Thinking Right

By Devastator

October 3, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten,

You’re so stupid you sold your car for gas money.

By Devastator

October 3, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Sarah Palin is a bone thrown out to women by the McCain campaign. They have no place to go on policy so they focus on things other than the issues.

They use distractions to get people’s mind off reality and onto to things that play no role in the betterment of our country.

Obama/Biden in 08!!!!!!

By getalife

October 3, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Frank: “We realize George Bush has led us to the road of socialism and will have to monitor it closely.”

Amazing.

By getalife

October 3, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

The word should be fired, as she was by voters

Exactly Jim.

Vote early and fire the gop that gave us socialism

By MustBeCrazy

October 3, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

Jim,

You show your TRUE Colors with every article you write.

If we haven’t JUMPED off the ledge, in regards to the LAST 8 YEARS, I can assure you we will just get a BAD stomach ache if McCain/Palin get elected.

Which is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN…. Obama/Biden 08

In addition, I find it hard to believe that YOU really think Sarah Palin would be a slightly good candidate for VP of this country. You are so caught up in republican politics, that in THINKING RIGHT, you have LOST YOUR MIND.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 3, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

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Top 10 Tax Sweeteners in the Bailout Bill Categories: Federal Budget, Headlines By TCS Tags: bailout Pub Date: Oct 03, 2008

The following are some of the top tax sweeteners in the Senate passed Bailout Bill. Not all the provisions are per se outrageous, but collectively are intended to help Congressional leadership get final passage of the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

Sec. 503. Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children

Current law places an excise tax of 39 cents on the first sale by the manufacturer, producer, or importer of any shaft of a type used to produce certain types of arrows. This proposal would exempt from the excise tax any shaft consisting of all natural wood with no laminations or artificial means to enhance the spine of the shaft used in the manufacture of an arrow that measures 5/16 of an inch or less and is unsuited for use with a bow with a peak draw weight of 30 pounds or more. The proposal is effective for shafts first sold after the date of enactment. The estimated cost of the proposal is $2 million over ten years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

The Oregon senators were the initial sponsors of the provisions. According to Bloomberg News, the provision would be worth $200,000 to Rose City Archery in Myrtle Point, Oregon.

Sec. 317. Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facility

Track owners want to be able write-off the cost of their facilities on their taxes over seven years - a depreciation timetable many of them have used for decades. But the IRS has wanted to stretch it to at least 15 years and has raised questions whether the increasingly popular tracks really belong in the same tax category as amusement parks.

Auto track owners are simply trying to get out of paying more taxes - which they’d have to do if they deducted less every year. These owners have gotten plenty of tax breaks over the years from states and localities eager to get speedways. The provision would be extended 2 years till the end of 2009 and would cost $100 million. The provision encompasses all facilities including grandstands, parking lots and concession stands.

Sec. 308. Increase in limit on cover over of rum excise tax to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

Extends until December 31, 2009 a rebate against excise taxes charged on rum imported from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A $13.50 per proof gallon excise tax is applied to distilled spirits imported to the U.S. Under this provision a $13.25 rebate is returned to PR and the VI, and is retroactive back to January 1, 2008. Permanent law sets the rebate at $10.50 per proof gallon, but the PR and VI provisions have generally been in place since the first Clinton Administration. The most recent extension of the $13.50 rebate expired January 1, 2008. Cost is $192 million.

Sec. 301. Extension and modification of research credit

The legislation reestablishes and extends the lucrative tax credit for companies doing research and experimentation in the United States. Companies that have benefited from this provision include Microsoft Corp., Boeing Co., United Technologies Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp. and Harley-Davidson. The two-year extension is estimated to cost $19 billion.

Sec. 504. Income averaging for amounts received in connection with the Exxon Valdez litigation The bailout bill would give a tax break to Exxon Valdez plaintiffs, allowing them to average out their punitive damages awards over three years rather than suffer a one-time tax hit from the Internal Revenue Service, as well as other provisions. Rep. Don Young (R-AK) is a big supporter of this provision. Cost is estimated at $49 million.

Sec. 601. Secure rural schools and community self-determination program. Secure Rural Schools lead sponsors Reps. DeFazio (D-OR), Bill Sali (R-ID); Sens. Wyden (D-OR), Larry Craig (R-ID), are major boosters of this program that expired in 2006. In 1908 the federal government agreed to share logging revenue from Forest Service land with neighboring communities that could not tax the land because it was federal. As logging declined in the 1990s, the “county payments” program was initiated in 2000 to directly provide federal funding, more than half going to Oregon, to deal with the loss of revenue. The original version of this provision was introduced as a bill in early 2007 and was estimated to cost $2.2 billion when the OR and ID delegations came to agreement. To give the package more heft, Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) was added to the package, bringing the total cost to $3.3 billion. PILT provides more general funding to counties for federal lands located within their borders. Sen. Reid (D-NV) talked about the PILT program being one of the important elements of the package when the Senate passed the bailout bill.

Sec. 201. Deduction for state and local sales taxes

Allows residents of states that don’t pay income tax to deduct, from their federal taxes, sales tax paid over the course of the year. States that benefit include Texas, Nevada, Florida, Washington and Wyoming. The bailout bill extends this provision for 2 years at a cost of $3.3 billion.

Sec 502. Provisions related to film and television productions

In an effort to keep film and television productions in the U.S, they would be eligible for a tax incentive program. Under this program, the cost of production of qualifying films would be permitted to be immediately expensed — that is, fully deducted from income for tax purposes — in the year the expenditures occur. This provision also makes permanent other favorable tax treatments for production. Historically Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) has been a supporter (dating from its creation in the 2004 corporate tax bill). The cost is estimated at $478 million over 10 years.

Sec. 325. Extension and modification of duty suspension on wool products; wool research fund; wool duty refunds The tariff relief (duty savings) is intended to benefit U.S. worsted wool fabric producers that use imported fibers and yarns as inputs, as well as U.S. tailored clothing manufacturers that use imported fabrics as inputs. This provision was originally introduced as a bill in December 2007 by Reps. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Melissa Bean (D-IL). It extends current law provisions until 12/31/14, and in some cases to12/31/15. The 2010 to 2015 cost is estimated to be $148 million.

Sec. 309. Extension of economic development credit for American Samoa

This extends by two years a previously approved tax credit, the American Samoa economic development credit. In general, this credit allows certain corporations operating in American Samoa a tax credit. The possessions tax credit allows these corporations to offset a portion of their U.S. tax liability on income earned in American Samoa from active business operations, sales of assets used in a business, or certain investments in American Samoa. The cost is $33 million, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

By Steve Wilkerson

October 3, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon, Jim,

You suggest “Should we tax health insurance, accident insurance and criminal court dockets, too?”

Now that you bring it up, that sounds like a pretty good idea. I suggest you contact a couple of your puppets in the General Assembly and make this intelligent proposal to them so they can get it introduced.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 3, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon all. ACORN is a loose coalition of mafia-like organizations that subvert the laws in a long-term effort to steal wealth from those who earn it, to spend it for benefit of those who don’t. Fortunately they could never put one of their own in the White House.

No comment on the felons voting. I am of two minds there. Jim correctly states one. And I don’t know enough about Bill Heard business practices to contribute, but Jim’s theory reflects sound economics.

Government sponsored trauma networks are just as stupid as more comprehensive forms of socialized medicine. The primary purpose, of course, has nothing to do with providing medical assistance to anyone, and has everything to do with augmenting incomes and shifting spending priorities from those of the free market to those of the overlords. Oxendine is a RINO.

Why wait for a hurricane? Abolish the worthless EPA and let each gasoline company sell whatever gasoline a state will permit.

While I respectfully disagree with Jim on the merits of the various bailout plans, I think it inappropriate to punish anyone for an incorrect vote. The lemmings were stampeded. Smarmy comments aside, Marshall is one of a declining breed – a decent conservative democrat. Let him live.

Whoever imagined that “Chinese food” would become a synonym for “decimating the population?”

In all fairness, Jim, Alcee looks like a genius next to our own Cynthia McKinney: • “I had a woman—in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I had a woman—I have never really said this in public, out loud, in front of a lot of cameras, and there’s a lot in this room now. But I had a mother to call me because her son had a very gruesome task. Her son’s charge by the Department of Defense was to process 5,000 bodies that had received a single bullet wound to the head, and these were mostly males. And her son was afraid to talk because he had signed a silence agreement, so he only complained to his mother. But the data about these individuals was entered into a Pentagon computer, and then reportedly the bodies were dumped in a swamp in Louisiana. This is as a result of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. • “Now, I have no, no—and I have verification from insiders who wish to remain anonymous at the Red Cross that this is—this is true. I suspect that these were prisoners, and so, you know, this—this investigation of the whole prison-industrial complex is extremely important, and it should not end with just a question of the nature of prisons in our country, but also these 5,000 souls also need some justice, too.”

Ballot name order – partisan and otherwise - ought to be drawn at random.

I have noticed the rise of PDS. The left has to have someone to demonize. And they certainly cannot focus on anyone who caused the FNMA/FHLMC collapse. So why not Sarah? The always hate their betters.

By Diogenes

October 3, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon, Jim,

Boy, get these lefties off the ledge. If Sarah Palin wins, they’ll jump.

If she wins, we’d all best jump or run on our swords.

By Robert Rogers

October 3, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

This might not be the correct place to send this letter, but I would like to see it put before the public, and a through investigation made of the tactics of the Holly Springs, Georgia Police Department.

Apparently, the Constitution, and also Constitutional Rights do not apply in Holly Springs, Georgia.

If this is not the correct place to send it, perhaps you can forward it.

Robert P. Rogers, Jr. 818 Harbor Creek Drive Canton, GA 30115 October 2, 2008

Mr. Gary T. Moss, Cherokee County District Attorney 90 North Street Canton, GA 30114

Dear Sir:

I have sent a copy of this letter to the editor of the Cherokee Ledger News, and also a similar copy to the Cherokee Tribune. This is a situation that I feel needs to be brought to the attention of the top law enforcement officer of Cherokee County, which, I think, is you. It is deplorable, and a blight on the city of Holly Springs, Cherokee County, and the entire United States, when a citizen’s rights can be trampled such as mine were in the incident described below. In this country, we have a United States Constitution. Aren’t the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, supposed to protect people from abuses such as this? The sole testimony of this incident, and my subsequent arrest, is based on the testimony of a person who is a drug addict, who is on probation in Kennesaw, Georgia for a DUI conviction earlier this year, who has had four run-ins with the Holly Springs Police department, two of which resulted in arrests for DUI of alcohol, and just last weak, was taken into custody by the Georgia State Patrol after threatening five Georgia State Patrol officers with a knife. Now, as I write this, the person who initiated the incident, and whose testimony your office has to rely on, is in Georgia Regional hospital. After the incident with the Georgia State Patrol, he was taken to the mental ward of Grady Hospital in Atlanta, and then taken to Georgia Regional.

For justice to be served, and also to cut down on expenses in your office on prosecuting erroneous and frivolous charges, you need to make a through investigation of this incident. My attorney is Mr. Channing Ruskell. You may contact me directly, or Mr. Ruskell. Sincerely,

Robert P. Rogers, Jr.

Dear Editor:

This letter is in reference to the article about the D.A. having to cover state salary shortages, in the October 1, 2008 Cherokee Ledger News. I know of one way to cut down expenses in the D.A.’s office, and that is to stop trying to prosecute frivolous felony and misdemeanor charges brought by some of the local police forces. One frivolous charge that I have extensive about was made by a Sergeant Freeman Morrison of the Holly Springs Police Department. The Assistant D. A., who is involved in attempting to prosecute this frivolous charge is a Ms.Santander. The incident of which I speak was initiated by a person who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time the 911 call was made. The so-called victim was armed with a butcher knife when police arrived, and Sergeant Morrison and others, disarmed this person at gunpoint. There was a bystander present, my wife, and the police ordered her to move, because she was in the line of fire. She moved, and armed Holly Springs PD officers, with their guns drawn, forced the person to discard the butcher knife and to lay face down on the ground. A Holly Springs detective made the comment that he could smell alcohol on this person, when they searched him for other weapons. This person, who the police thought was necessary to hold at gun point, is 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 290 pounds, and is 37 years old. The person he attacked with the butcher knife is 5 feet 11 inches tall, is 68 years old, has a pace maker, has suffered 2 heart attacks, has diabetes, and has other heart disease, and who is disabled. The 68 year old man was not armed with a weapon of any type when the police arrived. He was sitting in a chair, resting, after fending off the attack by the 37 year old drunk. Who did the Sergeant Morrison arrest? Why, the 68 year old man with the pace maker, of course. Why did they do this? Was it because a they considered a 68 year old disabled man in poor health less of a hazard to their safety than a 37 year old drunk who stood 6’ 5” and was armed with a butcher knife? Apparently, that was what was going through the police officers mind. I have seen this Sergeant Morrison, who made the arrest, ‘guarding’ the entrance to the new Home Depot. Maybe he considers this as being safer than arresting 6’ 5” drunks armed with a butcher knife. Since this incident happened, in July, the 6’ 5” inch attacker has been arrested and taken to jail twice by the Holly Springs PD. The charges were DUI. among other things. This past week, Monday, September 22, 2008, this person was taken into custody for brandishing a butcher knife at 5, count them, 5, armed Georgia State Patrol officers, along with several Atlanta Police officers, and officers from Clayton county, who disarmed him at gunpoint, as had the Holly Springs police. He tested 0.252 blood alcohol when he was taken into custody. At least the Georgia State Patrol had the integrity, training, and intelligence to not arrest an innocent by stander. To prove what I am telling you is true, the Incident Report number for Holly Springs is 108-5961. The Georgia State Patrol case number is 2008-0041-49. To make matters even worse, Ms. Santander of the D.A.’s office and Sergeant Morrison of the Holly Springs P.D. are pushing to have this innocent 68 year old man prosecuted for a crime committed by someone else. What is so sad, both of them know, along with each of the Holly Springs PD officers involved, that they arrested and charged the wrong person. At the only hearing held in this matter, a probable cause hearing, both Ms. Santander and Sergeant Morrison made false statements in court. This is a violation of ethics on the part of the D.A., and also on the part of a sworn police officer. When attacked by the 6’ 5” man waving the butcher knife, the 68 year old man did pick up a smaller knife in an attempt to ward off the attack. Surprisingly and very fortunately, the large man was deterred by the smaller man with a knife, and ran. If the large man had continued with the attack, there is no doubt that he could have overpowered and severely harmed or actually killed the older man. All the 68 year old man is guilty of is defending himself, with a small, dull knife. He did nothing different that what the 5 Georgia State Patrol officers and the several Holly Springs police officers did, except they used guns. I have read the incident report involving the 68 year old man, and also the arrest warrant procured by Sergeant Morrison. Not one word of either document is true. By prosecuting cases like this, it is very easy to understand why local and county governments are in financial trouble. What makes is so bad is that both the D.A.’s officer and the Holly Springs PD know this incident is a farce, and yet they continue to pursue it. My lawyer stated that their reason is that they knew from the on set that they had made a mistake, and are having to continue to push this, at any cost, to cover up their mistake.

Sincerely,

Robert P. Rogers, Jr. 818 Harbor Creek Drive Canton, GA 30115 678-493-9076 October 2, 2008

By getalife

October 3, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

You can hear the pain in their voices as they debate and pass the 850 billion bailout bill.

Boner is crying again.

Lord help us.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 3, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

IF ELECTION DAY IS CHAOS

BLAME THE REPUBLICANS

Michael Waldman appears on CBS Evening news to discuss Voter Purges

AND

A surprise for voters: Off the list

Have you hugged your voter registration card lately?

By getalife

October 3, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Oh, there will be chaos.

Pelosi tones down her rhetoric and the vote will pass.

I feel for Obama taking over a collapsed country.

I wish him luck and like Boner said, now is the time to pray.

By Muddy shoes

October 3, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

You’re right, Robert Rogers, this is not the place for your idiotic letter. Shove off moron.

By The Tarot Card

October 3, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

So, Kalifornia is now looking for a federal government bail out. If you want to know how the future of America will be run under liberalism with an Obama white house and Pelosi congress, just look at the state of Kalifornia. And don’t give me that Ahnold runs the state BS; he’s about as big of a conservative Republican as Harry Reid.

Anyone who thinks that Democrats are the “true” conservatives and will reign in spending under a full liberal left wing federal-run government is kidding themselves only. The only spending they will reel in is on the military and defense of this nation, and that includes counter terrorism intelligence. You didn’t get the memo? Liberals don’t really believe that Islamic fascist terrorism is a real and credible threat to America, let alone the entire West.

The Obama/Pelosi team will increase spending on worthless and failed domestic programs that would make Mr. No Veto Bush look like a true conservative. We’ll have 8+ percent unemployment from businesses closing shop and moving overseas and other repercussions of punishing success via taxes, but hey, Obama is our man and it will be the greatest era in US history!

Finally, we’ll get attacked in a few years by more Islamic terrorists as the liberal lackies in government focus on domestic issues only. Then of course, they’ll blame Bush for causing it because of his policies. And if you dare say anything negative against Barack’s policies, you will be called a racist and a hater, if not worse.

I know all. I see all.

By reality4u

October 3, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

I am against the direction our government is heading with all of the government programs, government assistance, government EVERYTHING… While I think W has backed down to the lobbyists and Dem congress. having Obama/Biden at the helm will only put a nail in us. Socialized medicine, income redistribution…ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I have many friends in the medical field who all agree that if Obama wins, our medical system will be down the tybes, our tax system will rule the roost and if you want CHANGE, then you’ll have it. Obama will leave nothing BUT change in our pockets. Bush definately needs to go, but I can’t believe that people with an IQ above 50 can listen to Obama/Biden and actually think “Ya know, this is a good thing.” It seems it is going to happen and when it does, the resulting chaos will be labeled “Well, it’s all because of Bush”. Of course, Liberals blame Bush for everything from hurricanes, to earthquakes, to droughts. I can’t wait to see Obama looking all glassy eyed at the TV screen with an “I didn’t know what I was thinking” look. Of course, that will be Bush’s fault, too.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 3, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Funniest one-liner of the day, by someone who has watched our Congressional democrats: Canada’s prime minister is urging voters to give him a strong mandate so that the country doesn’t end up with a Parliament that acts and functions like the U.S. Congress. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday he needs a firm mandate to deal with a slowing Canadian economy. “We don’t need a Parliament that acts and functions like the American Congress,” Harper said.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 3, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

108 republicans voted against the bailout, which passed only by virtue of democrat votes. The market fell more than 75 points immediately after the bill passed.

By Ga Values

October 3, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST October 3, 2008 12:34 PM

Please post your link to the top 10 Porkers,, Everyone in my Address books needs to see this Taxpayer Ripoff…Thanks for posting..

By "Spank" the monkey

October 3, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Robert Rodgers what on earth gave you the idea that this was the proper forum for this crap? You have a lawyer, you’ve been to court, isn’t that the place for this rubbish? At first I figured you had probable cause to be upset and then it occured to me that you seem like the type to blow stuff out of proportion and are probably doing so in this case. Print it and stick it on a telephone poll.

By Davo

October 3, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

JW, wheres the part about both of Georgia’s republican senators voting FOR the bailout?

Common sense conservatism?

I must not be thinking right.

By Dusty

October 3, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST @12:34

Would you mind giving us the latest scoop on Hunter Biden LOBBYIST? It seems the son of JOE BIDEN is a LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON. Thought you might know him.

You remember Joe Biden the Democrat running for VP with Obama who wants to “fight lobbyist and special interests”. Yep, Biden’s son is Hunter Biden the LOBBYIST.

Everytime you post I am reminded of Hunter Biden THE LOBBYIST, son of JOE BIDEN. But you really don’t need to remind me. I have already voted for McCain/Palin who really do not like lobbyists and neither of them has one conveniently in the family.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 3, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

The market was up 350 points until just before the House saved the economy. Presently up 50 points on the day.

By Joe Gonzalez

October 3, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

For all of you Republican, Sarah Palin fans, Joe (Joanne) Sixpack can build houses, fight crime, fight the fires, build cars, etc. He (she) doesn’t do a very good job of being president as evidendced by the last seven plus years. Intelligence, education combined with common sense are important.

By findog

October 3, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Jim,

You just do not get the boutique fuel issue. We have it because our state leaders took the path that required the least backbone.

Our macroinvertebrate governor, who just got b!tch slapped by President Bush’s energy department for trying to claim credit for the strategic reserve withdrawal, needs to fly off into the sunset and let a leader take charge. The Federal Government did not mandate the boutique fuel, let me repeat * The Federal Government did not mandate the boutique fuel* the State of Georgia decided to use it to meet air quality standards. Not withstanding the fuel shortages other regions, e.g. Chicago, faced during the Clinton Administration [http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-jt070600.html] ONLY A SLOW WITTED MORON would not rethink using the least reliable element in a clean air program. So lets not fix the problem lets blame the Federal Government and just plan to beg for waivers whenever there is a storm in the Gulf of Mexico.

This is nearly as stupid as going to war with Tennessee for water if our prayer service doesn’t bring drought relief. Sonny truly is the poster child for our failed education system…

By Left Nuts

October 3, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Ignorance is bliss and the lefties are the most ‘blissful’ people I know.

By findog

October 3, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Steve @12:35

I believe that taxing health insurance is part of Senator McCain’s health care plan.

By Bad Brad

October 3, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Jim, to wind back to your previous post on the debate. You stated that Biden obviously had a better grasp of detail. Where I sat it sounded like he was better at the old “baffle them with bull$h!t,” ploy. Fred Thompson pointed out in comments after the debate three “misrepresentations,” i.e. lies by Biden. Thompson would know better than Palin, because he was there.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 3, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Ga Values

http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=1429&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS

By findog

October 3, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Ragnar @12:36 It is the Georgia EPD, acting at the discretion of the governor, not the EPA; abolition should be directed to the correct acronym. As a non-lawyer I feel that air and water quality are one of the few areas that one would expect the commerce clause of the constitution to cover without double-jointed acrobatic contortions of logic, aka: a plain text reading of that fine document.

As for Oxendine we should all pitch in for a nice toy fire truck for him to play act as hero rushing to the scene, maybe throw in a super hero outfit…

By Ga Values

October 3, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Well the house has voted & surprise the taxpayer has been SHAFTED. Our 7 REAL REPUBLICAN Congressmen held together & voted for the Taxpayer. As you remember our 2 RINO/Socialist Senators voted for the LOBBYIST & against the taxpayers. Special thanks goes to our Saxby Special Interest Chambliss who said he would not vote for a PORK FILLED TAXPAYER RIPOFF, another of his many lies. McCain Country FIRST, Saxby says LOBBYIST First.

By K. LaFond

October 3, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said “Till Death Do We Part” to? What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Michelle not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? What if Obama were a member of the “Keating 5”? What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

By Lipstick Lesbo

October 3, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

The last word on the veep polemic: The camera angle shifted frequently from full face close up to a view from the flank and rear which revealed Palin’s tight skirt and amazing calves. Palin mentioned how she admired Geraldine Ferraro for breaking the glass ceiling, but after seeing Palin in that skirt, I sure wish it was a glass floor.

PS. I also got a gander at the curve of Palin’s derriere, (thank you 1080p) and people, let me tell you something: this aint no pork chop, this is U.S. prime. I didn’t see or hear much of the debate after those rear camera angles, because I was outside in my backyard howling at the moon. My neighbor had to turn a hose on me. Then my life-partner locked me out of the house. I spent the whole night in a tree with a horny possum.

By Ga Values

October 3, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Dusty 2:02 PM

I have worked very closely with Hunter Biden, he has put Saxby & me in with a bunch of Bank & Insurance companies PAC’s. Got to go for the big money, this is a once in a life time to shake down all the Lobbyist. I’ll tell Hunter you asked about him but he may be gay & not interested in you.. How did you and Captain Freedom do? I understand he has a really Big one.

By Michael Slager

October 3, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Americans who have been convicted of any crime should never loose ther right to vote. The only criteria should be that your a tax payer, and registered in your state. It’s the lack of voters that has us in this hole to begin with.

By getalife

October 3, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

What a tragic day for our country.

Just horrible.

Damn the gop.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 3, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Dear findog @ 3:07, EPA supervises the Renewable Fuel Standard. If you have an additional state agency that ought to be abolished, I am with you. I do not regard pollution as a Federal issue, but rather one that ought to be handled at the local level. Don’t need any laws, just the common law nuisance tort.

By t prescott

October 3, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

ACORN is the only military strategy Obama knows anything about. He puts boots on the ground to steal democracy not build it.

Obama built his campaign on a fundamental belief that change in this country must start from the ground up, not the top down.

Thanks to the dems, the once powerful USofA stands on the failed foundation of mortgage foreclosures.

Barack Obama is a con artist. John McCain is a RINO.

Vote third party.

THROW EVERY LAST BUM OUT OF WASHINGTON!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 3, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Dear Lafond @ 3:34, if Obama were a right wing conservative who was a military hero he would be ahead by 40 points. Unfortunately he is a flaming leftist with no life accomplishments, so he has only the leftist vote.

By Duke Cunningham (R-CA)

October 3, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

I wish I could vote. I’d vote to bail myself out of this heck hole prison cell. I know I was bad. Can’t you just spank me instead?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 3, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Dear Getalife @ 4:13, I thought you would be celebrating the democrats great victory here. Even though a huge majority of the republicans voted against the bailout, the democrats carried the day. And look at all the goodies they loaded into the bill, just for guys like you.

By Lipstick Lesbo

October 3, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

The greatest thing the devil ever did was make you believe he didn’t exist. (Ditto Kaiser Sosay.)

The greatest thing Bush ever did was assure you that the taxpayer would get their 700 billion dollars back. (that’s billion with a B)

We aint gettin’ diddle dang piddle poo back, and you all know it.

Our revolution has come full circle, and a new tyranny lives. I guess I’m going to have to be Thomas Jefferson.

Lets see, ahem, “Four ho’s and seven beers ago….” no, that’s Lincoln at an AA meeting, darn. Oh well, I’ll get around to writing the baby boomer declaration of independence soon enough.

By Lipstick Lesbo

October 3, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

The last word on the veep polemic: The camera angle shifted frequently from full face close up to a view from the flank and rear which revealed Palin’s tight skirt and amazing calves. Palin mentioned how she admired Geraldine Ferraro for breaking the glass ceiling, but after seeing Palin in that skirt, I sure wish it was a glass floor.

PS. I also got a gander at the curve of Palin’s derriere, (thank you 1080p) and people, let me tell you something: this aint no pork chop, this is U.S. prime. I didn’t see or hear much of the debate after those rear camera angles, because I was outside in my backyard howling at the moon. My neighbor had to turn a hose on me. Then my life-partner locked me out of the house. I spent the whole night in a tree with a horny possum.

By Cal

October 3, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

Bad Brad @2:52 Actually there were over ten lies that Biden said and six that could be debated. Even Biden doesn’t know the truth and he has been there 30 years. He must be have been daydreaming for 30 years.

By @@

October 3, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

How fitting it is Jim, that ACORN would be looking to steal an election. They are, after all, complicit in today’s greatest heist of the American economy. Heck! turns out crime does pay with advice and consent from our representatives. And too…..

why not let ex-felons vote? I mean, come on…..shouldn’t everybody be given a second chance? All it takes is a good support group to get them back on track. May I suggest they have their meetings at our capitol in Washington. Our representatives could act as leading role models in how to pull off “The Greatest Heist” in history with no bankrolling.

I am absolutely aghast at what I witnessed today in the “hollowed” halls of washington.

By Rick

October 4, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Anyone noticed that we have the highest gas prices (outside alaska and hawaii) in the nation!?! Gas supplies are coming back in so why are we still paying $4 when the national avg. is $3.48? It’s a scam! NC, AL and SC pay less so don’t blame the pipeline. The EPA-mandated gas has been around for awhile and we were still cheaper than the national avg. before the hurricane. It’s greedy conv. store owners taking advantage of a situation. Wake up and demand answers!

By Rick

October 4, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Anyone noticed that we have the highest gas prices (outside alaska and hawaii) in the nation!?! Gas supplies are coming back in so why are we still paying $4 when the national avg. is $3.48? It’s a scam! NC, AL and SC pay less so don’t blame the pipeline. The EPA-mandated gas has been around for awhile and we were still cheaper than the national avg. before the hurricane. It’s greedy conv. store owners taking advantage of a situation. Wake up and demand answers!

By Analchord

October 4, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Rick. If you could prove what you just wrote, you could be mayor of Atlanta.

So stfu.

moron.

jklol