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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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When my 95-year-old mother-in-law died two years ago, I knew Sophie Mae peanut brittle would suffer a financial blow. But dang. Rich’s. Davison’s. The C&S bank. Southern institutions gone. And Sophie Mae’s on a flatbed headed north. Old Atlanta may have gone, but the corporatists can never take away our world-famous heat and humidity.
The contest is over. A winner is declared. It’s State Sen. Vincent Fort of Atlanta, who wins the coveted prize of unlimited airtime on all local TV networks in the New Motto for Grady contest. Fort’s entry, inspired by the news that the state has given the hospital $12.7 million for its trauma center, the lion’s share of available money, offered this unforgettable new motto: It’s Still Not Enough.
What gives? MARTA presumably is the beneficiary of high gas prices —- and yet it’s projecting a deficit of $43 million for the coming year after reporting back-to-back surpluses.
MARTA’s setting the example for other governments in one respect, though. Rather than add employees for the brief spell needed to instruct riders on the new Breeze card payment system, it hired contract workers. When the job’s done, they go. Not surprisingly, though, some object, insisting that taking the contract job meant they’d become MARTA employees. Huh? One contract employee is said to be “angry.” Your anger is not my mandate.
Evidence from Massachusetts is a reminder that the proper term for the “uninsured” is “self-insured” when people who can afford to buy health insurance choose not to because they prefer to spend the premiums on something that gives them pleasure. In Massachusetts, 5 percent of taxpayers failed to buy health insurance —- and almost half were fined $219 because they could afford it but still didn’t buy. Strip mandates and allow purchasers to buy health insurance anywhere in the country and combine it with health savings accounts and catastrophic coverage. Penalize people for not having coverage. The self-insured will buy.
The most difficult job in Georgia is being a caseworker for the Division of Family & Children Services. You’ve got to be the momma, the daddy, the psychiatrist and the omniscient protector —- and in the instance you’re not, you get fired. The best approach to the problems of children at risk is to do everything we can to make certain they come into the world with a mother and a father in the home.
Holy cow! Breaking news from the Free Enterprise front. Stop presses. A “reinvigorated focus on price” enables Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, to beat out the competition in a tough economic environment. Briefly, for the Obama economists who peruse these reports, it means that when prices (or taxes) are lowered, business (or government) wins. Wal-Mart’s stock is close to a 52-week high. Time for a windfall profits tax on successful retailers. And take away any tax incentive to build new stores or maintain the ones they have.
I’m beginning to believe half the newcomers to metro Atlanta are running from the law, lies, lives or ex-wives. Investors with newcomer Kirk Wright got bogus statements. The wife of fake physician Eric Perteet, another newcomer, got from him bogus transcripts and degrees.
Headline: “Rivals take their shots at absent Chambliss.” Uh, the absent Chambliss has no primary opponent and hence no reason to appear onstage with five Democrats and a Libertarian. It would be noble of him to consent to be their punching bag, but why?
Must we go the entire summer with the partisans distorting John McCain’s position on the Iraqi phase of the war? They jumped with glee when McCain said on the “Today” show, in response to a question about whether he had a timetable for troops to be out (Barack Obama’s is 16 months), “No, but that’s not too important. What’s important is the casualties in Iraq.” The Left insists that the two options are to bail out in 16 months or to stay in a shooting war for 100 years. Dishonest.
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By BFKaJ
June 13, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Dear Jim, even if they take everything else, Atlanta and Georgia will always be known for a certain carbonated beverage. Most places have no particular corporate identity. Think how St. Louis feels this week.
Sen. Fort deserves no special credit for using the leftist mantra for the hospital motto. That is how the thieves justify all wasteful government spending.
Management Antagonizes Riders Throughout Atlanta. To paraphrase the horndog, “It’s the leadership - stupid.”
Why does the written conjoining of “anger” and “mandate” trigger images of California homosexuals?
I favor allowing anyone or everyone to go uninsured, in any aspect of existence. There is no intelligent reason my preferences for personal budget allocations should be forced on anyone else. For example, repeal the mandatory automobile insurance requirement, and simultaneously abolish all vehicle-vehicle torts. Insure, or fail to insure, your own losses, and don’t come whining to the courthouse if you are improvident in your choices.
I will avoid my normal hostile commentary on bureaucrats in any discussion of DFaCS caseworkers. Those poor bureaucrats work at charity rates, in a field with only terrible stories raging around. Has to be one of the psychologically-hardest jobs anywhere. Grim, grim, grim. Like working at the dog pound, except even worse. I’ll award the appellation I generally reserve for the American military, “noble.”
Probably should not joke about leftists going after an honorable institution like Walmart. You surely noticed the controllers prevented Walmart from offering its services at a new location in Gwinnett. Disgusting, leftists rage all around.
“I’m beginning to believe half the newcomers to metro Atlanta are running from the law, lies, lives or ex-wives.” I had a funny friend, attorney, in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Really classy guy, born and reared in Chicago, Viet Vet, great, great fellow. I asked him, “how does a bright, classy fellow wind up in Hohenwald?” His great answer was, “that was the last place that did not run me off.” Probably some core truth in the observation. I know I dragged my family to Atlanta to try to get my older son away from some undesirable influences; didn’t work, at least, not for long, so I do not urge my example.
The headline could have read, “Rival takes potshots at absent Obama.” The silver-tongued one decided to pass up the NYC town hall. Turns out all of his gaffes arise at town hall meetings. Evidently cannot work without a script.
So the left presents false alternatives about Iraq. Certainly an Inspector Renault moment. That has been the case since the beginning. Remember, “if we send in troops, 50,000 will come back in body bags”? Lies and the lying liars who lie.
My friend Southern Democrat celebrates the activist court overturning the 50-year precedent yesterday, granting Federal Constitutional protections to foreigners captured on the battlefields. I disagree. Taranto had a good analysis yesterday: “‘The Nation will live to regret what the Court had done today,’ Justice Antonin Scalia writes at the end of his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush, the case in which a bare majority of the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, extended rights under the U.S. constitution to enemy combatants who have never set foot on U.S. soil.”
By AH
June 13, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this
I find it very humorous that every morning when I pass by the Marta station I see 50-100 people standing around the station waiting on buses. And yet they claim that they are operating at a loss?
By BFKaJ
June 13, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this
I forgot to add my own line on the Boumediene case: “It turns out the Constitution is a suicide pact.”
By Redneck Convert
June 13, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
Well, the WalMart I go to is remodeling. That means they are taking out the cheap stuff and putting in the high priced stuff. Just like Target done a few years ago. Pretty soon I’ll have to go to a dollar store to buy a pair of socks when its time for my monthly bath.
No wonder MARTA is loosing money. Last time I looked they were paying bus drivers $60,000. Just as soon as they got MARTA in a bunch of Those People started using it as a piggy bank. Anyhow, MARTA don’t run up where I live, so as long as I don’t have to pay for it Those People can rob it blind. Let the city weenies pay thru the nose. MARTA stands for Moving Afros Returning to Atlanta. They come out to the suburbs and steal from people then use MARTA to get back home. Anyhow, show me a bus and I’ll show you a traffic jam.
I don’t care how much they fine Those People up in Mass. for not having health insurance. Wooten is right. Let them shop all around for it. They got no money to pay for it anyway, so they may as well look in all the store windows, not just the ones in that yankee state. This is what happens when a state goes against Gods will. If God had of wanted all the people in that state to live they would of been borned with a little policy in their hand. Anyhow, I worked a long time to get the insurance I need and I don’t want nobody else getting the same thing cheap and free.
I see Wooten didn’t write nothing about how the libruls on the Supreme Court ruled against My President and said the towelheads in Gitmo had the right to take their case to a reglar court. That’s what you get when a bunch of libruls are on the court. We can’t go letting these towelheads see the secret evidence against them. If we do that it won’t be secret any more. Anyhow, people that ain’t citizens have no rights. They ought to have a quick trial and then hung. The army knows how to deal with them.
Wooten is dead on when he says all the carpetbaggers moving to Atlanta are running away from the law. They come down here to stir up trouble in the South and ruin our good Southren way of life. I say we round them up and ship them all back North. I bet this Glenn is running from the law.
That guy that pertended to be a Dr. at Piedmont Hospitle reminds me of the time old Joe Bill got listed in his co. phone book as a MD. He had all kind of women calling him and wanting to get nekkid for him so he could tell them why they are sick. It looked like fun for awhile but Joe Bill found all the women that showed up was fat and ugly.
Well, time for my Friday run. I only have about half a load today. What with gas and food prices, people can’t afford as much beer as they use to buy. Its all Clintons fault. Have a good day everybody.
By Dutchman
June 13, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this
No, Redneck, methinks Glenn is hiding out from runaway beer trucks.
By TW
June 13, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest Monday after snatching her grandmother’s handgun from the woman’s purse while riding in a shopping cart at a Sam’s Club store, authorities said.
Lewis said the grandmother, Donna Hutto Williamson, has a permit to carry a concealed weapon and the purse containing the small-caliber handgun was in the cart near the child. The 47-year-old Williamson, of Salley, was not immediately charged with a crime.
Speaking of the court not making us safe…
By Taxpayer
June 13, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
For some people in this world I don’t think there is such a thing as enough. I wonder how many people would consider 95 years to be enough. My grandmother enjoyed 99 years of life here in Georgia. Her body told her that it was enough one day right in the middle of her rather busy (especially for her age) schedule. Her heart just plain quit pumping and she dropped to the floor. I don’t think she even had a chance to think about whether she’d had enough yet. Some folks though I guess were just meant to go through life wanting more regardless of how much they have. I don’t know if such desires are acquired or if we are born with them already hard-wired into our minds. Now, as for that heat and humidity, I’m certainly willing to share, even with those corporatists — not that I’ve had enough or anything like that though.
By Pee'er Pressure
June 13, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
How about Scalia’s juvenile depiction of the consequences of his own supreme courts latest decision? (“Lives will be lost, the sky will fall, and wolves will eat children.”)
Who are these detainees? What is their background. How extensive is the sleeper cell network in America? How did Bush know that it was OBL so soon after 911? Did these guys rat him out? His homies sang like canaries only hours after the fact?
Holding detainees indefinitely is certainly not treating 911 as a criminal act requiring a criminal prosecution with the constitutional contraints on that prosecution.
Look, we have the criminal mastermind of 911, (he’s the guy with the perpetual bad hair day. At least give that man a habeus coiffurus).
I thought OBL was the mastermind. What role did OBL actually play in 911? I remember that we proved there was a briefing where OBL was shown the plans. How the heck did we get that info? Is every aspect of 911 classified? Why? We lost the battle of the trade towers. They fell. No big secret. 19 men stepped on a few planes and we organize our own destruction? Like automatons? Who really ordered the invasion of Iraq? We’re finding out that everyone knew about the sunni/shia civil war long before 911. Those right thinking, think tank advisers were screaming bloody murder in a vain attempt to dissuade the invasion of Iraq. Who really wanted those never-ending defense industry contracts to enrich the Saudi owned corporations that are marketing this war?
What is the average profile of the 911 sleeper cells guys? I thought only liberals dont like profiling. We have received no data on the 911 guys. We were told to go shopping.
Freedom: Do you want fries with that?
We have lost the constitutional touchstone that conjoined our triumvirate of patriotism, law, and freedom. We no longer think together as a country should think together. The bonds of our national unity got shredded by BushSpin. Look at the nonsense a child king made us believe. A child shall lead them.
Bush still has time to fulfill at least 100 more doomsday prophesies. Can we get him to say, “crusade”, one more time? (anyone remember that)? It’s a crusade! That’s like the Germans talking about a new holocaust that they simply have to perpetuate or the terrorists win. Yes, Bush is that big of a Hitlerian Contrarian Fairy.
By Copyleft
June 13, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
I think a better summing up of the Boumedine case would be: “The Constitution: it’s more than just a d*ed piece of paper.”
By zorrostra
June 13, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
This is neat. The founder of the Weather Channel smashes the Owl Gore and his global warming BS right into the wall. A really good excerpt is the last one:
If Al Gore and his global warming scare dictates the future policy of our governments, the current economic downturn could indeed become a recession, drift into a depression and our modern civilization could fall into an abyss. And it would largely be a direct result of the global warming frenzy.
It’s more than than though. These kooks that believe in this BS hate capitalism, hate success, and hate the very idea that some people have more than others. It’s nothing but good old fashioned liberal socialist dogma mixed in with classic communism, which of course the modern left not only in this nation but around the world, seems to comprise of more and more with every passing year and another government educated idiot that comes out of our public schools.
By The surge is working...?
June 13, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
Charles Krauthammer’s column today says the Iraqi army is doing all kinds of geat things all by itself. Weren’t we told we would “stand down when the Iraqis stood up”? Sounds like it’s time to bring the troops home, if the Iraqi army can keep the country safe on its own. If they can’t do without our presence, then we will be there 100 years. Nobody’s saying we will be in a shooting war for 100 years, Jimmy boy. This isn’t a shooting war. Talk about distorting someone’s position. You’ve distorted the position of 70% of this great country who disagree with you and our beloved leader and Johnny Tergersiverator on what whether we should still be in Iraq.
By Peter
June 13, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
Jim loves to be the funny guy……
The “Dishonest Part” in Iraq, is the way Bush lied to us about the costs in Iraq, and telling us we were the “LIBERATORS”.
Come on now Jim, gee it came out we could spend up to 2.7 Trillion because of Iraq, and now we cannot reach a security agreement with the Iraq government.
Why don’t you actually tell the TRUTH for a change JIM, and tell the American Public how expensive and messed up the entire situation over there is?
The “Dishonest Part” Jim, is the spin you continue to throw to the Public!
By ron
June 13, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
Good morning,Hiring contract workers for short term employment is the only way to go.Did it all the time in the private sector.Never had one that thought he was going to become permanent.
Case workers for the Family and Childen’s Services surely do earn their pay.Wouldn’t want to be one.
100 years to sovle the problem in Iraq might not be all that farfetched.It’s been going on a lot longer than that.
Dollar stores have socks?Get out of the way,Redneck.
By ralphie
June 13, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
Hey surge, just own up to it loser: you want us to fail in Iraq and Afghanistan. POS leftwingnut.
By Taxpayer
June 13, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Come on now. We all know that a surge works as long as you are surging — it’s by definition. After all, when you quit surging, you are doing something other than surging therefore the surge cannot be working unless that something else is a surge. Dang you, Clinton, for exposing what the definition of is is. Now everyone knows how it works.
By Chuck
June 13, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Dishonest?????
Come on, Jim. The biggest perpetrator of dishonesty in the war in Iraq has been the Bush Administration. It was their dishonesty that convinced Congress to authorize this war.
Oh, and has anyone read Justice Scalia’s response on the decision involving the Gitmo detainees? He begins it by telling us were at war with Islamic terrorists (really, no kidding, huh?). Then he quotes the casualty figures from the bombings in Lebanon, the USS Cole in Yeman, and our embassies in Africa before reminding us of how many people were killed at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and the fields of Western Pennsylvania on 9/11. What he doesn’t tell us is what any of that has to do with the Constitution and habeus corpus.
Those deaths were all tragedies, but that’s why we have rules of law to properly prosecute the offenders.
By BFKaJ
June 13, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
Dear Copyleft @ 9:08, I disagree. I think the leftist bumper sticker should read, “The Constitution: It’s to Die For.”
By BFKaJ
June 13, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Dear Chuck @ 9:52, Scalia flew over your head. “What he doesn’t tell us is what any of that has to do with the Constitution and habeus corpus.” That is exactly the point – the Constitution and habeas corpus have nothing to do with war, except in the disturbed jurisprudence of the left.
By TW
June 13, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
Ya’ know, it’s bad enough to hide underneath your daddy’s bed with a case of beer when it’s your turn to serve, like he did in the ’60s. But now, cowering with embarrassment, he is having his wife finish out his ‘presidency’??? Not that she’s not qualified, after all, she knows a lot about…baking cookies???
To a man with integrity, Impeachment would be a better option.
By political toenail clippings
June 13, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Ralphie, get your labels correct, pal. Wingnut=conservative; Moonbat=liberal; Wishy washy=everyone else
By Just Nasty and Mean
June 13, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
Morn’in Jim et al,
Senator Vincent Fort is almost better at sniffing out a TV camera than Jesse Jackson.
If I had my way, Fulton and Dekalb would DROP FUNDING for MARTA and let either the state or private enterprise to pick it up. If not—it simply fails.
MARTA is nothing more than another downtown Atlanta government bureaucracy intended to provide government jobs to friends and family for the favored few. Like Grady, crony ism and nepotism only begins to describe what is wrong with MARTA.
Who needs fake credentials for getting a big money job in Atlanta? Check out the over-rated superintendent heading up Clayton County schools! Doesn’t take a genius to see he’s an egomaniac disaster just waiting to happen.
Now Jim, I’ve got to challenge you on Chambliss. I have noticed he is conspicuously absent from many conservative forums since he voted for the dripping fat, pork-laden farm bill to support his fat-cat price support, acreage allotment south Georgia farm buddies. If I were him, I’d lay low waiting for this to blow over. Since there is NO WAY he can call himself a conservative Republican and vote for that pigged-out farm bill at a time of record high food prices.
By The surge is working...?
June 13, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
very good, Ralphie. Here’s your red meat. A good persuasive argument on your part. Rush would be proud.
By h
June 13, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
ralphie:
fine. Here’s a lefty giving a true statement about my feelings over “winning” in Iraq.
The only way to “win” at this point is to blow the whole d*mn country up and start fresh.
how’d you like that?
By Dave
June 13, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
Bill Campbell….when he gets out of jail, do we HAVE to let him come back to Atlanta? Total scum!
By Peter
June 13, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
Well is is QUITE apparent that Bush and his Ruling Party is so very out of touch with America…….
Bush nor FEMA has taken care of New Orleans, and Louisiana.
Today we get to read, that folks are living in tents still, the FEMA trailers cause cancer in young Children.
And what seems to be the last straw in the mishandling of the entire situation.
General Services Administration records show FEMA gave away 121 truckloads of material that had been declared surplus property and offered free to federal agencies and states.
Yes the Bush Administration has not a clue as how to be HUMANITARIAN.
To make all this worse, it is Americans, that he continues to screw, and NOT take care of.
Jim, tell us more about the “Dishonest”……. whom?
By Taxpayer
June 13, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
Don’t feed the animals — especially not red meat — for they’ll just keep coming back for more. They’ll break through your best defenses and surge forth until it, by definition, is an accomplishment. They are a relentless lot for they can do no wrong. Yes, they are the right and they have axes to grind. So don’t contradict unless you seek a conflict.
Dang black bears. They’ll swallow anything.
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
“The Iraqi phase of the War” sounds a lot like the failed “Vietnamization Phase of the War”. Anyone dumb enough to join the Chimps military deserves whatever he, she, or it gets….I find it amazing that stinking repukes like woodenhead have no problem with invading someone else’s country, murdering its people, screaming in outrage when they murder your people right back, and then hope to turn the job of murdering the locals over to the locals themselves….The vietnamese traitors who joined the american pig army in nam got re educated after the butt kicking woodenhead and his ilk suffered. Let us hope the Shiites do the same to the Iraqi traitors currently helping the chimp’s loser army….Republicans are all scum, treat them as such….
By Eric
June 13, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
WRONG ON ALL ACCOUNTS! To mandate health insurance amounts to Totalitarianism in the form of corporate-government collusion. I should have the right not to pay into a corrupt health care system. If I am denied access to emergency care, then so be it. But the state is wrong for mandating and fining citizens if they don’t believe in it, regardless of their ability to pay!
By KnowItAll
June 13, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
**George Washington @ 11:01
You are undoubtedly a bitter enemy of this country when you wish harm to America’s soldiers. You need to leave the USA. Go to some enemy country of America—-you’ll fit right in.
My God man. You are Jane Fonda incarnate.
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
Make me knowitall, make me, I would really like you and your ilk to try, just give me a flimsy legally defensible excuse…..come on scum, show me what a man you are….I will be waiting for you….chop chop chop
By ron
June 13, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
George Washington,Do you drink a lot in the mornings George?Stomach bothering you?Wife left?what is the problem,George?tell us and I’ll bet we can help.
By Craig
June 13, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this
The loon left wails about US run prisons, and now that more and more of Iraq is being turned over to Iraq …one of our goals the last time I checked…, now they are whining about turning prisons over to Iraq. Can’t you boneheads on the loon left make up your minds what you want regarding Iraq??? Just last week Iraqi security forces took over for good a city that had been held by insurgent terrorist for years, which of course was ignored by the majority of the media. Yes, let’s just withdraw from Iraq now!
By AmVet
June 13, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Must we go the entire summer with the partisans distorting…
If not so hypocritically hysterical this question would be downright pathetic…
The short answer is, as long as we have Jim Wooten’s as paid pundits, yes.
zorrostra,
You start out so strong and then go absolutely lame in the home stretch.
No training? No wind? No endurance?
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Which is invariably a sign that you’re on the losing end of any given argument…
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
You should know that I am one of the oil and commodity speculators running up the price of essentials….It gives me pleasure to inflict pain on you scum…an luvs it….and ah ain’t a gonna stop….so come on, do something about it….chickscum
By Abomi Nation
June 13, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
What gives? Georgia presumably is the beneficiary of Republican leadership —- and yet it’s projecting a deficit for the coming year after reporting a surplus.
The problem is so bad Governor Perdue says he may have to call a special session this summer.
By The good side
June 13, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
To Redneck convert you should have your own radio show!
Can someone please tell me when are we going to get Bin Laden? He started the terrorist campaign against America!
Wht are we still talking about IRAQ an occupation that should not have been authorized.
Normally someone declares war on in order for something to be called a war.
Oh I guess all the terrorist want to come to Iraq to fight against our boys huh! They must be real smart!
I cannot believe anyone in this blog can talk about winning an occupation.
We are paying the Sunni’s and the Shia not to fight to fight each other and our marines that is what we call winning!
WOW
By Copyleft
June 13, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
the Constitution and habeas corpus have nothing to do with war
And there’s why the neocons have lost their grip on America. They’re trying to operate outside the Constitution and apart from the freedoms, principles, and ideals that define what makes this country so great.
But I guess it’ll take ANOTHER landslide at the polls to really drive home the message.
By Termite Queen
June 13, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
Termite Queen communique to colony
Have successfully drilled through Gorge Washington’s wooden teeth and into cranium. Found strategic oil reserve.
By AmVet
June 13, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
I still think the guy is a little weasel but he is definitely improving.
And Ronnie the Just must be turning over in his grave.
Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, admits he was wrong in his support for the “War on Drugs” and that it’s now time to call the war off because it’s doing far more harm than good.
“I see no progress in stopping the widespread use of drugs,” Barr concedes. “I’ll even argue that America’s drug problem is larger today than it was when Richard Nixon first coined the phrase, ‘War on Drugs,’ in 1972.”
Barr, a former federal prosecutor and congressman from Georgia, was once one of the federal drug war’s most vocal proponents. In the past, he advocated complete federal prohibition of medical marijuana and, in 1998, successfully blocked implementation of Initiative 59 – the legalization of marijuana for medical treatment.
Barr later reversed his position on medical marijuana and now supports ending marijuana prohibition.
“America’s drug problem is only compounded by the vast amounts of money directed at this ongoing battle,” Barr says, noting that in 2005, more than $12 billion dollars was spent on federal drug enforcement efforts while another $30 billion was spent to imprison non-violent drug offenders.
Barr points to the huge incarceration tab in America, along with just a 30% interception rate of hard drugs, as reasons why the ‘War on Drugs’ has not succeeded.
“While it is clear the ‘War on Drugs’ has been a failure, it is not enough to simply acknowledge that reality,” Barr admits.
By findog
June 13, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
The surge must be working because the US will be losing the UN mandate to stay at the end of the year and the Iraqi Government does not want US to stay unless they are promoted to an equal. Having no insurance is only a problem if you are not qualified to self insure and then the medical community has to pass on the cost of your treatment to the rest of us. Georgia was established as a penal colony; something’s you just can’t change.
By Greg
June 13, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
Jim I am overwhelmingly in favor of your healthcare suggestions and, more particularly, of your health insurance plan. OBAMA’s Universal Health insurance PONSI SCHEME is a significant step in the direction of reduced health freedom and creeping socialism.
Unfortunately, the problem with your well-considered insurance plan is that it requires personal responsibility and grants individuals freedom of choice. You should realize that Leftists favor expanded health freedom only when a woman is seeking an abortion. All other Americans need not apply.
By TW
June 13, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
I we all got together and agreed to give Saxby $169,300/yr for his golf game, do you think we could get him to lay down this facade of a Georgia Senator?
By Get Real
June 13, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
You Southern Republicans are so out of touch on so many levels, its not even funny. The Georgia Educational System must be proud. The crazy old bat Wooten says, “Must we go the entire summer with the partisans distorting John McCain’s position on the Iraqi phase of the war?” Well what are you then Wooten, because I’ve never seen you write kindly of Democrats (FACT). And as far as winning in Iraq, exactly what is winning? The President nor McCain (you know, the guy Wooten tends to ignore as the Repub. nominee) have yet to state what winning is (FACT)? It’s always, the troops have to stay in Iraq. If its going too bad, the troops can’t leave. If its going SO well, the troops still can’t leave. Has Bush or McCain said ANYTHING about the Iraqi government in the last 2-3 months (FACT)? Where are they and what are they doing? No pressure whatsoever on them. This is a war that should’ve never been waged in the first place, so why keep troops there for 50 years? This isn’t the same as Japan or Germany where we fought in World Wars to protect the freedom of our allies and ourselves (FACT). Saddaam had nothing to do with 9/11, but instead of going after OBL (who we still haven’t found) we’re mired in Iraq. The greatest military in the world can’t find its biggest nemesis in 7 years (FACT). Whats wrong with that picture? Thats the bigger point that you simple-minded Republicans seem to forget. This was fought for George Bush’s legacy, and thats it.
‘Partisans’ like Wooten don’t see this, and he should know better because he fought in Vietnam and knows what the troops are going through. What have you got to say about Bush and McCain’s opposition to the new GI Bill Wooten (FACT)? Had it not been for that bill, you may not be where you are now. Seems like you and McCain will sell out those same troops that you USED to be, for the tired Republican party that can’t admit a mistake. America doesn’t need this kind of cowboy diplomacy, and if opposing it is being called a liberal than so be it.
You ignorant Repubs should realize it’s better to be weak and right, than strong and wrong. YOU PEOPLE VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE, AND WHAT HAS THAT GOTTEN YOU? You voted for the worst President in modern history (FACT, FACT, FACT), worse that Jimmy Carter who you so like to rile upon. Get over yourselves and your Ego. Look where Bush has led us. Gas is $4, whose fault is that? Everything is going up, while wages are stagnant. Wal-mart may be making a profit Wooten, but how much are they paying their employees? Some of you idiots need to get a clue, and realize the republicans only care about big-business. They want a FREE market society, but don’t want a woman to be FREE to make her own decisions with her body. That claim to be the party of lower taxes, but that only tax cuts given by this administration went to people making over $250K. Taxes actually went up on the middle class (FACT). The hypocrisy of it all and the fact you so-called patriots fall for it every time. They do nothing for you, yet you vote for them every election. Why is that? Because you like them, would want to have a beer with them? Yeah right.
Why is Obama viewed as an elitist, when his story is more relatable than McCain’s. He grew up with a single parent, got SCHOLARSHIPS to college, and made something of himself. YOU PEOPLE always want blacks and other minorities to ‘pull themselves up by their own bootstraps’, but can’t acknowledge nor respect when someone does that WITHOUT YOUR TAX DOLLARS. He’s not a muslim (FACT), he doesn’t talk to Malcolm X (FACT), he’s not married to a millionaire BEER heiress like Redneck Convert and McCain (FACT), and he’s not gonna sell this country to China like Bush already has. YOU PEOPLE’S VIEWS are so out of what America is supposed to be. How can you not respect the fact someone made something of themselves through hard work. Is it because he’s one of ‘THOSE PEOPLE’? YOU PEOPLE are the reason this country is in the mess its in, not liberals. YOU VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE!!!! BLAME YOURSELVES!!!! You claim to be so Godly, but your actions don’t show it. What bible are you reading?
By The surge is working...?
June 13, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
Really, Greg?? What facts do you base your final comment on?
By Get Real
June 13, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
You Southern Republicans are so out of touch on so many levels, its not even funny. The Georgia Educational System must be proud. The crazy old bat Wooten says, “Must we go the entire summer with the partisans distorting John McCain’s position on the Iraqi phase of the war?” Well what are you then Wooten, because I’ve never seen you write kindly of Democrats (FACT). And as far as winning in Iraq, exactly what is winning? The President nor McCain (you know, the guy Wooten tends to ignore as the Repub. nominee) have yet to state what winning is (FACT)? It’s always, the troops have to stay in Iraq. If its going too bad, the troops can’t leave. If its going SO well, the troops still can’t leave. Has Bush or McCain said ANYTHING about the Iraqi government in the last 2-3 months (FACT)? Where are they and what are they doing? No pressure whatsoever on them. This is a war that should’ve never been waged in the first place, so why keep troops there for 50 years? This isn’t the same as Japan or Germany where we fought in World Wars to protect the freedom of our allies and ourselves (FACT). Saddaam had nothing to do with 9/11, but instead of going after OBL (who we still haven’t found) we’re mired in Iraq. The greatest military in the world can’t find its biggest nemesis in 7 years (FACT). Whats wrong with that picture? Thats the bigger point that you simple-minded Republicans seem to forget. This was fought for George Bush’s legacy, and thats it.
‘Partisans’ like Wooten don’t see this, and he should know better because he fought in Vietnam and knows what the troops are going through. What have you got to say about Bush and McCain’s opposition to the new GI Bill Wooten (FACT)? Had it not been for that bill, you may not be where you are now. Seems like you and McCain will sell out those same troops that you USED to be, for the tired Republican party that can’t admit a mistake. America doesn’t need this kind of cowboy diplomacy, and if opposing it is being called a liberal than so be it.
You ignorant Repubs should realize it’s better to be weak and right, than strong and wrong. YOU PEOPLE VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE, AND WHAT HAS THAT GOTTEN YOU? You voted for the worst President in modern history (FACT, FACT, FACT), worse that Jimmy Carter who you so like to rile upon. Get over yourselves and your Ego. Look where Bush has led us. Gas is $4, whose fault is that? Everything is going up, while wages are stagnant. Wal-mart may be making a profit Wooten, but how much are they paying their employees? Some of you idiots need to get a clue, and realize the republicans only care about big-business. They want a FREE market society, but don’t want a woman to be FREE to make her own decisions with her body. That claim to be the party of lower taxes, but that only tax cuts given by this administration went to people making over $250K. Taxes actually went up on the middle class (FACT). The hypocrisy of it all and the fact you so-called patriots fall for it every time. They do nothing for you, yet you vote for them every election. Why is that? Because you like them, would want to have a beer with them? Yeah right.
Why is Obama viewed as an elitist, when his story is more relatable than McCain’s. He grew up with a single parent, got SCHOLARSHIPS to college, and made something of himself. YOU PEOPLE always want blacks and other minorities to ‘pull themselves up by their own bootstraps’, but can’t acknowledge nor respect when someone does that WITHOUT YOUR TAX DOLLARS. He’s not a muslim (FACT), he doesn’t talk to Malcolm X (FACT), he’s not married to a millionaire BEER heiress like Redneck Convert and McCain (FACT), and he’s not gonna sell this country to China like Bush already has. YOU PEOPLE’S VIEWS are so out of what America is supposed to be. How can you not respect the fact someone made something of themselves through hard work. Is it because he’s one of ‘THOSE PEOPLE’? YOU PEOPLE are the reason this country is in the mess its in, not liberals. YOU VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE!!!! BLAME YOURSELVES!!!! You claim to be so Godly, but your actions don’t show it. What bible are you reading?
By deegee
June 13, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
I wonder what Wooten imagines that MARTA fills up their buses’ gas tanks with? I wonder if Wooten imagines that the trains run on pedal power? I wonder if Wooten imagines that the economic downturn could have a negative effect on sales tax revenue flowing to MARTA? Sometimes I just wonder.
By AmVet
June 13, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
TW, I, for one, would gladly contribute to that fund!
But alas as we live in the Moron Belt, the “faithful” here would simply replace him with another cretinous “conservative” coward I suppose…
By Maniac is accurate
June 13, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
There, there, Get Real. Feel better?
By TW
June 13, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
Thank you Amvet!
I just stood out in front of the Kroger in Cherokee County for the past hour with my plea and couldn’t find one person who even knew who he was… After I explained, they were willing to throw in some extra money to fund his stock of White House knee pads…
By Pari Passou
June 13, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
Sergei, the surge protector,
Wooten’s health insurance plan: offers market-based solutions for America’s health system by promoting a more competitive health insurance market, expanding Health Savings Accounts and the use of high-deductible health insurance policies.
All of the above lead to a SUSTAINABLE system of health care and expanded choice for Americans. OBAMA does not favor free market solutions for the U.S. healthcare system. His approach would favor a communist-style, universal healthcare plan for the country.
Thanks, but no thanks.
As my buddy Gorge would say, “LONG LIVE FREEDOM!!!”
By TW
June 13, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Being that the Iraqi political process is still below the level of local high school student government, all the ‘surge’ effectively did was show that four marines are better than two - something most of us already knew.
Somebody please make sure ‘w’ knows the soldiers he is ‘playing’ with are not the little plastic green ones that come in bags of fifty at the Wal-mart…
By h
June 13, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
Get real @ 12:40:
THANK YOU!!!!!
By AmVet
June 13, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
Yep good old Suxtobeus Chambless.
The very poster boy of the abysmal failures of the GOP’s Southern Strategy.
Reactionary faux conservatives peddling lies and faketriotism to the “reformed” bigots of Dixie who swallow it hook, line and sinker like large mouth bass.
Mark my words, though the GOP will get trounced once again all over the country this November, they will still do very well in intellectual backwaters like Georgia, Utah and North Dakota.
They can have those places.
As long as they don’t control either coast and therefore most of the culture, creativity and intellect in this country, they and their neo-conservatism are (finally!) essentially irrelevant…
By Me
June 13, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
If you think this is the Moron Belt take your silly a* somewhere else.
By Abomi Nation
June 13, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
Just noticed Gallup came out with a new poll on party identification. Although I’m not a Republican I think its totally bogus. Here’s what Gallup found:
37% now claim to be a Democrat.
34% now claim to be an independent.
28% now claim to be a Republican.
This is probably more accurate:
37% are Democrat.
30% are independent.
28% are Republican
4% are too embarrassed to admit they are Republican so they claim to be independent.
By Now ain't that sumthin'
June 13, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
Yes, Redneck should have his own show. Why should only the people on this blog have to listen to this moron? It could be called “Listen to the racist Pig Nut Sweat Scum Bag from 10 to 2”!
By AmVet
June 13, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
That didn’t take long. Talk about proving my point!
Did your dad have an “America - Love it or Leave it” bumper sticker?
If the foo sh!ts…
By Now ain't that sumthin'
June 13, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
Yes, Redneck should have his own show. Why should only the people on this blog have to listen to this moron? It could be called “Listen to the racist Pig Nut Sweat Scum Bag from 10 to 2”!
By Groundhog McGroundhogerson
June 13, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Who is this Andy people refer to on this blog? Whenever someone references regulars, they always throw in the name Andy, yet I don’t think I’ve ever seen that screen name. What gives?
By Now ain't that sumthin'
June 13, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Yes, Redneck should have his own show. Why should only the people on this blog have to listen to this moron? It could be called “Listen to the racist Pig Nut Sweat Scum Bag from 10 to 2”!
By h
June 13, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
to Now ain’t that sumthin’:
Um, If I send you money, will you please buy a clue?
By the way - posting your opinion 3 times doesn’t make it any more right or relevent.
By TW
June 13, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this
Why not leave?
Simple. I don’t like TV and if I leave Georgia I’ll have to start watching the Comedy Channel to satisfy my liberal sense of humor…
Speaking of which - seen the faces on the rednecks when they fill up their pick-ups nowadays? Priceless.
Maybe we could get Saxby to introduce legislation to make the soldiers pay for our gas?
By jimbo
June 13, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this
We can’t leave Iraq just yet. Their military is still not the tops and we still provide a lot of the back up and support they require to get the job done. If we leave they’ll lose every bit of the progress that has been made there.. and there is progress despite what you read here. This war was a mistake, most of us get that and we can’t begin, as civilians, to fully grasp the incredible failures of the CPA in Iraq, but leaving now only ensures that we send in more troops down the line to try to sort this mess out.
We definitely can’t abandon Afghanistan. That’s one of the places we should actually be fighting. That Afghans deserve some semblance of peace and prosperity without taliban interference.
By @@
June 13, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
Hi’ya Jim. It’s been a while since I attended your Free-for-Fun Friday.
Could they just take away the humidity and leave the heat Jim? I swear….ironing out the kinks in my hair, and washing my bandanas after my morning exercise has resulted in a brittle loss of my pool time.
Vincent holding the Fort for more? Reminds me of a comment made by one of Clayton County’s “esteemed” B.O.E. members when she was asked to step down.
“When the voters find me another job, I will.” I kid you not Jim! That’s what the woman said!!!!! With her resume of ineptness on our behalf, is it any wonder she needs help finding a job. Lois waits for Superman to rescue her.
Marta’s in debt? What else is new? Where’s the surplus for that “rainy day” commute? Take a hike!
Now that’s funny Jim. Contract workers were hired to instruct riders how to pay to be taken for a ride by the Metro? Should’a been a breeze. The metro’s been doing it to ‘em for years.
Massachusetts healthcare? Wasn’t that the plan put in place by Mitt? Just goes to show how naive democratic voters can be…implement a plan constructed to help those in need, and all of a sudden, everyone will be. The price goes up; the quality goes down.
Few people will acknowledge it, but Wal-Mart has put forth some innovative ideas in healthcare. Their walk-in clinics and $4.00 prescriptions have been a proven success as well.
Kirk Wright’s conviction just proves that while Aunt Sophie’s Peanut Brittle may have migrated, “the turnips” still fall from the Atlanta’s produce trucks.
Does a Democrat even know what the word “noble” means? Hardly! Aaaahhhhh, but libertarianism? It’s part of a human’s DNA. That’s why I’ve come to realize that liberals are some form of human mutant.
Maybe McCain should start his own Don’t Smear Me Bro’ website. Obumbler did!
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
Hey Dirtball, they are looking for you in your home village, better run hag: Deadly hunt for ‘witches’ haunts Kenya villagers
KEGOGI VILLAGE, Kenya (CNN) — It may be difficult for modern-day Western cultures to fathom, but in Western Kenya, beliefs in ghosts and witches are very real. And sometimes they have deadly consequences.
In late May, news outlets in Kenya told the story of 15 people, mostly elderly women, who were murdered in a witch hunt near the town of Kisii. The killings shocked the nation.
Villagers said more than 100 people gathered machetes and knives and stormed the village of Kegogi after midnight.
“They started banging on the doors, they broke into the house and then they killed our grandmother inside,” says Justus Bosire. “The mob was screaming and we panicked. We ran away and they came to our house and burned it to the ground.”
When Bosire returned to his grandmother’s house, he found her dead on the floor in a bed of embers. His father is missing.
“They claim that my grandmother and father were practicing witches,” Bosire says. Watch Bosire describe her die »
Belief in witchcraft is strong in this part of Kenya. A few days before the incident, a group of schoolchildren reportedly found a book in their school that listed all the people in the community who would soon die and the witches who would be responsible. iReport.com: Share your stories, videos from Africa
For Bosire and his family, the killings are hard to believe. His grandmother, Peris, was the matriarch of the family. She was 86 but still actively farmed and dispensed invaluable advice to the family.
Up the road from Bosire’s house lives Paul Magoma. “I believe there is witchcraft and the witches kill,” Magoma says while building a chapel. His fellow workers concur: Witches exist and can put spells on people.
Others are skeptical the slain women were witches. At the top of a hill outside Kisii, Joseph Omache practices his craft. Omache is a shaman, or traditional healer. He throws bones and communes with ancestors to help heal physical and spiritual ailments.
“It is very painful when somebody kills another person in the name of witchcraft,” he says. “Why couldn’t they come to me so that I can perform my herbal potion to identify the real witch so that I can go ahead now to trap him and then we can see what to do?”
Omache says that in his 10 years of studies and decades of practicing, he has never come across a witch.
“These are vendettas. It is not that people really bewitched somebody,” he says, adding he believes that witch hunts are really about people expressing hatred and coming up with an excuse to hurt someone.
The area is one of the most populated rural areas in Kenya. Over the years, farming plots have been divided and subdivided. Omache and others say they believe witch hunts are about greed and vendettas in a place where almost everyone struggles to survive.
Whatever the reason, Bosire and his family must live with the consequences. Due to local taboo, they will never live in his grandmother’s house. The doors are boarded, her belongings still lie charred on the floor. The family fears further attacks.
“We are fearing for our lives,” Bosire says. “I knew my grandmother since I was a young child and I have never seen evidence of her being a witch.”
WE NEED A WITCH HUNT HERE IN AMERIKA FOR THE HAGS WHO VOTED FOR THE CHIMP IN 2000 AND AGAIN IN 2004: BURN EM ALL….
By poofdaddy lib
June 13, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
WE NEED A WITCH HUNT HERE IN AMERIKA FOR THE HAGS WHO VOTED FOR THE CHIMP IN 2000 AND AGAIN IN 2004: BURN EM ALL….
Come and get us, Koward. We’ll be waiting with “open arms” so to speak. ANY time you are ready. Put up or shut up, liberal POS.
By Jim Wooten
June 13, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Welcome back, @@. Without the humidity, we’d be Phoenix. It’s Atlanta.
Don’tSmearMeBro.com. Funny.
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
poofdaddy lib - I have a lot of firewood just waiting for the right moment…..burn witch burn
By O-dingbat
June 13, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
Then there is also Obama’s troubling support for the Kenyan opposition leader — and his cousin — Raila Odinga, the leader of the violent uprising a few months ago against the newly elected Kenyan government and who signed a memorandum of understanding with Kenyan Muslims to turn Kenya into an Islamic state governed by sharia law. At the time, the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya released a statement in which church leaders said Odinga comes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the law for all Kenyans.
As the Atlas Shrugs site reported, Obama actually went to Kenya in 2006 and spoke at rallies in support of Odinga, causing the Kenyan government to denounce him as “Raila’s stooge”. Why was Obama supporting such a person? Why has no-one bothered to find out?
By Dave
June 13, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
Peter - the government is not supposed to be you caretaker. Most folks get off the butt, and take care of themselves. If “my” money is going to be used to take care of you and those like you, who can’t, no won’t, take care of themselves, it should be my choice, not yours.
By Eric
June 13, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
McKlan in ‘08
God help us all. We will all be sorry.
By I feel your payne
June 13, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
“What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance,” declared Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Chicago.
HAHAHAHA!!! So now Obambi is the Second Coming! Oh wait, we already knew that from a lib media-produced candidate.
Leave it to a JACKSON to say something so blasphemous. Why is it, by the way, that “Reverends” like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are never considered a part of “Christian Fundamentalism” by our cave-dwelling DNC lib media?
By Dave
June 13, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
George Washington - you’re ond sick puppy. I’ve got cure though, go find a bar somewhere soldiers, or better yet marines, are having a few, and preform your little rant for them. I promise, that will cure you.
By h
June 13, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
to I feel your payne:
I don’t consider Jackson and Sharpton as “Christian Fundamentalists” because I consider them Whack-jobs. But then again, Robertson and Falwell are Whack-jobs too.
And are you really suprised Jackson would say that? And writing another chapter in the bible for it, would this be after revelation, or before revelation as the “trigger”?
By Stuff It
June 13, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this
I feel your payne @ 2:29 you’re an idiot. Yes it is an extraordinary accomplishment considering how people like yourself have treated persons of other races since this great country was founded. Judging W’s tenure, at least we know that all white men aren’t fit for the Presidency!
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
Dave, your pals the maaarrrriiinneees are busying killing puppies….how very brave of them…only the losers from my high school class became marines, and most of those died in nam…made the world a slighly more intelligent place….but I see the inbreeding has produced another bumper crop of idiots….well at least we have Iraq to imporve the bloodlines…..
By JOYCE
June 13, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
Somebody give “George Washington” a good dose of castor oil, but you had better jump out of the way and run when you do!!!!!!
By h
June 13, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
to George Washington -
My grandfather was a marine and a damn fine man. Very intelligent. And no he did not kill puppies. He won the Purple Heart for his injuries in Korea and is now in Arlington National Cemetery. So watch it!
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
h, make me, bring it on, boy….Korea, another war of amerikan aggression…gramps got what he deserved….
By h
June 13, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
GW - #1, Chick. not boy.
2 - No where did I say i agreed with the idea of Korea. So you can stuff that line. 3 - I am against this war in Iraq as well. And i think those that blindy sit there and tell me it preserves our freedom are full of sh*t. Or seriously on crack. However, never, EVER, do I believe those soldiers that die every day “get what they deserve.” No as a matter of fact they don’t. They DESERVE the chance to live a long happy life in a manner they choose, not being shot at by some damn idiot, or blown up by a bomb becuase our warmongering president wanted to go play war and try to take over the world. Those soldiers got shafted. Period.In case you forgot, its the congress and president who declare war NOT THE SOLDIERS. In my opinion, Bush is the one that DESERVES to get shot at.
So there. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
It was you chick shhiitte women who voted the chimp back into office in 2004, cause you were scared of the big bad arabs….so don’t go whining to me about gramps….he may have been your pal, but to the people in korea he murdered in the name of amerika, he was just the enemy…
By Taxpayer
June 13, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
George needs to get on this blog on the weekends when that character that uses all the {{{{}}}} gets on. They could have a steel cage keyboard match. I’d pay my ISP to watch that one. Oh wait. I already pay my ISP. I’d skip TV for that one. Oh wait. I already skip TV. I’ll think of something to skip because I just know it would be worth it.
By Peter
June 13, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
Hey Dave…..By Dave
June 13, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
Peter - the government is not supposed to be you caretaker. Most folks get off the butt, and take care of themselves. If “my” money is going to be used to take care of you and those like you, who can’t, no won’t, take care of themselves, it should be my choice, not yours.
I have had my own business since 1987….. and probably pay more in taxes than a typical American makes a year.
Go talk with someone else about taking care of whom ever, you don’t have a clue about me!
I guess you probably think because you are Republican, it is OK little kids get to live in FEMA Trailer that cause them to get Cancer!
Good job Dave, you are another GREAT humanitarian, just like George Bush!
By h
June 13, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
Whoa - Now you have really gone too far. I NEVER, EVER voted for that brain-dead A** Clown. And I am not scared of the Arabs at all. I think they have more to fear from the maniacs in the US then we do from them.
I think it was moralistically-challenged, pathetic, yahoo’s like you that got that grabage elected again.
By VanSickler
June 13, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
Jim:
Those who work for any state child protective services has got to have the toughest job. See those in Texas, Georgia, and all the other states. My daughter is one of them.
By Pee'er Pressure
June 13, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Obama 08: A Man. An American. A President.
By CVS Pharmacy
June 13, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this
George WashMyNuts
Your MAGNUM-sized order of Zyprexa has been filled & waiting for you since 1776.
Psychotic episodes may return so come get your dope, dope.
By h
June 13, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
CVS Pharmacy…
That was Awesome!
By Dusty
June 13, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
Well, good to see that Jim Wooten and a few others have something decent to say. The rest of you name-callers, run down the country kids, Bush bashers, USA haters that won’t leave, and several that think they are humorous (which is the biggest joke of all) please gently press the “off” key and shut it down. There. Thank you.
I am already ANGRY. I came home and found my mailbox smashed, the post in pieces and the rest scattered across my front yard by retreating tire tracks. Friday the thirteenth strikes with a vengence. Yep, must have been a LIBERAL. They don’t know where they are going..( just thought I’d throw that in to set off the groaners.)
Also, I am SAD. Just read about Tim Russet dying at work with a heart attack. I didn’t watch him much but he was well known, hard working and loved his family and old Dad. Always sad to see someone doing the best job they can in this world and leave it so suddenly. My sympathy to his family and friends.
By Daryl Dawkins
June 13, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
It was PoFo what done it Dusty. I seed ‘im do it. I’ll testify to it.
By tom ga hunter
June 13, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
Saxby’s Farm rip off bill has basically driven all Candy manufacture to Canada or Mexico. Small companies simply can’t be competative paying twice the world price for sugar. Thank you Saxby for ripping taxpayers off $3,300,000,000 for sugar subsities, at least we are borrowing the money from the Arabs so they will eventually forclose on our childeren.
By Bill
June 13, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
RIP Tim. Now that is horrible news. I’m saddened for his loss, but I’m also saddened for our loss. Our loss as Americans because we probably never again will have a truly fair and balanced representative from the media who will ask tough questions of both party presidential candidates during the debates. Knowing NBC, they’ll give us that liberal kook Keith Olberman.
“Good job Dave, you are another GREAT humanitarian, just like George Bush!” by Peter
And Peter, you are just another GREAT Marxist, just like Obama!
By @@
June 13, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this
Thanks for the welcome back Jim.
Well, it’s Friday and George Washington experiences a manic episode.
Could it be?
A little game of “HAG” tag.
You’re it Sweetie.
By h
June 13, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this
Sorry to hear about your mailbox Dusty. I think George Washington did it.
By Dusty
June 13, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this
Dear D D @5:02
I suspected it was PoFo who murdered my mail box. Would you check his red car and see if it has new white stipes on the right front fender? Or some nice jagged plastic pieces imbeded in his right front tire? I will give all facts to TV’s CSI as they always solve every case.
By Dusty
June 13, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
Dear h,5:07
Would you please check and see if George Washington now has white plastic teeth instead of wooden ones? I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
By Peter
June 13, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Hey Bill…….tell me about the 2.7 trillion dollar WAR being “conservative”, and truly necessary!
Tell me about how Bush loves America, when he places homeless victims in Cancer causing FEMA Housing?
Tell me Dusty why you continue to call Americans that don’t AGREE with George BUSH Non American?
I guess you would have been right there supporting Hitler as well, why because he was ruling I guess!
America was founded by all the different ethnic groups across the world…….. WE Americans have a right to our own opinion, and Freedom of Speech…..I know the Republicans are probably against that.
Thus we have George Bush breaking laws, yet still being followed like some two bit God!
Get a clue WRONGS, America has been bilked by Bush and his cronies!
By Pee'er Pressure
June 13, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
Oh no I dint….Honest, it weren’t moi…..I coulnd’t, I was out of town…..Alright! I admit it! I did it! I did it and I’m glad! And I’d do it again.
Dusty gets too much mail. I’m the one who deserves mail, not her. I should get a hundred pieces of mail a day, no a thousand pieces, ten thousand, until I hoard all the mail. And I woulda got away with it too, if it hadn’t been for Dusty and @@, those snail mail failures!
By Dusty
June 13, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
Dearest 5:27 also called Po’ Pofo..
Now that you have confessed before the whole crowd here (all three of us), CSI is on their way. They said you were a tough toadie twit of long standing twittery.
I’ll send a postcard to you at San Quentin, Guantanamo or Alcatraz. I think the food is better at Guantanamo although the “folks” there will soon be in the USA. Liberals want those nice terrorists to move in with us citizens. Habeus corpus delirium! I think one terrorist driver is already here, running down my mailbox.
By George Washington
June 13, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
The sudden death of Tim Russert is proof positive that Hillary Clintax is a WITCH…Quick, burn her at the stake, burn witch burn, HAG
By George Washington
June 14, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this
If I had smashed your mailbox Hag, I would have made good and sure you were standing in front of it…..burn witch burn
By JD
June 14, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
When will you “everyday bozos” realize there is only ONE political party in the US?
Two factions of one party with each scratching the other’s back at any opportunity.
The only solution is to vote each and every Member of Congress OUT OF OFFICE. Start over with non-affiliated candidates, limit campaign spending to $1,000 and then vote the winners out in the next election.
Even little Marxists like Peter the Putz and George Wash… could run for office, or even better just run down the middle of I-85 at midnight.
By Peter
June 14, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Hey JD it is quite obvious you know all, the proof is your very enlightened spew.
Perhaps one of your children, or family member will get run over soon, as a result of your Karmic Genius.
I am sure your idea of throwing EVERY MEMBER of Congress out of office is Exactly what America needs.
Congratulations we are now on our way to a better America. Thank you !
By JD
June 14, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
Peter the Putz
You are welcome.
I would like to see a few Members stay but if losing them is required to rid us of the rest of the crooks then they have to go.
To wish harm on a person’s family because of your personal dislike of them is just another indication of your stunted, Marxist, self-absorbed, ignorant, anti-American, liberal nonsense.
I asked YOU to run down the middle of I-85 because you have nothing of substance to offer. Just liberal pablum designed to bring the demise of the greatest country in the Earth’s history.
Peter, as your hero Barack the Muslim has said, “We live in the greatest country - help me change it”, you espouse dishonesty and follow blindly the biggest internal threat to this country ever. Barack Hussein Obama.
A taxpayer voting for a Democrat is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders. Since you claim to be a taxpayer why not type a few “clucks” for us Peter? Oh my fault, all you do is cluck.
By Peter
June 14, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this
OK JD something of real substance would be nice…….. not just the mindless name calling that corresponds to the gray mass of emptiness working over time.
Yes I am really concerned that my dissatisfaction with Bush and his 2.7 Trillion dollar Lie, will take down the entire country!
By the way where is Bin Laden?
Mr Karmic Genius?
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
June 14, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
JD, numbnuts, the Republicans have completely run this nation into bankruptcy, financially and morally. And you want more of the same? The day of the Republican is over! You, Dusty and all the other pond scum on here better get accustomed to it. The war of oppression in Iraq will be ended and the liar who started it will be brought to justice!
By george
June 14, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
MARTA would have run a deficit the previous 2 years, but the legislature changed the funding formula from a 50/50 operations/capital split to 55/45. The legislature did not renew it for this year, so deficit was back.