Thinking Right

By DaveD

June 27, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

If the “law” states that I have the “right to bear arms” than why do arms limit me to only guns or knives? When it was written people used muskets that had to be loaded for each shot. If I happen to be of means to be able to afford a grenade launcher, or even a missle for “protection” of my home and family, why am I not allowed to do so?

The interpretation of this law is still lacking in many ways. If I have a right to bear arms, than my arms of choice should be able include a small nuclear device, or ANY weapon I can afford.

Go ahead you republican “scholars” and fox news watchers. Explain to why I can not own those things. Tell me how the second ammendment limits me to guns and not grenade launchers or small improvised dirty radiation bombs.

I’ll be waiting. Let your fine GA education shine through as always… ;-)

By The Anti-Wooten

June 27, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Idealogical diversity is important too?!? Jim’s posit is way too funny given that he’d be screaming from the rafters if a Democrat were to do this. In fact I’m fairly certain that some rightard will be along shortly to say “Clinton did it®” but the simple facts are this:

Clinton, as with probably every POTUS in the past, hired friends and children of friends to the DOJ. Not illegal.

Bush, unlike any POTUS in the past, systematically set up hiring practices that excluded anyone with even the perception of being a Democrat or liberal. They just didn’t care how smart, what sort of school they’d matriculated from or their GPA. Illegal.

You can’t defend this, it’s indefensible. It’s very disappointing to me that we’ll not see Bush impeached. I have very mixed feelings about the possibility of The Hague bringing war crimes charges against he and his cabal but only because it could potentially hurt some US service member in the future. Heckuva job Bushie.

By Maniac is accurate

June 27, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

Down the list:

1.) Jim sometimes I wish you’d be more specific. I really am curious to know what you propose Obama do in the instance of Mugabe. Oh, and how does one get “Chang”erai from Tsvangerai? Weird. 2.) Insightful. I hadn’t thought of it that was before. 3.) Eh, who cares? 4.) Maybe Obama has already told the Clintons there will be no VP slot. Bill seems ticked off. Or maybe, he’s just a poor loser. 5.) Are you saying that the only mass transit that will work is that which eliminates all need to walk a few blocks? That type of system would be too expensive. Maybe that’s why you advocate paving the entire surface of Georgia. If we paved Lake Lanier, that would solve the evaporation problem. 6.) Heaven forbid the government rolls out housing price supports. 7.) Not sure I understand what you’re implying, but I’m sure the smarter readers here will teach me. 8.) Condolences. 9.) Education seems to have been rurnt by spending so much time on ever changing theories on how to teach the material, rather than teachers actual mastery of the material.

By J Dawg

June 27, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

I wonder why we don’t get a single mention of North Korea on the Friday “free-for-all” blog. Surely that should be one of the top ten current political issues. Perhaps it’s because Jim is disappointed that the multi-lateral talks are apparently working. Well shucks, if Jim were the “decider” we would’ve nuked em or liberated those North Koreans. That certainly would have made us safer. Right Jim?

By will

June 27, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten:

Justice Scalia, writing for the majority in that gun case yesterday, says that the Constitution restricts some places where people might carry guns. He also says that “dangerous and unusual guns” should be restricted.

Can you help me find where Justice Scalia found that in the Constitution? I don’t see those words in the 2nd Admendment. Is he one of those revisionist democrats on the Court that Senator McCain opposes? You know, the type that reads the 2nd Amendment and interprets what they believe the Amendment should say or is he one of those constructive republican judges that interpret the words of the Constitution as they are written?

Although I am sure he is a decent enough person, this sounds to me like a fellow that the republicans would like to get rid off that Court.

By TW

June 27, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

DaveD@8:20 - while the handgun serves as a stand in for a small pecker, sadly the right has yet to find a way to accent their lack of grey matter.

Don’t expect much of an answer to your question. As always, however, the responses should provide much entertainment.

Better than the comedy channel…

By hillbilly ragger

June 27, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Maniac @ 8.24, come on.

“I really am curious to know what you propose Obama do in the instance of Mugabe.” Really? Figured it’s obvious.

Jim thinks Obama can talk Black-ese to the black guy.

Right, Jim?

By clarence thomas

June 27, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

If my good buddy and mouthpiece Antonin says it’s so …ME TOO!

Now back to my porno movies!

By h

June 27, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Morning all. Since I was summarily roasted yesterday, I will keep my early comments brief.

The one line that struck me when I read the free for all: Now let’s agree that when a gun is used to commit a crime, the problem is with the shooter and not with the weapon.

Jim, True, but you have to admit, the person can do a lot more damage with a firearm that he was allowed to carry, than his bare hands had a firearm ban been in place.

By hillbilly ragger

June 27, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

Will @ 8.31, what evidence do you have to suggest that Scalia is “a decent enough person”?

I’d have to search far and wide to find a more blatantly and willfully obnoxious public figure than he.

Guess this story slipped down the old memory hole…

“To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’” while making the hand gesture. “Vaffanculo” in Italian loosely means “(expletive) you.” The more literal translation is even more crude.

By dirty harry

June 27, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

By J Dawg

June 27, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

J DAWG…Good point..Of course if this was mentioned it would show Bush as an “APPEASER” and heaven forbid after proclaiming North Korea to be part of the “Axis of Evil” we would not want that to happen would we?

By clarence thomas

June 27, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

By hillbilly ragger

June 27, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

HILLBILLY…I Clarence (Slappy) Thomas proclaim that Antonin is a decent person. In fact after a few brewskis and a private viewing of “Long Dong Silver” we are off to write a few opinions on why he is “decent enough person.”

Stay tuned.

By Get Real

June 27, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Wooten, what is Bush doing about Robert Mugabe?? He’s the President now, and has the power to make things happen at this moment. Must not be any oil there. What are McCain’s views on the subject?

As far as the housing market here, are you saying that the government shouldn’t step in at all and regulate the mortgage companies? The same companies that inflated these prices, and put people in loans they knew they couldn’t afford? Isn’t that an ethical matter, you know ETHICS a company should have if they want to work in a ‘free market’ society? Or should we just let them do whatever they want, as the government has under Bush and then bail THEM out when they have to writeoff billions in losses? Everything was fine as long as the ARM loans stayed in ‘THOSE’ neighborhoods. No one said a word.

You really are an old fossil Wooten, and they day is surely coming when old time thinking like yours will be put out to pasture.

By Chicago

June 27, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

BUSH IS AN APPEASER!!

By ron

June 27, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Good Morning All,Let’s do something nasty to people who use firearms to commit crimes.Let’s lock them away.25 years has a nice ring to it.Mandatory sentence.Good bye criminal. Robert Mugabe will take his place among the leaders of the world and nothing will be said,let alone done.

Bad private sector managers create unions.How true.Companies that treat their workers fairly never hear of union organizers.

The last place I want to go is downtown in any city I can think of.

It isn’t just math skills that are lacking in many teachers.

By MansBestFriend

June 27, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

My dawg is not a weapon. He’s a conservative’s best friend — all 150 pounds of him. He wouldn’t hurt a flea although I do wish he would at least leave them outdoors instead of bringing them in the house. Dawg — that’s his name, Dawg — is not one to go out looking for trouble. Nope, he just sits back and barks in an annoying sort of way. It’s his way of saying “Here I Am, Come and Get Some”. Of course, all bark and no bite may work just fine for the stranger that’s just passin’ through but once someone gets to know ole Dawg, they learn real quick that the only real harm he poses is the possibility that he might short out your keyboard when he drools on it. ‘Course, that’s just my opinion.

By J Dawg

June 27, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Dirty Harry, I’m sure Jim dislikes Bush’s appeasement of Kim Jong Il and comany, hence his avoidance of the topic. We should have just “liberated” em, right Jimbo?

By hillbilly ragger

June 27, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

“But Get Real @ 9.12, get real. Bush is white. He can’t talk jive like the half-colored guy running for President. If that half-colored B. Hussen Osama can’t straighten out the colored dictator, how can we trust him to run our country?”

—Jim Wooten’s brain

By Get Real

June 27, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Hillbill Ranger, Bush dances like a black guy.

By George Washington

June 27, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

This mornings “If only I had a Brain” column is more mindless than usual, but thanks to the new editors in India, the grammatical mistakes have at least been corrected…..

By hillbilly ragger

June 27, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Oh, and Jim? I’m calling BS on your statement that “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… threatens us.”

When has this theocratic, anti-Semitic nutball ever threatened us with anything but boredom and occasional unintented hilarity?

By Jim is an ostrich

June 27, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Jim, UGA called and asked that you stop reminding people you graduated from there. Something about it hurting recruiting. What in the world are you trying to say in “points” 2, 6 and 7? Almost incomprehensible writing. If no. 6 is just about more roads, time to put a cork in it. We know your opinion, and repeating it over and over every day ad nauseum will not make you right. It is the wrong approach. As for point 2, that’s Bush’s job, not Obama. Unfortunately, George the Tonguetied is still president. He needs to deal with Mugabe, not just phone in the next six months. You are flat out wrong about your comments on the Justice Dept. scandal. The career track is designed to hire the best and the brightest, regardless of political persuasion. The systematic exclusion of “liberals and/or Democrats” for 8 years flies in the face of that purpose. Haven’t we seen enough of the workings of the Justice Dept. to know that the political hirings don’t work. Unless you have some evidence that other administrations have used the political hammer like Alberto and his henchmen, your comment about ideological diversity rings hollow. The career track is not about ideology in any form. It is about attracting the best and brightest lawyers to work for the government, to forego the big private firm paychecks. After 8 years of a republican president, time to stop complaining about the lack of conservatives in government. You should be complaining about the politization of what should be the most nonpartisan department of the government.

By hillbilly ragger

June 27, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Chicago @ 9.15, it’s worse than that. According to that tasteful speech Bush delivered to the Knesset

… Bush is a Nazi appeaser.

Or, just like one. Or something like that.

But hey, maybe I’m being harsh. Here’s what he said, and I’m sure he never, ever intended ANYONE to think he was talking about that half-colored guy, B. Hussein Osama…

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history. (Applause.)”

By Mr. Lee

June 27, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wootensan, if you take bus or train, I will take in lickshaw to honorable AJC building.

That was bad, but couldn’t resist. Big Charlie Chan fan.

By ron

June 27, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

DaveD,my mentally unstable friend,In the U.S.,sane people pass laws forbidding the ownership of certain weapons.Missles and all types of bombs are listd among the restricted weapons.Other weapons,such as rifles,shotguns,handguns are allowed,again with certain restrictions placed upon their ownership by sane people.Whole classes of people are forbidden to own firearms,among them are felons,mentally unstable persons,Convicted wife beaters,just to name a few. Certain classes of weapons,machine guns,fully automatic rifles and pistols can be owned after obtaining the proper licenses. As a point of interest,I once had a concealed weapons permit from a certain state that allowed me to carry a concealed handgun but expressly forbade me to carry a concealed slingshot.

By Just Nasty and Mean

June 27, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

G’Mornin Jim, et al,

You know, I find it curious, if not offensive, that the City of Atlanta acts and treats people from the burbs like we are some type of blight on downtown.

If find the situation just the opposite. I don’t want to go downtown—-for anything. That doesn’t mean I don’t go, it’s just that I don’t WANT to go. With new entertainment venues opening (Encore Park, Peachtree City, Gwinnett Arena/Braves, Atlanta Force) I am finding fewer and fewer reasons to put up with it.

Without suburb people—occasionally—being forced to go downtown, the city’s current financial crisis would look like a cake walk.

You know what, Atlanta? $crew you!

By DaveD

June 27, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Ron, Thanks for responding to my question yet you obviously missed my point. The 2nd Amendment says I have “a right to bear arms” doe it not? Why then do I not have the “right” to choose the arms of my own free will and choice? Where does it say ANYTHING about there being limits to those arms? If you say there are laws that DO in fact “restrict” certain types of arms, what gives one the right to limit my choice? Where does it say that in the amendment? If I want to have a grenade launcher, is that not an “arm” that I can use to protect, or kill as part of a miltia? Where does it say that I have to be in the military to use a “government owned” granade launcher? Why not a personal one if I can afford to buy one?

My question deals with the “right to bear arms” and since there is no difinition of what “arms” are in the amendment, anyone should be able to own any weapon of their own choosing. If not, than all should be restricted to arms meaning ONLY single shot muskets. That was what the the law was written about, was it not?

I’m against guns, yet if you say I have the right to bear arms, I do believe that ALL arms should be available to ALL. There are NO RESTRICTIONS in the amendment. That goes for felons, rapists, and the insane. Funny how the republicans always call for less government intrusion in public lives…yet that is ALL we get from republicans in charge. Intrusion on all levels. Most of all in the bedrooms arcoss the country, and with a woman’s oen body.

It’s either muskets for ALL that want to bear arms, or arms=any weapon of your choosing.

Perhaps my question and logic is going over your head. Must be that fine GA education system so many of you had the honor to attend…. ;-)

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Well, what’s new? The guys who can’t think for themselves want to tell us EXACTLY what Jim Wooten is thinking. How about just telling us YOUR opinion of the material presented? Skip the sqawking, the racial discrimination, the dirty suggestions and the displays of ignorance. OK????

Mugabe..heard him on TV last night fuming away that NO OUTSIDE (read USA) ‘forces’ are going to ruin HIS election. Neither Bush nor Obama or McCain can alter this elected tyrant’s ignorance and cruelty. So much for diplomacy. What do you libs suggest? War??

I don’t carry a gun but there are several here at home. The Constitution suits me just fine. 911 suits me just fine also. The worst crime here is having my mailbox mowed down and shredded last week. The driver did not stop. Well…I did feel like shooting him but wouldn’t have.

Not sure I want more highways. DOT took half my back yard. I would hate to see the front yard go.

Picking out people who please you for jobs? That’s been going on for a thousand or so years, hasn’t it? For some reason, people like to work with people whom they think will have good sense like them.

Doctors are the greatest. My father was one. So was his brother. My Dad served the medical needs of a small town for one and all no matter your finances, your race or your “position” in life. He served overseas during wartime. He served on the State Board of Health for 30 years. He served at church. He had babies named after him by grateful patients. He was the best father a child could ever have. Yep, I have great admiration for doctors.

Teachers come good and bad. So do parents. It takes both to give a child a great education.

Buckhead? I thought it was all nightclubs now. Atlanta can keep it.

See you later….much later.

By Bob

June 27, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

So a firearms ban will “prevent” someone from doing harm? Great! Let’s put murder and rape bans into effect as well. That’ll stop em… because we all know that telling someone “you can’t do that!” automatically renders them incapable of doing so.

By SharonH

June 27, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Yeah right, Fulton County drove Sandy Springs to cityhood. We know what it’s all about. It’s the new segregation dahling, it’s Southern secession part deux. White flight is soooo 20th century. You can’t get away from those people anyway, they’ll just follow you. The best thing to do is create your own city so you don’t share a city or county of the same name as theirs and thank God in heaven you don’t have to have one of them as your mayor. That’s the way to do it baby……

By Forrest

June 27, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

DaveD,

Is that a real question? And you want to poke fun at others? Just like the First Amendment has its limitations (the old can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater) so too does the Second Amendment. The Court acknowledged there are limitations to the Second regarding regulations at schools and government buildings and likewise certain types of weaponry can be regulated. It would help if you actually read the opinion and understood the historical background of how the term “arms” has been used from our Founding Fathers forward.

By Jim is an ostrich

June 27, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Shocking that Dusty actually disagreed with Jim on two points: more roads and Obama talking to Mugabe. Of course, she missed the point, but at least she didn’t just rubber stamp Jim’s idiotic attempt to dump Zimbabwe’s problems on the Democratic nominee. On the issue of hiring people you like, a not unusual (for Dusty) wild swing and a miss. Not even close to the point of the program, the investigation or the principle. Perhaps you could read up on Attorney General Mukasey’s response to the inspector general’s report. You might learn something. Nice try, though.

By time for the DEATH TO LIBERALISM truth

June 27, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Watching the imbecilic lice ridden, should have been aborted retarded leftist scum puking up their unremitting psychotic lies and bile on here is always enormously entertaining. Nice to see the collective moveyourbowels.org rabid infestation of Bush Derangement Syndrome is now full blown and at truly epidemic levels. In Hollywood I understand they are now guiltily saying (in extremely rare, fleeting moments of lucidity) the very best “instant” cure for BDS is a well aimed hollow point .45 bullet selflessly donated into any presenting sullen extrachromosomed treasonous surrender monkey forehead. Sadly I only have an M & P S&W.40 so the unconfined joy of FINALLY ridding the world of the lemming like hordes of worthless far left Bush hating scum will fall to those true patriots with a slightly bigger calibre than I.

Hilarious to see that yesterday the shameless oxygen wasting leftist vermin in ALL their bilious fury at the unbelievably belated (better late than never though) protection of law abiding 2nd Amendment folks were UTTERLY DEVOID of any rational explanation of how it is that Washington DC - with its hysterical useless ILLEGAL gun grabbing ban has FAR WORSE violent crime than virtually all areas that do NOT have ILLEGAL gun grabbing bans.

Now the world knows and sees, in all its sick and twisted glory that the simple, legitimate notion of legitimate self defence is anathema to control freak liberal dogturds. Leftist pigswill care not for ordinary folks, but yet feverishly slobber and salivate over the rights of thuggish ebonics puking blacks in DC to be free to continue their decades long murderous criminal predator spree unfettered by ANY possibility of the local citizenry fighting back before the local plod maybe???? make it to the scene.

Such is the leftist pigswill concern for the local DC community. The exact same bollocks has long been disgustingly perpetrated in and around the SLEAZY LAND DEAL WITH A CRIMINAL RACKETEER home of the racist black elephant eared half-black LIES LIKE A KLINTON scumbag Hussein Obama. With the requisite archetypal murderous black on black criminality spinning out of control in black Chicago.

The worthlessness of hypocritical treasonous yellowbellied racebaiting liberals is only surpassed by the flawless, inexorable case for their IMMEDIATE ERADICATION and permanent removal from ANY/ALL postions of power!!

PS

@ DickheadDave … I am actually in complete agreement with you bubbaturd. Thus consider yourself immediately fully empowered to go get as many RPG’s, M16’s, bazookas, sniper rifles etc as you want. Make sure you also later today exercise your inalienable right to carry these trinkets in public, preferrably outside your local ATF office with several of said trinkets pointed at the building whilst you noisily rant like a shrill vapid menopausal Pelosibitch about the scurrilous limitations of the rights of citizens to bear arms.

By Forrest

June 27, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

DaveD,

Is that a real question? And you want to poke fun at others? Just like the First Amendment has its limitations (the old can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater) so too does the Second Amendment. The Court acknowledged there are limitations to the Second regarding regulations at schools and government buildings and likewise certain types of weaponry can be regulated. It would help if you actually read the opinion and understood the historical background of how the term “arms” has been used from our Founding Fathers forward.

By Peter

June 27, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Well folks the Economy is the biggest issue of the Election, and today the feeling is we are in trouble.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080627/usaeconomysentiment.html

28 year low…….. that can’t sit well for a Republican trying to win an election!

By "Charles", The Original

June 27, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

The United States, England, League of Nations/United Nations didn’t settle the Jews in Madagascar because they already had a beach-head in apartheid South Africa for the purpose of subjugating Africans. A Jewish state wasn’t needed in Africa.

The United States, England, the League of Nations/United Nations decided that a foothold was needed to control Arabs/Persians. So after the Second World War, the powers that be took Palestine by force from the Palestinians and established the State of Israel. So when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a problem with the State of Israel, you know exactly what he’s talking about.

Forty years ago, credible black leaders warned Negroes that a vote for integration is a vote for volunteer slavery and genocide. We can take a cursory look at the masses of African Americans today, their extremely poor health, pitiful outward appearance, inner confusion, and reason that that the credible black leaders were prophetic. It appears that the identical deception is being offered to Zimbabweans. Robert Mugabe recently said that a vote for Morgan Tsvangirai is a vote for re-colonization.

The problem that most people have with Robert Mugabe is that he took the arable land/farms from white settlers by force. Zimbabweans had been waiting patiently for the legal rightful transfer of their land for over thirty years. And the powers that be had signed treaties, resolutions, laws, etc. authorizing the transfer. But it turned out that the resolutions agreed to was not worth the paper it was written on. So Robert Mugabe decided to act.

By ron

June 27, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

DaveD,Google “rifle grenade”and read.You can go down to your local sporting goods emporium and for a cash outlay you can walk out with a grenade launcher no later than today.Almost any rifle will do.That and a blank cartridge.The rifle grenade,however,may be a little harder to obtain.Sane people have done this for a reason.The Second Amendment is limited in scope,but now not to total bans.So far,Dave,that’s all that’s happened.

By TW

June 27, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Peter - actually, the real elitests like McCain (son of an Admiral, husband of the heiress to the Budweiser fortune), Phil Gramm, Rumsfired, Cheney, and their fathers on the board of ExxonMobil - they all sit real well with it in their new yacht furniture…laughing their wealthy assess off at the rednecks who were actually stupid enough to have thought they were part of the plan.

Nothing funnier than watching a redneck scratch his cap with a grimmace on his face as he watches that gas pump roll over into the triple digits…not that he needs his pick-up for a job anymore…lazy, right? That’s why they ain’t working, right? Lazy?

That ‘war’ was a whole lot more fun when it wasn’t costin’ nuthin’, wun’t it, boys?

Morons.

By enoch

June 27, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Poor liberals. In their law books, only the second amendment is to be interpreted using an originalist perspective. All of the rest of the constitution means what they want it to mean right now. When they read the constitution they find a right for terrorists to come to US courts but can’t find the right for ordinary citizens to own firearms. And they want to make fun of other’s education.

By getalife

June 27, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Another 162 billion wasted in Iraq.

w appeased North Korea proving President Clinton’s diplomacy worked.

w begging to bail out Wall Street

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Jim is an Ostrich@10:38

You missed one point completely. I think for myself. Jim Wooten also does his own thinking. That may be something new and untried by liberals but it still works.

I wrote about the general principle of hiring. Clinton followed that premise by dumping the whole crowd in the Justice Department at one swoop as soon as he took office.

Mukasey, a fine and good legalist, has followed legal lines which say you must hire what SEEMS the best, not the ones you know you can best work with. Too bad he wasn’t around when Clinton did what he wanted to do without regard to law, ethics or morality. But, alas, his Attorny General seemed blind to the illegal antics of her mentor. Too bad..

By Peter

June 27, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

It also looks like the ecology will be a big issue in the election, especially with the news out today.

(CNN) — The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Scientists say it’s a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice will completely melt away at the geographic North Pole.

Look like if there are actually any Right Ring Republicans that actually CARE about their children, and grandkids, they will wake up smell the coffee, and get it on about the ecology of the planet.

But hey who cares about Republican kids anyway….. PROBABLY NOT REPUBLICANS……. there is way too much money to make and loose if we actually worry about saving Mother Earth!

By Get Real

June 27, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Republicans have you so worked up over wedge issues like the 2nd amendment and the death penalty, you southerners don’t even realize how bad they’re draining your wallets.

By Scott in Marietta

June 27, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

Reading the comments from the left-wing morons that usually haunt these boards makes me realize why the AJC is tanking. Aside from Mr. Wooten, they pander to the idiots on the left who are too stupid to form rational thoughts, much less figure out how to slide 2 quarters in a slot to buy their favorite rag.

I get a small amount of satisfaction in the knowledge that leftist stupidity must at some point collapse upon itself. In the meantime, I’ll sit and chuckle as the Marxist douchebags substitute name-calling (yes, yes, I know, Leftist nitwits - I just engaged in same) for logical discourse. This is what they were taught in the fine universities - follow the left-wing mantra, and fall down and scream like a 5 year old if anyone dares to challenge your assumptions.

Idiots, all.

By ray in marietta

June 27, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Reading the comments from the rightwing-wing morons that usually haunt these boards makes me realize why the AJC is tanking. Aside from Lukovich, they pander to the idiots on the right who are too stupid to form rational thoughts, much less figure out how to slide 2 quarters in a slot to buy their favorite rag.

I get a small amount of satisfaction in the knowledge that rightwing stupidity is finally collapsing upon itself. I sit and chuckle as the ignorant douchebags substitute name-calling (yes, yes, I know, redneck nitwits - I just engaged in same) for logical discourse. This is what they were taught with their eighth grade education - follow the right-wing mantra, and fall down and scream like a 5 year old if anyone dares to challenge your assumptions.

By dudley do right

June 27, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

DUSTY … You don’t think for yourself .. You just repeat the same old mantra

Republicans good…Democrats Bad!

Yesterday you had the temerity to write..”Clinton’s impeachment was as real as truth can be. He can’t even practice law.”

DUSTY..I’ve got news for you! The suspension on his law license expired in 2006…He can practice law anytime he wants!

Also, you never explained where you got the figure for those 29 Obama operatives lurking here in Georgia.

I wonder why?

No big suprise! You are the most ignorant poster on this blog…Or a LIAR!

By Jim is an ostrich

June 27, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Dusty, Dusty, Dusty… Clinton fired the US Attorneys, all of whom are political appointees. We are talking here about the hiring practices of career (read nonpolitical, nonpartisan, nonappointed) lawyers for the nonpartisan Justice Department. Not at all the same thing. Try thinking for yourself about that.

By flyingmudturtle

June 27, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

To Dave D.-The Constitution was written on parchement with a quill pen, so does the 1st Amendment cover only writings made by scribes using gall-ink? The Constitution is a living document which must evolve with the times. Computers did not exist when it was drafted. Modern firearms using “smokeless” powder were not invented at the time, but the drafters had enough wisdom to take into account technological advances.
I agree that certain persons-such as yourself-have no need for firearms. There are, however, a large number of responsible persons who use them responsibly and have need for them. It comes down to whether you wish to assume responsibility for yourself or whether you wish for the government to take care of you.
Why no rocket launchers? The drafters of the Constitution realized that the right of self protection did not require heavy artillary, and the modern interpretation (evolution) of the Constitution recognizes this.

By time for the DEATH TO LIBERALISM truth

June 27, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Yet more despicable pandering bias in the party of hate media:

The other day in Cleveland OH three knuckle dragging pieces of vile black yoof scum, just 15 - 17 years old according to reports, beat a law abiding penniless homeless WHITE man in his 40’s to death - FOR NO REASON WHATEVER. He had no money and was just walking down the street in the early evening. Yet virtually all the local Cleveland media I have seen gutlessly shies away from admitting/reporting the gutless murderous black yoof scum were black. The only media report that I found mentions they were black was the story on freerepublic.com, which is hardly party of pandering hate media.

Clearly this is some kind of black on white hate crime - a simple thuggish robbery rarely ends up in a frenzied lynching like this - yet the party of liberal hate pandering media is utterly silent about that.

But just imagine the endless shrill national outrage if three white yoofs had beaten to death an equally law abiding homeless black man in his 40’s!!

LIBERALS ARE WORTHLESS EVIL SCUM!!

By hillbilly ragger

June 27, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Death @ 11.55, is masturbating to violent crime an everyday thing for you, or are you just getting an early start on the weekend?

By Peter

June 27, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Wow……. such intelligence all in one statement!

Clearly this is some kind of black on white hate crime - a simple thuggish robbery rarely ends up in a frenzied lynching like this - yet the party of liberal hate pandering media is utterly silent about that.

Clearly you are a person of HATE…..

Typical…. spread HATE and then talk about how others are doing the same thing!

Republican “Family Values”!

By Attn: AJC Hall Monitor

June 27, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Hey AJC Hall Monitor! Time to do your job! The kiddies are off their meds again and messing in the hall!

By Timmy Turner

June 27, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Turtles can’t fly in real life, only in cartoons.

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Dudly Fudly do right@11:43

Yes, I should have added, CLINTON COULD NOT PRACTICE LAW AFTER HIS IMPEACHMENT UNTIL 2006. There you feel better. Did you catch IMPEACHMENT? Did you miss IMPEACHMENT? Just a small thing…IMPEACHMENT!!

As to Obama’s influx of paid Democratic workers, go to Google and bring up Obama’s paid political workers in Georgia. The number ranges from 20 on UP and they continue to come.

Obama has plenty of money because he broke his promise to McCain to abide by election finance rules. After seeing he could get more money otherwise, he broke his promise. So what’s a little LIE to a liberal Democrat?? Absolutely nothing. Obama is no different from other small time nefarious politicians from Chicago.

I guess you never heard of that either, Dudley. You don’t get out much, do you? Where’s Debbie Do Right?

By dusty

June 27, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Oh my, I see I’ve raised quite a storm here…

I can’t stick around long my husband the sanitation engineer will be home soon with his bounty of perks from his lofty position!

It’s always such a suprise what he brings for me!

Well,it’s off to the orange grove to pick some nice navels for our fresh fruit salad.

Later…Ta, Ta

By time for the DEATH TO LIBERALISM truth

June 27, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

@ hillbilly WANKER

Hilarious to note, and as preDICKtable as the daily stream of Hussein Obama racist anti-white surrender monkey lies, that knuckle dragging SCUM LIKE U completely ignore the latest cowardly murderous black yoof hate crime and then lasciviously project your own extremely sick and twisted typical liberal perversions onto a total stranger.

PeterPeKKKer is yet another deranged leftist mongoloid!!

I merely reported accurately the facts of the barely reported (at least nationally) case. Highlighting the UNDENIABLE blatant racial media hypocrisy involved.

If three white yoofs had murderously lynched a homeless black man the firestorm in the party of hate media would have been deafening. But as it was ONLY a white man - who gives a damn - eh??

Both of you despicably dishonest vermin need to GFY!!

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Ostrich,11:43

It is OK to fill up the Justice appointees that match your party affiliation but other posts should be done by the blind reading braille without preference? (Like libs do whoowho!)

Ok, if Mukasey says it was incorrect then I might believe it. But it is SO HARD to believe anything a liberal says is true. They do it so seldom. There! Now go pull feathers and make a duster!!

By BrittlePNut

June 27, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Boy I see Dusty has all of those Hannity/Limbaugh/Ingram talking points down to a tee!

There will be a test first thing Monday morning.

Why am I not surprised that Dusty likes to pick navels…

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

The 12:18 is NOT THE REAL DUSTY..

Maybe libs will tire of this game when they grow up…if that is possible. Ta Ta??? Very sweet indeed.

By jm

June 27, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

I wonder what would have happened if President Reagan had decided that he would only meet with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik only if the Soviet Union met certain preconditions.

By BrittlePNut

June 27, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

And oh by the way Dusty, you’re husband is not a “Sanitation Engineer”, he’s a GARBAGE MAN.

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

12:30

I’m not surprised that ‘BrittlePNut’ is a NUT.

By dusty

June 27, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

By BrittlePNut

June 27, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

And oh by the way Dusty, you’re husband is not a “Sanitation Engineer”, he’s a GARBAGE MAN.

Not fair Pnut…you must be a lib!

I know you hate GwB!

The most honest, truthifier..freed two countries president I have seen in my 70 + years.

By just me

June 27, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Is there any particular reason that the current President can’t deal with Mugabe? Isn’t that what is supposed to happen?

By Get Rea;

June 27, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

George W. Bush is the worst president in American History…. I’d love to see any of these conservatives refute that TRUTH.

By findog

June 27, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Seams the court ruled around 1926 that the government could limit the individual’s access to fully automatic weapons as a result of some criminal elements in society. Now they have clarified that we have a right to have weapons, in as much as a total ban is unconstitutional. Now will start the great debate as to how far a community can go in defining what arms are acceptable for self defense and hunting.

By dudley do right

June 27, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

As you always do Musty, you fail to leave out the salient points where McCain is recruiting for volunteers here in good old Georgia! He’d be a fool not to.

So your point was?

By the way are you really 70+ years old … I would have guessed 60+!

By time for the DEATH TO LIBERALISM truth

June 27, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

@ go get reamed by a herd of swinish Pelosibitches

your witless worthless Bush Derangement Syndrome puke as ever is hugely amusing mindless, embittered envious surrender monkey empty assertion/uninformed wonderfully cretinous opinion!!!

keep puking this spastic colon crap up - its freaking hilarious bubbaturd!!!

On a rib tickling parting note:

DEATH TO ANAL FORESKIN AND ITS 1000+ congenitally moronic dumbarse anal ids

By Chuck

June 27, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Can we agree that if a gun is used in a crime, the victim is, in many circumstances, dead? He or she will leave behind loves one who will grieve. The victim’s families will often times suffer financial losses, torment, dispair and emptiness. And, no matter how much the family will pine for the victim, he or she will never come back home.

The NRA will be OK with that.

I say that because I was robbed at gunpoint on the job as a restaurant manager by a man holding a pistol. I was powerless to prevent that person from shooting me if he wanted to. He had me tied up and on my knees in front of him for thirty minutes before he decided to let me go. If it was up the NRA—who doesn’t believe in any gun restrictions, he would be allowed to own that gun legally—even though it was revealed in court that his record was as long as my arm. He was caught when he shot a police officer in Augusta with that same gun.

Am I in favor of gun control? Absolutely, and for good reason. I also bet you that if Justice Scalia went through what I did that night, he’d be in favor of it also.

By Kung Fu Wolf B*tch

June 27, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

I say we forget guns!

Americans, Fight for your right to bear forzen chicken!

By Charlton Heston

June 27, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

No Chuck…. you should have retrieved your revolver and shot the perp.

By Kung Fu Wolf B*tch

June 27, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

I say we forget guns!

Americans, Fight for your right to bear frozen chicken!

By BS Aplenty

June 27, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Always instructive to hear about the many exploits of Robert “Taking it Back For the People” Mugabe. His peculiar brand of tyranny has left Zimbabwe in an economic and social shambles. At least under Ian Smith the former Rhodesia was economically productive and food was plentiful.

Unlike the nutless wonder, Morgan Tsvangirai, Ian Smith returned to Zimbabwe even after Robert Mugabe took over the country. The return went without incident even though Mugabe threatened to have Smith arrested. You see Smith was a man of integrity even if his governmental philosophy was outdated. I wonder when Mr. Tsvangirai and his fellow Zimbabs are going to grow a set (like Smith) and demand that democratic elections be upheld. Not likely soon I would estimate.

By h

June 27, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Just so you know, I did Google your claim about the paid propagandaists in Georgia for Obama and found nothing. So unless you provide me with a credible link, I conclude that you are full of it.

BTW www.libssuck.com does not count.

By Sabine Carbines

June 27, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

As an NRA member, and an avid hunter, I cheer the supreme courts decision on gun laws.

The price of gas has put the kabosh on drive by shootings, which were the only reason to have gun laws anyway, so it’s a win win.

However, in New Jersey, different ethnic gangs are carpooling and combining revenge drive-by’s. Last week the Bloods shared a low rider with a Mexican gang, and they picked up a hitch hiking Asian gang. They drove by China town and blew away a rival Korean gang who were horning in on their tofu territory first, then they drove all the way on the crosstown bronx Xway to ambush these no account Crips who were just axin’ for it, and then the Mexican blasted a crowd who were patronizing a rival gang’s dance hall. Then the gangs turned the guns on each other arguing over who gets to ride shotgun on the way home and the world was rid of a bunch of pests.

Win win!

By TW

June 27, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

If we are not going to impeach ‘w’, then it’s only appropriate that we issue a formal apology to the Nixon family.

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

Oh dudley fudley.

Obama’s people are PAID. PAID workers. Paid! Get it! They’ve been coming every since he broke his promise and got more money. Volunteers do not get paid. These people are PAID.

“h”

I can’t help you if you don’t know how to use Google. Even the Herald Times had an article. Use the updated info. Obama has been sending paid workers to hard-to-get states ever since he got more money by breaking his election-finance promise to McCain. The number of workers keeps growing as election time gets nearer.

Try to keep up.

TW,

There will be no impeachment of Bush because there is no smoke, no fire, no evidence, no indictments and nothing even a crooked lib lawyer can find. They have tried.

So, why don’t you give an apology to Bush. You should.

I ‘ll try to correct everything else for you when I get back.

By Peter

June 27, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA…….

“Hilarious to note, and as preDICKtable as the daily stream of Hussein Obama racist anti-white surrender monkey lies, that knuckle dragging SCUM LIKE U completely ignore the latest cowardly murderous black yoof hate crime and then lasciviously project your own extremely sick and twisted typical liberal perversions onto a total stranger.”

I guess it is true……Republicans eat their kids to save money!

By h

June 27, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

I take offense to that. I, just like our esteemed leader, am fully capable of using “the Google” on the “Internets”. Although admittedly, I only read credible results that are returned.

By jm

June 27, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

TW one reason to not impeach W the Incompetent (try to say this without retching): President Dick Cheney.

By Peter

June 27, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Dusty thinks Buckhead is one big night club?

No Dusty it is turning into hi rise buildings…..you know upper end stuff like you would see in a BIG City.

I guess it is tough going out to nice establishments, since George Bush has created this economic MESS the American Economy is in.

I guess Dusty is from Loganville!

By ron

June 27, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

CHUCK,You are so full of baloney that you should be put in a roll,sliced,fried, and then thrown away.

By steve

June 27, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

to david d, the reason you cant have a grenade launcher or other large weapon is because you are stupid.

By Peter

June 27, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

I agree……..

“By jm

June 27, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

TW one reason to not impeach W the Incompetent (try to say this without retching): President Dick Cheney.”

Imagine having a President that will shoot you in the FACE……. then make you apologize for taking the shot!

President Darth Vader….

By Dave

June 27, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

The link will take you to a post about your advice to the Justice Department:

http://ratherthanworking.blogspot.com/2008/06/local-columnist-advocates-that-justice.html

By jeeeez

June 27, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Unfortunately….poor judgment is not an impreachable offense. And the items everyone likes to list haven’t been proven and nobody seems to have concrete evidence of anything.

We’ve got 6 more months of the Bush administration. Isn’t it time to stop gnashing teeth over the past and move on? The dems of 2008 sound like the GOP of the 90s. It’s tiring.

By BrittlePNut

June 27, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

To Dusty and all the other box stuffers on the blog.

what exactly is a “lib”?

You seem to so quickly try to cloud any debate or counter a point with that cop out. Is someone a “lib” simply because they might from time to time favor a political candidate who might be a Democrat?

Does it matter that I am a 2nd Amendment guy?

Does it matter that I am a baptized Christian?

Does it matter that I am very much for limited government?

I do not support homosexual marriage..

BUT…I do typically support Democrats because with my unique perspective I know that the “Conservative” party is blatantly opposed to my progress as a minority, though they give lip service that they are.

By Dusty

June 27, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Libnut brittle @4:00 Since you are one of Those People as RedNeck says you blindly follow the libs in the Dimocrat pary to your detriment. Too bad you don’t see the light like Dr. Williams, Thomas Sowell and others like you.

Buh-bye, lib.

By BS Aplenty

June 27, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

BrittlePNut @ 4;00

If you want someone to like you, get a girlfriend. Otherwise, weclome to the Republican party.

By DublDawg

June 27, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

DaveD and TW:

You two make the common mistake that most idiots make, and that is to presume that you are smart in the first place and are capable of engaging in intelligent debates. There is a reason that neither of you is an attorney or any in any other profession that requires a great deal of intelligence. Your time would be better spent on Collegehumor.com or somewhere where you are not as likely to make yourselves look as stupid as you actually are.

How about I respond with another riddle based in a false dilemma? If you have a “right” of free speech, how come you do not have the right to walk into a courtroom and call a judge an SOB? Or the right to walk up to a cop and call him a c—sucker? How come you can’t scream “fire” in a crowded theater? How come you can’t scream profanity in a school?

There are no absolute rights conferred under the constitution.

By BrittlePNut

June 27, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Yeah, just as I thought…

So your true colors show now, even quoting “RedNeck”…Wow!

I know you’re seeing red now. No worries, doesn’t impact me one bit. It’s been great getting you all riled up and therefore taking about an hour or so off your life. You don’t have much time left as it is.

I follow no one, which is why I can have freedom of thought, principle and choice to see through the B-S. I would never beilieve the Dem party totally has my best interest at heart, (if you noticed in my last post I used the term “blatant”). At least the Democratic party for the most part is willing to get down into the trenches with minorities and get dirty. They at least give you the impression they want to work with and for you.

Can’t say the same for Conservatives. They do nothing but prop up a few token non-threatening minorities, and then pat themselves on the backs, as if they have done the minority collective some big favor.

By BS Aplenty

June 27, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

BrittlePNut

What would consider to be a “threatening minority” (as opposed to the non-threatening types) and why would anyone chose such an individual to serve in any capacity?

Do you see this type of behavior in the minority community and where?

By Wee Willy

June 27, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Jim,

Whatever happened to JBM Law? I haven’t seen his civilized comments on this blog for a while. Unlike some of the seemingly less educated partisan rants that are posted here, his insight was almost as enjoyable and intelligent as yours.

I guess that I will get called all kinds of names by the very ones I am talking about for having said that.

By Ha Ha

June 27, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

Tee hee. You gots punk’d ‘Nut. That wasn’t Dusty. That was l’il ol’ me impersonating Dusty. Har har har!

By h

June 27, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Wee willy,

He is still here, under the handle of BFKaJ.

of course for the past two days