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Planet Obama, 1920s gem, voter ID
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Everybody noticed it the moment Barack Obama wrapped up his party’s nomination. He’s changed. One of the week’s political stories, taking note of a mechanical problem on his campaign plane, informed us by way of a typo that “Obama and his staff switched to another planet to complete the trip.” It is a wise man who switches from the planet he was on during the primaries.
The Georgia General Assembly should “fine” Grady Hospital $750,000 for the $1.2 million contract its old governing board gave State Rep. Pam Stephenson, its interim overseer. Subtract it from future grants to the hospital or to Fulton and DeKalb, whose appointees approved the contract. The contract will pay Stephenson about that much for not getting the CEO job.
More signs that the South is gone. It’s an Associated Press story headlined “Rinsing chicken in sink can spread bacteria.” No Southern cook, cook’s helper or child of a cook reached first grade without knowing that. We wonder why government grows large. Simple. People have lost the ability to cope, to fend for themselves, even in their homes.
Count me among those pleading with the Georgia Tech Foundation to preserve the Crum and Forster building on Spring Street. It’s one of the prettiest buildings left in downtown/Midtown Atlanta.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets Barack Obama halfway. Speaking in Malaysia, Ahmadinejad said despite testing missiles that can reach Israel, “I assure you there won’t be any war in the future” against the U.S. or Israel. Besides, he coos, Iran’s no threat to Israel. “You should know this regime will be eventually destroyed and there is no need for any measure by Iranian people,” he responded when asked whether he has called for its destruction. Smart guy, Ahmadinejad. Knows that a President Obama would grasp at any ameliorative —- thus buying him time to develop nuclear weapons. Between Nov. 5 and Jan. 19, Israel may need to act.
Good grief. The Bush administration had an absolute right to edit the proposed testimony of CDC director Julie Gerberding before Congress concerning global warming. Experts disagree. Neither she, nor U.S. attorneys, fired or otherwise, are free agents authorized to make policy on their own. They serve at the will of the president. When I’m president, I decide whether my appointees put more emphasis on public corruption or on something else. And if one group of experts on a policy issue disagrees with another, I decide which prevails as policy. Don’t try to criminalize disagreement.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but as a resident of Dunwoody, the threat by DeKalb commissioners to bring suit to block incorporation would prompt me to vote yes.
How in the world does 85-year-old U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob get the fun cases —- like, for example, the suit filed by a gun rights group against the city of Atlanta? It’s just a hunch, but I’m guessing Atlanta wins. A hearing on GeorgiaCarry.org’s request for a temporary restraining order to block the city from arresting licensed gun carriers at the airport is set for next Friday. Shoob’s famously liberal.
Land around Centennial Olympic Park has an average value of $4.8 million per acre. A 1/3-acre lot sold in December for $6 million. So tell me: Why should taxpayers continue to subsidize development there —- as they do with tax allocation districts, an issue on the ballot Tuesday in Gwinnett County and on the ballot statewide in November as a proposed constitutional amendment? Redevelop blighted neighborhoods, yes. Beyond that, a corporate giveaway.
Michael Vick vs. the Pit Bulls. Dogs win.
Vote Tuesday. With photo ID. Can anybody not now know? Oh, I suppose. Some have no clue what causes AIDS, that cigarettes can cause cancer, or that the “underage female” on the Internet offering to meet for sex is a cop.
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By TW
July 11, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
Kudos to Phil Gramm for being the last honest republican. McSame is lucky to have him.
Who needs al qaeda when you have the republicans?
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 11, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
SO Foreclosure Phil Gramm says it’s a mental recession and we are a nation of whiners…is that better than bitter?…..Let’s look at our proud American heritage of whining…
American colonists whined about taxation without representation and then gave a tea party in Boston Harbor.
American colonists whined about the tyranny of King George (sound familiar?) and then started the Revolution.
Black Americans whined about being beaten, murdered and generally abuse as slaves and we got our civil war.
Women whined about no voice in government and got the right to vote.
Hawaiians whined about 2500 plus deaths at Pearl Harbor and FDR declared war.
Americans whined about the USSR being ahead of us in the space race and we landed on the moon.
Keep up the good whining all you patriots…it’s what our nation is built on!
and reaction from the mccain camp is what?
As McCain Disavows Gramm, a Top Aide Implies Gramm Partly To Blame for the Economy
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 11, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
Ten Campaign Fiascos In One Week
This is the week that should have effectively ended John McCain’s efforts to become the next president of the United States. But you wouldn’t know it if you watched any of the mainstream media outlets or followed political reporting in the major newspapers……But let’s unpack McCain’s week in a little more detail. …..McCain unambiguously called Social Security “an absolute disgrace…………….McCain’s top economic policy adviser calls Americans a bunch of “whiners” for being worried about the slumping economy……………..Iraqi leaders call for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal, McCain gets caught in a bizarre denial and flip flop…………..McCain’s economic plan to cut the deficit has no details and is simply not believable………..McCain’s deficit plan includes bringing the troops home represents a major Iraq flip-flop……..McCain campaign misled about economists support….McCain makes a joke about killing Iranians……..McCain denies, flatly, that he ever said that he is not an expert in economics……McCain distorts his record on veterans benefits in response to a question from Vietnam Veteran, who then proceeds to call McCain out on it………McCain demonstrates he knows nothing about Afghanistan and Pakistan.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 11, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
Notice how thee Doom and Gloom leaves out the good news and goes straight to whining:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki welcomed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for an official visit Thursday, the first Turkish leader to visit Iraq in nearly 20 years. Turkey has expressed frustration over Iraq’s perceived reluctance or inability to hunt Kurdish rebels who conduct attacks on Turkish targets from bases in northern Iraq-Urinal/PMS
Now for the full story:
The Anatolia report said the two leaders were expected to sign an agreement aimed at developing bilateral ties and later Erdogan was to meet other Iraqi leaders, including President Jalal Talabani. “I assure that the Turkish government will stand beside you and will support you,” said Erdogan at a joint news conference with Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki after the two had met in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone.
You see the difference here, which story is purposefully antagonizing the story line between these two countries and which one shows the fact that they are overcoming their problems and developing a relationship for the future.
It’s almost like the candy as-s liberals at the AJC/DNC would like to see Turkey and Iraq trade artillery fire with each other instead of oil and food, doesn’t it?
On the same note:
On a visit to Washington, British Defense Minister Des Browne said Iraq is heading in the right direction in the fight against militants, but he predicted it will take longer to achieve success in Afghanistan, where coalition troops are fighting a resurgent Taliban.-Urinal/PMS
And who’s fault is this, do the libs want us to attack Pakistan, where the pus-sy Taliban go to hide after being slaughtered by NATO in Afghanistan?
And look at thee Doom and Gloom pumping up the tin pot dictator into the second coming of the Waffen SS:
Iranian state television portrayed the missiles, fired Wednesday and again overnight, as a demonstration of the country’s ability to defend itself. The weapons included missiles launched from naval ships in the Persian Gulf, along with torpedoes and surface-to-surface missiles, the broadcast said.-Urinal/PMS
Aahhh, yes, propaganda that thee AJC/DNC doesn’t have to doctor up.
War mongering, Urinal?
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If you want to desert from the U.S. military, you will soon have to find a different refuge than Canada. Ottawa’s government has decided to send American deserters back to the U.S. for possible court martial and dishonorable discharge, and Americans should be grateful.
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Everyone knows it will take the hardest of hard power to remove the oppressors in Zimbabwe, Burma, Sudan and other godforsaken places where the bad guys have the guns and use them. Indeed, as the Zimbabwean opposition leader suggested (before quickly retracting) from his hideout in the Dutch embassy — Europe specializes in providing haven for those fleeing the evil that Europe does nothing about — the only solution is foreign intervention.
And who’s going to intervene? The only country that could is the country that in the last two decades led coalitions that liberated Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Having sacrificed much blood and treasure in its latest endeavor — the liberation of 25 million Iraqis from the most barbarous tyranny of all, and its replacement with what is beginning to emerge as the Arab world’s first democracy — and having earned near-universal condemnation for its pains, America has absolutely no appetite for such missions.
And so the innocent languish, as did Betancourt, until some local power, inexplicably under the sway of the Bush notion of hard power, gets it done — often with the support of the American military.
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In other words, the G-8 signed on to what has been the White House approach since 2002. The U.S. has relied on the arc of domestic energy programs now in place, like fuel-economy standards and efficiency regulations, along with billions in subsidies for low-carbon technology. Europe threw in with the central planning of the Kyoto Protocol — and the contrast is instructive. Between 2000 and 2006, U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions fell 3%. Of the 17 largest world-wide emitters, only France reduced by more.
So despite environmentalist sanctimony about the urgent need for President Bush and the U.S. to “take the lead” on global warming, his program has done better than most everybody else’s. That won’t make the evening news. But the fact is that the new G-8 document is best understood as a second look at the “leadership” of … you know who.
Yeah, we know who, Bushie.
The G-8 also conceded that global-warming masochism is futile and painfully expensive. If every rich country drastically cut CO2, those cuts would be wiped out by emissions from China and India. “Carbon leakage” is a major problem too, where cutbacks in some countries lead to increases in others with less strict policies, as manufacturing and the like are outsourced. This whack-a-mole won’t stop without including all 17 major economies, which together produce roughly 80% of global emissions.
He was right about Iraq and now he is right about “climate change.”
And that means you are wrong, liberals, as usual.
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Some liberals fret that Barack Obama is tacking to the center after his acquiescence to the Supreme Court’s repeal of Washington’s handgun law, his shift on telephone company immunity for cooperating with wiretaps, and his call for more faith-based social programs. But this is just the beginning. The logic of the race will shortly lead Sen. Obama to buck bigger liberal pieties on core priorities like schools, taxes and health care in order to win.
If the “too liberal” label sticks, Mr. Obama won’t win. And if he doesn’t demonstrate his openness to more ideologically androgynous means to achieve his goals, he won’t be able to govern.
Isn’t that sweet, your kkkandidate has to run from your ideas if he is to have any chance of winning.
Does that not just say it all?
Conservatism rules, it is the preference of the nation, and liberalism is foul and disgusting.
Check it out, the majority of the dhimmokrats that won in the 06 elections ran as Conservatives, did they not?
So shut your filthy little mouths, you depraved pervert liberals, and behold the sight of your presidential candidate throwing you and your sicknesses under thee bus.
Crowded under there, ain’t it?
Say hello to Gramma for me.
Bwahahahahahahaha, losers.
By Get Real
July 11, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
This week with Wooten: Four negative articles about Obama, one about Jeb Bush. Where’s McCain and Phil Gramm Wooten? Your brain must be in a mental recession!
Only you would say that the Bush administration has the right to omit he truth from sworn testimony before Congress. This is exactly why Republicans will lose badly in the fall. The President still has the right to form his own policies, even if it goes against the truth. But to leave out facts for political expediency doesn’t serve the American public.
By Redneck Convert
July 11, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
Well, I was smiling real big at the gas station this a.m. when I filled up the beer truck. I didn’t want anybody to think I was a whiner. It hurt alot to watch the numbers go round and round but I wanted people to know things is pretty good and its only the crazy people and libruls that think we got a bad economy. There’s plenty of jobs out there if you are willing to pluck chickens and prices ain’t as bad as they could be. Anyhow, when old man McCain’s adviser says we got it good and everything is sound we ought to beleive him.
We ought to be thanking VP Cheney for cutting the CDC testamony. By the time he got finished it was down to two pages and our tax money wasn’t being wasted on a bunch of blowhards listening to this long speech. All we needed to hear is its hot outside and its just summer weather and it ain’t nobody’s fault. Don’t worry about the ice cap. It will freeze up again.
Anyhow, Joe Bill says he’s running for the state seat next up here in Forsyth. He wants to get hisself appointed Grady board chairman and then get paid a few million bucks to step down. Says he would be set for life.
Well, have a good weekend everybody. I got to go before this AJC Commie Management guy gets on here and starts spreading stuff like a dog with the runs. Some of us need to start up a drive to get Luckovich to open earlier so the guy will have someplace to put his stuff.
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 11, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
this caught my eye
DID ROVE LEAVE COUNTRY TO AVOID SUBPOENA?
did extradition policy have anything to do with vacation destination choice?
By TW
July 11, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
Wait…isn’t Phil Gramm one of the Enron Loophole guys? One of the big oil adovates for the insider trading that has cost the price of gas to go up at least 25%??? And McSame is in bed with this guy????
By AH
July 11, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
Whiners are people who don’t do something about their situation and just wait on someone else to do it for them. If you are losing your house to foreclosure, why is that? Get off your arse and do something about it. Work harder or sell your house. Don’t wait for the government to come around and save your butt, do it yourself. Most of those examples from Mrs. Godzilla of so called whiners did something about their situation, they didn’t just sit around and wait for someone else to do it. Today everyone who is sitting around crying about how they are losing their house are whiners.
As to jobs, if you can’t find a job in todays economy then you are a loser. check out the classifieds there are plenty of jobs in there I’ve looked. Just because it isn’t the job you want doesn’t mean that you can’t find a job. Stop whining and do something.
By Peter
July 11, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
HA HA HA Jim…………
Your OLD GUY running for President has already lost his Memory !
Today we read poor McCain is so “OLD” he forgot he did not vote on the Amendment to condemn the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
He said he VOTED…….. and Obama didn’t !!!!!
Talk about Political SPIN, and some serious Bull Sh!t……Not only did he make the silly statement saying “he voted”……… he then while further confused states………..Obama REFUSED to vote !
But what DO we find out Jim, McCain (McLost) wasn’t even in Washington at the time of the VOTE…….I guess he forgot !
In fact neither were in town………
“The problem with the critique? McCain also missed that vote on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment on September 26, 2007. Records show that Obama was in New Hampshire and McCain was in New York instead of being in the Senate chamber for the vote in question.”
Gee it makes you wonder……… does he knows what day of the week yesterday was !
Do you think he knows what town the White House is in ?
HA HA HA…………… OLD GUY FOR PRESIDENT…….
HA HA HA………
By Hillbilly Deluxe
July 11, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
Why is an 85 year old on the Federal Bench?
By Maniac is accurate
July 11, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
Grady needs to be sold to Bill Frist’s company. And apparently Stephenson and Mike Vick have the same financial adviser.
This just in: Wiping the rims of your coworkers coffee mugs with raw chicken skin can spread bacteria. Really. Try it. I do. You’ll just need to go to a different floor to use the bathroom.
Yeah, my employees better not be going on Fox5 saying, “That Maniac is accurate is an idiot.”
Twenty years ago, Dunwoody was a suburban paradise. While on Spalding Drive my then 4-year-old farm neice from south Georgia said, “Look at all the churches,” when she beheld the subdivisions.
Yes, Jim someone can not know they need a photo ID to vote. Some dude (an early voter) this morning was complaining to me that the current election was communist because he could vote for some people he wanted to but not others. He was a least 70. How could he have not grasped the concept of a party primary for all these years? There are a lot of dense people in the world.
By Blogfather
July 11, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Only a lunatic would wish that people could carry concealed weapons in airports. I used to worry that airport lounges held some cultish Hari Krishnas, and the cult’s mettlesome racket of their chants. Now, I gotta deal with the clandestine, hairy kitsch of cowboys and the full metal jackets in their pants?
By Blogfather
July 11, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
Only a lunatic would wish that people could carry concealed weapons in airports. I used to worry that airport lounges held some cultish Hari Krishnas, and the mettlesome racket of their chants. Now, I gotta deal with the clandestine, hairy kitsch of cowboys and the full metal jackets in their pants?
By AJC/DNC Management
July 11, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
By Redneck Convert July 11, 2008 9:22 AM Some of us need to start up a drive to get Luckovich to open earlier so the guy will have someplace to put his stuff.
Well, considering that the AJC house coward luckovich cut and run from his blog, just like the surrender monkey that he is, maybe we could focus our attentions to getting Wooten to close his blog a little later in the evening?
By BFKaJ
July 11, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Gentleman Jim is in fine humor today. The Grady Hospital contract reeks of corruption. Broke public entities do not give a million dollars to a single politician, even for good services.
I respectfully disagree on preserving pretty buildings. Call me Schumpeter’s disciple.
I don’t think Israel will wait until Labor Day, without regard to the implications on US presidential politics. Conservatives will rally behind Israel, and Leftists will, as usual, cower or whine. Not sure which side President Bush or Senator McCain will take. We all know what Sen. Obama will do.
I would probably fire Ms. Gerberding as a whiner. Too many in positions of authority. She has the right to her beliefs, but no right to draw a salary.
Although I think Atlanta is wrong on the issue, Judge jbmlaw would not grant a TRO either. Standard of proof is too high, and I have little use for theoretical cases. Now, after an arrest, I would also not dismiss a $1 billion “violation of civil rights” lawsuit against the city and the airport and Mayor Franklin.
Agree on the redevelopment corporate welfare, I will vote against the initiative next week.
By Blogfather
July 11, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
Guns in neighboorhoods? Yes. Protection from. Guns in airports? Please. Protect me from.
I used to worry that airport lounges held some cultish Hari Krishnas and the mettlesome racket of their chants. Now I’m afraid of the brutish, hairy kitsch of cowboys and the full mettle jackets in their pants.
By BFKaJ
July 11, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Dear Mrs. Godzilla @ various times, you are awfully whiny this morning.
Dear Get Real @ 9:30, you’re whining again.
Dear Peter @ 9:30, isn’t it too early to be whining off topic?
By rick
July 11, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
the simple fact is that republicans don’t deserve a third term. they have failed at taking care of their own nation. it’s disgusting how they have abandoned New Orleans, DISGUSTING and UNAMERICAN. Cheney and Rumsfield did succeed at what their true agenda was to invade Iraq and cut taxes for the rich. vote for John McCain at your own peril, just disgusting. Have you no shame?
By AJC/DNC Management
July 11, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Whatever nuance Barack Obama is now adding to his Iraq withdrawal strategy, the core plan on his Web site is as plain as day: Obama would “immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.”
Asked if he considered it dangerous to pull out if the withdrawal is not based on “conditions,” Hammond said, “It’s very dangerous. I’ll speak for the coalition forces, men and women of character and moral courage; we have a mission, and it’s not until the mission is done that I can look my leader in the eye and say, ‘Sir, Ma’am, mission accomplished,’ and I think it is dangerous to leave anything a little early.”
Looks like Obambi’s not done flip flopping yet.
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 11, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
BFKaJ
I’m flattered you noticed!
With a whiner here
and a whiner there
here a whine
there a whine
every where a whining whine
Old McCain’s friend Old Phil Gramm
Whiney whiney whine
seriously folks
while Gramm’s comments were offensive, it’s his policies that will finish off our economy
By Peter
July 11, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Hey By BFKaJ………. never too early to learn about the truth !
The Guy is Too OLD………..and he is not even sure of his own positions………. it has been documented that he has changed like the weather !
His Mojo is running OUT !
By Maniac is accurate
July 11, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
BFKaJ wrote: “She has the right to her beliefs, but no right to draw a salary.”
Can’t put it any better than that methinks.
By Copyleft
July 11, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
I see Jim is relying on the old 2004 election tactics to launch his attacks at Obama: insist that he’s weak, claim he stands for nothing, and say “flip-flopper” a lot.
The problem is, that tactic isn’t working this time. America has seen how the stubborn-ignorance model has failed, and we’re ready for a smarter, LIBERAL, adminstration. And by acknowledging Obama’s intelligent campaign decisions, it seems that even Jim has conceded defeat this cycle.
Welcome to President Obama’s term: restoring America! (Don’t worry, we’ll still let you ignorant fascists live here too, despite your Bush votes.)
Israel can “act” all they like—-but if they stupidly launch a war of aggression (no doubt claiming it’s in “self-defense”), they’re doing it alone. We’re not their hired goon.
As for the CDC testimony: It’s well known now that the Bush administration regularly tries to censor government scientists whose findings don’t toe the party line. What’s surprising is Wooten’s attempt to defend this as somehow “protecting free and open debate.” But then, truth has never been a priority for conservatives. Blind obedience is.
Speaking of which… where’s Dusty? (snicker)
By Blogfather
July 11, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Guns in our homes? Yes! (Protection from.) Concealed weapons in our airports? Please. (Protect me from.)
I used to worry that airport lounges held cultish Hari Krishnas and the mettlesome drum-drum racket of their chants.
Now, I’m afraid of the brutish, hairy kitsch of dum dums and the full mettle jackets in their pants.
Bingo!
By Peter
July 11, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Hey By AJC/DNC Management……don’t worry be happy about the Troop withdrawal………
Hey they want to kick us out of there anyway !
Are you upset we might leave Iraq early ?
By jungleland
July 11, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Do liberals not understand the diference between the RIGHT to carry a weapon and the DESIRE for society to? Nobody WANTS an airport full of legal guns, but just because it is not your preference, does not mean that you can deny somebody’s rights (especially constitutional ones). Uphold the constitution and then have a little personal responsability. And punish those who break the law swiftly.
Now if they DO decide that the Airport is a place to BAN guns (and this needs to be done at the federal level). We need to respect the change in law, but be very careful that it stops there.
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 11, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Is it whining to want the truth?
In Pennsylvania, McCain Tells a New Version of Heroic P.O.W. Story — Subbing the Pittsburgh Steelers for the Green Bay Packers…McCain’s valor as a P.O.W. is beyond admirable, but this business of substituting the Steelers for the Packers is odd, though as I said, the McCain campaign says this was an honest mistake
really, is it too much to ask for the real story?
McCain’s broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship…..In his 2002 memoir, “Worth the Fighting For,” McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley. ……..An examination of court documents tells a different story
By Peter
July 11, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Interesting By Mrs. Godzilla…………
“McCain’s broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship…..In his 2002 memoir, “Worth the Fighting For,” McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley. ……..An examination of court documents tells a different story.”
I guess McLost, has either “Forgotten again, or is Flip Flopping on his story !
Gotta love an OLD GUY running for President that dumps his wife, and forgot the details !
HA HA HA…………. OLD GUY for President …..
By ron
July 11, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Good morning All,Obama on another planet? Good deal.
Israel will strike Iran.They have a decided dislike for reactors that make weapons grade nuclear particles.
Michael Vick.Hooray for the dogs.
Since I have carried a concealed weapon for many years,I don’t see why I have to leave it behind when I visit certain places.Law abiding citizens are not the problem people.When a fellow citizen uses a gun to commit a crime,let’s lock said citizen away for a l-o-n-g sentence.Let’s stop playing games with criminals.
An 85 year old liberal judge deciding in Shirley’s favor is not what is needed.
We will not discuss voter ID,that is,not rationally.
Whine away,Mrs.Gorilla.
By Just Nasty and Mean
July 11, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
G’mornin JIm, et al
We all know what is wrong with Grady, Clayton County, City of Atlanta, Lithonia, Hartsfield-Jackson airport, etc. etc.etc. We just can’t say it.
Ahmadinejad and his rhetoric is playing the US, Israel (and the world) like the obese, bloated Baby Huey bureaucratic bumbling fools that we are. When Tel Aviv and NYC is a smoking cinder, maybe we will understand this guy is an Islamic radical fanatic— hell bent on doing whatever it takes to fulfill his biblical (Koran) mission—to destroy all the infidels.
TAD’s (Tax Allocation Districts) are nothing more than transfers of taxpayer funds to the developers in exchange for campaign contributions. It is a scam—through and through.
We’ll never know if Marvin Shoob was the next judge in the rotation that just happened to to come up for the City of Atlanta’s suit on gun usage. But I seriously doubt it. I can’t prove it—-but this was likely manipulated.
Folks, this revamp of Grady is just not going to work! Grady needs to fail, close it doors, and start over before the nepotism, crony sm, leaches and the “taxpayer-sucking mindset” is flushed out. The state, counties and cities can put million$ more into Grady—and it will still be what is is…a cesspool of bureaucracy and inefficiency.
If there is money to be spend at Grady—it will—just like this wasted $750k. If I were the state, a philanthropic institution, or any contributer to Grady—I would STOP GIVING THEM ANYTHING until the whole thing comes crashing down.
Have a nice weekend, all!
By getalife
July 11, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Yes Jim,
The change Obama spewed was about him but McCain’s campaign is a train wreck.
Landslide Obama.
The fisa bill was a cover up of crimes
Then there is the Red Cross torture report on war crimes
Funny, when your party commits crimes, not a peep from you Jim.
You are a pathetic American but Mike’s toon is hilarious today.
By Middle America
July 11, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
“Don’t try to criminalize disagreement.”
Seriously?!?!? Is a Bush supporter seriously going to come with that as an argument?!?!? That’s the Bush M.O. To eliminate dissent and disagreement among the federal government, and to the state and local level as well thru prosecutions carried out at the whims and direction of Karl Rove. If Rove has nothing to hide, then why is he refusing to comply with his subpoena? Seems to me that he has plenty to hide, and so does George W. Bush. I think Congress should table this investigation until after Jan. 19 2009, so there won’t be any more obstruction by the partisan Justice Dept. Bush, Cheney, Rove all should not rest easy once they leave office because we (the American people) are not going to forget all the criminal activity and trashing of the Constitution that went on under their watch. Maybe they can detain those three at Gitmo.
By AJC/DNC Management
July 11, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
By Peter July 11, 2008 10:08 AM Hey By AJC/DNC Management……don’t worry be happy about the Troop withdrawal………Hey they want to kick us out of there anyway ! Are you upset we might leave Iraq early ?
klown…………..the other day I engaged you in debate and, even though you answered me back with goony lib propaganda, at least you were intelligible…………what has happened to you since then?………you now have no more to offer me than a common bozo would………..I will soon be ignoring you…………..bwa.
By the way, this may come as quite a surprise but some day, providing that your mouth doesn’t get you killed before then, you are going to get old.
And all that respect you are showing to the Baby Boomers, go ahead and call them droolers and nap takers, that probably won’t influence their voting decisions.
I, for one, have respect for my elders, but then again, I am an adult, not some clown child like you are.
Begone wanker.
By Miss Congeniality
July 11, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Morning all,
As for the Obama typo, that is damn funny. Wonder if he swiched to McCain’s planet because that man is in outer space.
I say since Michael Vick is no longer any use in sports, can we get someone to slam him to the ground really hard torture him like he did to the dogs? That would be great. Put that on pay-per-view and you could use that money for development in Downtown.
So Jim, Bush has a right to edit reports that are issued? Really? I beleive that Bush works for us, ther American People. (At least those who voted for him anyway). I think it is his duty to report the truth to us, not just what he wants to hear. Disagreement is one thing. Flat out lying is another.
And a point about the “whining” comments. I thought you conservatives thought Libs were moonbats. But here we have a guy claiming the current economic downturn is all in our heads. Huh? So wait, if we all concentrate really hard and think we are all happy and wealthy it will happen, right? All $4 gas, foreclosures, etc will just float away because they are figments of our imaginations? Um, yeah. You all can go ahead and think your happy thoughts and fly away to never-never land. I prefer to live in the real world and deal with issues instead of wishing them away.
All conservatives sing along..
“when you wish upon a star, you can fill up your car, all the gas you want to use, will be for cheap…”
By Peter
July 11, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Poor By AJC/DNC Management…..forgot how to debate…..back to name calling……..
Tell me something, what happened to poor OLD McLost……. he didn’t know what happened with him and his wife?
He didn’t know he didn’t vote, and is so CONFUSED CURENTLY…….he forgot he was out of Washington DC, and then McLost stated publicly he voted.
Tell me what happened that he thought he voted, then claimed Obama wouldn’t vote?
He is TOO OLD for the Presidents Job !
He is over the hill for the Job !
I think seniors are a group that some day I will join period.
Old people are very cool…….. Just NOT presidential Material !
By Lily Toad
July 11, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Ageism is rampant on the blog today from McCain to Judge Shoob. Age is not the issue, Peter, unless one can’t function. Make fun of McCain’s flip flops, dementia, loss of memory, bad votes (even the ones he forgot to make) but please refrain from making ageist slurs because not all old people are like that. Judge Shoob is much older than McCain and his mind is working just fine.
By Watta Load
July 11, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Obama, Obama, Obama!
Thanks for keeping the name out there.
I guess there’s not much to say about McSame.
By Peter
July 11, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Hey Lily Toad……… no doubt SOME older folks still have their mind………
But Poor OLD McLost has lost some of his ……..and it is really going to show during the debates !
How old was Regan when he got alztimer’s ?
There are lots of Americans who have gotten it at or earlier than McLost’s current age !
By Dave
July 11, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
Mrs. Godzilla - the examples you gave about individuals taking action, not whinning and waiting for the government to do something for them. But hey, just another example of why Dr. Phil was right.
By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough
July 11, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA …
this is too freaking funny … the real black snouts in the MLK family trough are YET AGAIN revealed for all to see. And the worthless, despicable, incessantly pandering, blacks never do any wrong Urinal (to the best of my knowledge) has slavishly failed to publicise this!! Happily I only see a little of the far left Urinal’s muliticultural pandering on line. Wasting even one red cent (geddit??) on such worthless surrender monkey detritus would be criminal anti-American stupidity.
MLK Family Feud
Civil rights leader’s children battle each other over estates
JULY 11—A family dispute over the valuable estates of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has landed the late couple’s children in court, with two of the siblings claming that a third has misappropriated money from their parents’s estates. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III charge that, in late June, their brother Dexter improperly transferred “substantial funds” from Bank of America to accounts he controls, according to a Superior Court lawsuit filed yesterday in Fulton County, Georgia. The Bank of America account contains funds from the estate of Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006 at age 78. Bernice King, 45, is administrator of her late mother’s estate, while Dexter, 47, is president of the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. corporation, of which the siblings are all shareholders. The operation of that business is in disarray, with the siblings “deadlocked” in its management, according to the complaint, which charges that the company’s assets are “being misapplied or wasted.” Dexter King’s siblings allege that he “controls” the corporation and has “wrongfully appropriated assets” from the firm “for his own benefit.” He also has allegedly refused to provide his brother and sister with “information and documentation concerning the operation, actions and financial affairs of the Corporation to which they are entitled.” In 2006, the King corporation, which controls the use of the late civil rights leader’s image, sold a private collection of his papers that had been estimated to be worth about $30 million.
Maybe these grasping black snouts in the MLK trough freeloaders will also follow the new black on black trend and publicly threaten to cut each others’ nuts off … snigger snigger.
The MLK gimme gimme gimme court documents - well worth a few hilarious sniggers - are found here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0711081king1.html
Why don’t the gutless pandering media ask the elephant eared half-black racist far left surrender monkey nonentity Hussein Obama on camera whether it agrees with the knuckle dragging overtly racist black thug Jackasson about whitey being responsible for the 70% black b astard rate as well as the horrendous NEVER ENDING murdeous black on black murder rate:
The latest black killer stats being:
African-Americans are victims of nearly half the murders committed in the United States despite making up only 13 percent of the population, a report published Thursday showed. Around 8,000 of nearly 16,500 murder victims in 2005, or 49 percent, were black Americans, according to the report released by the statistics bureau of the Department of Justice.
Broken down by gender, 6,800 black men were murdered in 2005, making up more than half the nearly 13,000 male murder victims.
Black women made up 35 percent, or 1,200, of the nearly 3,500 female homicide victims.
Young black men aged between 17 and 29 bore a disproportionately high burden in the grim statistics, making up 51 percent of African-American murder victims.
The percentage of white male murder victims in the same age group was 37 percent.
More than half the murders of blacks took place in densely populated urban areas.
Firearms were involved 77 percent of the time in homicides involving black people and around 60 percent of the time in murders of whites.
Most murder victims — 93 percent of blacks and 85 percent of whites — were killed by someone of their own race.
Gang violence was involved in around five percent of homicides with black victims against seven percent for white victims.
In percentage terms, whites were twice as likely to be killed by a current or former partner than blacks — 12 percent of whites were murdered by a life partner against six percent of blacks.
Blacks were also at greater risk of rape or sexual assault than any other ethnic group except American Indians, the report showed.
Perhaps the racistbitchDebbieturd would care to comment on these heart warming FEDERAL stats … thought not … HUGE SNIGGER
By The Anti-Wooten
July 11, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
I have a really simple solution for the guns in the airport situation.
Every time that a police officer, TSA officer or security of any type observes someone with a gun they should yell GUN!! Search the person with the gun to make sure they have the proper credentials to carry said gun and lockdown the entire airport while it’s done. You can’t tell just by looking that the person has the correct documentation so prudence being justified it would meet the standards of the current law. Oh by the way, you’d have to prove that your address was correct and accurate, that you’d not allowed your licnese to expire by a couple of days or any other paperwork snafu that would otherwise go unnoticed. If ANYTHING was not in order you’d get a nice long trip to jail.
Meanwhile, with the airport locking down 18 times a day, you’d see the feds in here quicker than you can say Wooten’s an Idiot to set this right.
By Lily Toad
July 11, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
Reagan probably had Alzheimers the whole time he was Prez. When he testified that he “couldn’t remember” in the Iran Contra hearings he was telling the truth. I think Nancy Reagan was really the one making decisions.
Has McCain been tested for Alzheimer’s? Or is he just forgetful?
However, Ageism is as bad as sexism, racism and anti-semitism, which is why I’m asking you to refer to his faults, not his age. There’s a lot to criticize without repeating OLD.
By GMAN
July 11, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management, your long winded behind is back at it again. Your candidate is sinking fast. By the time the wingnut convention comes around, the only interest the American people will have in watching it is to see whether or not McAncient is still breathing. His economic advisor expressed McMethuselah’s true feelings about the American people and the economy. The list of faux pas will continue to grow with each passing day as McAbraham and his people open their mouths. MR. Magoo is FINISHED! He just can’t stay awake long enough to notice.
By Miss Congeniality
July 11, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
To the Dumb*ss at 10:56:
crawl back under your hood. The fellow Klan memebers are waiting.
By Middle America
July 11, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
“…I am and adult….Begone wanker.”
How could anyone have ever doubted your adulthood?
It’s funny to me how quickly people want to jump on something to call it a flip flop. Obama has consistently been the same on Iraq. “A war that should have never been authorized and never been waged.” “I will end this war.” “We want to be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in.” The truth is that Obama has always said he would unequivocally get us out of Iraq but would listen to his commanders on the ground about the manner and speed that it will take to safely leave Iraq. Critics of his want to point to some lack of experience and say he is not qualified to be president, but those same critics want to sieze on his descriptions of being smart on leaving Iraq as somehow him flip flopping on his position. To me it is very clear that his pragmatic view of using all the input of commanders on the ground to determine the timetable demonstrates his superior judgement to that of John McCain who repeatedly states that the US will be in Iraq in definitely. To me it seems obvious that the situation on the ground should be important to McCain and how it affects his strategy on Iraq. Isn’t there the possibility that the situation could IMPROVE to the point that having our troops there serves no purpose? And isn’t there also the possibility that the situation could WORSEN to the point that it makes no sense for our troops to remain, i.e. and all out sectarian civil war that has nothing to do with the US? The point is that because our objective(s) of getting into the Iraq War were either lies or have already been accomplished, we should be leaving anyway. Plus the fact of how the war has undercut our influence and standing in the world and at the same time allowed Iran to become the ultimate power broker in the region. We have blundered and the only way to correct that blunder is to end this war and begin working on our standing and influence in the world thru demonstrating a change of philosophy.
It never ceases to amaze me that the party of Ronald Reagan can try to demonize Barack Obama for demonstrating a willingness to negotiate directly with Iran without preconditions, when Reagan did exactly that with the Soviet Union. And it was because of that direct engagement that WWIII was avoided. Much in the same way that Kennedy navigated the Cuban Missle Crisis, by being willing to negotiate directly with the Soviets (albeit in a behind the scenes way). But at the same time that does not amaze me about Republicans, because Republicans never seek to research and understand their enemies. Take for example Iran. The population of Iran is over 70 million, of which more than two thirds are under 30 years of age. A deeper look into Iran shows that this younger generation (who either weren’t around for the Islamic revolution or were toddlers a the time) is pro western (craving western culture like movies, music, styles). As recently as 2005 they had a president who had made major reforms, even cooperating with the US enough to have some sanctions lowered. (Did that mean Iran was not doing some bad things? No, but these things take time and don’t happen because of outside forces, but because of inside ones.) But our aggressive activities in Iraq and tough talk (like the axis of evil state of the union remarks) allowed a hardliner to win back the presidency. And we are seeing the results of our short sighted and down right ignorant policies. The bottom line is that Iran is a young country that currently has the older more radical generation still pulling the strings, but it won’t always be that way. Our mission is to make sure that as this younger generation ages and takes over, that the US is seen as a good country to them, not an aggressive war monger bully. The way to do that is the way Reagan did it. Be tough but fair and never be afraid to talk to you enemy. Just because you talk does not mean you are giving anything away.
By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough
July 11, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
@ PeterPeKKKer
rancid, should have been aborted leftist maggots like yourself deserve to be infested with AIDS, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, rabies and then be beheaded by towel head terrorists live on Al JazeeraMSNBC … huge bloody good riddance smirk
or better still, how’s about a Kennedy DUI killer brain tumour!!!
Funny how you rodent humping leftist scum make all kinds of sick jokes about conservatives getting Alzheimers and other fatal/wasting diseases.
So purely as a public service I am just wittily mirroring back your endless psychotic hate bubbawankpig!!
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 11, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
Brandenburg Gate-Gate
Yesterday I noted that Germany’s Der Spiegel had reported that the Bush administration was privately trying to block Barack Obama from making a speech at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate.
By Get Real
July 11, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this
BFKaJ @ 9:52, thats the best you guys have is when you disagree with someone call them a whiner, lol. Ok, I’ll be a whiner. Doesn’t change the fact that McCain’s top economic advisor believes the economy is doing well, people are just ‘whining’ about it. That shows who’s elitist and out of touch. And as far as Israel bombing Iran after Labor Day, I find it extremely ironic that the same church-going, bible thumping Republicans who are so into religion and values, love wars so much. Guess the 10 commandments only means something when you are trying to bring someone down. Whatever.
By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough
July 11, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this
I see the racictblackbitchDebbieturd using yet another truly dumbarsed cretinous ID is SKEERED of addressing the UNDENIABLE FEDERAL FACTS about the unending murderous black on black crime and is unsurprisingly - judging from the sullen silence - deeply ashamed of the requisite MLK familial black snouts in the trough.
NO yellowbellied black racist hypocritical SURPRISES THERE THEN.
BTW Debbieturd … gutlessly ranting and desperately invoking the despicable KKK is NO WAY to actually address unassailable facts!!
But then U always wos a lardarse coward GIRRRRRRRLLLLLLL!!
By Nurse Ratchit
July 11, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
I owe a huge apology to all on this blog. “Grasping at the snout” has slipped from the straight jacket and headed for the key board before I could subdue him.
Roll over, Grasping, and pull down your spidey-man panties and let Nursie give you your shot. The delusions will cease soon and the boogie man will go away. There, there.
By hillbilly ragger
July 11, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
Jim, I’ve given up on your issuing a correction to your Tuesday column, wherein you falsely asserted that Obama’s tax proposals, specifically those concerning capital gains, would have adversely affected “600,000” Georgians in 2006. The week’s about wound down and I have other things to attend to, but for the record I am very disappointed that you haven’t seen fit to fix this.
I won’t keep pointing it out beyond this post, even though I continue to wonder how you could think that there were 600,000 Georgians who fell into the over-$250K tax bracket in 2006. It’s not too late—a simple “Correction” at the bottom would do the trick.
I write this because the fallacies out there on the ‘net are often spinning out of control, and we spend a ton of time simply correcting easily disprovable assertions. I’m sorry to see you adding to this collection of online fallacies.
By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough
July 11, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
@ Nurse Rabid
I see your usual cowardly hysterical puke is as robotic and anally unfunny as ever.
Cheers for making NO ATTEMPT whatever to address the UNASSAILABLE FACTS posted about the black MLK familial snouts in the trough or the recent FEDERAL black killing fields stats.
Cheers also wankface for that superb and truly marvellous lobotomised hissy fit … the execrable time to lynch aborted foreskin would methinks, almost be anally jealous!!
The thug Jackasson couldn’t threaten to cut UR nuts off … as obviously U aint got nun (geddit??) mutha/brutha/sista uncle daddy
By Nurse Ratchit
July 11, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Graspy, the drugs will take effect soon. Your obsession with bodily functions such as puking and your anal fixation are all treatable as soon as you realize you are no longer 4 years old. Such therapy hasn’t worked which is why we need to medicate. And no, I will NOT spanky you today.
By latter_day_hippie
July 11, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
What Mr. Wooten has failed to factor into his prediction regarding the outcome of the GeorgiaCarry.Org lawsuit against the city of Atlanta is that Mayor Franklin’s and Mr. DeCosta’s pronouncement regarding the airport being a “gun-free zone” is in violation of existing and current state law. Even if the Honorable Judge Shoob elects to rule in favor of the defendants despite the fact that they are in violation of the law, the appeals court certainly will overturn him — as they have in the past on many other issues.
Similarly, to those who support Mayor Franklin’s and Mr. DeCosta’s position, are you supporting the decision of those two individuals to blatantly and flagrantly disregard the law? How would you feel if Mayor Franklin suddenly decreed only favorable stories regarding her administration could be published in the newspaper? Or if Mr. DeCosta suddenly decreed that a strip-search was required to enter the airport terminal building even before one gets to security? Please be very, very careful at how much personal liberty you are prepared to sacrifice for a false sense of security.
I know that the “guns” issue is an emotional one, but please consider both the merits of the defense’s case (which have, incidentally, already been used and defeated in another recent lawsuit against the city) and the wisdom of Mayor Franklin’s administration spending countless of thousands of dollars on external counsel to support her untenable position in court in the midst of a budget crisis.
By Peter
July 11, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
Poor ………By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough…..loosing his mind today………
HA HA HA………….
McOld……too old for the White House………
How old will you be when you retire ?
By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough
July 11, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this
Nurse Rabid
Cheers for YET AGAIN biting so anally and so superbly … goading racist fascist leftist SCUM like U is so bleeding easy. Kind a like G W Bush beating treasonous leftist scum in Presidential elections!!
TIME FOR ISRAEL TO CARPET BOMB IRAN!!!
By Dutchman
July 11, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Mrs. Godzilla,
Dear Pink-o
American colonists whined about taxation without representation and then gave a tea party in Boston Harbor.
They did not whine, they beat the best Army of that day
American colonists whined about the tyranny of King George (sound familiar?) and then started the Revolution.
See above
Black Americans whined about being beaten, murdered and generally abuse as slaves and we got our civil war.
Whined, I doubt it, they bled and the nation took steps to stop it.
Women whined about no voice in government and got the right to vote.
Hmm, Is this why Dick Cheney’s state gave women the right to vote first, in the 19th century?
Hawaiians whined about 2500 plus deaths at Pearl Harbor and FDR declared war.
I doubt the Hawaiians were whining, the Americans took it on the chin and went to war, doesn’t sound like whining to me.
Americans whined about the USSR being ahead of us in the space race and we landed on the moon.
Again, whined??? No we did something.
Today, when the AJC/DNC want to scare folks they bad mouth the economy or something else. These scaremongers are the whiners. Oh, the housing market is bad, over and over, until folks believe it and they stop buying.
They whine about folks with minimal credit not being able to buy houses, they whine and whine until the Congress allows lowered standards .
The whiners are not the source of solution, but the cause of the problems. We use to be able to take a disaster and use it to bring the country together. Now, in this enlightened time, we criticize them or blame someone else. As in Katrina, within 3 days over 100,000 aid workers were on the ground helping folks. They did not whine, they just went to work helping.
By hillbilly ragger
July 11, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Graspy, your type is very common on the Internets. You cherry-pick a few demographic stats and try to assert some kind of case for racial superiority; you match your lack of honesty and context with an obnoxious attitude, and then get all bent out of shape because nobody wants to address the UNASSAILABLE FACTS as you’ve cherry-picked them.
We’ve met you already. You’re boring. Go away.
By Middle America
July 11, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
As for John McCain’s domestic policy failings….
I understand that he says “Gramm doesn’t speak for me” but that’s still not good enough. The fact that someone like Phil Gramm is even allowed to be involved with McCain’s campaign is egregious in itself. Gramm helped get the Enron loophole passed into law that allowed not only the California energy crisis of 2000-2001, but is helping to fuel (pardon the pun) the current over pricing of oil (thru the oil futures speculation markets that the loophole allow). His wife was also heavily involved with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as chair that helped get the loophole passed, and she subsequently ended up on the board for Enron and was sued in the lawsuits that followed the fallout from Enron. So the man’s integrity is in serious question not to mention his wisdom on economic issues in light of his ‘whiners’ comments. Last time I checked gasoline is $4 a gallon (when it was $1.25 3 years ago) making it difficult to make ends meet, and my healthcare plan went from having a choice of plans and deductables as low as $500 to not having a choice and having to have a $1000 deductable PER PERSON COVERED!!!! That is not imagined or ‘pyscological’, it’s real.
McCain also looked completely dumbfounded and flatfooted when asked about healthcare companies covering Viagra but not birth control. Seems to me that’s a pretty straightforward issue to address as not fair and downright sexist. Why he needs to research and get back to the media on that one is baffling.
Then there is his uncomfortable attempts at humor over issues that aren’t very funny at all. In addressing Gramm’s remarks, and being asked if Gramm might be considered for Treasury Secretary he made some joke about making him ambassador to Belarus. #1 the economy is not a funny issue to be the setup for some out of left field punchline, #2 we already look stupid to the rest of the world, why not add Belarus to the list of countries we insult. Then there was his response to the fact that exports to Iran actually increased under Bush, in particular cigarettes, to which McCain replied, “maybe that’s a way of killing them (Iranians).” If our main beef with Iran is their stated mission to kill Israelis, isn’t it a little hypocritical to have a man who might be president delighting in the prospect of Iranians dying from cigarette related cancer?? McCain also was quoted as making a joke about bombing Iran to the tune of the Beach Boys’ Barbara Ann. Since when did it become okay for a president or presidential candidate to become so cavalier with who should be killed? We have had Bush talking about killing people for 6-7 years now as if he was head of the Corrleone family instead of POTUS. That mindset needs to change.
By ron
July 11, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
Dutchman,Will you please explain how we take a natural disaster like Obama and unite the country.
By getalife
July 11, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
The stock market drop today is all in your head.
Just up your meds.
Dr. Phil said it is a mental thing.
Then McCain said Social Security is a disgrace.
Why you would vote for this fool is beyond mental.
It is outright insane.
By Peter
July 11, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
Hey Lily Toad, I disagree with you……….
All over America, older folks are loosing their hi paying job, and being replaced by YOUNGER folks that corporations won’t have to pay the same amount too.
I have seen this happen to friends and acquaintances.
OLDER folks looking for a JOB, are being discriminated against, because of their age………
I personally know of a Fine Older, Christian, Republican guy who has complained to me personally about that……..He says he will keep praying and trying to find a job, as his house is about to be foreclosed on !
So the Age factor IS an ISSUE in todays Job market..look at the current unemployment numbers, perhaps someone can find the figures of the age brackets looking for work.
How old will YOU be when you retire ?
The Job of President is a very stressful job I am sure…….McCain is TOO OLD for the Job !
By ###
July 11, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
Jim’s cretinous worldview: Conservative judge, good. Liberal judge, bad. Me, right. You, wrong.
By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough
July 11, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this
@ Peter PeKKKer
Wonderful to see HOW swiftly I SHAMED far left hatepig SCUM LIKE U into desisting from making typical liberal sick and twisted Alzheimer jokes about your conservative betters.
BTW its “losing” - not “loosing” - U snivelling MoRoN!!!
Your pathetic ageism obviously HYPOCRITICALLY doesn’t apply to shrill hateful leftist turds like Kennedy the DUI Killer, Patrick GFY Leahy, Robert KKK Byrd and other decrepit worthless senile socialist surrender monkey scum in the cut and run, NO DRILL senate!!!
By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough
July 11, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
@ Hillbilly wanKKKer
Cheers for the so very typical leftist lies/racebaiting!
I made NO kind of case for any kind of racial superiority U vile dissembling racist wankpig!!! snigger
I merely pointed out the LITTLE publicised facts about black killers and black killings/criminality. Something the pandering party of hate liberal media rarely, if ever properly addresses.
Wot about me excellent point @ TODAYS NEWS re: the black MLK familial snouts in the trough? NO “racial superiority” “spin” there bubbaturd … just UNASSAILABLE FACTS about typical grasping indolent black freeloaders leeching off a plagiarising/cheating dead preecher man!!
By Peter
July 11, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
Poor By grasping black snouts deep in the MLK trough…..looks like he is coming UN-GLUED Today…..
Call the Doctor……. take a Nap……… Best of luck to you !
HA HA HA…………
Maybe you should go back to the mens room, where you can find your Right Wing Friends for Footsy !
You know that wonderful BONDING TIME !
By ###
July 11, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
re: “no drill senate”
Perhaps the oil companies could drill in the 68 MILLION acres of federal land they ALREADY have access to.
Idiots like you, at 12:04pm, don’t even realize that you’re being played by Republicans in Congress who count on the simpleton yokels getting worked up about not drilling in Alaska. Congressional leaders nor the President could give a rats a$$ about drilling in ANWR. They love having this as an issue to get their sheeple to follow them come election time. Ever notice how this issue pops up every time there is an election but is never mentioned the rest of the time?
By Mrs. Godzilla
July 11, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Dutchman
Are you really one of those people who think that all the poor and unfortunate people in the country are lazy good for nothings?
By fearless fosdi