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DEL.ICIO.USAn arborist, attitudes and a bad bet
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
• A high school in Gonzales, Texas, requires inappropriately dressed students to don navy blue coveralls — prison jumpsuits of a sort. Some parents object. What’s wrong with public education? These three things, among others: 1) parents who object to efforts to maintain discipline; 2) students who disregard simple instructions; 3) parents who don’t parent before the child hits school.
• Financing a car for six years, as Chrysler proposes, appeals to those who buy based on the monthly payment. It’s the kind of thinking that prepares people for payday loans and subprime mortgages.
• Now that Hillary is out and has no use for them, Barack Obama — in the spirit of party unity — asks that all the delegates from Florida and Michigan be allowed to vote at the convention.
• At a federal reimbursement rate of 58.5 cents per mile, parents and the DeKalb school system both win by transporting their own children to new schools from those that are nonperforming, as parents of 2,300 request. Car pools. Vans. All are preferred to buying more under-filled buses in rush-hour traffic.
• Atlanta fired a popular arborist, arousing concern among some that the city will be too lax in enforcing tree ordinances. I love trees. But right now I’m all worried-up. Global warming. Whether we’re executing people who are too fat. Whether Paris Hilton has a better energy policy than Barack Obama. The arborist firing is on my list, though. It’s due for serious worry time at 9:16 a.m. on April 16, 2011.
• First Starbucks and now Whole Foods Market announces lower earnings and plans to curtail expansion. Can the trendy among us live another day? Yes, if we assure them that all’s well with IKEA and itsy-bitsy cars are here to stay.
• When Gwinnett’s minorities become the majority — minorities had reached 48.3 percent a year ago — can the world stop ascribing all the convenient “suburban” stereotypes to the place, specifically related to MARTA and to how Republicans think? Comparing attitudes about MARTA today, for example, to those of decades ago reflects ignorance of the changes that have taken place. It’s ignorant, too, to assume that all Republicans think alike because they represent districts usually identified as “suburban” or that Democrats do who represent “rural” areas.
• Like Jim Martin, I declare myself a friend of the working people. And if his guy wins the White House, my friends are going to get hosed by the tax man.
• Sure as shootin’ when state revenues dip, the casino-gambling/ horse-racing crowd emerges to push their agenda. The president of the Georgia-South Carolina Horse Racing Committee wants you to know he is very distressed about education funding in Georgia and the tax burden on old folks. Just guessing, but might he have a solution to propose? Coincidentally, yes. But no thanks. We’ll get by without giving poor people even more ways to lose the butter and egg money.
• See, these folks being held at Guantanamo are enemy combatants captured on the battlefield. They didn’t shop-lift at Wal-Mart. They’re not U.S. citizens with constitutional rights. When The Associated Press account notes in the first sentence of its report of the split verdict on Osama bin Laden’s driver that “A jury of six military officers … ” and at the start of the second paragraph that “The Pentagon-selected jury … ” one gets the distinct impression that the reporter is trying to tell us that the driver could not get a fair trial. But he did. Then we’re told that defense lawyers “feared a guilty verdict was inevitable” because “the tribunal system’s rules seemed designed to achieve convictions.” That observation was attributed to the driver’s “Pentagon-appointed attorney.”
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By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this
Yeah boy, people just hang on every word the dimwitocrats say:
SPEAKER OF THE FLOP: PELOSI SELLS 2,737 COPIES OF BOOK…
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will call on his fighters to maintain a cease-fire with U.S. troops but may lift the order if a planned Iraq-U.S. security agreement lacks a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces, a spokesman said Thursday.-Urinal/Jihad
Let’s see here, every time that Mookie lifts the “cease fire” with the American troops, his forces throw down their weapons and flee into Iran.
Um,
Isn’t.
That.
What.
We.
Want?
The only drawback will be that thee Urinal/Jihad needs to shake Mookie’s dead army at America, they will have to animate thee corpse from across the border.
Wait a minute, they are already on that side.
Never mind.
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Judge tosses Detroit mayor in jail-Urinal/DNC
Yeah, and to add insult to injury, Thee Urinal/DNC has stripped him of his political affiliation, a whole article in thee Pinko Times, not one mention of his party, hmmmm.
Oh, look, here it is, he’s a dimwitocrat.
Bwa.
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Jobless claims hit ‘02 level-Doom and Gloom/PMS
Which is still just as low as it was all through the KKKlintoon economy, uh, which was a wonderful time according to thee Urinal.
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Mr. Obama got tagged the past month as something new, not the candidate from Men’s Vogue but arrogant, aloof and somehow ethereal. There is no there there.
Mr. Obama consistently shows that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. It’s a theme with his talented, confident staff. They don’t know what they don’t know either. Because they’re young and they’ve never been in power and it takes time to know what you don’t know. The presidential-type seal with OBAMA on it, the sometimes over-the-top rhetoric about healing the earth and parting the seas. They pick the biggest, showiest venue for the Berlin speech, the Brandenburg Gate, just like a president, not realizing people would think: Ya gotta earn that one, kid.
Or is he, say, a product of the self-esteem campaign, that movement within the schools and homes of our country the past 25 years that says the way to get a winner is to tell the kid he’s a winner every day? You can get some true people of achievement that way, because some people need a lot of reinforcement to rise. But you can also get, not to put too fine a point of it, empty suits that take on a normal shape only because they’re so puffed up with ego.
Is Mr. Obama’s self-conception in line with his gifts, depth, wisdom and character? That’s the big question, I suspect, on a number of minds.
Welcome back, Peggy.
Say, where is Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Magnificent, anyway?
By BFKaJ
August 8, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Perhaps I am naive, but I cannot imagine what is “inappropriate dress” for a high school student. It is a wonder that the prison jump suits do not become a fashion statement themselves. Maybe they ought to put flower designs on the suits, or make sure they are paisley. Nevertheless, the jumpsuits seem like a reasonable compromise of the competing interests – the slobs do not disrupt, yet they are still able to participate in their classes. I suspect their participation is not really essential to the common weal.
Seems like financing a Chrysler for six years would be an unsafe and unsound financial practice inherently. Regulatory humor, ark, ark,
I’m wondering if the Florida and Michigan delegate move is a flim-flam, setting in motion a Hail Mary to get the nomination for Hildebeest. I know it almost sounds like one of those tinfoil hat theories, but there is just enough of a nagging possibility that it stirs the imagination. Wonder if her goal is to lose the nomination by just a few votes, say 2,300-2,100. Go out a graceful loser for now, set herself up for 2012.
What kind of tree ordinances exist? Barking rage? Dropping leaves in a no-drop zone? Polluting the environment? Displaying nuts in a public place? Inquiring minds want to know, was the arborist fired because he could not catch his tree?
Jbmlaw explains the world. Starbucks earnings declined because their coffee is undrinkable. Whole Foods is under assault by the FTC, surely the stupidest anti-monopoly action since ATT and IBM were settled. Don’t know what is an IKEA – do you eat it or smoke it? And please don’t mock tiny cars – I lust for a Fit. Should my 16-year old Mazda ever die, I’ll get one. I’ve always been partial to teeny vehicles. Should have been a Shriner.
Friend of the working man? I thought democrats were only friends of the layabouts. Big spenders, who take other people monies for their munificence, are not friends of those who pay the bills. And the working guy pays for everybody, in one way or another.
I have ambivalent thoughts on horse racing. I have never bought a lottery ticket, although I have lived here only nine years, so I suppose I may some day yield to the devil’s entreaties. However, when I worked in Louisiana, I liked the horse races, especially that gorgeous park in Lafayette; think it closed about 15 years ago. My friends mocked me the first time I went. I anticipated watching the noble beasts’s performances; instead I hardly got my nose out of the Daily Racing Form. Won the daily double and six out of eight exactas. Made about $75 on my $2 bets. Big spender. Honesty compels that I disclose that I am down about $200 for my gambling career. Any true libertarian would determine that the government ought not be regulating behavior, so long as there is no fraud.
Agree that much of the MSM reporting on the GTMO trial was bogus. Military officers are straight and smart. Saddam’s driver got five years, for supporting the criminal regime. That’s about right, he was a low-level performer. That is probably more generous than similarly-situate Nuremberg defendants. Contrast Albert Speer, for one conspicuous instance. Fairer trial, fairer sentence. The modern military justice is fairer than American civil courts, and military juries are better than civil juries. The education level is the difference.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
Obama has made his extraordinary life story the central plank of his political career. But the constant repetition of the carefully-crafted narrative has begun to wear a bit thin. All the talk about himself can seem a bit, well, self-regarding.
It fed into a perception that had bubbling since the height of his struggle to overcome Hillary Clinton. The first time I heard the Britney comparison at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond, Virginia back in February when Linda Little, a 60-year-old retired secretary and Hillary supporter told me: “Barack has pretty words. It’s like he’s a rock star for people. It’s like he’s Britney Spears or something. They just fall for him.”
The former First Lady’s partially successful attempts to portray Obama as a preening, arugula-munching, Honest Tea-sipping elitist have softened him up for McCain and also provided a trove of quotations to use as ammunition.
But the Vietnam hero has realized that many Americans might be tiring of this election being all about Obama all the time - and that he therefore needs to keep it that way.
Tired?
Disgusted is a much better description.
Who, in their right mind, wants to hear some light weight race hustler and professional cry baby tell you how awful you and your country are?
Hell, if I wanted that, I could just read the Urinal.
By hillbilly ragger
August 8, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
Mornin’ rational people.
Mornin’ Jim. You took, big fookin’ kludge and the whiny copy/paste guy.
So Jim, after running a column about “Obama fatigue”, and how people supposedly are tired of hearing about him (and would rather hear more about McCain) you think you could go more than a whole day without doing yet another column that talks about Obama (twice!) and ignores McCain? Guess not.
Oh, and about the “Gitmo peeps were captured on the BATTLEFIELD!” meme I’ve been hearing for years from the wingnuts — no, actually, very many of them weren’t, unless the “battlefield” for Chimp’s endless “war on Terra” is wherever Chimp says it is. Nice try though. The one (1) conviction these imbeciles have managed to secure out of the whole money-sucking, Constitution-shredding fiasco that is Gitmo, is from a guy who’d been stopped at a border crossing. Not a battlefield.
Later gators. Gotta go put food on mah fambly.
By Bud Wiser
August 8, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this
A Republican in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked across the restaurant and asked, ‘Is that Jesus sitting over there?’ The waitress nodded ‘yes,’ so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.
The next patron to come in was a Libertarian with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, ‘Is that Jesus over there?’ The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, ‘My treat.’
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, ‘Hey there, momma! How’s about gettin’ me a cold Miller Light?’ He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, ‘Is that God’s boy over there?’ The waitress once more nodded, so the Democrat directed her to give Jesus a cold beer…. ‘On my bill,’ he said.
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Republican, touched him and said, ‘For your kindness, you are healed.’ The Republican felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus also passed by the Libertarian, touched him and said, ‘For your kindness, you are healed.’ The Libertarian felt his back straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.
Then Jesus walked toward the Democrat. The Democrat jumped up and yelled, ‘Don’t touch me… I’m collecting disability!
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Anybody with a view of thee outdoors right now, take a look at that big, beautiful blue sky, feel that cool crisp morning air, check out the forecast of a 87 degree high in August Hotlanta and then let’s all wonder together what the F the environmental terrorists are whining and moaning about.
And then laugh your as-ses off at what fools they are.
83 degrees next week?
Puh-leeze.
By Maniac is accurate
August 8, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
Why, Daddy Jim, pushing government paternalism. I don’t want to go to the horseraces. But I think tracks and casinos should be allowed, just like folks should be allowed to sell alcohol 24-7-365 – or make it in stills in the privacy of their homes.
Daddy me would support school administrators enforcing a dress code, though, I think parents ought to have enough authority and good sense to dress their kids sensibly.
I don’t understand the eighth item at all. Maybe my friend BFKaJ will quid pro quo me for telling him that IKEA as a mega-trendy home furnishings store.
Starbucks coffee is gawdawful. But, also, when I worked in Nashville, there were three within a mile of my office. And, now, in Dalton there are two within a half miles of each other. Dumb.
What kind of following does an arborist attract? Are there groupies?
War crimes trials are not supposed have juries made up of Des Moines housewives of Milledgeville truckers.
He might deny it, but jbmlaw is pretty funny. Displaying nuts in public, indeed. Made me almost spew my coffee.
OK Bride of Godzille, we’re ready for your 68 posts now. Game on.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Joe Klein, toady, trying to usher in the McBushie Presidency as quickly as possible:
And so Obama would be wise to change course now: challenge McCain to town-hall debates on the Sunday nights after each convention—one before a military audience, another with hard-pressed Rust Belt workers. He’d be wise to make this a campaign about issues instead of ads as soon as possible. It is true that debates often turn on one-liners and flubs, but more often they turn on sustained, vivid demonstrations of character.
There would be smoke where Obama was standing on that stage, hahaha.
When Obama— correctly —said that keeping your tires inflated was one way to conserve energy (and save some money), McCain distributed tire-pressure gauges stamped OBAMA’S ENERGY PLAN.
Do tell us, America, how many of you are too stupid to know that your tires need to be inflated, like the pompous One is saying about you?
By Mr. Anderson
August 8, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
Anyone else find Wooten to be more akin to a crotchety old man, whittling wood in his rocking chair, than a legitimate conservative commentator? I swear I saw a King of the Hill where Peggy wrote these little bits of “wisdom” and it was funny there. Here? It’s sad.
By Taxpayer
August 8, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
Does anyone know if Andy ever posts anything of value. He is such a cut and paste bore. Andy, try pulling you nose out of Boortz’s rear end every once in a while. You might be pleasantly surprised at what fresh air smells like.
Anyway, enough typing wasted on that doofus. I initially trusted Bush and the Republican party because they talked like they actually cared about smaller government, “love thy neighbor type family values”, etc. They sure fooled me. I’ve been thinking a lot this election cycle and digging into what the parties and candidates offer much more so than I have in the past. I’ve even gone as far as to read what people on blogs such as this one are saying. As far as the people on blogs and on radio are concerned, they have sold me on going back to the Democrat Party and voting for Obama. All these so-called Republicans are just too mean and hateful and always trying to put others down with filthy talk but no real substance. For example, Andy is always talking filthy trashing talk to the point that he even got me to do it back at him and I must admit that I was not that way before I started reading this blog. Anyway, my final words are addressed to Mr. Wooten. I wish you the best in you future ventures. Good Bye.
By findog
August 8, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
1 – amen
2 – amen
3 – of course
4 – how does school choice become business travel?
5 – code enforcement personnel need the same support we give our police officers
6 – whatever
7 – I believe the ballot count in Gwinnett County’s recent primary showed a compelling difference between D and R voters on Marta; but neither was 100%
8 – Everyone one has already been hosed by President Bush and the six years of government expansion; whoever is elected will either have to raise taxes or sell more of America to China
9 – The lottery is gambling for people who failed statistics, thank you Zell
10 – Jim you really whiffed this one; the sentence is 5.5 years with time served, he’ll be out about the time our next President is inaugurated. That is what really shows how off base the article and the defense lawyer were in the alleged report.
By Amy in the ATL
August 8, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Ummm…why are Conservatives so anti-conservative when it comes to our natural resources? Shouldn’t we all join in to do our part in promoting a better utilization of resources? Metro Atlanta’s love affair with large gas-guzzling vehicles and ever expanding houses farther and farther away on treeless lots requiring WAY more a/c to make habitable drains our pocketbooks and makes it harder for those same folks to save their money to make GOOD investments, like paying for their kids college, paying off their house (as opposed to living off home equity) and investing in their retirement fund. Too many so-called suburban Conservatives I know spend more money per year on car expenses (gas, car financing, insurance, maintenance) than they put into their 401Ks and kids’ college funds. Does that make sense? So Jim, while you’re railing on taxes, why don’t you also rail on your fellow Republicans’ inability to make some adjustments to their lifestyle that would not only improve our air quality but also help contribute to a more sustainable economy? Sure, it’s your right as an American to be a complete idiot, but let’s just be clear that moving 1.5 hours away from your job to get a 5000 square foot house that you can barely afford, let alone pay for the gas you’re putting in that Yukon, is pretty darn idiotic.
Meanwhile, the good folks in the City are concerned about mass transportation quality and tree coverage. Which seems a heck of a lot more rationale to me.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
I HAVE TO PASS A URINE TEST FOR MY JOB, SO. Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem.
What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test. Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their A*, doing drugs, while I work… . Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check?
By Mara
August 8, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
“Atlanta fired a popular arborist, arousing concern among some that the city will be too lax in enforcing tree ordinances. I love trees. But right now I’m all worried-up.”
Just like a republicant…no respect for the law and an indifference toward the harrassment and retaliation meted out to those who actually try to enforce it…especially if that enforcement inconveniences those who reliably support republicant pilferage.
What is it with republicants and their hatred of the law. Between McAmnesty, Gonzales, Miers, and Bush, the “rule of law” has pretty much deteriorated into the “suggestion of law”.
By Copyleft
August 8, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
Whoops! You made a mistake, Jim. In your regular snipe against public education, you listed three problems: 1) parents, 2) students, and 3) parents.
You forgot to whine about the evils of teacher’s unions, and the horrible NEA that keeps trying to educate ALL of our children regardless of income!
A person reading your commentary would come away thinking that the only REAL problem with public education is the morons who try to interfere with it! Gosh. I’m sure that isn’t what you intended.
By ByteMe
August 8, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
Congrats, Jim! Another day talking about how great John McCain will be as President and nothing about Obama (because of all that “fatigue” we’re suffering from).
Oh, wait. Never mind. You didn’t do that. Only one little bit on Obama, nothing at all (again) on McCain.
Must be hard to be a Republican these days with nothing positive to say about the chosen future “leader” of your own party. Poor you.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this
By Taxpayer August 8, 2008 8:53 AM Does anyone know if Andy ever posts anything of value. He is such a cut and paste bore. Andy, try pulling you nose out of Boortz’s rear end every once in a while
Numbnuts: The last time I listened to Neil Boretz was 5 something years ago, right after he said that “there is nothing wrong with being gay.”
Buh-bye, Neil.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
taxpayer
[[Does anyone know if Andy ever posts anything of value. ]]
Yes I know.
Yes he does.
You may want to address any topic he references - the current state of al-Sadr’s forces and the reasons.
Current attitudes on unemployment rate vs attitudes of similar rates under prior administrations.
How certain media outlets make the decision to specify (or not) the party affiliation of politicians with legal problems.
Lots of food for thought, there -
By Just Nasty and Mean
August 8, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
G’mornin, Jim, et al,
Since when did public schools get the cohunes to even attempt to discipline school kids? I was under the impression the schools were scared-to-death about confronting the parents, much less getting sued.
Democraps: “Oh, now that Hillary is on the sidelines, and Obama limped across the finish line, lets let the Michigan/Florida voters count and sing “We are the world” Its enough to make you puke.
Since when is it my (a taxpayer’s) responsibility to transport some kid across town because someone decided they didn’t like who-knows-what about their school. If it’s that important—pay for it yourself! Why is the Federal taxpayer always left holding the bag?
Jim, why don’t we mind our own friKKin business? If someone wants to open a horse/dog track or casino, what business is it of yours (ours?). If someone wants to spend their butter and egg money, what business is it of ours (yours)? Is it any worse than the lottery that most think is very successful? Loosen your sphincter, dude! Its no big deal!
Can somebody tell me what in hell we are doing giving “trials” to enemy combatants arrested in the war zone? Have we lost every semblance of common sense of how to win a war. Let’s put them in jail until the war is over. Period.
Mrs Godzilla Is there even a chance we could let Jim lead this blog, or do you have to day after day? Why not get your OWN blog with your Obama billboards, helter-skelter topics, Democrap talking points and quit mooching off this one? We’d like to get a word in edgewise about the topics Jim presents. OK? You could stand to loosen your sphincter, also.
Have a great weekend everybody!
By ButtHead
August 8, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
Any bets on how long until MrsGodzilla starts coping the HuffingtonPuss on to this blog? I say 5 minutes…
By Clt
August 8, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
A comment is less than 150 words; you poor dumb redneckrepublicans are publishing a manifesto! Jim Wooten is still a lying dimwit and dullard! He has not been right about anything since he gave up his job at the bus station on Lucky Street.
By Southern Born
August 8, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Peadawg (or is that Pee-dawg) @ 9:05:
Insightful point made, sauce for the goose & gander.
By Oz
August 8, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Hey peadawg: The only reason you can pass a drug test is because your teeny weeny peeny’s weak stream wouldn’t show up in snow, much less a ritalin sensitive strip of telltale congenital mongoloidism that your mother’s crack habit would most certainly taint. I wouldn’t let you run a lemonade stand. I couldn’t trust the color yellow around foodstuffs you might have access to.
Try the oldest profession. I hear nursing homes need a few good men……..you could start a website called www.bedpanbordello.com……ew.
bwa
By Peter
August 8, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
By BFKaJ……… we understand you are out of touch………IKEA …..is a store !
Yes this was a true statement……….”Perhaps I am naive”.
When is Jim going to post a column with some teeth ?
By zeke
August 8, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
10-4 good buddy!!!!
By lacuda
August 8, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
No Obama fatigue yet,i see several Obama references and nothing about the celebrated and despised vietnam captured weak unsoldier cum-prisoner. This economy hasnt hosed you yet Jim,how much are u paying for your gas,if i may ask? And your company is laying off pple left right and center……and you too blind to Bush economics right around ur corner….
By CommunistAJC
August 8, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
This is a must read. Anyone who DOES NOT have a sense of humor need not read it. For all those who do, you will laugh your arse off.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/newlinensns**opens
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
Oz @ 9:48
Wow man…you must be one of those sorry asses w/ 8 kids and no job that i’m talking about and you’re mad b/c i make a good point.
By jungleland
August 8, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
This is EXACTLY why the poor get poorer.
If you have to finace for 6 years than you CAN’T AFFORD the car.
Plus this car will be worth NOTHING in six years (if it even still runs)
Debt management is YOUR responsibility.
By FRANKLEEDARLING
August 8, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
LEGALIZE IT
By "Charles", The Original
August 8, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Jim Wooten writes, “A high school in Gonzales, Texas, requires inappropriately dressed students to don navy blue coveralls — prison jumpsuits of a sort. Some parents object. What’s wrong with public education? These three things, among others: 1) parents who object to efforts to maintain discipline; 2) students who disregard simple instructions; 3) parents who don’t parent before the child hits school.”
Some parents have made the correct call. I too strongly object to donning inappropriately dressed students in navy blue coveralls——prison jumpsuits of a sort. Without exception, all students should be required to dress appropriately while attending public schools; no ifs, no ands, and no buts.
What’s wrong with public education? We can sum it up in two words, mandatory integration, among others. Granted, all of our public schools should be accessible to any student regardless of race, creed, or color. And in the Southern states, that’s exactly what policy makers required of public schools prior to 1970. But there was a problem, only the emotionally weaker students of each racial group decided to transfer to other schools. This occurrence caused policy makers to make a critical error; they decided that the integration of public schools would become mandatory.
Prior to mandatory integration, the overwhelming majority of students in the African American community obeyed simple instructions. A few contemptuous students were assigned instructors that specialized in transforming students in need of extra attention.
Americans know that the lives of African Americans haven’t been a crystal stair. There has been slavery, Jim crow, etc., and in the interim, too many individuals lost the ability to parent. Consequently, responsible black adults organized the transforming community. The transforming community served as a safety net that included grand-parents/adults tasked with the responsibility of preventing children from falling through the cracks. The parenting of each child was considered a right/duty of adults in the community before the advent of integration. But mandatory integration dismantled the safety net. And the results have been a dysfunctional hostile community with too many parents/children in dire need of socialization.
Presently, most integrationists argue that we don’t have integration in America. I contest the argument vigorously as far as the overwhelming majority of African Americans are concerned. Regrettably, mandatory integration has been a complete success where it matters most; in the minds of too many African Americans.
I can deduce that other communities share similar integration based outcomes.
By ButtHead
August 8, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
Hey Amy in Atlanta, most of us who live in the suburbs is because we want to have a yard and a safe place to raise children. I would never want to raise a child in down town Atlanta. By the way I drive a small pick up that get over 30 miles per gallon and made it a point to find a job that is not in Atlanta where you can’t afford a house, police or firemen. So you have fun in down town, I can’t remember the last time I heard gun shots at night in Alpharetta.
WOW Copyleft, I actually agree with you, does that mean I am falling left.. LOL
By findog
August 8, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
Trees are the natural remedy for the heat island effect in that pavement is some 20 degrees cooler in shad than direct sunlight. Atlanta was the city of trees some years ago, it may still be, but in the 90’s we were clearing 200-acres of trees every day. What happens is that the radiated heat pushes a column of hot air up from the densely developed area. The natural west to east winds that bring rain are split by that column of hot air and the leeward cities as far away as Augusta have artificial drought conditions. Tree ordinances try to save larger specimen trees that take 30 or more years to grow and call for replacing them at a premium while requiring trees to shade portions of parking lots. The problem is not unlike gun law’s, we do not need more tree protection laws, local government’s need to enforce them. And that is why the arborist being fired for doing his job is bad for everyone…
By Oz
August 8, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
Glad you liked the material, P-hole, (i mean pdog), feel free to steal. Then folks’ll think that YOU’RE the genius, instead of the twin-lipped meat thermometer your face truly is.
bwa
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Oz you make no sense. What material would I steal? You sound like you’re vey very angry and need help.
By jm
August 8, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
I wonder why Mr. Wooten is willing to let parents choose which schools to send their kids to but not what clothes those kids can wear to those schools.
I wonder why Mr. Wooten fails to mention that the 58.5 cents per mile will come from taxes.
I wonder why Mr. Wooten and others have been afraid of following the Geneva Convention with regards to those held at Gitmo. All they are doing is legitimizing any ill treatment US troops may be subject to in the future.
By Mara
August 8, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Peadawg - What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test”
LOL!!
FYI - Peadawg is a plagarist and his post is an unattributed cut-and-paste. It was first posted to the net prior to April ‘06, but it has been making the GOP e-mail circuit for years.
By Harry
August 8, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Peadawg:
Your phony chain email went thru my office a year ago!
It starts with the false premise that most people are required to take a urine test. This is simply not BS; my guess is a small percentage of GA residents are subject to mandatory drug testing. You can buy a gun or a car without a drug test. Also, you can play high school sports, play in the band or go to the prom without being tested..
Less than one percent of the federal budget goes to welfare, this drug testing idea would not be very cost effective. Maybe if you include other government entitlement checks like social security or military and government pensions, a larger segment of the population would need to be tested…but what about the cost vs. benefit? The average welfare is $150 dollars a month, it cost that mush per day to keep somebody in jail. Besides, I thought you Repuglafants were against government interference.
Seems to be a fix for a problem that does not exist… kinda like voter fraud. No cases of voter fraud (voting in person) have been prosecuted, yet now everyone in GA must present a photo ID to vote.
You seem to be factually challenged when it comes to the economy and social problems. Do you watch a lot of FOX TeeVee?
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Mara, I actually did get it in a funny email this morning and thought it made a lot of sense and figured I post it on here.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
Wow! Those pictures of the Olympic Opening Ceremony are amazing. I can’t wait to see the ceremony tonight.
Happy 08/08/08 everyone. Hope it brings you good luck.
Too bad Jim didn’t write something about the Olympics today.
By Crickets chirp, until the wind picks up
August 8, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
Maybe Mrs. Godzilla doesn’t “work” on Fridays. That really would make it TGIF.
By Willie
August 8, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
By jm: You see the mess caused by the liberals in the schools? It has Jim defending rights from one level of the spectrum to another. And the gitmo thing really should not bother you. Your kind does not join the armed forces. When I say your kind I mean you are the ones who called me baby killers and then pressured the government to make me take the first volley of rounds before I could shoot back. Now you want to give full constitutional rights to anyone in the world. I did not realize the constitution was for all the citizens of the world. Hmmm…liberals Be an American Bi##ch slap one.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
Plagarism demonstrates the absence of higher thinking capabilities.
And it’s stealing too.
Just like those worthless, lazy, poor people who steal our tax money the wingnuts hate so much.
Right Mr. Peadawg?
By BS detector
August 8, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
More thefts. Bud Wiser at 8:22 and Peadawg at 9:05.
Sure is sad. How insecure these folks must be to make people think they are something they are not. Bud, Pea and Commie you are all thieves. At least AJC/mgt and Godzilla mark their long winded posts to let people know they aren’t posting original material.
Its kinda like welfare. These people are taking something they haven’t earned. Sad.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
so I copied an email that was sent to me…wow people. take a joke, laugh at an email every once in a while. like Joker said, “Why so serious?”
By Blind Homer
August 8, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
Poor people victimized by legalized gambling may be Jim’s most liberal comment ever. We need gambling. A racetrack and a couple of casinos would also act as additional tourist tax for the state. The jumpsuits are a bad solution. If they’re inappropriately dressed, send them home and make the parents be responsible for seeing that they’re appropriately dressed instead of having the school cover their butts.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
Peadawg,
I’m a very laid back individual, but thieves I have no patience for.
You judge individuals, but when you are judged, your defense is “lighten up folks.”
Your a thief and a hypocrit. Pathetic.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Back to elections.
Does Hillary Clinton have no frakking shame? (I used “frak” - ha ha).
Why doesn’t she just admit frakking defeat and go the home with her obnoxious husband?
Good God woman.
My son’s friend made a good point the other day about Hills Clinton being the Commander in Chief. I guess it troubled him because he had to register for the selective service as does my oldest soon. His point: it’s reverse gender discrimination, Clinton would be CIC, but at the age of 18, she didn’t not have to register, as does any female.
I thought it was a good point.
By mike hussein smith
August 8, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
IKEA trendy? I almost spit grits on my newspaper when I read that. IKEA is something Wooten doesn’t know anything about, obviously, but what has he been smoking?
By Mara
August 8, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
and all the hoopla could have been avoided with one little sentence…”I got this in an e-mail today, agreed with it, and decided to share…”
but that would have meant admitting that the thoughts weren’t your own.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
theif? lol all i did was copy an email that sent to me. i never claimed it was my own words. wow this blog is way to uptight all of a sudden. what has friday done to everyone?
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
Mara, thank you. I never realized that would cause so much trouble.
*THE POST AT 9:00 WAS FROM AN E-MAIL. IT IS NOT MY OWN WORDS. I THOUGHT IT WAS HUMEROUS AND A LITTLE EXXAGERATED, BUT STILL FUNNY**
EVERYONE HAPPY NOW? GEEZE
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Jim,
One thing you must have missed about the school dress code story is that the kids have found the jumpsuits so popular they are deliberately violating the dress code. All they’ve done is increased the instances of inappropriate dress.
By candide
August 8, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Russian tanks are entering Georgia. I hope Obama will send a gunboat or swiftboat up the Chatahoochie.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
for all the people who took my post as my own words, knew it was from an email, and still blew up about it…this is what ‘political correctness’ has done
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
Peadawg,
As I once told Commie, if you post words under your name, copy/paste whatever, and it is not your original writing, and you do not credit the original author — you are a plagarist and a thief — even on a blog.
It’s really quite simple. And it goes to show what kind of person you are: one of very low character.
You hold others to a higher standard, but do not feel that standard applies to you.
By Ronnie R.
August 8, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Get big government OFF OUR BACKS! Hey you: come here and whiz in this cup. We wanna sniff it and apply our arbitrary standards to determine your acceptability in American society.
By getalife "whiners"
August 8, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
It is all about the Clintons now that the one has cut and run again to vacation in Hawaii.
President Clinton and dick will speak at the conventions.
New war started in Georgia today. Their President is asking w, what about our freedom w?
w is at the Olympics and the gop call him “Bejing George”.
Al Sadr said he will disarm when we withdraw.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Pardon the abbrubt change of subject, but does anyone happen to know any details on the Russian attack on Georgia? It seems that the armed forces of Georgia, a democratic republic next in line for NATO membership, launched an assault to secure the capital of South Ossetia, a breakaway province of Russophones arguing for independence, aided and abetted by Russia. (The UN regards Ossetia as a part of Georgia.) Georgian forces occupied the provincial seat this morning, only to have Russians troops and tanks pouring in to fight them, on their own sovereign soil. Russia vows to retake the seat of a Georgian province.
There’s talk of a Russian declaration of war against Georgia. Each side has killed the other’s troops in the past few hours. CNN is not covering this.
The Turkish oil pipeline runs through Ossetia.
Remember Hitler and his justification of the taking the Sudatenland: that its residents were mostly German-speakers.
Bush and Poot-Poot have “discussed” the mater in Slayging. Why do I find that cold comfort?
By "Charles", The Original
August 8, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Jim Wooten writes, “A high school in Gonzales, Texas, requires inappropriately dressed students to don navy blue coveralls — prison jumpsuits of a sort. Some parents object. What’s wrong with public education? These three things, among others: 1) parents who object to efforts to maintain discipline; 2) students who disregard simple instructions; 3) parents who don’t parent before the child hits school.”
Some parents have made the correct call. I too strongly object to donning inappropriately dressed students in navy blue coveralls——prison jumpsuits of a sort. Without exception, all students should be required to dress appropriately while attending public schools; no ifs, no ands, and no buts.
What’s wrong with public education? We can sum it up in two words, mandatory integration, among others. Granted, all of our public schools should be accessible to any student regardless of race, creed, or color. And in the Southern states, that’s exactly what policy makers required of public schools prior to 1970. But there was a problem, only the emotionally weaker students of each racial group decided to transfer to other schools. This occurrence caused policy makers to make a critical error; they decided that the integration of public schools would become mandatory.
Prior to mandatory integration, the overwhelming majority of students in the African American community obeyed simple instructions. A few contemptuous students were assigned instructors that specialized in transforming students in need of extra attention.
Americans know that the lives of African Americans haven’t been a crystal stair. There has been slavery, Jim crow, etc., and in the interim, too many individuals lost the ability to parent. Consequently, responsible black adults organized the transforming community. The transforming community served as a safety net that included grand-parents/adults tasked with the responsibility of preventing children from falling through the cracks. The parenting of each child was considered a right/duty of adults in the community before the advent of integration. But mandatory integration dismantled the safety net. And the results have been a dysfunctional hostile community with too many parents/children in dire need of socialization.
Presently, most integrationists argue that we don’t have integration in America. I contest the argument vigorously as far as the overwhelming majority of African Americans are concerned. Regrettably, mandatory integration has been a complete success where it matters most; in the minds of too many African Americans.
I can deduce that other communities share similar integration based outcomes.
By Oz
August 8, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Friday? Did Pee’er Pressure say that it’s Friday? Well why didn’t you say that in the first place? That’s a horse of a different color. P-schlong is RIGHT!
Miller time is only minutes, er, hours away. What R fighting for? It’s FRIDAY!
Camera to me stuffing michelob lights in dry ice, and using a thermal infrared holographic imagery machine to ascertain that the temp stays at 34 degrees farenwipe.
That said, the right only hacks rushannity on this blog. Every comment by duhng, corporal glenn, BJfaque, and @@ are cut-n-paste.
They are like parrots. You see, I listen to five minutes of Rushannity per week. Rush, in five minutes, gives away everything he’s going to say for a week. Then, Duhnglips hacks the same rim-print all day long. that’s why nobody reads it. We dont have to. We know what it says. (and what it smells like…..ew) AJC MGT = Refried Rushannity.
That’s why I’m virtually the only blogger who gets read. You couldn’t pay me to sell out.
You couldn’t pay me to sell out.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
Bosch
You said “frak.” Ha ha, you’re a doodoohead!
Can you tell it’s Friday?
Your son’s experience gets back to something I drilled into my kids - “life isn’t fair, deal with it,” One of them is an exec now - said he’s used that line at work. I told him to watch it - he might get sued for encouraging discrimination, unfairness, lowering self esteem and not giving everyone an award for doing their job.
Your Hillary comment - seems to me their marriage works much better when they aren’t at home together…. hey, whatever works.
NBC had a piece this morning over controversial swimsuits for the Olympics. Seems the suits are very tight, cause a water flow that cuts drag and increases buoyancy and has led do numerous worlds records being broken.
And now for my Friday Serious Question: American deaths in Afghanistan have hit 500. If not before, at least after, Pres Obama winds down Iraq and transfers American forces to Afg, are we going to see the daily name/casualty count and questions of “how many more Americans have to die before we leave” as we did with Pres Bush and Iraq? And if anybody says “Iraq was an elective war, we’re fighting AQ in Afg” I’ll have to observe that regardless of how our involvement in Iraq began, it morphed into, as OBL put it, the central battleground between us and them. So even then the daily counts continued -
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
Bosch
give it a rest. i forgot to put a disclaimer at the bottom, sorry. let it go
By Paul
August 8, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
candide
“Red Dawn” is showing on TBS this weekend -
Regarding the calls for US/Pres Bush to ‘get involved” in the Georgia situation:
What US national interests are at stake? If none, or if not great, what justifies our involvement?
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Oz, please do us all a favor and stop talking out of ur butt. You really make no sense at all.
By Mrss. Godzillla
August 8, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
No dice Peadawg.
You’ve been reported.
Disclaimer: The preceding was a parody (admittedly a bad one). The real Mrs. Godzilla did not post it, likely does not approve of it and is a lovely, kind person of the highest intellect.
By GOPs got to go
August 8, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
YAWN………………………………..YAWN again. Totally agree with Ragger on the can’t find anything good to say about McCain so I will bring up my opinions on Obama over and over and over and over and over….
Cut and Paste scary nut case guy with same old ranting BS which is never on topic/urinal/moron/retard
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
Reported for what? making a honest mistake that a appologized for many times?
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Paul,
I’m all about the “life isn’t fair” deal. My kids hear that on a regular basis. You made me laugh about the “awards” comment. I hate awards day at school: “And here’s little Jimmy’s award for the Best Crayon Drawing by a fourth-grader named Jimmy.” And the crowd goes wild!!!! Yeah Jimmy!
Please.
My oldest will be 18 on Sunday, and we have that card sitting on the kitchen table ready to sign and mail in. It makes me mad that girls don’t have to do that. If Hills can be the CIC, then girls should have to register with the selective service. Equality for all - that’s the socialist in me coming out.
I know that if I were married to Hills, I’d be going on “business” trips alot. But, you’re right. I know lots of couples who don’t see each other much, and it’s probably better and safer for the entire planet that they don’t.
Swimming? I think it should be done nude. That way, we’d know who really was the champion. But then you’d have some guys and girls whose certain parts would cause a bigger drag….. but hey, life isn’t fair sometimes, right?
War in Afghanistan? As you know, I’ve changed my mind about that. Bring the troops home, send out covert, small, secret operations. CIA thing. Like James Bond, and Batman.
I don’t think we should ever have another shock and awe (or in other words “conventional”) war again. Small, well planned, strikes. In and out - blow up and go home.
Peadawg,
I’ll let it go when you admit you’re a thief and a hypocrit. Only thing I hate worse in this world other than murderers: thieves.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
Paul, I for one have no idea what is or should be the U.S. position on Georgia. We’ve sponsored their candidacy for NATO right through the Clinton and Bush administrations. (Geographically, they are, really, the best of the bygone USSR). Putin has made it clear that he won’t let that happen. He seems to want, if not a reassemblage of the USSR, at least the creation of a Greater Russia.
As for American interests: the oil pipeline, and a democracy more stable and earnest than Russia’s.
I didn’t think it possible for a man to be caught with three pairs of pants down at once, but Bush has managed it: by pulling for Georgia without either forming a bilateral alliance or succeeded in gaining their admission to NATO; by going to Slayjing; by falling under the malodorous spell of his “Poot-Poot”, whose soulful eyes are pools of liquid love for mankind.
I think oil is Russia’s ulterior motive.
By Referee
August 8, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
15-yard penalty on Peadawg for unattributed posting of another’s material.
Multiple 15-yard penalties to Bosch, Paul, etc. for piling on.
Play ball!
By Referee
August 8, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
15-yard penalty on Peadawg for unattributed posting of another’s material.
Multiple 15-yard penalties to Bosch, Oz, etc. for piling on.
Play ball!
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
Paul,
Another thing,
What else is OBL going to say? He’s a propogandistic murdering scum.
I don’t really care what OBL said about Iraq. I don’t base my opposition to war based on what he said.
Get the point?
Oh, and I agree with what you said about the Russia/Georgia thing, BUT, there is OIL there! So…..is it in our interest?
And, you’re a doo doo head too, albeit, a good one. :-)
Raise of hands. How many on the blog today think the Peadawg would have admitted his mistake if he had not been caught?
{And the crickets chirp.}
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Paul,
Our interest in Georgia from a political perspective is for the left to demand action right up until the moment it looks like we might take action.
Peadawg,
Why don’t you give it a rest? As long as you keep apologizing these idiots are going to keep whining at you.
By GOPs got to go
August 8, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
Agree with the female draft thing, As soon as Jenna and Not-Jenna sign up to serve, then I will offer up my 2. And the lesbian Cheney off spring does not get a homo-by.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
Hey Ref,
You suck.
By "Charles", The Original
August 8, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
So, 11:34 is undoubtedly a nut case gatekeeper for the New World Order. He’s probably white and hates the masses of white people with as much venom as the so-called educated integrationist mongrel Negroes hates the masses of black people.
Clearly, he is not programmed to think. He can only cast aspersions. But if I have to come down to his level, so be it.
By findog
August 8, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
Senator Obama on vacation in Hawaii and Mrs. Godzilla is not here today. Coincidence, I think not… As for you Peadawg
By hillbilly ragger
August 8, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Back for a bit (and a lunchtime bite). Lessee, what’s shakin’…
CopyLeft @ 9.15,yeah, Jim missed that one big-time. I know, too, from listening to Reich-wing radio that the NEA is the most horrible thing ever to happen to this greatest country on God’s green earth. Forget about the sin of trying to educate everyone regardless of income—How dare public educators unionize and advocate positions on behalf of their membership?
#Copy/paste whiner @ 9.16, who’s “Neil Boretz?”
Maybe you meant “Neal Boortz.” He’s a Cox employee, like Jim, only Neal draws—what is it, Jim, about 15x your annual salary last I’d heard, for spewing the very same right-wing lies, right? hee hee.
#Charles (the KauKasian Kingfish) @ 9.56 and inexplicably regurgitated @ 11.16, where are you and your white-separatist kin going to hole up when the scary crypto-Moooslem, “pro-integrationist” progeny of race-mixin’ is sworn in as President in January? Eric Rudolf’s old stomping grounds, perhaps? Can you get wireless out there? If not, how will you ever get your daily dose of StormFront?
(for those who get the “Kingfish” ref, seriously, read his posts with that dialect. It all makes perfect sense! “Now looky heah. Ah can dedooshanalize dat udduh communacubbies share simimar integrationable-based outgoes. Ah beez Charles, de Originable!”)
Segregation Fo-evah, right, Charles?
#I’ll switch off the snark for our Peadawg — you’re asking “so I copied an email that was sent to me…wow people. take a joke, laugh at an email every once in a while. like Joker said, “Why so serious?””
I’ll try to answer that honestly, without getting quite as (understandably) emotional as some here. It’s beyond simply acknowledging a source, and doing what one knows to do in kindergarten—namely, don’t try to pass of something as your own that isn’t actually your own.
It’s because disformation is a seriously Bad Thing. Whatever the source. While there are some decidedly left-wing urban legends out there that too many people accept as true (Bush claiming the Constituion is “just a god - damn piece of paper”, and asking “do you have black people in Brazil?” are two stubborn ones—neither are credible), they are dwarfed by the utter tsunami of right-wing nonsense being pushed out by RNC operatives and corporate sponsored third parties.
Because of this, we’ve had to waste time online refuting crazy notions that (just to focus for a moment on the Dem. nominee) Obama: 1. is a secret muslim 2. won’t say the pledge 3. took his oath of office on a Koran 4. will surrender sovereignity to the UN 5. wrote provocative stuff about race and religion he didn’t, you know, actually write in his bestselling books 6. wasn’t born in the US (and is hiding his “real” birth certificate!)
…and that’s just stuff that comes to mind without opening Snopes.
I’d like to have open and honest online discussions with folks when the opportunity permits. It’s impossible if the comments threads are to be littered with unattributed humbug like your copy/paste. But beyond my personal discomfort, seriously, doesn’t it bother you to be receiving “funny emails” that are, actually about deadly serious topics? Drug testing is a rather contentious issue; public funding for health insurance, aid for families with dependent children, unemployment, and so forth, these are real lives that are affected by those of us who earn real incomes and pay into the system, and who ought to have a say in how it’s distributed (and how it occasionally comes back to us.)
#Bosch @ 11.01, by your son’s friend’s brilliant reasoning, no woman can ever be President, until women are required to register for selective service. That’s a “good point”? We should eliminate half of the pool of political talent from ever holding the highest political office due to an antiquated national registration requirement?
#Paul @ 11.18, that’s a good Serious Question. As an Obama supporter, I fully intend to hold his feet to the fire and call him out if he f~cks up. does that answer your question? If I feel our foreign policy is wrong, I’ll be the first of what I’d hope would be many of my ideological bent to call for him to change our policy, just as liberals did with LBJ and HHH in the 60s (and some, most notably Michael Moore, did with Clinton regarding the Balkans.)
By hillbilly ragger
August 8, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Back for a bit, and a lunchtime bite. Lessee, what’s shakin’…
CopyLeft @ 9.15,yeah, Jim missed that one big-time. I know, too, from listening to Reich-wing radio that the NEA is the most horrible thing ever to happen in the history of horribleness to this greatest country on God’s green earth. Forget about the sin of trying to educate everyone regardless of income—How dare public educators unionize and advocate positions on behalf of their membership?
#Copy/paste whiner @ 9.16, who’s “Neil Boretz?”
Maybe you meant “Neal Boortz.” He’s a Cox employee, like Jim, only Neal draws—what is it, Jim, about 15x your annual salary last I’d heard, for spewing the very same right-wing lies, right? hee hee.
#Charles (the KauKasian Kingfish) @ 9.56 and inexplicably regurgitated @ 11.16, where are you and your white-separatist kin going to hole up when the scary crypto-Moooslem, “pro-integrationist” progeny of race-mixin’ is sworn in as President in January? Eric Rudolf’s old stomping grounds, perhaps? Can you get wireless out there? If not, how will you ever get your daily dose of StormFront?
(for those who get the “Kingfish” ref, seriously, read his posts with that dialect. It all makes perfect sense! “Now looky heah. Ah can dedooshanalize dat udduh communacubbies share simimar integrationable-based outgoes. Ah beez Charles, de Originable!”)
#I’ll switch off the snark for our Peadawg — you’re asking “so I copied an email that was sent to me…wow people. take a joke, laugh at an email every once in a while. like Joker said, “Why so serious?””
I’ll try to answer that honestly, without getting quite as (understandably) emotional as some here. It’s beyond simply acknowledging a source, and doing what one knows to do in kindergarten—namely, don’t try to pass of something as your own that isn’t actually your own.
It’s because disformation is a seriously Bad Thing. Whatever the source. While there are some decidedly left-wing urban legends out there that too many people accept as true (Bush claiming the Constituion is “just a god - damn piece of paper”, and asking “do you have black people in Brazil?” are two stubborn ones—neither are credible), they are dwarfed by the utter tsunami of right-wing nonsense being pushed out by RNC operatives and corporate sponsored third parties.
Because of this, we’ve had to waste time online refuting crazy notions that (just to focus for a moment on the Dem. nominee) Obama: 1. is a secret muslim 2. won’t say the pledge 3. took his oath of office on a Koran 4. will surrender sovereignity to the UN 5. wrote provocative stuff he didn’t write in his bestselling books 6. wasn’t born in the US (and is hiding his “real” birth certificate!)
…and that’s just stuff that comes to mind without opening Snopes.
I’d like to have open and honest online discussions with folks when the opportunity permits. It’s impossible if the comments threads are to be littered with unattributed humbug like your copy/paste. But beyond my personal discomfort, seriously, doesn’t it bother you to be receiving “funny emails” that are, actually about deadly serious topics? Drug testing is a rather contentious issue; public funding for health insurance, aid for families with dependent children, unemployment, and so forth, these are real lives that are affected by those of us who earn real incomes and pay into the system, and who ought to have a say in how it’s distributed (and how it occasionally comes back to us.)
#Bosch @ 11.01, by your son’s friend’s brilliant reasoning, no woman can ever be President, until women are required to register for selective service. That’s a “good point”? We should eliminate half of the pool of political talent from ever holding the highest political office due to an antiquated national registration requirement?
#Paul @ 11.18, that’s a good Serious Question. As an Obama supporter, I fully intend to hold his feet to the fire and call him out if he f~cks up. does that answer your question? If I feel our foreign policy is wrong, I’ll be the first of what I’d hope would be many of my ideological bent to call for him to change our policy, just as liberals did with LBJ and HHH in the 60s (and some, most notably Michael Moore, did with Clinton regarding the Balkans.)
By candide
August 8, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
The Russians are comin! We’ll mass on the Savannah River and finally beat those yankees.The South will rise again.
By GOPs got to go
August 8, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
11:34 is a she not a he.
And there is not the slightest bit of originality about you Chuck.
Nut case cut and paster is just that, an angry nut case who probably thinks he is original too.
BIG FAT YAWN…
Whitey, mongrol nigras, poor pitiful down trodded over taxed bald chubby guy, yadda yadda yadda……..YAWN
Out to ride my bike, thank God.
By hillbilly ragger
August 8, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
aw, carp.
Really sorry about the double post. Stoopit Firefox keyboard shortcuts…
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
For all you little toadies, Rush has not spoken one word of his show yet today, here is what he will talk about:
Oil dips on stronger dollar, drops below $114…
He will thank Bush and the Repugs for bringing the drilling issue to the table because it caused the speculators to lower prices.
Iraq said on Friday it was resuming exploration of its immense oil reserves after a break of nearly 20 years due to crippling UN sanctions, saying it hopes to double its proven deposits of crude.
He will say that Iraq, uncrippled by a vast army of moonbat environmental terrorists, is going to drill to find more oil-
Don’t they know it will take ten years!!!!
Don’t they know it will cause prices to drop by only pennies!!!!
Don’t they know they will find “unproductive” holes!!!!!
Why don’t they just inflate their tires!!!!!!!
Conserve, Iraq, conserve!!!!
Bwa.
By CDC Atlanta
August 8, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Peadawg = Glenn
By Paul
August 8, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
Bosch
I like your ideas for Afg. Has some elements of a scenario I’ve been thinking about - get out, Taliban/AQ reconstitute, we send CIA and Special Ops back in to play wack-a-mole, then we leave, then the cycle repeats itself.
I agree with your Selective Service assessment but don’t think it has anything to do with socialism. We’ve had a volunteer military for decades. Women are permitted in nearly every endeavor - the force would collapse if women were withdrawn. Therefore, the Selective Service pool should mirror the military - so register the women.
Hey, here’s a neat question, just taking the arguments made for Pres Bush/Iraq and applying to Pres Obama/Afg: questions were asked “why didn’t Pres Bush’s daughters enlist and go fight? Why didn’t Mitt Romney, who supported the Iraq war, make his kids enlist and go fight, huh huh huh?!?”
Sen Obama’s daughter is ten. Sen Obama gets elected, serves two terms, his daughter is…. eligible for military service! If we’re still in Afg (or Georgia, or somewhere else) will we see the same calls from Obama supporters? “Hey Pres, how come you don’t make your daughter enlist and go fight, huh huh huh?!!?”
Yup, it’s Friday.
Juan,
Hope you don’t mind if I abbreviate your name - it’s challenging enough to type out some of the longer ones, like “RW-(the original)” - and you have that beat.
Here’s a bit of background for Georgia:
Link: background
So it appears the jets and tanks were already based in Georgia. And it appears spot-on that it’s oil related. There you have it, money and power.
By GreenJeans
August 8, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
Howdy Bosch!
I see the coaster is going full speed today. This party may have different music and clothes, but dang if it ain’t the same party if you know what I mean.
At your 10:50 you say “…but thieves I have no patience for.”
I’m curious to have your thoughts about the guy in TX who just shot the two theives for stealing his neighbor’s stuff while they were out of town. If this topic has already gone around the table here, forgive me.
I’ve been house-robbed three times (in TX, no less) and had my car broken into another three times. Believe me, I share the guy’s frustration, especially in the moment when 911 is going to be of no help.
I wish every thief believed that they were facing 50/50 odds of losing their life during a robbery.
Like you, I’m out of patience. But is it worth a life?
TIA for your perspective. Peace.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
I’ll be darned. Rush just started his show saying the oil price was down and the dollar was up.
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That Russia/Georgia thing should be over in no time. The Dunce just issued a statement asking them to stop and negotiate. Then he went back to his luau.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
CDC Atlanta , who’s Glen?
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
hillbilly ragger,
Yeah, I think it’s a good point. I don’t think the draft will ever be reinstated, but I do think that females not being required to register for selective service is a disparagement.
By "Charles", The Original
August 8, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
To be opposed to mandatory integration is not an endorsement for segregation. I happen to prefer integration based on strength, not abject weakness.
I do say my friends that the mandatory integration of African Americans by another name is called volunteer slavery. Just pay off a few black minions, athletes, entertainers, politicians, and others as needed. Then pay a cadre of black individuals to point the finger of blame at the innocent masses.
Beware white people, the New World Order and their white minions are working to rob you of power and dignity; they receive money, status, jobs, etc. in return for their service.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
candide,
Ossetia musket down, Johnny Reb. Ain’t no awl pipeline round these heah parts.
But watch out for them Turks, gettin’ dey awl messed with. They may up’n attack Athens again, and we would want ‘em to take houwah unevers’ty. Why, next they’d be in quicker’n Sherman and Rosecrans!
Rosecrans. Rosecrans. Huh. That sound Jewish to you?
By findog
August 8, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Bosch, Your son is registering for a draft that will never occur. So, insisting that women the age of 18 do the same is a no brainer. If the selective service is not open for business now, it never will be; we just pat ourselves on the back that we put yellow ribbon stickers on our car’s bumper to show our support for the troops. Not really a new phenomenon, it’s how the rich got out of serving the north in the civil war. Our country has been wussified by politicians who refuse to lead on the important issues our country faces.
By getalife "whiners"
August 8, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
GreenJeans,
The guy was found not guilty.
Andy,
Did he thank Paris too?
By BFKaJ
August 8, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Dear Maniac @ 8:36, thanks for the kind, if unmerited, note. Per your quid pro quo, I speak without authority, but I inferred that Jim objects to democrat misappropriation of the concept that higher tax and spend policies benefit the people who pay the bills; he alleges deception when democrats claim to help people who work.
Dear judging Amy @ 9:02, “why don’t you also rail on your fellow Republicans’ inability to make some adjustments to their lifestyle that would not only improve our air quality but also help contribute to a more sustainable economy?” You err – it is not “inability” but “unwillingness.” I cannot determine from your post whether you are a Nazi or merely a nag. I think we will all readily admit that few of us live up to the standards you urge. You fail to grasp that, for most of us, “preserving individual freedom” is a higher priority than “pleasing Amy.” I’m curious though – are you one of those who would compel freedom-loving Republicans to subsidize your mass transit lifestyle? As to “Ummm…” finish eating before you start talking. If “Ummm…” is a mantra rather than a gulp, I withdraw the instruction.
Dear Peadawg @ 9:05, I like the idea, but I would expand it to any who receive any form of direct government payment, whether salary or crop subsidy. Otherwise ignore the carping. As Pofo accurately notes, I have never had an original idea in my life. That will never keep me from verbally assaulting the controlling leftists.
Dear Mara @ 9:11, you err. It is the democrat tendency to control our lives that has cheapened the Rule of Law. If you are serious, the jbmlaw solution is simple: every law has execution as the only punishment for violation. Nobody would ever elect the lifestyle Nazis to any political position again. No criminalizing political differences.
Dear Communist @ 9:54, is that what an IKEA is?
Dear HIDT @ 11:32, if you had attached a phony hyperlink, nobody would have known the difference.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Bosch
My point about OBL/Iraq was that it was a pretty good killing field and the situation had gone from toppling Saddam to fighting AQ. You pointed out some days back about the terrain in Iraq being so much better for our hunting than Afg. And no, I am NOT suggesting we stay in Iraq ‘cause it’s ‘easier’ to kill AQ there than in Iraq.
RW-(the original) 11:47
Now that was classic! LOL
hillbilly ragger 11:54
Yup, that answers the question. I do like consistency -
RW-(the original) 12:10
[[I’ll be darned. Rush just started his show saying the oil price was down and the dollar was up.]]
AJC/DNC is RUSH?!!? Wow! You heard it here, first –
[[That Russia/Georgia thing should be over in no time. The Dunce just issued a statement asking them to stop and negotiate. Then he went back to his luau.]]
How do you say “Yawn” in Russian?
By "Charles", The Original
August 8, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
@12:00PM, allow me to make a correction. I was incorrect on the gender.
She’s probably white and hates the masses of white people with as much venom as the so-called educated integrationist mongrel Negroes hates the masses of black people.
It’s impossible to reduce me to the level of the so-called educated integrationist mongrel Negroes. You should know that by now.
By findog
August 8, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
From yesterday’s David Broder column:
Back on June 4, McCain proposed 10 joint town halls before screened audiences of uncommitted independent voters across the country. Obama countered by offering two such sessions this summer, one on Independence Day and one in August, and the idea died. Three days ago, Obama said he would participate only in the three debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, the first scheduled for Sept. 26.
Obama also argued that, “We responded with an offer of doing five debates, rather than the traditional three, which the McCain campaign declined.”
Town hall events are with regular people and debates are moderated by professional journalists. Worst of all they do not even debate they are basically joint press availabilities.
By BFKaJ
August 8, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Dear Peadawg @ 12:10, he is the brightest mind the blog has ever seen, currently on sabbatical. CDC gave you the highest compliment possible.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Paul,
Feel free to just use RW if you wish, but it’s also pretty easy to just copy and paste the longer names.
Bosch,
Isn’t the point of selective service to be able to draft fighting forces in a time of dire need and isn’t it also true that women aren’t considered a part of the fighting forces? I’m pretty sure the Supreme Court dealt with this in the 80’s.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Paul,
“whacka-a-mole.” Yeah, I like that. The “socialism” part was a joke - but I do like all being treated equally. You know, like Jesus said. :-)
Or we could just send in Batman. Now, I’m just being plain crazy, huh? It’s friday.
The draft? Another thing about that. I wouldn’t have a problem with our country drafting 18-year-olds for two years of non-combative service, or for civil service - as long as everyone does it.
GreenJeans,
I think the guy who shot those men should be in jail. In my opinion, it’s not his job to protect his neighbors’ stuff. He calls 911 and told the operator he was going to shoot them. That’s just nuts.
I believe in letting justice work, or at least try and work.
But, that story is a tough one - certainly a good subject for a Philosophy class.
In your case, would you have been happy if your neighbor or someone else had shot the thief - knowing they put themselves at risk for death as well?
I’m not one for vigilante justice.
Well, there are two cases where I’d like to personally be the executioner, but that’s another story - and for the philosphers amongst us, would I then be a murderer? I guess in the technical terms, yes, I would. Like so many things in life, there are weird double standards.
By "Charles", The Original
August 8, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
It’s lunch time everybody. I’ve got to break for lunch, and healthy eating is a must. Let me leave- GOPs got to go- and others something to chew on until I return. Just a little thinking is required.
Jim Wooten writes, “A high school in Gonzales, Texas, requires inappropriately dressed students to don navy blue coveralls — prison jumpsuits of a sort. Some parents object. What’s wrong with public education? These three things, among others: 1) parents who object to efforts to maintain discipline; 2) students who disregard simple instructions; 3) parents who don’t parent before the child hits school.”
Some parents have made the correct call. I too strongly object to donning inappropriately dressed students in navy blue coveralls——prison jumpsuits of a sort. Without exception, all students should be required to dress appropriately while attending public schools; no ifs, no ands, and no buts.
What’s wrong with public education? We can sum it up in two words, mandatory integration, among others. Granted, all of our public schools should be accessible to any student regardless of race, creed, or color. And in the Southern states, that’s exactly what policy makers required of public schools prior to 1970. But there was a problem, only the emotionally weaker students of each racial group decided to transfer to other schools. This occurrence caused policy makers to make a critical error; they decided that the integration of public schools would become mandatory.
Prior to mandatory integration, the overwhelming majority of students in the African American community obeyed simple instructions. A few contemptuous students were assigned instructors that specialized in transforming students in need of extra attention.
Americans know that the lives of African Americans haven’t been a crystal stair. There has been slavery, Jim crow, etc., and in the interim, too many individuals lost the ability to parent. Consequently, responsible black adults organized the transforming community. The transforming community served as a safety net that included grand-parents/adults tasked with the responsibility of preventing children from falling through the cracks. The parenting of each child was considered a right/duty of adults in the community before the advent of integration. But mandatory integration dismantled the safety net. And the results have been a dysfunctional hostile community with too many parents/children in dire need of socialization.
Presently, most integrationists argue that we don’t have integration in America. I contest the argument vigorously as far as the overwhelming majority of African Americans are concerned. Regrettably, mandatory integration has been a complete success where it matters most; in the minds of too many African Americans.
I can deduce that other communities share similar integration based outcomes.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
Bruno just voted in favor of Russia invading Georgia, oh wait, now she’s denying it.
By Referee
August 8, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
And, I’m blind, too.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
Paul,
зевок is yawn in Russian according to google, but I have my doubts.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Bosch
I’m just not in the mood right now (lunchtime and I get lightheaded and my mind draws blanks if I don’t eat) but I’m fundamentally opposed to a draft. I used to go round and round with N-GA on this. I see his point. But I’m still persuaded.
Go see the Dark Knight. It’s great. Long. Long long long. And you know those boring spots in the middle of movies where you can go to the bathroom? This movie doesn’t have that. So you’re warned.
[[Like so many things in life, there are weird double standards.]]
Life isn’t fair. Deal with it.
By findog
August 8, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
Paul, Presidential kids get secret service protection so even if they volunteered they wouldn’t be placed in an active theatre, kind of like when Prince Harry had to be pulled out, because they would create a greater threat to they fellow troops. But they could serve stateside. I bet the Georgia/Russia thing give the oil speculators a chance to drive up the price of crude based on the possibility of disruption…
BFKaJ, I would really like to know who is getting our tax dollars in Georgia. We are at the bottom of many measurements of our modern US society yet are in the top third for taxation with the lottery footing a lot of the education funding in the state. So other that having our governor in China for the Olympics where is that money going?
By Grading Wooten
August 8, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
School funding wont cover all the costs of the trendy coveralls necessary to discipline students captured on the battlefield of school. Most students are too fat to discipline.
Old folks and poor people, carpooling in itsy bitsy cars, use more gas than 58.5 cents per mile will cover, forcing them to shoplift butter and eggs at wallmart, where they’ll be captured and hosed into confessing that they, too, drove for Al Queda and learned to be arborists and arsonists at the nursing home training grounds…
Wooten hasn’t been leaving much fertile ground for me lately. I got nothing.
Nothing.
By ron
August 8, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Afternoon all,busy day,I will assist in worrying about the arborist,if I find time.
The world will soon be handed over to the little cretins that are roaming the halls of lower education,but until it is they must pay attention to the generation now in charge.Dress code it is.PAY ATTENTION PARENTS.
Finance a car for six years?Are you completely brain dead?
When and if horses decide to stage a raceI may bet on it.Until they do,I’m keeping my money in my pocket.
Buying a lottery ticket increases your chances of winning.If you’re into that sort of thing.
Word on the street is that Bin Laden’s driver isn’t getting out of jail,ever.
Jbmlaw,BFKaJ,I agree with your first instinct,A tin hat idea.
Bosch,Since you admittedly can’t wait for the opening ceremony this evening,what are you going to do?
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
What do you know? I was right!
зевок
Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981),[1] was a decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that the U.S. Congress could require the Selective Service system to adopt a policy of requiring only men to register for the draft. In a written opinion by Justice William Rehnquist and supported by a 6-3 vote, the Court held, “[t]he existence of the combat restrictions clearly indicates the basis for Congress’ decision to exempt women from registration. The purpose of registration was to prepare for a draft of combat troops. Since women are excluded from combat, Congress concluded that they would not be needed in the event of a draft, and therefore decided not to register them.” Implicit in the obiter dicta of the ruling was to hold valid the statutory restrictions on gender discrimination in assigning combat roles.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Paul,
Upon your return. Oh, I’ve seen the Dark Knight. Are you kidding?
“Life isn’t fair. Deal with it.”
I know, I know! But I can still b!tch about it.
RW,
I must admit. When you mentioned “fighting forces” some of my son’s girlfriends came to mind, and okay, I’ll admit, yeah, your’re right. But, I still think drafting into civil or non-combative service where they help care for the elderly and scrub a few toilets would be good for them.
It’s the principle.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
ron,
Good point. I guess I will have to wait because it’s already over.
Later all.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original)
[[зевок is yawn in Russian according to google, but I have my doubts.]]
Well I don’t have much doubt that was the Russian response to Obama.
findog 12:44
That was a rational response to a wildly emotional argument. Happens all the time around here - -
RW-(the original) 12:47
Darn conservative Court - deferring to Congress, just looking at what the law provides. Forget it! We need a liberal, activist Court to rehear this. Get those women in combat! Then we can have gays serve openly - men, women, straights, gays - equal opportunity for all.
I think I better go to lunch…
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
RW,
Quick question before I leave for a bit. But during that time (1981), women were not allowed to serve in combat troops, right? No?
By Midori
August 8, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this
Hey Andy!!
You made the Huffington Post!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this
Bosch, “some of my son’s girlfriends..”
how many does he have? :) you might want to re-phraise that.
By Grading Wooten
August 8, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
School funding wont cover all the costs of the trendy coveralls necessary to discipline students captured on the battlefield of school. Most students are too fat to discipline.
Old folks and poor people, carpooling in itsy bitsy cars, use more gas than 58.5 cents per mile will cover, forcing them to shoplift butter and eggs at wallmart, where they’ll be captured and hosed into confessing that they, too, drove for Al Queda and learned to be arborists and arsonists at the nursing home training grounds…
Wooten hasn’t been leaving much fertile ground for me lately. I got nothing.
Nothing.
By Green no mo'
August 8, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
As the credit crunch bites, environmental policies are being ditched. But oddly we are doing better at saving the planet
Amazing how it has to take hardships to wake everyone the hell up from their Algore mindless GW hysteria. The ironic thing here is that the same libs who proposed this knew that we’d all be in hardships had those draconian regulations and future laws under the idiotic mindless liberal Pelosicrats would have RUINED this economy.
But, we still have the O-Farce who is more than capable of doing that..
By Red state blueballed lib
August 8, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
When the LA Times gets on the “tabloid” news story of Edwards cheating, something big is going to go down. One ponders if the Dumocrats are going to keep this hypocritical pathetic mooching ambulance chaser out of the DNC convention. http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/07/john-edwards-af.html
Just let these idiot libs self destruct. Memogate from the Clintons says Obama is unelectable, which is why Hillary wants back in now.
Thank you, God.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
It’s possible a new challenge could be brought since wars we fight now aren’t quite the same and support troops find their way into combat too, as well as women flying fighter planes, but they still aren’t allowed to be a part of the traditional ground fighting forces.
Paul,
Rehear a Supreme Court decision??????
I can see Chuckie Schumer kicking his feet and pounding his fists on the floor creaming:
STARE DECISIS
STARE DECISIS
STARE DECISIS
Oh wait. You said reverse a conservative decision to simply follow the law. Never mind.
By Midori
August 8, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this
Sorry Andy, I forgot the link
By Red state blueballed lib
August 8, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Hey Midoli, where’s the link on the Huffington Post? I gotta see this for myself.
Poor old Nancy Pelosi can’t seem to get it through her thick liberal head: people are fed up and want to drill. This old California liberal hippy needs to ask Ted Kennedy what he thinks about wind mills before yammering about the neocons about it.
What a pathetic do-nothing moonbat.
By GreenJeans
August 8, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Hey Get @ 12:23:
Affirmative, the process has spoken. But the philosophical aspect rings on.
Bosch:
Thanks. Glad to know the newer, tougher you still has the soft and chewy center.
To answer your question, the first two times the answer would have been no. By the third and sixth times my property was stolen and destroyed, I was up nights planning torture and revenge and wanted to see bodies. Enough was enough.
So I’m in the gray - half pleased, half appalled, and nothing’s yet knocked me off center. Just glad no one in this case was me.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
I r o Dim: The lib is plagiarizing me, Duh.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
Russia’s violent invasion of neighboring country: reason for non-coverage of story.
NBC’s expected to lose its shirt and be liquidated in a fire sale for being stupid enough to pay top dollar for exclusive rights to cover Slayjing Olympics. NBC’s worst nightmare is, say, a WAR breaking out between two NUCLEAR POWERS. So for NBC, it’s page 16 stuff, for tommorrow or Sunday.
CNN has delayed its coverage until it can get Amanpour or Arnott embedded with the troops — Russian, of course, not Georgian.
By Midori
August 8, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
i’ve yet to see anyone plagiarize stupidity, ignorance and intolerance Andy.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
He and his cynical strategists are counting on their own supporters to be unaware of the verifiable fact that if we maintain proper tire pressure, we would conserve more oil than would be attained with the McCain plan for offshore drilling.
Talk about ignorant. The only way that’s a true statement is if the price of oil peaked at $60 a barrel in 2006, dropped to about $40 and slowly rose until in 2030 it had made it back to $60 and if every car on the road was running around on flat tires.
By Midori
August 8, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Talk about ignorant.
and the truly sad part is, you guys are just so gosh darn proud of your ignorance.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original) @ 1:34 I agree. the whole tire pressure is really rediculous.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this
Midori,
You stick with slogans and I’ll stick with scientific study if it’s all the same to you.
By AGTfan
August 8, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Do tell us, America, how many of you are too stupid to know that your tires need to be inflated, like the pompous One is saying about you?
It’s quite apparent that ones who are too stupid to know are the McCain Election team. Or maybe it’s just most Republicans in general.
By Judey, Judey , Judey
August 8, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
To Peadog, I’ve worked for twenty plus years, never to take a urine test. I smoke the illegal stuff on my NON-Work time, Haven’t missed a day of work except for vacation or being sick, I’m a tax payer. Don’t put down a hard working ” Pothead ” just because you can’t accept what your employer doesn’t like. I Live in MY house, own my automobiles, etc. with my hard earned money. Quit characterizing people, you’ll be surprised to find out some of your friends may be POTHEADS without you knowing!!
By CommunistAJC
August 8, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
Bosch, How many people are you pretending to be? Someone told me I was plagiarizing after I posted a couple of jokes but it was not you. By the way, did your Proctologist repair your anus from all those arse bangings in prison?
By Cindy
August 8, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
Luckovich is a hack. His transformation from Pulitzer Prize Winner to refried leno complete.
When the first reports of Bin Ladens driver first surfaced years ago, every hack in the world referred to “I wonder if they’ll capture his valet, his barber, or his chinese laundry guy, etc.”
The idea that Bush’s 911 response is to capture menial servants of the terrorists came to everyone at once.
This is why I’ve warned you people not to sell out. It destroys creativity. It’s like a sponge. And if you think you wrote that joke, Luckovich, you know better. Sometimes comics forget that they heard a joke and when the remember it, they think it’s original. that’s why comedy is so hard. Dont….sell….out.
Luckovich is finished as a voice of the people.
And I think it’s a damn shame.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
Peadawg,
The studies the left is using to make this absurd claim is one that says they would gain 3% through tire inflation, but it assumes that every car in America is under inflated enough to gain the entire 3%. The study they use to say we would be getting 200,000 barrels a day from drilling actually assumes those prices in my 1:34 as the reference case price and then extrapolates from that what amount of oil it would be cost effective to extract.
Anybody that buys either of those studies truly does revel in their ignorance.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
Judey, Judey , Judey:
if you would have read other posts, u would see that i got that in an email as a joke and i posted it on here.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
It’s starting to look like the Urinal did run kookman off.
Either that or he’s cowering in thee cubicle with cartoon boy.
Boo!
By Judey, Judey , Judey
August 8, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
Peadawg: Sorry! Just a hard working American not being censored by what I feel is my RIGHT. Peace out
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original)
i know….i said i agree. the study and claims are stupid…
By Post Haste
August 8, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
I owe RW(the original) an apology. I didn’t think he mattered in atlanta but then I noticed his close up photo on the front page today of the AJC. I also didn’t think he was a gentlemen. Boy was I wrong. The picture depicts RW (the original) chewing his food 28 times before swallowing.
My bad. Please, RW (the original), if you would be kind enough to accept my apology. I dont know what I got into me, but I will defer to your wisdom from now on.
The tire inflation red herring is why the GOP will lose in November. Respectable pundits like RW (the original) get easily distracted and obsessed over obvious bait like that.
The data on tire pressure suggests that the vast majority of tires are under inflated. The reason is that there are no convenient air pumps. The tech exists for tires to be self inflating using air pressure from little windmills atop cars which turn as a car moves forward providing electrical power to refill tanks of air located under the car which then siphon on as needed to the different tires, man.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
Midori 1:32
[[i’ve yet to see anyone plagiarize stupidity, ignorance and intolerance]]
Sadly, Midori, it happens all the time. People plagiarize it – they also copy, emulate, model, imitate, teach and accept. But there are those who reject it –
RW-(the original)
Saw a blurb this morning that said in the early 90s Pres Bush the Elder ran public service announcements to save gas by inflating tires. Obama repeats that nearly 20 years later. What do we learn from that? That the mass of people will continue to overlook simple measures to save gas. With a great, negative cumulative effect upon the nation.
Which is why we need to produce more oil - to compensate for what could have been saved.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
Green Jeans @1:22,
“By the third and sixth times my property was stolen and destroyed, I was up nights planning torture and revenge and wanted to see bodies. Enough was enough”
Yeah, I think I’d be doing the same thing. Don’t worry, I’m the same ol’ Bosch. I have a dark side to me sometimes.
RW,
I thought women were allowed in regular combat troops now. But I think the law is outdated anyway.
Don’t you think the inflated tire thing is a little old now? I know you are smart enough to know that was taken out of context and overblown, just like everything else you say Obama says.
Surely, you know that is not Obama’s energy plan. Yes, you do. You know that, but like I said the other day, it’s so much more fun to take things out of context and spin into oblivion.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
Paul,
When I got my first car in 1971 my father told me to keep it tuned up and always check the air pressure.
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EIA’s analysis assumes that leasing would begin no sooner than 2012, and production would not be expected to start before 2017. Yet, off the coast of California, some of these resources have already been leased. A report from Wall Street research house Sanford C. Bernstein says that California actually could start producing new oil within one year if the moratoria were lifted. The California oil is under shallow water and already has been explored. Drilling platforms have been in place since before the moratorium. 7 Further, Department of Interior Secretary Kempthorne announced in July a new 5 year plan that will allow leasing to start 2 years earlier, in 2010, implying production from currently unleased areas could begin as early as 2015. This new 5 year plan includes the areas under Federal moratoria.
And there’s more
Unfortunately, this figure – and the data it was based on – is fatally flawed. For example
200,000 barrels per day is roughly equal to the daily production rate of just one new offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The Thunder Horse oil production facility, which will be on line this year, is designed to produce 250,000 barrels per day. 2 The Atlantis oil platform currently producing in the Gulf of Mexico has a production capacity of 200,000 barrels per day.
Apparently The Dunce revels in his ignorance and that of his cult. We better hope he has some talented and very honest advisers because it seems he’ll believe anything.
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
Bosch
yes the tire thing is getting old, but it’s so funny when someone makes such a stupid comment like,
“inflate your tires properly, you’ll save gas”
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this
Hi ya’ Paul,
Feeling better after a sandwich?
Also, to elaborate on your 2:30 note to RW - I saw a blurb somewhere the other day where they were talking about how Reagan was considered a risky President back in 1980.
You mentioned something about that the other day as well.
How funny.
Also too, I’m also rather amused that Bush is now following Obama’s suggestions that we get troops out of Iraq, and using diplomacy in Iran. I know that Bush isn’t doing all this because Obama thought it was a good idea, but it sure is rather funny.
By Mara
August 8, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
BFKaJ - It is the democrat tendency to control our lives that has cheapened the Rule of Law.
uh…I must disagree.
It isn’t the Democrats who get all wild-eyed about Adam and Steve getting married.
It isn’t the Democrats who think they’re better qualified to make my health care decisions than I am.
It isn’t the Democrats demanding Government support for their chosen religion.
It isn’t the Democrats who keep proposing amnesty for illegals (that honor goes to St. Ronnie and Dubya).
It isn’t the Democrats who decided to ignore the entire 4th Amendment.
It isn’t the Democrats who called the Geneva Conventions “quaint”, who liken torture to frat party hazing, and see nothing wrong with spying on the political activities of their fellow Americans.
No, dear…it isn’t the DEMOCRATS that want to run your life and they aren’t the ones who have devalued the rule-of-law.
By Post Haste
August 8, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
Paul, I’m the only one who gets plagiarized. Nearly every aspect of my comments gets copied day after day by nearly everyone who reads me. I am possibly the most influential writer in history. (but only because of the internet).
The tire inflation issues should have the Right on catatonic overload short circuit freeze frame for another couple of days, but then I’m going to have to invent another red herring that the McCain campaign can steal.
Great Bosche, reply cordially to a delusional sociopath. You’re a very scary fairy, Harry. (and an idiot).
JK lol
BTW: duhng is stalking me all over the internet. On the AJC, he goes to all the blogs I visit and tries to flame me with material I baited him to use, that’s how I know it’s him. What a total fall guy. This moron falls for every single gag I set up. Honest, people.
You know it’s true. I rule this ghoul-blog archepelago on the AJC.
It’s good to be the king.
JK lol
By Paul
August 8, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original)
My dad told me the same thing. Must have a new generation who never spoke with their fathers. Just “here’s the key and a credit card.”
My first car (used, of course) was a ‘64 Malibu SS I bought from the original owner, 30,000 miles on it. Kept it all original. Man, I wish I still had that car. Same as I wish I had the ‘69 Bonneville convertible. No kidding real walnut dashboard. I think it got somewhere around 20 mpg. The Malibu (283 engine) got 15.5 on a trip.
If Pelosi would’ve just been honest and said “Look, I represent California, have for 20 years, we don’t like offshore drilling no matter what, and even though I’m Speaker nothing’s changed and besides that, the Pres wants it” at least we’d have an honest discussion - rather than these red herring arguments of “will it or won’t it bring prices down” or “we won’t get the oil for N years.”
Bosch
Much better, thanks. That and an Outer Limits episode and I’m ready to burn through the afternoon - have to knock off early for the opening ceremonies, though.
By Over Inflated
August 8, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
Please RW, your fascination with this incredibly mundane tire inflation issue is absurd.
Would you please find another mind numbingly useless Obama issue to obsess over.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
RW
Typo time. The Bonneville got around 10 mpg. On a good day. Went through front tires like Margaritas at a frat party.
By Post Haste
August 8, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
The peabrains are still going on about tire pressure.
Man, this is almost too easy.
Lets, see, let me bait them again with uh…….Universal Healthcare will ruin our balanced budget!
The Insurance Companies and their lawyers should be the only professionals who diagnose disease and prescribe medications. Otherwise doctors would just run up a giant bill doing unnecessary tests. (giggle snort, mmmppfhhhitzz)
JK lol
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
Polly/Post Haste,
I don’t think Paul, RW, or Green Jeans are delusional sociopaths. Yes, I disagree with RW, and like you, he thinks I’m an idiot too, but I don’t think he’s a delusional sociopath.
Paul,
The pictures I saw of the opening ceremony looked pretty cool. It should be a hell of a show.
I know as a liberal, I should be all upset over Chinese human rights issues, but during the Olympics, I say, oh, leave the politics aside and let the games begin!
By zzzzzz ZZZZZZZZZ
August 8, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Paul Bosch and RW, have you three considered Instant Messaging each other all day so people don’t have to wade through your zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?
Please Post Haste! Do something, you as the King of this Blog are our only hope! Stir up Andy, at least his breakdowns are entertaining.
Come back Dusty!! We miss you!!!
By First time caller
August 8, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
Who is this duhng of which you write?
By Peter
August 8, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
BFKaJ - It is the democrat tendency to control our lives that has cheapened the Rule of Law.
Yes this was a true statement……….”Perhaps I am naive”.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
A dimwitocrat lie!?!?!
No freaking way.
Well, maybe way.
~~~~~
Polly: Why must you poke and prod at me?
You always get horribly ridiculed and belittled, why do you imagine this time will be any different?
Begone you hideous troll.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
So it is true about Edwards. Sigh. He was my favorite. But - affairs happen, glad he admitted it.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
Oh nevermind, it seems Edwards did lie about it.
When will politicians learn? Just tell the truth! It doesn’t matter people!
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
Letting your side just state that you’re right about the tire pressure vs. drilling and anyone thinks otherwise is ignorant and then us not pointing how truly ignorant the person that makes the claim is brilliant political strategy. /sarc
I think I’ll stick with pointing out facts and it’s complete and total BS to say obambi was taken out of context.
See for yourself
By Peadawg
August 8, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Edwards was a deushbag anyways
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this
Oh gee, I wonder what all the buzz will be about on the news shows tonight.
Glad I’ll have the Olympics to watch for the next two weeks.
By Vic Carquinez
August 8, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
Well he certainly did have two America’s of his own.
By Bob
August 8, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
Hey, it’s Friday agin, Repubs! Time ta slip into them gangsta shorts, Shaq-tees, ball caps, flip-flops. Grab them SUV/PU keys, turn on yer cell phone and look important. Spin sum gravel and head on down to yer sportsbar wif thee rest o thee tough guys, curse Obama, c’mon back home n show thee kids what a man you are! Hot damn!! Hit don’t git no better’n thet!!
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
RW,
“Letting your side just state that you’re right about the tire pressure vs. drilling and anyone thinks otherwise is ignorant and then us not pointing how truly ignorant the person that makes the claim is brilliant political strategy. /sarc”
Wow, that’s some good spin there RW. I would say brilliant even. Almost dizzying.
Pointing out facts? Really? Point the facts out in the context they were made.
Otherwise, like Polly said, don’t you think it’s time to move on to another Obama quote? This ones getting a LIT-TLE old and boring.
Those of you who keep trying so hard to make this Obama’s centerpiece of his energy policy — well, it just makes you look a little, yes, that’s the right word……….desperate.
Ohhh, and now you have Edwards to trash too. What a great day for you wingnuts, huh?
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC-M,
Edwards still says the baby isn’t his and he makes an idiotic plea for people to think better of him because Elizabeth’s cancer was in remission when the affair started.
Maybe it’s just me but I think that makes him look like an even bigger scumbag. Most people would rededicate themselves to their spouse in that situation.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Good lord Peadawg - if your going to call someone a childish insult, at least SPELL it right.
Geez!
By AmVet
August 8, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
Exactly as with so many other issues over the past 12 to 18 months this one is yet another no-win for the GOP.
If Dick the Dick and King George do NOT speak at the convention, the dwindling “base” will ask, “Wow, WTF? Are we THAT embarrassed by them?” (no, but you should be).
And if they DO speak, the rest of the nation will ask “Wow, is the GOP THAT pig-headed that they’ll have these two appear and completely embarrass the Republicans and McCain once again.” (Duh, yeah!)
McCain would be wise to say something along the lines of, “Yeah, they’re both here but not because I invited them! They’re killing me.”
There had been doubts about a speech by Cheney, who remains unpopular with most Americans. When asked earlier this week about the vice president’s plans to attend the convention, spokeswoman Megan Mitchell left the question open by saying his schedule for September had not been set.
By getalife "whiners"
August 8, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Now that Edwards admits his affair, I have to wonder what Obama is hiding thinking he can get away with it like Edwards.
By Sen Vitter (Republican)
August 8, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
What an amateur!
His affair wasn’t with a prostitute, he is a lowly ex-Senator, and he wasn’t even wearing a diaper! My wife and I are cracking up, BFD!!!
Thats whats wrong with the Dems, no family values. If you’re going to do something, go all the way.
By George W. Bush
August 8, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
**Who do republicans think they are. They have the nerve to talk about how in-experienced Barack Obama is, when they voted for me. I had what was believed to be the most experienced Cabinet in American history and look how that turned out. John McCain, my friend, has hired the same people that worked on my campaign. Isn’t that a telling sign? Do the right thing. Obama isn’t a socialist. And socialism isn’t so bad is it? I mean the government paves your roads, picks up your trash, provides crucial services to you. Isn’t that a form of socialism. Would you rather have four more years of my policies? John McCain can’t turn this thing around. I throw my support behind Barack Obama. Change We Can Believe In.
-W**
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
RW: Typical dimwitocrat, cover up a lie with another lie.
It makes all the toadies happy.
By Midori
August 8, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
lol - Republicans are jealous.
they only way they can get a woman is by threatening her or her livelihood.
besides, we all know they prefer little boys anyway. the younger the better, right guys? it doesn’t matter if their dead or alive - altho the dead ones add to that special “thrill”.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
I take it you didn’t watch the video I linked for you. I’ll try it this way.
What do you think he said?
By John Edwards
August 8, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this
I am so sorry. Please forgive me. I didn’t mean for it to happen. We were alone in my suite as I got ready for a speech. She was videotaping and said I should unbutton my shirt at the top. We got to joking and laughing and one thing led to another. Besides, you’ve got to admit she’s hotter than Elizabeth. You’d do it, too. You know you would.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this
Well now we know why Edwards saw two America’s everywhere he looked: he had two of his own.
I would rather watch a Judge Judy marathon — in Spanish and without a bathroom break — than to watch one minute of the Slayjing Olympics. I’m even boycotting the brands that have served as “Proud Sponsors”. Take that, Coca-Cola!
But at least we can be sure that should one of the threatened bombings occur among the crowd, and should an observant Chinese security guard spot in time to clear people, excepting himself, from its blast, the Slayjing Journal-Constitution can be counted on to name the guard the culprit, rob him of his reputation and maliciously defame him until he is unemployable, so that he finally may disappear, and die at a convenient time when the world shall have forgotten him. So that the happy Olympics may remain joyous in glorious City with proud free press!
By By Love
August 8, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
So, W’s in China, can they keep him, and take Dick too?
By Sen John McBush (Republican)
August 8, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
This reminds me of the affair I had years ago.
My first wife was scarred in an accident right after I returned home from making a pro North Korea video. I met Cindy who by the way was rich, rich, rich and good looking too, it was love at first sight! I dumped my wife who I called Scarfacia and married Cindy, who as it turned out became addicted to drugs then stole drugs from a charity, LMAO.
You know what the irony about this whole thing is? My ex wife now call me Scarfacio! LMAO!
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
RW,
No, I didn’t watch the clip, but I’ve seen what you’re talking about.
He’s talking about things we can do to save gas. And if we save gas (i.e. conservation) we won’t have to drill off-shore.
Making mountains out of mole hills and trying to make a quote into something it’s not is doing no good. It’s called desperation.
By CommunistAJC
August 8, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this
Midori, Most democrat women are pretty ugly. Why else would people like John Edwards, Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitfire cheat on them? You can keep all the Helen Thomas’s for yourself. I’ll take the Bo Dereks any day.
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
That 4:32 is e a good example of why you’re right to say I view as pretty much an idiot. You’ve got left wing blogs all over the place twisting what he originally said , which was that just inflating our tires and tuning our cars would save us ALL the oil they’re talking about drilling, Time magazine writing a story using tremendously flawed data to try to prove he was right and you say I’m making a mountain out of a molehill and twisting words that you refuse to even listen to.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Turns out the Demstream Media sat on the Edwards story for a long time. CNN wouldn’t report it until Edwards made his half-admission, which promises to drag the story out because the juiciest parts are still denied by him. He now will not be a part of, nor will he attend, the Convention. He has not yet sent a message to his Superdelegates expressing whether he wishes them to stick with Obama or become free agents once more. The tip was passed to the Enquirer on the even of the Convention. Hollywood had been abuzz with gossip about the affair and love child. The Clintons still have friends in Hollywood. The Clintons will dominate the first three days of the Convention.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this
The next one of you dimwits that says “global warming” will be emotionally kneecapped, don’t take this warning lightly, you drooling morons.
Ain’t it nice out, suckas-ses?
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
“I nearly lost the love of my life, the mother of my children. By the grace of God she has been saved and returned to me, and I will cherish her for the rest of my… Heeeey baby, how you doin’?”
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.
That was John Edwards talking about Billy Jeff 1n 1999.
Are you still pushing him AJ or SofS moonbat(ic)s®?
By Ouch!
August 8, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
Global Warming.
I’ve read the words here from Global Warming deniers, talking about how unseasonably cool they are, while my little oasis here in the mountains got no rain and unusual, 100-degree weather for week after week.
Now we’re having the rains that usually come in April and May. Global Warming?
Probably, and it’s to be expected…Global Warming creates unexpected weather patterns, so I say take the blessings where you can get them.
But they still appear to be caused by Global Warming.
So each time you hear AndiDuh dismiss Global Warming because he’s cool, just know that the reason he is unseasonably cool is because of Global Warming.
Remember, Global Warming is a global snapshot, not just a local one.
Global Warming.
By AmVet
August 8, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this
Remember when the GOP moronically claimed were the “party of ideas”? Well, over time they have clearly become the party of stupid.
Not that G.O.P. politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts.
But this new “know-nothingism” is illustrative. These clowns apparently truly insist that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every major problem in this country, and that anyone who disagrees is just girly and weak.
It has become a core Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”
Whether it is DRILL NOW!, misleading the nation about Iraq, Brownie’s heckuva job after Katrina, the ostrich approach to man-induced climate change and the polluting/destruction of this planet it is the neo-con modus operandi.
The poster boy of course, is King George II who was practically a cult of personality that was adored as some sort of real-world Forrest Gump, a simple (moronically simple in many cases) man who prevails through his gut instincts and moral superiority.
But sadly, the politics of stupidity don’t just appeal to the poorly informed, the willfully ignorant and bible-thumping flat-earthers like those on an AJC blog.
Remember that the ” GOP brain trust” (what an oxymoron!) and the “liberal (HA!) media were more pro-war than the public at large in the run up to shock and awe, even though the obvious flimsiness for the case of invading Iraq should have been even more obvious to those paying close attention to the issue than it was to the average voter.
And this supposed energy debate shows that the neo-cons, despite less than curious George’s plunge into record unpopularity and their record-setting, humiliating defeat in 2006, still think that know-nothing politics works.
And for them it does.
And in an ironic way for the rest of us it does as well.
It merely hastens their demise…
By Sen Larry Craig (Republican)
August 8, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
CommieAJC is exactly right!!! Dem chicks are ugly!
I sure don’t know what Brad Pitt sees in that dog Angelina Jolie. I think of them two doing stuff all the time, when I do I have to imagine that dem dog Angelina with a bag over her head. Disgusting.
That reminds me. I have started a new organization, Decency In Movies. We are trying to get nudity out of our movies. Research for my organization required me to watch the movie 12 Monkeys 56 times. The scene where Brad Pitt is naked has been seared into my mind. Disgusting. I can’t think of one good reason Brad Pitt’s butt is shown prominently for 21.59923 seconds in that movie, not one! Disgusting.
I plan on introducing legislation that will ban ALL nudity in films. I can’t however do anything about Dem dogs, like Woofalina Jolie however. Think paper bag, it helps.
By the way Commie! You’re right! That 68 year old Bo Derek is HOOOOOTTTT. A huge star, and a great Republican fox!
By By Love
August 8, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this
What have you got against the handicapped, Morphoblogger? You, especially, should be able to relate.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
I wonder if Breck Girl Edwards is on board with this:
Some of her backers have complained loudly about the way the only female candidate was treated during the primaries. Clinton supporters have succeeded in getting language into the draft of the Democratic Party platform that says, “We believe that standing up for our country means standing up against sexism and all intolerance. Demeaning portrayals of women cheapen our debates, dampen the dreams of our daughters and deny us the contributions of too many. Responsibility lies with us all.”
Unless, of course, there is a dimwit that the drive by media wants nominated, then we will pull your hair, b***.
How touching.
By Margaret
August 8, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
Just a minute - Horse racing is an INDUSTRY. It employs PEOPLE (at all levels), it DEVELOPS facilities (training and tracks), it ATTRACTS tourism (wealthy people like horse racing), it’s FUN with a purpose. The lottery brings machines and litter around convenience stores. When was the last time you spent an afternoon watching those little balls bounce around? It’s a lot more fun to head outside and watch horses. Might even help with that obesity issue. I say Zell was wrong to promote the lottery over horse racing and I say Jim Wooton has got this issue all wrong, too!
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this
Blood is in the water and the Clintons are sharking up. Edwards will ask his people, momentarily to stick with Obama. Several of his Superdelegates feel betrayed by and disgusted with JE. They’re only way of expressing that at the Convention is to go with the runner-up.
Expect to see a lot of Harold Ickes and Lani Davis next week.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this
Yes, how did I know I would get a dimwit to say “global warming?”
It’s too easy.
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this
RW,
I don’t read that crap either. I also don’t listen or read the same exaggerated stuff about McCain either.
I read and listen to what the candidate actually said, and then form my own opinion about it.
I read where Obama said there were 57 states. Big deal. He made a mistake. Stop the presses.
I don’t form opinions about a candidate based on 30 second sound bites or one particular article in a popular magazine like Time. Time is not much better than People in my opinion. Unless of course, you are into celebrity babies, which I’m not, and it seems People has the exclusives on that.
I grow very tired and frustrated with media coverage about candidates, and our society’s complete inability to form decisions based on a candidate and what they say/write about actual issues. Instead most take those 30 sound bites and leave it at that - without much contemplation of the bigger issue. No wonder our kids are all so ADD, the grown ups aren’t much better.
By By Love
August 8, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
Oh! So sorry, I must be turning Repugnant and seeing what I want to see. Kneecapped and global warming, right? I’ll try to be more caref…Did you say you suck a…?
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
RW,
Also, not trying to harp on a typo or so, but were you calling me an idiot @ 4:45? I think you left out a word. You calling me an idiot is kind of endearing now.
No, I’m not an idiot, I just disagree with your analysis.
It’s called seeing the world different. An idiot, that does not make.
By Sen John McBush (Republican)
August 8, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
I think my good friend AmVet seems to be forgetting about one recent idea the Republicans had.
Just a couple years ago I helped pass a new energy bill that has had disastrous yet exemplary results.
That bill extended day light savings 2 weeks. It may have only taken 2 hours of the republican marketing staff to come up with the plan, but the results are obvious.
Best part is you don’t need a tire gauge to set your clocks. An uncomplicated plan that may have had unintended benefits, but it shows the depth of Republican ideas.
Spring back…..vote Republican!
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
Just a minute - Cocaine is an INDUSTRY. It employs PEOPLE (at all levels), it DEVELOPS facilities (airstrips, national forests), it ATTRACTS tourism (wealthy people like to go to the source), it’s FUN with a purpose: to get high.
It ain’t got nothin’ on the Lottery, though.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
I specifically said dimwit, did I not?
I knew one of you would raise your hand.
How do those knees feel, moron?
By BFKaJ
August 8, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Dear Mara @ 2:45, I think you proved my case.
You affirm, “It isn’t the Democrats who think they’re better qualified to make my health care decisions than I am.” You are wrong – only the democrats think nationalized healthcare is a good idea. Remember that was Hildebeest’s signature issue until Hussein embraced it. Republicans think individual market solutions are better. Democrats want to regulate the area, thus cheapening the rule of law.
You affirm, “It isn’t the Democrats demanding Government support for their chosen religion. “ It certainly is, and that religion is druidism, aka environmentalism. Let’s talk about global warming, and the weird cult-like faith in that which has no real evidence, but which always attributable only to sins of man, and specifically not to sunspots or volcanoes. Democrats want to regulate the area, thus cheapening the rule of law.
You affirm, “It isn’t the Democrats who keep proposing amnesty for illegals (that honor goes to St. Ronnie and Dubya).” Here you fail to grasp the concept – eliminating laws does not cheapen the rule of law. Passing stupid laws that constrain humanity for no reasons other than numbers balancing is a classic case of what we are talking about. A closely related example is affirmative action. Peas in a pod. Democrats want to regulate the area, thus cheapening the rule of law.
You affirm, “It isn’t the Democrats who decided to ignore the entire 4th Amendment..” With all due respect, it is. Democrats do not read it, they manufacture new holes in it, and new limitations in it, out of whole cloth, thus cheapening the rule of law.
You affirm, “It isn’t the Democrats who called the Geneva Conventions “quaint”, who liken torture to frat party hazing, and see nothing wrong with spying on the political activities of their fellow Americans.” Here you hit the daily double, wrong twice. Only democrats would turn the Geneva Conventions on their head, by overlooking the “in uniform” element, claiming, like Alice’s caterpillar, that words exactly what I want them to me.” As to “spying on the activities of their fellow Americans” you manufacture both false law and a false violation. You may be trying to allude to the Bush administration program of tracking currency transfers and/or telephone calls to/from foreign agents. Such calls unprotected by law, and in any event a rational democrat from a much earlier generation always advised us that the Constitution is not a mutual suicide pact. The current generation of moonbat-democrats.would change that interpretation, thus cheapening the rule of law.
By GreenJeans
August 8, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this
Afternoon all:
Amvet at 5:19: In my opinion the biggest disservice that BushRove did to the GOP was to sow the idea that intellectual laziness was admirable.
And wow, has that seed sprouted some bitter fruit in record time.
Bosch at 3:06: Honestly, being called delusional by PoliFore brought a gasp, then a belly laugh. One guess why.
By By My Love at 5:30: “Global Warming.” Now I can sit and stare placidly with you. Let’s buy land up north and plant corn.
So I hear a rumor about Edwards…such a fool. What kind of ho was this videographer that she bagged two guys out of the same campaign office? I’ll say it again…if any man has $400 hair, its him.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
Who needs cocaine? This blog is just as addicting and its free. The negative feedback high is fantastic!
Bwa…..
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
You’re disagreeing with my analysis yet refusing to look at the entire body of facts. That makes you willfully ignorant and yes I left out a you. I often leave out words and I have it on good authority that if everybody would leave out a word here and there it was save as just as much oil as all of what they would get from that drilling they’re talking about.
Didn’t you say you were once a teacher? That explains a lot.
By BFKaJ
August 8, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
Dear Peter @ 3:40,. no you are not naive if you agree it is a true statement.
Dear Juan @ 4:15, I am with you on the Olympics. Not one minute in my house.
By Paul
August 8, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
Dang, I’m gone a bit and the Edwards story is all over.
I saw last night where a DNC official said Edwards speaking at the convention would depend upon a strong denial or addressing of the affair story, as, and this was great, it didn’t comply with their moral standards.
Personally, I would’ve liked to have seen Edwards get up before the convention and say:
“I’ve been asked to give a statement regarding reports in the media about aspects of my personal life. Here it is:
It’s none of your d@!m business!”
Any more questions?
By By Love
August 8, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
attn. G.J. Planting corn was NOT what I had in mind, let’s make Geenland really green.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this
Oh yeah, jacking my nick really bothers, gosh.
I have reported you!!!!! as SNEWZE would say
J/K, lol.
You should be awed to be in the company of such greatness, you wormy little troll, control your anger and learn something for once in your life.
4:56 was a dual purpose post, I “outed” a dimwit and got in my anti global warming shot, all in one nice tidy little package.
Multi tasking at it’s finest, you heathen.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 8, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this
Had anyone the slightest opinion, back when McCain was far from the nomination, that John McCain might done what Paterfamilias Edwards has thus far admitted doing, it would have made the front page of the New York times.
Oh. Did that already happen? What happened, then?
What just happened?
You don’t know what it is, DO you, Mr. Jones.
By AmVet
August 8, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this
Intellectual laziness AND moral turpitude, GreenJeans.
The bookends of the modern right wing movement of the Republican Party.
And on display here every day.
Boycott the Games if you will, Chink Dinkers.
You’re just the latest in a long line of silly-a$$ and xenophobic whiners which included the Slap the Jap crowd!
The world will watch and ignore you enraged but impotent dufuses, even more so, for 17 days.
Let the Games begin!
By Bosch
August 8, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this
RW,
Was the link you provided the entire body of facts? I suspect it wasn’t.
Call it whatever you like, but I don’t base my opinions about candidates based on the opinions of others, especially those who have demonstrated and who arguably have such disdain for a particular candidate.
Either way, I hope you have a good weekend.
Off to get Olympic Opening Ceremony snacks.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 8, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this
Aahhh, yes, now See B.S. “News” is shaking Mookie at us:
*Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered most of his militiamen to disarm but said Friday he will maintain elite fighting units to resist the Americans if a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops is not established. *
Yawn.
What’s next, Pinko Nation, in your never ending quest to find the perfect anti American action figure?
Will thee Panamanian army soon be threatening our southern border?
Will this Swiss soon have it with all of thee Obama bad mouthing and launch an assault upon the world of wingnuts?
Perhaps you could prod Luxembourg into sailing their fleet against us?
Can’t you like find a real threat?
By RW-(the original)
August 8, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this
uh oh……that time I used a was where a would should be. That doesn’t save as much oil as leaving out entire words and also makes the sentence sound funny.
My sincere apologies.
I’m with AmVet on the Olympics and thinking how foolish it is to boycott the events or the sponsors, but without all the racist language he throws around. The games are a celebration of the athletes from all around the world and the venue only matters if you’re going in person.
Let the games begin, indeed!
Wait a second, Obama is one of the sponsors buying up the television spots. I’ll boycott that one to do my part for bipartisanship.
Bosch,
The video link that I provided is the fact of what Obambi said. Various other links that I’ve provided prove his statement and the Time magazine article to be false, but I’m sure you never looked at them either.
If you want to go through life ignorant that’s entirely your right as an American citizen. I’m not a teacher, I’ll provide facts and don’t really care if you avail yourself of them. At least right up to the point where you instant on calling me wrong when the links I’ve provided show perfectly well that I’m not. Paul is pretty good about looking at all the links and judging accordingly. Perhaps you should ask him if I haven’t blown both the Obama proclamation and the Time story backing him up out the water.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 9, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
Hey, did I oversleep two months or what? What the hell happened to August? Bbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, damn, it’s cold outside.
Oh I forgot, it’s “global warming” at work making everything cold, uh-huh.
Morons.
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Pilots accuse airlines of skimping on fuel use-Doom and Gloom/DNC
Oh my! A sputtering jumbo jet just coasted by thee house and crashed into thee street. Oh no, here comes another one! Not thee wife’s car! Here’s two more, there goes my chimney!
~~~~~
Edwards admits affair, months of lies-Urinal/PMS
Uh, so how come we just heard about this from the Urinal today?
~~~~
Offshore-drilling story was beached by an iffy photo choice-“Oil exploration may be on horizon for Georgia” read the headline. A photograph with the story showed people frolicking on a beach in California with an offshore oil rig in the background. But the photograph’s caption said the scene in Georgia wouldn’t be quite the same as the one pictured, which made some readers wonder why we ran such a picture in the first place.-Urinal Ombudsman, Angela Tuck
Don’t worry, we weren’t “wondering” why you ran a goony propaganda picture.
We already knew why.
But readers who felt the package was biased, rightly or wrongly, may not have read the full page of information contained inside the newspaper. That’s why packaging of stories and photo selection is so important, especially when writing on issues such as the prospect of offshore drilling.
So thee Urinal regularly uses fake or scare photos that have nothing to do with the story they are reporting, eh?
Saturday’s package actually included two stories and a graphic outlining innovations the government and oil industry officials say will make offshore oil drilling safer. It’s an important topic, and the work of a group of senators from both parties led by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) was worth noting prominently.
This should tell you all you need to know about the energy compromise from the “gang of ten.” If the Urinal is for it, you should be against it.
To whit:
Dear Mr. Isakson/ Chambliss:
I was actually looking at your sell out on drilling with an open mind but then I saw that the Atlanta Journal Constitution approves of it.
Drop the idea and go join the House Republicans, please.
We do not need a drop in the bucket, weak kneed compromise.
Ditto.
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More aggressive U.S. military forays into Pakistan considered-Urinal/Jihad
Aahhh, yes, Lord High Dimwit’s, Thee Most Magnificent, idea^^:
Such a move would be controversial, in part because of Pakistan’s opposition to U.S. incursions into its territory,-Urinal/Jihad
Uh, if this is the same thing Obumbler wants to do, does this not expose it as a lie, considering that the surrender monkeys that he is beholden to are so obviously against it?
Why is it that almost every idea that Chief Stuttering Idiot has had since the primaries were over, the pinko press despises it?
Is he lying to us?
~~~~~
If anyone still doubts Phil Gramm that liberals whine and moan about the economy, read all of the Vents that the AJC Staff submitted today.
Wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
By ajc cold
August 9, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this
brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
By BFKaJ
August 9, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
Dear AJC/DNC @ 8:04, you are correct on Sen. Isakson and Sen. Chambliss. It is too late to get a candidate against Saxbe, but do you think we could get Jim Wooten to run against Johnny two years from now? We need at least one real conservative representing Georgia in the Senate. We have four or five good guys in the house. Who would run?
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 9, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
AmVet,
I see you’re nostalgic for an “Olympic Movement” that is no more. In its place, a series of pro bowls and all-star games and Superbowl-class television commercials — all of this a marathon advertisement for a demented, murderous and totalitarian dictatorship bent on posing the greatest possible threat to our country. I’m surprised that you would choose to support this gamiest of Games, this $ 40 billion travesty. Did you enjoy the endless Happy Nuremburg rally, preceded by a 45-minute NBC salute to the wonder that is today’s China? Does the song “It’s a Small World After All” inexplicably jingle in your head this morning?
By ajc cold
August 9, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Juan, you have obviously mistaken amvet for someone who really givees a sheet.
By @@
August 9, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
A crisp August morning in Georgia?
Hi’ya Jim! Whad’ya have…..whad’ya have?
Inappropriate attire? A quick visit to Clayton County would prove that students dressers are so laden with choices they “DROOP.”
Six-year financing? There’s a wide gap between the sticker price and the finance price. Losing sight of THAT, not so small detail, is what leaves far too many standing on their heads. Words for the wise or not so: A failure to plan is a plan to fail. When the bill comes due, it’ll be your name that’s on it. No one elses……yours.
Now that Hillary has no use for them, Obama does? You make it sound like sloppy sec……s Jim. I just don’t understand it. OBlahMa was able to buy the superdelegates, steal the nomination, and all the dim voters can say is ho ho ho as though….?
School choice? When the private school where I work first opened, the parents were responsible for transportation. A fundraiser that they worked and organized secured a van. Local and national corporations were the biggest donors. Voila! The kids are pooled to central locations for pick up. We have kids from as far away as Upson. It’s amazing what people can achieve when challenged.
So you love trees Jim? Well call me a tolerant conservative only. Remember Phoenix? Give me a horizon any day of any week.
IKEA is in the business of curtailing expansion. Dollsize furniture for European dollhouses. It’s amazing what they can cram into 600 Sq Ft. A family of four……five with all the essentials? Breathing room and privacy not included.
What are you sayin’ Jim? Martin will be like the friend who repeatedly borrows money and never pays it back? Come on……….don’tcha wanna give that good friend just one more opportunity to…?
Horse racing, education and old folks. Talk about a handicapper. I can hear the announcer now “and it’s Future’s Folly heading into the bend.
We are the ones we’ ve been waiting for.
Is he sure about that?
They saved the best for last. It’s HILLARY. Too funny!
It’s beginning to look like McCain’s camp has saved the best for last and OBlahMa’s camp jumped out of the gate too soon.
and it’s OBlahMa limping around the bend, heading into the straight-a-way……..Somebody call a Vet cause OBlahma’s down.
See ‘ya!
By AmVet
August 9, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
As the dog days of summer draw to a close, the sleeping-dog conservatives have sprung to life — almost spontaneously, it was — but with enough vigor and passion to signal the truth: We can win this thing. The reality is, as recent weeks have demonstrated, John McCain wears well.
Mr. Wooten, your job as agent provocateur is certainly demanding and I do not doubt for one moment that bringing your A game, dispirited day after day, must be one helluva challenge.
Yet, I must note several glaring errors in this latest effort, beginning with the slightly, but significantly humdrum and moving on to the fatally flawed.
Jim, the dog days of summer are just getting cranked up! Find a calendar. Or a astronomer. Or an educated ninth grader.
Is this a Freudian slip or just some irrational hope by climate-change ostriches that these very uncomfortable, very hot years for the GOP will somehow end magically by itself and prematurely at that?
Do not bet on it, sir. The worst is almost certainly yet to come for those who brought us these deadly debacles in the White House and US Congress. And never even handed out any vaseline.
Sleeping-dog conservatives?
This seems so silly, and on so many levels. Forget the obvious jokes about fleas, mange, inbred Southern ignorance and laziness, etc…
The term conservative as being used ad nauseum by these new age Republicans is about as “valid” as the Iranian government insisting they have an “open” nuclear program.
And even if it that sad play on words were true, for the umpteeenth thousandth time, John McCain is not one of you!
He has never, ever been and I don’t see that changing.
So when you say “we can win this thing”, you might as well insist that Copernicus/Galileo/Darwin were all wrong.
You have already lost.
And the very best you can even hope for is that the humiliation of watching an ultra-liberal mulatto in the White House is not enough to make you neo-cons lose your already exceptionally tenuous grasp on sanity.
So if bashing/swift boating the High Yellow Democrat is all that this once grand party has, I’ll not rain on your laughably pathetic parade of overheated and “migrating” chickenhawks.
But Jim, please, for the sake of the tiniest bit of credible “journalism”, give up on selling this quaint idea that you non-conservative conservatives haven’t already ceded the executive Branch away, REGARDLESS of who wins.
And throw your estimable weight behind one of the dwindling few neo-con cowards who can still dupe the “faithful”, like “Blood & Guts” Saxby…
By cold ajc
August 9, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
ewww
how bout that green party amvet?
cheast beating chickin hawks quiver in fear.
By Neo Reo
August 9, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
How’s it going?
By 50 cal
August 9, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
you should be shot for the pos you are.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Well, nobody on the Right should be gloating about John “neck brace” Edwards. What a sad, pathetic, slimy rotten to the core douchebag - oh, did I mention he, like most filthy liberal RAT politicians, is a lawyer? I feel sorry for Elizabeth. It wasn’t long ago that the nasty, wretched disease of liberalism chastised Conservatives for making some negative remarks about Elizabeth who said some remarks about Republicans, and it was purely political - nothing else. Those brown stained mindless liberal pantywastes on the left said that Conservatives had no business saying anything back to Elizabeth because she had cancer. Who would have known that under that same spit of liberalism that Pretty Boy was slithering his corrupt way through life like most Dimocrats we know. How sad. How wretchedly pathetic. To this that a***** wanted to be Veep and later run for the RAT ticket as president. It disgusts me. And NO, it’s not “only about sex.” Law 101 says your character can make or break your defense. Pretty Boy FAILED.
Ok enough of that.
Well I’ll tell you one thing, I sure am glad it’s in the middle of the dog days of summer in August because I about froze my a-ss off last night sleeping with the windows open. It was showing 62 degrees before the sun came up. Is that global warming or global cooling? Oh wait, the mindless hysterical disease of liberalism has an answer for everything: if it’s not 101 degrees in August and the pantywasted mindless Algorebots don’t have a heat wave to b*** about and blame global warming caused by man, then it’s GOT to be global cooling caused by man - or some mindless diseased liberal hysteria like that hell bent on ruining our economy and lives. The mindless disease of reactionary emotional iberalism has no credibility - as if we already didn’t know that.
By cold ajc
August 9, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
Rufus,
have you not heard?
obama is here.
relax. obama is here.
hope and change buddy. we’re gonna keep our fingers crossed real, real tight
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this
Pertinent to what Wooten posted the other day, no, I do not suffer from O-fatigue. The more over exposed that over hyped man is, the better - especially when his arrogant liberal neo-Marxist self flies around in O-Force One thinking he’s already president with his own O-seal (anyone catching on to the theme here??). Anyway…
I’m sure by now everyone has heard about the O-man’s assassination threat by some kook in Florida. It was VERY interesting reading the different news outlet’s reactions. How many of you people knew that that same POS threatened Bush?
Let’s see here - PMSNBC, the bastion b******* child of liberal “news” media stated that a threat against O-mania was made and it was SCREAMING FRONT PAGE NEWS.
in a little section at the end it was also mentioned that a threat against bush was made.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26077318
Now, one would think that a comment about a SITTING PRESIDENT would take precidence over some junior senator prez wannabe. But oh HELL no, not our “fair and balanced” media. Well, at least give the pink skirt liberals at PMSNBC some credit here: they mentioned Bush’s threat.
Did any wormy slimy liberal RAT at the Communist News Network mention about Bush’s threat? I’d love to show you the link, but it’s gone. They didn’t even mention it.
I guess what’s interesting about this little observation is that the mindless hysterical disease of liberalism on this blog continues to deny that there is a liberal bias in the main slime media. But, when you think about it, why would a mindless diseased liberal b!tch about the main slime media if it’s got a liberal slant? Of course they wouldn’t because they agree with the perspective - or slant, if you will.
I’ve said it here before, and I’ll say it again: when a mindless diseased liberal doesn’t b*** about something, check it out - chances are you’ll disagree with it - and vice versa.
By getalife "whiners"
August 9, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
“Once you start treating it as a business, you know once you start turning over government operations to the market you’re not talking about democracy any more. What you’re talking about is plutocracy. Rule by the wealthy. Rule by the market.”
Wow, that is something to be proud of Jim.
Destroying a democracy.
We all lose in this election.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Pilots accuse airlines of skimping on fuel use-Doom and Gloom/DNC
AJCM: that’s a joke, right? Did the Atlanta Jihad Manifesto REALLY run a story like that? As someone who doesn’t even look at the headline of that “news” paper in a sidewalk sales box, I’ll take your word for it, because I’m doing my due duty in ensuring that that liberal snotrag goes the way of the dodo bird.
Did that mindless liberal “news” snotrag mention that FAA regulations require that aircraft have to have a certain amount of fuel remaining (calculated as hours in fuel burn and remaining flight time) at their intended destination airport - REGARDLESS of what airline management says? Nah - what, you expect that snotrag to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth or something? Me neither. What a joke of a snotrag.
“hope and change buddy. we’re gonna keep our fingers crossed real, real tight “
PoFo - you are going to be one extremely miserable liberal POS in November. Why isn’t the O-team doing better than statistically tying with McCain in polls anyway? Wanna answer that one, stonerboy diseased mindless liberal?
By cold ajc
August 9, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
hello getalife. i like you, although some dork nominated you as the most hated blogger.
probabaly pofo the mofo.
By @@
August 9, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
AmVet:
I’ve just gotta ask this:
Why do you always seek to have conservatives, neo or otherwise, confirm your opinion here? A person who has confidence in their own opinion doesn’t require support.
for the sake of the tiniest bit of credible journalism
I would argue that it’s YOU who lacks credibility when you refuse to stand alone and without support from anyone.
You kinda remind me of the woman who begs the question “Does my butt look big?”
Counseling free of charge.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Ever notice that when diseased liberals lose one of their own they switch subjects faster than a slimy dirtbag lawyer Dimocrat? It wasn’t THAT long ago that those wormy mindless liberal douchebags had their heads up Edwards’ a-ss. Ok, I already said enough of that…
Get a load of this asshat mindless liberal at “News” Weak on the Paris Hilton retaliation ad:
So where should we turn for inspiration and leadership? To Paris Hilton, of course! I mention her not only because I am betting she looks better in a one-piece bathing suit than John McCain or even Barack Obama. No, we need Paris because her cheerful and sensible approach to the energy problem—encapsulated in her own poolside “ad”—is a lesson in leadership to the two “real” presidential candidates.
Hey mindless diseased liberal: if you REALLY think that Paris thought that whole thing up on her own, let alone the energy ideas, then you must be a mindless Dimocrat. Yep.
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 9, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
ajc cold,
Whatever.
@@,
It’s amazing what people can achieve when challenged.
That’s a smashing line.
Sometime go back to your Inner Tube Man and find the parenthetical above, please.
By fab fore eyes
August 9, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
rufus, stop it nummbskull!
you’re hurting our feelings brutus!
stop stealing my material or you will be the twin lipped thing your face always wanted to be .
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Hey Nanny Pelosi - how’s that book of yours doing, you old dried up liberal hag?
HAHAHAHA!!! Already falling below 2,000 in Amazon sales rank and it’s only been out for a little over a week.
Isn’t this the same mindless liberal moonbat who thinks she knows what’s best for you and I, and if you and I can’t make our OWN DAMNED DECISIONS or something? Oh wait, we are talking about the mindless hysterical disease of liberalism here. My bad. She’s trying to save the planet. Hey Nanny - how many trees died printing your worthless book?
Don’t forget to read some of those comments about her book on Amazon - really entertaining to watch mindless liberals eat one of their own. Hehehe…
By getalife "whiners"
August 9, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) predicted Wednesday during the fourth day of Republican protests at the Capitol that Democrats would lose a potential government shutdown fight over offshore oil drilling.
The offshore drilling ban expires Sept. 30, and some conservatives have urged President Bush to threaten to veto any bill that extends it, including a routine stopgap spending bill keeping the government open.
“Are they really prepared to close the government in order to stop drilling?” Gingrich asked of Democrats. “I think the public would think they’re insane…. I don’t see how the Democrats could possibly sustain a suicidal strategy like that.”
I agree.
Shut it down and fix our democracy.
By AmVet
August 9, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
Juan Mo Time,
I have long ago gotten over any illusions about the “innocence” of the Summer Games.
All one has to do is see the NBC boys fawning over the class(less) acts of the NBA who are there ostensibly to “represent” us as Americans.
Revolting? In some cases, of course.
Yet, the Olympiad is MUCH bigger than even that.
It is about the purest and most idealized human endeavors. It is one of the few things that can bring tears to the eyes of grown men.
It is about humanity. And the faith in the very best aspects of us all. It requires no mythology, and it asks no blessings from the innumerable gods. Nor accepts them
Has it been prostituted? I believe so.
Yet all of the imperious politicians and heads of state, all of the prima donna professionals, all of the utterly corrupt multinationals who fight over every last cent, yuan or franc and all of the assorted payoffs around the planet cannot do but inflict minor wounds on it.
It is mankind’s grandest and most awe-inspiring spectacle…
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
Don’t worry my little wormy pinko skirt liberals, I’m just getting warmed up…
Now if anyone wanted to know what I mean by mindless diseased liberal, look no further than the link I’m about to show you. When I saw the headline, I had NO idea what kind of treat I would be in for when peering into an empty mind of hostility against freedom (liberalism) - it’s from PMSNBC of course:
Is retiring early unpatriotic?
Note the “unpatriotic” theme here to drive a mindless liberal point home. Some of my favorite action items to address:
“Don’t retire. At least not yet. That’s the advice of Andrew Yarrow, a vice president of the nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization Public Agenda and the director of its Washington, D.C., office.”
Yeah, I’ll bet that organization is about as nonpartisan as The Nanny’s congress. I’d love to do some research on them when I get time and see what other issues they have addressed.
“If boomers all turn in their keys at age 55, 62 or 65 and head for the Tuscan hills, that great sucking sound you’ll hear is untold amounts of taxpayer dollars being leached from the economy. That is money heirs will have to replace or do without. It’s an act Yarrow calls “profoundly selfish and unpatriotic.”“
Got that boys and girls? The mindless disease of liberalism says you are UNAMERICAN if you WORK YOUR A-SS OFF the majority of your life and want to retire ON YOUR OWN TERMS WITH YOUR OWN MONEY YOU EARNED. (Yeah I know, these days enjoying the freedoms of America our forefathers fought so hard for is now UNAMERICAN and being selfish).
“Back in 1935, when Congress passed the Social Security Act, the average U.S. life expectancy was 63, according to Yarrow. Today, the average life expectancy is 78, and if you make it through your 50s, you’re likely to live into your 80s or beyond.”
Gee, you think that jackass would have brought up the FACT that when Socialist Security was implemented, it was only to be a SUPPLEMENT to retirement income?
“I would guess that in 20 years, there simply is not going to be any Social Security for wealthy people. That will be thoroughly means-tested, and probably should be,”
Just like a good little communist - take what’s not yours and give it to someone else.
You can read the rest of this mindless liberal’s drivel. Do you think this genius mentioned that congress has blown SS for today’s workers? Well, maybe that’s the underlying premise of his article - he’s just too cowardly to admit it.
“Ask not what you can do for your country … ask what your country can force someone else to do for you.” —The new DNC motto
By ANNOUNCEMENT
August 9, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
ATTENTION: The liberal media is not allowed to talk about Barak Obama. Its not fair. Please feel free to whine, cry and throw a tantrum if the liberal media continues to talk about Barak Obama. Feel free to whine, cry and throw a tantrum if the liberal media continues to ignore John McCain.
Waiver: This mandate of course does not apply to conservatives and conservative writers like Jim Wooten. For some reason, which we don’t care to explain, conservatives are allowed to whine, cry, and throw a big Barack Obama tantrum every single chance they can, and at every opportunity too. Conservatives should, and will, continue to ignore John McCain as they have been for the last 3 months.
We now return you to the regularly scheduled conservative whining, conservative crying and conservative tantrums.
Thank You
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
@@ at 11:16 - thanks for the laugh, although I stopped reading that mindless liberals’ comments you mention some time ago.
Anyway…
CARACAS, Venezuela - Riot police used tear gas Wednesday to block hundreds of Venezuelans protesting the latest moves by President Hugo Chavez to concentrate his power. The demonstrators said a blacklist of opposition candidates and a series of socialist decrees are destroying what’s left of their democracy.
Hey Venezuela, Jimmuh Cartuh, the King Democrat of failed policies, certified that election so STOP YOUR B!TCHING.
The O-mania wants to “change” the world just like that^^ too.
By Reo Neo
August 9, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this
Has anyone seen my good friends, Andy and Objective Observer?
By RW-(the original)
August 9, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Jim Wooten
If this blog had any decency the sick b-astard that posted at 10:25 and 11:52 would be banned forever.
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On another note, I highly recommend the 10:14 effort as a 100% sure cure for insomnia.
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Now, why would Hunter’s sister publicly challenge Edwards to take that paternity test? It certainly isn’t to encourage him to clear his name, as the rest of the article makes Melissa’s hostility plain. Melissa apparently has some knowledge of her niece’s paternity. This strongly indicates that Edwards indeed fathered the child, and that Edwards is still lying.
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USA Women’s Fencing….Gold….Silver….and…..Bronze
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
ANNOUNCEMENT: we get the point. When three MAJOR media news anchors fly ON the O-Force to Europe, when the O-man is HOUNDED by the media, yet when poor old gray haired McCane (emphasis inspired by the disease of liberalism’s comments on McCain) has nobody but one sole unheard of reporter to greet him on his return, you bet your liberal sweet a-ss we should feel justified in EVEN having the audacity to complain about the O-team’s overexposure. GFY.
What was that I just mentioned earlier about paying attention to something a mindless diseased liberal doesn’t b!tch about? Oh yeah…
By AmVet
August 9, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
Dear @@,
I know it is futile but as I don’t have to head out for another few minutes, I’ll try to help you make some sense.
But I will not attempt to disabuse you of the hyper-hypocritical sophistry that would ask that first question.
At times your “conversion” to “conservative” ideology predictably blinds you to even a modicum of ration or reason - when you refuse to stand alone and without support from anyone.
I am one of a tiny few here here who does that very thing.
Why do you pretend that countless times at ML’s I took on you AND Andy AND RW AND Donut AND any of the “anonymous drivebys” simultaneously and solo? To me it simply made it more of a fair fight.
I sought no one’s aid then or now and frankly do not want nor need it. I work alone. I don’t need a bunch of like-minded “friends” to make me feel like a man. I see the enormous bad in neo-cons AND Obama and write about both. That the material for the conservatives is SO much bigger is NOT my fault.
I am as independent as I can be. I voted for Ralph Nader twice and will do so again, given the chance. I abhor many aspects of the Democratic Party and have written about them many times.
And you? Not so much, huh? You are what I call a one-way f&ck.
And to inanely posit that I, of all people, want approval from you and the like is just patently absurd.
Just try and heal yourself, and avoid becoming one of the of the angry d(R)ufuses here…
By RW-(the original)
August 9, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Did the Queen of Preen really just say s/he stands alone as an Island in the war of tyranny being waged by anonymous bloggers?
By cold ajc
August 9, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
geez, amvet wants to to be pofo’s twin lipped heart shaped box his face always hoped to be (until he tried to sleep with her)
By AmVet
August 9, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
The first Ann Coulter loving, pack b!tch joins in at 12:24.
Who will be next?
Enjoy your self-imposed mental prisons and cellmates here Gang of Five.
Someone else is going to have to get under your skins for awhile, I’ve got places to go, people to see and things (money!) to do!
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
More negativity from the flaming liberal pink(o) skirts at PMSNBC:
Stimulus spent, retailers face tough rest of year. Much went to paying off debt, not purchases, and holiday season may suffer
A thinking person like me would ponder the point, “gee, if we had NOT received that money back that’s OURS (unequally taken in I might add), just what in the HELL kind of economy would we be without it?” Not that I would know of course as I was overqualified to receive some of my money back. Go figure.
Doom and gloom indeed. As if the O-government should take 100% of our money and then re-allocate according to needs. Oh wait, I think I’ve heard that one before…
By Juan Carquinez-Martinez
August 9, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
AmVet,
You’re eloquent, but insane. (Lest you take that as an insult, so was the great William Blake.)
You and I could name a lot of things that can bring strong men to tears, but were we to rank those things from one to a hundred, watching the hyper-politicized, hyper-commercialized, post-amateur “Summer Games” on censored TV wouldn’t make the list. Yours is the boo-boo made by NBC, which, as a direct consequence of its overbid on these Chicom Follies, will be bankrupt in short order and sold for pennies on the dollar.
And then, that will be another thing that fails to bring tears to the eyes. Watch *that. Join me, won’t you?
By RW-(the original)
August 9, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this
Who does money?
Weird, but I’m kind of libertarian in those areas, so to each his own.
Gives a whole new meaning to it’s all about the Benjamins though.
By @@
August 9, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Juan is it?:
The message of individual achievement is interlaced throughout Obama’s speeches — supported by the collective and government assistance. I see that as not much confidence in the individual’s ability to meet a challenge.
Adding to the Olympic discussion; I watched a program (History channel I think) where it was argued that there was no second place celebration in the original Olympics. Those who achieved the ultimate, winner take all, were celebrated as the only victors. The true Olympiads would want no part of what passes for achievement in today’s games.
Just sharing……not totally in agreement mind you.
I dare say that the namejacker posting as Neo Reo can be found in the scum that encircles the bathtub in which sits ralph, Bob, Bill and Midori. Tiny bubbles in their whine.
Words! Words! Words! AmVet. They matter. To expose your far-left sentiment.
help Don’t need it but thanks for offering.
To me it simply made it more of a fair fight. Associating A HUGE political ego with fairness?
Kinda reminds me of what John Edwards said: In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic.* **If you want to beat me up feel free.
Okey Dokey, I do.
I am as independent as I can be. I voted for Ralph Nader twice and will do so again, given the chance.
No problem here. Please refer to my Olympiad comment ^^^ above. Nader to show? Nader to win?
And to inanely posit that I, of all people, want approval from you and the like is just patently absurd.
I’m not gonna go back in archives, but for today only….. would you call Jim Wooten “the like”?
But Jim, please, for the sake of the tiniest bit of credible “journalism”, give up on selling this quaint idea that you non-conservative conservatives haven’t already ceded the executive Branch away, REGARDLESS of who wins.
And to think, I typed all that without calling you a flux although you’ve given me every reason to believe you are.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
1:07PM
81.2 degrees.
IN August.
IN the South.
IN Georgia.
I’m sorry, I just can’t let this go. Exactly what jackass out there started this mindless hysteria of man-made/man-induced/man-manipulated global warming again?
By fab fore eyes
August 9, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
rufus, man,
it started in the summer of 69 dude.
i led 20 of my homies into a cow paddy filled pond in upstate new yourk to the tune of “we all live in yellow submarine” and we partied man. it was fun until we got dysentery. soak your head in that my fine feathered friend and then your twin lipped wannabe face will understand what we started. al gore aint got nuthin on us man.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 9, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
By AmVet August 9, 2008 11:34 AM It is one of the few things that can bring tears to the eyes of grown men. It is mankind’s grandest and most awe-inspiring spectacle…
Yeah, tears of laughter after reading that^^ post, doesn’t it say it all, this dude sits around blubbering over pointless human games but whines and moans about the greater achievements of our soldiers, who risk a hell of alot more than an owie to bring peace and prosperity to the millions of formerly enslaved.
There are countless Americans that every single solitary day put forth great efforts and dedications to achieve their goals in life, where are the tears and accolades for them? Why instead do you liberals hate on the successful people in this country, demonizing them with all kinds of cowardly caricatures and slogans?
I myself think the recent safety record of the airline industry, saving untold numbers of lives, is a far greater achievement than any pole vaulter will ever accomplish.
How many millions of lives and how much more longevity has the energy industry added to our society, keeping people warm on the most brutal winter nights and cool even in the killer heat of August, well, not this August anyway, the liberals see them as the very epitome of evil, how sick is that?
Everything that is good, hospitals, advances in science and medicine, transportation of the critically injured to the hospital, all of it has benefited the world by giving life and all of it is only possible because of oil.
And here the libs are crying over something that doesn’t even matter.
Talk about getting your priorities in order, geez.
Search your soul, sicko.
By getalife "whiners"
August 9, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Yeah, those pinko commies put on a great opening ceremony.
Beijing george was impressed after all the jobs he gave them with his globalization scam.
By Hillbilly Deluxe
August 9, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this
This weather is just an anamoly. It’ll only last a couple more days then it’ll be back to sweltering August. Instead of trying to understand the global ramifications of all this let’s just enjoy it while we can. Hopefully we’ll get a little rain when the front comes through.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
“This weather is just an anamoly. It’ll only last a couple more days then it’ll be back to sweltering August.”
Yeah liberal disease - so tell me, why the do you mindless hysterics on the Algorebot left raise hell when temps fluctuate over 95 from time to time and blame me for driving a damned car or lighting up my charcoal or propane grills?
Idiot.
By RW-(the original)
August 9, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this
But, I think every single candidate for president, Republican and Democratic have lives, personal lives, that indicate something about what kind of human being they are. And I think it is a fair evaluation for America to engage in to look at what kind of human beings each of us are, and what kind of president we’d make.—john Edwards
By AJC/DNC Management
August 9, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
These are the same people that whined and moaned because we took out an irresponsible regime that was threatening us and it’s neighbors:
It is now important for western leaders to realise that their silence so far has only encouraged Moscow’s aggressive behaviour, and that they must now stand in solidarity with Georgia – in deeds, not only in words. Whether they do so will determine the future not only of the Caucasus, but also for Europe’s security.
Now that their as-s is in a crack, they want us to go bombs away, eh?
Deal with it yourself, euroweenies.
Time to man up you metrosexual freaks.
Bwa.
By Scoreboard
August 9, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this
Daily Gallup:
Pretty Rhetoric….47%
Old and Tired….42%
By Post Haste
August 9, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
Georgia/Russia. War begets war. It just gets in the air, and humans respond.
We should have been through with Afghanistan and home by 2003.
It’s five years later and the world is on fire. Bush/Cheney. These clowns have no idea what they’ve wrought.
I’m already sick of the olympics. Isn’t it great that John Edwards isn’t gay? He was too pretty and I was a little worried, but, he’s no republican, he’s straight.
Wooten’s article about pretty rehetoric? About the third paragraph he starts to rant. I’ve never seen Wooten ranting before. The polls must really be going south for McFeign.
I wonder how Mrs. Edwards is taking all of this, when did she know, and when did Hillary know, and did Hillary threaten to use it against John Edwards and is that why he bowed out so early?
Is this the bombshell that will finally sink Hillary. What will this do to Hillary’s VP chances?
If it gets out that Hillary strong-armed Edwards with the mistress, then it’s over for Hillary.
I know all. I see all. I’m a Democrat.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 9, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
You know, this wasn’t a tough question. She was asking him why he wanted to be president. Ever since Roger Mudd flummoxed Teddy Kennedy, candidates have known how to answer that question. He could have talked about the challenges that our country faces and how he wanted to lead us to a better tomorrow. He was given an opening to talk about how much he loves this country and wants to serve it. If he had to return to his usual solipsism, he could have talked about how proud he is to be the first candidate of a mixed racial heritage to be nominated by a major political party and how far we have come from our grim racial history and how he is looking forward to leading the country as we continued our progress.
Many liberals supporting Obama’s campaign probably don’t see anything wrong with Obama’s reply. But those aren’t the people he needs to convince. If he’s worry about those bitter, clinging voters who voted for Hillary in the primaries, this sort of talk isn’t going to win them over.
And I hope that one day, some reporter, or maybe just another seven-year old child, will ask him. When exactly were those golden, halcyon days? What are all those qualities that he believes represent what we can be and what we once were? And when exactly was that period in American history when we satisfied all those criteria? I hope that those journalists or townhall participants at Obama events who will be trying to think of what questions to ask Obama if they get the opportunity will consider asking him when we were what we could be and if we were waiting for the change that we would be today back then? It all is very confusing, but I’m sure that he can deconstruct it for us.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I’ll bet he can’t.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
Well, I would have at least expected some mindless overemotioned liberal to attack my SS slam earlier. What, was I too rough on the pink skirts? Oh who cares what the mindless zombies think.
CAROL MARIN cmarin@suntimes.com: Finally, for John McCain, a week to smile about. “Obama fatigue,” a virus that’s afflicted the GOP presidential candidate for sometime now, was discovered in a new Pew survey to have spread to 48 percent of the populace.
Gee, ya tink? I like that “virus” epithet. Kinda reminds me of the mindless liberal diseases who said sKerry was going to win four years ago.
Uh huh.
Good stuff.
By RW-(the original)
August 9, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
My first ever link to the Huff & Puff
Say It Ain’t So, Elizabeth — You Knew But Supported His Run For President?
keep in mind this was posted at 9:20 last night. A good two hours before the Nightline interview.
Here’s the third comment.:
Sorry for Mrs. Edwards and wish her well, Mr. E has now seen an end to whatever politcal aspirations he may have. But what has this to do with today. It is now yesterday’s news.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 9, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
Obama 08: America takes over.
McTane 08: Big oil sells us out.
Osama 08: You morons had me and let me go, thank you Cheney and the conservatives fools who believe every lie I wrote for him. (and his little dog W too)… bwa
Osama 08: BTW, I’m working on a children’s book, called, ” Sunni Scooby Doo”. It’s all about a lovable dog who converts to wahabism and gets hold of a suicide collar and jumps in after Timmy in the well and blows him to smithereens. Bwa.
Osama 08: Thank you Cheney, Bush, and McCain for being my friends.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
Lieberman, who for you Dimwits smoking pot, was the Veep candidate in 2000 under the RAT ticket with that moonbat global walarmist scaremonger fascist Algore, has a few choice words of wisdom. This guy, who was pitched out of the RAT window of liberalism and had to turn Independent, says that the O-mania is not ready to be president.
Uh, YA TINK??
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Sunday Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is not ready to be president, and Sen. John McCain’s ads from this past week were merely trying to illustrate that point.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 9, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this
It was evident that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning for her Democratic primary rival here Friday, was speaking to a crowd still lukewarm toward Sen. Barack Obama.
Some cars in the parking lot had “Hillary ‘08” bumper stickers, and a few even championed presumed Republican nominee Sen. John McCain. The tables outside the Green Valley High School gymnasium peddled Obama T-shirts and buttons, but some offered hats that said “Hillary.”
Can you say President McBushie?
By @@
August 9, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
PoliFore:
If you can wade through all the OBlahMa, you’ll find a declaration of war.
We — with God’s help — call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan’s U.S. troops and the devil’s supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.
And before you get all worked up about Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, where was it that Zarqawi met his death?
And on the border of Afghanistan/Pakistan…..
At least 30 militants and seven Pakistani paramilitary troops died in renewed clashes near the border with Afghanistan, where helicopter gunships and mortars pounded insurgents’ hideouts. The military’s offensive, launched this week in the Bajaur tribal region, targets the center of al Qaeda and Taliban activities in Pakistan, according to Pakistani officials.
Beget and be gone.
By Rufus
August 9, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
Where’d all our weekday mouthy liberal diseases run off to? Too much information the asshats don’t agree with and then said asshats have to put their heads in the sand? I suppose so since not one moonbat has countered what I posted today - oh yeah - AND claimed that what I have posted was lifted from “Rushannity” (awe, isn’t that so cute for an argument?).
Mindless idiots.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 9, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this
Do I sense America starting to come around:
ONE Person Shows Up At Franken Event..
No one buys Blinky’s book, no one attends an Al Franken event.
No one is enamored with Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid, except of course for thee entire pinko media.
This getting good.
By @@
August 9, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this
Hillary Clinton’s Supporters HOPE To CHANGE The Top Of Their Party’s Ticket
Good grief! Hillary and OBlahMa can’t even agree on a catharsis. Hillary says the party could benefit from one at the convention……OBlahMa says the Democratic Convention isn’t a place for catharsis.
Heck, with all this back and forth “bladder”, the DNC will need a catheter to prevent it from going down the drain
Pipe down libs! Like OBlahMa, you’re talkin’ way too much.
By RW-(the original)
August 9, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this
Now we know why Silky was so quick to agree to a paternity test.
Rielle Hunter, the former presidential campaign aide who had an affair with John Edwards, said yesterday that she will not pursue DNA testing to establish the paternity of her 5-month-old daughter, despite the former senator’s offer to participate in such a test.
I bet that decision is costing the ambulance chaser a pretty penny.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this
Bbbbbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Oh well, so much for the Humminbirds.
Too cold up here for them.
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The ceasefire came just hours after claims emerged Russian jets had bombed a vital pipeline that supplies oil to the West. The pipeline is 30 per cent owned by BP and supplies 1 per cent of the world’s oil needs, pumping up to a million barrels of crude per day to Turkey.
Russia isn’t playing around and the euroweenies are so self castrated that all they can do now is “hope” the Bear doesn’t set it’s sights on them.
This is the “hope” Russia has been waiting for, hahahaha.
Time for another world tour, Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid?
Meanwhile, we had better get to drilling, unless, of course, you want gasoline to be ten bucks a gallon.
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IMPACT IN IRAQ- Georgia has about 2,000 troops in Iraq, making it the third-largest contributor to coalition forces after the U.S. and Britain. A U.S. military spokesman said the departure would have “some impact” in the near term but no significant long-term effect on Iraq’s security.
And here I thought this was Bushie’s war, isn’t it funny that you hear about world participation in the liberation of Iraq from the drive bys only when the country leaves?
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Syria has begun cooperating with Israel, great news that you will never read about in thee Urinal, so now Syria has become the enemy of the AJC/ Jihad:
Syria bars inspectors from alleged reactor site-Urinal/Jihad
Matter of fact, most of you dhimmis are now wondering when Syria got a nuclear facility, dumbas-s readers of the Huff and Puff, morons.
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Here’s your “glory and splendor” of the games:
An Iranian swimmer pulled out of the Olympic Games men’s 100m breaststroke heats on Saturday, just minutes before he was due to compete against an Israeli rival.
He won and he didn’t even have to swim.
This has to be the greatest Olympics in history for the left, Chinese power on display, zipperhead religious extremists hating on Jews, all slam in the middle of a socialist concentration camp, what more could a candy as-s surrender monkey want?
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Remember the story circulating this week about how people were not “buying into” the nonsense about climate change, well, the Urinal had to throw a totally bogus article out there to distract their dimwit readership:
Georgians don’t bite on Green Energy- Green ignorance- There is a host of reasons behind the chilly reception for the state’s green energy programs, starting with how few people even know they exist.-Urinal/PMS
And of course they use the opportunity to call you ignorant.
People aren’t buying into solar energy because it costs more, is this too much to understand?
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Listen to this racist moron:
English-only isn’t language of job success- Perhaps you remember the dust-up several weeks ago when Barack Obama, speaking at a town hall meeting in Powder Springs, suggested that parents should urge their children to learn foreign languages. Xenophobic commentators and GOP activists immediately took to the stump to denounce Obama for insufficient nationalism, elitism and a tendency to coddle foreigners.-Queen Pinko, Urinal/DNC
The Merry Bigot projecting her racism on you, dear reader.
Check this out pinko, Lord High Dimwit doesn’t speak a foreign language.
Now let’s follow this dimwit on a trip to Moronica:
If the Chinese, the Indians, the Brazilians and the Russians are busy learning English so they can do business with us, doesn’t it behoove us to learn their languages, too?
Does anyone else not see the utter futility and ignorance of this question^^?
Yes, if I were going to China to earn money, chances are at some point I would have to learn to speak Chinese.
If you were a Mexican coming to America to earn money, of course, come here and whine and moan that you cannot understand us, the candy as-s pinkos will whine and moan right along with you.
America is always the bad guy, always in the wrong, isn’t it?
You people, you slouches and craven bumpkins are a pox on the world, you marauding overeaters, slobs and hooligans all.
How do people make a living putting us down like this?
Do tell us, Cynthia, what foreign languages do you speak?
We will be waiting for your reply.
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Does the truth not always come out?:
In apologizing, Edwards said: “In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.”
Hell, I knew that over 4 years ago.
When will al-Gore make his admission?
Bill KKlintoon?
By @@
August 10, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
From the NYTs:
Residents said recruiters, also known as runners, would call out like street salesmen for anyone who had a multicolored Medi-Cal eligibility card: “Red, white and blue! Let it do what it do!”
LOS ANGELES — An investigation into what the authorities say was a scheme that used homeless people to bilk tens of millions of dollars from federal and state health insurance programs began four years ago with a tip from a rescue mission employee.
In October 2006, Los Angeles police officers videotaped an ambulance “dumping” five homeless patients. They later determined that the patients had been recruited as “human pawns in a scheme by hospitals, doctors, ambulance companies and others to defraud” health insurance programs, according to the city attorney’s complaint.
She was recruited repeatedly, court papers said, and for her cooperation was paid money that she used to buy crack cocaine.
Anthony Pitts, 50, who lives in a government-subsidized apartment building in Skid Row, said he heard the recruiters each morning. Mr. Pitts, a military veteran, said that he did not need Medicaid but that plenty of his friends were on the system and had been picked up by recruiters.
“They come down every morning with four or five people, they fill up their van and take them to the hospital,” Mr. Pitts said. “When they come back they give them money — sometimes as much as $150 or $200.”
There are two honest people in that ^^^ story. The remainder contribute to the rising cost of government healthcare. As usual, the government is guilty of incompetence.
Thank you Mr. Johnson and Mr. Pitts for exposing the games people play at the expense of others.
Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Presidential hopeful lord High dimwit, The Most Magnificent, listens to hip-hop, knows many of the genre’s moguls, such as Jay-Z, Russell Simmons and rapper Ludacris, admires their business acumen and has been endorsed by them.
“Hip-hop’s public image makes it a hot potato,” said Bakari Kitwana, of the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. “People don’t know what it is so they equate it with hyper-sexuality, violence and drug culture.”
Gee, I wonder why?
Move b***, get out the way Get out the way b***, get out the way Move b***, get out the way Get out the way b***, get out the way OH NO! The fight’s out I’m a ‘bout to punch yo…lights out Get the F*** back, guard ya grill- A lovely Ludacris Melody
When them tops come down, chicks tops come down Like when them shots come out make cops come around I’m so bossy B*** get off me Trick get off me You can’t get s** off me This is that ignorant s** you like N****, f***, s**, a*, b***, trick, plus ice- Sweet Nothings whispered in your ear by Jay Z
Remember America, you suck.
By @@
August 10, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Maybe OBlahMa can dig deep to pull up some of that self-deprecating humor he’s been hiding. I’ve been noticing how his loyal followers are all too quick to defend their candidate, and he welcomes it.
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched an audience member toss him a hard question only to be booed and hissed by loyal subjects. His response?
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah! It’s ah-ite……it’s ah-ite……it’s ah-ite. That was a good question. Then turning to his loyal followers he proclaims what Bush, Cheney, and McCain have done in regards to…….
Jim’s right! OBlahMa doesn’t wear well. Defend YOURSELF Senator Obama. If you can’t, go sit in the corner while your minions try.
By @@
August 10, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Obama partisans block Clinton faction bid to end caucuses
Among the Democratic activists serving on the committee, there were also signs of a split.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the head of a private holding company and a member of the committee, took the microphone after the caucus amendment was defeated to register a protest.
After the meeting, she said she still hasn’t made up her mind about whether to vote for Obama because she doesn’t “understand how a person comes to the U.S. Senate and — before they’ve done one thing there — decides they can be president.”
“I have serious questions about Barack Obama and what the Democratic Party is doing,” she said. “I have serious issues with Barack Obama.”
Me too Ms. Rothschild….on that we can agree. Stifling dissent looms large among them.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
“Remember America, you suck.”
Only if you are a wretched permanently miserable POS diseased liberal. That reminds me, how long before the liberal forum b-tches start showing up?
Anyway, check out this pic of Bush with some members of the ladies volleyball team. Sometimes, it’s really good to be king LOL.
Over 1,300 people are reported dead after Russian forces responded to a Georgian attack on rebels in the breakaway province of South Ossetia by mounting a full scale invasion.
How many of those mindless “world peace” liberal POSs are going to blame this on Bush? GFY.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Does that fat liberal drooling slob Michael Moore know something the mindless liberal zombies do not?
It’s the most winnable presidential election in American history - but the Democrats are old hands at losing. Michael Moore offers some helpful hints on how they might gift it all to the Republicans:
“So you would think, with more than 200 million eligible voters, the Dems would be cleaning up, election after election. Obviously not. The Democrats appear to be professional losers. They are so pathetic in their ability to win elections, they even lose when they win! Al Gore won the 2000 election, but for some strange reason he didn’t become the president of the United States.”
Uhm, no homie. Al Gore lost - three separate independent recounts in Florida said Bush would have won anyway had not the Algore camp tried to re-write the law and cherry pick recount counties, which the Florida Supreme Court put a stop to. But that little factoid aside, just look at the morons you people and your pathetic media put up on a pedestal. The O-mania can’t even answer a question outside of the box so to speak. Pesoli is an incompetent old burned out hippy liberal who will be shown the door eventually by Americans sick of her - just see how well her book is doing for a barometer of that.
Time to go spend some of my money on me. Later.
By Glenn Vaughn
August 10, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
“Pretty rhetoric……” another historic piece by a truly great voice of our time.
Dear Jim Wooten, the ending to an item I wrote a few weeks back was thusly…”Our Camelot years were at the Athens Dail News with late greats Lewis Grizzard, Browny Stephens and Larry Young and living greats Jim Wooten, Wade Saye and Gerald Rutberg.” Regards, Glenn Vaughn
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
Chicago, IL — “I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, and urge an immediate end to armed conflict. Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint, and to avoid an escalation to full scale war. Georgia’s territorial integrity must be respected. All sides should enter into direct talks on behalf of stability in Georgia, and the United States, the United Nations Security Council, and the international community should fully support a peaceful resolution to this crisis.”
That was the original statement Obama put out. Equal blame for Russia and Georgia and let’s all go hold hands at the UN.
This afternoon I spoke, for the second time since the crisis began, with Georgian President Saakashvili. It is clear the situation is dire. Russian aggression against Georgia continues, with attacks occurring far beyond the Georgian region of South Ossetia. As casualties continue to mount, the international community must do all it can to avert further escalations. Tensions and hostilities between Georgians and Ossetians are in no way justification for Russian troops crossing an internationally recognized border. I again call on the Government of Russia to immediately and unconditionally withdraw its forces from the territory of Georgia.
Given this threat to Euro-Atlantic security, I am pleased to see the United States, the European Union, and NATO acting together by sending a delegation to the region, in an effort to broker a cease fire. This is an important first step.
The United Nations has been prevented from taking any meaningful action by Russian objections. In view of this, I welcome the statements of democratic nations defending the sovereignty of Georgia and condemning Russian actions.
I strongly support the declaration issued by the Presidents of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and their commitment that ‘aggression against a small country in Europe will not be passed over in silence or with meaningless statements equating the victims with the victimizers.
That was part of the McCain statement.
tbc
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
After reading an adult response to the situation Obambi apparently went to rewrite, at least if this Reuters story is to be believed.
“I condemn Russia’s aggressive actions and reiterate my call for an immediate ceasefire,” Obama said in a statement.
“Russia must stop its bombing campaign, cease flights of Russian aircraft in Georgian airspace, and withdraw its ground forces from Georgia.”
Change you can believe in! But notice he used the same weasel words he always does to lead you to believe that was his position all along.
By catlady
August 10, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
how long before the liberal forum b-tches start showing up?
mindless “world peace” liberal POS
fat liberal drooling slob Michael Moore know something the mindless liberal zombies
Nice to see the “family values” GOP supporters are on this blog, showing all what a dump their minds are.
By getalife "whiners"
August 10, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West’s jugular
Meanwhile, China gets a huge oil deal in Iraq and Beijing george is playing cheerleader at the Olympics.
By @@
August 10, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
This is the most comprehensive interview I’ve ever watched. John Hofmeister, former head of Shell Oil:
The Future of Oil
He doesn’t discount alternative energy sources. To the contrary, he encourages them. But his overview presents the realities, not wishful thinking.
The cherry for Mr. Hofmeister’s sundae
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Astounding hypocrisy alert!
*Although the New York Times published a lengthy front page hit piece in February alleging without any proof that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist eight years ago, it is now claiming that it chose not to report on the John Edwards love child scandal because it’s “classically not a Times-like story.” *
By @@
August 10, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
I JUST cannot believe it — The NYT’s claim, and the fact that there’s a man whose eyes don’t wander.
Excellent President Bush…..eyes front and center.
By getalife "whiners"
August 10, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
RW,
That is rich.
The National Enquirer scooped the corporate media.
Too funny.
Wonder why the one cut and run to Hawaii when his birth certificate is in question?
Coincidence?
I think not.
By getalife "whiners"
August 10, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
Um @@,
Did you miss this one?
By getalife "whiners"
August 10, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
Um @@,
Nice try
By @@
August 10, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
What a scoundrel you are Getalife. Yours was a backhanded approach to get me to believe that Bush went for the backside rather than the back.
You Boob! (ISH)
I’m off to a pool party!
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
“Nice to see the “family values” GOP supporters are on this blog, showing all what a dump their minds are.” -skanklady
Uh huh. You hate-Conservative liberals can dish it out on this blog all day, all week, then when someone like me just retaliates and throws that muck right back in your face, you pathetic liberal cretins whine, pi-ss, and moan. Put on your big girl panties and SUCK IT UP, mindless hysterical emotion-driven liberals.
Moving along…
As stated yesterday, watch how quickly the RATs wipe their hands of Pretty Boy, starting with the media. Huh, let’s see, the surge is no longer important according to them because it’s working, so now this is not important because it reminds people of the disgusting shenanigans of the corrupt lying thieving left. From CNN’s Howard Kurtz who asked CNN’s Jessica Yellin to discuss why main slime liberal media ignored the Edwards story for so long:
YELLIN: And the other is that John Edwards was at no point a top contender for the presidency. I mean, before the campaign started this got a little bit of traction. As soon as it was clear that he really wasn’t going to be in the running after Iowa, there’s no real public interest of need to know here.
Speak for yourself, liberal Dimwits.
By CPO Sharky
August 10, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
This place turns into a place where a bunch of crybabies and whiners blog all weekend. All day long. Incredible. I wonder if anyone ever reads this crap.
Oh my god everyone! So-and-so sneezed wrong!
What a bunch of losers.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
NEW YORK (CBS) ― It was quite a chaotic scene in Midtown Friday night after some construction work gone awry left several tourists trapped in an elevator high up in the Empire State Building. Visitor From Germany: ‘No One Say Sorry To Us’
Well German tourists, welcome to the real liberal America - so caring, so tolerant of diversity (especially OPINIONS and BELIEFS). NYC is the bastion of liberalism in the Northeast, so all I can tell you is welcome to the modern American left. Glad you got a taste of it, but rather unfortunate you had to got through this reality show to experience it.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
“This place turns into a place where a bunch of crybabies and whiners blog all weekend.”
Sharkbait, nobody from the Right here whines and regurgitates comments about the hate vitriolic fecal matter that the mindless hysterical left slings out from there cages on this blog day in and day out, do they?
Didn’t think so.
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
@@,
She wasn’t making it easy for him
and
Neither was Misty
Although he only patted her on the back which was a little her than where she requested the good luck pat.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
84.6 degrees.
IN August.
IN the South.
IN Georgia.
That’s about 8 degrees below normal, just like yesterday. Ever notice how the only time the mindless liberal hysterics on the left ever b*** about global warming is when it hits a similar temp fluctation of say, about 100 degrees? And these mindless Algorebot liberal demoncat asshats want to use the gestapo tactics of government to TELL YOU what you can and can’t do with YOUR LIFE based upon that Algorebot man-made/man-induced/man-manipulated junkassed science? I DON’T THINK SO.
Idiots.
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
getalife,
According to this story The Dunce doesn’t qualify under the law to be elected President even if there isn’t anything wrong with his birth certificate.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
Thee Jihadi headline:
Iraq demands ‘clear timeline’ for US withdrawal-Breitbart/ al Jazeera wannabe
And thee story enclosed within:
Zebari said the Iraqis were insisting that the agreement include a “very clear timeline” for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces, but he refused to talk about specific dates.
“We have said that this is a condition-driven process,” he added, suggesting that the departure schedule could be modified if the security situation changed.
That’s the same thing Bushie said five years ago.
And it’s the same thing Bushie said the last time he spoke about it.
So why are you Jihadists twisting it into a headline that only Obama Bin Laden would love? Oops, I mean Osama, uh, or do I?
(This will be the exact same headline/ story combination that thee Urinal/Jihad will run tomorrow, bwa.)
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Iraq said on Friday it was resuming exploration of its immense oil reserves after a break of nearly 20 years due to crippling UN sanctions, saying it hopes to double its proven deposits of crude. “Today the Iraqi oil ministry celebrates a return to work by Iraqi oil exploration teams after 20 years of interruption,” ministry spokesman Assim Jihad told AFP.
You don’t say. According to the mindless hysteria of diseased liberalism, Iraq was doing JUST FINE exploring for oil prior to The Shrub’s (awe, isn’t that such a cute little mindless liberal phrase for Bush?) invasion in 2003.
I never thought about it, but that article reminds me - we’re only two and a half years away from the 20th anniversary of Gulf War I. Wow time flies. Liberals were against that war too - “No Blood For Oil!” Exactly how much oil did we steal from Iraq after that war again???
Mindless idiots.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Magnificent, has huge liabilities. He has never held real executive office and has been in Washington barely for a single senatorial term. He came out of nowhere to dominate the scene in ways that many Americans are still trying to process. He has been criticised as a far-left extremist, a prissy elitist, a cynical centrist and a secretly Muslim fraud. Examining this figure who is asking to be president at the tender age of 47, watching him adapt and move on the national state, is a sensible precaution. Americans are a prudently cautious lot and it speaks well of them that many are reserving final judgment.
And that’s from a lib.
By getalife "whiners"
August 10, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
RW,
Vegas mafia? Interesting but check trhis out:
Obama — escorted by Secret Service and accompanied by a few campaign staff and a pool of reporters and camera crews — arrived at about 4:10 p.m. yesterday and spent an hour with his 85-year-old maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him. He was not accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and two daughters.
Visiting grandma without the kids?
Something is up.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
FYI, Circuit City has a killer deal on an LG 1080p 42” LCD in today’s flier for $1049.99. It makes a great little bonus room TV. Go spend your money while you still have it before the socialist neo-Marxist O-Force One swoops in and takes over your bank account - IF he wins of course - and looking at all the mindless spitting from the left, some liberal skirts seem worried. And like sKerry four years ago, rightfully so.
BTW, if this economy sucks a-ss so bad like the mindless hysteria of diseased liberalism constantly pummels us with day in and day out, can someone explain to me why I have to ALWAYS fight for a parking spot at mall and/or strip mall anchor store parking lots?
Inquiring minds wanna know, because I damn sure can’t figure it out. Hell I thought we were in the Great Depression again according to mindless hysterical liberals.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
RW drops thee Bomb:
The above information may be presented from the floor at the Democratic National Convention, and my be the impetus of resurrecting Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Presidential campaign.
Buh-bye barry.
Hello Bruno, ew.
By getalife "whiners"
August 10, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
No ew Andy.
Bwa.
I think the foreign one is full of himself like Edwards and think they can get away with stupid crap.
President Hillary Clinton and the neolibs are in for some payback along with you wingnuts.
Karma.
Bwa.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
al-Gitmo: A couple of hours of Rush on Monday, we’ll have Bruno crying again.
My goodness, I can just imagine the get out the vote drive this would be for the Repugs.
Hello Congress.
Buh-bye Bruno.
Bwa.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Obama 08: America gets rid of it’s filthy rat conservative p-holes, (I mean a-holes).
Osama 08: Thanks for letting me get away conservatives. Now, I will put antrax in your wife’s douchebags. bwa ha.
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC-M,
There was always a chance that if something came up to cause a floor vote because of a scenario like that one I linked to that enough people would vote Edwards to make sure it got to a second ballot. on the second ballot Edwards would have been a likely compromise candidate. Unfortunately ABC got confirmation of the Hunter entanglement. Who do you suppose got them that info on Edwards and cleared the deck?
I question the timing!
BWAHAHAHA
Dems,
Please nominate the munchkin from Cleveland.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
RW: No doubt, Bruno’s got every lawyer in America working on this, except for the Breck Girl.
You know what is going to be so awe inspiring, is watching the lib media contort themselves back to being lovers of thee KKKlintons, even after all of the hate and trash talking.
It will be absolutely heinous and disgusting.
I’ll bet they are scrubbing all the love for Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Splendid Foreigner In Thee Land, from their websites as we speak.
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Those girls were raised in Jeremiah Wright’s church. Maybe they don’t like typical white folks, plus The Dunce already said his grandmother was a racist so they could have been scared.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
The West cannot afford to be indifferent to Georgia’s fate
Yeah, especially now that Europe’s as-s is in a sling, it’s all guts and glory, as long as Bushie does all the war making.
The final conclusion is the need to focus on what is at stake. Is the West’s relationship with Russia the most important issue? If so, what happens to that relationship if we demonstrate that brutality works and that “zones of interest” can be formed against the interests of the countries that reside in them? What happens to our wider scheme of interests in Central and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea and Caspian regions? Those questions are now being asked, but it is late to be asking them. TELEGRAPH
It all comes to pass, doesn’t it, these same mealy mouth little bas-tards whined and moaned for years when we were protecting our national security, now thee surrender monkeys are beating the war drums.
Pick up your rifle, Nancy.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
TBILISI, Georgia - Russia expanded its bombing blitz to the Georgian capital, deployed ships off the coast and, a Georgian official said, sent tanks from the separatist region of South Ossetia into Georgian territory, heading toward a border city before being turned back Sunday. Russia also claimed its forces sank a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian ships in the Black Sea, news agencies reported.
This is getting interesting. It’s an election year where a war veteran hawk is running up against a peacenik moron who can’t make up his mind about anything (and who’s legal citizenship is questionable), Shrillary the historical landmark campaign failure may be back in play now, and Russia starts testing the waters on how much it can get away with and b!tchslaps Georgia.
Tom Clancy couldn’t have written it any better.
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC-M,
I’m surprised they haven’t put out the word on some stolen McCain letterhead by now.
Then again Hillary could present this on Tuesday and Bill could play the “whitey tape” on Wednesday. That’s going to be a lonely 60,000 seat stadium The Dunce is standing in talking to his teleprompter on Thursday, while Hillary’s accepting the nomination at the convention center.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
Get a load of this window into the mind of the Shrillary camp. Want to know what they REALLY think of Obama? Watch the Youtube flick. Read some of the comments too.
My favorite: “Marxism is good!” What an ignorant uneducated (well maybe he IS educated - err indoctrinated) little mindless liberal POS.
This is getting really, REALLY good.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
Well, well:
Perhaps ironically, much of the internal strife within al-Qaeda can be traced back to its greatest success. In an interview with an Egyptian newspaper after he went public with his denunciation of the organization’s tactics, Fadl characterized the 9/11 attacks as “a catastrophe for the Muslims” and blamed al-Qaeda for the “death of tens of thousands of Muslims—Arabs, Afghans, Pakistanis, and others” as a result. Even bin Laden’s son Omar abruptly quit al-Qaeda over the attack, which he said had “destroyed everything, and for nothing.”
The very Muslim world itself realizes who killed all the innocent people in Iraq, even though the Pinko Nation doesn’t.
Remember America, you suck.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
PRINCETON, NJ — In a year when approval of Congress has reached a new low, just 36% of U.S. registered voters say most members of Congress deserve re-election. This is among the lowest ratings Gallup has measured in a recent presidential or congressional election year.
There IS hope for America. Hopefully the Republicans have learned from this fiasco over the past 18 months of gross negligence, corruption, and incompetency brought on by the Pelosicrats - as well as their own checkered past of course. Far be it from me to not slam “Conservative” Republicans of the past acting like a bunch of damned liberal Dimocrats.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
Details missing from Obama’s Social Security plan
Uhm, yeah, and we’re STILL waiting for Dumbo’s answers to tough questions like that. Amazing how the liberal lame slime media handles this guy with kid gloves. No, ultimately, it’s not so amazing. It’s to be expected. Only that wretched biased news media outlet “Faux News” (awe, isn’t that such a cute epithet the pathetic liberals sling on Fox News?) seems to care about the details of Dumbo’s plans for America.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Uh-oh, somebody’s going to get stoned to death:
Iranian basketball team shakes Israeli coach’s hand
By ham bone
August 10, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
By AmVet August 9, 2008 12:42 PM The first Ann Coulter loving, pack b!tch joins in at 12:24.
Yeah, someone sure has a lot of nerve to complain about another’s posts around here, hmmm?
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this
The Iranians play basketball? I thought the Mullahs were against anything Western like sports (except that boringassed mindless game known as soccer). Who knew..
Congrats USA for a new world record on the 4x100 Freestyle Relay!
As much as the diseased mindless liberals hate America (it dates back from that “counter culture” mindlessness of hippy liberalism of the 1960s), I’m proud of her.
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
“Fed up with his students’ complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept “variant spellings” as legitimate.”
“Rather than grammarians getting in a huff about “argument” being spelled “arguement” or “opportunity” as “opertunity,” why not accept anything that’s phonetically (fonetickly anyone?) correct as long as it can be understood?”
That’s no joke. The mindless liberal Dimocrat pantywastes in this nation running our public gubment schools are already doing away with ANYTHING to do with actual competition like spelling bees and field days because (gasp!) a child may win and a child may LOSE.
Idiot mindless liberal hysteria.
Now exactly how long will it be before this mindless liberal “idea” is brought to the US under the guise of “not hurting a child’s self esteem?”
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
Essence editor: Obamas a model for kids, community: Essence editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray said it took a year for the magazine to gain access to the Obama’s Illinois home for an intimate interview with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia. Burt-Murray talked Thursday with CNN “American Morning” anchor Kiran Chetry about the interview and the Obama family.
“Chetry: They do live in a gated community, a $1.6 million home, so it’s out of reach for a lot of people.”
Interesting. We hear you whineyassed mindless hysterical overhyped, overemotioned liberals whine about the “evil rich” all the time and how selfish they are and how it’s not fair for them to be exclusive from others (ie: the “poor”) and live in gated communities, but for the O-mania, it’s apparently okay.
Make up your damned minds, liberal hypocrites.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
So who will the Chinese butcher for that humiliating B ball loss to the U.S, the coach or the captain?
Off to thee gulag with you.
By RW-(the original)
August 10, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
they’ve come after Iowahawk.
“““““““““““““““““““““
In case you are an inquiring mind wanting to know, Overlawyered has the lowdown on Fred Baron, the Edwards’ legal crony who paid for his lover Rielle Hunter’s relocation and housing expenses
By AJC/DNC Management
August 10, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this
Does anyone else have no doubts that the drive bys are just itching for the United States to lose the medal count so that they can whine and moan about the loss of American greatness under the failed policies of George Bushie or some other such nonsense?
Or maybe they’ll have stories about America’s best athletes being mired in Bushie’s war in Iraq.
Watch and see.
By Rufus
August 10, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
Oops. Let’s try this again…
Anybody catch the Atlanta Jihad Manifesto’s opinion earlier this week on how O-mania is race issue for an election “Cards on the table: Like it or not, race a factor in ‘08”? Never mind Dumbo can’t even describe what the hell he WANTS for America, let alone people who merely DISAGREE with his socialist, neo- Marxist policies.
Like, IT’S THE POLITICS, STUPID.
Well you can say that again Cynthia.a>- Republicans sure as hell aren’t bringing up race like you Dimocrats on the mindless hysterical left are.
And I’ll bet that moonbat wonders why the Atlanta Jihad Manifesto’s sales and ad revenues keep sinking into the well-deserved sewers of Atlanta. Many years ago she had the brilliant idea to “bomb” Iraq’s Kurdish refugees with cans of Spam, not checking out basic FACTS like Spam having pork.
What else is new.
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