Thinking Right

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.

• James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation

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/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/09/19/BL2008091901892.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

By Tailgater

September 19, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Nichols wants to play the victim after creating so many of his own? That’s an absurd defense Charles. Idiotic to be more precise.

By BS Aplenty

September 19, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Jim,

Be careful what you do with that $100K. With “naked” short-sellers out of the for certain financial equities, there’s no counter-balance to the “longs” and the short-term prices of financial stocks MAY be inflated.

When the SEC lifts this order on Oct. 2nd, the 799 financial stocks so affected will likely move down - I think, but don’t quote me on that (I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night!).

Here’s an article I found detailing the nature of the SEC’s order to halt short-selling.

By knowledge based

September 19, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Some “Great Depression.” Seen the world market soar lately? People who make those extremist comparisons have not talked with a survivor of the Great Depression. It is insulting to those who DID go through it. In any event, no wonder Barack is doing the typical Democrat thing and waiting to see which way the winds blow before making a decision:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.

Some leadership. But we already knew that about Obama and his goons, didn’t we?

A few weeks ago [there was] a disingenuous attack led by Barack Obama’s Chicago HQ perpetrated against Chicago radio host Dr. Milt Rosenberg. Well, last week they did it again, raising their legions to attack the host and his radio station (WGN) and trying to have the unassuming radio host thrown off the air. And what was his “crime”? Rosenberg had the gall to actually interview two conservative writers who were investigating the life and history of the Obamessiah.

So, we can go after Palin and hack her email and that’s fine, but we CANNOT dig into the background of Obama without repercussions of racism accusations at the least, or the threat of being sued or shut down, or at worst being locked up as a danger to Barack just because of policy disagreements. But we already knew that about Obama and his goons, didn’t we?

“I’m skinny but I’m tough,” he says…”I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” he said.

So, Mr. Bring Peace and Union Of The Royal Democrat Court to America promotes that. Can you imagine the UPROAR if McCain had said something so “hateful?” But, we already knew that about Obama and his goons, didn’t we? They are nothing but modern day Medieval village lackeys and henchmen.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Yes, Biden is hidin’. Obama campaigns alone. Obama is reponsible for his own polls. McCain hides behind a skirt.

McCain 08: Short skirting the truth to short-sheet America……(confound it! I cant make this bit work).

Writer’s block is not pretty.

Obama 08: America takes over.

By getalife

September 19, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

If McLiar had any honor or decency left, he would resign in disgrace.

Instead, he is desperately and cowardly blaming Obama.

It is absolutely disgusting and time for him and Gramm to retire out of politics.

They have destroyed our economy.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

STFU, sipmynip, you idiot!

You aren’t left. You’re a right who posts idiotically for the left. You’re like a Rush Limbaugh liberal call in guy, who either rush had to wade through a thousand calls to find, or more likely, who is a rush plant, who calls in and then talks stupid after identifying himself as a liberal.

i had you pegged YEARS ago, man.

everything you write is wrong. Everything.

so stfu. go to the woman to woman blog, they called. They want their tampon back.

bwa

moron.

By getalife

September 19, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

You listen to rush and call me a moron.

Geez.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 19, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

SNIVELLING anal anally funny MoRoN ALERT

By Liar-loan McCain STFU, sipmynip, you idiot! You aren’t left. You’re a right who posts idiotically for the left. You’re like a Rush Limbaugh liberal call in guy, who either rush had to wade through a thousand calls to find, or more likely, who is a rush plant, who calls in and then talks stupid after identifying himself as a liberal.

i had you pegged YEARS ago, man.

everything you write is wrong. Everything.

so stfu. go to the woman to woman blog, they called. They want their tampon back.

bwa moron.

HA HA HA HA HA HA … the should have been aborted execrable aborted foreskin is puking up loads of unhinged, utterly unprovoked hissy fits today!!!

It’s even indulging in its typical, archetypal far left crude pukepig sexism!!!

try telling the butchbulldykishbitchmanhating sistas of the uber vile code PInKKKo about their tampons and they’ll neuter ya … OOOOOOOOOOOOPS - TOO LATE … snigger snigger

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

I see McCain’s delivery has improved, and his teeth aren’t as yellow.

I’m glad he’s taking my advice.

I enjoyed watching his speech. The most entertaining part is watching his entourage, which stands directly behind him while he speaks, mug for the cameras as McCain goes through the issues. They’ll frown ferociously when McCain spins the liberal position, and contort their faces in sheer ecstasy when he promises to veto pork, win the war, and replace Bristol’s cherry. (I’m definitely voting for McCain).

But anyway, about McCain’s entourage of mimes and muggers: I never knew acting like that was possible.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 19, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

SNIVELLING anal anally UNfunny MoRoN ALERT

By Liar-loan McCain STFU, sipmynip, you idiot! You aren’t left. You’re a right who posts idiotically for the left. You’re like a Rush Limbaugh liberal call in guy, who either rush had to wade through a thousand calls to find, or more likely, who is a rush plant, who calls in and then talks stupid after identifying himself as a liberal.

i had you pegged YEARS ago, man.

everything you write is wrong. Everything.

so stfu. go to the woman to woman blog, they called. They want their tampon back.

bwa moron.

HA HA HA HA HA HA … the should have been aborted execrable aborted foreskin is puking up loads of unhinged, utterly unprovoked hissy fits today!!!

It’s even indulging in its typical, archetypal far left crude pukepig sexism!!!

try telling the butchbulldykishbitchmanhating sistas of the uber vile code PInKKKo about their tampons and they’ll neuter ya … OOOOOOOOOOOOPS - TOO LATE … snigger snigger

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 19, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

http://www.deathbydemocraticparty.com/

SCROLL DOWN to the bottom folks for an hilarious photo of a large dog hiking on a Hussein Obama sign … LMFAO!!

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

U respond to “sipmynip” and you’re NOT the moron?

what a fallguy! what a maroon. what a dope.

i love it.

Yes, I listen to rush, oreilly, and hannity and bortz. If you listen to about five minutes a week, you have everything they’re going to say, they repeat the same weekly snort over and over, kinda like a soap opera based on the movie groundhog day, with bill murray.

It is the duty of any genius to hear what all sides are saying. Otherwise, you cant respond like a genius. I have to be myself, you get it, dont you, cupmysac?

JK LOL

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 19, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

U respond to “sipmynip”

GOADING far left nutters like U is just too much fun!!!

and THE ACTUAL POINT HERE IS ur vile typical hatepig compulsive obsessive leftist fascist SEXISM, which as ever is enormously entertaining and tells us all a great deal about just how sick and twisted and utterly inadequate U is bubbaturd!!!

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

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McCain 08: Behind the skirt, behind in the polls.

Obama 08: America takes over.

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By Just Nasty and Mean

September 19, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

G’Afternoon Jim et al, Sorry for my late entry:

With the overlying theme of today’s issues, how come nobody is talking about Obama’s DIRECT TIES to the executives at FreddieMac/Fannie Mae, Barack Obama has only been in Washington D.C. for four years, yet Obama is the 2nd biggest recipient of political money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their associates in the last ten years.recipient of election funds of $126,000 in 3 years? Hello??

Is it even POSSIBLE the Obla-bla-ma crowd doesn’t see a connection between these funds Charlie Rangle, Barnie Frank having oversight of these institutions over the last two years? HUH????

How come the “Change” crowd isn’t talking about that—-do tell??

Regarding the Artic: If the USA sits back and lets the Russian mob gangsters take over natural resources in the Artic, then we can just start to fold our cards in the oil game. Russia will take our weakness as a sign we aren’t willing to take a stand—they will become emboldened, and they will EAT OUR LUNCH on a global scale.

I think the Ga DOT is just as “out of control” as ever. The budget and committed projects are inconsistent every single time it is reported. How—in God’s name—can you be a half a billion dollars off target? HUH?

Ya’all have a good weekend—Ya hear?

By LEICESTER CITY SUCKS

September 19, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

VOTE NO,

Nice to see you shamelessly wanking yourself on this beautifully Friday afternoon. I still don’t understand the meaning of “half-black black racist”. I also don’t understand how Obama could be a Muslim, but yet you bash him for attending a church. But then again, you’re a sad little bleating chav looking for a receptive audience, but instead encountering nothing but utter embarassment…kind of like the underachieving football of yours that’s stuck at Level 2 in the Coca Cola League.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

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McCain/Palin 08: If politics makes for strange bedfellows, then America just got short-sheeted.

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By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

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McCain/Palin 08: If politics makes for strange bedfellows, then America just got short-sheeted.

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By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 19, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

Jim, I see you threw out a veritable potpourri of issues to keep from dealing with the bankruptcy of America, which has been overseen by George W. Hitler. It’s all over for the Republinazis and you know it! So, write some more garbage about Firm Teats but we don’t need to look at our watches to know what time it is.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

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Obama got heckled by a group called “Blacks Against Obama” today. They held up signs during a speech which read, “KKK”, and “Obama is for Abortion and Gay Marriage”.

Now, Obama told them, It’s okay to hold up your signs, that’s alright, but let me finish my point here…”

well, the protesters wouldn’t stfu, and they were escorted out, (where they were waterboarded, fire hosed, and forced to pose as conservatives in black face.)

Conservatives in BlackFace. Good name for a technorock group.

Obama 08: He’s already black, folks, give it a rest.

By Churchill

September 19, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

The head of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve began discussions on Thursday with Congressional leaders on what could become the biggest bailout in United States history, The New York Times’s Edmund L. Andrews reported.

While details remain to be worked out, the plan is likely to authorize the government to buy distressed mortgages at deep discounts from banks and other institutions, The Times said. The proposal could result in the most direct commitment of taxpayer funds so far in the financial crisis that Fed and Treasury officials say is the worst they have ever seen.

Senior aides and lawmakers told The Times that the goal was to complete the legislation by the end of next week, when Congress is scheduled to adjourn. In a meeting last night, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke presented lawmakers with a “chilling” picture of the state of the financial system, The Washington Post wrote.

Rumors about the Bush administration’s new stance swept through the stock markets Thursday afternoon. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day with a gain of 410 points.

The rally continued in markets in Asia and Europe, with financial stocks among the biggest gainers. Shares of Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse Group climbed more than 15 percent, and Barclays surged 32 percent.

“The markets voted, and they liked the proposal,” Laurence H. Meyer, vice chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, told The Times.

By Liar-loan McCain

September 19, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

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Thank you, Connie Chung.

LOL JK

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By Soulfinger

September 19, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

AMEN TO THE FIRST POST!

By getalife

September 19, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Do they realize that w is CEO of those corporations with 2 trillion of your money ar risk?

Or McLiar?

OMG.

By VOTE NO TO HALF-BLACK UPPITY BLACK RACIST MUSLIMS

September 19, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

@ congenital moronic dickweed

“half-black black racist” is a factual statement. Obviously calling U a congenital MoRoN is simply a factual observation. Clearly a factual statement. tersely and IRREFUTABLY stated is beyond what passes for ur pathetic comprehension skills!!

Hussein Obama is half-black and its a black racist. In that it WHOLLY identifies with its black “half” and shamelessly attended and paid tithes to a hate mongering black KKK church in IL with NOT ONE public word of dissent, not until its presidential campaign was directly threatened by its 20 YEAR association with black racists. NO ONE sits in a black racist church for 20 YEARS and says nothing unless they agree with much/most of what is puked up.

HUssein Obama literally talked about its “mohammedan faith” on ABC TV just a week or two ago. It attended several mohammedan schools/mosques when it was younger and living in backward, virulently anti-christian shyteholes like Indonesia. It is on record in its worthless autobiography as deigning to side with mohammedans:

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=23906

in the mohammedan world it is the father who dicktates the “faith” of the kids,,, HUssein Obama’s pappy was a black mohammedan afriKan, a whiskey loving alcoholic, a far left commie type, a BIGAMIST, a deadbeat father to numerous kiddies he produced with several different wimmin in his countries of residence. He died, having lost his legs in whisky soaked car accidents. Whitey had NOTHING to do with his fate. Hussein Obama is deliberately extremely evasive and vague @ his pappy in his two books. Read Dr Corsi’s excellent fact packed book for the truth. or the Daily Mail article I posted a few days ago.

whether Hussein Obama is a secret mohammedan or not is neither here nor there. I and most Americans do NOT trust him for numerous reasons, in good part because he is a proven black racist and has numerous far left associations with proven America haters.

Most demoNcrats in OH. WV, IN, PA etc didn’t trust him in the primaries.

NO mainstream Republican has life long contacts with the hard right in the way that Hussein Obama does with the hard eftist enemy within.

By Midsouth's other brother soulfinger

September 19, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Biden is in hidin’. Obama campaigns alone and is totally responsible for his own polls.

McCain hides behind a skirt. Behind a skirt and behind in the polls.

McCain/Palin 08: If politics makes for strange bedfellows, then America just got short-sheeted.

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By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 19, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Jim, thanks for the veritable potpourri of garbage. You, obviously, don’t want to talk about how George W. Hitler and the Republinazi Party have bankrupted America. Instead, you choose to write about Gov. Firm Teats and that old fool she’s running with or just about anything else to keep from looking at the truth. Tough! The day of the Republinazi is over! We don’t need to look at a watch to tell you what time it is! JIm, how much do the Republinazis pay you to obfuscate for them?

By @@

September 19, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Okey Dokey Jim, just read your assorted topics.

I, too cheer DeKalb Solicitor James for addressing student truancy. Not sure it’ll help though. What’s obvious is you have parents who care not about their children, and more than likely, children who won’t miss their parents’ absence. There’s very little that can be done once the chicken coop’s been left open.

I agree with you on the HOV tolls. What’s the fine for a single driver using those lanes? I see plenty of those drivers.

Early voting. I’ve done it since it became available. Sounds like this November, OBlahMa wants his activists to “get in our face.” Wouldn’t wanna be there when that occurs.

I just can’t bring myself to dislike Joe Biden. Within his frequent gaffes there’s blatant honesty. What was it he said just the other day? “We’re gonna take your money and….”

Jim? I must take issue with your phrase Palin won’t be cowed It would have sounded much better had you said Palin won’t be intimidated. On that we agree. I’m finding myself wishing McCain would just take a backseat, letting a woman driver take the wheel — putting the pedal to the “meddle” so to speak. Sarah is a woman who doesn’t waste time or money.

That little race for Arctic resources has been going on for sometime. When “the moose” is a putin, who better to send than our own imPalin Sarah. Give her an automatic weapon and Putin pipes are capped.

Don’t you mean battered by OBlahMa’s HOPElessness? Faith in the Spirit of America!!!! now THERE’S something that can’t be touched, taken or t-t-t-t-tongue tied. I yike it Jim!

By TeaTime

September 19, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Palin is not a cow, @@, and I warned you yesterday about ragging on her. Why is it that skankho’s always hate the pretty elegant swans of the female species? What is your problem, @@.

Read the constitution. No fat chicks. Plain as day on the front page of it. Go join al ka ka where you belong, fat fat.

loser.

Palin 08: America grows a pair of nice ones.

By GMAN

September 19, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..

If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’

Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, and you’re a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and be President of the Law Review, and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, (less than the population of Staten Island….) then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.

If your husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA , your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

By Dusty

September 19, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Look, folks,

This is supposed to be a political blog, not a dog fighting, name calling, mud throwing arena.

If your pusher didn’t show up today, IT IS NOT OUR FAULT.

If your meds don’t work, IT IS NOT OUR FAULT.

If you got a “dear john” letter from your wife and your stockbroker, IT IS NOT OUR FAULT.

If you lost your job last week for blogging at work,IT IS NOT OUR FAULT.

In other words, SHUT UP! TAKE A HIKE! COOL IT!…It’s a nice day! I said..IT’S A NICE DAY! Ya hear me?????

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By @@

September 19, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

PoliFore, or TeeTee as you prefer:

Why is it that skankho’s always hate the pretty elegant swans of the female species? What is your problem, @@.

I don’t have a problem in the world with Sarah Palin. You may want to talk with some of your leftist skankho’s here — maybe Mrs. G, Goldie, Midori? take your complaints up with them. I think Michelle Obama has a problem with Sarah’s looks as well but I wouldn’t go callin’ her no skankho.

Sarah is an attractive woman, but her 1st Dude? He’s smokin’.

By Churchill

September 19, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

The Federal Reserve has more than Wall Street to keep it awake at night. It’ll issue regs to help consumers who can’t keep up with credit card debt. The new rules will make card companies wait 30 days before boosting interest rates when a payment is missed. They’ll also put limits on how much rates can be hiked for existing balances and mandate clearer disclosure. The regulations will lead firms to shorten expiration dates for cards, increase their fees and tighten standards. But the Fed’s card regs may be too little, too late to avert severe problems. Consumers are already overleveraged. Debt on plastic will top $1 trillion this year.

Even before the latest eye-popping market drops, workers confident of their ability to afford retirement hit an 18-year low. A lot more of them will just stay on the job. Businesses threatened by a skills shortage will benefit in the near term. That’s also true for the federal government, which faces a big loss from retirements. But there are some downsides. Older employees are a lot more expensive, and younger workers hoping to move up may feel stuck and look for work elsewhere.

By Devastator

September 19, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

This week, we saw the stark differences between Barack Obama and John McCain on the economy.

With Wall Street in crisis and families struggling, Barack offered a solid plan to strengthen the middle class, including tax cuts for nearly all Americans. John McCain continued the same old politics — lying about Barack’s plan and offering more of the same George Bush policies, including more tax breaks for Big Oil and no solutions for working families.

It’s time for that kind of politics to change. And thanks to supporters like you, our movement has grown by more than 50,000 new donors this week. Now we’re within reach of a new goal — 100,000 new donors by midnight tonight.

With just 45 days left before the election, your support will affect crucial decisions about infrastructure in key battleground states. A donation now could have a big impact on voter registration and Get Out The Vote operations — so please don’t wait if you’re planning to give.

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Make a donation of $25 or more right now to help us reach our goal, and provide the resources we need to win:

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Thanks for everything you are doing,

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David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America

By Ga Values

September 19, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Saxby Chambliss has turned a blind eye to hardworking every-day Georgians who are struggling to stay afloat in tough economic times.

This week, we hear from Twiggs County farmer George Rouse. Skyrocketing costs on everything from groceries to gas to health care are making it harder than ever for George, and millions of other Georgians, to get by. Food prices have almost doubled since 2005 [Source: ERS/USDA]. The price of gas has more than tripled since Saxby was elected to the Senate [Source: Energy Information Administration]. But unfortunately, Saxby is just too busy helping out his lobbyist and special interest pals to help out hard-working Georgians who deserve a fair shake from Washington.

We need a Senator in Washington to fight for George Rouse and folks like him, not the special interests and lobbyists.

When it comes to looking out for Georgia’s working families, Saxby looked the other way:

No help for farmers and ranchers. Chambliss voted against assistance to farmers and ranchers making less than $750,000 a year and a program that would have helped train and encourage the next generation of American farmers and ranchers. [Vote #426, 12/13/07].

No help for working families either. And while prices for food, housing, health care and other necessities have gone up, Chambliss voted multiple times against raising the minimum wage [Vote #179, 6/21/06, Vote #26, 3/7/05]

Meanwhile, Saxby has worked hard to get things done for his friends on Wall Street.

Yes to rewarding companies that send American jobs to China, India, and other countries. In 2004, Chambliss voted against closing up $39 billion in tax breaks for companies that outsource their jobs. [Vote 90, 5/11/04] In 2005, Chambliss voted against against repealing tax incentives for domestic companies that move their manufacturing plants out of the U.S. [Vote 63, 3/17/05] He even gave those same companies a tax cut. In 2003, Chambliss voted to cut taxes on U.S. companies’ overseas income from 35% to 5.25%. [Vote 165, 5/15/03]

Won’t hold U.S. companies accountable if they deal with terrorists. Chambliss even voted against an amendment that makes U.S. businesses liable for dealing with foreign businesses that have links to terrorism. [Vote 203, 7/26/05]

By Dusty

September 19, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

Oh no ,GMAN just posted that list again@4:23

It isn’t original to start with and he gives no credit. He posted it over at Bookman’s and RW spotted its copycat countenance and its history.

Just another bit of canned liberal propaganda for the people, huh GMAN??

By Dusty

September 19, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

More canned stuff from Deva the Delirious and Plouffe the Souffle’. Dems working overtime today. Soros must have raised the pay.

By deegee

September 19, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

Here it is in a nutshell,

“These illiquid assets are clogging up our financial system, and undermining the strength of our otherwise sound financial institutions. As a result, Americans’ personal savings are threatened, and the ability of consumers and businesses to borrow and finance spending, investment, and job creation has been disrupted,” Paulson said.”

The American taxpayers are going to administer a trillion dollar dose of ex-lax to the banking system. In return every man, woman and child in the US gets to walk away with their own $3,000 bag of crap. Additionally, the American people can rest assured that the holiday gift giving season won’t be ruined by that nasty old Scrooge. All is well in credit land.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 19, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

You Republicans have been spewing the same JUNK since the 80’s. If GMAN wants to copy and paste, it’s his RIGHT To DO SO.

You Republicans talk about saving Souls and Babies, but then RANT and RAVE about how you are wasting money on education, social security, healthcare and welfare - when those same SOULS and BABIES need SAVING.

If you are going to SAVE SOULS and BABIES, do so on both ends of the spectrums.

Otherwise, let people choose what is BEST for THEMSELVES and their families.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 19, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

spamalert @ 5:10

By Dusty

September 19, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

NothingBut Hypocrite@5:25

Is that you BIDEN?? No, honey, plagiarism is OUT. I thought they told you when they caught you last time.

Sad to say I haven’t preached a sermon today or rescued a baby although I did see some cute little fellows. But what that has to do with plagiarism I just don’t know.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 19, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

We heard Obama singing, “Just Biden my time, while the groans and the whines make a fool of me.”

By Jim

September 19, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

Things to look forward to First – Obama Presidency
2nd - DemocraticSenate
3rd - Democratic House
4th - Republican Bush tried for war crimes
5th - ummmmm

By deegee

September 19, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

Now that the initial trillion dollar shock is over we can ponder the consequences of what life in credit land would be like if the bailout doesn’t take place. Do we want to sit and listen to the next president telling the American people, “I know you want that $8,500.00, 48# stainless steel refrigerator with the TV and the sound surround. That’s great, but you’re just going to have to do what your great grandparents did and save up for it.”

By centrist2

September 20, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Just a few reflections after reading the comments: 1. No ONE black person in America knows ALL black persons in America, and therefore, is unqualified to speak on their behalf. 2. All black people in America are not lazy, shiftless, thugs,criminals,etc. These adjectives are the results of media images of only a few members of this racial group. 3. These misrepresentations are also the result of a failure or unwillingness of non-blacks to get to know black people on a personal basis, even in situations that provide the opportunity to do so. 4. There are many more black conservatives in America than the average white American knows about. Many don’t want to know because it preserves their self-image of being “better” in some way or another and helps to keep their “fear” that there are highly intelligent, and capable blacks in America, or this may be a way to “keep” “them” in their “place,” thereby, preserving and perpetuating the status quo. 5. However this presidential election goes in November, all Americans will have to deal with the consequences of its’ results. The choice of for whom to vote in this election should not be based on race, politics, or whom one likes, but on WHO will do the best job of leading this country, and on WHO will try their BEST to work for ALL AMERICANS. And taking a good look at all of the problems we are facing as a nation,our chances of providing a viable future for our progeny, and our survival as a nation, we simply cannot afford the type of petty, insidious sniping that is expressed in these comments. It is time for Americans to face the bitter truths about our situation and make the right choice for our next president because casting a vote for any candidate which is based on emotions, prejudices, racism, ageism, feminism, or any other -ism, just will not DO.