Thinking Right

By Maniac is accurate

July 18, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Seems like Stephenson’s contract is beyond both fair and middlin’.

Once his brother assumes room temp, Raul will turn Cuba into a very different place.

I hate to say it, but, honestly, I could use more stimulation right now.

If Congress doesn’t follow suit, they are punching a big whole in Obama’s hull.

You are right about Gwinnett, it is a hugely different place than it used to be.

I don’t think they know shame in Clayton County, or they wouldn’t be in the situation they are in.

By BFKaJ

July 18, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Queen Pam must be an attorney; like Billy Flynn, when facts and logic and law are all against you, go into your tap dance and dazzle ‘em with the BS.

The Raul quote is funny, classic doublespeak. I think the line after that was “everyone will now wear their underwear outside, so we can be sure they have changed it recently.”

Even our leftists on this blog agreed that the previous $1200/$600 tax rebate was a foolish waste (although they may have been under the misimpression that it was a Bush initiative), so perhaps we will all be able to agree again to oppose further similar ineffective Keynesiam.

A week before President Bush rescinded the 15-year old executive restriction on drilling, Dr. Walter Williams argued that any such movement - suggesting the US would resume aggressive drilling - would drive down oil prices meaningfully, even though the new supply would not come online for years. His explanation of the futures market was logical. If anyone has trouble finding that essay in his index, let me know, I’ll point you toward it. Jim correctly notes that continuing democrat opposition would reverse the current downward trend. Contrary to the leftist mantra, we can drill our way out of this. And, as Captain Queeg said yesterday, we need to start two dozen nuclear plan constructions concurrently.

As a Gwinnettean, I have no heartache with the vote on MARTA. I admitted here that I voted for the sales tax increase, but the fact that my fellow citizens do not want to subsidize a mismanaged public transit system does not reflect adversely on their judgment. Were I a business looking to locate in the metro area, I would be less likely to locate in Fulton or Dekalb than in Gwinnett or Cobb, despite the absence of a regional airport. More reliable work force. Atlanta does not need Gwinnett, and the reverse may be increasingly true in the next generation. I think we ought to try to sell Briscoe field to Southwest Airlines.

By ab

July 18, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Jim, Finally somebody speaks truth. “It could rain for 40 days and 40 nights, “but” Lake Lanier’s still down and the drought’s still on” huh? Someone else has dibbs on the water and us dumb folks can not seem to get it. River is flowing like crazy and proves the more it rains the more the river flows. Sorry Lake Lanier. thx ab

By C. LeClair

July 18, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

which only goes to prove, Beagles are smarter than people.

By ron

July 18, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Good morning.Lovely morning all,Jim,have you ever apologized for being Jim Wooten?

The Green Party deserves Cynthia.

Don’t knock Nancy for wanting to give me more money.I’ll tuck it in the sock with George’s donation.I like me more than I like the people who normally get it.

It’s speculators,Jim,Even if you’re a die hard Republican.

Never give lap top computers to the kids in Georgia.These programs are working too well in other states.They don’t need the competition in the job market.

With me the problem is photo ID.Period.I refuse to deal with it.I’ve noticed a lot of reference lately to the priviledge of voting.I’ve not heard that phraseology until recently.

Al Gore is urging for all fossil fuel generated electricty to be gone by 2018.By then he’ll need all the fossil fuel available to generate electricity for his house in Tennessee.If he doesn’t explode first.

Redneck,was that a picture of your missus on the Fox News website this morning?

The State of Georgia is 28% fat.

By Just Nasty and Mean

July 18, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

G’Mornin Jim, et al.

I can’t blame Pam Stephenson for the lucrative contract she got at Grady. I blame the incompetent, nepotism, cronyism, inefficient buffoons that run Grady that agreed to it. This inbred tax-sucking bloated bureaucracy won’t be fixed until Grady fails—completely—with the doors shut—before it gets better.

There have been multiple examples of the KIng kids being spoiled brats throwing tantrums to get what they want. Now that momma isn’t there to referee, these brats are going at each other like pit bulls.

When the leadership (Reid/Pelosi) start showing the oil sheiks we are now officially sick and tired of being strafed for $700m/year that they—by the luck of Allah—just happen to ride their camels on~~the price of oil will drop like a rock. Unfortunately, but predictably, the Demokraps will gladly SCREW the American public and our economic health to make the dumb masses believe it was a Demokrap president that dropped oil prices. —Absolutely shameless.

Pelosi handing out cash to the dumb masses ($$$ that we borrow from China and Dubai)—isn’t that like McGovern promising $1,000 per person if he is elected? Pelosi—What a waste of flesh.

What competent human on the planet would sign up to contribute tax funds to MARTA after the decades of dismal and abysmal tax-sucking performance? Signing up for MARTA would be equivalent to asking for another stick in the eye (thank you sir, can I have another?). After all, what could be good to come out of Fulton, Dekalb and the city of Atlanta?

Have a great day, folks!

By george

July 18, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Last I heard, the lying, cheating, thieving (all imho) ceo of grady had an undated contracted signed off on by only a few members of the board…being an engineer, my contract law is a little on the weak side, but I believe a contract is not binding if it is not dated…and signed by the entire board….and approved in an open meeting…Pam should be paid only what she earned full time in her last previous year of work on a monthly basis, pro rated for her time on the job at grady. Anything else is theft and fraud, and should be prosecuted as such…Since the urinal is dropping the local inserts, I bet a lot of Northside locals will drop the urinal…George likes the word “but”, as in the urinal could be an adequate newspaper but for the fact the editorial staff have their heads up their butts…

By TW

July 18, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

‘A Total Failure’

‘nuff said.

By Peter

July 18, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

This pretty much sums up the last 8 years………..

“This is not a record to be proud of, and I think the American people deserve better,” Bush said.

We all know this to be the Truth !

By Get Real

July 18, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Bush hands out money to Sunnis and Shias in Iraq so they won’t kill our soldiers. Guess he’s a Nancy Pelosi Democrat too, or just a bad Commander-in-Chief.

By Theresa

July 18, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

The word “Butt”? A blog’s host sets the tone, eh?

The once was lost but now he’s found beagle from New York shows how far some chow-hounds will go for a scooby snack. Funny he ended up on the new Cobb School Board, though. How much is THAT doggy in the window. I thought it was a lamb that followed Mary to school one day. A dog in sheeps clothing? Surely this is an angle Wooten can use against Obama. (all he has to do is mix category A with category B. WTF?)

First Charles Krauthammer pundits that Obama is a terrorist. Now, in today’s @ISSUE, Mr. Krauthammer accuses Obama of being a GOD! So now it’s the guns+gays against the gods? At least make conservatism believable, if not consistent.

Who is Jim Wooten, and why wont he apologize?

Cynthia McKinney, Raul Castro. Nice juxtaposition there, Wooten. Mother Nature is the great “outcome” equalizer. Who does the bell toll for? The bells…the bells…..the bells…..aw to hell with the bells!

Hooray for the end of the Cobb School Board’s incumbent clown college of nincompoops! Long live the new board, until they display the same reckless negligence of the old.

Remember when conservatives used to say, “If you dont vote, you cant offer opinions about political issues”? Then they make it impossible to vote. Voter ID? I cant keep track of my Blockbuster Video card, or my Hannah Montanna Fan Club Membership Card.

I will redeem myself!

By Dave

July 18, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Two items - I love our form of government, but hate those ruining it! Vote out every incumbent out. And it’s time we FORCED both Congress and the Senate to TERM LIMITS! They’ve passed laws forcing every other branch of government to it - why not them?

By Robert Donne

July 18, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

WOW! Did you just say it was Pelosi’s idea for a stimulus? That was all W’s idea, and the pandering congress went right along, but to try and place that on Pelosi is disgusting jim, just like you and the diatribe you spout everyday. Also love how those tax cuts stimulated the economy! 7 straight years of tax cuts, and we have a HUGE DEFICIT and a WEAK DOLLAR, rising inflation and a collapsing mortgage industry! I think the time lag on this one is up. Tax cuts and massive spending equals stupidity, but this probably is Pelosi’s fault too!

By the way didn’t Mcsame oppose these tax cuts, but now supports them? FLIP-FLOP!

Jim you really are a dumb a55, sellout who wants and actively supports the demise of our country! But not on my watch, sir!

By question

July 18, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Where have Mid-south philosopher and JMBlaw gone? I haven’t seen a post from either of them in a while.

By Dennis

July 18, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes of Nancy Pelosi, ”She’s proposing another round of “stimulus” rebates to add to the deficit since the first one worked so well.”

Mr. Wooten is obviously trying to be clever - attempting to put Nancy Pelosi down for encouraging another round of “stimulus rebates” while on the other hand accusing her of adding to the defict created by his boy, George W. Bush.

I don’t know about anyone else who comments on this blog, but I can’t recall a single time when Mr. Wooten complained about a single “stimulus” idea passed by the Republican/Bush administration.

And now, Mr. Wooten wants us to believe that Nancy Pelosi’s call for another round of stimulus rebates is a bad thing “since the first one worked so well.”

You’ll have to do better, Mr. Wooten. Some of us “liberal leftists” can read.

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

By ray

July 18, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

that’s just great. so, not only are we stupid, but we’re also fat?

stupid and fat.

that’s just great.

By Theresa

July 18, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

The campaign is in the summer doldrums. Short covering on wall street took much of the heat off of both candidates.

Hillary still very quiet, so much so, in fact, that Bill’s chiming in didn’t even glow on her. She remains in virtual seclusion out of the public eye. It’s hillary, folks.

BTW: I called the bottom on the stock market and predicted the top in the gas bubble, which is passing. That giant sucking sound you hear is Sen Craig not being gay.

Summer rally! Some shorts may repeat the winning formula of shorting into the rallies, so there may be another trip to the bottom, but you cant really go wrong buying now. A double bottom configuration in the charts, if it conforms to where the two balls would hang in the outline of a cup, (or jock strap) always means a new bull market.

By jbmlaw

July 18, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Right here. Happy now?

By answer

July 18, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw now posts as BFKaJ, but he still charges his clients $465 per hour while he does it. Poor b——-ds.

By Ray

July 18, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

It is disturbing to see the legacy of a once great man tarnished by the children he bore. Their greed and arrogance is over the top and points out their true agenda. If King were alive, he would disavow them all.

By george

July 18, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

Dear Theresa; Most americans agree that Charlie Kraut need to return to the Fatherland, being a blood relative of Adolf and all.

By Butt Geyser

July 18, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

BJk named dropped Keynes. Ten bucks sez he doesn’t know what it means.

twenty bucks sez he’ll google it and still get it wrong.

Fifty bucks sez he’ll try but give up and then post as some perturbed alter ego.

100 bucks sez he’ll end up as a stall wart, like all conservative bastions of spit, polish, and shine……ew.

By Don

July 18, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Maybe you ought to read the paper that prints your drivel. People who actually have some idea what they are talking about (energy analysts) don’t even mention Bush’s meaningless grandstanding in their discussion of the energy markets. In addition, natural gas is down 20% since the 4 of July - before Bush’s pronouncement.

Do you think that oil companies will sell oil cheaper because it’s pumped in the US? They aren’t doing in now, and they certainly won’t do it with new production.

In addition, do you think, in any meaningful period, that we could develop enough new production to affect the global price of oil? Enough that other oil producers couldn’t simply limit their production to maintain the price?

And that It could rain for 40 days and 40 nights, “but” Lake Lanier’s still down and the drought’s still on. I don’t know if you’ve spouted anything more nonsensical.

Drought: A long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living conditions.

You’ll note that reservoirs aren’t mentioned. That’s because the level of the reservoir doesn’t tell you anything about drought conditions. There were reservoirs that were full at the beginning of summer. Did communities relax water use standards? No. Because we’re in a drought, and water used wouldn’t be replaced.

40 days and 40 nights of rain would end a drought, but you’d b*** about the dams failing.

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

I don’t know which is more detatched from reality, the King children or the so-called educated integrationist Negroes. While I’m trying to make a determination, I guess I’ll write to Nelson Mandela on his belated birthday.

We wish you a happy birthday Nelson Mandela. I’ve noticed that you were recently removed from the U.S. terrorism watch list under a bill President Bush signed. The bill gives the State Department and the Homeland Security Department the authority to waive restrictions against ANC members. President Bush realizes that you and the African National Congress might need immediate sanctuary in the United States; and a delay at the airport attributed to the terrorism watch list could be the difference between life and death.

The people of South Africa are aware that you and your political party, the African National Congress, (ANC) sold the people out for fame, money, status, jobs etc.; it’s a carbon copy of the betrayal/treason of black people in the United States by so-called educated integrationist Negroes.

All of the African Nations that were colonized are not free. Like in the United States, the powers that be offered the leaders the opportunity to live the good life at the expense of the masses of people. And from this vantage point, it appears that Robert Mugabe is one of the few African leaders that had the character, dignity, and honor to take the proper attitude that will liberate and empower the average Zimbabweans. The land belongs to black Africans!

Robert Mugabe is an adult among children. If Robert Mugabe were a white person and President of the United States, just think what a great country it would be today. It is Robert Mugabe, not the champion of the powers that be, Nelson Mandela, that is a symbol of liberation for people everywhere that cherish freedom and hate tyranny, deceit.

Love,

“Charles”, The Original

It’s going to take me a little more time to render a decision concerning the King children.

By WOOTEN'S DAILY FLATULENCE

July 18, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

The daily virtual flatulence of Jim Wooten continues to pollute the AJC with a rotten egg stench that threatens to continue driving away readers in droves. As he ages (badly), the foul gas of his extreme racist right-wing emissions increases in its regularity and its concentration, sickening decent people and forcing them to seek reasonable news and opinion elsewhere.

Witnessing this constant stream of cyber-pharts is truly a sad spectacle indeed. Jim Wooten is like a wet, smelly, noisy pants ripper – he’s just wrong.

By Butt Geyser

July 18, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Martin Luther King was great because it’s so easy to be what he already was.

He was a black man in a racist country who suffered the last full measure of hate that racially motivated control of social norms can inflict.

So it was his performances that made him great, not his suffering, which has been shared by all black people. He simply, like JFK, could deliver a speech better than we ever heard a speech delivered.

He lived those words, he was totally convincing, and he was the living embodiment of the consequences of an unequal society, clinging fearfully to tradition.

McCain 08: He was against observing the MLK holiday, but now he’s for it, and he apologized this week to the NAACP. I wonder how those people feel about McCain now?

I wonder, wonder, who-woopie-doo-oo WHO. who wrote the book of (brotherly) love.

This election landslide for Obama is a turning point in human history. The right is bellowing loud nonsense. The wailing and gnashing teeth of the convicted unjust. The death song of conservatism.

The death song of conservatism. Let me ponder that one. Fertile ground much?

By Ray

July 18, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Charles,

Mugabe as president? He is the poster child for run away inflation, financial mismanagement and sweetheart deals for his buddies. Giving away land appropriated illegally from farmers has resulted in farms which are in chaos with food sources low and over the top in cost, run by people who don’t know the first thing about farming. “People who cherish freedom, hate tyranny and deceit”. He is nothing better than most all of the black banana dictators that drain a country of all of it’s resources, oppress the people and run the country with an iron hand, until some other potential banana dictator comes along, overthrows him and the the cycle starts all over again.
President of our United States, Charles? Pull your head out of your posterior.

By Whats that Republican Smel?

July 18, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

How true! Wooten bends over every single day and lets the stinky lies fly straight out of his big fat Cheney. What a disgraceful flatulator! The stink of his racism is like a cloud of intense stench over this city. His hatred reminds me of a fat man who rips a juicy one in the airplane seat next to you, allowing the horrific aroma to hover at nostril level for hours afterward. Wooten is a purveyor of methane stink, wrapped in offensive Republican evil. His sulfur stench offends us all, and has no place in any newspaper.

By Neoconnisseur

July 18, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Actually, I think Jim’s virtual gas has a slightly Tri-State Crematory bouquet, with undertones of bat guano, and a hint of 12-day-old dead hog.

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

There is one thing that I love about Jim Wooten. We are probably opposites on the pole of thought. And he probably disagrees with most of his bloggers and especially “Charles”, The Original. But he is man enough to allow most people to speak. He has my respect.

I think it was the factor, Bill O’reilly, who said that liberals can’t tolerate people who have differing opinions.

Thank God that Jim Wooten is grounded in his belief system and is not threatened by every person who has the ability to think.

By Abomi Nation

July 18, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Jim, oil is up over 2 dollars today, and its still early.

That Bush sure showed ‘em!

By Ray

July 18, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Whatever your political leaning, these latest comments are vile and unnecessary. This is supposed to be a debate on substantive issues and an exchange of differences of opinion. A distaff opinion is expected but comments like this have no place on the printed page. I feel somewhat sorry for the posters of these “opinions”. The fact that they are liberals pretty well confirms their ignorance.

By Carolyn Wilder

July 18, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

It doesn’t surprise me a bit that Paul Braun won so handily. I have attended his town hall meetings that he conducts on the phone several times. I agree with him on 99% of the issues he covered.

By South Africa Was My Home

July 18, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Charles,

I agree with you about Mugabe - a really misunderstood man.

Here’s an equation they teach children at Zululand Children’s Gymnasium in Pretoria.

Barrack Hussein Obama + a week at the beach = Robert Mugabe

It’s the new math.

By Abomi Nation

July 18, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Georgia is the fattest state in the nation, no surprise there.

What would really get the attention of the oil speculators?

If the average fat Georgian were to lose 75 pounds the price of oil would plummet. Think how much better the gas millage would be for all those trucks and SUV’s going 15 miles an hour on the Interstates would be if Joe six Mac’s were to lose some weight.

Do it for America fat Georgia, lose some weight.

By george

July 18, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

George likes fat people, they are biofuel on the hoof…

By jasper

July 18, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Jim, feel free to attribute similar traits to present day Gwinnettians that existed 20 years ago regarding Marta. We are still in favor of high property values, quality of education, and don’t want higher crime rates. Color is not an issue. Cheap transit = cheap housing = greater discpline issues in schools = low scores. There is not one of the top 50 public high schools in GA located inside the perimeter. 99% of Marta is inside the perimeter. Draw your own conclusions.

By jm

July 18, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

I wonder why Mr. Wooten is silent on IndyMac?

By Hillbilly Deluxe

July 18, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Jimbo an extreme drought that has lasted 2 years doesn’t end because of a week of rain. Any farmer could tell you that.

Raul Castro is gonna be one of us? Yeah just like China is one of us.

I’ll leave it up to the people of Gwinnett to decide if they want MARTA or not but remember, all those years ago when the original MARTA vote was held the sales tax was only supposed to last 10 years. No tax ever goes away.

By 'Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

South Africa Was My Home,

I don’t know about the new math, but I will vote for Robert Mugabe because of his principles. If he were a white man and President of the United States, he definitely would not sell out the masses of white people to the New World Order. And he has not sold out his fellow Zimbabweans. He is a man of principle; just like Ron Paul.

There is no way I’ll vote for Barack Obama. No way. He is nothing more than a New World Order so-called educated integrationist Negro. He is prepared to enslave the masses of white people and especially black people to establish his place in history.

By 'Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

South Africa Was My Home,

I don’t know about the new math, but I will vote for Robert Mugabe because of his principles. If he were a white man and President of the United States, he definitely would not sell out the masses of white people to the New World Order. And he has not sold out his fellow Zimbabweans. He is a man of principle; just like Ron Paul.

There is no way I’ll vote for Barack Obama. No way. He is nothing more than a New World Order so-called educated integrationist Negro. He is prepared to enslave the masses of white people and especially black people to establish his place in history.

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

You know what? Some people would be satisfied if I couldn’t think; just like the Negroes on 1380 waok radio. There is absolutely no gray matter on that station. And they would prefer it to be that way.

As long as they are able to control and or mislead the people who call that station, they’re satisfied. But mark my word, one day the masses of black people are going to get those so-called educated integrationist Negroes off of their backs.

Joseph Lowery spent most of his life deceiving black people with hypocritical interracial love and integration. It caused pain and frustration in many American homes. But the bible is right, in comes Chiman Rai. You will reap what you sow.

By Mike Hussein S

July 18, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

Re BFKaJ @ 8:38 AM Obviously you’re juggling your facts to try to lend some credence to your partisanship. That “15-year-old” executive order banning offshore drilling actually was 18 years old. And that means that, no, it wasn’t issued by Bill Clinton. The culprit was George H.W. Bush. W.’s move is just another manifestation of his childish Oedipal problems. The airlines did a better job of jawboning higher fuel prices than W or any other Republican did — That’s because the Bushies are in bed with the drillers.

By findog

July 18, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Why didn’t President Bush sign off on off shore drilling when he was first elected?

Because he needed Florida to win re-election and he wanted his brother to be re-elected governor.

Why are all the capitalist, supply and demand, bloggers forgetting those theories when it comes to the recent retraction in oil futures?

Because they will point to any fact, revelant or not, that supports drilling.

The reason for short-term futures to drop is that the cost has reduced demand; and while I am an engineer and not a business major I am pretty sure that’s what the Pakistani Professor of Economics at Southern Tech covered in that required class.

By Jay

July 18, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Vile? Ray, my man. Just a little juvenile humor. Relax. It’ll be alright. TGIF and all that.

By Copyleft

July 18, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Nice to see more of Georgia’s proud heritage is still with us… in this case, the KKK.

Wave those Stars -n- Bars proudly, rednecks! Yee-haw!

By Mike Hussein S

July 18, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

I thought there were kooks posting on Bookman’s site, but surely “Charles” the Original takes the cake. Findog, I agree with you — except I would add that the right wingers are too willing to make up “facts” to try to make a point. PS: Wasn’t it magnanimous — NOT — of Wooten to grant the King children the right to bicker? Thank you, Mr. Jim. Your birthday might become a national holiday if you keep allowing blacks to act like whites.

By getalife "whiners"

July 18, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

“I know how to win wars” and the crowd goes crazy

Can ya feel it?

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Mike Hussein S,

Do they allow people to vote in the country of your origin? Do they allow people to express facts and opinions? Or do they force everyone kowtow to the status quo? I don’t know whether you know it or not but this is America, the land of the free, and the home of the brave. People are allowed to think in this part of the world.

When I finished voting last Tuesday, I phoned Barry Blitt and congratulated him on his magazine cover featuring the Obamas. And I suggested that his next illustration include Chiman Rai giving me fist bumps.

I hope that he will honor my request.

By Mike Hussein S

July 18, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

to “Charles” the Original at 12:51; Yes to No. 1. Being a lily white Southerner, I have enjoyed that right for decades. Yes to No. 2, but I’m a firm believer in what the Bible says: The truth will set you free. Opinions might not. Yes to No. 3, if you don’t kowtow to the status quo, you often get ostracized in our great nation. I know that Francis Scott Key said America was the land of the free and the home of the brave. I know that people are allowed to think in this part of the world, but many of them suffer from the same problem: Garbage in, garbage out. I’d imagine Barry Blitt is still scratching his head wondering who that nut case on the phone was. You also could burn in hell with Chiman Rai if you so choose.

By getalife "whiners"

July 18, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

“Time horizens”, McCain said Mission Accomplished 2.0. Obama in Iraq .

Taliban ruling Afghanistan but the ones that attacked us are in Pakistan.

The insanity continues.

By ron

July 18, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Charles,Have you ever bitten yourself by mistake?

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

Here is the death song of conservatism portrayed in an Ode To Georgia’s Flag.

ODE TO GEORGIA’S FLAG

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Part One: Allegro Rosa Parks.

A flag is a communication. It proclaims, “This is who we are! This is what we believe!” The St Andrews Cross on Georgia’s flag was born on the field of battle. It was surrendered there after a river of blood christened our country’s new birth of freedom. The flag lay as a cold ember on the ash heap of our history till 1957 when it suddenly reanimated and enflamed the lost cause. Why? Was there an oath registered in heaven that bound Georgia to exhume this shroud of secession and slavery? Never! There was only the fear and loathing of our country’s great turning point: Civil Rights.

Part Two: Andante MLK.

Oh wretched rebel specter! What dreadful omen does your pageant unfurl? Would you resound those nostalgic antebellum chords to honor the dead? Then you dishonor the living. To ratify valor? You nurture fear. To sanctify our past? You swindle our souls, and deny the truths we hold most dear.

Part Three. Forte Bill of Rights.

A flag’s destiny and the people’s destiny are linked. Our freedom is stillborn in Georgia. Heed the prayer of the martyred voices crying out from the bloody red Georgia soil:

GEORGIA, TEAR DOWN THAT FLAG!!!!

By OutlawRebel

July 18, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

“Charles the Original”, you are a sage man indeed sir! Mandela & the ANC are avowed communists on who’s watch the genocide of the Boer farmers in South African took place. The Boers have been targeted & demonized since the reign of Mandela began. “De Quirk” is a traitor to the Boer people!

As for the King kids, they are grifters like their lionized mother YOretta Scott King. MLK was also a communist womanizer not worthy of being elevated to sainthood by the “mainstream” media hacks.

BTW, both B.Hussein & McCain are NWO lackeys.

By Get Real

July 18, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Bush agreed to a time horizon (insert timetable for withdrawal here) with Iraq. Your boy is basically following Obama’s foreign policy because he has no policy. Is Bush now a socialist whiner who wants to cut and run, republicans?

By Mike Hussein S

July 18, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

to Getalife “Whiners: — thanks for the link to the photo. It was a hoot. But on Afghanistan, the Council on Foreign Relations says that “Al-Qaeda, an international terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden, remains “the most serious terrorist threat” to the United States according to the July 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). The report assessed that the organization was regrouping and regaining strength in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.” Afghan leader Karzai simply lacks sufficient control over the country, especially along the Pakistani border. That’s were the U.S. fought the 2001 battle of the Tora Bora, the last place bin Laden was believed to be. Pakistan’s army is pretty strong after years of dictatorship and U.S. aid and is thought to be capable of handling things on its end.

By @@

July 18, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Hi ‘ya Jim:

Weather Report - But for the butts in politics, we’d never have learned to react to the blowing wind. Fingers in the air.

Nothing sticks to Pam - I do believe Ms. Stephenson realized that you “nailed” her on her fee. Hell hath no fury like a woman…..

So green is the new black? Dang, the dems rainbow is muted.

So while the “stalwart” father of communist Cuba lies incapacitated, his little brother encourages baby steps. Let this be a lesson to those here in the U.S.ofA who continue to stumble under the tutelage of the Democrats.

It would appear as tho the libs have missed the irony of your intellectual “stimulus” Jim. What say we leave them clueless?

The King children - squandering a great legacy for all the world to see. A shameful disgrace.

Feed stray dogs yes! Watch out for yankees, they tend to bite the hands of their owner.

It’s amazing to me that dems neglect the power of suggestive thinking when they, themselves succumb to it so easily under their leadership in Congress.

And “potted plants” are what?

Believe you, me Jim. The voters in Clayton are predominatly Democrat. They whine up only to stay home. It may be an omen of things to come or not come in November.

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Mike Hussein S,

America is a great nation. The problem that she has today is that so many treasonous persons have licked, sucked, kissed, and bowed their way into power. And these criminals have an intense hatred for the average American. They have morphed into what we know today as so-called educated integrationist New World Order Negroes and others.

Chiman is a really great person. He was a professor at Alcorn State, a predominantly black university. Chiman told me that he made a gallant effort to rescue his son from a pitiful youthful indiscretion. He said that his actions were indicative of the love a father has for his son; and his culture.

I told him that I understood where he is coming from. That’s when we exchanged fist bumps for the first time.

Joseph Lowery has caused more pain in American households than Chiman Rai. If anyone is to be in hell for cause, it would certainly be Joseph Lowery.

Make sure you look for the next New Yorker magazine. Chiman and I might be featured.

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Bush has the ears for a surrender monkey, they dont call him the chimp for nothing.

McCain knows how to win wars? Lets reopen the Forrestal disaster investigation, okay? McCain knows how to set fire to an entire aircraft carrier.

McCain has no chance to win. None. Mondale could beat McCain. Cynthia McKinney could beat McCain.

He’s an old fool, easily ambushed, who cannot think on his feet. Even with a script he fumbles the ball.

Obama 08: Insert America here.

By BFKaJ

July 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Dear Question @ 9:35, thanks for asking, I am still here (jbm). Just changed my bloghandle. My friend HIDT (aka Maniac) has exclusive rights to my bloghandles, as he channels my thoughts brilliantly. The leftists were more focused on my profession than my arguments, so – per the suggestion of friend Shar – I am now the Blogger Formerly Known as Jbmlaw. You are right, our friend MidSouth must be on Sabbatical.

Dear BG @ 10:10, good riff. As even I am aware of the sexual predilections of Lord Keynes, your blog handle is funny to me.

Dear jm @ 11:24, re: IndyMac, great question. That one is a slam dunk for leftist bashing – even the bureaucrats blame Chuck Schumer.

Dear Mike @ noon, you are right on your facts but wrong on my motives. I have no affection for leftists of any party, and I find GHW Bush and WJB Clinton ideologically inseparable. (Only personal morality and military record differentiate the two.) My efficiency omitted the author because I also blame GW Bush for being late to the party; the ban should have been lifted years ago. No, if I wanted to slam President Horndog, I would remind all that he vetoed a bill that would have ANWR oil in the pipelines today.

Dear findog @ 12:01, I agree with your citation of wrong, but disagree with your speculation on causation. I think President Bush failed to rescind the ban for either of two reasons: (1) he was unaware of it, or (2) he declined to rescind the bank for the sake of comity with the congressional leftists. As to the “economics,” the speculators are a nervous group, and any threat of a long-term increase in oil supply is enough to knock the price down substantially – the market is that inelastic. However, on the assumption the leftists in Congress continue to give aid and support to the speculators by refusing to drill, the speculators will make a lot of money. Have you heard about the silly effort in Congress to ban the oil futures trading? Comic, as if the European speculators will pay any attention to Congress. All Congress can do is send the activity offshore.

By Bush is an appeaser

July 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Time Horizons.

By Bush is an appeaser

July 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Time Horizons.

By Bush is an appeaser

July 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Time Horizons.

By Bush is an appeaser

July 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Time Horizons.

By Bush is an appeaser

July 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Time Horizons.

By Mark

July 18, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Could someone point out reliable sources of information about the Forrestal fire and what, if any, part John McCain really did, or did not play?

By TW

July 18, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

It turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama’s one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has attended zero of his committee’s six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years.

Mind boggling that the GOP is really going to follow up the current loser with yet another.

Fool us thrice? Maybe…probably not.

Losers.

By Peter

July 18, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

“The ball’s in your court, Congress. Both the president and Congress have to act to lift the ban on expanded offshore exploration. Bush did. Thanks. And it may or may not be a coincidence that the price of oil dropped $6.44 a barrel the next day. When buyers —- or speculators, as Democrats prefer to call them —- think we’re serious about doing something, they’ll react in anticipation. It’s now up to Congress to follow suit.”

Hey Jim, why did George Sr. close off off shore drilling ?

Next question…….. why didn’t George Jr. do something about Off shore drilling during his first term ?

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Mike Hussein S,

America is a great nation. The problem that she has today is that so many treasonous persons have licked, sucked, kissed, and bowed their way into power. And these criminals have an intense hatred for the average American. They have morphed into what we know today as so-called educated integrationist New World Order Negroes and others.

Chiman is a really great person. He was a professor at Alcorn State, a predominantly black university. Chiman told me that he made a gallant effort to rescue his son from a pitiful youthful indiscretion. He said that his actions were indicative of the love a father has for his son; and his culture.

I told him that I understood where he is coming from. That’s when we exchanged fist bumps for the first time.

Joseph Lowery has caused more pain in American households than Chiman Rai. If anyone is to be in hell for cause, it would certainly be Joseph Lowery.

Make sure you look for the next New Yorker magazine. Chiman and I might be featured.

By E. Gammage

July 18, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Re: Rep. Jeff Lewis’ loss. Bartow Countians might know something that you don’t.

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Mike Hussein S,

America is a great nation. The problem that she has today is that so many treasonous persons have licked, sucked, kissed, and bowed their way into power. And these criminals have an intense hatred for the average American. They have morphed into what we know today as so-called educated integrationist New World Order Negroes and others.

Chiman is a really great person. He was a professor at Alcorn State, a predominantly black university. Chiman told me that he made a gallant effort to rescue his son from a pitiful youthful indiscretion. He said that his actions were indicative of the love a father has for his son; and his culture.

I told him that I understood where he is coming from. That’s when we exchanged fist bumps for the first time.

Joseph Lowery has caused more pain in American households than Chiman Rai. If anyone is to be in hell for cause, it would certainly be Joseph Lowery.

Make sure you look for the next New Yorker magazine. Chiman and I might be featured.

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Mark, you have to know what “wet starting” a jet engine means. And how seriously the Navy took pranks like that, and how illegal it was.

McCain didn’t expect his prank to cause the missile on the jet behind him to fire. That missile tore into McCain’s jet, which then itself dropped bombs.

But McCain was clowning around, “wet starting” his jet. That’s what caused the disaster.

Fine. An accident. McCain hasn’t apologized, nor has he accepted ANY responsibility.

Fear the power that swept the Forrestal disaster under the rug. It’s probably the same power that made it so Bush cant prove he was even on this planet during his time in the guard.

Fear that power, sir. That’s the real enemy.

By dusty

July 18, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Oh, It’s been a busy day at the DUSTY household…Believe it or not I got the day off from my job at Target!

I have been glued to the TV watching Rachel Ray hoping she would prepare a 30 minute meal I could reproduce that Mr. Dusty would salivate over!

I can’t understand why that little Beagle would actually want to return to New York after living in this wonderful city. He must be a LIB!

By "Charles", The Original

July 18, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

I’m going home everybody. I’m calling it a day. Business is average today and it’s the perfect time to take some time off. Business will likely be off-the-chain on Monday.

But as usual, it was good talking to everyone and I hope to engage you on Monday or Tuesday; God willing.

By Mr. Dusty

July 18, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

I salivate watching Rachael Ray no matter what she’s cooking.

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Here is the death song of conservatism portrayed in an Ode To Georgia’s Flag.

ODE TO GEORGIA’S FLAG

.

Part One: Allegro Rosa Parks.

A flag is a communication. It proclaims, “This is who we are! This is what we believe!” The St Andrews Cross on Georgia’s flag was born on the field of battle. It was surrendered there after a river of blood christened our country’s new birth of freedom. The flag lay as a cold ember on the ash heap of our history till 1957 when it suddenly reanimated and enflamed the lost cause. Why? Was there an oath registered in heaven that bound Georgia to exhume this shroud of secession and slavery? Never! There was only the fear and loathing of our country’s great turning point: Civil Rights.

Part Two: Andante MLK.

Oh wretched rebel specter! What dreadful omen does your pageant unfurl? Would you resound those nostalgic antebellum chords to honor the dead? Then you dishonor the living. To ratify valor? You nurture fear. To sanctify our past? You swindle our souls, and deny the truths we hold most dear.

Part Three. Forte Bill of Rights.

A flag’s destiny and the people’s destiny are linked. Our freedom is stillborn in Georgia. Heed the prayer of the martyred voices crying out from the bloody red Georgia soil:

GEORGIA, TEAR DOWN THAT FLAG!!!!

By SaveOurRepublic

July 18, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

“Mike Hussein S” @ 1:37 PM EDT - Fyi, the CFR is a major conduit for the Globalist Elite and puppeteer most of the shills on “Crapitol sHill”. Founded by the Rockefellers largely through President Wilson’s handler Col.Mandel House, the CFR has constantly had our Constitutional Republic in the cross-hairs for decades. They serve as an avenue of Globalist Elite agenda implementation. If anyone disbelieves the true intent of the Elite who set the course for the CFR, have a look at a quote from one of the most dangerous & powerful men on the planet David Rockefeller…

“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

—David Rockefeller, “Memoirs” autobiography (2002, Random House publishers), page 405

By Peter

July 18, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Well folks it looks like we are now fighting One WAR on TWO FRONTS…….

I guess it looks like the Bush’s “Terrorist Protection Plan” has not worked……Bin Ladden and his followers are getting stronger !

The USA is NOT any safer since 911, because Bush has done ZERO about Bin Ladden……..I guess negotiating with his kin for oil was worth it to the BUSH FAMILY !

Can you imagine a guy can blow up 4 jets, hit the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon, kill thousands of Americans……..and be let off SCOTT FREE by the Bush Administration.

Can you even imagine they say they are TOUGH on Terrorism ?

HA HA HA………

Now that strategy has apparently back fired, and we have a stronger enemy because of that.

Vote Democrat for a SAFE AMERICA !

By StevenCee

July 18, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Hey Jim, wonder why no comment on the wack idea of cutting ad valorem taxes, which the GOP “leadership” tried to push through, and you so thoroughly supported? Now that we see Georgia’s revenues running too low to pay it’s current bills, it shows how wrong-headed & short-sighted a plan this was…

Credit is due the Governor, for resisting so economically dangerous & foolhardy a bill…

By StevenCee

July 18, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Hey Jim, wonder why no comment on the wack idea of cutting ad valorem taxes, which the GOP “leadership” tried to push through, and you so thoroughly supported? Now that we see Georgia’s revenues running too low to pay it’s current bills, it shows how wrong-headed & short-sighted a plan this was…

Credit is due the Governor, for resisting so economically dangerous & foolhardy a bill…

By Redneck Convert

July 18, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Well, I might of knowed. All these libruls was using the wrong word. Instead of timelines they needed to be using time horizons. If they had of done that we wouldn’t of spent years arguing. See, time horizons means there’s time way out there someplace and we’ll leave Iraq sometime. Maybe 5 or 20 or 50 or 100 years.

But if you use timelines it means you are going to tell the towelheads how long it will be before you leave and when.

Anyhow, good to see GA folk are eating good. CDC says we’re the fattest in the nation. It means the yankees can’t starve us out they way they done back in the War of Northren Aggression. We can live on our bellys for a long time, give or take a few funerals and happy widows. Nothing like good old GA grits and red eye gravy to make a man ready for a long siege.

Tell this Ron to lay off the missus. She’s doing fine but don’t want no part of a old geezer like him.

Have a good day everybody.

By Vidal Suisun

July 18, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

Yet I felt the school board elections were, at times, pure poetry, and models of our hope for an informed public informed by schoolers with uplifting calls, such as: “For Greater Student Achievement!”

Uplift we will do, then! (Besides, who’s ever heard of downlift, or down-let, or whatever.)

From DeKalb County we had the victorious School Board candidate Emile Faber running on the plank that “Knowledge Is Good”. (Which, yeah, I’d have to conceed is true!)

And from Gwinnett, the cerebral rallying cry of Chantal Johnson, declared on every bumbersticker and lawn sign, that “Excellence Is Within Our Grasp!” Excellence over against what or whom, was not specified; but does it matter, when you’re on the way to a 68 percent victory over your Republican opponent whose only offering was, to the notoriously biased liberals of the AJC Editorial Board, “who controls the rhetoric, the definitions, controls these lovely schools”?

By AmVet

July 18, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Another Friday at Wooten’s - another Friday of quasi-journalistic nonsense.

To the American Talibaptists/Flat Earth “Conservatives” there never was a drought in Georgia. And there is definitely no pollution, no global climate change, no gravity, no evolution, no sun at the center of the solar system and no deficit either.

And President Bush is, hands down, the best ever!!!

So our esteemed columnist takes umbrage at the enormous nationwide derision heaped upon the often cretinous Cobb County.

Hint, Marietta Square is the very epicenter of the Moron Belt, Jim.

B******* science text books in public schools with mythology stickers cloaked as scientific reasoning, banned form the 1996 Games for outright homophobia and home of sleazy bar owners professing that Obama monkey t-shirts are not racist.

The list of Cobb embarrassments is practically endless and so their “faithful” inhabitants more than deserve their reputation as one of very last bastions of Republican stupidity and reactionary bigotry.

And on a related front, Georgia along with her “sister states” in the Moron Belt all finish in the top ten on the obesity meter.

And virtually all finish in the bottom ten on the intellect meter.

And, of course, all are dead red politically.

The moral?

Fat, dumb and Republican are no way to go through life.

The long hot summer continues unabated for these dispirited, enraged and impotent non-conservative conservatives.

And the rest of us laugh at their deserved misery…

By SaveOurRepublic

July 18, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Peter @ 2:59 PM EDT - If you really research the 9/11 false-flag attack, you’ll see who the true “terrorists” are. Not only did the CIA fund the Mujaheddin/Al Qaeda forerunner (as admitted by Jimmy Carter’s NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski), but the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) wrote the following foreshadowing statement within their 2000 Rebuilding America’s Defenses report…

“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor”

On 9/11, their “new Pearl Harbor” conveniently came to fruition!

P.S. - The Democrats are the part of the same controlled “coin” as the GOP, and are NOT the answer!

http://www.seeloosechange.com

By getalife "whiners"

July 18, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Jim’s radical right are moving to the left and Obama’s foreign policy positions for the election.

Will Jim write about this massive flip flop on foreign policy?

Of course not.

Along with the corporate media, not a peep of intellectual honesty.

Disgraceful.

By Vidal Suisun

July 18, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

You, Mr./Ms. Vet, have apparently very little familiarity with the platforms of the thousands upon millions of candidates running for school board seats in this immediately past election. Were you to pay attention to their platforms you’d understand how far this state is moving ahead, in the world of education and in the world at large.

Among the agendas thatr county voters have committed themselves to, are the following:

“For Better Scores than Before!”

“Because education is more than we could imagine!”

“Excellence for now, the other after the playoffs!”

“For schools with an even share and an even shot!”

“For separate AND equal, because WE CAN HAVE IT ALL!”

By Dusty

July 18, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Well, I see the beagle from New York is now stealing my ID. So I have a bone to pick with him. STOP STEALING MY ID. ID Thief @2:31. Now get back to your dog house or get shipped back to NYC. Bad dog!!

By Dusty

July 18, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Getalife’s whiners @ 3:48

Obama’s got a foreign policy? Which one? What time?

By Peter

July 18, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

Hey By SaveOurRepublic…..Where is Bin Ladden… ?

Hint……..

The Bush “Terrorist Protection Program!”

America is NOT SAFE with a Republican in Office !

By Vidal Suisun

July 18, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Well, the really winning one, out here in Cobb, was, “For Higher Student Achievement.” And I asked around at breakfast, and asked in lunch room, and asked at the chekout line, and asked at church — and ever person polled (I know this wasn’t a really, scientific poll) — said that they were for students achieving and that if their students were achieving, to help them achieve more, or higher, or more excellently, or with greater quality, etc.

And that’s when it became clear to me that folks in the Metro Atlanta region really really want their kids going higher, doing more, and going and doing it more excellently. So that we all can be proud.

By Dusty

July 18, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Aww Glenn,aka Vidal Suisun @3:57

Those agendas were pret-tee good. I see you’re still fussing about schools.

To tell the truth, it seems some school boards don’t have ANY agendas and NOBODY cares. For example..Clayton County with a small voter turn out.

Anyway, I think you need a new ID. The current one sounds like hair spray. How about School Scamp? And jbmlaw also needs a new one. Ask him about BankBoogie. NO, I don’t want a new ID. That would get the ID thief all mixed up and he is crazy enough already.

By SaveOurRepublic

July 18, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

Peter @ 4:10 PM EDT - You’re heading in the right directions sir…our Constitutional Republic, sovereignty, borders & middle class aren’t safe with either a Republicrud (save for patriot Ron Paul, who’s more in line with my Constitution Party) OR a Demoncrap!!!

Also, OBL was part of the CIA support network when he fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Do some research on false flag operations (ie - 9/11, Gulf of Tonkin, Mukden incident, Operation Northwoods, Hitler’s burning of the Reichstag building, etc.). There’s a long history of false-flag ops/state-sponsored terror used as a pretext for war, martial law, implementation of a police state, etc.

Go to Google Video or YouTube and watch “TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism”…tons of factual info!

By getalife "whiners"

July 18, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

crusty the clown,

Diplomacy with Iran, withdrawing from Iraq, more resourses in Afghanistan and your old flip flopper will actually want to go after the ones who attacked us in Pakistan next.

Your radical right party has moved to the left and the populist opinion. Libs.

Does that upset you?

By Mike Hussein S

July 18, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

to SaveOurRepublic at 2:58. Great job. I think you killed the messenger, but I see you didn’t challenge what the NIE reported. Yes, the U.S. supported the mujahideen in Afghanistan and yes, it did grow into the Taliban. But at the time, they were fighting the Soviets and right wing Amerians, like Rep. Charlie Wilson’s girlfriend, were all hepped up about that. Wilson didn’t start arming the Afghans until 1980, the year Carter lost his re-election bid, and then he and the CIA doled out U.S. bucks throughout the Reagan years. Even after 9/11 Wilson said he had done the right thing because Afghanistan brought down the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall. Zbig was just tattling on his successors.

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Speaking of Scooby Snacks, the proof that everyone was stoned in the seventies comes from the fact that it took an average of 8 writers to produce every episode of Scooby Doo cartoons.

Fact.

I was rumaging through my garage, and I came across a lost comedy notebook I had written in my first couple years of doing standup and then lost. It’s got pages and pages of gold. I’m re-reading these old bits that I cant believe.

I’m definitely doing some of this great material on stage soon. I’ll be at the punchline (open mike nights), the starbar, (mondays), and there’s several other venues, but I’m so rusty, I’ll have to get back at you.

But here’s a preview: “David Crosby was identified as the father of Melissa Machester’s child. Old news, but did you know that it was a sperm donation, not a sex act? I mean, Mr. Crosby bought a guitar in the first place so he could get laid. He finally scores, and it’s in vitro. Aw. He ends up having sex the same way he had it before he bought the guitar. ”

That’s a great bit. I did that on television once on channel 36. (during a promotio for seinfeld reruns)

By findog

July 18, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

BFKaJ,

As a blogger [artist] formerly known as do you have a symbol you use?

With respect to the President and what he knew and when he knew it the offshore ban came up in 2001 as he was trying to open more of Alaska…

I am willing to accept that possibly the speculators are reacting to US actually doing something I just wouldn’t put money on it.

As far as congress regulating speculation it’s just another boogeyman on which to blame hard times. I met Senator Nunn once, he said, “We need politicians so people have someone to blame their problems on,” too bad we do not have any left who would accept blame for anything.

Much nicer today without Mrs. Godzilla, and Dusty [capital D] I owe you a thanks for outing the operative.

By SaveOurRepublic

July 18, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Mike Hussein S @ 4:30 PM EDT - Thanks sir! I’m glad to see other folks informed as to some of the covert & black ops history, as they’re still in effect today. Note David Rockefeller’s involvement in the various Elitist confabs…Trilateral Commission (with ZBig & Carter), the CFR (with the Neocons) & ultra-elitist Bilderberg Group. This is further proof of the Elite puppeteering both “sides”. Knowing the enemy is half the battle!

http://www.infowars.com

By Mike Hussein S

July 18, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Truth March: Keep your day job.

By Vidal Suisun

July 18, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

Ah, but I forgot the succesful Candidate in Cherokee County, Susan Dixon, whose immortal slogan was of course: “As Go the Test Scores, So Open the Next Doors.”

And the perennial Jim Cauliflower of Clayton, who treated voters to his time-tested refrain: “It’s Either the Parents’ Fault, the Chil’ren’s Fault or It’s the Fault of the Fed’ral Gubmint: Now You Decide”.

School board campaigning just doesn’t get any more populist, any more richly varied or what the political scientists call, any more “retail” than this.

Georgia education politics certainly is showing the flush, the freshness of good health. Only good can come of it. As one Third Grader recently said, “We know this stuff. The right answer is almost always the second or third choice.”

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

Stand up Friday: Glad to be here. Folks, I love sports. Especially baseball. I’m playing in a baseball game right now, yes, it’s true, I just happen to have a really big lead off of second.

Do you have to tag up on foul balls?

That’s a bit I dreamed in a real dream and remembered. SO I tried this bit out 3 or 4 times, and never got a laugh with it. But once I did it and this really fat lady in the back started laughing her head off at it. So I quit doing it. . . . . . . .

Here is the death song of conservatism portrayed in an Ode To Georgia’s Flag.

ODE TO GEORGIA’S FLAG

.

Part One: Allegro Rosa Parks.

A flag is a communication. It proclaims, “This is who we are! This is what we believe!” The St Andrews Cross on Georgia’s flag was born on the field of battle. It was surrendered there after a river of blood christened our country’s new birth of freedom. The flag lay as a cold ember on the ash heap of our history till 1957 when it suddenly reanimated and enflamed the lost cause. Why? Was there an oath registered in heaven that bound Georgia to exhume this shroud of secession and slavery? Never! There was only the fear and loathing of our country’s great turning point: Civil Rights.

Part Two: Andante MLK.

Oh wretched rebel specter! What dreadful omen does your pageant unfurl? Would you resound those nostalgic antebellum chords to honor the dead? Then you dishonor the living. To ratify valor? You nurture fear. To sanctify our past? You swindle our souls, and deny the truths we hold most dear.

Part Three. Forte Bill of Rights.

A flag’s destiny and the people’s destiny are linked. Our freedom is stillborn in Georgia. Heed the prayer of the martyred voices crying out from the bloody red Georgia soil:

GEORGIA, TEAR DOWN THAT FLAG!!!!

By Dusty

July 18, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Ah findog @4:33

I think you are really beagledog.

I’m so sorry you missed me today. And dear Mrs. Godzie!! But hang in there. We will return ro break the boredom of baffled bambinos like you. Count on it!!

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

How about all those rich americans hiding their money in Litchenstein, and the disgruntled bank employee gave them up!

If heads dont roll over this one, then I’m afraid that will be the last straw. I want to see Leona Helmsley prison sentences handed out to every single name on that list and there are thousands.

We must pursue this story. And make sure justice is being metted out.

Big shots hiding money in foreign banks after a difficult trail of transfering funds to about six or seven other countries, each bank taking their own cut of the ill gotten gains.

We are a world of pirates. Maybe I’m the only honest man left in the whole world. That means if I dont stfu, then……(camera to fat aging baby boomer with glasses being bludgeoned and garroted and then thrown into the back of a van.)

I should have stfu.

By Vidal Suisun

July 18, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Hemic, my good composer; hemic soil.

Note the rhythm, the prosody. Otherwise, an effort worthy of Key, of Cohan, even perhaps of the great Sousa, perhaps the most accomplished trapshooter in all history.

And I say this standing, with my slightly spittle-stained Skoal hat over my heart.

By BFKaJ

July 18, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Dear Findog @ 4:33, of course, $$$.

By Vidal Suisun

July 18, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

Where should we hide our money, Truth, where thieves do not break in and steal and dust and worms don’t destroy? Or should it be stacked neatly on the front porch, so that the feds and the Statehouse crowd and assorted liberals and dreamers can help themselves by night. And do you reckon they’d reach “consensus” on a “fair” division of the purloined proceeds. How much should I expect to find in the morning?

By Truth March

July 18, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Here is the death song of conservatism portrayed in an Ode To Georgia’s Flag.

ODE TO GEORGIA’S FLAG

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Part One: Allegro Rosa Parks.

A flag is a communication. It proclaims, “This is who we are! This is what we believe!” The St Andrews Cross on Georgia’s flag was born on the field of battle. It was surrendered there after a river of blood christened our country’s new birth of freedom. The flag lay as a cold ember on the ash heap of our history till 1957 when it suddenly reanimated and enflamed the lost cause. Why? Was there an oath registered in heaven that bound Georgia to exhume this shroud of secession and slavery? Never! There was only the fear and loathing of our country’s great turning point: Civil Rights.

Part Two: Andante MLK.

Oh wretched rebel specter! What dreadful omen does your pageant unfurl? Would you resound those nostalgic antebellum chords to honor the dead? Then you dishonor the living. To ratify valor? You nurture fear. To sanctify our past? You swindle our souls, and deny the truths we hold most dear.

Part Three. Forte Bill of Rights.

A flag’s destiny and the people’s destiny are linked. Our freedom is stillborn in Georgia. Heed the prayer of the martyred voices crying out from the bloody red Georgia soil:

GEORGIA, TEAR DOWN THAT FLAG!!!!

By george

July 19, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

truth: so a flag is like gang colors, or school colors, or the tropy panties I had hanging on my rear view mirror in high school? I think of a flag as a shield behind which lying cowardly politicians hide in times of trouble….I have no problem in slashing thru that rag to git at the political w*******…

By catlady

July 19, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

I doubt the law degree was faked; I mean, even Ms. Stephenson does not have a pair like that, right? About the other “word processing errors”, well, I can almost understand at least one of them, IF you have the most ignorant word processor person doing the typing. But failure to check the work, and correct it—and then we are paying this woman to run a large hospital?! I mean, if she has no better quality control than that….. And it was published and she still did not disavow it?! Exactly HOW is she good for Grady?

And what about her “experience” she claimed back in January, you know, experience running a hospital in the past?! No one ever got to the bottom of that claim, did they?!

Why was this woman chosen to be even a temporary leader? So she could feed at the public trough some more?

NONE of the philanthropic institutions should give Grady another cent, even that promised, until her contract is terminated and NO FURTHER MONEY GIVEN HER. Let her “sue” to get it! Maybe she will have to hire a lawyer! Maybe she and Otis Storey, the CEO she fired so she could have his job, maybe they could cry in their beer together.

IT HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT SERVING THE POOR. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT GRAFT, AND FEEDING OFF THE PUBLIC MONEY. And, in the rush to get the new board in place, so many trade-offs and compromises were made that the new board probably does not have enough power to really do anything EXCEPT RAISE MONEY TO BE WASTED ON STUFF LIKE THIS.

By george

July 19, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Agreed, Catlady, Agreed….

By george

July 19, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

one must wonder how many other fake lawyers have been admitted to the Ga Bar due to the lazy STUPIDITY of the staff in failing to verify with independent sources the law degree of the applicant? I call for a WITCH HUNT that searches for FAKE lawyers throughout Georgia…Pan is not smart enough to figure out the weaknesses of the state bar all by herself, others must have done it first, and others after….WITCH HUNT WITCH HUNT WITCH HUNT - BURN EM ALL AT THE STAKE…HMMM, COULD THERE BE ONE OR MORE ON THE STATE SUPREME COURT, OR COURTS OF APPEAL?