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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Progress after Fidel. Ordinary Cubans are now allowed to stay in the hotels they own. And buy an electric motorbike previously denied them because charging it up could collapse the power grid. A Cuban earning the average state salary could afford to stay in a four-star hotel once in 216 years.
Just as the JFK conspiracy theories die down, the Princess Diana conspiracy theories live on. An official inquest, which had cost $5.8 million through February, finds that, no, Prince Philip did not order her execution. So don’t expect to read any other spooks-did-it stories.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin approaches the profile-in-courage moment for Democrats. That’s the moment when they agonize publicly —- before raising taxes.
What in the world is my state doing regulating how much wine any resident can buy from any winery anywhere in the world? Republicans who run Georgia should question every regulation — many of which are simply to protect monopolies from competition — with the idea of getting rid of them altogether. A just-passed bill would let Georgians buy up to 12 cases a year from out of state without going through a distributor.
Rather than adding a $10 tax to vehicles to fund a state trauma network, the Legislature should just continue collecting the quarter-mill in local property taxes, amounting to about $30 per homeowner, that the governor had proposed eliminating. That’s $90 million. And by all means, never dedicate a tax to a specific purpose, lest the claimants think they are entitled to every penny raised. All funding needs should compete for every dollar. “I’m not interested in creating an entitlement program,” said Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle. Don’t. Directly, indirectly or otherwise.
Fairness, slowly, comes to home schoolers. Awaiting the governor’s signature is a bill that makes home schoolers who score in the 85th percentile on the SAT or ACT eligible for HOPE grants upfront.
Fulton County tax commissioner Arthur Ferdinand appeals a court decision directing him to distribute school funds to tax allocation district projects, like Atlantic Station. He’d declined to divert about $30 million, citing a Georgia Supreme Court ruling. Ferdinand’s right. The county may have to raise taxes on other property owners by $30 million, but the court decision was clear. It’s unconstitutional.
If you missed Sunday’s @issue section on the death of Martin Luther King Jr. 40 years ago today, go back and find it. It was spectacular. Beautiful photography and presentation and, even after 40 years, the first-person accounts of those intimately connected with the tragedy are compellingly told. If you read one thing about the 40th anniversary, make it that.
Amid the squabbling that is this year’s General Assembly, a moment of piercing truth from House Speaker Glenn Richardson. Faced with a series of resolutions urging this and that, including commuter rail to Macon, Atlanta and Athens, Richardson admitted: “We do these to appease people.” They have no force of law. They mean nothing. And they’re presented as uncontested resolutions, meaning there’s no point in talking about them. They’re legislative clutter.
Front-page headline: “Infighting may doom tax cuts.” If it does, Georgia needs new blood under the Gold Dome. Cagle and Richardson have one day to deliver. Today. Two years of games on tax cuts is enough.
One more reason not to prefer Barack Obama for president: He promises that Al Gore will have a major role in his administration addressing global warming.
If indeed Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is a champion of charter schools, he surely could not have planted what State Rep. Jan Jones (R-Alpharetta) calls a “poison pill” in a bill that would expand the charter-school option for parents. Education could be one of the major successes of this session, though killing House Bill 881 would be a huge setback. It establishes the principle that the money follows the child and discourages local boards from stonewalling charter-school efforts.
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By TW
April 4, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this
Is the country ready for a minority in the White House?
Can we afford four more years of a white guy?????????????
‘w’, the white guy, has soiled the country (with incompetence or disdain, take your pick), he’s muted the conservative voice (if not killed it), reduced The Bible to a bludgeoning instrument, turned us into a laughing stock worldwide, drove us into debt, etc… etc…
Heck, us sports fans can’t even refer to a ‘win’ as a ‘W’ anymore.
Are we ready for a black man? For a woman? Sadly, thanks to ‘w’, in 2008 anything beats a white guy with an ‘R’ next to his name.
By jbmlaw
April 4, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. With the approach of spring break, I urge all of our leftist friends to enjoy the pleasures of a true socialist paradise, at Uncle Fidel’s tropical resort. Stay as long as you wish, and join the people’s fight for justice.
As to the assassination of Princess Di, I have it on good authority that Elvis did it.
Interesting that Leftists equate theft with courage. Conservatives equate personal responsibility with courage. Different world view.
Dear Jim, we all know why Republicans – not conservatives, clear distinction here – will require consumers to employ the services of an authorized “distributor” when consuming more than 10 cases of wine per year. The reason is the same as why democrats passed even more such restrictive laws when they ran the show. Alcohol Distributors contribute big bucks. Great quote I read yesterday: “We have to argue with him about everything!” …They were talking about the Palmetto State’s two-term Gov. Mark Sanford…When I brought up this criticism to Sanford in a recent interview, the governor shot back: “[Y]ou’ve got to dig into the sources on those fronts, to say, ‘indeed, are they really conservative.’ Because the bottom line in South Carolina is we absolutely have Republican control, but we do not have a conservative working majority in our body politic. And again, I’ve said this straight to his face, I’m not saying anything out of turn — [State Sen] Hugh Leatherman is the head of [the Senate Finance Committee], is a guy who for 25 years of his life is a Democrat, he sees the time changing, he shifts to the Republican party, but it is indeed in name only. I guess some folks call folks like that ‘rinos’ [Republicans In Name Only], I don’t know what you call them, but the bottom line is a lot of folks with whom we’ve indeed had troubles have not been pushing conservative ideology.” Ties nicely to three of Jim’s last four notes.
All state taxes ARE a state trauma network, inflicted by the collector.
The home schoolers perform so much better than those subjected to our public schools that it seems almost laughable to allow public school students to compete for Hope scholarships. But fair is fair, we need to allow even public school students to compete.
I doubt if I’ll read anything about the 40th anniversary of Rev. King’s death. At the time of his death, Rev. King was passé, others had eclipsed his role in the civil rights movement. His role was as inspiration for the black community; the then-separate white community rarely had any motivation to contemplate black community affairs. The jbmlaw perspective is that the people who broke down the barriers were not the marchers, but rather Jesse Owen, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Nat King Cole, Willie Mays, Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge, Flip Wilson, Charlie Pride, Hank Aaron – all doers, not talkers. The doers are the ones who opened the doors for Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, and Condi Rice.
I think we need to see more of Al Gore lecturing America on global warming. Would have the same effect as Bill Clinton lecturing on sex education.
By jbmlaw
April 4, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
Dear Bad old Boy from late yesterday, you asked a meritorious (if leftist-oriented) question seeking my analysis of Warren Buffet’s endorsement of similar (to him) leftists. The wizard of Omaha is a “deal-maker” and that is the source of his fortune; “deal-makers” are rarely conservatives, viz. Ted Turner. We note that Warren advocates higher estate taxes, but has set up trusts to avoid the tax man at his death, conventional leftist double-speak. (See the difference between a conservative and a leftist, I did not call him a hypocrite. He advocates higher taxes for others only, so there is no hypocrisy in his action.) To go back to my original note, your inquiry is “leftist-oriented” because it is based on the cult of personality rather than any objective ideas. Had you asked me about a theory (and blinded me to the name of the subject, Warren Buffet) you would have avoided the leftist cultism trap. The very definition of leftism, however, is that it cannot move forward on ideas, and must rely entirely on persona. Thus Barack. Contrast Ronaldus Maximus; if I say “Reaganomics” a particular idea, perhaps anathema to you, will arise. If I say Obamanomics or Obamaism, you will stare vacantly.
By BadOleBoys
April 4, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this
Jim,
Good Morning. I must say you really hit the nail on the head with the regulation of wine purchases issue. What is wrong with our society today. Must we regulate ourselves to death. As you say, most of these regulations do nothing more than protect some monopoly or maybe a special interest group or other person or persons. Just take, for example, the regulations imposed by the EPD on wastewater treatment facilities — the places that treat raw sewage and then release their treated water into the lakes and streams and on the land. These places are required to jump through all sorts of hoops by regularly testing waste water for all sorts of stuff and hiring people with all sorts of certifications, and on and on and on. The money it takes to satisfy all those requirements and all of that expense has to be paid by, you guessed it, the taxpayer. Why? Why should the taxpayer be burdened with these regulations and oversight and the associated expense when there is a much simpler and more cost effective solution. There’s a farm in southern White County that has the answer. Just go to www.ngass.com to learn more. Drink the kool-aid. Free yourself of undue regulation and oversight and the associated costs now.
By Copyleft
April 4, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
Always good to start the day with a laugh from old reliable JBM:
“Conservatives equate personal responsibility with courage.”
Oh, that’s a good one! (snicker)
By MADMOMMY
April 4, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
When they raise taxes again this year, are they going to call my boss and tell them I need a raise just to stay at the level I am at now? Can I get a “rise in taxes” raise? How wonderful that would be since I really don’t see where the money is going in the first place.
I agree that the money should follow the student and then maybe we will get what we pay for with higher learning and education for all students, not just for the kids who’s parents can afford the price of private school. Look at Germany and how they do things over there. Not really a college bound kid, then lets get you into a trade school so you can make a living and be part of society. Here if your not going to college you have no other options unless you have the money to pursue something else on your own.
Who cares how much wine I order or drink. There are times when I am hosting a party or ordering wine for a wedding where I would like to get a better wine at a better cost. Let’s focus on something else that really needs our attention.
TW- Can we afford 4 more years of a white guy? YES WE CAN. LET’S GO MCCAIN!!!!!!!!!
McCain is the only one who speaks the truth and will keep this country going and bring us back to the United States that we know and love.
By ron
April 4, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Good Morning Jim,Great strides made in Cuba by Raul.That’ll be it for this year though.Too many freedoms can go to the head you know.
When everyone is drunk and the car gets smashed up,it isn’t a conspiracy.
In many states it is a felony for an individual to ship wine either to or from the state.A 12 case limit in Georgia is a least a step in the right direction.I see that Georgia is listed as one of the felony states.
12,000 years ago,an ice sheet covered large portions of North America.I need Al Gore to sit down and patiently explain to me what part of human activity caused these ice sheets to recede.
Home schoolers are going to finally have their day.Most of them do a fine job.
Does Redneck Convert plan to offer home delivery of wine anytime in the near future?”Did you put the wine bottles out,Dear”?”Yes,I ordered two chardonnay’s,a pinot noir,one zinfandel,and a cottage cheese”.
By GayGrayGeek
April 4, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Copyleft @ 8:41- Yep, and given how Paleocons like the Esquire and the DustBuster repeatedly and consistently put the responsibility for anything and everything they deem “bad” at the feet of the Democratic party, we can see how those of the Paleocon ilk not only lack the former but also have none of the latter.
By HILLARY LIES
April 4, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
The question was: “Did you tell Bill Richardson that Barack Obama can’t win?” HILLARY: “No.”
So now the idiot woman is claiming she misunderstood the question. To think there are actual people in this nation who want this horrid woman running this nation. How pathetic beyond typical Clinton pathetic can you get. GOD what a horrible woman.
You think Al “Lying Liars” Franken will mention all of HILLARY’S LIES?
By BadOleBoys
April 4, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
jbmlaw,
There’s no shame in saying “I don’t know”. I’ve had to say it more than once to people from all walks of life — from hourly factory workers to corporate executives. Sometimes I’d have the answer(s) the person was looking for and I would gladly share it with him or her. Other times I would not have the answer and I would typically respond with “I don’t know” or “I don’t recall” or “I don’t know but I’ll try to get the answer for you”, etc. I cannot recall a single time where I looked at the questioner and accused him or her of being something analogous to a “leftist” or other such “extremely or utterly foolish” label.
By AmVet
April 4, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
You think Al “Lying Liars” Franken will mention all of HILLARY’S LIES?
Probably not.
But then neither will Mann Coulter, who contends she lies less than Sen. McCain.
Go figure…
BTW has anyone heard how her campaigning for Sen. Clinton is going?
In this regard, that twisted chick adored by the right wing lunatic fringe reminds me of another moronic misanthrope - OJ Simpson.
You know. The guy who said after his acquittal he was going to find the real killer.
By Captain Freedom
April 4, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
As Mr Wooten marks the 40th Anniversary celebration, er, memorial of the slaying MLK, THE Captain wishes to remind everyone that there is only ONE Presidential candidate who had the courage to stand up and say “NO, this commsymp rabble rousing nigra does not deserve a national holiday in his memory!” THE Captain’s Little Soldier rises to attention at the memory.
And that brave man is John McCain. So never mind that today John McCain will appear at the MLK memorial service and pretend to have undergone a transformation on the issue of race. The Straight Talking Maverick is only tossing a hambone to Those People (TM, Red) who won’t vote for him anyway because they are racist and want to keep the White Man down.
But fear not… the WAR HERO McCain is not really pandering today. He is only “playing the game” because “he has to”, and everyone knows that, and that’s why he, the WAR HERO, is allowed to play the game without consequence, because he knows it’s just a game, and that makes it okay. For Republicans, that is.
Vote John McCain. Straight Talk, and he doesn’t really like darkies, either. He just pretends to when it is necessary. It is the Right Thing to do.
By MocaMarc
April 4, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
jbmlaw is a fool.
By OJ
April 4, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
Honest officer, I just stumbled over these things while I was searching for the real killer. I picked them up in order to keep others from tripping over them as I did. I was going to return them once it was daylight. Honest.
By getalife
April 4, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
“What Is He Hiding? McCain Delays Release Of Medical Records Again”
Uh oh. I am guessing McWar has the big c.
By TW
April 4, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
MADMOMMY – besides the soldiers, their families, and the middle class, no one has been screwed harder by the new element republican than John McCain. It started with the filth they flung at him in South Carolina during the 2000 primary, and it will end with the ‘w’ regime costing him the presidency in 2008.
By Tom Pain
April 4, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
There’s a powerful new movement under way across our great nation. It’s referred to as * “Don’t Vote For an Incumbent” * . I know the arguments. I have heard them all. They all boil down to “don’t toss the baby out with the bath water”. Well, all the studies done to date clearly show that the “babies” are in the minority. So, it’s an acceptable level of collateral damage.
By peter
April 4, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Good morning Wrongs, all along with Dusty are now part of the 19% that think the country is OK with Bush and his policy’s.
Lemmings are in smaller numbers, but yet they do exist !
By Pompano
April 4, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
This is off topic - but the bloggers here are pretty current on local news, so I wanted to check something out. I have friends on the Southside (don’t live there myself) who tell me that the Search firm the Clayton school board hired presented 3 candidates. One of the candidates was white - yet the school board only chose to interview the two black candidates and would not grant an interview to the white candidate. Has anyone else heard this? I would expect the AJC not to report on something like this sense they only pump out racial drivel about evil whites.
By jbmlaw
April 4, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
Dear Copyleft @ 8:41, “Always good to start the day with a laugh from old reliable JBM: “Conservatives equate personal responsibility with courage.” Oh, that’s a good one! (snicker)” Of course, that was the point of my post – leftists snicker at the idea of personal responsibility, whereas conservatives venerate it. Thanks for the illustration.
Dear BoB @ 9:06, “jbmlaw, There’s no shame in saying “I don’t know”. I’ve had to say it more than once to people from all walks of life …I cannot recall a single time where I looked at the questioner and accused him or her of being something analogous to a “leftist” or other such “extremely or utterly foolish” label.” I fully understand, and agree, please feel free to ask anything, any time. I was not disparaging you when I called your question “leftist” – while it was “leftist,” for the reasons I explained, I am quite convinced you were not even conscious of the bias when you asked. However, if I do not show you the flaw in your analysis, how else will you ever learn. [“Leftist” is not an epithet, it is a mere descriptor of those who think differently than I – “moron” is an epithet.]
By Shar
April 4, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
Good Morning to all. Jbmlaw @ 8:11, what a creepy quote you gave us today. A state chief executive who derides a duly elected representative of the people (and a member of his own party) as part of “a lot of folks with whom we’ve indeed had troubles have not been pushing conservative ideology.” Fyodor Dostoevsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote frequently about bureaucrats who would have earned Governor Sanford’s approbation, pushing ideology rather than representing the will of a constituency, but I cannot recall ever reading much that was complimentary.
Your note on courage is thought-provoking rather than simply provoking as you doubtless intended. To me, “personal responsibility” includes the paying of taxes, as we are not just a country of individuals but a community with common needs for which the group is responsible. It is defining those needs that causes the policy debates that generate the “leftist” and “conservative” terms you use. On Mayor Franklin, I believe she was both courageous and responsible in raising taxes and water rates to pay for the sewer overhaul, as it was desperately needed, utterly uninteresting and the system failure was an immediate reflection of the corruption rife within the administrations of her political mentors. Plus, she did it knowing she’d have to answer for it when she ran for re-election. Her latest proposed tax increase, meant to cover deficits resulting from rank incompetance in the city finance department coupled with overspending, is timed when she cannot suffer the electoral consequences and is lazy and cowardly.
By Vinnie Vino
April 4, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
I ought to be able to buy the entire Napa Valley’s production and give it away to my fellow Georgians without any mofo politician having anything to say about it. And I might.
So there.
By hogleg
April 4, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
obama has treated like royalty by the mainstream media .when the general election begins we will find that obama is another hard left socalist.
By Captain Freedom
April 4, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
Well, it appears Mr Wooten has failed to spark the imagination of his readers with today’s hodgepodge. So, THE Captain being the generous sort that He is, here is another tidbit that Mr Wooten could have noted had he been less fixated on his Matlock re-runs.
Yesterday, Sen Lindsay Graham of SC (who is certainly NOT gay, thank you very much) declared that John McCain has been in the forefront of the battle against Global Warming, and in fact, has been more active than Al Gore.
What to make of this, Common Sensers? Is this yet another of McCain’s brilliant positional kung fu moves, wherein he can appear to be all things to all people, while really intending to persevere with the Tried and Proven Policies of Kim Jong Bush? Or is this an indication that McCain (who refuses to release his medical records to prove otherwise) is in fact a Vietnamese-manufactured cyborg replicant who only looks like John McCain, but is in fact a programmed Terminator dedicated to destroyingt Our Nation from within by needlessly curbing greenhouse emissions?
THE Captain’s mind reels.
By PiedmontPark
April 4, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
jbmlaw,
You do not have to leave to visit a “socialist” or totalitarian paradise. We have one right here in Georgia. Here in our state and county I grew up in, we no longer believe in liberty or freedom. See freedom means that I may make choices with how I live my life that someone is going to disagree with. That person or persons think they know better than I do what I should and should not do, think, believe, or talk about. Those persons also think that the government should force me to do as they wish. These people are both republican and democrat. They want government to tell me whom I can marry, what I can do in the privacy of my own home, and what I can and cannot do with my own body. Is this freedom? Is this liberty? I think not.
Freedom also means that I may dispose or otherwise use my property as I wish, without getting permission or approval from the neighborhood busy body association. I either bought and paid for or inheirited my property, and I pay substantial property taxes every year (in excess of $15,000). Yet some faceless beaucrat thinks that he or she knows better than I do what I should do with my property. is this freedom or liberty?
Paint your house a color your neighbors don’t like, and they will drag you into court, saying that your new paint scheme is a public nuisance. Try to start a business, and if your neigbors think that you are even remotely successful, they will do everthing possible to shut you down.
This whole right vs left, republican vs democrat dicotomy is sickening. Neither party is concerned about protecting liberty and freedom, or the common man. They only care about power and pander to the elite.
By BadOleBoys
April 4, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
jbmlaw,
First, just say “I don’t know” if you don’t know the answers to my questions from yesterday. You invite questions and provide no answer to the questions that are asked. All you have done is label my question “leftist” and that is all you continue to do. In your latest words, you even expand your words to claim that I know not what I do and that I have presented you with a flawed analysis when all I did was ask you questions. I did not analyze my questions. Your imagination is truly getting the better of you.
By Devastator
April 4, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
A recent NY Times article puts Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the nomination at 5%. Countless analysts agree that continuing her bid will only seriously damage the Democratic party’s chances in November.
“Who will tell her that it’s over, that she cannot win the presidential nomination and that the sooner she leaves the race, the more it will improve the party’s chances of defeating Sen. John McCain”
2/25/2008
“She is hanging on for grim death, despite calls from her own party to accept the inevitable and pull out of the race before the party convention in August.”
4/2/2008
“I’ve asked several prominent uncommitted superdelegates if there’s any chance they would reverse the will of Democratic voters. They all say no. It would shatter young people and destroy the party.”
3/5/2008
“In short, Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming.”
3/25/2008
“One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.”
3/21/2008
“Sen. Barack Obama is currently leading Sen. Hillary Clinton by a large margin that appears nearly impossible to beat, political experts say.”
4/1/2008
“This is not just because she has failed to gain sufficient votes during the fiercely contested primaries and caucuses against the political phenomenon that is Barack Obama; it is also the gradual deterioration in the tone of her campaign, together with her increasingly desperate tactics, that suggests the time has now come for her to bow out while she still retains some shreds of integrity.”
1/4/2008
“Many of her supporters — and even some of her staffers — would be relieved (and even delighted) if she quit the race”
3/21/2008
“The real message of Tuesdays primaries is not that Hillary won. It’s that she didn’t win by enough. The race is over. The results are already clear.”
3/6/2008
“If Hillary Clinton wanted a graceful exit, she’d drop out now”
3/3/2008
“Big-money Democrats have been on the phone of late, and their conversations have been on how to get Clinton out of the race… [Some] were sincerely committed and now fear that the Clintons, she and he, will not know how to lose — and will take the Democratic Party down with them.”
2/26/2008
“All this being a long way of saying, Hillary’s path to the nomination is not narrow. Its barricaded.”
3/20/2008
“Clinton’s path to the nomination, then, involves the following steps: kneecap an eloquent, inspiring, reform-minded young leader who happens to be the first serious African American presidential candidate (meanwhile cementing her own reputation for Nixonian ruthlessness) and then win a contested convention by persuading party elites to override the results at the polls … I don’t think she’d be in a position to defeat Hitler’s dog in November, let alone a popular war hero.”
3/6/2008
“Many are the suggestions for how to make it stop, all of which boil down to making Hillary Clinton go away.”
3/27/2008
“I think we’ve reached a signal point in the campaign. This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don’t. There’s no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don’t.”
3/28/2008
“I think the race has been determined, anyway, at this point. I think it’s very difficult to imagine how anyone can believe that Barack Obama can’t be the nominee of the party.”
3/27/2008
“Weary and wary, Democrats are crying, ’Stop the race, I want to get off’ and, more and more, this end game somehow always involves the former first lady dropping her pursuit of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.”
3/21/2008
“Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama’s side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up.”
3/31/2008
“Is there a hint of desperation in the air? … the road ahead appears daunting for Clinton. ”
3/31/2008
“How can we put this thing to bed? How can Clinton be stopped from putting the party through three more months of hell? Where are those vaunted party elders who can convince her that its sayonara time?”
3/28/2008
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
“If indeed Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle…planted a “poison pill” in a bill [HB 881] that…establishes the principle that the money follows the child and discourages local boards from stonewalling charter-school efforts…”
If he’d intended a poison pill, the preternaturally arrogant Mr. Cagle shouldn’t have reached for a placebo. His medicine will neither kill nor obviate HB 881, whose author, Rep. Jones, still doesn’t understand the import of her own bill. This session’s entire education package could be well traded for the back-end piece of 881 establishing portability of per-pupil funding and therefore of the pupil. That piece is momentous. The rest—-of the bill and of the entire education agenda—-might as well have been a raw steak thrown to keep the Cagling hyenas busy, were only the Jan Joneses under the Dome savvy enough to have intended such precautions.
If the bill does go down, then in the next General Assembly Rep. Jones should reintroduce it as amended per a sadder and more experienced joint author. Alternatively, a savvy senator should steal the portability piece and run with it.
Or both.
By getalife
April 4, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
It is MLK Day so the radical racist right will be unhinged more than usual today.
The wingnuts have sent death threats to Wright’s church and reporters have been hounding church goers. This will help Obama.
This church will take Obama up on his speech to talk about race. So far, Condi has and the radical racist right’s heads will explode the more they talk about race.
Especially the gop and surprised they have not attacked Condi for her remarks, yet.
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
What’s more, jbm and antagonists, Warren Buffet does stupid things with his policy money. He’d do better to leave it to his children.
By Blind Homer
April 4, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
85th percentile on the SAT II translates to a raw score of about 1850. How many of the say Grady and Southside graduating class that have been given 3.0 GPA’s for little more than showing up for class scored 1850 or above on the SAT? It’s not quite fair yet Jim.
By TAFKAH
April 4, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
yo get
The Freepers unloaded pretty nastily on Condoleeza after she mentioned the race problem. “Ungrateful ni—er” was about the least of it, so you can just imagine how it went. Funny how the sober analysts of the Wooten Klan have let her remarks slide by. If it had been a Dem, they would have jumped all over it.
jbm,
You are a bu11sh!tter to the last word. Your claim that your use of the words “liberal” and “leftist” is not intended as epithet holds no water. Your intent is clear, as is the widespread rumor of your congress with farm animals. But I imply no insult in that remark; it’s merely descriptive.
By Dusty
April 4, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
Well, it is difficult to stay on subject today with so many SUBJECTS!!! I’ll try. Here goes:
1-CUBA???..I’d rather visit Myrtle Beach.
2-Not interested in kook conspiracy theories—Princess Diana’s or those of anybody else.
3-Mayor Franklin is a Democrat. Will raise taxes. Should pass the hat to former mayors who did nothing.
4-Wine? Who cares? Manichevitz is the best. I enjoy it every Christmas.
5-Save Grady! Save trauma centers,any way, any how.
6-Never did home schooling. If they pass SAT & ACT, OK to HOPE.
7-Always say YES to tax cuts!!
8-Obama plus Al Gore. Figures. Two losers instead of one.
And now to Captain Freedom’s post @9:03. I will give the Captain some consideration as soon as he opens his medical records on his hernia surgery, prostate, hemorrhoids, hip replacement, fat & wart removal and plastic surgery. Without those records, I could not fairly appraise our noble Captain’s opinions. We must maintain equal opportunity for all.
GO McCAIN!!!
By Matt
April 4, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
BadOleBoy, I recently read the website www.ngass.org or whatever. As a civil engineer, its take on septic leech fields is completely off the mark. Regulations exist (even if this one didn’t follow them) to keep waste water from penetrating the groundwater. These fields are designed so that there is an artificial barrier seperating the leech field from water table. One bad apple spoils the bunch, I guess. I do agree that regulations exist for the purpose of the general safety of the public (ie, no guns in liquor stores/EPD regulations on waste water introduced into the rivers and streams), but there are equally bad regulations that occur, ie citizens can only buy alcohol through a distributor/retailer. Some regulations are required because it risk of damage to the general public outweighs the self-righting feature of the market economy. We as a society should always be suspicious of any law that restricts the market.
By Redneck Convert
April 4, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Well, I see we lost a ton of jobs in March and the libruls will try to blame it on My President. It was Clinton and this Lewinsky woman that done it with their evil ways. God put a curse on us for it.
And no, I ain’t going to be bringing no wine to your door. The wine law needs to stay right where it is. Its hard to tell where things will end if they change it. I might wind up having to deliver on the Sabbath and be damned to Hell over it. So get off of your lazy butt and buy your wine on Saturday and stock up good. Gods Law says you can drink like a fish on Sunday but you can’t buy booze in a store. It might not make much sense to you heathens but God works in ways you can’t understand. Only us rednecks understand.
I won’t be reading nothing about this MLK. He was a trouble maker then and he’s still a trouble maker in my book. Before him Those People done what we told them and didn’t raise no fuss. Now they are all uppity and claiming they are as good as us.
Have a good day everybody.
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Blind Homer, what is the SAT II for? What good is it?
By Dennis
April 4, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten writes, “Progress after Fidel. Ordinary Cubans are now allowed to stay in the hotels they own. And buy an electric motorbike previously denied them because charging it up could collapse the power grid. A Cuban earning the average state salary could afford to stay in a four-star hotel once in 216 years.”
jbmlaw writes, April 4, 2008 8:11 AM “Good morning all. With the approach of spring break, I urge all of our leftist friends to enjoy the pleasures of a true socialist paradise, at Uncle Fidel’s tropical resort. Stay as long as you wish, and join the people’s fight for justice.”
Perhaps both gentlemen would prefer that the US backed dictator, Batista, had never been overthrown and that life was much better for all Cubans under his regime.
Perhaps these two gentlemen can give us good reason why the US should be in control of Cuba, or why the US should fear Cuba, or, Cuban independence.
Or perhaps both gentlemen can explain why, for 55 years, the US has made an a_s of itself before the rest of the world in its treatment of Cuba.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
Any word yet on whether Generalisimo Raul has made it legal to commit librarianship?
By Dusty
April 4, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Ah….Dennis @11:11…as usual re Cuba…
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
Indeed, you only have to be a consummate communist to explain it.
By Dusty
April 4, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
Glenn@11:15
No, Glenn, Raul has NOT made it legal to commit librarianship. He’s afraid they’ll “throw the book” at him.
By Dennis
April 4, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten writes, “Education could be one of the major successes of this session, though killing House Bill 881 would be a huge setback. It establishes the principle that the money follows the child and discourages local boards from stonewalling charter-school efforts.”
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind.”
Mr. Wooten’s toot’n about “bad” education just goes on and on and on.
More money isn’t going to fix all of the problems of education, but they aren’t going to be fixed without more money, either.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
The so-called educated integrationist Negroes are so stupid! Forty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., they relentlessly plead, beg, and depend on white institutional power to service the basic needs of the masses of black people; food, clothing, shelter, education, employment, etc.; some forty years later.
After forty years, they could have built institutional power for black people thereby preventing their obvious internal collapse, while at the same time, given a death blow to so-called racism. The definition of racism for ninety-five percent of African Americans in the 21st century is the refusal of white men and women to use their institutional power to adequately service the basic needs of black people.
Black people have no shame. Are they not men and women too? Are so-called educated integrationist black men and women capable of building institutions for the purpose of producing goods and services for their own people and others? The evidence suggests that we ponder the questions. Instead, they seem to prefer pleading, begging, and depending on other groups to do for them which they refuse to take collectively responsibility and do for black people.
Anytime we see Negroes in America coming toward us, its automatically understood that he or she needs something. But what should we expect? They have no bona-fide institutions. And they don’t appear to be intelligent or wise enough to build institutional power. Neither do they understand that if they won’t take the initiative to service the basic needs of their ethnic group, other productive groups will capitalize on the opportunity for the purpose of building more institutional power primarily for their respective people. And should so-called educated integrationist Negroes take responsibility and build institutional power, they are instantly qualified as serious players in the game of life instead of useless child-like parasites.
We are called upon on the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to tell the truth.
By Devastator
April 4, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
Attention everyone on this blog!!!
Please do not repond to the idiot Charles @11:38.
He is one of those folks that is so destitutely negative that you cannot talk intelligent with him. I have gone to school with people like him and I tell that you can’t win in a debate.
You cannot win with anyone whose thought process is subhuman.
By BadOleBoys
April 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Matt @11:09,
Thanks for taking the time to check out the site. My earlier post that you are referencing was intended to express my concerns with legislation from our elected officials that essentially allows this farm to land apply wastes in a manner that is — putting it mildly — inconsistent with well established practices such as those used by waste water treatment facilities. There is much more to this story than meets the eye. For instance, I hope you have taken the time to scroll back to the beginning of the blog and read through everything. I just cannot help but be disgusted with our elected officials. Also, the White County News has been doing a great job of covering this saga for some time now. You could check them out if you want another source.
Thanks again.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Devastator,
You say that you have gone to school with people like me.
Maybe, just maybe, God is trying to tell you something my friend.
At least I have a thought process. Most Negroes are void of one; some others may be included in that number.
By Blind Homer
April 4, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Glenn - It measures proficiency in readin’, ritin’, and rithmetic. Colleges use it to enable the best and brightest to matriculate at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and the like while condemning the riffraff to Georgia Southern!
By Devastator
April 4, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
This is for getalife….
Washington -Bit by bit, the walls are closing in on Hillary Rodham Clinton. By just about every measure, including total votes, total delegates, and money raised, she is trailing Barack Obama in their pitched battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. And in the most important category where she’s still ahead – superdelegates – her lead is shrinking.
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Thus far this week, three superdelegates – party leaders and elected officials who can support whomever they want at the August convention – have broken for Senator Obama while Senator Clinton hasn’t won any. It is highly unlikely that Clinton can overtake Obama in the “pledged delegate” count – those won in primaries and caucuses – but it is also impossible for Obama to secure the nomination just on pledged delegates. Thus, the superdelegates will decide the nomination.
Thursday’s stunning announcement that Obama had raised more than $40 million in March, with 218,000 new donors that month, dealt another blow to Clinton. Her campaign has not released its own March figure yet, but said it will come in below Obama’s.
So, can Clinton actually still win the nomination? In theory, yes, analysts say. But she would have to win just about every remaining contest, and then persuade enough superdelegates that she has a better chance than Obama of beating the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, in November.
The easiest way for that to happen would be for a bombshell revelation or major gaffe by Obama that would cause delegates, and voters – as reflected in national polls – to abandon the Illinois senator. Short of that scenario, Clinton and her team are fast running out of options.
“She would pretty well have to run the table after winning Pennsylvania convincingly,” says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University.
“Convincingly” means by double-digits, he says. Then Clinton would have to pull off an upset in North Carolina (May 6) or Oregon (May 20), where Obama is favored. “Most people looking at the last 10 events or so see a bit of an edge for Clinton, but with Obama having significant places to look for wins as well,” Mr. Jillson adds.
For now, though, the trends seem to be heading in Obama’s direction – even in Pennsylvania, where polls showed Clinton with a lead in the mid-to-high teens until recently. The latest Quinnipiac Poll shows Clinton with a nine-point lead in Pennsylvania, a figure that makes sense to political analysts in the state.
Pennsylvania’s demographics – large populations of working-class, older, and Roman Catholic voters – play to Clinton’s advantage. But a wave of new registrations in the state could spell trouble for her, as the Obama campaign has worked hard to identify new voters. “[Pennsylvania] is absolutely critical for her,” says Terry Madonna, head of the Franklin and Marshall College Poll. “I think she wins here, but for the first time, I’m thinking he could upset her. It’s a long-shot, but I see a way.”
Several weeks ago, Mr. Madonna laid out a path to victory for Obama in Pennsylvania in a column on Realclearpolitics.com. The path is, ironically, one that Gov. Ed Rendell – a Clinton supporter – carved out in 2002 in his gubernatorial nomination battle with now-Sen. Bob Casey, who recently came out for Obama.
Governor Rendell succeeded by concentrating his efforts (and winning big) in his base areas (Philadelphia and its suburbs); winning big in swing areas; and managing turnout statewide, in part by registering new voters.
Still, Clinton remains a strong favorite in Pennsylvania – and thus, her campaign is likely to survive at least into May. Ken Smukler, a Democratic consultant in Philadelphia, warns against reading too much into the fluctuations in polls. “My sense is this electorate is very volatile right now,” he says. And, he adds, “the newly registered voters are not being sampled in any poll right now. One could argue they’re Obama voters.”
But he also won’t count Clinton out. And he believes, despite Obama’s money edge, Clinton will have enough to match him on TV in Pennsylvania.
The Clinton team is adamant that the superdelegates will, after all the votes are cast, “do the right thing” for the party and for the country. In a conference call Thursday, campaign spokesmen once again argued that Clinton is more electable, citing polls that show her beating Senator McCain in key states, such as Florida and Ohio, while Obama loses.
“Senator Obama’s lead is almost entirely from caucuses,” says Mark Penn, a senior Clinton strategist. “Will he have a lead at all coming out of the high turnout primaries? That’s certainly up for grabs, and we’ll see what comes out after this next run of states, as well as who’s in a better position then to take on and beat Senator McCain.”
According to the Associated Press, Obama leads in the overall delegate count 1,634 to 1,500, with 2,024 needed to secure the nomination. Clinton leads in superdelegates, 250 to 220 out of a total 794. In the popular vote, Obama leads by about 700,000, but that does not include the votes in Michigan and Florida, which were held outside party rules. But even counting Clinton’s votes in both states, she still does not catch up to Obama.
By ron
April 4, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
I’ve read what Charles wrote several times.The last sentence is particularly strikng.
By Dusty
April 4, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
Devastator@11:50
I don’t agree with Charles but he is not any more dedicated & distorted than you, the far left liberal. In fact, his rants are not as long as your free propaganda liberal spiels. Perhaps free speech irritates you when it is not you taking advantage of it.
Do like I do. Skip over political propaganda and racial rants. One line of it is enough. Omission saves the unpleasantness of extreme and lengthy displays.
By Devastator
April 4, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
Charles,
Yes. God has told me “as a man thinketh so is he.” You think like a negativity driven buffoon who can’t stand looking into a mirror so you point you’re fingers at those who look like you instead.
By Baker
April 4, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Ted Turner denounced the upcoming 2010 Census as a disguised menu today in a speech about overpopulation. “The Bible’s a cookbook, and most immunization vaccines are meat tenderizers”, Ted pointed out, and then predicted, “We’ll eat the fat chicks first, and then we’ll move on to the couch potatoes.”
Ted then sounded this ominous note, “Cryogenics is nothing but the frozen TV dinners of the future.”
By Devastator
April 4, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
Thanks for the advice cockface!
By Jackie
April 4, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
Regardless what is done, said or attempted to raise all our boats, it seems to me, the so-called conservatives have negative input.
They whine, moan and complain about what “should” have been done and “how” it should have been done, failing to realize that there are no perfect solutions to any problem.
Take a look at their political heroes - Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II - and try to find what has been uplifting for the country?
Deficits, war, hostility, suppression of Constitutional rights, etc., etc.,
When will these so-called conservatives open their eyes and minds to the fact that others have viable solutions to problems.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
We have a problem here my friends. Most people think I’m a positive person. How do some of you interpret my comments as negative or racial rants?
Notice, not a single individual has offered anything constructive or intelligent to challenge my position. Wonder why? They can’t intelligently respond to any of my comments. They will expose themselves as mental midgets in any attempts to dispute my thought provoking words.
By Baker
April 4, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
CNN just announced that Ted Turner has denounced the upcoming 2010 census as a “poorly disquised menu”, and called the census takers, “waiters and waitresses”.
In a speech about overpopulation, global warming, and cannibalism, Ted Turner predicted, “We’ll start with the fat chicks, and then make our way to the couch potatoes.”
“Look, cryogenics is just the frozen tv dinners of the future. Hell, the bible is a cookbook, and those immunization vaccines? Tenderizers!”
The FDA had no comment.
By Tom Pain
April 4, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Spoils of war. That’s what’s missing from the escapades of our current administration. Bring on the spoils. Leave the spoiled behind though.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
As I told Jackie on Monday, I feel powerful.
Anyone in our organization feels like Jesus anytime we speak to broken and misguided people.
By George Washington
April 4, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Compete for state funds? How? Oh, by hiring a high priced lobbiest…Now we know how woodenhead plans to make ends meet after the Atlanta Urinal Constipation closes its doors forever…Regulating wine sales is just another attempt to provide benefits to favored people, at the expense of all other people, Who could be the lobbiest on this one? Unlike Repukes who hope to steal tax dollars for themselves, I think all taxes should be for a specific purpose, and when that purpose has passed, the tax should pass too…Having a pot of tax money available just invites crooks to lobby for that money…Why the he ll is Atlantic Station getting any tax dollars at all? Some lobbiest w h ore pay off a bunch of political liars? Remember the Ga 400 toll money stolen by Guv Roy -I am a thieving crook- Barnes for Atlantic Station? Why is that lying thief still walking the streets as a free man, and practicing law? IMHO, Roy the Crook should be in prison for the 100 million Medicaid dollars he gave to a fellow crooked lawyer for a failed plan to cheat the feds out of the State cost share on Medicaid…H e ll, just legally execute all the dam ned lawyers, slowly and on National television, since imho they are all lying, thieving crooks…Well, enougt wit and wisdom for one day, Victory to the Farmers of Argentina, BURN THE SOYBEANS…
By jbmlaw
April 4, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
Dear Shar @ 9:57, “Jbmlaw @ 8:11, what a creepy quote you gave us today. A state chief executive who derides a duly elected representative of the people (and a member of his own party) as part of “a lot of folks with whom we’ve indeed had troubles have not been pushing conservative ideology.” Fyodor Dostoevsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote frequently about bureaucrats who would have earned Governor Sanford’s approbation, pushing ideology rather than representing the will of a constituency, but I cannot recall ever reading much that was complimentary.” I appreciate that leftism generally abhors acting from principle, rather preferring an arbitrary case-by-case adjudication; isn’t that the foundation of secular humanism? I push conservative ideology here on a daily basis, to advocate for principles of small government. I understand that small government advocacy “creeps out” the leftists among us, but that is the fun part of what I do.
“Your note on courage is thought-provoking rather than simply provoking as you doubtless intended.” Fair enough, I did intend to provoke, mocking the politico’s Hamlet-like agony, whether tis nobler to raise taxes and suffer the wrath… In all fairness to her, I do appreciate Shirley’s dilemma, and agree with you that the failure of the water system is more fairly attributed to her predecessors. I would be supportive of a tax but for the rampant waste elsewhere throughout the government and, of course, the embarrassing posturing. Perhaps you would agree with me that by selling the airport, she could raise more than enough money to cure the water system. Regrettably the perqs of power and graft-potential arising from control of airport concessions have too great a lure for mere mortals. I don’t regard raising taxes as an act of courage; rather it is cowardice where there is politically popular government-spending waste extant.
Dear Piedmont @ 10:15, I agree with everything you write here except for your assertion of the parental right to destroy the life of a child in utero.
Dear BoB @ 10:33, I thought my 8:23 answered the question you posed, which in my constantly failing memory I thought was something like “why did I think Buffet was supporting leftists?” The short answer, which I expanded on @ 8:23, is that Buffet is a leftist himself. (Surely you do not deny that leftists can be prosperous? That would be more like a Marxist position.) If I err, please correct my memory; what was your intended question? My practice is to answer the question, then critique the framing when appropriate, the same format I used @ 8:23.
Dear Devastator @ 10:38, have you read “Dreams From My Father”?
Dear TAFKAH @ 11:06, you usual quality analysis, illustrating the alternative I cited @ 8:23.
Dear Redmeck @ 11:11, have you already forgotten the leftist Congress raised the minimum wage six months ago? As a thinking conservative economist, you know that always translates into higher unemployment, both as a result of layoffs, and in lower job growth. Econ 101 stuff, man. (The argument in favor of a higher minimum wage, of course, is that the only people who lose their jobs are the dregs of society anyway, and we are better off without those people in the market.)
Dear PoFo @ 12:15, new on the menu @ Ted’s Montana Grill, Hannah herself.
By Lee
April 4, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
If you read one thing about MLK, maybe it should be this…
By Charles
April 4, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
The so-called educated integrationist Negroes are so stupid! Forty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., they relentlessly plead, beg, and depend on white institutional power to service the basic needs of the masses of black people; food, clothing, shelter, education, employment, etc.; some forty years later.
After forty years, they could have built institutional power for black people thereby preventing their obvious internal collapse, while at the same time, given a death blow to so-called racism. The definition of racism for ninety-five percent of African Americans in the 21st century is the refusal of white men and women to use their institutional power to adequately service the basic needs of black people.
Black people have no shame. Are they not men and women too? Are so-called educated integrationist black men and women capable of building institutions for the purpose of producing goods and services for their own people and others? The evidence suggests that we ponder the questions. Instead, they seem to prefer pleading, begging, and depending on other groups to do for them which they refuse to take collectively responsibility and do for black people.
Anytime we see Negroes in America coming toward us, its automatically understood that he or she needs something. But what should we expect? They have no bona-fide institutions. And they don’t appear to be intelligent or wise enough to build institutional power. Neither do they understand that if they won’t take the initiative to service the basic needs of their ethnic group, other productive groups will capitalize on the opportunity for the purpose of building more institutional power primarily for their respective people. And should so-called educated integrationist Negroes take responsibility and build institutional power, they are instantly qualified as serious players in the game of life instead of useless child-like parasites.
We are called upon on the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to tell the truth.
By jbmlaw
April 4, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Dear TAFKAH @ 11:06, I mistyped – should have typed, “you usual quality analysis, illustrating the alternative I cited @ 9:57.”
By Charles
April 4, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
It’s lunch time everybody. I’m signing off for about an hour or so but I shall return; God willing.
No back stabbing please!
By Blind Homer
April 4, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately The Mouth’s drivel about global warming turning us all into Soylent Green in 40 years has completely obliterated the one valid point he made; the cause of most of our ills is too many people.
By Baker
April 4, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
CNN just announced that the Georgia Assembly has successfully passed legislation that allows cub scouts to sell girl scout cookies, make brownies unsupervised, and apply for merit badges online. A rider to the bill also enables students to carry concealed handguns on a schoolbus.
By political foobared democrat
April 4, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
I think Wooten needs to donate a separate “Thinking Right” blog to the few resident Con-deranged idiot libs who fumigate up this blog with their hatred for Dusty & JBMLAW. Frankly, I’m sick of hearing it.
I hope someone picks up a copy of today’s Atlanta Urinal & Bird Cage Lining.
Top front page headline paraphrased:
“Gun standards to be relaxed.” Oh the horror libs! It’s going to be Dodge City all over again! Shreeek!
Top front page headline paraphrased:
“Carter hard to judge as to who he’s supporting in election.” Yes, it is critical we all understand who the hell Carter supports. After all, he all but helped put that human disaster Hugo Chevez in office, and now Argentinians are staring at empty shelves in their grocery stores.
Did anyone catch Hillary Clinton on Jay Leno last night?
“It is so great to be here. You know, I was worried I wouldn’t make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire,” she said as she sat down.
Nobody in the audience laughed. Her ship is sunk.
Nobody laughed and Randi Rhodes either when that ugly lib Air America skank said Hillary Clinton & Geraldine Ferraro were “f*ing w*******.” Talk about “hate” radio, even though she didn’t say it on air. Jeeze Louise. It’s the thought that counts even off air, right libs?
Ms. Rhodes is now suspended indefinitely now. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer left winger. Take out the hate trash, Air America. The call for Rush or Sean’s head would have been that had they said the same off air.
By Baker
April 4, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this
Hillary’s grand strategic mistake was not sending Bill Clinton on an around the world charity tour while she campaigned ALONE.
Her other mistake, and one even more greivous, was not hiring me to form the language to frame her platform. The morons she hired and fired are stuck in 1990.
Seems a shame.
By Bored
April 4, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
My daughter was telling me about her adventure with a program that she used to translate English to French. She said she typed in
{{{{{blah blah}}}}} and the French translation was
{{{{{blad de blah}}}}}
Garbage in, French garbage out.
By Mike
April 4, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
I just noticed that there is an add banner at the top of this page for Gulfstream Aerospace for employment opportunities. Gulfstream makes the most expensive and luxurious corporate/private jets in the world. They are the Rolls Royce of private jets, and their powerplants are made by Rolls Royce. Some renowned owners include Rush Limbaugh, Oprah Winfrey, and Tiger Woods. Non-owner users include the Al Gore who flies around the globe in them preaching about global warming. Well, if Gulfstream is hiring down at their Savannah plant, we must be in one HELL of a recession. Millions of dollars in private individual donations going to Obama notwithstanding of course.
Where’s does the soup line begin? I can’t see it.
By jm
April 4, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
I wonder how many americans could afford to stay at a four-star hotel in a major metropolitan area. Then again, what they can afford often does not enter into the equation.
I wonder why Mr. Wooten does not comment on the Vince Foster conspiracy theorists (Rep. Dan Burton and the watermelons was great theatre)? Oh yeah, he is a closet Hillary supporter.
I wonder why Mr. Wooten does not seem to mind the state regulating “when” (Sundays) people can buy wine.
I wonder why politicians like to wait until “after” they cut taxes to inform the voters of what services will need to be cut/eliminated due to budget shortfalls.
By Baker
April 4, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this
Great bit, bored!
By Bored
April 4, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
Jim says:
A Cuban earning the average state salary could afford to stay in a four-star hotel once in 216 years.
Well, I think Jim has demonstrated a thorough understanding of inflation.
The median household income in the U.S. is something like $45k, Jim. That means that at least 50% of the U.S. population can’t afford to stay at most 4-star hotels (except maybe in the southeast U.S.) much more often. I say open up those Cuban ports to U.S. tourists so even more people can afford those 4-star hotels.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
They found evidence of early north americans who lived 14K years ago in oregon. These cats could have stayed in that fancy cuban hotel over 500 times since then. I dont think they were house broken, though, so the hotel would be like a cave by now.
That’s not chocolate on the pillow, sir.
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
jbm, I agree that Buffet is a rich liberal. That’s why he p!sses his money away when he tries to good works: because he’s rich, and because he’s a liberal.
Jim, if Cagle likes Big Charter over Little Charter—-charter districts over charter schools—-then why doesn’t he push for a Charter Department, so the whole state can be be relieved of the ed code? Just have any community with a plan for using school buildings, equipment and employees apply to Atlanta to free up the cash.
By 123
April 4, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Is the country ready for a minority in the White House? He!! yes!!!!!!!!
Can we afford four more years of a white guy????????????? He!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!
‘w’, the white guy, has soiled the country (with incompetence or disdain, take your pick), he’s muted the conservative voice (if not killed it), reduced The Bible to a bludgeoning instrument, turned us into a laughing stock worldwide, drove us into debt, etc… etc… SO TRUE!!!!!!
Heck, us sports fans can’t even refer to a ‘win’ as a ‘W’ anymore. Even truer!!
Are we ready for a black man? For a woman? Maybe, but not Billary!!! Sadly, thanks to ‘w’, in 2008 anything beats a white guy with an ‘R’ next to his name. The TRUEST of them ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama in 08!!!!!!!
By Matt
April 4, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
BadOleBoy,
The problem I had with that “organization” is that they want to outlaw an excepted practice when dealing with sewage. Now, this farm may not have been properly authorized or followed regulations that have been established through the engineering community nor the EPA. To me this is an example of NIMBYism at its finest. I equate thier organization with organizations like Stop the Train in the Morningside community of Atlanta. Those who live near Lenox Rd. and Cheshire Bridge know that the CSX tracks cross Lenox Road, and every time a train approaches this intersection, it blows its horn for miles. My girlfriend lived 200 yards from this crossing, and let me tell you it sucked. However, regulations or practices existed to protect the general public at large. The train is required to blow its horn to alert motorist that it is approaching the intersection. This may seem unecessary because there is a crossing guard, but in case that crossing guard fails, the public is protect (or CSX has done everything within their power to protect the public).
The issue with this farm is more complex, but it follows the same priciples. If the farm followed the regulations and practices established by the EPA, there is Zero to Minimal impact on the groundwater. When I read the site, it seems to me that someone with enough knowledge to be dangerous saw that they were dumping untreated/treated sewage in the fields.
I worked with a student at GT who designed a leech field very similar to this in Angola. The principle was that with several acres of land, either the gov’t of Angola or whatever oil company in charge could use this land to dispose of oil waste generated from the pumping of oil. There was ZERO groundwater contamination and the waste was converted into an inert substance, which if memory serves, is used in common petroleum based fertilizers. This is a situation where someone saw something they didn’t like, but didn’t research it enough have an informed opinion. Things may seem gross to the everyday citizen, but I assure the process is safe (again as long as the facility is following the regulations and practices established by the EPA).
I reviewed the site a little more thoroghly, and they give an excellently simple explaination of the treatment process. However, my issue with this site is that they are attacking the problem with the wrong point of view. Yes there is a health problem, and anyone without a brain could figure it out. I do think that there is a legitimate problem with the people around this farm. However, what they are attacking the facility because it attempts to treat sludge & sludge is bad. This facility went through processes necessary to be approved by the GAEPD. Personally, as long as the facility is following accepted practices developed and approved by the governing body, there is nothing that these people can do. If the site is not following accepted & approved practice, they should be held liable for their negligence. All I read on this website was emotional and incomplete information, when mixed people often get angry.
Sorry for the long post.
By Bored
April 4, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
Jim says:
Amid the squabbling that is this year’s General Assembly, a moment of piercing truth from House Speaker Glenn Richardson…
Proof that our paid political announcers are not infallible? Just like those actors in Hollywood, do they occasionally ad lib when they forget their lines? We may need to increase taxes enough to buy these guys some tele-prompters.
Or. Maybe there’s more to this story than meets the eye. Perhaps Jim’s story is a mere cover for an alternate reality such as:
“The house speaker let out a piercing shrill after jumping from his seat and bumping his funny bone while trying to simultaneously express his feelings about upcoming legislation. The expletives, analogous to cow dung, that followed more truthfully expressed his overall sentiment regarding the massive amount of resolutions still before him.”
Perhaps we will never know the truth. Maybe we just can’t handle the truth, Jack.
By Jackie
April 4, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
@Charles,
On Monday, you intimated that you belonged to an organization that was positive for black people.
When asked who, what, when and how this organization does these things, you graciously “signed off” the blog.
I am still waiting for your presentation so that I may be made aware of your superior use of time and effort to further everyone.
Please do not tarry!
By Charles
April 4, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
Well everybody,
I just finished talking to several generation Xers and a couple of millennial about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I’m telling you folks; I thank God that I’m a baby boomer. Black children are completely disconnected from reality. And it’s because African Americans refuse to build institutional power in order to transfer knowledge from one generation to another.
I told the children, appeared to be age twenty five to thirty, they should build black institutions in order to secure the blessings of liberty. The youngsters said that black people don’t need institutions. I asked how their children will get food, clothing, shelter, jobs etc. They said their children will get them where they have always gotten them; God will make a way. I asked, do you mean from white people? They said they are not into all of that race stuff. I’m not thinking whether people are black or white. That doesn’t matter to me.
What’s demonstrated here is that black people regardless of class, age, gender, status, or national origin, doesn’t think enough of themselves to take responsibility for their destiny. They prefer like most of their parents to leave their destiny in the hands of other groups of people. Then should other groups of people refuse to use their institutions to satisfy the basic needs of black people, black people call them racist.
By ron
April 4, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
I am going to tell Ted Turner that I am exactly the right number of people but that some of you on here may be the excess.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
The so-called educated integrationist Negroes are so stupid! Forty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., they relentlessly plead, beg, and depend on white institutional power to service the basic needs of the masses of black people; food, clothing, shelter, education, employment, etc.; some forty years later.
After forty years, they could have built institutional power for black people thereby preventing their obvious internal collapse, while at the same time, given a death blow to so-called racism. The definition of racism for ninety-five percent of African Americans in the 21st century is the refusal of white men and women to use their institutional power to adequately service the basic needs of black people.
Black people have no shame. Are they not men and women too? Are so-called educated integrationist black men and women capable of building institutions for the purpose of producing goods and services for their own people and others? The evidence suggests that we ponder the questions. Instead, they seem to prefer pleading, begging, and depending on other groups to do for them which they refuse to take collectively responsibility and do for black people.
Anytime we see Negroes in America coming toward us, its automatically understood that he or she needs something. But what should we expect? They have no bona-fide institutions. And they don’t appear to be intelligent or wise enough to build institutional power. Neither do they understand that if they won’t take the initiative to service the basic needs of their ethnic group, other productive groups will capitalize on the opportunity for the purpose of building more institutional power primarily for their respective people. And should so-called educated integrationist Negroes take responsibility and build institutional power, they are instantly qualified as serious players in the game of life instead of useless child-like parasites.
We are called upon on the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to tell the truth.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
The so-called educated integrationist Negroes are so stupid! Forty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., they relentlessly plead, beg, and depend on white institutional power to service the basic needs of the masses of black people; food, clothing, shelter, education, employment, etc.; some forty years later.
After forty years, they could have built institutional power for black people thereby preventing their obvious internal collapse, while at the same time, given a death blow to so-called racism. The definition of racism for ninety-five percent of African Americans in the 21st century is the refusal of white men and women to use their institutional power to adequately service the basic needs of black people.
Black people have no shame. Are they not men and women too? Are so-called educated integrationist black men and women capable of building institutions for the purpose of producing goods and services for their own people and others? The evidence suggests that we ponder the questions. Instead, they seem to prefer pleading, begging, and depending on other groups to do for them which they refuse to take collectively responsibility and do for black people.
Anytime we see Negroes in America coming toward us, its automatically understood that he or she needs something. But what should we expect? They have no bona-fide institutions. And they don’t appear to be intelligent or wise enough to build institutional power. Neither do they understand that if they won’t take the initiative to service the basic needs of their ethnic group, other productive groups will capitalize on the opportunity for the purpose of building more institutional power primarily for their respective people. And should so-called educated integrationist Negroes take responsibility and build institutional power, they are instantly qualified as serious players in the game of life instead of useless child-like parasites.
We are called upon on the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to tell the truth.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
Sorry everybody,
I’ve got an urgent project that needs to be taken care of ASAP. I love talking candidly with you all. But I’ve got to sign off now.
Have a safe weekend everyone. I will talk to you on Monday; God willing.
By Jackie
April 4, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
@Charles,
You sir, are just as full of feces as a Christmas turkey.
You speak of what it takes to make black people self-reliant and prosperous, in general terms couched with a strong racial tinge.
Please inform us as to the name of your organization, the charter of the organization and what you and others in this organization have done to further your cause.
Please don’t run away from the post because I truly believe the level of flatulence you have is causing your thought process to be without merit.
By the way, take something for your condition as your ears are wiggling.
I await your rebuttal.
By Charles
April 4, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
Sorry everybody,
I’ve got an urgent project that needs to be taken care of ASAP. I love talking candidly with you all. But I’ve got to sign off now.
Have a safe weekend everyone. I will talk to you on Monday; God willing.
By BadOleBoys
April 4, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
Matt,
Thanks for the follow up. I agree with your assessment that the practice, when done “by the book”, is acceptable. In fact, most people who live around waste treatment plants would not even know that they were there were it not for the size of the facility, the presence of the “domed” building, etc. I’m still not sure that you picked up on all the things that happened in this particular case though. There’s background info that goes into this site being originally regulated by the county and then a house bill being passed that stripped the county and EPD of any ability to monitor or regulate this facility in a manner even remotely consistent with established practices, etc. From what I have read, it is really an example of government intervention at its worst. These people just put up this site I think within the last 6 months after apparently trying to work with every level of government but to no avail. By the way, did you read the Letter to the Editor in last week’s edition of White County News about the lady that suffered burns from a “mist” that she came in contact with? In case you are still interested, send the paper’s editor an e-mail and ask him for related stories.
By the way, I like to consider myself as open-minded. If you dig thoroughly into this matter and find that there is no real basis for concern, then let me know. After all , an annoying train whistle (lived there, done that) is one thing but not inspecting planes (flown on more than I can count) to save a buck is another. So, how should this issue be categorized — an annoyance or a disaster in the making? Also, what happened at the Talmo facility? Do you know anything about that incident?
By @@
April 4, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this
If you missed Sunday’s @issue section on the death of Martin Luther King Jr. 40 years ago today, go back and find it. It was spectacular.
Indeed it was Jim. I was moved to tears reflecting on the greatness of a man whose intentions and dreams have been so abused and misunderstood by a “dim” political party.
Some of my favorite memories come from my Chairman Bell:
Eldrin Bell was cruising into Buckhead when the call came. Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot in Memphis. All detectives were to report downtown.
Back at Atlanta police headquarters, Bell’s commander, Clinton Chafin, told his men exactly what was expected of them. “This is Martin Luther King’s hometown,” he said. “We cannot allow it to go up in flames.”
Bell then describes The river of humanity — 150,000 strong“….
“People were standing on roofs and perched in trees. You’d have thought the Good Lord had come,” recalls Eldrin Bell, who worked the procession with the police. “I remember looking out on all those people — black and white — and thinking heaven must look like this.”
Now dadgum it Jim…..I’m getting all misty eyed again. I hate it when that happens!!!!
Thanks a bunch…..
By OY!
April 4, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
jbmlaw @ 8:11am is now referring to the “jbmlaw perspective”?! You know someone has really lost it when they start referring to themselves in the third person.
By Scholar
April 4, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
Regarding Cuba, kill them with capitalism. We have about killed ourselves with it.
By S. Aleck
April 4, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
Just wait until the Vegas show “The jbmlaw Experience!” opens in June.
By getalife
April 4, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
Tornadoes heading your way.
Stop praying.
By Jackie
April 4, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
@Charles,
As typical with your p**ka$$, got nothing to say because you are an empty suit.
I leave this with you: back in the day, people like you were called Jive Turkeys!
Those clothes seem to fit you well. GOBBLE, GOBBLE!!!
By ron
April 4, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
Charles,After seeing you turn all your ideas into drivel,I have decided to pull out the Laphroaig and tipple a bit.It is Friday,and it’s time.And I think you may have driven me to it.For that and that alone,I thank you.
By Torie Whigg
April 4, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
“One more reason not to prefer Barack Obama for president: He promises that Al Gore will have a major role in his administration addressing global warming.”
You mean the guy who got a half million more votes than W?
Yeah, no need to take that guy seriously.
By Jackie
April 4, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
@Charles,
KEEP YOUR HIP AWAY FROM THOSE CHILDREN!!!
IF YOU TRIED TO IMPART ANY OF YOUR WISDOM, IN MY OPINION, IT WOULD BE A FORM A CHILD ABUSE!
By songbird
April 4, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
Charles - why do we need both white and black institutions doing the same work? Why not just institutions where all races work to provide for the population. Your ideas are not only redundant but stupid.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
Good one, Scholar! (notice how I didn’t try to torture you with some variation of your bit? I hope you appreciate it. I read. I liked. I didn’t try to one-up you, or do my own idiot version of it. I simply let it be, a really good comment, that both informed, and entertained. I think the rest of the bloggers here should take note. Then, I think the rest of the bloggers here should grope themselves.)
Except scholar and bored. (no backs. no vice versas, no changies, mother may I, simon says…..)
By Tom N. Jeri
April 4, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this
Butcher is a clear example of why using methamphetamine is bad.
Grope that, cowboy.
By AmVet
April 4, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Take that 2:34. Is this guy for real or just a caricature?
30 year old children?!
Is this the 21st century equivalent of the term “boy”?
I’d wager a G that he is the very poster boy for the GOP’s Southern Strategy and voted for King George II twice, Porcine Purdue and “Blood & Guts” Chambless.
It’s hard to make sense of it, but if I inferred correctly, his position is essentially that people are poor and marginalized because they choose to be.
And by proxy that proves there is no injustice or systematic racism in this country.
Like magic, it all instantly disappeared in the sixties.
Compassionate conservatism - another Republican lie.
By Jackie
April 4, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
News report from the Pentagon indicates more troops are needed in Afghanistan, even if the “requirements” for troop level maintenance in Iraq stays the same or calls for an increase.
Labor Dept. reports more than 80,000 jobs lost and is the 3rd consecutive month of job losses. Most economist fear this is only the beginning and the curve will sharpen in coming months.
What, Dubya didn’t cut taxes deep enough?
By Wynn Dixie
April 4, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
If Butcher can’t cut it with the first two posts (different ids) he goes for a third at 3:12.
By Copyleft
April 4, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
Please do not mock Al Gore; the office of the elected President deserves our respect.
(Isn’t that what all the Bushdrones have been saying for seven years?)
By ray
April 4, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
ain’t it cool the way the rightwing beats their chest about family values, but when a black child is born without a father they just shrug their shoulders like it’s no big deal? like those years of slavery that erased any kind of family foot print should make no difference to the blacks today…because family is so, so important.
you rightwingers are so cool.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
The General Assembly made it mandatory for all post office employees to carry assault rifles at work today……..real geniuses!!!
Y-y-yeah! Real r-r-rocket scientists!!!
I noticed that NASA took my advice in designing the new moon rocket. I’m actually proud. I sent them about a dozen emails after the last disaster and they included much of my ideas in the new design. Common sense, is all. Savin’ lives is all. There weren’t no hard work or talkin’ to god about it.
By Tastes Great
April 4, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
Less filling.
By catlady
April 4, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
Matt— “excepted” or “accepted”? The difference is night and day.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
Miller Time draws near, people. Start loosening up. Relax. Take a deep breath. JFK. Princes Di. MLK. Castro.
I tried to find the common link for a bit, but failed today. Feelin’ a little down. Good thing it’s almost miller time.
By Cartographer
April 4, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
Speaking of Talmo, did you know that place is incorrectly listed twice on many Georgia maps? It’s true. The Talmo marked in southeast Georgia is actually Telmore.
By Daedalus
April 4, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
Let’s see. Jim thinks that the guvmint should allow Georgians to buy wine over the internet — but not on Sunday —- since that’s the Lord’s Day.
I’d point out hyprocritical that stance is — but since its coming from Wooten that would just be a redundant observation.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
Bear Stearns, Bear Arms, and Basra
Basra is the lifeblood of Iraq, and it just happens to fall within a shia cartographer’s boundary lines for the new shia superstate Bush created.
Bear Stearns happened. The underlining malaise wont be cured by a bandaid. It’s trust in the perpetuality of institutions that maked an investor pay 150 bucks for a share last year. That trust is gone. Short the rally.
Bear arms: Ga. Assembly likes the right to bear arms so much, you should actually know someone who gets shot accidently by all the gun totin’ morons the assembly has licensed today, if they indeed passed that stupid, stupid bill.
Most domestic deaths from guns in the past 500 years: accidents
By Bored
April 4, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
Some of the stats on the housing bust from U.S. News and World Reports are quite interesting. This one is quite bothersome:
Household debt as a percentage of disposable income, 1985: 74.9 percent; 2006: 137 percent
I think you people (you know who you are) better get up off your keesters and ask for overtime down at the Walmart. You got bills to be paid and nothing in the paycheck to cover it. Dang. Don’t the schools teach anything about finances — what goes out must come in and that sort of checkbook balancing thing.
I honestly don’t know who’s dumber — the ones that can’t figure out income and expenses at home or the ones that can’t figure out income and expenses at work.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
I apologize for slavery. I’m ashamed that it existed. I’m disappointed our founding fathers compromised on slavery. I’m horrified that the civil war didn’t end the brutality of slavery, only the legality of it. I am determined that justice will prevail in my country.
Obama 08. Lincoln begat Obama.
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this
Cartographer,
Might the pseudo-Talmo be willing to used the name “Clayton” insead, so as to draw off some of the fire?
About 25 years ago, Nameless, Texas held an open contest to see who could submit the best name for the city. It had grown up, and the Council felt that it was high time the place had a name all its own. They got a letter from a mayor in the State of Washington informing them, on behalf of his city council in unanimous resolution, that Nameless was welcom to have one of their Wallas, if it wanted.
A cynic like Diogenes here might say that the Washingtonians had come up with a way to take only half the hit from ICBMs, but I like to think that they were just being neighborly.
By AmVet
April 4, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Just when it was getting difficult to see how things could get even worse for the neo-cons:
Nearly a quarter of a million jobs lost since the first of the year.
Gasoline prices hit another all time high.
Republican Bloodbath, Part Deux. Coming to an election near you this November.
By Shar
April 4, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this
Blind Homer @ 10:54 - My son graduated from Grady and scored higher than an 1850 on the SATs, as did almost all of his friends in the class. Not to say that most kids did, but if you are counting heads you’re going to need more than your ten fingers. Bring several friends.
Glenn @ 11:11 - The SAT IIs are subject tests, very different from the SAT I or Reasoning Test, which purports to measure analytical ability and critical thinking as a barometer of a student’s ability to succeed in college. The SAT IIs are subject-specific and are supposed to reflect a student’s level of mastery in a particular course. For comparison, the ACT claims to gauge a student’s level of mastery across the major subject areas that are common to all US high school students and commonly draws markedly different individual performance levels than does the SAT Reasoning. This does not seem to faze, or even interest, most colleges and universities, which usually accept either or both. As you know only too well, the bureaucrats just want a standardized score, and don’t care what it’s supposed to measure. It’s the next best thing to having a standardized kid.
Jbmlaw @ 12:34 - a mild correction, mon avocat. You advocate for conservative positions on this blog. The governor of South Carolina is trying to shove an ideology down the throats of citizens, and their desires on the matter appear not to matter a whit. Creepy is as creepy does.
By WTF?
April 4, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
ray
ain’t it cool the way the rightwing beats their chest about family values, but when a black child is born without a father they just shrug their shoulders like it’s no big deal?
R U kidding???????????
everytime Wooten pens an article on fatherless black kids, he’s touted as a racist by the left.
unfreaking believable!!!!!!!!!!
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Butcher,
That’s very poetic, but (a) Lincoln is not known, even by Gore Vidal, to have fathered any illegitimate children, and (b) you’re in store for a rude awakening that will change your life.
By AmVet
April 4, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
Speaking of begatting.
Maybe it was Thomas Jefferson.
Or Strom Thurmond.
By Doyle Hargraves
April 4, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
This one begat that one and begat and begat and begat. And then another one said some sh**.
By ray
April 4, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
WTF- every time he pens an article on cutting taxes, a move that will in turn reduce social programs and the funding for public schools, he is also talking about ‘fatherless black kids.’ if not with our money, how do we help them?
at least be honest about sticking it to them, WTF…or has dishonesty become the nature of the republican beast? is it now a given?
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this
It took me all day to write that. @ Issue in the paper today included an article by a black man who called for an apology.
Well, I couldn’t write it until I sat on it for 10 hours.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this
Then, a glass of wine, and one take. I love this blog.
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
It’s raining, so of COURSE the server’s down.
By Butcher
April 4, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this
Miller time officially declared Friday, at 5:32 pm EST on April 4, 2008
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this
(That’s Bordeaux time for you greens.)
By getalife
April 4, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
“The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.
……and learning…
“I’ve got Greenspan’s book.”
We can’t afford McCain’s learning curve. We don’t have that kind of time.”
Are you sure you want to run this guy? Get his medical records and they may give you a exit strategy for McWar.
By Glenn
April 4, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
Once again, get, you Democrats, who have a political ear of tin long grown rusty, will nominate someone even more unacceptable than McCain, and so the GOP will control the Executive Branch. Maybe next time you’ll hire someone who’s not a fool to be National Chair, and maybe in the meantime you’ll develop a bench of potential candidates the People like and can trust, and maybe next time you’ll vet them.
By WTF?
April 4, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this
izzit with libs like a
ray?
if not with our money, how do we help them?
U shure as h3ll don’t help them by encouraging a repeat, repeat, repeat
after me ray.
they can and should take care of their own kids or don’t run the risk of having one in the first damn place, the second damn place or the third damn place.