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DEL.ICIO.USMortgage fraud; FEMA; and Beltline
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
• Five things I have no need to be told in the new year: Details of Jane Fonda’s private life — or, for that matter, anything else about the bedroom activities of any other celebrity, including the gender of their mates. When fish get sick — unless it’s caused by pollution or is one I’m about to eat. What Al Sharpton thinks, Rosie O’Donnell says or Britney Spears reveals.
• If DeKalb County wants owners of commercial buildings and of 160,000 homes built before 1993 to switch-out commodes and shower heads when they’re sold, it should pay the tab. Rebates and lowered rates would compensate. The intent is to save water. But surely we cannot stop here. There has to be some penalty for the flush-happy who abuse their flushing privileges by flushing twice, thereby defeating the design intent of the new toilets.
• Quote of the Week: “If we are not going to use the Senate floor to do the business of the American people, can we set up a flea market or something, so that something positive is happening?” asked U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). Congress is a flea market. The problem is that half the population wants merchandise for free — and cannot fathom why owners might object.
• “Fraud goes a long way toward explaining why mortgage defaults and foreclosures” are skyrocketing, reports The Wall Street Journal. White-collar criminals in Atlanta got $6.8 million in mortgages from Bear Stearns Co. One borrower being prosecuted by the feds here got a $1.8 million mortgage after claiming monthly income of $50,000, with assets of $3 million. He was a 23-year-old phone technician with an income of $105,000 per year and $35,000 in assets. The distressing realization is how many professionals are involved.
• Headline: “Home price dip hits Atlanta.” Thinking Right connects the dots: The $1.8 million loan cited above was for a home that later sold out of foreclosure for $1.1 million. Eliminate fraud, speculation and purchases that were beyond the means of borrowers and expect the market to settle, as in “Home price dip …”
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency begins testing trailers still occupied by Hurricane Katrina evacuees following complaints about air quality. Tests should be conducted, too, for those built at the same time and sold in the private sector. Otherwise, some critics won’t believe the findings if trailers are given a clean bill. And if there are air quality problems — formaldehyde is found in some mobile home building materials — critics will argue that Katrina victims were singled out because of their race or class.
• Change the law. DeKalb County purchasing officials authorized 26 payments of just under $50,000 to one company over a five-month period. Anything $50,000 or above would have required competitive bidding. The law should require competitive bids when any service can reasonably be expected to exceed $50,000 a year, except in a legitimate emergency. Offenders should go to jail.
• One man’s sand is another man’s gold. John Woodham, an Atlanta attorney, raises perfectly legitimate questions about the more than two dozen tax allocation districts across Georgia, and for that he is described as a man who “has managed … to throw sand in the gears” of the Atlanta Beltline project. The “sand” quote comes from Terri Montague, president and CEO of Atlanta Beltline Inc. Her sand, our gold. Woodham’s lawsuit questions whether school tax money can be diverted to other purposes. That’s a key question, since every child brought into a tax allocation district anywhere in Georgia has to be educated on somebody else’s dime. The suit is now before the state Supreme Court.
• On New Year’s Day, Texas begins to levy a $5-per customer tax on strip club patrons. Proceeds, estimated at $40 million per year, will be used to fund rape counseling centers. Strip clubs are suing, as they should. Two kinds of taxes should be outlawed: Those unrelated to the expenditure for which it is levied and those where the people to be taxed are not present to object — people who rent cars, for example.
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By Planner
December 28, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this
I believe that gold actually belongs to the residents of the City of Atlanta, who overwhelmingly support the Belt Line and are frustrated that one malcontent can hold up the project for years. Something tells me if TAD funds were being used for roadway projects, you wouldn’t feel Mr. Woodham’s questions were quite so “legitimate” and you would be the one throwing a temper tantrum over his obstructionism. So Jim, until you move into the City and begin paying property taxes, kindly step away from the microphone. You have no business trying to force your anti-transit agenda into the middle of this local issue.
Eliminate fraud, speculation and purchases that were beyond the means of borrowers and expect the market to settle, as in “Home price dip …”
Couldn’t agree with you more on this point. Speculators who bought prime properties and then flipped them within a matter of days and weeks have driven prices up unnaturally around the country. They share a large part of the blame for the current mess, yet their influence on the housing market has received almost no attention from the media. Find a way to disincentivize flipping houses and you’ll hold appreciation down to a sustainable rate, thus making housing values more reasonable and reducing the possibility of people taking out loans they can’t afford.
By Mid-South Philosopher
December 28, 2007 8:12 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
Well the holidays are about over and, after one more fling…New Year’s Eve… we will settle into the stretch of selecting Presidential candidate nominees. It all ought to be settled by February 5. What a relief!
Two days after Christmas, I was visited by the tax equalization appraisers contracted by my county, which is too small to have its own people do the work. That is a hll of a way to end the year, isn’t it? What do you want to bet that, despite the collapse of the housing industry, the value of my property will go up!?! Then, those *snots on my county commission will brag about how they haven’t increased the tax millage. Aren’t politicians just wonderful!?! It’s OK though; several of them are going to have a lot of free time after the election in November. Of course, we will only have a different bunch of tax gluttons in office. Government never changes.
The General Assembly will be back under the “Golden Dome” in a few days. Good Lord, but that is a scary thought! Can’t they go on strike or something!?! The State of Georgia would be a safer place.
Oh, well at least the Wild Hog Supper will probably be worthwhile.
Take care, Jim, and I will banter with you in the New Year.
By ron
December 28, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this
Jim,Sorry to disagree,but I’d want to read Fonda’s obituary,should it show up. Over a million to play with,surely the DeKalb Purchasing dept.had a merry Christmas. How much is the 1.8 mil,reduced to 1.1 mil,house, actually worth in real dollars? Using the Senate floor for a flea market is an idea with merit and should be investigated further.Why doesn’t Harry Reid get right on that? Add to your list of things not to be read about are items falling off Michael Jackson’s face. Happy New Year,one and all.
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. At risk of noting the obvious there is a simple way to get people to conserve water – raise the price, perhaps with a logarithmic scale. Our leftist friends would call that a “progressive” pricing system.
I respect Sen. Durbin for recognizing the value he and his cohorts bring to the public. The best use of senators and the senate floor would be to set up guided tours. Who wouldn’t pay to hear Robert Byrd talk about his KKK days and how it infused his sense of decency in his legislative career?
Mortgage fraud exists, but I respectfully disagree with the WSJ on the magnitude of the effect on defaults and foreclosures. Rather, the problem is that regulations (specifically HMDA, CRA, maybe section 8 of RESPA, and the regulators’ method of enforcing “reimbursable” violations of Reg Z) drove out the legitimate lenders, who then had 100% of the market. Regulation created a performance-incentive pay industry – those we call mortgage “bankers” although what they do has nothing to do with “banking.” Taxpayer subsidy (via guarantees) of FNMA and FHLMC securities created easy money. All government incentives and disincentives in that industry combined with the same good effect as teenagers, car keys, and liquor; any economist could have forecast it. Otherwise, though, Jim’s analysis of the dips is correct.
FEMA (or any other aspect of government) conduct an investigation with appropriate controls using a scientific method? The column degenerates into low comedy.
Call Captain Renault – corruption found in DeKalb County government contracts, and in dubious “tax allocation districts.” All of government is about fooling the idiots into taxing themselves so the overlords can reward themselves and their cronies. Any it happens every time the government tries to do something other than (1) kill people, or (2) steal people’s freedom. Every program. Anyone who expects honesty in fact in government does not understand the nature of Leviathan.
I think Texas is trying to drive strip clubs underground. In a culture with looser morals it would seem that the market for such clubs would be dissipating anyway, so the tax will likely crush the industry. They might as well tax girly magazines.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this
The wall street journal today has a front page story about a dead beat from Ohio who delayed foreclosure for 11 years without making a single house payment all that time. No, he was not a scumbay lawyer, but he did read law books and kept filing motions with the court that delayed foreclosure. The courts finally kicked him and his ugly wife out of the house, and the guy is not telling a sob story about how it was their dream home, and the bank stole it from him. Not to give you any ideas, but ah hear our would be legal beagle JMB lead the banks team, very incompetently I might add.
By Chris
December 28, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this
Hang Jane Fonda, Rosie O’Donnell, and anyone who works for Time Warner now. They are all enemies of the state!
By Charles
December 28, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this
The only Jane Fonda story I would want to read about is when she is (finally) tried for treason for her actions during the Vietnam War.
By Tut Terwilliger
December 28, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this
Oh contrare, mon frere. When Britney reveals a body part, I want to know and, more importantly, I want pix.
I will continue to flush twice in public facilities as a courtesy to others if the load is particularly offensive.
Half the population (of citizens) owns half the stuff in that flea market.
A phone technician makes $105,000? I’m in the wrong line of work.
When 2-BR condos sell for more than 100K in places like Dalton and Calhoun, home prices are crazy.
Just living in a trailer is a class issue in most cases.
Wonder who the owner(s) of that company paid more than $1 mil knows in DeKalb government?
One person’s sand is another’s good sense.
A government cover charge? That’s rich.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this
Wow, Benazir WAS one ugly woman, how did she ever manage to have children? I guess even ugly women have sex, proof being that israeli women keep having babies. No wonder Israeli men prefer Arab boys.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
When JMB is on the make at his favorite pick-up place, JMB always leaves all the hot water taps running full out, just to waste water and energy. First, JMN shines his shoes, then does the Craig toe dance from the middle stall. Why the middle? He doubles his chances of scoring!
By Cindy Parker
December 28, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this
If you say leviathan one more time…..
The $5 tax on stripper shows is a very accurate assessment on provable assets and Bear Sterns should take notes. (and photos)
Very funny flush reference to the new toilets. Bravo. Flushing priveledges! great stuff. It’s ironic that some wives spend their marriages complaining that their husbands dont flush enough. Flavo-flav could weigh in on this after what happened on his show.
Pakistan is our logistical resupply route for Army Afghanistan. Bhutto’s recent campaign platform seemed to suggest that any foreign presence in Pakistan is unwarranted, unwanted and unnecessary. She was certain to be elected. You connect the dots on the foreheads.
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this
Dear anti @ 9:22, funny, you remind me that my first attorney-firm job was in a banking boutique, run by one of the guys who eventually wound up on the list of “43 mysterious deaths in the Clinton administration.” He explained his choice of industries, affirming, “the ideal client is someone who is always in trouble, and who has unlimited funds to pay his legal bill.”
Extraordinary interview with a “liberal” (I never use that term, but that is how Jack Nicholson describes himself.) Nicholson sounds a lot like Joe Lieberman, to his credit. http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/ESQ0104-JAN_JACK
WSJ today seemingly has the same analysis on Pakistan that I published here yesterday. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110011053
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this
Dear anti @ 9:32, I guess my eyes are going too, Benezir looked like a hottie to me. As for your 9:37, no, I mostly troll political blogs.
By Tom
December 28, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this
Well Mr. Wooten, I knew Jane Fonda. I worked with Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda was a friend of mine. And Mr. Wooten, you’re no Jane Fonda.
Seriously, she’s an endearingly confused person. Always has been, always will be. Every time she thinks she’s got it figured out, she shouts it from the rooftops or from atop a Russian ack-ack gun, a perfect she-donkey with seemingly no capacity for embarrassment. You’d have to know her to get her, and millions of people quite rightly would never give her the chance.
But endearing, nonetheless. There’s a sweet girl lost inside that ridiculous bluster.
By getalife
December 28, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this
My goodmess, w’s foreign policy is a total disaster.
Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are in turmoil and unstable.
He wanted to add Iran to his list of disasters.
We have one more year of this massive failure and we will be attacked again due to the hatred w has caused by his foreign policy.
Geez.
By Dennis
December 28, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten is somewhat like an English teacher today, “Chose a topic and write an essay.”
There are a lot of topics today, but I’ll take this one (not for an essay). “Quote of the Week: “If we are not going to use the Senate floor to do the business of the American people, can we set up a flea market or something, so that something positive is happening?” asked U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.).”
Mr.Wooten then states, “Congress is a flea market. The problem is that half the population wants merchandise for free — and cannot fathom why owners might object.”
First, we need to wonder just who the “owners” are, or, who’s paying for the upkeep?
Undoubtedly Mr. Wooten and other conservatives will say the American people are the owners. But if that is so (political party aside) the management for those owners are doing a lousey job of managing the owner’s money.
Rather the managers are running a “flee market” with the owner’s goods, with little enough of the proceeds going back to the owners, because the mamagers are in the pockets of those doing the buying.
If everything was going on that Mr. Wooten and conservatives claim, this country would not be in the treacherous fiscal condition that it is in and having to borrow money from out of the country to maintain its economy (and pay for a needless war of choice).
Many have the skewed view that if some of the goods Americans buy were made in this country, (textiles, for example) Americans could not afford them. But the fact is, that Americans were affording them until their jobs were shipped out of the country.
It wasn’t that corporations were not already making a lot of money, they were. But, those in charge of the Congressional, “senate floor” “flee market” got greedy to make a lot more at the expense of the American people.
The owners of America, the American people, didn’t vote for that. It was stuffed down their throats.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Cindy Parker
December 28, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this
What would jesus do = wwjd
What would mohammed do = wWMD
When Osama Bin Laden gets his filthy paws (that damn dirty ape) on Pakistans nuclear Arsenal, he’s ask “what would mohammed do?” and see the acronym “wWMD” and deduced some sort of biblical code thing into it and launch.
We’re going to have to strike Pakistan first. Ten million dollars says that the plans are already in Cheney’s man-sized safe.
CNN just reported that the tiger who killed the guy in San Francisco’s Zoo is being charged with a hate crime cause the odds are the victim was gay. The tiger will tried in absentia since he blew himself up after the attack.
By Redneck Convert
December 28, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this
Well, I was right suprized to learn that Pakistan woman got kilt. I’m glad I live in the U S of A. We don’t kill our politicans no more. We just slime them till they wish they was dead. Take this librul Kerry. He might of been in combat, but by the time some godly Republicans got finished with him women were running around with fake war wounds on their arm and everybody was laughing at him. He had to go back home to live with that rich ketchup woman.
Anyway, I think housing prices are out of sight. A new double-wide cost more than 100,000 bucks. People need to do what that guy up in White County done. When he run out of room he just built a wood frame around his trailer and put in more rooms with the trailer still there in the middle. You can see it on the left if you drive to the end of GA 400 and turn right and go about a mile. You can’t claim a redneck don’t know how to think good.
I see the libruls are still whining about My President. It gets kind of boring. Just wait till they start screaming when Rev. Huckabee gets swore in.
Have a good day everybody and Happy New Year.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this
AH, Cindy Parker YOU SEEM TO HAVE HIT UPON THE FINAL SOLUTION.
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this
Dear Cindy @ 9:46, I know you love it when I talk dirty – Leviathan, Leviathan, Leviathan. Those Biblical references drive the chicks wild.
By Dusty
December 28, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this
Hey, folks, it is raining in Atlanta and nobody mentioned it. We should be “singing in the rain” or something. Who said Perdue didn’t know what he was doing?
Well, I will be glad when all the “regulars” return from their wild adventures…well.. sorta wild. Of course, PoFo is here in all his numerous non de plumes and jbmlaw with his pleassant sensibilites. And, alas, even Dennis with his repetitious “You don’t have to” and really, Dennis, you don’t have to. And “GEEZ” getalife, you don’t have to either. We know you had rather be president than Bush.
Well, anyway, I shall return and pick a topic right after RedNeck tells us about his formaldehydic trailer and Captain expands his vocabulary to its undercover limits. (I refrain here from saying the Captain will”cover camodes”.)
In the meantime, here’s to MORE rain. “I’m singin’ in the…….” Yes!!
By ageofpaper
December 28, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this
Flipping houses does not work unless supply is less than demand, mortgage problem is mostly due to banks greed and they have what is called an underwriter. The underwriter determines if the borrower can afford the terms of the loan on what is real not how what the borrower can work out later. The underwriter looks at your income, and then says in 3 years the loan is going to cost 300 a month more with a ARM, can you afford it? They were telling buyers don’t worry you can refinance and even lower the payment before the ARM kicks in. As for those that used equity to borrow 110% on inflated home values well to bad you lost. Notice the government bails out the banks and more importantly the money behind the banks.
By ageofpaper
December 28, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this
Franastan takes our money to stop Obama and buys missiles to point at India, we move all the computer, and service desk jobs to India, we give Israel a country in 1949 or so then 3 billion in loans every year we forgive, they buy missiles to point at everyone in the region, mean while we stage war in the news for democracy and behind the camera steal oil like taking candy from a baby. We had phony oil shortage in 77 and should have started getting off then oil then. Our government’s foreign policy is determined by defense contractors and Oil Company’s period.
By Crusty
December 28, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this
Perdue knew what he was doing alright … when he was getting that just-for-him tax break he lied about being ignorant of.
Which ones are PoFo Dusty? Name them oh psycho, er, rather psychic one. I hate that that brilliant ba$tard gets credit for all my clever work, too. It’s not fair.
By Captain Freedom
December 28, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this
In the “even a blind squirrel” department, Sister Dusty hits a home run with her observation that Gov Jim Ed Sonny Frank brought today’s rain with his call for prayer several months ago. This is scientific proof of the Proven Power of Prayer…a day of government sanctioned prayer inexorably leads to rain no more than 2-3 months later.
Of course, the Islamoatheistofascientists pointy head know it alls will say that this is a case of logical phallussy, but THE Captain knows a case of Divine Intervention when He sees one.
Well done, Dusty. Your embrace of Perdue’s Prayer Plan proves that your intellect is not the vast wasteland everyone believes it to be. It is only half vast.
By ageofpaper
December 28, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this
I told my wife this cause she is the only one that listens to me, if the Demo’s came out and said we will build a wall tomorrow, and we will fine the heck out of every company that hires illegals they would win by a landslide, but the repubs will win again cause the demos are so stupid. Speaking of stupid Rev Buckelbees handlers have him dress like Elmer Fudd and say on national TV this is what happens if you don’t vote for me, while pointing at Daffy Duck and his cousins.
By AmVet
December 28, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this
Half vast!
Unquestionably the line of the day!
Captain, you are the blogging equivalent of my musical muse Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star!
By Jack
December 28, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Bhotto was a hottie. Did you see pictures from a few years back? Some ladies are like fine wine and get better with age.
Like Dusty.
By Captain Freedom
December 28, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this
Hello, it’s me.
By ageofpaper
December 28, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this
4 Demos have majority in congress, raise gas so high and food follows, create mortgage melt down, let banks jack interest rates on credit cards to loan shark levels, People so p** they vote out every one in congress, repubs will again have congress. Demos love illegals and have no plans to tame gas and home heating cost, stand by while President pushes rich agenda, then put in shrew and child actor Obama and really the country is not ready for African American yet, sorry. Congress and President both Rebubs, more wars to come folks.. What is the clinical name for a President that has deep hatred for American workers and the middle class?By Glenn
December 28, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this
That’s funny, get, here I thought things were going quite well in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and even Iran. Four countries we do not run, but only influence. Sorry about Ms. Bhutto, I am, but after 48 hours of lionization, now the Left—-which is quickly becoming synonymous once again with pure, thinly disguised cowardice—-is going to have to backpeddle, isn’t it? I mean, what with all fingers pointing to the Monster Under the Bed as culprit once again. Couldn’t have that now, could we? Mmn-mmm? It is understood in your ad hoc embryonic ideology, is it not, that the enemy of George Bush and President Mushaboom cannot be your enemy, nor even the enemy of Clan Bhutto?
Quite a pickle for you folks.
By Captain Freedom
December 28, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this
You are correct, Jack. In fact, ‘Dusty’ is short for Duscatel.
THE Captain remains at his post, creating a veritable Utopia, with only a reel-to-reel as His onstage support as He maintains his something/anything approach to Keyboard Kommandoism and all that nazz.
By Glenn
December 28, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this
Timesis you crack me up, you sob. Have at them utopias, man. You’re doing God’s work.
They are ALL dystopic in the end.
…Vide 2d Life!!!
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
Stupid wrote “Try to imagine a young Pakistani woman bounding into the newsroom of the Harvard Crimson” - I can imagine this only if she is naked, wearing a dog collar attached to a leash, which is being held by a large black football player. Yo go girl
By getalife
December 28, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this
Quite a pickle for you folks.
No stupid. Are you in this country?
w will leave this mess for the next President and if we are attacked again, he will invade Iran.
Not a pickle, a complete foreign policy disaster.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 28, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this
Red @ 10:19,
If you drive a little further and hang a left at the 6th dirt road past the red, white, and blue trailer with the old 4-wheeler (Ford — not Chevy) up on 8 inch cinder blocks, you’ll see a row of the most creative structures this side of Jackson, Miss. Why there’s a trailer with stuff built off to the left followed by one with stuff off to the right and another one with stuff right in the middle. When they turn on them Christmas lights on the 4th of July, its a sight to behold.
By Jackie
December 28, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this
I don’t think the conservatives want to hear anything concerning FEMA and Katrina.
By Glenn
December 28, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this
AmVet, hi. Sorry I never connected while you were online to give you my only Todd story, which isn’t much good. I never met him, but his female fans are even more fun than Deadheads. He’s evidently quite approachable, and laconic as can be. Last I heard he was pal-ing around with Steward Brand, the brilliant futurist (he of Whole Earth fame). Those guys and Seybold and Negroponte and a few others were onto the Internet Rev. before the cat was even out of the bag, and they all worked together. Todd came into the mix at about the same time as Perry Barlow did, as I recall, and Stewart talked him into making the Net his exclusive artistic platform, a kind of perpetual, interactive, noisy art happening. These few people are to me the full flower of the democratic ideal, American-style. To my ear, you can hear it in Todd’s music, and not only in his collaborative popular efforts but especially in his very own. What do you think?
By Camus
December 28, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
Glenn,
You are ignoring the fact that Bhutto was “our man” in Pakistan, the one who would make democracy safe for Pervez. She is there because Condi Rice brokered the deal, and Bhutto was to serve as fig leaf for the coming elections, which would enable continued US military aid and presence in the country. And now the Rice plan is in shards, and you can bet dollars to donuts that Pervez will be out of power fairly soon, and probably at the hands of his military.
Not so sure why you peg the “Left” (whoever they might be) as the ones touting Bhutto as the great martyr to democracy (cf, for example, Wooten’s hasty hagiography yesterday), when her return was a US-engineered event. As a rule, people should hestiate to lionize political figures. But that did not stop the GOP candidates from waving her bloody corpse around yesterday. (Except for McCain, who actually seemed sane on the topic.)
I suggest that her demise bears resemblance to the Sadat and Indira Gandhi assasinations, in that middle eastern leaders who were deemed overly influenced by the US were targeted by nationalist extremists. But the fact of their assasinations does not erase the frequent barbarism of their rule, any more than this attack erases Bhutto’s well-documented corruption and avarice for power.
By getalife
December 28, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
W’s stupidity is exceeded only by my proclivity to engage in extreme gloryhole behavior.
Wooten may be a repugnant, but he’s cute.
Geez.
By Captain Freedom
December 28, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this
Mr Glenn,
THE Captain is THE Captain, and is no other. You are in error, sir, in attributing the remarks of THE Captain to another. As a relative newbie to this board, you have clearly not yet come to appreciate the singular brilliance that THE Captain bestows upon the proceedings here in Mr Wooten’s Dingy Den of Declamation. (words that begin with D this time)
While THE Captain appreciates your occasional adherence to True Belief Common Sensical orthodixy, HE deplores your more frequent forays into free thinking apostasy. Given your references to Deadheads, THE Captain can only infer that you are a recovering dirty fu.&king hippe who has had vast sectors of your mental faculty scoured by smoking acid and taking pot and listening to the aqualine explorations of Uncle Jerry. As such, your confusion is understandable, if utterly inexcusable. Take a bath.
Godspeed with your recovery, and with your denial of latency. THE Captain prays for you.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this
Ah Bubba Li Cious - What you don’t know is that Red’s pal refinanced the trailer/house for 750,000 dollars at 6 percent in an interest only arm, with the first payment defered for one year. Jim’s pension plan now owns the mortgage, Red’s pal has moved to Mexico, and Pedro is living in the trailer/mansion as Jim’s fund tries to foreclose. As usual, JMB is handling the legal end, so this foreclosure could take a decade or longer.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this
Excuse me, but isn’t Negroponte a NEGRO?
By Bubba Li Cious
December 28, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this
ANTI-@12:15,
That’s all right. I’ve done the math even though I had to resort to my toes for part of it. I only need 11 years without a trailer payment to get caught up on the payments on them tires. Then, the Ford is coming down off those blocks and I’m off to Jackson.
By TW
December 28, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this
Jane Fonda? Are things really that dire Jim? I see the Kennedy driving record popping up - always a sign that the Goodship GOP is taking on water - but the Jane Fonda card usually means ‘abandon ship’ is near. Are things really that bad for the Republicans? Perhaps a peek at Republican George W Bush’s report card is in order -
Foreign Policy - F Domestic Policy – F
Hmmm - Maybe so.
Perhaps a look at the future would help?
Jeffs Romney – the Moron? Giuliani – The cross-dressing inbred? Fred Thompson – The Hollywood Lobbyist? John ‘Iraq’ McCain? Huckabilly?
Hmmm - Maybe not.
It’s over boys. You had the keys to the kingdom and you couldn’t handle it. Time to give the tough jobs back to the grown-ups.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 28, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this
TW @ 12:43,
Why do you think the GOP has given you this particular selection for the Presidency? A Dem will surely get elected and be forced to fix all the messes by raising taxes (because it’s the only way they were taught in school). Then, just like last time, the GOP will step in talking about the mess the DEMonS made of things and how we will all be better off after 8 years of compassionate conservatism.
By TW
December 28, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this
Bubba @12:55 - No doubt, and the same idiots that make up 98% of their ‘base’ will buy it. Ever notice the ten states with the lowest SAT scores in 2004 ALL voted for Bush? Coincidence? I think not…
By Bubba Li Cious
December 28, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this
You thought us country boys couldn’t figure this stuff out. You give us 16 years after our 40th birthday and we can do pretty dang good figuring out the ways of the stumpers. Yes siree, the worst thing them politicians ever did was get rid of coal dust, asbestos, outhouses, and moonshine. Now we actually look forward to living long enough to collect a few years of social security payments — unless the GOP brings back the draft.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this
OH, DO BRING BACK THE DRAFT, US OLD GUYS CAN BAG ALL THE HOT YOUNG GIRLS WHILE THEIR PEERS ARE OFF CHASING ALLAH, AKMED, AND ABDUL.
By AmVet
December 28, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this
Captain, clearly you are one of the initiated and possess eyes that have seen. Kudos to you fellow TR fan.
Check out the 2004 CD Liars - truly amazing.
Glenn, as always, good stuff!
I look forward to reading some about Barlow (who I had never heard of).
I had met the runt a few times before, but had the opportunity to share some time (and botanicals) with him, Greg Hawkes (another really great guy!) and a few of their roadies about a year ago during the New Cars stop here in Atlanta.
Sports Center was on in the hotel room and they were showing MLB highlights and Todd and I talked baseball for about 45 minutes. He has two boys in the minors. And as is the case on so MANY other subjects, he knows his baseball. And being a lifelong fan and fount of knowledge myself, I should know!
Great fun…
By Dusty
December 28, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this
Well, I must mention that most surely the Captain’s identity is now known along with his fame. In today’s AJC is an article on the cleanliness of school restrooms. The author has even investigated such rooms as far away as India. Now a man who has a nose for noxious news must surely be the Captain. Congrats, Snappy Cappy, on heading up the Toilet Bowl Team.
And congrats to RedNeck on his architecture of wooden pallet trailer additions. The AIA is aflutter.(Bubba LiCious, Redneck already has the undercover country spot here. Buzz off.)
Now, Jim Wooten,….. competetive bids on services in DeKalb County? Surely you jest. And send those who cheat in government to jail? Is the DeKalb jail large enough? Bid bid bid!! Or should I mention the Leviathan, jbmlaw? Just wondering.
By Glenn
December 28, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this
How is it, getalife? I don’t understand. A disaster?
Carter was a disaster. the four presidents preceding Lincoln were major disasters. How so W?
Are you more afraid of war than you are committed to peace, get? Is that it?
By getalife
December 28, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this
Need better trolls Jim.
Geez.
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this
Dear TW @ 1:02, you need to refine your search request. The high SAT scores are found almost exclusively in suburban areas that vote republican, and the lowest SAT scores are found almost exclusively in large cities and rural areas that vote democrat.
By Dusty
December 28, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this
Glenn@1:50
As much as I understand your sentiments on posts attributed to getalife, I am sure it is not getalife. Just another jerk who steals IDs.
When you have been here a little longer, you will recognize the ID thieves. They exude a certain character failing that can hardly be missed.
By Camus
December 28, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this
Disaster - A disaster (from Middle French désastre, from Old Italian disastro, from the Greek pejorative prefix dis- bad + aster star) is the impact of a natural or man-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment.
Since Jan, 2001 (in no particular order):
International
Disregard of security reports that “OBM Determined to Strike in US”
Disengagement from N. Korea, with result of Kim re-starting the nuke program, conducting several successful tests, and receiving essentially the same deal from Bush as they had from Clinton. shrewd.
Complete kowtow to the Chinese government on issues of trade, foreign policy, and finance. (When the piper plays the tune, the jester must dance. China owns most of our debt and an increasing slice of our banking industry.)
An undermanned, underplanned invasion of an impotent country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Taking the word of hucksters like Chalabi who sold us a bill of goods, we are now billions of dollars poorer, thousands killed and maimed poorer, and enmeshed in a quagmire that has no end in sight. (And don’t tell me how the surge is working, either. Not even the Bushies believe that krap.)
Precipitous withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan to launch the Iraq invasion, leaving our “ally” Musharraf responsible for finding Bin Laden. That’s worked well…
Billions of dollars to Musharraf, who shielded a man who sold nuke technology to the Koreans, failed to find OBL, and is counting the days until he exits the stage. (Vertically or horizontally is anyone’s guess.)
The privatization of our armed forces. Blackwater is but the most visible component of this.
“Enhancing” the image of the US around the world through our creative application of torture and random incarceration.
Domestic
The non-response to Katrina. (That leaves the issue of diversion of Army Corps funding away from levee maintenance prior to the storm itself.)
Fiddling while the sub-prime market burns.
Turning a budget surplus into an unprecedented budget shortfall.
Turning the nation’s regulatory agencies over to the very entities that they are supposed to be regulating.
Turning the the energy policy of our nation over to the companies that stand to profit (or not) based on the plan’s content.
But I guess there’s a silver lining in there, but if you want to pretend it is the blossoming of democratic spirit in Iraq (show me that purple finger!!), I’ve got a some swampland I’d love to show you.
By Heywood Jablome
December 28, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this
They exude a certain character failing that can hardly be missed.
Which is why Dusty is a self-evident fraud even under her own name.
Yo Dusty
—Heywood Jablome
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this
Since you mention Lincoln, it is a little known fact that when Lincoln was shot, he screamed like a little girl whose hair has been pulled. I know, I pulled enough hair in my youth. The greatest sissy to ever sit in the off white, more of a s**, house.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this
All I want for Christmas is some more whop jokes!!! Maybe a few polock jokes too! Those guys can take lickin’ and keep on tickin’.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this
THE OFFICIAL AJCC EBONICS GUIDE to help whitey translate the negroid-american language into standard English.
Note: If Jamal wants to get a f*ing job, he better know how to speak correct english, not this Negro b******… Right On Cracker!
Ebonics joke: Knock, knock. Who’s there? I B. I B Who? I B Bilingual, whitey.
Baby names for negroid males. Jamal, Jerome, Cleophus. Baby names for negroid females. LaShondra, Latisha, Shanaynay.
The negroid mind has a common problem with conjugating the verb “to be”, so they continue to refer to every- thing as “be” I be, You be, She/He/It be, We be, They be.
YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYIN? - Used at the end of a sentence. Denotes a request for understanding from the Negroid individual. If you hear this repeatedly in a conversation, tell the Negro to speak properly. Question the Negro’s clarity.
MUH B*** IS EATIN’ GREENS ‘N CORNBREAD - His girlfriend or wife is eating vegetables and cornbread.
I GOTTA JET - I must leave at an immediately. The Negro must bail out his girlfriend or wife for selling crack and/or other toxic substances deemed inappropriate, lethal, and/or dangerous to society by the US Government.
10,000 - Used to denote an abscence of an individual. Mainly used to express a desire to leave the premise.
I GOT YOUR BACK - Denotes a false sense of protection by one Negro to another. The Negro stating this will often flee the scene in immediate danger because the Negro is known for it’s footspeed. In otherwords, the Negro is a fast land mammal and/or homosapien.
WHITEY, CRACKER, WHITEBREAD, HONKY - Adjectives used to describe a caucasian individual. There is no need to call the offending Negro a n****, junglebunny, jigaboo, or porchmonkey. This will just fluxuate into a violent scene and cause harm to you or the offending Negro.
DOG - Not the domesticated mammalian which barks. Used to denote other Negros.
OG - Old Gangsta. Used in the ghetto. Denotes authority in a territorial gang of Negros. Be aware that the Negro who is an OG is armed and dangerous. The Negro known as an OG will most likely being carrying a firearm (semi-auto), a beeper, and a pager.
YO, HOMEY, LET’S PLAY HOOPS - Hello, Good Negro, Let us play basketball. Young black males are notorious for playing basketball. Infact, many Negroes on welfare buy $200 shoes and hit the court nightly.
SMOKE HIM, FOO - Shoot him, friend. Used in ghetto culture to denote a killing of another homosapien.
YOU BE TRIPPIN’, FOO - Your are paranoid, friend. May have other meanings denoted by monotone in voice, eg; You f*** up.
MY BAD - My mistake. The negroid often makes mistakes. If the negroid is fluent in ebonics, he will certainly use MY BAD. Some southerners have also adopted this phrase because they are equally as stupid as 98% of the negroid population inhabiting English-speaking North America.
DISSIN’ - Disrespecting a fellow negroid. An insult. Also; TO BE DISSED, YOU DISSIN’ ME?, et al.
YO MAMA - Your guess is as good as ours. Maybe the negroid finds your mother attractive, or the negroid thinks that by insulting your mother that he is insulting you. Maybe Jamal should take a course in human genetics as insults cannot travels telepathically through mother to child.
CHRONIC - Used to denote marijuana. Synonym is used in gangsta rap songs. Marijuana has an adverse effect on the negroid nervous system, possibly giving them chronic bronchial infections.
THEY GONNA GET THEY A* SHOT UP - They are going to be shot repeatedly. The Negroid ghetto culture blatantly encourages violence against rival negroes and other races.
GAT - Gun. Very Archaic. As known, many young negro males are notorious for owning stolen firearms.
THIS S** IS WHACK - This situation is not correct. The negro mind cannot articulate a situation from a bowel movement.
MUH JIMMY IS WHACKED - My penis is not functioning properly.
GET MUH SWERVE ON - Get laid or have sex. Used often by negroid males who’s penis is crooked. Negroid males boast about having large penises. Maybe that is why their inertia cause a crooked penis.
GET MUH GRUB ON - Eating. They negroid diet usually consists of watermelon, ribs, and fried chicken. The African tribes often ate goat blood and fat.
RIDE - Automobile. Many negroid males steal cars and take them for joyrides. This offense is punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
DA BOMB - It is the greatest thing since cornbread. Since the negroid americans were not allowed to drop atomic bombs in WWII, they now refer to things they like as the bomb. Too bad radiation didn’t filter in the ghetto.
I BE HANGIN’ IN MUH CRIB - I am sitting in my dwelling. Many negroes refer to their domicile as a crib because when breast feeding they often sat in their crib’s masturbating to images of their mother’s breasts.
WHERE BE DA HOES MANG - Where are the prostitutes, good citizen? Many negroes get high on a substance deemed toxic and pick up prostitutes because their wifes and/or girlfriends are pimped by other negroes.
STEP OFF - Back down. Many negroid americans fall off buildings every year if they are not pushed off of them by fellow negroes. STEP OFF denotes a request from one negro to another to please be calm. If the negroes knocked over a 7-11, one negro maybe remorseful or nervous. If the negroes’ hideout is on a building, they might fall off of that building.
HOMEY - Friend. One negro may have homo erotic feelings for his friend and want to take him home. Back in the late 70’s during the explosion of street gangs, many negroes experimented with homosexuality. Another way this phrase could have come about is through crackhouses. Many negroes sell crack, so their fellow negroes at the crackhouse were known as homeys.
G-FUNK/THANG - G denotes gangsta. Since
By Dusty
December 28, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this
Also, when you’ve been here a little longer, you’ll notice that I exude a certain odor, er, lack of live brain cells that can hardly be missed. In other words, I’m dumb as a bag of smelt.
By David Duke
December 28, 2007 2:33 PM | Link to this
OK, this anti-jbmlaw character has got to go. His racism is not suitable for a family newspaper, or civil discourse.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 28, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this
Dusty, Kiss my country grits.
By Glenn
December 28, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this
Man, Jackie, am I ever glad you’re on deck, cause I’ve got a slate to clean with you. I’m so embarrassed about the wrong pronoun! When you and I began to compare notes a while back, I got to wondering which form of Jackie you are, male or female. At some point I formed the impression that you were the latter, possibly from another’s misplaced pronoun. Egg is dripping onto my keyboard, Jackie. I apologize.
I wanted to clear up what I was on about yesterday, as I’ve been writing too quickly and sloppily lately, with unanticipated results. I didn’t mean to suggest neither that you assert that the Mushaboomers are extremists nor that I believe they are Democrats. Rather, I took you to mean that they countenance Al-Q, as in the highlands and border country and as in Salafist fellow travellers in their general staff. I agree with that, but not with the notion that Mushroomcloud supports them. Also, I didn’t mean that he and his cabinet and military henchers are midwives of democracy by intent, but rather that theirs probably will be seen as having been a transitional period not to extremism, but to democracy. I’m sure you would agree that it’s harder to sustain optimism in these blogs than it is to sound cynical (though you and I—esp. you—have seen some real s#@t.)
It would not disturb my sleep were Perversive to pass away in his own this night, except, what then? Besides, the man has some miles left on him and he’s headed in the direction of being one of those reprobate power maniacs we have to keep who then turns out in the end to be a kind of reformed killer. The British specialize in such husbandry, and the Pakistanis are still deeply into the British, so I’m inclined to give it a chance.
What do you say?
By William Shatner
December 28, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this
I can’t get behind that first 2:25.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 28, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this
What spot do you have covered Dusty? That spot on your living room carpet? Where’s that snappy comeback, Dusty? Oh Dusty! Here Girl! Goooood Girl!
By Jackie
December 28, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this
Glenn,
The good thing about posting and the points/counterpoints being made by those of us who have a profound intellectual difference about solving the problems of the world, I realize that I do not have all the answers. The moral to my story is, each of us have a few beans to add to the pot, therefore, if we cook the batch slowly, we may come up with a “meal” that is “edible.”
By Dusty
December 28, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this
Camus @ 2:05
I realize that you are spending your holidays in a pathological quest to smear President Bush and the country. Others may do it better but I’ll give it a try at cutting through the smog and scum.
USA & INTERNAIONAL
There is no disregard of security reports. Homeland Defense is at work whle liberals make every effort to criminalize even the reporting of phone calls of terrorists to Americans, even the companies that transmit the calls.
The War in Iraq was planned, voted on by Congress and executed after many months. The Surge IS working after many setbacks as often happens in wars. Some American troops are returning home.
Afghanistan is being run by Afghans and NATO. Osama hides in the highest mountains in the world where even the Osama-supportive locals are a reticent group.
Musharaff of Pakistan has been our ally even with faults. He has to appease his own country while helping us. He, too, is fighting terrorists who do not like him, just like you do not like our allies.
Blackwater is a private security firm with paid employees who risk their lives by their own choice. They relieve the military of many duties which cuts the requirement for more troops.
The US does not allow torture. Read military manuals. Three prisoners have been waterboarded but none were beheaded, desecrated,cut up, burned or dead bodies hung on bridges. Three people being “waterboarded” was an overjealous move to get vital information. It is not a policy.
Domestic
You are laughable here, Camus. The Feds spent millions on Katrina relief. Local and State measures failed while the Federal government tried to pick up the pieces and are still trying. And….no levee is going to hold when our greatest hurricanes hit hard.
The government is not the “baby sitter” for subprime mortgage loans.
Budget surplus is great at any time but almost impossible during war time. Sorry that you, Camus, do not support the war or the military.
Please find us an energy company that is a non-profit and we will use them.
In other words, Camus, you are a white flag liberal who sees no good in this country or our war for freedom. We try to avoid another 9/11, the one you wish to ignore. You are one sad case of an American.
By Another taxpayer
December 28, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this
Jackie@3:09,
If arrogance could be “cooked off” the “meal”, then your approach may have a chance of yielding at least a worthy discussion. Otherwise, you would simply be left with a bad after taste.
By TW
December 28, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this
Dusty - you need to buy your weed from someone else.
By Camus
December 28, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
I am an American who loves what his nation has stood for, though has often been ashamed by what has been perpetrated in its name by bad actors. I believe in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the principles that have served as the guiding lights of our nation for 200+ years. But my admiration does not blind me when the actual fails to live up to the ideal. That you can see nothing but polha dots and moonbeams when dishonest people like Bush and Cheney steer this country into the reef does not make you a patriot, not by a long shot. As in time immemorial, it merely makes you a useful idiot.
Your list of rebuttals would be laughable if they did not serve to delude the disinterested into supporting the dishonest and dishonorable. You, Dusty, are a traitor to your country when so casually dismiss the misdeeds of our “leadership”.
I realize none of what I write will penetrate your immense ego and refusal to grapple with facts. Your constant retreat to a position of “agree with me or you are a traitor” is ample evidence of a parrot with opinions and no facts to back them up. If you had a shred of honesty about you, you would never be able to sleep, though I know you will chirp merrily that you sleep just fine. More proof for the pudding, traitor.
You are, as noted earlier and frequently, a fraud. And our current president, an abject failure.
Worst. Ever. You deserve each other.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 28, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this
TW,
It sounds like Dusty be gettin some high grade stuff — probably government issue.
By Dusty
December 28, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this
TW @3:38
Did I step on your toes? Does the truth hurt? Is it 3:43? Must run. Have fun. See ya’ later..maybe….maybe not…
PS..unlike you, I do not buy or use “weed” or whatever else stuff you sell. Sorry…
By BS Aplenty
December 28, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this
I feel somewhat sorry for Jane Fonda. She’s what happens when a parent doesn’t ‘rip you a new one’ as you head for the deep end of the “stupid-pool.” A place where we’ve all taken a lap or two (or three or four, getalife). Now, alas, an “I’m sorry” just won’t do.
P.S. As the old year draws to a close, I wish to take a moment and thank all you fine bloggers for your clever and insightful comments. To Jim, jbmlaw, tftt, PoFo, Mid-South, Glenn and many others I look forward to your wit and wisdom in the coming year. Especially since it’s an election year. To “noble” but deranged opposition I can only hope that you experience an epiphany and regain your conservative sanity.
By getalife
December 28, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this
Yeah dusty,
After getting crushed in that debate, you should cut and run and get some more of that cheap wine you guzzle.
Geez.
By Dusty
December 28, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this
Oh my, just as I was leaving..
No, Camus, I am no fraud. I think like a majority of Americans. You are trying to criminalize our President when there are not EVEN any indictments and never will be. There is no crime.
In other words, justice is not served by your imaginative political but nonfactual efforts. Your dislike of the president does not make him a criminal and that is what you are trying to do.
Your efforts are hurting the country. I am all for supporting this country. You can call that any thing you want but my support is truthful and obvious. Yours is not. You cannot even support our military and our war efforts.
Sorry, Camus. Go ahead and get upset. I would be too if I had your attitude.
Bye..
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this
Dear Camus @ 3:42, anyone who refers to Bush and Cheney as “dishonest” ought to refrain from using the phrase “useful idiot.” Dusty understands the cut and run surrendarcrats, and I think she nailed you guys, with all due respect.
By jm
December 28, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this
Personally, I want to know the company that pays a 23 year old phone technician $105,000.00.
Once again, Mr. Wooten neglects to mention the real crooks in the sub-prime mess. That would be the brokers who bundled the sub-prime mortgages into CDO’s that somehow got AAA ratings (the highest instead of lower ratings), allowing the brokers to take the money and run. Leaving investors, who trying to limit risk bought those AAA bonds, holding the bag.
As for the 50% that wants stuff for free, I wonder where Mr. Wooten places Georgia’s pork king, Rep. Jack Kingston (R).
By AmVet
December 28, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this
Jackie, loved your bean analogy!
But as is typical, the good news almost always comes with a very nasty downside: As a normal human digestive tract does not contain any anti-oligosaccharide enzymes, consumed oligosaccharides are typically digested by bacteria in the large intestine. This digestion process produces flatulence-causing gases as a byproduct.
And speaking of ingestibles, just one obscure reference to botanicals and the “green” crowd shows up in haste!
So are Dusty and Bill, the only two who never inhaled?
And John Ashcroft (or whoever replaced you), if you’re reading this - P!SS OFF!
By getalife
December 28, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this
Um, yeah right.
I will go out on a limb here and say it will get much worse in 2008 and our friends on the right will spew the same BS Aplenty.
Our friends on the left will continue to voice their outrage to get our country back in the right direction with the majority of real American people that will vote for change.
By Cindy Parker
December 28, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this
That tiger that blew himself up after mauling that poor gay guy in the San Francisco Zoo left a suicide note. Fox News has a translation that reads, “Rowrrr Growwlll Rowrrrfff!”
These tigers take themselves too seriously and I think that’s what’s wrong with all of them. There are more tigers in captivity as household pets than there are in the wild. There’s a tiger in Texas who smokes a cigar and drinks brandy, and watches C-Span. If we allow these tigers to become any more civilized, and let down our guard, then we’re finished. We’ll all be mauled and keeled to death.
I never liked no tigers no how anyway.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this
Gold is up, the Euro is up, oil is up, wheat is up, eggs are up: life is good for those of us profiting from the misery of the neocons. The shock of 2008 will be a 15 percent inflation rate in the essentials of daily living - you know, food and energy. More money in my pocket.
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
Dear jm @ 4:11, well-said.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this
As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, “If I’m going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman.”
She removes all her clothing and asks, “Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?”
A man stands up, removes his shirt and says, “Here, iron this!”.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this
This just in: Boo-who-who-to died from a head injury she inflicted on herself as she ducked. THIS WAS NOT MURDER: She died from a self inflicted head wound: she hit her head on the sun roof cover as she ducked. No court would convict the man who fired the gun or detonated the bomb, as their is no damage on the body from either act. The clumsy olf died of her own clumsyness.
By Cindy Parker
December 28, 2007 4:36 PM | Link to this
Falcons wont be televised sunday. Not fair.
I’ll settle for playoff implication games, if the networks will run them in 1080p.
Why hasn’t Fox upgraded to 1080p in Falcon broadcasts? Anyone know? They broadcast in 720. or some lesser HD technology.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 28, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this
The falconettes ain’t worth analog, let alone 1080.
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this
Dear Anti @ 4:29, although your post is thoughtful, many jurisdictions would invoke a “felony murder” rule or standard.
By AmVet
December 28, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this
Usually try not to be TOO snarky, but that smack down of the 3:19 was Grade A, regardless of your political bent, leanings or twistedness.
As was that burn at 4:57. Schuhweeeet.
Watching Blank’s Atlanta F@ckUps is like watching absolutely horrible 30’s movies and wondering why they were never colorized by Ted.
By getalife
December 28, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this
dusty’s hero vetoes the defense bill because “a new “Truman Commission” to fight fraud and waste by military contractors”. w wants no accountability.
addington and cheney probably caught this oversight.
By jbmlaw
December 28, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this
Dear Getalife @ 5:33, while I appreciate the democrats’ willingness to allow a single plaintiff’s attorney to freeze all funds of the emerging democracy of Iraq in order to permit a pursuit a US suit for sins of Sadaam Hussein, reasonable minds may disagree. Certainly we can rely on democrats to do anything the plaintiff’s bar desires.
By getalife
December 28, 2007 6:04 PM | Link to this
I posted the wrong link ambullance chaser.
In the process, Bush has rejected a pay raise for the troops, VA care for wounded veterans, a new “Truman Commission” to fight fraud and waste by military contractors, and expanded job protections for family members of severely wounded troops.
So, you gullible fool bought into w lies again.
Iraqi government dictates our legislation?
Geez, when will you stop being punked by this idiot?
Wow.
By AmVet
December 28, 2007 6:06 PM | Link to this
To all of my fellow quasi-economists, pseudo-historians, neo-libertarians and non-conservative conservatives I say after this tumultuous 2007, let’s all look forward to a prosperous 08.
And may Godd help us all no matter who we elect as the next POTUS.
And be excellent to each other.
Party on dudes.