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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
True fiscal conservatives lost a champion Monday with the passing of state Rep. Dan Lakly of Peachtree City. Whether in the minority or the majority, he was a principled man who never compromised core beliefs. Power changes some. Not Dan.
• Alive to kill again: Jamal al-Badawi, one of the al-Qaida masterminds of the 2000 USS Cole bombing was convicted in Yemen and sentenced to death. Later that was commuted to 15 years. He and 22 others, mostly al-Qaida terrorists, escaped in 2004. He turned himself in, swore allegiance to Yemen’s president, and was immediately set free. The bombing killed 17 U.S. sailors. Now the United States has to track him down and kill him.
• More than half the public school students in Georgia — 52 percent — are considered low-income, reports the Southern Education Foundation. That undoubtedly is caused by immigration and an effort by middle-income parents to find a better solution for their children. All parents should be able to take the money taxpayers spend on behalf of their child and use it to buy the education services they want from any provider they choose. People of means have a choice.
• Wake me when we’re through talking about Mark Richt’s decision to let his players rush on the field to celebrate Georgia’s first score against Florida.
• It’s noteworthy how many women whose positions help to put Georgia in the “vanguard of change,” were chosen by Republicans — and Gov. Sonny Perdue, in particular. So much for the liberals’ politics of gender line.
• Be careful when you drive or walk the streets. We never know which circuits are connecting — or not — in the brains of those around us.
Case in point, #1: A former revenue agent who’s been a certified public accountant for a decade didn’t file taxes for five years because she had done a lot of “research” that convinced her she didn’t have to — in part because she couldn’t find “individual” defined in the code.
Case in point, #2: A jury in Baltimore returns an $11 million judgment against members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., for picketing funerals while carrying signs declaring “Thank God for dead soldiers.” Their mental circuits connect military deaths with the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
• Next Halloween, my sidekick and I terrorize metro Atlanta. She walks through Cherokee County dressed as Hillary; I walk through Decatur dressed as a conservative.
• Attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey’s confirmation is said to have “dimmed” because he declines — not having seen classified information off-limits to him — to equate waterboarding with torture. “He doesn’t know whether we use those techniques or not,” said the president. Congress, of course, has not found it to be “torture” and hasn’t outlawed it, which it could. “Whatever techniques we use are within the law,” said Bush. Yes, we’re in for 14 more months of pointless political posturing from this 11 percent approval-rating Congress.
• Ah, those exuberant yoots. An attorney for one of the thugs who beat a no-offense youngster into a coma outside Six Flags, explains thusly: Late on July 3, Six Flags held an employee pep rally to promote good service next day. On leaving the park, “the boys just had a whole lot of enthusiasm and energy, and they just picked the victims,” explained the mouthpiece.
• You have to hand it to Fulton Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall. He does reflect the frustration of the people, and of their legislative voices, with Judge Hilton Fuller and the bankrupt-Georgia game playing out in the Brian Nichols trial. Fuller holds all the cards. Impeachment talk is a non-starter, but the General Assembly does need to study this case, and the use of senior judges, to make certain this is one-of-a-kind.
• Some 67 percent of Americans polled in an Associated Press-Ipsos favor letting public schools provide contraceptives to students, though 37 percentage points of those would require advance parental permission. Questions such as this are one reason parents should be in schools and why school councils, with heavy parental representation, should control them. When schools are parents, parents should be schools.
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By Mid-South Philosopher
November 2, 2007 8:05 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
Just a few observations on Thinking Right today.
Parental choice in education? You and I are going to argue this until we are old men. Sorry, but if you are going to educate you spawn on my dime (meaning that if you are going to depend on public monies for your child’s education), then you have to do it my (society’s) way. Of course, if you just want the tax monies that you pay to educate your kid, I have no objection to refunding that portion of your taxes (for most folks, about $1400) for that purpose. Of course, if you are not a property owner that figure goes down to about $250. Have fun shopping!
As for the continuing saga of Georgie and the Do Nothing Congress, the “good news” is that both will be gone in 14 months.
As for Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, looks as though the Ayatollahs and the Taliban aren’t just in Iran and Afghanistan, are they? Come to think of it, they are not all Muslim, either!
Contraceptives distributed by the schools? I am ABSOLUTELY in favor of it. But, not to the kids! Rather, to a multitude of folks (adults or otherwise) who should NEVER reproduce!
I’m busy today, so have a great week-end.
By jbmlaw
November 2, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Everyone knows Democrats cannot tolerate an honest judge in the position of attorney general, especially one with significant FISA experience, so they have to manufacture a phony explanation for their failure to confirm. The days of a “Griffin Bell” as attorney general are long gone.
Sometimes the smartest thing a criminal defense attorney can do is decline to answer questions. Not everyone knows that.
I think there is an argument for criminal charges, for misappropriation of public funds, against the managers of the Nichols case, and perhaps against the supervising judge. I don’t know why there is no serious consideration of criminal charges for such an egregious misuse of public monies. Other than the fact that they are above the law.
By Rovespierre
November 2, 2007 8:28 AM | Link to this
The Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK, is dug in on Turkey’s border under the umbrella of Kurdistan, a defacto independent Iraqi State. Turkey is poised to attack them. Kurdistan is ready to defend them. If they cant even spell their acronyms right, then who are we to stop Turkey from keeling them. We are so emphatic in our objection to a Turkish attack on the PKK that we sent Condaleeza Rice to stop them. Go ‘head.
Bush has armed Kurdistan to the teeth as part of our visionary Iraqi Policy, so Turkey will suffer many casualties if they attack, but we dont tolerate no Worker’s Party in the USA, so too bad.
By Aquagirl
November 2, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this
Between the spendthrift judge and the moronic arguments for the yootes, maybe we should declare the justice system DOA. Pretty depressing.
By Just Nasty and Mean
November 2, 2007 8:45 AM | Link to this
Brian Nichols case: The state should commission a study of how all the money has been spent. If ONE CENT is misappropriated (which it will be) the perps should be charged and sent to jail including Bozo Judge Fuller.
Yemen—If they want to free terrorists, we should withdraw ALL US foreign aid except humanitarian.
Congressional Democrats (and their 11% approval rating) seem perfectly content to politicize everything from Iraq to Calif. fires. What a joke. In the meantime, Rome burns.
As we raise a generation of fatherless kids, who should be surprised at what to expect when someone finally (in this case Six Flags) shows a kid some direction for their life—-and they go off the deep end.
Handing out rubbers in school? What a great idea! Let’s teach young kids how to have sex!
God help us.
By Charles
November 2, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this
Take Sominex tonight/today and sleep. Safe and restful sleep, sleep, sleep.
The University of Georgia’s Brandon Coutu kicked a thirty-seven yard field goal as time expired; the game winning bench-clearing kick was time to celebrate. Jubilant football players mobbed their hero, Brandon Coutu, at about the thirty-five yard line and the rolling thunder took them to mid field.
The Georgia Bulldogs’ head coach, Mark Richt, jogged to the middle of the field to greet the obviously heartbroken head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores, Bobby Johnson. He paused momentarily to shove and chastise his players as he advanced toward the opposing coach. We could vividly see that the Georgia football players seemed confused by the demeanor of their head coach, Mark Richt. The football team had just won a thriller, and the head coach seemed displeased by the pandemonium.
It was a mistake for the winning coach to prevent his players from enjoying their almost once in a lifetime accomplishment. But the head coach is not to blame for putting an end to what could easily be mistaken as taunting by his players. Celebrating in the middle of the field on the opposition’s logo is obviously unsportsmanlike.
The decision to celebrate excessively after the first Georgia score against Florida seems to be a calculated decision. The brain trust was attempting to unleash the circumvented emotions following Brandon Coutu’s game winning kick the previous week. This time the football players would have the opportunity to get it out of their system. They would be able to reconnect with their emotions following Brandon Coutu’s winning kick at Vanderbilt while celebrating Knowshon Moreno’s touchdown against Florida simultaneously.
Life is too strange, isn’t it? In an effort to correct a questionable action by the head coach at the end of the Vanderbilt game, we have created another one at Florida.
Hopefully Mark Richt’s letter of apology to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, calling his direction inappropriate for the Bulldogs’ bench-clearing excessive-celebration penalty against Florida, will suffice.
Jim! Jim! Jim Wooten! Wake up.
By Rovespierre
November 2, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this
I propose we only give contraceptives to the schoolkids in uber-conservative Cherokee County.
No backs, no vice versas, no changies.
By jbmlaw
November 2, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this
WSJ has a “wow” editorial today on Judge Mukasey; I urge our conservative friends to read it. Our leftist friends probably ought not, it challenges the integrity and judgment of their overlords. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010815.
By deegee
November 2, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this
Here is an example of a Georgia public school that draws from a low-income, transient neighborhood and is succeeding because of the work of an enlightened principal. To quote from the article: “None of the concepts in its myriad programs is unique or overly impressive on its own. But taken together, they form a campus that goes above and beyond the usual school mission.”
If the public school administration had sense they would document this principal’s methods, create an implementation plan and dupe it in every underperforming school district in the state.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/northfulton/stories/2007/11/01/mimosa_1102.html
By Chris
November 2, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this
Given how low Congress’s ratings are right now, look for them to go lower. The nutcases (led by Dennis Kucinich, Keith Olbermann, Jack Cafferty) on the left will force Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Emmanuel, et. al. to launch impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney in the near future.
By Mad Mommy
November 2, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this
1- If all parents were able to chose what school got their money, I can assure you that all schools would start performing at a higher level. Why should the wealthy kids be allowed to have a better education just because their parents can afford it? I know not all things in life are fair, but this is one that should be. 2- If they let a monster go, we need to get the heck out of dodge and start prepairing and defending ourselves period. I am tired of hearing about all the money we are spending on this war without seeing any real differences. Of course, we see only what the media wants us to see which isn’t much. 3- Why is this case still on going? I think we all know he did it, is he crazy? Only a crazy person would shoot up a court house and run, but that doesn’t mean he should get “off” for it. Stop spending money on a dead issue. 4- How about sex-education and what it means to obstain instead of birth control. Since we have taken god out of school, it is now uncool to be a virgin and it is really uncool to announce that to anyone. Let’s get god back in the school system and start spending money on giving kids reasons not to have sex, rather than ways to avoid the pitfalls that are associated with sex.
Remember: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? Learn it, use it, live by it!
By sct
November 2, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
Jim I see next year you are going to be a Conservative for Halloween.
Good luck finding those old tap shoes of yours. I’m sure you’ll have to dig them out of the closet.
Please, no “trick” or treating in the Decatur public restrooms though. We have to draw the line somewhere.
Oh, and be sure not to tell your wife what you are going as, that will make your costume real authentic.
By TW
November 2, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this
More than half the public school students in Georgia — 52 percent — are considered low-income, reports the Southern Education Foundation. That undoubtedly is caused by immigration and an effort by middle-income parents to find a better solution for their children
So, booming yacht sales/rentals don’t figure into this at all?
The god of mammon thrashes about in his shattered glass castle, hoping the extremely stupid will still bite…
By Curious Observer
November 2, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this
I’m all for the generous distribution of contraceptives everywhere in Georgia—just pass them out like Halloween candy.
What do we get when we restrict the distribution of birth control pills and devices? Millions of rednecks—grits-chomping, gravy-swallowing, Bush-voting rednecks who would rather commit suicide than support any kind of social program that might remotely benefit blacks and Latinos.
On its present course, Georgia will remain part of the political and social backwater in this country. The few progressives who migrate to the state cannot hope to mitigate the disaster. Only with zero population growth can Georgia hope to move into the 21st Century.
Distribute those birth control pills now.
By Charlie
November 2, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this
Jim, if your sidekick does decide to do Cherokee County next year as Hillary, I’ll volunteer to follow, at a respectful distance, and throw fake money at her.
By Despise Lies
November 2, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this
To JUST MEAN and NASTY. Perhaps we should add stupid to that moniker as well. Do you really think that young kids actually need to be taught how to have sex?!? Hellooooo! They ALREADY are having sex, which is why this decision was proposed. In this one school alone 17 middle school kids had become pregnant. This proposal is only in response to that. Not an invitation to go and get their swerve on, sweety. In the future…, we have an internet AND cell phones, if you care to join the rest of us.
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this
Well, Jim Wooten offers us a whole bag of goodies this morning so what does he get for thanks,the usual slaptrap from liberals.
SCT brings in the tiresome old “tap tap” trash.
Curious Observer brings in the insult race card with Georgia “Bush rednecks” and “no benefits for Latinos and Blacks” in Georgia.
I guess super-lib RE will be here next to tell us we are not fighting a war but a “tactic”. These libs are a lot like our Congress.
Liberal led Congress is rating 14% approval. THEY CANNOT LEAD. Between lies, contradictions, investigations, propaganda and political chicanery, they may make it to zero approval. No wonder they hate Bush.
Bush can make a decision and move on it. If it doesn’t work, he moves on to a better solution. He does not twiddle his thumbs and say “I can’t do THAT!” And libs are now looking at HILLARY to change everything.
Puhleeze, that’s a laugh and RedNeck isn’t even here yet with HIS subrosa conservatism. At least, he is one liberal good for a laugh.
By Truthifier
November 2, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this
“Attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey’s confirmation is said to have “dimmed” because he declines — not having seen classified information off-limits to him — to equate waterboarding with torture.”
But the question wasn’t “Is the US government practicing waterboarding and is it illegal?” The question is “Is waterboarding illegal?”
You don’t have to admit to having robbed a bank to know it is illegal. You don’t have to admit to having committed murder to know it is illegal.
While Judge Mukasey seems to be a qualified nominee for Attorney General, he is clearly obfuscating in his response, or lack thereof,on this simple question.
Jim also says that Congress hasn’t passed a law to make waterboarding illegal. I won’t claim to be an expert on the issue, but it would seem, from a simple google search, that the US has already said it is illegal:
In 1947, the United States prosecuted a Japanese military officer, Yukio Asano, for carrying out a form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian during World War II. Yukio Asano received a sentence of 15 years of hard labor. The charges of Violation of the Laws and Customs of War against Asano also included “beating using hands, fists, club; kicking; burning using cigarettes; strapping on a stretcher head downward.”
In its 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. Department of State formally recognized “submersion of the head in water” as torture in its examination of Tunisia’s poor human rights record, and critics of waterboarding draw parallels between the two techniques, citing the similar usage of water on the subject.
On September 6, 2006, the United States Department of Defense released a revised Army Field Manual entitled Human Intelligence Collector Operations that prohibits the use of waterboarding by U.S. military personnel. The department adopted the manual amid widespread criticism of U.S. handling of prisoners in the War on Terrorism, and prohibits other practices in addition to waterboarding. The revised manual applies only to U.S. military personnel, and as such does not apply to the practices of the CIA. However, under international law, violators of the laws of war are criminally liable under the command responsibility, and could still be prosecuted for war crimes.
By stu
November 2, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this
They pay you for this drabble.
By Shar
November 2, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this
Thanks, deegee@9:15, for the link to the article on Mimosa Elementary. I had the good fortune to be associated with an elementary school that drew in parent volunteers and donations for extra programs, and we had the same sort of success that Mimosa is achieving. It is important to note that the gains are not just the work of the principal but are due to the teachers who stay to volunteer their time until late at night, to the parents who come and work on their own weaknesses so they can more effectively help their kids, to the volunteers who work one on one with kids to shore up deficiencies and provide encouragement. This is not a pedological approach that can be duplicated and imposed upon other schools. It is a mindset from all concerned to do what is needed to help “their” kids succeed.
To that point, Curious Observer@9:47, I’d take issue with your characterization of the racist self interest of white Southerners. Those traits are not confined to any one regional or demographic group, and there are far too many white Southerners, redneck or otherwise, whom I have worked with in schools, trying to augment basic public education for every kid there, regardless of race. I found that the majority of parent volunteers demanded accountability and a partnership approach from the school, not a race check as to what kind of child had benefitted most from their participation.
We all see the need. People who are predisposed to help, or to improve themselves so they are able to help, do. People who are not, don’t. Mimosa’s programs, like the ones I was involved with, cannot function without a critical mass of the first type of person.
By getalife
November 2, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this
I guess there is no conservation in conservatives.
Way to talk about your water problem Jim.
Anyhoo, any American who supports torture and breaking the law, trashing the Constitition are America haters, unpatriotic, criminal enablers, traitors, etc…
Sound familiar?
Except this time it is true.
Losers.
By DemDems4Ever
November 2, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this
Curious@9:47
What you actually achieve when birth control is limited is more non-Caucasian children. The birth rate in Caucasian families is below the replacement rate, or do you never research the nonsense you write?
Your obsession with “rednecks” is a clue to your insanity. Why do you live in Georgia? You hate all native Georgians; at least what you write would indicate such.
You constantly refer to ignorance and racism, yet the data would indicate Boston is the most racist and ignorant city, along with the whole state. The worst riots during school busing were in Boston, and the state continues to send a fat drunken, lecherous, fool to the Senate along with an idiot who had a lower grade point average than “W” at Yale.
You should move to Massachusetts where you could live with other ignorant liberals and possibly enlighten the whole state.
By Redneck Convert
November 2, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this
Well, I’m sorry to be late, but I just got out of jail. There was a big fight up at Billy Bob’s last night. Some pinhead come in and said we all ought to vote for this Hillary woman on account of she would make the rich people pay more taxes and let us pay less. It was too much for Joe Bill and he took a swing at the guy and when he swung back we all piled on. The cops come and arrested us all for disturbing the peace and they also charged me with being drunk in public even though I only had a dozen or so. Anyway, the missus finally come and bailed me out so here I am.
I’m against giving birth control to kids. If you do that they will go and do You Know What. If you don’t they won’t. And if they do anyway they will be stuck with a baby and have to raise it on account of we ain’t going to stand for abortion. So that will fix them and then all we have to do is fight against Peachcare and other welfare programs that help them go against Gods Will.
I’m real sorry to hear about any person dying, especially a godly conservative. Course, I wouldn’t be too tore up if a Sharpton, Kennedy or Jackson keeled over. That would mean God is taking care of some of the godless libruls for us.
Tell Wooten his buddy better not walk thru Forsyth County looking like the Hillary woman. The police would have to come and arrest every resident in the county for Justifyable Homacide. There wouldn’t be nothing left of Wootens buddy. This is GA, not some yankee state.
Well, I’m late making my deliverys on account of getting out of jail late and all, so I got no more time for this blog. Have a good weekend everybody.
By Shar
November 2, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this
Truthifier@10:30 - All true, but I believe that the concern about waterboarding is a stand-in for the broader issues of secret authorizations, interpretations that step beyond precedent and, most of all, the willingness of an Attorney General to deny a President access to legal cover for extraordinary means if the AG believes those means are not constitutional. The tenure of Alberto Gonzales and the illegal politicization of the Justice Department’s staff and function, as well as the President’s predilection for pushing the constitutional envelope and insistence on secrecy, makes it imperative that the Senate do all it can to insure that the new AG will in fact be the American people’s chief law enforcement officer, not the President’s. Mr. Mukasey’s reticence on the specific practice of waterboarding, while still claiming that torture is illegal, raises doubts about his independence.
By Truthifier
November 2, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this
I agree with you Shar, but was just responding to claims by some (like the President) somehow blaming Congress for Judge Mukasey’s inability to answer a simple question. If waterboarding is ok then say so. If it is something the US is ashamed of doing — then we should not be doing it.
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this
Oh my goodness,
Seventeen middle age children are PREGNANT and it is a problem for the PTA and the school nurse? Are these not underage children subject to sexual activity? Why not call this the Generlow Generation?
Parents of these children should be called before Juvenile Court for lack of direction in their children’s lives. They should be held accountable for letting their young grow up like puppies in the wild. This is civilization, not the jungle. PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE.
There should be an investigation of any underage child who is pregnant. “Having fun” does not excuse anything and having babies at the age of 12 or 13 is not fun or healthy.
By Jack
November 2, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this
Do we really care about the bulldogs?
By The Way Republicans Govern
November 2, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this
The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children’s furniture industries and others they regulate, according to internal records obtained by The Washington Post.
Some of the trips were sponsored by lobbying groups and lawyers representing the makers of products linked to consumer hazards.
The records document nearly 30 trips since 2002 by the agency’s acting chairman, Nancy Nord, and the previous chairman, Hal Stratton, that were paid for in full or in part by trade associations.
The airfares, hotels and meals totaled nearly $60,000, and the destinations included China, Spain, San Francisco, New Orleans and a golf resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C.
Notable among the trips — commonly described by officials as “gift travel” — was an 11-day visit to China and Hong Kong in 2004 by Stratton, then chairman. The $11,000 trip was paid for by the American Fireworks Standards Laboratory, an industry group based in an office suite in Bethesda whose only laboratories are in Asia.
The CPSC says that at the time, the group had no pending regulatory requests. But since then the fireworks group has urged the commission to adopt its safety standards, an idea that is still pending, according to an organization newsletter.
The agency’s travel patterns during the Bush administration, detailed in internal agency documents, differ from those of the Clinton era. Ann Brown, who served as chairman from 1994 to 2001, traveled only at the expense of the agency or of media organizations that sponsored appearances where she announced product recalls, according to the documents.
“We hated to have an industry pay for our staff for anything,” said Pam Gilbert, a lawyer who was executive director of the agency under Brown.
Typical Bush Government…….
By deegee
November 2, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this
Shar, I agree with your point concerning the dedicated teachers and volunteers. I don’t mean to give them short shrift. But, the principal is a good, creative head coach and has motivated her team to use their talent to succeed. I think that the teachers and volunteers at Mimosa are no different than most other people you will find in a school district. What sets them apart is that they are motivated by a good leader. Mimosa’s principal may be unusually creative and that isn’t something that you can duplicate easily. However, she has a plan and I think that you can tailor and implement a plan that works.
By tiem for the harsh but fair truth
November 2, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Waterboarding of cowardly racist anti-western terrorist towelheads and their sullen leftist surrender monkey enablers should be made COMPULSORY!! Indeed the FBI/CIA and others should actually seek corporate sponsorship and allow memebers of the public to particapte on waterboarding days! Every treasonous member and contributor to worthless, sick, hate America hate groups like moveyourbowels.org, butch pinKKKodikes, the DNC etc should be water boarded as a national duty and pleasure!! Any accidental or even (nudge nudge) non-accidental …smirk drownings should be eligible for a Congressional Medal of Freedom ceremony.
The hate pig pervert peeping tom should as a matter of northern scum decency really stick to stalking self absorbed yanKKKee teen queers who’ve come out as mincing queers in the mandatory queer high skool klubs in Nu Yaaawk City and abstain from endlessly puking up its obsessive sickening, bigoted vile knuckle dragging views of its genetic/intellectual betters in the south!! Better still, lets feed the sick pervert peeping tom to Hamas or Hizbollocks. They must need an extra bleating hermaphroditic nanny/billy goat to slit the throat of halal style for the end of rabiddam (gedditt???)!! YIKES … a nasty bloodcurdling image - but just a clever, witty way of conveying one’s natural contempt for such vile bigotry!!
It sure is fun wittily and amusingly mirroring back peeping tom’s UNPROVOKED vile hysterical, hypocritical bigoted hate!!
These 5 millions pizzas recalled for suspected e-coli should be given as free food to grasping mexican type illegal leeches. that way we can ensure they wont be wasted!!
Why not get the real pathologically lying perjuring HiTllarydyke to arrogantly flounce its blubbery cellulite thru Cherokee County alone on a moonless real foggy autumn night. But first put out a county wide - for legally drunk ONLY hunters - big foot/zombie alert with a $10 million reward - dead or (if not possible otherwise) alive for said creature!!
DAMN THAT WAS QUITE A FUNNY JOKE!!! Almost as funny as despicably wishing Tony Snow dies of cancer as A NUMBER OF psychotic vile hateful leftist scum did a while back - OOOPs - these leftist vermin weren’t joking though!! My bad!!
Lets hope the anally self absorbed, mercilessly UNFUNNY aborted foreskin truly enjoys that wee bit of purely harmeless banter designed to mercilessly goad it into another sublime MoRoNiC hissy fit -one more time!!
Only two (presumably blacks) - as usual the pandering Urinal wont say -were killed in a S Fulton SWAT standoff last night … and a black wannabe actor from Atlanta was killed in LA … and (judging from the victims name/locale) a black man was shot in the leg last night outside an Atanta club … a black rapist (photofit/description) attacked a 14 yr old girl in Clayton County … plus a man was shot dead in a Gwinnett petrol station toilet -no word yet on the race of the victim/perp - but statistically its likely that at least one of them was black.
SO NO BLACK CRIME WAVE IN ATLANTA THEN FOLKS!! These are just a few of the stories I found from today’s (online) Urinal paper!!
By Shar
November 2, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this
Dusty@11:13 - The general agreement with your contention that “having babies at the age of 12 or 13 is not fun or healthy” is the reason for the survey participants’ support, however reluctantly, for distribution of contraceptives in middle school.
And yes, parents are responsible for teaching, mentoring and overseeing their children. Unfortunately, some parents choose not to do so, or have beliefs that allow this kind of behavior. My older daughter was relentlessly pursued by a boy in fifth grade who, having been held back in accordance with the ban on “social promotion”, tried to talk her into having sex. He was expelled, but returned the next year (my daughter was gone) and by seventh grade his mother was proudly bringing a baby he’d fathered on his cousin to school for show and tell.
An unintended side effect of the “gateway grades” in third, fifth and eighth means that students who repeatedly fail and are held back are significantly older and more sexually mature than their classmates. And this generation is by no means the first to become sexually active far too early. Since efforts to legislate morality nearly always fail, the best that can be done is to protect the child, and society in general, from the most likely consequence of their behavior.
By Southern Born
November 2, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
from The Way Republicans Govern: “Typical Bush Government……”
Wrong.
Typical government of any stripe.
It continues to amaze me how the partisan vitriol, here and elsewhere, obscures the fact that there is barely a hair’s-breadth difference between politicians of either party.
They are all power-hungry, corrupt, self-absorbed megalomaniacs who will say anything and spend limitless amounts of other people’s money just to ensure they remain in power. And rest assured, they are all having a good laugh together at our expense as we fight amongst ourselves.
Makes the charges of “corporatism” ring true, as government has become Government, Inc.
Call me a Luddite, but I would love to see term limits across the board for every office, from county dog catcher to POTUS, as a means of eliminating professional, career politicians.
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
Shar@11:40
Are you so naive as to believe any underage boy begging for sex or focing it will stop for the moment and use contraceptives? That all girls should use birth control measure so they can have “fun”?
I’m sorry but PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE. Until responsibility is taught at home, the schools don’t have a chance. If you want better results with child protection, start with the parents. Otherwise you are excusing promiscuity with prophalactics which do not give 100% protection from pregnancy or STDs.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this
Dennis,
I promised to give you an informed position on water boarding. I didn’t get waterboarded last night, but I did call a friend on the West Coast who’s in the Navy and has seen some $hit. He all but laughed off my question, which was a little embarrassing, in part because I misunderstood what water boarding is. I’d thought it involved submerging the head of a captive lashed to a flat surface. Evidently it doesn’t involve emersion, but something that, to me, is scarier: pouring water over the mouth and nostrils of the captive to simulate drowning. In other words, to convince the subject that he or she is dying, when in fact the process would not even qualify as a near-death experience, except in a possibly crucial psychological sense.
My friend’s bottom line is that he himself has been waterboarded, as part of his training at Coronado. Presumably jbm’s Ensign also has experienced this, if he’s undergone the rigorous SERE training in Maine. (Not to drag either of you into this, jbm.) My Navy friend says that to him it’s “the same as cops tazing each other for practice”, and he said “I’d be p** off” if the method were not kept in our arsenal unless there are better methods of interrogation. Administering interrogation is not (to my knowledge) his job, but he did say that he believes that the U.S. almost always has better ways of securing information from a captive than resort to water boarding.
So, here’s where I stand as of today. On the old principle that “you can’t be holier than the Pope”, I refuse to presume to oppose water boarding in any circumstances in which national security or the safety of our armed forces is reasonably thought be in exigent peril. Should Congress or the military or the Commander in Chief come to proscribe the practice, then I can assure you that I will be duly outraged by any violation committed in the name of this country.
By Jack
November 2, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this
We shouldn’t waterboard. We should pull their fingernails out one at a time until they talk. If that doesn’t work there are always the toes. Sounds harsh but how many heads have they cut off?
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this
Glenn @ 12:15
Would you use another word for “proscribe”. I know. “pro”=for. “Scribe”=write
Do you mean, if they don’t write if down it should pass or something?
I like your approach. I am just trying (like the judge) to see if I got it right.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this
Well, Marshal, I could use “prohibit”, but then indeed what is the “it” we are prohibbing, and why are we for hibbing in the first place? I mean, it sounds very negative to be “anti-hib”, and I don’t see anything constructive in being negative. After all, we don’t have to be against anything to be open to anything and respectful of anyone else’s anything. The essence is in the thingness of the thing. It’s like Heidegger said. And he was a Nazi, but how can we judge such “things” from this time and place? Being a Nazi and running all the Jews out of the professoriat of Freiburg University were his choices, and while we may have made other choices, we’ll never really be able to know. All we know is that his choices are as valid as ours. And so I respect his choices. Choice is the opposite of “prohibit”, you know.
By Shar
November 2, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this
Southern Born@11:53 - While I sadly agree that both political parties are hugely at fault for the corrupt, wasteful and self-interested government we are burdened with, I just don’t feel comfortable with term limits. What about those politicians who get better with experience, who can put self-interest behind public weal? Term limits seem too absolute to me, and too likely to throw the baby out with the bathwater. How about drastic restructuring of the electoral system, to mitigate the incumbency advantage, lessen the cost and limit expenditures to encourage wider participation?
Dusty@11:53, I’d have to modify your statement that parents should be responsible. Unfortunately, they sometimes aren’t. And making parents of 12 year olds compounds the problem. I think that a sexually active child, male or female, is more likely to use contraceptives if they are readily available than if they have to buy them on their own. Contraceptives may not be 100% effective, but they are close, and they are a much better alternative than another pregnant 12 year old, infected middle schooler or unwanted baby on the public welfare system.
You are absolutely right - parental mentoring and responsibility are crucial, and without them schools are left to defend against bad behavior instead of being able to magnify good. That’s the case in academics, in discipline, in nutrition, and in any other area where the school has been forced to compensate for parental disengagement. Sexual behavior may be a particularly uncomfortable extension of this pattern, but it is consistent with the role that has been imposed upon schools - to try to avoid the destructive long-term consequences of irresponsible and unchecked teenage actions.
By Bet you didn't know:
November 2, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this
Josh Lanier enlisted in the Army on his 18th birthday in 1970, and served with the 509th Radio Reseach Group in Viet Nam, where he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal, several distinguished Unit Citations, and a Top Secret/Crypto security clearance.
Now you do! Thank you for your service, Mr. Lanier!
By Curious Observer
November 2, 2007 1:47 PM | Link to this
What a moronic solution to the waterboarding problem the Republican talking points present: have Congress simply outlaw it!
The neanderthals know good and well that the Republicans will never allow the veto-proof majority to form, and they also know that Dubya would veto such a measure.
I also love to see the intellectually deficient idiots on this blog describe waterboarding as some kind of anti-terrorist weapon in our arsenal. Hey, dick-wad, torture is torture. But then, a party that adheres to the view that the provisions of the Geneva Convention are “quaint” can’t be expected to understand that.
I look forward to the day that Dubya and his minions are brought up on war crimes charges. Until then, it is indeed better to have no attorney general at all than to have one who blatantly claims that whether something is torture depends upon the context—sort of a Republican version of “it depends upon what the meaning of is is.”
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this
Glenn @12:42
Festus, you have shot me down in a maelstrom of mellifluous magnificence. How can I survive under such overpowering obligations of the omnipotent? But…
May I humbly ask: Are you saying it is OK to sit on the fence and propose neither yes nor no but maybe?
Fire away, dear Festus. I am NOW wearing my bullet proof vest (not to mention my “long handles”.)
By jbmlaw
November 2, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this
Dear Curious @ 1:47, while I think you are way off-base on waterboarding, and while I want to sling allegations of BDS due to your OTT language, the fact is you make a singular, shining, totally-valid point. We ought not have to “outlaw” everything. I am disgusted by those who would criminalize every political dispute. I think there is no room for Congressional input into the torture/non-torture debate. If Congress determines it needs to speak on the issue, they can withhold funds; of course, the Executive should then make its case in favor of “harsh questioning.” That is a matter with a political solution only. The moonbats who wish to play patty-cake only with head choppers certainly should make their point at the ballot box; the rational people need to answer.
By jbmlaw
November 2, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this
Dear Bet @ 12:49, while I also thank Mr. Lanier for his service, I will be voting for Mr. Chambliss next year. We need more justices like Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas, and fewer like Ginsburg and Breyer; Mr. Lanier would frustrate that greater need.
By getalife‹
November 2, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this
Not only are the gop backing illegal torture but will fight contempt charges on w’s losers.
Lets face it, the gop do not believe in the rule of law and the Constitution.
This is an unAmerican, unpatriotic, soft on crime loser, position.
Good little german losers.
By getalife‹
November 2, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this
“Article 3: Contempt of Congress.
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of the President of the United States, and to the best of his ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, had failed without lawful cause or excuse, to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas issued by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, on April 11, 1974, May 15, 1974, May 30, 1974, and June 24, 1974, and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas. The subpoenaed papers and things were deemed necessary by the Committee in order to resolve by direct evidence fundamental, factual questions relating to Presidential direction, knowledge or approval of actions demonstrated by other evidence to be substantial grounds for impeachment of the President. In refusing to produce these papers and things, Richard M. Nixon, substituting his judgement as to what materials were necessary for the inquiry, interposed the powers of the Presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, thereby assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested by Constitution in the House of Representatives.
In all this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial and removal from office.
(Approved 21-17 by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, July 30, 1974.)”
Run it and make him resign in disgrace.
Geez.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this
Skip to the next posting, y’all, if you’re not in the mood for a bit of a ramble, because I’m going to take some liberties here.
When I finished reading Jim’s column this morning, as strange as it may sound I felt certain that I had just read something I’ll remember for the rest of my life. Truly, this happened. It was his final sentence: “When schools are parents, parents should be schools.”
Probably it’s just little old idiosyncratic me, but that sentence hit me in the head like the TV bout with Yogi’s spoonerisms did to our friend the Aflac duck. “What in hell” asked I, “is he thinking?” It seemed that the more I tried to understand Jim’s aphorism du jour, the stranger and more inscrutable it got.
Trust me, there is no ostensible meaning, and no contextual meaning, that can explain this bizarre aphorism. Jim makes it clear today, as on many days, that he wants parents in control of their children’s education. We get that. And today he says that he further advocates greater parental involvement in schools and school board doings. Fine. That’s respectable enough, although some would disagree with the second objective of Jim’s advocacy because it assumes the desirability of both a delivery system and of that system’s governance structure. But let’s ignore those assumptions for the time being because they are so commonly made, especially by people unaccustomed to questioning things, that they are mundane. So, that leaves us contextually with parents running education and parents in schools and on school boards. The two do not naturally cohere, but if Jim wants them both, that’s his business. It’s his column.
But what does the aphorism have to do with Jim’s program of parental empowerment? Please look at it again: “When schools are parents, parents should be schools.” (Kindly try not to laugh while shaving Mr. Berra.) OK, if we deadpan it, we get the nice grammatical fulcrum of the repetition divided by the comma. That fulcrum emphasises that it’s centrally supposed to be about parents. But what about parents? And as long as we’re looking at sentence structure, why the non-parallelism of the first phrase versus the second, an ontological claim matched to a prescriptive one? Should parents be schools only when schools are parents, or should parents be schools in any event? Why doesn’t he say that schools should be parents? Is that something against homeschoolers? Is it because mere bricks and mortar don’t get to become fleshly mortals in Jim’s cosmology? Like I said, it gets weirder the more you try to construe it.
Pray tell me if you reach another conclusion, but I chalk it up to two things: the author’s entanglement in his own metaphors, and his obstinate refusal to question how many quintessentially liberal assumptions inform his professedly conservative education advocacy.
It’s this latter pathology which propels my fingers across the keyboard at this moment. Jim might as well have said, “If wishes were horses, beggars would pull them.” That’s how nonsensical his thinking is, and it’s a perfect example of the liberal Jabberwocky-of-the-mind that’s given us the school system and its appalling products, educators and students who can only gibber.
For the record: schools are not parents, and parents are not schools; and neither should be the other. If we must express the proper arrangement metaphorically, then we might say, for example, that a school is a kind of daily stagecoach into town; that children are its passengers, entrusted therein by parents who await their safe return and pay the fare; that school boards, chosen by parents for their trustworthiness, drive the stage from atop it; and that teachers are the draft horses that propel the thing. Sometimes a parent will ride with the children, to ensure a safe journey, and sometimes the parent will ride shotgun with the driver. But though they are the patrons of the enterprise, parents are not its immediate clients; those would be the passengers, the children. Does this make sense?
Jim is mistaking the stagecoach for its patrons, and vice versa. It seems that in his conception parents somehow are enobled by this. Meanwhile, the NEA would have the horses ride the stage. When they deign to take the yoke at all, they presume to enoble parents by proclaiming that “Parents are horses too!” (Horses sometimes can use the help.) Little wonder then, that amidst so much confusion not all the passengers make it into town, those who do are invariably injured, some of them from having been left dragging behind the stage.
Were parents to realize how feckless and criminally negligent is the enterprise, they might choose other forms of conveyance. Then, next time it’s best for the children to get something in town while the parents go elsewhere, perhaps the parents will learn where the child might have the thing closer to home, or perhaps the parents will find conveyances that are safer, faster, less expensive and more modern than a broken down, antique stagecoach.
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this
getalife 2:25
Give it up, will ya??
Don’t you know that every legal and liberal minded lawyer has already searched for something to pin on President Bush? And they came up with nothing but trumped up political posturing?
President Bush has done nothing illegal, improper or unconstitutional. No girlfriends, no secret tapes, no visits to the Grand Jury, no sudden “fortunate” investments, no guests in the Lincoln bedroom; just hard work and the making of tough decisions day after day.
You run in circles continuously looking for a bone. Go take a jump in Lake Ponchatrain and cool off.
By getalife‹
November 2, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this
Breaking:
Rice to Face Subpoena in Espionage Case
Really dusty?
Wow.
By getalife‹
November 2, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this
All that patriotic crap you spewed made you look like a tool, huh crusty the clown?
You and your ilk are unpatriotic and unAmerican.
Karma.
Loser.
By getalife‹
November 2, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this
“WASHINGTON - The Iraqi defector code-named “Curveball,” whose false tales of biological weapons labs bolstered the U.S. case for war, wasn’t the prominent chemical engineer he claimed to be and invented stories to help his case for asylum in Germany, a new report says.
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“Curveball” is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who did study chemical engineering but made poor grades and never managed a biological weapons facility, according to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which will broadcast on Sunday a report describing how Alwan became a secret intelligence source.”
That should be great stuff. You give it up gullible tool.
You have chosen the path of evil like a good little german.
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this
Poor ol’ getalife,
Still running in circles…
facing subpoenas. trips tra la, weapons lab .. etc. etc. etc.
keep fiddling while liberals burn…
By Right with boys
November 2, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this
Keep the Thug GOP out of the (Men room) I mean whitehouse! The party that love boys!
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this
Glenn @ 2:44
Hmmm..I see that you have gone off like a comet in the night over Jim’s fireworks. Well, I tried dividing it up.
“When schools are parents”, i. e. when public schools start delving into the child’s religious education and influencing the child’s sex education, they are giving information that only parents should be imparting to their children. In other words, schools are acting like “parents”.
As to “parents should be school”, I assume that parents should be teaching their children what is right or wrong, where faith leads them, and the essential need for ethics, morals, and self control.
In fact, parents are the only “school/teachers” children have from the day they are born to their entrance into formal education. They learn from the parents just like they learn at school. Some parents even opt for formal education at home, hoping for better choices.
I believe Jim wants parents to be the main “teachers” and schools to be supplemental. The supplemental school, no matter how important, should not be the only “teacher/school” in a child’s young life.
By Political Foreskin
November 2, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this
All Bush did was to be grateful. Grateful to God that He was Chosen, The Chosen One to lead a nation during the Dominion Phase of the Earth’s Life Cycle. Bush actually believes, as does Wooten, that We, The People, have been given, by God, the Dominium over all animals and all other life forms on the Face of the Earth. Bush realized that by using his evangelical, and yes, lunatic-fringe spin, he could get himself into the White House. They actually have his epiphany on a video tape, complete with facial expression about his Big Clue when he gave a speech to a christian audience that rocked the house. All he had to do was confess his sins to christians and he would sail in the polls. He realized then, that by claiming to be born again, you can rule the polls, and your election is certain. We are a christian nation, and even though the Founding Fathers made it quite clear that religion was NOT to be included into our constitution, their poetic vestige of Vatican Ventriloquism stains the purity of liberty. (“endowed by their creator with certain inalienable right”? No! Wrong, Thomas Jefferson, how dare you? WE are endowed with certain inalienable rights by virtue of our birth as human beings. Not by God, not by Mother Nature, but by ourselves-as-human-beings.
None of us asked to be born. We happened. We’re here + we’re queer…. and straight…. and by choice, most of us aren’t intereted in sex at all, except with ourselves. Thank you, Pop Up Goat Porn Ads). (morons)
It’s time we took our country back. Yes, that’s true, but more relevent, it’s time we took our Human Tribe back.
The USA was founded principally as a safe haven for corporations who spun royal-impulse about revenue-sources into a Revolution. Our Wonderful Revolution. Great! Now we can make some real money. But the human indifference to human suffering remains the same. People suffer. People fall through the cracks. People are abused and used and confused.
What does it matter to us, as The People for Whom our government was created, whether we pay taxes to an English King or an American Born King? It’s all good. It’s all taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Cheney is bored by the notion that he represents The People. Cheney falls asleep during proposed People Problems.
‘muff said.
I propose myself as a candidate for president. My mission, should you all decide to accept it, is to give the power back into the hands of you, all of you, the people. When I accomplish this, I’ll be assassinated, like Lincoln, by the Corporate Interests that formed our Country in 1776. Yes, folks, it’s the same people, generations removed, but the same names. The same DNA. How about a little political forensics? How about: “The Liberty Bell, CSI”?
‘muff said.
By jbmlaw
November 2, 2007 5:20 PM | Link to this
Dear Glenn @ 2:44, I read it the same way as Dusty @ 4:19. Just a simple phrase - not every statement in life requires legal parsing. If you strain to hard to find hidden meaning in simple ideas, you may turn into a moonbat; we need you on our side. Have a great weekend.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this
Po Fo!
Touche!
[Rudy 08]
By Political Foreskin
November 2, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this
God, that was good. I mean, who am I?
I came at a very critical point in human history. I spot flaws. I see where slight deviations from truth, justified by art, can rip us apart. I see the intrinsic core of cruelty. We are very cruel creatures. We make evil like the bees in the bee movie make honey.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 5:35 PM | Link to this
Marshal, I was of course doing a parody of your exegetical close-reading of my perfectly apt use of the word “proscribe”, and I threw in a bunch of moral-relativistic pap just for good measure. Not serious at all. I thought you were spoofing somebody else.
As for water boarding, I thought I made it clear that what I understand as the current preconditions for its use by the U.S. are fine with me. “Our” having used the technique on occasion does not disturb me in the least. If a judicious authority, i.e. a military panel or a presidential commission or a dedicated select committee of congress, wishes to investigate the technique and its pros and cons, and then concludes that the method should not be used, then of course I will respect that authority and not the authority of some Bush-deranged sophomores with high-speed Internet. Is there anything unclear about this?
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this
jbm, you know very well that you cannot explain the meaning of that phrase or how it wound up in Jim’s published writing. No one here can explain it. Any more than anyone here can explain what the structure of schooling is, or why it exists or why its outcomes are demonstrably horrific. It’s all b******, and now Wooten is in the BS biz too.
By Political Foreskin
November 2, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this
I mean, I must bee like the worker bee that didn’t know he wasn’t the queen bee, or something, not that there’s anything wrong with being the queen bee….I’m just sorry that there aint no king bee, because let’s all face it: the queen bee’s a slut! (and I liked it!)
‘muff said.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this
Curious Observer,
You’re so schooled up you can’t think straight. Name the crime or crimes, Bozo. Don’t CHARACTERIZE them, NAME THEM!
Is tazing someone a crime, you fool, or does it “depend on the context”?
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
I’m sorry, but your vision — and Jim’s — is dystopian as Hell. That’s precisely my point. I just chose to put it politely by parsing this gibberish with a close reading.
Schools (unless you mean schools of thought) are not people; they are a means. People are NOT a means, but rather that for which means exist.
This very precisely puts the finger on the button of what liberalism is, and explains why its results are so hellish.
I hope this doesn’t baffle you as it does jbm and PoFo, whose opinions I respect as much as I do yours. Wooten really let the cat out of bag with that one. I thought jbm or someone would respond with a recitation of in loco parentis doctrine, which Wooten turns flippantly on its head, but instead we get the lame excuse that it is a colloquialism (it’s not) or a slip of the quill. BS.
Educators do far more damage to this country than President Bush has done, and they’ve been doing it for 75 years. It’s time to get the hook. To do otherwise is just whistlin’ past the graveyard, which is what Wooten is doing with his hat abreast.
By Political Foreskin
November 2, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this
I’ll tell you what Jim Wooten meant. Glenn’s confusion stems from any reader’s confusion. Jim Wooten committed unforgivable syntactical errors. Look at this sentence, and see why Glenn felt so motivated to write a unibomber style manifesto complaining about it: “Questions such as this are one reason why parents should be in schools and why school counsils, with heavy parental representation, should control them”
I have no idea who “them” is. or what Jim Wooten was trying to say when I read that sentence, but, when I read the succeeding sentence, “When schools are parents, parents should be schools”, I knew exactly what Jim Wooten was saying.
And here it is, translated from the greek: “All children should be homeschooled, even if they ride the bus.”
‘muff said.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this
My God, Po Fo, I didn’t think you’d stray from parody to ad hominem. Not you.
By deegee
November 2, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this
Glenn, I don’t disagree with what you are saying but I think that you may have over-analyzed JW’s statement. He is a marketing maven and he likes to end his opinions with a hookline to get the bull rolling. I don’t think that his statement about schools and parents was intended to be any more profound than, “it’s two scoops of raisins, not one.”
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this
That’s much of my point, Dusty. He didn’t mean it with any great intention, he merely tuned into the liberal frequency and picked up all the chatter in the air.
The chatter, the liberal gibberish that is the honey produced in Po Fo’s educational honeycombed hive, is encompassing the undoing of the United States. When you consider that children are involved, it’s an immediate tragedy, not one which can be perceived only by some visionary self-appointed theorist of history such as Marx or Weber or some such a$$. It’s more like a job for a firefighter, really.
On education Jim consistently talks libberish when he thinks he’s talking like a conservative. He’s a cross-dresser in self-denial. Obviously I chose today’s nonsense verse as illustrative.
That’s all. But nothing less either.
By Glenn
November 2, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this
Great. Effing great. Now I’m getting compared to the Unibomber, who blew off the head of my friend Gil Murray, by one of the best writers in Georgia.
Effing great.
By Dusty
November 2, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this
Ah Glenn 5:35
You led me up Cemetery Hill and I fell over in an exegetical fit of failure and fatigue. Forgive me! I know not what I do in exegesis, not to mention excursus.
But, I am ready once again to join the mighty fight, whatever it is. And so, until tomorrow, at the OK Corral, I remain your gunshoot’n compatriot. Hi yo, Silver…..