Thinking Right

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 30, 2009 8:06 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. The purchase of global warming “carbon credits” strikes me as closer to the warm feeling you get slipping Bernie Madoff a few bucks. However, sounds like a good business to be on the selling end. I’ll lease moral interests in my carbon neutral backyard. Send your $10 check to EnviroScam, Duluth, GA. The first 100 leaseholders will receive a framed photo of a squirrel making an obscene gesture at Eeyore, my pit bull.

Wonder if the Georgia Public Defenders Advisory Council will have anything to say about attorneys who bill $1 million on a case?

I don’t know who owns my mortgage, Citicorp sends me the Form 1098. Agree with Jim, the only time it matters who holds the mortgage is when one intends to sue or file bankruptcy. Most of us don’t do such things. I never heard of a conservative wringing his hands over who holds his mortgage. The whiners are just leftists doing what they do, complaining about the modern world.

My favorite note: “Suzanne Yoculan thinks she’s being kept out of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame because she’s sharing a home with Don Leeburn.” Leeburn surely is trying to help – one assumes he regularly speaks in the locker room about her gymnastics abilities. I can cure Yoculan’s problem – buy a ticket like everyone else, they’ll let you in.

California is in deep recession, and the prospects for near-term recovery are dim. There comes a point were taxes can neuter the desirability of paradise. California may find automakers treating the state like a third-world country with funky import laws. The normal result of a reduction in supply is rising prices; good for those whose products fit the description in the legislation, bad for consumers. California will get what it deserves, if the free market is allowed to act. But it will ensure the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler, not that there was much doubt anyway.

I don’t have a problem with a voluntary trauma fund tax. Put it on the state income tax form with those other 48 check-off items (at the end) that everyone ignores.

Presidents Obama and Ahdont’memberhisname have a lot to talk about. The Iranian also wishes to destroy US capitalism. Suggest BHO fly his rug to Persia and get started. Don’t do anything to the US economy until you finish talking. Don’t come back until you have his signature on a piece of paper.

Rep Scott is following the Captain Queeg strategy to success, a simple application of game theory (Nash equilibrium.) Bank on five competent conservatives knocking each other out, then slip in with the votes of the 18% dithering wishy-washy moderates who vote Republican.

When government nonmilitary spending has more than eleven zeros behind a squiggly number, the economy will get worse. Either the government will suck capital out of the productive economy, or it will debase the money supply. Or, when democrats run things, both.

I could support a Petraeus-Price ticket in 2012. Wonder if Price will show up for Petraeus’s speech at the Georgia Gwinnett College commencement in May? The oil “sit-in” put Price on the map – worked politically beyond his fondest dreams, I’m sure. We could do a lot worse, seems to have economic literacy, some real political smarts. Nobody feels threatened by him, small children do not recoil in horror.

Jonesboro high school must have an interesting vocational training program, making the students ready for their future jobs. “(P)erform a provocative halftime dance in thigh-high stockings, tiny shorts and tight shirts” – bet the guys looked funny. Don’t you feel sorry for Clayton County, seemingly the butt of every joke now? At least their river did not catch on fire.

By Mid-South Philosopher

January 30, 2009 8:22 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

Relative to wayward coaches, I don’t know enough about the dance team coach at Jonesboro High to offer an intelligent comment. Sounds as though she or he (school officials haven’t said who that person was, have they?) used some significantly bad judgment…a future candidate for the General Assembly or Congress, I suspect?

Of course things may have changed since the nineties, but back then one could see some pretty risqué displays in the hallways of many Georgia high schools! If, one dresses like a geek, one is likely to be identified as one; if, one dresses like a slut…well, you get the idea.

As to the case of Micah Grimes, former coach of the Covenant School in Dallas, Texas, whose team defeated rival, Dallas Academy, it is my understanding that his players played by the rules. There was no cheating. They played better…substantially better… than their opponents. They scored 100 points, while their opponents did not score at all. As to the administration of the Covenant School and a number of squeaky parents, what a bunch of wimps and cry-babies!

The purpose of competing in sports is to win. While competing, the first objective is to score more points than the opponent. The second objective is to impair the opponent’s effectiveness in scoring. Sportsmanship is playing by the rules and not cheating. As long as the Covenant School team played by the rules, it makes no difference whether or not Dallas Academy was beaten by 100 points or by 1 point!

In this country, we have become too enamored with the notion that we must be “nice” to our adversaries. We must be sensitive to their needs and not harm their self-concepts. Horse feathers!!! So long as they are adversaries, they deserve nothing other than our efforts to accomplish their complete defeat.

In this situation, the heroes were the players from Dallas Academy, the team that was “skunked” by the Covenant School. These players have indicated in interviews that they were beaten, they learned from the experience, and that they will do better in the future.

Strange outcome, isn’t it? It is called…life! Learn to live with it!

By findog

January 30, 2009 8:35 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Where in the constitution does it state that the federal government can dictate lesser standards for products that in some of the several states are proven to cause harm to their citizens because God did not create the United States in one uniform environment?

By findog

January 30, 2009 8:46 AM | Link to this

Lets just take a bold stand.

Since our state house and senate are no longer willing to pass laws that require them to take tough, sometimes unpopular, stands for the good of the state without a constitutional amendment then lets just cut out the middleman and revert to our most base tribal instincts.

One bill this session is all that’s required.

A constitutional amendment to replace our legislature by a direct democracy: every year by July fourth any petitioner being a Georgia resident gathering the certified signatures of five percent of the registered voters of the state may have placed on the November ballot measures to be enacted into law in the State of Georgia effective the following July first.

By Road Scholar

January 30, 2009 8:49 AM | Link to this

So California can’t have their own standard? Jim When you bought your house, didn’t you set your standard on price, layout, location…? With as many cars to be sold, I doubt the car companies will not meet or exceed those standards. Isn’t the consumer/customer always right?

Most of the crap Armadinnerjacket spews is like much of your columns…pure drivel. Those who are reasonable, intelligent, and want change will adjust to a more common view. Even Repubs can do it!

By lazermike

January 30, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

Jim in a nutshell:

I’ve never understood why it’s vital to know who owns my mortgage, so long as I have a competent servicing representatives and my payments are properly recorded. Every time I hear a complaint about the inability to determine the actual mortgage-holder, I’m inclined to believe some deadbeat’s looking for a loophole to avoid paying an honest debt.

Of course it doesn’t matter who owns the mortgage when things are working as they should. It’s when the homeowner has a problem — as described in this week’s AJC article — that the inability to identify who holds the mortgage becomes an issue.

I don’t care who is driving the car behind me until they rear-end me, either.

By ron

January 30, 2009 9:10 AM | Link to this

Ah,yes,carbon credits.The selling of nothing for a fee.I should be able to sell carbon credits as I use less electricity than the national average and I also drive less than the average.I don’t eat red meat so there’s no need to raise polluting cows.Cow flatulence,you know.Methane.I drink black coffee,no cow involved there.I should be awash in carbon credits.

I know where my mortgage resides.I have it,and all the attendant paperwork.Paid in full.Everything is equity.Now I only have to worry about being taxed out of here.

In today’s mortgage world you probably don’t want to know where your mortgage lies.Just an added worry.The holder may decide to sell it to a mob leg breaker.

Sports hall of fame.No.Not interested.

California emission standards are an albatross around the neck of industry and consumers.Build me a nice,fairly cheap,electric car and I will not emiss any more than I can help.Build me a nice,emission free nuclear plant to plug it into and I will emiss even less.Build me a reletively inexpensive solar panel or a wind mill and I will charge my car on renewable resources.Is this too complicated to understand?I need all of this to be cost effective though.It isn’t now,and that’s the reason I don’t have any of the aforementioned.I live on top of a hill,so I’m ready.

Obama can go talk to Iran for the next four years as far as I’m concerned.Take Nancy and Harry with you to watch George Mitchell listen.Buy a Mosque and stay there.Nancy already knows how to don her head covering.Biden should take a cue from George and tape his mouth shut too.

Clayton County just isn’t a good place to be a child.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 30, 2009 9:10 AM | Link to this

Dear Findog @ 8:32, in the b******* living-breathing interpretation of the Constitution, Article I Section 8 includes the power of Congress “To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;” which to leftists means Congress can do anything it wishes if there is any theoretical effect on interstate commerce. Gonzales v Raich (2003) was an exemplary 6-3 decision. Only Justices Rehnquist, Thomas, and O’Connor believed that Congress could not restrict purely intrastate activities. Even Scalia voted with the leftists on that one.

By Bo

January 30, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this

Jim Here’s today’s Palin, are you working for the “Huckster”?

In what could be a preview of the 2012 presidential race, Sarah Palin and President Barack Obama will share a stage together this Saturday night in Washington, Politico has learned.

The Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential nominee, making her first trip to the nation’s capital since the election, will join the president at the Alfalfa Dinner, a venerable gathering of the city’s political elite.

The president is scheduled to address the black-tie crowd at the Capital Hilton. Palin spokesman Bill McAllister said in an e-mail that Palin would be speaking at the dinner.

An Alfalfa Club member, however, said that no speech by the Alaska governor was planned.

The duo would not, though, be heard by the general public. By tradition, the old world gathering, now in its 96th year, bars reporters. Quotes from the rostrum do, however, tend to find their way out to reporters in the lobby.

It’s a light-hearted affair, with political types playfully roasting themselves and one another. The dinner is put on by the Alfalfa Club, an exclusive list of about 200 movers and shakers whose only purpose is to throw the annual dinner on the last Saturday of January. The name is in honor of a plant known to do anything for a drink.

Comprised of mostly older white men, the group didn’t induct women until 1993. Blacks were only welcomed in the 1970s.

Presidents, though, almost always attend and speak.

And aside from the real thing, club members always nominate a mock candidate for the highest office in the land. The “nominee” is then required to give an acceptance speech.

Should Palin be this year’s lucky nominee, she’ll be in good company: Three honorees have actually gone on to actually become president – Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush

By Andy the Welcher

January 30, 2009 9:44 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Bleats:

“The whiners are just leftists doing what they do, complaining about the modern”

You can’t be anywhere near serious with this little nugget of wisdom.

The “righties” are the flat-earthers out there, afraid of science, knowledge, and anything post 1958 that even smacks of higher learning or the pursuit of true understanding of our universe.

It’s the “righties” who fear anything modern, the “leftists” embrace change, knowledge and scientific pursuits. The “righties” know the truth so don’t feel the need to pursue additional validation, nor do they feel change is ever good, unless it’s change moving backwards.

By Redneck Convert

January 30, 2009 9:47 AM | Link to this

Well, I ain’t got enough to go on to make any comment on this UGA coach that’s living with the guy. Like, is she a godly Republican or a librul Democrat? Do they do You Know What the reglar way or is this gay stuff involved? I try to stay out of peoples bedrooms except when it’s preverted stuff or it involves a librul Democrat.

And I ain’t for giving criminals a legal defense using my tax money. They got arrested, so they must be guilty. So let them defend theirselfs.

And I say give a big cash prize to this coach of the team that beat the other team 100-0. Us rednecks beleive if you got the other guy down you ought to whale the tar out of him. If you start feeling sorry for somebody next thing you know they’ll be asking for guvmint handouts and just be a drain on the rest of us. It will learn this other team a good lesson. In Free Innerprize it’s a jungle, and if you loose you need to get better or else just kill yourself.

I don’t know nothing about carbon credits. Sounds like a big scam to me. We got enough tree huggers as it is. You got to go get your truck inspected every year and pay $25 to boot. Now they want to charge me for letting off a little carbon? I say we keep going the way we are till we have to wear gas masks to walk around or the ice caps melt and the trailer fills up with water. Then maybe we can think of something to make things better.

Palin and Price or Petraeus and Price. Sounds like a winner to me. Either way we’ll have Family Values and War and that’s what keeps our economy going. But whatever you do don’t keep the Capital Gains Tax or Raghead will scream till he turns blue.

I been worryed about Sister Dusty. We ain’t heard from her in days. They must be working her awful hard at that lab. I bet she’s slinging blood and p**s all over the place, trying to hold on to her job. I’ll be praying for her down at the Church of Holiness on Sunday.

Have a good day everybody and remember to stock up on beer. I don’t want people to be violating my Sabbath by trying to buy beer on Sunday.

By Howard

January 30, 2009 9:55 AM | Link to this

Sir…great column as usual. I loved your comments on Suzanne Yoculun…that woman is a prime example of what is wrong with our society as a whole. Commit an immoral act between “consenting adults” and then utter “So what?” when she is questioned about it. How does this woman keep her job coaching young women in a public institution? I imagine if she was leading them in prayer before their meets or allowing them to wear Bible verses on their wrist bands, then she’d been fired long ago. But this behavior goes unpunished. And what if she was coaching gymnastics in the public high school domain…or even the private setting? I have a feeling that she would be reassigned or relieved of her coaching duties for such immoral behavior. And if she is so great, why have we never seen her big-mouth on the sidelines of the Olympics? Either as a head coach or assistant coach? Could it be her reputation or moral background?? As for the USSA (United Socialist States of America), we are slowly becoming an “Obama-nation.” And why is Clark allowing Reverend Wright to speak at their school, Jim and why is that group awarding that old racist an award? Wright and Joe Lowery are in the same category. Global warming…funny how a huge part of this country is freezing and digging out of snow and these global warming slugs utter nary a word. Global warming is one of the biggest scams in USSA history. But when you consider that 56% of this nation voted for Obama, it’s not hard to figure why people buy into this hoax!!!

By findog

January 30, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

Ragnar @9:10 My friend, I believe the federal government is in the business of minimum standards. Should California want to increase those standards, and the federal government had set a president in allowing same, then what concern is it of non-Californians?

My understanding, which may be wrong but all I have until educated otherwise, is that governments at the higher echelon’s set minimum standards and unless specifically written into those ordinances the lower levels are free to set higher standards.

In Georgia the state has set a minimum 25-foot buffer along streams designated as state waters. Many communities have added another 25-foot buffer to the state’s. Finally within metro Atlanta an additional 25-foot setback for impervious surfaces has been added. Up here in the foothills this extended regulation has made the development of some land impossible, or at least uneconomical, but I have yet to see an actual successful suit for the taking of this land brought.

If Georgia can over regulate development for water quality why cannot California do the same for air quality?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 30, 2009 10:13 AM | Link to this

Dear Andy @ 9:44, my error, I just imagined it was the brainless left that went Malthusian over every perceived possible oscillation in global warming, and Freon, and Amchitka, and the population bomb, and the coming ice age, and in each of those cases determined that we must destroy our economy to save mankind from mankind’s sins. Lots of science there. Notice that it is always leftists who profit from “science”-based scams? Change we can believe in. “The “righties” know the truth so don’t feel the need to pursue additional validation…” I guess I just thought it was the left that affirmed that global warming was beyond debate and we cannot wait for any validation. Sorta like the current budget scam, in its “do something now tomorrow is too late” manufactured urgency. We would agree the world is full of idiots, we merely disagree on identification of same.

By Aquagirl

January 30, 2009 10:15 AM | Link to this

In Free Innerprize it’s a jungle, and if you loose you need to get better or else just kill yourself.

Or get a government bailout. Unless, of course, you’re one of Those People.

By Mike S

January 30, 2009 10:41 AM | Link to this

At December’s U.N. Global Warming conference in Poznan, Poland, 650 of the world’s top climatologists stood up and said man-made global warming is a media generated myth without basis. Said climatologist Dr. David Gee, Chairman of the International Geological Congress, “For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?”

The earth’s temperature peaked in 1998. It’s been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched 1980 levels.-John Tomlinson | Flint Journal Columnist

When are the left going to just admit they are wrong? Obama is an overated hack , Socialism never works , and the Earth is NOT warming anymore. It is just the natural cooling/warming trends that have gone on since the Earth existed.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 30, 2009 10:44 AM | Link to this

Dear findog @ 10:10, “Should California want to increase those standards, and the federal government had set a president in allowing same, then what concern is it of non-Californians.” Careful, one of our blog’s hate-purveyors will accuse you of favoring states rights. You and I are ideologically aligned on the issue.

The “legal” error goes back farther, to some 1930s rulings on (maybe Louisiana? don’t really remember) milk “purity” laws that effectively prevented importing milk from other states. And then, in contrast I think the courts allowed Wisconsin to have laws preventing sale of oleo, to protect the dairy industry in that state. In a rational world we would re-embrace that governance theory that each state is a Petri dish, free to experiment with laws that fit the population. Think the abortionists will ever allow such a perspective? I would allow any state to “opt out” of any Federal law. The cult-based controllers will never allow such freedom.

By GayGrayGeek

January 30, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this

Road Scholar @ 8:49 - Jim, like most paleocon wingnuts (such as the DustBuster, @@, The Esquire, etc.), is just All About “STATES RIGHTS” - that is, until a state tries to assert some “rights”.

By @@

January 30, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

Carbon neutral in the Highlands? Funny….for anywhere from $10 to $600 dollars the local eateries are assuring their customers that their food “fair” won’t give the customers “gas”?

A personal story about slipping a few coins to a panhandler. Two days after Obama’s inauguration, I’m on my way to visit a friend who lives in south fulton where panhandlers are plentiful. Now I’ve always been one who can spare a buck, but this time it was different. At a red light, a woman is approaching all stopped vehicles. She’s got a white ice-cream bucket….no labeling of an organization like “Donate to (insert name here)” — it’s just a plain ol’ generic bucket. Says she….”Now’s our time to start giving!”

My response to her was “What….you the middle man (or woman as the case would have it)?” It was the first time since the campaign that I got to practice my new approach by responding with “Contact your new president. He’s holding my capital.” Tossed a piece of gum in the bucket and told her to “chew on that.”

It felt good.

I’ll have to choose some of your other topics later, Jim. My schedule is tight like my budget.

By BS Aplenty

January 30, 2009 11:43 AM | Link to this

Being an athlete and the father of athletes, I am familiar with the occasional “blow out.” It’s not fun, it slightly wounds the pride but you learn an important sports lesson - the need to constantly improve. That said, no “blow out” in this Christian high school sports conference should become a referendum on your opponents’ worth as a human.

I’ve heard that certain coaches use a strategy of trying to score on every: series, inning, possession, etc. as a way to maintain team focus. I applaud that approach - it works. That’s the part of me that says the Covenant School coach did his job well. But there’s a humane side of me that says this coach could have used his better Christian judgement to limit the “abuse.” This seems to be the character flaw that cost him his job.

All reports seem to indicate that the Dallas School team took the loss in stride with no ill effects. Still, it’s a Christian basketball game, not a gladitorial fight in the Roman Forum. Mercy is the order of the day.

Ultimately, I never heard any Dallas Academy team complain about the score. No coach or player I heard was traumatized by this game. Maybe they even had some fun with it - I hope they did. But a voluntary “slaughter rule” could be instituted to prevent any future “beat downs” from turning into a personal statement about the other team. Either that or the Dallas Academy needs to hire a new coach.

By Glenn

January 30, 2009 11:44 AM | Link to this

Boy I tell you, on a fine sunny day like this I sure do miss my old Missouri editor, Fred Davis. Now there, there was a feller could put pencil to paper and make it work all right. No need for the Constitution neither. Not with Fred. If you had it, he’d print it. Simple as that. No permission required.

Good journalism is the purest form of the art of being American, of bringing America into being. My man Davis died years ago, and now Jim Wooten is retiring, and by God that just rips me up. The horizon does not promise Bristol sailing.

By Peter

January 30, 2009 11:47 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim….

Why don’t you pay attention……wake up Jim smell the coffee…….ops I forgot you are getting old, and don’t care !

The Arctic Caps are melting like crazy……..had you not heard……big chunks of ICE the size of states are melting !

Polar Bears are looking territory, and Emperor Penguins are on the verge of becoming Extinct…… But Hey Jim Oil companies need their Profits !

Yes Science reports are a subject all Republican’s like to BEND and DISTORT !

Of course you will be dead when the stuff hits the fan, I guess as a TRUE REPUBLICAN you have ZERO concern for your kids and relatives !

Heck republican’s don’t care about Folks in General…..especially if it means Corporations will have to pay for polluting !

“Republican Family Values” = who cares about the next generation…..especially if I get MINE NOW ……I will be dead soon !

By Barry

January 30, 2009 12:16 PM | Link to this

Another nail in John Keynes coffin

By NightTrain

January 30, 2009 12:28 PM | Link to this

I can see it now…

Reading to my grandson…. Do you want to hear the fairy tale about Chicken Littler and the Sky is Falling or Potato Gore and Global Warming?

By NightTrain

January 30, 2009 12:37 PM | Link to this

I can see it now…

Reading to my grandson…. Do you want to hear the fairy tale about Chicken Littler and the Sky is Falling or Potato Gore and Global Warming?

By rickrolled

January 30, 2009 12:44 PM | Link to this

The Arctic Caps are melting like crazy

Yeah peter, they are melting on MARS too, lib. So what? Keep your Algore junk science out of our economy, Moron.

Speaking of Morons, it looks like the little chicken littles at that great bastion of liberalism, the queen pinkos of whining, moveon.org have financed a new hate campaign against Limbaugh:

Politico has learned that tomorrow Americans United for Change, a liberal group, will begin airing radio ads in three states Obama won — Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada — with a tough question aimed at the GOP senators there: Will you side with Obama or Rush Limbaugh?

“Every Republican member of the House chose to take Rush Limbaugh’s advice,” says the narrator after playing the conservative talk radio giant’s declaration that he hopes Obama “fails.”

Once again we see how the mindset of liberalism FAILS. Let’s review once again for the Whining Weeniecrat Libs what Limbaugh said IN FULL TRANSCRIPT so there is no confusion:

“RUSH: — if he does not eliminate the Bush tax cuts, I would call that success. So yes, I would hope he would succeed if he acts like Reagan. But if he’s going to do FDR — if he’s going to do The New New Deal all over, which we will call here The Raw Deal — why would I want him to succeed? Look, he’s my president. The fact that he is historic is irrelevant to me now. It matters not at all. If he is going to implement a far-left agenda… Look, I think it’s already decided: a $2 trillion in stimulus? The growth of government? I think the intent here is to create as many dependent Americans as possible looking to government for their hope and salvation. If he gets nationalized health care, I mean, it’s over, Sean. We’re never going to roll that back. That’s the end of America as we have known it, because that’s then going to set the stage for everything being government owned, operated, or provided. Why would I want that to succeed? I don’t believe in that. I know that’s not how this country is going to be great in the future; it’s not what made this country great. So I shamelessly say, “No! I want him to fail.” If his agenda is a far-left collectivism — some people say socialism — as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?”

By the way, aren’t these same bedwetters whining about Rush the same ones that constantly spew that he is NO LONGER RELEVANT??? Well, which is it you left wing liberal moonbats?

By REPUBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP

January 30, 2009 12:54 PM | Link to this

FUNNY HOW YOU NEO-NAZIS NORTH AND SOUTH GEORGIA REDNECKS HATE CHANGE AND KNOWLEDGE ADVANCEMENT,BUT YOU ARE QUICK TO BUY YOU THAT NEW TRAILOR TO STAY IN OR THAT BRAND NEW DOOLEY TRUCK THAT YOU GOP LONG FOR,OR THAT NEW TRACTOR TO PLOW YOUR FIELDS,BUT OTHER THAN THAT,YOU REDNECKS DONT WANT TO ACCEPT A UNIVERSAL CHANGE THAT IS HAPPENING ACROSS THE WORLD, ALL THESE SO-CALLED CONSERVATIVE BLOGGERS SITTING BEHIND THEIR COMPUTERS DENYING CHANGE BUT ENJOYING THE ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNOLGY WHICH YOU REDNECKS HATE SO MUCH.

P.S.REDNECK REPUBLICANS ARE THE BIGGEST LYING KILLING UNRELIGOUS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

By NightTrain

January 30, 2009 12:58 PM | Link to this

I can see it now…

Reading to my grandson…. Do you want to hear the fairy tale about Chicken Littler and the Sky is Falling or Potato Gore and Global Warming?

By Dusty

January 30, 2009 1:01 PM | Link to this

Well, Jim Wooten is giving us the good stuff today, as usual. Like Glenn writes, having Jim go “partime” is not good news. Having the AJC staff choose aother conservative writer is like the Grinch picking out a Santa Claus.

I can imagine the first line written by our new CONSERVATIVE journalist: “Dear readers, now that the eight dismal and disasterous years of Bush have gone, I will give you new and true conservative facts!” Yeah! Uh huh..

But Ragnar had a good idea about selling some of his carbon free air in his back yard. (Hot air, that is.) I had thought of doing that but being near the expressway with fumes, horns, wrecks, etc. I am afraid Gore would not approve my space. But surely Gore, the great scientist, is absolutely right about global warming. I had an iceberg melting in my bird bath this week. So that proves that! If I had known sooner I would not have purchased Cuddly Duds to beat the cold. It would have been Tropical Tutus.

Relax, RedNeck, you nefarious undercover lib beer driver who delivers PBR in your Lexus. Better leave that OBAMA FOR SMALL CHANGE on your rear end ..bumper that is. You’ve gotta fit in at the Country Club & Golf for Geeks.

But I must get busy, saving lives, insuring sanity and all those good things. See ya’ at church, Red Rover. Leave your snakes at home this time. Bring your wife and her 16 kids. You did good, fellow!! Made the news.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 30, 2009 1:28 PM | Link to this

Dear Barry @ 12:16, thanks, great article. I think we all knew all of that intuitively, but it is a great presentation.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 30, 2009 1:32 PM | Link to this

Dear rickrolled @ 12:44, thanks for the transcript. My distress with Rush is that he “hopes” socialism fails. Such a silly perspective, of course it will fail. He need not “hope” for the sun to rise in the morning, nor hope for the seasons to change, nor “hope” for leftists to wring their hands over some silly nothing. There are many inviolate laws of nature.

By Simple Answers

January 30, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this

Q: One wonders whether rickrolled is appalled at the way Rep. Phil Gingrey (the best 70s porn star moustache in Congress) was forced to give Rush’s withered testes a tongue bath in public?

A: Appalled, no. Envious? Oh sure, you betcha….

By Robert

January 30, 2009 1:50 PM | Link to this

By Jim Wooten | Thursday, January 29, 2009, 06:50 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Letting California and 13 other states set their own limits on auto emissions does require automakers to build cars for each market, which is inherently inefficient. That, or as the Obama leftists hope, all cars are manufactured to California standards. If that’s the regulation, auto companies should be paid from the public till. This is a future problem, incidentally, with having government get in bed with private companies. Car companies become the manufacturing arms of interest-group political agendas.

Get a grip Wooten. You and your Wooten Klanners don’t see a problem with each and every state coming up with its own seperate laws and regulations let’s say for instance, immigration. You don’t seem to have a problem with law enforcement becoming an arm of interest group political agendas in that case. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander wouldn’t you think, Jim?

By JLK

January 30, 2009 2:10 PM | Link to this

So, capitalism is a GOOD thing unless it’s done in the name of preserving our planet? Thanks for clarifying that.

As someone who says he doesn’t care in the least who owns his mortgage, why do you care about other people’s concern about their mortgages? Nice way to work the words “some deadbeat” into your column, but it sounds like you’re dissing people who try to take personal responsibility for their investments, and are praising your own blind faith in the very people who’ve screwed the American economy over. Weird one, Mr. W.

I think you’ve mischaracterized Obama’s policy calling it “be nice and hope.” I think it’s more like “Be nice and actually discuss our issues, limits, common goals, boundaries, and the consequences of violating the peace.” Ah, but you’re still missing Shrub’s “Bring it on towl’heads, I got plenty of soldiers who’ll die and future generations to pay for this mess, so I totally don’t give a F__K” foreign policy. (“Heh heh heh.. it’s tequila time, Pickles!”)

Tom Price would like to be “an important figure” and appreciates your continued advertisements on his behalf. I’m beginning to wonder just how close the two of you are….. BTW, it’s not quite as much a of secret as the doctor would like. I sure hope you’ll be a good buddy and help keep his proclivities quiet. Not that I care what he does in private, but Georgia Congressmen (like Gingrey, Rush’s little lap poodle) have embarrassed us enough lately. (Do you think Gingrey will join Rush on his next “boys only” Viagra trip to the Dominican Republic?)

By Class of '98

January 30, 2009 2:11 PM | Link to this

Ragnar,

Your posts are now longer than Jim’s.

Do you really think anyone is reading all that?

By "Charles", The Original

January 30, 2009 2:25 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten writes: Two coaches who deserved to be fired or removed and were: The one in Texas who had no second thoughts about allowing his girls team to beat another 100-0 and the one in Clayton County who allowed the Jonesboro High School dance team to perform a provocative halftime dance in thigh-high stockings, tiny shorts and tight shirts. The dance team has been disbanded, a proper response from school officials.

Many years ago, I taught my son to play basketball. It took several years to get him competitive. He learned the basics; offense, defense, one on one, and the team concept etc. Finally, the time came for the teacher and the student to do battle. And it was no contest, the teacher won going away. Alas, my son’s ego was put in its proper place. But to my surprise, a spectator from the new school was watching nearby. After witnessing the massacre, he rushed to my son’s aid with that new world order talk-“everything will be alright little man-and pats on the back” etc. The teacher rudely interrupted the pity party and said, “Let me tell you something. You had better get the hell away from here with that punkyfied shi! I’m rearing and developing my son in the way that my teachers taught us, prior to integration. And N****, that’s not my way of doing things.

On one hand, I agree with Jim Wooten. And on the other, I respectfully disagree. Should the winning coach have asked his team to willfully miss shots etc., new school, and create a destructive false reality for all involved? I think not. Should the coach have allowed the other team to score baskets, etc, new school, and give birth to a harmful false reality? I don’t think so. The winning coach shouldn’t have been fired. If anyone should be fired, it should be the coach whose team couldn’t muster a single basket, old school, reality.

The coach in Clayton County who allowed the Jonesboro High School dance team to perform a provocative halftime dance in thigh-high stockings, tiny shorts and tight shirts should have been fired, old school. In the South, that provocative dancing wouldn’t have happened prior to integration. And if by some stretch of the imagination it occurred, the coach would have been fired without comment, old school.

By ron

January 30, 2009 2:41 PM | Link to this

Dear Class of ‘98——-people read Ragnar.That’s all you have to know on the subject.

I have been reading about temperature sudies on Greenland for the last few days and what I find disputes Al Gore and global warming caused by caobon dioxide levels.There was a warming period on Greenland between 1920 and 1930 that was 50% higher than a later warming trend between 1995 and 2005. Since 2005 the warming trend has reversed and Greenland glaciers at higher altitudes are growing and Glaciers at lower levels are reverrsing their melting trends.This reversal of warming is true across the world.Things are cooling.

The main forecaster of dire global warning threats are coming from computer models with apparently flawed information.That information was either erroneously or deliberately fed into the models to show massive ice melt and severe flooding.This last paragraph is my own words.

This and other informatio on global warming is avaialble to everyone and I urge all to take advantage of reading same to form correct opinions. Read it all.Both sides.Then make up your own mind.

By 38

January 30, 2009 4:09 PM | Link to this

Man, what excitement. Less than 50 posts all day. Is that a record low?

By Can't Fix Stupid

January 30, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

To the couple of economically illiterate posters who want each state to set their own emissions standards for autos:

Sure, you can favor this viewpoint, but when your little Prius costs $45,000+ because Toyota has to build 50 different versions, you won’t have enough money left to pay your PETA dues.

By Marco

January 30, 2009 4:14 PM | Link to this

Ron, what difference does it make? Can we not all agree that:

Humans need to evolve to the use of cleaner, renewable fuels?

Whether it’s causing global warming or not, fossil fuels do cause pollution and it’s desirable to have less pollution?

This back and forth on whether global warming is real or not is not advancing goals those on both sides of the argument ought to be able to agree on. Cleaner, renewable energy good. Pollution bad.

Right? Or am I missing something?

By The Conservative

January 30, 2009 4:17 PM | Link to this

100 to zero? I thought that was how many Republicans voted for stimulus package.

The only stimulus package worthy of the name, I guess, is that Jonesboro Dance Team.

By @@

January 30, 2009 4:19 PM | Link to this

Who owns my mortgage? We do, and there’s no greater reward for the sweat equity we put into it. Of course, I do have to pay annual taxes and insurance which amount to about one-eighth of what a monthly mortgage payment would be.

Banned from the Hall of Fame? If there was a Hall of Fame for Immorality, Coach Yoculan would be a winner, no doubt.

California emissions? Being a democratic “house husband” in an RV on Cali’s freeways will almost certainly guarantee a failure in the brakes.

From what I’ve seen on the local news, that “How much in higher taxes” question is about to be put to the residents in Fulton County. Crime’s up and police are on furlough. It would be cheaper all around to buy a gun saving the taxpayers the incarceration fee. That ol’ do it yourself attitude could go a long way in today’s economic downturn.

The Axis of Evil? It’s embarrassing to say the least. To witness a man of The Apostate’s stature be defeated by a little squirt. Here’s “mud” in your eye, president Ooooooo.

Another thing about this global-warming hysteria. I was watching a program on the discovery channel. Polar bears were originally grizzlies. They adapted to a changing environment. Went from small and brown to larger and white.

Kewl!

About the coach in Texas — never hold a child back from their full potential. Being a winner is nothing one should avoid. Being a loser should inspire greater things but doesn’t always. A choice has to be made…….stay a loser or know what it feels like to be a winner.

I was hoping to avoid the Jonesboro Dance Team topic but how can I….I’m in the thick of things down here in Clayton County. The girls are saying the coach approved the routine. The coach is saying that it’s not the routine they were taught. The only ones that “were lookin’ good” were the young boys who were pulled from the bleachers to sit in the chairs whereby the girls performed what can be compared to a lap dance without contact.

The article in the AJC said that there was a video on YouTube that had been removed. Think again…..I googled “Jonesboro Dance Team” and a video entitled “Sluts of Jonesboro” popped up (no pun intended).

By Simple Answers

January 30, 2009 4:30 PM | Link to this

Breaking News: Michael Steele elected new head of the Republican National Committee. Pledges aggressive outreach, guarantees at 15 Negro party members by the mid-term elections.

Rush Limbaugh declares this outcome a “travesty of affirmative action”, compares Steele to Donovan Nabb.

By Gerald West

January 30, 2009 4:31 PM | Link to this

The AJC is looking for a new “conservative” columnist. Problem is that anyone smart enough to put words together to form sentences and paragraphs is not likely to be dumb enough to support the Republican “conservative” line of bull.

Why pay for a lot of trumped up Republican nonsense when you get it for free in the blogs?

By Simple Answers

January 30, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

Update: Limbaugh clarifies comments, sez he refuses to call Nabb by his real name, McNabb, as that is “an insult to real Irish-Americans everywhere”.

By @@

January 30, 2009 4:50 PM | Link to this

MICHAEL STEELE WINS RNC CHAIR!!!

Quote from Steele: “Get ready for a knock-down. We will concede to no one on principle.”

From the “other” side:

Could Kaine Be “Miserable” at DNC? by Tim Craig

If he hasn’t already, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) may want to read former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe’s book, “What A Party.”

Last week, Kaine took over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. But in his book, which was published in 2007, McAuliffe writes chairmen such as Kaine face “a miserable job” because they serve under a president of the same party.

“You have no autonomy or power; your’re just expected to do whatever the White House political operation tells you to do, and you’re not really a spokesman for the party since obviously the President has that job covered, ” wrote McAuliffe, a Democratic candidate for governor who has held a number of positions within the national party since the 1980s.

This is perfect!

By Raggedisnott Dangdungbunghole

January 30, 2009 5:09 PM | Link to this

Hark, all my followers and fellow brown-nosers of the Wootielicious One! I, Raggdisnott, now do declare and decree thus: Yea, though I am a legendary intellect in my own mind, there is one greater than I. I hereby decree that all like-minded reichwingers must worship our newly-anointed messiah, His Porcine Smugness Lush Rimbaugh, for he is our prohet come in from the cold! He shall usher in a new age of giddy torment for our enemies, and shall deliver us from Obama! Aye, children, you have only to follow without question the dictums of the Great DUI-With-The-Adipose-Thighs, I shall continue my bent-over butt-blustering bloviations, and together, we shall yet usher in Ragnarok for the accursed liberals! Look on my words, ye lefties, and despair! Thpppppt! (Beg pardon. ‘Tis embarrassing to flatulate in print.)

By The Conservative

January 30, 2009 5:21 PM | Link to this

Why didn’t Rummy attack Osama Bin Laden when Bush ordered him to?

That one treason caused every mess we’re in right now, sirs.

I think if we want to prosecute the past, then we should start there.

What is the mission of US troops in Afghanistan today? Our Sec. Of Defense’s latest comments should have enflamed a discussion here, but no, Wooten has lost his voice trying to be something he’s not. You’ve all lost yourselves trying to be something you’re clearly not. At least the trolls have their own blog over at Bookman’s. What a clever idea: A troll hosting a blog for trolls. Ingenious!

I am the new conservative writer at the AJC. .

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 30, 2009 5:31 PM | Link to this

Dear Class @ 2:11, certainly many leftists don’t have sufficient attention span to read anything longer than a paragraph or so. I get kind feedback from many of the thinkers here. Sharp guys like ron @ 2:41.

Daer Captain @ 5:09, your every post, under every name, reflects such quality.

By @@

January 30, 2009 5:52 PM | Link to this

Oops! should have been “principles”.

Of course “conceding on principle” could’a meant “we won’t concede just ‘cause dems want us to” but…..

Yep! Our “principle(s)” are better errr is better.

Oh well, you know what I mean.

By The Conservative

January 30, 2009 5:54 PM | Link to this

Have a beer, and sit down, Ragnar. I have the floor. When you have the floor, do you see me jumping up and yelling, “Wait, I wasn’t finished being myself, I still have more stuff to self aggrandize myself and my homies with.!”

No, you dont. That’s cause I respect Robert’s Rules of Order.

You have good ideas, you simply need to respect Roberts Rules of Order, then everything will be perfect.

Cards 31 Steelers 24

By THE Captain's Keeper

January 30, 2009 8:20 PM | Link to this

Sorry Ragnut. Wrong again. Taint THE Captain, nor his Immortal Soul. Nice try, though.

Somebody else has your number. It’s ‘zero’.