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Finest flour, honest judge, skeeters
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
• Independence Day has a new meaning. Celebrate America, home of the Green. Denver’s Democratic mayor, John Hickenlooper, is determined that this year’s convention will be the “greenest in the history of the planet,” with 85 percent of all waste generated there reused, recycled or composted. “It’s the new patriotism,” said Hickenlooper. With some ease, it is possible to assert that much of the verbal waste generated there will be fully recycled on America.
• J.M. Smucker, the latest owner of the most Southern of flours, White Lily, moves its milling operations from Knoxville, where it’s been produced for 125 years, to Ohio. Cookbook author Nathalie Dupree declares quite rationally that “I will slit my wrists if it changes.” She’s assured it won’t. The only people who wouldn’t consider tampering with White Lily a criminal offense are those who can’t cook or don’t eat Southern.
• The paper’s filled with stories about the impact of rising food and energy prices on businesses, especially restaurants. The lamentable reality here is that prices go up, justifiably, but I’ve never seen prices on a menu fall, except maybe in the highly competitive fast-food business. If the price is not increased, the packages shrink, as Kellogg is doing in shrinking the box sizes of Froot Loops, Cocoa Krispies and Apple Jacks by 2.4 percent. Other cereal makers are also raising prices. Dang ethanol. About 30 percent to 35 percent of the current corn crop will be diverted to ethanol. Dang a Congress that’s not serious about moving toward energy independence. Conserve. Drill. Build refineries. And never put food in the gas tank.
• Headline: “Experts share best and worst ways to fight mosquitoes.” Best way: Kill them. Worst way: Talk to them without preconditions, supposing that they can be talked out of wanting to bite. No charge for this expert advice.
• The Independent Republic of Atlanta wishes it to be known that the law of its neighboring state, Georgia, does not apply at its airport. No Second Amendment here, except as defined by local order.
• Not surprisingly, the Fulton Superior Court judge who ruled that “global warming” is reason to invalidate a state permit for a proposed coal plant in southwest Georgia, Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore, presides in the Independent Republic of Atlanta.
• Whenever you see a dollar figure notably attached to anything, whether it is the death penalty, England’s royals or the war in Iraq, you can pretty well know that some group is opposed and wants you to think it’s too much. They never report the costs of undertakings they favor, unless it’s deemed “paltry.” So we know when it’s reported that “maintaining Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family” comes with “an annual price tag of $80 million” that somebody objects. Sure enough, the source is “a prominent anti-monarchist group.”
• Imagine the national notoriety that Mississippi lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs would have gotten had he represented Big Oil, Insurance or Tobacco. Instead, he made hundreds of millions suing tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies, and used a portion of those proceeds to try to bribe a county circuit court judge. “Perhaps this was not the first time you did this because you did it so easily,” said a judge, sentencing Scruggs to five years in prison. “There is evidence before the court that you have done it before.” Referring to Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey, the sentencing judge told Scruggs: “You picked the wrong man to try to bribe.” Celebrate America’s birth — and a judicial system that Judge Henry Lackey represents. Give me one honest judge and I can endure 10 corrupt politicians without becoming a cynic.
• Shocking but true: The Clayton County Chamber of Commerce, which represents about 625 businesses, concludes that school board candidates with a business background are better suited for the school board. I’m taking my cue from the Clayton County Honesty & Competence Commission.
• Happy Fourth.
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By Abundant Pundit
July 4, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
Doesn’t Scrugg’s conviction mean we need to review the financial records of every other judge he stood before, where he received a favorable decision? Scruggs sounds like he’s make a great Clayton County School Board candidate.
On July 4th, lets celebrate the original anti-monarchist group, our founding fathers, who would roll over in their graves if they knew what gay reenacters have turn their Boston “tea bag party” into only two hundred short years later……ew.
Bats kill mosquitoes. They use sonar. There’s one mosquito that needs killin’ in Iran. A stealth bomber looks like a bat, except it uses radar, not sonar. Sounds like a plan.
Drill! Visit your dentist today. Paid for by the committee against bad breath.
If they really want to make the DNC in Denver green, then they should only beat up Vulcans, who have green blood. “I’m a doctor, Jim, not a journalist.”
By Taxpayer
July 4, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
The trouble with dribble is it’s triteness — really it is. Of course, it has other troubles as well but there’s no need to dwell on it. Please, Mr. Wooten, fire your staff. Don’t think about, just do it. Do it for your own good. Don’t worry about us, we’ll be fine.
By BFKaJ
July 4, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Our leftist friends have offered policies derived from compost for years, so Denver is a rational (for a democrat) next step.
I don’t have a real problem outsourcing our low-tech jobs, such as flour production, to suffering backwater economies such as Ohio. Suppose you all saw the WSJ essay arguing that their economic problems were all self-inflicted, mostly unions. If I had not purchased a bread-maker for Mrs. Jbmlaw a year ago I suppose we would not have purchased flour in a bag for ten years or longer. Now that I think about it, I think it has been a couple of years since we bought breakfast cereal too.
Jim, the Obamidiots will resent your pithy mosquito one-liner. I’ll try to recycle it.
The cure for dummies like Judge Wyatt would be for the governor to act, in his official capacity, as a general contractor for the owner of the coal plant. He can ignore an over-reaching state judge with impunity.
Cost of addressing the democrats Global Warming fraud - $380 trillion if handled the democrats way, $0 if handled the republican way. Signed, Association of Intelligent Voters. You’re welcome.
Our non-attorney friends really don’t appreciate the meaning of Dickie Scruggs going to jail for bribery. This guy was one of the half dozen biggest names among plaintiff attorneys. Of course, as a defense-oriented sort, I say “good riddance.”
Presidential candidates with either a business or military background are better suited for the job than community activists.
By Jim is a caveman
July 4, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
Do we need any more proof that Jim and j bm are not members of the GOP, but rather of the COOP? (Caveman’s Old, Old Party) Items 1, 3, 5,6 and 7 reflect that old, stale mentality. What, no mention of dragging women around by their hair, or preventing cave fires, or how to get stains out of animal hides? Join the 21st century, please. Or get a new job plugging insurance. And j bm, no recycling of anything. Didn’t you read the first item?
By Mid-South Philosopher
July 4, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Happy Fourth of July, Jim
I have been away for a while…contributing to this rousing and bustling “Bush Economy”! Sure glad all this talk of “recession” and economic down-turn is just liberal propaganda!
While I have been away, I see that Shirley Franklin, Ben DeCosta and others have been flaunting Georgia State Law, the Supreme Court, and the authors of the Federalist Papers, but what the hell, wasn’t it one of Shirley’s strong supporters who used to say, “I don’t know nothing but Shirley.”
If Governor Silly Sonny had one ounce of courage he would arrange for Representative Tim Bearden to carry his weapon into the public area of the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. If airport security or City of Atlanta Police arrested Bearden, State Troopers and G.B.I. agents should be standing by to negate the arrest and then to place Ben DeCosta in custody for violation of a state law.
If Shirley Franklin gets in the way, lock her “sweet bippy” up as well! It happened to her predecessor. Maybe Shirley needs a day or two in stir!
There are a lot of laws with which I disagree, but, as a good citizen, I obey them while I try to get them changed.
Shirley Franklin and Ben DeCosta are not one bit better than the rest of us!
Come on Sonny…pretend you’re a governor
By Jim is a caveman
July 4, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
Just wanted to mention that, as a lawyer type, Dickie Scruggs is a big story. And one that, sadly, doesn’t reflect well on lawyers. I’ve had enough of these bad apples ruining it for the rest of us.
By jm
July 4, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
I wonder if Mr. Wooten can enlighten us as to the preconditions President Reagan used before meeting with Gorbachev in Rekyjavik or what preconditions President Nixon used before his visit to China.
I wonder why the oil companies are not currently drilling in the areas where they already have leases for both oil and natural gas exploration.
As for the moratorium on offshore drilling, it is by executive order, enacted by the first President Bush, extended by President Clinton. In case no one has told him,”the decider” can just issue a new executive order removing the moratorium.
I guess Mr. Wooten has forgotten that judges who are elected are also politicians.
Happy Fourth, and for those of you who are interested, NPR reads the Declaration of Independence
By Redneck Convert
July 4, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Well happy 4th of July everyone.
Me and the fellows are off for a flag burning accompanied by snails and fish eggs.
Y’all have a good one now ya hear?
By Redneck Convert
July 4, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
Well, this real Redneck Convert don’t hold with no burning of the flag—lessen its old and wore out. We got no use for snails, and fish eggs is good for catching trout if the game warden don’t catch you.
Anyhow, me and the missus and little Sonny Zell George is headed up to Lake Lanier to look around. We don’t expect to see many boats. Not too many people got enough money to buy gas to get to work, much less to zip around the water. Use to be people could afford gas and food was cheap and everybody could walk around and visit and there was real Fambly Values on the 4th. I guess that’s all gone now, along with the jobs and about everything else that use to be good.
Don’t care much about another lawyer getting locked up. Might as well tell me another tiger got loose and kilt a few people at a zoo. Happens all the time. Its just nature. Lawyers is all crooks. Only some get elected and rob us that way.
Have a happy July 4th everybody.
By BFKaJ
July 4, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Dear jm @ 10:43, “…Mr. Wooten can enlighten us as to the preconditions President Reagan used before meeting with Gorbachev in Rekyjavik…”
Try http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB203/index.htm
I am certain similar such information exists for the extensive Kissinger-led negotiations prior to the China meeting.
By BFKaJ
July 4, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
Dear HIDT, is that you imitating jm @ 10:43. This stuff is not quite what we normally expect from jm.
By Disgusted
July 4, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
The Clayton County Chamber of Commerce, which represents about 625 businesses, concludes that school board candidates with a business background are better suited for the school board.
Indulge me as I relate a little parable, Wooten bloggers.
In several counties of one of the mid-Atlantic states, a largely rural area, business interests gained control of numerous county school boards.
It so happened that during those years of the Eisenhower Administration, the federal government was offering large grants of money to county boards that would substitute four units of vocational agriculture (for boys) and four years of vocational homemaking (for girls) for other academic courses in the 16 units required for high school graduation.
The vocationally oriented school boards jumped at the opportunity. Not only would the federal government fund a quarter of the school budget, but also county businesses and voters could pocket money that would otherwise go to school taxes.
So into the trash went a second year of algebra, trigonometry, chemistry, the biological sciences, foreign language study, world history, art and music education, and other courses of study. Bring on the study of sheep, cattle, horses, and shop for the boys, and cooking, sewing, and other arts thought suitable for the girls.
What could be better? Employers had a ready supply of fledgling miners, car painters, and farm hands, while the women were well prepared for a life of homemaking.
Except it was a bit puzzling that so many high school star students went off and flunked out during their first attempt at college. They were unable to bridge the huge educational gap between them the expectations placed on them by colleges.
This was education the way school board members with business backgrounds saw it. For them, knowing the breeds of cattle and hogs, and perhaps a little about bookkeeping, was far more important than being able to calculate an angle. They might as well have put a pistol to the head of every high school graduate and pulled the trigger.
I still see many of those students during an annual school reunion. Most have never left the state. They never qualified to assume any real positions of responsibility.
I say never pack a school board with members of any one interest group. And in my world, no one without at least a bachelor’s degree would ever be qualified to sit on a school board. Clayton County is in precisely the position it is in because of the election of uneducated and unqualified school board members, all with axes to grind. It is quite literally an example of the blind leading the blind.
And a happy 4th of July to all.
By AmVet
July 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
Happy 232nd America!
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
After having spent an amazing week in Kauai, I am comforted knowing that once one leaves the outpost that is the Deep South, people are much more… well… normal. And well adjusted.
No over-riding political animosities. No arrogant displays of intolerance. No c**-sure pig-headedness about the purity and infallibility of King George II and the Republican Party.
I would suppose that people like our esteemed columnist could not even gain an audience there.
Nor legitimately espouse his snarky anti-green sentiments nor espouse his ridiculous Bushco/neo-con apologies.
This decidedly non-humble, southern, self-proclaimed salt of the earth, has gone ironically bad. Very bad.
And despite his ostrich-like mentality and intransigence, the rest of us knowing that the failures of this hijacked, non-conservative and inept GOP are nearly at an end, is truly wonderful.
01-20-09 The End of an Error
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
By George Washington (the orginal)
July 4, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
Why celebrate Independence Day? INDEPENDENCE from WHAT? It sure as hell isn’t the government. This nation is more and more turning into a bunch of liberal bedwetting dependent candyasses who can’t even wipe themselves without asking the government for help. 232 years ago our Founding Fathers would hardly recognize today’s America as we get fatter, lazier, and more dependent on government to take up the slack for our own sloth, laziness, and poor decision making. Hardships, tough times, and tenacity built this nation. Liberalism under Democrats and sloth and dependence will destroy it.
God help this nation.
By red white and blue
July 4, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
“No over-riding political animosities. No arrogant displays of intolerance. No c**-sure pig-headedness about the purity and infallibility of King George II and the Republican Party.”
Well Amvet, did you happen to visit Pearl Harbor?
I hope you didn’t run your mouth over there. I’m sure they would love you calling them a bunch of chest pounding chicken hawks…
By No WhiteTrash, Please
July 4, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Jesse Helms died today. One less scumbag in the world. Make that two. Charlton Heston is still dead.
By obama's campaign manager
July 4, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
Good job trashy.
You’re hired.
By Rufus
July 4, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
“Jesse Helms died today. One less scumbag in the world. Make that two. Charlton Heston is still dead.”
Those words are duly marked. No Conservative Republican has EVER said those comments about a diseased liberal dimocRAT.
Good job as-shole liberal POS. Your words will now live in infamy.
Go to hell in fire.
By Rufus
July 4, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this
Ah yes. Even on an American holiday, two of our most beloved liberal RATs can’t seem to stay away and lay hate on the Right. How pathetic.
Welcome to the world of the ball-less monkeys on the modern diseased * “28 Days’”* left in this nation.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
Thee Doom and Gloom paving the way for Obambi to become a war mongering chickenhawk:
Flip-flop? It must be a campaign-Urinal/DNC
GREAT FLIP-FLOPS IN HISTORY- George W. Bush runs in 2000 with a vow not to engage in “nation building.” He later commits the United States to nation building in Iraq.-Urinal/PMS
Uh, check and see if I’m wrong but 9/11 happened like a year after thee 2000 election, duh.
Not to mention, apparently Bushie didn’t have any notions of invading Iraq until after 9/11 changed the game, but you libs go ahead and tag Bushie with murder, rape or whatever goofy thoughts enter your paranoid mind.
We’re still waiting on a conviction, just one will work.
Ain’t got nothing, do ya?
Obambi is flip flopping three weeks after he convinced the party of yellow belly surrender monkeys to make him their Grand and Exalted Dear Leader.
Isn’t it just like the candy as-ses, they unwrap their Beloved Prize and it is not a metrosexual Nancy in a skirt as they were expecting, instead it is a Cheney Lite Rambo action figure and in their anger and frustration at not receiving the present they whined and moaned for, they lash out at Bushie, an innocent bystander.
Pretty much a replay of the entire last 7 and half years.
Lame-O.
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If if and buts were candy and nuts, the pinkos would all weigh about 500 lb. apiece:
Record highs to soar worldwide, study projects- Sterl’s computer model shows that by the end of the century, high temperatures for once-in-a-generation heat waves will rise twice as fast as everyday average temperatures. Chicago, for example, would reach 115 degrees in such an event by 2100. Paris heat waves could near 109 with Lyon coming closer to 114.-Urinal/Pharisees
Blah, blah, blah, Gloom and Doom, blah, blah, blah.
Meanwhile, back on Earth:
The temperature at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport for 7/8/2008 was 56 at about 5:30 a.m., breaking the July 2 record of 58, set in 1885. The normal low for this time of year is 70.
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I’m not the only one who realizes our freedom is a something we’ve taken for granted:
We live in the most prosperous and most free years of a wonderful republic, and can easily rectify our present crises that are largely of our own making and a result of the stupefying effects of our unprecedented wealth and leisure. Instead of endless recriminations and self-pity — of anger that our past was merely good rather than perfect as we now demand — we need to give thanks this Fourth of July to our ancestors who created our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and suffered miseries beyond our comprehension as they bequeathed to us most of the present wealth, leisure, and freedom we take for granted.-Victor Hansen
Remember how much we heard about Cindy Sheehan a few years ago, as she cursed the government for the loss of her volunteer son in Iraq? Why haven’t we heard about the Burks? Or about the many other families and friends of our troops who donate their time, goods and hard-earned money to say Thank you! to those who serve?-Ralph Peters
Thank God for those who do understand:
Servicemembers from all over Iraq gathered here today in the Al Faw Palace rotunda on Camp Victory, to re-enlist and celebrate America’s Independence Day.
All 1,215 servicemembers celebrated by raising their right hand and pledging to continue defending the ‘land of the free’ in what is the largest re-enlistment ceremony since the all-volunteer force began in 1973, according to the Multi-National Force – Iraq Command Sergeant Major, Command Sgt, Maj. Marvin L. Hill.
Without them, we have nothing.
By TW
July 5, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
How fitting for Helms, no doubt repulsed by America, to have died on July 4th.
I’m sure Heston will be happy about getting an occupant in the stall next to him down in Hades…someone to play a little ‘wide stance’ with…
World up here’s a better place…
By Redneck
July 5, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
TW, sorry that Helms passing caused you pinkos to get upset. I can symapthize with you each time I see yours and your ilk’s posting.
Thanks for 30 years Jesse!!! Wish it could have been longer!!!
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Anybody else notice what extreme enjoyment and pleasure that the libs derive from another person’s death, unless, of course, that other person is an al Qaeda terrorist?
Then they be sad.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
So let’s give them something to be sad about:
In neighboring Helmand province, militants planting a roadside bomb detonated the device prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, said police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal.
Eh hehehehehehe.
Morons.
By Abundant Pundit
July 5, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Luckovich is going to do a cartoon about Viagra and Watermelon. I havent’ seen it, there’s only a blank in the cartoon square, but the topic is readable.
I’ll riff on that topic: Show Bob Dole eating watermelon, watching Spear’s.
Seedless Cialis: the new birthcontrol pill. (seedless watermelon + viagra generic).
Show the size of the RX bottle a lounge lizard would need to score with the barflies if it held watermelon.
Show the peachtree roadracers chasing hooters girls after eating watermelon at the picnic.
I give up.
All Williams Wimbledon Final is a gas.
By gafarmer
July 5, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Q What do you call a bus full of lawyers going over a cliff?
A A shame.
Q What do you call a bus full of lawyers with one empty seat going over a cliff?
A A crying shame.
Q What do you have when you have a lawyer on a beach buried up to his neck in sand?
A A sand shortage.
Q What is the offspring called when you cross a lawyer with a pig?
A Nothing, there some things even a pig will not do.
Q What do you call a rich lawyer being sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to bribe a judge?
A Too short a sentence.
Celebrate our greatest national holiday if for no other reason than the right to carry on this dialog without fear of the police showing up in the the middle of the night to help us vanish.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!
By getalife
July 5, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
“According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed by the way the nation has turned out overall.
Twenty-nine percent responded “pleased,” the only other choice given to the 1,026 respondents of the telephone poll.”
They would start another revolution if they were alive and disband both perties. They spew they fought and died to protect our freedom but our government steals our freedom, so they died in vain.
Only ignorant cowards support this hypocrisy and are failed Americans. Period.
By GMAN
July 5, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
I’m not impressed with McCain’s credentials. I don’t see how crashing a plane on a carrier deck, getting shot down, wrestling with old men like Strom Thurmond, using the f-word liberally, dumping a cancer-stricken wife in favor of a rich one and committing adultery, and engaging in the Keating Five scandal qualifies him to be president.
By @@
July 5, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
A belated Happy Fourth to you as well!
“It’s the new patriotism,” said Hickenlooper.
And therein lies the problem Jim.
A dem must first be green to buy into what a Hick ‘n Looper’s a sellin’.
Dems……NATURE’S NEW AND IMPROVED TURNIPS.
By getalife
July 5, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
We have come full circle back to King George.
Even the blogs moderate free speech.
They steal our freedoms but obl won.
New York Times, 14 October 2001:
”If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he’d turn off the tap,” said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. ”He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel” — about six times what it sells for now.”
Where are the true patriots that speak out against our stolen freedom.
They are not the two pitiful candidates and all pols that voted to steal our freedom should be charge with treason and sent to Gitmo to be waterboarded.
Where are the true patriots?
By Miller
July 5, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
Demographically speaking Lily will be Whiter in Ohio.
By Abundant Pundit
July 5, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
VENUS!!
By diaper soiling liberal
July 5, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
Someone please define a “failed American” that getalife stated. We just celebrated Independence Day, which is kind of a farce these days. Independence from what? It sure as hell isn’t the government. To me, a “failed American” is someone who relies on or wants the government to take care of them in every aspect of their lives as they cannot or do not want to take care of themselves in the this land of the greatest freedom and opportunity on the entire planet. In short, a “failed American” to me is a typical liberal Democrat voter. See Obama for change.
By the way, when Jimmy Carter kicks the bucket, you won’t be reading the same hate from the right as you did from the left here on people like Heston. Filthy rotten scoundrels. Every last one of you animals. Disgusting non-humans.
By Just Nasty and Mean
July 5, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
G’mornin Jim, et al.
Anybody who has practiced before judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore knows she could not have a cogent thought in her head. It just does not exist!
If her brain were smooched into a little ball and shot from a gun into a thimble, it would bang around like a BB in a battleship.
“Incompetent boob” are words that don’t even begin to explain her level of—- incompetence. Stupid doesn’t scratch the surface! Idiot gives WAY TOO much credit.! To call her “Dumba$$” disparages negatively against the true dumba$$es.
To put someone like Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore on the bench to decide an issue of major impact to the general public—like whether or not to build a electric generation system—is like asking a schnauzer to assemble the known universe in 7 days.
Someone—-PLEASE—give me a freakin’ break!
By @@
July 5, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Have fun an Abundance of fun with this one till Monday.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
By getalife July 5, 2008 11:15 AM They would start another revolution if they were alive and disband both perties. They spew they fought and died to protect our freedom but our government steals our freedom, so they died in vain.
al-Gitmo: That’s all well and good but perhaps you could share with us the example of one freedom that you have lost under the Chimperor?
Do tell us.
By GMAN July 5, 2008 11:31 AM I’m not impressed with McCain’s credentials. I don’t see how crashing a plane on a carrier deck, getting shot down, wrestling with old men like Strom Thurmond, using the f-word liberally, dumping a cancer-stricken wife in favor of a rich one and committing adultery, and engaging in the Keating Five scandal qualifies him to be president.
Maybe so, but how does selling crack in the hood and hanging out with terrorists qualify you?
If I were to choose between the two…….
By getalife
July 5, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Well Andy,
My post was for true patriots not bootlicker, conformists that enable our government.
If you think obl has not changed our country, you are delusional and intellectually corrupt.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
al-Gitmo: Then it should be easy for you to give us one example, no?
By Abundant Pundit
July 5, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
Luckovich’s “R U happy 2 C me” watermelon gag is great. This opens up, in the grocery store, the “ten inches or less” checkout counter for produce.
It opens up the whole condom stretched to the limit over the actual watermelon, for retarded hornies.
It opens up the expectant mother’s only parking place with a picture of a girl in a watermelon patch instead of a stork.
See if that comic who uses the Sledgematic on Watermelons ever does that act the same way again.
But hands down, Lucko’s is the best watermelon-viagra gag i’ve seen.
By Abundant Pundit
July 5, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
A rabbit got into my watermelon patch. I had to hose him down. He wouldn’t let go of my cat. I had to burn all his bunny porn. My children are afraid of the Easter Bunny now. They wont eat their chocolate eggs. Another holiday ruined. If we find out that carrots or cookies and milk act like Viagra….there goes Xmas!
By Geez!
July 5, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
Go play with your cucumber AbundIT Pugwit and STFU!
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
When Chairman David Obey announced before the Fourth of July break that he was shutting down his House Appropriations Committee’s consideration of money bills, House Republican leaders felt they had the Democratic majority on the run over soaring gas prices.
The committee was considering the Labor-HHS appropriation when ranking Republican Jerry Lewis offered the Interior money bill as an amendment to force a vote on oil drilling. “As far as I’m concerned,” Obey said as he adjourned the committee, charging Republican obstructionism, “they’ve had their shot.”
Democrats do not want to vote on increased oil drilling, which gets a high rating from voters as a means of eventually reducing prices at the gas pump.
If the libs really cared about the poor and needy, like they babble about, they would be doing what ever they could to lower energy, and in turn, food prices.
But no, they keep on obstructing the production of more energy, even though the majority approve of it.
Who do they represent, the environmental terrorists?
Got bicycle?
By Abundant Pundit
July 5, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
Well.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
“John McCain was so loyal to the men he was imprisoned with he endured torture on their behalf,” Uncle Jimbo said. “Barack Obama associates with those who can help his career, and throws them right under the bus when they become inconvenient to his aspirations.”
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
How many times have you heard these dumbas-s liberals scolding us that we should be more like the world?:
When Barack Obama lands in Europe for his first big international tour this month, the Democratic presidential candidate may be shocked to find himself standing in the middle of a vast, blood-soaked plain littered with the bodies of his political allies.
He will see left-wing parties that have reached their lowest popularity levels in a generation and in most cases have all but slid into non-existence. And it’s getting worse. If he becomes president, by the end of 2009 Mr. Obama almost certainly will be the only left-wing leader remaining among the Group of Eight nations and one of only two or three left-leaning heads of state in the Western world. Once again, America will be going it alone.
Mr. MacShane recently wrote a blistering analysis of the left’s demise, going back even further to find a precedent: “Not since the 19th-century concert of nations, when reactionary conservatives like Metternich, Talleyrand and Wellington stamped hard on liberal and proto-labour politics that challenged kings and emperors, has Europe seen so many right-wing politicians ruling the roost.”
You’re right, pinko, the world is smarter than us.
By HECKler
July 5, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
Do these clumps really believe that it was their grassroots efforts that stopped the U.S. and Israel from bombing Iran?
Activists open lines to Iran
Get over yourselves. The anti-warriors crowd is nothing more than the seasonal plague of crabbygrass.
By Abundant Pundit
July 5, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
Obama 08: Had enough, America?
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this
Heh, WMD:
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
Heh, Joseph Wilson, couldn’t have been more wrong.
Bwa.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
A veterans’ group that sharply criticized Barack Obama is planning a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, which it hopes will counter the anti-war message of MoveOn.org in the run-up to the general election.
Vets for Freedom, made up of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, considers McCain a key ally and could provide the Republican presidential candidate with a boost, simply by espousing the kind of stay-the-course strategy he has advocated. The 25,000-member group is a firm proponent of the troop buildup in Iraq.
In a statement, the group said it would release “pointed ads” as part of an effort to “inform the American public and key lawmakers about the phenomenal success that our troops have achieved as a result of the surge and the importance of ensuring victory in Iraq, Afghanistan and the overall global war on terrorism.”
They have to pay to do what the Doom and Gloom won’t do.
So I donate to them, bwa.
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By AJC/DNC Management
July 5, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
This one is worth seeing, so close to Independence Day:
Raw Video: Daring Colombia Hostage Rescue
By @@
July 5, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this
The pool report on Friday from the Obama press corps revealed an interesting tidbit: Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconvenient Truth, is making a (seemingly secret) documentary about Barack Obama that will apparently air at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Col. next month.
If Obama is playing the leading role, you can expect to see little truth for HIS convenience.
I offer exhibit X….In January 2007, he (Barack Obama) introduced legislation in the Senate to remove all of our combat troops from Iraq by March 2008.
It’s now July, 2008 and his position has changed along with countless others.
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE AND BE DECEIVED IN.
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