Thinking Right

By HIDT

May 9, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

Jim, I agree with much of what you write. But well wishes for a child molester and her victim, who is still too young to vote, is disgusting.

By Charles

May 9, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Who would have ever thought Conservatives could ever root for a Clinton? Operation Chaos proves Rush Limbaugh is an absolute genius (if there ever was a doubt)! I cannot imagine the frustration the leaders of the Democrap Party are going through.

You’re right about the stock market, Jim. It definitely swings negatively whenever things look good for the Democraps.

Next stop, Denver! Hide the women and children - this is going to be ugly indeed!

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I do not understand the criteria of James Magazine – suppose that is due to the fact that I never heard of it – but their selections strike me as curious. If you wanted to cite the Georgian who has had the most beneficial effect on the country I do not know how you could overlook Clarence Thomas. Forget his intellectual contributions to the evolution of law in the past year, his personal biography is inspiring enough to deserve it. Arthur Blank’s continuing charitable works are meritorious. Or perhaps I am too cynical to believe any politician can contribute sufficient to the interests of society to merit respect. Or maybe the James magazine used to be called Narcissists Monthly.

Tom Graves is in good company. Why is he not the Speaker of the House? Too ethical?

Is it too late for the merchants of Gay Street, Knoxville, TN (their equivalent of Peachtree St.) to join the suit?

As to capital punishment, I think it inappropriate to blame either the state or trial courts, generally (Brian Nichols case excepted, of course.) This is purely an issue of wishy-washy appellate judges dithering.

While I think the market would sell off sharply if there were any real chance of a victory by a true leftist – that would simply be rational, given the hostility of leftists to commerce – I think Obama will bring himself to the mainstream. I forecast Obama’s platform will advocate large reductions in corporate taxes and meaningful tort reform, to make the US a commerce haven. That is McCain’s single advantage now, and Obama is no dummy. At a time of macro-economic distress, only an idiot would advocate larger taxes and more regulations.

By Redneck Convert

May 9, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m glad the GA Republicans won the award for tax and spend policy. It just goes to show what can happen when you got brains. Instead of taxing and spending, they just went and borrowed a bunch of money and spent it. That way, they get to spend it and us taxpayers don’t have to pay nothing for it. Its the godly Republican way.

I’m against this selling beer in stores on the Sabbath. That would mean a extra run for me and I need my weekend off. If people are that thirsty let them drive out to a bar or restaurant on Sunday and get hornswoggled and then drive back home. Besides, its against my religion. Old Casey is wrong on this one.

But Wooten is right about what will happen in the stock market if this Obama gets elected. All the big money people will start shivering and yelling “Taxes, taxes!” and just sell everything they have. They will wind up with big tax bills, which ain’t needed if they just learned to borrow to pay for what we need. It don’t cost nothing that way. Let the Red Chinese pay for what we get. One of these days we will tell them we ain’t repaying and if they don’t like it they can have a big A-bomb up their tail ends.

Have a good day everybody.

By Just Nasty and Mean

May 9, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

1) So Casey Cagle finally decided he wants to let the people decide for themselves if they want Sunday sales of booze. What a novel idea! Where was his head in the last session of the legislature? I have some ideas where his head was. At one time, I thought Cagle was the future of Georgia. Now, I wouldn’t vote for him for dog catcher in Clayton County. He likes power too much.

2) It is now clear lobbyists wield WAY too much power at the Georgia and National capital. Last report I saw said K Street Washington employed 300,000 lobbyists!
The only way to clean out this entrenched nest of roaches and leaches is the Fair Tax.

3) I need to confess that I am a Lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Should I join the Lesbos suit?

Have a nice day!

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

May 9, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

Never have so many spouted off so much, accomplished so little, and congratulated themselves so much.

What a joke.

So with your comment about lobbyists, what should we infer from that? That politicians in general and Republicans in particular are for sale?

Are you looking out for the little guy Jim?

By Thor

May 9, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Johnny Isakson - smart, safe move by not running. He is nothing more than a back bencher in the Senate who has supported Bush 100% as a first term Senator. No leadership, no idenpendence - zero. Johnny is nothing more than a follower.

By Just Nasty and Mean

May 9, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Jim, you’ve got me stirred up again about Casey Cagle.

Anybody watching the Ga. legislature knows Cagle single-handedly killed a tax cut for Georgians this year. I don’t mind him coming out against the (not so) GREAT plan Richardson proposed.

But what he did do was not support the Birthday ad valorum tax, and then late in the session, proposed some convoluted plan that didn’t provide tax relief for years. Remember, Ga. has $1.6B+ they have overtaxed the voters, but Casey kept it instead of lowering taxes.

Even a blind man knows he intended to kill the ad valorum tax cut because it came from the house instead of him. And he chose his political ambitions over the good of his Georgia constituents.

He knows it, We knows it, Bob Dole knows it. He screwed us all for his own personal and political interests.

For that—-no—he’ll never get my vote for ANYTHING!

Casey. Kiss my grits!

By TW

May 9, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Proud? Try stupid. Or at least try getting back to being proud of something you have done…something beyond the yellow ribbon bumper magnet and the lapel pin.

The rise of Obamamania has 100% to do with the mismanagement of the rightwing for the last eight years. The GOP has gone from being the respectable party of fiscal discipline to a full blown Globe Magazine joke - all in thanks to stupid people, Jim, not prideful ones.

Shame on the ‘keepers’ of conservatism for allowing it to circle down the bowl.

Shame.

By Marvey Marverson

May 9, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

What ever happened to Pierre Howard and that kid who ran for governor too early? He was the secretary of state before Cathy Cox.

By Martin

May 9, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

So, conservatives support convicted child molesters?? Conservatives support convicted child molestors staying with their victims?? Conservatives support convicted child molestors keeping infants in their homes??

Jim, you just lost every bit of ‘law and order’ credibility you may have ever possessed.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Come November political scientists will tell you all the primary stuff does not matter: This is historically what happens in November: - State of the economy; economic performance in 2008 - Approval rating of the sitting President effects his party’s ability to retain power - The public normally wants a change after two terms of the same party

McCain is having trouble raising money. From a political science perspective, McCain is going to have a very tough, up hill fight. Odds are not in his favor.

By Taxpayer

May 9, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim.

Proud Georgians, Jim. Proud of what, precisely. Proud of their accomplishments. Proud of their efforts to listen to and observe the needs of the residents of Georgia. I’ve been reading articles from our state and local elected officials recently where they present their accomplishments, etc., to the locals and in each case I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I’d finished the article. I just thought to myself, “Are these people serious or did they all just take the same course entitled Effective Communications with your Constituency” or some similar nonsense that we also paid for with our tax dollars. What possesses our elected officials to think that they need to generate a long list of “things” to boast about rather than simply serve in the role of a statesman, a human, a person with limitations. One approach to serving the people would be to simply identify one topic at a time and dealing with it until a viable solution is agreed upon. Transportation, for example, would be a very relevant topic to focus on at a state level.

If you happen to have the time, I’d like to hear your thoughts on mass transportation in Georgia. To make the discussion short enough for a blog, how about limiting your thoughts to the addition of buses between locations in downtown Atlanta and the surrounding counties such as Cobb, Gwinnett, Clayton, etc. First of all, there certainly seems to be a need assuming the stories about passengers being turned away are true. Second, properly utilized buses would reduce traffic and therefore reduce congestion, pollution, fuel consumption, etc. Third, there would be a payback to the state and all its residents by keeping more money in the hands of consumers for purchase of items other than gas, and more people would be able to continue to live in the suburbs versus being forced to re-locate due to increased commute expenses. Fourth, additional buses can be added quickly and bus routes can be readily modified to address community needs. What items would be on you list, Jim? Please don’t use one of those tired old comments about people not wanting the element that buses bring to their neighborhood or that people won’t use them. Unused buses and/or unwanted routes are so readily changed. Bus route studies could even serve as a precursor to rail lines. The best solutions will come from efforts that are not constrained by political puppets and their masters.

Besides, Jim. I’d much rather read about and address issues that directly affect the people whom these honored ones were elected to supposedly think about and help. In closing, allow me to extend a word of thanks to all those public servants out there that just want to make a decent life for themselves while providing a valuable service to others. Perhaps we should call them “the few, the proud”. In Atlanta, they can call them the “laid off”.

Thank you for your time, Jim. If you don’t like my thoughts, you could always just tell me to “take a hike”. I’ll gladly oblige and save gas at the same time.

by: The blogger formerly known as MissionImp, amongst other names. This message will self-destruct if left unread.

By Believer

May 9, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Some people believe that leaving a murderer alive is worse punishment than putting that person to death. Of course, one underlying assumption in that belief is that the murderer actually lives a harder life than the general (un-incarcerated) population. I know a lot of un-incarcerated people with no health care, no TV/radio/PC/phone/heat, inadequate nutrition, etc. At least they are not trapped in a punishing lifestyle, are they.

By the way, Jim, didn’t you get the memo. The labels, Republican and Democrat, don’t have any meaning — especially in Georgia where the majority of the Republicans were just Democrats the other day. Oh wait. Those people magically changed their philosophy or else their original party changed or was it something to do with getting elected or re-elected or going with the majority party for the power.

By Paco

May 9, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

Jim, I love the attempted fear-mongering about the stock market. A sell-off is inevitable because whoever is the next president is going to have to raise the capital gains tax. We just can’t continue with these terrible deficits. Borrowing money from China is not the long-term answer. Also, let’s be honest, a 200 point drop is pedestrian these days.

By jm

May 9, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

I wonder if Rep. Lynn Westmoreland has memorized the Ten Commandments yet. He sure did Georgia proud being able to name only seven on The colbert show, even though he sponsored a bill to display the Ten Commandments in the House and Senate.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Ah how I yearn for the 90’s when the Dow Jones Industrial Average trippled. Gee I miss that balanced budget. I sure miss watching the stock market seeing my life savings rise….

By liberalextremist

May 9, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten just be real about your opinion of Mr. Obama. When this N!** is elected the stock market will tank and the US will go to hell in a hand basket. Now doesn’t that feel much better!!! Whatever, go ahead and take your hood out of the closet. Wash it up cause it probably smells rank!

By Thor

May 9, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

This guy is out of line with racism; its just not cool.

The greater problems facing the stock market are oil, trade deficits, and most importantly - the federal budget deficit. Are you happy with your stocks under Bush? Bonds have done better in the last 8 years than have stocks.

By ron

May 9, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Good morning,I’m still in the dark about who has custody of Lisa Clark Gonzalez’s husband,never mind the other child.

The recividism rate for executed murderers is very low.

Redneck,If people in Georgia were allowed to vote on Sunday sales you would be making anothe run.

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Dear Thor @ 9:20, I think you raise a great horse race question, but you left off the single largest factor, ceteris parabis (or as Democrats call it in the political context, “the October Surprise” factor.) If hypothetically I am an exceedingly clever vice president who has control of a lot of magic strings, and if I wanted to send even leftists into the McCain camp, what sort of surprise would I plot?

Reminder, your rules are generally true, but as recently as 2000 they were turned on their head. State of the economy then was weakening, much like now, but still had good unemployment numbers. Then, however, sitting president had tremendous approval poll numbers, 70% of the public said the country was on the right course, and there was still a change. As recently as 1988 the “two-terms rule” was rejected; special case there, Reagan even then was then recognized by the public as one of the three or four greatest presidents, so I suspect the GHW Bush election was really a Reagan affirmation (the change offered by Dukakis was not particularly wanted by the public.)

The last time a leftist-qua-leftist was elected was 1912 (and even that was a close question – Wilson did not run as a radical.) Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton did not run as leftists, but affirmed their “mainstream” politics, and their political histories supported the centrist view. Will Obama run on his record – far more leftist than any elected since Wilson - or will he successfully conceal it? Many rules will have to broken to facilitate his election.

As to McCain and money, I don’t see that as a meaningful factor. While we all understand that Soros intends to spend millions in negative advertising against McCain, McCain has an advantage – he is pretty much a known quantity, like a lousy shoe that has never fit well. I suspect Soros will not succeed in painting McCain as a jock strap. Spending matters only when the brand is unknown.

As to your 10:08, what did the market do in the 1980s? Or what did the market do from 1/31/93 - 1/31/95, and what changed (in both cases) to cause the explosive growth therefter?

Dear Paco @ 10:04, why do you assume spending cannot be cut? Do you think we need a federal department of education? It’s not like they actually educate anyone.

By Charles

May 9, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

It’s understood that the enablers of genocide among African Americans are the so-called educated integrationist Negroes. But what powers are playing these cruel but usual jokes on African Americans? Is it the Council on Foreign Relations? Maybe the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati are suspects. Let’s not forget Rome and the Jesuits.

During the 1700s, people generally referred to African Americans as N**** primarily because they were 100% involuntarily dependant on the institutions of the slave holders. They had no institutional power to meet their basic needs. And you know if any people lack the institutions to service their basic needs, other groups possessing institutions will service those needs at a tremendous price; servitude.

It does not take too much gray matter to understand why the word N**** evokes strong emotions today. In 2008, 99% of African Americans are voluntarily dependent on the institutions of other people for their survival; the institutions of whites, Asians, Jews, Arabs, etc. It’s almost identical to the 1700s. Less than 1% of African Americans are at work building their own institutions. The overwhelming majority appears to be oblivious to the fact that their social condition/injustice of today and yesterday is directly related to the lack of institutional black power; the lack of banks, farms, industries, businesses, hospitals, educational facilities, etc…

There is even a more bizarre twist to these sordid facts. In 2008, powerless African Americans want to elect a black President of the United States, namely, Barack Obama. He would be dependant upon people that control strong internal institutions. And just as Jim Wooten said, “the moment Obama appears inevitable, the stock market tanks 200 points. Watch the sell-off when investors think he may actually win.”

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dear extremist @ 10:20, your own race consciousness causes you to miss the obvious. The Obama crash will not be due to his skin pigment, it will be due to his legislative agenda. Markets do not respond to physical characteristics of the players on the DC theatre circuit, but they certainly do respond to changes in tax policy, changes in the numbers of bureaucrat jobs, misallocations from various forms of corporate welfare, and burgeoning regulations.

There is almost nothing Washington does that can improve an economy, but there are literally thousands of ways it can screw up the economy. Mostly by doing anything.

By George Washington

May 9, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Well, those folks at Kohls are having the Olga professional bra fittings: ah called to set up an appointment for mah wife, but as soon as ah said “Bodacious ta ta fitting” the fools hung up on me! Ah called back and offered to serve an unpaid apprenticeship as a bra fitter, and they done hung up on me again! Boy, that is proof positive the job market is gittin tough….

By hotlanta

May 9, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

It is just amazing how a dope head can take credit for Operation Chaos and his life is in chaos. Gotta love it.

By hotlanta

May 9, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

It is just amazing how a dope head can take credit for Operation Chaos and his life is in chaos. Gotta love it.

By Taxpayer

May 9, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

A 200-point change in the DOW is (I assume you are talking about the DOW, Jim) is less than 2%. That’s what most people think of as “noise”. Now, if you were referring to a 200-point change in the S&P, then you’re starting to talk about a serious impact — something noteworthy. My point is rather simple — be more specific if you are going to make meaningful predictions. Otherwise, we still have the Book of Revelations and Nostradamus to cling to.

By Paco

May 9, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

To jbmlaw @ 10:36: Of course spending can be cut, but I don’t think the current (or future) “conservatives” can do it. I don’t think I need to remind you that it was Bush and a Repub congress that greatly extended the Dep’t of Education’s budget and power to the point where local school districts hardly have any say in the curriculum. Bush’s policies all along have been to cut taxes, increase spending, and mortgage our future.
There’s simply a vaccum of people who are willing to cut spending. While I know this is pessimistic, the record reflects this reality. I think it’s time somebody was intellectually honest with the American people and told them the truth: that we’re going to have to pay for 8 years of wastefulness.

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Dear Thor, you have stimulated my thinking. What economic agenda would jbmlaw proffer as a presidential candidate, knowing that most changes have to come through the legislative process?

(1) I would move to abolish those elements of federal tax policy that cause US employers to move jobs outside the country. The largest single domestic disincentive is the employer matching portion of social security. As is, every employer pays a tax equal to 7.5% of most of its domestic payroll. Thus, under the present scheme, every company can move its jobs to Mexico, pay the same salaries, and increase earnings by an amount equal to 7.5% of all salaries under $100k. (For most companies, labor is the single largest variable expense.) We would eliminate the company-matching portion of social security, to establish a level playing field.

(2) I would move to abolish those government restrictions that decrease employment and increase unemployment. Thus the minimum wage would have to go.

(3) I would move to eliminate all government restrictions on the components of production. We would move to abolish all import quotas and tariffs, on both goods and people.

(4) Recognizing that the US in the 1980s had one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world, but through legislative lethargy now has one of the highest, we would abolish the corporate tax.

How’s that for starters? How do you think the markets would respond? We may have to take a meat axe to non-military portions of the federal budget, but no pain, no gain, right?

By Taxpayer

May 9, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Dear Paco,

Intellectual honesty cannot honestly be intellectually applied, either in part or as a whole, when referring to our current batch of elected officials.

By Glenn

May 9, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

So many items, Jim, and not a word, alas, about the War Against Poultry. Oh well. Ostriches are poultry too, I suppose.

The computer belch that brought back your perfectly succinct story of the integration of UGA was some kind of karma kiss. It’s worthy of retelling, lots.

By George Washington

May 9, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Now is when we need the Rapid Deployment Force: does anyone recall where the chimp put it? An air assult by a combined American, Russian, and Chinese force could surgically remove the military dictatorship in Burma, free that woman with the funny sounding name, install her as the ruler for a two year period, after which there will be free elections. But the Chimp has misplaced the RDF, so ah guess the Junta is safe…..

By Glenn

May 9, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer: Oh, honestly!

By Glenn

May 9, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

jbm,

You’re doing God’s work today, again. I admit it. But still I think you deserve to feel the sting of Dusty’s rock salt in your fundament onnacounta your saying nasty things yesterday about My President doing the McCain Position with Democrats.

It’s just not fair, you getting to be the teacher’s pet all the time, while PoFo and I have to sit in the corner wearing silly hats.

It’s not fair.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Mr. jbmlaw, intelligent thought however consider this:

• If you eliminate the employer contribution of SSI it is in effect a reduction in worker’s wages. Not cool.

• remove all tarrifs sounds nice from a classroom however when someone is making $1 a week in China this would in effect also lower the wages of US workers. Remember, half of America earns less than $30k a year. A level playing field should not be to lower our standard of living for working class people, it should be to encourage competing nations to grow.

• By removing all corporate taxes the shift will then fall to the individual, where the majority of taxes currently come from.

One of the most basic, fundamental ways to improve the economy is have sound fiscal policy: no more deficits, no more paying for our debt by having China buy our Bonds which also allows them a strategic tool to use against America in the future.

The bills for the Baby Boomers are larger than anyone can imagine and they are coming due in the next 10 years. The choice will be to either run really huge deficits, cut the benefits of the elderly, or raise taxes on someone like me at age 40. Or, a combination of both. The cost of this war cannot continue forever. Something has to give and someone is going to get hurt because America is now boxed in financially.

We’re in a lot of trouble. We’re broke and the chickens are coming home to roost.

By Taxpayer

May 9, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Glenn: Oh, Yes!

Perhaps you believe Cagle, for example, gives a rat’s turd about anyone other than himself. He knows that he has to appease those that will fund his run for guv. What about Richardson. Don’t you think that a person who sincerely cared about his constituency would have been able to at least make a generic statement such as “I want all those people sitting in traffic to be able to get home at a decent hour”. Puhleeeez. I’ve already wasted more energy just typing about them than they are worth. Vote for a true statesman — Ron Paul for President. The rest of them — drop them from a plane, with functioning parachutes, over cannibal territory. Let them be “eaten alive” for a change.

By ghost rider

May 9, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

By jm

May 9, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

JM…You give Westmoreland way too much credit..He could only name THREE! Colbert Made Westmoreland look like a complete buffoon. Check out this website for the entire segment it hilarious! http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/47145/detail/

By ncgreybr

May 9, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Actually, Jim…every time a Democrat gets into the White House, the DOW Jones averages go up (percentage-wise) more than a Republican…but you’ve never let facts interfere with your ravings before, have you?

By Shar

May 9, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

My lovely daughter called a few minutes ago, ecstatic over finishing her last high school exam and aglow with the thrilling prospects of Freedom, Independence and her coming Undergraduate Life. She is well educated, caring, healthy, smart, responsible (for a teenager), heading (at the moment) for a good career in nursing and I wouldn’t entrust a guppy to her care.

I can’t imagine why Mr. Wooten thinks that a convicted child molester and an underage, uneducated victim of abuse - neither of whom has a job, prospects for a career nor shelter of their own - should have custody of a child who is thriving in the kind of stable, loving, two-parent home that he usually applauds. More important, why take a child from the only parents he knows and give him to two people who cannot take care of themselves and who have exhibited a profound inability to put any consideration ahead of their own self interest? Their only interest here is biological, and that is easily trumped by the best interest of the child.

It must be award season - all those that Mr. Wooten mentions and another that is making me smile today, a lifetime distinguished service award from the ABA for my dad. Gratuitous bragging, I know, but it’s refreshing to know that sometimes very, very nice guys don’t finish last.

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Dear Paco @ 11:04, if I read your posts correctly, “intellectual honesty” requires a politician to declare, “I am too weak to cut spending, therefore I will increase your taxes.” That does not sound like a winner to me. In fact, I think something precisely opposite – “I will cut spending enough that there will be no need for a tax increase” - sounds more like a winner to me.

By jm

May 9, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

ghostrider@11:43 - the wikipedia entry credited him with naming seven off-screen - the final cut of the show had the lower number. I figured I would be kind and give him the higher number.

By Glenn

May 9, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Me, Taxpayer? “Believe”? What’s to believe in American politics? I mean, seriously. What’s to believe anymore?

You know me. I’m a rock-ribbed princeling of the Cow Palace, but these young’uns must’ve made me obsolete with their iPods or their thumbpadding autostimulation or something, because I can no longer find my sphincter on a blessed MAP. At some point Mac World eclipsed the Cow Palace, and I wasn’t there.

“Believe”? Show me the Press, man. Show me the Press! You know as well as I that what we are “living” through is that particular dystopia which our Framers (connoisseurs of dystopia) anticipated would happen to their beloved Republic were the Press part to be taken away.

In our democratic chatterbox, nothing at all to believe any longer. As though the great violent radical General Washington’s own lines of intelligence were coming back all lies betraying the Revolution. Just a bunch of junk from which our First Commander can discern nothing.

It’s the daily drip, drip of cheesy deadline cheatoids that AJCM logs with such fealty—-that, is the story. That is the Epilogue.

Jeremiah Wright is the smallest boil on the arse of John Brown. What matters is that Press, which sees Wrights come and Wrights go, has imploded.

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Dear Glenn @ 11:27, I think Dusty, against her deepest instincts, gives me a pass for my criticisms only because of the Ensign (or maybe she is a closet libertarian.) I think Dusty also once misperceived some of your teasing, misbelieves you are hostile to her. As to PoFo, I think she just doesn’t like PoFo’s sense of humor, but I think he is Pythonesque Maybe we ought to invite her to coffee @ Borders.

Dear ncgreybr @ 11:44, same question I posed to Thor @ 10:36, “what did the market do from 1/31/93 - 1/31/95, and what changed to cause the explosive growth thereafter?” Merely rearranging the seats on the Titanic will not cause a market to move. Frankly a correlation between a president’s party and stock market movements is as scientific as astrology. The answer to my question is, “the American public, in a major change, elected responsible adults to Congress, to prevent the first lady from inflicting serious damage on the economy.”

By ghost rider

May 9, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

jm..after he went off the show and had a chance to check that bible he totes…he probably had a chance to memorize 4 more…

I wasn’t taking a pot shot at you.

I believe in kindness…

Westmoreland needs a heap of it!

It’s Friday, time to go meet some friends and get loose for the weekend!

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Dear Shar @ 11:51, your first note makes me laugh as I recognize many of my own words there. Shar-ette will be just fine, and since she is your daughter I’m certain anyone’s health would be in good hands after she completes her training. As to your dad, congratulations to him for his good work; I can understand your pride.

By Dusty

May 9, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Well, maybe I might like to throw coffee on the liberal country club Republican. Bet you loved Nixon’s wage and price control ideas, huh?

By Planner

May 9, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Two comments…

By Thor

May 9, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Dear jbmlaw, the entire credit of the boom of the 90s in the market is simply not attributed towards Congress. Althought they had a part, Clinton was a fiscal conservative and it is well known today worked with Greenspan to reduce the budget deficits. It is a two way street and the President sets the tone. Hense, the market did well under Reagan but under your point the credit would belong to Tip Oneil. Its a two way street and the President sets the fiscal tone.

Right now, I don’t hear McCain or Obama talking about a clear and present danger: inflation. Inflation really hurts the elderly on fixed incomes and the vast majority of American families who average $50k per house hold. Inflation is back but nobody has a plan.

By ron

May 9, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

jmlaw,In your new economy,since you’re not going to pay anyone,who buys the manufctured goods?Who pays the taxes?

By Taxpayer

May 9, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

Ah, yes. Glenn, we do all believe. We just don’t know what to believe — sometimes. So, some choose to believe in days gone by. The days when they were king of the hill instead of over the hill. I imagine Jim knows that feeling as well. What do I believe — too much to talk about actually. I will share a few beliefs though. I believe that I have earned a Social Security payment. I don’t believe I’ll ever be old enough (and Alive) to collect any of what I paid in. I believe that many of our elected officials, whatever they choose to label themselves as, are in fact the ones that cannot make a life for themselves so they turn to the taxpayer and to the businesses looking for passage of a given bill to fund their lifestyle. I believe that they did not volunteer in order to give of themselves — they campaigned in order to get an easy paycheck, healthcare, retirement benefits, personal staff, personal spokesperson, power, a lifestyle that they could not create on their own. No, I do not believe that Cagle’s buttocks would have been positioned over a titanium bicycle were it not for his position in government. Then again, perhaps that is the lifestyle he and others prefer. More power to them — so say we all. Come November, do the right thing — vote for Ron Paul. Don’t waste your vote on those three Democrat presidential candidates. I believe.

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Dear Thor @ 12:42, I partially agree and partially disagree with your arguments. (1) “the entire credit of the boom of the 90s in the market is simply not attributed towards Congress. Although they had a part, Clinton was a fiscal conservative and it is well known today worked with Greenspan to reduce the budget deficits. It is a two way street and the President sets the tone.” Budget deficits originate in the House of Representatives. Nobody else deserves credit or blame. However, “budget deficits” have no direct relationship to either the economy nor to markets in particular, thus I think you misfire. I think increased Federal spending (as opposed to “deficits”) has a slightly negative effect on markets. It would have been entirely correct for you to cite NAFTA as the singular event that caused the prosperity of the 1990s, and as you implicitly suggest, that was an event of specific cooperation between the Congress and the President. That was way back, when democrats understood the benefits of free trade.

(2) “the market did well under Reagan but under your point the credit would belong to Tip Oneil. Its a two way street and the President sets the fiscal tone.” Actually I assign credit to all who voted for the Reagan tax cuts, which were the primarily economic stimulus of the 1980s. While that places a tremendous amount of credit with House Democrats, it is only those House Democrats who spurned Tip O’Neil and voted for the tax cuts who merit credit. So your thrust is correct, but your specific statement is not.

Dear Ron @ 12:43, you have a false premise, that government pays the workers. Private businesses pay the workers.

By deegee

May 9, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

HAHAHAHAHA, Insurance giant AIG loses 7.8 billion in a quarter. After four consecutive record closes, crude oil spurts past $126 a barrel. More trouble from Citigroup, they plan to cut some of the company’s assets. And JW thinks that the rise of Obama has investors nervous???? I suppose JW doesn’t have time to read much financial news while his head is buried in the Limbaugh letter and Nealz Nuze every day.

I live in Nathan Deal’s district. He votes no on just about everything. Nothing gets done, no improvements are made, just no on everything. I couldn’t be more ashamed to live in a district that is represented by that narrow minded bigot.

Hillary and George Bush must be born under the same sign. They just can’t seem to take advice and they overlook the obvious. If Hillary had made an objection last year to the issue of Florida and Michigan moving their primaries then she wouldn’t be scrambling now trying to get them seated. She was delusional when she thought that she would have no competition in the primary. She ignored the issue and now she’s pi$$ed of about it. The thing that we hate about Bush is the thing that has Hillary in trouble. Ideology gets in the way of making good, long-term strategic decisions. She doesn’t deserve to be president.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Dear jbmlaw, I agree with your premise however I do feel perhaps you are not emphasizing enough of the contribution from Clinton regaring the boom of the 90’s. Personally I don’t like the man, but he did do a very good job on the economy.

Another factor for the boom in the 80s which you overlook: Paul Volcker as Fed Chair.

Federal deficits do have a play with the markets and the econonomy; Soft money under Carter = inflation. 12 years of deficits under Reagan/Bush = contributing towards the recession. Unlike the current White House who states “deficits don’t matter”, I think they do for the long term health of our economy. Deficits tie into interest rates, deficits can also impact inflation.

The problem we face today is the Federal Government will increase its spending tremendously in the next few years due to entitlements which are set in stone. I fear how they are going to pay for it all. The elderly vote and will not allow their benefits to get cut, “earmarks” are such a small percentage its political pandering, we are facing huge cuts in spending or a tax hike, or I think both. This deficit spending cannot go on forever.

By jm

May 9, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

This one is for jbmlaw and possibly Mr. Wooten from Newt Gingrich

By Steve Jobs

May 9, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

My computer’s gloved hand is having a much better time today with the revolving babes in the H&M ad to the right of Jim.

By deegee

May 9, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

jm, I quickly read that Newt Gingrich essay. What isn’t for sale by that tired old political hack? Before he distributes another numbered list of suggestions for improvement, perhaps someone should ask him what became of his contract with America. Nothing like firing up the base with topics like English only and Union busting. What a has-been he is.

By jbmlaw

May 9, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Dear Thor @ 1:47, you are totally correct about Paul Volker’s role in healing the 1970s inflation fever. As to Bill Clinton’s contribution to the 1990s, I am willing to credit NAFTA; otherwise I see nothing he did. Of course, in the jbmlaw world, “government doing nothing” is “government doing good,” so I can approvingly credit him for doing nothing.

Dear jm @ 1:47, thanks for the link. Mr. Newt overstates his case a bit, although I think most of his argument is sound. In Louisiana, the democrat who was elected is more conservative than any of the Georgia republicans, so that election is at most a mixed message. I would say the message is that a republican candidate cannot say, “I’m a republican” and thus expect to receive all conservative votes, especially if his opponent is a conservative democrat. (The republican fellow had some serious baggage – a reputation as a whiner, some association with David Duke, and some strange ethical problems.) I credit whoever is responsible for election of Congressional democrat spending (Steny Hoyer?) with being smart enough to forget ideology and run people who can win, even if they oppose everything national democrats mostly stand for. The reason Mr. Newt’s message is wrong is that on the same day in Louisiana there was another election, between an Obama-type democrat and a conservative republican, and the conservative republican won with 75% of the vote. Conservatism wins, but not if it is half-hearted.

By jm

May 9, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

deegee - I was wondering if someone would comment on Newt’s shameless plugging.

By GaLiberal

May 9, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Moron Jim says: Twenty years ago William Lynd killed two women. This week the victims got justice. Twenty years. It’s cruel of the state and of the courts to delay justice that long. Jack Alderman, another death row inmate, murdered his wife 34 years ago.

What Moron Jim doesn’t tell you is there were serious questions about the ethics used by the prosecutor to secure the state-sanctioned revenge killing sentence. The prosecutor used incompetent testimony to make it appear the crime was more brutal and heinous than factual. That was a key element in the jury’s decision. Medical experts, reviewing this case recently concluded Mr. Lynd’s first shots killed the victim and did not suffer a lingering death as the prosecutor claimed.

Another thing Moron Jim doesn’t tell you is the crime was not cold-blooded or premeditated. Mr. Lynd was high on Valium, marijuana and alcohol the day of the crime. In his drug-induced state of mind he did not understand his actions. That automatically disqualifies the state-sanctioned revenge killing sentence. The prosecutor and the jury simply looked the other way.

Typical of Moron Jim and the Rethuglcions he lies and spins half-truths to get the answer he wants.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And the death penalty is living proof.

By Tom

May 9, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw from 10:36 this a.m.: “ceteris parabis”? For Chrissakes, if you’re going to persist in name-checking these things you clearly don’t understand at all, you could at least refer to them correctly: it’s *ceteris paribus.”

By Thor

May 9, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Dear jbmlaw, you reporting of Congressional election results is correct, however you forgot to mention that the state houses have rigged the districts so they are “safe” - as is the case in GA. This is one reason why Congress has such a high re-election rate. The GA districts (like the majority in the nation) are fixed for one party, as rigged by the legislature - decreasing competition, decreasing any swing districts, decreasing any new ideas.

The whole system is gerrymanderd.

By time for the fair and menacing truth

May 9, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

add gaYliberal to the list. congratulations feckpig!

By Copyleft

May 9, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

15 years ago, a jury convicted Levon Jones of first-degree murder in Duplin County, North Carolina. This past week, an innocent man finally got justice; Jones was freed after a retrial.

That makes 129 death-row inmates in America who were later proven innocent… and who would all be dead if our “instant-execution” nuts got their way.

Funny how Wooten didn’t mention that story, eh?

By I'MWITHOBAMA

May 9, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

Wow, I’ve found the Old Geezer Column from Hell. Wonder what the RIGHT is going to look like after OBAMA AND THE DEMS take back all that you conservative and republican jackazzez have screwed up. Never thought I’d see the day.

By Thor

May 9, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

I for one do not want the government having the power to kill me.

Its funny how the right wing states “every life is sacred” and “only God can take a life” but yet they want to strap ‘em into Ole Sparky and turn on the juice! Its also funny how the left adhores the death penalty as cruel and evil, yet they approve of ripping the fetus out.

The death penalty is just wrong. American’s love it! In fact, I think it should be televised. Seriously, let’s see what our governmet is doing! Why should the government hide and not show us their power to take life as a result of the law. Sadly, a televised death penalty would be a huge success as American’s would cheer, as they eat their chips on the couch, then flip back to Dancing With the Stars. Apathy runs rampant in America…

By AmVet

May 9, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

You know for some reason I never tire of the revisionists recollections here of the most revered Ronnie.

The faux conservatives simply airbrush out all of those nasty little details vis a vis raising taxes that just don’t dovetail with this ridiculous definition of conservatism.

No wonder “conservative” credibility is generally in the toilet…

By Jackie

May 9, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Hillary is pretty hot. I’d like to “date” her and Martha Stewart at the same time.

By Dusty

May 9, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw@12:07

I just came in and made a quick read .(the 12:27 was not me.)

The Border’s coffee suggestion sounds wonderful. But…ARE YOU TWO TRYING TO RUIN MY REPUTATION?? Coffee with a libetarian and a quasi conservative! Mercy! McCain wouldn’t ask me for money and Jenna might not invite me to her wedding.

Sadly, I shall have to miss the lovely conversation and creamy cups of mocha. Crowded calendar and all such as that you know….

On second thought, should the “Ensign” be making an appearance, I love a bit of brass and “whites”. Yes, sir, the Navy is the Best (the very words of my husband). Maybe I could squeeze something in…

Bon appetit, mon amis, and merci beaucoup…. Au revoir..

By getalife

May 9, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

You cement your ruined reputation every time to post. Geez.

By Believer

May 9, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

The truth is menacing but let’s be fair — it’s time to put that lame duck out to pasture. Quack.

By Tom

May 9, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

Dustrag @ 4:49 sez “The Navy is the Best.” But “the Best” at what?

In addressing the Sea Lords in 1912, Winston Churchill summarized naval tradition as “rum, buggery and the lash.” That was the Imperial Navy, of course. Still, if the buggery fits….

By George Washington

May 9, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

I certainly hope some of you clowns who go by the fake names of jamlaw, dusty, glenn, etc work in the financial industry, you know, like banks: the firing ax is swinging freely and much more frequently there now….course, the ajc has declining circulation and ads, but it hangs onto its third rate alleged talent….for now. what would ruphert do? any what, my uso and gold trust purchases paid off a little yesterday, and much more today…seeing as how 26 is mah lucky number, oil at 126 bucks seems like a good omen….hmmm, buy more oil….

By George Washington

May 9, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

Ah knows ya folks ain’t too bright, so lets me xplains to ya…mah 10k in uso controls 200K in oil, as the margin for oil futures contracts is only 5%. heh heh heh

By George Washington

May 9, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, did ah mention mah PetroBras stock split yesterday…two fer one, just like ah’s likes it….

By AJC Management

May 10, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Watch the Urinal tip toe around another dictatorship killing, robbing and oppressing it’s citizens:

{{{{Myanmar overshadows health conference- Aid crisis after cyclone too urgent to ignore at Carter Center meeting on women, U.N. goals.-Urinal}}}}

We waz having a great talk and getting ready to votes against the United States and thee Jews cuz they oppress women, when somebody said millions of poor peoples died, it was like, awwwww, I don’t wants to talk about that. Tell me more about evil Israel mommy.

Sick.

1) It ain’t “Marymart” or whatever you self fondling fascists keep calling it, it’s Burma. The dictatorship renamed the country so that they could erase previous atrocities from the minds of the truly weak and stupid, it apparently worked on the AJC Staff.

2) Ain’t no “aid” getting delivered to any “needy” people, the goons from the government are intercepting shipments meant for the survivors and keeping them for themselves, probably to sell on the black market.

{{{{Aid workers have been denied visas to enter Myanmar, and some with diplomatic passports have been turned away from the airport, Ban said. U.N. food shipments were seized by Myanmar’s reclusive military government, which wants to distribute the aid itself.}}}}

Anyone else notice that the plight of the poor and desolate is not a top priority with the Urinal but instead these POS seem far more concerned with not offending a wanton, mass murdering dictatorship?

Can it be any more obvious?

Think back to all the wailing, gnashing of teeth and the hair pulling of Hurricane Katrina that was directed at the United States, who at this point in the N.O. catastrophe was feeding, clothing and rescuing victims.

Where have all the hysteritics gone?

And are we not talking about a disaster that dwarfs what befell the lazy of Louisiana on a scale of about 10,000 times to one?

Nothing to gain politically, eh, Urinal?

~~~~~~

The Urinal doesn’t seem to want to discuss Iraq today, I wonder why?:

{{{{Responding to attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces, U.S. Special Operations Forces killed eleven Special Groups criminals in the Sadr City area of Baghdad May 9. During the operation, Special Groups criminals attacked Iraqi and Coalition forces with rocket propelled grenades and small-arms fire from the ground and from rooftops. U.S. SOF returned fire, killing nine. The firefight continued, and U.S. SOF authorized a Coalition aircraft to engage. The aircraft fired one Hellfire missile, killing two criminals.}}}}

Gee, what happened Mookie’s Blessed and Great Grand Spring Offensive?

{{{{Shiite militants agreed on a ceasefire in Baghdad’s embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, an aide to a high level cleric said Saturday, holding out hope that weeks of clashes in the capital could be at an end.}}}}

That’s two fights the Shiite zipperheads have picked this year, by my count, and they got trampled in both of them.

I guess you could still say they are beating the women and children, eh, Urinal?

Sick.

And now we turn our attention back to the scumbags of Al Qaeda, conveniently surrounded by the Iraqi Security Forces:

{{{{In the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi army commander announced the start of a long anticipated offensive against Al Qaeda in Iraq’s last urban stronghold.}}}}

See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya.

~~~~~~

Ahhh, yes, the AJC supports the troops after all:

{{{{Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.-Urinal}}}}

Never a dic-ktatorship that the Urinal will pass a chance to suck on and be proud of.

Sick.

~~~~~

Boy, Dhimmy Carter sure worked his magic on the Middle East, didn’t he?

{{{{Hezbollah gunmen seized control of west Beirut on Friday after a third day of battles with pro-government foes in the Lebanese capital pushed the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war.}}}}

My goodness, I hope he never “visits” Iraq.

By jet lag

May 10, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

I just read some excerpts from Barbara Walter’s Book. I was moved to tears by her narration of how she felt when they had to Fiddy-Cent her mother at Churchill Downs last weekend after she came up lame across the finish line.

Barbara’s been through alot.

Anyone see the new Rodney King Video with all those cops rodney-kinging that guy? The poor sod must have forgot his safe word. That’s the only explanation.

I’ve heard of “crazy like a fox”, but calling Rush Limbaugh a genius for operation chaos is like saying he’s an “Einstein like a Gump”. Rush is now a clown for America’s amusement, and damn good radio. Remember how quickly America got over Milton Berle? Ditto Rush.

Texas Teens using 11 year old’s skull as a bong? Isn’t that like shotgunning? Stoners use their skull all the time as a bong, and I guess these guys just got carried away. I always hated shotgunning. It’s like you were supposed to be grateful that the guy was doing that for you, remember? Like he was some sort of hero, “look! Frank is shotguning! hey, Get in line! I’m next! “

Totally ruined the 70’s for me, I swear.

By zeke

May 10, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

10-4 Jim! Thank GOD for the judge who ruled in favor of the Constitution and the Second Ammendment!

By Ray

May 10, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Shar,

I wish you were my next door neighbor.

By George Washington

May 10, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Remember, WTI rules….West Texas Intermediate Crude OIL….Light Sweet Crude by any other name…..

By George Washington

May 10, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Those Buram military dictator’s uniforms sure look familiar…sort of mean green machine like….left over from the 70’s CIA ops in SE Asia? Didn’t we help install these dictators to help stop the falling dominoes? Little brown brother sure got the short end of the stick in our war against communism….We allowed the Frogs to resume their colonial domination of Viet Nam, a nation that had fought itself free of imperial japan…that was stupid….when uncle ho smashed the french in the teeth, and won the freedom of the north, we stuck our noses in to keep the colonial empire in the south in the pocket of the frogs….Washington is now, was then, and always will be STUPID….

By Glenn

May 10, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

You mortal enemies just might get together on this Myanmar thing. I like the “Pre-dawn Vertical Insertion” scenario, joint forces and all that. (Don’t please bait get). It’s got style, it’s got panache. It’s gettin real,

as Peter Tosh.

It’s a one-horse country (with all due respect to the gifted actor Nigel Havers and his dad). So why shouldn’t Shirley Temple get together with Roy Rogers and do the Grenadine thing?

We’ve even got the weather for it…

By OilSlick

May 10, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

The moment Obama appears inevitable, the stock market tanks 200 points. Watch the sell-off when investors think he may actually win

Big deal….that’s will be nothing compared to the gasoline crisis that will cripple this country due to W’s oil buddies. Pitiful.

By Glenn

May 10, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

But then you’re too prudent to put your money where you mouth is, huh. Wouldn’t want to actually bet on the Democrats’ chances of knowing how to make the oil inflation anything but worse…

By Lynne

May 10, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Interesting….a child molester and her victim should be able to move on with their lives…….but Jim didn’t think Genarlow Wilson or Marcus Dixon should have been able to move on with theirs….but now he feels differently?? wonder why.

By just me

May 10, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Not true, HIDT. The stock market dropped almost 400 points when W was named the Republican nominee back in 2000. Look it up.

By George Washington

May 10, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Ivan specializes in the air assult: three or four transports appear out of nowhere, land without permission, and Russian troops pour out to sieze the control tower, and eliminate any armed resistance…An air bridge head has been established, and more planes bring in combat vehicles, troops, etc. The radio and tv stations are taken, along with the dictators headquarters and any loyal troops are disposed of brutally. At this point, rather than a pre determined puppet government, a UN emergency recovery mission would move into the country, maybe putting that nice woman in charge, the one the dictators keep in prison. The chimp has so p** off Ivan and Cho that I doubt they could get them to agree, so America would have to stay on the sidelines, and let Ivan do the dirty work, while we provided money, food, medicine, etc….Ah doubt the chimp team could put this together…

By Glenn

May 10, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Sounds like a go. But if all it’ll take is a Skorzeny play, then how about leaving it to everybody’s favorite neutral, La France?

Maybe it’s time for La Legion Etrangere to earn its foie gras once again.

By Glenn

May 10, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Speaking solely as a beerhawk, that is.

By George Washington

May 10, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

We will have a million dead in Burma from cholora, disentary, and malaria at this time next month - the time to use force is now, not next week….the chimp delayed in New Orleans, so ah suspect he will duck this one all together…he’s got a weddin ta do….fergit little brown bro…..

By AJC Management

May 10, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

{{{{Citizens of Basra, the third-largest city in Iraq, celebrated the opening Tuesday of a central market that demonstrated a return of peace and prosperity to an area that until recently was a stronghold of Shiia militias.}}}}

{{{{Schools closed early as families from the Jameat district gathered with local dignitaries, investors and media to watch the ceremonial opening of the Jameat Market, Multi-National Corps - Iraq officials reported.}}}}

{{{{Local Iraqis built the market, which was completed March 23 at a total cost of about $1 million, officials said.}}}}

If the people of Basra are free to do as they please it must mean that Mookie and his army of zipperheads have been annihilated.

Everybody’s a winner here.

~~~~~

What would the day be without another dose of liberals hating each other, hating America, hating humans, hate, hate, hate:

{{{{Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Bruno Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.}}}}

{{{{The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Bruno since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.}}}}

Must you pinkos spew on Mother’s Day weekend?

Geez.

~~~~~

It’s all about them:

{{{{Narrow escapes for CNN reporter…A CNN reporter who left Myanmar Friday was chased by authorities as he reported on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis but escaped primarily because of the incompetence of the people after him.}}}}

Ahh, yes, millions of corpses lying about, millions more of the living in desperate need of food and shelter, the libs are writing stories about themselves as though they are some kind of heroes.

Sick.

By Glenn

May 10, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

• Best wishes to Jenna Bush and her groom.

• Congratulations to the latest pack of tasseled Dawgs.

• A nastygram goes out to AJC photog Johnny wotzizass for the snide close-up of the snarling Mr. Justice Thomas. You must be very proud, you petty fool.

• President Bush has a Situation Room with him in Crawford. USAF 1. After cake, he ought to board the thing and get on the blower to the others and hammer out who’s available to do what, when, and who pays. It would be lovely were the great powers to combine, but oh well. Were TR Prez he’d go in tonight with US and Japanese forces, if only to mess with the heads in Beijing and Pyongyang, and be out in a couple weeks leaving UN peacekeepers holding the bag.

It would be dreamy were India and Pakistan to shock everyone and do it together. What a masterstroke that would be, were only there a very great third-party statesman on the world scene, to handle the nuptials.

• Which brings me back to Jenna. All the best, darlin’!

By AJC Management

May 10, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Like I’ve said before:

{{{{Before we had our long national nightmare (Watergate), we had our long national temper tantrum. In America, student protests were an indulgence of the privileged, a wail by baby boomer kids raised in unprecedented affluence against their parents’ authority.}}}}

{{{{To accuse of “fascism” a generation that bled in the mud of Normandy fighting the Axis took a massive historical ignorance and overweening self-regard. The New Left had both.}}}}

{{{{The parents against which the students rebelled - as represented by the college administrations - buckled. College presidents who were the finest flowering of post-World War II liberalism gave in to the radicalism, politicizing American higher education and trashing its standards. “The maturation of the student protest movement turned out to be part of the infantilization of the American intelligentsia,” Kimball writes.}}}}

{{{{Meanwhile, Mark Rudd and a fringe of the New Left spun off into the Weather Underground, which took the destructive spirit of the campus protests to its logical conclusion in a campaign of terrorist bombings. Jonah Goldberg reminds us in his book “Liberal Fascism” that the radical left committed roughly 250 attacks from September 1969 to May 1970.}}}}

The left was doing Timothy McVeigh’s before Eric Rudolph did.

William Ayers is no better than any other scumbag terrorist and he’s Obambi’s buddy.

By jet lag

May 10, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

What is wrong with that child?

By Glenn

May 10, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

All of that commentary is arguable and fair, Anger Management, except your own gloss, which runs the thing out of bounds. It’s beneath you, in my humongous opinion, to exploit the term “terrorist” as kind of sublinguistic grunt. It’s so unamerican that it’s…it’s…it’s French! (apologies to Mr. Clemens) Makes you sound like you’re ready to shave heads and denounce your own mistress—-that sorta “French”.

If you’re still interested in Barry’s don’t-look-in-there oiliness, I suggest you examine the young lad’s formative years.

My regards to Auntie Kepila…

By jet lag

May 10, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

I attended the Brahms’ Third Symphony last night at the Atlanta Symphony’s performance at Woodruff Hall. I’ll get back to The Brahms. I’ve got some new music, written in the thirties, by a Polock, that is so wonderful and so perfect for the arena of hurt we all play in now that I’m forced, against my will, to tip you all off. I will share this. Gorcki. google it. Then download and learn this music. He has Nostradomused the way we all feel right now. It opens with a murmur, and expands into ….. Anyway, that panic you feel? That sadness over your inability to explain how America became so evil that an entire country would rather drown themselves than accept our lifeline.

Rush Limbaugh, you did this. George Bush, you did this. Cheney, you did this.

There’s going to be a landslide in November. Did anyone hear about Martin Luther King’s Statue? They’ve disapproved it. the call the proposed designs either too confrontational or too much like Saddam Hussein’s mission accomplished statue. Folks, conservatism is so dead. For so many reasons.

The Brahms’ Third is a masterpiece. I am a different person, after last night’s performance, and I’ve heard the Brahm’s a million times.

By AJC Management

May 10, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

If I were to choose anything that lies a mouldering in the grave it would have to be Bruno.

It is dead alright, along with her purple faced bigot of a “husband’s” legacy, but yet, it is still lurching around, wreaking havoc on thee cult and it’s dimwit membership.

It’s like watching a horror movie where you want to cheer on the monster.

Some showing you pinkos have had the last few decades, Dhimmy Carter, Boss Bigot Groper Man and now to this you want to add a terrorist symp.

GFY (Good for you.)

By jet lag

May 10, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this

Gorecki.

By Glenn

May 10, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this

I’m stunted that way, but to people who seek out that kind of immersive musical experience, I do know that it happens sometimes. I know Brahms’ Third, but never having heard it performed, I can only guess what it would take to redeem it from popular over-familiarity. A bold move for the musicians, certainly. Hat tip to them, then, for pulling it off.

Do you mean Henryk Gorecki?

Conservatism isn’t dead. It’s never been dead. Conservatism is St. Patrick himself. You can’t kill it. It’s storm-proof, by definition.

What’s killed the American spirit has everything and nothing to do with our political identities. We’ve fallen to stalking beasts of considerable stealth. Look at the ones who saw it coming. (At the moment I’m reconsidering McLuhan’s jeremiad.) What difference does it make whether the man is claimed by conservatives or liberals, Canadians or Yanks, Tory or Labour? Who cares?

We despair because our machine is running things now, rather than our running the machine. We can no longer find the Owner’s Manual, and those of us who look for it are told that we’re not allowed the privilege. There’s nothing clever in this metaphor; it’s the one that’s on everyone’s mind, one way or the other.

Our country was founded on selfishness that was supposed to be redeemed by an outbreak of radical humanism. That’s all gone now. It’s no use to blame the Right or the Left. Neither could resist the machine, the power-levers.

So the romance is gone. We came from the Blues, we’re left with the Blues. The Blues ain’t half bad. A precious patrimony, in fact. But it’s a long way from the New Jerusalem.

By Souldrift

May 14, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Hold on a minute Woot….aren’t conservatives the ones who’ve been leading the charge against those who “hate” SUVs? Exercising their “freedom” to buy giant fuel-inefficient wasteful vehicles.. contributing greatly to this problem we’re just now recognizing—global demand for oil ON THE RISE.

Oh yeah, and meanwhile cheering for one or more wars so we can destabilize the area even further.

So these people with little foresight into economics are supposed to be the ones we trust our country to? “Traditional American values” don’t mean dip if we become a country full of jobless people, or who can’t afford fuel to get to work.

Let’s talk real ISSUES, not CON-JOB NONSENSE.