Free swim

The gelding won.

R.I.P. Jack Kemp.

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If the Urinal delivers the litter box liner any later, it will be an evening edition.

wtf?

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Nothing like a good old dose of race baiting on a Sunday morning-

So are the racially charged strategies of the Republican Party, which has abandoned its roots as the party of the unfettered franchise. It has swapped places with the Democratic Party; now the GOP is the party of voter suppression. The Supreme Court shouldn’t decide the fate of Section 5 without considering the record of GOP-dominated state legislatures, especially in the South, which have passed harsh voter ID laws as barriers to the franchise.-Queen Pinko, Urinal

Why is Tuck the only person in America who calls legitimate measures to ensure the validity of our electoral process “voter suppression?”

I’m just curious, if this is a “Republican tactic,” then isn’t Queen Pinko saying that people of color are too stupid or shiftless to get an ID?

You know what I mean?

I guess she has a point-

For 30 of 103 metro Atlanta high schools, more than 1 in 3 of their graduates took remedial classes as freshmen in the 2007-2008 school year. At seven of those schools, at least half did.-Urinal

A list of the top fifty schools with failing graduates, every single one was a district that voted for Obozo, every one.

I rest her case.

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I wonder if this is how he prepares himself for attending worship services later this morning…

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Headline: 32% of Georgia Republicans wants to secede.

Clearly, we have a higher percentage of the 20%-ers here in GA. Pity us for that. Clearly, they hadn’t thought through the implications of having to defend the state from Alabama on the money the state brings in from pretty white dirt and onions.

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No actually, cherokee, I am mired in a world of seething rage and mindless hatred where I call all of the people that disagree with my politics “racists.”

And you?

Now I can go to church.

Laytuh.

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Well, looks like old Sonny might of overdone the Water Plan a tad. Now we need him to go out on them steps with a bunch of preachers and pray for a long dry spell. You can’t even 4-wheel, what with all the mud.

The Rev. Jim Bob Buice was at the trailer for a visit late last night. He’s had to be awful careful about when he visits ever since the state took away his right to be around kids and us living with little Sonny Zell George and all. The Rev. Jim Bob pointed out that ever since the Rev. Falwell was took up to Heaven things have been going bad for godly Conservatives. He thinks God give up on the country and decided if the country wants to elect a bunch of godless libruls then let them suffer.

Me, I’m all for breaking off and forming the Southren States of America. This Gov. in Texas is right. The country don’t want the godly in power and it’s time to make another one that will let Free Innerprize loose and get us out of this equal rights junk.

Well, I’m headed down to the Church of Holiness. Like Sister Dusty and others on this blog I need to take time out with God before I come back to start calling names and blasting people I don’t like again. Have a good Sabbath everybody and don’t go trying to buy beer today and make a mockery of my faith.

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R.I.P. Jack Kemp.

The inspiration for Congressman Bob Forehead, if anyone remembers the fabulous Washingtoon comic strip.

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Good Morning!

Seems some folks just are missing the gladness gene. Pity.

Great day in the garden yesterday…off to start another.

For y’all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3FkaN0HQgs

Later…

Today Bob Herbert uses the “c” word in describing the GOP.

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Byteme,
In response to your statement at 8:18.

Have you for one moment thought that not each and every one of the 32% are registered republican.
Have you allowed yourself to imagine that some of the 32% are not republican at all?

Or have you honestly got to a point in your life were your mind is so very closed that all of those who have an unwise opinion or a belief that differs with yours that they must not only be stupid but must also be a republican.

I have only voted by party line once and it was when clinton was in office and I voted for him and all other democrats.
While I have seen many of your post that I agree with your policy idea the way you convey the message makes it hard to take seriously.

I know you believe in your message and wish for your ideals to prosper. As a word of caution from a true independant, alot of you democrats are making many of the exclusionary and inflamatory comments that you accused the other side of making and thus costing them their power.
Why would you all act the same way? Or can you not help it, I do not think you are that big of a jerk.

It is consistantly people like you taxpayer, godzilla, midori and some others who constantly complain about I report, or any other conservative that dares to voice their opinion.

Do you all not see that you are the exactly same people only rooting for 2 different teams, and both acting too dumb to understand it is an intersquad scrimmage and in reality we are all on the SAME team, just have different ideas of what it takes to win.

You can attack me or ignore me or whatever, just my piece I am sure you will cast me off, but I unlike you do not assume everyone who does not believe as I do is stupid/dumb, so I am holding out hope that you are capable of change. Thus actually being able to live up to some of the things you say.

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what, for your own personal edification,

DailyKos poll: Nearly one-third of Georgia Republicans favor independence from U.S.

By the way, I do so hope that I am not coming across as complaining about your rant.

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ByteMe & Taxpayer – Apparently, “what” chose their handle well, since that’s the question most folks with functioning neurons would ask to that 9:38 post.

That, or “what” is a shining example of the Georgia “education” system…

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Riiiight. No, I mean Leffffft. That leftist DailyKos poll probably was biased. In fact, the number of Georgia Republicans in favor of seceding would likely be different if conducted by an unbiased right-leaning pollster. Now, would they report ‘more’ or ‘less’ than 32%?

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Hmm.. screwed up that emoticon, huh?

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That, or “what” is a shining example of the Georgia “education” system…

GayGrayFreak-

Here are data on the rates of metro Atlanta high school graduates needing remediation the first year after they entered Georgia public colleges in fall of 2007.

Atlanta….Frederick Douglass ….45 ….9 ……..59-Urinal

Care to take a stab at which presidential candidate those school districts voted for?

bwahahahahahaha

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It must suck to be Andy. His “refutation” of my post about Georgia’s “education” system listed school systems that are all from, yes, Georgia.

He’s so incredibly well-versed in his G.No.P. knee-jerking that I’m sure he’d scream “NO!” to the queries

Is water wet?
Is fire hot?
Is ice cold?
Is the sky blue?

etc.

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What would anyone else expect from the Obozo voters other than mindless shrieks of indignation, when they are confronted with evidence, especially from their own favorite source of propaganda?

Does it stop them from nattering on about the problems with Georgia’s education system to be shown that those problems are not related in the least bit to the children of right wing religious extremists?

Of course not, they can’t even understand what they are seeing, hahaha.

So babble away, dullards.

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I guess my last comment got censored for some unknown reason.

Does the AJC have any editors or fact checkers?

“You’re in it to win it,” said Borel, who was so far ahead at the end that he turned and waved his whip at the field. It was his second Derby victory in three years, having guided Secret Sense into the winner’s circle in 2007.–AJC

The horse was named Street Sense.

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“You could say we are seceding from our exceptionalism to become more like the dregs and refuse of the Third World.”

Sounds like 8 years with GWB

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It’s perfectly acceptable to the dimwit liberals to have some clown go around to the dictators and genocidal maniacs of the world and tell them that we are sorry for things we haven’t done, mau mauing us for our supposed sins by saying we will be “changing” as a country.

Or you could say that the libs want to secede from their little straw man America, that evil boogey man that makes them crawl under the bed and lock themselves in the closet.

I want nothing to do with your paranoid fantasies, sorry, sign me up for the 32%.

I am not stupid enough to not know that this is the most generous and caring nation in the world, bar none, and that our Judeo Christian history makes it possible for us to accept Muslims practicing their religion in our midst, not the other way around. We do not behead non believers or persecute, we mission to them, in peace.

So if this bothers you heathens, causes you much discomfort, makes you long to be loved by the cut throats and killers of the world, nobody is stopping you, Delta is ready when you are.

Either that or you can stfu and let the people that can see the joke being played on us go their own way, quietly.

Call us pilgrims if you will.

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Senator Mitch McConnell, the leader of the shrinking Republican minority, fretted that there was a “threat to the country” and wondered if people would want the majority to rule “without a check or a balance.”

Funny, but some of us are not too uneducated to remember the libs whining about the exact same thing in 2002 when the Repugs held the majority.

Some of us unlike i r o diM, that is.

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And its the typical conservative who puts those dictators into power, which ended up with the creation of Al Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalists to oppose the dictators and similar brutal rulers to begin with.

Checks and balances. Yeah, right. It was the Republicans who basically asserted the “Unitary Power of the President” and then started leading the country towards the dictatorship of the president in the last eight years.

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Like I said, I cannot wait until they release the Comptroller Generals report to Obama, which sums up the economic condition that Bush left the nation in. The one that Reagan’s comptroller general gave George H.W. Bush was as follows:

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Reagan Leaving Many Costly Domestic Problems, G.A.O. Tells Bush

November 22, 1988

The top Federal auditor told President-elect Bush today that the Government would immediately have to address many domestic problems neglected by the Reagan Administration and that the costs would be staggering.

Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher, the head of the General Accounting Office, said Mr. Bush should rethink the country’s worldwide military commitments, strengthen Federal regulation of banks and stockbrokers and provide new Federal incentives for private investment in low-rent housing for poor people.

Officials said no comptroller general in the accounting office’s 67-year history had volunteered such advice to a President-elect or, for that matter, so heavily implied criticism of an outgoing President’s management.

The comptroller general is a nonpartisan official appointed by the President. Mr. Bowsher was appointed by President Reagan in October 1981 for a 15-year term.

Mr. Bowsher issued 23 reports setting out an agenda of urgent problems facing the new President. A common theme in many of the reports was a call for more vigorous Federal action to address problems that were created or exacerbated by Reagan Administration policies and largely ignored in the Presidential election campaign. ‘Staggering’ Costs

The habitually cautious and conservative General Accounting Office spoke repeatedly of ‘’staggering” costs: $100 billion to $130 billion to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapon production plants; $20 billion to repair public housing; more than $50 billion to rescue savings and loan associations; $5 billion to build Federal prisons; as much as $14 billion to clean up toxic wastes dumped by Defense Department installations…

The reports also call for more Federal regulation of industries and activities deregulated in the Reagan years. One report said that almost one-third of the nation’s savings and loan institutions were ”insolvent or nearly so,” as a result of ”poorly implemented deregulation, mismanagement and depressed regional economies.”…

…The accounting office called on the Labor Department to speed the issuance of job safety standards, warning that the number and types of workplace hazards grow rapidly each year …

…”After years of ‘Fed-bashing,’ the new President needs to change course,” it said, adding that the morale of Federal workers could be greatly improved if the President used public forums to express support for public servants…

Here is a summary of main points in the reports: Defense Department In calling for a re-examination of America’s military alliances, the accounting office said, ”The rising costs of our worldwide commitments, in the absence of increased burden sharing by our allies, may simply be unaffordable.”

Over the last 40 years, the United States has made military commitments to 60 other countries through treaties or political agreements. On any day, about one-third of the men and women in the armed forces are outside the United States. That costs $30 billion a year and accounts for 10 percent of the military budget.

”Burden sharing” refers to the willingness of America’s allies to help shoulder the financial and military burden for the common defense. The United States contributues more military power, by far, than any ally.

The G.A.O. criticized the way the Pentagon had managed an ”unprecedented peacetime buildup of defense,” and as an example it cited the growth in the Pentagon’s inventory of ”unneeded” spare parts, to $29 billion in 1988 from $10 billion in 1980.

The military buildup has been unbalanced, it said. Large sums have been spent on weapons, but ”airlift and sea capability are significantly below stated requirements,” and there are ‘’serious shortages” of advanced munitions like air-to-air missiles. In addition, the report said, fuel and combat medical supplies may run out ”before the first major battle is concluded.” Housing

The supply of rental housing for low-income people is shrinking. Housing built with Government subsidies in the 1960’s may soon be sold or converted to ”upscale condominiums,” the report said. Over the next 15 years, more than half the 1.9 million privately owned and Federally subsidized housing units could be withdrawn from the rental market for low-income people, it said.

The G.A.O. said the Federal Government would need to provide additional incentives to retain and encourage private investment in rental housing for the poor. To avoid the loss of such housing in some markets, it said, ”the Government may have to offer owners very deep Federal subsidies.”

Perhaps 3 million Americans are homeless, it said, and ”most studies agree that the number is growing rapidly.” Financial Services

”The schizophrenic position of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board,” as an advocate for and regulator of thrift institutions, ”must be eliminated,” the accounting office said.

As Federal agencies relax limits on the powers of banks in an unplanned way, the result is ”a risky hodgepodge of banking and other functions that could imperil the safety and soundness of the banking system,” it said, and regulatory powers of the Federal Reserve should be expanded so it can properly supervise institutions offering diverse financial services.

The United States should take the lead in establishing and enforcing international standards for the regulation of financial markets, the G.A.O. said. Benefit Programs

Over the next five years, the Federal Government should not do anything to reduce the surplus building up in the Social Security trust fund, the accounting office said…

…The Reagan Administration has not properly managed public lands, the accounting office said, and has had little measurable success in reducing pollution of the environment…

…The G.A.O. said there was a widespread failure to obey Federal regulations on hazardous waste. Half the 5,000 installations that treat, store or dispose of such waste will have to change their practices to comply with Federal law, it said, and such changes may cost more than $22 billion…

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Andy,

you’re always referring to people whining.

I pointed out that when it comes to hypocrisy, and hysterical whining, there are none better at it than you and your party.

My God man — you started whining at 6:30 this morning.

I’ll venture that you even do it in your sleep.

You are the ultimate loser.

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Whiner: if you really want to secede, have at it, but there are a few little problems you’re not accounting for (if I can end a sentence with a preposition):

Georgia receives more tax money from the Federal Government than we send in. Georgia’s largest and most prosperous city is having trouble getting a good bond rating so that it can borrow the money to make needed repairs.

You want to secede, how are you really going to handle being a third-world country surrounded by the prosperous United States of America? Oh, and you’re forgetting that Obama is from the same place as Lincoln and would blockade and invade your new third-world country in a heartbeat in order to bring it back into the fold as a conquered nation. Did your history books teach you nothing about Northern aggression?

Secede? Hell!

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