Thinking Right

By RCH

April 25, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Remember, under politically correct thinking you are quilty of sexual harassment or rape if she says so.If they lie so what. They walk away free. What do Clarence Thomas and the Duke three have in common? Both had there lives destroyed by political correctness and both liers walk away with book deals and a free university education.

By jbmlaw

April 25, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Sen. McCain’s proclamation on Katrina sounds to me like a “read my lips” pledge. I respectfully note that Sen. McCain has never held a command position, and the statement proves the lack of executive experience. (1) You don’t brag before you do it (bad sign, that is something democrats always do), and (2) micromanagement is not a trait of good management. Given his lack of experience in directing the efforts of others, his personal command of a “disaster” will likely prove a disaster itself. Kinda like President Jimmy keeping the reservations for the White House tennis court.

Re: the incompetents who are paid to teach at University of Georgia, national socialists have a long history of objecting to freedom for others.

The Army Corps of Engineers and the Transit Board and Paul Broun share a defect, the Shavian “Road to Hell.” Endemic to government.

An honest PSC commissioner? Call Guinness, I need a stout.

I have a solution for Gena: outsource all department functions, to competitive bidders.

I celebrated Earth Day the same way I celebrate the other Faux holiday, Kwanza.

Hope you all saw this humorous analysis of Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign, post-Pennsylvania, by Brett Winterble:

She had flawed intelligence, cooked up by a cabal with its own agenda. She is in a quagmire; she cannot win by conventional means, and no political solution appears viable. She has no exit strategy; the numbers just aren’t there. The people aren’t with her. She went to campaign on the pretext of a lie: that America wanted her to be their Commander in Chief. She has plunged her troops into the heart of a civil war, subjecting them to the attacks of fanatics. Her approval numbers are slipping and she refuses to take the blame, to sue for an honorable peace, to bring her troops home, with honor.

By Less

April 25, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Jim. You really crack me up sometimes. Those idiots over at UGA speaking out against Clarence Thomas speaking at their commencement. Do these members of our public school system think their freedom of speech rights includes the right to protest or something. Hmmph! The nerve. If they want that right, then they need to pack their bags and go to work in the private sector where freedom of speech is tolerated and legal. I’m with you, Jim. If I had graduated from that lousy school, instead of Georgia Tech, I’d be upset too. Now, sic ‘em.

By Mid-South Philosopher

April 25, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

Let me get this straight.

Setting the fiasco of Katrina aside, Georgie Bush, who has taken the national debt to an all time high, stressed the military to a breaking point, presided over the greatest escalation of government spending and growth (not taking into account the Iraq War or the military actions against the Islamist Fanatics) since World War II, failed to protect the borders of the United States, and has presided while the powers that be have delivered the highest gasoline prices in history to the American people to name but a few of his accomplishments; is somehow an effective and efficient success.

Yet, Gena Abraham has become ineffective for letting her emotions and harmones get out of hand?

On another matter, I hope that “lost ball in high grass” of a Governor of ours has the sense enough to sign the legislation sent to him by the General Assembly regarding the “right to bear arms”!

Of course, I guess that makes me “bitter”, doesn’t it Barack?

By Peter

April 25, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Jim is a funny guy, and quite gullible, I would say…. that $138.00 was a mistake, and the out come was a lie.

HA HA HA….saving tax payers $138.00…… how about someone wasn’t doing their job Jim !

The Army Core of Engineers really messed up here in Georgia, just like in New Orleans, when they made bad levies, but here it was all about saving $138.00 HA HA HA, and Jim wants to applaud that guy !

Also Jim, the disaster in New Orleans was a disgrace, BUT BUSH was too busy bombing other countries for OIL to care.

Hey Jim, that area is Mostly Black, so why would a Right Wing White guy like Bush care anyway ?

Bush didn’t care, and it shows today……..just the same as he cares about the average American, with all his failed policy’s looming, it has become a mess for another President to clean up.

Jim thinks the federal government shouldn’t step in at times of major disasters……. I am sure that would change if HIS family was in trouble because of a major event……but hey it is OK to help Florida, after it gets hit by a mean Tropical storm, as long as white folks are getting the help, or the President shows up in Minnesota offering help after a bridge collapses !

There is NO punishment to DOT commissioner Gena Abraham, why JIM…..Because she is Sonny Perdue’s pawn, and he wants her there !

Jim’s a funny guy today, and is a shinning example of why the Wrongs will get buried in the next election…..keep the fire burning Jim, show us what “your true American Attitude is” !

By Aquagirl

April 25, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

If the Corps of Engineers should take responsibility for a $ 138 gauge, they should take responsibility for levees around New Orleans. So should their boss.

McCain shows us the difference between a dud president and a real leader. With Bush as a comparison, this isn’t too hard.

By Cracker McSnacker

April 25, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Wow, today’s blog is like the menu at Taco Bell … unappetizing, with no nutritional value. Think I’ll go back to bed.

By RCH

April 25, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Remember, under politically correct thinking you are quilt of sexual harassment or rape if she says so.If they lie so what. They walk away free. What do Clarence Thomas and the Duke three have in common? Both had there lives destroyed by political correctness and both liers walk away with book deals and a free university education.

By the way Less I graduated fromGT but I will make an exception and attend the commencement as a guest of a graduate.

By ron

April 25, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Good morning Jim,Should another Katrina occour,the mayhem and madness from the feds will be the same,or worse.

By Filster

April 25, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Of course those UGA profs disagree with Justice Thomas speaking. They always disagree with anyone who does not kowtow to their exact point of view having the right of free speech. Used to be, differing viewpoints resulted in free discourse and the exchange of ideas in college. Now it’s just a propaganda platform for whatever that particular professor believes. No wonder American education has become so degraded.

By Just Nasty and Mean

April 25, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

The Army Corp of Engineers could find their butts with a road map and two people pointing.

There were dozens of individuals and organizations concerned with Lake Lanier screaming at the COE that they were letting out too much water. These guys weren’t willing to let logic and their own lying eyes tell them they were wrong.

If Sonny had a set (which he doesn’t) he’d send the national guard to take over Buford Dam and show those bureaucratic dead heads how to run the freakin dam!

I think the COE should be held financially responsible for their acts.

If you want to act stupid, be prepared to pay the price.

By Less

April 25, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Jim, you just provided us with too much to digest in one day. This issue of porn being made available to our devout defenders of the USofA is just one prime example. If you take away their porn, then what next. Where will it end? Would someone then suggest that they not be allowed beer? What about their right to not tell about their tale and not be asked about it either. But, that’s just the tip of the iceberg so to speak. What happens when, or if, these poor deprived soldiers return to civilian life in our fine bible- belted communities. Will they be able to just cast out those sins that they so readily accessed while in the military. I surely doubt it for, as the good book says, once a sinner always a sinner. So say we all. What will these ex-soldiers do for entertainment when they come home and find no good sellers of the illicit pornographic materials that they so lust for. What will they do when they find the military bases that once provided for their Sunday alcoholic needs are all shut down. Why that might just be enough to get them to re-enlist.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

Yes indeed, the young inmates know more about Earth Day, as every day is Earth Day for them, and every place u-topia.

You’re right: Clayton is the perfect argument for vouchers. Caution: Children Not at Play. But no VanWinkling allowed, Citizen Wooten. That’s just the problem: those still awake to it must remain awake. You’re a vigilante, and there’s no turning back now. If’n you Break from the posse we’ll shootcha in the back.

Should any at your esteemed Alma Mater manage to heckle Mr. Justice Thomas telegenically—-because they’ll never manage to stop that particular man from speaking his peace—-it will be seen in the Higher Ed Biz as the misconduct of the entire institution. Universities operate according to a game of insiders’ “status factors”, and were UGA to pull an Emory like that, it would be a blow to the prestige of the university equivalent to the loss of, say, one Nobelist, or two MacArthur recipients, or 5,000 sq. ft. of laboratory floorspace, or 250,000 library volumes. Moreover, as His Holiness the Dalai Lama pointed out to Emory faculty a few months ago, “No one must be considered ‘educated’ who is not kind.”

By prospero

April 25, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Adult Supreme Court Justices should be perfectly free to rent whatever pornographic videos they want. Sure, the culture is going to hell, but let hypocrites in black robes protecting family values decide they really want to watch Long Dong Silver.

By Truthifier

April 25, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Well, I guess hell has frozen over (so much for global warming!) — I agree with Mr. Wooten. I’ve never understood why people expect the President to show up everytime there is a flood, tornado or hurricane. Should I call the White House anytime I have an emergency?

By Redneck Convert

April 25, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Well, I say let this Clarence Thomas speak and fire the protesters. Even if he is one of Those People. Leastwise he’s a conservative. I would be all for protesting if they brought in a librul to speak.

I saw where CNN had a poll that asked weather there should be a law letting people put up Christian symbols everywhere. 70% said yes. When they was asked whether there should be a law allowing other religions to put up symbols, 60% said no. I’m glad to know people realize that we’re a Christian nation that don’t put up with no heathens.

I’m still waiting for somebody to drop off the mailroom tape of this Gena Abraham and her boyfriend in action. Nobody dropped it off up here at Simpsons Trailer Park last nite. But I got hope. We need to look at what they do so we will know not to do it that way. It ain’t porn if you use it for moral reasons.

This Clayton County school thing just shows what happens if you put Those People in charge of anything. We made a big mistake letting them vote in elections. Now they are trying to act like White people, like this Glenn Richardson and Casey Cagle fussing and fighting. Trouble is, Those People don’t have the background to do it up right.

Well, I got lots of beer to haul so I’ll sign off. Bars up here in the Baptist areas really stock up for the weekend. We don’t want it to be sold in stores on Sunday, but we sure want to be able to buy it in the bars on the sabbath. Have a good day everybody. And drop off that tape. I need moral teaching. Mine is the trailer with a couple broke windows and some missing siding and the outhouse. You can’t hardly miss it.

By Dennis

April 25, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes, “Match campaign contributions by industry to legislation under consideration. There’s always a link. The only real solution is full and timely disclosure. Give voters information and they’ll act.”

I agree. Let’s have a full disclosure of the amount and when of campaign funds given to Congress members by the telecom industry to protect them from lawsuits over illegal spying on Americans.

Mr. Wooten writes, “I’m OD’ed on Clayton County schools personnel problems. Wake me when the parents get vouchers and can take their business elsewhere.”

Take them where, Mr. Wooten, or are your thoughts just rhetoric? Take them where? Out of county?

Can you imagine the long bus trips beginning early in the morning to get to another county system on time? Then the long afternoon trip back to Clayton Co. to disperse the students back to their homes?

And do you really think the parents, and especially the kids, are going to put up with that? And travel is only the beginning of the problems.

You still don’t get it, Mr. Wooten. Public schoools were never set up and funded properly in the first place. And unless this changes, you can expect to see some more Clayton Counties down the road.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

Hey Dennis, yesterday you said, rather flatteringly I might add, that I’d stolen your thunder.

Today you’ve stolen mine!

By JK

April 25, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Once again, the locals and then the state are responsible for preparation and for first response to disasters.

Once again, planning and prep failures can be blamed in part on under-funded, budget-constrained local governments, but RESPONDING to a disaster is kind of tough when you’re under water. D’OH! Hence, the taxpayer-funded FEMA whose job it was to MANAGE disaster response on behalf of said state and local officials who were, you know, under water at the time.

Did Brownie and his staff cash their paychecks? If so, why shouldn’t we expect them to do the jobs for which they were paid by the taxpayers?

BTW, my kids could tell you plenty about the Declaration of Independence and World War II, as well as how the current US Administration has whittled down our Bill of Rights and mismanaged our current bogus war — not on Bin Laden who attacked us, but on “terror” which they exacerbate for fun and profit — which has now lasted longer than WWII.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

jbm,

Available tomorrow? First Church, Bromidical of Roswell and I are getting divorced, so unless I’m singing with the Methodists I’ll be available all day.

You’re right about the problem of McCain’s offering micro-management of FEMA. The easy resolution, of both his conundrum and the problems with FEMA, would be for him to appoint a Marine colonel Director, and be done with it. But you’re right, by Jove: he does want to micro-manage in such instances. He sees the presidency as the funnest trainset in the world. Just as TR did. Well aimed, jbm. Well aimed.

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Soon the supreme court will have names such as Akmed and Abdul gracing the bench…Not to mention Michelle. Get use to it, Repukes, you have failed and now it is pay back time. I propose a 105% tax rate on all stock options, grants and other forms of theft from shareholders, included so called carried interest. IMHO, the biggest deterent to porn is imagining Hillary Clinton neeked…ugh, there goes the old sex drive. To bad Jimmy Carter cannot revoke all the american tax money given to the ungrateful israeli’s under camp david….the scum do not deserve our help, never have and never will.

By JohnD

April 25, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Stopped by for the first time in several weeks to find the Left Loons, Peter and Aquagirl are still spouting lies and distortions.

Condensing their nonsense, “Bush caused the levees to fail because the people harmed were Black”.

Of course, and I am sure the Bush family was in the middle of the 1980’s creation of HIV/Aids as a means of genocide against Blacks.

Peter and Aquagirl should have their key boards revoked for ignorance.

By AmVet

April 25, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Holy guacamole.

Katrina?

Even most of the Bushco apologists could see unrivaled ineptitude in action during that fiasco. Sure, the Louisiana types are a bunch of knuckleheads. And how exactly does this give King George II a pass on his ever-present rumbling, bumbling and stumbling?

UGA?

I thought the Young Republicans there ruled with an iron fist and allowed no dissent? Seriously, young people protesting on college campuses??? As Bill O’Reilly would say, “They’re all un-American”. No wonder Jimbo’s embarrassed.

And I couldn’t even wade through the rest of today’s offering.

All in all, yet another yawn-fest…

By Southern Democrat

April 25, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Jbmlaw,

Would not the Ensign beg to disagree that Captain McCain, who led a fighter attack squadron, has no command experience?

By Peter

April 25, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

John D….Wake up smell the coffee…..the levies were not made properly….

HA HA HA…….John D…….speaking of lies……”Faulty Inteligence” says it all !

HA HA HA…… Another lemming ready to jump !

By JK

April 25, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Once again, the locals and then the state are responsible for preparation and for first response to disasters.

Once again, planning and prep failures can be blamed in part on under-funded, budget-constrained local governments, but RESPONDING to a disaster is kind of tough when you’re under water. D’OH! Hence, the taxpayer-funded FEMA whose job it was to MANAGE disaster response on behalf of said state and local officials who were, you know, under water at the time.

Did Brownie and his staff cash their paychecks? If so, why shouldn’t we expect them to do the jobs for which they were paid by the taxpayers?

BTW, my kids could tell you plenty about the Declaration of Independence and World War II, as well as how the current US Administration has whittled down our Bill of Rights and mismanaged our current bogus war — not on Bin Laden who attacked us, but on “terror” which they exacerbate for fun and profit — which has now lasted longer than WWII.

By Peter

April 25, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Hey John D put this in your Right wing pipe and smoke it…..

Consumer sentiment lowest in 26 years.

Ruth Mantell

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — High fuel and food prices, coupled with “shrinking” income gains and falling home values pulled down consumer sentiment in April, according to a Friday report. The U.S. consumer sentiment index declined to 62.6 in April — the lowest level in 26 years — from 69.5 in March, according to a Friday report from University of Michigan/Reuters. An earlier estimate for April was 63.2. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch were looking for a final April result of 63.0. The expectations index fell to 53.3 - the lowest level since November 1990 — from 60.1 in March.

Great job by BUSH on ALL accounts…..!!!!!!

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Enough awreddy with the Katrina Blame Game. Everyone including Zelig has admitted fault, and apologized, and resources and effort are still pouring into the Gulf Coast, so might we turn toward the future?

What should be the recipe for emergency response to a disaster of that scale? What proportions, fed/state/regional/local, military/civilian, public/private, secular/faith-based, expert/lay? Who should be in charge of what? How much advance planning should be done? What kind? By whom? For whom?

By Curious Observer

April 25, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Hmmm. Glenn and jbmlaw meeting for libations. Perhaps Glenn’s pastor said something obnoxious, some nonsense about loving thy neighbor, etc.

These two devotees of 18th century government will be easy to spot. They’ll be wearing periwigs and codpieces.

By Peter

April 25, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Enough awreddy with the Katrina Blame Game. Everyone including Zelig has admitted fault, and apologized, and resources and effort are still pouring into the Gulf Coast, so might we turn toward the future?

Hey Glen, why don’t you tell us about ALL the HELP POURING INTO New Orleans Please !

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Observer Curious:

You simply resent the natural order in which the Rights of Man are the proper perquisites of men in capacious waistcoats and silken breeches.

And akshooly, the problem with my pastor is that not only does he never say an obnoxious thing, he never could think of an obnoxious thing to say.

By the way, jbm’s 18th Cent. I’m 12th.

Thank you.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Well Peter, for example I’m working under federal contract to figure out how not to let another disaster like that drastically distrupt and retard children’s educations. In my admittedly tangential work I’ve been impressed by how much money has been committed by all levels of government, and by how New Orleans in particular became overnight the hot commission for designers, architects and planners to seek—-not because of the money, but because of the prestige owing to its moral imperative. (I join the Orleanian concern for over-planning and for inauthenticity.)

But I’m trying to steer this string a little away from Katrina, from the Big Easy, and from the now. Have you a sense of how near we were in Metro Atlanta to first-stage evacuations in the Fall owing to drought?

By B,J. Patel

April 25, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

By RCH

April 25, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Remember, under politically correct thinking you are quilty of sexual harassment or rape if she says so.If they lie so what. They walk away free. What do Clarence Thomas and the Duke three have in common? Both had there lives destroyed by political correctness and both liers walk away with book deals and a free university education.

Something you know alot about huh RCH. Still bitter over getting fired for smacking Mrs. Vasquez around are you sicko? What a POS you are RCH.

By Dusty

April 25, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

John D @10:20

Don’t go away. Just because you have clear thinking is no reason to stay away. Just smile awhile!!

Liberals here are awash in ignorance as you have noticed. They never heard of State’s Right nor do they know that the President does NOT interfere in a state’s affair unless called upon by the state’s governor. You know. PICK UP THE PHONE, GUV!!

Southern Democrat forgets that John McCain was a POW and tortured by our enemies for over four years. SouDem wants to know if McCain was EXPERIENCED. What more experience do you want, SouDem, while you try to intimidate our present military by diminishing past military heroes. Way to go, patriot!!

Meanwhile, lovely lib imposter George Washington spouts his usual bigotry against our ally, the Israelis.

Over at Luckovich’s, AmVet, vigorous lib inhibitor of the truth, ties lost games of a baseball team to the President. Who’s to blame for your crazy conspiracy team, AmVet?

MidSouth Phil, in the meantime, declares that Bush did not fight terrorism with penny ante supplies and spent more than pocket money. Yes, sir, let the military fight terrorism with a “wing and a prayer”. That’s the way to do it according to Phil.

So don’t go away, John D. We will get further info on how we can wreck the country with Democratic direction. Fortunately, they are seldom elected to office and mess if up if they are (note Pelosi & Reid and the loser cadre trying to run Congress..phew!) Americans are beginning to see the quagmire that would come with Hilllary or Obama. Now that’s a possible calamity in the making.

By Less

April 25, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

A pulley, worth $138, had to be replaced in order to get an accurate lake level reading. An error, on one or more person’s part, led to the premature release of billions of gallons of water from the lake. Well, anybody still got any of those bumper stickers left. You know the one — It Happens. I’m just glad it wasn’t something more serious like a piece of ice knocking out a cheap piece of foam or breaking a ceramic tile. Maybe something like a near melt down of a nuclear reactor because of some faulty water temperature gage. How about big chunks of concrete falling on cars due to improperly set fasteners. Have you ever seen a bridge shaking at its resonant frequency or a walkway collapse in a hotel. Does anyone remember the sections of freeway that collapsed in California during a past earthquake. Now, what was the whole story behind those New Orleans levees anyway. Let’s hype up the loss of water from a man-made lake and all the resulting loss of life instead of concentrating on things like our aging infrastructure, lack of inspection of domestic and foreign food supplies, sources of pollution, etc. We have more important things to do like plan pre-emptive strikes against the world — just in case someone may one day think about killing one or more of us. I wonder how many problems can be traced back to a decision by “management” to save a buck. I know. Let’s spend a trillion dollars to “protect” us from the possibility of a future terrorist attack. I have this feeling that we will not prevent the possibility of such an attack even if we killed everything on this planet except US. Of course, I have no scientific proof of that though.

By Ben

April 25, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

I had my thunder stolen once. Dadburn beano.

By Cindy

April 25, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Appears RCH crawled back out from under his rock again, and telling his same old lame lies again. Tech grad RCH? When we worked together you were telling everyone it was MIT until it came to light you dropped out of Clayton state. Get a life RCH. You keep thinking nobody remembers that you have been exposed as a fraud and fake time and time again.

By RCH

April 25, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

B.J. Patel

Just like a true liberal: “thourally confused.” But I will call your bluff. Please give a discretion of me. There is someone here who has meet me. We will see who the liar is!

By Peter

April 25, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Glen, I was not aware how poorly governor Perdue had handled the situation, and with the Army Core of Engineers NOT Doing their job, no wonder we still face a tough drought situation, for years to come.

Noting that is own house (the Governor’s Mansion) was wasting water for some time, with a water leak, and his allowing for the making of SNOW on 80 degree days with PUBLIC WATER…..we really see how poorly the Republican leadership has been.

No wonder he was SO Clueless he was “Praying FOR RAIN” ! Of course he was praying for rain on our dime.

As for New Orleans, an article recently came out and the Nevel Brothers stated….. money, and HELP did not POUR into New Orleans, as compared to New York and 911.

Heck the President showed up in Minnesota a few days after the bridge collapse, but he was no where to be found days after Katrina!

Also tell me why the government didn’t tell the folks getting trailers, that the trailers had contaminates, and were not really fit to live in ?

So what did the REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP show to the American Public then ?

By Doug

April 25, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

By RCH

April 25, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

B.J. Patel

Just like a true liberal: “thourally confused.” But I will call your bluff. Please give a discretion of me. There is someone here who has meet me. We will see who the liar is!

Maybe you are a Tech grad after all RCH. The above paragraph with all of it’s third grade mistakes bolsters your case dumbazz.

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Hey, Dirt Ball Dusty, we will take the cost of the illegal and immoral war in Iraq out of YOUR social security check….No Medicare for you either, hag.

By hdd3

April 25, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

JBMLAW,

regarding your comment: “celebrated Earth Day the same way I celebrate the other Faux holiday, Kwanza.”

If Kwanza is a meaningless holiday, so is Christmas. Dec. 25th is not the real birthday of Jesus and Santa Claus does not exist yet most people pretend like it is true. The Catholic Cult created Christmas on the same day a pagan deity’s birthday is celebrated. The Catholic Cult has a history of incorporating pagan holidays into their dogma. If the purpose is to honor Christ then His real birthday should have been researched and celebrated. What is worse is parents lying to their kids about some guy coming down the chimney with presents. What is even more amazing is people will actually get offended when I mention these facts.

Kwanza has just as much (or just as little) meaning as Christmas. Your idea of what a real holiday is depends on your personal brand of brain washing.

By munchi

April 25, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Dusty, you said this.

“Southern Democrat forgets that John McCain was a POW and tortured by our enemies for over four years. SouDem wants to know if McCain was EXPERIENCED. What more experience do you want, SouDem, while you try to intimidate our present military by diminishing past military heroes.”Way to go, patriot”

Did you not digest what soudem said? It was in response to your buddy JBMLAW assertion that McCain had NO COMMAND EXPERIENCE…By jbmlaw

April 25, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

“Good morning all. Sen. McCain’s proclamation on Katrina sounds to me like a “read my lips” pledge. I respectfully note that Sen. McCain has never held a command position”

In fact soudem was standing up for McCain.

Maybe soudem will accept your apology?

By Qualcom Investor

April 25, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

What Wooten missed:

T Rex and Chickens are linked by their DNA. Skeletal similarities aroused scientific suspicions, but the DNA proves it.

Chicken Hawks and T Rex….. Scientists and Liberals have discovered a DNA match between conservative cowards who manage wars without being veterans themselves, and the fossil fuel source of oil: dinosaurs including T. Rex.

DNA was used to prove that 70K years ago, human beings almost became extinct, with only 2000 people left, after an extended drought. Climatologists have matched a cycle of global warming to the near-extinction and anthropologists have found the remains of a 70K year old skeleton buried with artifacts that include a powerpoint chart comparing CO2 emmissions and temperature variations.

The DOT scandal has hung a scarlett (ohara?) letter around Gena Abraham’s long, soft, elegant neck. Friends, Rome-Georgians, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I blog to narry tease her, but to gaze at her. The evil women do is oft inferred when they’re boned. So let the media sleaze her? Noble Evans hath told us she was trampalicious, and Evans is an honorable man. Is her sin so grievous that grievously she must answer for it? O Judgement! Thou art fled to pertish breasts. Men have lost their reason to bare TT’s.

Darfur and the USA similar in that both have armed militia’s chomping at the bit to plunder and pillage. The lunatic fringe, which is really all that’s left of conservatism, has plans and strategic missions to sustain offensive campaigns on both a guerilla level and on a more transparent tactical operation, via the security guard loophole in our laws against armed rebellion: When a armored car delivers cash to a bank and the guards patrol the pathway to the vault. In that legal minefield, lives the legislative seed of any political coup’s military arm. If conservatives were willing to destroy democrats when food and fuel was too cheap, what will they do now that’s it’s too expensive?

Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.

The preceding was paid for by the committee to stop global warming and stop the iraq war and stop the arming of militias bent on armeggedon simply cause they aint got nothing better to do.

PS: Concealed weapons make it very easy for conspirators to surround a large assembly unnoticed. How far do I trust conservatives? Bang a gong, T rex.

On conservatism’s tombstone, it will read the last spoken words in the movie, Three Days of the Condor….. “Do americans want war? Ask americans when they run out of oil, or water, or food. Hell, they wont want us to ask they’ll expect us to grab it. Not being caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth. Boy did I find a home!”

I find the dead conservatism’s embalmed epitaph of greed, arrogance and priveledge as dispicable as any regime’s in human history.

By Cindy

April 25, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

You ask for it RCH. My “descretion” of you is a skinny, mullet headed, non-spelling moron and known jackass to those who “has meet” you. Keep going poser. You become a more obvious imbecile with each and every post. Slapped any women aroun d lately pervert?

By Southern Democrat

April 25, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

I call your literacy and reading comprehension into question.

Your sanity and capacity for rational thought have long been determined.

Re-read my post. I was contradicting Jbmlaw on his comment that Senator/Captain McCain did NOT have command experience.

Thank goodness it’s Friday or else I might have the vim and vigor to use this latest example of your Herculean intellect as part of a larger commentary on the ability of those on the far-right and far-left to read absolutely anything the way they want and allow pre-conceived notions to discard good ideas from those they fear and, therefore, oppose.

Instead, I will resort to a comment I once put on a particularly hard-headed student’s essay whose efforts were in doubt:

Either you ain’t gettin’ what you’re readin’ or you ain’t readin’ what you’re gettin’.

By FactChecker

April 25, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

To those of you asserting that John McCain has no command experience you stand corrected. He was a Squadron Commander in the Navy.

By munchi

April 25, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Southern Dem read my post at 11:46…

I got your back buddy!

By Black Panther

April 25, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Whity says “Detectives cleared in 50-bullet wedding day shooting…” - So remember me bru brothers, when confronted by armed goons called detectives, act first, act accurate, and act a lot….the scum bag courts are just going to find the PIGS innocent of murdering you, so your only hope to break even is to take them while you have the chance…NO PRISIONERS….IF YOU SURVIVE THE INITIAL EXCHANGE, LAY IN WAIT FOR THEIR BACKUP, DIE A MAN, ALL YOU TAKE WILL BE YOUR SLAVES IN THE AFTER LIFE….

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Eat this, you Repuke Scum:

Import prices are surging at a 14.8% year-over-year rate. Wholesale prices are rising at a rate of almost 7%. “Official” consumer prices are climbing by 4%. The price of a barrel of oil is around $115 … the price of a gallon of gas is $3.50 … wheat has almost doubled … corn has increased by more than 65% … and gold costs $900 an ounce.

From New Delhi to New York, bond yields are not keeping up with soaring inflation.
Rice prices have risen so much that riots are breaking out from one corner of the globe to another … consumers are hoarding the key staple … and even U.S. retailers like Costco and Sam’s Club are restricting purchases of it. Lastly, REAL interest rates are deeply in negative territory

By Dusty

April 25, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Peter@11:40

Contaminants in minute quantity from plywood in trailers and other small “containers” are well known. We have the classic example of dire results from long exposure in the dribblings of RedNeck Convert.

That is the only “proof” of such obvious mental inhibition that has been publicly exhibited, unless you believe that all libs live in trailers.

By Mid-South Philosopher

April 25, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Ah,Dusty, you wound me to the core.

I would remind you that it was NOT I who sent our forces into harm’s way with less than sufficient body armor.

It was not I who sent too few troops at the beginning to staff the occupation that anyone other than a stupid fool would have realized would be necessary to help a people who had NEVER really known anything about democratic government develop workable democratic institutions over time.

It was not I who had no understanding of Shi’a and Sunni schools of thought

I have always given Rumsfeld credit for the success of his Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine strategy for the defeat of the Iraqi Army. After that, the Georgie and Donnie Show was a tragic disaster and it has taken General Patraeus’s genius to pull their fat out of the fire. If Bush and Rumsfeld had not been so taken with themselves, the Surge would never have been necessary and we might be closer to a successful completion of the adventure.

As it is, hopefully, John McCain will be able to negotiate the waters that we may have to tread to a successful end, which, because of the gross ineptness of the Bush Administration, may take 100 years!

By Peter

April 25, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

BY the way…. have ALL the WRONGS on this blog, seen the LIBERAL GIVE Away of Money from the BUSH Government?

Seeing that he is going to be unable to FIX his economic MESS, he has resorted to giving away our TAX money……..seems like a good idea, since we are already Billions in debt !

I guess his next big answer is going to be hold a PRAYER MEETING on the WHITE HOUSE Lawn, and Pray for economic help from God !

Great Republican Leadership in action !

By RCH

April 25, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Thank you. Now I will be able to say what does Cindy, B.J. and Anita Hill have in common? Exposed for the liars they are. ( Or just plain stupid)Take your pick.

By Dusty

April 25, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Soooo

SouDem was “taking up” for conservative McCain. OK. I read it wrong. SouDem supports McCain and therefore is a conservative Republican. How could I miss that? And jbmlaw is a liberal loon. I missed that one too…

Does this mean I have to vote for Hil or Obama to rectify my mistakes? Please, please, I have but one political life to give (and save) my country and it is Republican!!!

By Less

April 25, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

We need a new law: Faux folk should not propagate faux info. This law would represent a shift in thinking to the right so it should be called the kcnlaw.

By RCH

April 25, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Thank you. Now I will be able to say what does Cindy, B.J. and Anita Hill have in common? Exposed for the liars they are. ( Or just plain stupid)Take your pick.

By Dusty

April 25, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

MIdsouth Phil,

Here’s a bandaid for your wounds!! YOUR elected representatives VOTED to fight the infidels of terrorism. You did vote,didn’t you?

Good thing you were not around during Tea Party time, Boston that is. My goodness, Americans did not know a thing about running a country. Surprisingly enough, we managed quite well. Freedom is a great invigorator. You may find that Bush knew that a long time ago.

By Shar

April 25, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Sad news indeed about Commissioner Speirs declining to extend her service on the PSC. She has been the standout for reason, transparency and fairness in a very powerful group that shimmers with ignominy (Stan Wise) and stupidity (Doug Everett).

Sad news, too, that Mr. Wooten wants to snooze through the Clayton County BOE catastrophe. The students in the system have the most to lose but are the least able to force change on the disfunctional board. Parents and voters must push and then push harder to try to find a way to salvage accreditation and clear the path for meaningful reform, and journalists such as Mr. Wooten must use their access to inform and hold all sides to account. The Board members, as persistently inept, selfish and criminal as they are, cannot be permitted to continue to loot and lie just because they are tiresome.

By Peter

April 25, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

Dusty….. HA HA HA…… Boston Tea Party, and Fighting a Made up WAR in Iraq all in the same sentence.

I guess the part you forgot about was there was NO “FAULTY INTELLIGENCE” to be spun during our Revolutionary WAR !

Gee Dusty if Bush wanted to go after the “Infidles” as you mentioned…..why didn’t Bush go after Bin Laden ?

By jbmlaw

April 25, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Dear Glenn @ 10:17, I think I am free all of tomorrow, but less free Sunday. Mrs. jbmlaw has a children’s musical in rehearsal, and I think I have done all of the stage setting required of me, and that would be my only contingency. Perhaps meet at the same place, at a time of your choosing?

Dear Southern @ 10:29, actually the Ensign, soon to be Lt. JG, is the one who gave me the argument, in an admittedly totally unrelated context. Even squadrons of fighters are directed within the battle by NFOs, in the air. I do not disparage the valor of the stick jockeys – our unengaged but prospective daughter-in-law is one - and surely in a one on one dogfight they would be alone against the world, but in a conventional attack they are players, directed. The NFOs manage a large number of chess pieces. NFOs are the ones who go on to flag positions from the aviation community. A Navy flight squadron commander certainly holds responsibility for a lot of expensive equipment, but the lowly marine 2nd Lt. has more practical executive experience. (Parenthetical note: it is bizarre that my friend Southern Democrat may [underscore the contingency aspect of this note] vote for the nominee of my party, and would with more enthusiasm than I, although the bar is set really low for him.)

Dear hdd3 @ 11:45, sorry, but you err. Kwanza was created by the FBI in the 1970s. Just before they created AIDs, and for the same purpose. As to the heart of your argument, I would be the first to concede that two of the four Gospels do not even mention the birth of the Savior. And I assume I would not have to observe that only a typical leftist would compare a religious holiday celebrating the birth of God on earth for two millennia, to a secular non-religious government-manufactured event.

By Qualcom Investor

April 25, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Rushannity has been going on about AL Gore’s ethanol remedy role in the recent food shortages and inflation. Three words: Archer Daniels Midland.

Not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth. Boy has Rushannity found a home!

By Chuck

April 25, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Hey, Jim. If you want to make a point, you need to have a point in the first place.

Here are my points: What McCain was doing was showing leadership—something that George W. Bush was sorely lacking in the case of Katrina. New Orleans and the state of Louisiana were overwhelmed, and everyone saw it coming except for the President. Even though, he was shown being in a meeting where he was warned about it. If you’re going to be the leader of the Free World, you need to act like it.

How is protesting someone intolerant of free speech? Protesting something you are opposed to is the essence of free speech. No one is stopping Justice Thomas from speaking. No one’s free speech is being denied. It is just convenient for you to say that.

How much water was wasted by that $138 decision? What’s the value of that? What kind of return on investment would that pulley have provided had it been purchased at the time?

Voters act when they are passionate about something. Give them issues they care about, and they’ll flock to the polls.

What’s going to reduce traffic is a Northern Arc, increased rail that includes more than Fulton and Dekalb Counties, and a way to reduce the bottle-neck that is the Downtown Connector.

Shouldn’t anyone who serves on the PSC refuse to take freebies from utilities to avoid conflict of interest accusations?

Just where are all these Clayton County school kids going to take their vouchers to? It’s not like other Metro Atlanta schools are sitting there over-staffed and full of vacant seats to take them.

This one we actually agree on. If they are old enough to serve our country, they’re old enough to decide what magazine to buy or video to watch.

OK. Tell the governor to fire her.

I know plenty about all three. Most school kids I know do as well. You fail to give our educators the credit they really deserve. Why? Because they belong to a strong union; that’s why.

By Dennis

April 25, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

By Glenn April 25, 2008 10:04 AM “Hey Dennis, yesterday you said, rather flatteringly I might add, that I’d stolen your thunder.

“Today you’ve stolen mine!”

OK, let’s just say sometimes great minds think alike!

Honestly, tho, columns like Wooten’s concern me greatly.

If his column is intended to be an opportunity for entertainment for those of us who post, that’s one thing.

If he really believes even half of what he writes, and the intent of his column is to establish and reinforce conservativism, then most of what he writes is nothing more, or better, than mere propaganda, and needs to be (as it often is by open minded readers here) exposed for what it is.

And, given the state of the country right now, we don’t have time for conservative games.

We desperately need upfront, honest reporting.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Chuck, the union of which you speak is nothing but strong. It is not right. It is only Might. The might to chew children and crap pay raises. THAT is only the preeminent reason to disparage public schoolteachers; there are so many others that it makes my portrait of John Dewey, co-founder of that union, weep. It’s not their fault, exactly, but it’s real. It’s very real in its recoil upon the wards of the State.

Peter,

I’m very suspicious of the expression “plenty of blame to go around”; suspicious, because it’s almost always used to absolve anyone of personal responsibility—-an imponderable within complex, expert systems. But in Katrina there was plenty of blame to go around, and enough to heap onto the Administration to make even a Bill Maher happy.

The post-mortem began a few months after the waters began to subside, and it has become a huge and multivariate project, involving some really formidable people in failure analysis. (Systems again.) There is no question but that the signal failures occurred in the emergency Response Phase, and less so in the Relief Phase and not appreciably, so far, in the Recovery Phase. I didn’t mean to suggest that resources and effort came pouring into Katrina immediately; everyone’s agreed that that didn’t happen. (Hell, the Salvation Army was first on the scene!) I’m sure we can agree that, regrettably, it’s because of that failure that New Orleans reaped the benefit of the resultant guilt equity, in the form of a quickening onrush of moneys and talent.

That’s not the way it’s’posed to be, I agree. So that’s why I ask, again, How’s It S’posed To Be?

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Glenn, remember, the dagger goes in at the top the neck, in that little hollow area….opps, don’t read this jmblaw….heh heh,

By hdd3

April 25, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

JBMLAW,

Your assumption is totally wrong. Not sure how you came to the conclusion I am a leftist. There is not a left leaning, baby killing, socialist who would ever get my vote. However, I am neither on the right nor independent. My views are shaped by true vs. false. My point is religion (not real Christianity) created Christmas based on falsehoods and Kwanza is just as meaningless. As a matter of fact, the Scripture is clear on what God deems important…obedience to His word. Celebrating his birth on earth is not part of that no matter if it has been done for two millennia.

By Mid-South Philosopher

April 25, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Ah, but Dusty, you must remember that the patriots (and there really were such people in those days)in Boston and in other of the colonies had a history of English jurisprudence. The notion of republican government (while not developed to the level that it is today) was not foreign to the average British subject. Our founders took the idea to a higher level, and even though we had a long journey to go before we reached our present state of proficiency (a Civil War, a suffragette movement,and a Jim Crow Era intervened), we had a considerably more advance sense of self-governance than the preponderance of our Iraqi friends.

Georgie Bush simply did not understand the depth of the challenge we faced in replacing Saddam.

Don’t get me wrong, Saddam should have been removed, but, Dusty, have you ever really thought about WHY Saddam was not removed under Daddy Bush’s “Desert Storm”?

By munchi

April 25, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

A few years back…just for laughs I tuned in Rush (R-comedian)

This one guy slipped through his screeners (at the time Limbaugh was breaking the scales at a lethal 350 lbs, and doing drugs (BIG TIME.)

The caller said “Did you cry when the DUNKIN DONUT guy died?”

Limbaugh probably in an Oxycotin fog replied “HUH”

The caller responded again with “Did you cry when the DUNKIN DONUT guy died?”

Fat Boy, the comedian replied; Huh, hey…hey, I hardly knew the guy!

TRUE STORY…Just a little levity to end the week….

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Good news: real reporters will soon be available, and very cheap, to upgrade the pathetically poor ajc urinal: first to go: Jimmy if only I had a brain woodenhead; Idiot to return to family farm as field hand.

April 25, 2008 — THE New York Times’ news room is bracing for a bloodbath in the next 10 days.

The word from inside is that approximately 50 unionized journalists have accepted the buyout proposal, and only another 20 non-union editorial employees have gotten on board.

That means the ax could fall on as many as 30 editorial people in the company’s first-ever mass firing of journalists in its 156-year history.

Executive Editor William Keller had said originally that he was looking to cut 100 people from the Times staff in response to the dismal newspaper advertising environment.

But then a week ago Assistant Managing Editor William Schmidt issued a memo saying it was almost certain that the company would be forced to make involuntary cuts, and he urged more volunteers to come forward.

The plea apparently fell on deaf ears.

With just 70 people stepping forward for buyouts, it is very likely that 30 newsroom staffers will be forced out in coming days.

“We’re bracing for it,” said one insider with some knowledge of the developments. “There’s a lot of anxiety.”

With competitive threats looming from The Wall Street Journal, which like The Post is owned by News Corp., sources said the business desk and national desk will be spared and will absorb only token cuts.

The Metro desk, headed by Joe Sexton, is headed toward a major reorganization and could absorb the brunt of the involuntary axings.

But, as with all developments inside the Times, things move slow.

Tuesday was the deadline for employees choosing to accept buyout packages, which offer three weeks of severance for each year worked. Management and other non-unionized employees were to have accepted their buyout offers by Monday.

Anthony Napoli, a Newspaper Guild representative, said his office was not sure how names were turned in.

“The process is not finalized,” he said. “We’re waiting for the Times to tell us how many have been returned and how many have been accepted.”

“We do not have any updates regarding the buyouts and do not plan to disclose the numbers,” said a Times spokeswoman.

By AmVet

April 25, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Who’s to blame for your crazy conspiracy team, AmVet?

Dusty, you have got to be kidding!

It is well established that it was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.

As numerous others have already alluded to your incessant delusions, I will only add, “Good day Madam!”

By AmVet

April 25, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

And one more thing. The shooter on the grassy knoll was an alien survivor of the Area 51 crash near New Mexico. He was also the one who advised NASA on how to fake the moon landings. He is now retired and living in Myrtle Beach.

By demwit

April 25, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Why does Jim Wooten always have more posters on his blogs??

By willie b

April 25, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

AmVet, Mid-South, Geo Washington, and all of you who have had you’re tiffs with DUSTY.

Have you ever noticed she always leads with her CHIN!

Just an observation.

By GayGreyGeek

April 25, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

Dusty - AFEES Is Ready When You Are.

Take The Oath, or Take A Hike.

DUSTY, WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?

By ghost rider

April 25, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

AH, GGG

Don’t be so hard on poor ol’ Dusty I understand she is off to buy some flag lapel pins, and for the SUV a pretty yellow ribbon.

Her patriotism knows no bounds!

By AmVet

April 25, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

As I am definitely not worthy (Wayne’s World! Excellent!), and as it only happens once in a blue (cheese) moon, getting jacked (1:28) is always a thrill!

Mr. western lowland g,

Your observation about the TRUE patriot always leading with her chin, reminds me of the line about Joe Frazier stopping SO many great punches…with his face.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Dennis, we do desperately need reporting, but we’re not going to get it from the old press. That press was swallowed by a whale called Media, and is too far down the whale to be disgorged. It’s gone.

The situation may seem worse because Jim’s no longer a reporter, but he’s not supposed to be a reporter; he’s an editor and columnist—-an analyst, if you like. The deficiencies you see, I see too. And I’m not saying that the deficiencies in Jim’s approach all fall under the category of liberalism, but when he fails conservatism it’s because he’s being (often, it seems, unintentionally) liberal. He doesn’t wear his residual liberalism well, and should leave that to others.

But you’re right, he’s more moderate than he’d likely want to admit to himself, or to the paper or its readers. So in that regard his is a recipe for disappointing both you and me.

He’s encased in a system that’s an artifact, and he sees through the thick amber of his system others he criticizes for being trapped in systems they cannot see and he can only dimly discern. The only way out is to study systems until one’s achieved sufficient remove from them to fight them tooth & nail. But Jim can’t do any of that. He’s too old a dog.

Let him be. And throw the old yellow dog a bone back every now and then.

By jbmlaw

April 25, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Dear Chuck @ 12:30, “How is protesting someone intolerant of free speech?” You are not the first to ask today. The leftist professor who asserts his right of free speech does so only by denying free speech to others, “disinviting” Clarence Thomas, preventing the speech of the latter. For contrast, an intellectually honest leftist, such as our friend Southern Democrat, invites speech by those who disagree with him. He takes that opportunity to exchange perspectives, as he is confident that his arguments can sway. That is how the brainless lecturers at Georgia differ from Southern Democrat – the former know they lack the intellectual ammunition.

Dear hdd3 @ 1:04, my apologies for wrongly slandering you with the lowest of all epithets. I misperceived that you were magnifying the phony holiday Kwanza. Nevertheless, you disparage my religious beliefs by comparing a simple joyful celebration of the coming of the Lord, with a secular nonreligious holiday that magnifies the importance of man. Purpose matters. I would take the same offense at comparison of the celebration of Easter with a respectful secular holiday such as Independence Day. (I assume your perception of that which God deems “important” would not exclude what I perceive was the Divinely-sanctioned celebration of Eucharist?)

Dear MidSouth @ 1:04, I can answer the last question. Cowardly leftists were in control of the Congress, and the coalition therein that allowed the expulsion of Sadaam from Kuwait did not allow the deposition of the tyrant. Now had you asked whether GHW Bush would have done so with a Congress on his side, I may have been limited in my answer. I am comfortable that Gen. Schwartzkopf wanted to take Baghdad.

Dear George @ 1:10, don’t you agree that you could fire a shotgun 10 times in the NY Times newsroom and never hit a conservative? But I would not discourage you from trying.

By Dennis

April 25, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

By Glenn April 25, 2008 1:40 PM “Yeah, Dennis, we do desperately need reporting, but we’re not going to get it from the old press. That press was swallowed by a whale called Media, and is too far down the whale to be disgorged. It’s gone.”

I wonder how Jim would fit in at the Wall Street Journal?

Used to be (allegedly) that the (liberal)reporters could report the news and were not bothered to slant it by the (conservative)editorial board.

But with Murdock now the owner there’s no doubt in my mind that liberalism will take a back seat to honest reporting.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By jbmlaw

April 25, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Dear Southern @ various times, I fear my last post sounded like a clumsy shot at you; it was not intended as such, it was simply my incompetent draftsmanship.

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Fake lawyer: buck shot or bird? maybe rocksalt?

By GayGreyGeek

April 25, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Ghost Rider @ 1:39 - I’d try to point the DustBuster over to this video on YooToob but it would just go right over her can’t-think-it-if-it-didn’t-come-from-Faux-News head…

By Qualcom Investor

April 25, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Thanx for the evidence of conspiracy, rat.

By ghost rider

April 25, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

GGG..Thanks for the video…HILARIOUS! But, oh so true.

I think the girl with the yellow ribbon around her bod was Dusty. On second thought that lady was far too pretty to be Dusty!

By AmVet

April 25, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

Though this place certainly lacks the talent of Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith and Jonathan Winters, it nonetheless reminds me a decidedly non-comedic version of “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!”

And these references to socialism ensconced at UGA is enough to conjure up images of a bearded Karl Marx wearing red and black.

Somebody PLEASE pass out the memo to our TRUE patriots and buttresses (bÜttheads in German?) of conservatism that the most revered Ronnie single-handedly eliminated those vile Leninists.

They are as illusory as are GOP veterans in the US Congress…

By Peter

April 25, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Glen, How is was suppose to be was…… Bush on Vacation in Texas….. should have gotten on a plane or helicopter, and immediately gone to see the destruction in New Orleans, no different than when the bridge collapse happened in Minnesota.

He should have had all parties involved, Governor, Mayor, and all public officials from the area into a meeting and began the plan to help OUR AMERICAN CITIZENS.

Wouldn’t you have wanted that from our President, say something dreadful had happened in Atlanta ?

Instead he stayed on his ranch, and continued his vacation…… So much for leadership !

By Young Republican

April 25, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Moon landing faked.

Tacks cuts stimulated economey.

Iraq had wmd.

there we’re 3 shoters on the grassie noel.

Whooton is a great columist.

By Gadummy

April 25, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Wow. You went to college?

By Qualcom Investor

April 25, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Southern, I’m the only blogger who receives hate speak, death threats and death wishes from jbmlaw and his thang of gugs.

McCain seems to be a whisp of a whisper compared to the dynamic duo. I’ve seen bowls of soup with more vigor.

Vichyssoise, anyone?

McCain 08….the soup’s cold.

By TPM

April 25, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

In my experience, the free speach people only approve of listening to people who share their beliefs.

By willie b

April 25, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Young Republican you wrote….

By Young Republican

April 25, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Moon landing faked.

Tacks cuts stimulated economey.

Iraq had wmd.

there we’re 3 shoters on the grassie noel.

Whooton is a great columist.

I suggest you return to school… Your spelling is atrocious.

Want to have a spelling bee?

By @@

April 25, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Promises in N.O.? John McCain, the snowflake in a blizzard with promises to keep and miles to go before he sleeps. Political promises can end up Frosting the electorate. Bad idea.

Faculty members protesting free speech? What more proof do you need that educators aren’t confident in their own abilities? The open minds of young people are like sponges - able to hold their water while academia suffers from perpetual seepage.

Guacamole lovers can fish through their pockets for that $138 saved. It’ll buy the forbidden fruit, a California avacado. An endangered marine life survives but isn’t edible.

Ode(D) on Clayton County. But Jim, as a resident, I’ll vouch that our children are disabled by incompetence. Wouldn’t that work while the B.O.E. isn’t?

Congressman Paul Broun….salt of the peter that Paul. Unbelievable!

Absolutely Jim! We can expect to see more laps in judgment at the DOT.

Earth! The big blue ball on which nothing else bounces.

Have a great weekend Jim.

By ghost rider

April 25, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw..Esquire or whatever…

You keep referring to your son as “The Ensign” What’s that all about?

I have a son who is a Major in the USA (United States Army) who has a name that my wife and I gave him at birth…it’s Eric! I never refer to him as “The Major” he is, and always will be Eric. Get over it man…If he were a Private would you refer to him as “the Private”? I doubt it!

By JohnD

April 25, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Peter@10:33 and 10:39,

Bush did not construct the levees and if this faulty construct were so well known why did the Left Prince, Bill Clinton, ignore the problem?

As for consumer confidence:

In 2006 the Dems took control of the Congress on the promise of change, does that sound familiar Barack?

Consumer confidence stood at a 21/2 year high, regular gasoline was $2.19 per gallon and the unemployment rate was 4.5%.

In just over a year your leaders Pelosi and Reid can take credit for:

A plummet in consumer confidence

Regular gas at $3.50 per gallon

Unemployment tops 5%(a 10% rise)

Americans have watched $2.3 trillion in stock and mutual fund equities evaporate

Americans have lost $1.2 trillion in home equity

AND

1% of US homes are in foreclosure.

Yes, America voted for change and change they have. JOB WELL DONE BY THE LEFT LOONS IN CONGRESS!

Congress makes the laws not George Bush - he can only work with that which Congress provides.

By Bubba J. Jakewoeicski

April 25, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

I’m an associate at Wal-Mart. Salute me ghost rider. Or you can just refer to me as The Associate.

By Oiling the squeeking unhinged

April 25, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

I would do anything to be allowed to patrol with our army in Iraq. My motivation is what any soldier’s motivation should be: to defend for those who cant defend themselves, like the civilian population of the USA and Iraq.

I think it would be a great privelege. I wouldn’t write a book. I wouldn’t expect any medals. I wouldn’t torture people with my politics. I’d just fight.

Most of all, I wouldn’t form up a posse of veterans who would never stop feeling betrayed by the country they fought for to the point where they consider Americans the enemy and become delusional liabilities.

Never sell your war.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

Rep. Jim Brown may be a pinch-hitting short-timer, but presumably he’s had the time to read the Constitution he’s sworn to uphold and defend. It would’ve be nice were he to get it through his head that the Constitution’s protection of “pornography” is absolute, since pornography isn’t suspect under Constitutional Law; obscenity is, and Plaboy and Penthouse cannot be made to fit the Constitutional definition of obscenity.

Since those who enjoy full civilian, constitutional protection do not lose that protection when they step onto a U.S. military base (irrespective of the rights of serving personnel), Mr. Brown’s effort to strip citizens of their natural rights is an embarrassment.

By Pfc. Homer Style

April 25, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

I like to look at pictures of naked women and think I should be able to. Afterall, I’m 18 and carrying an assault rifle.

By ghost rider

April 25, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

By Bubba J. Jakewoeicski

April 25, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

I’m an associate at Wal-Mart. Salute me ghost rider. Or you can just refer to me as The Associate.

Mr Associate…I’m so appreciative of your service with Wal-Mart! Instead of a salute. How about I nominate you as employee of the month?

By JohnD

April 25, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Peter @ 2:18

Once again you respond with empty rhetoric and no facts.

The US is a nation of individual states and local governments with a federal government originally conceived to provide a mutual defense force for the states.

Now we have the Left Loons looking to the fed to provide the food and to change every diaper.

The reponse to Katrina was like that of FEMA to each and every such storm in Florida with the primary difference being a populace of reponsible individuals in Florida and populace of dependent individuals in Louisiana.

Secondarily there was a Republican governor in Florida and an inept mayor of NO and a clueless governor in LA. Both are Left Loons by the way.

Try and cover for them all you like but the failure was at the local level.

By Peter

April 25, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

By Dusty

April 25, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Peter@11:40

Contaminants in minute quantity from plywood in trailers and other small “containers” are well known.

Dusty Do you ever read the News?

By Bubba J. Jakewoeicski

April 25, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Shoot, I’d like that a lot. Thank ye kindly, mister!

By Bubba J. Jakewoeicski

April 25, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

If’n ye want to know how to pronounce muh last name, hits shuh - shef - ski.

By Peter

April 25, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

OK John D is that exactly why Bush sat on his ranch on vacation, and did nothing?

You and Dusty are funny as all get out……

By ghost rider

April 25, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

How abouts I just refer to you as Bubba the “Associate” when I write up your nomination…I’m sure the higher ups will know of whom I speak.

By the way…ya’all got room on the wall for that wonderful winners plaque?

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

By Southern Democrat

April 25, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Jbmlaw,

Nothing you have written today (or ever that I can immediately recall) could offend me. I look forward to reading your thoughtful posts, even if I disagree with their substance often. I truly enjoy reading the more substantive commentary on here. My prior life, surrounded by “leftists” in high school education, combined with my current life where I tend to be surrounded by more conservative-leaning folks, have helped push me to the middle while (hopefully) maintaining the integrity of my principles. Further, as I’ve mentioned, Mrs. Southern Democrat is a Yankee who was raised in a very conservative home whereas I was raised in “yellow dog” Democrat environment. Thus, we have pushed each other to the middle, too, probably for simple survival. Though I am sure to you, as to most of my intelligent libertarian-conservative friends, aspects of my ideology are appallingly commie-socialist-Jane Fonda-lefty.

Please pass along my best wishes to the soon-to-be-promoted Ensign and his love interest. As always, they are in our prayers and I hope that they know that even us loony “leftists” appreciate immensely their service.

By Jackie

April 25, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Our federalist system has been blown away by the recent US Supreme Court decision in VA.

The court ruled that they had the right to convict someone where the police violated state law and the police used the illegally obtained evidence to convict him of a crime.

A federal judge ruled that Wesley Snipes should be tried in criminal court in spite of the fact that his charges came under the umbrella of a civil court. He was convicted and sentenced to 3 years in prison for failing to file a timely tax return. The prosecutor stated that they wanted to send a message “the public has no right to challenge the government.”

Federal attorneys in TX brought charges against 2 Border Patrol agents for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler. They were brazen enough to give the drug dealer immunity for his testimony, even though other drug agents testified the drug dealer tried to run the agents over. To add insult to this injustice, the drug dealer was released and caught again with drugs. Now the US attorneys want to convict him of the new charges and essentially make the appeals by the drug agents mute because they will have no way to prove the newly convicted drug dealer was lying because the US attorneys do not want to give him a trail, just sent him to jail.

Further, the VA director testified that approximately 900 soldiers tried to commit suicide last year. Turns out that more than 1,000 EACH MONTH since 2005 tried to commit suicide. The CBS 60 Minutes Report was accurate and the current regime has done everything to deny the situation.

By ghost rider

April 25, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

The New York Times has exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda.

The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top officials recruited dozens of “military analysts” to spread favorable views of the war via the news. Many of these propaganda pundits didn’t reveal that they were working from Pentagon scripts or lobbying for companies seeking to cash in on major military contracts.

This is a violation of every conceivable standard of journalism — and possibly of federal law.

Why am I not suprised?

By Southern Democrat

April 25, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Southern Democrat just informed me that “love interest” is misogynistic and condescending, particularly to a commissioned officer in the U.S. Armed Forces. Please consider it withdrawn and replaced with “co-pilot” and/or “cabinmate.”

By Dusty

April 25, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Oh I’m back and I see the kiddies are still at play. But I have survived the grueling experience of torture and let me tell you, it isn’t easy to be brave. NO Sir. NO CAVITIES!! MY dentist wears a mask and gloves but I KNOW WHO HE IS and vengence is mine!! I may return his sample toothbrush. So there!! That’ll teach him.

But a startling revelation!! jbm says that SouDem loves to hear what others have to say and responds magnificently. Yes, indeed. (In fact, I think he may be RedNeck.) Today he responded with Either you aint gettin’ what you’re readin’ or you aint readin’ what you’re getting. Profound!! Glenn couldn’t have said it any better.

But…willie b. says I always lead with my CHIN. I don’t know exactly what that means but I do know that liberals lead from a somewhat opposite end of their anatomy. (Is that the butt of a joke? hmmmm)

GhostRider says that he has a son who is a major in the USArmy. He’s smart, huh?? Obviously, Major Eric takes after his mother.

Well, time to close up shop. See you tomorrow if I can’t find anything else to do. Think right and positively and Jim Wooten will stay here with us ‘cause we love him. A pox on the New York Liberal Times. They are getting exactly what was coming..yes..

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

Dusty has never told anyone this, but…Dusty can’t read! Everything it knows comes from books-on-tape, rightwing talkradio, and self fertilization, (uck, I just made my self sick). Dirt ball has a handicapped accessible computer that speaks the text to her, and dirtball in turn sounds out the words to the computer - in Dirt Ball speak, thats Ku Pu Ter.

By bill

April 25, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

sorry i missed the fun today the problem with katrina is it did not land during an election year GWB was out in force with his brother Jeb in 2004 handing out free water during the relief effort facts are terrible things, as homer would say, they can be used to prove anything

By jbmlaw

April 25, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Dear Southern @ 4:48, as I am your age and twice as politically incorrect, “love interest” is not a problem. As they are yet 500 miles apart, “cabinmate” is not yet appropriate. She is a “ring-knocker” as my son disparagingly refers to academy grads, but she is a great kid, recently accepted into the Hornet program. And while I talk a harsh talk when addressing our leftist friends, my son has softer edges than I, and counts more “leftists” than conservatives among his nonmilitary friends. I thnk he enjoys the intellectual stimulation. (And I’ve met many of his friends, good kids, and would adjudge them as “leftists not yet mugged by reality.”) Have a great weekend, and thanks for the good wishes.

Dear Ghost @ 3:13, I refer to my son as The Ensign simply to protect his privacy. I would not wish anyone to associate him with a lunatic, such as your humble correspondent.

By George Washington

April 25, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

rumor has it the school systems are being killed by the high diesel fuel costs, and the declining property tax take (why pay your property taxes if you are going to walk away from the house anyway?). Major cost cuts are being planned, thousands of teachers will be laid off in georgia alone, hundreds of thousands nationwide. Remember Clowns, you read it here first, and it wasn’t Jimmy woodenhead reporting - Jimmy is prepping for his field hand duties, planting peonies outside the aj urinal building on marietta street…He needs no fertilizer, the bums provide the necessary nitrogen nightly….all in little jimmy woodenhead’s name of course. SCHOOL SYSTEM LAYOFFS COMING SOON - Yet the federal pecker heads are wasting money on contracts to the dim witted likes of Glenn-Big-Words.

By Oiling the squeeking unhinged

April 25, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

Dusty and @@ gave everything away awhile ago. They are so easily tricked. Thank you, whoever is running interference for me. You’ve got the lunatic fringe conservative’s heads spinning. Much obliged, and I didn’t even ask.

Miller Time, officially declared, at 5:07pm Friday, April 25, 2008.

Figaro tomorrow nite!!!!

By jbmlaw

April 25, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

Dear Jackie @ 4:43, I think you misspeak. The Supreme Court issued something like a “states rights” ruling, that the Federal Constitution does not preclude a state’s interpretation of searches. By so empowering the states, the Supreme Court magnifies federalism, and diminishes the central government. That is a cause for celebration.

By Jackie

April 25, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

I think we should pay closer attention to what is being done in the Straits of Hormuz.

News reports indicate that a US contracted ship shot at Iranian small boats in INTERNATIONAL waters because “they felt threatened.”

Adm. Mullen said that the Iranians were providing more expertise and firepower to the Iraqis, yet, he had no direct proof and this was only a educated guess.

We are already spending $14 Billion dollars per month in Iraq and gasoline prices are near $4 per gallon in the USA.

If we attack Iran, hang on to your seats as the economy will collapse as gasoline will double in price!

By ron

April 25, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Just returned from shooting groceries.Wonderful posts here today.I think I’ll brew a cup of coffee and drop the required amount of anisette into it.Retirement is a hard road.No weekends off you know.

By @@

April 25, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Oily:

You give yourself, and “your friend” way too much credit buddy. I made one comment, in jest, to you at ml’s.

That’s as good as it gets.

By Glenn

April 25, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Anyone looking here for the “lunatic fringe” of anything has to be a different kind of lunatic.

By Oiling the squeeking unhinged

April 25, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Funny, I wasn’t refering to anything you blogged today. I honestly didn’t see it. Nor will I go back and look. Dont care. Look, the cat’s out of the bag. See, I never read Wooten’s bio till recently. Everything makes sense now.

Anyone read that opinion piece about the polygamist sect in texas in the AJC today? Like he’s the only one outraged, and like the whole country was about to go poly. Once again, an entire thesis is built around a liberal stereotype that doesn’t exist. It’s in that author’s own mind. The most obvious piece of projection I’ve ever read.

By Carole

April 25, 2008 7:31 PM | Link to this

I lived through Hurricane Katrina at Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. My immediate family lost four homes and two workplaces. I can tell you from first-hand experience that government at ALL levels fell flat on their collective faces. We received water, ice, and food initially from the Navy at Stennis, and then from Wal-Mart trucks several times a week. As time went on, church volunteers, students from all over the country, and the National Guard from several states moved into the area to help. You must understand that there were no stores, banks, telephone services, functioning power sources, or gas stations - in fact, there was no gas to be had all the way to Demopolis, Alabama.
Believe me, we were begging for relief and nobody was thinking in terms of Republican or Democrat. If not for the Guard members and the wonderful volunteers the Gulf Coast would still be a wretched, third-world landfill.
As FEMA was so ineffectual and, indeed, counterproductive, why is it still a going concern? Why are we pouring tax dollars into thousands of unoccupied mobile homes sinking into the mud in Arkansas, and trailers made uninhabitable by dangerous levels of chemicals? And how did this enormous personal and national tragedy get trivialized into a political football? And how are people like Jim Wooten, and all these unconsidering posters so flippant and dismissive of something they obviously can’t or won’t comprehend? I am disgusted.

By Ruprecht

April 27, 2008 12:38 AM | Link to this

Why doncha just look at it this way, Carole: at least you came out of it satisfied that you have the credentials to decide whom to blame and whom to disparage and whom not to thank. And that, evidently, sets you apart from all the rest.