt foamings for a while so that’s why I was shocked to read the blog you recommended so highly @1:25.
Terrorism is as terrorism does. I think there’s civil remedies for me too, but you would know about that better being a lawyer and all.
Think twice before you invent another terror-alias like tftt and respond. You fool no one, sir.
Now your going to face yourself. One ringie dingie…two ringie dingie….hello, Homeland Securtiy? Yes, I want to report someone whose been making terroristic threats against me and other americans and inciting to violence any other terrorists who may know of our whereabouts and have the means by which to accomplish the violence against us…..yes, I’ll hold…….”
Funny, isn’t it, jbmlaw.
By Dusty
August 31, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
My goodness, this was going to be “nice to a liberal day” and now Goony Grey Goose and that other goosy guy are posting questions like they are on “Jeopardy” or something.
Poor babies. Can’t figure out a thing by themselves.
Unfortunately,there’s no question and answer show running right now. Try Marilyn in the Parade section of AJC on Sunday. She’s real good at answering dumb questions.
To the rest of you, have a nice holiday weekend. I may be here. I may not. I hope all goes well with the art exhibit, PoFo. Best wishes to your wife.
By getalife
August 31, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this
Make my check out to cash.
By time to slice and dice the hatemongering peeping tom
August 31, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA H LMFAO!!
TOO FREAKING FUNNY!!
The rabid doltish intellectual brainless dishonesty of the should have been aborted YEARS AGO peeping tom is deadly hilarious!!!
Exactly “where??” did I say that blacks/mexican types “accounted” for the continuing decline in educational standards. All I factually and very reasonably intimated peeping tom was that your blind bigotry against “rednecks” was ultra ironic and (factually) moronically contradictory, given that at secondary school level collectively whites in GA (and nationally) easily outperfom blacks and mexican types!!
Effortlessly smashing you in argument is fab fun mister maggotriddendogshit.
I actually blamed liberals - their sickening pandering and other related factors with a factual, irrefutable list of outrages!!
NO RACISM CITED, NEEDED OR CALLED FOR!! FACTS ARE FACTS!!
But trust a mutated inbred COCKroach like yourself to LIE through its yellowbellied far left reptilian teeth!!
WHAT I ACTUALLY SAID bubbaturd was that you had shot yourself sadly only in the foot with your bigoted unhinged rant - about “rednecks” - sadly only metaphorically speaking.
I really wish you would be publicly hung drawn and quartered like some scumbag English criminal in olden days. But of course those days of bestial state lynchings are long gone. In your miserble worthless case a worthy exception would be decidedly warranted of course!! …huge hang the leftist dogturd high smirk
just wittily mirroring back your own demented murderous hate!!
By time for the truth
August 31, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this
cheers jbm … regrettably it seems that peeping tom’s non halal sausages have been gobbled up by beastly horrid Lord Haw Haw … damn shame really!!
how else does one account for Goebbels like lies and distortions from peeping tom??!!
By Decent American
August 31, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this
It gets better than that Rovespierre - you’ll note TFTT advocates the shooting of former President Carter in the 11:36 AM post in the reference to JFK’s assassination - a federal felony. Previously he (she?) has advocated lynching Burak Obama, a major party candidate for President - threatening the life of major party Presidential candidates is also a federal felony.
Is our lawyer friend jbmlaw not aware of these statutes?
Section 879 of Title 18 prohibits knowing and willful threats to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm against the following categories of persons who are protected by the United States Secret Service:
Members of the immediate family of the President;
Members of the immediate family of the Vice President;
Former Presidents;
Members of the immediate family of a former President;
Major candidates for the Office of President and Vice President;
Spouses of major candidates for the Office of President and Vice President within 120 days of the general Presidential election; and
Immediate families of the President-elect and Vice President-elect.
The purpose of this statute is to prohibit threats against former Presidents and other Secret Service protectees not covered by the Presidential threat statute, 18 U.S.C. § 871, or the protection of foreign officials statute, 18 U.S.C. § 112. This gives the Secret Service the legal basis for investigating and prosecuting threats against all categories of persons authorized to be protected under 18 U.S.C. § 3056 and Public Law No. 90-331, 82 Stat. 170, as amended, and who are in fact being protected by the Secret Service. Sections 115 and 351 of Title 18 may provide a basis for criminal prosecution for threats to government and former government officials and their immediate families which may or may not be covered by sections 871 or 879. See United States v. Raymar, 876 F.2d 383, 389-390, (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 870 (1989).
Looks like TFTT should dust off that old passport and make a run for it!
By deegee
August 31, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this
Here’s an idea for bringing up GA’s SAT scores. Weigh each kid taking the test and add their weight into their total score. The bigger the behind the better the score. We can’t lose. No child left behind!
By Rovespierre
August 31, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this
The crux of any prosecution in this instance is that this is a time of war, and terroristic threats in a PUBLIC FORUM have to be taken at face value. Inciting others to violence during this war on terror is equally criminal.
I am personally frightened by this tftt. It’s one thing to post a rare threat that may or may not be serious, but it’s another to post daily terroristic threats during a time of war on a public forum. I feel that I have no choice but to pursue a remedy. We’ll see how far into the AJC pockets the liability goes. I’m going to make those phone calls and see if this has legs. The newspaper becomes the news. How about that?
By Curious Observer
August 31, 2007 5:26 PM | Link to this
Rovespierre,
I suspect jbmlaw and the Woodrow Wilson School of law will tell you that the criminally insane cannot be held responsible for their actions while they remain insane. It is highly unlikely that tftt will ever revert to responsible status.
By getalife
August 31, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this
I tried to get Jim to ban tftt but he did not.
Please make my check out to cash.
Thanks Jim and the AJC.
By time for the brutal truth
August 31, 2007 5:28 PM | Link to this
SNIGGER SNIGGER SNIGGER … the unhinged liberal far left LIES get better and better. KKKarter was and is a worthless appeasing far left narcissistic POS. I simply very sensibly and nobly opined that JFK’s life was/is worth far more than KKKarter’s - perfectly reasonable opinion - which you commie scum are pefectly free to disagree with!!
As for “lynching” Barak the braindead big eared magic negro - we should be so lucky (clever sardonic goad only) … smirk. Happily osama obama as the DUI killer Kennedy once dubbed it is cretinously using its stupid, naive appeasing idiot mouth to destroy its own solely racially based I”m a half black snivelling far left cut and run wanker candidate for the White House. Thankfully The doltish magically stupid IL half caste negro needs no violent/murderous help from me to destroy its campaign.
By time for the harsh truth
August 31, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this
poor old peeping tom … smashed factually YET AGAIN on education by its intellectual and genetic better - so it just pukes up more deranged hate!!
WHOOPED ‘EM JOSIE!!
By catlady
August 31, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this
For Vick, make the comment window Dec 32-33 of 2010. Until that day comes, no more Vick, Paris, etc, etc, etc.
Are you sure, after Gonzales, we need to UNITE the nation or UNTIE the nation?
By KZ_Guy
August 31, 2007 5:37 PM | Link to this
Who really gives a rats azz what Castro thinks?
By time for the harsh truth
August 31, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
getaturd .. the resident yellowbellied SLIMY greaseball hatepig hate America coward. can’t actually debate me - but it sure can bleat and sneak to the teacher about being continuously outwitted and out bantered.
DEPORT GETATURD NOW!!
go hump an ornery NOLA gator getaturd - there’s a good dog!!
By KZ_Guy
August 31, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
Who really gives a rats azz what Castro thinks?
By KZ_Guy
August 31, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
Who really gives a rats azz what Castro thinks?
By KZ_Guy
August 31, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
Who really gives a rats azz what Castro thinks?
By KZ_Guy
August 31, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
Who really gives a rats azz what Castro thinks?
By KZ_Guy
August 31, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
Who really gives a rats azz what Castro thinks?
By time for the harsh truth
August 31, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this
Who really gives a rats azz what Castro thinks?
its 10 years younger rent boy our very own getaturd, robert commie redford, danny I hatedemwhitefolks glover, cindy feminazitraitor sheet-han et al.
By Jackie
August 31, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this
John Warner (R-VA) announced that he would not seek reelection. By most accounts, out of the 22 Republican Senate seats up for reelection, 4 are in definite trouble and 4 are in trouble.
. . The knickers of the GOP are beginning to fall down around their ankles in the dash to gain control of the Congress and Presidency.
By catlady
August 31, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this
To get Gonzales to tell the truth, we could employ some of his definition of torture: no vital organs. So hitch up his ** to a 220 plug and see if he has lied to Congress. I am betting he will change his mind about the non-vital organ codicil.
BTW, anyone keeping score on Bush’s appointees who have bitten the dust? The lemmings are going over the edge, none too soon. And I am sorry, NO ONE is capable of making Ashcroft look good.