THE VENT

Most powerful man in the world? Hah! Barack Obama can’t even keep his mother-in-law from moving into his house.

Some countries are going after the pirates and blasting them at sea. Let’s stop being so wimpy and let the U.S. Navy do the same!

The only thing we will not need to bail out in 2009 is Lake Lanier. Nothing to bail.

The Beach Boys are still performing? They should be called the Beach Old Men! (Now they sing “I Get Around” with their fingers crossed. —- The Vent Guy.)

No bailout for car companies that have factories in foreign countries!

If you’re an autoworker and you’ve lost your job or may lose it, you can thank the UAW and all its excessive demands over the years.

At least one of our Senate candidates is willing to lie to us, and maybe both.

Choosing between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin is like choosing between Gomer Pyle and Goober Pyle.

If Barack Obama has Hillary Clinton as a member of his Cabinet, he doesn’t need to fear being embarrassed by the Clintons’ financial deals. They can hide anything.

I have kidney stones and gallstones, but I will be thankful this Thanksgiving that I do not have a headstone.

What’s the use of a school calendar for November that they send home with students on Nov. 13? Especially when they are off the entire last week of the month!

Squirrels starting oak trees are looking to the future. We all could learn from that.

Attention, disgruntled Northerners! We have I-75 and I-85 in Georgia, and both go north. If that does not work for you, go east on I-20 —- into the Atlantic Ocean.

Too many employers insist on college degrees in their hiring. Having a college degree does not necessarily make you qualified.

There is a great test for common sense. If you can refrain from picking up your cellphone while driving, you pass!

One more deficit that George W. Bush is leaving us with is the Presidential Honeymoon Deficit.

Thank you, President Bush, for seven years of a strong economy, and even more for preventing a second attack after 9/11.

I see more Obama bumper stickers now than I did before the election. Is somebody trying to take credit for something other people did?

We would have elected a black president years ago if we had been given better choices than Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

I will be 85 in December, and having a vent published is the least of my problems.

Why doesn’t the AJC include quality programming from public television in its TV highlights listing? Instead we get junk.

Does anyone else think that the sound we hear is dominoes falling?

I hope all Atlantans got sufficient notice of Bill Clinton’s visit so they were able to hide their daughters.

If you have enough money to buy a Jaguar, it’s too bad you don’t have enough sense to yield to a driver who has a green turn arrow.

TV anchorwomen should definitely be paid more than anchormen. They get in twice as many words.

I left a note in a restaurant tip jar saying, “Your sweet tea needs more sugar.”

Fifty years ago in college, we were taught that the world was still coming out of the last ice age. Doesn’t that explain global warming?

I predict gas prices will go up again soon. Just look at the number of cars on the road now.

Is anybody in these parts familiar with the concept of right of way?