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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
News flash! Jimmy Carter’s right. Put Hillary on the ticket and his negatives and her negatives will make John McCain a rock star. “His” in this instance is Bill and/or Barack.
Memo to lawyers handling death penalty cases: Don’t die first —- or the murderer’s appeal will be that you were racist, incompetent or whatever other vilification is deemed useful to spare the condemned. That’s the case with Curtis Osborne’s attorney Johnny Mostiler, who died of a massive heart attack eight years ago. Osborne was executed Wednesday night for murdering two people in 1991. Lawyers should also be prepared to admit for the appeal that you waged an incompetent defense.
After discovering that the domestic abuse hotline call was a hoax, Texas authorities had no basis for taking children from their families at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas. Justice is ultimately done, though. The courts ordered more than 400 children returned. Taking children from parents should be a last resort and all immediate efforts should be to reunite the family. Texas should set up a trust fund for future counseling for the seized children.
A responsible California Supreme Court would delay its decision on same-sex unions until after Nov. 4, when California voters have the opportunity to do as those in 26 other states have done in defining marriage as between one man and one woman. This one is not, and of course it didn’t wait. Licenses can be issued in about 10 days.
Attendees at Bishop T.D. Jakes’ MegaFest preaching, teaching and entertaining event in Atlanta found travel and lodging costs burdensome. So he’s moving it this year to South Africa. Go figure. Trips can be arranged for about $5,000 to $6,000 per person. It’s a real blow to Atlanta. Church people in their Sunday best brought a welcome freshness to downtown Atlanta.
What a stunning transformation of the American auto industry: 35 Big Three auto plants have closed since 2005, along with 35 of Ford and GM’s major suppliers. It’s an amazingly resilient economy that can withstand that kind of shock.
Downtown Atlanta street vendors —- and fake doctor Eric Perteet —- have one thing in common: They expend enormous amounts of energy in an effort to avoid a real job. Hanging out in a hospital all day attempting to look busy so the new bride doesn’t discover he’s not a real doctor has to be hard work.
Former Johnny Carson sidekick Ed McMahon is $644,000 behind in payments on the $4.8 million mortgage he got in 2005 and facing foreclosure. The question here is why an 85-year-old man still has a mortgage. Especially one who got a $7.2 million insurance settlement in the past six years.
Law enforcement officials who organize the so-called “rolling roadblocks” have too much time and staff and too little crime. We don’t pay taxes to get harassed and toyed with by elected officials. Legislators should curtail the practice, just as they did the possible abuse of red-light cameras at intersections.
The terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told a military judge at Gitmo who warned him that he faces execution if convicted of masterminding 9/11 that “yes, this is what I wish, to be martyr for a long time. I will, God willing, have this, by you.” God willing he will get his wish.
I was about to poke fun at Rex Millsaps, the mayor of Lawrenceville, who won $250,000 gambling on the Georgia Lottery, but then discovered that he’ll use part of the money to get his pickup truck detailed. One pickup owner cannot speak ill of, or poke fun at, another. Owner’s contract, Page 23.
Congress once again passes the buck —- and a $3.1 trillion pile-of-junk budget that contains questionable revenue projections plus an assumption that Congress will raise taxes and the next president will deal with entitlements. The Nancy Pelosi- Harry Reid Congress has become a joke.
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By Eric
June 6, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this
Hey Jim,
Let me be the FIRST to say that you are the most negative person in media. You sit on your high horse and talk everything wrong with everyone else except yourself and the neocon party that you are so loyal to. Instead of Thinking Right, you should rename your column “Bitter Old Guy Thinking Wrong ” on issues he knows nothing about.
By DaveD
June 6, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this
35 major auto plants close along with 35 major suppliers and THAT is a sign of a resilient economy to you Jim?! Think of the thousands that no longer have a job. That NOW need government assistance because where they live..there ARE no jobs. Or, if they can find one (though doubtful) it will probably be for much less and not offer any benefits. What does closing all those plants do for our GDP Jimbo?
If the same thing was taking place under Clinton…you’d have written a competely different paragraph…
Plants closing, adding more people to the unemployeed totals, and lowering our nations GDP (as China’s Russia’s and India’s all rise every month.
WOW do you have faulty logic! That might be the most obsurd thing I’ve seen you write in months!!!
By Neo-cons McChimpyHalliburtonCheneyHitler warmonger
June 6, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. I am uncharacteristically flummoxed by former President Carter. He is the best barometer for the dumbest possible strategy – whatever he suggests, do the polar opposite, for success. So his advice to Barack must be wrong. But since I wish Barack to lose I think he should follow Jimmy’s advice. But if one had asked my thoughts on “VP Clinton” as a campaign ploy I would have said the same words spoken by President Carter. So I must be wrong. I need another 64 oz QT frozen cappuccino, it’s going to be a long day.
One of the secrets of successful lawyering: always take as much of the blame yourself as possible. Your client will love you for it, nobody will believe it anyway, and you still get paid, and you still get publicity.
I have ambivalent thoughts on the splinter group in Texas, must as we did with the Waco massacre conducted by the Clinton White House. People ought to be left unmolested by their government. But I have the nagging sense that there may be a core truth in the allegations of underage coercive sex, middle aged male predators forcing themselves on young girls. Maybe that “sense” arose from the statement by the cult yesterday, that hereafter under age marriage will be forbidden.
The people of California get the Supreme Court they deserve, just as the people of Georgia get the Supreme Court they deserve. Stupidity is not limited to the left coast.
Wanton robbery and occasional murder of tourists can give a place a bad reputation. Bishop Jakes deems the risk slightly lesser in South Africa. Does South Africa now have a lower crime rate than Atlanta?
I understand the citizens of Michigan do not perceive the economy has absorbed the shock of the massive automobile plant closings. Think I read in the WSJ that there are more auto industry jobs in the US today than there were 50 years ago, but that all of the growth has been from “foreign” manufacturers, and in areas where Conservative taxation policies prevail. So here’s another nail in the leftist intellectual coffin.
Maybe Ed will win the Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes.
Rolling roadblocks are an argument for reduction in the police budget, for exactly the reasons cited by Jim Wooten.
Too bad KSM is not being tried in Georgia. It would take a jury 30 minutes to sentence him to death. Of course, our leftist appellate courts would take 25 years to execute him.
The wild spending in Congress is nothing new. I guess that is the change promised by democrats two years ago. They keep their promises. You would think leftists would be as depressed about that fact as the rational people, but they aren’t.
By James
June 6, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this
Well, Jim, let’s see: in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ own words, at least five girls between the ages of 13 and 15 got pregnant at the Texas ranch. And you think that girls of that age should have been left in that environment?
By Copyleft
June 6, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
Ahh, the usual half-hearted idiocy from Jim “Lazy Fridays” Wooten.
The California Supreme Court should do the responsible thing and… not do its job? Because civil rights should be subject to a popular vote? Yeah, right. (snicker)
The auto industry: Now, this is an impressive level of denial! You make the case for exactly how wrecked our economy is with an outstanding example of what’s gone wrong—and then have the gall to say “Gee, isn’t it great that our economy is still perfect even with all the collapsing?”
Here’s a hint, Jim: You’re not supposed to make your case by citing evidence that DISPROVES it.
Case in point: Khalid wants to be a martyr for his cause—and you hope to fulfill his wish?! Is that because you hope religious extremists really DON’T admire martyrs and get inspired to follow their example? (I could’ve sworn a lot of Christian churches have a bleeding Jew nailed to a piece of wood as a major iconic symbol….)
Nah, I figure it’s just your simpleminded right-wing bloodlust overriding common sense again.
It’s getting harder and harder to be a faithful, brainless right-wing drone, isn’t it? GOOD.
Hey, did anybody catch Obama’s neatly laid trap for McLame on lobbyist funding? Another no-win situation for the born loser! President Obama is gonna be GREAT for this country.
By Neo-cons McChimpyHalliburtonCheneyHitler warmonger
June 6, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this
Dear Copyleft @ 8:55, did you catch Captain Queeg’s neatly-laid trap for Hussein? The town hall stuff. Obama suffers “Dan Quayle” syndrome when he is not on his talking points, and McCain is best in the cloakroom debates. I am slowly becoming more impressed with McCain’s strategic mind, and less impressed with Obama, who now reminds me of AlBore.
By John
June 6, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
The CA Supreme Court didn’t stay their decision because there was no reason to.
The anti-gay marriage folks just didn’t want the fence sitters to have the burden of knowing they might f#ck up someone’s life by unmarrying them after they had been married.
If a majority gets to make a decision about the rights of a minority then they should at least have the burden on knowing the real effect it will have on real people.
Another note Wooten…the four judges are all known to be conservatives. And guess what? The dissenter is a lesbian.
By Pizen
June 6, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
Once again the economy in this country demonstrates its dynamic nature. Plants close for a variety of reasons - it’s cheaper or more practical to build elsewhere; there’s less demand for the products coming from the plant; etc. What’s needed is a massive revision to the tax code that penalizes businesses and often results in them moving offshore and taking good jobs with them. And we see Honda and Kia and Hyundai building new plants, including here in Georgia. Could it be that the Big Three just simply aren’t keeping up with market demands?
By Heeeere's Bankruptcy
June 6, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
Ed McMahon is 85 years old - he doesn’t have too many years left. I think he’s doing it the right way - isn’t the ideal goal to live well and die broke? Sounds like Ed is right on target! After all, you can’t take it with you.
By Ricky
June 6, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
James, Jim seems very tolerant of child molestors. He was all for the 37-year-old seductress and her 17-year-old husband being given custody of their statutory-rape-conceived child. His attitude seemed to be it was all very much normal.
By Dimrat For Obama
June 6, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
The Dimrat Party has its panties in a wad because Tom DeLay called Obama a Marxist. Truth hurts, don’t it.
For any of you dimrats on the loony bin left complaining about gas prices, the Washington Post’s George Will breaks it down for you hyper estrogen filled liberal pantywastes:
In September 2006, two U.S. companies announced that their “Jack No. 2” well, in the Gulf 270 miles southwest of New Orleans, had tapped a field with perhaps 15 billion barrels of oil, which would increase America’s proven reserves by 50 percent. Just probing four miles below the Gulf’s floor costs $100 million. Congress’ response to such expenditures is to propose increasing the oil companies’ tax burdens.
Even more from the Liberal Dimwit files, this time the idiocy of Nancy Pelosi and fellow liberal dimrat hypocritical pansies:
When the Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008 passed the House, Speaker Pelosi called it a tax cut for “millions of middle-income families.” However, tucked into the bill is a $1.6 billion earmark for plaintiffs’ lawyers. I’m not sure most Americans would consider class action lawyers a part of the struggling middle-class.
Yeah, vote Democrat and fix this nation!
What absolute MORONS.
By Dimrat For Obama
June 6, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
Hey Jim, Let me be the FIRST to say that you are the most negative person in media. - by Eric
Hey Eric,
Cave dwelling hypocrite liberals like you have a lot of room to talk about being negative. “The economy sucks, we’re losing Iraq, housing collapse, gas prices, food prices, all Bush’s fault, blah blah.” STFU.
Moron.
By Peter
June 6, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Hey Dimrat…… Who is going to pay for the Trillion Dollar WAR your Party made up?
By Shar
June 6, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Copyleft: I completely agree with your comments on the automobile industry, the California Supremes and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. For Mr. Wooten to use the first as an example of our “resilient economy” (under Bush, of course) is utterly bizarre and can only reflect the mental contortions adopted by those who are blindly determined to say something good about this disastrous Administration. It is not the purview of the judiciary to put the law on hold for the convenience of the legislature. The attorney general of the state can request a stay if he or she believes that it is in the state’s best interest to do so. Apparently Ahnold and his minions (yes, Mr. Wooten, Republicans) do not so believe. As for KSM, a lifetime in SuperMax is an infinitely preferable fate than a death sentence. It would cost taxpayers far less, would deny him a stage and condemn him to a lifetime of isolation and obscurity while denying those who would criticize the US a platform. Plus, there is the revenge factor - a scheming egomaniac’s worst nightmare is to be utterly forsaken. It wouldn’t be for very long, most likely, as the Aryan Brotherhood is amply represented in SuperMax.
The only one of today’s issues that I feel ambivalence about is the removal of the FLDS children from their parents. The initial complaint has not yet been validated, and hence the pretext for the removal is called into question. However, the evidence of several underage new mothers and pregant women is prima facie evidence of sexual abuse, and the code of silence regarding what appears to be a pervasive crime under Texas and federal statutes reeks of conspiracy and coercion. The FLDS’ isolation supports that conspiratorial effort, and their refusal to expose their children to the oversight of public education leaves the boys and girls of the sect without resources in the event of being expelled or abused.
The FLDS’ primary source of income is welfare. If the children are to be returned to this potentially hazardous community, welfare payments should be conditional on some level of supervision to ensure that the children of the sect are aware of their options, safe from predation and sufficiently educated to be financially able to function independently should they decide to leave.
By Thomas
June 6, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
There’s a cool little baseball hitting game near the Chipper Jones stories, but even if you hit .500, which I did, it says, “Goodness! I know you can hit better than that.”
By Rich
June 6, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
I think the red light cameras are a great idea and should remain. It has reduced the amount of accidents from people running the yellow and red lights which I still see happening. Only difference they will have to pay a fine now by not obeying the law. Also, the rolling police roadblocks is a good thing to, they of caught and made arrested people for a number of crimes and for suspended licenses and no insurance, whom should not have the previlage of driving on the road.
By Just Nasty and Mean
June 6, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
G’morning Jim, et al.
—Isn’t it about time we put Jimmy Carter on a shelf—like an old picture— and never listen to whatever inane thing he says?
—The California judges are proving again that the will of the people, who voted against same-sex marriage, are irrelevant.
—Tell me how it makes sense that how the call came into police that child molesters get to continue their crimes?
—-I say we give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed exactly what he wants without delay. He can tell us later if the 72 virgins were there for killing thousands of innocent people as promised by Allah.
—-The Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid Congress has done more harm to the value of the dollar (and the consequential high gas prices in the meantime) than Bush ever did.
—-Jim, I will agree to your point that the US economy is resilient, but with NAFTA (Hear that giant sucking sound?) and our oppressive tax code, corporations are going to continue to export jobs. This is cutting into bone. If our country had to repel a serious military challenge, I don’t feel the USA has the manufacturing resources to generate a response. Certainly we don’t have the will.
Have a great weekend!
By Alan Hurtz
June 6, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
It is Bush and his partys fault....Whos been in the drivers seat the last 8 years….Its funny how they try to spread the blame, lol….
By dirty harry
June 6, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
By Dimrat For Obama
June 6, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
DIMWIT…You mean the disgraced ex-congressman “THE” Tom DeLay called Obama a Marxist..All the more reason to vote for Obama!
George Will said….Blah…Blah…Blah..Who cares what George Will has to say? Oh, yea YOU.
Only you would
By Mike
June 6, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
I don’t understand why Ed McMahon does not have Christys aucton off some of his memorabilia from his days with Johnny Carson, sell some of his wife’s jewelry or both to get his mortgage paid up to date. sure he could get some good money for that stuff. besides the point that house should have been free and clear of any mortgage.
By George Washington
June 6, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
Did you alleged newspaper reporters sitting in your airconditioned offices playing on the internet instead of going out and gathering real news read that Tribune Company is reducing the number of pages in its papers (I won’t try to list the papers, since I was so very wrong about Cox and the washingtonpost) and firing hundreds of reporters? You’all better git on the street and start making contacts for news and stop relying on the internet to recycle other people’s work for you to spin….Do we really need all those editorial writters at the ajc? I want facts and details, not spin….
By Dutchman
June 6, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
“A responsible California Supreme Court would delay its decision on same-sex unions…”
Like most Democrats, the California does not believe in the voice of the people. The folks in California voted and said marriage is between a man and a woman. The California Court said that every vote doesn’t count.
They had a chance to listen to the people and again they showed disrespect to the voters in California.
Does anyone remember California’s anti-immigrant Prop 185. Again the voters were not listened to. Seems the Dems don’t care about the voters, just the small groups impacted by the voters.
By concerned
June 6, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Cherokee County Judge John Sumner is no different than those in Texas who removed children unlawfully. Sumner removes children on a regular basis, and it is more to punish the parents for something he the judge did not like. It certianly is not the last resort. Judge John Sumner is able to do this because his court is behind closed doors. Secret doors. This Judge removes children from their parents and throws them into an already overcrowded foster care system. This action often is NOT a last resort, but a common one for him. Who is going to help these children?
By Thomas
June 6, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Sounds like Sumner is helping children by removing them from abuse.
By getalife
June 6, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
Yesterday, we learned the proof w and cheney lied into a needless war. They have video proof of torture and illegal spying on Americans.
They should ask Obama why his spineless party thinks they are above the law and has done nothing.
Are the spineless dems going to let w declare victory in this war crime with his secret deal with Iraq?
Are they going to cave on telcom immunity?
Are they going to allow the world court to hold them accountable for torture?
WTF are they doing?
By Spence
June 6, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
The Dems????? The California Supreme Court is made up of 6 Republicans and only one Democrat. What exactly did the Dems do?
And the will of the people will be heard when they vote on a marriage amendment that can’t be overturned by the court.
By Tell the truth
June 6, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Dimrat For Obama @ 9:26
If you had read more on the topic, you would know that these companies drilling for domestic oil are selling it to countries in Europe and Asia. They’re not even selling it here, so yeah they should be taxed more. Conservatives like you and Wooten like to tell half-truths. Tell it all and let us decide for ourselves.
By Eric
June 6, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
To Dimrat for Obama
Name calling, that’s rich and typical of those conservatives that have issues with expressing their feelings in a mature manner. You can gobble up all the garbage you want, I know you like it. The Garbage Option Party loves people like you, those that follow and are too stupid to think for themselves.
By The good side
June 6, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this
You people who blame one party for something need to really leave this country!
The Republicans had the majority in the Senate and Congress since the 1990’s. So you blame the Liberal’s for not drilling for oil, for not passing lower corporate taxes,for giving Bush the authority to go to war which has greatly kept oil prices lower,for all the jobs going overseas.
Who are you? Jim are you in a bubble? It time to give someone else a chance to see if we can make changes in this country!
By Hasell Brown
June 6, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
Remember the joke that no one should be against gay marriage: gays should be as miserable as everyone else. What people are forgetting are three basic principles defined my the Constitution: a) 9th Amendment: Basis of contract law; 2) Same Amendement covers interstate recognition of Contracts…and 3) 14 Amendment: Equal Protection Clause. Since Massachussetts has legalized gay marriage, it is de facto law that gay marriage is legal nationwide…and is also subject to Civil Rights laws. ONLY 1 STATE HAS TO RECOGNIZE GAY MARRIAGE; then Federal statutes come into play. Marriage is a state-issued contract between two consenting parties; should it matter what sexuality the parties are??
By Blind Homer
June 6, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
Shar - How many pregnancies of Atlanta girls between 13 and 15 come to the attention of public authoriities every year and what is done about this obvious sexual abuse? Nothing, although many of these girls wind up on welfare too and, in most cases, don’t even have the pretense of a marriage and a loving, supporting community.
By Me
June 6, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this
35 major auto plants close along with 35 major suppliers and THAT is a sign of a resilient economy
I bet the vast majority of people who worked at those plants now have lower paying jobs. This is good?
By Craig
June 6, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this
I think it’s time we let the voters choose whether or not old white guy pickup owners get to marry the person they love.
By Craig
June 6, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this
I think it’s time we let the voters choose whether or not old white guy pickup owners get to marry the person they love.
By deegee
June 6, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
“What a stunning transformation of the American auto industry: 35 Big Three auto plants have closed since 2005, along with 35 of Ford and GM’s major suppliers.”
Are you kidding me??? How’s this?
What a stunning transformation of the American mortgage industry. More than one million homes are now in foreclosure, the highest rate ever recorded. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s first quarter report showed that a record 2.5% of all loans being serviced by its members are now in foreclosure, which works out to about 1.1 million homes. The trend has led to a widespread decline in home prices, as well as huge losses for banks and other financial firms that issued or invested in the loans.
“What an amazingly resilient economy!” said the blind man to the beggar.
By Copyleft
June 6, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
Oh, Dutchman… a question for you.
Over 70% of Americans want us out of Iraq. Now, WHO is it who’s showing contempt for the “voice of the people”?
By Brokeback
June 6, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Right on, Craig - I just wish I knew how to quit you, man.
By ron
June 6, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
Congratulations Jim,You don’t even have to write a column anymore.All you have to do is open the comments daily and it seems to gather a life of it’s own.
By Tom
June 6, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
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As a long-time near-exclusive GOP voter, fiscal conservative / social libertarian, I have to ask this one question?…..
Does anyone reading this blog (or you, Jim) honestly believe that these so-called “marriage amendments” are in any way, shape or form a proper use for a Constitution?
Not legislation, mind you…..but a Constitution.
I think many have simply blown a brain-fuse when it comes to the relationship and differences between legislation and rights.
……and the original framers are spinning in their graves.
Sad.
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By DaveD
June 6, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Tell me more about the economy Jim… the unemployment rate just won’t up again. Now it’s 5.5% it was 3.9% when Clinton/Gore handed over the keys to the White House to Bubble Boy and Dr. Evil. We now have yet “another” new record for them to be proud of as well: record foreclosures topping 1 million!!!
Tell us more about the “resilient economy”!!!!
By getalife
June 6, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
The joke is on the gop saying there is no money and block everything but are more than willing to keep the war crimes in Iraq going for 100 years.
Our broken government has Jim cheering on his party that broke it and that is the joke.
By FN
June 6, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Repulicans were:
WRONG on WMDs. WRONG on aluminum tubes. WRONG on ‘mobile weapons labs”. WRONG on ‘yellow cake from Africa’. WRONG on being ‘greeted as liberators’.
LIARS.
Unable to catch the anthrax killer. Unable to catch bin Laden.
INCOMPETENTS. They are peering in our windows, Listening to our phones, Tapping our internet connections, ALL illegally.
CRIMINALS. And they GOT NOTHING but name calling and scare tactics. LOOK over there. A Democrat!! He’s a communist!!
These people are PATHETIC !!
By KnowItAll
June 6, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
To FN @ 12:37
Demo-Kraps Actions:
—Trial lawyers going broke!—send them money
—-There’s some oil—don’t drill.
—-Some don’t work—send them money
—-Make a profit—-TAX it
—-Terrorist trying to kill us!—-cut the budget.
—-Victory in Iraq—-pull out and de-fund the troops
—-Social Security & Medicare going broke—Ignore it.
—-Corporations closing manufacturing and moving jobs overseas—raise their taxes
—-Education failing—-send them more money/do more of the same
—-National Debt out of control—-Pass a budget full of pork
…Tell me where I’m wrong….
There
By Shar
June 6, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Blind Homer: Yes, there are far too many underage girls having babies, whether behind the gates of a restrictive, secretive religious sect or on a sunny cul de sac in Rockdale County. Or anywhere else. But the girl in Rockdale County has other adults in her life who can help - school administration that can alert others and make accomodations so her education can continue and her future does not get shut off, law enforcement who do, in fact, follow up on just how the pregnancy happened, medical assistance, etc. The girl in the FLDS isn’t even allowed to know that 13 year olds having babies is not normal behavior, that she has a choice, that she either doesn’t have to have sex, doesn’t have to have it with the guy who is foisted onto her and doesn’t have to raise a baby as a result.
The loving supportive community is a questionable claim as well. Adults who force unwilling children into sex, who purposely keep them isolated and ignorant to facilitate the “perfect obedience” convenience, who pass them off to different “fathers” and exile their brothers, who control every facet of their lives are not high on my list of loving supportive types.
Dutchman: The great rallying cry of the Republicans on judical matters is “strict construction”, favoring judges who ignore the ‘voice of the people’ and stick to the statutory guides. That is what the California court is doing. Without new legislation or amendments that remain within the existing Constitutional equal protection rights, the judges on that court are following the laws as they are currently written and are doing precisely what the Republicans claim they should.
Legislatures are the branch of government that responds to the voice of the people. Courts interpret and administer the laws that are passed by the legislatures.
By fearless fosdik
June 6, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
By KnowItAll
June 6, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
KnowItAll…Is that what you call yourself???
By your post, I think you should now be named Don’t know Sh*t!
By ncgreybr
June 6, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this
“resilient economy…” Jim, you gotta tell us what you’re smokin so we can get some too!
Can you even breathe with your head stuck that far in the sand?
By The good side
June 6, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this
Mr. know it all!
Are you for real! Are you paid to post by Jim ( I can’t blame the GOP) Wooten!
Why is the National debt out of control? Oh I get the Democrat president went to war with Iraq.
Hey everybody Bush and Cheney are Democrats in disguise!
O.K. now that we know that let’s blame the Democrats.
National Debt out of control! Iran is stronger! One million houses in foreclosure! Unemployment increasing! Higher gas and diesel fuel pricing which increases the food costs! Widening GAP between rich and poor! No child left behind! What a wonderful educational program!
Corporations we gave you a tax cut and you are still laying off people why are you doing that we just cut your taxes in 2004!
GOP has the majority in the House and Senate from 1992 to 2006 why did you not pass a bil to drill for more oil and gas?
By Jeff
June 6, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
Talk about inside-out thinking. Mr. Wooten is the master. 1)Without independent corroboration, how can he unilaterally state that the kids weren’t harmed at Warren Jeffs’ YFZ compound? Does he condone Jeffs’ behavior? 2)Either Mr. Wooten’s lawyer is a cousin, nephew or uncle, or he would know that most lawyers operate on a contingency basis, and I’m sure Mr. McMahon had at least one, who would have taken a hefty percentage of the award. $7.2-million can go down in a big hurry. And don’t get me started on politics!!!
By yankee
June 6, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Buy a Kia, help the local economy.
By getalife
June 6, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
Oil up 9 bucks today. Market crashing.
Time for the gop to act to save corporate with more billions.
w to speak on the oil crises at 2:00.
By Copyleft
June 6, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
“Tell me where I’m wrong”—KnowItAll
Easily done, KIA (which apparently describes your brain):
—Trial lawyers going broke!—send them money Never heard that this was a problem, anywhere, from anyone. Of course, Republicans are all about “fixing” the problem of workers and consumers being injured or killed… by making it harder for them to get justice.
—-There’s some oil—don’t drill. That’s right… not when there are better and cheaper alternatives, like conservation and reducing our dependence on single resource.
—-Some don’t work—send them money Riight. And your solution to “Some are sick and starving—let ‘em!” is so much more civilized.
—-Make a profit—-TAX it Got that right. Every business that’s allowed to operate in our marketplace needs to pay for the privilege. Or are you arguing in FAVOR of “free rides,” as long as they’re for corporations?
—-Terrorist trying to kill us!—-cut the budget. Now you’re just confused. Terrorists attack us, we launch a war… and then we CUT TAXES??? That’s your Boy Genius’ policy, not the Democrats’.
—-Victory in Iraq—-pull out and de-fund the troops “Victory” (what there was of it) was five years ago. Are we supposed to hang around there forever? And whining about “de-funding the troops” is laughable from the gang that told ‘em to buy their own body armor, forced them into stop-loss extra tours, and then abandoned the veterans rather than pay for their care.
—-Social Security & Medicare going broke—Ignore it. Total B.S. You just don’t like the solution (eliminating the salary cap that further privileges the rich).
—-Corporations closing manufacturing and moving jobs overseas—raise their taxes So the 1950-era corporate tax rates were disastrously bad somehow? Combined with judicious protectionism and fair-trade agreements, this is an entirely reasonable way to remind corporations that we, not they, call the shots.
—-Education failing—-send them more money/do more of the same Education is not failing, but a lot of spoiled idiots are bailing out on our responsibilities. “More of the same” has never been a Democratic proposal for education—even though it seems to be the same tired slogan from the Republicans on just about everything.
—-National Debt out of control—-Pass a budget full of pork Yes, Bush and his boys certainly did a lot of that, didn’t they? And gee, I wonder who ran up the deficit and debt that high?
Quite simply, KnowNothing, you’re wrong in every particular and in every way. Based on that data, I can only conclude you’re a Bush-backing Republican.
Maybe we should keep a few breeding pairs in a glass case somewhere so they don’t die out completely, huh? That’s a pretty “conservation” attitude….
(snicker)
By Redneck Convert
June 6, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Well, I’m against them rolling road blocks on account of they ain’t fair.
The cops need to catch me doing something wrong while I’m driving, not when I get stopped by a road block. If I have a couple cases at Billy Bob’s and start driving home I should be let alone unless my driving is bad. Same thing with these red light cameras. A cop needs to see me running a red light and pull me over, not take my picture and mail me a ticket. Bunch of libruls!
I say if a bunch of 13 or 14 year old girls are having babys that’s proof enough they are doing You Know What with somebody. We need to do one of them tests and see who the father is and go arrest him and make him pay child support. If we don’t then pretty soon we will be paying more taxes to the girls having the babys. That’s the worst thing about the whole thing.
I see the libruls are on here ragging about My President again. If they got their way we would have one of Those People as President. Then us rednecks wouldn’t have nobody we were better than. Anyhow, it ain’t lying if you stretch the truth a little bit or leave some things out to beat the libruls. Its the Patriotic thing to do.
We got into the war fair and square so we ought to stay in. If the libruls didn’t want us in it they ought to have voted against it to start with. It ain’t our fault if they didn’t look a little harder at it.
I never thought this Ed McMahon was a Trader till I read he was behind on his mortgage payments. I always thought he was a nice guy. But as all the godly conservatives on here know, its peoples own fault if they buy a house they can’t afford. Now he’s angling for a bailout the same way the other bums are. And here he is on TV telling us all to buy life insurance and other stuff to make us rich. It just goes to show a librul will do anything and you can’t trust them.
Have a good weekend everybody.
By Blonde Bambi Cakes
June 6, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
Can’t we talk more about Ed McMahon, or puppies, or clouds, or something other than politics? :) This is waaaaaay toooooooo serious on a Friday afternoon just before happy :) hour!
By Mean Liberal
June 6, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
OK, BBC - Here you go: Ed McMahon is suffering because of Bushonomics. Enjoy your happy hour martini knowing that all the puppies are burning up in the sun because global warming is keeping all the clouds away. Take that and twirl it in your blonde curls.
By Blind Homer
June 6, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
The good side - Greed, supidity, and the free market led to the million foreclosures. Apparently you want Big Brother to micro-manage your entire life from birth to grave. What about freedom? And don’t you find it a little contradictory to criticize both the occupation of Iraq and the growing strength of Iran? Are you suggesting protecting us from foreign enemies is fine but we invaded the wrong country?
By Richard Crass
June 6, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
Here’s something waaaaaaay better than politics. Florida authorities picked up Gary Michael Hilton today and took him back with them to face trial in their hiker decapitation murder. They will seek the death penalty. Oh, how I wish murderers had to die the same way their victims did.
By Blonde Bambi Cakes
June 6, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
Lalalalalalalala…I can’t hear you…lalalalalalalalalala :)
By Richard Crass
June 6, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
Well, yeah, I know you can’t hear me. I’m typing, not talking. You really are blonde, aren’t you?
By Blonde Bambi Cakes
June 6, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Yes - I really AM blonde - but I don’t understand why you’re asking, Richard (or can I call you “Dick”?) ;)
By Richard Crass
June 6, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
“I don’t understand why you’re asking.”
Brilliant! You’ve just prove you aren’t, at least intellectually. And, yes, please do call me dick. I chose that screen name to give people a wet noodle to flog me with.
By deegee
June 6, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
Greed and stupidity and over-reliance on the internal combustion engine got us into the transportation mess we are in. Imagine where we would be today if the oil and auto companies didn’t dictate transportation policy back in the ’50s and 60s. We might actually be able to travel by train to visit our family and business clients. Wouldn’t it be nice to travel by train to say, Orlando or Memphis or Charlotte? Couldn’t you spend your time more productively on a train rather than driving a car 3 or 4 hundred miles to your destination? It takes the better part of a day to fly, and it isn’t cheap anymore. We did this to ourselves through our tacit approval of the policy that our elected leaders inscribed for us.
The law of supply and demand doesn’t help us when big oil consuming nations subsidize the price of oil. We are screwed and the first Harvard MBA grad to become POTUS has told us that the answer to the problem is to spend the $600.00 he gave you on something you really want. Great, and who says we don’t need change for real?
By M&M
June 6, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
Judge John Sumner illegally removes children from their parents on a regular basis. Why don’t we concentrate on our local children instead of the ones in TEXAS.
By Taxpayer
June 6, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
Record high oil, unemployment rate going higher and higher, record foreclosures, etc. Not to worry though. GW says it’s just a soft patch. We’ll all be signing up in George’s Armed Services before much longer because those will be the only jobs left. Maybe we should rename the armed services something like the CCC and put them to work doing something useful like repairing old and weakened bridges, dams, levees, etc. Wait a minute. Why didn’t I think of this before. What we really need is a tax cut. After all, tax cuts are to the economy as chicken soup is to a cold, right. Am I right. So, bring on them tax cuts and then throw in an interest rate cut for good measure. Do I hear 1%. Going once, going twice.
By Thomas
June 6, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this
Ever notice how people who are or who support child abusers go after the judge and accuse him/her of wrongdoing?
By Peter
June 6, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
Looks like bad news for the USA, and I am not focusing on the inflation here at home.
We have a WAR that CANNOT be won…. and here is the reason why……
By taking out the Dictator Saddam, we now have the Iraq Civil WAR.
Who will settled that WAR?
Is that OUR WAR?
AS we know that WAR has been going on for centuries.
Is there a Republican on this board that will even TRY to deal with that Question?
Next is the thought of the Trillion dollar WAR Debt.
Will any Republicans care to explain the “Conservative” spending that we are doing there?
Iraq Oil Money……
Will any Republican explain where the Iraq Oil money is going?
Please also explain, how the Oil money is actually helping Iraq citizens, and rebuilding of the country.
If there are no answers, then why continue to follow the same old nightmare, with another Republican President?
By Copyleft
June 6, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
Homer: We already know we invaded the wrong country. Weren’t you paying attention?
Does that mean we’re obligated to ignore all threats, or ALWAYS blunder into the wrong response the way Bush has? Of course not.
America has wised up… and MovedOn. President Obama is a much better leader than Gee Dubya could ever be.
By DaveD
June 6, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
it’s OFFICIAL: UNEMPLOYMENT now at it’s Highest level in 20 years!!! How’s that for your tax cuts, while funding an illegal war, while driving the nation deeper into debt every single day, with a dollar that lost even MORE of it’s value as well! Yup those tax cuts have worked! Same with those “economic stimulus” checks!
Resilient enconomy folks (as Jim stated? Ahhhh…yes the nes keeps getting better and better every single day!
By TW
June 6, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Mislead? We were mislead into a war? WTF? Kind of like the way O.J. mislead us about what happened to his wife?
By Copyleft
June 6, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
DaveD: But in a way, the news IS getting better every day. Every day brings us closer to Bush’s eviction and President Obama and the Democrats getting to work fixing the hideous mess BushCo has left behind.
By Josh M
June 6, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
DaveD: Please look up the definition of the word “resilient.” You obviously have no idea what it means.
By Blind Homer
June 6, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
Copyleft - I agree, based solely on 9/11 we should have invaded Saudi Arabia. Most of the identified participants were Saudis as is bin Laden and undoubtedly much of the funding. Although the principal just arraigned is some Kuwaiti, Afghan, Paki mix. Not sure why the Saudis would have wanted to take out the Sunni dictator and put in S**, now they don’t like it as demonstrated by their refusal to help Bush with the oil supply. Basically, you can’t go to far wrong invading any of the arab states and killing a few thousand terrorists! But if you aren’t actively killing a bunch of Islamo-facists, then you should get out and save American lives and money. The problem with Obama may be that, unless/until proven otherwise, he may be as soft on the Muslims as Jimmy Peanut was and that’s a big mistake. You were paying attention when thousands of them came to Iraq right before and after the invasionjust for the chance to kill Americans weren’t you?
By DaveD
June 6, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
OK Josh M…. I posted it here for YOU! AS you might have been educated in GA and don’t know HOW to use a dictionary correctly: “Resilient: 1. springing back; rebounding.
2. returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
3. recovering readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyant”
So you think our economy is BOUNCING back?! rebounding?! Recovering?
It’s getting WORSE every single day!!! Go read my first post as well today (near the top)…
We are sinking, and the hole is getting deeper every day.
Copyleft is correct at saying there is HOPE…that hope is Obama.
Though it will take a generation to fix what Bubble Boy and Dr. Evil have done to our economy and the world at large.
Economics 101: You can NOT spend more than you have without having a plan on paying it back…
That’s what happens when you have the person running our nation thinking he’s still running around college on Daddy’s credit card taking cash advances to buy blow… ;-)
By Blind Homer
June 6, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this
DaveD - You think all the social welfare programs Obama wants, net of repealing the Bush tax cuts, will cost less than the occupation? Last time I looked social security and Medicare cost a lot more than the entire defense budget. How much will just the universal health care cost? Obama doesn’t say. If tax cuts didn’t work maybe the government can tax and spend its way to resiliency!
By The good side
June 6, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
Blind Homer,
The Dems will create new jobs, that will not flow overseas even if renewable energy does 20 percent less dependent on oil it will create thousands of jobs for the manufacturing sector which bush has just totally ignored.
First everyone the Bush Adminstration wanted gas prices to go up! Bush and Cheney are from Texas where oil is king!
You have to create a diversion in order to execute the altimate plan.
Thanks W.
Instead of Filet Mignon I will eat hamburger tonight!
By Blind Homer
June 6, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
DavidD - Oh and your Econ 101 is a little soft too. That might be sort of true for an individual but it’s totally irrelvant if you’re talking government and foreign debt. Probably never pay it off and certainly don’t need to have a plan to do so. We might just nationalize it like Nicarauga or China might just forgive it the way we did with some South American countries. But most likely it will just be continually re-financed. After all we never fully paid it off since WWII and we’ve had plenty of periods of economic prosperity since then. And another little known fact, since you obviously never passed an Econ 102 class, it’s not going to be a burden to our children and grandchildren either. Can’t be. we’re paying for it right now with less goods and services and the high price of gas.
By Dusty
June 6, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
Reading this blog is very instructive. I don’t have time to itemize. But I find that liberals have one answer that covers everything. Here’s how it goes.
BUSH decided to go to war all by himself. BUSH likes to kill our young people and Iraqis. BUSH likes you to lose your home by foreclosure. BUSH wants your child to fail in school. BUSH made you buy a foreign car not made in America. BUSH dug a hole in the levee in New Orleans. BUSH made you fat and sick without FREE healthcare. BUSH’s service as National Guard Pilot was nothing (just like McCain’s military service doesn’t count.) BUSH should have known BETTER than to believe the CIA, British Intel and the UN about Iraq. BUSH should have freed Afghanistan & Iraq without spending any money. BUSH warmed the environment to kill puppies. BUSH greeted Saudi leaders in traditional fashion so BUSH is a Muslim terrorist. BUSH drained water from Lake Lanier. BUSH made Chavez & Castro into communists who don’t like us. BUSH doesn’t like “pork” so he has a “beef” with Congress. BUSH wants to listen to my overseas phone calls just for fun. BUSH has been in the oil business so the oil shortage is his fault. BUSH sent military supplies by Halliburton instead of UPS or the local mailman.
So you see, liberals have it all figured out. What we need in America is a man who can make a GOOD SPEECH. To heck with the other stuff. We’ve got high standards. GIVE US A GOOD SPEECH!! (When McCain is elected, liberals are ready with the pitchforks and the new theme: McCAIN DID IT!!)
By The good side
June 6, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
C’mon Dusty,
It’s not about Liberal or Conservative! It’s about a PRESIDENT MAKING BAD DECISIONS!
Let me ask you this! Does passing a bill to stem nuclear weapons count?
Does passing a bill to establish first response to Avian flu count.
The war! Can you tell me which war we are fighting!
Are we fighting the Sunni, Shiite or Al-Qaeda?
Do you really think any of those groups will just let america rule their country. They have been fighting for years.
You cannot occupy a country anymore especially when you do not know who the enemy is!
So of you people really need to wake-up and quit talking like you know what is going on!
Read your history!
By Road Scholar
June 7, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
While KSM is waiting for his trial and sentenceing to be carried out, why not make him watch and listen to Bush’s speeches? Would that constitute cruel and unusual punishment?
By Peter
June 7, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Dusty is prejudice, if you are not a WRONG, then she attacks you.
She know little about history or the examples from the Roman times, to the Nazi’s.
Dusty is another example of what is WRONG with America, she forgets America is made up of diverse folks from all over the world.
She forgets we have freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. She forgets we all make our own minds up after given the facts.
She forgets George Bush has broken MANY laws, and has taken some of our freedoms away.
She forgets 70% of Americans do not want the WAR, the last election told that story, and the President’s approval rating is another indication.
She cannot come to terms with Americans would not have been a backer of the WAR, had we and the congress actually been told the truth.
She forgets we never got Bin Laden, and he was the reason so many died during 911.
She would BLINDLY follow the President off a cliff with her kids in tow, because she is a narrow minded Republican to the end.
She has little facts to tell, and zero reasoning to go along with her statements, that is why at last resort she turns to name calling and attacking anyone who does not go along with her position.
She is clueless,and insensitive to why Millions of American’s are now in survival mode, why a million of houses are up for foreclosure, clueless why prices are so high, and unemployment is at a 20 year high.
She is clueless to the fact American service men and woman do NOT get the proper care when they return home.
She is clueless to how insensitive the Army is to the soldiers that are messed up in the head because of WAR.
They house some of these folks next to a firing range, instead of a quite place so they can get mental care, and try to become normal folks again, and get back into every day society.
She is clueless to the fact our weekend warriors were never trained for battle abroad.
She is clueless to the fact these Reserves have lost their MAIN JOB, as they were forced into WAR, and insensitive to the fact that many Reserve families have lost all, including their homes because of Bush’s actions.
She is clueless to the fact BUSH never had a plan from start to finish of this WAR, just attack and see what happens next.
We were supposedly the Liberators.
She is clueless to the facts that the three sanctions in Iraq hate each other, and by taking Saddam out, we have just set up a Civil War for control there.
She is quick to point out Americans, should shut up and BLINDLY follow the failures of the President, as Germans followed Hitler.
She behaves as a lemming ready to jump!
By George
June 7, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten,
On Friday you observed: “What a stunning transformation of the American auto industry: 35 Big Three auto plants have closed since 2005, along with 35 of Ford and GM’s major suppliers. It’s an amazingly resilient economy that can withstand that kind of shock.”
By the end of the day the DOW was down nearly 400 points. The business news was saying: “The unemployment rate surged to 5.5 percent in May from 5 percent — the sharpest monthly spike in 22 years — as the economy lost 49,000 jobs, registering a fifth consecutive month of decline, the Labor Department reported Friday.”
I expect the 49,000 would disagree with your assessment of economy.
Regards,
George Smathers Kennesaw
By DaveD
June 7, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
peter…great post…good for you!
By onethatknows
June 7, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
Judge Sumner is not removing these children from abuse but opening the door to years of abuse. Most people are not aware that the Juvenile court system is a profitable business. For each child put into foster care, that system is paid more money. If they are able to adopt the child out, big bucks come in. So it is in Judge Sumners best interest to remove these children, and KEEP them in foster care. (if they go back home the money stops) It keeps the money coming in, which pays his salary and many others. Obviously there are children that need to be removed and placed in a safe environment, this particular Judge enjoys the power and since he is not held accountable, he likes to keep the money rolling in. This is tax payer money. Judge John Sumner reslishes in his god lie power to make or break families.
By onethatknows
June 7, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Judge Sumner is not removing these children from abuse but opening the door to years of abuse. Most people are not aware that the Juvenile court system is a profitable business. For each child put into foster care, that system is paid more money. If they are able to adopt the child out, big bucks come in. So it is in Judge Sumners best interest to remove these children, and KEEP them in foster care. (if they go back home the money stops) It keeps the money coming in, which pays his salary and many others. Obviously there are children that need to be removed and placed in a safe environment, this particular Judge enjoys the power and since he is not held accountable, he likes to keep the money rolling in. This is tax payer money. Judge John Sumner reslishes in his god lie power to make or break families.
By onethatknows
June 7, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
Judge Sumner is not removing these children from abuse but opening the door to years of abuse. Most people are not aware that the Juvenile court system is a profitable business. For each child put into foster care, that system is paid more money. If they are able to adopt the child out, big bucks come in. So it is in Judge Sumners best interest to remove these children, and KEEP them in foster care. (if they go back home the money stops) It keeps the money coming in, which pays his salary and many others. Obviously there are children that need to be removed and placed in a safe environment, this particular Judge enjoys the power and since he is not held accountable, he likes to keep the money rolling in. This is tax payer money. Judge John Sumner reslishes in his god lie power to make or break families.
By GaLiberal
June 8, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Moron Jim said: What a stunning transformation of the American auto industry: 35 Big Three auto plants have closed since 2005, along with 35 of Ford and GM’s major suppliers. It’s an amazingly resilient economy that can withstand that kind of shock.
What Moron Jim didn’t tell you is the reason these plants closed because the work was outsourced to cheaper labor in other countries. It force a lot of people who were making a decent living to take lower paying jobs usually with no benefits. The economy wasn’t affected due to cheap money floating around so people used home loans and low interest credit cards to fill in the gaps. When the house of cards, built by Bush’s tax cuts for the uberrrich and the reckless and unnecessary Iraq war, finally collapsed, the economy tanked.
Now oil prices are over $130/bbl, $4+/gal gas, and food and energy costs are increasing at double-digit rates. The economic is not ‘amazingly resilient’ now is it, Moron Jim. In fact, the stock market is beginning to show signs of cracking under the weight. Moron Jim evidently does not understand the stock market is a lagging indicator of economic health. The economy has not been healthy for years as wages have not kept up with inflation and companies layoff more and more workers. Too bad the AJC keeps Moron Jim on the payroll. I’m quite sure he could peddle his lies on Faux News.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Moron Jim’s understand of economics is living proof.
By JP
June 8, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
I’ll be happy to have one less Jesusland event in downtown Atlanta.
Bye bye!
By Dave
June 8, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Ahhh… Nothing builds readership like a negative moron journalist who stirs up controversy. Say, if it builds readership then the negative moron journalist is probably not a moron after all. Just protecting his job and building readership in a dead medium - the newspaper …
By Atico
June 8, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this
Hey: ALL bloggers. If you can’t say what needs said in six (6) sentneces or less, stay the hell off the net. Especialy you long winded say nothing liberals.
By Atico
June 8, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
Question for “Copyleft. What has Obama ever led, beside his ambition? Are you nuts, this guy has no substance, but he does make you belive he has, as he is a great motivational speaker. Nothing more.
By steve
June 8, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
I have a feeling that the unions at the auto plants had a lot to do with their closeings, socialist never consider what will happen when you strangel the golden goose,
By Regina
June 9, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this
Because of the downturn in the housing market and the foreclosure rate, my neighborhood is being destroyed by the bad renters and absentee landlords who use Section 8 housing vouchers. Many people who use the vouchers are good citizens, but the bad renters and absentee landlords outweigh the good.
Better neighborhoods are not better because of something in the water but because people have built and sustained them by their efforts, their values, and their commitments. Voucher appropriations are based not only on the mistaken belief that it is necessary to award, at public expense, a better home to all who can demonstrate “need,” but also that it is uplifting to do so, when in fact it is the effort to achieve the good home, rather than the good home in itself, that is the real engine of uplift. Section 8 housing often brings a life-style to a neighborhood that doesn’t share the same value system. Actually, it is ghettoizing the suburbs.
For areas moving people out of the projects and multi-family subsidized housing units, the cities/counties must set up a training program. In the program, the people should have training about code enforcement, how to be a good neighbor, Homeowners Associations, covenants, etc. before residents move into a home in a neighborhood.
In my neighborhood, many people have their houses up for sale. They have stated if they can’t sell, they will lease them out as Section 8. We are already experiencing a youth problem from the families who presently rent homes in our neighborhood. We have traced the majority of the youth problems in the area to homes being rented. We take pride in our homes, maintain the homes and maintain the property. We shouldn’t have to buy a home in a neighborhood that costs $300,000, $400,000 or above to feel safe.