Thinking Right

By AJC/DNC Management

October 31, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

(This comment was mysteriously removed from kookman’s blog for reasons unknown.)

I think some wingnut should, out of the blue, ask Oblahmasan what he thinks about WalMart.

That would be neat to watch Der Fuhrer stammer through all of the lib talking points perhaps even burst a blood vessel thinking of all the horrors perpetrated upon the nation’s poor by EVIL WALMART, EVIL that the libs have told him about.

EVIL like increasing the purchasing power of the poor by 23% and employing the otherwise unemployed for a fair wage of 8 bucks an hour, more than you can get working for ACORN or the Oblahma kkkampaign.

Go figure, a lib is so stupid that WalMart having what they need for the lowest price is a predicament for them, they can’t just load their shopping cart and stfu.

Welcome to Bizzarro World.

Methinks that government believes providing money and jobs to the poor is their business and WalMart is cutting into it.

So they sic their idiot lib army on them.

Bark, bark morons.

By Redneck Convert

October 31, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m good and mad. I seen on Channel 2 last night that illegals and dead people have been voting in GA. No wonder us godly Republicans are about to lose. And after all I went thru to be born a real American. Getting squeezed thru that birth canal and having my head flattened and all that stuff. That’s the reason we have so many ugly people here. Just look at Wooten’s picture for a example. His neck kind of leans to his right, which is a good thing for a conservative writter. And he has this crooked smile like he just stole the church offering and got away with it. It’s all on account of being born the right way. The real American way.

Anyhow, what good does it do to be born a real American if some illegal can just walk up and vote the same as me? A lot of us rednecks may be worthless, but leastwise we were born here. That makes us alot better than the illegals. I guess where you were born matters more than stuff like working hard and trying to better yourself.

Where was I? Oh yeah, and dead people have been voting in GA for 100 years. You don’t have to cry just because Aunt Sally is about to pass on. She’ll show up at the polls and all you have to do is hang around there to see her again. Channel 2 showed records where people voted in the last election 8 years after they passed on. Trouble is, all the dead people that voted are librul Democrats. They must be. Godly Republicans that pass on go straight to Heaven, and no one wants to leave there. But to dead libruls even a closed church or school on election day looks good compared to where they go after they die. So they vote just to get a break.

Anyway, this Handel woman ain’t doing her job. She needs to have people reading the papers for death notices and striking people from the voting rolls when they kick the bucket. Instead of saying she told this county and that county to check the rolls. Why are us taxpayers paying her the big money if she won’t do her job? Heck, if I owe a tax bill and don’t pay it but tell the missus to pay it and she don’t on account of she can’t read or write the county won’t let me by when I say I told somebody to pay the bill. This Handel woman is so stupid she even looses court cases when she tries to get rid of some libruls and Those People, which is the same thing.

Well, I’m sorry for not saying anything about any of Wooten’s topics today, but this voting stuff has been weighing on my mind all night. It’s just that it looks like the voters ain’t going to give us a second chance and they are mad because the jobs are gone and they lost so much money in their 401k and prices are out of sight and petty stuff like that. So it just burns me up when people vote when they ain’t suppose to because they weren’t born real Americans or they up and died.

Have a good weekend everybody. And if you want a good scare this Halloween just take a look at your 401k. I looked at mine this a.m. and had to change my underwear again before I left for work.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 31, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Happy Hallowe’en all. Public labor unions, in electoral matters, possess the same morality as those “capitalists” who seek big government influence to constrain the competition.

Our Special Forces are amazing. I think I mentioned here a few weeks ago that I had recently finished a book-on-tape during a long trip, “Lone Survivor.” It is a raw philosophical treatise. As worthless as most of government is, the Special Forces guys are all gems, the best of the best. You don’t find people like these guys in the Department of Education or the CDC or as a Senate staffer. Abolish all of the bureaucracies, and divide those salaries among the Special Forces guys. They are the true superstars of our world. They do what mere humans cannot.

Amendment #2 seems to be an area where conservatives and leftists can agree. The morality of the amendment parallels our discussion of labor unions in politics, discussed above.

ACLU is mostly a group of community-organizer types, doing what they normally do. Fortunately none of those types could ever find themselves wielding any real influence over the government.

Willie Tiller deserves pain and suffering compensation. I don’t ever support such punitives for tort injuries, but I do here. I don’t know the nature of his crimes, but – big “but” here – if his testimony was truthful, he shows evidence of “getting’ his mind right.” Maybe worth parole.

Had not heard the MARTA story. Fits the template of the rest of the financial distress, though. Great argument, Jim. They don’t deserve a penny of taxpayer money. Tax lawyers can make good money if they are willing to manufacture such sham transactions.

With the history of “support” the leftists have given our noble military, only an idiot would work as a battlefield contractor during an Obama administration. That is the true reason leftists cannot protect America – they won’t protect the protectors. I’ll bet they would pardon Rezko, though.

Everything I have heard, Daly is a jovial drunk (my source is my older son, who has capacity to know one.) Sad story to those of us outside that culture. I remember hearing that he hit farther off the tee than anyone. Now he is just comic relief.

Note to @@: our friend Glenn has a west coast contract. Probably not exactly Galt’s Gulch – in fact it sounds like God’s work – but after this one, cleaning up Clayton County schools would be a piece of cake. If he asks me, I may join him, even though that is not my area of expertise. He is lining up a team, and I know he is going to ask you whether you are interested. Think about it. If you are free, I’m meeting him for lunch today – my treat.

By Mid-South Philosopher

October 31, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim.

My friend, I never ceased to be amazed at how such an intelligent man as yourself can totally fail to understand that the teacher organizations here in Georgia (especially GAE and PAGE and their affiliates) are NOT unions! They would LIKE to be, but Georgia law prohibits most of the activities that would grant them that status. Consequently, they exercise the only power they have…the vote…and they do that very well as the “Austell apple-seller”, Roy Barnes, can testify.

On other matters, I am afraid that the majority of the electorate is NOT going to grasp the danger of Amendment 2. Dispite your good coverage of it on this blog, I still find too many folks oblivious to its significance.

Finally, do you know what changes a public servant into just a lousy politician?

“A Third Term”!

Have a good one.

By Just Nasty & Mean

October 31, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

G.Mornin Jim, et al,

School taxes being doled out to developers come with an easy potential for abuse. I can hear it now “If you want TAD money, you must contribute to my campaign.” Amendment 2 is a scam for taxpayers to supplement developers with cash in exchange for some innocuous ill-defined future return. I think it’s ALL unproven voodoo economics. Vote NO!

Regarding the ACLU and the other slimeball lawyers, I have always advocated treble damages reimbursement for frivolous lawsuits. It would flush out the court system from all the lawyer-infested sewage clogging up and extending legitimate claims. IE: If you file a suit, you better be damn sure you have a solid case. You loose—you pay 3X the defendant’s and court costs. This would lower taxpayer court cost by 1/3.

If MARTA is on the hook for $400m because of the AIG default…that is GREAT! This provides another opportunity for MARTA to just fold and stop the trains. If the state of Ga. feels MARTA, a regional transportation system, is worthwhile—they should pick it up and get off the backs of long-abused Fulton/Dekalb taxpayers.

Have a good weekend everybody!

By MARTA

October 31, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Jim, you are not being fair in singling out MARTA. Every major transit agency in the nation used the same scheme, but most of your fans don’t know that. Stop misleading your sheep. What has MARTA done to you personally? Some times I wonder.

By findog

October 31, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Louise Radloff is a long time BOE public servant that has fought the good fight for the children since I was her neighbor some 35 years ago; this time the union is way out of line.

Have the school board association explain how they can support reduced funding and then claim lack of funds. The problem is not that we do not teach logic in our schools it is that administrators lack even common sense.

Jim the ACLU should pay costs but when you start with the whining about pain and suffering you sound, well, like a card carrier.

By Mr. KnowItAll

October 31, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Did anybody happen to notice from the mainstream media that more long-lost Obama family members living in squalor showed up last week? It just so happened; these were relatives Obama had fondly written about in his book—Dreams from my Father as having a significant influence in his life. . Of course, these impoverished relatives were discovered living in Boston by the British press, because the US mainstream media goes out-of-its-way to cover Obama’s indiscretions.

Turns out, Obama never visited them while attending Harvard Law in Cambridge Mass, 6 miles from their suburb in Boston.

The Obama family in Boston

Combine this revelation with the fact that in August, Obama’s half-brother was found—also by the British press—- living in Kenya—on a paltry $12 a YEAR! Obama has twice met his youngest brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama who still lives in rote poverty in a 2X3 meter self-made mud hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya on less than a dollar a month.

Obama’s Brother in Poverty

For the amount millionaire Obama spends on his chain-smoking cigarette habit, he could DOUBLE his brother’s standard of living.

Obama claims his favorite Bible verse is: “Whatsoever you do to the least among your brethern, you do unto me”-Matthew 25:40”.

This speaks to the man’s character.Any normal family would have a hard time justifying not spending $12+ helping his brother living in rote poverty, squalor and famine.

Instead, Obama has chosen to ignore them all.

It also says something about Obama—a LEFT WING NUT—that believes in massive redistribution of wealth and supporting the impoverished.

He’s OK with it——as long as it is SOMEONE ELSE’s wealth!

…..A quintessential and prototypical example of an elitist liberal.

How—-in God’s name—did Obama get to this point?

By One Voice

October 31, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Jim thinks McCain still has a legitimate shot. That shows that Jim has a deficit of knowledge of the electoral college, an absurd inadequacy for a political editorialist. Looking at the electoral map, we know these things: 1) Obama will take all of the Kerry states, period; 2) Obama will also take Iowa and New Mexico; 3) Obama has relatively large and seemingly insurmountable leads (7-10%) in Virginia and Colorado. That would produce a total of 286 electoral votes, even if McCain were to win Ohio, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Indiana, and Nevada, which is HIGHLY unlikely given that Obama is leading or tied in all of them. Obama will, in all probability, win at the very least 3 of those states. Just for good measure, throw in Montana, North Dakota, and Georgia, which are essentially tied at the moment. Zogby shows the race at Obama +7 today. But even when the polls were tightening, McCain was gaining ground only in the states that he couldn’t win, like California, and ones he already had in the bag, like Idaho. None of the states I’ve previously mentioned have moved, unless it was in Obama’s favor. Jim is shockingly misinformed for someone whose job it is to write about politics. (I wouldn’t expect Andy or rw to have a clue.)

By Denali

October 31, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Oh Jim! One day you’ve simply got to…grow up. And climb out of that Repug pool of hatred and bitterness and failure in which you dwell. Typically, you use the same words and ideas that I recall being popular in the 1950s. Intellectual growth is a POSITIVE, Jim, not a negative. You continue to push this stultifying unAmericanism.

By Sally

October 31, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

I liked your riff, about the sober guv’nah, Mr. Wooten. I probably, (to tease you, and it’s only a tease, I hope you realize that), would have gone with this: John Daly drunk at Hooter’s? That’s as likely as Vick contrite at a hearing. or Brittany naked on the French Riveria. or Scalia talking. or Palin winking. or Bookman coddling trolls. or Cobb County voting polls being stuffed. or fifty-something soccor moms wearing spandex.

I am awarding the first annual Red State Evangelical Bush Base award to this one forty-eight year old woman, with a soccor sticker on the back of her mini-van, which only partially obscurred an ‘04 Bush/Cheney sticker. She also littered her car’s rear end with a fish symbol, a my child is an honor student, a baby on board, a support the troops ribbon, and a Mary Kay phone number.

There she is, Miss America.

Obama 08: miss America?

Yeah, I miss America alright.

Obama 08: Reuniting Americans with America.

By Peter

October 31, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Well funny thing has happened on the way to the Election…….Seems like all I have been reading is Arizona is a TIGHT RACE…….

Wow McCain has the possibility of loosing his OWN HOME STATE……..

I guess that just about says it ALL as to what American’s think of him and the REPUBLICAN Party these days !

On a Sadder Note………. Seems Bush is trying to deregulate everything he can before he leaves Office…….no matter what the long term Consequences are…..

Seems Republican’s really do NOT CARE About the American Children………..First they cut Education spending, then after school programs, and then they cut funding to the Boys and Girls Club of America.

Now Bush is wanting to Pollute America, cut clean water, and all types of Environmental Policy’s that are in place to protect American’s but really HURT CHILDREN the MOST !

“A Last Push To Deregulate White House to Ease Many Rules

The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.

“They want these rules to continue to have an impact long after they leave office,” said Matthew Madia, a regulatory expert at OMB Watch, a nonprofit group critical of what it calls the Bush administration’s penchant for deregulating in areas where industry wants more freedom. He called the coming deluge “a last-minute assault on the public … happening on multiple fronts.”

REPUBLICAN’S with their POLICY appear to be just selfish folks…….. with a BIG on ME PRINCIPAL who CONTINUE to be “HAPPY” as long as they get theirs, no matter who they SCREW OVER !

A Vote for McCain is a vote to help Corporate Greed, and the Killing of America’s Children !

No wonder folks like Colin Powell, and Warren Buffett have voted for OBAMA ……….

Why did these guys vote for Obama ?

“Thinking Right Not Wrong. Not Left. Right. Common sense conservativism”………. Yes this is Jim’s Mantra…….but NOT that of the REPUBLICAN PARTY !

By Denali

October 31, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Thanks, Sally! God, how I miss “Baby On Board.” One of our brighter moments in history.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 31, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Well, as much as I dislike and disrespect Woodenhead, I do have to give him full credit for being much more liberal and tolerant of comments he does not agree with than that other third rate hack writter, bookie boy. Insults just roll off woodie’s back like so much water, but sickly thin skinned bookie deletes with GAY abandon. Why, even Charlie Kraut of the WashingtonPost permits almost all nasty and negative comments I and other like minded fallen away Repukes have posted in defiance of the NEOCON coward. Do ya wanna know what a cry baby Bookie really is? I routinely refer to Washington, DC as WashingASS…Charlie Kraut and Woodenhead permit such mild profanity, but the Qunt Bookie deletes all such comments, and sometimes notes it is because of profanity…Hail Woodenhead and Charlie Kraut….Boo to Bookie….

By lwwmm7

October 31, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Before the daily hate-fest and half-truth slinging begin today, let me wish you and yours a happy and safe Halloween. That said, carry on with all the childish whining now.

By Stan

October 31, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

CROOK: You’re getting too excited too early in the morning. You’re going to “dirty” yourself again. Here.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 31, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Dear AJC/DNC @ 8:03, great argument. I’d love to hear that one answered. Never happen though.

Dear Know-it-all @ 8:36. “How—-in God’s name—did Obama get to this point?” Heard a funny argument yesterday, that when Obama was a kid he would share his peanut butter sandwich, but now he believes the right course is to take all of the other kids’s monies and redistribute them. Power corrupts.

Dear lock step vox @ 8:36, I think you are premature in claiming the bitter people who cling to guns and religion in Pennsylvania. Obama cannot win without PA.

Dear PoFo @ 8:45, I think the appropriate sign-off would be “Obama 08 – Redistributing OPM.”

Dear Crooks @ 8:50, you may be interested in checking out the “comments” at McCain’s website and at Obama’s website. McCain’s are uncensored, and Obama’s are thoroughly sanitized.

By Republicans R Crooks

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

Fear not Stan, I have already taken my daily dump….both literally and figuratively….

By Sally

October 31, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

I have some life-long GOP conservative friends who live in Arizona. They are voting for Obama, and all their friends, who are even more rabid conservatives, R2.

America has a national survival mode that transends partisanship. We first felt it after 911. Americans feel it now. We have to save ourselves.

We have to vote Obama.

We will see a mandate. We will see Joe the American stand up and speak about liberty, justice, and our children’s future.

Joe the America 08: I got your bailout, right here!

By Sally

October 31, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

I have some life-long GOP conservative friends who live in Arizona. They are voting for Obama, and all their friends, who are even more rabid conservatives, R2.

America has a national survival mode that transends partisanship. We first felt it after 911. Americans feel it now. We have to save ourselves.

We have to vote Obama.

We will see a mandate. We will see Joe the American stand up and speak about liberty, justice, and our children’s future.

Joe the American 08: I got your bailout, right here!

By Republicans R Crooks

October 31, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Yeah, well Rag, that censorship is what I always hated and dispised about the eight long years of Slick Willie Clinton, years when I vigorously oppossed him, his wife, thei f a gs, and Democrats in general. I just hate their required PC speach rules….I support Obama only because he is the best and only realistic alternative to four more years of neocon murder, robbery, and out right cowardice….

By Peter

October 31, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

So the data really is there to show Human’s are the cause of Global warming…………

Data pins polar warming blame on humans

LONDON, England (CNN) — Scientists think they have uncovered conclusive proof that human activity is responsible for rising temperatures in both polar regions.

Changes in polar temperatures are not consistent with natural climate changes say scientists.

Research carried out at the Climatic Research Unit at the UK’s University of East Anglia (UEA) demonstrates for the first time that anthropogenic climate change is responsible for warming at the Arctic and Antarctic.

Previous studies have observed rises in temperature at both poles, but none, until now, have formally attributed the cause to human activity.

Using up-to-date gridded data sets, scientists led by the UEA observed mean land surface temperatures in the Arctic over a 100 year period. For the Antarctic the observation period was shorter — 50 years — as there is no station data available before 1945.

They then applied an average simulated response using two models. The first examined natural forcings — events like solar cycles and volcanic activity which can affect temperatures.

The second model simulated natural combined with anthropogenic forcings — which included greenhouse gases, stratospheric ozone depletion and sulphate aerosol.

Scientists discovered that the observed changes in Arctic and Antarctic temperatures are not consistent with internal climate variability or natural climate drivers alone.

One of the report authors, Dr Alexey Karpechko told CNN: “In both cases the accelerations are not consistent with natural forcing, which means that natural forcing alone cannot produce such a warming. So in a sense, we can say conclusively that this [warming trend at the poles] is due to human influence.”

The paper “Attribution of polar warming to human influence” is published in the science journal Nature Geoscience.

The Antarctic data is of particular interest given that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 notes that anthropogenic climate change had been detected in every continent except Antarctica.

This new data appears to demonstrate that man-made warming is indeed happening on the continent as well.

The report may go some way towards silencing climate skeptics who point to evidence that most of Antarctica has been cooling for some time.

“There is strong warming in the Antarctic peninsula,” Karpechko said. “But for several decades there has been a slight cooling of the rest of the continent. This slight cooling is due to circulation changes which are partly caused by ozone depletion.

“This is why there has been a bit of confusion as to what is happening in Antarctica. But we expect a recovery of the ozone layer in the future. We may also expect that the Antarctic warming trends will emerge more clearly.”

Commenting on the study conducted by the UEA, Professor David Vaughan, a Glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey told CNN: “This is exactly the sort of study we need. The poles are extremely important in the climate change debate and the rapid warming in the Arctic is one of the icons.”

Professor Vaughan, who is studying the patches of warming happening in Antarctica, concedes that the cooling that’s occurred in the past 30 to 50 years is “a little perplexing”. But he agrees with Dr Karpechko over the effects of the ozone hole.

“The likelihood is that over the next century the ozone hole will be substantially reduced,” Professor Vaughan said, “And it may mean that the Antarctic warming becomes much more apparent in that period.”

Climate modeling might not convince everyone that warming is taking place, but as Professor Vaughan points out: “Simulations are built around physical principles and an understanding of the physical world”.

Climate modeling is a relatively new area of expertise but Professor Vaughan said that the UEA is widely recognized as one of the world leaders in this field.

As previous IPCC reports have pointed out, the effects of warming at the poles are already being felt by indigenous polar species and communities. This new report is confirmation of the culpability of humans in contributing to these rising temperatures.

“I’m afraid that there will always be people that don’t believe that we are making all these changes,” Dr Karpechko said.

“Some people are waiting for the science to say that a particular heat wave is caused by humans. But attributing specific effects to human activities is much more difficult than attributing global changes. I don’t know if we should wait for that because it will be too late.

“I see from the data that there is warming. This is really frightening.

REPUBLICAN’S like BUSH and PALIN….do not care, about the facts, or American Children……just about Corporations, and Polluting, no matter who get’s HURT !

These are the REAL……. “Republican Family Values ” !

VOTE Obama …….like Colin Powell, and Warren Buffett……. REAL American HERO’S !

By ron

October 31, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning,I’ve told you about unions before.Had people been treated decently there would have been no need for them.People weren’t,now they exist.Live wth it or change.Some companies have changed and unions do not exist there by the choice of everyone invoved.

Goodbye Abu Ghadiya,hope you enjoy your virgins.We will be sending many others your way.

Opening a commission meeting with a prayer means you are a religious organization,an extension of a church.Any religious judge will rule in your favor.It’s done in Iran as a matter of course.It’s called a Theocracy.

Willie Tiller.They’ll eventually kill Willie in there.This is a sticky situation.Any reward Willie gets will be seen as boughten testimony.By the inmates.They’re always wiling to sell for a reward.Just maybe Willie lied.I just don’t know.

Marta with it’s hand out.The list goes on endlessly.

I don’t care where they find Jon Daly,or even if they find him.He being drunk cannot be news.Remember I told you all yesterday that stories such as this are the most read on the news outlets?Sad Commentary for America.

I’m going to hold on the raid into Syria.I don’t really have enough information to make a good call.Too much rhetoric.The Syrians are all up in arms over the incident,but there is much orchestration there.

By Sally

October 31, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

I liked your riff, about the sober guv’nah, Mr. Wooten. I probably, (to tease you, and it’s only a tease, I hope you realize that), would have gone with this: John Daly drunk at Hooter’s? That’s as likely as Vick contrite at a hearing. or Brittany naked on the French Riveria. or Scalia talking. or Palin winking. or Bookman coddling trolls. or Cobb County voting polls being stuffed. or fifty-something soccor moms wearing spandex.

I am awarding the first annual Red State Evangelical Bush Base award to this one forty-eight year old woman, with a soccor sticker on the back of her mini-van, which only partially obscurred an ‘04 Bush/Cheney sticker. She also littered her car’s rear end with a fish symbol, a my child is an honor student, a baby on board, a support the troops ribbon, and a Mary Kay phone number.

There she is, Miss America.

Obama 08: miss America?

Yeah, I miss America alright.

Obama 08: Reuniting Americans with America

I have some life-long GOP conservative friends who live in Arizona. They are voting for Obama, and all their friends, who are even more rabidly conservatives, R2.

America has a national survival mode that transcends partisanship. We first felt it after 911. Americans feel it now. We have to save ourselves.

We have to vote Obama.

We will see a mandate. We will see Joe the American stand up and vote 4 liberty, justice, and our children’s future.

Joe the American 08: I got your bailout, right here!

and 2U, umlaut waster, I say this: Dont vote. You’ll just embarrass yourself. LIke you embarrassed your own kind when you claimed 2B an American, or a christian.

Obama 08: Oh, there’s a litmus test alright. It’s called stfu.

I dont know what that means. Now I want my mommy.

By hillbilly ragger

October 31, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

“Congress is the root cause of everything bad that’s happened in the financial world”

Yes, that’s right—a grown-up, highly paid professional actually wrote those words.

Good lord.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 31, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

I find it hard to believe the 40 billion in iou’s to fat cat execs at GS, MS, and MER just got over looked by Congress, the President, Mr. Bernanke, and that lying, bald, scumbag Henry Poulson when they approved the 700 billion dollar bailout of the financial system. If those investment banks had been forced to file bankruptcy, the fat cats would have lost all those iou’s and current bonus money…May Henry Poulson git a nasty and painful case of testicular cancer real soon like….

By Sally

October 31, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Congress is the root cause of everything bad that’s happened in the financial world?

Finally, the bailout explained so that even a monkey can mock it! (camera to monkey holding a banana peel and using a pie chart to explain the bailout…. and then throwing feces at a picture of congress, suggesting that congress stole the fruit of the banana and left the monkey hoards with only the peel.)

Bonzo 08: Bedtime for America.

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Good morning Mr. Wooten and all you wicked cool cats and kitties. Happy Halloween! Moreover, to you Baptists and assorted other Evangelical daddy-O’s: BOO! (I mean, why should Pagans have all the fun?)

Just thought I’d drop by and check on y’all, rib PoFo a little, say Hi to my atty., kiss Dusty’s decidedly un-dusty hand, see if perchance @@’s husband fell victim to MARTA, and just generally bring you all the great tidings, of an All Hallows Eve, that Todd Is Still Godd!

Peace y’all

glenn

By Count Glenn

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

Sally is funny.

Ipso facto Sally is not Sally.

Hi.

By jbm is a condescending...

October 31, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC’s comment is not an argument, it is a conversation with himself. He imagines what might happen and what might be said. it is a scenario cooked up in his head. For a man who values logic and thoughtful comments, Ragwood, it is odd to hear you praise such nonsense. It wasn’t an argument, and it clearly wasn’t great. It was nonsense.

By WhataJoke

October 31, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

If government is the solution to your prosperity, you’ll know how to vote Tuesday. If it isn’t, you will, too.

FYI…Wooten I was prosperous, but my 401K is declining and the cost of food/gas is keeping me from putting additional funds into my savings account. I own my home, but my property taxes went up and my district is considered Republican. I watch the stock market daily, then I reflect back on the last 8 years. I look at my grocery receipts for the last 2 years, because I keep everything and I can’t believe how much the price of EVERYTHING has increased.

I have already voted and it was for Obama/Biden.

I also saw an article about the money that Alaskans have received from the state, so I laugh at Sarah and John. If they say keep government out of the prosperity of individuals, I guess that doesn’t apply to states with abundant resources. That money would have gone a long way in my house. Also, the people of Alaska did not earn it, they just relocated or were born in that state. I should be so LUCKY. I guess we should get reimbursed for the money that visitors of Stone Mountain and all the historical places in this state spend throughout the year.

By Commander Guy

October 31, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Some people model themselves after the strangest people:

If that wasn’t enough, McCain introduced Joe the Plumber as “an American hero, a great citizen of Ohio and my role model.”

I suppose if McGrumpy can be called an hero, the bar is set low enough for Joe the 5hit-for-brains Plumber.

By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Every Obama Hussien voter should read this.

If we elect an admitted socialist president, we’ll deserve what we get - Kevin O’Brien

Don’t forward me any more he’s-a-closet-Muslim e- mails. Don’t bother me about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, either. With Election Day less than a week away, whether Obama meets the citizenship test to be president of the United States is about the mootest point imaginable. He’s the Democratic nominee, and if he wins more electoral votes on Tuesday than John McCain, he’ll be the president-elect.

We Americans literally don’t have time for that nonsense.

At stake in this election is nothing less than the pivotal question of the individual American’s relationship to his government - a question defined in what may be the only two moments of candor Obama has offered America during this campaign.

ABC’s Charlie Gibson first lifted the veil back in April, during a primary-season debate among Democratic candidates. He asked why Obama would raise capital-gains taxes even if the result were decreased collections for the government.

Obama replied, “What I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness.”

Then came Obama’s chance meeting with Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, who questioned Obama’s tax plans and got this reply: “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everyone who is behind you - that they have a chance for success, too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it is good for everyone.”

Obama’s answers to those questions made it crystal-clear that he sees taxation as a tool not only to pay for government, but as a tool to reassign the wealth of individual Americans directly to other individual Americans as government sees fit. If he doesn’t believe in trickle-down economics, fine. But having government decide precisely how full each American’s glass should be - and then making the necessary adjustments - would be a whole new ballgame.

Columnist Mark Steyn, writing over the weekend for National Review Online (snipurl.com/4t9xl), argues that Obama’s election “would front the fourth great wave of liberal annexation - the first being FDR’s New Deal, the second LBJ’s Great Society, and the third the incremental but remorseless cultural advance when Reagan conservatives began winning victories at the ballot box and liberals turned their attention to the other levers of the society, from grade school up… . All three liberal waves have transformed American expectations of the state. The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.”

He’s right. After 70-plus years of ascendant socialism, this country today would be recognizable to Thomas Jefferson only as the realization of his worst fears. That Obama wants to make a final and irreversible hard-left turn is apparent not only from his few unguarded utterances this year, but from much of what he said and wrote before his presidential campaign. Witness his 2001 interview with Chicago Public Radio (youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck), in which he laments that the Supreme Court “never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth.”

Now consider the likely possibility of an Obama presidency, a filibuster-proof Senate and two or three openings on the Supreme Court that he can fill with fellow redistributionists.

Forget e-mailed technicalities. Obama should lose this election because Americans wake from their trance, look over the precipice to which he has ushered them, and recoil.

Seventy years is a long time for a nation to wander from the principles and practices that brought it forth and made it great: limited government, individual liberty, individual initiative rewarded and the right of every citizen to assign the fruits of his own labors as he sees fit.

Obama has run a stealth campaign, because the left suspects that it hasn’t succeeded in separating us entirely from those principles. An Obama victory would sever the connection, though. He has slipped twice, and told us so.

If Americans take the monumental risk Obama poses, they will deserve the government they get. More to the point, they will have proved undeserving of the government left to them by far greater, far wiser men.

O’Brien is The Plain Dealer’s deputy editorial page director.

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

…And now — and strictly for the record — let’s clear up this curious misunderstanding right now please.

JBM is not pretentious. He knows, I mean actually knows, what he knows, and he simply enjoys knowing. That’s basically what our Dr. Franklin of Philly would call an educated person, and the old gouty goat was not himself educated. So, for those of you who attended e.g. UGA or (esp.) Emory: As I was saying, jbm has had some seriously cool run-ins with some seriously deep-threat educators, and it took, OK?

Any further problem with that?

Any questions?

Or is your mind a broken egg on drugs.

Because, if it is, then there’s a little old ailing lady in Bel Air CA who can help you like you’ve never been helped. Poor lady’s been helping and helping it seems like all her life, and what has she gotten for all that except the resentment and mockery of all Los Angeles? Still, you — I mean You, Fried Egg — visit with the old woman jes’ once, and she’ll tell you what to do. And you should do it, too.

“Just say…”

just kidding man

gtg

By swolf

October 31, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Tickle me Elmo would’ve made a better Sheriff than Freeman.

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Now PoFo YOU WILL NOTICE, please, that I’m trying rully rully harrrrrd not to troll, but I’s swears if’n y’all’s don’t knock it off ferraminnit, I’ma DO the Billy Goat’s Gruff.

And what, Sir, may I ask, is a “Gruff”?

Dats SO bad dat gottabe Mister Lanier or something…

gtg

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 31, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Dear condescending @ 10:21, I saw the argument, but it is implicit. Sorta like Jim’s essay yesterday, when he “decried” the influence of money in politics. That is not a conservative view, of course, and after suffering 30 years of leftists railing on the issue, Jim was trying to smoke out the brainless. Guess he did, not a single leftist agreed with the long-standing leftist view. Jim proved his point. I would call that a pretty good argument by Jim - implicit, and of course it escaped the leftists. Back to AJC’s note, it was also humorous, but as a leftist you did not see that either.

Good morning Glenn @ 9:59, welcome back.

By jm

October 31, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten, shouldn’t the Board of Education be looking out for what is best for the students rather than the taxpayers?

Finding John Daly drunk outside of a Hooters is more akin to finding Governor Perdue out of the country when there are things to be done here in GA.

By Ayn Rand was Right

October 31, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Dear WhataJoke - did you say you’ve researched your grocery receipts over the last 2 years? And things have gone up dramatically? Interesting. Who exactly has had control of our government in the last 2 years? Your vote just pushed you closer to bankruptcy. Congratulations.

By Sally

October 31, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Umlaut boy, you cant just copy old blogs of mine and expect anyone to respect your credibility. Wooten is wasted on his readers? They dont get him? Your comment reminds me of the sound of the final stages of a turbo flush toilet, and not the girlie-1.6 gallons per flush loser commodes, no sir, but rather the older, 10 gallon waterfall fire hose toilets from the fifties, man. That gurgle is the unmistakeable epitaph to a political movement called conservatism, and the umlaut abusers who poisoned the nation’s precious bodily fluids with their fascist stream of glory and one party rule.

I know, you like the way I made you feel when you read Analchord and Political Foreskin, and Carbon Footprint. Yes, it’s funny, fun to read, and so amazingly insightful. No, there’s no one like me.

SO you thought you’d steal the lines cause then folks’ll think that YOU’RE the genius instead of the unleavened loaf pinch U truly R.

Well get in line. Every word I write gets a variation from some troll on some blog on the AJC.

It’s just a shame that your mother didn’t raise you to use the umlaut key in a more responsible manner.

All I’m saying.

By ron

October 31, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Good morning Glenn,good to see you back.

Interesting article in the London Times this morning.Senior Obama advisors are drawing up plans to lower expectations of what the Annointed One can actually accpmplish if elected.It seems that they’re afraid his supporters may have unrealistic hopes about his future achievements.

The article also states very clearly that he will make a major address from inside a large Muslim country early in his first term.No other details were given about this,but one can speculate.

I have stated here before that if the large checks don’t start arriving in a few short months there wil be riots.

By making

October 31, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Poll shows Obama with ONLY a 4% lead.

By Steven Daedalus

October 31, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Jim obviously knows nothing about unions nor has he ever been a member of one, if he thinks GAE and PAGE are unions.

By jim is a caveman

October 31, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Making, how does that affect the electoral college?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 31, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Dear Pofo @ 11:04, you are funny under all of your names, but you still cannot grasp that only cultists care about “credibility,” and that specifically excludes conservatives. I was surprised that you did not blow the cover on Jim’s essay yesterday. I often acknowledge that I steal all of my ideas – think I have never had an original one in my life, except maybe the “Constitutional Amendment for a May 1 vote to fire Congress.”© I definitely need to contract with Glenn for my PR. And while I may have to go under cover for the next few years, it will not take long for Amerika to tire of Chauncey. A terrorist attack here, bread lines there, and pretty soon we are talking Jeffersonesque revolution.

By making

October 31, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

McCain 272 and Obama 266.

By Sally

October 31, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Bring it on, benedict A.

4 points is still within the Margin of Terror, that is, a phony orange alert wont help McCain here.

Steal that, Umlaut 4 balls.

By getalife

October 31, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

ABC: Bush Administration Opposes Petraeus’ Proposed Syria Visit

w wants war with Syria but Israel and Petraeus wants diplomacy.

w still deregulating to finish off our government.

Sure, reward gop failure and expect a different outcome.

Pathetic.

By Chad Harris

October 31, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

In the first place the morons who run Gitmo have not distinguished good guys from bad guys but people like Wooten who don’t read believe they are all bad.

It is a shame Wooten can’t be tried with the goofey rules in place where heresay evidence and no access to witness statements are in place. Gitmo will be ended by President Obama and the inhabitants will be subject to FRCrP in the U.S., and there will finally be a thorough vetting of who should have been there in the first place.

Gitmo has caused a lot of explosions and a lot of American deaths, but as long as it hasn’t been Wooten, he’s okay with that.

In a rebuff to Bush the military judge in charge of Hamdan’s Show Trial has refused the Bush Administration’s request that the jury re-sentence Hamdan so he won’t be released on Bush’s watch.

It’s actually called the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals—and the opinion was wrong. It should be appealed to the Supreme Court and well may. There is no place for religion in government period, and particularly for the imposition of Christian prayers on people of other faiths or no faith.

I agree with Wooten as to Tiller. It may have been planned. The running of the Fulton jail has been one stupid move after another. I remind everyone if there had been no guns in the Courtroom and on court personnel, there wouldn’t have been the Nichols trial in the first place and that the prosecution is driving the cost of this particular case with expenses on the part of DOJ, several federal agencies, and an absurd amount of witnesses who are redundant and just add to the cost for Fulton taxpayers and federal taxpayers.

I agree as to AIG. We have no idea what AIG has done with their bailout money at all because Paulson and this Administration were too stupid to put conditions on the bailout money. AIG has refused to reveal how they are spending the money and should be required to.

Forensic auditors believe that AIG had the money spent before they received it. It appears to have been exhausted immediately.

There will be no resolution of the US Iraqi agreement, and the Obama administration does not have to honor the stupid bumbling of the Bush administration. Wooten is oblivious to the fact that while the lights are still not on in Iraq, Iraq has not spent their huge oil surplus of $79 billion sitting in banks in the U.S.

Sonny Purdue must have been drunk when he spent 5 million dollars stocking up on Tamiflu which increases the resistance to pandemic H5N1 and does not treat it. The medical literature is replete with these studies.

We know how to vote Tuesday; many of us already voted when it was a 10 minute wait instead of having to stand in line for hours. We knew how disorganized Handel would be on Nov. 4.

By making

October 31, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Even my gay liberal boss said this morning, “I’m starting to get REAL nervous that McCain is going to win.”

By Chad Harris

October 31, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Growing Doubts on Palin Take a Toll, Poll Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31poll.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

**”All told, 59 percent of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favor Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee.

And in a possible indication that the choice of Ms. Palin has hurt Mr. McCain’s image, voters said they had much more confidence in Mr. Obama to pick qualified people for his administration than they did in Mr. McCain.”**

From Moron Palin:

“As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the USA where do they go —it’s Alaska right over the border from where we send those out…”

Moron Palin holds forth on her foreigh affairs qualifications:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokTjEdaUGg

By Sally

October 31, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Chad, please. I’m begging you. there’s umbrellas in the courtroom. An umbrella is a great weapon for a madman to use against a judge. Also, no guns is no solution. However a gun the fires backwards woulda solved all our problems that day, no?

Of course, the best solution to crime inside the courtroom is the umbrella the fires backwards, but that’s only in a perfect world.

moron.

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Hi swolf. If’n UR who metinks, den I seriously seriously hope and OK4U kinda the other alzo that U&yrs R OK. OK?

OK. Den here goes…

I’m throwing this observation onto your particular KIDDIE table because: I AM TAKING THE GOOD TRAIN ‘GENERAL SHERMAN’ OUT OF GEORGIA ON THE FIRST OF DECEMBER (OK, so that was nasty, but you must admit that the guy made a fairly good tank…) AND I SHAN’T RETURN FOR ALMOST FOUR YEARS, AND MEANWHILE I MUST TELL Y’ALL I LOVE MY GEORGIANS (Well, mine esp.) AND WISH Y’ALL WELL AS CAN BE, BUT BIGOD YOU HAVE GOT TO STOP RE-ELECTING CORPSES ON CUE (or, in E. Cobb, in qeue) AND AMEND YOUR SOMEWHAT FLAWED STATE CONSTITUTION INSTEAD.

And so here’s my point RE yr pt, swolf…

It’s a fundamental problem with the very and quite great State of Georgia: Y’all got 145 counties. Needs changing right there. Only one legal way to do it. Are Jim Wooten’s beloved Republicans SERIOUS about “lovin’ on” [Percy Faith] their supposedly beloved home state? O hell no, not a one of them. Not one of the pols, not one of the hacks. (MEMO TO MS. DUSTY: Ma’am, Should you have happened across this particular scribble and have taken umbrage at my implicit insult of mister wooten, then just please have a blessed day instead and don’t worry for Jim, for he knows and I know that we are of the same guild and it goes with the terr-torry, a whollotta fraternal ribbing. Relax, Dusty. The whole Southeastern US, as far as I can tell, has spent years trying to get you to relax, and will you do so? Who knows. I hope so, dear. Hey, would you perhaps like to learn to surf? Meet me, then, on a date I shall speficy upon your request, at Big Corona, the so-called “Corona del Mar State Beach”, in my native CA. Historically — and I do mean “historically” — Georgians are welcome in both N CA & S CA, but for vastly dif. reasons. Anyway, Dusty Dear, please, keep yr. poetry and damn well you answer my questions Ma’am or I’ll spike your Julep come first Spring…)

(…or was that, “Sprig”…)

ANYWAY AS I WAS SAYING, AND AS ANYBODY CAN TELL YOU THE PROB’LEM W/ GA IS DIGRESSION & PROCRASTINATION PROCRASTINATION PROCRASTINATION PROCRASTINATION…

…BUT T’OTHER PROBLEM, SERIOUSLY, IS: ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE CREATURES AND SUBDIVISIONS OF THIS GREAT STATE, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM GETS A SHERRIF WHO INVARIABLY SEEKS AND INVARIABLY GAINS HIGHER OFFICE?

Why, Hell, People: You might as well have placed your own damn very silver bullet in the empty magazine and spun the thing and put it to your temple. What WERE y’all THINKING when you wrote the State Constitution?

Do you realize…that 145 departments of the State means, among many other pathogens, that…you’ve got that many more sheriff’s deputies both condoning and even selling e.g. every famous street drug we’ve ever heard tell of; everything since then; every legal Rx that can be taken to the streets; every over-the-counter e.g. drug or even candy-that’s-got the right amt. of e.g. Red Dye This or Green Dye That; OR ELSE, and this is my favorit one, and I send this one out to all my sweet unionized skooltchrs raght here in Walton Skool Dissed: Epiduran patches (esp. Oxy — by which I don’t mean the college out of which Barack bailed because they did something Columbia never makes undergraduates do: they made him do his homework) — as I was saying, topical patches, mostly from ALZA Corp., Johnson&Johnson, that are cut up according to the amount of lunch money a kid, nowadays as young as 10, has, and guess what my fellow Georgians too damn stupid to reform your own constitution before re-electing The Undead Son-ny, [Boo, you embodiment of Nonfeasance!] — GUESS WHAT! 145 Sherrifs = whole lot more deputies, and that just means more mayhem mayhem mayhem for Georgia schools, Georgia’s Youth, Georgia justice, Georgians’ health, safety and general welfare. That’s all.

It’s the Macro, Stupid. It’s in the numbers. A natural Fool such as Sonny P. never possibly could get this, yet Jim Wooten and everybody here in his own garage can do so: It ain’t law enforcement, ferevvinssakes, that’s wrong; it’s that they are elites (many of them quite literally now returning from e.g. 2-4 tours apiece) who ought to be but yet cannot [constitutionally] be treated as what they are and what we all ought to be very aware that they are. They don’t get to be treated, paid, ranked, retired, etc. as the Dirty Dozen or something, because…

Y’all Georgians got too many “creatures and subdivisions” of the State, and that’s just too toxic a Halloween brew for INSANE mischief.

Just stop it, Y’all. Stop it now, please. I’m leaving for the Hippie Coast December 1, and I wish you’d stop it by then. It’s too late now and ACORN won’t let you do anyway, but next time next time next time, please, vote to amend your constitution and reduce, somehow, the number of counties in the State of Georgia. It’s ridiculous. It’s dangerous. And it keeps a great state down.

Happy All Hallows,

Auntie Kepila

By Chad Harris

October 31, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Sally—

Guns aren’t allowed in federal courtrooms and there have been no murders in them. I understand your flair for James Bond type weapons, but having enough deputies in shape instead of leaving one woman with people on trial for alledgedly violent crimes makes sense to me. And remember the gun was used after the courtroom setting to kill two more people.

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

@ RODNEY DANGERFIELD,

I happen to be a little more into Rabbi Jackie Mason these days, but also and quite sincerely into Dag Hammersjold he of blessed memory, but thanks, thanks, for your welcome.

Means a lot.

g

By Republicans R Crooks

October 31, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

If Fulton County had any standards on who they hired and who they retained as cops, baliffs, and jailhouse guards, Brian Nichols would never have excaped. Here is a hint: Do not hire or retain FAT people as cops, baliffs, or jailhouse guards. Make em run three back to back hundred yard dashes each in under 15 seconds, do fifty push ups, and fifty pull ups, and make em do this every six months with no gaming of the system. In addition, failure to follow policy and procedure is an on the spot firable offense…two guards with every prisoner, handcuffs and leg irons required while in transit. Sleeping on duty gits you a serious beating and a firing…again on the spot. See, that wasn’t so hard to solve, now was it?

By Sally

October 31, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

If government is the solution to your prosperity, then you are a bank.

By Dusty

October 31, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Auntie Kepila,you ol drunk. I’ll get to you later. IMPORTANT things call and that doesn’t include you. But, sweetums, since you are going to be here until Dec. first, and only California could deserve you (Did Arnuld call?) and the South shall rise again even without you…sooooo..see you later,alligator…afterwhile…crocodile…..I know..worn thin by use but I’M IN A HURRY. Relax, I shall return glad glennnoble one of county crossroads chrysalis….

By The good side

October 31, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Can either Jim dandy,Commu, Rags and Republican tell me how we are going to undebt ourselves?

No one wants to pay taxes? Our local government needs money, our state government needs more money or federal government needs more money!

How are we going to keep up this mess our local,state and federal governments have gotten the American tax payers into?

Jim believes capitolism is the solution, but it seems to be the problem.

We cannot regulate greed! Our business models need a lot of tweaking we are creating the have and the have nots.

Most of our major corporations are firing people if the sales forecast is 1 percent below estimate.

We need fundamental change!

Exxon stated they will not start any noew drilling projects for the next year.

Why because they want the price of oil to increase! We are being lead by fat cats who care about themselves and not our country!

By Sally

October 31, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Our Iraqi Special Forces killed one bad guy, Abu Ghadiya at a cost of only a few hundred million dollars?

What R we doing in Iraq? What’s the mission now, to spend a billion dollars per terrorist/insurgent/bathist/shia/kurd/alqueda/bystander/collateral damage/sunni die hard/whoever is standing there?

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Faux Dusty,

U got my #, U bastid.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 31, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

So do ya think Bush will be arrested on 1/20/2008 or on the next day? Will the entire Bush Team be rounded up simultaneously in a coordinated sweep, or piecemeal? Do ya think we will use Bush’s extra legal rendition to send the prisoners directly to Egypt for trial? Do ya think President Obama will deputize some of us to arrest Woodenhead and Dusty?

By making

October 31, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Nope

By Jim Wooten

October 31, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Count Glenn @ 11:49: You can’t leave this state — but if you insist otherwise, leave a forwarding address.

You have long been under consideration for a high position in government when my band of Right-wingers take over. We were thinking of the U.S. Department of Education (depending on how our conversations go with Mid-South Philosopher; we may not be able to bring him around).

Four years away from Georgia can be an eternity. Unless my band of Right-wingers get it together, the Right Coast will be indistinguishable from the Left politically by the time you get back.

By The good side

October 31, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Why are we still calling our occupation in Iraq a war?

Rags are we fighting a country? Or are we just fighting a small group of people who do not like us?

Why is the definition called a war? Bush declared we won the war against Saddam so now who are we fighting the war against?

Oh terrorism in one specific country where they want us out and all the terrorist dwell in Iraq.

Very good points Sally as we continue to waste billions of dollars!

Can a REPUBLICAN PLEASE TELL ME WHY IRAQ CANNOT PAY US TO STAY IN THEIR COUNTRY?

Please Dusty not today!

You are so stuck in roman empire times your comments do relate to todays topics!

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Personally, I’m enjoying the deep tingly sensation of Knowing that I reside in a state governed by The Walking Undead…

…ooh, my halloween is…so far…goooooooooooood…

So, by all means you bunch of edu-stupified-crackerz, keep Our Sonny in Command. Please do. It jes’ wouldn’t be a-right otherwise, in Buckhead or thereabouts.

Fools.

g

By A different Joe

October 31, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

I heard the reaction of three business owners, two small, one big, to Obama’s planned tax increases. If the hit to these folks is too big, get ready for layoffs and puny raises. Anybody else hearing this kind of talk?

By making

October 31, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

THE GOOD SIDE…because they gave all their money to the Obama campaign.

By Keep it real!

October 31, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Different Joe:

Are people laying people off right now or are they hiring people.

Listen you Nutty right wingers we need jobs,then consumers spend money to support those business who then want to expand. Tax cuts do not make companies hire people.

CLinton did not cut taxes he created incentives for companies to grow their business!

WE NEED NEW INDUSTRIES becuase our corporations are trying to use the cheapest labor.

How can we sell to Columbia where the average wage is 10 days a day.

WAKE_UP its time to change the economic model before its too late!

By Peter

October 31, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

WOW what a concept………..!!!!!!!

“By The good side

October 31, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Can either Jim dandy,Commu, Rags and Republican tell me how we are going to undebt ourselves?”

I have ASKED this SAME question at least 5 times on this BLOG and got zero in return……!

Watch out the answer will be about hating Obama and the Left !

I suggested actually creating jobs by rebuilding America’s Infrastructure, then taxing folks that will be getting the jobs as a way to get folks off unemployment, and creating a better America……..but hey I never got a response to that concept either.

Don’t worry just cause it is Halloween, and the folks are scary out there………the Neocons are the same every day of the week !

By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

The good side, i gotta ask this. DO YOU ACTUALLY DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH OR DO YOU LET KATIE COURIC TELL YOU WHAT TO BELIEVE? SERIOUSLY!

Let me learn you something my misguided comrade. Two years ago, Mccain and Bush said that Freddie and Fannie needed reform and oversight. Barney Fwank balked and said they were basically idiots and nothing was wrong. WRONG! Go back ten years. Bill Clinton and the dems wanted EVERYONE to own a home. No matter what their credit history. Didn’t matter that these people could not pay their bills or even hold a job. It’s common sense that should tell a person whether or not they can own a home or not. You still with me friend? THE REASON WE ARE IN THIS MESS IS NOT BECAUSE OF WALL STREET. IT’S BECAUSE OF MORONS WHO PURCHASED A HOME THAT WAS WAY BEYOND THEIR PRICE RANGE. Got it?

By the way, I’ve gotta ask you this. You seem to blame capitalism for this mess. Had we been a socialist country our unemployment would be at 15%. Don’t believe me? France is at 8-9% right now. We are double the size of France. With illegal immigration we are almost at triple. GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IS NOT THE ANSWER. THE MARKET ALWAYS AND I MEAN ALWAYS WORKS ITSELF OUT. People that bought these homes should have known better. IF I see one more idiot with two BMW’s and a $500,000 home b*** about their mortgage I may just find them and punch them in the face. Does that help?

By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Peter, Bush was handed a recession by the dotcom burst. He then had to deal with 911. Something no president has EVER had to deal with. Clinton had 8 years and we were bombed 4 times. He did nothing. Again, you idiots blame Bush. ANYWAY, from 2004-2007 we had an EXCELLENT economy. The DOW reached 14,000 this year. NO president has ever had that much success. Not even your former savior Bill Clinton. AGAIN, government is not responsible for creating jobs nor is it responsible for health care. IF you think socialism is great then by all means study up on France and Germany where unemployment is at 8-9%. They have no military nor any means of protecting themselves. You may think that their healthcare is great but I have been there and I have experience their grand and oh so wonderful hospitals. I waited 12 hours to see a doctor. Just for a virus. I saw people with broken bones who’d sat there longer than I did. So please, with all of your wonderful knowledge please tell us all how socialism is better. Oh, and yes, Obama Hussein is a moron who can speak well. Big Whoop. I hope his words can cure cancer, aids, terrorism, economy, sickness, hunger and everything else that ails this world.

By Frost

October 31, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

A former secretary of state and supporter of Republican presidential nominee John McCain says that McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, isn’t up to the task of taking over the presidency in a crisis but could become “adequate” if not “a genius in the job.” thats **Lawrence Eagleburger for u,doing his part to SwftBoat Mcccain,just be4 we vote.What an endorsement!!Iam sure Mccain is pleased!!

By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Keep it real!, The reason companies outsource and move overseas is because of HIGH TAXES! American Corporations pay the highest taxes of business in the world. We don’t need to change our economic model. We need lower taxes. Care to argue?

By Frost

October 31, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

WSB is reporting of voting problems in GA. What a revelation!! Voter supression is a southern states phenomena.In the rural counties,they will post funny looking rednecks near the polls,just to scare some nikker.

By BS Aplenty

October 31, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management @ 8:03

I’ve had posts “pulled” from Bookman’s blogs and Tucker’s, too, for having the temerity to argue that Obama is an overt racist. I suspect my essays/posts undermined the Bookman-Tucker lib-think wherein only conservatives can be racists while Dems are somehow immune. Your post, if you’ve not surmised, is simply too factual, too cogent, in short, too damning of a strongly held, though poorly supported, Dem belief.

Take it as a compliment.

I’ve grown a great deal as a political observer and commentator over the past several months on this site. In my formative blogging days, I posted some, shall we say, candid opinions.

Yet there was no censure by Mr. Wooten.

My conversation these days has been tempered by the fine example of Mr. Wooten and other well-spoken bloggers whom I’ve read. But let me say that I continue to read posts on Mr. Wooten’s page by Dem-leaning bloggers who have made personal attack on conservatives AND Mr. Wooten an art form. Their ill-formed commentary serves no purpose other than to demonize the individual.

Still, no censure by Mr. Wooten.

I suggest that Bookman-Tucker is a fine example of what you can expect of the Liberal Cause. They continually make appeals to emotion as support for pet issues, spout how nobly they support freedom of Everything but sadly prevent the most germane freedom they control on these forums, that being, freedom of speech.

I guess in the end both Bookman and Tucker just seem frightened.

Frightened that fact and reason will lay waste to some of their long-cherished liberal notions. It’s usually why people censure others. It’s also why I have a great deal more respect for the integrity of Jim Wooten than I do for that of Jay Bookman or Cynthia Tucker.

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

Oh hell ron. Good to see you, still here…

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

October 31, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

The real reason companies re-locate to other countries is to get slave labor. No company benefits more from this than Walmart. Walmart is a horrible company that delights in putting Small businesses out , sells the goods made by slaves and then, if the store location isn’t as productive as hoped, they’ll move leaving an ugly building and a shot local economy. Don’t buy from Walmart!

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Oh and Mr. Wooten, seriously: answer’s yes, and also Vonnegut was wrong about the semicolon;

Four weeks. Some time, I’m thinking, while you’re whiling away lunch in some ab-so-lutley godforsaken committee hearing room listening to the worst possible abuses of Webster’s English save for the cub-reporter’s Police Blotteringgggg, and I’ll just meet you there and buy you a club sand. or something and listen.

…and listen, and pencil down — no kidding — Gregg Shorthand on a spiralbound stenopad….

glenn

By Frost

October 31, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

The real reason companies re-locate to other countries is to get slave labor yep! I’ve grown a great deal as a political observer and commentator over the past several months on this site which trailer park do you live at BS Aplenty??

By Jim Wooten

October 31, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Interesting discussion today on blog-debate management styles.

I found early on that the blog community polices itself pretty well.

As for me, I do note that some of the criticism directed my way can be personal and harsh. But my view is that I’ve had my say and I should allow others to have theirs.

I’m really wary of policing speech and of trying to make your commentary conform to my sense of how you should frame opinion and express it.

I did take down four or five posts on a Saturday a couple of weeks ago because the poster was making racist statements and then, using other identities, expressing outrage that “rednecks” here were posting such things. Such, I suppose, is the entertainment of a boring Saturday.

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Jim is quite cool, no?

By Gator Joe

October 31, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Wooten:

While I don’t believe government is the solution to all problems, it does have an important role to play in protecting the vulnerable in our society, made so by eight years of conservative policies. You conservatives are beneficiaries of a government that allows you to prosper at the expense of the middle class and the poor. I do know how to vote (Democrat), and even if you and your fellow conservatives successfully install another inept, corrupt administration we will retain and increase House and Senate Democrats.

By BS Aplenty

October 31, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Frost

One of the first concepts you’ll learn in the Macroeconomics class you’ve never taken is comparative advantage. That concept says, in short, if you wish to have the standard of living of the average Chinese worker, then move to China and, presumably, make clothes and other low-wage products.

If you want to live in a country with the standard of living of, say, the USA, then you’ll be obligued to educate yourself such that you can afford that luxury. Plenty of engineering positions go wanting for lack of applicants in this country.

When you see this country making large numbers of low wage products, you’ll know our standard of living will decrease.

By @@

October 31, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

I did take down four or five posts on a Saturday a couple of weeks ago because the poster was making racist statements and then, using other identities, expressing outrage that “rednecks” here were posting such things.

AHhOoooooo!!!!! A “split” wail renders blubber. Shame on them. Engaging in today’s free-for-all, I offer…..

When Teamsters endorse CEOs who hire Teamsters, it’s not so much a matter of qualifications to run the company.

No! It’s more like choosing from the many “favors” offered at “Baskin’ Robbers”.

thanks to U.S. Special Forces troops who reached out to him inside Syria.

That’s why they call ‘em “special” Jim. Anyone who seeks to save the taxpayers’ expense is indeed. That’s why I would argue that OBlahMa is not AS SPECIAL as his supporters believe him to be. HE will be reaching out and touching middle class America in ways they did not imagine. Those who are fond of him enjoy being fondled.

The Georgia School Boards Association has wimped out on Amendment No. 2, taking no position.

An OBlahMa “present” in other words?

So where is the check from the American Civil Liberties Union compensating the taxpayers of Cobb for the money we spent fighting a frivolous suit?

There is nothing civil about The Union’s litigation practices. It’s socialized extortion, plain and simple.

Fulton badly needs a new sheriff

Well Jim, our Victor is lookin’ to make his mark elsewhere. In his perky “little package” his demands are litigious by nature. He charges millions for a screw. He can be Fulton County’s for a generous fee.

Adding MARTA to the bailout reeks as did the bailout itself. When Feddie’S MACKED America’s Fannie? I will never forgive OR forget — on that I sit firm.

These are not questions I want left to Angry Left if, by chance, it comes to power here.

But yet Jim, that is exactly what may happen.The Kurds are on board….the Sunnis are on board. The only hold out is that segment within the Shia community whose allegiance is to Iran. All political leaders are proceeding with caution so as to not having the SOFA albatross hanging from their necks before Iraqi’s elections in early 2009. We all know who it is Ahmadenijad and the Iranian mullah’s want to win in the U.S. elections…OBlahMAllah.

Anyhoo, The Grand Ayatollah Al ali-Sistani has given an ambiguous statement in support of. Although he is a Shiite, he is no friend to Iran or its mullah’s. As I see it, he is far more influential than any of Iran’s Shiite proxies within Iraq. Here’s hopin’ OBlahMAllah’s HOPES in the election aren’t fulfilled so that Iraq’s may be.

A news story informs us that golfer John Daly has been found drunk outside Hooters

I have no idea who this John Daly fella is. It at least goes to his credit that he wasn’t found drunk BETWEEN two hooters.

I did not vote to have government prosper from my posterity. I voted for the corrective policy which would allow my posterity to benefit from future business opportunities which the election of OBlahMa would definitely prevent.

By Peter

October 31, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Baloney Baloney Baloney………By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Peter, Bush was handed a recession by the dotcom burst. He then had to deal with 911.

America was NOT in a Recession when Clinton left office…….BUT we have one 8 years later !

Yes…….. he sure dealt with 911…….he let Bin Laden’s family fly out of the US, he allowed Bin Laden a free pass, then he invaded a country for ZERO Reason…….

Oh wait…..”Faulty Intelligence”……

He was given a Surplus, and created the largest Deficit in the history of the WORLD………

Yours my friend is the same “Faulty Intelligence” as is ALWAYS SPUN by the REPUBLICAN’S !

And Now he wants to KILL American Children with Pollution !

The election will be the American Mantra………America will let you know on Tuesday if your Spin is Correct !

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

October 31, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Jim, I appreciate your willingness to allow free speech on your blog. Be careful though. If the Republinazis become aware of this practice you may be accused of being a closeted Democrat. I disagree with everything you write but I like you personally. I know you don’t remember me but I met you numerous times through Denis O’Hare’s PBS show. Have a good weekend and prepare to welcome in President Obama!

By Letter to the Red States

October 31, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Dear Red States:

If you manage to steal this election,too, we’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss.

We get 85% of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our resources in Bush’s Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country’s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95% of America’s quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech, UCLA, Berkeley and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy b******* believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we’re taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace out,

—Blue States

By Frost

October 31, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

BS Aplenty u got the comparative advantage thing mixed up body.U must have missed some classes and have some make up to do. Moving to China and making goods over there for american companies is not becoz they want to have a chinese standard of living.They are shopping for cheaper labor rates comparatively(to usa and other places all over),sell the stuff on the internl market and make a killing profit.Thats what u trying to say,right.Go read the text again.Thats the problem of living in trailer parks.Smetimes the lights get cut out be4 u are done with reading, bathing and stuff. Nice try!!

By Peter

October 31, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Yes……… I will debate…….arguing shows Anger……….. Anger is the first sign of FEAR !

“By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Keep it real!, The reason companies outsource and move overseas is because of HIGH TAXES! American Corporations pay the highest taxes of business in the world. We don’t need to change our economic model. We need lower taxes. Care to argue?”

SO tell us wise one…….. how do we balance the deficit, and pay for the WAR……..Protect America, clean UP AMERICA, without Taxes ?

How about GREED…….perhaps if we were NOT such a Greed driven society, and CEO’s really cared about the “Small People” as was mentioned in Christmas Vacation……… they would not ship the jobs over seas?

Corporations have tons of benefits………I own a C corporation……. I love the Benefits !

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

@@,

Please come play with me in Da Hood, the real one, So. C L.A. Wee pre-adolescents. If you can’t do, then let’s please hang fire somehow, as I’m coming back to your county in ~ 3.5 yrs, when their EVEN MORE DESTRUCTIVE, latest contracts expire.

Call me Red Adair, Vacagorgeous…

glenn

By FaceOff

October 31, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Why thank you Amanda a/k/a Letter to the Red States

WAML @@

By jim is a caveman

October 31, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

I would rather have the “Angry Left” making the decisions than the Incompetent Right. Mr. Bush and his ilk have proven themselves consistently unable to manage the occupation of Iraq. Time to get someone on it who can not only manage it, but end it.

@@, as it now stands, your posterity will be paying for the past eight years of folly no matter what. Don’t be trying to blame that on a man who hasn’t even been elected President yet. That’s the part that gets me about you guys. No problems with the record deficit spending of this administration, the $10B a month we spend in Iraq and tax cuts for the rich and well off, but no plans for how to pay for the rising debt. You can’t have it both ways.

Making, if your world contains an electoral college with McCain up by 8 electoral votes even though he trails in every swing state right now, and is down by at least 4 points overall, perhaps you’d like to share a little of what you are smoking with Jim, jbm, dusty and the gang.

By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Peter, Okay Micheal Moore. Whatever. You’ve been drinking the kool aid of Katie Couric for far too long. The dot com bubble DID bust under Clinton and 911 DID cause us to go in to an economic recession. I remember it well my comrade. And yes, Clinton DID NOTHING when we were attacked 4 times. Oh wait, thats right, he lobbed a cruise missile into a sand dune. Wow, what a courageous womanizer he was. ANYWAY, anger? Damn straight I’m angry. Angry at Bush for helping destroy what Reagan and Gingrich built. Angry at his high spending ways and angry at the GOP for not hammering at him and the democrats. And yes, the reason corporations have left and moved jobs over seas is because of high taxes. Unions can also be blamed for this mess. GM is in the business of health insurance instead of making new and better cars. I won’t argue with you about greed. I agree. Greed from politicians and greed from people who want to live outside their means. People should pay off their debt first before purchasing gigantic homes they can’t afford.

By making

October 31, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Some people just don’t have a clue…demos, do you remember…..

Gore and Kerry

By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

THIS IS FOR ALL OF YOU IRAQ WAR PROTESTERS.

From CNN:

Marine motorcycle deaths top their Iraq combat fatalities.

QUANTICO, Virginia (CNN) — Motorcycle accidents have killed more Marines in the past 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq, a rate that’s so alarming it has prompted top brass to call a meeting to address the issue, officials say. Despite crashes, Gunnery Sgt. Art Tucker rides a sport motorcycle. “I enjoy it. … It relaxes me,” he says.

Despite crashes, Gunnery Sgt. Art Tucker rides a sport motorcycle. “I enjoy it. … It relaxes me,” he says.

Twenty-five Marines have died in motorcycle crashes since last November — all but one of them involving sport bikes that can reach speeds of well over 100 mph, according to Marine officials. In that same period, 20 Marines have been killed in action in Iraq.

The 25 deaths are the highest motorcycle death toll ever for the Marine Corps.

Gen. James Amos, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, told CNN that commanders are trying to drill down on what “we need to do to help our Marines survive on these sport bikes.”

“The Marines are very serious about it,” he said.

Marine Gunnery Sgt. Art Tucker knows all too well about the dangers of sport bikes. An owner of a Kawasaki Ninja, Tucker has had two crashes, and the second one nearly killed him.

“I sustained a broken collar bone, I tore the shoulder out of the socket, I tore three ligaments in the shoulder, the rotator cuff, I broke three vertebrae,” said Tucker, a drill instructor for new officers.

“The worst was a head injury I received: a bruised brain. And it caused hemorrhaging, and from that I had partial paralysis of the left leg, full paralysis of the left foot and toes, and that was for approximately six months.” Amos said he and other top Marine officials will spend half the day Monday “focusing on nothing but motorcycle issues.” The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Conway, and other senior leadership will attend the meeting at the Quantico, Virginia, Marine base, he said.

About 18,000 of the nearly 200,000 Marines are believed to own motorcycles, Amos said.

The Marines have taken some measures. The Marine Corps has had a long-standing policy for all Marines who ride motorcycles to take a mandatory basic riding course. More recently, it added a second training course specifically designed to train Marines who ride sport bikes.

Any Marine caught riding, even on leave, without going through the training courses faces Marine Corps punishment, officials say.

On a recent day at the Quantico training track, Marines whizzed by on their bikes.

“I think the basic rider course has been great,” said Cpl. Austin Oakley. “Here, they put you in situations you want to be wary of out in that open road.”

Oakley said he recently returned to the United States from Japan, and he immediately jumped at the chance to buy a sport bike. He said it’s not uncommon for Marines to have motorcycle clubs within their units.

“We’ll go out on rides together. Fridays for lunchtime, we’ll all meet up and go to lunch,” Oakley said. “When I get on my motorcycle, it’s me and the motorcycle. I don’t need to go fast. I don’t need to do anything like that. It’s just being free.”

The rise in motorcycle deaths isn’t confined to Marines. The Navy says it’s had 33 deaths on motorcycles over the past 12 months — a 65 percent jump from the previous time period. And authorities say motorcycle deaths have been a problem in the civilian world, too.

Military officials say they’re not sure why the deaths are on the rise. They initially believed the accidents might involve mostly young Marines and sailors around 18 or 19 years old. But Navy statistics show that five of the victims were 25, the most prevalent of any age involved in the crashes. And two 40-year-old sailors were killed in motorcycle crashes.

Gen. Amos said the Marines have seen a similar trend.

But he says the new training seems to be working: Of the 300 young men and women who have gone through the sport-bike course, only three have had accidents.

The safety course instructors said some Marines who go through the training decide the sport bike is not for them.

But even some Marines who’ve survived past crashes still want to ride again, even after they get the new training.

“I enjoy it,” said Tucker. “I can actually get on my motorcycle and ride, and it’s just like if I were to do bowling or rock climbing or scuba diving. It’s something for me. It relaxes me.”

By fearless fosdik

October 31, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

October 31, 2008 3:18 PM

And, your POINT?

Commie .. you just seem to post to post!

By Republicans R Crooks

October 31, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

I am a one man business, I sit home in front of my direct access terminal and trade stocks, etfs and futures all day long. Being a business, I get to deduct all my trading expenses and work related travel….I take education courses in exotic locations, tax deductible. So don’t go crying to me about the heavy tax burden on the small business person, I make a fortune every year and deduct many things the rest of you have to eat out of pocket. I even have a maid service who cleans my office at full (fully tax deductable business expense) price every week, and then the rest of the house at her reduced rate for good business customers. And she pays her own ss as an independent contractor (she has five other customers just like me, plus private homes). So don’t tell me I am over taxed, because I am not….

By making

October 31, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

Stupid, stupid , stupid

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

Oh yes you are. You are overtaxed.

By ChaChing

October 31, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

(CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.

By lwwmm7

October 31, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

By making

October 31, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

I say, let the stupid demos pay the increased tax and we republicans will take our tax cut from McCain….

Fair and Balance for you demos.

By @@

October 31, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Call me Red Adair, Vacagorgeous…

Well Hi’Ya Glenn! Long time no read. Has the broken arm healed? Back to Cali to put out the educational fires, are ‘ya. A job tailor-made for a fire-breathing dragon slayer such as yourself.

You know full well I have my own WEEBLES to wobble. I could never…..would never leave them in anyone else’s care. They are my heart, my everything.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

So the play date must be postponed until your return.

It appears after a quick “edit for Glenn” that I will have the pleasure of reading you up to and until December 1st. Excellent! although my time here and elsewhere has become very limited.

Cavedweller:

@@, as it now stands, your posterity will be paying for the past eight years of folly no matter what.

But my posterity will at least be able to remain employed thereby making installments. Unless OBlahMa seeks to hold American corporations hostage, as does Putin with his oligarchs, then they will and should be free to roam if overtaxed.

My disappointment in the bailout was directed at both parties. I do, however, believe the bailout stemmed from dems delving into Fannies and Freddies? A disgusting habit on its face.

The supporters of OBlahMa will receive no support from me. By extension, neither will your candidate. Nothing personal! except for the leftists with whom I’ve had to contend for three years. No compromises……no patience……no desire to comprehend from whence I was coming. Only vitriol for the very thought of my existence.

You can’t have it both ways.

Wrong! I can have it any way I so choose.

In the words of your Dear Leader — From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs

You’ve had your revolution. If OBlahMa is elected, it’ll be time for mine. I look forward to it. It’s one form of payback that’s gonna be sweet indeed.

Now twitter on twit-terer.

By StingerSplash

October 31, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Dear Letter to the Red States,

You can keep Hollywood. Ole Miss and the town of Oxford gave us William Faulkner. The state of Georgia gave us Flannery O’Connor. The South also gave us Harper Lee and Marjorie Rawlings. We got Johnny Cash, too. Harvard gave us … wait, I’ll think of something … Arthur Schlesinger? Is that it? There’s gotta be more. … Nope.

By @@

October 31, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Republicans R Crooks runs her business from home?

Mary Kay?

Avon?

Tupperware?

By Dusty

October 31, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

Well, I am back and shall make a great effort to start missing Glenn. So. my first TRIBUTE poem to the one and only GLENN shall commence. (I KNOW you will be overcome, Glenn, but do not cry!!)

I think that I shall never see

A poem or poet as lovely as thee.

Whose words flow freely less windy woes

And rhetoric fits like Sunday clothes.

A master of media and tickling toes

Thee bravely attacks all foolish foes.

Those who listen NOT to thee

Shall soon return on bended knee.

California, here he comes!

(Right back where he started from?)

Do let him toil along the beach,

So, by Delta, we quickly reach.

This master of mind! This man of word,

Stands tall above the thundering herd.

Now magnolias wilt.

The fatted calf is kilt!

Dogwoods have no bark!

Birds sing NOT in the park.

Festival of departure, let us start.

That such a one would us depart.

One thing I do regret.

One category he did not get.

A Southern accent he did miss.

(But we hold him NOT in remiss.)

So I wish Glenn well as success he makes.

I’ll send him Manichevitz and little fruit cakes.

By making

October 31, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

NO it’s TRADING STOCK…in other words, selling drugs off of Boulevard!

By Keep it real!

October 31, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

To Comm:

Are you smoking weed everyday!

By the time our corporations get to writing off everything they only pay 5 to 10 percent in taxes which is the lowest in the world!

If it dummies like you that believe you are better than everyone else so you should recieve a 5 million salary with future options worth millions but not go to jail when you led the company in the wrong direction.

That Mr. Merrill Lynch fire thousands and blame the government for not regulating your greedy a$$.

WAKE)UP and stop being selfish!

By Republicans R Crooks

October 31, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

making…a trader buys and sells many times per day the same stock or etf over and over again, taking advantage of small price differences viewable on a direct access terminal — basically I am “borrowing” a level 7 license every time I trade….you can’t do that with drugs, or one of your customers will put a bullet in you head…..you should know that, didn’t you lose a lobe to a 9mm?

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

@@,

To quote Mr. Hal Riney, a somewhat incredible San Franciscan who did more than anyone to elevate Reagan and him to the Presidency…”Thank you for your support.”

Now @@ you’re a somewhat incredible Atlantan and Vaca Cava Mis en Boteille ultra-fine damn vintage educator, and I want you for that. Please. It should’ve gone without saying that you got wee 1’s &tc. + domestic commitments, but as Maestro Popeil says, Wait! [And then, in immediate contradiction…] Act Now and…

Nah, I was jes’ asking whether you might sign on as a consultant-typee poyson, is all, until my Hat Squad and I get back, by which time we will be some deeply funkly big swinging butter&egg hustlers fumma outta town, etc. I must warn you, old friend, that I mean to do no harm whatsoever, but rather to raise all all all boats. The children. The parents. The beleagured teachers and benighted administrators, the support staff especially, the siblings and school leavers God bless them, the neighborhood folk esp. the frightened elders and shopkeepers, the hairtrigger LAPD, the rapacious CTA, NEA, etc. etc. Nobody moves, and ain’t nobody gets hurt.

In three years, still we can prove that you can do VASTLY better FOR MUCH LESS.

And since you got my flourish about the late Mr. Adair, whom I’ve admired all my life, please appreciate this little bit of Texas tall talk:

I intend to do it to the tune of ten thousand cash plus three shopping carts’ worth of school supplies.

Period. Strict challenge-contracting, just like Adair. I got no qualms about getting wealthy showing folks how to stop blowing dough on godforsaken public schools. One really can do both, @@, The Good & The Well.

Trust me on this one, Girl: I’m not pointing over the Center Field fence this time. You want in, this go around?

gtg

By making

October 31, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

How much are you getting these days for that nickel bag?…I mean penny stock.

By w00t

October 31, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Is this an echo chamber?

By getalife

October 31, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

With w going out with a deregulation rampage, it is very obvious the bailout is a scam.

Why half of American voters will reward these criminals, their trickle up socialism, fraud, failures and lies shows these “real Americans” thinking “country first” is a topic for psychiatrists.

It is downright insane.

WTF is wrong with these failed Americans? Why in the hell will you reward failure? Why in the hell do you not want them prosecuted?

“Country first”, “real American”, total BS!

By making

October 31, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Borrowing a series 7 license…you have a long way to go to catch me! I hold a 7, 24, 27 and 63…go back to pushing drugs!

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

O hi get!! How’s your old bad self, man?

Dusty, O my! Whew!

I can only say that last August-like I saw my friends perform at Chastain in a light rather Hawaiian nighttime rain, and Mizz Alison Krauss of blessed talent sublime braved a solo in the hissing rainy limelights with her voicebox chest heaving and jutting through a traditional flowery summer dress dampened by the sporadics. And it was nothing at all provocative. Rather, it was pin-drop compelling. It was, she was, that moment was, for I think everyone there, quintessentially Sweet Down Home Southern. At that moment she was the sister we all wish we had, just taken her turn on the porch at the reunion.

That dear sweet poem you just did up for me, Dusty: that’s the second time in my 15 months here that I’ve remembered why y’all get this place so deep into your nekkid bods that you just can’t ever get it out even if you try. Thank you. That was you, Dusty the Defender. I love it.

Jim was right, as ever. And how terrifically lyrical of him to point out, quite rightly, that four years is too long to be away from here.

Say, Dusty, can I still be on your team even though I still could swear that Sonny P. actually died quite some time back?

gtg

By Keep it real!

October 31, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

To By making it:

Single word or one sentence is your calling to do comedy!

I have seen it all! Joe the apprentice has hired a public relations company to handle his appearances!

Are you kidding me? Joe who gave a hypothetical question to Senator Obama who stated with Joe purchasing a business he would get tax credits and help with a SMB loan.

Now Mr. Smart states that would hurt me because I plan on making net $250,000 and hiring employees even though I have no clue on how to put together a business plan.

To Dusty: You have stated many times Joe did not want to be in the spotlight, now Joe has excepted the spotlight with open arms. I guess he no longer needs to repair pipes as the apprentice!

By Chad Harris

October 31, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

Republicans and the party of the Wooten Wignuts couldn’t be more stupid or more fiscally irresponsible. Wooten try writing a column on where the frigging billions went that your socialist bank/insurance company/car company bailing out party wasted:

A Question for A.I.G.: Where Did the Cash Go?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/business/30aig.html?scp=1&sq=where%20did%20aig%20money%20go&st=cse

“Mr. Vickrey says he believes A.I.G. must have already accumulated tens of billions of dollars worth of losses by mid-September, when it came close to collapse and received an $85 billion emergency line of credit by the Fed. That loan was later supplemented by a $38 billion lending facility.

But losses on that scale do not show up in the company’s financial filings. Instead, A.I.G. replenished its capital by issuing $20 billion in stock and debt in May and reassured investors that it had an ample cushion. It also said that it was making its accounting more precise.

Mr. Vickrey and other analysts are examining the company’s disclosures for clues that the cushion was threadbare and that company officials knew they had major losses months before the bailout..I.G. has declined to provide a detailed account of how it has used the Fed’s money. The company said it could not provide more information ahead of its quarterly report, expected next week, the first under new management. The Fed releases a weekly figure, most recently showing that $90 billion of the $123 billion available has been drawn down.”

This is how the party of Wooten p** away your tax money—and you’ll never see a penny.

By bh

October 31, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

To Letter to the Red States Woo-Hoo!!! Sign me up!

By Chad Harris

October 31, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Another Court Rejects GOP Bid To Shut Down Indiana Early-Voting Sites

By Zachary Roth - October 31, 2008, 4:33PM

The Indiana Republican Party just lost what looks like its last chance to shut down early voting centers in three heavily Democratic cities in Lake County.

A state appeals court judge has ruled, as expected, that the centers can stay open — backing an earlier ruling by a county court.

County Republicans had sued to shut down the centers, arguing that a unanimous vote - rather than a simple majority — of the county election board was required to open them.

The centers at issue are located in the cities of East Chicago, Gary, and Hammond, all of which are heavily Democratic, and crucial to Barack Obama’s hopes of victory in the state.

Early voting has been proceeding at the centers for the last few weeks.

Boehner today released a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, in which he complained about the department’s decision no longer to include federal prosecutors in its teams of election observers, as it has done in previous years.

He also cited recent reports that some top officials in the department’s voting-rights section had contributed to Barack Obama’s campaign.

Earlier this week, DOJ announced that it would decline a request by Boehner — forwarded by the White House — to intervene in a voting dispute in Ohio, on behalf of state Republicans.

Give it up Wingnuts and quit p** away our money to banks, insurance companies and auto makers with no strings attatached. That’s beyond stupid. That’s the thinking of Dick Williams, Phil Kent, Whackjob Martha Zoeller and Moron Palin.

By deegee

October 31, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

Adding even more insult to injury:

“As if the economic bailout by U.S. taxpayers isn’t enough to make you sick to your stomach, new information has come to light that several banks are planning to pay billions of dollars in year-end bonuses from the bailout funds they received. Investigations are beginning into the nine banks that took in the first $125 billion — the same $125 billion that was supposed to be used to unclog the credit system which was preventing banks from providing much needed funds for individuals and businesses.”

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/?fpn=50%20billion%20of%20bailout%20going%20to%20pay%20exec%20bonuses

By Count Glenn

October 31, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

Joe? You mean old Joe Biden? Well he’s quite simple. Not a complex fellow, and impossible not to like. Know why? ‘Cause he loves. He loves everything, everybody. It’s his weakness, you see. He’s weak that way.

Whatever you think of old Joe, remember this: were it not for Barack’s narcissism, as he chose the most similar Senate colleague, then Joe would have succeeded Ted Kennedy as the next Senate Lion. (And there are a couple Kennedy’s gunning for that distinction.) But no. BHO Overdrive went and pulled the man out of the Senate that made him a man, the Senate that he loves as much as he loves his wife and children and church and home.

So now we’re going to have to put up with a Lioness instead of a Lion. The deed is done. Hillary forever.

As getalife would say, Sheesh.

By Chad Harris

October 31, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Vote for Jim Martin

Chambliss is wiretapping you and spying on your email.

Chambliss is wasting your money forever in Iraq.

Chabliss and his son are scared to death of enlisting. Chambliss is a draft dodger who faked a knee injury to make sure he didn’t serve.

Chambliss supports voter supression and his party lost in Georgia, Ohio, Indiana and about 20 other states.

Chambliss supports easily hacked voting machines.

Chambliss is owned by a Sugar Company.

Chambliss Supports Putting a pure bred moron a heartbeat away from a 72 year old with four instances of metastatic melanoma, and the Wooten Wingnuts support putting a moron close to the Presidency.

McCain is unstable, erratic, and has no consistent positions.

Boot Chambliss out Tuesday.