Atlanta’s great collapse — and no, it’s not the Braves

strawman: You answer some of these questions and I will answer you rather dumb and contrived question about slippery slopes…deal?

No deal. We want you to defend your comparison of two consenting adults and an adult and an animal.
If you’re going to go down a dumb and contrived slippery slope, don’t ask others to answer totally different questions first. Just defend your original comparison.

• Link
• Report this comment

TruthBe — “Joe Mama, No the model airplane looks great. Sorry about you. Maybe next time.”

Fortunately, I’m not hallucinating. But given your posts, it seems you are.

• Link
• Report this comment

AmVet….I am convinced….LOL….it’s hard trying to cover up crimes like that!!

• Link
• Report this comment

GG: But what if the poor bitch is with puppies?

OMG Gran, I was laughing so hard at your comment that I fell out of my chair. The guy in the cubicle next to me is looking at me strangely and 4 people have already passed by my spot a couple of times to make sure that I’m o.k. and that they don’t have to call Security because I’ve just went crazy at the job!!

NEVER do that to me again granny!

• Link
• Report this comment

NEVER do that to me again granny!

Until the next time!

• Link
• Report this comment

jay bookman “I don’t get it.” That says a lot about a lot of things.

• Link
• Report this comment

More corruption in the Obama administration:

Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law
11:00 AM, Sep 29, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYSingle Page

Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve:

SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a solar-thermal project in Nevada.

The 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes project, near Tonopah, Nevada, will use the sun’s heat to create steam that drives a turbine, the agency said today in a e-mailed statement. SolarReserve is based in Santa Monica, California.

On SolarReserve’s website is a list of “investment partners,” including the “PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East) LLC.” As blogger American Glob quickly discovered, PCG’s number two is none other than “Ronald Pelosi, a San Francisco political insider and financial industry polymath who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives.”

But wait… there’s more! One of SolarReserve’s other investment partners is Argonaut Private Equity:
Steve Mitchell and Argonaut Private Equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Solyndra debacle now that the Department of Energy has given a $737 million dollar loan guarantee to a company backed by Argonaut that also lists Mitchell among its board of directors.

Mitchell served on the Solyndra LLC Board of Directors. He also serves as Managing Director for Argonaut Private Equity, a company that invested in Solyndra through the LLCs parent company. After Solyndra declared bankruptcy, two Democratic members of the U.S. House asked that Mitchell testify about Solyndra. Though he has not appeared before Congress, he has “been asked to provide documents to Congress” pertaining to Solyndra.

And for good measure, it’s also noteworthy that Obama is about to hold a big money fundraiser at the home of Tom Carnahan in St. Louis:

Carnahan, a member of the prominent Missouri Democratic family, has been tapped by the Obama campaign as its chief Missouri fundraiser. He is chairman of the board of Wind Capital Group, a wind energy company that makes it corporate headquarters in St. Louis. He formerly was president and CEO of the company.

Last year, Wind Capital’s Lost Creek Farm facility in northwest Missouri received a $107 million tax credit from the Treasury Department, among many such wind operations receiving support from from stimulus funds.

Tom Carnahan is the son of former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan and former U.S. senator Jean Carnahan. He’s also the brother of current Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan.

It’s increasingly hard to tell the government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program.

• Link
• Report this comment

Joe Mama, War Eagle!!!!!!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

I thought Jesus was the Son of God.

When did he get a promotion?

Chapter and verse please…

• Link
• Report this comment

Because “teh gay” is transmitted through contagious cooties.

Sadly, we continue to coddle those who actually believe this…

• Link
• Report this comment

Logical Dude, Better check your America History. GOD’s Laws will never be obsolete my friend. We were blogging about morals not laws on that subject. Thanks

• Link
• Report this comment

“I don’t get it.”-Jay Bookman

The reason you don’t get it is because you want to blog on macro issues yet you refuse to look at the most basic component of the equation and look at the impact certain government actions have had.

If you cannot even for a moment, look at a single business before and after the mandatory minimum wage increases and grasp what happens to the bottom line when labor rises 40%, and every thing else remains the same for that business, then how could you possibly grasp the larger macroeconomic picture.

Instead you try to compare wages of different decades, which has nothing to do with this one business in 2006 and the very same business in 2011. That sheds no light on the problem. That offers no solutions.

And when asked if the rise in minimum wage had nothing to do with job losses, then what would be the result if we did the same again today, you won’t answer.

• Link
• Report this comment

amvet @2:02: i guess the list is long on both sides of the asile

William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater – Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate – Filegate – Vince Fostergate – Whitewater Billing Recordsgate – Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate – Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate – Lippogate – Chinagate – The Lewinsky Affair – Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate – Kathleen Willeygate – Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate – Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate – Jaunita Broaddrick Gate – Lootergate – Pardongate

Edward Moore Kennedy – Democrat – U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

Barney Frank – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman’s Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.

DNC – The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct.

Sandy Berger – Democrat – National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.

Robert Torricelli – Democrat – Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.

James McGreevey – Democrat – New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.

Jesse Jackson – Democrat – Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.

Gary Condit – Democrat – US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..

Eliot Spitzer- Democrat – New York governor – resigned from office after being tied to a prostitution ring.

Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde – Democrat – the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.

Daniel David Rostenkowski – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prison.

Melvin Jay Reynolds – Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison.

Wayne Bryant – Democrat NJ state senator- was convicted was found guilty on all 12 counts against him including bribery and pension fraud.

Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms- sentenced to three years in prison.

George Rogers – Democrat – Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from 1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in prison.

Don Siegelman – Democrat Governor Alabama – indicted in a bid-rigging scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care.

John Murtha, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator.

Otto Kerner – Democrat governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 was jailed after the manager of two horse-racing tracks admitted to bribing the then- governor; charges were filed after Kerner left office he was convicted in 1973.

Dan Walker – Democrat governor of Illinois from1973 to 1977 served less than two years of a seven-year sentence for receiving improper loans a decade after leaving office.

Gerry Eastman Studds – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress. Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a teenage House page.

Hiram Monserrate- Queens City Councilman and state Senator-elect – who has claimed to be an advocate of victims of domestic violence – was arrested for breaking a glass over his girlfriend’s face. Monserrate, 41, a former cop, won election to the state Senate as a Democrat in November 2008.

James C. Green – Democrat – North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997.

Frederick Richmond – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer – pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Also – charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to a federal employee – pleaded guilty.

Raymond Lederer – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.

Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000.

Frank Thompson, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison

Michael Joseph Myers – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000; expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.

John Michael Murphy – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.

John Wilson Jenrette, Jr – Democrat – U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison

Neil Goldschmidt – Democrat – Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland.

Alcee Lamar Hastings – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Florida. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges.

Marion Barry – Democrat – mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison.

Mario Biaggi – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts.

Lee Alexander – Democrat – Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.

Bill Campbell – Democrat – Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts.

Frank Ballance – Democrat – Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.

Hazel O’Leary – Democrat – Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration – O’leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours.

Lafayette Thomas – Democrat – Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.

Mary Rose Oakar – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through fake donors.

David Giles – Democrat – candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape.

Gary Siplin – Democrat state senator Florida- found guilty of third-degree grand theft of $5,000 or more, a felony, and using services of employees for his candidacy.

Edward Mezvinsky – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges.

Lena Swanson – Democrat – Member of Washington State Senate in 1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of war.

Abraham J. Hirschfeld – Democrat – candidate in Democratic primary for U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner.

Henry Cisneros – Democrat – U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI.

James A. Traficant Jr. – Member of House of Representatives from Ohio. Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks.

John Doug Hays – Democrat – member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980 to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation.

Henry J. Cianfrani – Democrat – Pennsylvania State Senate from 1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison.

David Hall – Democrat – Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.

John A. Celona – Democrat – A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators. He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a $250,000 fine

Allan Turner Howe – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975 to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute.

Jerry Cosentino – Democrat – Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud – fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement.

Joseph Waggonner Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute

Albert G. Bustamante – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Texas from 1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and sentenced to prison.

Lawrence Jack Smith – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax evasion.

David Lee Walters – Democrat – Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.

James Guy Tucker, Jr. – Democrat – Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to 1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of the Whitewater investigation.

Walter Rayford Tucker – Democrat – Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.

William McCuen – Democrat – Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Walter Fauntroy – Democrat – Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation.

Carroll Hubbard, Jr. – Democrat – Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison.

Joseph Kolter – Democrat – member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.

Webster Hubbell – Democrat – Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges – sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Nicholas Mavroules – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office.

Carl Christopher Perkins – Democrat – Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Richard Hanna – Democrat – U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the “Koreagate” influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.

Angelo Errichetti – Democrat – New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.

Daniel Baugh Brewster – Democrat – U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.

Thomas Joseph Dodd – Democrat – U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use

Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. – Democrat – Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.

Jerry Springer – Democrat – Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.

Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. – Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.

Daniel Flood – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.

Otto Kerner, Jr – Democrat – Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000.

George Crockett, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.

Cornelius Edward Gallagher – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury

Mark B. Jimenez – Democrat fundraiser – sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses.

Bobby Lee Rush – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.

Bolley ”Bo” Johnson – Democrat – Former Florida House Speaker – received a two-year term for tax evasion.

Roger L. Green – Democrat – Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.

Gloria Davis – Democrat – Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking.

• Link
• Report this comment

Armed Liberal,

He got that promotion about 300 years after he died when a group of guys were sitting around in Nicea and decided to make him a diety.

It’s weird how when he was actually alive, he was just considered a normal man and never wrote down any of his teachings himself.

• Link
• Report this comment

TruthBe — “Obama will be thrown out of office in 2012.”

I think you mean to say that he’ll be *voted* out of office in 2012, but I don’t think it’s likely to happen with the lineup of jokers the GOP calls “candidates.”

“The Nation will get back on it’s feet once these communist are out of office.”

The President doesn’t even come close to being a communist.

• Link
• Report this comment

If Gen. Sherman came back through and burned it all down, at least we would have reconstruction jobs.

• Link
• Report this comment

RB – “The truth is, they’re being lied to by people who want their votes. They’re still poor and are being left behind in this society regardless of the promises made by Dems. I wonder when they’ll figure out they’re being played?”

What a coincedence. The same thing applies to you.

• Link
• Report this comment

Gold Star for Mighty-Righty for moving that goal post and running away like a 12 y.o. boy from Mark Foley at a republican convention!! Didn’t He make the comment that he thought most pedophiles were Dems and then AmVet came back and slammed him on it?

Well M.R., with quick thinking and even quicker typing skils, moved that goal post right outta there by changing the subject to CORRUPTION!!! You Go Boy!!

• Link
• Report this comment

MIKE

September 29th, 2011
2:24 pm

I thought that AmVet’s list was about crimes against “children”?

• Link
• Report this comment

Oil and gas industry holdings are some of the most popular investments among lawmakers and their spouses, and in recent years have grown in value, according to a study by the Center for Responsive Politics.

save us from faux outrage

• Link
• Report this comment

DebbieDoRight is on fire today! Go Nellie!

• Link
• Report this comment

Oh sorry Joe Mama and Debbie — I see you beat me to that punch.

• Link
• Report this comment

TruthBe: GOD’s Laws will never be obsolete my friend.

Then why did he need a New Testament? (Sorry! Didn’t mean to get off on a Religious Discussion of God changing his mind!)

No need to answer this one. We can move on from here.

• Link
• Report this comment

That two faced cat is cool!

http://projects.accessatlanta.com/gallery/view/entertainment/janus-cat-record/

• Link
• Report this comment

stands,

Berlusconi is a slick one, he is.

• Link
• Report this comment

“You mean that a strategy of cutting taxes lower and lower, of refusing to spend money to modernize the transportation system…yada yada yada….”YAWN—JAY BOOKMAN

Only a Socialist High Priest or puppet or simpleton would make such a ridiculous statement; as if the reason is because of A or B.

Are there not more than a couple of variables that lead to jobs coming to or leaving Atlanta???

I would like to know how Atlanta’s the crime statistics compared to the peer metro areas for starters among the MANY other reasons for jobs moving to and fro Atlanta.

• Link
• Report this comment

“And my God says it’s okay to eat shrimp — that law is certainly obsolete”

Oh yes mon. Shrimp & Grits IS the food of the Gods, dontcha know

• Link
• Report this comment

I guess being a Left-wing fringe, High Priest of Socialism columnist for the AJC does have it’s limitations with regard to business/economics and the real world; right JAY

• Link
• Report this comment

Oh yes mon. Shrimp & Grits IS the food of the Gods, dontcha know

Yeah mon!

• Link
• Report this comment

I, for one, applaud Bookman and his editorials for uniting our citizentry.

Feel the love emanating from the blog.

aaaaaaahhhhhhh yesssssssssss!

• Link
• Report this comment

“Shrimp & Grits IS the food of the Gods, dontcha know”

Yes, as a matter of fact, I DO know a thing or two about that — but in my world, cheese is a must.

• Link
• Report this comment

DebbieDoRight

September 29th, 2011
2:29 pm

If its a contest of has the longest, list that is, of pedophiles I can give you more but instead just google Democrat Pedophiles. You will have your fill. I just got tired of the subject. I prefer talking about corruption, sleaze, incompetence and stupidity of the Obama administration which will not be reported by the media. I know as a liberal you prefer ignorance of all things Obama. I am here to save you.

• Link
• Report this comment

HDB — “So tell us….why should a black person vote for a Republican then?”

I feel pretty sure that you want to hear reasons from the black person’s perspective, not from the Republican’s perspective.

• Link
• Report this comment

” I prefer talking about corruption, sleaze, incompetence and stupidity of the Obama administration which will not be reported by the media.”

Yeah, cause the media doesnt’ report just made up crap that resides in your brain, MR.

• Link
• Report this comment

Righty — “If its a contest of has the longest, list that is, of pedophiles I can give you more but instead just google Democrat Pedophiles.”

The assertion was made that most pedophiles are Democrats. Long lists of *Republican* pedophiles were produced to rebut that claim.

A counter-rebuttal would consist of a list lf *actual* pedophile Democrats, not a lame admonition to go Google it.

C’mon, Righty, I know you’re better than that.

• Link
• Report this comment

Bosch

September 29th, 2011
2:52 pm

You just can’t handle the facts. You prefer opinion, your own.

• Link
• Report this comment

Hey Mighty Righty…..this comment is incorrect…..

I do think most pedophiles are liberals. Weiner and that congressman up in Washington come to mind.

Actually most are Rich White Republican’s , Kyle the GOP Blogger did a piece on this subject earlier in the year and the Demographic is….. very Rich White Republican Males in Georgia.

• Link
• Report this comment

WHAT policy of cutting taxes lower and lower??? My taxes are going UP, and there are additional tax proposals on the table (SPLOST, transportation, etc.).

I would agree State resources have been misdirected in some cases. Very clear we would not agree in principle on the appropriate redirection.

• Link
• Report this comment

Joe Mama

September 29th, 2011
2:54 pm

Joe, let me help. Type in the word Democrat and follow it with the word pedophile. It wil jog your memory with some well known Democrat pedophiles. I could do the work for you but you will enjoy it more if you do it yourself.

• Link
• Report this comment

RIghty — “Joe, let me help. Type in the word Democrat and follow it with the word pedophile. It wil jog your memory with some well known Democrat pedophiles. I could do the work for you but you will enjoy it more if you do it yourself.”

Help yourself by doing your own work.

Your implicit concession is noted and appreciated.

Your failure to rebut what has been posted here is also noted and appreciated.

Your lame attempt to wriggle out of it and place the blame on others has also been noted, and is not appreciated.

• Link
• Report this comment

here are a few to get you started:

Gerald Steven Ackerman (b. 1956) — also known as Gerald Ackerman; Ajax Ackerman — of Port Huron, St. Clair County, Mich. Born August 5, 1956. Democrat. Mayor of Port Huron, Mich., 1997-99; resigned 1999. Arraigned in April 1999 on 14 counts of criminal sexual conduct involving children; tried in October 1999 and convicted only of the indecent exposure charges, with the jury unable to agree on the others; sentenced to one year imprisonment; retried in May 2000 and convicted on 10 felony counts of criminal sexual conduct; sentenced to 18 to 38 years imprisonment. Still living as of 2007.

# William Hackel (born c.1942) — Macomb County Sheriff, 1977-2000; Democrat. charged in November 1999 of raping a 26-year-old woman at a sheriffs’ convention; tried and convicted in April 2000, and sentenced to three to fifteen years in prison. Still living as of 2000.

# David E. Giles (born c.1950) — of Washington. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington 8th District, 1986, 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape. Still living as of 2000.

Barney Frank (b. 1940) — of Newton, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., March 31, 1940. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1973-80; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1981-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 2000, 2004, 2008. Jewish. Gay. Admitted in 1990 to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex, subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant, and getting 33 parking tickets dismissed for him; Gobie also used the congressman’s apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed on a 38 to 390 vote; a motion to censure him failed 141-287; finally, the House voted to reprimand him by a vote of 408 to 18. Still living as of 2009.

Sol Wachtler — of Manhasset, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1972; chief judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1985-93. In 1993, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for extortion in connection with his harassment of an ex-lover. Still living as of 1993.

Melvin Jay Reynolds (b. 1952) — also known as Mel Reynolds — of Illinois. Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss., January 8, 1952. Democrat. University professor; U.S. Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1993-95; defeated in primary, 1988, 1990; resigned 1995. Black. Baptist. Convicted in 1995 on sexual misconduct with a minor and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison. Convicted in federal court in 1997 of 15 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the Federal Election Commission; sentenced to 78 more months in prison. Still living as of 2009.

William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946) — also known as Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Blythe IV; “Slick Willie”; “Bubba”; “Elvis”; “Eagle”; “The Big Dog” — of Arkansas; Chappaqua, Westchester County, N.Y. Born in Hope, Hempstead County, Ark., August 19, 1946. Third cousin twice removed of James Alexander Lockhart; married, October 11, 1975, to Hillary Diane Rodham (sister of Hugh E. Rodham). Democrat. Rhodes scholar; candidate for U.S. Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1974; Arkansas state attorney general, 1977-79; Governor of Arkansas, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1984, 2000; Speaker, 1984; President of the United States, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 2004, 2008. Baptist. Member, Trilateral Commission; Council on Foreign Relations; Pi Sigma Alpha; Phi Alpha Delta. On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk at the White House in an apparent assassination attempt against President Clinton. Impeached by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his sexual contact with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted by the Senate. Still living as of 2009.

# Steven Effman (b. 1950) — also known as Steve Effman — of Sunrise, Broward County, Fla. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 13, 1950. Married to Barbara S. Effman. Democrat. Lawyer; mayor of Sunrise, Fla., 1993-96; member of Florida state house of representatives 98th District, 1997-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 2000. Jewish. Member, B’nai B’rith. Admitted in 2003 to inappropriate relationships with three divorce clients; suspended from the practice of law for 91 days. Still living as of 2003.

# James Edward McGreevey (b. 1957) — also known as Jim McGreevey — of Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, N.J.; Plainfield, Union County, N.J. Born in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., August 6, 1957. Democrat. Married 1991 to Karen Joan ‘Kari’ Schutz (divorced 1997); married, October 7, 2000, to Dina Matos; son of John P. McGreevey. . Member of New Jersey state house of assembly, 1990-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 2000, 2004; Governor of New Jersey, 2002-04; resigned 2004. Catholic; later Episcopalian. Irish ancestry. Gay. Announced his resignation as governor in 2004 after acknowledging a homosexual affair with his homeland security adviser. Still living as of 2009.

# Eliot Laurence Spitzer (b. 1959) — also known as Eliot Spitzer; “Steamroller”; “Client No. 9″ — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Bronx, Bronx County, N.Y., June 10, 1959. Son of Bernard Spitzer; married 1987 to Silda Wall. Democrat. New York state attorney general, 1999-2006; defeated, 1994; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 2000, 2004; Presidential Elector for New York, 2000; Governor of New York, 2007-08; resigned 2008. Resigned as Governor following disclosure that he had paid a prostitution ring for sex. Still living as of 2009.

• Link
• Report this comment

Mike — The claim was *child molesters.* You seem to be reaching a bit.

Righty — “You are the one that wanted more info. It is not up to me to feed your curiosity.”

You are the one who attempted to rebut what had been posted here with a pathetic “go Google it.” Stop looking to others to do your work. Frankly, I think you should man up, admit that you don’t have any supporting evidence and move on.

• Link
• Report this comment

Hey Jay Bookman, quit ruining our fun! We are providing a public service by teaching others not to deflect answers.

• Link
• Report this comment

You can say I’m skeered of black people all you want. Believe all you want. Make a joke of it. It doesn’t change the demographic changes and corresponding economic changes that occurred in South Fulton, Clayton and DeKalb counties over the last 25 years.

I base that on the first hand experience of growing up in South Fulton county, graduating high school in ‘78, attending Clayton Junior College, working at Rich’s at Southlake and Shannon malls until entering the military in 1982. Coupled with two years experience in heavy equipment sales in south metro Atlanta counties area from 2006 – 2008. Shopping, eating and interacting with people during those three years.

I like to think I live in a fairly diverse area. Of the 12 homes/families on my street: one is for sale, one is Asian, four are Black and six are Asian. Somewhat multicultural. So, I don’t tend to be skeered of too much.

Both of my children went to public schools; one is in college on full academic and athletic scholarships and the other is working his way through college part-time. It’s not how much money you throw at an educational system, it’s how much “parenting” parents are willing to throw at their children.

And, say what you want, the majority of violent crime in the metro area is perpetrated by Blacks. The bulk of which is Black on Black crime.

So, is Whitey a little skeered of the Black man. Maybe not so much the Black man as Black culture. And I’m not talking about African Black culture which is filled with a rich heritage. But American Black culture which currently embraces degradation of women, a bias towards playing the victimization card, a gangsta’ mentality and inability to hold their leaders and each other accountability.

So, let the labeling of me as a ignorant, racist bigot begin.

• Link
• Report this comment

Georgia is the new Mississippi . High poverty rates, low morals, poorly educated home of the Johnny Reb flag flying redneck that is armed to his teeth trying to protect the watermelons in his back yard from the black man. ( LOL )

• Link
• Report this comment

We all want the same thing. Job security,safety for our families,good schools for our children,the ability to work hard and get ahead. Until we unite we are doomed. Common sense for the last election was anyone but the republican,this time it’s anyone but obama. Give me a dem or a repub,but get bozo out of town becouse he’s completley incapable. When obama came to office I had hope. Two years he had all three parts of government in dem control and squanderd it by paying off banks,unions,insurance copanies and wall street. I thought he was for the working man and he turned out to be for the wealthy. He has not helped anyone but his biggest donors and i’m tired of putting our tax dollars in the hands of the wealthy that supported him. WAKE UP AMERICA AND COME TOGETHER! We have been shafted.

• Link
• Report this comment

Hope and pray Georgians continue to elect GOP governors and a GOP controlled house of reps……. things will truly get worst and drive some folks out of the State. This is the goal of the GOP and will have a one party State of Georgia.

• Link
• Report this comment

One thing I notice on blogs that highlight or even hint at Republican policy failures conservative commenters go all out and attack everyone and everything that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic. Can you say neurotic?

• Link
• Report this comment