2:39 pm October 26, 2010, by Jay
Ten or 15 years from now, when Latino-Americans are voting in greater numbers and voting consistently Democratic, Republicans will be wringing their hands at their inability to attract support from a community that in many ways might have been sympathetic to conservative causes.
The explanation will be the imagery in ads such as this one.
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Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 26th, 2010
2:46 pm
Well, they won’t be voting Dem if we can get them out of the country pretty quick.
Mick
October 26th, 2010
2:47 pm
Jay – that is our only hope to end this era of intellectually challenged republicans. These new crop of candidates seem to wear it as a badge of honor by refusing to talk to the media. Its fox or nothing. For all those who still can’t read between the lines check out what major garret has to say about fox and co.
jt
October 26th, 2010
2:51 pm
10 or 15 years years from now, It all depends on if the said Latino-Americans are federal slaves or individual liberty-loving owners.
If the latter, these folks will not be interested in Republicans OR Democrats.
I think that the Latinos are a positive influence in that they have had a full 200 years longer to deal with a corrupt,foreign, and hostile centralized federal government.
As we speak, they are showing some seat-belted. porno-scanned, drug-tested, police-frisked, scared Americans the way to ignore authority.
Vive Libertad.
Del
October 26th, 2010
2:51 pm
Don’t know about ten or 15 years from now except that if dem’s are still controlled by the far-left they’ll still be vote pandering and putting party politics above the nations security.
jm
October 26th, 2010
2:53 pm
Well, I couldn’t get the audio at work from the video. But I don’t see why the Republican party should be pandering to non-US citizens….
All that said, they should be trying to get Latino support. But if that support is contingent on having some kind of “open-borders” policy, I don’t think that’s going to be a vote winner from anyone else…
Lesseee, does Democrat’s attempts to curry Latino support by offering amnesty amount to aiding and abetting illegal activities? All in the eye of the beholder.
Perhaps we should be offering DUI people amnesty. Or try to restore voting rights for felons. Oh wait, the Democratic party is already doing that. Easiest way to get more votes….
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
2:55 pm
Jay – “Republicans will be wringing their hands at their inability to attract support from a community that in many ways might have been sympathetic to conservative causes.”
If that is the case, then it will be a shame. A shame because American citizens want their rules to be followed and action to be taken against those who perpetuate violence on our borders.
jm
October 26th, 2010
2:56 pm
Democratic party is the party in favor of those with misdemeanors and felonies, and wanting government handouts. Republican party is the party in favor of those committing financial fraud, peddling government influence, and running irresponsible businesses.
I want neither. I just want less government. Period.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
2:58 pm
“I just want less government. Period”
So we can have MORE misdemeanors, felonies, financiel fraud, and irresponsible businesses?
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:04 pm
“You know what’s the matter with this country? Too many foreigners.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZFyMMdTXY&feature=related
HEY CISCO, WAIT FOR ME !
Peadawg
October 26th, 2010
3:04 pm
I agree 100% w/ Angle on this issue(except the English as the only language thing). Someone that is here ILLEGALLY should not get any benefits of an American citizen.
El Pendejo
October 26th, 2010
3:06 pm
Those illegals sure do look lazy.
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
3:06 pm
Peadawg,
Too bad she decided to use only Latinos to represent those here illegally in her ad.
Peadawg
October 26th, 2010
3:09 pm
“Too bad she decided to use only Latinos to represent those here illegally in her ad.”
Ya I get your point. It’s not just people from Mexico, I know.
SpaceyG
October 26th, 2010
3:10 pm
While not so great starring in political ads, Latino gang bangers DO make great *Weeds* characters. Is there a poll out showing how many political consultants watch *Weeds*?
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:12 pm
Lucy, you got some splainin to do !
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:13 pm
Maybe Latinos will form their own party and just take over everything.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:16 pm
American Bandstand 2025
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCYknTY6u4A
Del
October 26th, 2010
3:16 pm
Any immigrant of any nationality who is ether a legal resident or naturalized citizen should feel the same contempt as most native born Americans for those who would violate are laws and come here illegally. Those who don’t feel that same way have no business living in this country.
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:17 pm
Doggone 2:58 – $677 Billion / year for SS, $453 Billion / year for Medicare, and $663 Billion / year for the military have nothing to do with stopping financial fraud or local policing.
There, I just saved $1.9 Trillion. We can spend an extra $100 B on police and stopping financial fraud and still save $1.8 Trillion. Make room for your retired family members in your spare bedrooms….
Finn McCool
October 26th, 2010
3:18 pm
They all saw how Republicans treated Sotomayor. That stuff doesn’t just fall out of memory.
Finn McCool
October 26th, 2010
3:20 pm
Jay, I hope you take the time to log into notmike’s company’s site and call him a hypocrit using a made up name to hide your true identity.
That’s such a ‘ballsy” thing to do, ya know?
Guy Incognito
October 26th, 2010
3:22 pm
Unless, as I believe, the Latinos ascend through the ranks and realize that the Dem’s only like you if you are a victimor a complete loser. They have yet to fully perceive the Left’s hatred (I thought hate wasn’t a family value) for their religion, the traditional family unit, and their desire to make life better for themselves and their loved ones.
Once they do, the Libtards will be anathema
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:23 pm
Finn – yeah. Next time a white male gets dressed down in front of a Senate confirmation committee, I’m going to take huge offense. Right…..
Because people get slapped around in front of Congress because of issues like race, like that’s not a hot potato.
Looking for Mac
October 26th, 2010
3:23 pm
Amusingly I read all of these responses and look at the immigration proposals and bigoted commercials and remember that it was a few short years ago that it was reversed. Bush/McCain’s Guest Worker program and people went ape-bachmann over it. Face it America, You can’t build a wall that people will find a way around, you’re not going to deport 12+ million people out of the country. It’s time to develop a common sense (remember when the country used to have it) approach to the issue. A starting point could be this: To the ones that are here illegally now, A path to citizenship that includes fines, backtaxes (if they already haven’t paid taxes), learn our culture and english and as they say in NASCAR the tail-end of the longest line. If you have been found guilty of a severe felony previously you are ineligible for citizenship and must be deported. For the ones that hired illegal employees, Fine and/or jail time. For the ones crossing the borders illegally, immediate deportation. And exploring a guest worker program which can lead to a path to citizenship if certain goals are met. I welcome rational ideas…The key being rational.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:23 pm
If you think rush hour at Sphagetti Juction is bad now just wait !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkBKrCLcOg&feature=related
Jay
October 26th, 2010
3:24 pm
For those who surmised the Rand Paul incident might have been orchestrated, it would appear not, since the Paul campaign acknowledges the “stomper” was a Rand volunteer:
“The Paul for Senate campaign is extremely disappointed in, and condemns the actions of a supporter last night outside the KET debate. Whatever the perceived provocation, any level of aggression or violence is deplorable, and will not be tolerated by our campaign. The Paul campaign has disassociated itself from the volunteer who took part in this incident, and once again urges all activists — on both sides — to remember that their political passions should never manifest themselves in physical altercations of any kind.”
Amen.
Finn McCool
October 26th, 2010
3:26 pm
jm, I can tell you have no empahty for what it’s like being a minority and seeing a member of your race/creed/religion etc make good and get promoted into a major position in your chosen country. That was a major moment of pride.
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:27 pm
By the way, more on topic. As I understand it, people think latinos could fit in the Republican party well because they often fit as social conservatives. Or at least, i think that’s how the theory goes.
The last thing the Republican party needs is more social conservatives. They need fiscal conservatives. Although i personally think Latinos are often fiscal conservatives too. In particular anyone that hails from Cuba, or other messed up South and Central American countries.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
3:27 pm
“$677 Billion / year for SS, $453 Billion / year for Medicare, and $663 Billion / year for the military ”
You do realize, don’t you, that SS has it’s own funding stream and does not contribute to the general deficit? And that without Medicare we will STILL be paying for those sick people…we’ll just be paying more to the insurance companies and hospitals. As for the military…I’m all for it. I think we need to go back to the system of citizen soldiers. What do we even NEED a staning army FOR?
Finn McCool
October 26th, 2010
3:27 pm
They all saw how Republicans treated Sotomayor.
And they want to call Obama a light-weight? That’s pure strategy – his team knew exactly how Repulicans would respond. Mwuahahahahahahaha
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:29 pm
Del:
I’ll be “From the Halls of Montezuma” is not in their song !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwbgBdleZs
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:29 pm
The Paul campaign has disassociated itself from the volunteer who took part in this incident, and once again urges all activists — on both sides — to remember that their political passions should never manifest themselves in physical altercations of any kind.”
Kudos!!!!
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
3:29 pm
I don’t see it happening. Reid has been on the wrong side of this issue. NAFTA was supposed to relieve the exodus. We have to simply start enforcing the immigration laws or forfeit our heritage.
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:30 pm
Finn – on the contrary. I’m sure it was a moment of pride. It was a moment of pride for me because I think it demonstrates the diversity and meritocracy we have in this country. So there.
But latinos should not interpret a difficult confirmation hearing and assume it is discriminatory, as you suggested.
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:32 pm
Doggone –
A – let’s not rehash the funding debate for SS and Medicare
B – more to the point, glad to see you’re only willing to cut the things you don’t like (the military), instead of everything.
stands for decibels
October 26th, 2010
3:33 pm
Republicans will be wringing their hands at their inability to attract support
perhaps, but at the moment, this kind of crude nativist appeal seems to be working…
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/forecasts/senate/nevada
although it’s close enough one might optimistically call it a toss-up.
Del
October 26th, 2010
3:33 pm
“What do we NEED a staning army FOR.”
We need a STANDING Army so you’re able to publicly ask that question.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:35 pm
Norcross 2025 ……….. A plethora of Mexicans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6E682C7Jj4
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:35 pm
Del – amen. Although we don’t need one that costs $600+ billion to do that…. I’m of the opinion $200 Billion (1.5% of GDP) ought to cover it….
stands for decibels
October 26th, 2010
3:35 pm
Amen
[...]
Kudos!!!!
feh. Aqua Buddha Boy is still signing off on that “both sides” weasel wording.
Personal responsibility, my ass.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
3:35 pm
Bosch – “Too bad she decided to use only Latinos to represent those here illegally in her ad.”
Why is that too bad? They are the ones that come over in droves.
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
3:36 pm
Del
October 26th, 2010
3:33 pm
Come on, don’t be so nitpicking.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
3:38 pm
Jay – “For those who surmised the Rand Paul incident might have been orchestrated”
How does this prove otherwise? All this tells me is that they need to do a little deeper investigating into their volutneers.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39MwGC0jnEg
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:38 pm
We have to simply start enforcing the immigration laws or forfeit our heritage.
Deportations are up and border apprehensions are declining. Many illegals are leaving on their own because of the economic downturn. NAFTA could have been a step towards easing the problem, but only if you see it as a Mexican problem.
Our illegal immigration problem is an economic one. People don’t just come here just so they can say they live in America. As our economy continues to stagnate, people will be less inclined to try to come here and work illegally when they can work in their home country. Little do people realize how much the corporations who export jobs overseas are helping the illegal immigration issue. If those jobs came with livable wages in their home countries, there would be no need to come here.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:40 pm
dB
I think that’s the closest to acknowledging his part in the problem we’ll see.
stands for decibels
October 26th, 2010
3:41 pm
Meanwhile a local GA Congressional aspirant asks nicely to take the pragmatic approach…
http://dougheckman.com/immigration-reform-requires-pragmatism-not-more-extremism/
“It is false to call a path to citizenship for undocumented workers that includes a large fine: ‘amnesty’. It is also false to expect that we will ever locate and round up millions of illegal workers and ship them back to their home country. Extreme politics are preventing any meaningful action on this important issue. Why take a hardened position that you have no plan to enact? Our country cannot afford any more political grandstanding. If you say you will not consider any path to citizenship for illegal workers under any circumstances then you better have a plan for how you intend to locate and ship back millions of people and a cost estimate for doing so.”
Jay
October 26th, 2010
3:41 pm
Well, Nice Guy, if the Paul campaign had the SLIGHTEST inkling that the volunteer in question was a plant, I suspect they’d be pretty aggressive in exposing that, don’t you think?
Unless, of course, the top people in Rand’s campaign are ALSO in on it!!!
Scout
October 26th, 2010
3:42 pm
Nice Guy:
Time for Mr. Polygraph !
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:42 pm
Serious question: should there be any bar determining whether you get to vote or not? Like paying taxes, perhaps?
I know. Everyone pays sales taxes. Everyone who works pays payroll taxes (which they think they’re going to get a benefit for). And everyone other than the homeless pays (some) real estate taxes unless you’re completely under the homestead exemption.
And yet, you can get enough credits and other offsets to not pay any taxes on a net basis. So philosophically (disregarding the inane accounting maneuvers that it would take for someone to figure this out individually), should someone be able to vote if they don’t contribute any funding (taxes) toward the management, operation, and protection of our country?
Del
October 26th, 2010
3:42 pm
jm@3:35, If that amount or even a lessor amount provides adequate security, I’m for it. Surely waste does exist in the DOD and therefore their budget requires close review. Having said that the federal governments top priority is this nations security. Some strangely don’t see it that way.
stands for decibels
October 26th, 2010
3:43 pm
Said local aspirant cited @ 3.41 faces something of an uphill political battle, however.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/georgia/7
Finn McCool
October 26th, 2010
3:43 pm
We need a STANDING Army so you’re able to publicly ask that question.
Who is going to attack a nation where everyone owns 3+ guns? The Canadians? The Russians? The Dutch? The Chinese? Maybe the People’s Liberation Front of Judea?
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:44 pm
Serious question: should there be any bar determining whether you get to vote or not? Like paying taxes, perhaps?
Was tried in the 50’s and 60’s, and I don’t want to see my country go back down that road!!
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
3:44 pm
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:38 pm
Yeah, the bad economy has done what INS and Congress weren’t willing. You’d think the GOP would give Obama a little credit for the slight improvement, but there’s still a long way to go.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:45 pm
The only bar determining whether or not you get to vote should be citizenship. Nothing more and nothing less.
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:46 pm
Del 3:42 – yeah. By the way, DOD would have a coronary if told their budget was $200 B. But we could provide for the defense of our country for that amount.
Police the world? No.
Prepare for war with China? No. But I think we could always ramp up ala WW2 if we had to.
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
3:47 pm
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:42 pm
No, but you should have to prove competency and at least a basic understanding of how our form of government is supposed to work.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:47 pm
TnG
I can only speak from what I see, and the general public is pretty much clueless when it comes to immigration. I know people throw around numbers and statistics, but I could do the same thing if I had an agenda that I wanted to push. If people don’t want Mexicans, or any other nationalities, coming here illegally, don’t say you’re going to invest in their country and fu*k them over at the same time. Point blank!!
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:49 pm
SoCo 3:44 – yeah, I hear you. It just seems a bit out of whack that there’s a majority of people not paying income taxes, yet determining what happens to the minority of us who do pay income taxes. Seems to mess things up on a principle basis.
But a “poll tax” circa Jim Crow is definitely not the answer.
jm
October 26th, 2010
3:52 pm
FYI, some interesting info on the “poll tax” at the link below. Apparently in most countries, it’s just considered similar to a “per head” tax. Obviously “regressive” in nature. But one form of taxation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
3:54 pm
Why would China want to go to war with us or anyone else? They’ve experienced it first hand and understand the horrors better than most here. How much is DoD spending for health care and other benefits for dependents the all-volunteer army produced? Married with children used to be a small percentage. Now it’s the majority. Of course the advanced weapon systems are the big ticket items, and provide many high-tech jobs.
Big D
October 26th, 2010
3:55 pm
Jay…
you are so desperate to try and pin the tail on the donkey…
The next stupid thing you are going to say on this is it was Rand Paul himself in a disguise that accosted the protester….give it up you are just looking real sad…have some dignity.
Normal
October 26th, 2010
3:56 pm
Verrrrrry interesting…but off topic.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155545/congressman-considers-move-impeach-chief-justice-john-roberts
StJ
October 26th, 2010
3:57 pm
“GOP pushing Latinos into Democratic arms”…yeah, the same way the GOP pushed blacks into voting for Obama.
News flash: they were already there, no pushing needed.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:57 pm
jm
The remedy for that is to reform the tax laws where everyone pays their fair share. No exemptions and no exceptions. People gripe that the top income brackets pay the lions share, but I think they should. If you live in a country that allows you to make $5B in one year, you should have no problem paying “dues” that allows you to live in that country and for the government to protect you and your interests. For those on the low end, I think they should pay something. I understand that a flat tax rate hurts those on the lower end, but I think they could pay something even if it’s 2-3%. That way, everybody is paying and we can put that petty issue aside and move on to other things.
Del
October 26th, 2010
3:57 pm
Finn@3:43, you haven’t just awakened from a ten year coma have you?
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
3:58 pm
Jay – “Well, Nice Guy, if the Paul campaign had the SLIGHTEST inkling that the volunteer in question was a plant, I suspect they’d be pretty aggressive in exposing that, don’t you think?”
No doubt about it. I was really just saying, in general, perhaps more vetting is needed.
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
3:58 pm
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:47 pm
They’re here because Congress and several administrations looked the other way. Most of them are on expired visas and would have been fairly easy to track down. Once you get to know them it really doesn’t matter if they’re legal or not. They’re just workers trying to provide for their families.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
3:59 pm
I’m outtie.
Oh, and Jay, that little exchange between you and your buddy earlier, well, that’s one for the ages. His meltdown was epic.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
4:01 pm
Normal
That is interesting. However, I don’t see it as likely.
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
4:04 pm
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
3:57 pm
Hear! Hear!
They’d just have to give up the EITC and pay as little as a dollar a week to satisfy me. And we seniors certainly aren’t paying our fair share. At some level of income and wealth 100% of Social Security benefits are going to have to be taxed at a 100% rate. And the earnings cap has to be eliminated. And the COLA adjusted (but the economy is taking care of that, too).
jm
October 26th, 2010
4:04 pm
SoCo 3:57 – I agree.
jm
October 26th, 2010
4:05 pm
TnGelding / SoCo – and yet the EITC makes so much economic sense. Given that “giving” someone a little extra incentive to work is better for people and the federal budget than welfare.
A mess it is indeed.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
4:08 pm
Agree with every word of the political ad. Someone, SOMEONE, has to stop this chaos and enforce our laws, political votes be damned!!! I am surprised that Bookman would run a thread like this. No, not so surprised after all.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
4:11 pm
Once you get to know them it really doesn’t matter if they’re legal or not. They’re just workers trying to provide for their families.
That is what makes my job hard to do. I can’t fault a man or woman who wishes nothing more than to give their children a better life than what they’ve had. With that said, I’m sworn to uphold the laws of this country. I’m just amazed at the vicious attacks from this supposed “Christian country”. Actions speak louder than words, and by actions this is nowhere near a Christian country.
One question I have is why we can sell top secret military technology to Israel and Saudi Arabia, but we can’t even give basic military support to Mexico in their fight against the cartels? I understand the need to fight terrorism where it raises it’s head, but we have a serious issue in our backyard that is headed towards chaos.
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
4:13 pm
jm
October 26th, 2010
4:05 pm
I love the concept, but we simply can’t afford it any more. And how much of it goes for beer and cigarettes? I know, I know, those products are a big part of our economy. And they keep the medical care industry thriving.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
4:13 pm
TnG & jm
I said it last week, and I’ll say it again… As a father and homeowner, I’m willing to part with the mortgage interest and child deductions on my taxes if it helps balance the budget or make tax laws more equitable.
Left wing management
October 26th, 2010
4:14 pm
To the radical ideologue, there is strictly speaking no tomorrow. There’s only the singular goal of grabbing power today, for you can only really shape tomorrow by getting your hands on the levers on the hands of power, so the devil take timid calculations about ‘tomorrow’ – or so goes the radical ideologue’s thinking. And make no mistake, the so-called Tea Party is but a front for these radical elements who desperately need to consolidate their hold on power, to keep their stranglehold on power at precisely the moment that global capitalism has entered its most severe crisis. Believe me, they don’t give a damn about something so trivial as what a measly little electoral bloc thinks of them. By the time that has time to matter – so the thinking goes – the damage will be done. They can deal with getting these parties on board when they come to that bridge.
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
4:17 pm
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
4:13 pm
Obama and Biden take a bigger mortgage deduction than a lot of us make. Think about what the truly wealthy must deduct.
Jimmy62
October 26th, 2010
4:18 pm
Interestingly a lot of Latino immigrants who came here legally are also very offended by the illegal immigrant flow. But Bookman has probably never associated with a legal Latino immigrant, he only cares about protecting lawbreakers and failures, not successes.
JohnnyReb
October 26th, 2010
4:19 pm
The only Democratic campaigners talking about immigration are Obama, Reid, and Jay. All the others run from the immigration issue like its the plague!
Obama just addressed a Latino group where he stated something along the line that he is not king, it takes more than him to change the laws. And, that Latinos should back him against their enemy. This from a President. Plus, it begs the question, if they are illegal, how can they vote?
Reid is trying to use the immigration issue to his favor, obviously. Problem is, many Legal immigrants don’t want the illegals any more than us natives.
What you have is a President whose justice department is suing Arizona over a state law that mirrors the federal law which the feds won’t enforce. The largest outside contributors to the Arizona defense fund are Californians. Imagine that.
The Illegal immigration issue is a loser for Dems. I’m surprised Jay is championing it.
Left wing management
October 26th, 2010
4:21 pm
Jimmy62: “But Bookman has probably never associated with a legal Latino immigrant, he only cares about protecting lawbreakers and failures, not successes.”
Do you realize that with words like these you throw your little lot in with lawbreakers of the most voracious and rapacious type? Do you realize? Something tells me you wouldn’t dream of it.
TnGelding
October 26th, 2010
4:22 pm
Thanks for the dialog. Have a great night, everyone!
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
4:23 pm
TnG
You don’t have to think too hard when Warren Buffet claims his secretary has a larger tax burden than he does. Even better, how else would Deal end up with an effective tax rate of 3% (I think that was the percentage reported).
Just do away with all the gimmicks, and make people pay their dues for being able to live, play and work in the USA.
pat
October 26th, 2010
4:26 pm
Only if you let non-citizens vote…The only hispanic demographic that votes republican are the Cubans, the rest vote democrat, ’cause their looking for a hand out and the democrats are looking to give them one.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
Google News is running a thread which calls this ad racist and compares it to Willy Horton. Tell me one single thing in this ad that is either racist or compares with a jailed criminal, sent to prison for armed robbery and released on weekend furlough to rob and rape again. When does political correctness become the law of the land? Are we so stupid and disconnected that we can’t see the forest for the trees? Bookman, you are way out on the fringe with this one, my friend, with little to no hope of redemption. And you call this journalism. I have another word for it but…….
JohnnyReb
October 26th, 2010
4:28 pm
Off Subject – here’s a red meat story for you. Progressives and Obama supporters, please watch this and then defend it.
http://www.youtube.com/user/fiercefreeleancer
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
4:32 pm
The only hispanic demographic that votes republican are the Cubans,
You might want to tell them that….
Obama won the five boroughs of New York City by 59%: a 4 to 1 margin. He won Cook County (Chicago) by 53%, with more than three-fourths of the vote. In contrast, Obama took 58% of Miami-Dade county – less than the amount by which he won New York City. The 2008 Democratic performance in Miami is comparable to their performance in cities such as Dallas (57% of the vote) and Sacramento (58% of the vote).
Much of this is due to the Cuban vote, the city’s largest demographic group. Refugees from Castro’s Cuba, staunchly anti-Communist, and faithful Republicans ever since the Bay of Pigs fiasco; Cubans vote as strongly Republican as Jews vote Democratic. In 2000, George W. Bush won about four out of five Cubans, helped by Cuban anger over Al Gore’s role in the Elian Gonzalez affair. In 2008 Obama won around 35% of their vote, based on exit polls. This was the best performance of a Democrat with Cubans in recent memory.
Also…
It suggests that Mr. Obama has become a catalyst for openness, accelerating a political shift here that first became visible after the furor in 2000 over whether to send a young Cuban rafter, Elián González, back to his father on the island. Indeed, despite this community’s reputation for loyalty to Republicans, the poll found widespread approval for Mr. Obama: 64 percent supported his new policies on travel and money sent to relatives. An even larger majority, 67 percent, said they had a favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of Mr. Obama, the highest rating among Cuban-Americans for a president in a Bendixen poll since Ronald Reagan in the mid-’80s.
What the
October 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
Wat a minute! What about the muslims and the gays and the pro-choice folks and the progressives and the liberals and the anti-american non-tea-partyers and the blacks and the non-evangelical christians and the anti-business people… Why should the latinos get all the attention and why just a subset of the latinos. Is this an example of what they call a targeted ad.
JDW
October 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
JohnnyReb
October 26th, 2010
4:28 pm
Off Subject – here’s a red meat story for you. Progressives and Obama supporters, please watch this and then defend it.
http://www.youtube.com/user/fiercefreeleancer
JohnnyReb, you do realize that IndyMac was seized on July 12, 2008 when Duhbya was still “The Decider” and sold in March 2009 under Bush Admin rules….don’t you?
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
Oh, and Jay, that little exchange between you and your buddy earlier, well, that’s one for the ages. His meltdown was epic.
Meh. Typical mike.
Moderate Line
October 26th, 2010
4:38 pm
Jay’s comment also make more cynicall about the reason Dems are so pro-illegal. It makes it obvious this about hoping to buy loyality.
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
4:42 pm
Should their be some kind of bar? There already are — you have to be 18, register to vote, and be a citizen. What other kind of bars should their be? A
JDW
October 26th, 2010
4:43 pm
Oh and JohnnyReb, the deal to sell IndyMac was inked to IMB HoldCo inked on December 31, 2008, again while Dubya was still “Deciding”. So in answer to your question, I see no defense, how about you?
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
JReb
Interesting video. Kinda sheds light on what those with $$$ are doing to the rest of us. It’s not Dem vs. Rep, it’s all about keeping the status quo so they can profit no matter what. He who controls the game makes the rules. Plain and simple…
carlosgvv
October 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
Jay, I have been asking this question on other blogs but no one will give me an answer. Are there any other countries that have as many illegal aliens inside their borders as us? If so, who are they? If not then either they know something we don’t or we know something they don’t. Which do you think is the most likely?
Hillbilly Deluxe
October 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
I understand the need to fight terrorism where it raises it’s head, but we have a serious issue in our backyard that is headed towards chaos.
The U.S. government will wait until it blows up before they make any move to do anything and then they’ll be forced to do unpleasant things. They can never seem to be pro-active about these things.
JohnnyReb
October 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
JDW and Southern Comfort
JDW, you make a good point on who was the deciding POTUS. It stinks, even if it was Bush, which it looks like it was.
Southern Comfort, agreed on the good old boys club scenario. No way that arrangement can be defended. It’s more raping of the taxpayers.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
4:53 pm
Are there any other countries that have as many illegal aliens inside their borders as us?
Whatsamatta?
Your google broke?
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
5:00 pm
The lengths these criminal coddling neo-cons will go to defend that piece of Kentucky trash is amazing.
Well played gentlemen…
JDW
October 26th, 2010
5:01 pm
Attaboy JohnnyReb! I agree with you and Southern Comfort it stinks no matter what.
JohnnyReb
October 26th, 2010
5:05 pm
One or two more off subject comments about the housing mess. Obviously, I did not look at the calendar when I challenged Progressives to defend the info in the Indybank video. The word Soros spooled me right up, it had to be a Democratic plot. That’s my mistake which JDW pointed out to my embarrassment. Regardless, its one more example of Big Government making purchases and arrangements that are not in the best interest of tax payers.
Lastly, I brought this up before but no one commented. The Heritage Foundation, whether you like them or not they are reliable with at least the root of a story, is reporting that Obama will ask for $154 billion more for Fannie and Freddie after the elections. That leads me to believe we have not yet bottomed out with the housing mess.
Now back to Illegal Immigration and how the Dems are digging their own grave over the issue, or something like that.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:07 pm
“A – let’s not rehash the funding debate for SS and Medicare”
YOU brought it into the discussion…not me.
“B – more to the point, glad to see you’re only willing to cut the things you don’t like (the military), instead of everything”
I’m willing to cut Medicare, heck I’m even willing to do away with it altogether…I just don’t delude myself that it will mean I have less to pay for. One way or the other, I’ll still be paying.
jt
October 26th, 2010
5:07 pm
Jay
October 26th, 2010
3:24 pm
“For those who surmised the Rand Paul incident might have been orchestrated, it would appear not, since the Paul campaign acknowledges the “stomper” was a Rand volunteer:”
If and until charges are filed,
then it was a “Gulf of Paduca ‘ type operation. A false flag. A democrat Standard op.
There is no way in hades that a MoveOn “contract employee” could resist a lawsuit. Except maybe for the fact that she is a felon and she doesn’t want to file charges against her cohort.
JDW
October 26th, 2010
5:10 pm
JohnnyReb wrote
The Heritage Foundation, whether you like them or not they are reliable with at least the root of a story, is reporting that Obama will ask for $154 billion more for Fannie and Freddie after the elections. That leads me to believe we have not yet bottomed out with the housing mess.
I agree we are not at the bottom and if we can get out for another $154 Billion you can count me relieved…not happy but relieved.
jm
October 26th, 2010
5:11 pm
Tea Party. Good for the Republican Party.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44140.html
Jay
October 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
Carlos, I can’t think of a country with a comparable problem. Spain has it to some degree, with folks from North Africa crossing the Mediterranean, but nothing like this scale.
But then again, we’re probably the only country with a 2,000-mile border, most of which is wilderness, separating one of the richest countries in the world from a very poor country. So I’m not sure you can compare us to the rest of the world in that regard.
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
Unfrigginbelievable.
The Rand campaign acknowledges that the stomping POS was one of their own.
And STILL the thug-loving cons here spin like…
http://www.fameartist.com/Graphics/Pavlova%20as%20dying%20swan%202%20photo.jpg
jm
October 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
Doggone
A- I brought up the spending. But obviously the taxes for it go hand in hand.
B- I would do away with most of medicare as well, but not Medicaid. Medicaid would have to cover those without any financial means that currently fall under Medicare. But it would be vastly smaller group of people.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
Scenario….
Border violence continues to escalate and more Americans are killed on the border. Mexican drug gangs continue to dominate the border for up to 40miles from the line throughout Arizona and New Mexico and beginning in Texas. Bozo does nothing to protect American citizens. Drug gangs become more embolden and cross the border with more frequency, robbing, killing and kidnapping more Americans. Bozo does nothing. American citizens become more fed up with this clown than they already are (if that’s possible) and take the law into their own hands shooting and killing invading Mexicans. The conflict escalates. Bozo does nothing. These same Americans are arrested by Federal Law enforcement for murder of those poor unfortunate latinos who are just trying to make a better life for them and their families. Political correctness becomes the mantra of the day and those evil Americans who are trying to protect their security are painted by the press and by Bozo as uncaring, callous and vicious. Bozo does nothing.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:16 pm
“But it would be vastly smaller group of people.”
But we would still be paying for it.
jt
October 26th, 2010
5:16 pm
Okay, for what it is worth, I will admit that I was wrong. Something Jay seldom if ever does. (it wasn’t a head STOMP though.)
From the AP————————————————-
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A volunteer with Rand Paul’s Republican U.S. Senate campaign apologized Tuesday for stepping on the head of a liberal activist who tried to confront the tea party candidate with a fake award.
Paul supporter Tim Profitt said video of the scuffle made it appear worse than it was and he chided police for not stepping in. Lauren Valle, the 23-year-old activist with the group MoveOn.org, said her face was swollen and her neck and shoulder were sore after she was wrestled to the ground by Paul supporters Monday night when she tried to give the candidate an “employee of the month” award.
Valle was roughed up before the debate between Paul and Democrat Jack Conway. The race is one of the most closely watched and hotly contested in the midterm elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpXAknykeg
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:20 pm
“he chided police for not stepping in”
“Somebody stop me, before I (kill) again” So now it’s the fault of the police that he reacted the way he did? So much for “personal responsibility”
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
5:20 pm
Until you remove money from elections, nothing will change, just get worse.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:21 pm
“Until you remove money from elections”
and how would you go about doing that?
RW-(the original)
October 26th, 2010
5:21 pm
Remind me again who its been that’s been demonizing “foreigners and their influence” 24/7 for the last month or so?
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
5:23 pm
(it wasn’t a head STOMP though.)
I’ve watched it twice.
And IMHO parsing semantics in such a silly, contrived manner is absurd.
Is this a more preferred phrase? ” Viciously smashing someones head into a concrete sidewalk with their foot?
Great.
I still can’t get over how ideology can make otherwise ostensibly decent people turn into such thugs and thug apologists.
But keep it up lunatic fringe. It is what you do best – vilify the weak and glorify the wicked.
Paulo977
October 26th, 2010
5:24 pm
Tn Gelding
“Forfeit our heritage” ….now that is funny as we were founded by ILLEGALS!!!
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
5:26 pm
JDW & JReb
I think residential housing is only half the problem. We have yet to see the commercial real estate issue bubble up.
kayaker
I don’t see that scenario as possible. As soon as Mexican cartels try to do what they do in Mexico on US soil, that will be the beginning of their end. I don’t think ANY president, congressperson, or citizen will allow them to run free and just arbitrarily kill. Your scenario makes for good partisan platform food, but I’m not partaking in that meal.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
5:29 pm
and how would you go about doing that?
Full public financing of campaigns. Give a candidate a set amount based on the office they’re running for. Give equal but limited air time on NPR and Public TV. That forces a candidate to budget time and money to get their message out. Outlaw any and all outside campaigning. Make the candidate earn a vote as opposed to paying for it. If they can’t budget money or time in a campaign, what makes you think that will change if they get elected?
jm
October 26th, 2010
5:29 pm
Jefferson – if I may.
“Until you remove money from elections, nothing will change, just get worse.”
Until you remove money from government, nothing will change, just get worse.
And I actually mean that. Corruption follows the government till.
jm
October 26th, 2010
5:30 pm
SoCo- take (most of) the money away from government, and there won’t be any need to try to influence and meddle with government and or elections. No money in government hands, no corruption. Simple.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:30 pm
“but I’m not partaking in that meal”
Now Soco…you have to get onboard with the message! And the message is: be afraid, be very afraid.
Because if YOU’RE not afraid, then those who are will feel lost and helpless and inferior. So EVERYONE has to be afraid.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:33 pm
“Full public financing of campaigns”
that is not “taking the money out of campaigns” though. I want to hear from Jefferson how to REMOVE money from campaigns.
Personally, I’d allow any and all contributions – but EVERY contributor would have to be published on the internet for all to see, even if all they give is 50 cents. Anonymous contributions would have to be sent right back out as contributions to a charity. AND I would limit the campaigning to exactly 30 days before the election.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
5:35 pm
Southern Comfort,
It has already started. People in Arizona cannot travel much closer than 40 miles to the border without risk of their security. People have been killed trying to defend their land. Gangs of Latinos continue to invade California and cities across the US. Nearly 35% of our male prisons are filled with illegal latinos. And Bozo does nothing. The press does nothing but defend the latino population and we are left with an unsecure border that no one seems to care about. This ASS88le of a president even sued the people of Arizona, HIS OWN COUNTRYMEN, for trying to protect themselves. And you don’t think it’s going to get worse. What fairy tale are you living in?
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:37 pm
“35% of our male prisons are filled with illegal latinos”
“And Bozo does nothing”
Seems to me there’s just a tad bit of contradiction here.
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
5:37 pm
Look there Dog, I never said I know how to fix the problem, just what is the problem. I’m talking about big money, corp money, you know payola.
@@
October 26th, 2010
5:40 pm
In Obama interview on Univision, he said:
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”
PUNISH our ENEMIES!!!???!!!
Do we really need THIS kind of heated rhetoric coming from our PRESIDENT?
I should THINK not.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:41 pm
“I’m talking about big money, corp money, you know payola”
Then why didn’t you say so? You said “remove money” – something you know FULL WELL can’t be done. Did you expect no one would notice?
Personally, I say let them contribute…just publish who they are and how much they gave. And let the voters decide for themselves. And in an “ideal” world, I would ban any and ALL commercials by the politician or they’re party that even mentions their opponent.
BADA BING
October 26th, 2010
5:42 pm
Off topic but who cares…..Charlie Sheen trashes his hotel room and taken to hospital (again). Chuck, we all like to party brother, but this is getting a little embarassing.
jm
October 26th, 2010
5:43 pm
Bada – I think actors play themselves…. if you follow me. 2.5 men might be a reality show…. not sure.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
5:45 pm
Doggone,
It is time to reward Bozo? He won’t even back an ID check for a suspected illegal in Arizona. There’s no contradiction here. That 35% should not even be inhabiting our prisons. They should not even be here…. period. Think about how much that Mexican criminals are costing, you, the taxpayer. It’s a non issue.
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
5:46 pm
Sorry Dog for the confusion, I would only allow money from someone who could vote and disclose it fully. UAW can’t vote, NRA can’t vote, IBM can’t vote. Corporations should be happy with their “depreciation” expense corp wellfare and lay low.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
5:47 pm
kayaker
I’m living in the REAL world. I’ve got many friends who are in TX, AZ and CA in those 40 mile areas that you’re talking about. They are risking their lives so that ranchers and farmers do not. So don’t feed me that sanctimonious bullsh*t that Obama isn’t doing anything. Border Patrol has openings that they can’t fill. We’ve sent people from Atlanta to augment personnel on the border. You need to get out of the fantasy world you’re living in. If you feel so strongly about border security, here’s a link for you. BP is ready when you are!!!
Do you want to go to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, or California? If you’re worried about pay, here’s some infor for you:
Vacancy Ann #:BPA 11-1
Who May Apply:Public
Pay Plan:GL-1896/05-09
Appointment Term:Permanent
Job Status:Full-Time
Opening Date:10/01/2010
Salary Range:From $38,619.00 to $63,259.00 USD per year
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:48 pm
“They should not even be here…. period”
right. They should be running around loose in Mexico so they can cross the border again. Great idea.
I’ll ask the question again, which no one will even attempt to answer: how much are you willing to pay in more taxes to secure our border?
Del
October 26th, 2010
5:49 pm
Kayaker,
The far out libs think that we really don’t have any problems. The drug cartels are well contained on the Mexican side of the border and we don’t have any crime spill over. Why we should just open up our borders and our arms to illegal immigrants. They aren’t a burden on our economy. Also, if we would just be kind to Islamic jihadists they wouldn’t harm us, so when they do it’s our fault. Now if you don’t accept all of that, you’re living in fear and you should really try to live in subjectivity rather than objectivity.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
5:51 pm
kamchak:
Where have you been the past few days? Hope you weren’t under the weather.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
5:51 pm
Southern Comfort:
Do you own any stock in a particular company and if so how many shares ?
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:52 pm
“I would only allow money from someone who could vote and disclose it fully”
But corporations pay taxes, just like “real” people/citizens do. I don’t have a problem with “big money” – it TAKES big money to campaign, especially for a national office and in a country this big. I still think the answer is FULL disclosure of ALL contributers. No anonymous contributions permitted, period.
And I don’t know who said this, but I heard it a few years ago – sort of in passing – as I was channel-surfing…but some politician said if he was allowed to accept all contributions with no limitations, his campaign slogan and his promise to the voters would be: “All contributions gratefully accepted…and resolutely ignored”
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
5:55 pm
Del,
Seriously, when have you ever heard anyone say they think or believe that nonsense? You know, you could just ask people what they think instead of spouting what YOU think they think — once again, erroneously so. Because I have never heard anyone say such nonsense, except you of course.
Del
October 26th, 2010
5:56 pm
Off to pick up my daughter stay unafraid. back later, I’m out
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
5:57 pm
“Seriously, when have you ever heard anyone say they think or believe that nonsense?”
Bosch – give him a break, his crystal ball is cracked and give faulty readings.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
5:58 pm
Southern Comfort,
Is that why there are two border patrolmen presently occupying US prisons for doing their job? Is that why we have thousands more illegals invading our country every month? Is that why the DOJ has chosen to sue it’s own citizens for protecting themselves? This is not sanctimonious BS. How about sending the National Guard? That’s sort of a Presidential thing, is it not? But he doesn’t have the balls to do anything about the problem. He has proven this time and time again. He kisses the as* of the Mexican president on the the White House lawn and expects the American people to accept that as Presidential behavior? You might be happy with this clown but I sure as hell am not. And the majority of Americans will tell you soon how happy they are with this sorry excuse of a human being.
Jay
October 26th, 2010
5:58 pm
And don’t forget, you’ve got until midnight tonight to post your entry on the election predictions post (in other words, don’t post it here.)
jm
October 26th, 2010
5:59 pm
Doggone – “crystal ball”
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1750&bih=975&q=krystal+ball
jm
October 26th, 2010
6:00 pm
Jay – reminder to people of all political persuasions (whether they pay taxes or not
) to go vote this coming next Tuesday. As if anyone on this board would possibly, ever, ever forget…..
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
6:00 pm
Kayaker,
“That 35% should not even be inhabiting our prisons. They should not even be here…. period.”
Tell that to Sheriff Arapiro (?sp) — I heard him say in an interview that he has no intention of sending criminals he catches here illegally back to their country of origin — they broke the law, they do the time here. In a cost to cost comparison, I wonder which is cheaper to the taxpayer? Keeping them here, or deporting them? It would be interesting to know.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
6:02 pm
Doggone/GA:
I have a feeling that Del has done more for his country with his little finger than you and Bosch ever thought about. How about showing some respect.
jm
October 26th, 2010
6:04 pm
Bosch 6 – I’m guess deporting is cheaper. Since after their jail time, they get deported anyway…. (at least in theory)
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
6:04 pm
“Is that why there are two border patrolmen presently occupying US prisons for doing their job?”
That George W. wouldn’t even allow a pardon? Flat out refused.
Sorry kayaker to bust your bubble, but Obama has done more to combat the problem than W ever did, weird considering he was from Texas and all.
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
6:05 pm
Paying corporate taxes should not allow you to vote or influence elections. Corp taxes are just that, not some type of membership. They use resources and infastructure and should contribute to gov’t.
popeye
October 26th, 2010
6:06 pm
Ha..Ha..Ha……………………..
After reading this I can imagine El Pigboy Rush, Crocodile tears Beck, sex pervert O’Reilly, and the entire ship of fools over at Fox, and the other right wing nutjobs gnashing their teeth.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39849537/ns/today-entertainment/
jm
October 26th, 2010
6:07 pm
Jefferson – read here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
6:08 pm
Scout,
Why bring me into this? You have no idea what I’ve done in my life and if you think the only way to serve your country is to be in the military, then you are sorely mistaken.
Respect is earned, you’d be wise to understand that. Jinoistic bigots do not get my respect.
saywhat?
October 26th, 2010
6:08 pm
Nice little right wing fantasy kayaker. Too bad it has absolutely no basis in reality. “Bozo’, as you refer to your president, has already had his administration do more immigration enforcement than any president before him. Also a fact which you conveniently ignore is that crime inside our southern border is actually DOWN from previous years.
You are just too silly to be taken seriously.You cherry pick a few news stories and let your fevered imagination run wild and extrapolate inanities. You then demand the president solve all the unprecedented earth shattering catastrophic problems that only exist in your head, and get mad when he doesn’t do it. Following your type of “logic”, I should be pissed that W didn’t do a damn thing to prevent the planting of microchips into the heads of our children by multinational corporations. Not a single damn thing.
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
6:10 pm
Make that” jingoistic bigots.”
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
6:10 pm
Kayaker: I’m curious. How many American citizen exactly have been killed kidnapped on American soil in say the last two years? How many before that? I know of a couple of cases, but not all that many. I’m not suggesting that any level of crime is all right, but I don’t see the tidal wave of violence that you seem to be suggesting is taking place.
jm
October 26th, 2010
6:10 pm
By the way. Whatever happened to the tea party being “astro turf”? I think that myth has been debunked.
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
6:10 pm
jm, I’m talking about solving a problem not the problem. I just said what should be, not what is.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
6:11 pm
Bosch,
Sheriff Joe would not even be in the mix of Washington was doing their job. Compare what it costs to keep illegals in this country, both in and out of prisons, for the American taxpayer. We are shouldering a huge burden for a mandate that the states should not be burdened with. It is an unfunded mandate because our Federal Government will not do their job. California’s 19B state deficit is astounding. Think how much of that comes from funding entitlement programs for illegals. And Bookman is worried about how politically correct some ad is in the Nevada election. Perhaps he should focus his wrath on something more important.
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
6:11 pm
The t-republicans will know they were played after the election is over.
One Nation Under educated
October 26th, 2010
6:12 pm
What are you Walmart Republicans defending the billionaires buying elections for? You think they care? You think you’ll get invited to the yacht club next weekend?
jm
October 26th, 2010
6:13 pm
Jefferson – that may be. But the Supreme Court thinks your wrong at that Corps are entitled to rights. While you can’t vote out the justices, I guess you can vote for someone to change the law.
I’m glad corporations have rights, personally. At least as long as they’re taxed and regulated.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
6:13 pm
@ Saywhat: Nicely done.
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
6:13 pm
It’s gonna take a mighty big tax cut to pay for all the things the Republicans on here expect Obama to do.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
6:14 pm
Jay, I think you failed in your blog. The fault is yours. You COULD have made a stirring argument but you didn’t. I’ll give you a pass in that your dad is sick. (Just damn, I shouldn’t have said that, Jeff Schultz got his panties in a wad and banned me from HIS blog for a similar comment. Give me a pass on that one bro although I don’t know how it can be in “poor taste.”)
You briefly mentioned that many Hispanics would vote Republican because they hols the same ‘values” but you didn’t ’splain it. I don’t need it ’slained because I know it to be true, but many people don’t. You had a good thought, but you didn’t follow up on it. Bad job on your part lol. I designate this particular column as a PHAIL.
i’m not even gonna read the comments others posted. I think if you supplied me a list of user names, I could write them myself and be totally accurate on what they actually said………..
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
6:15 pm
Scout
The only money I have in the market now is thru my TSP. As far as the individual stocks, I could not tell you, but I have money in the International markets, small cap stocks, and other stuff thru the funds.
kayaker
* The reason the two BPA’s are in jail has nothing to do with their job. Anytime someone in law enforcement has the least bit of doubt in their credibility, it damages them far beyond what the average person will ever suffer.
* I’d love to see your proof of theses thousands every month. When you can produce it, I’ll address it.
* I don’t agree with the decision of the DOJ, but last time I checked, immigration law enforcement was a federal government job and not a state’s. Arizona meant well with their law, but I think they were putting an undue burden on the peace officers in their state. It is impossible to be able to know and enforce state law and try to understand immigration law at the same time. Immigration law changes so much that we have 20+ year veterans who sometimes can’t keep up with it.
* Sending the National Guard?? To do what, just stand around?? Unless I’m missing something somewhere, I don’t think they can be used in a law enforcement capacity. All they can do is stand around and advise. Then, you would be complaining and bitching about thousands of government workers standing around and not doing anything.
* In Obama’s first year, deportations were higher than in Bush’s last year. I don’t get the accusation that Obama isn’t doing anything. What do you want to see, him personally handcuffing someone and taking them back to their home country???
I understand you don’t like Obama, and I don’t care. However, when you spew like you did, you not only disparage me and my committment to my country but you do the same for my friends and co-workers. Personally, we don’t give a rats a$$ who’s in office because we’re going to do our job anyway.
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
6:15 pm
I’m glad you are glad, but voting and influencing elections should be done by voters, otherwise nothing will change.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
6:16 pm
Mr-B,
One is too many. Soon, if the door is not closed it will be more. Don’t you see the importance of this issue to our security? How can you ignore even one American killed. Is he/she expendable? If you have a son, how important would it be to you if be were the one? Would you just pass it off as whatever?
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
6:17 pm
kayaker,
If you actually looked at the facts instead of listening to Rush (after switching to decaf of course) you’d find that your theories are a little exaggerated. Not to say they aren’t real, but it’s apparent your hate for the President has blinded your judgment.
jm
October 26th, 2010
6:17 pm
Jefferson – “voting and influencing elections should be done by voters”
I agree. Stop taxing corporations and I’m all in.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
6:17 pm
kayaker
As I said earlier, Border Patrol is ready when you are. If you don’t think we’re doing our job, come give it a shot yourself. I left you a link earlier. Otherwise, just hush and let grown people do their work.
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
6:17 pm
Tim Profitt was the Bourbon County Campaign coordinator for Rand Paul. He isn’t anymore though, lol.
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
6:18 pm
jm, the taxes are to pay for their keep.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
6:19 pm
“Jinoistic bigots do not get my respect.”
No matter HOW much they’ve done FOR their country. It’s the potential they exhibit for what they might do TO their country that concerns ME.
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
6:20 pm
I want to know why Obama has done nothing to seal off the border from above. I mean, those aliens could just drop in from anywhere. We need a bigger bubble to live in. The one we got now will just barely hold the Republicans. Don’t they care about the rest of us!
Jefferson
October 26th, 2010
6:20 pm
They have to be regulated(product safty), they use infastruture, want police and fire protections etc… letting them run the country is a little too much.
@@
October 26th, 2010
6:21 pm
I don’t know about John Stewart being the most influential man. Funny? Without a doubt, but influencial?
I found this to be interesting.
U.S. President Barack Obama fell to 21st place from the top five last year.
saywhat?
October 26th, 2010
6:23 pm
jm wrote “By the way. Whatever happened to the tea party being “astro turf”? I think that myth has been debunked.”
If by “debunked’ you mean that we all now know it was funded by the Koch brothers, through various Republican/right wing PR firms, and heavily promoted for free 24/7 by Foxnews, so that all the right wing sheeples could get sucked in to getting their rage on in defense of victimized billionaires and anti-regulation multi-national corporations, yeah, it was “debunked”.Otherwise, not so much.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
6:23 pm
@@
Maybe he wasn’t as influential as people tried to make him. It’s obvious he had little influence to begin with over his own party based on the legislation that came out of Congress. So it could be that the GOP is now realizing it as well and his numbers are dropping.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
6:24 pm
Kayaker: PLease note that I agree that any level of violence is unacceptable. I don’t agree that fortifying our southern border is going to make any differnece as long as we allow it to make economic sense for some poor campisano to cross the border and try to better his own lot in life. We used to call that an American value. Pinting those who cross, even illegally, as drug-crazed parasites bent on destroying America is just silly. We’ve deported 400,000 peole in fiscal 2010 and the year ain’t over yet. Most of those deported were in fact criminals.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
6:24 pm
Southern Comfort,
A show of military might on the border at the most challenged portions is just a start. You might remember that our National Guard is armed with the latest in military hardware and is prepared to use it if our Supreme Leader would give the OK. But under Bozo, there would probably be a lot of standing around, wondering what they were doing there and questioning their mission. There would be restrictions on what they could do…. they would probably be tasked to take bottled water to those in need….. maybe help those who are misunderstood….. maybe they could open a job placement center on the border and save those illegals some time and effort in taking American jobs. Then Janet Napp could hoot and holler about how good a job we are doing. It ain’t working, Southern Comfort, plain and simple. What would you do about the problem?
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
6:26 pm
Sorry, should be “painting”.
One Nation Under educated
October 26th, 2010
6:29 pm
jm – Stop taxing corporations and I’m all in.
How sweet of you to defend those helpless corporations. Your invitation to the yacht club will be, er ..mailed…um, yeah its in the mail.
Re-imburse the American govt for each job they shipped overseas and its economic impact, along with the tax break for doing so, plus the back taxes on income from offshore tax shelters, at a commensurate tax rate that ordinary people pay, and we’might discuss your corp tax rate.
See, that AM radio talking point doesn’t sound so good now, does it?
Del
October 26th, 2010
6:30 pm
Bosch, did I piss you off lad? thanks for helping to make my day.
carlosgvv
October 26th, 2010
6:31 pm
Jay, if we have a 2,000 mile border seperating us from a poor country, our leaders should have long since taken measures to protect us from a flood of illegal immigrants. Obviously, they did not and have not. So, what do we do now with all these millions of illegals here now and how can we stop any more from coming here? Our resources, like those of all countries, are finite and we cannot continue to accept an endless number of illegal immigrants. Why is this so hard for some to understand?
carlosgvv
October 26th, 2010
6:32 pm
Kamachak
You can go back to sleep now
Del
October 26th, 2010
6:33 pm
Scout,
Thank you for the fire suppression in my absence. Those two never have much anyway.
@@
October 26th, 2010
6:33 pm
SoCo:
I’ve always viewed any president as little more than a figurehead. Problem is Obama doesn’t have a head for figures.
(ISH)
Obama has fallen far from his heyday of 2008, when he easily grabbed the list’s No.1 spot – even before winning the presidential election.
Back then, the site couldn’t praise him highly enough. “For millions of young guys voting for the first time, Barack Obama isn’t a symbol of change – he is the emissary of their legacy,” AskMen raved. “His arrival tells them that they aren’t doomed to inherit the archaic cynicism of their parents, but are free to entertain their own hopes and dreams.”
Now the President isn’t even in the top 20. He rolled in this year at No. 21, behind Conan O’Brien, LeBron James, Stephen Colbert, Jay-Z and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, among others.
He was even beaten by rapper Kanye West, who was named the most hated celebrity of 2009.
Ouch!
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
6:35 pm
“how can we stop any more from coming here?”
Target the people who HIRE them.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
6:36 pm
By the way. Whatever happened to the tea party being “astro turf”? I think that myth has been debunked.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Tea Party belongs in the second category. It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organised by the very interests they believe they are confronting. We now have powerful evidence that the movement was established and has been guided with the help of money from billionaires and big business. Much of this money, as well as much of the strategy and staffing, were provided by two brothers who run what they call “the biggest company you’ve never heard of”.
Charles and David Koch own 84% of Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in the United States.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
6:40 pm
I keep wondering why we think that effectiveness and intellegence can be settled in some sort of wierd civil popularity contest. I don’t necessarily vote for a politician to do what I want, I vote for him in the hopes that he will try to figure out what’s best for the country and do that. Hwether Obama is ranked Numero Uno or thiry-eleventh doesn’t make a bit of difference about whether his ideas and policies are the appropriate ones to be followed now. That’s where the debate should be; not about poll numbers.
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
6:40 pm
“Bosch, did I piss you off lad?”
Some people are such champions in their own minds…….
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
6:42 pm
kayaker
If I didn’t think you posted that 6:24 as a joke, I’d really be worried about you. However I know you were serious. Unless Mexico is invading the US, military show of strength on the border will accomplish nothing. How many people would you have to physically put on a border almost 2000 miles in length to make a show of force actually look like a force? Do you think the American taxpayer is willing to pay the amount of money it would take to put enough people and equipment on the border to do as your plan would require?
I honestly wish everyone could go spend a week or two with BP Agents or CBP Officers on the border. That way they will have a realistic view of what their job is and how they are doing their job. There’s times when there is only one or two BPA’s trying to round up groups of 20 or more. They go into those situations not knowing whether it’s a group of illegals coming to work or if it’s armed drug smugglers. You should be thankful that there are people who willingly put their lives on the line to do something above and beyond complaining on a blog about what’s being done.\
Scout
October 26th, 2010
6:43 pm
Del:
I just hit ‘em on the flank with some fire team rushes.
Bosch:
If you weren’t bashing Del (this time) then belay that order.
You’re right about ways to serve other than the military. That’s why I added one non-law enforcement civilian agency and three other civilian law enforcement agencies and you can throw in ROTC when I was 18 if you want.
By the way there’s military like (Air Force computer programmer) and military like Del (Marine Recon) ………. Ooo Rah!
Tall
October 26th, 2010
6:45 pm
Kamchak:
You’re nothing more than a stooge for Mr. Bookman’s columns. Either you’re unemployed or retired or worse.
“Evry’thing’s free in America….” Lyric from West Side Story
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
6:46 pm
“Do you think the American taxpayer is willing to pay the amount of money it would take to put enough people and equipment on the border to do as your plan would require? ”
And that’s why I ask the question that no one will answer: how much are the complainers willing to pay in taxes to pay for the enforcement they demand?
Scout
October 26th, 2010
6:46 pm
Southern Comfort:
The point I was trying to make if you owned stock is that there comes a time each year to vote (in person or by proxy). Most often the amount of stock you own determines the weight of your vote.
I would have NO PROBLEM giving every citizen of the U.S. one vote for federal elections including a weighted vote based on your tax returns with a maximum of three full votes. Computers could do that quite easily.
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
6:47 pm
Scout,
Order? You think you can order me to do something? Comments like that is why you deserve no respect old man.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
6:48 pm
As far as what I would do to combat illegal immigration?
#1 I would sell hardware to the Mexican government so they could effectively fight and defeat the drug cartels.
#2 I would involve the business community who already have plants and operate in Mexico to help them develop their economy to the point that they have no need to come here to work for $5-$7 an hour.
#3 I would also involve the governments and businesses of other Central American countries to work on their economies and countries. Contrary to popular opinion, not all brown skinned border crossers are Mexican. There are Hondurans, Guatamalans, Salvadorian, etc… who travel THRU Mexico to come to the US.
Any solution to illegal immigration, regardless to what country or continent you’re talking about, has to involve economic solutions or else they will fail. People don’t come to live in the US just because the leaves are pretty in the fall or gas is relatively cheap. They come here to work.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
6:48 pm
Scout: I’ve got utmost respect for the USMC, but if that programmer is putting together a drone strike that eliminate one bad guy that they’d otherwise have to go after, the Marines I know would be happy to give the programmer his propers too.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
6:50 pm
Southern Comfort,
The people who are invading our borders are not scared enough. They know nothing will happen to them. They can try to cross with impunity. All of the border agents in the world will not fix the problem if they are not given the authority to keep them from crossing and make the consequences more important than the deed. They will push the envelope until we get tough. Try shooting some of them. Give them a message. Unless you make them scared enough, thousands more will be here every month and nothing is solved. This is a national security issue which is costing the taxpayer billions of dollars/yr. And no one is doing anything about it.
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
6:51 pm
32 % of manufacturing in the US was lost in the last 10 years. China’s economy projected to be 3 times the size of the US by 2040. It was a nice run, too bad greed has no limit.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
6:51 pm
Scout
Why would you weigh their vote based on their tax return? Is one person more of a citizen because he earns more and pay more taxes? or are you trying to get cheats to pay their fair share in taxes because it would give them more votes? Either way, I’m a one citizen, one vote person. I don’t care if you’re a felon or not. Just because you’re a felon doesn’t automatically disquallify you from being a citizen. I understand the need for punishment for crimes, however, once you’ve done your time and paid the price, you should be able to actively participate in society.
Tall
October 26th, 2010
6:54 pm
To Don’t Forget:
There are numerous reasons our manufacturing base has disappeared. I don’t have time to joust now.
I will be back.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
6:55 pm
Tall:
Don’t mess with Kamchak unless you are prepared to go all ten rounds. He/She/It can be nasty.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
6:55 pm
“Is one person more of a citizen because he earns more and pay more taxes?”
That same attitude was in the Constitutional Congress. Nothing has changed. There were representatives then who did not trust the “masses” with the vote…and they still exist.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
6:55 pm
This is a national security issue which is costing the taxpayer billions of dollars/yr. And no one is doing anything about it.
You wanna know the truth about border security and national security? Actual terrorist have been caught trying to enter the US thru the Northern Border. Canada’s asylum laws are even more lax than the United States. Terrorist cells have been tracked near the border in Canada in places like Toronto. The Southern Border does not worry me at all when compared to the Northern Border. Even scarier is that the same people who harp on the South have no clue as to what’s to the North.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
6:57 pm
Mr._B:
Oh, you are correct sir. I’m just saying some people play badmitton and some play football. They’re both sports.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
6:59 pm
Doggone/GA:
Then the “masses” would have NO vote. I’m not saying that.
All I’m saying is that those who contribute more to the budget of this government should have more of a say. And when all is said and done I might have a 1.4 vote and you a 2.3. I am fine with that.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
7:00 pm
Kayaker: so it’s OK to kill someone because they want a better life than they can possibly have at home?
Tell you what, lets go back to the good old days like it was when my granddad got here. You arrive in reasonably good health, $50 American in your pocket and you’re in legally. Scrap the fences and send the HG guys back home.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:00 pm
Souther Comfort:
You wouldn’t be “more” of a citizen anymore than you would be “more” of a stockholder. A stockholder is a stockholder. One just has more of a vote than the other.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
P.S.
Southern Comfort:
I agree with you on the felon vote but only if it goes all the way. AFTER you have served all of your time, probation, parole, etc. you should get your vote and ALL of your 10 Amendments back ……….. ALL of them – including the 2nd.
Even a “tax felon” deserves the right to protect his family.
popeye
October 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
Scout….Seriously you need to report post haste to the VA hospital, jump on the elevator, push 8th floor, and when you arrive, there will a very soothing nurse who will steer you to your new quarters.
Revisiting what transpired 40 years ago over and over again is a sure sign that some counseling, and therapy is required.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:04 pm
Mr._B:
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
Winston Churchill
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
7:05 pm
If you’re giving a person more of a vote than someone else, then I believe that you are saying that one person is more of a citizen than another. If you’re equating citizenship with being a stockholder, then you’re saying that I can basically buy myself to be citizen #1. That’s contrary to E Pluribus Unum. Would you say one person is more of a Marine based on their sniper skills or the number of “kills” they achieve in combat?
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
7:06 pm
Scout @ 7:03
I couldn’t have said it better!!!
Bosch
October 26th, 2010
7:06 pm
“which is costing the taxpayer billions of dollars/yr. And no one is doing anything about it.which is costing the taxpayer billions of dollars/yr. And no one is doing anything about it.”
Remember the billions that the American consumer have gained off the backs of illegal immigrants as well. People who complain about them and call them terrorists are hypocrites because we have all benefited from their work.
barking frog
October 26th, 2010
7:07 pm
Latinos like the rest of us will vote their pocketbooks now
and in the future.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:08 pm
I tell ya what, let’s go ahead and declare war on Mexico again and take another half of their territory and incorporate it in Uncle Sam’s Empire…
As for that ad, tacky, tacky, tacky and truly hate-mongering…and the actors? Citizens, green card holders or illegals? Union or non Union…inquiring minds want to know…
And, Jay, I’m not saying you shouldn’t, but you putting up more and more of these threads highlighting the illegal alien question is, in its own way, playing the same game…
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
7:08 pm
SoCo and Scout on the same page? The next stop, the Twilight Zone.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:10 pm
popeye:
“Revisiting what transpired 40 years ago over and over again is a sure sign that some counseling, and therapy is required.”
…………………. or …………….. it’s a good way to help make sure it never happens again which this time might even include you son or daugher.
You know the quote but you get it anyway:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
I promised that to the ones I left behind and I will do my best until by last breath. So, as the D.I.’s used to say, “Suck it up maggot”.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
7:11 pm
Josef, that wouldn’t fit well with Sharon’s drive to make “English the OFFICIAL LANGUAGE” of the US.”
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:13 pm
Southern Comfort @ 7:05
I think you are into “apples and oranges” now but the answere is not more of a Marine but due to your efforts you would probably make rank faster and/or higher and therefore your opinion would in fact count more.
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
7:15 pm
Tall
October 26th, 2010
6:54 pm
To Don’t Forget:
There are numerous reasons our manufacturing base has disappeared.
I don’t doubt that at all and I’m sure there’s plenty of blame to go around. What I want to know is how to reverse the trend.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
7:15 pm
So Co,
How about a few pesky statistics to support anti-illegals…..
Less than 2% of all illegals are working in agriculture but 41% are on welfare.
Over 43% of all unemployment checks in the state of CA go go Illegals
Nearly 43% of all food stamps go to illegals
33% of the prison population is illegals costing us 1.6B annually
58% of all welfare payments go to illegals
83% of all warrants for murder in Phoenix go to illegals
95% of all warrants for murder in LA go to illegals
86% of all warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for Illegals
More than 300K anchor babies were born in the US in 2005. 97.2% of the cost went to the American taxpayer. More than 66% of all births in CA are illegal Mexican immigrants.
If you think that this is sanctimonious BS, I pray for your soul.
One Nation Under educated
October 26th, 2010
7:16 pm
Hey, I’m new to Atl, I’m an accountant – I can stop this immigration problem in 24 hours – guaranteed.
Pass a law tonight – all employers will be fined $1mil and prosecuted as a felon – 1 count per hired illegal – we start inspecting tomorrow. There. Problem solved. They’ll start clearing out tomorrow. You’re welcome.
(That scurrying scratchy sound you hear is all the owners & managers of those plants from Buford to Gainesville hiding, running for cover like cockroaches when the light is shed on them and their patron who looked the other way all those years, that Nathan Deal feller. Oh yeah, he’s famous, he’s nation-wide.)
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:17 pm
Mr B
These “official language” proponents would be surprised to find that until the hysteria of late, only two places had anything resembling “official” languages, New Mexico (Spanish and English) and Louisiana (French and English). Those guarantees were secured in the treaties incorporating the territories into the United States in order to protect the language and culture of the ESTABLISHED populations. There was the fear that these populations would leave and disrupt the infrastructure of the regions.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:18 pm
Someone earlier posted something about Bush letting the two Border Patrol agents stay in prison (and I happen to strongly disagree with our former President) but how about this one happening under Obama ?
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-25/justice/virgin.islands.atf.agent.case_1_federal-agents-atf-prosecution?_s=PM:CRIME
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
7:19 pm
How’s this for a serious solution to the immigration “problem” if you want to call it that. Make it very simple to get into the US legally. Minimal financial requirement, easy visa documentation, clean criminal record required, not much else. You get a five year visa, after that you have to go home or apply for citizenship. while your here, you pay income tax,SSI, Medicare etc, but you’re not entitled to anything but education for the kiddies. We get the labor, they get the jobs, and we get to know who’s here and where they are.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:20 pm
One Nation Under educated :
Exactly !
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
7:22 pm
All I’m saying is that those who contribute more to the budget of this government should have more of a say
Scout, I don’t agree because I think that those who contribute more (the wealthy) also get more in services/infrastructure. I don’t have time to back that up right now but I believe that is the case.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
7:22 pm
josef; Every couple of years some bonehead in Atlanta drags the official language corpe out of the basement and airs it out a little. As a teacher of English, it usually takes me a few months to stop laughing.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:22 pm
Mr._B:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
7:23 pm
One Nation,
But it takes someone with balls to get it done. Any suggestions?
Del
October 26th, 2010
7:24 pm
Scout,
I like the progressive weighted vote. Novel idea…would that make us progressives? BTW…popeye seems to be quite familiar with the mental health facilities at the VA, perhaps that explains his fondness for the wet cool weather in the pacific Northwest in contrast to the warm and mostly sunny Southeast.
Mr_B
October 26th, 2010
7:24 pm
Speaking of…. Got to go post grades for the little angels tonight. May be back later. Play nice….
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:24 pm
Don’t Forget
Agree to disagree.
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
7:24 pm
By the way. Whatever happened to the tea party being “astro turf”? I think that myth has been debunked.
jm, sheer nonsense. Recently I posted the damning information thereof. Corporate funded and Fox contrived.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:28 pm
Don’t Forget & Southern Comfort :
It already happens somewhat. Rhode Island citizens get more clout than Californians ………. as both have two senators.
Del
October 26th, 2010
7:28 pm
Bosch like the word jingoism… dead give away. He also like to call those who he disagrees with “old men”. I seem to recall that he once mentioned that he had children in college. He may want to look at himself in the mirror.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:29 pm
Mr. B
As a lover of my mother tongue English, as well as my Louisiana French, in all their magnificent dialect glory, my question is always “which English? Appalachian, New England, Southern British, East Indian, Irish, Scots, South African, Caribbean…? oh, that’s right, that bland, colorless and quasi-literate miscreant, media English!…
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
7:30 pm
“I like the progressive weighted vote.”
You could accomplish the same thing by simply allowing people to sell their votes. Make the elites pay something for their greater influence, and put some spending money in the pockets of their lessers.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:30 pm
One citizen, one vote!
popeye
October 26th, 2010
7:34 pm
“…………………. or …………….. it’s a good way to help make sure it never happens again which this time might even include you son or daugher.”
Well, Scout perhaps you missed the so-called war in Iraq. You know where lies were fed to the American populace (the fear factor) Where daily, Tom Ridge would pull out his color coded chart, there was a mushroom cloud, yellow cake, and on and on.
In other words similar to the BS that was fed to the people as a prelude to Vietnam. Where we invaded a country that had never done the U.S. harm, based on a bunch of lies.
And this nonsense that somehow we were fighting for our country. The fact of the matter as I’m sure you’re well aware of was that we were fighting to stay alive, country was the last thing on my mind!
Like I say get over that era and move on….It’ll be good for you.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
7:36 pm
Doggone,
Nothing but penis envy. “Money in the pockets of their lessors”, whatever that means. Take from one person and give it to another. The old story continues.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
7:38 pm
Tall
October 26th, 2010
6:45 pm
Kamchak:
You’re nothing more than a stooge for Mr. Bookman’s columns. Either you’re unemployed or retired or worse.
Whatsamatta sport?
Did I hit a nerve?
Good.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
7:40 pm
“Nothing but penis envy”
Keep it clean. Keep it clean.
” “Money in the pockets of their lessors”, whatever that means. ”
A “weighted” vote means there are greater voters and lesser voters. It can’t mean anything else. I’m just saying it would be a WHOLE lot easier to just let people sell their votes. Much easier law to change, and no one would have to keep track of how much someone is worth. That would work out easily in how much they can afford to spend to buy votes.
Easy.
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
7:41 pm
popeye @6;06, you are the best. A funny biting humor, extremely intelligent and given your background with Uncle Sam, highly courageous.
And that likely explains why you are no Republican sycophant.
Salute!
One Nation Under educated @7:16, boy is the US Chamber of Commerce gonna hate you.
Haven’t you heard? The plan is to round up and deport (hopefully with some violence and bloodshed) the Mexicalis and give a completely free pass to the thousands of American businesses who profited illegally from them…
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:42 pm
Doggone/GA :
Hummm ……………… “Cap and Trade” voting? You may be on to something.
Lil' Barry Bailout
October 26th, 2010
7:43 pm
I wasn’t aware that Latinos are supportive of criminal behavior such as that committed by illegal aliens.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:45 pm
Lil’ Barry
@ 7:43
Learn something new every day!
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:47 pm
AmVet
Round up and deport Messicans? The plan appears to round up a few million native born United States citizens and ship them off, too….Eretz Israel and aliyah are looking better by the day…
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
7:47 pm
Doggone,
So do you buy Bozo’s creed of “how much do you need to earn?” One vote, one citizen over 18 yrs of age. It’s the American way. How do you think that Bozo got elected? It certainly was all George Soros and Bill Gates. He fooled at least 52% of the electorate and ran a hot shot campaign. But a lot of us are seeing right through the lies, deception and Chicago gangsterism. Only 6 more days. Then we will see what the electorate thinks of this inept, hopelessly over his head, sorry excuse for a President. Neutered in 6 days, done away with in 2012.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:48 pm
popeye:
You need a new handle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC7z0T0DaQI&p=455C6317F04BE8C4&playnext=1&index=2
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
7:49 pm
“creed of “how much do you need to earn?” ”
I supported Hillary Clinton, not Obama.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
7:50 pm
popeye:
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
7:50 pm
As for the topic du jour, the GOP keeps painting itself into a whiter and whiter corner.
Watch any national GOP convention and it looks like a Billy Graham revival from the 1950s…
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:50 pm
kayaker, et al…
Yep six more days and we’ll find out what the voters think. But the GOP would be advised, just like the Dems in 2008, to not go getting TOO c*cky. A vote against and a vote for are not the same thing.
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
7:53 pm
Scout,
I also disagree with the “weighted vote” because there are issues other than budgetary. If we base the vote on degree of taxation you end up extending that inequality to issues such as rights and other non-budgetary policies. Take the election of judges for example. Should a higher tax bill warrant a greater say in who occupies an important position in the justice system??? I don’t say no, I say hell no!!
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
7:53 pm
“the GOP keeps painting itself into a whiter and whiter corner.”
I’ve got my popcorn and soda sitting ready. I’m watching to see who it works out to be the final, one and only ,really really, TRUE “Republican”
When you start purging your ranks, it HAS to end with only one person left. Who will it be?
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
7:54 pm
josef, would you ever consider emigrating to Israel?
Personally, I’m not sure I’m that much of a Zionist…
Though I always loved this Marley tune. Dig the killer horns in it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nga_AAnQNio
jconservative
October 26th, 2010
7:54 pm
A couple of thoughts and observations.
Most Latinos are conservative. Most Latinos are Roman Catholic.
Six of the nine members of the Supreme Court are Roman Catholic. All five conservatives on the Court are Roman Catholic.
Most Latinos take exception to being ridiculed and called names by anyone. Most Latinos take exception to being labeled as someone close to non-human.
Latinos are the backbone of many local communities. Latinos are the primary employees of many industries. Latinos are the economic might of many local communities. Whether legal or illegal, take them out and the local community dies.
Maybe we need to adopt the Ronald Reagan Solution to illegals aliens, make them legal. Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which legalized 2.8 million undocumented workers.
Legalizing about 10 million illegals today would be about the same ratio of illegals to population as the 2.8 million Reagan legalized.
Do we want to honor the legacy of Reagan? Do we want to pretend that it never happened?
Just a couple of thoughts.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
7:55 pm
AmVet
@ 7:50
True, but then they keep on voting in Native American Indians, Indian Americans, Latinos, Asians, African Americans, women by the quire, and the Log Cabin Republicans took on DADT successfully…it just keeps getting wierder and wieder…
Pogo
October 26th, 2010
7:55 pm
Free food to get out the Reid voters in Nevada. Basically Reid and the democrats are saying, “our constituents are so damned dumb they will sell their votes for anything if we give it to them for free”. Of course, that pretty much sums up the democrat/progressive voting base doesn’t it? They will sell their soul and their individualism for something they think is”free”. They want to be controlled. Pitiful.
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
7:56 pm
I see the compassionate conservatives are still whining about how big bad Obama has done them wrong but they gonna fix that come election day.
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
7:58 pm
I’ve got my popcorn and soda sitting ready. I’m watching to see who it works out to be the final, one and only ,really really, TRUE “Republican”
In the end, there can be only one. Probably that maverick, McCain.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
7:58 pm
kayaker
If the US put as much effort into nation building next door as we did across the world, do you think we would have an immigration issue from south of the border?
If you have an infestation problem, do you board up your house to try to fight it? or do you take away any and all sources of food to drive them away? If you want to do away with the problem, you have to deal with the source. It’s the economy…
If you go after the people who hire illegals here, you take away a money source. If you help their own government to provide work and a means of support at home, you take away incentive for them to risk their lives to come here. If you focus on the totality of immigration as opposed to one segment, you may actually achieve progress on stemming the flow of illegal immigrants.
You still haven’t said a peep about the North? That makes me really wonder if you’re as serious about national security as you say you are. That’s approximately 5000 miles of border there with fewer resources.
More than 300K anchor babies were born in the US in 2005. 97.2% of the cost went to the American taxpayer.
Anchor babies, no matter what label you try to apply to them, are US citizens. If they don’t have an incentive to come here to work for $5 an hour, they would not be here to have babies.
More than 66% of all births in CA are illegal Mexican immigrants.
Not according to the law. Unless those born are the children of diplomats or others excluded from obtaining citizenship by law, 100% of all births in CA are US Citizens. Call it Jus Soli.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:00 pm
“Probably that maverick, McCain”
Nah, he was labled a RINO a LONG time ago. Nope, he’s out.
Paulo977
October 26th, 2010
8:00 pm
SoCo
Well done ….all relevant info for any Big Mouth who wants to apply!!
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:01 pm
Speaking of DADT and assorted issues, I’ve read recently where there is some gay blowback against Dems for p&ssyfooting around on the matter. (Now how’s that for some charged language?!)
Personally, I love it. As you know I am an equal opportunity basher. No die hard Republican or intransigent Democrat here. To me they are merely the two sides of the same counterfeit coin.
And if the Republican-lites are culpable, then culp them!
BlahBlahBlah
October 26th, 2010
8:01 pm
10 or 15 years from now we will be totally broke.
One Nation Under educated
October 26th, 2010
8:01 pm
“weighted vote” – that’s a great thought…….for the 17th century. You see, we had a revolution, largely for the right to have one person, one vote, to be represented and taxed on that basis. That’s one of the cornerstones of being a real American.
And when that gets too far out of kilter (like the 99/1% thing is now), we’ll have another one.
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:02 pm
TRUE Republican POTUS candidates?
For the comedic factor alone, let’s just hope it is as ludicrous as that last slate was…
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
8:03 pm
Nah, he was labled a RINO a LONG time ago. Nope, he’s out
But RINO is all any of them are so he’s the perfect chosen one for them.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
8:03 pm
AmVet
Billy Graham Crusades
“World-famous Billy Graham evangelist Billy Graham has held four crusades in Georgia—one in Augusta, in 1948, and three in Atlanta, in 1950, 1973, and 1994. Each of these large revivals drew thousands of people from across the South.
In 1966 Graham contacted local officials and clergymen in Americus to solicit their help in organizing an evangelistic outreach program for the city. Community members objected to Graham’s stipulation that the meetings be integrated, however, and none stepped forward to sponsor the program. Graham was prepared to cancel his plans when Jimmy Carter, then a state senator, volunteered to help. Because local churches refused to allow an integrated film screening, Carter arranged to host the program in the basement of an abandoned school building.
Carter and Graham According to Graham, Carter later reported that no less than 565 people attended the film screening.
In 1973 Graham returned to Atlanta for a six-night crusade at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, which drew nightly audiences of between 35,000 and 44,000 people. The civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy and Hosea Williams urged blacks to boycott the Graham crusade, and picketers, charging Graham with racism because of his refusal to affirm the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1972 banning of the death penalty, protested at the stadium. But the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. sat on the platform with Graham and led a prayer one night.”
Del
October 26th, 2010
8:04 pm
Scout,
popeye needs a new handle…nope it really seems to fit.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:05 pm
AmVet
@ 7:54
Nice Marley cut! Thanks!
I do keep it in the back of my mind and as an option just in case. Generally in economic hard times it’s MOTs who bear the brunt…seems we’ve got Messicans taking the heat off…but you never know. I love America and I love the South. Both have been good places to be in the Diaspora. But then so were Spain, Germany, Hungary, Holland, Greece, Italy and some other places and, out of the blue and overnight…I’m a lukewarm zionist myself, Unmentionable (being an Indian) is a die hard and we have had a number of heated discussions on the matter…his refrain when things get too bad is always, “I’m going to plant trees on a kibbutz in Eretz Israel.”
TGT
October 26th, 2010
8:05 pm
GOP pushing Latinos to the Dems? Well the Dems have sure done a great job of pushing what is looking more and more like an unprecedented number of the rest of the country to the GOP.
Only once in 60 years has the Gallup generic ballot underestimated Democratic strength by a significant amount – by 2% in 2006. On average, it slightly overestimates the Democrats, by 0.7%.
Right now, the Gallup traditional model is showing the Democrats at 41% of the vote, and gives the Republicans an advantage of 14 points. That would point to a final result along the lines of 57-43. It’s hard for (me) to say how many seats that would yield, but it would be way more than 60. The Democrats have not sustained a share of the generic vote in the RealClearPolitics average higher than 43% since the early spring. With the amazingly unpopular Nancy Pelosi as the face of the party, congressional job approval now limited to legislative aides, and more voters than ever suggesting that their own member doesn’t deserve reelection, just how much higher than 43% should we really expect that final number to go?
This would mean that the current alignment of the House–255 Dem, 178 Rep., 2 Ind–would nearly reverse itself. Again: UNPRECEDENTED!
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
8:09 pm
Paulo
I can’t claim to be an expert in many things, but I’ve been elbows deep in immigration for over 3 years solid.
Del
October 26th, 2010
8:10 pm
When the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. said in Ramparts magazine that the United States was the worst perveyor of violence since Nazi Germany, I lost respect.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
8:11 pm
I’ve got my popcorn and soda sitting ready. I’m watching to see who it works out to be the final, one and only ,really really, TRUE “Republican”
Great idea for the small screen.
Roll it out for the 2012 Presidential election in a Survivor format.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2010
8:12 pm
Southern Comfort,
Do you think it is fair to grant citizenship to those who enter our country illegally? Do you think that illegals should be granted US citizenship for their children born here? Do you think that the crossing of our borders by illegals is something that we should be upset about? Do you feel that America is paying too much for this crowd of felons and what should we do about the problem? As far as the Northern borders are concerned,that segment of illegal immigration is a mere drop in the bucket compared to our southern border. Most of the illegal immigration coming from Canada is not due to Laninos, but to mules that help Pakistanis, Arabs, and other Middle Eastern people at 35K/per pop. If all we had to worry about was Canada, we could rest easy.
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
8:12 pm
Scout
Forgive me if I veer into apples to oranges comparisons. However, I see the vote as a fundamental job for each and every citizen. That is what makes us who we are.
Life isn’t fair or equal and it shouldn’t be. Achievers rise above slackers. However, when it comes to the ballot box, I don’t think any one person’s voice should be any louder than the next.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:13 pm
Scout
October 26th, 2010
6:46 pm
I would have NO PROBLEM giving every citizen of the U.S. one vote for federal elections including a weighted vote based on your tax returns with a maximum of three full votes.
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Thank you Neal Boortz. He espoused that idea at least ten years ago. I won’t say it is his as he rarely has any original thoughts (he freely admits this). You could at the very LEAST give credit.
Oh, and before he got bought by the Republican party with radio syndication he ALSO had admiration for the illegals. I remember one show after a Uhaul van packed like a sardine can full of illegals was stopped and they were arrested. His point then was that here in Atlanta folks won’t spend 50 cents to ride marta across town for a job while these illegals risk everything on a journey of 1000’s of miles to better them selves.
Semper Fi THAT you leg. Or am I wrong? Did you actually ever put your knees to the breeze?
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:13 pm
AmVet
@ 8:01
Ooooh! Watch you language!
Seriously, though, the Dems have created a problem with this constituency and who knows what will happen at the polls, but the checkbook has been put in the lock box for the time being…Blanch du Bois ain’t buying it,,,
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
8:14 pm
I just can’t wait for the Republicans to solve the debt and deficit by giving us all more tax cuts.
@@
October 26th, 2010
8:14 pm
I’m 100% in agreement with jconservative on the immigration issue. Having grown up in their midst (California) there’s no way one can ignore the values inherent within the Latino community.
Having said that, I have friends who are leaving California for, among other reasons, the heavy burdens illegal migrants have put on the state’s economy. They feel like they’ve been overwhelmed. It’s nothing personal against Latinos….some of them ARE Latinos….immigrants from other countries too. They no longer see California as a viable option.
It’s sad. They’ve lived there for as long as I can remember.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:14 pm
Josef: I lacked the patience to read all the posts. Had I done so, I would have been less civil in my replies than I normally am (and you know I’m rarely civil). So what’s a MOT?
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:16 pm
josef, it is no secret that I am completely in love with America. And always have been. And I consider myself one of the luckiest people alive simply for having been born here. (And not in 1939 Germany.)
She has given me everything. And I have enjoyed her boundless bounty and beauty. And though at times, I have been exasperated at our government and capitalist system, I still adhere to the belief that it is the greatest and most noble experiment in human history.
With that said, I am not certain that I want to die here. Sometimes distant lands call to me and I would entertain the thought of emigrating elsewhere. But I must confess, Israel is nowhere near the top of the list…
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:17 pm
Fred, Member of the Tribe. (Jewish.)
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:17 pm
FRED
What you were saying about the lengths and sacrifices illegals go to to get here…so true, My Yankee Republican brother-in-law puts it “Mexico’s loss is our gain.”
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:20 pm
AmVet – “Watch any national GOP convention and it looks like a Billy Graham revival from the 1950s…”
So the F what? Even if this was true, why does this bother you so?
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:20 pm
Amvet: Delta is ready when you are. I have zero tolerance for hyphenated Americans or people that want to be somewhere else. If you want to BE somewhere else, might I most respectfully suggest that you GO somewhere else.
We are a free Countyr here. You are free to leave. If you wish, I’ll send you a couple of bucks to help you on your way. I couldn’t stand the thought of someone being here that didn’t want to be here and couldn’t leave………
Del
October 26th, 2010
8:21 pm
Fred, “did you ever actually put your knees to the breeze? Not sure if Scout ever did that but he put his ass in the grass. So fucxing what, I have 2 sets of blood wings, that doesn’t mean anything.
Paulo977
October 26th, 2010
8:22 pm
Am Vet
That Marley was irie …thanks
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:24 pm
Thanks Amvet and josef. I should have known that. Brain fart.
josef: You are paraphrasing something I have been saying for years. The “Mexican” illegals (I put that in quotes because there are illegals from all over the world) are the strongest and smartest their nation have. They prove that by crossing the border. America was founded on the strongest from every Country in the world. Those who were not aristocrats and would not have a chance to succeed in their original Country came here……….. and made us strong. The inbred blue bloods stayed in Europe where they could oppress those too weak to leave. It’s really quite simple……..
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:25 pm
AmVet – “She has given me everything.”
Your problem is that you like to bash everything that made “given me everything” possible. I know you are aware of this fact, but you allow your hate filled heart to cloud your thinking much too often.
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:25 pm
Nice Guy, don’t be such a drama queen. It does not bother me in the slightest. I find it rather amusing and merely made an observation. The crowd is 99% white ala the good old segregationist days. Don’t be afraid to confirm it. Just watch a video of the last three or four.
Fred, why would I believe that you even have two nickles to rub together, much less two dollars?
But you are the perfect modern day caricature of those stupid “America. Love It or Leave It” bumper stickers from the 70s…
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
8:25 pm
Do you think it is fair to grant citizenship to those who enter our country illegally?
No. What’s the purpose of having an immigration process if you’re going to do that?
Do you think that illegals should be granted US citizenship for their children born here?
I have not heard of any illegal who got citizenship just because they had a child born here. The child is a US citizen if they meet the requirements of the 14th Amendment. As long as they are under the jurisdiction of the US, then they are citizens.
Do you think that the crossing of our borders by illegals is something that we should be upset about?
If that anger is directed at all illegals, then yes. To try to put the entire problem on one segment or group is inaccurate and wrong. You should be just as upset that ALL nationalities are not causing people to get angry.
Do you feel that America is paying too much for this crowd of felons and what should we do about the problem?
No, the number of US citizens and legal residents who are incarcerated far outweigh the total number of illegal aliens locked up here in the US. I think we’re paying too much for locking up the wrong people, period. As far as the problem, deport those who are headed to lock-up. Some people, by law, are entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge. Give them their hearing to plead their case. If it doesn’t meet the burden of law, then remove them.
Most of the illegal immigration coming from Canada is not due to Laninos, but to mules that help Pakistanis, Arabs, and other Middle Eastern people at 35K/per pop.
So, you know there’s a problem on the northern border. The last time I checked, there were not many in Central America who were intent on jihad against the US. Yet, you think if Canada was all we had to worry about we could rest easy.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:26 pm
Fred
AmVet filled you in on the question…
AmVet
Israel is not real high on my list of choices, given a choice. We are still considering retiring in Costa Rica…I love that place with a passion, too. What can you say about the only country, as a country, to have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize back when it still meant something? But, really, the tar paper shotgun on the bayou still calls me home…
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
8:26 pm
I hear that some retired US citizens actually have their social security checks mailed to them down in South America. I suppose that little bit of hard-earned money has more buying power down there.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:26 pm
josef – ““Mexico’s loss is our gain.”
Hmmmm, nope, don’t think millions of unskilled and uneducated workers coming here, taking jobs and sending their earnings back home is “our gain.”
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:28 pm
Yeah, josef, those roots run REAL deep. And mine stretch all across this land.
To the utter dismay of the piously outraged Fred, I am going to look closely at Panama…
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:28 pm
“don’t be such a drama queen.”
LOL.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:29 pm
Why two sets Del? Didn’t get it right the first time? blood wings are kind of stupid, but I played that game too with a couple of jarheads who went through jump school with me. No one figured it was worth anything though when I jumped at 30,000. blood wings were not really an issue then.
Semper F and all that.
Just out of curiousity? Can the phrase once a Marine always a Marine be transposed to “Once a brainless automon who can’t think for themselves always brainless automon who can’t think for themselves?
You know, brute force and ignorance and all that………
Southern Comfort
October 26th, 2010
8:30 pm
time to call it a night. I’ll respond in the am to any posts directed my way.
Pleasant evening to all!!!!
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:31 pm
“The inbred blue bloods stayed in Europe where they could oppress those too weak to leave. It’s really quite simple”
I once, years ago, had a discussion with a fellow dog enthusiast from Denmark. She was saying that she just did not understand why Americans are so difficult to get to pass what she called “civilized” laws and why we were so insistent on going our own way. My reply? When you (meaning Europe) drives most of the non-comformists to another continent, you can hardly complain when they end up forming a country of non-comformists.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:33 pm
Dog – “why we were so insistent on going our own way”
Not that you asked, but my reply would have contained the idea of individulism.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:33 pm
Nice Guy
“Hmmmm, nope, don’t think millions of unskilled and uneducated workers coming here, taking jobs and sending their earnings back home is “our gain.””
Think about what you said, ‘millions of unskilled and uneducated workers coming here, taking jobs…”
From our OWN milluons of unskilled and uneducate workers? And whose fault is that?
“…sending their earnings back home…” Well, part of them, for sure but, then, isn’t sacrificing your own selfishy gain to take care of your own the true American way?”
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:34 pm
Seeya SoCo. Rock on, brother…
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
8:34 pm
If Obama would make it cheap and easy for Mexicans to come here during the day and wash compassionate conservative’s dishes and cook their meals and pick their veggies and scrub their toilets and scratch their other itches and then get back to Mexico before nightfall, then maybe they would be all right with the illegal aliens. Obama needs to get busy on that. To start with, he needs to give us all a much bigger tax cut than that last one he gave us so he can afford to pay for whatever it is he has to do to make those compassionate conservatives happy.
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
8:35 pm
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
8:14 pm
I just can’t wait for the Republicans to solve the debt and deficit by giving us all more tax cuts.
Yup, in no time at all we’ll all have 3 jobs!!
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:35 pm
“but my reply would have contained the idea of individulism.”
Oh sure, but non-conformity is embodied in individualism and vice versa
Del
October 26th, 2010
8:36 pm
Fred, well if you did Hi/lo’s then you went beyond my humble experience but how much trigger time did you have in the bush. After all that’s where it really counts.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:36 pm
“then maybe they would be all right with the illegal aliens. ”
Trust me, they’re already “all right” with them…they just don’t want you to know they are hiring them.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
8:36 pm
Thank you Neal Boortz.
There’s your sign.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:37 pm
josef – “From our OWN milluons of unskilled and uneducate workers?”
I don’t agree. Cheap labor trumps skill when it comes to digging ditches and laying bricks.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:38 pm
AmVet
Well, the currency of Panama IS the US dollar…and it buys a lot more there than here…!
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:39 pm
“There’s your sign”
Oh c’mon Kam, why so quick to discredit?
Del
October 26th, 2010
8:39 pm
Fred, and oh yeah the Corps was the most effective American military force in Vietnam and it continues today…Semper Fi, doggie. just kidding, thank you for your service.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:39 pm
Well Amvet, I don’t know about all that, but I have managed to rub enough nickles together so that I can send my child to Woodward Academy. As to that “love it or leave it BS? It’s just that, BS. I never said that. YOU said you weren’t sure you wanted to die here. I didn’t say that. I didn’t misquote you.
I on the otherhand “most respectfully” offered to send you a couple of bucks if financial considerations were the only thing keeping you here. I will stand behind every word I utter that YOU vainly attempt to twist and pervert.
Amvet, that handle suggests that you are an American who is a veteran. One who has either put his life on the line in combat or was willing to do so by joining (or by being drafted and not running). That’s admirable if it’s true. But being in the military is not a precursor for being a Patriot or sacrificing for your Country. Congressman John Lewis was never in the military, but he did more to free more AMERICANS in his march on Selmar Alabama than me, Del, or Scout EVER did with our guns and blood.
Don’t put words in my mouth. You don’t have the depth of either thought or feeling to speak for me or to try to re-arrange my words. Try reading what I TYPE, not what you try to twist it to be. I would appreciate that.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:44 pm
“You don’t have the depth of either thought or feeling to speak for me or to try to re-arrange my words”
Do you use a dismounting stool when you need to climb down off that high-horse?
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
8:44 pm
Oh c’mon Kam, why so quick to discredit?
Boortz is a faux populist douche-bag doing the same shtick for the past +30 years.
I remember a time when the Atlanta airwaves was free of his sh_t.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:45 pm
Nice Guy
@ 8:37
There is that about cheap labor, but, still, why dig ditches for what you’d get paid to do it? And brick laying is a skill and, incidentally, one for which the illegal wage scale is considerably higher than, say, a dishwasher or commode scrubber…
Also, a lot of people would be surprized at the level of education many of those service personnel have…I work with a lot of these families, and the number of lawyers, engineers, teachers, etc, among them is considerable…
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:46 pm
Del
October 26th, 2010
8:36 pm
Fred, well if you did Hi/lo’s then you went beyond my humble experience but how much trigger time did you have in the bush. After all that’s where it really counts.
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In which Country and upon what Continent? I have participated in combat ops in over 20 countries on 4 continents.
Does it matter? Are you going to ask me how big my pecker is next or if your dad ever beat mine up?
NEWSFLASH: Viet Nam is OVER. It wasn’t our only nor even close to our WORST war. Quit whining about it already. Combat sucks period. You just do it and move on. Well unless you were in Nam and then you whine for the rest of your life……….
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
8:47 pm
Fred, anyone who tells me that Delta is ready when I am is biting off WAY more than they can handle.
If that was not your intent, then do explain this “I have zero tolerance for hyphenated Americans or people that want to be somewhere else.”
If you want to keep it civil, I’m all for that. The ball is in your court.
But being in the military is not a precursor for being a Patriot or sacrificing for your Country.
Perfectly said. And those who posit otherwise are likely still hung up on their military service and living those days…
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:49 pm
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:44 pm
Do you use a dismounting stool when you need to climb down off that high-horse?
+++++++++
Nope. I just hop right on off. When it’s true, it’s not a high horse, it’s just truth. False modesty is for the weak and oppressed. The cowards the …………. wow. I ran out of steam there lol.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
8:50 pm
And brick laying is a skill and, incidentally, one for which the illegal wage scale is considerably higher than, say, a dishwasher or commode scrubber…
No.
Del
October 26th, 2010
8:55 pm
Fred,
Don’t care how big or little you’re pecker is as it seem your mouth must exceed what must be you’re limitations. Semper Fi is a term utilized by a very select club…you don’t qualify. Frankly it doesn’t matter to us how many combat jumps you may or may not have made.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:56 pm
Fred
Jumping in here where I probably don’t belong, but going somewhere else for a spell, maybe just to die, doesn’t mean you’ve given up your loyalties to you native and beloved land…I will always be a Southerner and I will always be an American no matter where I go and what I do…this corner of Uncle Sam’s empire is my home and my roots sink deep in the very earth itself here…if I am able to choose where to go, it would be to go and be among a different people as their GUEST. If I am not able to choose, and that’s something all MOTs have to keep in the back of their minds whether they want to or not, that is another matter and, even faced with that, I would still be a Southerner and an American. Five hundred years down the line and I still do my part to keep ladino alive…America has made that easy and I am no less an American because I do…
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:57 pm
“You don’t have the depth of either thought or feeling to speak for me or to try to re-arrange my words”
“When it’s true, it’s not a high horse”
When it’s opinion, it’s not truth. When it is arrogantly worded, it’s a high-horse.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
8:58 pm
Fred:
Agree to disagree.
Nope ……….. I was just a “mud Marine”.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:58 pm
Amvet: I think thta says it all in plain English. What needs translated? If you consider yourself a hyphenated American, then that means your allegiance belongs somewhere else, hence the hyphen. This isn’t hard. Same with thinking you need to be somewhere else. If you think you need to BE somewhere else, man up and GO somewhere else.
Why can’t Americans just be Americans? You know, the melting pot and all that………. My daughter is in a youth choir. They had an “international” dinner for a fund raiser. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Come to supper at my house and you might get tacos, (Mexican), Kimchee soup, (Korean) fried rice (Japanese style), Cajun, (God only KNOWS the influence there, french, african, carribean, ect…), Okra, (african) Borscht, (Russian), fish picatta (itallian) the list is endless. Just what in the hell is AMERICAN food? We are a COUNTRY of immigrants.
Used to be we celebrated our similarities and united. Nowadays we want to witch about our differences and divide. That last don’t sound to smart now does it?
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:58 pm
Kamchak
Yes. An illegal brick layer is paid higher than an illegal commode scrubber. A legal brick layer is paid higher than a legal commode scrubber.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
8:59 pm
Oh Del, and YOU seem to hold the patent on who is and who is NOT always faithful? Bite me jarhead.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
8:59 pm
Kam – “Boortz is a faux populist douche-bag doing the same shtick for the past +30 years”
Same schtick, yes. DB is a bit much, but that’s your opinion, so…..
Either way, he does make some good points sometimes…
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
9:00 pm
josef
I’ll make you a deal, I won’t seek to educate you on the inner workings of the APS, and you don’t seek to educate me on the inner workings of the construction biz.
Fred
October 26th, 2010
9:01 pm
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
8:56 pm
+++++++++++++++
I’m with you josef and respect that all the way.
Nice Guy
October 26th, 2010
9:01 pm
Peace out folks.
Billybob
October 26th, 2010
9:02 pm
You sound more like Tucker every day Bookman. Do you call in to the afternoon thinktanks for weekly liberal template refreshers. In 15 years, the overwhelmingly conservative latino population of legal citizens will hopefully realize how much more in common they have with conservatives than the ‘anything for a vote, no matter what the law says’ dems. The illegal immigrants(of all nationalities) will still vote democrat b/c my guess is the liberal pandering to them will still be going on. Keep talking Bookman…..it’s too easy!
Fred
October 26th, 2010
9:03 pm
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
8:57 pm
When it’s opinion, it’s not truth. When it is arrogantly worded, it’s a high-horse.
++++++++++++
Well feel free to jump right in there Sport and point out the lies.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
9:03 pm
Fred
@ 8:58
Supper at your house? But, that IS what makes an American an American…we are able to incorporate elements of all the pieces that make the tapestry of who we are. The one thing we have in common, the one thing that ties us together, is our loyalty to an idea. We are the only nation on earth that is founded on an idea…that idea being expressed in our Constitution.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
9:04 pm
DB is a bit much…
Nope.
I forgot that asshat would pass the filter.
Del
October 26th, 2010
9:04 pm
Scout I’m not sure if I like Fred or not. Sometimes he sounds like a real veteran and sometimes he sounds, well uncertain. Do you think he might be intimidated by Marines?
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
9:05 pm
Sounds like there just might be possibly maybe perhaps a few on here tonight vying for pole position in that special club called the “half-educated” ones. Of course, that’s just a partially-educated guess on my part and there might even be another side to that story.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
9:05 pm
Fred:
You are a veteran and I will respect that. However, Nam is NOT over. Not for the 58,000+ families who still grieve.
World War I is over.
I think you are new on this blog so you get my favorite quote on Nam.
Once a Warrior King by David Donovan:
“If there was immorality in the war in Vietnam, it was that a democratic nation called her citizens to war, had them killed by the tens of thousands, and then, like a faithless lover, turned and scorned the survivors. Oh, perfidious nation!”
P.S. I did my thing from 500 yards on out …………….
Moderate Line
October 26th, 2010
9:05 pm
I showed earlier how Obama’s polls numbers have dropped from 77% to 57% since Dec but the post was cut for some reason. I wonder why?
Fred
October 26th, 2010
9:07 pm
I KNEW I shouldn’t have read a single comment tonight. Oh well. I have been summoned by SWMBO so I reckon I’ll miss the rest of my hate mail.
Regardess or what you think of me, you have to admit that it takes talent to get folks from both the left AND the right PO’ed at me all in one page of one blog and all in 30 minutes or less………..
Del
October 26th, 2010
9:08 pm
Very suspect when a veteran disparages those who fought in previous wars. just saying.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
9:09 pm
Kamchak
You know as well as I do that a bricklayer is paid more than a commode scrubber. I certainly do. Inner workings of the APS? There’s where you can see it clear as a bell…just look at the income listed and professions of those lunch applications…required of ALL registrants…skilled construction workers, legal and illegal, make too much to qualify, hotel workers do not…
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
9:10 pm
Very suspect when any veteran disparages any US citizen.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
9:13 pm
Del:
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt ……… or we could ask him what S.O.G. stood for. How about it Fred? No cheating !
Check this out also. The Army had the equivalent (counting all their indepedent brigades, etc.) of 10 Divisions in Nam. We had two.
U.S. Army (KIA) 38,128
USMC (KIA) 14,840
What’s interesting about those figures ? 20% the troops and 40% of the casualties.
P.S. It’s similar averages in Iraq and Afghanistan. The “few” do the work.
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
9:14 pm
“If you consider yourself a hyphenated American, then that means your allegiance belongs somewhere else, hence the hyphen.”
It CAN mean that. Or it CAN mean that I have shared allegiances. Or it CAN mean…
“This isn’t hard.”
OK.
“Same with thinking you need to be somewhere else.”
OK.
“If you think you need to BE somewhere else, man up and GO somewhere else.”
Who has said anything about need, but you?
“…man up and…”?
OK.
“We are a free Countyr here. You are free to leave. If you wish, I’ll send you a couple of bucks to help you on your way. I couldn’t stand the thought of someone being here that didn’t want to be here and couldn’t leave………”
Again, thanks for your kind thoughts, but no thanks. I’d prefer that you work on not making your first comments so rude.
Del
October 26th, 2010
9:14 pm
I think the only jump Fred ever made was off a kitchen chair playing cowgirls and Indians.
josef nix
October 26th, 2010
9:22 pm
FRED
Pi$$ing off both sides? A man after my own heart!
Time to check out, too, one more day from h3ll at work and then this round of can til can’t is over with!
Scout
October 26th, 2010
9:23 pm
Taxpayer
What is it when a citizen disparages a veteran?
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
9:23 pm
You know as well as I do that a bricklayer is paid more than a commode scrubber.
No.
You are laboring under the misapprehension that these workers are skilled.
I’ve had to work behind them for the past thirty years and clean up their mess before I could do my job.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
9:25 pm
Del:
Don’t do that. I spit my coke out.
Del
October 26th, 2010
9:27 pm
Scout,
Fred’s a fraud…Sempr Fi…I’m out.
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
9:33 pm
What is it when a citizen disparages a veteran?
What, Scout.
Hillbilly Deluxe
October 26th, 2010
9:36 pm
My thoughts on voting according to how many taxes you pay:
Paris Hilton probably pays more in taxes than I do (although with shelters, she may not). Without sounding big headed, does anybody really think she’s more qualified to vote than me or anybody else on this blog?
Kamchak
Your point is well taken. I could show you a high end house built a few years back, where the basement walls were poured concrete. It was 2 feet out of square and 4 inches off level. Of course, I doubt if the poor sap who owned the house found out about it until years later when things started settling.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
9:38 pm
TaxPayer:
I asked you first. No chickenclaws.
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
9:39 pm
Without sounding big headed, does anybody really think she’s more qualified to vote than me or anybody else on this blog?
I might lean toward giving her vote twice the weighting of John McCain’s vote just based on their respective performances during the last presidential campaign season. Her paid political ad was way better than anything John came out with.
AmVet
October 26th, 2010
9:40 pm
Paulo, my pleasure.
Here’s some more…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjZCwuXxQOs
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2010
9:40 pm
Scout,
It’s your question and we all know that you never ask a question that you do not already have your answer for.
Scout
October 26th, 2010
9:42 pm
Del: I hope not.
To All: Rhode Islanders essentially get more votes than Californians.
Hillbilly Deluxe
October 26th, 2010
9:46 pm
Rhode Islanders essentially get more votes than Californians.
That’s the Electoral College, which is the way the Founders set it up. Each Rhode Islander and each Californian has the same vote, regardless of means, as any other voter in their state..
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
9:50 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe
And the framers pre-build the walls and just stand them up transferring that out-of-square out-of-level to the roof.
I’ve seen shady sub-contractors pick up labor outside of Home Depot/Lowe’s at 2 workers for $5/ hour or 3 for $10/hour, give them thirty minutes of instruction then leave them on their own. If they didn’t bring their own food/water, well that’s just too damn bad.
The builders know what’s going on. In fact, their no-bid prices is what encourages this cheap labor cycle.
And schmucks were paying $900,000 for this product.
Doggone/GA
October 26th, 2010
9:54 pm
“That’s the Electoral College, which is the way the Founders set it up. Each Rhode Islander and each Californian has the same vote, regardless of means, as any other voter in their state”
that’s only partially correct. During the Constitutional negotiations some wanted an equal number of votes per state, and others want the number of votes based on population. So we got both…thanks to Ben Franklin. The Electoral College is one vote per representative – and that is ALL representatives, both in the House and the Senate.
But it isn’t the representatives that vote. When we vote for the President, we are actually voting for Electors, and THEY come together and vote for the President.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)
Keep up the good fight!
October 26th, 2010
9:57 pm
Each state has a number of electors equal to its total Congressional representation (in both houses). RI has 4, CA has 55. So now how exactly are you claiming that the smaller is getting more votes in the electoral college than the larger. The direct numbers demonstrate you are wrong. So I presume you are making “essentially” your qualifier.
Keep up the good fight!
October 26th, 2010
10:11 pm
Kam…let me know when you want to swap construction horror stories. Thankfully contractor licensing in GA is finally here..even if it is swiss cheese. But remember in GA, if you are working for an unlicensed contractor preforming work which requires a license, the consumer does not have to pay (by law)! And that means subs dont get paid either.
@@
October 26th, 2010
10:12 pm
Lawd ah mercy, this blog gets weirder by the day. Some of the men here?
Get mushier.
Gator Joe
October 26th, 2010
10:21 pm
Jay,
If all undocumented imigrants where to leave the country, voluntarily or by force, the ingnorant bigots here in GA, and elsewhere, would still be hating Hispanics…Blacks, Muslims, Jews, Gays, Lesbians, Democrats, Liberals, in short anyone different from themselves.
Keep up the good fight!
October 26th, 2010
10:23 pm
Gator…you forgot yankess, atlantans….
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
10:43 pm
Scout
October 26th, 2010
9:42 pm
To All: Rhode Islanders essentially get more votes than Californians.
We still have the same arguments/discussions that the founding fathers had. BTW Wyoming would have been a better example since it has the lowest population in the country.
There has been a change
October 26th, 2010
10:48 pm
Tonight’s House Forecast: 52-Seat Gain For G.O.P.
By NATE SILVER
If Democrats were hoping for a late surge to improve their chances of retaining control of the House, there isn’t any evidence of it yet. Instead, Republicans have generally had the better of the polls in individual House districts released in the past 24 hours.
FiveThirtyEight’s forecast now projects the most likely composition of the House to be 231 Republicans and 204 Democrats. This is a one-seat improvement for the Republicans from yesterday’s forecast, and would mean that they’d gain a net of 52 seats over all.
Don't Forget
October 26th, 2010
10:48 pm
Kamchak
October 26th, 2010
9:50 pm
Wow, I knew it was bad. Didn’t know it was THAT bad.
paleo-neoCarlinist
October 26th, 2010
10:57 pm
one thought before signing off. these 30 second spots are MTV nonsense and nothing more. you’d think Lady GAGA is runing for office… or, maybe Ted Nugent. here’s the deal; the talk of roving “drug gangs” and whatnot is the same old same old fear card. truth is, most of these folks are here to work, and as Kam and other note, they are working for the real criminals. who posted the stats about the percentage of illegals in CA “on welfare”? whose fault is this? this is no different than the employment or education “issues”. at some point a person must APPLY for public assistance (just as they must apply for a job, to enroll in a school, etc.). seems to me this is a “somebody is not crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s issue; and not a national security or law enforcement issue. we all need to stop looking at the “cost” to taxpayers, because if these folks were “legal” payrolls, and issued legit 1040 or 1099’s, they would be assets and not liabilities. so again, let’s take a closer look at the true beneficiaries of this economic model.
RB from Gwinnett
October 26th, 2010
11:33 pm
Jay, For your lunch bet…
Senate
49 R’s
51 D’s and others
House
228 R’s
207 D’s and others
Deal gets 48.1%
Scout
October 27th, 2010
12:07 am
TaxPayer
Suit yourself.
Scout
October 27th, 2010
12:09 am
Hillbilly Deluxe:
I was talking about their two senators. Essentially Rhode Islander votes count more/have more weight that some citizen in California because both states have two senators.
Scout
October 27th, 2010
12:12 am
Keep up the good fight!:
Again, I was talking about senators and the “clout” the have in passing laws.
Scout
October 27th, 2010
12:38 am
“Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has sworn in a member of her agency’s Advisory Council who is a strong supporter of the radical Islamist theologian who calls for “war” with the non-Muslim world and whose teachings inspired and continues to govern al-Qaida and Islamic terrorist organizations worldwide.”
This is almost surreal. This administration has lost its collective mind !
Scout
October 27th, 2010
12:40 am
“White Houise bristles over top Republicans’ remarks”
“Bristles”? Hummm ………………..
Scout
October 27th, 2010
12:43 am
“REID ‘FREE FOOD’ AT TURNOUT EVENTS
UNIONS ‘GIFT CARDS’ FOR VOTES”
You Dems. have no shame …………………
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2010
5:54 am
If you enjoy ragging on political adverts, you’ll love Media Scrutiny Theater 2010 with Brooke and Bob.
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
5:59 am
“Essentially Rhode Islander votes count more/have more weight that some citizen in California because both states have two senators.”
ohsweetjeebus … do they just not teach civics anymore???
or does the founding father’s intent of not having large/high population states riding roughshod over small/low population states just not matter (that’s why you have BOTH a House of Reps which corollates to population AND a Senate which gives every state equal weight).
good gawd. it’s way too early to start banging my head against the wall …
Doggone/GA
October 27th, 2010
6:40 am
“do they just not teach civics anymore??? ”
And the best part is they “announce” this stuff as if it’s something that’s been kept a deep, dark secret all this time. Heck, *I* learned it in 3rd grade!
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
6:48 am
Doggone –
shhhhhhhh … it’s been a big Dem secret! for 230+ years, we’ve managed to keep the majority of the electorate in the dark about our devious plans to take over the world through a bicameral government that balances the powers of the states in the Senate while also giving power to the people via a representative House …
… or something like that
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:02 am
Good morning all y’all…
http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/page/2/
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
7:02 am
UnU @ 6:48
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:03 am
…and a cuter one…
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/10/26/funny-pictures-moral-gray-area-cat/
josef nix
October 27th, 2010
7:04 am
K’chak, Hillbilly
If you check in. I’ll grant you I don’t know too much about concrete finishing, but I do know a little more than you might think about stone masonry. As you often say, apples and oranges there. The point, though, was and is that within the illegal labor community there is a wage scale heirachy at work as well. Any dumbo that goes and hires straight off the iconic Home Depot lot for anything other than sheer physical shlepping is a crook to begin with and anybody hiring that contractractor needs to do better homework.
Secondly, the point is, and was, that there are many levels of illegal labor beyond the day laborers just entering the work forces and those who work for established companies in a variety of jobs ranging from our fabled bricklayers here to computer engineers. Many of those harping about the illegals see only the day, laborer/commode scrubber, cook, yard man, etc,
Oh, well, enough of all that. I’m sure Jay will give us another thread soon on the illegals. It’s in the latest memo, I believe! And it does give even the most liberal among us a chance to bad mouthe “those people” with a broad-sweep brush…
josef nix
October 27th, 2010
7:06 am
Y’all be nice today and spare a thought for those less fortunate who have to work for a living…
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:06 am
Hell, Josef, you own Mississippi…you work for the fun of it!
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
7:07 am
g’morning Joltin Jo Nix! have a great day
g’morning Normal and SoCo!
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
7:09 am
so, how’s the hand, Normal?
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:12 am
today, 1970…
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tim-rice-and-andrew-lloyd-webber-release-jesus-christ-superstar
Loved the stage play, hated the movie…
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:14 am
USinUK,
Doin’ good. Back at work and using it ok. Gets a little sore at times, but all in all, I’ll be back on the motorcycle by the 10th…
Doggone/GA
October 27th, 2010
7:15 am
“Loved the stage play, hated the movie”
The movie was OK, but I saw the stage play in Macon – with the original Broadway cast, and NOTHING compares to THAT
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
7:16 am
Normal – more importantly … on this date in 1872, Emily Post was born … so, in her honor, I think everyone should go out of their way to be polite today.
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:20 am
Emily Post! Momma had her book and we had to do lessons… I have a love/hate relationship with her but I’m kinda glad I learned her stuff. Bottom line: Good manners, don’t leave home without them.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
7:23 am
Afternoon UnU!!!
On today’s date:
1988 – “ET” released to home video (14 million presold)
1991 – Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
7:24 am
SoCo – D-OH!!! I remember exactly where I was on that fateful day in 1991 … at Aunt Charley’s in Buckhead, sitting at the outside bar with my friend, Pete … the same spot where we watched every game in the series.
OH, the heartbreak.
Doggone/GA
October 27th, 2010
7:25 am
“Good manners, don’t leave home without them”
This isn’t Emily Post, but I have a feeling she would have understood the sentiment (don’t know who actually said it): “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Good doggie’…until you can find a rock”
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
7:28 am
off to a meeting … later taters!
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
7:30 am
UnU
I was in college at the time watching the games in my dorm room. I was heartbroken as well, but I still felt good for the Twins (long after the heartbreak wore off).
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:32 am
headed down to Maddows…going to watch her show. Be back later.
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:34 am
SoCo,
I remember that if you added up all of the points scored in the seven games, Atlanta actually scored more! The had a 13 to something blowout in there if I remember right. I thought that was weird.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
7:39 am
Jay
Here’s a topic you should bring up today!!!
In case you missed it, a “cougar” refers to a woman of a certain age who attracts — or, as is more often derisively said, “preys upon” — much younger men. The term is the counterpart to “MILF,” which is an acronym referring to “Mom I’d Like to (Bad Word Redacted)”.
Depending on whom you ask, either term can be described as an insult or a compliment. Australia’s The Age spoke to 43-year-old supermodel Cindy Crawford about her thoughts on slang used to describe the mature woman. She did not mince words on the matter.
“I don’t want to be a cougar, I want to be a MILF,” Crawford said. “I hate that word, ‘cougar,’ and what it represents. MILF is a word I absolutely love.”
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Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
7:45 am
Normal
the 1991 World Series:
It was almost certainly the most unlikely World Series matchup ever, as the Twins and Braves became the first two teams in Major League Baseball history to go from last to first in the space of one season.
Game 1 Oct. 19 MINNESOTA 5 Atlanta 2
Game 2 Oct. 20 MINNESOTA 3 Atlanta 2
Game 3 Oct. 22 ATLANTA 5 Minnesota 4 (12 innings)
Game 4 Oct. 23 ATLANTA 3 Minnesota 2
Game 5 Oct. 24 ATLANTA 14 Minnesota 5
Game 6 Oct. 26 MINNESOTA 4 Atlanta 3 (11 innings)
Game 7 Oct. 27 MINNESOTA 1 Atlanta 0 (10 innings)
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1991
Normal
October 27th, 2010
7:52 am
SoCo,
Total series:
Atl 29 Minn 21
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
7:57 am
Normal
Yeah. Other than game 1, the Twins won by 1 run each game. Kinda like how the Braves lost this year.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2010
7:59 am
Here’s a topic you should bring up today!!
For the Palindrones, it’s all about the GILF.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
8:01 am
dB
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2010
8:02 am
I wonder if Palindrones assess wimmins with a verdict of “GILFy” or “not-GILFy.”
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2010
8:03 am
Then there are the ramifications of being GILF-ridden, I suppose.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2010
8:09 am
One shouldn’t presume GILF by association, of course.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
8:10 am
The trade debate in the United States usually focuses on the jobs lost to factories in the developing world. But the recession has forced countless skilled workers in this country to consider jobs they would have rejected in the past. They now offer foreign manufacturers a resource that was far less common just a few years ago: cheaper wages for better talent.
“We are a low-wage country compared to Germany,” said Kristin Dziczek, director of the Labor and Industry Group at the Center for Automotive Research. “And that helps put jobs here.”
But the price of having a more globally competitive workforce means more in the United States could fall well short of the middle-class living standards that manufacturing workers once could expect. Wages adjusted for inflation have declined for these workers since 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/26/AR2010102607165.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010102607199
Welcome to the global economy and goodbye middle class of old. The new middle class will be the old higher lower class.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2010
8:10 am
And collective GILF is right out.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
8:12 am
One shouldn’t presume GILF by association, of course.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2010
8:13 am
Welcome to the global economy and goodbye middle class of old.
Old? not so old.
The cynic in me thinks this nation was never built to have a real middle class, and that the one that emerged in the post WWII economic boom was a little perk our plutocratic rulers don’t feel is worth sustaining.
But what do I know. Later, tators.
Mick
October 27th, 2010
8:23 am
**post WWII economic boom was a little perk our plutocratic rulers don’t feel is worth sustaining.**
Seems that way doesn’t it? Not all corporations are bad but the majority are only interested in the bottom line and directing the profits to the upper tier. Who cares about the worker, the country? Its all about getting as much as you can, as fast as you can. The people can be convinced to vote against their own interests time and again, even though in the process they are becoming the new serfs. Greatest lyric of all time, ” meet the new boss, same as the old boss”
Paulo977
October 27th, 2010
8:34 am
The official language in the US is ENGLISH??? Ask the Brits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bosch
October 27th, 2010
8:39 am
Hey look up top, my advertisement is up. Anybody need a dishwasher, refrigerator? Christmas is coming soon and I need some cash.
Paulo977
October 27th, 2010
8:41 am
World Series 1995 and DAVID JUSTICE nails it for us!!! That was sweet!
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
8:42 am
LOL!!! @ Bosch
Been stocking up on your auto parts lately. Added a 4th vehicle to the fleet last month.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
8:45 am
Paulo
One of my favorite all-time Braves is Sid Bream!!!
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
8:45 am
as far as the 91 world series … does anyone else remember the NL playoffs with the Braves watching the end of the LA game on the big screen (because it was jsut that close!)
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/tools/shared/mediahub/02/00/12/slideshow_512002_BRAVES+WORST+TO+FIRST+_760612.jpg
best. picture. EVER.
Bosch
October 27th, 2010
8:47 am
Thanks SoCo! Just think of the smiles on my kids faces come Christmas. You’re the best.
Bosch
October 27th, 2010
8:48 am
Big Sid Bream — if I live to be 100 I’ll never forget that play. It still brings goosebumps.
Paulo977
October 27th, 2010
8:49 am
SoCo …. Sid …he was great . So very lovable!
Bud Wiser
October 27th, 2010
8:50 am
One can easily see the value the left puts on being an American citizen, when there are select spots around the country (all gerrymandered heavy Dimmwittocrat), that are either voting on allowing non-citizens – illegals- to vote under the ruse that “…they pay taxes so why shouldn’t they be allowed to vote?…”, and/or are simply not checking id’s of those entering polling spots.
The hatred of American and all things American, particularly those that have been bought with our finest young blood (btw, you hate the military as well), has poisoned what you call your ‘mind’.
Things are about to change, haters.
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
8:52 am
yes, Bud … and we pee on the Bible whenever we can …
Doggone/GA
October 27th, 2010
8:56 am
“pee on the Bible “?
Darn! I didn’t get that memo, I’ll get started immediately!
Bosch
October 27th, 2010
8:57 am
Wow Bud, having a rough morning?
Bosch
October 27th, 2010
8:58 am
USinUK and Doggone,
Yeah, I forgot to put that on the agenda at the last Order of Obama meeting. I’ve been slipping lately.
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
9:00 am
Bosch – October was pee on the bible …
November is burn the flag
December is wish everyone a “happy holiday”
that’s how we roll.
Red RoveR
October 27th, 2010
9:01 am
“45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein.”
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
9:04 am
I’ve been an NPR listener since the 1980s … I’ve never been Saddam Hussein … not even at Halloween …
Normal
October 27th, 2010
9:05 am
I thought December was “To wish you a happy winter solstice”?
Normal
October 27th, 2010
9:06 am
Red rover, come on over…to reality.
larry
October 27th, 2010
9:07 am
Where did you get your info Red, I’ve been a NPR listener for the last ten years , never wanted to be Saddam. Especially not now.
@@
October 27th, 2010
9:10 am
SoCo:
On the MILF vs Cougar?
Cougar is, in my opinion, a predator. A MILF is a young man’s dream, but when my daughter’s male friends used the word to describe me, I took it as offensive knowing what the “F” stood for.
I did enjoy putting ‘em in their place with a “Dream on, little fella….dream on.”
RW-(the original)
October 27th, 2010
9:10 am
I feel like I’m imitating that guy on Red Eye that comes in at halftime to clarify things, but it really needs to be done.
The 1991 Braves clinched the division on the next to the last day of the regular season and while they did watch the Dodger game on the big screen at the stadium it was regular season, not playoffs. The Dodgers didn’t make the playoffs since their was no wild card back then. The picture USinUK linked is from that same regular season game and at that moment they had only clinched a tie.
The Sid slid play was from game 7 in the NLCS of 1992 and Tom Glavine also had a pretty big part of game 6 in 1995 when the Braves won the World Series.
/Now I can head to the forest with a clear mind even though I see y’all have moved on to other errr activities.
Bosch
October 27th, 2010
9:11 am
USinUK, Normal, and Doggone,
We need to incorporate all hate for the military into the ceremonies. Decisions, decisions.
Don't Forget
October 27th, 2010
9:11 am
Bud Wiser
October 27th, 2010
8:50 am
Watch Fox much???? Seriously though, just how does one become so bitter and spiteful???
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
9:19 am
RW – dangitall, that’s right! I thought it was the playoffs, but it was regular season …
whatever. it’s still the best. picture. EVER!!!!
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
9:20 am
Bosch – 9:11 – well, Rememberand Day is in 2 weeks … we need to get a wiggle in it …
Karl's Kwips
October 27th, 2010
9:24 am
It’s true.
Hope for change
October 27th, 2010
9:24 am
College … Graduation rate
University of Georgia … 82.4
Georgia Tech … 81.3
Georgia State … 57.6
Georgia College & State … 62.1
Georgia Southern … 57.4
Clayton State … 39.5
Kennesaw State … 46.2
Southern Polytechnic State … 42.5
University of West Georgia … 45.3
University system total … 58.9
Source: University System of Georgia
Racial Demographics at CSU:
White 34%
Black 55%
Hispanic 3%
Asian 5%
Source: Earn My Degree (or not).com
Karl's Kwips
October 27th, 2010
9:26 am
Then @@ woke up and glared at the empty nest.
Mick
October 27th, 2010
9:27 am
Best world series moment?
The marlins beating the yankess at yankee stadium in game six with josh beckett smoking hot…sidebar note: marlins the lowest payroll in baseball taking down the yanks highest payroll…
Paulo977
October 27th, 2010
9:28 am
SoCo ..that was a great crew in 1995
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2010
9:29 am
@@
I like that response… Dream on… hee hee hee
One can easily see the value the left puts on being an American citizen, when there are select spots around the country (all gerrymandered heavy Dimmwittocrat),
As opposed to the value the right puts on being an American citizen, with the gerrymandered heavy Republican districts too…
RW
I can never remember what game that was, but I’ll never forget that hustle!!! That’s a real baseball player!!!
Paulo977
October 27th, 2010
9:31 am
SoCo
That was a great crew in 1995 ..I’ll never forget little ol’Belliard sang in and interview “I do my best , I leave it tothe big guys to hit homers but I do my best” and he surely did!!
Normal
October 27th, 2010
9:33 am
Still, the best all and all thrill moment in pro baseball was watching ol’ Sid round third and head home. (I thought the camera had gone to slo mo, but then realized that was as fast as Sid could run…
)
Normal
October 27th, 2010
9:34 am
…but, having said that, after the strike, I’ve never watched another
game.
@@
October 27th, 2010
9:40 am
Kwip Picks:
Why would I glare at an empty nest? In fact, I revel in it.
It means, as parents, we’ve successfully raised an independent nephew (my husband’s) and daughter (ours).
Could not be more pleased with who they’ve become. Two unique and awesome INDIVIDUALS.
USinUK
October 27th, 2010
9:42 am
Mick –
ANYone beating the Yankees qualifies for a best moment
Foiled Again
October 27th, 2010
9:44 am
African American men preferred dealing drugs to going to college, because it is “easier.”
Paul
October 27th, 2010
9:44 am
Morning, all -
Just returned from southern Cal. In one affluent community I saw several major building projects – a swath of buildings continuously extending across hillsides. I asked an investment advisor what they were. He said ‘apartments. There’s a deluge of foreclosures coming and some have bet on apartment construction.”
The waves, they keep rollin’ over -
Paulo977
October 27th, 2010
9:54 am
USinUK ..My daughter and her family live in TX and I couldn’t hear a word she was saying when they won!!!
Paul
October 27th, 2010
9:57 am
RW-(the original)
Well, here’s hoping the Republicans’ quest for purity works out as well as the Democrats’ quest -
Paul
October 27th, 2010
9:58 am
oops, wrong thread. time to shut this tab -
Mick
October 27th, 2010
9:58 am
usinuk
Grew up in jersey and was a yanks fan….got to see mickey mantle hit a towering home run. My brother and I went over to see him before the game at the dugout. He was surly and not interested in any of us kids…probably had a nasty hangover in retrospect but I still idolized him anyway..
6 Days To V-Day
October 27th, 2010
9:59 am
Yep. Democrats are up to their usual shenanigans. Some morning headlines (NOT on DNCNN or PMSNBC or the New York Times for the Fox News bed wetters out there):
“Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid’s name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members”
“Angle campaign attorney: Reid “intends to steal this election if he can’t win it outright”
“Voter from New Bern, NC said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked”
And now some headlines why the Democrats are going to have their butts handed to them by voters:
“Employers in the U.S. are starting to warn their workers to prepare for slimmer paychecks if Congress fails to vote on an extension of Bush-era tax cuts”
“Democrats ponder eliminating home mortgage interest and child care tax deductions” [so much for being for the 'middle class' there, eh Obama?]
“‘Government Doesn’t Suck’ march planned” [a group of younger, web-savvy feds are planning to march on Saturday in defense of their coworkers on the sidelines of Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity."] Hilarious.
Time to start sqealing, liberal Dems. And please, we encourage your hero Obama in telling us to ride in the back of the bus [while it's about to be smashed into a brick wall of economic failure]
Paulo977
October 27th, 2010
11:09 am
6 Days To V-
Day
ElECTION STEALING? Sorry ,you have it wrong . The Repubs have the template for that one !!! 2000!!!!!!!!AND 2004!!!
Francis
October 27th, 2010
10:38 pm
Of any open border Liberal impersonating a Dem delivering AMNESTY, to the 13 to 20 million illegal foreigners over here is–dead meat. GOOGLE–Voter Fraud; or Illegal alien costs; Another concern is that the Democrats voted–YES–on, is “totalization” agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that would grant Social Security benefits to Mexicans, including some who are here illegally, even if they didn’t work in the U.S. long enough to qualify for Social Security benefits. Our Senior Citizens have been gainfully employed all their life’s and these demented souls in Washington, want to share our weak Social Security and pensions with illegal aliens? GOOGLE–illegal aliens and Social Security. Whereas the Liberal-Democrats use the spin, rhetoric who splash on every page of the Liberal press that Tea Party members are anti- immigrant and this is not–TRUE?
This is strictly about “Rule of Law” that coming to USA is a prestigious gift from the American People, who are represented by the government. Entering this great country without permission, is an illegal act against all Americans. Therefore this is a crime committed by illegal aliens–NOT IMMIGRANTS.
Less educated citizens have been brain-washed to believe that this seventh AMNESTY isn’t going to cost the taxpayers–ANYTHING. But ask Robert Rector, Chief analyst at the Heritage Foundation that taxes will go up, to pay the 2.6 TRILLION dollar bill. Slowly this federal government is growing and spreading and we can only hope that the Tea Party candidates will begin reduction in this monstrosity. Yesterday the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday threw out part of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, but left standing a section requiring registered voters to present proof of identification to cast a ballot. This at least can divorce most non-citizen voters from casting a vote. This is extremely significant in tight races, when only say 800 voters can have a completely different outcome to who goes to Washington or State assembly.
To be fair, every polling location should have one Democrat and one Republican and an Independent as oversight referees to check for absentee ballots irregularities. This is where the honor system is most weak. With the money wasted by Democrats, Republicans it would be prudent to have a national Voter Identification card, with fingerprint and picture to halt for good any form of spurious voting. Vote for Candidates of the TEA PARTY, as our agenda is to remove the taint of escalating power of an out-of-control government, shrinking its size, reintroduce the instruction of the US CONSTITUTION and return the empowerment of the People from the overzealous and arrogant politicians. Tea Party will conform to the citizens referendum and not to the Socialist plan of President Obama and the majority of Democrats.
Mark my words, by the end of this election, illegal aliens will have figured out how easy it is, to check off Senator Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and even Jerry Brown on absentee ballots? This is not just saying Voter fraud is prevalent in the Border States, but every state is equally at risk. Consider the situation that Border States are heavily impregnated with foreign nationals, more so in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. That Senator Harry Reid has promised them some form of mass path to citizenship, if they vote for him in this midterm. Now when illegal aliens have already committed one offense by entering America, so committing a second crime by voting is certainly insignificant to people after the first crime. The fact that potentially filling out a registration forms to vote at home, opens a gaping loophole in the voting process.
It is a certainty that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant homes have in that family circle at least one unprocessed person, therefore illegal entrant. That anybody can get from the Post Office, Drivers License Department a voter registration or by canvassers of which Acorn had the monopoly of this vulnerable system. Senator Reid has already proved this, by–BUYING–votes for himself, with free food and drinks. Other questions should be asked about SEIU union who have a past history of voter fraud, should not be allowed any intimate programming contact with electronic voting machines. or within certain any legal distance near polling sites. Then again, in Orange County Democrats gave illegal aliens the right to prospect for votes in neighborhoods. With majority leader Harry Reid promising-AMNESTY, that any new administration and then–whatever political party is seated–better take note of the public’s fury that the majority of Americans will not sign on to any form of Amnesty whatsoever. IF ANY POLITICAL PARTY OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY HAD ANY TRUE COMMITMENT TO HALTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, THEY WOULD MAKE ILLEGAL ENTRY A CLASS ONE FELONY?
The Tea Party will not become political pawns of the Republican Party , its elitists views like John Boehner or any philosophies that is epidemic of GOP demagogues. The Tea Party is a very large moderate Conservative percentage to return these United States of America back to its people.