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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
• Pssst. Geography doesn’t move. People do. Any comparison of attitudes in Gwinnett County about MARTA today and decades ago is valid only if we assume that places have minds of their own. Since they don’t, it’s not surprising that newcomers hold different views than those residents who died, moved or changed their minds. A poll for the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District finds that two-thirds of active Gwinnett voters view MARTA favorably.
• Odd tidbits in stories that reveal more about the writer than the issue: Often when it’s a crazed gunman, the tidbit is prior military service, especially in Vietnam. But in one wire service account of the gunman who killed four people at a missionary training school in Colorado Springs, Colo. “was home schooled by his family …” If one believes home schoolers are weird out-of-the-mainstream people — I don’t — the tidbit’s relevant. If not, it’s a relevant as the killer’s favorite fast-food restaurant.
• My sympathies now fall to Michael Vick. A 23-month sentence and a “fine” that could exceed $142 million in loss of earnings is a penalty that I’d consider excessive.
• Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee draw criticism for talking about religion. But when Democrats politick from the pulpit just before elections, especially in black churches, not a peep.
• A hundred and twenty-five million dollars for a Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta? Just what the world needs: An All Grievances Past and Present Exhibition Hall.
• I gotta tell you this drought brings some real eccentrics into the news. No thanks, I’ll not take 5-gallon showers with water collected from the roof or dry shave or brush without water.
• Bipartisanship fails. Taxpayers lose. The Senate rejects a proposal by Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) to limit farm payments to $250,000 yearly per married couple, down from the current $360,000 — though loopholes allow them to collect more. It would also have required that farmers be “actively engaged” to receive subsidies. The administration wanted to reduce payments to individuals who earn more than $200,000. The cap now is $2.5 million. Bush threatens a veto of the five-year, $286 billion bill.
• Almost 900 special needs kids are beneficiaries of the state’s new scholarship/voucher program. And it’s not rich white kids, who for the most part already have school choice. Of the 899 children who got scholarships averaging $6,300 to buy services where their parents deemed best, 34 percent qualify for free and reduced-price lunches. Some 494 are white, 359 black; in all, 45 percent are nonwhite. The 899 came from a public school population of 199,509. So much for vouchers being a threat to them.
• Please, send this Congress home and bring on the 2008 elections. Once again Democrats send the president a costly campaign-agenda bill that sharply increases spending on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Once again, as promised, President Bush issues a veto. Give it a few months. It’ll be sent back, essentially unchanged, to another veto certainty.
• Geez, Atlanta, it’s just a coach.
• If Georgia builds a multimodal station to serve metro Atlanta, it should be at the Atlanta airport, not in the downtown railroad gulch. That area’s congested already. State and local governments shouldn’t add traffic to roads that are already congested.
• It’s called a “major victory for coal-dependent utilities in the South, especially Atlanta-based Southern Co.” In reality, it’s a victory for me, a consumer who wants politicians to stop hiding their interest-group agendas in my living costs. The issue here concerns an energy bill working its way through Congress. Senate Democrats dropped the provision requiring power companies to generate 15 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2015. Forcing consumers to pay higher costs for energy that’s not economically viable — windmills, for example — doesn’t hurt Southern Co. It hurts me. They buy and pass the costs along. We pay.
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By Planner
December 14, 2007 8:05 AM | Link to this
If Georgia builds a multimodal station to serve metro Atlanta, it should be at the Atlanta airport, not in the downtown railroad gulch. That area’s congested already. State and local governments shouldn’t add traffic to roads that are already congested.
Ummmm….. the purpose of a multimodal station is to facilitate the use of trains and buses, thereby lessening the number of single occupant vehicles destined for the area and reducing congestion. Funny how it all kinda makes sense when you stop and think about it.
And FWIW, there are plans to build a second multimodal terminal on the east side of the airport to serve the new international terminal. It’s called the Southern Crescent. Perhaps even the tiniest bit of research on transportation initiatives in the region would have uncovered that tidbit of information. I realize, however, this would have undermined your latest desperate attempt to undermine commuter rail. Never let facts stand in the way of a good piece of yellow journalism.
By jbmlaw
December 14, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this
Merry Christmas all. Let’s not overstate the case – without regard to whether Gwinnetteans regard MARTA “favorably” – I think “would tolerate” may be a more accurate expression – we may see MARTA as a partial solution to our morning adventure. And yes to the many who would try scold me on the issue, I suspect we would be willing to fund the expense with a special tax – pay as we build it. I think a Gwinnett County gasoline tax would be the obvious source of funding – I think our old friend Harold was the first to assert that argument, and that is as close to an appropriate user tax as may exist (along with a $4.00 one-way fare on the train), so I concede on the issue. I suppose creating a county gasoline tax may require a legislative blessing. So shall it be written, so shall it be done. Allah ahkbar.
I suspect the Colorado gunman was not particularly trained to murder people at a church. Most likely the wire reporter was offering his psychobabble to explain why the gunman was shooting up a religious camp instead of his high school. Janis Ian and Stephen King previously and adequately explained the psychobabble personal motivations for shooting up a public school, in “Between the Lines” and “Carrie,” respectively. Why do we have trouble accepting the simple notion that some people are just crazy. Read this blog today after 1 PM and try to dispute the simple notion.
If you are looking for sympathy for Michael Vick, don’t bother talking to Mrs. jbmlaw – waterboarding him would not be enough to satisfy a dog-lover, although you might be able to sell dvds depicting same if the funds went to an animal shelter.
Maybe it would be appropriate for IRS to investigate the tax status of churches that provide a platform for politicians? Oh that’s right, we only do that to conservative churches and colleges.
Dear Jim, you meant to write “An All Leftists’s Grievances Past and Present Exhibition Hall.” Conservatives grieve for 30 million citizens killed in the womb in this nation’s last half century – surely deprivation of life is a violation of human rights - and I suspect that sorrow would not be welcome in the Leftist Hall of Grief.
I’m glad Jim raised the agricultural subsidy bill. The WSJ this week had an amusing list of the Manhattan recipients of farm subsidies – it would have enraged even their fellow travelers on this blog, I should publish it for our leftist friends.
Vouchers are a threat to the educrats, not to the students.
“Send this Congress home?” Once again Jim scooped the WSJ, which publishes after Jim’s deadline “Pelosi’s Delta House.” http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010993 “In the movie “Animal House,” the fraternity brother known as Otter reacts to the Delta House’s closure with the classic line, “I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” To which Bluto, played by John Belushi, replies, “We’re just the guys to do it.” The movie ends by noting that Bluto becomes a Senator, so perhaps this explains the meltdown among Democrats on Capitol Hill.”
I give credit to Mr. Petrino (is that how his name is spelled?): He knew he was not the right fellow for the job, and he withdrew. Now if only Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid were imbued with such wisdom.
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten –
Mike thanks you for your support. The polls are showing the presence of many real Republicans in the proud states of Georgia and South Carolina. Mike appreciates you keeping the liberals in check.
Yes, it is time for the MSM to press the Dems on religion.
It is time for America to restore morality in the White House.
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By ron
December 14, 2007 8:14 AM | Link to this
When Republicans talk religion it’s because they want the government to designate their religion as the National Norm,and when Democrats talk religion,it’s to garner votes.Everyone knows and accepts this.
My sympathies still don’t fall toward Michael Vick.I certainly have never seen anyone destroyed so completely,But he did it himself,without my help.And he did apparently without remorse.He was too stupid to realize the enormous chance he had.
By TW
December 14, 2007 8:32 AM | Link to this
Funny how this dog fighting weren’t no big deal when it was just Boss Hog and ‘the boys’ doin’ it.
By NeoCons are Clowns
December 14, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this
When the ajc folds, and it will, a whole building of the grievance museum will be devoted to the whining of no talent uga journalism grads who are now and forever unemployed and unemployable. People, never ever hire a uga grad, they are all loser clowns who will cost you money while providing nothing of value in return.
By Aquagirl
December 14, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this
The Democrats send an expensive children’s healthcare bill to Bush, Jim wants Democrats sent home. Bush threatens to veto a cut in pseudo-farmer welfare, Jim writes endless columns to support spendthrift Bush. What’s wrong with this picture? Buying votes is for Me, but not for Thee?
Michael Vick wasn’t fined $143 million, he lost it through sheer idiocy. The judge who sentenced him is right, Vick is still ducking culpability. The display of his fellow thugs at the Saints game makes me think $143 million and 23 months wasn’t enough for the damage he’s done. How much do you think the Falcons organization and players have collectively lost? Not to mention how many kids now idolize a worthless felon.
Of course it was a change in the population that changed the attitude in Gwinnett. The racist me-only crowd that hasn’t died has moved farther out, where you’ll be paying even more for their roads. What incredible damage they did to this city, and the politicians at the time helped them out to get themselves re-elected. We should condemn any still around to an endless trip on I-285.
By liberalextremist
December 14, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this
It is time for America to restore morality in the White House.
RealRep @ 8:06am, I thought Georgie Shrub was supposed to restore morality to the White House.
By Charles
December 14, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this
Jim Wooten’s sympathies now fall to Michael Vick. A 23-month sentence and a “fine” that could exceed $142 million in loss of earnings is a penalty that he’d consider excessive.
About a year ago, I opined that average African Americans have much more honor, integrity, and dignity than rich, wealthy, or so-called educated African Americans. At this very hour, the powers that be are excluding the average African American from the work force to acquire cheaper labor. As a result, some African Americans turn to crime in an effort to survive. But for the most part, the average African American creates a way out of no way. They proceed with their lives almost without a whimper while being scorned and ridiculed by rich, wealthy, so-called educated African Americans and the ignorant to boot.
We reasoned if the powers that be decided to remove rich, wealthy, or so-called educated African Americans from the work force ala Michael Vick, they might have to relent. The powers that be would be confronted with the fallen countenance of the rich, wealthy, or so-called educated African American on a daily basis. There would be begging, crying, pleading, bowing, etc. The powers that be would most certainly decide to relent.
By TW
December 14, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this
NeoCons are Clowns - I double dog dare you to say that to Sonny’s face!
By Redneck Convert
December 14, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this
Well, just because your folks was beaten and kept from voting and made slaves and kept from going to white schools and such don’t give you the right to build a museum to complain about it. I’m against it.
The Gwinnett County folks that want MARTA is crazy. Everybody up here in Forsyth County knows when you let MARTA in you let Those People in. So the Gwinnett County folks need to do what everybody else does. Just drive to a MARTA station and park and get on the train and ride and at the end of the day go back home without being bothered by MARTA taxes and Those People in your neyberhood.
I’m against these librul Democrats going into the churches of Those People and telling them how to vote. The churches need to do what the rest of us do. Down at the Church of Holiness the pastor blasts the libruls in his sermons and on election day we all meet at the church and line up to vote for Republicans together. All the winning canadates already go to our church so we don’t need to invite nobody in to speak. I just wish the Rev. Postlewaite was as good as the Rev. Jim Bob Buice about it. But the Rev. Jim Bob can’t do it on account of being on that state list that won’t let him be around kids.
Anyway, thats a mighty stiff fine for this Vick guy. I guess its what he gets for not using his dogs to hunt coons and such. I hear he didn’t even have a porch they could sleep under. He’ll never become a good redneck that way.
I was mighty glad to see Sister Dusty come out for this Giuliani guy yesterday. It tells me which one not to vote for. It never fails. If Sister Dusty and jbmlaw come out for somebody, you know the guy’s as crooked as a dog’s hind leg and don’t have no heart for people. I’m for the Rev. Huckabee. He’s a good Baptist preacher that will lock up the gays and kind of wink when we run over Those People. Anyway, sooner or later people will come to realize us rednecks in GA decide who gets elected. Not the insurance lawyers and people that empty bed pans of Indians in health care.
Have a good day everybody.
By NeoCons are Clowns
December 14, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this
Sonny of the pretty pink panties IS a clown. Should our paths ever cross, you can be assured I will inform the FAT boy that he and all neocons are CLOWNS.
By jct
December 14, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this
@jbmlaw I know this is slightly off topic. However, this morning I found myself listening to ‘Between the Lines’ by Janis Ian on my Ipod while riding MARTA to work (this is the truth). I guess I should lock myself in my office all day so that I don’t harm others. Have a great day.
By Glenn
December 14, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this
Vell, Jim, it vouldn’t be Friday viddout you should op’n vit a Vootenism: “Geography doesn’t move.”
Have you looked outdside your office window, Jim. In Georgia they move mountain. Sherman moved armies and trees and railbeds; Georgians move mountains, I tell you. Build this one up, tear that one down, take the soil from here and truck it to there. Half of what you see from the AJC building is terraform.
Besides, the geologists will tell you that geography is constantly in flux. There’s even a National Park, Yosemite, consecrated to that natural phenomenon, the late Mr. Muir’s favorite phenomenon.
And then there’s the anthropological sense in which, contrary to your assertion, places do “have minds of their own.” It has to do with what urban and regional planners call “placeness”, that way or mode which, in many cases, is particular to that place. It’s more evident in older places, but it can be found even in the New World. The Ancients called it genius locus, the wisdom of the place. The Native Americans have unnumbered names for it.
If what you’re trying to say, with yet another paragraph thrown off course by an introductory Wootenism, is that Gwinnett voters are a self-selected group of people predisposed to favor MARTA if only because them what didn’t has got out, then why don’t you say that, instead of engaging in brutal epistemologies a la “This bag is not a toy”?
[Giuliani/Thompson 08]
By Souldrift
December 14, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this
Lordy, between idiocy about Republicans and their Christianizing and thinking anyone but Michael Vick brought this upon Michael Vick, I wouldn’t know where to start tearing this nonsense apart.
By Peter
December 14, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this
Poor Jim Whooten, and JBMLAW, I guess they have never been out of the country, as they act like country bumpkins with all their remarks.
Jim say no to alternative energy, not caring about saving water the environment, just his personal pocket book.
Not much of an economic Genius either, forgetting renewable energy sources are free once they are built, save maintenance costs.
More pollution FOR Jim as long as it is cheap pollution.
I am glad I don’t make the small money Jim makes, or have the small mentality he has either.
Small areas outside the country are supporting all their energy on renewable resources, and they have cheap electricity.
JBMLAW told us yesterday he only thinks we should spend tax dollars on the military.
Go find a New WAR for us Please.
That will truly make more economic sense I guess !
Ha ha ha to the whole comment about Religion.
I Guess Jim forgot the way Bush rallied the religious Right wingers last election, and Sonny Praying for rain on public time and Money.
By @@
December 14, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this
Golly Jim, do ‘ya think liberals would associate home-schoolers with the faithful? Probably, and that makes them “tid-bits” in my opinion.
Will Vick’s fine, $142 million serve as restitution to his victims? When I think about the lowlifes who have taken the lives of decent people and receive “support” from Hollywooders it disgusts me. Add to that the fact that politicians welcome support from those same Hollywooders, I’m even more disgusted. Free Mumia over my dead body…
When, in 1996, Bill Clinton invited Whoopi to host his fiftieth birthday party, I was appalled. I fired off a telegram to the White House saying so. I wrote: “My husband, Officer Daniel Faulkner, was killed in the line of duty. His convicted murderer is Mumia Abu-Jamal. Whoopi Goldberg is on the Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Do you want someone who supports a convicted cop killer to host your 50th birthday?
Liberals worship their own deities and Whoops, dare ^^^ they is.
Redneck Convert shivered at the thought of me and my coping saw? Make no mistake about it RC; I would have borrowed your wife’s frying pan to lend a crispiness to DuMond’s testicles and served him “his own mountain oysters” as his last meal. Huckabee, being a man obviously empathized. I couldn’t.
I just caught snippets of the dem debates yesterday but when the audience responded with their little “dial your response” thingy to Joe Biden’s (the only dem I’d vote for) reference to a hymn they sing at his church it was a real eye-opener for me. That graph line plummeted. Joe B needs to follow the other Joe L’s lead and either go independent or Republican. He can’t even mention a hymn without receiving a “zing” from liberals. What the heck?
Teaching at a private school for special needs kids, I’ve always known there was no disparity in race or ethnicity, just need. Liberals know not of what they speak, but they speak anyway. Large corporations have always paid for the tuition of about 1/3 of our students. These vouchers have allowed them to focus their efforts on other things — much needed equipment and possible expansion. They’ve already asked us to submit a list. God love ‘em.
A Vito….Is that the guy who says “Make me an offer I can’t refuse?
Well Jim, that puts you and The FAT Don Quixote, Ted on the same side — fighting windmills. The difference is there’s more “wind” breaking in Massachusetts than here in the South.
By time for the truth
December 14, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this
Despite her noxious leftistdikish appearance/persona/politics I have several Janis Ian albums. I first saw her in London in 1974 - at the Drury Lane Theatre if memory serves. Her encore to end an excellent gig that night was a stunning acoustic rendition - with just her on geeeetar - plaintively singing ‘Stars’. I again saw her in London at the Royal Festival Hall a few months before I arrived here in the late 1990’s. That crowd to barely a half empty hall was rather more poofy/butch than 1974 as she had by then been far more honest than Jodi Foster. I also saw her once here with the trouble and strife at Chastain Park. Her more recent stuff is nowhere near as good as the classic stuff I have on my ipod. In Between The Lines, plus bits of Restless Eyes, Janis Ian, Aftertones, Night Rains and Stars have mostly been remastered in import cd and sound much better.
She is the only fully fledged lesbian I have in my cd collection, although somewhere I have an almost never played old second hand best of collection by the Police. Sting sure always sounds likeadike!!
I am looking forward to the Bright Lights and (unbroken) Promises of Rudy in 08 as he gets Ready To Roll and Light a Light on Miracle Row in the White House as America offers up its collective Thankyous for the ignominous defeat of the hated lard arsed lying HiTllary Hog.
Anyone who’s not heard Janis Ian’s classic early stuff would do well to get a copy of Souvenirs - Best Of Janis Ian.
By Glenn
December 14, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this
Planner, to which ego do we owe this alter ego? I ask because I just realized that you really are, among other things, a planner. Good. Glad you’re on deck.
TW, good morning. Should this particular cornCobb ever come across Sonny, I’ll be sure to tell him a lot more than that, but would be happy to include your insult, which however I don’t think he’d much mind, since he’s about as far from a neoconservative as a Republican can get. (Hint: “neoconservative” doesn’t refer to someone who is recently conservative.)
Souldrift, that’s a very cool, poetical name, and I hope you do tear into the nonsense. Incidentally, they’re not exactly “Christianizing”; it’s something else I can’t readily put my finger on. Maybe it comes clearer from another vantage: they’re politicizing their presumed Christianity. (Note that to presume Christianity is as oxymoronic as is the politicization of Christianity, which rejects all politics as it rejects all sacrificial religion.) Anyway, how ‘bout them Falcons?
NeoCons are Clowns: perhaps so, if you can find one. As for UGA grads, since they too make today’s list of things you dislike, UGA has a fine School of Journalism, one of the few that matriculate undergrads as well as grad students. They’re graduates aren’t “useless” in working journalism, except insofar as UGA makes sure that, to graduate, you must be as ideologically and happily hidebound as the DNC-AJC. I say this even though a couple of my oldest, closest friends are UGA-minted newspaperpersons; neither of whom would deny it.
[Giuliani/Thompson 08]
By getalife
December 14, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this
Geez, Atlanta, it’s just a coach.
Bwa, the coach of Alabama made many enemies when he cut and ran from LSU.
But we got a better coach and so will the Falcons.
Geaux Tigers!
I like that word,
Geez.
By Curious Observer
December 14, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this
Nobody should be surprised by the sentencing excess in the Michael Vick case. It’s simply redneck justice, regardless of the nature of the offense. Why bother with 30 days in jail when you can get 23 months? And if 23 months is good, then life imprisonment must be even better. And if life imprisonment is better, then the death penalty must be even better than that.
To top it off, now Virginia wants to try him on state charges. Such is the nature of redneck justice—buy as many votes as you can by piling on. It isn’t enough that this athlete’s life and reputation are ruined already. Until people get bored with the story, prosecutors must fan the flames of public outrage. And they can justify it on the basis of saying, “He did it to himself.”
I long for the day when we can awaken from this national nightmare of prosecutorial excess. Its national roots began in the late 1980s, when the yuppies and other materialistic segments began to raise a stink about protecting their little hordes. It had always existed in the South, of course, where the religious nutters worked a perverse twist on the image of Christ’s dying on a cross.
I’m thankful that occasionally a state will buck the trend, as New Jersey has in eliminating the death penalty.
If you have a shred of decency left, then let Michael Vick serve his sentence and get on with his life, instead of continuing to villify him. The man—through his own wrong-doing, to be sure—has already suffered a fall from which he will never recover. Will you—as an ancient pope once did to a predecessor—drag his body through the street after he’s dead?
By time for the harsh but fair truth
December 14, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this
peeping tom’s deranged hissy fit about the human scum Vick was truly freaking funny!! This sullen ebonics spoutin’ hippety hop thug is as remorseful as Buubbaturd the pardon selling Arkansas rapist and its equally venal lying dikishHiTllary Hog for their Soprano like crimes!!
LESS than two years in jail for SYSTEMATICALLY butchering countless dogs, gleefully bankrolling a Josef Mengele like breeding programme in secret for dogs and then gleefully gambling on the sick and twisted ‘contests’ is hardly “sentencing excess”. What a sickfeckpig peeping tom is!! Hopefully the state trial will result in the full five years this hippety hop mo/fo should have gotten!! the far left dogturd peeping tom is so typical of psychotic liberals whose deranged moral relativism hilariously stultifies the vote buying insanity that passes for their pro-queer, pro-towel head, pro-racist black pimp, pro-illegal mexican leech pandering!!
To cap it all the dogturd peeping tom then pukes up its usual robotic rabid bigotry against its white southern cultural/intellectual/genetic betters!!
peeping tom has the unmitigated cheek to puke up its lies about letting folk get on with their lives … I don’t recall peeingtom saying this about say the UTTERLY innocent Duke white boys nearly lynched by literally a lying black w hore and a corrupt demoNcrat prosecutor!! peeping tom pukes up it endless hate against Vice President Cheney who has been convicted and jailed for NO crime - unlike the human scum Vick who eventually admited his lies and guilt!!
Vick deserves all the opprobium and moral outrage he gets!! LONG MAY IT CONTINUE!!!
GFY peeping tom U and U’re despicable ilk have NO place in decent society!!
By jbmlaw
December 14, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this
Peggy Noonan offers three short essays in her weekly column, one challenging Mike Hukabee’s competence, one challenging Hillary’s competence, and one challenging the “politics of hatred” aimed at illegal immigrants. I have no quarrel with Peggy. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010988
If I see fatboy, I’ll advise him that the 8:52 poster is a typical leftist Jew-baiter.
Dear jct @ 9:01 and TFTT @ 9:42, Janis is one of my guilty pleasures. I mockingly call it “music to slash your wrists by,” but I am still addicted. It starts off wistful, and the second song is sad, and by the third cut we are in full-blow clinical depression. I remember hearing she is living a quiet life in Nashville, Tennessee with her partner. Although my mp3 player is mostly classical, I have “Between the Lines” on it. Perhaps I should revisit “Aftertones” – have not listened to that in 20 years, but I know where it is in our basement.
Dear Peter @ 9:25, you surprise me. And after I wrote that you would not be on the blog before 1 PM! I understand your bitterness, as we proved your deceptions using your own words only yesterday. We are most forgiving, however. Go and sin no more, but in any event, just go.
By Dusty
December 14, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
Ah Jim Wooten, a real feast of goodies to choose from this morning. I think I will zero in on Congress after seeing Ms. Pelosi on Lehrer News Hour last night.
If her voice didn’t remind me of cold gravy, maybe I could ignore her pitiful subterfuge. You would think that Democrats in Congress were trying to save the world and the evil Bush vetoed every saving grace.
Pelosi is like a velvet rabbit railing against the NONtaxed millionaires while she herself is one of the richest women in the USA, part of a business that does not even want to pay fair wages to the workers. Only Democrats could bring such a farce to Congress.
Ah, our friend, Redneck, has given us a few counterfeit country chuckles this morning. Speaking of bedpans as he did, I will take the bait and tell him he always reminds me of bedpans and such. Deadpan bedpans or something??
Always I salute our jbmlaw who remains sensible and pleasant even if he is an Independant or something. His words of wisdom are always welcome. I am not surprised that his son takes his place among our military, those who volunteer to protect our country. They make us proud.
By TW
December 14, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
Glenn - I apoligize for using the word incorrectly, though I don’t recall doing it today. Perhaps you could be so nice as to donate the porper term to my vocab? I seek the definition for one who bends over the middle class for the benefit of only their own wallet.
I must say, you boy Rudy has done a great job of staying out of the recent slide. Perhaps he has more people like yourself speaking on his behalf than I thought.
By deegee
December 14, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are NOT drawing criticism for talking about religion. They are drawing criticism for demagoguing the issue of Christianity and bickering over whose Jesus is better.
Anyone that can’t distinguish between a candidate speaking to a congregation of a church to which they are invited, and a political candidate that repeatedly attacks his rival on the subject of their religious preference is not to be taken seriously.
By Aquagirl
December 14, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this
Curious @ 9:54, nobody decided randomly that Michael Vick would get 23 months; initially 12-18 months seemed more likely. He did indeed earn it by not ‘fessing up and by the stupid move of the century, smoking pot before being sentenced. Most people would have been happy to give him a chance. Life punishes those who don’t learn from their experiences.
If you’re going to worry about African-American men in jail, you should applaud the recent change in sentencing on crack vs. powdered cocaine. It was about time we threw out that racist application of the law. Far too late, though, for a lot of ruined lives.
By Peter
December 14, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this
JBMLAW, I don’t worry about your comments, the off the wall stuff you spew have little value.
Especially this comment ….”Go and sin no more, but in any event, just go.”
Not one to answer any direct questions I guess, stuff like economics must be tough for a Lawyer ?
I find it funny Jim has any sympathy for Vick.
I guess breaking the law and getting caught, especially since we know Vick started his “FUN” during his Rookie season, is OK in his mind.
What is the sympathy for…. his monetary loss or the fact he was so cruel, and lawless ?
By Larry
December 14, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this
Hey Planner! When commuter rail goes remotely close to where I need to go, then I will consider using it. Until then, it is a useless, expensive, patronage puddle for politicians and demagogues.
By NeoCons are Clowns
December 14, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this
jmblaw is one of the neoscum traitors responsible for the Iraq war fiasco. I dispise him and all his causes, one day I hope to inflict terrible punishment on all jmblaw’s favorite causes. Till that day comes !
By Dusty
December 14, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this
Neocons are Clowns @11:16
You better get over to the Health Clinic right away for your rabies shots. It may be too late. You sound pretty far gone already.
By NeoCons are Clowns
December 14, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this
To spite the neocons, I am doing everything in my power to destroy the dollar. Will you not join me? Withdraw all your dollars from american banks, use half to buy euro’s, a quarter to buy silver, and a quarter to buy gold. Keep only enough dollars to meet current needs. When King George has no money, he will end his war of extermination against Arabs and Muslim. Allah be Praised
By NeoCons are Clowns
December 14, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this
Someday Dusty, I hope to show you just how far gone I am. Till that blessed day, !
By Jackie
December 14, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
Add more to the Dubya management style. The IG of the State Department is under investigation by the FBI because of financial mismanagement in Iraq. To further point out problems in “our” government, the Dems refuse to stand up to their responsibility in controlling the purse strings. They vascilate, equivocate and pontificate about what they will/will not do. Bottom line, they are no better than Dubya. Find someone else to take their place. Throw all of them out and start with a new batch.
By Glenn
December 14, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
Oh TW, yeah that particular misusage (“neocon”) drives me crazy, because every time it occurs I look in vain for a neocon referent. Just call them conservatives, and append whatever intensifier or snide modifier you want. To me, Sonny is an empty-suit con, as distinguished from stripe-suited cons, such as Sen. Craig. But I’m sure you’d have your own clever syntactical tactics. Thanks for the observation about Rudy. He really got slandered hard last month, esp. by the AJC.
You may have noticed that RealRep (who probably isn’t a Rep) doesn’t even care enough about Huckabee to explain anything good about him; RR seems intent mostly on getting the goat of Rudy supporters.
[Giuliani/Thompson 08]
By Jim's a Cherry Picker
December 14, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this
Jim,
Fantastick Chery Picking today… so it’s not a suprise that we didn’t see aything about the rest of the world looking at us like we’re a buch of chumps when it comes to (your term) climate change. Classic GOP stance: We’re right and everyone else is not only wrong, but they’re going to Heck just for thinking differently.
RealRep: Wasn’t GWB supposed to “restore morality” in the White House? What happened to that?
By Craig
December 14, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this
Ahh Glenn that’s true of most commenters here - very few people, other than yourself and a couple others - are willing to talk about why they support a particular candidate. It’s always “my guy is a hero, and your guy is a clown, and you’re a fool for supporting him.” That’s true whether it’s a candidate, or an issue like the consumption tax, or whatever. I despair for our country sometimes.
By TW
December 14, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this
Glenn - snide plus ‘con’ - got it.
Huckabilly’s flash, though brighter than Thompson’s, will last about as long. Bush turned the Bible into a bludgeoning tool - that’ll end up taking the wind out of Huckabee’s sails…real soon.
By NeoCons are Clowns
December 14, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this
Ok Craig, I will tell you why I support Obama: He is the only one not owned by the pro israel lobby. I hope he will demand immediate repayment of the thousands of billions of american tax dollars stolen by israel over the last 50 years, and punish those americans responsible. Severely punish….
By GayGrayGeek
December 14, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this
Glenn @ 12:04 - OK, then, how’s about a word I picked up from Brad Warthen from The State, the newspaper in and for Columbia, SC?
Paleocon.
By NeoLibs are donkeynuts
December 14, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this
Who out there wants to place bets on the azzhole that created this t-shirt in Florida is a left wing liberal dummycrat? http://www.local6.com/spotlight/14853575/detail.html
Sick people man. Sick people. So full of hate of traditional America they can’t see straight. Just SICK.
By Tiny Tim
December 14, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this
On this Blog, it’s hard to beat the inventive minds that so quickly went to work on Huckabee’s name. I havent read witicism like that in years. You guys have chosen the right career here on this blog. You’re going to reap bigtime for your amazing contributions to satire.
When I first saw Huckebee’s name, I thought, “darn, another name with no potential for abuse. too bad. oh well, may as well go look at porn…”
But you guys, not you guys, nothing gets by you.
morons
By Freetruth
December 14, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this
You far left Owl Gorebot nazis can take your global carbon tax on American success and productivity and stick it right up your a-sses where your smelly mouths are.
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
Mike salutes fuzzy kittens and knows Jim does too.
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By Corey
December 14, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this
Time For The Truth, Yes, Vick was wrong and got what he deserved, but you hate black people with a passion. Any black will do brings such joy to your heart. Your favorie program is the local 6 O’clock news. Can’t wait to see how blacks misbehaved today. Do yourself a favor. The next time you see a black person, walk up to him or her and let your true colors reveal themselves. I bet you’ll get the beat-down of your life.
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this
Mike salutes homicidal rapists. Castrated or not, Mike salutes ‘em.
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this
Mike salutes unjustly sentenced Mike Vick and supports amnesty for dog torturers like his son, David.
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By Whispering Bill
December 14, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this
So, Jim, you outsourced your column to getalife today? Geez.
Anywho, I’m glad to see Blank and he players ripping on that no good bas-you know the rest Metrino.
That said, I’m happy he’s gone. We get a do-over.
By Amazing Grace
December 14, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this
No heterosexual man in the world can be racist from this time forward. Thank you Beyonce for your inspiring satellite TV ad.
By RealRep's worst nightmare
December 14, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this
Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee, the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.
Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men.
The elder Huckabee said then that politics was behind the dog-killing accusation.
Nice God-fearing family. Good child rearing skills. A firm hand and all that, what what.
bwaaaahahahahahaha
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this
Mike salutes American ingenuity as emboidied in the ease and convenience of the Target Wedding Gift Registry. It’s still not too late to send a token of your esteem to Janet and Mike in celebration of their marriage over twenty years past. I bought them a tea cozy!
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this
Rev Mike salutes the brave soldiers of the Creation Science squad, boldly making it safe for Americans to believe that dinosaurs and people lived together in perfect harmony, just like in The Flintstones, which Mike also salutes for its fine depiction of family values and wifely deference to the husband, even when he is an ignorant sack of lard like Fred. Saaaa — lute!!
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By jbmlaw
December 14, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this
Dear Dusty @ 10:28, thanks, I appreciate your kind words. I wish I could claim responsibility for the Ensign, but he is his own man. To put your mind at ease, I am still mostly a republican, just an eccentric one. I am not a RINO, even though I disagree with my party on the proper policy toward our undocumented friends.
Dear deegee @ 10:34, perhaps anyone who cannot distinguish a religious service from political pep rally ought not be voting?
Dear Glenn @ 12:04, I suspect RealRep is just our old friend PoFo, having some fun with us. The stuff he posts is just a little off-center, does not particularly enhance Mike’s standing. And now that I am reading his post-lunch time stuff, there is no doubt he is pulling our legs.
Dear GGG @ 1:10, paleocon is ok – not close enough to Buchanan’s epithet to sound anti-Jewish, so that’s ok. We conservatives often embrace Buckley’s aphorism about standing “athwart the world,” so Paleocon is fair.
By Craig
December 14, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this
Well I asked for it I guess…
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this
Welcome aboard, Ed Rollins. The pulse of the real conservative continues to strengthen.
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By C'mon Jim
December 14, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this
23 months for bankrolling and running a large criminal enterprise is hardly excessive.
To equate the loss of income to a fine, or any sort of formal penalty is beneath your IQ, Jim.
By Captain Freedom
December 14, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this
THE Captain is shocked — SHOCKED!! — to discover that RealRep is in fact a satirizing fraud. Is this what the the Internets have come to??? Fraudulent blog posters mocking all that Real Americans hold dear?!?! Oh, that Al Gore was a clever one alright…setting in motion this spider’s web (geddit?) of deceit and Islamotrickery.
Having settled on the Keyes/Huckabee ticket as the logical path to victory, as well as the best bet to sustaing the tried and true policies of Our Leader and His Cheney, THE Captain had been heartened by the presence of another morally guided and upRight Thinker like RealRep. Imagine THE Captain’s chagrin at learning the truth behind the hoax.
THE Captain is crestfallen and wonders aloud how Sister Dusty failed to detect this liberal fraud. She is so quick to accuse, yet in this case she missed it completely.
Another myth falls! Dusty is not infallible. Who knew?
By RealRep
December 14, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this
It’s not true, I tell you, it’s not. I am realllly really realllly a Huckabee supporter. There’s someone here trying to ruin my good name, and take the Good Rev down with me. (Not that the Rev would “go down” with me, it’s not like that, though I have had dark thoughts in the night…NO NO NOOOOOOOO).
To recover, Mike salutes the real RealRep and banishes to Satan’s darkness the liberal homosexual Darwinists who make fun of RealRep’s earnest — yet wholly heterosexual — love and adoration for Mike.
A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Hillary.
Huckabee ‘08
By Rev. Him
December 14, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this
There is only One who is infallible. But that’s just my literal and inerrant opinion.
By AmVet
December 14, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this
Glenn, you know I have the utmost respect for your postings.
BUT…writing the term “non-conservative conservative” all the time is just too cumbersome man!
And as an MOT myself, I mysteriously, but not kaballahlishly, use the “jew-baiting” term neo-con freely though possibly inaccurately from time to time.
Sue me. Or better yet, [In a very deep voice] Let me people go!
By time for the truth
December 14, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
@ dickheadcorey … the sad little commie creep prick who yet again is way too yellowbellied to use its anal gutless ‘real’ name
your rabid racebaiting bollocks is TOO FUNNY!!! LMFAO!!!
and you need to go queer bashing and stop molesting little boys!!! just wittily mirroring back the cretinous assertions in your pitiful twisted worthless post!!
BTW bubbaturd I always watch Brit Hume on FNC at 6pm - not the hippety hop/illegal leech perp walks on WSBTV.
nice to see lance korporal Syphilis is still puking up its psychotic far left hate!!
By getalife
December 14, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
Happy Holidays from dick
By GayGrayGeek
December 14, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this
getalife @ 3:15, thanks for the second-biggest laugh (after jmblaw’s usual dissembling) that I’ve had all day
By AmVet
December 14, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this
getalife and GayGrayGeek, is it just me or does Cheney kinda resemble Spiro Agnew?
I don’t want to be just another nattering nabob of negativity, but something smells fishy here…
By Dusty
December 14, 2007 3:59 PM | Link to this
Methinks there is a bit of a problem here with the server. Either that or I am writing with invisible ink.
By Heywood Jablome
December 14, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this
Can’t ya take a clue, Dusty?
— Heywood Jablome
By Dusty
December 14, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this
Captain Freedom@ 2:40
Captain, Oh Captain,
You have crossed the bar!
You thought I didn’t recognize that fraud, n’est pas?
That RealRep was as obvious as a man using Old Spice after shaving. You couldn’t miss it.
Be not disappointed! I am infallible! Undercover libs are so easy to spot. This RealRep reminds me of you. He’s a little clearer, more comprehensive, not to mention his cleverness. But then again, who is to decide which one of you is the superlative in subversion? There are so many libs from which to choose.
By Jackie
December 14, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this
Jim indicates the proposed Civil and Human Rights museum is only a means for grievance; in other words, belly-aching. When he visits any other museum that shows artifacts that explain past situations, why is there trepidation allowing everyone to see what happened and make an informed decision?
By Mark A Tarnowski
December 14, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this
“• My sympathies now fall to Michael Vick. A 23-month sentence and a “fine” that could exceed $142 million in loss of earnings is a penalty that I’d consider excessive.”
Everyone who goes to jail faces lost income.
By Jackie
December 14, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this
Mukasey says there is not reason to investigate the CUIA tapes because he did not see any problem with the destruction of the tapes. He said investigating these events would make the CIA too political. WHAT???????? When will the criminals be taken out of the White House?
By AmVet
December 14, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this
Jackie, shhhhhh.
Let’s pretend Mr. Wooten has no beef with the Holocaust Museum for the same reasons.
And for more evidence look no further than that moronic explanation and the spiining like a whirling dervish on the supposed Gwinnett “change of heart” in regards to MARTA.
The Vick “loss of income” ruse is a mere, if not foolish, attempt at sticking up for thugs of color…
Shhhhhhh.
By Tiny Tim
December 14, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this
RealRep is me, and kudos to Jbmlaw for spotting it. You’re good, kid. Aw, I’ve seen your type B4, you love pain, (you eat it up like candy). But remember: it’s not enough to be tough; You gotta be durable too.
Most aint.
This is political foreskin officially declaring it to be miller time, at 5:39pm Friday, Dec. 14, 2007.
God Bless Us Everyone, and since this blog is getting better, I’ll refrain from reciting my 5 F’s.
By Glenn
December 15, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this
Ah, Mimesis strikes. Yes, jbm. The bloodspotted calling card, the telltale incision, the mole-like witnesses, shrinking from the glare. It all adds up. That damned, elusive Mimesis.
Now, Jim:
Judge: *In view of the excessive opportunity costs you will have incurred as a result of two years’ confinement, I now hereby commute your sentence to the somewhat lesser penalty of reading the Atlanta Journal-Constitution daily for 23 months. You sir are now free, and you will remain free as long as you report daily and accurately to your probation officer the contents of Cynthia Tucker’s column.”
White Democrats don’t draw the church giggles when they electioneer in church by acting for all the world like Gene Wilder goofing on Richard Pryor, because the congregations are in on the joke and enjoy the arsekissing.
Kudos on All Grievance Day. Lest we forget, all who work on that project, now and foreverafter, are grievance exhibitionists, in a long line of grievance exhibitionists who include Jackson and Sharpton and Mark Klaas and all the other opportunistic shake-down artists whose stories will not find their way into the curation of this Museum of Human Rights, this embalmed thing, this static monologue.
By the way, have you noticed that the confluence of porcine earmarking and perfunctory school tours (/field trips)has occasioned a new form of “destination architecture”: structures purpose-built for the school tour circuit? My, what an affluent tuttifrutti nation we have become!
So you don’t want to bathe in swill? Too bad, Columnist Man, ‘cause starting in three weeks that’s what it will have come down to. That, and brownouts and rationing and evacuations and absurdly exhorbitant energy and water buys and a host of other measures. There’ll be panic, too, and gouging. So stock up on bottled water and purifiers and fair-priced D-cells while you can, because ain’t no way your newspaper is going to tell you this. The disinterested newspaper of record is too interested in letting the Empty Suit twist from the flagpole to give a damn about its readership. No, the DNC-AJC has a good thing going, and they’re not going to mess it up by bringing attention to the severity of the problem. After all, drought is God’s solution to the problem of a Republican interloper in the Governor’s Mansion.
You simply cannot be out of kneepants if you think that Grassley-Dorgan stood a chance in an election year. Were Chuck Grassley not such a hayseed fool he’d be ashamed of himself for getting booed off the stage on Amateur Night. It’s true what Ivins said; sometimes you do need a politician for this politics thing. Grassley’s no politician. As best I can tell, neither is the dashing and democratic Barak Obama, for that matter.
Your blurb on privatization for special needs kids is fuzzy at best. I get the part about Free & Reduced-price Meal Program recipients—that means within 150% of the national poverty level, BTW—but you say that “the 899 came from a public school population of 199,509.” Now Jim, 199,509 whats?
Hey, Pal, do not send Congress home. They’re on a roll, and they’re going to roll themselves right out of power. Yes, I have less than two weeks left to keep my promise of seeing Pelosi ousted by New Year’s, but for the time being at least her Caucus is showing remarkable forbearance. Since we know that they’re that dumb, we can be sure that they’re easily dumb enough to refuse to extend Bush’s tax cut, and if the GOP can’t take a bungle like that to the bank then they need a conservator if not a straightjacket. Why heck, Pelosi’s even daft enough to think she’s got the upper hand with the voters on SCHIP. I repeat, don’t send them home.
Why the antipathy toward multimodal rail, mon? Our Grand Old Party was built on rail. I know you don’t like the market interference, and neither do I, but let’s not throw the railbed out with the steam engine there, General Sherman. Downtown’s where a multimodal hub belongs. The feds know that much, at least, and my buddies at USDOT ain’t paying out TEA bucks for multimodal if it’s stuck out at the airport. And without federal moneys, ain’t no multimodal going in hereabouts. That multimodal’s a seriously big-ticket thing.
Well, you’re right about the energy-efficiency requirements being a function of interest group lobbying, but again, save the baby, lose the bathwater. Yes, everybody will pay a little more to defray the cost to the energy companies’ having to eat the R&D of renewable-energy technologies, but that’s the way R&D works in this particular Republic, Jim. The government carrots-and-sticks the private sector into doing the nation’s R&D, spreading the cost among the broadest possible base of payers. That’s exactly how we got LEV/ZEVs, onnacounta not long ago some visionary gubmint types stuck to their guns and made the auto makers eat their alpha and beta stock—spreading the cost to consumers of dirty vehicles—until more marketable models came along. And if you act now, Jim, for a limited time you can go down to your Toyota or Ford or Honda dealer and put your name to any of a number of very long Holiday waiting lists.
[Giuliani/Thompson 08]
By Tiny Tim
December 15, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this
Tiny Tim reminds Glennduhng that nobody reads that much tripe even if they were in prison and so bored, that they’d read the instructions on shampoo. Repeat.
By GaLiberal
December 15, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this
Moron Jim says: A hundred and twenty-five million dollars for a Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta? Just what the world needs: An All Grievances Past and Present Exhibition Hall.
You’d have to be a card-carrying member of the KKK if this isn’t proof enough that Moron Jim and is neocon Rethuglicon jackboot licker brethren are racist. The struggle for civil rights took over several decades and many lives. Of course, Moron Jim is white so none of this applies to him. To Moron Jim this is a lot of whining. Moron Jim doesn’t care that blacks and Jews were lynched by white Southerns just for fun. Moron Jim forgets that recently black man was dragged behind a truck just so a couple of his admirers could get a few laughs. Moron Jim doesn’t understand that his relatives considered blacks inferior to whites and only good as slave labor. Just like the Nazis. I’d be willing to bet that Moron Jim has a copy of Mien Kampf in his desk drawer. Zeil Heil, Moron Jim. Moron Jim and his ilk are what gives the South and Georgia a bad name.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And racist Moron Jim is living proof.
By Glenn
December 15, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this
Yes, Timesis, so I am told, again and again by you in each of your instatiations. I was doing a bulleted response to each of Jim’s bullets—you know, just like some of you REAL bloggers do on weekends. Only I didn’t want to really bother anybody with it, so figured I’d append it to the string next day, in case Jim gets stuck in traffic. That, and flat-out just to annoy you, the one person in the world I’ve ever asked NOT to read my stuff.
I like the shampoo joke, though. For my money it’s in a league with calling “This Bag Is Not a Toy” a brutal epistemology. So whenever you find yourself mistakenly reading my posts, just rinse.
By Alan Drake
December 15, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this
Of ALL of the things that the government can overspend money on. healthcare for poor and working class children is about the least offensive thing that money could be “wasted on”.
Ask yourself “What would Jesus Veto ?”
A Republican from age 19 till cured by GW Bush at age 53
By Alan Drake
December 15, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
Once Upon a Time, Conservatives prided themselves on facing reality and dealing with it. Cautious and prepared for “come what may”. Defenses and contingency plans in place.
Once Upon a Time.
Now delusion and wishful thinking and hoping “it” goes away are the natural order of the day.
What is 2008 gets no more rain than 2007 ? Or 2008 gets 60% more rain than 2007 (enough to get by) but 2009 is another bone dry year ?
Conservation of water is the ONLY realistic choice to avoid disaster for the next two+ years.
Unless you want to trust to luck !
BTW, what will you do if the taps, and fire hoses, run dry ?
A Republican from age 19 till GW Bush cured me at age 53.