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DEL.ICIO.USDumbed-down college; financial lessons
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at American Enterprise Institute. Here’s his assessment of the traditional college route to adulthood: “College is not all it is cracked up to be. Dumbed-down courses, flaky majors and grade inflation have conspired to make the term B.A. close to meaningless. Another problem with today’s colleges is more insidious: They are no longer good places for young people to make the transition from childhood to adulthood. Today’s colleges are structured to prolong adolescence, not to midwife maturity.” Hope this assessment doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings who’s, you know, on campus or anything.
Wall Street Journal headline after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. fell to bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch & Co. fell to Bank of America: “Old-School Banks Emerge Atop New World of Finance.” Lesson: Save. Don’t get strung out on debt. There’s no new way to make debt an asset. In a financial crisis, those with cash can buy good stuff cheap. Landing Merrill Lynch “was the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Bank of America Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis. “This … creates the company instantly that would have taken decades to build.”
Thirty-four years after he viciously murdered his wife for her modest insurance, justice came to Jack Alderman. On the day before his execution Fulton Superior Court Judge Melvin Westmoreland ordered a stay until the state parole board held a “meaningful” clemency hearing. A last-minute stay after 34 years. The board met meaningfully and again denied clemency.
Cheers for DeKalb Solicitor Robert James, who hauled parents to court for their children’s unexcused absences from school.
Tolls on interstate HOV lanes, already built with tax dollars? Not legitimate. It’s a second tax on highways to fund other spending. And what do those who pay the second highway tax get? Not another square inch of road capacity.
Everybody who expects problems at the polls on election day should vote early. Problem solved.
Volunteers needed to hunt for lost vice presidential candidate. Anybody seen Joe Biden?
Horror of horrors, the DOT has prematurely bought some land in the path of future road construction. Shocking. But if the state had an extra billion dollars, buying future transportation corridors in Metro Atlanta — or all of North Georgia — would be a smart investment. As the Northern Arc debacle revealed, you can’t move once people put down tap roots.
The Brian Nichols jury is selected. Take a couple of days to decide his guilt or innocence and then another 90 trying to convince all 12 jurors to impose capital punishment. I’m thinking the defense got a 10-2 or 11-1 jury on that.
Give it your best shot, I say to my friends on the left. Sarah Palin does too. “If you want specifics and specific policy or countries, go ahead, you can play stump-the-candidate if you want,” she said to a questioner Wednesday. That is the game, as everybody knows. Palin won’t be cowed. The guys — Barack Obama, Biden and John McCain — all have that inside-the-Beltway feel — McCain the maverick less than the others. Palin’s the genuine outsider. “I think because I’m a Washington outsider, opponents are going to be looking for a whole lot of things that they can criticize” but on Inauguration Day “I’ll be ready.”
Russia vows to mark its Arctic territory so it can claim a large share of its mineral riches. Russia, the U.S., Canada and other countries all are trying to assert jurisdiction in the Arctic because of oil, gas and minerals. One more reminder: The future requires a strong leader in the White House, a decision-maker. It’s no time for a facilitator. False signals could be consequential. We’re dealing with thugs.
If I had $100,000 available, I’d pour it into financial stocks and others battered by the panic. What we have to fear is panic. Have faith in America.
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By Mid-South Philosopher
September 19, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
The greatest crisis involving the American economy since the Great Depression is now upon us. Almost eight years of “Corporatist” domination of our financial institutions has led to an explosion in greed and profit-making at all costs without regard to honesty, fairness, or moral sense. Consequently, we stand upon the precipice of an economic gulf of unimaginable proportions.
It is clear to me that George W. Bush was never a conservative. Instead, he was, at best, the ignorant pawn of Cheney and the other Corporatist totalitarians all of whom have made mounds of money at the expense of American treasure, both material and human, or, at worst, he was an integral part of the conspiracy to milk the American economy of the bulk of its wealth.
At the same time, the Democratic controlled Congress cannot go unpardoned for their “rump” mentality and for “fiddling around” while the “American economy burned”!
It appears now that you and I, the American taxpayers, will have the honor and privilege of paying for the avarice of the Wall Street and K Street moguls. The bailout plans that will ultimately be funded by the Congress will be financed by our tax dollars, while schools, health care, the southern border, and a myriad of other domestic issues and needs will go unattended.
Regardless of who is elected to the White House in November, come January 20th of next year, a special prosecutor should be appointed. A special federal grand jury should be impaneled. A full and comprehensive investigation of the financial improprieties of the last eight years should be conducted. Inquiry as to what extent governmental leaders (executive or legislative) may have been involved in the wrongdoing should be made. Ultimately, someone should go to prison. Doubtless, there are a number of business executives, lobbyists, and CEOs who are culpable. If the trail of guilt leads to a Congressman, a Senator, a former President or a former Vice President, so be it. Our federal penal institutions can accommodate them.
Prior to that, all current candidates for “re-election” to the Congress should be defeated. Not a single mother’s son or father’s daughter, now sitting in either the House or the Senate (except those Senators not up for re-election) should be there when the new Congress convenes in January. There is not one, not one, worthy to continue another term.
We will send them back, of course. In fact, many of them will not even have opposition. How pitiable.
Well, you can do what you want, but as for me, if there is an (I) beside the candidate’s name on the ballot in the General Election in November, there is one vote that she or he will NOT receive. That is the best I can do.
By JackC
September 19, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
Yes Mid-South. You look for the (I) to not vote for whilst I in addition to that, look for the (L) to vote for. :)
All the carping back and forth about the R vs D. They are all espousing ideals that are anathema to me. People that worry about the “spoiler”—that just tells me that they have no principles and can’t be trusted in the long run. You don’t vote for who you think has a chance to win. You vote for who you believe in the most. If you truly believe in what a candidate is selling, vote for them for that reason. Anything less and you’ve sold your soul.
By Original Rick
September 19, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten,
I am writing to ask when, as suggested by a recent letter writer, you are going to start columns on the differences between the philosophies of George W. Bush and John McCain.
There have to be some, as Sen. McCain keeps referring to them. You would be one of the best to list differences, would you not think?
Thank you.
By Churchill
September 19, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
Donald G. Burkhard: No simple answers to energy Athens Banner-Herald | Story updated at 7:39 pm on 9/18/2008
The statement that present rigs for oil drilling on U.S. territories can have a significant impact on our oil energy needs is false.
According to the most optimistic calculations, all oil deposits currently available on U.S. territory, would meet our current rate of consumption, if they were our only sources, for 31/2 years. A more realistic figure is 2 to 2 1/2 years.
All of the above modest reserves should be saved for a national emergency when foreign oil no longer is available. Even then, it will give us only a short breathing spell. Predicting the precise end of foreign oil is difficult. However, it will occur in the not too distant future, and it is best to prepare for it now.
Meanwhile, we need to build oil drilling rigs at all of the above locations now so that they will be ready to produce at short notice. Also, our national storage capacity both above and underground should be increased to a number compatible with safety. They should be kept full of foreign oil. Our current sources, Canada, Mexico, etc. will run out soon enough. The Middle East as a world source eventually will dry up; our own oil then will fill the gap for a short time. In addition to essential transportation, we need reserves for oil used in chemical technology to produce the vast number of oil- based products including medical applications. Effective mass transportation systems should be built now.
It is an illusion to believe we can use so- called green energy to supply our energy needs. It took nature 400 million years to create our oil and coal deposits from decaying fauna and flora. We cannot duplicate that kind of energy using our present limited green sources. Also, the conversion process is highly inefficient. For example, 4 units of input energy are required to produce 1 unit of ethanol energy from corn, trees, etc.
Gasoline obtained directly from oil avoids these energy problems, because the energy to create oil already has been supplied by nature over 400 million years. Conventional oil rig drilling leaves a large excess of energy even after deep, expensive drilling.
It often is proposed that we can use our vast coal reserves as a source of liquid energy by converting coal to oil, then use that oil as a source of gasoline. This process is a net energy loser. So using coal to obtain oil is out. Also, coal produces tremendous atmospheric pollution including carbon dioxide, mercury and other heavy metals. Coal can, of course, be used to propel steam engines efficiently, but only at the high pollution cost.
If global warming continues along with the vanishing of oil, the Earth will become, to say the least, an unpleasant habitat for man. The Earth is over populated. We now are paying the price of our use of oil to create the vast technology that made over population possible.
Donald G. Burkhard
Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of Georgia
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Simple cure for the prolonged adolescence of college – mandatory ROTC, including the first year summer “activity.” Yes, of course girls, too – what a dumb question.
Had a good laugh about the Lehman failure – FHLMC and Hugo Chavez lost a bundle. See, there is a silver lining.
I try to understand Judge Westmoreland ordering a “meaningful meeting,” his assuming the board had not done its statutory job with no evidence. Was he cowardly, afraid to face the voters after imposing his own beliefs to override the jury, or was he poking at bureaucrats? Curious minds want to know.
I respectfully disagree on the DeKalb parent truancy solution. The educrats will use this tool to punish home schoolers. A better choice would be to charge the juveniles, and to imprison them on their 18th birthday, one day for every day of school they missed unexcused. I suppose that is cynical, equating a day of school with a day of prison, but I suspect that is the way the truants view it. The solicitor is only teaching the worthless that someone else will pay their penalty. Without the explicit Christian doctrine.
I have mixed feelings on the HOV tax. HOV is a blunt tool used by the overlords to control behavior. The tax offers a quasi-market alternative to sitting in traffic. I adhere to my solution, move state government to Macon.
What kind of problems are we expecting at the polls? Is Al Obama planning to attack Gwinnett county voters?
I think I heard Joe Biden was somewhere in Africa promising to prosecute President Bush and Vice President Cheney for war crimes. Wonder why the democrats are not publicizing that?
Re the Nichols jury, you are more likely to Daily Kos reader voting for McCain/Palin than a Fulton jury that will sentence a killer to death.
Sarah the Magnificent is less likely to be in the pocket of FNMA/FHLMC than any of the other three. Make her the regent to write the post mortem on FHLMC and FNMA. Bet that report would burn the beltway insiders.
Solution for the Arctic: send the Palin Oil Company to a spot 3 miles off the coast of St. Petersburg, guarded by two carriers and five nuclear subs, and tell them to start digging. However, the Kum-ba-yah solution – assign mineral rights to the UN – gives me a secret laugh too.
Let’s not make dumb investments there, Jim – there are still some sucker plays in financials. I wouldn’t bet the house on either Citibank or WAMU.
By Mrs. Godzilla
September 19, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
So Palin says:
““If you want specifics and specific policy or countries, go ahead, you can play stump-the-candidate if you want,”
at a McCain townhall.
Big Whoop.
It was a ticketed event, supporters only, and immediately after the word “want” came out of her mouth McCain took the podium.
Sarah Palin needs to put on her big girl panties and face the real press.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Very clever O’Rick. You have both slapped Mr. Wooten’s face and boxed his ears. He is now as deaf as Beethoven was when he wrote, “Mein Fife”. I think it goes something like this: “Toot toot toot goes my leetle silver fife. I can never find it cause it gets abused by my wife.”
By Churchill
September 19, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Jim
“If I had $100,000 available, I’d pour it into financial stocks and others battered by the panic. What we have to fear is panic. Have faith in America.”
Borrow it from Capt’n Freedom or Dusty, just pocket change to them. How’s the Datsun running?
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
Wooten would buy here? Lets all pile in then.
Thank you, Warren Buffet. (Recede.)
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Forgive us Jim for wanting our candidates to have some sort of intelligence. Shouldn’t they be some of the brightest minds in our country, and she wants to hide behind her grandpa. We’ll see what happens at the debate.
I’m sure all of you mindless sheep watched the Hannity interview, what a joke that was. She used the same tired, scripted lines over and over again, and he didn’t question her responses one time. Coward.
By Ray
September 19, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Mrs G,
With a level playing field, what a great idea, but there is no such thing. Maybe the media could ask her about those books in that library, how she can see Russia from her front door, her membership in some Secessionist organization, contraception and her teenage daughter, why she likes God so much……. you know, important things like that. But you know what? There is not a single major media outlet out there who is not after her skin to sell more newspapers, TV ads or internet trash. Making her look bad sells all of these things and keeps dumbas like you tuned in. What is the revelation of the day, today, Mrs. G. From being accused of letting her teenage daughter take the hit for her Downs child to tapping her internet account for some more garbage to publish, this Paragon of Virtue that we call the MEDIA has done it’s job pretty well, hasn’t it? Fair and balanced? No bias. Keeping it real. What a bunch of BS. She would like to tell the media and people like you where to shove it but you don’t win elections like that. And then Charlie Gibson blows smoke up Mr. Wonderful’s a and all the libs swoon and say, “See there, there’s no bias”. Take a hike Mrs. G, you are making yourself look bad today.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Answer: Sarah Palin, her underaged, unmarried daughter, Bristol, and John McCain.
Question: Name two hockey moms and a puck.
By Glenn
September 19, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Murray is pretty accurate re the intellectual/sophistication/learning level college grads are absobing today. Dumbed-down, uninformed nitwits is probably a strong…understatement.
Palin is a stench in the nostrils of the word “decency” and should be an insult to all - even that mass of lower middle class hillbillies who suppport her and will blindly vote for her and McShame. It’s pathetic to watch her - but she’s ideal for the Repunk Crypto-Nazis that abound. Not much else in your memo.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Someone just used the T word (trillion) to describe the cost to taxpayers of the credit crisis.
That’s about what the S+L cost taxpayers in 1990’s money.
So Iraq is a trill, the AIG thing is a trill.
A trill here and a trill there, and pretty soon you’re talking about………
A. Real money
B. A cuckoo clock
C. a gay marriage
D. If you’ve read this far you’re a moron.
By Frost
September 19, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Well,the convetion bounce and honeymoon is over for Mccain and Palin,now its back to sq one and the polls are again favoring ur hated celebrity and the economy is again stupid? What Now Mr WOOTEN… Any more negatives in ur belly lined up for Obama or you are just going to let him be inaugaurated in January 09?
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
Has anyone bothered to ask the question, if Palin is so irresponsible to get pregnant at the age of 44, what is to keep her from getting pregnant again? She obviously has no contraceptive education, and certainly a lack of judgement. I’m all for maternity leave, but after George I’d like to have some leaders who are actually in office and not out for extended periods of time or on vacation for 1/3 of their term.
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
Has anyone bothered to ask the question, if Palin is so irresponsible to get pregnant at the age of 44, what is to keep her from getting pregnant again? She obviously has no contraceptive education, and certainly a lack of judgement. I’m all for maternity leave, but after George I’d like to have some leaders who are actually in office and not out for extended periods of time or on vacation for 1/3 of their term.
By AmVet
September 19, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
Good job today, Jim.
Only a couple of goofball assertions.
Of course, colleges crank out semi-literate, ill-prepared still-children by the boat loads.
Wouldn’t want it to be too hard and damage the delicate self esteem of some of the lil darlings would we?
Throw in your obligatory “student athletes” and voila!
Kids with bachelor’s degrees who can’t find the United Kingdom on a map.
Capital punishment. Gotta love it. Nichols, like Alderman, will hopefully get a close look at it.
Voting early - the solution to any and all polling problems? Neo-conically simple-minded.
Perhaps it is time to reevaluate forcing public education on the mindless.
Give the losers the option of not attending and watch most of the problems go away. As the RepubliCons apparently want an economic caste system in this country, this is a great path to it.
My goodmess. Championing Palin as an outsider, after the debacle named GWB?! He was as outside as you can get! Outside the norms of reasoned and ethical thinking, that is.
Just another example of faux conservatives being EXCEPTIONALLY slow to learn from their many mistakes.
And finally:
If I had $100,000 available, I’d pour it into financial stocks…
No wonder his ardent fans her ape his uncommonly senseless thinking.
RepubliCons without any money giving unsolicited advice to those with it and what to do with it.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Would you like to volunteer your efforts in the conjugal implications of a woman Vice President, Shruggs?
By Ray
September 19, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Atlas,
Sort of like Mr. Wonderful out there on the campaign trail for the last 20 mos and representing his state in the best of ways. Congress is only in session about a third of the time anyway and then they sit on their erected thumb and get absolutely nothing done. Didn’t see Palin backing away from her duties lately. And what business is it of yours when she gets pregnant? There are a lot of new forty something mothers out there who would have to say what a stupid comment that really is.
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
You know what Jim, the Naval Academy also cranks out dumbed down individuals, right?894 out of 899. Enough said.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Joe Biden should disappear. The contrast between a real man running alone and taking full responsibility for his own polls, vs Liar-loan McCain hiding behind that wonderful skirt speaks for itself.
Obama 08: He wont skirt the truth.
By @@
September 19, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Well Jim, you can tell Mr. Murray he bites……this Mom has a daughter who was offered no other choice but to get her Associates Degree at a local college. It was a test to see how serious she was about her education. Done!…….then out of the house and onto Athens where she got her Bachelor’s degree in psychology. Done!…….accepted at a prestigious out-of-state college for her masters in Cognitive Speech Pathology. But wait!………she’s delayed her masters until she can save enough money to pay her own living expenses while there. I wanted to argue with her, but dang! I was so impressed. Said Mom and Dad had done enough. It was time she paid her own way.
Just recently she moved from her apartment shared with transient females, coming and going with transient boyfriends. She accepted an offer to share the expense of renting a house with two guys!!?!! with whom she works. Her Dad was beside himself. I applied a little logic to ease his panic. “Look at it this way” I said…..”she can either room with transient girls accompanied by a long parade of transient boyfriends, who we know nothing about, or she can room with two guys, whom we will meet and know as best we can.” He thought that made good sense. We then made a hasty trip to Athens to do just that. Went to the house she may or may not be living in, pending our decision. First thing my husband saw was a welcome mat purchased by her co-worker, the manager at her place of employment. What did it say? A Proud AMERICAN Lives Here. Turns out the guy did a 4 year stint in the Marine Corp — served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s about to get his 4-year degree in 2. Finance major, and a super nice fella. Has a wolfhound whose loyalties have shifted from him to my daughter. A wolf guarding against the wolves.
A finance major with a dog named Buck.
Our daughter is the best investment we’ve ever made in America’s future.
And btw…..her boyfriend is on the same path as her roommate after having done 4 years in the Navy.
That girl knows value when she sees it.
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I noticed in the right-hand margins earlier that “Boxer awakened from a two month coma.” Would that be Barbara? Must be the green gases permeating on the hill.
Well I’m back to the homefront. I’ll check out your other opportunities later.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
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McCain 08: Short-skirting America
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
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McCain 08: Short-skirting America
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By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
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McCain 08: Short-skirting America
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By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Sorry Ray, but my statement about W was accurate, as he is the president and should be working more than any other person in the country, VP should be number 2.
As for who’s business it is about her pregnancy, I’m glad you said what you did and I’d like to know if you are pro-choice or not? To me that sounds like, “a womans reproductive business is her business”, but you and the rest of the Repugnants, and the far right, would be the first to take that right away if given the chance. So which is it, is a womans body her business, or should it be legislated by your morality? Typical hypocrits.
By Jim Wooten
September 19, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
Great story about your daughter, @@ (10:42am).
You and Mr. @@ obviously raised her right. Congratulations.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
W just said, “anyone caught stock-frauding will be persecuted.”
the word should be “prosecuted”.
Just a point of order.
By Dusty
September 19, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim et al.
Isn’t it a great morning in Atlanta, Nice and cool and sunny. AND….I am still laughing over Michelle Obama’s remark (and photo) that no one should vote for someone “cute”. Uh huh! I won’t say much more about that one ..yes…ahem!!! But, then, Obama is kinda cute in his own errr way!!! But I will NOT vote for him, just like Michelle says.
But other “cute” reflections.
Mrs. Godzie is concerned with Palin’s underpants.
Shruggging AtlaS wants to tell Palin when to get pregnant.
MIdSouth is madder than all get out!! (It’s THOSE blankety blank Republicans!!)
Churchill does not know that Captain Freedom is an undercover liberal.
LiarLoan works for the Sanitation Department collecting garbage.
AND NOTICE to CONSERVATIVES: Please write a LETTER to the Editor praising Palin. Libs are hogging the scene on orders from headquarters. Let’s beat ‘em at their game.
ALSO…thank you, Jim Wooten, for your closing line: Have faith in America! Yes, sir. ALWAYS.
By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS
September 19, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
SNIGGER SNIGGER
As ever the daily incessant stream of unhinged liberal puke is starting to ooze out on here as the usual anal compulsive obsessive worthless leftist sewer rats begin to vomit up their robotic imbecilic Bush Derangement Syndrome bile. It is both pathologically abjectly pathetic but also a time for lets do the world a favour and forcibly deport these recreant (look it up debbieturd) scum sniggering … as true Americans point at and larrrf at and PROUDLY patriotically despise such evil, mutant enemy within pinKKKO punic vermin.
funny how even the greasy illegal stinking commie creep Cuban leech getaturd is against Hussein Obama and for the slothful unreconstructed perjuring pardon selling Arkansas white trash unrepentant rapist library slush fund Klintons.
My favourite talking point in all this is The Bradley Effect which happily won’t actually be needed to keep a half-black black racist far left supercilious LIAR and its token cut and run verbose white trash surrender monkey out of THE WHITE HOUSE. The far left uppity Hussein Obama is going to lose and lose quite badly. huge PATRIOTIC SNIGGER
So keep ur popcorn handy folks for just a few weeks longer and then sit back and enjoy the BIGGEST EVER media meltdown when McCain- Palin hammer the vapid empty suit sullen racist Hussein Obama and the plagiarising EX-COMMUNICATED venal white trash Biden windbag. The leftist screeching and bleating and ranting and sneering and raging and wailing and gnashing of beaten YET AGAIN yellow stinky pinKKKO teeth is going to be a super soar away joy to behold on Fox News for all true PATRIOTS, who like yours truly utterly loathe and despise the snake bellied liberal enemy within!!!.
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Thanks for taking the bait Dusty. I guess you too are pro-choice. Must be hard to disagree with so many in your party. But yes you are correct, a woman’s body is her business. Being a woman yourself I would hope that would be a fundamental belief. Hypocrit.
By Churchill
September 19, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
Dusty
Will you lend Jim the money, the taxpayers will bail you out if he doesn’t repay you.
By Ray
September 19, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
Atlas,
I think that all of us are in most ways, pro life. We would not electively go around killing our young unless we had made a very bad decision in not protecting ourselves against an untoward event like that. Of course, it is a woman’s right to choose what she wants to do. She and the father and the God that she prays to, if she does, has to make a very hard decision. There are a lot of us “radical right wing idiots” who believe that a woman’s choice is her own. Don’t be so hasty in placing a label on everyone’s head. All conservatives are not pro-life and all liberals are not pro-choice. Far from it. There is a vast number of those in the middle who comprise most of the electorate in this country. Liberals own guns, go to church, don’t want the government in their bedroom any more than they want them in their wallet. Lots of conservatives favor gun control, are not “hillbillies”, as one poster above put it, are pro-choice and favor those that make the most, pay the most in taxes(which they already do). Aside from hating Bush, Cheney, Rove and company, you would might be surprised in how alike we really are.
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
My daughter’s story makes @@’s daughter’s story look like Mrs. Benedict Arnold when George Washington arrived at West Point to check on Benedict who had fled upon learning of his treason’s publication.
My pet goldfish’s story makes @@ look like a little piece of pond scum that a catfish wouldn’t eat.
My clipped toenail has more patriotism than @@ entire ancestry going back to the Whiskey Rebellion, of which @@’s great-great-great-great grandfather was the brew-meister.
McCain 08: Short skirting America to short sheet the economy.
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
Seriously Union Jacka$$, how long can you hide out from Immigration?
By AmVet
September 19, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Funny article in today’s AJC about the American Talibaptists/Southern Baptist Convention having Gospel Today (who comes up with this stuff?) pulled off book shelves.
The reason?
The five smiling women on the cover are women of the cloth — church pastors.
Southern Baptist polity says that’s a role reserved for men.
Though she could never be allowed to be pastor, even of a rinky hillbilly church, Sarah Palin is perfectly acceptable with the Flat Earth Society and irrational mythologists for potentially running (further into the ground?) the greatest country in the world.
No wonder the “faithful” are so dangerous…
By Chris Salzmann
September 19, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
Sarah Palin’s answer to a question about giving specifics regarding her readiness to be VP: If you want specifics and specific policy or countries, go ahead, you can play stump-the-candidate if you want,” she said to a questioner Wednesday.
Uhh, she still didn’t give any specifics. More happy talk but again no specifics. As Chuck Hagel, the respected Republican Senator from Nebraska said:”I look out of my window and see Russia and therefore I understand Russia. That kind of thing is insulting to the American people. ‘You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.’”
Palin’s Troopergate issue is now officially a scandal, thanks to their efforts to now cover-up and delay what was a non-partisan investigation started at the request of Palin herself. Her story on her reasons for firing this guy keep changing all the time.
Todd Palin has also turned down a subpeona. He left the Alankan Indpendence Party in 2002 when Sarah first ran for Deputy Governor. In a recent interview with Fox, he differentiated between Alaskans and Americans. They’re not the same??? With his history with the AIP, probably not.
LOL…..and McCain’s adding more flip flops to his already impressive record. First the fundamentals of the economy were strong; Now we have serious difficulties; Before it was saying that he believes in less regulation; Now he wants more regulation; Before he was against Bush’s tax cuts; Now he’s for them. The list goes on and on.
Anyone noticed that McCain’s campaign is now even down to stealing Obama’s lines. ENOUGH, CHANGE, CHANGE WE CAN DEPEND ON,……..
The McCain/Palin campaign can’t even come up with an original thought and they say they’re smart enough to run this country???
By Peter
September 19, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
JIM…….
You are an amazing HACK…..and the REST of you Lemming REPUBLICANS……
The Paulin Hacker has ZERO to do with the Democrat’s……
As per USUAL…… Idiots with a silly agenda, and the BLAME GAME goes on with out any MEAT at ALL !
Jim….any thoughts on policy…..or more silliness ?
Why can’t McLost use e-mail or the internet…..MAYBE because he graduated SOOOOOOO LOW in his class he is a Goof Ball !
Probably NO real policy INFO from JIM, Dusty or the Lemming Crowd…..
GEE DUSTY WOW that WAS some really BIG STUFF !
Don’t you feel very SMART NOW !
Paulin is an idiot with out much of an education, and some guy figured her out pretty quick……
Boy you guys want Dumb and DUMMER in Office !
HA HA HA……. only Americans will NOT let that Happen !
By dudley do right
September 19, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Conservative Republicans always want the government to stay out of business and avoid regulation as long as they are making lots of money. When their greed, however, gets them into a fix, they are the first to cry out for rules and laws and taxpayer money to bail out their businesses. Obviously, Republicans are socialists.
The Bush administration has decided to socialize the debt of the big Wall Street Firms. Taxpayers didn’t get to enjoy any of the big money profits on the phony financial instruments like derivatives or bundled sub-prime paper, but we get the privilege of paying for their debt and failures……These, then, are the people — the Republicans — who want to run our government for four more years. John McCain isn’t just one of them. He rides their jets. He takes their campaign donations. He makes them his campaign advisors. And he tells us to trust him…. He must think we are a nation of village idiots.
I fear he may be RIGHT!
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Ray,
I do appologize for lumping you into a hateful category, I was mearly trying to point out the hypocricy of those who would argue that her pregnancy should be her business, while at the same time denouncing the overall thought that a wowmans body is her own, for right or wrong. I agree that not everyone can be put into the conservative or liberal buckets, based on every issue, so I do appologize to you. I at the same time do not appologize for those who are not pro-choice, and read my post as you did, with the thought that how dare I want to make her body my business. To those I say suck it, hypocrits.
By Peter
September 19, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
That is a nice story about a daughter……..Just the opposit of Paulin’s daughter !
By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS
September 19, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Seriously shrugging WITLESS … how much longer before your THIRD court ordered lobotomy????
By Dusty
September 19, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Yes,@@,
I love the actions of your daughter and it is a pleasure to hear about her. Keep us posted! And keep an eye on that Navy man. My husband was in the Navy and they know how to “pilot” a ship to the destination of their desire!!
But with two Marines on watch, one being your husband, there will certainly be SEMPER FIDELIS. Doesn’t get better than that.
By BS Aplenty
September 19, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
Why Obama Should Not be President
Barack Obama campaigns on a “change” platform and promises a new bi-partisanship in dealing with Congress and its often conflicting and diverse voices. Certainly, a candidate who aspires to such changes would have a record reflecting similar accomplishments in his prior positions. One might even expect he has some higher philosophy from his background which has shaped and guided such an outlook.
But, then again, maybe Barack Obama isn’t what he appears to be.
Apart from his speech-making on change, hope and brotherhood, the reality of Barack Obama appears to be less than “brotherly”. A reality in which, like his mentor Wright, the candidate will say what his congregation pays to hear. His actions point to his genuine philosophical viewpoints as reflected in one of the doctrinal texts of the Trinity United Church of Christ:
What does sin mean for blacks? Again, we must be reminded that sin is a community concept, and this means that only blacks can talk about their sin. (White) Oppressors are not only rendered incapable of knowing their own condition, they cannot speak about or for the (black) oppressed. This means that whites are not permitted to speak about what blacks have done to contribute to their condition. They cannot call blacks Uncle Toms.; only member s of the black community can do that. For whites, to do so is not merely insensitivity, it is blasphemy!
Whites cannot know us; they do not even know themselves. If we could just get “concerned” whites to recognize this fact, then we blacks could get about the business of cleaning up this society and destroying the filthy manifestations of whiteness in it.
This is the doctrine Barack Obama teaches his children.
One comes to understand that when Obama talks about a new bi-partisanship with the diverse political components of America, he does not, as Cone puts it, think them capable of representing him or the black community. Apparently, though, Obama thinks himself more than capable of representing the rest of America.
It’s a campaign only a used-car salesman could love.
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Union Jacka$$, lobotomy’s haven’t been performed in the US since the 1970’s. As some who wants to become a citizen of this great country you should brush up on your history. It’s the least you could do even though your green card will most likely not be extended. Cheerio!!
By Liar-loan McCain
September 19, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Dusty, you’re a disgrace to the American People.
@@ is the poster child for Al KaKa.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
Dear @@ @ 10:42, I understand, kids today think a little differently than we did. She’ll be ok, she obviously chooses her friends well.
Dear TFTT @ 10:58, I would critique. You cited “Bush Derangement Syndrome” among our leftist friends, but I respectfully suggest that the disease has morphed into PDS. The morons cannot get through a post on the blog without so spewing.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
Dear BS @ 11:38, it is not on point, but Dr. Sowell had a striking argument this week that approaches much of what you said.
By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS
September 19, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
IMBECILIC anal - anally unfunny LEFTIST CRETIN ALERT!!
Liar-loan McCain
My daughter’s story makes @@’s daughter’s story look like Mrs. Benedict Arnold when George Washington arrived at West Point to check on Benedict who had fled upon learning of his treason’s publication.
My pet goldfish’s story makes @@ look like a little piece of pond scum that a catfish wouldn’t eat.
My clipped toenail has more patriotism than @@ entire ancestry going back to the Whiskey Rebellion, of which @@’s great-great-great-great grandfather was the brew-meister.
I see the should have been aborted execrable aborted foreskin aka the badly bewildered pinKKKO cyber stalKKKer is still ANALLY puking up its deeply envious resentful bile of its conservative betters. This compulsive obsessive nutter is the most pathetic, socially inadequate knuckle dragging snake bellied dogturd that has EVER infested this bit of cyber space. Ordinarily one should PITY such psychotic disturbed lame brained sickos but in this case UNCONFINED SNEERING and merciless, apposite abuse are the ONLY legitimate responses.
now watch it go sneaking off to whine incessantly to the GOP teacher about a perfectly fair comment, wholly factual post, even though yesterday it hilariously puked up yet another desperately sad , utterly unprovoked death wish about yours truly.
the snivelling effete queeralicious coward aborted foreskin STILL IS way TOO SKEERED TO USE ONE MAIN ID … its truly a sick obsessive anal coward!!
By getalife
September 19, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
2 trillion to bailout the rich and they howl about taxes.
Country first?
BS
At least Obama will take and answer questions while the gop cowers from the press.
Thug cowards
By Dusty
September 19, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
LiarLoanMcCain @11:44
Thank you very much. Coming from you, that’s a compliment..
By BS Aplenty
September 19, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Ragnar
Sowell is one of the true political geniuses of the country. Always complimentary to be included in any sentence with his name in it.
By hillbilly ragger
September 19, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
If ever there’s a moment where I doubted Jim W.’s willingness to advance any and all Rush/Rove-ordered rightwing memes, no matter their stupidity, and thought perhaps our Jim could think independently, it’s always swept away by some clunker in any given column.
Today’s clunker:
“Volunteers needed to hunt for lost vice presidential candidate. Anybody seen Joe Biden?”
Jim…from this obscure publication called the Washington Post comes…
AKRON, Ohio — As he might put, Sen. Joe Biden is literally enjoying running for vice president, and he’s not just saying that as an applause line.
While Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. John McCain are avoiding interviews with the press corps that follows them and Biden’s running mate Sen. Barack Obama projects such an aura of cool liberal columnists are begging him to get more animated, the Delaware senator is at times gleefully expansive.
“My staff says we have time for one more question, so let’s take three more,” he declared at a recent rally.
By @@
September 19, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
That is a nice story about a daughter……..Just the opposit of Paulin’s daughter !
Peter:
Bristol Palin’s story could have just as easily been mine and my daughter’s.
Why are you so quick to dismiss Bristol’s future due to her past?
Many a teenage mother, and older single mom have gone on to get their college education and have done quite well for themselves and their children.
All it takes is self-will and determination.
So your doubts? Is it because you, a liberal “Demo Cat” is owned by a political party who, for decades has been hacking up the same hairballs that choke the individual’s drive to succeed?
Is that your problem Pete?
By Th
September 19, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Any time you read anything from Charles Murray, remember that he is paid by the very wealthy to convince regular folks to support policies that keep wealth in the hands of his benefactors and keep you from getting any of it. The last thing the rich want is a meritocracy because their underachieving offspring with a coke spoon in one hand and a pair of dice in the other could never compete. Better to keep the masses uneducated and dependent.
In the early days of the Bush administration, Jim Wooten applauded them for doing their best to get rid of the long term government bureaucrats and replace them with true-blue conservatives. Many of the problems our country faces today are a result of the success of that strategy. Agencies responsible for financial oversight did no oversight because that’s not what conservatives do. There are already plenty of laws on the books giving different government agencies regulatory powers; they just refuse to use them. This is the result.
While the financial melt-down is in the news today, there are other areas you may have noticed: food inspectors who haven’t been inspecting the food leading to disease outbreaks, mine safety inspectors who don’t inspect mines for safety resulting in mine accidents, FEMA officials who can’t supply water after a disaster, oil and gas agency officials holding coke fueled orgies instead of protecting the financial interests of us taxpayers, contract compliance officials in Iraq who allowed shoddy work and huge cost overruns that wasted money and caused ill-will among the Iraqis we are supposedly there to help. Great idea you had there, Jim.
By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS
September 19, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
jbm
in a strictly literal sense U are quite correct, the ever increasing Palin hate has in the last fortnight or so somewhat usurped the longstanding irrational, envious [of] Bush hate. But, given the plethora of evidence, its perfectly reasonable to suggest that PDS is merely an offshoot - albeit a natural perfidious “extension’ - of the primary psychotic condition of BDS. Indeed CDS and McCDS are also part of the same ‘family’ of psychotic affliction(s) collectively known as BDS, now happily completely incurable and exceedingly well entrenched in the wider demented noxious rabble of should have been aborted surrender monkeys.
Its (almost) amazing to see how chuffing easy it is, day after day, to goad the resident scum on here, using awkward IRREFUTABLE facts on race and the hilarious (happily likely superfluous) impending Bradley Effect.
chuffing witless
cheers for “biting” so nicely @ ur impending court ordered lobotomy. (clearly ur lawyers have assiduously followed the judge’s kind directive to keep the news from U). Regarding ur bleeding obvious puke @ 1970’s - in ur case I hear the judge has made a wholly warranted exception. So expect the Animal Planet cameras soon for live TV coverage of ur much needed operation. I shall try some organic caramel popcorn this time … snigger
BTW - the difference between U and ET is … ET went home!!! …. snigger snigger
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
Dear Getalife @ 11:54, Bush III?”Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said on Friday he supported efforts by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve to shore up confidence in the financial markets and said he would hold off from presenting his own economic recovery plan.”
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
@@, you are correct in some of your assertion, but for me, Bristol’s situation is another glaring example of hypocricy at it’s finest. If it’s not the closet-gay republican’s crucifing the gay community, while at the same time tapping feet in airport bathrooms, it’s the bible toting, abstinance only crowd who’s daughters end up knocked up. With a daugher myself, and you as well, you can’t tell me you don’t want your daughter to be as educated as possible. It’s a scarry world out there, and you can’t hide behind blinders of ignorance. Like Palin tried to do.
By CJ
September 19, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
jjbmlaw @11:49,
In case you didn’t read it, the WSJ article that inspired Sowell’s editorial stated, “This dialogue isn’t that different from discussions that other groups — Jews, Italians, Asians, Irish — have had as they have risen in America.”
As is often the case with him, Sowell promotes false notions (e.g. the black culture means wearing pants hanging below the belt line) not asserted by the subjects of the article. In short, he manufactures statements, assertions and implications made in order to criticize them (i.e. straw man arguments).
By findog
September 19, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
Dear Jim,
I cannot in good conscience say anything about professional students with my own 14-years of college; of course I was working while studying. However I think you should get an investigative journalist to look into the Regent’s Exam Scores of our state institutes of higher education. The real problem was Zell’s lottery now making it too easy for student, through grade inflation, to afford college with the institutions dumbing down to keep their numbers up. Ragnar’s idea for mandatory ROTC is just step away from the German model of conscription precursor to a free post-secondary education.
Off to make sure water still runs down hill; enjoy your weekend…
By Shrugging Atlas
September 19, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
The Naval Academy also cranks out dumbed down individuals, right Jim? 894 out of 899. Enough said.
By "Charles", The Original
September 19, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Jim Wooten writes, “the Brian Nichols jury is selected. Take a couple of days to decide his guilt or innocence and then another 90 trying to convince all 12 jurors to impose capital punishment. I’m thinking the defense got a 10-2 or 11-1 jury on that.”
If this Jury has been Fully Informed as according to Red Beckman, it will be difficult to render a fair verdict in the Brian Nichols case. The founding fathers of the United States intented that the jury is to protect the rights of the defendant, in this case, Brian Gene Nichols, from the potential criminality of the State, prosecutors and judges. Here is a brief overview of the facts:
In the first Brian Nichols rape etc trial at the Fulton County Courthouse, the jury couldn’t reach a verdict. Ten jurors decided that Brian Nichols was not guilty and two jurors voted guilty. Prosecutors quickly decided to retry Brian Nichols depriving him of his right to review copies of the transcript in the first trial. Brian Nichols was being escorted to the courtroom to be tried again when he overpowered a female deputy, took her gun, and went into the courtroom and shot the judge and a court reporter. Nichols is also charged with killing a sheriff’s deputy who tried to stop his escape from the courthouse and shooting a federal agent at his home a few miles from the courthouse.
The prosecution of Brian Gene Nichols has been delayed purportedly because of funding for the defense attorneys. Subsequently, it was has been learned that the prosecutor, Gayle Abramson who prosecuted the Brian Nichols rape etc case was allegedly on drugs during the trial of Brian Nichols. It is alleged by defense attorneys that the drugs clouded the judgment of Gayle Abramson preventing Brian Gene Nichols from obtaining a plea like most defendants. Defense attorneys charged that the Fulton County Prosecutor, Paul Howard, during a deposition, concealed and or willfully lied about drugs being used by members of his staff.
This is an extremely difficult case for the jury. Without question, the rights and due process of Brian Gene Nichols have been denied by prosecutors, State, government. Without question, Brian Gene Nichols committed crimes in an effort to secure his rights granted by God and protected by the Constitution of the United States.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Dear CJ @ 12:30, thanks for the link. I thought I read everything in the WSJ, but I admit I missed that one. The WSJ article is pretty well-balanced, and seemingly fully develops those arguments made by Dr. Sowell, as well as the opposing “pro ghetto mentality” view. As to your particular critique, I think Dr. Sowell used the term “black culture” correctly. There is no “white” culture, although there are many people, black and white, who share similar values that are pointedly at odds with what Dr. Sowell defined as “black culture.” He has often used the term “black rednecks,” suggesting an origin of those traits he described in this particular article as “black culture.” I am comfortable that Dr. Sowell’s essay is not one of “self-loathing” but is more in line with Bill Cosby’s call for behavior standards above those tolerated today in the ghetto. As to Dr. Sowell’s character, I wish I were voting for a Sowell-Palin ticket in November.
By deanthames@yahoo.com
September 19, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Hi Jim,
Long time no comment….
I’ve pretty much given up on reading or posting to your blog…it’s pretty much nonsense.
But I thought I’d check in today to see what you covered. Just what I though…nothing.
After you eliminate everything that illustrates how short-sighted you and your ilk are about economic, foreign and social policy, that pretty much leaves you with applauding a local pol for arresting parents of teens who don’t go to school.
Bravo.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Dear Findog @ 12:40, I fear my loose language miscommunicated my thoughts. I do not favor mandatory conscription – I have too much respect for the military to foist most 18 years olds onto the institution – nor even mandatory “community service.” I do regard the leadership materials found in ROTC at least as useful as the curricula in Western Civ or Calc 101 or English 101 or even Econ 101. I think any college purporting to offer higher education would benefit its clients by providing a course in leadership.
As to the summer activity, living with real people, doing real if selfless work, for a month, would also be useful for our leaders of tomorrow.
By ron
September 19, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon,I’ve read a lot of jokes about people with a college education.Seems some of them are true.
Good job on Alderman.A little late.
The parents belong in jail.The kids are throwaways.What to do with them is a problem.Work programs?Streets need sweeping.
You all can go look for Joe Biden if you want to.I don’t care if he’s ever found.
The taxpayers are going to become the proud owners of toxic debt.Where do we get our pound of flesh?I won’t be satisfied with a pound this time.I want a ton.
Housing prices are still inflated about 100% above where they should be.
Short sellers of all kinds are apparently gone.Now we need to require that oil speculators actually take delivery of the oil they are speculating on.That will go a long way toward solving the oil problem.I don’t want to put them out of business yet,but I do want to require that they suffer for their mistakes when they make them.
By Tom
September 19, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
jbmlaw’s comment, “Solution for the Arctic: send the Palin Oil Company to a spot 3 miles off the coast of St. Petersburg” demonstrates the same firm grasp of geography that we would expect from Sarah Palin herself. Uh, jbm, you might like to consult a map or globe. Google Earth works, too.
By deegee
September 19, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
HAHAHAHHAHA! Did Sarah Palin not know or did she not care that she was totally stumped by the request made of her, “Please give us some specific foreign policy qualifications that you possess.” She blathered on and on about how she will be ready in January if she is so blessed to become vice president. Then, her mentor, John McChange had to step in and remind everyone that Sarah Palin is an energy expert and that is where you will find her foreign policy credentials. What a joke! If she were the democratic vice presidential candidate Limbaugh, Hannity, Medved, Ingraham and all the rest of the talk show circuit would be having a field day with her.
By @@
September 19, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Shrugging:
it’s the bible toting, abstinance only crowd who’s daughters end up knocked up.
Is that the “crowd” in which you place Sarah Palin? If you do, you’d be mistaken. I watched her last night in a second-part interview with Sean Hannity. When asked about her faith, she said it was very important to her. Not something that she wore on her sleeve. Not a faith that she would ever force on somebody else.
you can’t tell me you don’t want your daughter to be as educated as possible
And what’s to prevent Bristol Palin from becoming as educated as possible if she so chooses?
I find it absolutely unacceptable, the lack of hope liberals have in the individual’s ability.
You wanna see feminist hypocrisy towards, and a couple of outright lies about Governor Palin?
You’ll have to go to the link. It’s two feminists — one a Hillary supporter, now in Palin’s court (blue text) and one an OBlahMa supporter (black text).
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. Is that not her choice? Isn’t it called choice? Governor Palin’s actions were consistent with her beliefs. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist’s baby or not. We currently have the right to choose and brandishing Roe v. Wade over the heads of women is fear mongering.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes. Eve, this goes way below the belt and you know it. Approximately 750,000 American teenagers get pregnant each year. Is this because of abstinence education, impulsive teenagers, raging hormones, or a lack of condom compliance by young women? You are not privy to the private conversations Senator Palin had with her daughter, and to imply so is outrageous. Governor Palin believes in birth control and sex education and to imply otherwise is scandalous.
Be sure to check out the part where Lynn believes OBlahMa stole the nomination from Hillary. I agree one hundred percen! Both he and the dem party were guilty of sexism. Wouldn’t even afford women the right to choose their presidential candidate.
Check out some of the piece she’s written in her margins. The Caucus Analysis is rather long, but a real eye opener. OBlahMa’s integrity is clearly questionable.
Make no mistake; I’ve never considered myself a feminist………just an equal to anyone with integrity.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
Dear Findog @ 12:40, a short story if you will tolerate. I did not formerly have much interest in the first year summer activity for ROTC students, simply thought of that as exposure to the military life. When my younger son went for his first year tour, he spent a week with submariners, living as an enlisted man, and emerged with the greatest respect for that community. Turns out they took a sub out for its post-repairs shakedown cruise, and the thing ruptured 100 feet below the surface. My son was in the middle of the effort to control the flood while others were working to bring the ship back to the surface. He left for the exercise a rising second year college student, but he returned as an adult. Even had he not chosen to pursue the military life, the experience would have left him a better man.
By BS Aplenty
September 19, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
Charles,
Had I been charged with the crime of rape, I would think it’d be to my benefit for the prosecutor to be on drugs. Heck, I may even chip in for his or her next shot/snort/hit/drag/puff or whatever else the drug addled might prefer. But I jest.
There’s no doubt in my mind that no matter how innocent Nichols was on this rape charge, the response to that conviction or re-trial should not have been killing various officers of the court.
That’ll get you life in prison or the chair/table/gurney or other state “furniture.” And, I think, deservedly so.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 19, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
Dear Tom @ 1:14, what you think that too provocative? I guarantee you US carriers three miles off the coast of St. Petersburg would free up the Arctic quickly.
By getalife
September 19, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
While the rest of the so called leaders are coming together, McLiar is still spewing divisive lies blaming Obama for McLiars deregulation mess.
Its Keating 5 again stupid.
It is sickening Americans buy into his bs.
Somebody should tell that kook it is time to come together.
Country first?
BS.
By metoo
September 19, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Socialism noun 1. a political theory advocating state ownership of industry. 2. an economic system based on state ownership of capital.
Republican are Socialist
By getalife
September 19, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
Who’s Whining Now? Gramm Slammed By Economists
It was McLiar and Gramm and they should be held accountable and not elected for anything.
Wake up.
By Churchill
September 19, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
Good read for the unwashed masses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/