Thinking Right

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 8:05 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I’m certain we all agree that increased consumption of alcohol improves productivity and thus would improve the economy. One wonders if headline writers are required to be able to think logically.

As to Illinois political competence, the Chicago Mafia in the White House is plainly unacquainted with the Chicago School that has dominated economic thought since the collapse of Keynesianism during the Carter administration. The greatest think tank in the world is on the South Side of Chicago, and the Empty Suit does not seem to know it.

I have been anti-abortion since the early 1980s, when my sons were born. I cannot imagine how anyone with children could favor so-extinguishing a life.

I live in a small town with lots of drama – Runaway Brides, captured judge killers, incredibly expensive prostitution rings within gated communities, 10 miles from the site where the nation’s foremost pornographer was crippled by an assassin, and near the horrific temporary burial ground of a kidnapped heiress who survived – but fortunately no drama from the public payroll sources. Good place for Chance the Gardener to live, I suppose.

I don’t know that more civil rights activists are dying, but certainly the mindset animating the activity is dead. Two days ago Attorney General Jesse Jackson condemned all white people as “cowards.” He’s probably right –white folks generally do not call out the race-w******* when they manufacture such outrageous stereotypes. We just shrug it off as a “typical Attorney General comment.” What do you mean “Eric Holder?” I’m sure it was Jesse Jackson; clearly too ignorant to be someone with a law degree. Unless, of course, it was an “affirmative action” law degree; many democrats have them. The NY Post Cartoon - more later - mocking the Pelosicrats who wrote the “stimulus” bill, is protested by intellectuals on a par with our genius AG. Surely that is proof that the movement is brain-dead and on life support.

Nobody ever accused any of the seven sisters of impartiality. We would all agree that President Obama and the Pelosicrats have condemned America to the same course that dragged the Great Depression along for 15 years, and that caused the collapse of the American economy during the Carter administration, and that created the lost decade for Japan in the 1990s. Argentina was the sixth wealthiest nation in the world until Juan Peron introduced Obamanomics in the 1930s. Venezuela, now near economic collapse despite enormous oil wealth, was a rich country until Hugo Chavez embraced Obamanomics for the people. I join AP in offering congratulations to the President for his great triumph.

I appreciate Beverly Scott’s sentiment, but she does not have the money yet, nor has she seen the strings.

Does everyone now understand that the administration program to rescue “troubled” homeowners will benefit the real estate developers far more than normal people, allowing the developers to resume their godly work? Change we can believe in. And who deserves benefit of the taxpayer money more than real estate developers?

$30 billion equals $3,000 per car that GM will sell this year. If that taxpayer subsidy does not provoke a trade war greater than Smoot-Hawley, nothing will.

“At the end of the day, they are not human and you can’t always predict their behavior. …” We’re talking about the stimulus writers, right? The NY Post Cartoon: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” Great parody, works on a couple of levels; uses the recent strange story about the Xanax-crazed mutilating chimpanzee to mock the senselessness of the recent “stimulus” bill. I wish I had conceived such a clever idea. Even better, the drawing gets the goat of the leftists by reminding them (and seemingly only them – conservatives never even think of this angle) of the now politically-incorrect “racial inferiority” views of prominent leftists Charles Darwin and Margaret Sanger. I have always suspected that “eugenics” is the secret reason the leftists favor government-subsidized abortions; there is no rational reason to favor murdering babies.

As the Georgia legislative republicans have an uncanny knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, I demur. But this year they are ahead of where they normally are.

By Tray

February 20, 2009 8:14 AM | Link to this

We should be able to sell alcohol on Sunday because it’s now what a majority of the people want. Technically, it’s forcing others religious beliefs on to me, but no one cares because I’m a white male and not a minority (though we will be soon).

Anyways, as for Illinois politics-Obama is a product of that highly corrupt system, but the majority that voted for him are uneducated, so I really didn’t expect them to know how bad it really was. But guess what, all those Pro-Obama voters can take the blame for worst governement start-off in history!! As long as Obama doesn’t start WWIII (which IS a possibility with his attitude) I’ll be ok, because that kook will be out of office in 2012.

By the way-all of those who voted for Obama, are you going to help that mother of 14 buy her a new house?? She’s in forclosure, no job, already living off the government-which is her plan, she’s a leech! I want you all that voted for Obama to take YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY out of your pockets and mail it to her-after all, that’s what Obama’s stimulous is, using your money to pay the lazy’s way.

Look at it this way. The people who started this whole mess were the people who couldn’t afford a mortgage. Now, we are rewarding them for doing the wrong thing??!?! What the hell has happened to the U.S.??

I cry everytime I see Obama-mourning for America…

By Justan Observer

February 20, 2009 8:17 AM | Link to this

Re: Sunday sales of alcohol: “I do hate, however, that lobbyists and not legislators decide what the people of Georgia “need.”” My understanding is that most citizens support the option of being able to purchase alcohol on Sunday. The most effective “lobbyists” appear to be not those seeking to have Sunday sales, but rather those religious groups seeking to prevent Sunday sales. How about we put it to the test during the next statewide election via referendum, and once-and-for-all settle the issue?

By Frost

February 20, 2009 8:20 AM | Link to this

Boosting the economy” and “helping education” are the two bogus arguments most often employed to sell a vice HAHAHAHAHA..fake Christian..I buy Monday to Saturday thats when buying booz is not vice?? Nutty indeed! Time to retire,the logic is gone!

By Deb A

February 20, 2009 8:25 AM | Link to this

“I do hate, however, that lobbyists and not legislators decide what the people of Georgia “need.”

Jim, if you would take the time to pay attention you would know that the bill being proposed would allow each county to VOTE to allow Sunday sales. Isn’t that letting the people of GA deciding on what they need? The fact is, the GOP has no problem letting people vote on issues of “morality” when they know the outcome and get the political benefit of it (see the amendment to ban the already illegal practice of gay marriage). But when the outcome is unclear and they won’t get a political bump, then it all becomes about how morality shouldn’t be put to a vote.

By The Truth

February 20, 2009 8:30 AM | Link to this

Please Ragnar, ENOUGH of these long blog diatribes that you do every day. Not only are you spinning the same Republican mantra but you ARE BORING. Please be concise and be a free thinker instead of the same ole spinmeister. After all, your party had both house of Congress for quite a while until 2006 and they spent like drunken sailors just like the Democrats.

Just slowly back away from your Drudge Report and enjoy life.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this

Dear Justan @ 8:17, “How about we put it to the test during the next statewide election via referendum, and once-and-for-all settle the issue?” You mean if you lose you will give up? Would you favor similar votes on important issues such as abortion and death penalty?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 8:41 AM | Link to this

Dear Truth @ 8:30, I strongly urge you to buy a mouse with a scroll wheel. I realize that “silencing opposing views” is what National Socialists do. Go do it elsewhere.

By Just Nasty & Mean

February 20, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this

Does anybody in the Ga. Legislature get it?

Their stupid law says I can go to a restaurant on Sunday, drink as many drinks as they will sell me, and DRIVE home—-but I can’t go to the grocery to buy booze to take home and drink.

What is the message here?

Do they WANT us to drive home on Sundays after a few drinks?

What a bunch of bible thumping buffoons.

By Watta Load

February 20, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

Is prostitution and crack legal every day but Sunday? No..

Your analogy is just lame.

By The Truth

February 20, 2009 9:01 AM | Link to this

Thanks Ragnar, finally you were concise. Secondly, I am a Republican who is trying to look at ways to fix the Party, not just blame everything on Clinton and the Democrats. My scroll wheel works but you do not.

By Ron

February 20, 2009 9:11 AM | Link to this

Yes, a beer on Sunday is just like prostitution and crack. Great point, Jim. I can’t imagine why normal people think “conservatives” are getting more and more out of touch.

By scrappy

February 20, 2009 9:15 AM | Link to this

If a fertilized human egg now gets the sames rights as all other humans, do they take precedence over the rights of the mother? Who makes this decision?

If a woman has a miscarriage, is this now murder/manslaughter since she was unfit to carry to term?

This is headed down a scary path. Laws like these need to be evaluated for their full extent, not just because it will get them re-elected because they were pro-life.

By Gary W. Griffin

February 20, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

Bold:Jobs and Joblessness, What Do We Do Now?

We’re in a real pickle aren’t we? Where have all the jobs gone? Some say that it’s the result of globalization, and that all our jobs have now been shipped overseas to countries like China and India. Is this the truth? If not, what is the truth? That’s not an easy question to answer, but here’s a good start to understanding this mess called the American economy.

I have heard people say that when you neighbor losses his job, it’s a recession. When you lose your job, it’s a depression. I have to agree with this assessment. Things are bad when others around can’t work to meet their daily subsistence needs of food, shelter, and clothing. When you can’t work to meet your needs, it is downright depressing and a crisis that shakes and shatters your entire world. I know, because I’ve been there.

The problems we’re facing here in America, and specifically here in Georgia, seem dire. No one can deny the numbers – an unemployment rate of 8.1%, 120, 139 new claims for unemployment insurance filed in January of 2009, and job losses that reached somewhere around 100,000 in 2008 depending on the source. This is certainly a serious issue.

Most of the rhetoric by both political parties is around job creation. While this may seem like the logical thing to do — it certainly appeals to both political ideologies, just in different ways — I suggest another approach. After all, there is more than one way to interpret this significant event that now has enveloped the entire country.

Here’s the other interpretation. Baby boomers will start retiring in 2011. While it will be a slow trickle at first, by the end of 2020 there will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 million retirees who are baby boomers. That’s 78 million jobs that have to be filled. With the current population of the United States, there is no way to fill these jobs.

Right now there’s a gap between where we are and where we will be in a few short years. It may seem like the best idea is to create jobs. I suggest that this is the wrong approach for Georgia. This approach from a policy perspective won’t help to prevent a depression. It will help to create one – a Mega Depression.

Here’s what we should do. First, for all baby boomers that will retire within 5 years, the local and state government should offer to reduce their workweek by 8 hours (20%) and reduce their pay by 10%. For every 4 people, this will create a new entry-level position and the money to fund it. Don’t reduce the benefits. To make sure all government services are covered, the workweek should be staggered with some working Monday through Thursday and others working Tuesday through Friday. Businesses should also be encouraged to follow suit through the use of tax breaks.

Second, we don’t need to create new jobs for people who are unemployed. We need to refocus our efforts to retool and retrain those folks to make sure they have the skills required for a 21st century workforce. If all the baby boomers do retire over the next decade, current workers won’t need to work one job; they’ll have to work 3-4 jobs, at least in terms of productivity. Our current efforts should be centered on creating hyper-productive people, not more jobs. This will require new and better skills.

Well, it’s just my two cents worth of opinion, but it makes good common sense to me.

Gary W. Griffin, Ph.D.

By Ron

February 20, 2009 9:18 AM | Link to this

Yes, a beer on Sunday is just like prostitution and crack. Great point, Jim. I can’t imagine why normal people think “conservatives” are getting more and more out of touch.

By tom hendrix

February 20, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this

So buying alcohol on Sunday is a vice-but it isn’t a vice Monday through Saturday? What a religous right troglodyte you are Mr. Wooten.

By Glenn

February 20, 2009 9:30 AM | Link to this

Dang, Jim! Wow, I’m impressed. Never thought I’d see someone get up the nerve to come right out and say that he hates when Baptists, “not legislators decide what the people ‘need’.”

Some folks just seem born again to parent their fellow adults.

By david c

February 20, 2009 9:31 AM | Link to this

The fact is, the GOP has no problem letting people vote on issues of “morality” when they know the outcome and get the political benefit of it (see the amendment to ban the already illegal practice of gay marriage). But when the outcome is unclear and they won’t get a political bump, then it all becomes about how morality shouldn’t be put to a vote.

I agree 100%!!!!!!!

By Big Bucks GOP

February 20, 2009 9:33 AM | Link to this

Saab, the Swedish maker of road-hugging sports cars and sedans, filed for bankruptcy on Friday as it was cut loose by General Motors as part of the American company’s sweeping restructuring plan.

Saab went to a Swedish court for protection from its creditors, and said the company would — with assistance from the Swedish government — reorganize to pave the way for private investors to buy all or part of the company, The New York Times reported.

“We explored and will continue to explore all available options for funding and/or selling Saab, and it was determined a formal reorganization would be the best way to create a truly independent entity that is ready for investment,” the managing director of Saab, Jan-Ake Jonsson, said in a statement.

Saab also said that the company “would continue to operate as usual.”

But in the hours after the filing, it was unclear whether the Swedish government would support the company, with government officials seeming to rule out financial assistance as part of what Saab said would be a three-month process of retrenchment.

“Support in the form of money is not on the agenda,” a spokesman for the industry ministry, Hakan Lind said, according to Reuters.

Some analysts questioned whether Saab could survive without a significant lifeline from the government.

“Unless the Swedish government is prepared to put a lot of money into Saab, I think that this is just another step down the road to the graveyard,” Bloomberg News quoted Stephen Pope, chief global strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in London, as saying.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 20, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed Kenneth Lewis, the chief executive of Bank of America, as part of a probe into whether the bank withheld information from investors in violation of state law,

By Will H

February 20, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

Are you comparing Sunday alcohol sales to prostitution and crack??? That is absolutely ludicrous! If alcohol can be sold Monday through Saturday, why can it not be sold on Sundays??? Because it is the Sabbath?? Give me a * break!

By Big Bucks GOP

February 20, 2009 9:36 AM | Link to this

In a second inquiry, the Justice Department is seeking to compel UBS to divulge the identities of 52,000 Americans whom the authorities suspect of using secret offshore accounts at the bank to dodge taxes.

By RR

February 20, 2009 9:37 AM | Link to this

Jim, I think you’d need to legalize crack and prostitution for six days a week but not seven for that comparison to be remotely valid.

By Mark

February 20, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this

“I buy Monday to Saturday. I do hate, however, that lobbyists and not legislators decide what the people of Georgia “need.”

Really? I hate how self-righteous folks like yourself are currently deciding what the people need. Most US states allow Sunday alcohol sales, but I guess the last bastion of morality resides here in GA? Right…

By Big Bucks GOP

February 20, 2009 9:39 AM | Link to this

The $200 billion Chinese sovereign wealth fund is shifting its investment focus to natural resources, fixed income and real estate after having made losing bets on high-profile U.S. financial firms,

By Big Bucks GOP

February 20, 2009 9:40 AM | Link to this

The Obama administration hopes to jump-start the credit markets by effectively subsidizing the profits of hedge funds and private equity firms in the bond markets with as much as $1 trillion for low-cost loans and guarantees.

By Big Bucks GOP

February 20, 2009 9:42 AM | Link to this

Charities rarely go bankrupt, but in the last six months, several nonprofit groups have filed to reorganize or liquidate themselves under the bankruptcy code.

By Dave

February 20, 2009 9:45 AM | Link to this

Since GA is so hurting for money, instead of always raining taxes on alcohol, tobacco, etc., why not impose a one cent tax on the lottery? I bet there’s more lottery players than smokers.

By Recreational flatuence

February 20, 2009 9:46 AM | Link to this

I don’t care about supplying the government with more taxes via Sunday alcohol sales. I do care about people restricting the freedoms of others to impose their own moral or religious agenda on them. Change the stupid law.

Anybody who would have accepted Blagwhatitz’s appointment under the circumstances had to be a best a flake and at worst a crook. Which is Burris?

A fertilized human egg has all the capabilites of a paramecium. By all means confer rights on them, too.

Public officials govern best when they strive to govern least.

Seems that any person now who didn’t actively stand in the way of black rights then is now a civil rights activist. Seems like resume inflation to me.

Yeah, the AP overstates what was an inevitable outcome. President Joe Bland could have gotten it done.

I do not begrudge MARTA any bailout help, because unlike you, I do not begrudge MARTA in the first place.

The condo glut is literal concrete proof of how over-stimulated the housing market was.

Let GM and Chrysler work themselves back to health through bankruptcy … or not.

Our neck of the woods or origin may someday be the habitat of the Florida panther. Don’t try to pet one.

The Georgia GOP has a long way to go to be redeemed. Ditto Georgia Democrats.

By Recreational flatuence

February 20, 2009 9:46 AM | Link to this

I don’t care about supplying the government with more taxes via Sunday alcohol sales. I do care about people restricting the freedoms of others to impose their own moral or religious agenda on them. Change the stupid law.

Anybody who would have accepted Blagwhatitz’s appointment under the circumstances had to be a best a flake and at worst a crook. Which is Burris?

A fertilized human egg has all the capabilites of a paramecium. By all means confer rights on them, too.

Public officials govern best when they strive to govern least.

Seems that any person now who didn’t actively stand in the way of black rights then is now a civil rights activist. Seems like resume inflation to me.

Yeah, the AP overstates what was an inevitable outcome. President Joe Bland could have gotten it done.

I do not begrudge MARTA any bailout help, because unlike you, I do not begrudge MARTA in the first place.

The condo glut is literal concrete proof of how over-stimulated the housing market was.

Let GM and Chrysler work themselves back to health through bankruptcy … or not.

Our neck of the woods of origin may someday be the habitat of the Florida panther. Don’t try to pet one.

The Georgia GOP has a long way to go to be redeemed. Ditto Georgia Democrats.

By Chris Broe

February 20, 2009 9:47 AM | Link to this

Anybody notice the second shooter in the Post’s cartoon?

We live in an era where everybody is wrong about everything.
Davey Crockett said, “Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.” Ask the guy who wrote Dow 30,000. He still thinks it’s possible. Ask the guy who wrote 1984. (bad example). Ask the guy who partied like it’s 1999. ( bad example)

Ask the guy who wrote Soylent Green! Little did he know, that we’d be feeding chimpanzees. The monkeys eat PEOPLE!!!!

Remember, “I’m okay, you’re okay”. Have you ever met anyone who’s okay?

Quote of the week: “I’ll vote (2012) for any governor who turns down the stimulus money ” (Jim Wooten). Mr. Wooten, I am confident that these governors are configuring themselves into generic antennae that will act like fly traps and stick like glue to stimulus money.

You can find truth. There’s abstract paintings created by trained elephants and monkeys selling for thousands on Ebay. You can be anything you want to be. So be yourself.

By Recreational flatuence

February 20, 2009 9:52 AM | Link to this

Since the wife hasn’t come across in nine years and never will again, I’d like to see prostitution legalized in Georgia, too. As it is now, I keep dreaming of a trip to Nevada.

By G'TOWN DUDE

February 20, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this

You people scare me. Your hate is truly cowardly. HOLDER, for the benefit of the idiot Ragnar, stated it correctly and you ‘necks and neo cons can’t handle it. COWARDS!!

By Curious Observer

February 20, 2009 10:06 AM | Link to this

I’ve seen no evidence that Sunday alcohol sales in Georgia will increase tax revenue. My guess is that it would spread the revenue out over seven days, instead of six.

The issue is not tax revenue, but whether the will of the majority will prevail from county to county. It strikes me that the Sunday prohibition is an instance of religious belief being imposed on everybody. Sunday, after all, was not chosen arbitrarily as the day when alcohol sales would be prohibited. No one can persuade me that 47 other states are sinning against God badly, while three, including Georgia, are remaining virtuous. Let counties vote on the issue, and stop permitting one strain of religion to impose restrictions on everybody.

By ron

February 20, 2009 10:14 AM | Link to this

Good morning all,My ISP has decided it will provide service for payment and we have come to an understanding that in future I will get what I’m paying for.In fact,I’m going to get more than I had for less than I was paying.Someone there got a lot smarter.

Sunday sales—Been there,done that in two different states.Once Sunday sales are voted in,notice the words, “voted in”,the whole contentious issue disappears forever.Never to be heard from again.A big non-issue.

Illinois politics doesn’t change,just the faces that play.

North Dakota politicians are about to take a path best not taken.A path frought with many dangers to everyone.

My wife and I raised two children and abortion was never an option with either of us,however,imposing our views on our neighbors isn’t an option with us either.Abortions have always been with us,both legal and illegal.That’s a fact. Where I’ve lived for the last 8 years has a local government,I guess.I don’t know who they are.There have been no issus to speak of.How’s that for no drama?It’s a small town government that just does it’s business and goes home.

One chimpanzee bites a woman and the whole country is up in arms.There are two small girls in Florida,a Caylee and a Haleigh that appear to have met with foul play.I’m betting it wasn’t chimpanzees that are involved.Be careful how you define human.

There were a lot of civil rights activists in the 60’s that were never called that then.

General Motors and Chrysler need to disappear.

By Yankee of the South

February 20, 2009 10:17 AM | Link to this

I am from Maine (don’t hate me)and some years back worked to help Susan Collins get elected. Collins and Snowe, Maine’s other Senator, are both a disgraces to the GOP and should truely change parties as neither supports the GOP views. It is time Maine stands up and gives the boot to these 2!

By @@

February 20, 2009 10:19 AM | Link to this

I’ll just surrender to the Sunday sales advocates, Jim. I’ve read where alcohol consumption weakens the “newO’stransmitter glut-O-mine”. That just might be a good thing.

No doubt the Chicago politician’s new “SinsUs” taker on Capitol Hill embellishes but Blagojevich was not lying when he told the impeachment committee…..”We all do it and you guys know it.”

Our new President of Constitutional law will not be pleased to see North Dakota’s ruling for it was He, who in his only article written for the Harvard Law Review, that argued…..”the unborn are entitled to no legal recourse for harm imposed upon them.”

If only I could live in a COUNTY without drama. I am but a mere understudy waiting to appear on stage.

Join me, Jim….in my hopes that black conservatives will rise to carry the banner of TRUE civil rights — I don’t think white liberals will be able to withstand the weight that’s be brought to bear.

AP echos Obama’s call for more “short order cooks” at the Waffle House? And here I thought we Americans could do better.

Good for Ms. Scott. As every woman knows, dieting makes us leaner and meaner.

I was reading an article at (can’t remember where) but mortgage companies were examining Obama’s “stimulating for closure” measures. I saved it in a text file. They (mortgage companies thinks there needs to be new legislation. It reads:

“The housing plan, however, only offers incentives, with no penalties and that could be a problem,” she said.

Mortgage finance giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will play a pivotal role in the U.S. government’s housing plan.

The plan would provide a $1,000 fee to mortgage servicers for each successful loan modification, while borrowers would receive up to $1,000 to reduce their loan principal each year if they stay current on their payments.

“There has been a stunning absence of evidence that past plans to modify loans have worked, but if we do eventually get evidence that these new loan modifications are working that in and of itself will help the housing market,” she said.

I guess there’s always HOPE that the fannie will rise for the freddie once again. Can’t count on me to do that.

GM returns for and because of the unholy “Union”.

Quote of the week: “Yes he did!”

Question of the day: Do what?

By Chris Broe

February 20, 2009 10:24 AM | Link to this

Strain of religion? You make it sound like a virus..

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 10:26 AM | Link to this

Dear Dude @ 10:01, perhaps you’ll be pleased to know that every time I see a person of color I demand to know why their demographic group’s education levels are so far below Asian and Caucasian, and why their crime rates are so much higher. Makes me really popular with them when I initiate race discussions.

By sane conservative

February 20, 2009 10:27 AM | Link to this

So if liquor sales should only be allowed 6 days a week, I vote for not allowing it on, let’s see, Tuesdays. Chosen at random, with as much logic behind it as Jim is using to defend no sales on Sunday. That is to say, none.

Come to think of it, my Sabbath is on Saturday. I propose no sales on Saturdays.

No, wait, my daughter has gymnastics on Thursdays. No sales that day…..

By bb

February 20, 2009 10:30 AM | Link to this

Dear bible thumpers….. stop imposing your beliefs on others.alcohol sales on sunday is no different than on monday.Ask youself this question….if alcohol sales were legal 7 days a week, would you be lobbying to ban it?I think the answer to that question is a resounding no! It’s more about freedom than anything else….and it would have zero negative effect on the population….hence 47 other states that seem to be just fine…..CASE CLOSED!

By bb

February 20, 2009 10:33 AM | Link to this

Dear bible thumpers….. stop imposing your beliefs on others.alcohol sales on sunday is no different than on monday.Ask youself this question….if alcohol sales were legal 7 days a week, would you be lobbying to ban it?I think the answer to that question is a resounding no! It’s more about freedom than anything else….and it would have zero negative effect on the population….hence 47 other states that seem to be just fine…..CASE CLOSED!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 10:34 AM | Link to this

Dear Truth @ 9:01, RINOs are national socialists also.

Dear ron @ 10:14, welcome back. “Abortions have always been with us, both legal and illegal.” Agreed, just has murder has been with us at least since Cain shot Abel.

By @@

February 20, 2009 10:34 AM | Link to this

To Glenn’s “fooey” from yesterday.

If you go back and read the “fooey” may be on you. How hot does it have to be before your shorts (YOU WEAR EDIBLE UNDERWEAR? — I NEVER WOULD’A GUESSED IT!) begin to stick?

Fooey….

I thought Dusty’s original question was a fair one.

On the topic of judicial intervention (something you appeared to support) Dusty asked:

Dusty: “You seem to think they could render a judgment that would help. HOW?”

To which you replied:

“Dusty,”

“I’m sorry, but your post of 5:59 yesterday was positively imbecilic throughout.”

I have always taught children that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.

Does yesterday’s “fooey” mean that your infatuation for me has fallen by the wayside?

By Redneck Convert

February 20, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m sort of glad to see this cheapskate ron joined us again after his big fight with his innernet co.

Anyhow, I don’t want no booze sales on Sunday. I’m already run ragged, what with stocking stores and bars six days a week for all the drunks in this area. Including some people on this blog. If they let people buy booze on Sunday I’ll have to make deliverys then and that means I miss out on NASCAR. The way it is now suits me fine. If I run low on Sunday I just go out to the beer truck.

Have a good day everybody.

By Dusty

February 20, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

Oh bother, who cares about Sunday alcohol sales? The only ones bothered are the ones too dumb to buy alcohol on Saturday. Right?

This law was made at a time when Americans were aware that there are morals and ethics and they stood by what they believed.

Obviously, that time is past. We see it in personal proclamations of licentiousness, free sex for the giving (as promoted in movies & TV) and cheats in business and corporations. So why worry about a little ol’ Sunday beer sale? It is just a sign of the times. We have moved to the “anything goes” in American morality.

So, drink up, ye harties who can’t make a day without alcohol. You are just one of the failing crowd.

In the meantime, I will be at church Sunday and you are invited. We don’t care if you drink like a fish since we humans were given the right to choose from right or wrong a long time ago. I’d rather go to church and hope. You can drink up for your hope. We do get to choose. Let alsohol be sold on Sunday. Let each person choose his own destiny, for better or for worse.

By Peter

February 20, 2009 10:50 AM | Link to this

Very interesting………

“By Big Bucks GOP

February 20, 2009 9:36 AM | Link to this

In a second inquiry, the Justice Department is seeking to compel UBS to divulge the identities of 52,000 Americans whom the authorities suspect of using secret offshore accounts at the bank to dodge taxes.”

Do you think they will find a Few Democrat’s on that list ?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 10:54 AM | Link to this

Dear @@ @ 10:34, “Does yesterday’s “fooey” mean that your infatuation for me has fallen by the wayside?” I’ve enjoyed the pleasure of visiting with Glenn a couple of times, and I suspect his regard for genius will always trump his frustration in communicating his own thoughts.

By Chris Broe

February 20, 2009 10:57 AM | Link to this

How about that smattering of polite applause Hillary got from those Jackie O clones in Korea when she mentioned the beatles. it looks like fashion in Korea is stuck in 1962.

Here’s a scenario: China is suffering from this economic meltdown too. They may feel that the time is right for an invasion of Taiwan.

Are we ready to go to total war with china over Taiwan?

China called. It wants Taiwan back.

What the world needs now is an appearance by the Blessed Virgin. We must have a message from Her about what to do now. Cant the pope read from the virgin’s letter that Pope John opened in 1960? What happened to that lady in Conyers? There is live video of a local news report given during one of the Conyers Appearances that actually show some misty weather phenomena and leaves falling everywhere, and people cheering. I always wondered about that. I mean, it was on TV, man.

What’s remarkable is how people today think that World War Two, Vietnam, and Korea, and Iraq and Afghanistan are just little bumps in the road to world peace. We are in perpetual war. We shall see destruction like never before in our lifetimes. It’s good that the condos and office buildings are incomplete. We’re just going to blow them all up, anyway.

We hate each other, we hate and fear foreigners. There’s virtually no way peace has a chance. War always is the result of economic collapse. Always. It’s like the only thing left. And men love war. We love it. War is misunderstood. War is not a monster. War is good. War is great. War is profitable. Think of all the spoils of war.

War. Isn’t it about time? All hail war! Zeig. Heil!

Zeig. Heil!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 10:58 AM | Link to this

Dear Dusty @ 10:45, a well-reasoned argument. I think I share your perspectives.

By AGTfan

February 20, 2009 11:14 AM | Link to this

I can’t believe it, I agree with something said by Ragnar Danneskjöld. He suggested earlier that someone get a mouse with a scroll wheel to facilitate ignoring Ragnar Danneskjöld. I almost always practice that. I’ve found that ignoring dishonest bigots is usually the best policy on blogs.

By Jeff

February 20, 2009 11:16 AM | Link to this

Poor Tray—Your misery is showing loud and clear. Blame Obama and liberals for everything, right? After all, Obama has been in office for one month now and everything has gone to pot since then. You’re laughable and sooo out of touch. I’m sure you have a poster of “W” in your bedroom right next to the one of Cheney. Sleep well, my friend. You’re going to have a very long eight years.

By Dusty

February 20, 2009 11:21 AM | Link to this

Awwww @@,

Don’t pay any attention to Glenn. He was having a bad day and you broke his heart.

I appreciate your fine fightin’ spirit but give the poor guy a chance. He might jump an early freight train to California in tears and torment. We can’t have that. Profess a little pity from your kind heart!!

By Do The Math

February 20, 2009 11:26 AM | Link to this

No Drama???

Nationally known for both “Evolution is Only a Theory” fight and 63,000 Apple ibooks for school children (not that this is a bad idea but the bid fixing was for sure).

Please..

By Wells

February 20, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

I dont’ have a problem with sellng alcohol 6 days a week, but can we change the day that we don’t sell alcohol to Wednesday b/c then it won’t interfere with football.

I also think that we should tax crack and prostitution and make them legal six days a week also. But crack sales should be illegal on Monday and prostitution should illegal on Friday.

Not sure why I picked those days but I think it shows how silly your opinion is for keeping liquor sales illegal on one day out of the week.

By Peter

February 20, 2009 11:31 AM | Link to this

What a bunch of Hooey this baloney is…………

By Dusty

February 20, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

Oh bother, who cares about Sunday alcohol sales? The only ones bothered are the ones too dumb to buy alcohol on Saturday. Right?

This law was made at a time when Americans were aware that there are morals and ethics and they stood by what they believed.

So Dusty ………are you saying today’s society has no morals, ethics, and we live in a time without them ?

Gee no wonder America was Bilked for the last 8 years by Non Ethical Republican’s !

No wonder the US Deficit is through the roof !

No wonder Republican’s can “MAKE UP A WAR”……..and then claim …..”Faulty Intelligence”.

HA HA HA……..and all are worried about what day to buy Beer !

Gotta love the “Republican Family Values” attitude……. bicker about the small things……… BUT …….let American’s be trampled by horrible wasteful policy !

By Reality

February 20, 2009 11:58 AM | Link to this

Failing to separate matters of religion and state business should be illegal 7 days a week with the penalty being ineligable for any government job forever.

By Dusty

February 20, 2009 11:58 AM | Link to this

Well, I must say “Fooey ” and “Hooey” are getting very popular here.

Yes, Peter, I do believe the morals and ethics of America are slipping to lower levels. You don’t??

I am glad you seemingly have a more optimistic view of American principles.

As to family values, I am all for them and try to keep them at my home. I wish the same for others but find my influence is mainly effective in my own little bailiwick. I’ve always felt that following the Ten Commandments was a good way to stay out of trouble. But “love thy neighbor” is the best way to go above all.

I believe you feel the same way only get involved with a mixup of political values. So we disagree about some things but probably not everythng.

By JJ

February 20, 2009 12:01 PM | Link to this

Let me take a wild guess…
Ragnar listens to a minimum of 6 hours of talk radio a day. Ragnar, can you confirm?

By Peter

February 20, 2009 12:16 PM | Link to this

Hey Dusty….I agree……..

By Dusty

February 20, 2009 11:58 AM | Link to this

Well, I must say “Fooey ” and “Hooey” are getting very popular here.

I think it is a nicer way to blog, without getting all angry, and begin name calling.

This I also agree with………I’ve always felt that following the Ten Commandments was a good way to stay out of trouble. But “love thy neighbor” is the best way to go above all.

I like to say….. if all followed the …..”Golden Rule” we would have zero problems, zero crime.

About this thought……Yes, Peter, I do believe the morals and ethics of America are slipping to lower levels. You don’t??

The part of America I believe you should be speaking about would be “Corporate America”…… CEO’s are cutting the job force to keep their BIG PAYCHECK……

Also……Corporations are paying Executives Millions upon Millions for failing a business.

I see so many companies firing a top level executive, and paying them off Millions for failure, those contracts are really bad business !

That logic hurts the business, and it is hurting the entire work force………. that good money could go to employ Americans.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

February 20, 2009 12:20 PM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

Sorry I haven’t been posting much…your blog and Bookman’s are just too swampy. I feel dirty after I’m here.

Anywho, re your lament about condo overbuilding around the city, I’m with ya. Punish the builders via the marketplace.

Problem is that the marketplace was what created this issue to begin with. The housing/mortage market, short on potential buyers, changed the rules (via their association lobbyists who pay for such things as laws) and created financial instruments that would allow people who didn’t have any money or income to borrw money. And viola! New consumers!

So with all these new consumers (and motivated money sellers) out there , there was plenty of incentive for the overbuilding that took place. After all, if we’re both builders, and you’re building a condo hi rise, then I have to too…otherwise you’re just going to make all the sales.

In olden times, if the debtors couldn’t meet their obligation, their assets were appropriated and re-sold, and the lender moved on (and they probably did a better job of assessing the lendor to begin with anyway). But since the mortgate and financial industry did such a fancy job of masking the risk on the front end (cdo’s anyone? laughable bond ratings, anyone?), they made it nearly impossible to value the assets on the back end.

Viola! Credit freeze! If you can’t tell what something’s worth, then how can you buy it?

So Jim, I ask you: How can the marketplace settle a situation where it cannot value assets because of the great job it did in masking their real value?

This is for Jim. All you other jobless wing nut hacks can move on.

By Justan Observer

February 20, 2009 12:24 PM | Link to this

Ragnar @ 8:48 - Yes, I’d accept the public’s voting results on abortion, death penalty, casino gambling, etc. Democracy - the will of th people…

By Diogenes

February 20, 2009 12:24 PM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim,

I see that you support the hare-brained scheme by the boys in the General Assembly to cut government services by about a billion dollars just at a time when revenues are falling.

“You have to give them credit, too, for declaring up-front that they intend to eliminate the corporate income tax some day, as they should. Have a vision. Be bold. Do it.”

I didn’t expect that from you. When we start missing the lost services, we’ll just have to pay out of our own pockets. The Republicans taketh away but never giveth back. I would have thought that even you would be tired of their shell game by now and draw the line on such blatant pandering to big business at the expense of the rest of us. Alas.

By dw

February 20, 2009 12:28 PM | Link to this

Hey boozehounds, maybe people who work in liquor stores would like at aleast one day off from work. If you can’t plan ahead, then what does that say for your intelligence. Nothing positive! Just stay in your stupor and keep drinking yourself into an early grave. Good night!

By Ron Mexico

February 20, 2009 12:30 PM | Link to this

Obama = Failure

By @@

February 20, 2009 12:35 PM | Link to this

So Ragnar?

Are you saying that Glenn was unnecessarily ticked off or jacked off?

Pardon my word-play but it goes with my “fooey fallen by the wayside” comment. (ISH)

I’ve always admired Dusty’s proclivity for lady-like behavior but alas, hanging out with my brother and his friends from the time I was a small child (he much older) has left me challenged in that arena.

Funny story! I’m at a UMW meeting at church the other night “United Methodist Women” — not a big fan — to much time wasted on disagreement and gossipy stuff, but we DO GOOD WORK and I’m all in favor of that.

Anyhowdy, the minister walks in….not the straight-laced stuffy kinda guy that many non-believers perceive — he’s in his early 50’s into contemporary music, enjoys having fun. He says to me, in the midst of all the “ladies”……

@@, how’s it hangin’? I replied “It’s not, but here’s” (insert my husband’s name here) cell-phone number. He can answer your question better than I.”

He smiled with a very red-face and said “I (he) should have known better.”

I said “Yes you should have…..now go away, can’t you see I’m trying to fit in with all the ladies here?”

……who by the way, were laughing so hard, there were tears in their eyes. One of them finally mustered up the composure to say “…..and it’s so hard for her but we love her all the same.”

True friends! They’re always willing to forgive. I’m wonderin’, though, if the minister will forget. Who knows, I might be the target of an upcoming sermon.

By Chuck

February 20, 2009 12:38 PM | Link to this

Instead of the North Dakota House (or any other legislative body), passing laws to give fertilized eggs human rights, how about them passing laws to hold accountable the irresponsible acts of the parties involved? The doctor and mother in the octuplets case both acted in irresponsible and irrational ways that guaranteed the eggs and ultimately the born children be placed in harm and need. Who will ultimately fulfill those needs? The taxpayers, of course. China has at least part of it right when it comes to conception. Don’t want a communist state, but something needs to be done to corral the choice these women now have in downloading babies they can’t afford, or raise properly and morally.

By Norma

February 20, 2009 12:45 PM | Link to this

Is Jim Wooten still talking? I quit listening years ago…

By Elephant Whip

February 20, 2009 12:56 PM | Link to this

Recreational Flatulence:

Why don’t you change your name to ‘Fun Farts’? A little more concise with some consonance. Lots of hissing gas sounds with the ‘f’s and the ‘ts’!

By Teacher, Too

February 20, 2009 12:59 PM | Link to this

If people want to buy alcohol on Sundays, I have no problem with it. In fact, compromise the way Florida did— sell beer/wine after 1:00 on Sundays.

Sin taxes— with the obesity rate at an all time high, why don’t we impose a tax on fast-food at the fast food restaurants? The people who want to eat greasy hamburgers, french fries, and milkshakes can pay 1% more to subsidize their “sinful” food.

By Teacher, Too

February 20, 2009 1:05 PM | Link to this

oops— shouldn’t have used the word “subsidize” in my post. People who choose to eat at fast food restaurants could pay 1% more in sales tax for their “sinful” food instead of always taxing alcohol and cigarettes.

By dinodung

February 20, 2009 1:30 PM | Link to this

No Sunday alcohol sales=Your religion being imposed on me. Chicago politics=Extremely corrupt and the Messiah is from there. Black activists=Keeping up the bad feelings. Mortgage bailout=The resposible paying for the not resposible. Abortion=Ever had an unwanted pregnancy scare? Leaves one in a cold sweat while waiting for the stick to say yes or no. Auto bailouts=If the product is not wanted it should go the way of Buggy Whip manufacturers. I am neither a true Republican,nor a true Democrat, nor a true Libertarian. Just an honest American.

By Churchill's MOM

February 20, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this

Abortion is just a form of birth control. If Raghead had about 20 little Ragers running around I’d say he was practicing what he preaches. A woman is capable of popping out a little one every year but that is just as irresponsible as that crazy woman who had 8 on the dole. If you don’t believe in birth control spend a few hours in Walmart tommorrow, that’ll change your mind. This is the only thing I don’t agree with Palin about.

By dinodung

February 20, 2009 1:41 PM | Link to this

Missed one of the most important ones. Fair Tax=Solution to most of Americas woes.

By steve-o

February 20, 2009 1:41 PM | Link to this

I hate stupid Christianists and their feeble mentality and room tempature IQs.

By Peanut Man

February 20, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this

How much money did Saxby get from Peanut Corporation of America? What did they get for it?

By Jackie

February 20, 2009 2:14 PM | Link to this

@Ragnar,

You indicate that you stop minorities and ask them why their educational levels are so low and why there is so much crime in their community.

I would like to stop and ask you why your pontification of sophomoric logic is so full or errors and omissions.

Please tell us why your declarations about the political and economic actions have been far removed from the truth that you are constantly defending those statements?

Is it true that your erudication is without merit? Was this fallibility due to your education or your belief that your education acumen is superior to others?

By The right is right!

February 20, 2009 2:44 PM | Link to this

I am not personally for Sunday alcohol sales, however, I do not see what role government should play in dictating the sale of legal goods. Let it be up to the individual store owner or locals to decide if they want to sell or buy on Sunday. Just because you can does not mean you should. I know Chik-fil-A may not be an appropriate standard in this situation, but they have chosen to take a day off even if they could sell on Sunday. Let the people decide, not government.

By Recreational flatuence

February 20, 2009 3:18 PM | Link to this

Elephant whip, why don’t you stfu and gfy?

By Producer

February 20, 2009 3:21 PM | Link to this

Sunday sales should go forward. They should have never been illegal in the first place. These bail out’s and massive welfare programs that Obama is putting into place a sickening to those of us who’ve planned and lived our lives responsibly. This is the result when we have propped up and subsidized the irresponsible behavior of the weak, stupid and undeserving parasites in this nation. Our country has become forever weakened by them. What an absolute waste.

By just me

February 20, 2009 4:03 PM | Link to this

Your first paragraph is one of the few times I agree with you 100%, Wooten. Lobbyists are wrecking this state. IN the next year or two, they will destroy banking, medical, small business and home-buying for the average Georgian.

By just me

February 20, 2009 4:06 PM | Link to this

Your first paragraph is one of the few times I agree with you 100%, Wooten. Lobbyists are wrecking this state. IN the next year or two, they will destroy banking, medical, small business and home-buying for the average Georgian.

By just me

February 20, 2009 4:09 PM | Link to this

Your first paragraph is one of the few times I agree with you 100%, Wooten. Lobbyists are wrecking this state. IN the next year or two, they will destroy banking, medical, small business and home-buying for the average Georgian.

By Elephant Whip

February 20, 2009 4:39 PM | Link to this

Recreational Flatulence:

All apologies! I didn’t realize I could possibly insult someone who goes by the name “Recreational Flatulence.” No ill will here, I promise!

By LOL

February 20, 2009 4:59 PM | Link to this

“Hey boozehounds, maybe people who work in liquor stores would like at aleast one day off from work. If you can’t plan ahead, then what does that say for your intelligence. Nothing positive! Just stay in your stupor and keep drinking yourself into an early grave. Good night!”

Hey smart guy, it is called having a staff of more than 1. I work at a helpdesk which is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I suppose you think I never get a day off and work all day and night everyday too.

I don’t even drink and I think outlawing Sunday alcohol sales in ridiculous. Just another way for the Christians to enforce their beliefs on others! What does it say about your intelligence that you do not get that enforcing your religous beliefs on others is wrong. What about the Jewish population, I’m sure they find it offensive that you Christian heathens sell your jesus juice on their holy day.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 5:38 PM | Link to this

Dear jj @ 12:01, I think those guys all monitor my writings so they know what to talk about.

Dear @@ @ 12:35, Mrs. jbmlaw does not routinely attend the UMW meetings, but she would have loved that one.

Dear Jackie @ 2:14, I know explaining humor defeats the purpose of same, but as I have given you are hard time on a lot of less significant matters, fairness requires a note on my irony. Lest there be any real doubt in your mind, I do not attack my friends of color with unpleasant racial topics - they don’t deserve that, and that is not my nature anyway. However, the lame brain now serving as Attorney General seemingly postulates that white folks are cowards because we do not compel our minority friends to consider the problems of their communities, and lambaste them for failure to address same. Obviously the AG is a hack and a race-w******* of the worst variety - which was the point of my 10:26 answer to friend Dude. No rational person engages the sort of “race” discussion advocated by the AG. If you pick at it, it will never heal - an aphorism worthy of many of the world’s problems.

By steve

February 20, 2009 5:50 PM | Link to this

I find it strange that people who oppose sunday liquor sales also say they dont want government in peoples lives. If you dont want government in peoples lives then why do you want government telling us whether we can or cannot buy liquor on sundays?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 5:52 PM | Link to this

Dear Teacher Too @ 12:59 - I respectfully believe you have your economics backwards. The people who eat healthful foods are the ones who should be taxed - they live longer, and thus constitute a more durable strain on what will soon be our nationalized health insurance system. At least those who consume grease bombs will have the good grace to die young.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 20, 2009 6:02 PM | Link to this

Dear Jackie, a follow up, Taranto leads with an argument almost identical to mine, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123514880910734301.html

By John Corbin

February 25, 2009 8:41 AM | Link to this