Thinking Right

By the OG

October 10, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

what, no slimming insinuations today?

By Shawny

October 10, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Where is the outrage over this ACORN group registering fake voters? I can’t understand why the libs are so against voter reform including showing a picture ID when voting. If they are able to get free picture IDs, then where is the disenfranchisement?

On another note: Here is a really nice piece regarding the myth of deregulation as a cause of the banking fiasco.

In the 1990s, “The government-promoted increase in homeownership dramatically increased the price of housing. As many as one in four buyers purchased property with purely speculative intentions. When prices stopped rising, the speculators tried to get out of the market. The rest is history. ” Dead on. Prices were way overinflated. To hear people say today that we have to do something to shore up home values is ridiculous. What is wrong with home prices being lower? That is good.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 10, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

During the last 8 years Republican members of tried to fix the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mess but they were blocked by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. The Wall Street’s Paulson along with Frank And Dodd wrote the $700,000,000,000.00 bail out Wall Street bill then added $153,000,000,000.00 of PORK for good measure. Our 7 Republican Congressmen voted against this RIP OFF of the taxpayer. Yet Saxby Chambliss (Socialist/RINO,Ga) voted for this waste. Why he has received over $10,621,716.00 from special interest much of it from BANKS & INSURANCE COMPANIES. With Saxby MONEY talks & the Taxpayer walks.

Yes Dusty Saxby worked with Hunter Biden LOBBYIST to shake down the BANKS

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I’m not certain how Jim’s “Annette Kesting rule” is significantly different from my “Eliot Spitzer rule” – maybe a little in degrees of weirdness, maybe not? Maybe should rename it the “Ed Wall” rule.

The Chinese GTMO issue may be a little more convoluted than represented by Jim. They are undoubtedly trained in terrorism, but they mainly wish to terrorize the ChiComs. I think the ChiComs want them back, to execute them. GTMO was the logical place to keep them, thanks Anthony Kennedy. I suppose it is wrong to blame the holder of the Robert Bork seat, when there were four other leftists supporting the foolish view. That, of course, is the singular issue that motivated me to vote for Captain Queeg over Chauncey Gardener. Since 1968, every time there was a split, the leftist justices have been on the wrong side of the issue.

OK, Jim, you win me on the immigration issue. “By the boatload, even.” Yes. Abolish the stupid quotas, allow the free market to determine how many come in, and I will support any screening process you propose, no matter how clumsy. It cannot be worse than an EPA statement, right?

Re your Medicaid/peachcare tax, we have a comparable issue in Gwinnett. Our local DA, whom I voted against, proposes to circumvent the budget process by funding his staff with the drug money he confiscates. The same wrong-headed incentives there – it will produce many more drug confiscation cases, meritorious or not. Woe be unto the person stopped in Gwinnett for speeding while carrying her husband’s prescription in her purse.

I think we can be certain our leftist friends will not care about the ACORN electoral fraud, as it is all aimed at electing their guy. Ends justify the means with all terrorists. Other than Southern Democrat. He has enough integrity to deplore the fraud. I note that deploring will not prevent it, although photo ids might. And station a probation officer at every polling place.

I can refine the language: “nonpartisan” and “bipartisan” both mean “leftist.” Orwellian.

Goldens are like poodles – the brains fire strangely sometimes. If it were a border collie or a German shepherd, that would be a turtle on a fencepost.

The sheep are too stupid that “price gouging” is merely an election ploy, much like sheriffs raiding “houses of easy virtue” 50 years ago. Always in election years. The economically literate among us understand that the “price gouging” laws caused the recent gas lines here. That is the rule of government limited prices, always will be. Think “socialized medicine.”

I’ll go you one better, Jim, abolish the PSC and all restrictions they enforce.

By Spare the Rod Carew

October 10, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Wooten must hear vigorous complaints from his good honorable friends in the assembly about living in districts. Wooten knows these fine people well. They trust him not to write about statements made off the record. But this time I’d love to hear the exact wording of their objection to the denizen law…

“It’s like being confined to a reservation. Now I know how Geronimo felt….”

Ed Wall: Buy, Baby, Buy. THis is the low. Just buy, baby, buy, and Clayton county will soar baby soar.

PS: I guess we dont have to ask Ed Wall, “boxers or briefs”, eh? (The cops already know…ew. They really dont pay cops enough, do they? honestly).

The turtle on a fence post carries his home with him. I wonder how his home equity is fairing lately.

Chinese Muslims? Would that be Sunni, Shia, or Chinni Muslim? Chinese Muslims…. the world’s gonna be fine.

Using a pencil, I connected the dots in the story about the chicken processing plant workers. I drew a mcnugget. Hey, isn’t that what they arrested Walls for?

By Just Nasty & Mean

October 10, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

The Cobb County Sheriff had better watch out considering defeated Cobb Commissioner Kesting might put a curse on him for enforcing laws on a contempt citation for not repairing her unkempt slum duplexes.

Of course, he could also have to enforce another bounced check charge againsts her for the voodoo doctor.

By Ga Values

October 10, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

As all here know I’m a McCain man but his “new bailout the people who can’t afford their house” program is a looser. Why would the Taxpayer pay face value for a loan then let people pay what they can afford to pay to own the house. The Socialist Barney Frank and Saxby Chambliss came up with that plan. I guess it might be time to reconsider Bob Barr.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14430.html

By Shawny

October 10, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Where is all the press when it comes to outing Obama over his campaign advisor, former Freddie Mac chief?

By Republicans R Crooks

October 10, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Tis indeed a good morning…as ah watch fat cat’s lose thier shirts on each and every world market….ah just luv seeing the idiot of the ajc lose money, but there is a dark side to it all…the idiot may not be able to soon retire and thus rid use of his nonsensical mumblings…Ah, yes, the advice I denied you all six months ago….GO TO CASH, US TREAUSRY’S ONLY….HE HE HE…We did, so we win…

By Churchill's Mom

October 10, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Jim if you don’t do your job you are going to be fired.. Here’s today’s Palin.

By ANDY BARR | 10/9/08 2:28 PM EDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin attacked Barack Obama Thursday for not being honest about his association with 1960s radical William Ayers.

“Barack Obama hasn’t told the American people the total truth about that, about his association with Ayers,” Palin said on conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s show. “Doggonit, he fails to tell the American people with candor and with truthfulness what his associations are and we have to know.”

Palin blamed the media for not providing what she characterized as the same level of scrutiny to Obama that it has applied to her and running mate John McCain.

“I don’t see the other ticket being asked to be truthful and give details,” Palin said.

“Some in the mainstream media are saying that, well, we’re taking the gloves off unfairly. No. You know there are only, what, 26 days to go. We gotta start getting answers to these questions that are paramount here so that voters have a choice in front of them that is based on truthfulness and candor. They deserve it.”

The Alaska governor told Ingraham’s listeners that if those questions were being answered, voters would find Obama “out of the mainstream,” adding that the Illinois senator would diminish “the prestige of the United States presidency.” “What does it say when Barack Obama says he would sit down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il and others, unconditionally, and I guess sort of hand over some of the prestige of the United States presidency and validate, I think validate, some of the positions that these dictators have taken,” Palin said.

“Barack Obama is so far out of mainstream America. And the policies I fear that he would support, that are so far left, that are maybe today in the campaign are packaged up to look real pretty and mainstream, they are not.”

Obama accused the McCain campaign of trying to score “cheap political points” by hitting him on Ayers Wednesday during an interview with ABC.

“I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois,” Obama said.

“The notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that … I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”

By Spare the Rod Carew

October 10, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

All those shows about flipping houses didn’t help this real estate bust. Like when the stock market first went QVC and they had a talking head advertising stocks 24/7 in the 90’s. Of course everyone became a day trader.

So everyone became an entrepreneur house flipper. That does explain the bubble.

But, this global crisis cant be explained that way. I still believe that not one person on the planet knows what to do, or how we got here.

Except me and I’m taking the fifth. (TGIF).

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

Dear GA Values @ 8:37, actually I think it is worse than you represent – Hillary (or more likely, her staff) was the originator of the “McCain” plan.

Dear C Mom @ 8:44, funny article. So the only area were Chauncey disagrees with Ayers is on bombing? That’s reassuring.

By AmVet

October 10, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

Price-gouging gas stations prompted 1,500 complaints to the state; 150 stations are being investigated. In my area, one station tried that during the last round of gasoline shortages. Within three months it was out of business. Customers remember those who exploit them in times of difficulty. The free market regulates bad commercial behavior.

Is our yellow journalist really contending that they went under because of a customer “strike”? Given his hyper-partisan track record with liberally bending factual reality, it is exceptionally hard to believe him without some d@mn good evidence.

And I thought that given what has happened lately on Wall Street and elsewhere, that all of this sophomoric talk about the “free market” “regulating itself”, was over.

So, how can these Republitoadie demagogues still trot out their same old, very tired and now completely repudiated, dogma?

Is it because we’re dealing with the party of endless, inane slogans sold to the ignorant “faithful” that continue to try and live in the 1950’s?

I believe so.

We even have one supposedly highly educated blogger here who, ostensibly with a straight face, and who’s modus operandi is to use many, many words without really saying anything useful, contends government serves NO effective purpose, other than invading and occupying foreign lands.

One could write a book on all of the mindless, delusional right-wing drivel wrapped up as banner material, with the forward being written by Jim’s little favorite, Dusty.

Mission Accomplished…

By Let's hear the truth for a change

October 10, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Who knows who Sarah Palin really is?

What about Sarah Palin’s association with the Alaskan Independence Party? The group’s stated goal is to secede from the United States — a treasonous offense. Todd Palin was a member of this party, and Sarah Palin attended at least two of their conventions and — whoops! — spoke to their convention as recently as this past Summer. The founder of the party, the late Joe Vogler, once condemned the American flag. Where are the questions about whether Palin loves the American flag?

What about Sarah Palin’s association with the witch doctor, Pastor Muthee, who blessed Palin at her church and prayed for her “finances”? Does Sarah Palin believe in witches? Does Sarah Palin support witch hunts? Does she know who Cotton Mather was?

What about Sarah Palin’s association with indicted Senator Ted “Tubes” Stevens, whose 527 organization was run by Sarah Palin?

Then there’s Senator McCain.

What about Senator McCain’s association with convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy? This is the guy who, on the public airwaves, instructed his viewers about how to kill a federal agent. This is the guy who boasted that he fired a handgun at a cardboard standee of Senator Hillary Clinton. Yet Senator McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show numerous times since these statements — as recently as May, 2008.

What about Senator McCain’s relationship with pastor Rod Parsley, who wants to engage in religious warfare?

What about Senator McCain’s relationship with anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic pastor John Hagee?

What about Senator McCain’s relationship with his chief campaign advisor Charlie Black who said a terrorist attack would help the campaign?

What about Senator McCain’s association with Shelley Shannon who is accused of shooting and wounding an abortion doctor?

What about Senator McCain’s association with Charles Keating? What about his association with Freddie Mac lobbyist Rick Davis — you know, John McCain’s campaign manager? What about his association with the U.S. Council for World Freedom, whose board also included a Nazi sympathizer?

By Mid-South Philosopher

October 10, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

Regular readers and contributors are going to fall out of their seats this morning, when the Mid-South Philosopher agrees with you on the issue of opposing the new tax which levies “fees” on companies who operate HMO plans in order to pay for Medicaid and PeachCare!

This plays right into the hands of the corporatists, who dominate the medical health insurance industry. It gives them a legitimate argument to raise rates on their clients to off-set the increased costs. Of course, they double or triple the actual amount needed so that they can increase their “lord god…profit”!

If we need to pay more for Medicaid and PeachCare, let our flaccid legislators enact general taxation for that purpose. Let all our citizenry have the honor and privilege of sharing in the great work of providing for less fortunate brothers and sisters.

Oh, and do not fail to remember….

Don’t re-elect anybody!

By Spare the Rod Carew

October 10, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

The ban on short selling was lifted at midnight wednesday. Yesterday saw investors shorting late.

The ban on short selling lasted three critical weeks. Once again, there wasn’t supposed to be a ban on short selling. Never manipulate the markets. Even closing them is never a good idea.

Now, we simply dont know what the market would be like if the shorts had been able to find a bottom in the three weeks since the ban was created.

When the shorts cover today, the market will explode upward, till the shorts sell into the rally again.

Greenspan sez that Short Selling is the only way to determine the true value of a security. He seems to trust the market’s nature and wants to let it work.

But Cox, (SEC chairman who McCain wanted to fire over the AIG bailout), enacted a poorly timed ban on short selling, and that may Rube Goldberg the markets later into an unpredictible gyration .

You cant mess with market rythyms. You just cant. If Cox should be fired, it’s for enacting the short selling ban.

Markets 101: Dont mess with it.

By JLK

October 10, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Let’s hear the truth at 8:58: Sarah Palin is like the turtle on the fence post.

By Ga Values

October 10, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Good chuckle from a friend, probably the only uplifting post of the day.

CEO —Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO— Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING — The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER — What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER — A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW— The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO — What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse.

PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in use.

By Spare the Rod Carew

October 10, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

the ban on short selling was lifted wednesday at midnight. Yesterday the shorts acted late.

When they cover today, the market could explode 1K points.

Greenspan sez short selling is the best way to determine a security’s true value.

By banning short selling and then lifting the ban, SEC Chairman Cox has enacted a paradox. He’s manipulated the markets unnaturally with a consequence yet 2B determined.

By lifting the ban after three weeks, he denied the markets a chance to find a bottom without short selling. Yet, on the other hand, by enacting the ban, he denied the shorts a chance to find the bottom during the critical three weeks we’ve been in free fall. He’s given us the worst of both worlds, and the market will have the devil to pay.

I wonder what Greenspan’s saying now? Oh, right, he’s hanged himself.

oh that’s encouraging.

There wasn’t supposed to be a ban on short selling. there wasn’t supposed to be a ban on short selling.

Buy Baby Buy. I think.

By ron

October 10, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Good morning all,Deny nothing,affirm nothing,pay with cash.My credo.

Connect the dots from fewer jobs to fewer illegals.Bring immigrants when necessary.Bring them legally.

We need an election overhaul.Let’s start by making it illegal to mention the 2012 election until January 1,2012. Any politician guilty of mentioning will be automatically disqualified.Any media story gets the writer 10 days in jail for every word in the article.

Any voter registration drive by either party is nonpartisan.Ask them.

That ain’t my dog.

I don’t see why we need Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo.We would certainly like to have our terrorist citizens back for trial and incarceration,why penalize China?In some cases executions are not a bad idea.

Fridays are always a good day to sink the market.Let’s see what this Friday brings.

By Davo

October 10, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

Egads, that was pointless and boring.

By Spare the Rod Carew

October 10, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

The crisis explained with math: Add the Iraq War to Bush’s convincing of America that a disaster is looming when he pled for the bailout, and divide by the ban on short selling.

It equals something nobody knows, it’s like infinity or something, or Pi, with no actual surety about the real number.

Infinity is impossible to fathom. So is the universe not having boundaries.

I dont get that at all, but I really dont get Bush’s gambit to bailout foreign banks by making investors believe in a looming disaster that may or may not be there.

Add in the war. divide by the ban on shorts.

How do you draw infinity? Why isn’t there an infinity key on my keyboard. Man, if I had an infinity key AND an umlaut key, then I really could take over the world and enslave all of you horrid trolls.

jklol

By Kemmet from Philly

October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

All this stuff going around about Bill Ayers and how he is a “terroist”, but do any of you inbred redneck yockels actually know what he did???? Sarah Palin keeps trying to insinuate that somehow Ayers is behind 9/11 and other horrific terroists attacks. This dude blew up the Haymarket Statue In Chicago back in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, the only thing that was caused by this was a severe traffic jam as the peices from the statue flew all over in the Kennedey Expressway in downtown Chciago, no one was hurt, no one was killed. Now Im not trying to say what he did was right, in no means defacing public property by blowing it up right or legal for that matter. But what I am saying is that to put Bill Ayers and Osama Bin Laden in the same boat is quite a stretch, Ayers was a radical hippie who went to far. Im sure alot of “you people” were quite radical back in the 60’s as well. The Republican Party is in a state of panic right now so they are pulling all the tricks out of there hat, trying to play to there base’s fears by using subliminally racist smear tactics because as we all know most of you inbred redneck yokels dont have the sense God gave a Fruit Fly. But what about Palin’s relationship with the Alaska Independence Party???? Can I get an answer please??????????

By Kemmet from Philly

October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

All this stuff going around about Bill Ayers and how he is a “terroist”, but do any of you inbred redneck yockels actually know what he did???? Sarah Palin keeps trying to insinuate that somehow Ayers is behind 9/11 and other horrific terroists attacks. This dude blew up the Haymarket Statue In Chicago back in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, the only thing that was caused by this was a severe traffic jam as the peices from the statue flew all over in the Kennedey Expressway in downtown Chciago, no one was hurt, no one was killed. Now Im not trying to say what he did was right, in no means defacing public property by blowing it up right or legal for that matter. But what I am saying is that to put Bill Ayers and Osama Bin Laden in the same boat is quite a stretch, Ayers was a radical hippie who went to far. Im sure alot of “you people” were quite radical back in the 60’s as well. The Republican Party is in a state of panic right now so they are pulling all the tricks out of there hat, trying to play to there base’s fears by using subliminally racist smear tactics because as we all know most of you inbred redneck yokels dont have the sense God gave a Fruit Fly. But what about Palin’s relationship with the Alaska Independence Party???? Can I get an answer please??????????

By Kemmet from Philly

October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

All this stuff going around about Bill Ayers and how he is a “terroist”, but do any of you inbred redneck yockels actually know what he did???? Sarah Palin keeps trying to insinuate that somehow Ayers is behind 9/11 and other horrific terroists attacks. This dude blew up the Haymarket Statue In Chicago back in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, the only thing that was caused by this was a severe traffic jam as the peices from the statue flew all over in the Kennedey Expressway in downtown Chciago, no one was hurt, no one was killed. Now Im not trying to say what he did was right, in no means defacing public property by blowing it up right or legal for that matter. But what I am saying is that to put Bill Ayers and Osama Bin Laden in the same boat is quite a stretch, Ayers was a radical hippie who went to far. Im sure alot of “you people” were quite radical back in the 60’s as well. The Republican Party is in a state of panic right now so they are pulling all the tricks out of there hat, trying to play to there base’s fears by using subliminally racist smear tactics because as we all know most of you inbred redneck yokels dont have the sense God gave a Fruit Fly. But what about Palin’s relationship with the Alaska Independence Party???? Can I get an answer please??????????

By Kemmet from Philly

October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

All this stuff going around about Bill Ayers and how he is a “terroist”, but do any of you inbred redneck yockels actually know what he did???? Sarah Palin keeps trying to insinuate that somehow Ayers is behind 9/11 and other horrific terroists attacks. This dude blew up the Haymarket Statue In Chicago back in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, the only thing that was caused by this was a severe traffic jam as the peices from the statue flew all over in the Kennedey Expressway in downtown Chciago, no one was hurt, no one was killed. Now Im not trying to say what he did was right, in no means defacing public property by blowing it up right or legal for that matter. But what I am saying is that to put Bill Ayers and Osama Bin Laden in the same boat is quite a stretch, Ayers was a radical hippie who went to far. Im sure alot of “you people” were quite radical back in the 60’s as well. The Republican Party is in a state of panic right now so they are pulling all the tricks out of there hat, trying to play to there base’s fears by using subliminally racist smear tactics because as we all know most of you inbred redneck yokels dont have the sense God gave a Fruit Fly. But what about Palin’s relationship with the Alaska Independence Party???? Can I get an answer please??????????

By Kemmet from Philly

October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

All this stuff going around about Bill Ayers and how he is a “terroist”, but do any of you inbred redneck yockels actually know what he did???? Sarah Palin keeps trying to insinuate that somehow Ayers is behind 9/11 and other horrific terroists attacks. This dude blew up the Haymarket Statue In Chicago back in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, the only thing that was caused by this was a severe traffic jam as the peices from the statue flew all over in the Kennedey Expressway in downtown Chciago, no one was hurt, no one was killed. Now Im not trying to say what he did was right, in no means defacing public property by blowing it up right or legal for that matter. But what I am saying is that to put Bill Ayers and Osama Bin Laden in the same boat is quite a stretch, Ayers was a radical hippie who went to far. Im sure alot of “you people” were quite radical back in the 60’s as well. The Republican Party is in a state of panic right now so they are pulling all the tricks out of there hat, trying to play to there base’s fears by using subliminally racist smear tactics because as we all know most of you inbred redneck yokels dont have the sense God gave a Fruit Fly. But what about Palin’s relationship with the Alaska Independence Party???? Can I get an answer please??????????

By Kemmet from Philly

October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

All this stuff going around about Bill Ayers and how he is a “terroist”, but do any of you inbred redneck yockels actually know what he did???? Sarah Palin keeps trying to insinuate that somehow Ayers is behind 9/11 and other horrific terroists attacks. This dude blew up the Haymarket Statue In Chicago back in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, the only thing that was caused by this was a severe traffic jam as the peices from the statue flew all over in the Kennedey Expressway in downtown Chciago, no one was hurt, no one was killed. Now Im not trying to say what he did was right, in no means defacing public property by blowing it up right or legal for that matter. But what I am saying is that to put Bill Ayers and Osama Bin Laden in the same boat is quite a stretch, Ayers was a radical hippie who went to far. Im sure alot of “you people” were quite radical back in the 60’s as well. The Republican Party is in a state of panic right now so they are pulling all the tricks out of there hat, trying to play to there base’s fears by using subliminally racist smear tactics because as we all know most of you inbred redneck yokels dont have the sense God gave a Fruit Fly. But what about Palin’s relationship with the Alaska Independence Party???? Can I get an answer please??????????

By Cornbread Fred

October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim! Good morning, L+R-wingers! Jim, your observation: “Nonpartisan” and “bipartisan” are abused adjectives. My observation: “Partisan” is an abused system. Get rid of it! God bless America! Vote!

By Kevin

October 10, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

This comment does not cover any of the topics you suggested. It seems that some or maybe a lot of criticisms of Mr. Obama are decried as racist by his supporters.

Now, I must admit that I have not read much of Dr. King’s writings. But from some of the speeches I have heard snippets of, one of Dr. King’s goals was a color blind society. What a sad irony that some supporters of Mr. Obama view any criticism of him as racist. With this attitude on the part of Mr. Obama’s supporters, how will Dr. King’s goal ever be realized or even advanced bu an Obama Presidency?

Thanks

By AmVet

October 10, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Yes, the bottom feeders often end up in the chum bucket.

Last week there was some grade A knucklehead named Peter here telling all the libs what idiots they were and how he was buying all sorts of stocks “on sale”.

He has not been heard from since…

Ga Values, great stuff!

There are times when not being a fat cat class warfarist is rather fun.

Like when they lose 40% of their spoils in one month…

By Shawny

October 10, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

refresh, not repost, will save us from multipostacitis.

Tom Coburn said it best, regarding the financial crisis, “The root of the problem is political greed in Congress. Members … from both parties wanted short-term political credit for promoting homeownership even though they were putting our entire economy at risk by encouraging people to buy homes they couldn’t afford. Then, instead of conducting thorough oversight and correcting obvious problems with unstable entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, members of Congress chose to … distract themselves with unprecedented amounts of pork-barrel spending.”

Dead on. Congress folk touting their horns, raking in the pork, allowing the volcano to simmer…well, now it is blown.

McCain warned of this a couple of years back. No one wanted to do anything. One bigwig from Freddie Mac is now an Obama advisor…hmmmmmmmmm.

By The SnowWitch

October 10, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

It was mating season for the SnowWitch. Every four years, her species of witch could not escape the urge to pick a mate. Her mating ritual always ended with a death, so she had to be careful. A selection technique could never be repeated. Someone might remember. There would be clues. (Last time it was the museums and their pretentious, lonely incumbents.)

Today, she checked out the race track. She figured complacent new money was the easiest target this time around, because with the stock market in a tailspin, there’d be an abundance of drunk, bitter and lecherous forty somethings. Children really.

“What are you drinking?” she said that as straight as she could to a man spilling his drink and holding a box of cigars. She took his drink and downed the last of it. “It’s a margaritaville.” he managed through an unlit stogie.

A margaritaville? She had to know. What’s a margaritaville?

“You drink it until you find your lost shaker of salt, heh yeh heh.” When he said “lost shaker of salt” he feigned to unzip his pants with his newly freed hand. The SnowWitch had heard enough. His family would thank her.

How did your horses do today? I’ve got a tailgate party outside in the parking lot. I can mix you up a margueritaville right quick and maybe I can catch up to you. Who do you like in the fifth?

The man seemed drunk and slurried enough not to suspect a thing, even though it was a long walk to her van. It was over before his boxers made it past his knees. Mating for witches is one percent perspiration and 99 percent heart. She kept his heart in that cigar box for a week after that. She made him simply disappear.

The newspapers ran a small article about a missing investment banker, last seen at the racetrack talking to a tall woman in black. The article made no mention of the dozen fine cigars found in a remote section of the parking lot.

The SnowWitch counted on margaritavilles to be an effective emergency spermicide. That man was quick. How had she let down her guard? He had seemed incapacitated, and then suddenly he sprang to clumsy, ill-timed life. Like a slinky pushed over the edge of a staircase. Impossible momentum. She reflected on how the drunken sot had put his filthy paws on her, and she remembered how he huffed and puffed his cigar breath all over her… she tossed the cigar box in the fireplace and watched it flame over….

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Dear Change @ 8:58, pretty lame – not a single mad bomber in the bunch? Palin’s a piker next to Chauncey.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Dear Kemmett @ 9:59, not until you get off the ** send button.

By The SnowWitch

October 10, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Hey everyone: get a load of this: I got to Bookman. Me! Little old me got to a ranked, award-winning professional journalist. Well, Excuuuzzze meeee!

A man’s got to know his own limitations.

By Kiljoy

October 10, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Hey everyone: get a load of this: I got to Bookman. Me! Little old me got to a ranked, award-winning professional journalist. Well, Excuuuzzze meeee!

A man’s got to know his own limitations.

By ron

October 10, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Spare the Rod Carew—-As a matter of interest,shorts are also small lobsters.It is not legal to have shorts in your possession.This could be used as a constant in your equation.

By Ga Values

October 10, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

I have given up on the Presidential race and will no longer post anything about it, except if McCain comes to his sences. Just got off the phone with a Libertarian who went to last night’s “Debate”.. Saxby hired a bunch of thugs that yelled every time Buckley tried to talk, so the crowd took over. Saxby must be getting really despirate or maybe Billy McKinney is his new advisor. Billy & Saxby are really very simular. Below is a comment I stole off the Peach Pundit.

“Jim Martin, on the other hand, is a kind, decent human being…something neither Vernon nor Saxby could claim. He won’t always vote the way liberals want him to, but he’ll be honest about that, and he’ll hear you out….especially when he disagrees. We heard this same “Atlanta liberal” talk in 2006, and Martin still got more votes than Mark Taylor in EVERY county in GA. There’s a lot to be said for decency, which is why Democrats united behind Martin in the first place.

As for Saxby, I don’ t know why he’s acting like he’s all independent now. He ran promising us that he’d basically do what Bush told him in 2002, and he lived up to the promise. Kinda sucks that being Bush’s butt boy in the Senate isn’t helpful in 2008, but he certainly kept his promise to GA voters who elected him in 2002.”

By hillbilly ragger

October 10, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Every time I hear our little Ragnar whining about Bork, I thank God we had stalwart, patriotic Senators who blocked that lunatic from the Supreme Court..

Jim, how long should men who pose zero threat to Americans, be held without being charged with anything? As for letting them go, you want to acknowledge what’s been reported, that 17 individual American families have agreed to sponsor them, already?

You aren’t afraid they’ll compete with you for your job, are you?

By getalife

October 10, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

The free market regulates bad commercial behavior.

LOL. Hilarious Jim.

You are making pf jealous with your great comedic routine.

Capitalism is dead, replaced by socialism.

At least oil dropped like the markets.

Keep the comedy going Jim. We need to laugh in times like these.

By Troll Coddling 4 fun and profit

October 10, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Our government shouldn’t have banned short selling. It should have banned the sale of firewater to the troll-coddling naive americans like Jay Bookman. I Knew it. I just knew he was part of that GLW crowd on the old slimey Yahoo message board. The way he champions Dusty. Dusty? The most flatheaded troll ever. And then he coddles the brain dead glennduhng and all the death threats he makes to liberals?

Bookman is not a gentleman. he’s a troll coddler, which is the lowest thing a man can be.

BOOKMAN!

BOOKMAN!!!

You know what? There was a clown on the yahoo system of message boards who would spam this weird message about BEWARE OF PFINZ or some such nonsense. He’d spam this all day everyday for years and years, and then, in calmer moments, would complain how he was one of the original founding members of the yahoo chat club and then he got banned from it, or something like that.

Could the beware guy be Bookman? I think it’s possible. Bookman coddles loser trolls, just like that deranged lunatic on the old yahoo chatrooms would.

Well I’ll be a cat on a hot tin roof. Bookman is the beware devil.

Now I’m scared.

By Ga Values

October 10, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

5 minute read from WJS about 50 economics forcast for next year not pretty for you young folks.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122349368554816267.html

By ACORN concern

October 10, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

More needs to be said the organization ACORN and the outright voter fraud that they are involved in and its connection with Obama. ACORN if under federal investigation for false voter registration forms using false names and also using the same name multiple times. There is a lot of Obama connection in this and could be an attempt by this ACORN and other groups like it to steal this election for Obama. This is big and needs to be taken more seriously.

By frost

October 10, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Hagel’s Wife Endorses Obama with an Eisenhower daughter by her side…Drudge

Its dripping,DRIP DRIP FOR MACACA,MEAN MCCAIN

They are coming home!!!!!!!

By lazermike

October 10, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Good point on the price-gouging, Jim. Certainly there could be no other reasons why a gas station might go out of business months later! I say we take it a step further: let’s eliminate all criminal law and let society eliminate wrongdoing simply by shunning offenders. When someone commits a murder, people can just stop serving him at restaurants or sitting next to him at the movies. O.J. had to move out of L.A. — that sure showed him.

By Condorcet

October 10, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

I’ve yet to see anyone provide any sources that show that Obama has a link to ACORN. The worst I see is that Obama contracted a group that works with ACORN, Citizen Services, Inc., to run a “get out the vote” campaign.

If you want to see someone attempting to manipulate an election, take a look at Montana’s recent suspension of 6000 registered voters in a few democratic areas of the state in anticipation of the close governors race there.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 10, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

We are suffering a severe shortage of rocks, and anyone price gauging and hoarding rocks at this time of National Emergency will be fully prosecuted - President George W. Bush in his National TV address ten minutes ago….Yes, Repuke Scum are rushing to hide under the nearest rock, as they can clearly see the severe beating their idiot boy John McCain is about to take at the hands of the uppity Democrats…Any Repuke not cleaverly hidden after 1/20/2009 will be arrested, tried for treason, and executed with a rubber mallet….So stop hoarding those rocks, a stinking repukes life depends on finding one large enough to hide their fat a*….

By Republicans R Crooks

October 10, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Talk about voter fraud: Many Fat Cat New York Repukes spend the winter in Florida…So, they vote in New York in person, and they also vote in Florida via absentee ballot….No Joke, we call em double voting snow birds…..I know at least one Repuke federal employee who votes in her home state of Ohio via absentee ballot, and in Georgia in person…and the list goes on and on and on….the lying thieving repuke scum just never, ever stop their lying and thieving…

By GayGrayGeek

October 10, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Condorcet @ 11:06 - You have to realize that when a REPUBLICAN’T manipulates voting records it’s called “protecting against VOTER FRAUD!!!” so it’s Hunky-Dory Geewillikers A-OK. It’s only when a group tries to register the disenfranchised - such as large groups of Those People that look like That One - that the same actions become CRIMINAL!!!

By getalife

October 10, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

“According to a new report, thanks to the Patriot Act, the government has been listening into phone calls from troops in the middle east, and passing clips of them around the office.”

Support the troops by passing around clips of them having phone.

Sick gop perverts

By GayGrayGeek

October 10, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

getalife @ 11:16 - As if Rep. Foley and Sen. Wide-Stance weren’t sick enough for ‘em?

I guess “GOP” now stands for “Gross Old Perverts”…

By Carolyn Wilder

October 10, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

I wouldn’t have a problem voting for Jim Martin. I believe he is a sincere conservative with good old GA values. BUT, I don’t think he is Zell Miller. Once he gets in the Senate he’ll be palling around with Harry Reid and those other left wing wackos. They’ll tell him to vote their way or else. Palling around with Reid is about as bad as palling around with Ayers.

By jm

October 10, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Well, it is nice to see that Mr. Wooten is worried about people being registered to vote improperly/illegally but I wonder why he makes no mention of the fact that legitimate voters are being erroneously/illegally purged from the voting rolls in several states.

By Roger Higgs

October 10, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

Maybe just maybe if those registered voters would vote once in a while they would not be purged from the records. And maybe just maybe if the voter registration zealots (ACONR,et.al.) would try to do the job right instead of chasing their agenda no matter what the law says we would not be having this discussion

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

In that fateful October, the collapse of the financial bubble caused the stock market to fall nearly 30% over the space of a month. Washington determined that trade policies were costing American jobs, and worked to constrict the free trade then flourishing. The president, following the advice of his most trusted consultants, persuaded Congress to raise corporate tax rates 9% (followed by an additional 18% shortly thereafter) and additionally to raise personal income tax rates on the wealthiest Americans, as the banking system collapsed.

Thus began the Great Depression. Fortunately we have learned much over the past 80 years, and we would never embrace those policies that brought us to ruin then.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

The new president, faced with widespread panic and the collapsing economy, determined to regulate the securities markets – and the slow recovery of the economy suddenly reversed, leading to the darkest days of the Depression, in 1937.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

My post from 7:30 last night:

I’ll raise the unspeakable, in advance of Friday stock trading. We all agree the market is prospective - what is the possibility that, like American leftists, the market is falling for Obama? It is at least theoretically possible that the market could be spooked by a Marxist head of government. If I am right, the market will recover to its pre-plunge levels on election of McCain.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

The ultimate irony could be that Bill Ayers will finally accomplish his goal, destruction of the largest capitalist economy in the world.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 10, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld October 10, 2008 12:17 PM

Are you Drunk?

By Kevin

October 10, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Thank heaven that someone has finally recognized Obama for who he really is-The Messiah:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/09/will-msm-report-louis-farrakhan-declaration-obama-messiah

By GayGrayGeek

October 10, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

After looking at this blog as well as Bookman’s, I’ll repeat what I said over in Bookman’s yesterday afternoon:

Unfortunately, the “Party Of Rockefeller” has become the “Party Of Stone-A-Heathen”.

By TOD

October 10, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Here is why I am not voting for SAXBY:

1) He stuck me with a 700 Billion Dollar Bailout that was not my fault as I pay my bills. 2) He votes over and over again for this failed leadership with Nancy Pelosi. 3) He has taken hundreds of thousands from Wall Street and says he voted for the bailout for his constituents interests - Saxby was simply looking out for his friends

By AV

October 10, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Here is why I am not voting for SAXBY:

1) He stuck me with a 700 Billion Dollar Bailout that was not my fault as I pay my bills. 2) He votes over and over again for this failed leadership with Nancy Pelosi. 3) He has taken hundreds of thousands from Wall Street and says he voted for the bailout for his constituents interests - Saxby was simply looking out for his friends

By GayGrayGeek

October 10, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Kevin - So you wingnuts are now claiming that LOUIS FARRAKHAN is credible?

That’s as big a knee-slapper as the claim that Faux News is either “fair” or “balanced”. Or that Elly May Palin should get a “pass” for her associations with Joe Vogler…

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

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

Dear Leftist @ 1:05, nope, just been thinking – free-thoughts Friday, working outside the box. Is that the best critique you can muster? I laid out a lot of ideas there, exposed enough thinking to allow you to develop a counterargument, if you have one. I think that one is a winner.

I am working on another “what if” now, an analysis that the “bailout” is a Machiavellian conservative gambit to check Obama. I’ll let you know if that one works.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Dear anti-Saxby guys, here is why I voted for Saxby: (1) Roberts, (2) Alito. That’s all. That’s enough. Another democrat in the Senate will tip the courts even further left - a bad thing, given Kelo, and Boumediene, and Kennedy.

By Liberal Lunatic

October 10, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

One time on the Discovery channel there was this show about giant prehistoric mammals. One of the animals was about to chow down on a carcass when a rival came along. The first mammal saw that the newcomer was much bigger, plus he had a raging case of herpes. So he crapped on the carcass in an attempt to spoil it for the bigger rival. That’s the type of Machiavellian gambit the Republicans pulled with this bailout for President Obama and the soon-to-be super majority Democrats, who stupidly went along with it.

By Ga Values

October 10, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 2:21 PM

I assume you are for his work on AMNESTY for illegals, the Farm Bill, 1st Bail out the banks act, Over ridding Bushes Veto of medicare changes, Gang of 10 Traitors, or the $700,000,000,000.00 + $153,000,000,000.00 of pork bail out Wall Street bill. I am sure you approve of the way he works with Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Dodd, Frank and the other liberals in his Amnesty work & bail out Wall Street. Or maybe it’s the way he sells his vote to the highest LOBBYIST bidder.

Saxby is ahead by 10 points, a close race might get him to retire after this election, otherwise his LOBBYIST Donations will keep an honest Republican from running against him in 6 years.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Dear Ga Values @2:35 You prove the old saying about making assumptions.

By Maniac is accurate

October 10, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

I’m just posting because there were 69 posts and since this is a family newspaper, we just can’t have that.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Dear HIDT @ 2:40, thanks, but I’ll speak on this one.

Dear GA Values @ 2:35, I think I laid out my argument in toto. I agree that Saxbe does not deserve re-election, but the country does not deserve the alternative, an additional leftist voice in the Senate. Parenthetically, you are comparatively new to the board, but I have been a consistent advocate for open borders, in opposition to our genial host, thus my “concession” in my opening post to Jim’s small change in his position. I think I don’t need the Federal government to protect me from Mexicans who want to work. We need more Federal protection from Americans who don’t want to work.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 10, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Dear Liberal @ 2:28, that is the general direction I wanted to push. Still sounds a bit too tin-hat, doesn’t it.

By Maniac is accurate

October 10, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Yeah, I agree. What you said.

By Liberal Lunatic

October 10, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Oui. If the foil fits.

By Devastator

October 10, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

The McCain campaign is on the ropes, and sadly it’s no surprise they’re responding with attacks and outright lies.

I’ve heard some pretty unspeakable things in the past few days — deeply offensive smears that we’ll hear over and over again until Election Day.

John McCain and Governor Palin are setting a new low in presidential politics with their dishonorable campaign.

Barack and I are out there every day fighting back. But we need your help.

Will you make a donation of $25 or more right now? Show John McCain and Sarah Palin that when they attack us with lies and smears, it literally makes our campaign stronger.

After last night’s debate, it’s clear why John McCain doesn’t want to talk about the issues facing ordinary Americans — especially the economy, which his own advisers admit he can’t talk about without losing.

Barack won last night by offering clear plans to rebuild our economy from the bottom up, lower healthcare costs, and end the war in Iraq responsibly.

McCain tried to push more of the same disastrous Bush administration policies — more tax cuts for the wealthy and giant corporations, deregulating the healthcare industry and taxing employer-based healthcare plans, and continuing to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq.

So what’s left for the McCain campaign? Negative attacks and lies.

And it’s even worse from some of the well-funded outside groups supporting McCain, whose sole purpose is tearing Barack down with smears.

Instead of focusing on the issues that really matter, our opponents are doing everything they can to encourage this toxic atmosphere.

We cannot stand by and let them get away with it.

We need to increase the cost of these desperate tactics for McCain’s campaign. Will you make a donation of $25 or more right now?

https://donate.barackobama.com/costofnegativity

Thanks for your support,

Joe

By BS Aplenty

October 10, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Ragnar @ 2:49 and Jim should it apply,

We agree on many issues dear to the conservative heart but differ on few issues as markedly as your “open borders” thesis.

While I’ll not belabor, suffice it to say that I don’t think your version of laissez faire immigration would work to the common American good than laissez faire capitalism or laissez faire baseball would work to the common good. It sounds noble on paper but reality indicates that absolute freedom usually spells chaos - never a healthy condition for the state. Some reasonable regulation of such “markets” is always in the common good.

May your billable hours be always high.

By Ga Values

October 10, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 2:49 PM

Do you think if a Big Liberal Lobbyist offers Saxby a bunch of money to vote for a far left suprem court judge he won’t sell it. check out this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5TprmkgRw&feature=related

By Peter

October 10, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

How interesting……..

CNN) — John McCain is facing a fresh round of anger from members of his own party deeply opposed to the Arizona senator’s proposal for the federal government to purchase troubled mortgage loans.

John McCain first mentioned his mortgage relief plan during Tuesday’s town-hall debate with Barack Obama.

The pointed backlash from several economic conservatives — many of whom already distrust McCain’s commitment to free-market principles — couldn’t come at a worse time