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Commuter ‘pilot project’ to Lovejoy off the rails
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eons ago, before “the Bridge to Nowhere” aroused the nation to the outlandish waste represented by congressonal earmarks — those unexamined pork barrel projects that individual politicians dump onto taxpayers — commuter rail to Lovejoy was born.
It came about not because anybody had examined the transportation or congestion-relief value of a slow train that would traverse the 26 miles from Atlanta to Lovejoy. It came about because somebody prevailed on former U.S. Rep. Mac Collins, who represented the area, to earmark $87 million of the transportation money otherwise coming to Georgia, to create the Lovejoy line.
More than a decade later, Gov. Sonny Perdue drank the Kool-Aid. Reasoning that the money’s just setting there, and gas is $4 a gallon, he made a decision that is most uncharacteristic of a governor whose legacy will be a determined effort to make Georgia the best-managed state in the nation. Last week he announced support for a Lovejoy line extended to Griffin. It will be, he says, a pilot project.
Perdue thus takes the position that was being forced on him by former Secretary of State Cathy Cox when she was mounting her own gubernatorial campaign two years ago. Reacting to language inserted in a state budget “at the 11th hour that threatens the Lovejoy commuter rail project,” she criticized “Gov. Sonny Perdue and state lawmakers” for a decision that “potentially” left “millions in federal transportation funding on the table. …” Her Democratic colleagues lamented, too, that failure to spend the money would “make it more difficult to secure federal funding” in the future.
Bottom line: Money exists. Spend it. That’s not Sonny.
Besides, state auditors who were examining the advocacy-group-driven efforts to sell commuter rail noted that $21.1 million had been spent on studies of 14 proposed lines in the 10 years ending in 2006 and none had been built. While they were not specificially asked to comment on the Atlanta-Lovejoy line, they noted the risks anyway. Wrote the auditors:
“We found the project may cost more than the estimated $108 million; the state may be liable for a portion of the federal investment in the project (about $87 million) if the line is terminated prior to being in operation for 20 years; and the state may be liable for covering any operating shortfall.”
Of the $108 million, almost half would be spend on upgrades to track taxpayers don’t own, with most of the remainder going to rail stations.
Ridership projections from 2004 were for 1,800 riders a day, with annual operating costs of $7 million. The 26-mile trip from Lovejoy to Atlanta would take 46 minutes and cost $5.60.
Taking commuter rail on to Macon — the ultimate goal of rail supporters — was projected in 2002 to cost somewhere between $290 million and $2.3 billion, with annual operating costs of $22.6 million.
Perdue vowed four years ago that all proposed transportation remedies, commuter rail included, would be subjected to cost-benefit analyis and compared on cost effectiveness to other options for lifting metro Atlanta out of gridlock. “What we’ve begun to do is make transportation policy based on facts. Congestion can be measured. What we’re doing is measuring where the greatest needs are, taking the resources that we have, and looking for the best solutions to those needs.”
He did not then rule out commuter rail but insisted that “we’ve got to be sure that it moves people in a way that they will adopt and ride — and that means it generally has to be quicker, more pleasant and go where people want to go. …”
Two points: Fiscal conservatives don’t spend money just because an earmark put it there. And money spent on the wrong solution worsens congestion.
Commuter rail south is a money-sucking white elephant. That it will remain, unless the state takes other steps, such as moving state agencies and departments out of Atlanta to points south, as the Department of Corrections is doing in relocating to Forsyth. Moving employees from Atlanta will help cure traffic congestion here — and help spread jobs to the south.
There has to be more than a plan for commuter rail. There has to be a plan for commuter rail to attract riders.
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By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
I like the libs, they whine and moan when you don’t talk, but if you do choose to talk and it takes more than a few days to work things out, then the libs take advantage to whine and moan about you being “deadlocked:”
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared Friday that talks with the U.S. on a new security agreement were deadlocked, as Sunni and Shiite preachers spoke out against the deal that would enable U.S. troops to remain in Iraq after year’s end, blah, blah, blah, where’s Mookie when you need him, blah, blah, blah, under his bed in Iran, blah, blah, blah-Urinal/PMS
All this liberal blubbering but a few wormy Urinal/DNC paragraphs later, inside of an item that is solely a vehicle to whine about Iraq’s financial situation:
But he said Iraq’s troops still fall “short of being able to independently assume full responsibility.” He also asked the council for help with Iraq’s foreign debts, saying the country is “burdened by the heavy legacy of debt incurred by the previous regime.”
Gosh, so they know we can’t leave yet.
And check out this little jewel:
Failure to strike a deal would be a major setback for President Bush ahead of the November presidential election and at a time when Democrats are calling for an end to the unpopular war.-Urinal/PMS
My goodness, it isn’t like there is the future of a country and it’s 25 million citizens involved here, the goony liberal hacks at the AJC can only frame this in context to how it effects their mindless political power grabs.
Seriously, in all of their excitement from daydreaming of United States failure in Iraq, now they are blurting out their best case scenarios that would emerge for them from the ruins of an American disaster.
It’s like a big fat juicy plump Katrina, eh, Urinal?
They couldn’t care less about the Iraqis, the defeat of al Qaeda or the success of America and they are telling us, right to our faces-
Failure to strike a deal would be a major setback for President Bush ahead of the November presidential election-Urinal/POS
The libs would rather lose the war then they would the election.
Think about it, if the libs would trash America’s success in the war on terror so that it helps them politically, what else would they destroy on their idiotic march to total power?
The U.S. economy?
How many whiny stories have they written about an economy that has yet to experience negative growth and has an unemployment rate same as Bill Klinton did, a rate that the pinko media used to call full employment?
Would they raise energy prices with their bans on domestic production, their gluttonous tax grabs and mindless regulations, so that they can have a campaign issue to “blame” on the Republicans?
Ask yourself; do you think the dhimmokrats care more about your ability to cheaply fuel your automobile or their poll numbers?
For instance:
The economic slowdown this year is merely a “warm-up” for a recession in 2009 and 2010 that will rival the early 1980s, economist Brian Beaulieu said Friday.-Urinal/PMS
Sick.
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The Urinal/DNC Management has a very special announcement to make, we are not, I say again, we are not in the bag for thee cocaine using, terrorist loving, America hating radical B.Hussein Obama, so sayeth us:
The AJC received nearly 100 calls and e-mails questioning the fairness of running a special section on B. Hussein Obambi last Sunday, despite several mentions in our print edition that copies of a special section on McCain were available by contacting our newsroom customer care team.
But this doesn’t mean the AJC will avoid running stories critical of B. Hussein.
Oh, ppuuuhhhhhllleeezzzee.
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What?
Downtown Atlanta is getting some stars and stripes to go with its beluga whales and Coca-Cola. The National Museum of Patriotism —- which salutes everything America from the founding fathers to heroes who stepped up after the Sept. 11 attacks —- is moving this fall to the ground floor of the Hilton Garden Inn across from the Georgia Aquarium.
What?
So when do the protests begin, candy as-ses?
This is enough to make a grown man cry with tears of laughter, all of the sicknesses and depravities that the Urinal/PMS and their legions of surrender monkey koward liberals hold closest to their hearts, their beloved hatred of all things American, and now they are getting a monument to the exceptionalism of the United States shoved right down their throats.
Talk about baiting the morons, how long before you think these vermin emerge from their ratholes to spray paint the windows, hahaha?
This ought to be a constant source of entertainment.
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The “right” complains that academicians, college professors and journalists are liberals. In other words, the most intelligent people reject what today passes as conservatism. Imagine that!-Urinal/PMS Vent section
Yeah, Nero was thought to be “smart” in his day too.
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Kalifornia is now exporting perverts:
Heterosexual couples were rushing to get married in conservative Kern County, Calif., which plans to halt all civil wedding ceremonies starting Tuesday, when the state Supreme Court’s order legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. After that, Kern will issue new gender-neutral marriage licenses as required by law. But couples will have to go somewhere else for the ceremony,- Urinal/DNC
Get the F out of here, you freaks,
Gosh, so some counties in Kalifornia don’t agree with the Thee Glorious Rulings Of Thee Supreme Kangaroo Court, Open Wide? Didn’t they get a chance to vote on it, you know, this being a democracy and all that?
By Taxpayer
June 14, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
Good morning , Jim.
You are certainly on target on this one. The nerve of Governor Perdue — a Republican trying to a)carry on that fine tradition of pork-barrel spending, b)prove that there is more than one “nowhere” on this planet to build something to, c)cut in line in front of the PhD that Perdue seemingly wanted to study the transportation issues and to make recommendations, etc. Where will it all end? Where? Where? Lovejoy. No. Griffin. No. Macon. No. Where! I wonder. Do you have any Aces? No. Go Fish.
By Rufus
June 14, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this
“You are certainly on target on this one. The nerve of Governor Perdue — a Republican trying to… Go Fish.”
So what’s your point PoFO? You sit here day in and day out, week after week, month after month, year after year, and only complain about two things:
1) What Jim posts on HIS 2”x2” piece of real estate in the Atlanta Liberal Communist Manefesto.
2) What OTHERS post who do not share your warped liberal socialist (Moderate MY AS-S) ideology.
By SURBAN OVERLORD
June 14, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Looks like your blog, before lunch, is going to be fully of nonsense from 13-year olds calling each other names like “libs” and “repthuglicons.”
At least your out of town buddy windbags like the Reason Foundation and your boyfriend Grover Norquist will send you some flowers.
I would agree with you IF the whole “fact-based” and “rational” state investment decision making process WAS APPLIED TO EVERYONE! This “business case” justification for spending money only applies to people Sonny does not like - like metro Atlanta.
Wooten - I could regain respect for your word if you did NOT have different standards for different people. What is the “business case” for Sonny’s fancy horse barn in Houston County? What is the “business case” for spending $170 million to widen US 19 in southwest Georgia? What is the “business case” for the phony business tax breaks given in last General Assembly?
Being a true “conservative” means you have bedrock values you apply across the board. I know you think metro Atlanta’s 4.5 million people are a bunch of evil “libs.” But this should not mean you sell your soul to look the other way when it comes to “good” people in south and middle Georgia.
By Taxpayer
June 14, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
Rufus,
I thought I was addressing Jim Wooten. Are you Jim Wooten? Or, are you someone else. By the way, what’s a PoFo? I have been to a Po Folks before but I thought the one’s that remained were renamed to just Folks. Of course, if you really want to address my post, then you could at least start by putting together something coherent. That’s just a suggestion though.
By Rufus
June 14, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
AJCM: We “lost” Vietnam because we had a bunch of Democrats in Washington running the show and a sourpuss media who trumped up setbacks and pot smoking hippie liberals. Just let the RATs whine about Iraq for Bush’s remaining tenure. Then watch them turn on McCain when he gets elected. Another eight years of mental madness from the mental midgets on the diseased left won’t affect my personal life.
Anyway, moving forward (is that phrase worn out or what??)…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Plans for a levitating train from Las Vegas to Disneyland can move forward under a transportation bill signed by President Bush on Friday that frees up $45 million for the futuristic project. Derided by critics as pie in the sky, the train would use magnetic levitation technology to carry passengers from Disneyland to Las Vegas in well under two hours, traveling at speeds of up to 300 mph. It would be the first MagLev system in the U.S.
Yaaay President Bush!
NOT.
“There is no train on the route—Amtrak’s Desert Wind between Los Angeles and Las Vegas was canceled in 1997 because of low ridership. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., praised passage of the law, saying the MagLev project “will safely and efficiently move people between Southern California and Las Vegas.”“
And these asshats on the sick left like Reid wonder why MARTA buses are empty on the north side of Atlanta.
Do you REALLY want these incompetent liberal bulltits running our government?
By Pee'er Pressure
June 14, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
Tim Russert. Peter Jennings. Jim McKay. Journalism lost some giants recently. A moment of respect and silence.
You’re at the top of the world, a king, one second. The very next heartbeat doesn’t happen, and you’re facing eternity, under judgement from a Supreme Being, a court of one, appointed by Himself (after rigging a Diebold voting machine, no doubt), and completely ignoring the popular vote of the angels and saints not to mention an assortment of demons who once demanded a recount.
Well, Tim Russert now knows what eternity looks like. Is he interviewing God? Does he have alternate translations of the bible in which Mary is actually called an “unmarried woman” instead of a “virgin”?
Does he bring up the fact that millions are starving to death every day and hundreds of thousands die from natural disasters? “Supreme being or not, you have to admit you’ve got a liability problem here in the court of public opinion, dont you Sir?”
Your press badge doesn’t gain you entry, Mr. Russert, your soul does.
“I’ve got a deadline to meet, God, so if we could continue with this interview…”
You dont get it, do you, Mr Russert?
“Just one last question and then you can judge my soul, okay? You have to admit it’s a bit cruel to create a human being with such a short shelf life. A consciousness that knows it will expire. It’s very distressing and terrifying for most people.”
Okay, I’ll give you this one answer. The angels who rebelled thought they had a chance to win. They wouldn’t have rebelled just to be cast out of heaven. They thought they could win. Get it? The human soul has enormous power in eternity, and I cant take any more chances on rebels. The only way to judge a angel is to watch the choices it makes when confined in a body that hungers, and thirsts. I’m still astonished at the denial. Some of you think you can save yourselves. It’s almost funny. You’re not going anywhere but right here. Now about your choices, Mr Russert…….
By Rufus
June 14, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
Oops. My bad “Taxpayer.” No, I will not address your trite liberal pandering propoganda of typical liberal whining.
But please, do not let my mistake stop you from moaning… I have a hard time distinguishing you liberal socialist neo-Marxist asshats on the left.
By Taxpayer
June 14, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
Pee’er Pressure, you’re silly. You almost made me prematurely release the Pee’er Pressure — almost.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
By Pee’er Pressure June 14, 2008 9:07 AM Does he bring up the fact that millions are starving to death every day and hundreds of thousands die from natural disasters? “Supreme being or not, you have to admit you’ve got a liability problem here in the court of public opinion, dont you Sir?”
I understand the futility of debating the hideous troll that is Polly Putrid but since when is God responsible for the actions of his children, whom he gave free will to live their lives as they so chose?
Anytime you want to, Polly, you pinkos can quit propping up African dictatorships with your feel good, do nothing but enrich the murderer’s bank account “charity” events, you could ease up on the junk science like banning DDT, you could quit turning food into gasoline, you could stop hamstringing the most generous country in the world with your goony propaganda about us being “evil.”
Hell, you could join the Church and mission to these poor souls you despair over your own damn self.
Or maybe you could at least cease hating on the Church which has done for more for the needy than all of the candy as-sed liberals in the world put together.
I got it, how about if your cocaine snorting, America hating, terrorist loving dimwit presidential kandidate gave some of his millions to charity, instead of everybody else’s tax money?
Blame God, what an as-swipe.
By Craig
June 14, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
So the study was done in 2004, huh? What was the cost of gasoline then?
Have you noticed the park and ride lots for the express buses into downtown Atlanta? The lots, and the buses, are overflowing.
Jim when you complain about the roads to nowhere all across south GA, then we’ll listen to you.
Until then, thanks Sonny, for trying to make the quality of life just a little better for your constituents in Atlanta.
By Taxpayer
June 14, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
Oh, come on Rufus. You silly little child. You prematurely eject your mindless dribble onto the screen and when you are called out you run away while continuing your vain attempts at projecting something that, in your little mind, you believe to be clever. Don’t you worry though. I won’t be wasting any more of Mr. Wooten’s space on you today. Maybe tomorrow or the next or the next…
By Redneck Convert
June 14, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Well, I spent a hour trying to make sense of that book AJC Management posted on here. I finally just give up. The guy must have ADD. He can’t keep his mind on one subject. He just switches back and forth like a dope addict that found a big stash of drugs.
Anyhow, if a bunch of pointy heads want to ride a train from Atlanta to Lovejoy let them pay for it theirselfs. Don’t use my tax money to pay for it. I got a hard enough time just paying for gas for my Ford F-450 so I can get from the trailer to Billy Bob’s, I don’t have money to pay for a bunch of city slickers to ride a train.
I hope old Sonny don’t fall for this boondoggle. He can deal with the traffic problem the same way he come up with the GA Water Plan. Just pray alot.
I got a idea. Let guvmint workers stay home on weekdays. The roads will be clear and we will have guvmint off of our backs too.
Which reminds me of the story of the little girl that got too close to the lions cage at the zoo and the lion grabbed her head and was about to eat her. A man carrying a Bible come along and seen what was happening. He walked up and hit the lion in the nose with the Bible and grabbed the little girl when the lion turned loose. A AJC reporter happened to be there and seen what happened. He walked up to the man and asked if he was a Republican. The man said yes. The reporter said he would see to it that what the man done was reported in the AJC. Next day, sure enough, a headline in the AJC said “Bible-thumping Fundamentalist Republican Assaults Immigrant and Takes His Lunch.”
Have a good weekend everybody.
By Rufus
June 14, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
“Oh, come on Rufus. You silly little child. You prematurely eject your mindless dribble onto the screen and when you are called out you run away”
Who’s running away? If blog history says anything, all you mealy mouthed liberals who post during the weekdays magically disappear on the weekends.
Gee.
I wonder why that is.
Oh well… who gives a bulltit…
Just 18 days after Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) became the nation’s first female Speaker and the face of the Democratic Party, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) announced that she was “in it to win it,” launching the most successful presidential campaign ever undertaken by a woman. Now that that effort has fallen short, Pelosi will be the most powerful female politician for several years to come — and perhaps longer. She is the most powerful woman in American government, even if Clinton is better-known.
So tell me, is this the same liberal socialist moonbat Nanny who said she was going to do something about gas prices two years ago?
Liberalism of democrats is a disease.
By Pee'er Pressure
June 14, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
Tim Russert. Peter Jennings. Jim McKay. Journalism lost some giants recently. A moment of respect and silence.
You’re at the top of the world, a king, one second. The very next heartbeat doesn’t happen, and you’re facing eternity, under judgement from a Supreme Being, a court of one, appointed by Himself (after rigging a Diebold voting machine, no doubt), and completely ignoring the popular vote of the angels and saints not to mention an assortment of demons who once demanded a recount.
Well, Tim Russert now knows what eternity looks like. Is he interviewing God? Does he have alternate translations of the bible in which Mary is actually called an “unmarried woman” instead of a “virgin”?
Does he bring up the fact that millions are starving to death every day and hundreds of thousands die from natural disasters? “Supreme being or not, you have to admit you’ve got a liability problem here in the court of public opinion, dont you Sir?”
Your press badge doesn’t gain you entry, Mr. Russert, your soul does.
“I’ve got a deadline to meet, God, so if we could continue with this interview…”
You dont get it, do you, Mr Russert?
“Just one last question and then you can judge my soul, okay? You have to admit it’s a bit cruel to create a human being with such a short shelf life. A consciousness that knows it will expire. It’s very distressing and terrifying for most people.”
Okay, I’ll give you this one answer. The angels who rebelled thought they had a chance to win. They wouldn’t have rebelled just to be cast out of heaven. They thought they could win. Get it? The human soul has enormous power in eternity, and I cant take any more chances on rebels. The only way to judge a angel is to watch the choices it makes when confined in a body that hungers, and thirsts. I’m still astonished at the denial. Some of you think you can save yourselves. It’s almost funny. You’re not going anywhere but right here. Now about your choices, Mr Russert…….
By Abomi Nation
June 14, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
I agree with Jim. Sonny Perdue is a horrible, horrible Governor. How is it possible that we elected this idiot twice. Its not like there wasn’t enough warning. He was already kicked out of one political party. The Democrats kicked his butt out quick after Sonny pushed through that total disaster of a natural gas bill. Why did us Republicans accept him into our party after he got kicked out of the Democratic party? Stupid.
I’m with you on this one Jim. Maybe us Republicans should have to present 2 forms of id to vote in the future. One to prove who we are, the other to prove we are sane. After all, we just helped elect George W Bush twice and Sonny Perdue twice. Good God, you add Casey Cagel and Glenn Richardson to the mix and it looks really bad for us.
Us Republicans need our heads examined.
By JIM WOOTIN
June 14, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
No, Perdue proves that conservatism is perpetual ignorance. If Rev. Wright changed parties, Georgians would elect him governer. Just because he’s a republican now.
If Hitler was a Republican, Georgians would vote for him.
If a little baby bunny changed parties, Georgians would elect him governor.
That’s why conservatism must be crushed once and for all.
By George Washington
June 14, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
Speaking of whinning and moaning, I was watching a special video with a lot of that, and my faithful and true dog got up from my feet, looked funny at me, and left the room…..He doesn’t like that whinning and moaning either….The video was a replay of the Dummycrat presidential debates, and Hillary the Clown was doing the whinning and moaning….I had to stop watching the Repuke debates, I kept gitting spit on my computer screen….
By Taxpayer
June 14, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this
WOOTIN,
Much of what you say is sad but likely true. However, I do think there is some good in conservatism — it’s just been hijacked by a bunch of loonies and twisted and distorted and …well, you get my meaning.
By getalife
June 14, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Militia Leader al-Sadr Calls For New Offensive Against US Forces.
Iraq government told w to shove his permanant bases.
Major jail break in Afghanistan.
Stay the curse.
Unfreakingbelievable.
By Mr. Chips
June 14, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
They let those terrorists escape the afghan jail. They’ve been implanted with global postioning chips and should lead us straight to OBL’s cave, where we’ll send the hundred thousand trained suicide bats. (remember that?)
No really. We trained millions of bats to carry little explosive charges and attack whereever we want. That was world war two, and the mission was ordered, but then Hiroshima happened. Some folks think that Hiroshima wasn’t a nuclear bomb at all, but rather those millions of bats attacking all at once and simultaneously exploding the cherry bombs and blasting caps they had strapped to their bellies. I’m not sure which story I believe. I know bats are fiends. I know bats are easily swayed by radical islamic fundementalism. I simply dont know what history should revised.
But I google everyday, and eventually I’ll learn the truth. And when I do……lookout.
By ray
June 14, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
the reason to finish widening us 19 in Southwest Georgia is because in the 60’s Georgia and Florida agreed to widen it from Atlanta to Tampa. Most landowners in Southwest Georgia sold the right of way so cheaply they may as well of given it away. Florida finished widening it in the 70’s and here we are in Georgia 40 years later still not finished. As far as the traffic in the Atlanta region some things that in my humble opionion that will help. 1st extend I185 north to the Dalton/Chattanooga area combined with running a limited access highway from Columbus to Brunswick. [maybe by extended I22 that is under construction between Birmingham and Memphis from Birmingham]. 2nd extend I24 from Chattanooga to I20 at Thomson combined with the Northern Arc. 3rd build a limited access highway from I85 near Greenville SC or the state line to Macon. These three projects would divert the majority of the thru traffic around Atlanta which would benefit Atlanta two ways decresed traffic and decreased emissions. They would also benefit rural Georgia by increaseing the visitation by out of state visitors to places such as the little white house and the little grand canyon. It may also increase the possiblility of enconomic developing in some ares that need it.
By AmVet
June 14, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Taxpayer, your point about traditional American conservatism being hijacked is, in my opinion, undeniable.
This abomination that is inanely called conservatism barely even resembles it.
Pick an aspect, any aspect.
Ronnie Raygun was the first to convince the gullible that exploding the size, cost and scope of government was “conservatism”.
His idea of smaller government was simply political pyschobabble as they became enormously interested in legislating their awful “morality” and utter intolerance and contempt for anyone whose lifestyle did not fit their agenda.
And, of course, rewarding the corporate wh0res, sycophants and numerous dictators around the globe, all at the cost of helping middle class Americans.
Additionally, he was the first to REALLY cozy up to the religious frauds and charlatans and bring these modern day Robespierres into the Oval Office and who were to assist in the Reign of Terror, I mean, Reagan Revolution.
But alas, it sold well, especially here in the Moron Belt and with the generally rabid Young Republicans.
Newt the Nut amped up this generally venomous self-righteousness and so the sane, reasonable GOP was to essentially disappear and be replaced by attack dogs that would make Nixon’s henchmen look like novices.
But worst of all, rather than demonstrate to this nation that they really were the Party to change things (for the better), they simply used their return from forty years in the political wilderness to exact revenge and wreck havoc.
And in the past decade this phony conservatism has become so utterly lost and mindless that simply hating liberals is considered its primary duty.
But it appears that the American people have had WAY more than enough, and for these Republican apparatchiks, the jig is about up.
The fact that most (all?) of the GOP candidates this election season regularly invoked the oxymoron of Reagan conservatism, tells me that CLEARLY they have yet to learn their lesson.
In spite of the fact that they suffered the most humiliating defeat imaginable in Nov. 06. It was so devastating that it was actually of historic proportions!
And in the past twelve months or so, every single one of their darling neo-con candidates got their heads absolutely kicked in by a maverick RINO and an utterly disgusted electorate who can see through their demented agenda of fear and chest-pounding.
Neo-conservatism is essentially dead now. At least in terms of bludgeoning Americans politically.
And the poster boys for it, George Bush and Dick Cheney will almost assuredly go down in history as the worst administration in our republic’s long history.
And all the pitiable lamentations and gum gnashing here by the vituperrious “faithful” will not change one single thing. Nor save their sorry hides.
Good job, faux conservatives.
And get ready for another bloodbath this November…
By Mr. Chips
June 14, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Tim Russert. Peter Jennings. Jim McKay. Journalism lost some giants recently. A moment of respect and silence.
You’re at the top of the world, a king, one second. The very next heartbeat doesn’t happen, and you’re facing eternity, under judgement from a Supreme Being, a court of one, appointed by Himself (after rigging a Diebold voting machine, no doubt), and completely ignoring the popular vote of the angels and saints not to mention an assortment of demons who once demanded a recount.
Well, Tim Russert now knows what eternity looks like. Is he interviewing God? Does he have alternate translations of the bible in which Mary is actually called an “unmarried woman” instead of a “virgin”?
Does he bring up the fact that millions are starving to death every day and hundreds of thousands die from natural disasters? “Supreme being or not, you have to admit you’ve got a liability problem here in the court of public opinion, dont you Sir?”
Your press badge doesn’t gain you entry, Mr. Russert, your soul does.
“I’ve got a deadline to meet, God, so if we could continue with this interview…”
You dont get it, do you, Mr Russert?
“Just one last question and then you can judge my soul, okay? You have to admit it’s a bit cruel to create a human being with such a short shelf life. A consciousness that knows it will expire. It’s very distressing and terrifying for most people.”
Okay, I’ll give you this one answer. The angels who rebelled thought they had a chance to win. They wouldn’t have rebelled just to be cast out of heaven. They thought they could win. Get it? The human soul has enormous power in eternity, and I cant take any more chances on rebels. The only way to judge a angel is to watch the choices it makes when confined in a body that hungers, and thirsts. I’m still astonished at the denial. Some of you think you can save yourselves. It’s almost funny. You’re not going anywhere but right here. Now about your choices, Mr Russert…….
By Jackie
June 14, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Wonder what the conservatives will do and say after the November thumping? Was it the media, the liberals or the citizens who caused the pending political rout? Hang on to your seats!
By Rufus
June 14, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Ok. Time to spice things up. This blog is lame like Big Brown right now…
Sitting on an Ocean of Energy, Doing Nothing
In 1990, George H.W. Bush, calling himself “the environmental president,” signed an order putting virtually all the U.S. outer continental shelf’s oil and gas reserves in the deep freeze. Bill Clinton extended that lockup until 2013. A Clinton veto also threw away the key to ANWR’s oil 13 years ago. Our waters may hold 60 trillion untapped cubic feet of natural gas. As in Brazil, these are surely conservative estimates.
And to think GHWB was a “Conservative.” Maybe that’s why Perot’s 17% put Clinton in office - or orfice - if you will.
By @@
June 14, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Mercy Jim! I’d just like to say, in a Snidely fashion, that this Lovejoy commuter rail project has given me Whiplash.
With all the starts and stops it’s undergone, I’m betting that it’ll take longer than the 46 minutes predicted travel time.
What the heck! I may end up a multi-millionaire if commercial development begins to “boomaround” the rail station.
Thank you Georgia taxpayers! Dudley DoRights by me.
I have a dream…
By No way. Yahwey.
June 14, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this
Test your religious IQ here.
1- How many gods do U C in your life?
A) one
B) zero
C) infinity
D) allah the above
.
2- When scientists say that the Universe is expanding, do they mean that there are boundaries or edges of the universe getting further and further away?
A) The idea that the universe has an outer boundary is incorrect and shows how unfathomable the universe’s physicality is to the human mind.
B) The galaxies are moving apart from each other in every direction, but that doesn’t imply the universe has any edges or boundaries.
C) there is no center or outer edge of the universe. The universe cant be understood in terms of three dimensions at all.
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3- Is there a God?
A) No way.
B) Yahwey.
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4- Hari Krishna.
A) Gesundheit
B) God Bless you.
C) Hari Rama
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
{{{{By Jackie June 14, 2008 12:16 PM Wonder what the conservatives will do and say after the November thumping? Was it the media, the liberals or the citizens who caused the pending political rout?}}}}
I know one thing for sure, what a dhimmokrat says in front of a crowd or a pollster is an entirely different thing than what they will do in the privacy of the voting booth.
Can you say president McBushie?
By Jackie
June 14, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
@AJC/DNC
My point, exactly!
The conservatives say one thing and do another, with the concept in mind that only “conservatives” have a clue as to what is “best.”
After the November elections, the neo-con philopsophy will be thoroughly discredited and they will have lots of time to come up with new strategies to win back the Presidency and the flood of Congressional seats.
By @@
June 14, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
Hey PoliFore! I caught your post over at Bookman’s:
By Pee’er Pressure June 13, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this
JAY BOOKMAN: Nobody is fooled. WHen a AJC editor comments on his own blog, there’s a Blue Link thingie that forms the signature and ID, not capital letters.
Dont worry, Jay Bookman, nobody but the most retarded amoung us little people believe that JAY BOOKMAN is you.
Is it miller time yet?
You frequent the “Clayton Talk” blog…Have you never seen Kimberly Allen post? Here and here.
Did ‘ya notice PoSlowFlo? no blue link thingie!!!!!!!
You really don’t have much going on in your life other than the AJC blogs, do you?
Flog on Foreskin…
By getalife
June 14, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
How soon we forget Timmeh gave cheney free access to pimp his lies on Iraq.
Too bad is was not cheney that dropped dead at work.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
He may be a dimwit, but he’s our dimwit:
McCain favors increased domestic oil production, but not drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the barren area with large (and recoverable) oil reserves. President Bush and most Republicans want to open ANWR for drilling and have for years. But McCain is adamant. His aides insist it’s a waste of time trying to persuade him to change his mind. He wouldn’t want oil companies to drill in ANWR, McCain says, “any more than I would want them to drill in the Grand Canyon or the Everglades.”
Sigh.
So ANWR is a tourist attraction, eh?
A place to take the whole family!
No matter what happens, America will be able to say that it has chosen the weakest and most dim president in all of our long, storied history.
One of them can’t think and has to have a teleprompter placed in front of him if you want an answer, the other has been drinking the left wing’s national suicide koolaid.
How is $4 a gallon gasoline good for America, do tell us, dhimmis?
The dhimmokrat party is a death cult and they would love nothing more than to take all of us with them.
I pray for you America.
By Politics Aside
June 14, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
Obama 08: America for Americans.
McCain 08: Are those his teeth?
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
Change you can count on and whatever other mindless slogans you libs swallow whole:
Barack Obama waited just three days after Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race to declare, on CNBC: “Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market.” Demonstrating that this is no mere spring fling, he has appointed the 37-year-old Jason Furman, one of Wal-Mart’s most prominent defenders, to head his economic team. On the campaign trail, Obama blasted Clinton for sitting on the Wal-Mart board and pledged: “I won’t shop there.” For Furman, however, Wal-Mart’s critics are the real threat: the “efforts to get Wal-Mart to raise its wages and benefits” are creating “collateral damage” that is “way too enormous and damaging to working people and the economy … for me to sit by idly and sing Kum Ba Ya in the interests of progressive harmony”.
Another of Obama’s Chicago fans is the 39-year-old billionaire Kenneth Griffin, the CEO of the hedge fund Citadel. Griffin, who gave the maximum allowable donation to Obama, is a poster boy for an unbalanced economy. He got married at Versailles, and is one of the staunchest opponents of closing the hedge-fund tax loophole.
While Obama talks about toughening trade rules with China, Griffin has been bending the few barriers that do exist. Despite sanctions prohibiting the sale of police equipment, Citadel has been pouring money into controversial China-based security companies that are putting the local population under unprecedented levels of surveillance.
What’s next for DukaKerry, tax cuts for the rich?
Bwa.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
By Politics Aside June 14, 2008 2:59 PM McCain 08: Are those his teeth?
Polly: I think the North Vietnamese knocked his teeth out but whatever.
The way that Obambi whistles in front of the teleprompter, I’m not so sure you want to go down the denture road.
Know what I mean?
By @@
June 14, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
Test your street smarts here.
If a gang armed with legally concealed Glocks approaches your hummer, and you’ve got groceries in the car, do you
1) throw eggs at them
2) throw tomatoes at them
3) Floor it
4) Throw the hummer into reverse and get the double hockey sticks out of there
5) pretend you’re one of them and say, “Word up, homie, it’s to the crib for some grillin trim”
6) start praying cause you’re a goner, you forgot that you’re wearing crip colors in a blood street.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
By @@ June 14, 2008 4:03 PM Test your street smarts here.
Polly: Are the armed men for “change” and “hope?”
By @@
June 14, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
PoliFore:
My bandanas are pink, yellow, orange and fuschia.
I have no doubt you’d take ‘em down with “a hummer” though.
By ray
June 14, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
historic election no doubt. first black or the first one who wears a diaper.
By @@
June 14, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
There’s only two choices here…either Conrad (D) is stupid or lying!
An internal e-mail from Mozilo, however, said the exception was “due to the fact that the borrower is a senator,” according to the Portfolio report.
In a statement Friday, Countrywide did not address questions about the VIP program, citing customer privacy.
Countrywide has come under fire for its lending practices, including providing mortgages with low initial “teaser” rates that balloon higher than borrowers can afford.
Obama DOES think he’s an Untouchable.
Sean Connery in the “Untouchables”: “He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way. And that’s how you get Capone.” (1987)
Obama: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” (Barack Obama, Remarks At Fundraiser, Philadelphia, PA, 6/14/08)
The Chicago Way? That’s Not Change You Can Believe In …
O.K., so he’s not a Fairy Tail, but he’s beginning to look like a joke.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
Aahhh, yes, not everyone wants nanny state socialism:
Europe was thrown into political chaos Friday by Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, a painstakingly negotiated blueprint for consolidating the European Union’s power and streamlining its increasingly unwieldy bureaucracy.
“Europe as an idea does not provoke passionate support among ordinary citizens,” said Denis MacShane, a Labour member of the British Parliament and a former minister for Europe.
“They see a bossy Brussels, and when they have the chance of a referendum in France, the Netherlands or Ireland to give their government and Europe a kick, they put the boot in,” he added in an interview, referring to the French and Dutch rejections of a proposed European constitution in similar referendums three years ago.
“It’s a pro-European country, but they didn’t understand the treaty - why it was needed, what it was going to change,” Bruter said, speaking of the Irish voters. “They just don’t want to give Europe a blank check anymore.”
The world gets smarter, we get stupider.
I pray for you America.
By @@
June 14, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this
Gaza sounds like a liberal’s dream come true.
For months before the takeover, life in Gaza, with its 1.5 million inhabitants, was deeply insecure as Fatah and Hamas gunmen fought for control of the streets and institutions. Hamas had a parliamentary majority but Fatah, through the presidency of Mahmoud Abbas, still officially controlled the security apparatuses and ministries.
Now, even many of those who detest Hamas say that security has returned to daily life as a result of its takeover.
Peace at any price?
“Hamas is strong and brutal but very good at governing,” observed Eyad Serraj, a British-trained psychiatrist who runs a group of mental health clinics and is a secular opponent of Hamas. “They are handing out coupons for gas. They have gotten people to pay for car registration. They are getting people to pay their electricity bills after years of everyone refusing to. The city and the hospitals are cleaner than in many years.”
No thank you.
By Moccasin City
June 14, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this
McCain 08: He wants another shot at an aircraft carrier, and unless he’s prez, they wont let him near one.
By @@
June 14, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
Warner takes himself out of Obama’s VP mix
Obama’s having a difficult time finding a running mate. I think it was Governor Strickland of Ohio who (if you read between the lines) not only said “No”, but HELL NO!
How many Blue Dogs have had to distance themselves from Obama just to get elected?
By AJC/DNC Management
June 14, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
The only drawback to DukaKerry’s impending defeat in November will be the “triumphant” return of Bruno’s kampaign in early 2010, yeesh.
Did I just post some pro Obambi kampaign material?
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
Offshore drilling revived as an issue by Republiscum- Democrats believe they can make an equally persuasive argument: With only 3 percent of the world’s oil supplies, the nation cannot drill its way to independence, and recent efforts to increase domestic production, including opening that area of the eastern gulf, have not brought lower prices. Instead, they are advocating a mix of conservation and alternative energy sources to ease the long-term strain, blah, blah, blah, solar energy, blah, blah-Urinal/DNC
Flip to the very next page of the Urinal/PMS litterbox liner-
Corn blamed for bigger ‘dead zone’ Scientists predicting the biggest-ever “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico are blaming Midwestern corn grown for ethanol for higher levels of pollution escaping down the Mississippi River.-Urinal/DNC
No one can argue that this once great country has embarked on a mindless crusade to replace oil, like there is something out there that will burn in a combustion engine and cost nothing, produce as much energy and pollute less.
So far all we’ve done is raised the price of energy fourfold, jacked up food prices, cleared land that would otherwise have vegetation on it absorbing CO2 and created more sources of pollution, all so that we could produce ethanol, which uses an average 1.7 gallons of gasoline to produce one gallon of ethanol, which burns dirtier than gasoline.
All well known facts of what a completely mindless endeavor this idiocy has become.
So let us just guess which direction the dhimmikrats want to continue plodding on to reduce our dependence on oil?
What is the definition of insanity?
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Aahhh, yes, Countrywide is evil and bad!:
A North Dakota senator said Saturday he is donating $10,500 to charity and refinancing his loan on an apartment building after reviewing documents that showed he received special treatment from Countrywide Financial Corp., one of the banking giants caught up in the subprime mortgage crisis. Sen. Kent Conrad, a dhimmikrat, said it appeared Countrywide waived 1 point on his mortgage for a Bethany Beach, Del., vacation home. -Urinal/PMS
That’s not the Countrywide that I knew.
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Does this sound like a dispatch from an American newspaper or something wormy like you’d see in Al Jazeera:?
Helicopters blanketed the oil-producing southern city of Amarah with pamphlets, urging residents to cooperate with Iraqi security forces preparing for a new crackdown on Shiite militia fighters. Iraqi soldiers accompanied by U.S. military advisers have begun moving into Amarah, the purported hub of weapons smuggling from nearby Iran, make Mookie mad, blah, blah, blah, Mookie not happy, blah, blah, blah.-Urinal/PMS
And have they inadvertently let the cat out of the bag:?
Former Democratic state Rep. Doug Teper has taken his 16 years of experience in the Georgia Legislature to Kurdish Iraq to advise candidates on how to run political campaigns. Q: [Iraqis] must ask what a new president —- Republican, or Democrat —- will mean to the U.S. policy in Iraq.
A: I told them that, traditionally, foreign policy was an issue that brought the political parties and opponents together in compromise in order to show a united front to the rest of the world. Since the United States was already in Iraq and had been there for some time, there was much pressure to come home, but we would not make any dramatic moves that would threaten U.S. strategic interests. -Urinal/DNC
Notice how now that the primaries are over and the moonbats from Code Pinko no longer have to be lied to, everyone already knows that we will never leave Iraq until it is a self governing and self protecting democracy allied with us in the war on terror?
Even the libs know this?
So what is DukaKerry talking about, with his immediate withdrawal?
By WFC
June 15, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this
Dear AJC/DNC Management:
Your heart has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
When I see your name attached to a comment, I simply scroll down to the next one.
You are tedious beyond belief. You make me cringe for the fture of democracy.
By Moccasin City
June 15, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
I heard Snidely Whiplash is all for this new rail.
Aren’t petro prices in a gas bubble? Wont this all pass, (with a lot of sound and fury), and then be gone with the wind?
I hold my nose at the prospect of a train to Lovejoy.
I’m sick and tired of hearing about public transportation or ride-sharing. People drive by themselves. They have to. Nobody can stand anyone else’s driving. We all agree that most people drive like idiots. None of us would risk our lives as a passenger in someone else’s POS, would we? No!
Nobody would ride share because nobody can stand anyone elses radio stations either. There are some broadcasts that make my trigger finger itchy. I predict with concealed weapons carrying ride-sharers, many radios will be shot out. Some songs really send you over the edge. I had a friend once who was driving and “Draggin the line” by Tommy James and the Shondells came on. There’s a little horn beep that happens right after the line, “Draggin the line, draggin the line da da da da, beep beep…. “
Well, let me tell you he went berserk. I had to stuff cotton in his ears cause I wanted to hear what he was talkin about, I had honestly not noticed it at all till he brung it up and ruined the song for me. Now I hate Tommy James and the Shondells even worse than he did. That whole incident ruined the 70’s for me.
People wont ride the train to lovejoy because people cant hang out with each other any more. We simply cant. Something has happened in the zeitgeist that makes public exposure too stressful. People hate crowds. People hate people. People are annoying. It has nothing to do with driving habits. It’s personal habits. Someone will bring food. It will stink the car up. Someone will want to shave. Someone will floss. Others wont stfu. Some people fear intimacy so much that their ironic defense mechanism is constant prattle. There’s nothing worse than a blabbermouth. Eventually the loquacious jackass will attempt a joke and you’re supposed to react. Dont. She’ll shut up. Maybe.
We’re an internet chatroom society now, and all our contact with humanity occurs in bibagytes and pegamixels. (that’s pig latin for cyber chip speed and memory measuring thingies)
So waste Grady Hospital money on an obsolete rail line if you want, Guv, but dont expect any of us to ride it or like each other more.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
By WFC June 15, 2008 8:47 AM When I see your name attached to a comment, I simply scroll down to the next one.
You are tedious beyond belief.
Just out of curiosity, if one doesn’t read my comments then how would they know that they are “tedious?”
You must really be an Obambi supporter, eh, WFC? So naive, so clueless, so moronic, a model example of what a death kult member should be.
Perhaps you should consult the teleprompter the next time you encroach on the wisdom and knowledge that is the AJC/DNC Management, no?
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
The Italian government has defended its decision to use soldiers to patrol cities in an effort to curb crime, rejecting criticism that it will “militarise” the streets.- Reuters
You have to dig for it, obviously Reuters isn’t just going to report the whole story without their wormy bias, but here it is:
The Istat report confirmed a growing trend in immigrant crime, with some 100,000 immigrants booked in 2007. While bag snatching was the most popular immigrant crime with 70% of offences committed by foreigners, immigrants were also responsible for around 33% of violent crimes committed in 2007, the report said.
In April 2007, the Ministry also presented the Charter of Values, Rights and Integration. Initially promoted to address the growing controversy caused within the Council by its Muslim Brotherhood component, the Charter concerns not only Muslim communities, but any immigrant wishing to apply for citizenship.
The Italians are happily ingesting the poison that will soon kill them.
Maybe they could move to Iraq, where it is safe.
By Landon Smith
June 15, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
I heard Snidely Whiplash is all for this new rail.
Aren’t petro prices in a gas bubble? Wont this all pass, (with a lot of sound and fury), and then be gone with the wind?
I hold my nose at the prospect of a train to Lovejoy.
People wont ride the train to lovejoy because people sneeze on you. People touch you. People groom on you. They’ll brush their hair standing over you. They will. Someone will bring food that looks and smells like rancid sourkraut on that train. Someone will want to shave. Someone will floss. The guy next to you is sure to invade the no man’s land guaranteed by our constitution when two people share any seating by holding his newspaper open wide and in your face. He’ll practically coldc*ck you with his fist as he peruses Wooten’s column. Others wont stfu. Some people fear intimacy so much that their ironic defense mechanism is constant prattle. There’s nothing worse than chatter. Eventually the loquacious jackass will attempt a joke and you’re supposed to react. Dont. She’ll stifle. Maybe. No she wont. I have a question. If a woman is alone in the woods, no one around for miles not even a squirrel, is she still talking? Eve was the talkative one in the Garden you know. Didn’t matter who was there to listen. A snake? Good enough!
What is it with you broads anyway? Cant you just sit there? What’s wrong with total silence for hours and hours. and days. and months and years and decades. Shut up! Shut Up! SHUT UP!!
ISAIDSHUTUP!!!
Planes, trains and blabbermouths. I just dont understand the concept of a gabfest to Lovejoy.
By WFC
June 15, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
AJC/DNC: put your money where your mouth is and volunteer for Baghdad.
By @@
June 15, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
PoliFore:
Shhhhhhhh it’s a beautiful day, I don’t have time to play.
Off to church.
By Redneck Convert
June 15, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Well, down at the Church of Holiness this a.m. the Rev. Throckmorton told us how evil the librul Democrats are and let us know in so many words and alot of winks and nods we need to be voting for the Republicans. He ain’t as intrusting as the Rev. Jim Bob Buice, but I reckon we got to take what we can get, what with the Rev. Jim Bob not allowed to be around kids and all. If it hadn’t of been for the cops finding him nekkid with that boy in the bushes, we would still have a real good preacher.
I reckon alot of people are off to church right now, learning how to hate the right way and getting a OK for how they already feel about the election. I bet Sister Dusty and jbmlaw are setting in the pews and nodding like bobblehead dolls while the preacher rails against librul Democrats.
Anyhow, the missus and me and little Sonny Zell George and my boy and my dotter are heading off to Ryans a little later for a Fathers Day meal. I get to pay but leastwise I get a meal out of it. I ain’t getting near the missus while she eats on account of I don’t want to get a fork stuck in my hand. The missus gos after the food like Wooten gos after librul Democrats and only God can save somebody that gets too close to her plate.
Happy Fathers Day everybody. If you go to a place that has beer be sure to drink a bottle or six. It keeps me in a job and my fambly fed.
By Strunkenwhite
June 15, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
You know what, shriveled foreskin?
You’ve missed the point. You, of all people, have missed Mr. Wooten’s point.
This column resulted from a wiser person than you taking a hard-earned slug off a very cold Lager and deciding that, what the heck, he might as well do the hypnoticpsychedelic totally-unexpected craaaaaazy thing and pretend in front of God And Everybody that Governor Perdue is in fact a sentient being that woke up one day and decided something.
Ha ha!
By Strunkenwhite
June 15, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
And by the way, why won’t that woman marry me? I mean, I get it—-she’s got a perfectly good husband and all—-but stuff happens, you know? She really ought to just lighten up about it, dontchathink?
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
There are a lot of fathers out there that have made a tremendous sacrifice, not just for a free and prosperous Iraq, but for all of us, and for that, we salute you.
In a statement read on state television on Saturday night, Maliki said he was giving outlaws and criminals a last chance to surrender and hand over heavy and medium weapons.
Amara is a stronghold of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who agreed to a ceasefire after U.S.-backed Iraqi forces launched a major offensive on his Mehdi Army militia in Basra in March.
Iraq will take over security responsibility for another southern province from U.S. forces in July, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Qadisiya, also known as Diwaniya because that is the name of its capital, would be the 10th of Iraq’s 18 provinces to return to Iraqi control. It has been relatively violence-free this year.
They said it couldn’t be done but you did it anyway.
God Bless all of you.
By Dusty
June 15, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
Dear Jim Wooten,
Recently I had the impression that the Lovejoy Line was a cut’n’dried project ready to go. And I sorta went “Oh well!” But you have presented the facts too well to say “Oh well”and let it go.
The tremendous cost of building the line and that much more to keep it going, should make EVERYONE run from this “money train”. Not to mention that the “metropolis” of Lovejoy can hardly be found on a Georgia map.
Perhaps the PUBLIC should raise a LOUD voice saying DO NOT WASTE MONEY. We are cutting back. So can you, Governor Perdue.
If we can get a real sensible protest going, the governor may hear our plea. Remind him that he can set a precedent as THE MOST SENSIBLE GOVERNOR IN THE USA by saving state and federal funds.
McCain will come to town and shake the hand of the MOST SENSIBLE GOVERNOR IN THE USA. Even Obama might come and say “This is the change we need!” Georgia will be the state to show the country how things ought to be done.
Well, I got a little carried away there but I plan to start some communication with the governor’s office. The telephone book lists the OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR AS *404-656-1776. I hope that many people who care will pick up their phone and call.
By getalife
June 15, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
Many fathers were blown up and crippled in Iraq and their kids are spending this day in sorrow.
If they came back alive, they are heavily medicated and go back over and over again.
This occupation has stained the soul of our country and Vidal was right when he said it will take a century to purge the criminals that broke our government.
May all involved and those who support this genocide burn in hell.
Happy Fathers Day!
By Dusty
June 15, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
Again..the phone number of the Office of the Governor is 404-656-1776.
By liberal skank
June 15, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
By getalife June 14, 2008 1:54 PM How soon we forget Timmeh gave cheney free access to pimp his lies on Iraq. Too bad is was not cheney that dropped dead at work.
F-CK you wasted life, you worthless liberal diseased maggot.
Rot in hell.
By getalife
June 15, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
No, F******* U wingnut scumbag.
By catlady
June 15, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
Well, now that we have that out of the way, anyone want to talk intelligently about issues? What does being “conservative” mean in Georgia?
By Dusty
June 15, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this
Catlady@3:55
“Conservative” in Georgia means the same as everywhere else in the USA. Conserve! Preserve! And uphold the standards long held by this country..
By getalife
June 15, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
Which part of I rule this blog do you not understand?
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
Well well. The hate is alive and well within the liberal blog trash. As vehemently has I have disagreed with the liberal RAT representation in Washington over the years, VEEP or otherwise, I have NEVER wished for their deaths in office.
But we already knew that liberalism was a sickness - an evil sickness - didn’t we.
Anyway, liberal skanklady brought up a valid question (intelligent for a mangy lib anyway):
“What does being “conservative” mean in Georgia?”
Uhm, gee, that’s a tough one (not sure I grasp WTF Georgia has to do with anything there anymore than being a “Conservative” in Pennsylvania, but whatever… I’ll play).
1) Low taxes on individuals and corporations.
2) Freedom to succeed, be a corporation or an individual, without exponentially getting punished for it ala Marxist taxation polices like the likes of Obambi want for this nation.
3) Freedom of education without the government telling us where to educate our children.
4) A strong military and defense that is not limited in projecting US power overseas should the need arise.
5) A complete and full R-E-J-E-C-T-I-O-N of the UN and any of it’s worthless, Kofi-korrupt mindless universal government ploys.
6) A COMPLETE rejection of government mandating and FORCING taxes on something based on the LIE of man-induced global warming.
I’m sure I can come up with some others, liberal skanklady. I’m just getting warmed up.
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
Getalife: you don’t rule anything but the toilet paper you use. KNOW it.
Anyway…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials have not followed through on a promise made last year to make the food supply safer, lawmakers and others said on Thursday, as investigators probed the latest foodborne illness.
Ok, anyone who thinks this is Bush’s fault and not the fault of the liberal’s beloved bureaucratic government GOD that they believe in so much, raise your hand.
And you pathetic liberal left wing Marxist wannabe fools want these mindless government bureaucrats running your “free” health care.
Sick.
Man that’s just F’d up sick.
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
Barack the media-born political hero. Gee, you don’t expect the liberal mainslime media to dig through his dirty laundry, do you? Nah…
Barack Obama may have come up with a creative way to solve the housing recession: Let everyone buy property at a discount the way he did from Tony Rezko, and give everyone in America a discount mortgage the way Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide did for Fannie Mae’s Jim Johnson. Team Obama’s real estate and mortgage transactions are certainly a change from business as usual. They suggest old-fashioned back-scratching below even current Beltway standards.
A former CEO of mortgage financing giant Fannie Mae, Mr. Johnson is now vetting Vice Presidential candidates for Mr. Obama. But he is also a textbook case for poor disclosure as regulators sifted through the wreckage of Fannie’s $10 billion accounting scandal. Despite an exhaustive federal inquiry, Mr. Johnson managed to avoid disclosing one very special perk: below-market interest-rate mortgages from Countrywide Financial, arranged by Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. Journal reporters Glenn Simpson and James Hagerty broke the story this weekend.
It’s all about “Change” you morons!
Liberalism is mange.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
Talking tough on Father’s Day, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) challenged African-American men on Sunday to play more of a role in raising their children and warned them that “responsibility doesn’t just end at conception.”
Um, pardon me, but did DukaKerry not just say that men have a responsibility to unborn children?
I thought those “things” were just fetuses, ripe for the plucking?
Let me guess, “that is not the teleprompter that I knew.”
Hang in there, al-Gitmo, Bruno will be back before you know it, don’t be so distraught and bitter.
Help us to defeat The Dimwit and it will speed up the process.
By catlady
June 15, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
Dusty and Rufus: do you think Georgia “conservatives” act in those conservative ways? Seems like to me that many of those politicians/citizens who claim the banner, at least in Georgia, do not walk the walk. They say “No government interference…” EXCEPT in this case, or for that cause. Or, “Low taxes” EXCEPT I want the roads all paved well and the trash picked up and the borders defended….
Like all of us, conservatives have a problem with consistency. It is just that I don’t think the liberals CLAIM to be consistent in their beliefs. There is the rub for me.
Which of our state-level politicians would you say is TRULY conservative, in life as well as theory?
Getalife: I hiss in your general direction (that is a compliment).
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
Two">http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/newly-elected-house-democrats-characterize-budget-as-tax-hike-2008-06-09.html”>Two newly elected conservative Democrats have called the Democratic budget a tax increase on the middle class, giving even more election-year ammunition to grateful House Republicans. Reps. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) and Don Cazayoux (D-La.), who both won election earlier this year in districts held for years by the GOP, explained their votes against the Democratic budget as stands against tax increases on middle-class voters.
“I can’t support a budget, from either party, that raises taxes on the middle class,” Foster said in a statement posted on his website. “I campaigned on a platform of middle-class tax relief, and I was elected to Washington to bring about change. When asked to choose between my party and the people I represent, I will choose the families of the 14th district every single time.”
Let me tell you something bro: the stupid liberal RAT masses in this nation only know two things: the rich suck and raising taxes on the rich (and corporations) is good.
These mindless stupid liberal Marxist dogmatic sheeple on the mangy left do not have the mental capacity or education to understand that the top 10% of US taxpayers, those evil rich, can NOT fully fund the wet Utopian dream of everything their little pretty pink panties get wet over.
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
Damn. Bad link on the two Democrats. Here it is again.
Skanklady:
“do you think Georgia “conservatives” act in those conservative ways?”
What is up with you mangy liberals’ infatuation with what “Conservative” is or isn’t? What’s it to you? Do you think, like many mangy mongrels on the left that I come across, that LIBERALS are the true “Conservatives” here?
“Like all of us, conservatives have a problem with consistency. It is just that I don’t think the liberals CLAIM to be consistent in their beliefs. There is the rub for me.”
Well that’s a no-brainer. Classic liberalism is born from emotions and is all about emotions. At least “Conservatives” TRY to do the Right thing.
Finally, I’d trust my future to a psuedo-Conservative any day tover a flat out unapologetic diseased Marxist liberal.
Hope that clears things up for you, sweets.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
Way to go, Joe:
Lieberman accused Obama of blaming U.S. policies for “essentially sort of strengthening” Iran.
“If Israel is in danger today, it’s not because of American foreign policy, which has been strongly supportive of Israel in every way,” he said. “It is not because of what we have done in Iraq. It is because Iran is a fanatical terrorist, expansionist state.”
Still, Democrats were irked. Lieberman seemed to be breaking new ground - shifting gears from simply promoting McCain to taking shots at Obama.
He’s a “maverick,” hehehehe.
By getalife
June 15, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
“With shovel in hand, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited a flood zone in Quincy, Illinois on Saturday.
Obama helped locals fill sandbags to place on the banks of the Mississippi river.
Obama has vowed to push for state and federal aid to help victims of the floods.
Nearby states Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana have been heavily hit by floods in the last week.”
Well that is good change.
Where is McOld?
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this
We’ve all heard the RAT media and RAT representation, including Obambi, squeal like stuck pigs over a comment that McCain made regarding Iraq. The short list, taken out of context as usual, said that Senator McCain said that “it is not important” when US troops come home from Iraq.
Now, for the long list of what McCain really said. Naturally, do not expect the mange on the sick left to own up to this response when McCain was asked by Matt Lauer if he had an idea when troops could start coming home if the surge was working:
“No, but that’s not important. What’s important is the casualties in Iraq. Americans are in South Korea, Americans are in Japan, American troops are in Germany. That’s all fine. American casualties and the ability to withdraw … we will be able to withdraw. General Petraeus is going to tell us in July when he thinks we are … But the key to it is that we don’t want any more Americans in harm’s way. That way, they will be safe, and serve our country and come home with honor and victory, not in defeat, which is what Senator Obama’s proposal would have done. I’m proud of them. And they’re doing a great job. And we are succeeding and it’s fascinating that Senator Obama still doesn’t realize that.”
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
Liberals. PETA anyone?
I don’t know what’s more pathetic: the mange of liberalism having more concern over how we treat our combatant ENEMIES or having more concern over what we CHOOSE to eat.
P!ss on liberalism - or take a big fat juicy steak dump on it.
Take your pick.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
There is plenty of data that shows that Right-wingers are happier, more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide - and even hug their children more than those on the Left.
They are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted.
It’s been my experience that conservatives like to talk about things outside of themselves while progressives like to discuss themselves: how they are feeling and what their desires are. That might make for a good therapy session but it’s not much fun over a long dinner.
When asked by the World Values Survey whether parents should sacrifice their own well-being for those of their children, those on the Left were nearly twice as likely to say No.
Both the World Values Survey and the General Social Survey reveal Left-wingers are more likely to rate ‘high income’ as an important factor in choosing a job, more likely to say ‘after good health, money is the most important thing’, and agree with the statement ‘there are no right or wrong ways to make money’.
You don’t need to explain that to Doug Urbanski, the former business manager for Left-wing firebrand and documentary-maker Michael Moore. ‘He [Moore] is more money-obsessed than anyone I have known - and that’s saying a lot,’ claims Urbanski.
Studies also indicate that those on the Left are less likely to give to charity or to volunteer their time to charity. When they do support charity, it is often less the sort of organisation that helps people and more one that advocates political action.
Can there be any surprise then that those on the Left tend to be more envious and jealous of successful people? That’s what studies indicate Professor James Lindgren, of Northwestern University in Chicago, found those who favour the redistribution of wealth are more envious than those who do not.
Much of the desire to distribute wealth and higher taxation is motivated by envy - the desire to take more from someone else - and bitterness.
Man, you pinkos got some serious mental issues.
Sickos.
By Dusty
June 15, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
Dear catlady,
Wish we had started earlier but now I don’t have much time. Conservatives seem to me… the ones that support this country in time of war and peace. They seek to elect people who will maintain that characteristic, thus following the Constitution of the USA. Sometimes, they are disappointed.
LIberals do claim they want change. They want to reinterpret the Constitution. They want to change long standing laws that made the USA great. They seem to want to remove religion and faith from any political venture. Unfortunately that has also removed ethics in many cases. They sometimes use free speech as a tool to work against the government of the USA. Sometimes for good. Sometimes for bad.
There is no perfect political party. We simply choose what is best suited to our opinions and beliefs. For me, conservatives are the best thing going for our Republic. I think they keep us as a democracy of freedom, independence and growth.
See ya’ another day…
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi, 71, said on Thursday he backed John McCain, also 71, to be the next U.S. president because if McCain wins, the Italian prime minister won’t feel so old.
Funny. You don’t hear the UN or “globalist” liberals complaining about the age of McCain. So why is it only the liberal trash dumpsters on the left complain about McCain’s age? Oh wait, these asshats on the mangy left said the same thing about Reagan when he went up against that great Socialist Liberal Democrat Failure Jimmuh Cartuh.
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
Oops. Re-post. Minor correction bolded.
ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi, 71, said on Thursday he backed John McCain, also 71, to be the next U.S. president because if McCain wins, the Italian prime minister won’t feel so old.
Funny. You don’t hear the UN or “globalist” liberals complaining about the age of the Italian PM. So why is it only the liberal trash dumpsters on the left complain about McCain’s age? Oh wait, these asshats on the mangy left said the same thing about Reagan when he went up against that great Socialist Liberal Democrat Failure Jimmuh Cartuh.
By AJC/DNC Management
June 15, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this
Age will figure in this election — not only because of the gulf in years separating the two candidates, but also because of fault lines of age within the electorate. Both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama will have to reckon with the great mass of baby boomers, the post-World War II generation who make up a major part of the voting demographic and are themselves experiencing for themselves just what it means to get older. (The oldest of the boomers, born in 1946, reach the early retirement age of 62 this year.)
So how do all you baby boomers feel about the libs ridiculing the elderly?
Are you clueless like they say you are?
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
Funny. Liberal RATs love to run their mouths here until Conservatives start showing up. Filthy dirty cowards.
Anyway…
Earlier I responded to a RAT’s request of what being a Conservative in Georgia means. I mentioned having the freedom to choose our children’s education as one of the examples. Well, naturally, it doesn’t take long for a fusterclucked government run school to help me make my point:
Camden school officials apologized for the vice principal who punished students by making them eat lunch for two weeks while sitting on the gym floor, but one of the parents and the community activist who rallied to their cause said that’s not enough.
I would have beat the HOLY HELL out of that POS had that been my child on that floor. Betcha that piece of trash is a Democrat.
By GayGrayGeek
June 15, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
Dusty - AFESS Or Bust, dear. AFEES Or Bust.
WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, DUSTY? WHY DO YOU SO OBSTINATELY REFUSE TO SERVE THE COUNTRY YOU CLAIM TO “LOVE”, DUSTY?
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
Why do you hate America, blah blah.
Typical “debate” from a mindless POS mangy filthy liberal.
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
Gee, don’t you wish you were as “smart” as big ugly greek? What brilliance and a perfect example of the mindless zombie mange of liberalism.
Freak.
By GayGrayGeek
June 15, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this
Doofus - Sorry you can’t address the message and, like most Paleocons, can only attempt to insult the messenger.
The tactic is old, it’s tired, and it’s quit working, dear heart. Someday you’ll grow up, leave Mommy’s house, and learn…
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this
Ugly Greek: There was no message. There was just the same old worn out “argument” that you filth on the sick liberal left can only repeat, day in and day out, as if you actually think you are making intelligent conversation instead of sounding like a 5th grade repeating playground school child - or pull string doll - take your pick. But, that’s how you trash on the left “debate.” I know that. We all know that.
Filthy liberal mange.
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this
And the FACT that “catady” didn’t offer anything in response to my response to being a Conservative is duly noted.
You libs aren’t real bright, are you? I suppose I wouldn’t be either if my entire world and ideology was based on mindless emotionalism.
By Rufus
June 15, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this
Interesting. The mangy liberals on this blog and elsewhere wet beds over McCain’s age, as if that stopped Reagan from getting elected at nearly 70. You think those same asshats on the filthy rotten to the core left b!tched about the age of Italy’s PM?
Nah. As usual, the 5th grade elementary factor of liberal “thinking” shows it’s worthless self instead of addressing the actual issues.
Trash.