Thinking Right

By TW

November 22, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten - on a day of Thanks, when many of our soldier families are without their loved ones, you’ve just complained about your taxes at least five times. Shame.

By ron

November 23, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

Any person that only complains about his/her tax five times a day is shirking his/her duty.It’s the complainers that keep the tax under control.30 days in the electric chair for anyone caught using more than 300 gallons of water daily.Floggings for anyone having a green lawn.Have a good turkey day,Jim? I’ll go along with the lottery paying for education.It’s a better use for the money than most states get.Shove it in the old general fund ,you know.

By Redneck Convert

November 23, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

Well, I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving and is well fed up and was agreeably drunk.

I’m with jbmlaw on all this stuff. No tax increases. No federal guvmint. If people don’t want to be poisoned or doctored on what we pay in state taxes, let them move to another state. Don’t get the feds envolved in checking food or water. The only reason the feds should step in is because of war or something like that.

But I say let Those People keep on buying lottery tickets. The more they buy, the less taxes I have to pay the state. Anyway, I shouldn’t have to pay taxes for somebody elses schooling. I didn’t do You Know What and make kids, so why should I have to pay for their schooling? Let Those People keep buying lottery tickets to pay for it. All they do is lay around and collect welfare and make babies and squall oncet in a while about photo ID and such.

And guvmint should stay out of where developers decide to build stuff. If a place gets too crowded because of condos and shopping centers and such, people can just move away from it and take up roots someplace else.

Well, its football watching for me today. I got the day off. I’ll be checking on this blog oncet in a while, and I hope those kids don’t start more writing about what group you never heard of was holding a concert at such and such and how they was at it. There ain’t been no decent music since Homer and Jethro passed on, and that’s a fact. The greatest song ever wrote was I’m My Own Grandpa. Have a good day everybody.

By Einstein

November 23, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Hey everbody! Over here! Come and listen! Wooten’s doing scrooge! He sounds just like him! It’s really uncanny!

He even invents an anonymous ghost-liberal who’ll demand some future entitlement not yet imagined! (A poltergay?)

Then he sluffs off all the social graces he inherited as a well-brought-up southern girl and blames a 10yr $2.7 trillion tax increase on congress instead of Valeria Plame’s antagonists. Just like Scrooge would do! He’s amazing!

This is no undigested piece of baloney, this is deeply held conviction! Read this and behold a sheer beauty: remove one unfounded bias and there would be diminishment; remove an entire set of bigoted prejudices and the whole pathology would collapse.

God bless us, everyone!

By catlady

November 23, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Well, Jesus must be on His way because I agree with a few things Mr. Wooten says! Get ready! If you are ready, get ready-er!

Redneck, now you are “exposed” for a wannabe redneck—it’s everbuddy, not everybody!

Where is Dusty? jbmlaw? the other thoughtful bloggers? Are they out shopping?

Me, I am giving gas gift cards this year. But they better cash em in quick!

By Just Nasty and Mean

November 23, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this

Somebody complaining about taxes 5 times a day doesn’t even come close to the inexhaustible number of new programs and excuses liberals create for taking more money from the working stiff to redistribute to others.

Thank God somebody has a forum for complaining about this unbounded pillaging and plunder by left wing do-gooders.

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

Einstein,

You shoulda called last night. Sheriff’s people had the whole joint wired for sound in hopes of getting your JA.B commercial on tape, you twisted physicist.

[Rudy 08]

By deegee

November 23, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

I want to know why the outrage over a proposed tax increase yet no one seems to be outraged over inflation? We are spending at least 10% more for food, gasoline, airfare, hotels and household items this year than we were last year. Whatever feel good tax relief you got under the Bush administration is a pittance compared to what we are paying for the lack of a comprehensive energy strategy.

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

Jim,

This column makes for a fun gambit, just as you expressly intend. I like the way it goes from ridiculous to sublime.

First bullet’s my fave, but runner-up is No. 5, an outstanding—and impressively lengthy—example of what I’ve come to call a Wootenism.

Lucky for me that you’re a good sport about these things: can you guess what a Wootenism is before someone else figures it out?

[Rudy 08]

P.S. And don’t offer some lame excuse, like, “I was up at the in-laws Sleeping the Body Triptophanic so I didn’t read the posts ‘til Saturday.” Ain’t buying it, Jim. May not be a Wootenism but still, no go. {See? That was your first hint.}

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

catlady @ 9:15, even if you were giving crisp bills, the way the dollar’s going they’d still have to cash ‘em quick.

You’re right, “everybody” aint no way tuh spail everbuddy, and not noways nohow is “everyone” seen in these parts neether.

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

Wooo Jim Wooten,

Them thar is fightin’ words:So far this year, Congress has enacted $98 million in tax increases while also passing a budget resolution that assumes approximately $2.7 trillion in tax increases over the next decade. That is not only unbelievable, it is horrifying.

Meanwhile, the Georgia legislature has to fight to keep “the money down”. Democrats may think our Republicans are Ebeneezer Scrooges (as you mentioned), but I will send those “Scrooges” a bunch of real turkeys (stuffed with election support) just for them if they fight those bandit libs in the legislature. Let’s get ready for the battle!!

By B. Frank

November 23, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

You mean to tell me there’s an idiot on this blog who’s wondering why the hell prices on things are up? Let’s see: we are using more corn for “alternative” fuels that liberals are all for; corn is used to feed animals that we consume; it takes 2/3 gallon of gas to produce 1 gallon of corn based biofuel; oil is traded on the international market and comprises 60% of the cost of a gallon of gas; oil globally is increasingly in demand, especially in China and India; we haven’t had a new oil refinery built in 30 years in part because guvment regulations are too expensive and complicated; we can’t drill on our own soil for oil and shale which can be converted to oil, where geologists say we could supply our own needs for the next 50 years to buy us time until we find real alternatives other than liberal pusswagons like the Prius - all to save some stupid worthless animals, as if we don’t have the technology today to drill cleanly; finally, Dems like Pelosi ran their big fat lying mouths that they would do something to help relieve the working class [as if only those who make $20-$70k “work” or something] who are hit hardest by rising gas prices, which affects the pricing of every single thing in a household from the kitchen pantry staples to the paper next to the toilet; the Europeans that the left love so much and say we must live like (ie: socialists) pay way more for gas and food and staples relative to household income than we do - we are living high on the hog for cheap. And yet, there are still idiots on this blog wondering why prices on things are going up, let alone have the nads to bich about it? Go live in another nation for a while - any nation, and then come back to the States and see how bad off we really are. What idiots.

By jbmlaw

November 23, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

Good morning all, trust your holiday was joyful. I am unable to distinguish the dynamic on the Kwanza Rube Golderg plan to keep property values from rising in Atlanta and the creation of special tax districts in DeKalb. Sounds like both have the intention of political discrimination, to corrupt free markets, and benefit specific politically-favored individuals. I am now persuaded the path to riches is to sell to government some overpriced good or service that benefits “the pitiful.”

I am always in favor of lotteries, and believe all government services should be so-funded. Suckers.

Poor Phil Kent. Surely the Emory promises remind him of Lucy and the football.

On Grady, let’s sell the hospital to an LLC (to be formed by the 250 leeches). Take back a note for 100% financing with personal guaranties by the 250, 30 year payout – nevermind, sounds too much like a sub-prime mortgage.

Typical democrat Congress – just when you thought nobody’s profligate spending could outstrip faux-conservative George Bush, they redeem his reputation. Should have expected that, though – these are the same democrats who proclaimed the war in Iraq “lost.” Of course, they support the troops, and will celebrate the victory, now that it appears to be won. Just think of that argument as jbmlaw humor.

By jbmlaw

November 23, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Dear deegee @ 9:38, I suspect most of us complain about government theft because when we buy gasoline, or food, or airfare, or hotels, we get something for our money. Other than our noble military in Iraq, I see no production at all from government.

By time for the witty harsh truth

November 23, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Kwanza Hall that’s one of the most pathetic moronic dickferbrains names I’ve seen in years … LMFAO!! wot’s next??? … lardarse oprah, drive by tupac, tax cheat campbell, burn dem to death in Fredddies my bruthas sharptongue, thickasebonicspigshit conyers/waters, hypocritical racist hustler jackasson, snakehairbitch jackson-pee, I butcha ma dogs wiffout mercy vick, my freezer’s chock full of bribe money jefferson, whacko i’m truly an innocent jesus juice drinking child molestor jacko, calypso louis ALL jews are vermin farracrap, sullen lying racist black w hores for lynching Duke athletes, jena 6 black racist lynch mob thugs, mine’s an illegal uzi downtown T.I., corah I’s shamelessly freeloadin offa ma skirt chasin’ dead hubbie’s name king, bloods hate crips, crips hate bloods, sinthia unhinged jew hating mckinney … and on and on and on and on and on …

the hysterically funny shamelessly imbecilic, often racially ludicrous names that so many dim witted bigoted blacks gleefully perpetrate is a constant source of rib tickling entertainment for the rest of us.

latoyota is one of my all time favourites!!

By jbmlaw

November 23, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

Dear TFTT @ 10:47, did you read Freakonomics? Last chapter, on names, is hilarious in spots.

By TinyTim

November 23, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

God bless us, everyone!

By time for the witty harsh truth

November 23, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

jbm

The socioeconomic patterns of naming children is something I’ve alas never studied formally. But the hippety hop dominated crime pages and the shameless racebaiting and pandering of the Urinal enures I gets (sic) to see enuff to keep me suitably amused most days. Not read Freakonomics - I naturally assume that’s a Soros/Pelosibitch collaboration?

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Greetins, jbm. Do you find Jim’s first bullet a worthy entre into a description of the strange process by which government benefits over time become entitlements? Eeteezuh ripe foruh zee satire, non?

Hi Dusty. What makes you better with metaphors than Jim is?

Jim, that was Hint No. 2.

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw@ 10:40

Lucy? Lucy? I had to stop and think before Schultz’ mean little darling came to mind. Yep! Phil Kent maybe get the football snatched from him but Emory is letting the air out of it NOW (at least I think so).

By .

November 23, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

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By Einstein

November 23, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

No, Dusty, jbmlaw was refering to Lucy, the 3.7 million year old fossilized ancestor of man who serves as the mitochondrial missing-link between pre-cambian and post-metazoic mammalian evolution. They did find a fossilized football with the ancient bones, which means that the cheerleader-eligible play is far, far older than anthropologists thought.

By jbmlaw

November 23, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Good morning Glenn, I’m not working today, a rare day off. Something ticks in the back of my mind, some association between Progressive and leftist seed money, but have not been able to look it up. To your question, the Progressive program is a silly hype, much like the plethora of “accidental death” scams, which have a near-zero payout rate. My guess is that Jim Wooten simply sought an eye-catching silly idea to stretch into an argument on the birth of government-enforced bad ideas, i.e., that he knew what he wanted to write about before he found a way to get there. I do that all of the time.

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

tftt,

Under the American slavery system the husbandry of humans was logged in the farm journals right along with crop yields and infestations and profits, etc.

Children bought at auction or born on a farm or plantation were, of course, usually given the surname—if any—of their owners, or else of the biological parent whose surname originally was imposed by an owner.

It was not uncommon for spiteful owners to mock their chattels’ lack of learning by giving slaves highfalutin and usually classical-sounding names which were, in fact, intended as clever linguistic brands. Hence, Diptheria Smith, Urina Jones, etc. The men sometimes were named for the most deplorable Biblical villains.

Now that the great grandchildren of Freedmen control their own destinies, they are quite capable of doing the half-clever branding themselves.

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

Einstein @ 11:27

I have a bone to pick with you. jbmlaw was not playing like a Leakey. Lucy in all her African bits and pieces of earlier fashions did not play football. She claimed it was a game with gender-preference and would not participate. That is how she ended up in little pieces except for a jaw bone in the desert.

Or was that the jawbone of an a*? Nope, that’s another story. Perhaps jbmlaw will remove all doubt from the Lucy story. In the meantime, I’m playing kicker for a quick goal in this game.

Glenn@11:07

Better than Wooten on metaphors!! Never!! But my heart thrills (like Wordsworth’s daffodils) at your compliment.But…if you work for a news-production hiring the metaphorically-inclined, give me a call. I’ll come cheaper than Glavine…say $6 million or so. I’m waiting….

By Einstein

November 23, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Wrong, jbmlaw, wooten was referring to the entitlements possibly due to liberal fish after the feds drain all the water out of lake lanier to satisfy corporate mussel interests. Notice that wooten singled out goldfish, (obviously a scaled-down brokeback reference), and guppies, (welfare cheats), thus tying his entire blog together with the proposed inclusion of water wasting as a hatecrime. A brilliant gambit, well-executed and the beginning of the end of Hillary’s campaign.

Oh, the gloves are off at the wooten blog.

By Tiny Tim

November 23, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Glenn’s surname, Chin, came from his own immediate ancestry’s profession too……ew……if fact they even named their dogs RinTinChin.

bwa

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

jbm @ 11:28,

I do it all the time too, obviously. It’s just breathtaking, how long the list of “eye-catching, silly ideas” promulgated by vote-buying worldsavers into social services that accrue a kind of legitimation and dependence necessary to parlay them into an entitlement that qualifies perversely as a Constitutional property right, which cannot be withheld without due process of law!

It’s this phenomenon which I find so ripe for satire. Certainly Twain would have had a field day with it!

[Rudy&Out]

By jbmlaw

November 23, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

Dear Glenn @ 12:02, sorry I am slow on the uptake, agreed now that I see your argument. This is purely a phenomenon of leftism - those who defend the goodness of Leviathan must constantly search to find new needs to fill, otherwise the rabble will rebel.

By Einstein

November 23, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

Dusty, your argument is exactly what I would expect from a Neanderthal, or Cromagnon Ma’am, neither of which ever made any cheerleading squad.

What’s the matter, Dusty, green with envy like Luckovich’s Hulk?

By time for the witty harsh truth

November 23, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

Glenn

as all normal folks would instantly agree, only a sick KKK like hatepig would ever condone slavery, and ‘revel’ in its bestial evil ‘fallout’.

I was quite aware of the tendency of slave owners to disgustingly mock and sneer at their “property”. But the modern day ludicrous and gleeful adoption by many blacks of such moronic idiotic ‘self inflicted deformation of character’ names, without even the merest hint of irony is one of the great wonders of the hippety hop thug and sluttish ho filled world.

Such endemic ignorance and manic obliviousness to the often bigoted/vainglorious/effnic insistence on being utterly U-nique is now as ubiquitous as the hostile and uber aggressive illegal gun toting black yoofs/thugs/felons and mouthy aggressive black ho’s with their 70% black b astards from numerous dead beat fathers who assiduously leech off the public purse with all the attentiveness of an oprah like hog to its (cordon bleu) swill bucket.

Its kind a fun not always being succinct :)

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Einstein @12:07

Just because you won on the show “Can you think better than a fifth grader?” does not mean you are a winner here. In fact, I believe you are a bit confused on your blogs.

This is Thinking Right and you are thinking left. Secure your steroids. Your phony “scholar” approach could use some muscle.

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

tftt!

I know you were, and I was riffing on your licks. I was trying to say as archly as possible something that, like most naturists, doesn’t work as well unadorned: that many black parents have, in declaring their proud ethnic independence, invented a new slavery, a new brand.

It seems to me that you are saying the same thing in part. I just couldn’t resist explicitly drawing the parallel to the shocking economy of slave-naming.

I happen never to have known the name of, much less met, a contemporary who explicitly condones slavery, though many, as for example the House Democrats, implicitly condone it with their inaction. My wife is in Kenya at the moment. Should I go there I would like to meet someone—perhaps someone fleeing the Horn to the eastern continent—who actually does openly condone it. It would be a fascinating study in evil, as Arendt or Erikson or any Theodician would view it who hadn’t yet done it.

I dig the line about not always being so succinct.

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

jbm,

I was taught, and I learned, to view Hobbes as a prudent person might view Marx: as diagnostician, brilliant; as physician, quack.

By deegee

November 23, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

B.FRANK thinks that if we could just drill for more oil on our soil then the oil companies would keep it in a lockbox for B.FRANK and avoid the temptation to sell it on the open market for $100.00+ a barrel because they want the next 50 years to be different than the last 50 years.

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

What’s more, Dusty, he’s been calling my house late at night and impersonating that pervert who does voice-over for Jos. A. Bank. It’s very disturbing. You go, girl!

By Tiny Limb

November 23, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

Dusty, did you say Muscle? Dont you mean mussel, like the reason that seagull is stalking you when you walk along the beach? You’re better off debating Glenn Chin, who works hard and is named after his proud father and grandfather who started the company business, Grin+Chin.

tiny limb

By Peter

November 23, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

Wow what a concept…….MAKE UP A WAR…….spend untold Billions on it, and then we NEED a Tax increase…….

Wow who would have thought that Duhhhhhhh !

Gosh I wonder if any of the WRONGS know how to balance their check book!

Obviously Jim Whooten has NOT figured that one out !

Gee JIM NO complaints about the Made UP WAR, and that expense, I mean waste !

Funny little dig at the beginning again….. how are your Fish today Jim ?

Also Jim was so bright in putting down the Thrashers early this season…… where is his BIG MOUTH today, now they have turned things around and are currently playoff eligible ?

GREAT Job Jim….. Kick en when they are down…… Got to be a Republican thing I guess !

By Tiny Bimbo

November 23, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this

I hate tiny limb!

By Jackie

November 23, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Congress has enacted responsible tax increases to counter the damage done by Dubya and the lap-dog congress in place for his first 7 years. The borrowed and spent money like drunks with money they didn’t have and Dubya APPROVED all of it. Now that we are in this debt crisis where the USA is the WORLD’S GREATEST DEBTOR NATION, we have no flexibility to do anything but grin and bear it! The current Administration has robbed, cheated and stolen from all of us to the extent that each and every citizen of this country owes $20,000 to cover the debt incurred by these irresponsible miscreants. On top of that, we have spent $1.4 Trillion dollars on the Iraq occupation, with no Return On Investment! We have allowed these criminal White House to spy upon us, break the law at will and sit back and believe that everything done was in our best interest. Shame on us!!!!!!

By jbmlaw

November 23, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter and Jackie, so your solution is to increase non-productive spending. How democrat!

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 1:12 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

He’s cheeky, yes? Especially for a guy who prefers bivalves to biceps. Inadvisable, I’m sure you’ll agree, for a physical scientist to have the cheek to dabble in the life sciences as he’s been doing. What else can we do, but to just point out with a grin that he’s a cheeky chinless physicist pervert who wants a job playing guchy-guchy-goo with the hallux infans of Joseph A. Bank?

By Jackie

November 23, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

@jbmlaw

How Republican and neo-con of you to believe that spending in a responsible way is not beneficial. Should we only spend money for the national defense? If so, why have YOU not complained about money spent by your Congressional compatriots to get us into this financial pickle? If it were left up to you, we should not spend money on schools, roads, safety, airports, etc., etc. Besides rhetoric, what is your solution? An old James Brown song says “Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nuthin’” fits your rhetoric.

By Jackie

November 23, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

@jbmlaw,

You are an attorney and a Washington Post headline should be of interest to you. It has been found that judges and prosecutors SECRETLY AND WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE requested and received warrants to track SUSPECTED drug criminals on their cell phones using the GPS capability. Wonder if we need money and other capabilities to have this fascist practice stopped. Doesn’t appear Dubya and Mukasey will do anything to protect us from this criminal intrusion into our rights.

By Tiny Bimbo

November 23, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Now hold on there, Peter. You cant call the conservatives as unprincipled WRONGS. Didn’t you read Wooten’s preamble slogan to the larger manifesto of his blog’s raison d’etre: “Thinking Right, not wrong. not left. Right. Common sense conservativism.” This slogan comes word for word from “Mein Pet Goat” which is what W was reading to that assembly of hitler youth on 911…….bwa

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Peter @ 12:56,

You must be a pacifist, because you obviously assume that modern wars must be fought on a pay-as-you go basis, whereas no such war ever has existed or ever will exist.

Sorry, Shortcut; you can’t will wars out of existence.

[Rudy&Out]

By Jack Handy

November 23, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

Pruhfessah,

So one time I was ordering Chinese take-out over the phone, and when I finish ordering the lady asks for my name. I tell her that it’s Glenn. “Aaron?” she asks.

“No, Glenn!”

“Greah?” she she says, trying to confirm.

“No, Guh-LLLL-eNNNuh! G-“

“-GEE..”

“-L-“

“-uhrl,” she says, hitting it, I figure, close enough for practical purposes.

“-E-“

“-Eee…”

“-N!” sez I, calculating that one “n” was on that day better than two.

“En!” she repeats triumphantly.

So, good to go, I hung up the phone. I arrived at the restaurant to find that they had prepared my exact order, and not something else. Success! The lady presented me with a bill written entirely in Chinese, except for my name, at the top: “Grand”.

I once made the mistake of showing my keepsake bill to my sister, who’s been calling me Grand ever since.

By Glenn Chin

November 23, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

Why you hate tiny rimb? he no hate you. you clazy!

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

You write just like my beloved Taiwanese sister-in-law sounds. As to the question, I share the worldview of the Divine Miss M: F’EITCTAJ.

Yes, of course it was a J, on rimb and for that matter on JA.B.

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

tiny limb@12:51

Did I say something to you? Are you a branch of Einstein who may be the twin brother of either PoFo or Bugs Bunny?

We have some strange folks here which brings to mind our dear deluded Peter. Oh well…nevermind.

But speaking of mussels, if those creatures get muscle we are in big trouble. Appalachicola will be no more and mussels will head upstream and destroy our dams.(Just like Rhett who said “I don’t give a d..mn!) And libs in usual manner will put another notch on their guns saying “Bush did it”.

Glenn,

Sorry to hear that someone is “bugging” your phone. That takes a real nut case. Hope the problem is corrected soon.

By Neils

November 23, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this

Proffessor,

I am reading, per your recommendation, the recent gloss on your early work. It is foolproof. What does that make me?

By Neils

November 23, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Thanks for your commiseration. I appreciate it. I’m worried about Einstein, though. I think he may have gone a little too far off into the Universe. He seems unable to discern even the most obvious forms of satire. I mean, think about it, Dusty, shouldn’t we have seen this coming? The faraway eyes, the madcap hair…

When Einstein loses it, entropy.

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

Ah Neils @2:19 could be Glenn,

The faraway eyes, the madcap hair…shouldn’t we have seen it coming?

Well, no, Glenn, you are describing our typical liberal here and nothing new in that persona. A bit strange is the usual bit here for our flighty folks, the libs. You may also notice their limited vocabulary which is “Bush did it!” in toto.

I have great empathy for the enduring entropy of Einstein ..whatever that means.

By Jackie

November 23, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

News reports indicate the Pentagon/VA did not report more than 20,000 brain injuries to troops in Iraq/Afghanistan. This number would elevate the injured in Iraq to more than 40,000, of which most can not be returned to active duty status. Should we not pay to maintain and upkeep the health of these citizens that took the oath and went with the realization that our government would honor their commitment to provide medical care for their injuries?

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this

Jackie@3:04

Do you ever tire of running down our government? I’d say no. If I believed everything you say, I would think everybody in the military was treated like dirt, the war is useless, there is no VA/military healthcare, there are no terrorists that we should fight and everybody in Bush’s administration is one big secret stockholder or warmonger.

Now, there is a nice VA hospital on Clairmont. Why don’t you talk to a counselor there about your deep seated hate? Brain damage? Unless you are being paid by the DNC for your efforts to undermine the country and the troops, there is no excuse for the constant barrage you aim at the USA and its President.

By Glenn

November 23, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

Dusty, Dusty,

I’m afraid you’ve come in late on a fairly long-running joke. The posts about Prof. E. were a reference to my satirical post of yesterday at 12:34, a spoof on the nauseating Joseph A. Bank commercials that have been broadcast incessantly, and for months, on the local affiliates of all the major cable and broadcast networks. As Einstein knows, it was also a parody of the mock insults traded here.

No one is bugging my phone, Dusty! But ya gotta admit that that little touch was a fun way to trigger the greenies’ “Bush Did It!” instict, as you so rightly describe it.

Einstein knows all, or else why would he be known as Einstein. One of the everythings he knows is that I regard him as a rare good egg as well as, even rarer, a good egghead, just as the Surname invokes.

BTW, [that stands for “by the way,” Dusty] get’s got me pegged as a Democrat. He thinks that because I w******* for them that makes me one of them. That’s my own personal inside joke, because it’s true that I worked for them and it’s also true that I refuse ever to work for them again; that I’ve done plenty of work also for the GOP; and that I’m a lifelong traditionalist, several centuries to the right of Sam and Zell.

My friend Getalife seems unable to hold more than one thought in his head at a given time.

[Rudy&Out]

P.S. You should check out entropy, the fact of which is often cited as a physical proof of the existence of a purposeful Creator.

By CNN word

November 23, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this

Grading Wooten: In case we didn’t get the Scrooge imitation, Jim actually thought he should hit us over the head with it by mentioning Ebenezer’s name. I dont blame him. Few of you ever get the depth of his blogs. He’s wasted on you poorly-schooled guppies.

Jim must be an aquarius with pisces rising with all the water references today. He wrote that TAD polarizes, Goldfish are enticing entitlement baits, and shower-takers are hate-crime perps who sponge off society.

But there’s a problem with Jim’s blog today. He used Gawd’s name in vain, and I simply refuse to believe that a well-brought-up southern girl would ever do that, (rally I do). I think today’s column was written by a guest ghost writer, a Polterhack, if you will. Also, Jim has WAY too much fun writing over the pointy heads of the motley trolls who pester this blog, to have used scrooge’s name at the end.

By Jackie

November 23, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 3:28

Do you ever tire of running down our government? I’d say no. If I believed everything you say, I would think everybody in the military was treated like dirt, the war is useless, there is no VA/military healthcare, there are no terrorists that we should fight and everybody in Bush’s administration is one big secret stockholder or warmonger.

You are incredible! Don’t believe me, try to read something other than Ann Coulter or watch Fox News. The information that I describe is part of the PUBLIC record and is not subject to YOUR INTERPRETATION. You are entitled to your opinion, but are not entitled to your own facts. You are wrong about trying to put an ABSOLUTE ON EVERYTHING concerning Bush. You are so blind regarding Bush, you “can not see the forest for the trees.” The VA provides wonderful health care, when they troops are able to get there. You are a nurse and you should know about these things. Why does the VA admit having more than 145,000 cases that are in the arrears? Why does the VA admit to not being able to treat all the wounded veterans in a timely manner? Why are there companies growing that help veterans obtain their benefits and seek treatment from war related injuries? Why does 1/4 of the Iraq veterans comprise more than 1/4 of homeless people in this country? Why does the wounded veterans, in many cases, have to pay for their own treatment until they can get to a VA facility when they are discharged from the military because of war wounds? Why is the military petrified about the Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and is trying to ignore the symptoms in Iraq/Afghanistan veterans. Why does Iraq/Afghanistan veterans have to keep REAPPLYING FOR MEDICAL BENEFITS? You seem to forget what you have said in previous postings about “your supporting the troops” until it keeps to pointing out where this administration has failed miserably. I have not forgotten the misstatements and half-truths that you used to bolster your thesis about my not being patriotic and not supporting the troops. Could you please answer any of the above questions in a cogent manner?

By CNN word

November 23, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this

Dusty, way to get Jackie to swing at your comment. Do you believe how easily some people fall for your posturing? Have you ever considered being a professional mime? You’re good.

Jackie, Dusty tries to get folks to meltdown by blogging barely logical treatises that tweak liberal noses with half truths, half witicisms, and slight of hand.

You fell for it. It’s you’re bad. I think the score is Dusty: 7, and you: ZIP!

By Jackie

November 23, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this

@CNN word

Dusty is not as clever as you give her credit for. With folks like her, you have to call them out on their statements. Let her defend her half-truths and misstatements. She purports to support the troops, yet, does not see anything wrong with the way they are treated. I find this incredible.

By jbmlaw

November 23, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this

Dear Dusty @ various times, you’re driving them crazier, good work. Have a great weekend; since the Ensign is home I probably will not be around the blog. I’ll take the liberty of conveying your good wishes.

By Tiny Tim

November 23, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this

…and dont let the door hit your sorry behind on the way out either, jbmlog…..God Bless us, everyone, yes, but gawdam the warmongering haters of the GOP….

I feel tired now, someone help me to my chair, please.

Jackie, Dusty is the one that falls for everything. I was just teasing you. I didn’t mean nothing, I was only trying to get people to like me and maybe make friends and have parties and cyber sex and everything, till you went and ruined it, boo hoo, snifflegurgleplutz, someone always stops me, they always do. (wink) lol roflmao etc.

By Grand

November 23, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this

CNN word @ 4:07,

Ignoring momentarily the fact that you folks at CNN let Hillary’s oppo people “place” that bogus story about Rudy Loves Hugo, you gotta love Jim’s fifth bullet point.

It’s perhaps his longest Wootenism yet, a two-paragrapher! I mean Dang! That’s something. If Jim keeps working at it and maybe bulks up on whatever Bonds is into, soon we’ll be front-seat witnesses to the world’s first full-column Wootenism!

If we take the definition of “Wootenism” to be the same as the title of the famous video-clip show “When Catchy Metaphors Go Wrong”, then the sheer mastery of its multidimensionaly signals, I think, a new era in wayward un-metaphors, well beyond the previous record set by “Human Resources”, surely one of Jim’s inspirations of longstanding.

Such metaphors, such as Jim’s characteristically catchy labeling of the lottery as “tax-by-ticket”, are not even true metaphors, much less poor metaphors or false metaphors or false analogies.

In semiotics they are signs signifying something other than intended. One of Lincoln’s favorite aphorisms, of his many such literary inventions, was, “Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” Calling a fee a tax doesn’t make it a tax but it does point to the fact that lottery winnings, which are won for a fee, are taxed, an unfortunate practice to which Jim did not intend to refer. Because his metaphor has the wrong referent it would be a false metaphor except that it’s worse than that.

It’s dystopian. It inadvertently signifies, it accidentally points to, something that should not be, something which exists but is morally wrong, in this case the taxing of fees. It’s an error of style in that it distracts the reader from the author’s intended object of attention; here, the marketing of a costly chance game to it’s most eager clientele, the poor.

But this kind of style error, because it can also accidentally signify something that does not or even cannot exist and is morally wrong, is actually a small but ugly moral transgression, one which helps to make the unthinkable a bit more thinkable. For instance, turning parents into so many inanimate objects, schools, owned and controlled by the state. Or pretending, just because it sounds fancy or catchy or scientific, that personnel are resources, rather than that for which resources exist. Next stop, labor camp and the “harvesting” of living organs.

It all starts off-Madison, just because it’s catchier to call the lottery a “tax-for-ticket” than to call it something accurate, e.g. “[user fee]fee-as-ticket” or “poverty-per-ticket”.

These alternatives, and others that could be composed just as readily, have the disadvantage of being cumbersome, and the second one is even a bit abstruse. But they have the advantage of being true.

There is no linguistic name for this phenomenon, though it is common. I’ve toyed with calling it “dystonomy”, but Greek already is Greek to most people, including Greeks. So just as a malapropism is in the American Language also called a “Spoonerism” or “Goldwynism”, I vote for calling dystonomy and dystonomies Wootenism or Wootenisms.

By Dusty

November 23, 2007 6:06 PM | Link to this

Jackie @4:13

Well, I’ve just come in and find Jackie is fling around her “facts” as usual.

First—I have never watched and seldom read Ann Coulter.

Second—I am not a nurse. I am in laboratory medicine, you know, microscopes, machines and scientific research.

Third—If I dig through pulished or posted literature, I can find just about any facts I want. In your case, you always look to the places that will give you what you want, something against the government.

Fourth—Our country and our President are not trying to treat our military badly. When they find something is wrong or inadequate, they work to fix it. Sometimes it takes time but no one wants it that way. Some things cannot be done overnight.

Fifth—Free speech is one of our greatest liberties. I think you abuse it with your one-sided, fault-finding anti-Americanism. I come to that conclusion because you never report anything good about the greatest government in the world.