Thinking Right

By TW

June 25, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

What gave ‘w’ the right to designate any of the Iraqi citizens for collateral loss?

Perhaps one of you ‘rightwing Christians’ (oxymoron?) could explain this?

By BFKaJ

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

Good morning all. (1) I have never enjoyed the privilege of dining at The Varsity, so I am incompetent to comment on the ambiance at that facility. (2) I oppose the proposed restriction on “registered sex offenders” in participatory roles in church. I think churches are competent to make those decisions themselves, without help from a nanny government. I realize the main purpose of the proposed law is to magnify the wisdom of political entities, to substitute their judgment for that of religious figures. (3) I have previously written my argument on drilling, that any republican does not merit election if he does not make this 90% of his advertising (with a corollary statement noting the consistent opposition of the democrat party.) There is a difference between the parties – one advocates for freedom, and the other wishes to prevent any meaningful effort to reduce oil prices. Dr. Williams has a related argument today, http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams062508.php3

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Dear TW @ 8:53, the Congress, by overwhelming vote.

By Tom Ga Hunter

June 25, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Why nothing about the Home Forclosure Bill, Looks like our 2 RHINO senators have gone over to the Pelosi/Rheid branch of what was formerly known as the Republican party. Johnny even wrote part of the big Bank bailout.. Special Interest 1st, Georgia Taxpayers last.

By Copyleft

June 25, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Delay, pretend, stick your head in the sand.

Yes, that’s exactly what a shortsighted “drill more!” policy would accomplish. Thanks for acknowledging it, Mr. Wooten. There may be hope for you conservatives yet!

By Redneck Convert

June 25, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Well, cut a redneck open and what you see is grease pour out. Lard use to be the way to get it. Every Southren recipe use to begin with 1/2 cup lard. Then they stopped selling it and we had to get the grease some other way. The Varsity was about as good a way as you could find. Still is.

These preverts ought to have thought about church work back when they were 15 and doing You Know What with all kinds of girls. It ain’t our fault they crossed the Law. Keep them out of church work, I say. If the Rev. Jim Bob Buice can’t go in one its for sure they can’t. Church is for people that never sinned.

Anyhow, its for sure I ain’t voting for anyone that ain’t for drilling, drilling, drilling for oil everywhere. If these high gas prices keep up we will all be forced to park our pickups. Even Wooten. Our American way of life will end and we will all have to turn in to one of these tree huggers that guard every little patch of briars or people that want to ride trains everywhere. And don’t forget atomic plants too. I don’t care if the gas prices stay high. Long as there is plenty of gas around, we will find a way to buy it. Have drill, will fill up.

Have a good day everybody.

By h

June 25, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Good morning all,

I have only been a regular for a few weeks now, and I am getting to the point where I could write Jim’s column for him. Drill, drill, drill, blah, blah, blah. Jim states that responsible oil exploration is an “integral part of an effort to provide some protection against the whims of a world oil cartel.” What are the other parts, Jim? Why do I never read about you advocating alternative forms of energy, or increasing the production of oil and not just finding more? Maybe it is you who has their head in the sand.

As for the ban on sex offenders volunteering in church. I am on the fence on this one. On one hand, children should be protected from sex offenders. A convicted child molestor certainly has no business being around children. Ever. However, is it up to the government to decide? I may have to agree with BFKaJ on this one, GASP! and say that it should be up to the churches to ensure the safety of their congregation. Passing a bill to ban volunteers in religious organizations comes dangerously close to merging church & state.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

If speculation is driving the surge in oil prices, then this is a gas bubble and will soon pass.

Thus, no compromises to our pristine beaches are necessary.

I am totally offended by Wooten’s references to church here. Wooten and the conservatives sold religion for votes in 2000 and 2004. They figured that if Earnest Angley could get people to donate by saying, “HEAL”, then they could raise hundreds of millions by being well-heeled, (the heels).

Never profit from the blood of Christ, you dont have the grace.

Now go to the bank and count your money and gleefully throw it up in the air and say, “mine, Mine, MINE!”

That’s all your soul is worth now. You’ve laid waste to God, and his image in you.

There exists a video of Bush when he first appeared at a church bingo night at his very first campaign raiser when he was running for Governer of Texas. The camera happened to be close up on Bush’s face as an aide told him how much the night’s donation totalled with his “born again” act. Bush’s face reveals the wheels of sold religious greed turning like a particle accelerator in his hollow mind. It’s the most treacherous piece of film that exists in the world today, and it is your epitaph, conservative fools!

You sold your soul, Wooten, and may God have mercy on it.

By ron

June 25, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Sex offenders volunteering for church work.It seems to me that this would be an ideal setting for some of these characters to operate in.Trusting people,children and old ladies are just the victims they’re looking for.It’s true that they’re all tarred by the same brush,but who would like the job of sorting out the ones not likely to be a danger?

Drill.Conserve.Build nuclear plants.Start today.

There can no longer be any doubt that some very good people got scammed in the housing debacle.More of us are being scammed right now in the oil debacle.Supply and demand?Yes.Speculation?Definitely.Greed?Surely.The same ingredients that led to the dot coms and housing.

By TW

June 25, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw - before the false argument hit congress, there was a decision in the White House to designate Iraqi citizens as collateral damage. What gave the White House the right to designate human life as collateral loss in this instance? If they didn’t have the right – just say so.

BTW – 22 Democrats in the Senate voted against the authorization, as did one republican (don’t worry – his constituents voted him out).

John McSame proudly gave ‘w’ the authority to go to a war – a decision tantamount to giving a loaded gun to a two-year-old.

Discretion much, McSame?

By Maniac is accurate

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

I know about Mr. Erby’s intimidation factor. My first time at the Varsity, he sent this South Georgia bumpkin to the back of the line. But he had a smile for me when I got back to the front and had figured out what to order.

Well, I lived in Panama City Beach and would see the oil rig supply boats come into the board to pick up the groceries and what not. No rigs were visible. And, yes, while there is the risk of a spill, there’s the reality that every late summer the sargassum is going to start washing ashore and turn the lovely beaches into a weed choked, stinking mess. Anyhow, let’s drill, nucleate, solarize, windovate, hydrogenate, electrovate and let the Middle East go its own way.

Tomorrow, I believe, Wooten will be teaching his Georgia Press Association compadres how to blog. Then we can spread our business among the AJC, the Eastman Eagle, the McCrae Motivator and the Sylvania Telephone.

By Get Real

June 25, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

*“somebody’s trying to use religion to accomplish their own agenda.” * Quit throwing the softballs Wooten. No one has used religion to accomplish their agenda as much as Republicans. That was an easy one. Republicans had 6 years to lift the ban on offshore drilling, why didn’t they do it then? You act as if oil spills are nothing to worry about, when they should. Again, WHAT ABOUT THE MILLION ACRES OF LAND THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY LEASES TO THE OIL COMPANIES FOR OIL EXPLORATION? How about they use that first before they get more. Dril, dril, drill. Still won’t lower the price of gas at all, and you know it.

And a nice way to pay homage to the deceased. You’re a moron Wooten.

By George Washington

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

Only the catholic church will put known sex offenders in charge of the day care center at the church…..the offender usually has Rev in front of its name…or Father….But woodenhead should support this, as he is a supporter of people in authority to whom he believes we all owe our allegience…Ah suspects his ansestors in the old country were the collaborators that allowed the english king’s lackeys to rule in ireland and scotland for hundreds of years….Mah ansestors were the ones ambushing and killing the kings men and the traitors called colaborators …..As for the white sandy beaches of Florida, ah have always been partial to the black sand beaches of volcanic islands….so a little oil stain is not a problem, except to the stinking repukes who want to develope the beach with 10 million condo’s sold to the guillable as sure bets to appreciate in value…How dumb can the buyers be, seeing construction cranes up and down the beach, yet believing thier condo will only appreciate in value? Over supply leds directly to a collapse in prices, stupid….but the gullible were told the construction cranes were a sure sign of insatiable demand for condo’s, and being stupid repuke scum, they believed the voice of authority aka the real estate developer and its agents….oh oh, woodenhead defies authority, attacking tyrants…oh, not our tyrants, other people’s tyrants….ha ha ha - how very brave of woody….He is gearing up for the next war, the one his pals in israel are now planning to git us into against Iran….I for one hope Iran blows all 100 sneak attack israeli aircraft out of the skies, captures the pilots, and executes them one by one on world wide television….under the caption “The Fate of Terrorists.” Just because the israeli terrorists are flying american made jets does not free them of the label “terrorist.” They are the same as suicide bombers, or will be when the beheadings begin….

By TW

June 25, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Republicans had 6 years to lift the ban on offshore drilling, why didn’t they do it then?

Exposed…yet again.

Ask Phil Gramm…or Berman…or Black…or, better yet, just ask McSame. Amidst his babble he might just slip up and tell you.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Dear TW @ 9:28, I realize you grieve at the loss of Saddam’s rape rooms, and human chippers, and the other glorious tools of social control - kindred spirits chafe at restrictions over their “people management techniques” ever since the US liberated the Socialists’s concentration camps. That is why leftist hate Reagan, as he rendered the gulag to the dustbin of history. Just give it up - nobody else thinks it was a good idea to allow Saddam to remain in control - just you and three other posters on this board.

By hillbilly ragger

June 25, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Never managed to go to the Varsity. Sorry to hear of Mr. Walker’s passing, though—apparently he was something of a local icon.

Wooten made me laugh at this: “the strategy that seeks to raise doubt, find inconsistencies, work openings and eventually do away with capital punishment.”

When a slippery slope argument-against ends up with “Oh NOOO! Anything but that! Can’t ever do away with my precious, precious capital punishment!”, I can only say it reveals far more about the 55-to-dead Georgian White Guy demographic than about the issue being discussed. Which, for the record, I don’t claim to know enough about to have formed an opinion yet.

As to oil drilling, bah. The usual. I just though I’d head off something at the pass.

There’s been some muttering in the wingnuttisphere about how oil platforms needed for drilling are so safe, why, there weren’t any spills after Katrina! or, nothing major, anyway, depending on who’s spinning it.

Per this piece, though, it seems that like most RW talking points, this is another piece of wishful thinking.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

They already had congressional hearings about oil price hikes. The greatest experts in the world gave their opinion about the why and how and who.

If those geniuses couldn’t explain oil prices to anyone’s satisfaction, then what makes Wooten think he knows the solution?

If it’s speculation, then it’s a gas bubble and will pass.

If it’s demand (china and india), then that too will pass because growth occurs in spurts and it’s time for them to recede a bit.

If it’s supply shortages, then we need cars w/higher MPG.

The footdragging by GM, FOrd and Chrysler on MPG improvements is treason. Why did we give those fatbellies a break? We had them in the seventies, and they lobbied their way out of it.

The enemy could be the big three, the Axles of Weasels. They weaseled out of our legislation to improve MPG. That’s not fair. It’s their fault, and I say we go after them now. Prison. Nothing short of prison will satisfy me for any CEO since the 1973 oil shortage in any of the big three, and any VP in fact anyone who can be directly tied to the weaseling should be prosecuted.

Prosecute the Axles of Weasels!!! (GM, FORD, AND CHRYSLER)

By Copyleft

June 25, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

By the way, why is Wooten confusing “sex offenders” with “threats to children,” i.e., pedophiles?

The two are not synonymous, and in fact have very little to do with each other. If churches were really worried about sex offenders, they’d want to keep them away from their ENTIRE congregation, not the kids.

By Nick

June 25, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Kennedy called for us to put a freaking man on the moon, and we accomplished that goal 8 years later.

You’re telling me that we can’t figure out how to make a freaking car that doesn’t need gasoline in that same amount of time? 8 years is about how long it would take for us to see any realized gains from this so-called exploration drilling! What’s the point?

For the life of me I can’t understand why day after day, you, Jim, continue to have your “head stuck in the sand” about this.

By George Washington

June 25, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Three little facts for my FAT but ed fellow AmeriKan pigs:

Americans each use 25 barrels of oil per year.

The Chinese each use 2 barrels of oil per year.

And the folks in India each use just 1 barrel of oil per year.

The Cineses and the Inians want to drive like AmeriKan pigs, and even if they fall short by 90%, there will not be nearly enough oil….And we AmeriKan pigs have used up on a per capita basis some 100 times our fair share already….Ergo, the rest of the world should deny us any more of their valuable oil….

By Dennis

June 25, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes, “Maybe the Social Security crisis will go away too.”

Give it a break, Mr. Wooten.

This is a government program that shares the bounty of this nation with those who have not been as fortunate as I have been or you have been.

And the “crisis” has been intentionally created by the refusal of politicians (especially Republican politicians) to make certain the program is adequately funded.

It’s hypocritical of you to back George W. Bush as he has borrowed, spent and squandered billions on an unnecessary war for oil, but you continually bemoan those same billions to people in your own country whose working days are over and need this country’s financial support to pay their daily bills, medical and drug bills.

“Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight”….

“Oh! Yeeeesssss, Jesus, we love you…[until it comes to money].”

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

By George Washington

June 25, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Oh Woody: You are about to be replaced by some guy in India: Read on: An Indian company will take over copy editing duties for some stories published in The Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper at the company that owns the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the newspaper confirmed Tuesday.

Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June, said John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Register.

Mindworks’ Web site says the company is based outside New Delhi and provides “high-quality editorial and design services to global media firms … using top-end journalistic and design talent in India.”

Editors at Mindworks will work five shifts a week for one month, performing layout for the community paper and editing some stories in the flagship Register, Fabris said. Staffing at the company will not be affected, he said.

Fabris did not specify which community newspaper would be laid out by Indian designers.

“This is a small-scale test, which will not touch our local reporting or decision-making. Our own editors will oversee this work,” Fabris said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. “In a time of rapid change at newspapers, we are exploring many ways to work efficiently while maintaining quality and improving local coverage.”

The company declined to release the financial terms of the deal.

Orange County Register Communications has struggled in recent months with circulation declines. The Register recently dropped from the third-largest newspaper in California to the fifth-largest, behind the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune and Sacramento Bee.

The company has been through three rounds of layoffs in the past year, most recently in April when up to 90 employees lost their jobs. Employees were also offered a voluntary severance program in 2006.

Orange County Register Communications is the umbrella brand for the Register newspaper, Web sites, magazines and other community publications.

Other newspapers also have outsourced some work to India. Mindworks began copyediting and design of a weekly community news section and other special advertising sections at The Miami Herald in January. A month earlier, the Sacramento Bee, also owned by the McClatchy Co., said it would outsource some of its advertising production work to India.

By TW

June 25, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Dear TW @ 9:28, I realize you grieve at the loss of Saddam’s rape rooms, and human chippers, and the other glorious tools of social control - kindred spirits chafe at restrictions over their “people management techniques” ever since the US liberated the Socialists’s concentration camps.

jbmlaw - The ‘big kid’ question is was it worth it?

I’m really surprised the GOP, the party whose god is mammon, doesn’t get this. Let me try to explain…if you came home to a Hummer in the drive, there is no question it would look great sitting there. But how much did it cost? If it cost the death of 4100 soldiers and hundreds of billions of dollars then maybe the purchase wasn’t very wise. Yes, it still looks great sitting in the drive. Yes, the world is a better place without saddam.

Again - ‘big kid’ thinking, jbmlaw. Childish thought got us into this mess.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim…..Fantasy is GREAT Policy….for instance a 2.7 Billion Dollar WAR, which has resulted in the price of OIL being $4.00 a gallon.

Uncertainty in the market is what BUSH wanted and got with the WAR.

Now why can’t the public find out what the “Secret Meetings about the American Energy Policy”, was all about?

You remember DICK and the energy thieves!

That was wonderful FANTASY JIM!

YES Jim the Varsity….. did you not notice the CDC said yesterday that Georgia has been Georgia hit hard by diabetes?

Gee Jim, conventional thinking would have you realize the food the Varsity sells will flat out KILL you!

I guess the conservative mind doesn’t get the connect!

No the Varsity has never been part of my diet!

I agree with you Jim, on the off shore drilling……. BUT …….what did they talk about in those Secret Energy Meetings?

By George Washington

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

Much as I would like to drill the entire state of Florida and all its pretty white beaches and waters out to the 200 mile limit (or 50 in the case of cuba) one little physical fact keeps gitten in the way: There aren’t enough drilling rigs or ships to exploit the deep-water fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

The world’s existing drill-ships are booked solid for the next five years.

And that shortage should continue. Transocean, the world’s largest drilling company, is building nine new deepwater rigs, and eight of them are already under contracts that run from four to seven years — even before they leave the shipyards!

Those drill ships are designed to plumb the depths of deepwater oil fields, those below more than 1,000 feet of water that represent one of the final frontiers of oil prospecting. In fact, some of the best prospects are in so-called ultra-deepwater fields beyond 5,000-foot depths. Thanks to the shortage, drilling costs for some of the newest deepwater rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have hit $600,000 a day, compared with $150,000 a day in 2002. So while we might eventually find more oil there, it won’t be cheap oil.

OH YEAH, THE WORLD’S LARGEST PRODUCER OF OFFSHORE OIL RIGS AND PLATFORMS IS CHINA……

By Politics Aside

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

The Big Three automakers are the Axles of Weasel. They weaseled their way out of the CAFE standards our congress legislated.

The quibbled and equivocated and bribed their way around our laws, the dirty rats.

The Axles of Weasel are responsible for all our problems!!!

Prosecute the Axles of Weasel!!!!

By George Washington

June 25, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Fear not Politics, the big three are doomed…Ah expect all three to be in bankruptcy within the next three years….they will not survive….Toyota and Honda will rule North America as far into the future as George can see, and George can see far indeed…..

By TW

June 25, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A roadside bombing has killed three U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, bringing the number of American troop deaths this week in the country to seven.

Yeah, regular gold course over there…

Somebody tell ‘w’ these are not the little green plastic soldiers that come in bags of fifty at the walmart…

By Ray

June 25, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

As far as energy is concerned, it probably doesn’t make much difference who is president. Any candidate has to rely on the auto unions, big oil and their big PAC money to get elected. Drilling offshore is just a band aid solution. If we were going to do this,we should have started years ago. But politicians don’t get elected that way, do they? The solution has to come from private industry with incentives to produce a solution in the manner of tax breaks. The patent for a hydrogen car probably sat in the top desk drawer of the CEO of GM for a long time. We are still the most innovative nation in the world, for just a bit longer, and we need to get off of our dead a** and have some people of vision get us out from under fossil fuels. These politicians are killing us and will be the downfall of our country as we know it. The Arabs don’t have much to do but wait for it to happen. George Carlin was one of the best critics of the system as we know it. Rest in peace, George.

By Independent Thinker

June 25, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Hey Wooten, where was the outrage when gas hit $2, then $3 a gallon? We could’ve somehow nipped this in the bud then. But since $4 is starting to affect people of your economic ilk, we have to drill, drill, drill. What happens when we drill and theres no oil? Or if the amount we find is less than the costs to drill and refine it?

Weren’t the Republicans running all three branches of government for 6 of the last 8 years? Why wasn’t anything done to head this off back then Wooten. You can’t bring yourself to admit the Republicans have been complete failures in power. Like a poster said yesterday, I don’t think there will be too many schools with W’s name on them.

By hillbilly ragger

June 25, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Politics Aside @ 9.58, you ask a good question:

“The footdragging by GM, FOrd and Chrysler on MPG improvements is treason. Why did we give those fatbellies a break? We had them in the seventies, and they lobbied their way out of it.”

First off, I think “treason” is a tad strong. I don’t like it when RWers drop that term whenever someone on the left is insufficiently enamored of our Glorious Mission in Eye-Rack, don’t like it when you use it to describe simple corporate stupidity.

But to answer your question, Pogo’s partly right. We’ve met the enemy, and they is us (and the Big Three management.) Truth is, Dems and Goopers have been in an unwitting, unholy alliance to keep CAFE standards from ever meaning much: The former, because too many UAW jobs depended on fat, easy profits from SUV and pickup truck sales; the latter, because of their ideological revulsion at industry regulations of any kind.

By Dusty

June 25, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Wish I could stick around for more laughs but I can’t do it today.

I’m going to miss jbmlaw pulling the wings off TW and similar types in their admiration for our enemies.

Poor “h” has already disclosed her disposition for things liberal by first stopping by Obama headquarters for her check along with the 28 others who get paid for political propaganda. Her temperate ideas changed in a $$hurry.

George Washingboard is busy trying to incriminate our allies such as Israel. That is the liberal idea of cute and cunning connections.

Politics Aside, riding in his Japanese Honda with a Korean boxie at home, wants to incriminate AMERICAN auto workers to show HIS support.

Hillbilly ragger is all hot and bothered about capital punishment. BUT..nobody mentioned capital punishment. Oh well…

But the biggest chuckle is next door at Bookman’s, big lib bonehead at AJC. Would you believe that he does NOT like the way Republicans picked interns? We didn’t pick them like Monica Lewinsky but used a little affirmative action. And Bookman wants to make this a Big BooBoo? Oh the Ghost of WhiteHouse Past and Clinton Configurations!!! Oh yes, we must be correct in picking interns……like libs did it…Woohoo Washington!!

See you later..much later.

By hillbilly ragger

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

Sister Dusty gave us (emphasis mine):

“Hillbilly ragger is all hot and bothered about capital punishment. BUT..nobody mentioned capital punishment. Oh well…”

Jim? You gonna sit and take that?

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

The Axles of Weasels: Gm. Ford. Chrysler….

….is why we pay $4.

Another reason we should change with Obama. Obama wants to outlaw lobbyists.

Obama 08: 4 the access of people

By GOPs got to go

June 25, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Even McCain admits that drilling will not do anything anytime soon for oil prices Wooten. He has proclaimed it a “Psychological” benefit. Can you say “Political” benefit? Auto designers have had 30 plus years to develop an engine with either better gas mileage or one does not run on oil. I agree with above poster, it is criminal to have had lobbyist squash the legislation passed in the 70’s to remedy this whole “oil problem” we Americans have.

COME ON ENGINEERS!! McCain is going to give you 300 million to get a better battery. If only we had said THAT back in the 70’s. I have no doubt enterprising young and old Americans would have been right on it. After all, we all know that money talks.

I have been to the Varsity, in my GT days. Still have the heart burn. Good ambiance, bad food. I value my aorta more than a chili-dog.

I will check in on the Catholic Priest thing. Being a life long Catholic, I can say I have lapsed in my church going and try to get my spirituality from within. After the pedophile thing and the ex-communication of Kerry voters I stopped going. After all, I just figured I was on the outs because I chose to vote for the, um, Catholic guy. But that’s just me. If sexual offenders can not find forgiveness and salvation in church, just where are they supposed to go? They could switch teams and become priests. Decent pay, lots of legal protection.

By MC

June 25, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

My only question regarding opening new areas to drilling is why are they not drilling in the existing leases that are presently held and legal to drill in the Gulf of Mexico? Something just doesn’t add up here. Drill where it is already permissable first. It really sounds like crying wolf to me. What is the real agenda here. If increased supply is the goal, why are they not drilling in existing leases?

By GOPs got to go

June 25, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

Off to play tennis in your Hummer?

By Dusty

June 25, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Dear Brother Ragger,

As I go out the door I must say that you are correct. Jim DID mention captal punishment. Oh..off with my head…feed them cake…I have betrayed good Jim Wooten.

Are you writing from Death Row, Brother Ragger? Your concern is understandable. Please forgive me for incorrectly mentioning your plea and plight.

Sooolong……

By SaveOurRepublic

June 25, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Greetings folks.

I have some good memories of the hitting the Varsity on the way to/from various sporting events in Atlanta (especially as a kid). While I’m certainly no “regular”, I do quite enjoy the Varsity on rare occasions. My condolences to Mr.Walker’s family.

Regarding offenders being allowed to serve in Church, I can understand the reasoning and could potentially see it applicable to convicted child molesters. However (all in all), I believe in limited government across the board. I say leave it to churches to screen if they wish. We cannot allow the precendent of continued government regulation and size/power.

Regarding oil, the Globalist Elite control Big Oil & the 95% of the traitors on “Crapitol sHill”, so the agenda of squeezing the American middle class is being fully implemented. In order to make the middle class more pliable for the Elite’s control, the DC sellouts disregard the many options for ridding the U.S. of foreign oil dependency. Opening a slew of new U.S. refineries, rolling back many of the ridiculous fuel blend laws, drilling in ANWR, offshore Pacific, Gulf and inland U.S. should have been done decades ago! BTW, in addition to the Corporate World, puppet governments, the “Sheepletainment” industry & “mainstream” media, the Elite also fund/control the Environazi movement as well (& have mandated all this “Green” propaganda to push for more government enpowerment…largely via global carbon taxation). There’s not a shadow of doubt that the traitors in DC exist to serve their Ma$ters, and NOT the American people!!!

http://www.infowars.com

By h

June 25, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

It is certainly too bad you can’t stick around very long today because you would have some retractions to do.

First and foremost, (since this attack was near and dear to my heart) I DO NOT SUPPORT OBAMA! Did you get that, should I say it again? I may be liberal but I do not trust that man as far as I can throw him. And before all you people start calling me racist, bigot, whatever, it has nothing to do with that. I don’t care if the man is black, white, red, yellow, blue, purple with green polka-dots, he has no clear stance on what his “Change” will be. Also, have you heard the man? He sounds like some smooth-talking used car salesman that is going to give me a lemon when I ask for a Mercedes.

Secondly, I am a firm supporter of the Bill of Rights. I believe strongly in the freedoms that the Constitution and the early government has given us. After all Dusty, isn’t that what you are always preaching about, us defending freedom?

Separation of church and state is guaranteed to us by that document. And for good reason, otherwise we would have the First United Church of W by now. All I am saying is that a law mandating church business comes close to infringing on that freedom. I am not, nor ever will, supporting sex offenders and child molestors being allowed around our children.

For that matter, I move a little to the right and would like to see all child molestors not only banned from volunteering at church, but from all society as well. Put them all on a deserted island together or whatever, I don’t really care.

And, for the record, I am against drilling, not because i am a lemming following party propaganda, but because I firmly believe that it will do absolutely no good and land us in the same spot just a few years from now. Also, I happen to enjoy the Florida beaches and Polar Bears. So there.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Hey Ray…… totally WRONG STATEMENT!

“By Ray

June 25, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

As far as energy is concerned, it probably doesn’t make much difference who is president.”

Someone needs to tell the world what the “Secret Energy meeting were about “, remember Dick Cheney and the energy thieves about 6 years ago….creating “Energy Policy for America!”

Everyone remembers Enron was part of those meetings!

As long as we have a REPUBLICAN President, that is pulling that crap, we AMERICANS will never know what is happening!

It is not about ANY PRESIDENT…..it is about the Republicans and ALL their Secrets!

By TW

June 25, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Peter - well said. There is no credible energy discussion without mention of the Enron loophole.

By hillbilly ragger

June 25, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

h @ 11.03:

I may be liberal but I do not trust that man as far as I can throw him. And before all you people start calling me racist, bigot, whatever, it has nothing to do with that. I don’t care if the man is black, white, red, yellow, blue, purple with green polka-dots, he has no clear stance on what his “Change” will be.

I’m not presuming you’re a racist for your hysterical over-reaction to Obama. I do think you’re making stuff up. If you believe he has “no clear stance on what his ‘change’ will be”, you’ve obviously neither bothered to listen to any of his stump speeches, nor ventured to his website.

Do that, and criticize something specific. But don’t come here and cry and moan that he doesn’t state his positions clearly. He has.

That said, I appreciate your fondness for FL beaches and polar bears. Good on you.

By Peter

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

Dusty has her hard in the sand as usual……

She will fail to realize that the Republican justice department actually DID discriminate according to Party lines.

“Even senior Justice Department officials flinched at what appeared to be hiring decisions based — improperly and illegally — on politics, according to the internal report.”

Problem with Dusty is she is unable to find the TRUTH in all of the Republican lies and scandals.

Next topic should be why can’t REPUBLICANS keep track of TAX PAYERS MONEY?

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States has not accurately tracked about $6 billion it gave to help the Pakistani government fight terrorism since 2001, according to a report released Tuesday.

Gee a 2.7 Trillion dollar WAR for OIL, and who knows where the money is going!

By getalife

June 25, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

“McCain Last Night: World War III Would Justify A Draft”

Bombing Iran will start WWIII with China and Russia.

They will protect their oil interests in Iran.

So, if you want your kids to die in massive numbers, by all means, vote for this tortured soul.

By Lily Toad

June 25, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Squawk! Drill for oil! Squawk! Obama no good! Squawk! Drill for oil! Squawk! Obama’s a leftist!

Somebody give Polly Wooten a cracker and teach him a few new issues to write about!

Still waiting for the column about why anyone should vote for McCain, instead of the incessant battering of Obama.

By h

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

Hillbilly ragger:

You’re right. You have got me on that point. I have not gone to his website, or truly sat and listened to an entire speech. Perhaps he has defined his vision. But for my ears, what I have heard is little snippets here and there, and “change” is such an overused political game. Obama seems to be vague for me.

Also, I apologize for sounding hysterical, I prefer to call it “passionate.” It comes down to trust. From what I have seen so far, I do not trust him. And I can’t put my finger on what exactly it is right now, but there is something about him that bothers me. And in this election, it is smart to listen to that feeling.

By Peter

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

Hey TW……”By TW

June 25, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Peter - well said. There is no credible energy discussion without mention of the Enron loophole.”

Yes I want the world to realize we have been lied too in SO many ways by Bush and the Republicans.

Do you think the Republicans had a plan to raise OIL prices……I do!

Too much money was to be made by Bilking America in that way, very similar to how the WAR bilks America!

Now I wonder where the WAR money is going? The WAR for OIL as former Fed Chairman said!

I guess we can all say “faulty intelligence”…….. that is the REPUBLICAN EXCUSE for the BIG LIE!

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

A moment of silence for the Varsity counter guy. Wooten found him intimidating because he kept asking dogmatically for Freedom Fries. Instead of no soup 4 U, Mr. Walker would point across the street and say, “your french fries is over there, Mr. Wooten, cause you aint gettin ‘em over here”.

Conservatives often ended up with a Horatio Alger Hotdog where the sun dont go on the bun,

Goodbye to the Mustard Mullah.

Obama 08: It’s French Fries again.

By Curious Observer

June 25, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

So it’s drill everywhere, huh?

What I’m not seeing in these plaintive cries is any requirement that the oil companies doing the drilling restrict the sale of any new oil to the United States. These companies want US dispensation to drill anywhere, but they also want the freedom to dump their oil on the world market, where we will have the dubious privilege of bidding for it against China and India.

No thanks. American oil companies need to learn that the free lunch is nonexistent. I’m utterly uninterested in enriching stockholders in oil companies at our considerable environmental risk, while receiving practically nothing in return. We will need our own access to the oil produced in the United States in the event of an embargo.

By hillbilly ragger

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

Lily, who is “Still waiting for the column about why anyone should vote for McCain, instead of the incessant battering of Obama.”

You really think that’s “battering?” I’ve yet to read anything that wasn’t either laughably lame, or just plain made-up, in the way of criticism from Wooty. Look at today’s…

Oh, wait. He’s actually dumping on Reid and Pelosi, not Obama. Which is odd. Considering the ginourmous gift of FISA they’ve given Jim this week, you’d think the old fusspot would be a little more appreciative of our supine Congress.

By ron

June 25, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Dear Lily Toad,Obama is the reason one should vote for McCain.That’s a big reason,Lily Toad.It trumps any other reason I can think of.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

I exposed the role the Big Three automakers played in $4 gas this day. I called GM, Ford, and Chrysler the Axles of Weasels, because it rhymes with Axis of Evil and because they weaseled out of our legislated CAFE standards.

But now, this day, I wish to change the tone and syntax of the prosaic prose I use this day. I wish to call attention to the sacrifices made by the yankees in the civil war who in effect took axes to the boweeveled cotton industry of the south.

Obama 08: He’s the fruition of the sacrifices made in the civil war by yankees who took axes to boweevelists 4 the access of people to stop the axles of weasels from dancing to the axis of evil’s tunes.

That is all I say 2 U this day.

By Peter

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

There should be a few NEW Election slogan for the Republicans…….

“Vote Republicans, we Don’t know where your Tax dollars went!”

“Vote Republican, our Justice Department, is Bias!”

“Vote Republican, we know more about about “Faulty Intelligence!”

“Vote Republican, a 2.7 Trillion Dollar WAR is Conservative!”

“Vote Republican, we can start World WAR III!”

“Vote Republican, and we will keep our Energy Policy Secret!”

Hey Jim, got any more to add?

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Dear Leftist friends, I respectfuly await (anxiously) your reaction to the leftist ruling by the Supremes.

By TW

June 25, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Peter - no doubt. The last eight years have been nothing short of the sickest get rich scheme in the history of the United States.

Why do you suppose they hate America so? I’m thinking they saw the country as lost following the civil rights movement. I think they decided they might as well make as much coin as they can off this place because it was doomed anyway by all that equality business. Every notice that those who benefitted the most by this admin are the ones who in the old days would have owned folks? Ever seen where Rumsfeld actually lives?

Yeah, they figured this place went to pot with the civil rights movement. They made as much as they could regardless of how bad it screwed us, and now they will disappear into the sunset on their new yachts, destined for that new place to live they have no doubt purchased somewhere off Dubai…

Yes, the god of mammon, under the direction of the GOP, has feasted on our democracy.

By BFKaJ

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

Suddenly the whole world makes sense. Our leftist friends must win this election to make the world safe for child rapists. Otherwise, since the three oldest Supreme Court members - all voting to prohibit executiion of child rapists, since that is a “disproportionate” penalty - might be replaced by guys like Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts, who would oppose the leftist activist judges.

Cannot wait to hear from Southern Democrat today!

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

I can fully understand the view of the left. No reasonable person could possibly disagree with their view that child rapists ought to be executed, thus we must prevent the rabble from exercising differing opinions. A great day of pride for the American left. I salute those who endeavor to protect child rapists.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Hey TW, is that your pride swelling, or are you just happy to see the leftist Supreme Court.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Trolls are trying to drown me out with pointless prattle.

Dont let the troll’s axioms of drivel distract you from remembering how our patriot ancestors took axes to boweevelists for the access of people to stop the axles of weasels from dancing to the axis of evil’s tune.

If you do, we’re finished.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

The whole group TW, is what is left over from the Iran Contra Affair…..they broke the law back then, got away with it….. SO hey we can do it again, must have been the motto!

The Typical Republican has been lied too so much, they can’t see the forest for the trees……by the way They see the trees, but want to chop them down……

Like eating at the Varsity, only bad for your health!

The sad part is they have ZERO compassion for their OWN Children and Grand Children…..heck they will be dead, so who cares about the kids!

Typical crap, all about the dollar……but hey they can’t even keep the value of the dollar up!

REPUBLICAN’s speaks with Forked Tongue!

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

First question for Obama - will you nominate judges such as those who prohibit execution of child rapists?

By Redneck Convert

June 25, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Well, I’m boiling mad. The librul yankees on the SC just ruled we can’t use the Death Penalty against a person that does You Know What to a kid. These pinheads say we can only use it against a criminal that kills somebody.

I guess its time to take the Law into our own hands next time we get this kind of case. While the criminal is being arrested somebody needs to run in and kill the kid and say the criminal done it. That way we can shoot the juice to him.

It just goes to show we need to vote against this Obama. The five libruls that voted for this rule are all about to retire. We need to make sure we got a President that will appoint new judges that say kill, kill, kill. We owe it to our kids so they can grow up in a peaceful world. I know jbmlaw or whatever he calls hisself these days will agree with me.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Thank goodness we have the leftists protecting the children in society, otherwise they might favor the types of judges who work to protect the lives of child rapists.

By ron

June 25, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Redneck.The librul yankees also just reduced the multi-billion dollar charge against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez spill down to $507 million.How you like them apples?

By hillbilly ragger

June 25, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

I wasn’t planning on making this a topic, but… wow.

Southrons really do like them some death penalty, huh?

Oh, and h @ 11.33, I appreciate the candor. Why not just spend a few minutes at the website (heck, I go to McCain’s, myself, with some regularity) and see what Obama actually advocates, instead of having the man defined for you in soundbites and such?

By TW

June 25, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw - that whole child rape thing seems to have stirred an unprecedented level of emotion in you. Might want to tell your therapist.

By George Washington

June 25, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

That’s what I tell all my girlfriends, “Death before Dishonor Baby.” Opps, one can always git another girlfriend to replace the dead ones and the dishonored ones….They grow a new crop each and every year….

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

I guess I have to withdraw my earlier arguments about how “competent” republicans should campaign. While it is appropriate for republican candidates for the house to talk about nothing but drilling, perhaps republican senate candidates should talk about judicial nominees. I think the leftists protection of child rapists probably will sell well. Who would vote for a candidate who favors protecting the lives of child rapists?

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

Dear TW @ 12:49, I simply understand you for the first time, why you are the way you are.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Sure, TW @ 12:49, I understand your view - tell them to just enjoy it.

By Driving on the Beach

June 25, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

The ‘offshore drilling’ pictures on the front of today’s AJC were plainly manipulative and disconnected from any logic or reality. And there’s nothing ‘fresh’ about this debate. Jim, don’t you have any pull around that place?

By Hillbilly Deluxe

June 25, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

Gov. Sonny should read this blog. Maybe if he did he’d work to improve our mental health system.

By George Washington

June 25, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

I think children who commit rape should be rehabilitated, not executed….so much for child rapists, eh…..

By TW

June 25, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw - make the appointment…talk about it..I’m sure it wasn’t your fault…

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Of course the leftists are giddy with excitement. “It looks like a smashing victory on all fronts for us,” said Denise LeBoeuf, a longtime capital defense attorney from New Orleans.

Just for the record, the five justices who prohibit the death penalty for child rapists are Kennedy, Ginsberg, Souter, Stevens, and Breyer. This is the same group that voted in the majority of Kelo and Boumediene. Kennedy, you will all recall, was nominated to the court only after the Senate leftists proclaimed Robert Bork “outside the mainstream.”

By BFKaJ

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

Dear TW @ 1:11, your affection for child rapists is noted.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

June 25, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

The solution to the child rapist thing is simple. Put them in with the general prison population. They’d be put to death and it wouldn’t take 15-20 years to get it done.

By TW

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

jbmlaw - on the contrary. I think that what happened to you was awful. You are my concern - not the offender. Please, for the sake of all of us who value your genius - talk to somebody. Everything is going to be OK.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

I am the Gnu George Carlin.

Thanx to W and his A-team, America is on plan B subsisting on C-rations and D-list careers, E-mailing Fu’s to G men waiting for H hour…..

I know, you get the bit, but none of you uber-pudwits could have written this or thought of it, you’re just teeth, lips and tongues chattering in the cyberspace…..pathetic.

This blog’s Troll’s axioms of drivel wont negate GOP sins, Like W’s axing of legals affronted the gains made when our ancestors took axes to boweevelists for the access of peoples to stop the axles of weasels from dancin’ to the axis of evil’s tunes.

I am the Gnu George Carlin.

By DaveD

June 25, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ, Which judges “elected” Bubble Boy Bush to office? Like paying $4 or so for gas? I hope you do! What we need to fix this country is lots and lots of abortions!

See, you “talibangelicals” that voted on 2 issues…gay marriage and abortion…well thank ALLAH that abortions are STILL killing GA born and bred retards kids so we don’t have more of them…and thank ALLAH again that gays are STILL gay!

Thanks for the $4 gas! Hope you’re enjoying it!

Abortions performed on idiots that mate with idiots…well, it’s a GOOD thing! ;-)

By h

June 25, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Hillbilly deluxe:

How right you are. I once heard from a former prisioner that the one thing that other hard core prisioners can’t stand is child rapists. They Do tend to “take care” of those, as was told to me.

This is one issue that makes my blood boil as well, BFKaJ. I just cannot agree that the crime does not merit capital punishment. What happens to a child when they are abused? It does in fact take their “life”. Way of life, innocence, everything is lost at that point.

As I have posted before, I am a huge supporter of the bill of rights, but the one thing I could never understand was the interpretation of “cruel & unusual punishment.” The way it has been interpreted, inmates have to be given free college education, roomier cells, tv’s, etc. I think that’s Cr*p. I could understand no death penalty for robbery. Ok, that may be extensive. But any person who could deliberately do something so heinous to someone so innocent does not deserve my compassion. What about that chiild. Wasn’t their punishment “cruel & Unusual?” Who stood up for their rights?!

By Peter

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

Hey more GREAT REPUBLICAN Election slogans…..

VOTE Republican, we can make sure after OIL Spills happen, the BIG Oil companies will not have to pay!

VOTE Republican, you too can forget about eating Fish for dinner!

VOTE Republican, more areas of the Sea can become dead Zones!

VOTE Republican, we need more Nuclear plants for Terrorist Targets!

VOTE Republican and we can make sure alternative energy is not part of the PLAN!

By George Washington

June 25, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Ah, Driving on the Beach, Jim has been out sourced to India…Only his name remains….such as it is…the column is to be renamed in Jim’s eh, honor, as “If Only I Had A Brain,” and will run twice a week, on Monday and Wednesday….

By Copyleft

June 25, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

I notice that the discussion has shifted to “child molestors” and who can dream up the most violent and painful punishment imaginable for them… when the policy Wooten mentioned was about sex offenders.

Notice the difference? Of course not; you’ve been programmed to miss it.

“Sex offenders” are not the same as child molestors; not even close. “Sex offenders” include flashers, rapists, 19-year olds convicted for dating 16-year olds, erotica-shop owners, and yes, some child molestors too.

By attempting to lump them all together under the big scary name “child molestors, a Threat to Our Children,” the hysterics among us prevent any sane discussion of public safety and public policy.

And, as usual, the talk-radio crowd falls for it, every time.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Dear h @ 2:07, well argued. Only the leftist theory of a “living, breathing” constitution allows the US Supreme Court to make such as decision as the Kennedy v Louisiana case. Justice Bork’s “original meaning” interpretation of the 8th Amendment would have required a vote contrary to that of the leftist majority.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 2:12, vote democrat and protect child rapists.

By Copyleft

June 25, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

BFK sure gets upset when someone’s rights are defended, doesn’t he…? I guess he’d prefer some frontier-style “justice”—maybe a lynch mob? After all, “fair trials” are for those sissy leftist types who talk about freedom and justice.

(snicker)

You bet I agree with the Court’s decision on this one, BFK. The death penalty is reserved for murder only. In your twisted mind, I am therefore ‘defending, favoring, and inviting into my home’ everyone who commits a lesser offense.

Because that’s how a black-or-white mind operates! How sad for you.

By h

June 25, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Copyleft -

Wooten did mention sex offenders not child molestors as you state. I do acknowledge that one does not constitute the other. I agree that they should not be lumped together as the bill in question would have done. I think they should be separated. One should not be registered as a “sex offender” if one indeed is a “child molestor”. Maybe we could raise that bill. Any thoughts!

By Peter

June 25, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

More Republican election slogans…..

VOTE Republican, your house can be worth less!

VOTE Republican we know the word Inflation exists, but we realize that it is really “Faulty Intelligence!”

VOTE Republican, your job CAN me moved over seas!

VOTE Republican your FEMA trailer WILL give you CANCER!

VOTE Republican if there is a disaster in your area, we MAY have time for you, BUT only after we invade another country!

VOTE Republican if your are in a Disaster, we can visit, BUT only after we are done with our vacation!

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 2:25, vote democrat and protect child rapists.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 2:12, vote democrat and protect child rapists.

Let’s face it it is a Republican Led Supreme Court…… duhhhhhhhh!!!!

By findog

June 25, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

I grew up on the gold coast. It’s not there anymore because of development and the changes to the currents along the shoreline. Every time I went to the beach I got some tar on my feet so pristine is strictly a marketing ploy. My first job out of high school was at a Union 76 station and gas was 58.9/gallon for unleaded. The owner and a couple of the regulars sent me to the Varsity for lunch one day and were surprised I made it back with the order. Thirty plus years later a chili steak and chili dog are my favorite lunchtime feast… What’ll you have? A look at the energy policy that VP Cheney worked on to see what we are not doing other than drill to become energy independent.

By Churchill (d)

June 25, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Comprehensivist Down! In 2006, the primary victory of GOP Rep. Chris Cannon was offered by many pundits as comforting evidence that the immigration issue didn’t have legs. After all, Cannon had supported “comprehensive” immigration reform—including legalization (i.e. semi-amnesty)—yet he survived in a conservative Utah district. Here’s Michael Barone two years ago:

If Cannon had lost, House Republicans surely would have panicked and stonewalled any approach but border-security-only. But his victory — and the fact that he ran ads with endorsements from George W. Bush, who supports a comprehensive bill — indicates that his positions are not political death, even in a district that went 77 percent to 20 percent Republican in the 2004 presidential election

Well, yesterday Cannon lost— to a fellow Republican who had no paid staff or polling but did attack Cannon’s support of “amnesty.” And Cannon lost by a large margin (60-40) primarily because he “failed to generate the kind of [Republican primary] turnout typically enjoyed by House incumbents.” …

Hmm. As if by eerie coincidence, John McCain has been having trouble generating the kind of popularity among Republicans typically enjoyed by Republican presidential candidates! And he’s also been pushing “comprehensive” reform of late, potentially winning Latino support but further jeopardizing his GOP support. Kausfiles notes that there are more Republicans than Latinos. If McCain win’s an extra 10% of Latino voters but loses an extra 10% of Republican voters, he loses, right? Maybe on his forthcoming trip to Mexico he will do the math. .

By GOPs got to go

June 25, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

I know a lot of Fundamentalist Mormons who just blew out a sigh of relief about the child rapist verdict.

I am really more of a Demoplican or a Republocrat on this one. I belive that any one who harms a child SHOULD be put to death or at least given hormones so that it will never be a problem again.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

More Great Republican Election Slogans……

VOTE Republican, so when Our American Soldiers come back from the Made UP WARS, there will be no help for them!

Vote Republican, when you are messed up in the head from WAR, we will rehabilitate you by housing you next to Firing Ranges!

Vote Republican we WILL start WWII, so we can reinstitute the draft!

By Maniac is accurate

June 25, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

There are two guys trying their hands at 72-ouncers at the Big Texan Steak Ranch if you want to check out the Web cam. They look like they are struggling with about 17 minutes left on the clock. They could hurl.

By Maniac is accurate

June 25, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

I like the hormone treatment for sex offenders, along with confinement, torture and medically applied paralysis from the waist down. That’s even better than death.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 2:56, vote democrat and protect child rapists.

By Jim Dale

June 25, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Erby Walker was a friend of mine, and he was a staunch Democrat - he despised Republicans. He was a great man, and he will be missed.

Erby especially despised Jim Wooten. He used to read his column in the paper, tear it out and pretend to wipe his butt with it.

Some irony that Wooten heaps praise on him today. FYI Jim - Erby probably hocked a loog in your chili steak, you hateful sack of fecal corn.

By Jim Dale

June 25, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Erby Walker was a friend of mine, and he was a staunch Democrat - he despised Republicans. He was a great man, and he will be missed.

Erby especially despised Jim Wooten. He used to read his column in the paper, tear it out and pretend to wipe his butt with it.

Some irony that Wooten heaps praise on him today. FYI Jim - Erby probably hocked a loog in your chili steak, you hateful sack of fecal corn.

By Peter

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

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 2:56, vote democrat and protect child rapists.

Vote Republican, we don’t know who actually appointed the Supreme Court!

By BFKaJ

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

A proud day for leftists - Justices Stevens, Ginsberg, Souter, Breyer, and Kennedy have made the world safe for child rapists, just as they did last week for enemy combatants captured on the battlefield. The same group wrote the Kelo decision a couple of years ago, saying the last half of the fifth amendment doesn’t really mean what it says.

Vote democrat and make the world safe for child rapists.

By George R Johns

June 25, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Dear Mr. Wooten, I live in South Forida and am somewhat famiiar with the AJC as I have children who live in the Atlanta area. If that Erb Walker hated you and Republicans, than I am a fan of yours. I don’t consider myself to be a genius, But I think I have a soulution to our oil problem and I wanted to get it out where people can find out about it and start demanding action. We have a lot of oil in our reserves, So I thought, Why can’t we draw from our reserves until new refinneries can be built and when our new wells are pumping, we can replace those reserves. The oil is there so, why not use it. They are for emergencies and I would think WE are in an emergency situation at the present time. Thank you, Sincerely, George R Johns

By h

June 25, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Ok, ok BFK -

we get your point. I have agreed with you - but you can stop kicking the horse now.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Proud Day for Republicans….. it is safe for OIL companies to Pollute America, and not have to pay for it long term!

Great day for Republicans, soon we will have no fish to eat, or Fishing Fleets, but hey don’t Republicans eat their young?

Remember folks Abortion is WRONG……BUT killing folks as they get older around the Globe is WONDERFUL!

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Dear h @ 3:23, I respectfully think you don’t get the point. The problem is not that democrats and leftists always decide things perversely. The problem is the ideology, that the Constution morphs to suit whatever the democrat perversion du jour. Until every leftist on this board agrees that the leftist decision today was wrong on every level, I will continue to remind all.

Vote democrat - protecting child rapists since 2008.

Vote democrat - because in your heart, you know you’re a child rapist.

Vote democrat - so that all of God’s children can be raped.

By findog

June 25, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ, has the court shifted left after they elected W, or do you just twist anything to blame the other side in your lawyer mind?

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

Our friend Copyleft said it best @ 2:19: “You bet I agree with the Court’s decision on this one.” Vote democrat, to protect the child rapists.

By steve

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

jim, i once told you that you were a diamond in the billygoats butt,after reading what people say to you day after day i realize the truth of what i said.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Dear findog @ 3:36, a fair question. President Bush appointed two Supreme Court justices, Roberts and Alito. Both of the Bush appointees voted in the minority today. President Clinton appointed two Supreme Court justices, Ginsberg and Breyer. Both of the Clinton appointes voted to protect child rapists.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Yes BFKaJ the WOMEN being RAPED in Iraq are NOT God’s Children?

Gee just whom are children of GOD?

Who placed the majority of Judges in the CURRENT Supreme Court…..the Republican or Democrat Presidents?

Vote Republican, you too can play footsy in the MEN’S bathroom!

By Peter

June 25, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

By BFKaJ

Dear findog @ 3:36, a fair question. President Bush appointed two Supreme Court justices, Roberts and Alito. Both of the Bush appointees voted in the minority today. President Clinton appointed two Supreme Court justices, Ginsberg and Breyer. Both of the Clinton appointes voted to protect child rapists.

Gee something tells me there are a total of 9 Supreme Court Justices…..since the vote was 5-4 adds up to NINE…..

Please tell us about the other 5 justices….who appointed them????…..thank you!

By Willie

June 25, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

I can not believe college trained minds believe that drilling for our own oil is not the right choice. I heard the liberal drive by media spew that it would take ten years to get a barrel of oil if we started drilling now. LIARS LIARS…did I mentioned they are LIARS.

If a teenager has sex with another teenager then the law thats makes them child offenders should be amended. Unless it is a liberal teenager! I say for them Thirty or forty years in prison will suffice!

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Daer Peter @ 4:01, Justice Kennedy is on the court only because leftists rejected the brilliant Robert Bork. The other four are leftists of long standing. We understand that you prefer such nominees.

To all of my leftist friends, it is readily apparent to all of you, except for the unfortunate Copyleft, that the decision today is both wrong and “typical” leftist. The leftist court is drunk on its absolute power, yet the leftists seek, with this election, to strengthen their grip on the one segement of our government that has remained firmly in their control since FDR. As any drunk knows, the first step to solving the problem is recognizing the problem. I have offered my analysis, but I am truly interested in yours: how did the court reach such an abysmal depth?

By Peter

June 25, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

OK for the NON educated Mr. BFKaJ

Here is your info, and you will find it is a WONDERFUL DAY for ALL the Republican Child Rapists!

Too bad you don’t have a leg to stand on!

Supreme Court Justices and who appointed them….

So there you have it….. (7) by the Republicans, (2) By the Democrats.

Some day I hope you (Mr. BFKaJ) when you know YOUR FACTS!

So it is a GREAT DAY to be A Republican Child Rapist!

By dirty harry

June 25, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

By Peter

June 25, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Thanks for your post PETER…I was just about to post the same info for BFKaJ’s edification.

I doubt if he knows how to throw a knuckleball either (see yesterdays) posts!

By Peter

June 25, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Hello Mr. BFKaJ……… any thoughts on my last post?

Do you need a URL? Easy to find on the web!

I hope in the future you know your facts before making statements, that make you look silly!

I guess though, it really is all about the SPIN from the RIGHT!

By Kid Raper

June 25, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

I’m a Republican, but it’s the Democrats fault that I raped those kids. Oh, and my preacher’s too. By the way, I need a lawyer. Do yall know anybody who has had any success arguing “the Democrats made me do it!” in court?

By Peter

June 25, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

Gotta love these comments……

“The leftist court is drunk on its absolute power, yet the leftists seek, with this election, to strengthen their grip on the one segement of our government that has remained firmly in their control since FDR. As any drunk knows, the first step to solving the problem is recognizing the problem. I have offered my analysis, but I am truly interested in yours: how did the court reach such an abysmal depth?”

Gee I guess a 2.7 Trillion Dollar WAR is CONSERVATIVE…and NOT because George Bush JR. is Drunk with POWER!!!!

HA HA HA…… give me a break……the country is what it is today because of 8 YEARS of George Bush….that is the PROBLEM!

One would have thought he was in it for the good of America…..but now look at the mess he is leaving for another President to clean up!

Where is Bin Laden?

I think you may need to have another drink there Mr. BFKaJ …..you and the (7) Supreme Court Justices that put in George Bush in the first place!

By fairy god mother

June 25, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

By Peter

June 25, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

DEAR PETER…BFKaJ broke his glass slipper running away from you and your facts…

I don’t think he will return today.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter and Harry @ various times, do either of you know the difference between intenionally appointing a flaming leftist to the court, and getting one that disappoints you by proving to be one? You both would wish to see Obama intentionally appoint justices of the leftist ilk, would your not? And he would strive to accommodate you, would he not?

Captain Queeg promises to appoint justices of the Roberts and Alito mold, which all rational minds would agree as better than the leftists who gave us today’s decision.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Lest my comments mislead you, I do not have an objection to democrats on the Supreme Court. Whizzer White was an excellent justice. The problem today is there are almost no similar intelligent conservative democrats who are candidates for the Federal bench. And there are still too many leftist republicans, like Souter and Stevens.

By Jim is an ostrich

June 25, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Gee, JBM, how do you speak for all rational minds without having one yourself?

By toof fairy

June 25, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

look out, peter’s head is going to explode!

ooooooh evil booooossssshhh!

when are those impeachment hearings coming?

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Dear Fairy @ 4:47, don’t stop there. Tell us how much you admired today’s leftist court decision.

By Disgusted

June 25, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

You are all bad, bad boys for pointing out that seven of the nine Supreme Court justices have been appointed by Republican presidents.

Poor BFKaJ is now looking longingly at the kitchen knives, and I don’t think he intends to harm someone else.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Peter, Fairy, Copyleft, and Dirty Harry - democrats, voting to make the world safe for child rapists.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Obama - Change child rapists can believe in.

Dear Ostrich @ 4:53, are you proud of the decision today?

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Child rapists unite! You have nothing to lose but your republican tormentors.

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Dear Disgusted @ 4:55, are you proud of the leftist court decision today?

By BFKaJerker

June 25, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

See, all good conservatives wanna kill. Yeah.. kill.. .kill… kill… I wanna kill…. war is good because people can kill… the law is only good when we can kill… oooo oooo oooo here comes the wood AAAAHHHHH YES that’s it!

That’s why I want rightist justices on the Supremes. Rightist judges are for killin… kill.. kill… I want fetuses to live because that’s more people we can kill….. Letting a doctor do it for a woman in private is no fun because (a) we don’t get to watch or read about what’s private, and (b) that removes the chance the unwanted baby will grow up and kill… kill… and then go to prison where the state can kill… YES! AAAHHHH! YES! KILL! YES!!

Whew! Gosh that was good, and I just charged some sucker client $400 for the time. You wish you were a lawyer too, dont you?

By DaveD

June 25, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

BKKaJ, You are the very reason that people choose abortion. So they don’t have a chance of bringing another “just like you” into this world. Praise Allah! As he’s just as good as any other fake god is he/she not?

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

Perhaps all of our leftist friends would agree that everyone who voted against Roberts or Alito should be punted out of the Senate, as those Senators - almost all democrats - are the enablers of child rapists.

By angry dem

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

Hey, at least we don’t toe tap in the bathroom!

By Upwardly Mobile

June 25, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

I can respect a man who does his job well, but somehow it doesn’t surprise me that it’s a lifelong Democrat works a lunch line for 50 years. Sorry to hear.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

Gosh how confusing…… the Right Winger Presidents have been appointing Left Wingers to the Supreme Court…..and the Right Wingers are complaining about it how many years later…..????

Now how in the world are we to trust McCain….. a wishy washy decision maker, one who hires guys that makes evil men look good to the public eyes around the globe, and a known Left wing…..Right winger?

Gee I guess that is also why the Republicans play footsy in the men’s bathrooms, all the while pretending to be straight, and continuing to bash Gay folks!

I guess we have gotten “Faulty Intelligence” from the Republicans!

WOW as a independent individual this has gotten so VERY Confusing….

Well no wonder I am not Republican, I can see that as a Republican, one is not sure how to stand week to week or even day to day!

But I do know if I was a Republican, I would sure know who’d God’s Children are…..they have to be Republican’s Right?

HA HA HA…..

By Peter

June 25, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

Gee I have never thought like this…..of course I am not a Gay Republican or Child Rapist.

“By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Peter, Fairy, Copyleft, and Dirty Harry - democrats, voting to make the world safe for child rapists.”

Now please explain how George Bush has made America safer for ANYONE?

Where is Bin Laden?

Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?

When did we WIN the WAR…….”Mission Accomplished?”

Has your house lost value?

Can you afford Gas for your car?

How come New Orleans didn’t get the FEMA support it was suppose too?

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

Let me help you leftists trying to understand the court appointees and their votes. 100% of the democrat appointees voted to protect child rapists. 100% of those who voted to allow execution of child rapists were republican appointees.

By GOPs got to go

June 25, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Could someone please take a tally as to how many times BFKaJ has typed the words “Child Rapist” today.

Is there a category in the Guinness book of Records for that?

By exRepublican

June 25, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

I don’t see how anyone can still, with a straight face, be apologists for what has to be the worst administration in American history. Furthermore, how can any of them advocate for more of the same? How can doing the same things that got this country in the mess it’s in get different results? And folks it got this way with a republican congress, senate, and white house.

By dirty harry

June 25, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ…I don’t believe there are many folk here today that need your help in understanding the supremes ruling…

You pompous A$$!

By Peter

June 25, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

Well duhhhhhhhhhh………

The vote was 5-4 and 7 were Republican nominations……hmmmmm trying to do the math!

“By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

Let me help you leftists trying to understand the court appointees and their votes. 100% of the democrat appointees voted to protect child rapists. 100% of those who voted to allow execution of child rapists were republican appointees.”

Gee that would mean three (3) Republican appointees, which is more than two (2) Democrat appointees voted the same way…..

Please someone get this guy an adding machine……..

Now I get it…… that is why we are in such EXTREME debt….the Republicans can’t add or subtract……

That also explains why……WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States has not accurately tracked about $6 billion it gave to help the Pakistani government fight terrorism since 2001, according to a report released Tuesday.

Mission Accomplished with that Republican “Faulty Intelligence”!

By BFKaJ

June 25, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

Dear Harry @ 5:54, does that mean you support the decision protecting child rapists?

By fairy god mother

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

Clarence(Slappy)Thomas(R-Pornographer) has hid his DVD on Heidi loves her sheep…

Ah, got to love them god fearing righteous republicans goofballs….

By the the way Mr. Lawyer…If this decision was upheld .. There probably wouldn’t be a republican party…They’d all be in jail!

By Dusty

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

Wow, I come in and the crazies are trying to run (and ruin)the blog.

jbmlaw…keep your head high ‘cause I believe you are the only one with good sense here.

Yes, anybody that rapes a child should be shot on sight. Well, only if the justice system is so flawed they have lost their minds (and it seems they have. The Supreme court that is.)

As to you liberal loonies of low IQ, take a course on how to debate and blog. Going insane is no excuse, even if you can’t do any better.

By Peter

June 25, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

Dusty, another goofy remark….

“Yes, anybody that rapes a child should be shot on sight. Well, only if the justice system is so flawed they have lost their minds (and it seems they have. The Supreme court that is.)”

The Supreme Court is made up of (7) justices appointed by Republicans, and (2) Justices appointed by Democrats……

You made a wonderful case why the Republicans should NOT be in Power!

Thank you..Thank you very much as Elvis would say!

Looks like the loonies are the REPUBLICANS!

By Dusty

June 25, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

Well, I come in and the libs have gone absolutely nuts today. It is not April Fool’s Day, loonies. It is the middle of June.

Thank goodness jbmlaw has really good sense and fortitude. This blog would have been nothing but a mud hole without him.

And yes, jbm, amybody that rapes a child should be shot on sight. Well, that is if the justice system is no longer working. The Supreme Court obviously is in deep disarray. Now libs are trying to imitate them.

Listen folks, why don’t some of you go learn how to debate and blog without acting like Neanderthals. I know you loonies probably can’t help it but, for goodness sake, TRY!!

By h

June 25, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

You accuse us on the left of going insane, but you praise jbmlaw? He has been going crazy all day with his repeated rants.

Also, just have to say I acutally agree with you on the shot on sight point. I know my fellow lefties will freak on me for that, but oh well. I do value life, but if someone touched my child, may God help them.

By Dusty

June 26, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Dear “h”,6:12 pm

jbmlaw was not on a rant yesterday but the liberals were. They were complaining but not explaining.

Like training puppies and small children, you have to repeat things many times. That is what jbmlaw was doing with brain washed libs. He was trying to get them to think and express an opinion on the subject of discussion..the Supreme court Decision on child Rapists. They were responding like mind wandering gypsies.

Glad to have you here as you seem to have an “open” mind. But you haven’t been here long. Don’t change…

Be back after lunch…maybe…

By Copyleft

June 26, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

BFK’s “argument,” if you can call it that, makes no sense. (Not a surprise.)

Suppose the Supreme Court had struck down a ruling of the death penalty for a shoplifter. Using that same tactic, BFK would then claim “Liberals: making the world safe for shoplifters.” Gee, those liberal judges sure must LOVE shoplifters, huh? After all, they ruled on what punishment would be appropriate for that crime, and it was less than death. Therefore, they’re in FAVOR of shoplifting!

See how ridiculous such an “argument” would be? And yet, that’s exactly what BFK is proposing, with his usual simpleminded, black-or-white idiocy and utter lack of logic.

Score another one for the good guys, as the so-called “arguments” of the far-right wacko go down in flames AGAIN.

(snicker)

By Copyleft

June 26, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

And by the way: What an interesting definition of “safe” when you say “making the world SAFE for child rapists.”

Life in prison is “safe”? Really? That’s exactly the same as “no punishment whatsoever,” which you’re trying to imply?

C’mon. You’re not even TRYING any more. Not that you had much to work with in the first place…

(snicker)

By Peter

June 26, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Dusty do actually have a point to make in all of this or are you just dribbling?

By BFKaJ

June 26, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Convicts in prison for murder or rape are very offended by convicted child molesters, and often assault them in prison. So Dusty’s outrage reflects a morality no more developed than a common criminal’s.

She is a disgrace. She is unwholesome and small children should NOT be exposed to her. Dusty is the most lucid and emblematic reason why conservatism is and should be dead, dead, and sincerely dead. Conservatism’s dog is dead, Conservatism’s phone is dead. Conservatism’s child is aborted to save the life of it’s mother, Lady Liberty. Conservatism’s entire raison d’etre (where’s the umlaut key, dabbit) is dead, dead, dead.

DEAD!!!

Sen. Craig sounded taps with his flag at half mast.

Those are just ten words that spell the perfect epitaph to an obsolete and criminal political philosophy. Never before in history has the pen proved so much mightier than the sore.

lol, just kidding, dusty rocks. I’ve got milk coming out my nose…..SNOT!

By Chicago

June 26, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Looks like Wooten has ran out of things to spew.

By Peter

June 26, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Gee I wonder what part of the Republican Appointed Supreme court the Right Wingers don’t get……

They say things like a liberal Supreme court ruling, as if a Democrat had anything to do with the Republican picks, or the ruling by the Republican Appointees!

Gee seven plus two equals nine……pretty simple math unless you are Republican, and want to find a way to say it is not so.

What makes anyone think some segment of the population wants to PROTECT Child Rapists? They will go to jail, not get the death penalty……..perhaps give them life behind bars, throw them under the jail!

Just like the mess we have today with BUSH, Right Wingers want to say the mess is the Left Wings fault, when all along we have have the non leadership of BUSH for eight disastrous Years.

Wake up smell the coffee folks……..What was discussed in those “Secret Energy Meetings” anyway?

YOU RIGHTS better get another flip flopper in there……so I guess go McCain!

I remember Bush Senior’s statement….”read my lips, I will not raise taxes.”

Then Bush raised taxes…….another example of a Republican Flip Flopper……just like his son, George Jr. …..”Global warming is not real” along with “Mission Accomplished”.

McCain has said he would get Bin Laden in his FIRST TERM…..

Someone Please tell me why he is even out there out get?

By dirty harry

June 26, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Consumer confidence sinks to a 16 year low!

Who was RUINING the economy 16 years ago?

If you guessed old man Bush you’d be spot on.