An off-beat – but very on beat – way to start the party
OK, bear with me, because things are going to start off a little strange this Friday afternoon and evening, but I think you’re going to like it. The group we’re going to feature to get this weekend started is called Staff Benda Bilili.
Here’s how Wikipedia tells their story:
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of street musicians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They used to live around the grounds of the zoo in the country’s capital city, Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in rumba, with elements of old-school rhythm ‘n’ blues and reggae. The core of the band consists of four senior singers/guitarists, who are paraplegic (they had poliomyelitis when they were young) and move around in spectacularly customized tricycles. They are backed by a younger rhythm section consisting of abandoned street children who were taken under the protection of the older members of the band. The soloist is an 18 year-old boy (2009) who plays guitar-like solos on an electrified one-stringed lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can. The group’s name translates roughly from Lingala as “look beyond appearances.”
And this is what they sound like:
Sometimes you look around the world and you think that as a species, we can be pretty screwed up. And at other times, you see something like these guys and you think we might be OK after all.
– Jay Bookman
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Mary Elizabeth
October 12th, 2012
4:22 pm
Wonderful, in the life force present, beyond appearances.
Matti
October 12th, 2012
4:27 pm
Whoa! That’s *bleep*ing awesome!!!
Camel Spiders Found in Florida Everglades
October 12th, 2012
4:30 pm
For Joe Biden —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk&feature=my_favorites&list=FL01Q_BKgIhwBmUNEZOgj2AQ
Camel Spiders Found in Florida Everglades
October 12th, 2012
4:33 pm
more than 27 million views already — Wow !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKoqNJtMTQ&feature=my_favorites&list=FL01Q_BKgIhwBmUNEZOgj2AQ
josef
October 12th, 2012
4:34 pm
speaking of looking beyond appearances…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECmXi8dv9s
josef
October 12th, 2012
4:39 pm
FOR FRED,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA51wyl-9IE
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
4:46 pm
Sometimes you look around the world and you think that as a species, we can be pretty screwed up. And at other times, you see something like these guys and you think we might be OK after all.
Right on.
And rock on.
Frenetic reggae dinner music with some Paul Simon thrown in for good measure!
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. ~ Kahlil Gibran
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
4:48 pm
I give it a rising 8. It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it. LOL!
Thanks, Jay. Very entertaining. Best one-string lute player I have ever seen.
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
4:50 pm
And jonix, that stunning aria and the equally stunning Richie Havens that you linked, proved Gibran was right…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogJacjLTE
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
4:51 pm
So Pea, What does Susan Boyle’s accent make her?
josef: I love that clip.
Road Scholar
October 12th, 2012
4:52 pm
josef: I remember seeing Richie Havens as a warm up for Stephen Stills at GT. Richie blew us away with his music and then Stills and his band did an hour of old stuff and then played the Mananas album…in its entirety! Fantastic!
josef
October 12th, 2012
4:53 pm
don’t matter if you are the blog boss, just remember, one day you may need somebody to…Fred knows…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLXiGZsSn_I
Camel Spiders Found in Florida Everglades
October 12th, 2012
4:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw7aZXvLpw0
Mr. Snarky
October 12th, 2012
4:59 pm
Wow
josef
October 12th, 2012
5:00 pm
Richie Havens is the most amazing person to see “up close…”
Glad y’all appreciated the Susan Boyle…you could see when she was camping before hand that she was thinking, just wait, are YOU in for a surprise…
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
5:05 pm
Feel good song from 3 great musicians.
http://youtu.be/uRRW3aine6Y
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:11 pm
godless
BW Z is the man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8meYTGZW05A&feature=related
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 12th, 2012
5:11 pm
And at other times, you see something like these guys and you think we might be OK after all.
I can’t understand the mindset of people who are always negative. Life’s too much fun for that!
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JybkqBGrVs&feature=related
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
5:14 pm
I can’t understand the mindset of people who are always negative. Life’s too much fun for that!
You got that right. And there is enough misery in life without looking for more where it doesn’t exist.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
5:14 pm
Awesome.
Sounds like something I would hear on PRI’s Afro Pop Worldwide.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82BifytoYY
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odY8nff3h0w
josef
October 12th, 2012
5:15 pm
Another voice from the Crescent City for, well…we talkin bout attitude here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f4CyQto-0E
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
5:17 pm
Until very recently I only knew this as Led Zep song. Had no idea about its origins.
http://youtu.be/ye2N_2ce3QE
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:19 pm
Kam @ 5:14
Cool tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MBY-0_0yU
Tom Middleton
October 12th, 2012
5:20 pm
Reminds me of Youssou N’Dour of the world-renown Senegal style of singing (and playing). Here he is with Peter Gabriel in the world-famous “In Your Eyes.” But great find with Staff Benda Bilili, Jay. Where can I get a CD?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGao0UZmHpU
josef
October 12th, 2012
5:24 pm
another what you see and hear aint always what you get…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5KeGccP9Jk
Jefferey Osborne
October 12th, 2012
5:25 pm
Soweto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZBo-kWFE7Q
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:26 pm
USMC sure can hit a note
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPCs7vVz6s&feature=relmfu
Jay
October 12th, 2012
5:28 pm
falsetto?
Soldier Mom
October 12th, 2012
5:29 pm
These are going good with my well deserved glass of chardonnay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkfKGzX7rEw&feature=related
josef
October 12th, 2012
5:36 pm
You want falsetto? Go to 7:02 in this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOfGGjr6Aq4
tireofit
October 12th, 2012
5:39 pm
Quote from the movie Starman describing Earthlings: “You are at your very best when things are worst.”
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
5:43 pm
Afro Pop Worldwide.
Wow.
I discovered that program 20 years or more and was blown away by musical styles that I had never heard before, Brother Kam.
Long live PRI, NPR and PBS!!!
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
5:46 pm
josef: I almost posted the same video linkee. I heard the song off the record for many, many years, but it wasn’t until the YouTube era that I found out what everyone was cheering about. Roesmary Butler @ 6:27 is pretty awesome also.
josef
October 12th, 2012
5:49 pm
you can now go to the whole concert…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrKejQTynk&playnext=1&list=PLBEAC7FA49464D533&feature=results_main
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
5:52 pm
What we need more than ever…
Hiding in Africa
But nobody gets away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmr4olKtwq0&feature=watch-vrec
josef
October 12th, 2012
5:55 pm
That @ 5:49 has some “have to click pasts” in it….
josef
October 12th, 2012
5:57 pm
Heathen
That boy blew me out of the water with just those few seconds…and, you got it, on Rosemary…
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
5:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vIIZydXDqg
josef
October 12th, 2012
6:06 pm
A Fred song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDBUHOBn1I
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
6:06 pm
BOTH, my life is better for having met and exchanged a brief moment in time with Indie Arie.
We were at one (as one?) of my best homie’s wedding reception and we talked about Bob Marley and changing the world!
That chick is powerful righteous…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
6:08 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na6u8uOWt7c
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
6:10 pm
Jam
Way cool. Some of he tunes are amazing. Don’t like all of it, but the hot ones are STEAMING
indigo
October 12th, 2012
6:11 pm
ByteMe – 5:11 “life’s too much fun”
Your mommie and daddy must be in the top 1% or else you live in never-never land.
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
6:15 pm
The brother of the groom at that wedding.
I asked him what he was listening to at the time.
He said The Beatles.
Another awesome human being…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0wEkqCWoWg&playnext=1&list=PL67C8E454933468D2&feature=results_video
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
6:15 pm
floater @ 6:11
josef
October 12th, 2012
6:16 pm
indigo
Bingo! Our Friday night t*rd in the punchbowl…
They BOTH suck
October 12th, 2012
6:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70nS59JJVk&feature=related
Everyone have a great night and an even better weekend
peace
josef
October 12th, 2012
6:17 pm
HEATHEN
You type faster than me!
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
6:17 pm
peace and same to you, BOTH
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
6:18 pm
More Kevin. This influenced by classical and classic R&B…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9kc0J-yow&feature=related
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
6:20 pm
Going Down Under and back in time.
http://youtu.be/MeG-hNXXy6I
iRun
October 12th, 2012
6:21 pm
Jay, talk about offbeat, I hope you make it out to the Candler Park Fall Fest this weekend. Some of the acts from last year’s Linapalooza (the Mary Lin talent show, in case it wasn’t going on when your kids were there) are going to perform between 12:00-1:30.
Then at 1:30 – Spaghetti Junction (6th graders):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ntz6QlQF0s
At 2:00 – My Homework Ate My Dog (9th graders):
http://www.youtube.com/user/mhamdmusic?feature=CBoQwRs%3D
The headliner: Yacht Rock Revue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lERQ02p4HM&feature=related
iRun
October 12th, 2012
6:23 pm
Jay, I have innocent little YouTube links of children playing music condemning my post into moderation…please let them out of purgatory!
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
6:30 pm
Since the first post I made this morning was deleted, I find this to be an appropriate song. It’s dedicated to he (or they) to whom it fits:
http://tinyurl.com/8p6vuhx
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
6:31 pm
josef,
Since the topic is “off-beat” LOL.
This one is for you because of the time and place setting. I think it is an accurate portrayal of the era, don’t you agree?
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
6:32 pm
cwap! forgot the alt-e-p
http://youtu.be/JmcA9LIIXWw
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
6:34 pm
I sent you my first post this morning (including the under moderation tag) to a certain person, could you send it back please? I thought I had saved it to note but I was obviously mistaken……… I’m not going to attempt to post it again, i just want it for prosperity.
Apropo of nothing at all, I looked at the schedule for the Gay festival this weekend and didn’t see anything that looked particularly appealing to a ten year old. Is that the case or can someone correct me? I was going to take my little girl if she wanted to go.
iRun
October 12th, 2012
6:36 pm
Fred, she might like the CP Fall Fest, especially since the first couple hours are kid acts.
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
6:44 pm
Yo Stinkie, just for you. I read your stuff last night on request of someone, I don’t hate you. I don’t hate anyone here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxJ7OzhCTY
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
6:46 pm
Damn, I should have played THIS version for Joseph and brother St. Simons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CrHpq9c1G8&feature=related
Tom Middleton
October 12th, 2012
6:47 pm
Fred@6:30
Don’t feel bad, Fred. I got blocked from posting on Joan Walsh’s blog after a comment on 9/29 and have no idea what I said wrong. At least Jay has the basic respect and courage to talk to you straight!
josef
October 12th, 2012
6:47 pm
Heathen
Ya know, when I first saw that, it struck me as such! (of course, that’s a mighty puny Mighty Mississippi!
As for BG, this is my all time favorite of his…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOgv-UuTgac
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
6:51 pm
An old negro spiritual for Fred.
http://youtu.be/ZqsW_noBIjQ
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
6:53 pm
FRED IS FREED!
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
6:54 pm
that’s a mighty puny Mighty Mississippi
It was a long time ago.
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
6:55 pm
Thank you mystery person for sending that back. I was gonna post a thank you song but all the ones I know are love songs lol. ZZtop, Led Zepplin……….
How about this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN3E9Yyd1HA
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
6:56 pm
Culture Club?
Time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr7EhZvQT_o
josef
October 12th, 2012
7:02 pm
FRED
Thank G-d you’re back! Now I don’t have to keep finding Fred songs! Thanks for the video…you asked about the Gay festival…sorta like Unmentionable said about the Pow Wow “we go watch the Indians looking at the Indians looking at the Indians…”
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 12th, 2012
7:04 pm
Well, I don’t know any songs that match the theme tonite. All I want to do is, urge the nice ladies on here not to click on the link to Fred’s first posted tune. You’ll be ruint forever. Don’t look, Ethel, in other words. It’s pretty danged clear Fred never learned a thing from his time out.
Anyhow, I got a couple PBRs calling me up here at Billy Bob’s. Have a good weekend everybody.
Democratic Plantation Dweller
October 12th, 2012
7:07 pm
Obama is doing a wonderful job…just look at how much housing has improved.
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
7:08 pm
Josef, Kam: I’m back but not really. As I put in the deleted post right now I find the price of admission here too high. I’m not willing to surrender my manhood allow Steve to talk with impunity about my women like they are ho’s like he did Keeps wife and not be able to respond.
As John Mellencamp once sang, “I do things my way and I pay a high price………….
This is my life It’s what I’ve chosen to do
There are no free rides No one said it’d be easy”
In my words, I offer no excuses or apologies, just a great F’ing tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN-jaqezWBU
josef
October 12th, 2012
7:11 pm
FRED
Avant que je m’oublie, sois sage, Mec! Nous voulons que vous soyez ici chez nous à la plantation libérale!
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
7:14 pm
C’mon Os!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
7:14 pm
Your choice Fred, but know that I consider you an addition to this site when this place has soooooo many subtractions.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
7:17 pm
3-0 Yankees!
josef
October 12th, 2012
7:17 pm
K’CHAK
Back atcha with some Culture Club…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzAH0FtNwg
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
7:18 pm
Mystery Meat Dogturd in the punchbowl at 7:07.
For all of my veteran brothers and fellow Utopians…
http://bandsofbrothers.org/
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
7:20 pm
3-0 Yankees!
phhtttt!
getalife
October 12th, 2012
7:22 pm
Inspiring. I stopped reading and listening to all the negative bs.
This video is about helping troubled teens and it is graphic at the beginning but good at the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzzU7jFQwo
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
7:22 pm
And now, I can’t decide what to do. Leaving in a poutrage is so over done, (no offense Bruno), but I’m pretty disappointed in our host here. How he could let that insult to Keep stand is beyond me. I was told it’s not *my* place to make that decision.
I beg to differ. It is the decision of everyone of us who reads and posts here. What are we willing to accept? Many say I I go over the edge, others say I tell it like it is. Yet not even I would tell a poster that his wife was such a ho that not only did I have sex with her but she allowed a photographer in there to take pictures as Steve put it “on top or below.”
In speaking out against that I was banned for a time. Steve had no repercussions for his remarks. Jay decided this, and quite truthfully, you folks here enabled him to make that decision. Calling an asshat an asshat (or hole) is forbidden, telling a poster you did his wife and have pictures is perfectly fine.
I’m too simple to understand this and I think I’ll take some time off to try to sort this out in my tiny little mind. Regardless of the outcome, whether I come back or don’t or if anyone really cares about my dying swan act (I should at LEAST get a nomination for drama queen of the month award), I have learned from all of you, even the asshats and that is a good thing. I have been changed, for good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzrGFQysfYU
josef
October 12th, 2012
7:23 pm
FREED FRED
Well, this is mine for you know who when he does you know what to me…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTXb-ga1fo
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
7:27 pm
Now if the Orioles could put Michelle O in to pinch hit they could get a HBP because it would be impossible ….oh, nevermind.
Jay
October 12th, 2012
7:29 pm
Is that a drone circling over your house, heathen?
josef
October 12th, 2012
7:30 pm
FRED
“…. my dying swan act (I should at LEAST get a nomination for drama queen of the month award)”
Indeed, you should…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTXb-ga1fo
Tom Middleton
October 12th, 2012
7:30 pm
Fred
“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
And “In one ear and out the other.”
And my personal favorite: “Fu’k ‘em!” LOL
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
7:33 pm
Jay
getalife
October 12th, 2012
7:38 pm
Fred,
That is known as a goodbye cruel world comment that many bloggers use when they feel they have been done wrong.They get emotional leave and come back.
I have been banned on many blogs for speaking my mind and I laugh about it because I have been banned so many times.This blog’s owner just wants us to tone it down a little bit. That’s it, you can do that.
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
7:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpZAFqu0HkE
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
7:46 pm
getalife, just foryou:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxCUyy_aVzA
getalife
October 12th, 2012
7:46 pm
This one is for the gop from Joe Biden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYBi-F0ucTs
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
7:46 pm
For the conflicted Fred…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4RtUo5s0g
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
7:48 pm
Ouch. To getalife and the rest of you, I apologise for the crappy quality of that video. I should have vetted it first.
For getalife: Sorry about them Tigers and the ass whoopin’ they will endure tomorrow. Take solace in the fact that the Gators will administer a worse one to us Dawgs quite soon……..
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
7:50 pm
Jamvet: Speaking of cruel to be kind lol, look at this pic of Nick on his wiki page. We ARE getting old aren’t we?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Lowe
Martin the Calvinist
October 12th, 2012
7:51 pm
enjoy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJTUcY4PJmk
getalife
October 12th, 2012
7:52 pm
Fred,
Yes, South Carolina is a good team and we need some offense. I think the madhatter better change it up on offense or we will get beat again. At least the Saints finally won .
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
7:54 pm
Now ya’ll hush while I try to come up with another dying swan drama queen farewell…….. (any help would be appreciated)……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDQHjYIojTs
Camel Spiders Found in Florida Everglades
October 12th, 2012
7:56 pm
Just booked my ski trip to Colorado in January… Can’t Wait !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWLnaME0CI
Ric Flair
October 12th, 2012
7:58 pm
mitt Romney is stylin and profilin! He is putting in the blood sweat and paying the price to be the man! Woooooooooo!
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
7:59 pm
This is old Uncle Joe’s song:
http://youtu.be/GPiUuGLOSkU
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
7:59 pm
Fred, funny you bring up that topic.
I’ve been drifting back in time a lot today.
Forty years ago tonight I got off of a bus at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas; shortly thereafter my head was shaved and my whole world was turned upside down.
Four decades gone, boys and girls. Sometimes its hard to believe.
But I’m still a big kid at heart. (There are advantages to being immature!)
This was one helluva big song in October of 1972…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4RtUo5s0g
Fred ™
October 12th, 2012
7:59 pm
Don’t get me wrong getalife. I WANT you to beat S. Carolina and then have Florida beat them and us beat Florida so we can back into the SEC championship, but i just don’t see it happening………
And now I leave. I’ll be back when and if I can figure this stuff out…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNs3nK31DKc
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
8:00 pm
Yankees win!!!
josef
October 12th, 2012
8:00 pm
Is Indigo Carlos in mufti? And has anybody heard from the ever miserable one… ?
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
8:04 pm
Damn, Camel, I sure do miss being up in those high mountains, With powder up to my ass!
Another one from 1972 that made those cheap speakers sing like angels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq81-cGJr4&feature=related
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
8:15 pm
Fred:
http://youtu.be/UtREgyrxlVQ
Jack N. Oliver
October 12th, 2012
8:15 pm
I think the world is going to be okay like when I go o chik til a in cumming and they have somehow taught teenagers to be worried about customer service and then I go to a downtown govment building a realize that we r all doomed!
getalife
October 12th, 2012
8:15 pm
Thanks Fred.
It is just blogging.
Don’t mean nothing except writing your opinion.
LSU better crank it up.
This band will be at City Park New Orleans That place in haunted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw&feature=related
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
8:44 pm
There’s a light in the heart of your darkness
Let it shine, oh let it shine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srNvp7w341I&feature=related
G Mare
October 12th, 2012
8:54 pm
Welcome back, Fred, I think. You & I will probably never agree on much of anything, but I do appreciate that you say what you think. So please dry your tears & get past your poutrage.
josef
October 12th, 2012
8:59 pm
GMARE
How’s it going?
Jay
October 12th, 2012
9:01 pm
Lowndes 3, Valdosta 0 at half.
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
9:23 pm
Damn. I got Valdosta against the spread. I need a new bookie.
janet
October 12th, 2012
9:26 pm
Tom Middleton – thanks for the link to Youssou N Dour. I have seen him twice in person. Once at an old grocery store converted to a club on Buford Hwy and once at a private part in Dakar. Both were electrifying evenings. I love PRI and Afro Pop. Senegal and Mali have some of the best music coming from Africa. But it’s all great music from Mother Africa.
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
9:27 pm
Jay
just curious. if you and the
ajc don’t mind, approximately how many
hits does your blog get per
day?
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
9:27 pm
One of my friends has taken her in and given her codeine.
http://youtu.be/lDsOxBNIVrE
Jay
October 12th, 2012
9:30 pm
Frog, send me an email on that one.
Jay
October 12th, 2012
9:32 pm
7-6 Valdosta, Heathen.
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
9:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWebKavfuI
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
9:34 pm
Jay
O.K. thanks. I have seen a lot
on other sites that i’m
fairly sure originated here.
Jay
October 12th, 2012
9:34 pm
streaming http://www.useducationtv.com/default.aspx?sid=11705&pid=11706
Biff Wellington
October 12th, 2012
9:38 pm
Its important to look beyond appearances for sure. For instance a man in a Chevy volt hit my Saab and I was sure he was uninsured driving that govt issued abomination but it turns out he had insurance and they fixed my Saab and also paid out since settlement!
godless heathen
October 12th, 2012
9:39 pm
Wow. High school FB streaming on the www.
Jay has read the entire Internets, and all that was left to do was watch HS football.
Ira D. Idher
October 12th, 2012
9:41 pm
I agree Jay. I like their name as well. From the looks of all the wheel chairs and crutches I was positive that music was no longer an option but they proved me wrong
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 12th, 2012
9:50 pm
Flying Without a Photo ID – NOT GOOD !
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/flying-without-photo-id-170404264.html
But voting is o.k. !
G Mare
October 12th, 2012
9:50 pm
Still hangin’ in & hangin’ on, Josef. Surgery in the next couple of weeks, probably. As I have not been in a hospital since the early ’70s – as I may have mentioned here, it is amazing to me how many hoops must be cleared first. Am still waiting for the delivery of your book as I intend to take it there with me.
Back to topic, thanks for that Jim Nabor video. Wow! Also thanks to whoever put up the Susan Boyle; I had not heard/seen that – awesome!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 12th, 2012
9:51 pm
Biden/Ryan Debate:
“If a wise man has an argument with a fool,
the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.”
Proverbs 29:9
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
9:56 pm
Westminster — 0
GAC —————20
3rd quarter live on GPB
getalife
October 12th, 2012
10:04 pm
Washington 6.
St. Louis 1.
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:04 pm
frog music
m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=vDASOTI8SYA
getalife
October 12th, 2012
10:05 pm
Scout is full of it.
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:06 pm
damn cellphone.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
10:07 pm
Frogs have smartphones?
getalife
October 12th, 2012
10:09 pm
Was it this frog?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDASOTI8SYA
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:12 pm
getalife
yep. cellphone or google
made it mobile.
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:14 pm
Kamchak
yep. this little huawei m835
can do almost anything a
pc can, if you can figure out
how to do it.
Jm
October 12th, 2012
10:15 pm
I can testify that the ATL doldrums don’t extend to west Midtown bars
Jm
October 12th, 2012
10:17 pm
Getalife 10:04
Hard to pull for DC
Harder to pull for STL
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
10:18 pm
Frog
Just got my first smartphone, Nokia Lumia 900 and I got no clue on what to do.
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:18 pm
Jm
were you around 10th st.
1969ish ?
Jm
October 12th, 2012
10:19 pm
Godless
One of the best baseball games I went to was a high school game
The Napa v Sonoma teams
And yes napa was in red I believe and Sonoma was in white
I forget who won tho
I think napa
Jm
October 12th, 2012
10:21 pm
Frog
I was. A little later. But I was in a crib.
Please Relocate The Deer Crossing Signs
October 12th, 2012
10:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI8UPHMzZm8&feature=player_embedded
Jm
October 12th, 2012
10:24 pm
Frogs have smartphones?
Of course
They use the fly locator app for dinner
The pond app for socializing
And the Fried Frog Legs Restaurants app is their version of the child molester app
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:30 pm
Kam
should be a windows phone.
hit the internet explorer
button and you’re on the
internet just like a pc.
Lily
October 12th, 2012
10:33 pm
Jay -
I don’t know about the electrified one-string lute (LOL) – but I have always been partial to the sound that the kalimba makes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_F6gE_v3kE&feature=related
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:33 pm
Jm
also a fly swatter app so be
careful…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 12th, 2012
10:35 pm
“When wireless amphibians are outlawed, only outlaws will have wireless amphibians.”
– Thomas “Bufo bufo” Jefferson
Please Relocate The Deer Crossing Signs
October 12th, 2012
10:35 pm
For the cat lovers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeoT66v4EHg
barking frog
October 12th, 2012
10:38 pm
a wireless amphibian is not
as fun as a wired amphibian.
-Kermite the frog
Please Relocate The Deer Crossing Signs
October 12th, 2012
10:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=we+don%27t+need+no+more+trouble+playing+for+change&oq=we+don%27t+need+no+more&gs_l=youtube-reduced.1.0.35i39j0l3.237576.244474.0.247317.21.20.0.1.1.0.146.1278.17j3.20.0…0.0…1ac.1.2s4UUjy23sk
Please Relocate The Deer Crossing Signs
October 12th, 2012
10:40 pm
Wrong link a second ago. Try this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgWFxFg7-GU
Doggone/GA
October 12th, 2012
10:54 pm
Looks like someone was REALLY unhappy about the debate last night
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/12/no-injuries-after-shot-fired-at-obama-campaign-office-in-denver/?hpt=hp_t2
Please Relocate The Deer Crossing Signs
October 12th, 2012
10:55 pm
And this one is for the lovely client this morning who was a wannabe “Devil with Prada” and rancid booze breath:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY&list=FL01Q_BKgIhwBmUNEZOgj2AQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video
JamVet
October 12th, 2012
10:58 pm
Jm and digit boy, please go ____ yourselves.
At least until tomorrow morning.
Thank you.
Relocate has the right idea…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw3pWWQaHTo
janet
October 12th, 2012
11:04 pm
April 6 , 2013 Hugh Masekela at The Rialto Center for the Arts at GSU.
G Mare
October 12th, 2012
11:19 pm
Relocate, thank you for that no more trouble video! I saved it a few years ago, but lost it somehow. Thanks to you I have saved it again!
Thomas
October 12th, 2012
11:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6QwwvTtS_8
Chris Matthews had his uncontrollable tingle- Jay finally got his. How about a little Pat Benatar the Warrior to make the day complete for you Bookman
G Mare
October 12th, 2012
11:46 pm
Jay & Matthews are okay with me. You, Thomas, not so much. Oh, and please do not even attempt to mess with me. Nobody likes those who beat up on old women.
godless heathen
October 13th, 2012
7:41 am
Cards 9 Nats 7
Playoffs are hard, huh Nats?
stands for decibels
October 13th, 2012
7:44 am
Missed the frivolity of last night’s FNM, but I did read this:
you see something like these guys and you think we might be OK after all
Yep. Thanks for the reminder, Jay.
Jm
October 13th, 2012
8:48 am
Frog
Do you use the iHop app for your workouts?
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 13th, 2012
9:01 am
Good, good Saturday morning all y’all. Yesterday was the first anniversary of my Mom’s passing. We had a little get together, my Sister and I, and today we are going to the cemetery for flowers. Hard to believe it’s been a year. Wow. Moms’ favorite song…God, Mom and Dad looked so good dancing to it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57tK6aQS_H0
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
9:03 am
Jm
Yep. I’ve crepe’d up to 225.
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 13th, 2012
9:04 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uNvGHsRlc&feature=related
Mick
October 13th, 2012
9:10 am
Funny thing about music, sometimes it works and other times it doesn’t…I don’t think that I could watch a whole concert of that type of music…if I like, I like it..there are no other rules-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-BdGchS0yk
JamVet
October 13th, 2012
9:14 am
To one of my very favorite people on this forum; for you, my friend Normal…
Joy at the start
Fear in the journey
Joy in the coming home
A part of the heart gets lost in the learning
Somewhere along the road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywx6CIw3RIA
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
9:27 am
and a world away..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=VpnQsOJpzb4
Mick
October 13th, 2012
9:27 am
A little musical humor?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkKIxw_1fw
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
9:34 am
You gotta admit…this guy is cool!
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tom+jones+its+not+unusual+video&mid=392D879D9AF4F6534807392D879D9AF4F6534807&view=detail&FORM=VIRE5
JamVet
October 13th, 2012
9:40 am
Take a few of these
The sweeter memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-ctHzyVDFc&feature=relmfu
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:42 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_li_hMbk0sE
Mick
October 13th, 2012
9:44 am
stevie ray
Check out this nugget-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sV4TZ5c5Lc
Mick
October 13th, 2012
9:53 am
Actually, this one is way better…hats off to tom-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg0v0Er8Ak&feature=fvwrel
JamVet
October 13th, 2012
10:01 am
Wow. What a comeback by the Cardinals.
Between them and Raul Ibanez, it has been a crazy start to October baseball.
And even though the 79 year drought continues, at least Washington has some baseball pride again. So no more of that “First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League,” legacy! (These ain’t the Senators!)
Go Yankees…
G Mare
October 13th, 2012
10:11 am
Normal, good morning to you and thanks for the WE FIVE. I think I still have the LP.
Mick
October 13th, 2012
10:13 am
jamvet
See you are a baseball fan…if you ever get to miami during the season, you have to check out the new marlins stadium, very fan friendly and high tech…plus with all our fair weathered fans, myself included, you can get great seats from a scalper for under $10! Great nite out…
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
10:30 am
MICK
WICKED!!! Notice how David Crosby was in awe of this guy..Jeff Beck, Plant and Jones….awesome…thanks!
getalife
October 13th, 2012
10:36 am
The Cards did the same thing as last year. Down to the last strike to end the game and they pull it off again. Just incredible.
Mick
October 13th, 2012
10:39 am
stevie
Give mr. bookman credit, this forum can lead you to roots unknown hereto…it’s a gas! That would be helium-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNmWRXw0-M
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 13th, 2012
10:39 am
Getting ready to head out…
Jam, thanks…the feeling is mutual
—————
Gmare,
We have great taste in music, don’t we…
Mick
October 13th, 2012
10:45 am
….or maybe nitreous-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlOI3N7Hao
JamVet
October 13th, 2012
11:24 am
Mick, if I ever plan any trips to south Florida during baseball season, we’ll go together!
Yeah, the Welsh crooner with CSN&Y was way cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_8KR-n2fBQ&feature=related
G Mare
October 13th, 2012
12:06 pm
Normal, we do.
indigo
October 13th, 2012
12:28 pm
Normal
I’m sorry for your loss.
To live is to age. Even though we all know this, it doesn’t become meaningful until we start to lose loved ones and realize we’re not getting any younger ourselves.
paulo977
October 13th, 2012
12:49 pm
Jam Vet ……Gibran did articulate what some of us find it so difficult to do about what music is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
1:45 pm
Enter your comments here
G Mare
October 13th, 2012
1:53 pm
Normal, I, too, am sorry for your loss. While the pain eases with the passage of time, for me there is always going to be a time when I think, “oh, I have to tell Mom that, or Dad would love this.”
paulo977
October 13th, 2012
2:13 pm
Am Vet..@9:14 am
This guy taps into the music that goes beyond daily human struggle and achievement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS9EEy4Hxc8
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
2:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWiK3yL-ddY
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
2:38 pm
if you ever get to miami during the season, you have to check out the new marlins stadium, very fan friendly and high tech…plus with all our fair weathered fans, myself included, you can get great seats from a scalper for under $10! Great nite out…
My aunt still lives in Miami — I didn’t know the b-ball team got a new stadium — what happened to Joe Robbie Stadium or “Pro Players” (snirt), i guess what it’s called now……
Is the new b-ball stadium downtown where the old Orange Bowl used to be?
I would ask my aunt, but she wouldn’t know what the heck I was talking about…..
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
2:41 pm
Lindsay Lohan believes Mitt can turn the nation’s economy around by creating new jobs
I think we have found our winner for some more of those anti-Hollywood slams that the conned are so noted for….
By the way… live feed from Austin. http://www.youtube.com/aclfestival?feature=inp-lt-acl
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
2:45 pm
Lindsay?
Dis me if you want, but I think she’s a talented actress.
However, she’s not known for making wise decisions.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
2:50 pm
Normal – I know how you feel — Every time i hear that old blues song “I’m a man” — I think of my grand. He loved blues, barbeque and me. Very much. It’s hard, but every day it’ll get a little better — that’s my promise to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm7gVvUuZkE
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
2:59 pm
Kam, naw, I would not dis you. I think she’s been a fine actress. Like Britney a number of other celebs, its her personal decisions that have been questionable. But we all have question decisions in our lives, they just are not spread all over the gossip news. I once saw an episode of SuperTrain.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
3:05 pm
Well, Keep, since it’s confession time — I still have yet to see The Exorcist.
And I thought for a second about seeing Atlas Shrugged, then I fell into a fit of uncontrolled laughter.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
3:15 pm
And I thought for a second about seeing Atlas Shrugged, then I fell into a fit of uncontrolled laughter
So camping out in line for the premier of Atlas Shrugged 2: Dumb & Dumber is out of the question?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
3:19 pm
Keep
I’m a big fan of Samantha Mathis, and it was a bold move to change actresses midway thru the story — especially such a main character as Dagny Taggart.
getalife
October 13th, 2012
3:23 pm
She expects a different result from the gop.
Some never learn from mistakes so we repeat them.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
3:23 pm
Ahhh…. the old Bewitch husband exchange protest. Got it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
3:28 pm
Oh dear, preliminary numbers are in and it only grossed $692,000 in 1012 theaters.
http://www.the-numbers.com/daily-box-office-chart
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
3:34 pm
Kamchak
What about standing in line to see “Stand Your Ground: Bus Driver Strikes Back”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-dRSqJRI_Y
*Disclaimer: I don’t condone violence, especially when it’s a man hitting on a woman. However, given the potential for younger people to carry weapons and use them, I understand this man’s reaction after being hit and spit on. I only wish he had called the police to handle things instead of trying to handle things on his own.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
3:37 pm
Jenna Jameson has endorsed Romney.
(h/t Wonkette)
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
3:42 pm
SoCo/Bro
Holy crap, that was an uppercut.
I don’t see how that didn’t knock her out.
She was also stupid enough to climb back on the bus.
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
3:47 pm
Kamchak
We were wondering the same thing at work. I think Mike Tyson was the last person I saw deliver one like that. It made the news in Cleveland after the video went viral. The news media interviewed the girl, but when they showed footage of the video, they didn’t include the part where she pushed the driver before he got up.
Mary Elizabeth
October 13th, 2012
3:50 pm
Warning – very sad content in link, below.
This video is about a young teen who committed suicide as a result of bullying, including cyberbullying. I’m posting it here (a public blog) because something in me (the teacher, I suppose) wants to help that young, vulnerable girl make her life count for something important, as she had wanted through having enough inner strength to make her video.
http://perezitos.com/2012-10-12-bullied-teen-releases-anti-suicide-video-then-kills-herself/?from=PH
Jay is dumb.
October 13th, 2012
3:52 pm
Buy here, buy now. Jay is dumb tshirts! ONLY $9.99!
Doggone/GA
October 13th, 2012
4:20 pm
“Buy here, buy now. Jay is dumb tshirts! ONLY $9.99!”
And now we know someone who’t actually dumber than he thinks Jay is
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
4:29 pm
Mary Elizabeth
A sad and cautionary tale for parent about their children and the internet. It would be too easy to say that girl is to blame because it was her action that initially opened the door for blackmail.
But children don’t always know better and can be easily coerced.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
4:37 pm
I know you all are excited about the second installment of Atlas Shrugged…suggest you read the book first…also, helpful if you put her philosophy of objectivism (rubbish) aside if you are liberally capable…she was brought up in Stalins Russia where everyone was considered equal…thus, her story lines portray a society of a blend of those who want everyone to conform…these are the stories of those who didn’t fit….Great read for the unbiased reader who appreciates the top 100 or so works of fiction..
Also, we have talked about all of the GOP lies…anyone want to have a go at the DEM lies??
Mick
October 13th, 2012
4:37 pm
kam
If you haven’t seen the exorcist, maybe you should take a pass. It’s the only movie that I do not like to watch because it was way too well done, it is genuinely freaky. Now, there are many that blow it off, but I will not watch it-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN9p-XCCRwU&feature=related
getalife
October 13th, 2012
4:48 pm
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-vice-presidential-debate-joe-biden-was-right-to-laugh-20121012
Nuff said
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
4:50 pm
MICK et al,
Scariest movie of all time…I have the remastered with additional scenes as well as the directors cut which is gas…the ideas the director was attempting to film are fascinating when heard in his voice..
There is one additional scene of her scampering down the stairs stretched over her back with legs and arms acting as a spiders legs…blood was also involved…every time is see it goosebumps envelop by body…
Doggone/GA
October 13th, 2012
4:55 pm
“It’s the only movie that I do not like to watch because it was way too well done”
That’s interesting…because I found it boring. And it’s one of the reasons I seldom (try never) watch movies that are anything like it. I figured if THAT one was boring, the others certainly will be. But I agree was quite well done.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
4:55 pm
GETALIFE
All this brilliance from a guy who describes himself in beginning paragraphs as.. paid obnoxious-opinion-merchants like me”
Have you ever ONCE made any effort to study both sides and arrive at your own conclusion?
Perhaps you should consider the bald faced lies your snake oil salesman posted…no difference between the two but you’d be surprised what personality profiles reveal of those who use childlike giggling, laughing and head shaking…can you imagine him negotiating with Iran?
Mick
October 13th, 2012
5:06 pm
Here’s my take of the debates after having a couple of days to simmer down:
Romney/biden – the basterds
Obama/ryan – the cerebrals
Rearrange their names in the order of your choice for this tune-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJqa5BKa57w
Woodstock Mike
October 13th, 2012
5:07 pm
It’s sad when you see African American conservatives being bashed for supporting Mitt Romney, if you are African American you’re not required to vote for Obama because he is black. In fact, every statistic shows clearly African Americans have done worse in the past 4 years than any race in America.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
5:11 pm
Mick
When The Exorcist first came out, I guess it was my attempt to be different from everyone who “just had to see it” and then it became a ho,hum no big deal thing. I do wonder if there is something there that I have missed as I really like Max von Sydow.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I know you all are excited about the second installment of Atlas Shrugged…suggest you read the book first…
Perhaps you should consider the bald faced lies your snake oil salesman
postedwrote…Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
5:13 pm
It’s sad when you see African American conservatives being bashed for supporting Mitt Romney…
It’s hilarious when I see people come here day after day seeking to transfer the responsibility for their own sadness on to others in an amateur display of passive/aggression.
G Mare
October 13th, 2012
5:20 pm
The EXORCIST is the scariest book I have ever read. For weeks afterword I got up every few hours to check my children. Also slept with my rosary for months. Of course, in my Catholic schooling, the priests actually talked to us about exorcism. SHUDDER!
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
5:32 pm
SoCoBro: We were wondering the same thing at work. I think Mike Tyson was the last person I saw deliver one like that. It made the news in Cleveland after the video went viral. The news media interviewed the girl, but when they showed footage of the video, they didn’t include the part where she pushed the driver before he got up.
That was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. It didn’t take an uppercut to put down some 5 foot girl; especially when he outweighed her by a couple of pounds. so what she pushed him — his punk azz manhood was hurt because of a push?
She MIGHT of had a weapon, or she MIGHT have been pregnant — lots of MIGHTS there. He was angry because she was “talking back” and standing up to him — hence the uppercut. I had NOTHING to do with the push.
His punk azz better hope and pray that this girl doesn’t have anyone to stand up for her — someone who really DOES have a weapon.
Mary Elizabeth
October 13th, 2012
5:32 pm
Kamchak, 4:29 pm
“It would be too easy to say that girl is to blame because it was her action that initially opened the door for blackmail. But children don’t always know better and can be easily coerced.”
==================================
Thank you for taking the time to read and view Amanda Todd’s story, Kamchak. I agree with your above words.
I want to say to all that, imo, almost all 15 year olds should not be harshly judged in the “choices” that they make, even in their choice to drop out of school. At that age, most are products of their circumstances, and some don’t always have the most insightful or emotionally strong parents, themselves, to guide them. We should try to nuture and understand, rather than to judge, I think. And, as a society of hopefully caring people, we should try to discourage bullying from happening in any environment.
Parents of the bully must, also, be aware of their children’s actions and help them to understand the destructiveness of their actions not only to their victims, but to themselves. “It takes a village. . .”
Beautiful day today and tomorrow. I hope all will enjoy the weekend.
Thomas
October 13th, 2012
5:36 pm
It’s hilarious when I see people come here day after day seeking to transfer the responsibility for their own sadness on to others in an amateur display of passive/aggression
ditto when pasty arse white folks continue to support all white executive males in public companies. Why can’t they be left to their own devices?
Learning lesson today- all white executive teams screams for bias, cronyism, racism, while 90+% vote for a canditate by a particular race or gender is a good thing.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
5:37 pm
WMike: It’s sad when you see African American conservatives being bashed for supporting Mitt Romney, if you are African American you’re not required to vote for Obama because he is black
Have no fear WMike – I’m a equal opportunity basher, I bash White American Conservatives too.
Mick
October 13th, 2012
5:37 pm
debbie
The new marlins park is on the site of the old orange bowl. Saw some great games there in 72 but the new park is killer, nothing wrong with the upgrade…
godless heathen
October 13th, 2012
5:40 pm
Went to the see The Exorcist as I was coming dpwn with the flu. Spent the next 24 hours in bed with those bad dreams you have when you have a fever. I thought I was possessed.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
5:41 pm
Learned lesson today: Add Thomas to scroll list.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
5:53 pm
Kamchak,
Why do you evade any discussion of the lies your team has made? GOP made it’s share…is it really that difficult for you’all?
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
5:54 pm
It’s sad when you see African American conservatives being bashed for supporting Mitt Romney
It’s sad when you see Black Americans being bashed for exercising their freedoms and supporting Democratic candidates. I don’t hear you whining about that bashing though.
if you are African American you’re not required to vote for Obama because he is black.
And nobody, other than ill-informed conservatives ever assert that Black Americans HAVE to vote for Obama either. We Black people already know we don’t have to support anybody because of the melanin content of the basal layer of their epidermis. We just can’t seem to get that through the thick skulls of some of y’all Caucasian Americans that can’t seem to grasp reality.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
5:55 pm
Best exocist scene…Carl the house guy is sitting outside girls room while devil raising hell while she is strapped down…priest arrives and ask Carl what’s going on…Carl responds..”it wants no straps..”
G Mare
October 13th, 2012
5:55 pm
Kam re scroll list:
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
6:01 pm
DDR
Had she not spit on and hit the driver, I’d agree with you. Also, I said that things would have been best handled by the driver had he called the police.
It should be a lesson to all parties involved including the people who witnessed the incident. If you don’t know the person, you have no idea of their mental state, their physical abilities/skills, or their thought process. From what I read, I think the girl was drunk, although the news report says she was on her way to work. Dude could be a Vietnam Vet with PSTD and flashbacks.
If somebody goes after that driver because of the girl, then they might wanna ensure that he’s not armed and prepared for such a strike. It’s just best to leave well enough alone at times. That’s why we have a court system.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
6:08 pm
Why do you evade any discussion of the lies your team has made?
And which “team” is that?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
6:20 pm
KAMCHAK
If I am mistaken that you are a BO/Biden supporter please accept my apologies…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
6:27 pm
Again — especially for those of you still in the cheap seats:
I SUPPORTED JUAN McSAME AND SNOWBILLY SNOOKI IN THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 13th, 2012
6:30 pm
Wow, so I guess you are voting for Romney this go around..again forgive me for suggesting otherwise…got you confused with others…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
6:32 pm
Wow, so I guess you still haven’t learned not to assume. You haven’t confused me at all
moonbat betty
October 13th, 2012
6:37 pm
Kam voted for mcsame and snooki?
Why Kamcack? Why!?
moonbat betty
October 13th, 2012
6:38 pm
Kamchack must “be a pepper”…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
6:41 pm
Why Kamcack? Why!?
I didn’t want a democrat anywhere near the White House after the clusterf*ck that was Bush. I knew that it would take time to clean up after that f*cktard and all residual fallout would be attached to a democrat.
Three and a half years of conservative comments on this site has confirmed that.
moonbat betty
October 13th, 2012
6:47 pm
You’re a great American, Kamchak!
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
6:51 pm
Three and a half years of conservative comments on this site has confirmed that.
GIve that man a standing ovation!!!!!!!!!
josef
October 13th, 2012
6:52 pm
Boy, I’m glad I didn’t come in tonight to be cheered up…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
6:54 pm
Boy, I’m glad I didn’t come in tonight to be cheered up…
Two words: Delusional Lickspittle.
josef
October 13th, 2012
6:57 pm
K’CHAK
I’m in a pretty good mood today…the holiday season is upon us and I’ve been in the spirit. Halloween candy for the invading horde of l’il snot noses, family planning for Thanksgiving and I’ve even gotten started on the Christmas decorations…!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
7:05 pm
josef
I had to go to Sam’s for mom this past week and the xmas decorations are front and center already.
Damn, where in the hell does the time go?
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
7:06 pm
Damn, where in the hell does the time go?
The cash register?
TaxPayer
October 13th, 2012
7:07 pm
Don’t think. Be Republican.
josef
October 13th, 2012
7:08 pm
K’CHAK
Count me among those who thinks that Christmas sh*t doesn’t go up and out until at least the Friday after Thanksgiving. Next thing you know, the younguns’ll be coming trick or treating dressed as Pilgrims and Santa Claus!
The decorations for Baby Jesus birthday this year, though, are going to take some time to pull together and have ready.
josef
October 13th, 2012
7:10 pm
BROSEPHUS
“Angels we have heart on high,
urge us to go out and buy…!”
–Thomas Balthazar Jefferson
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:16 pm
Mick: The new marlins park is on the site of the old orange bowl. Saw some great games there in 72 but the new park is killer, nothing wrong with the upgrade…
So where do the Hurricanes Play?
Stevie: Why do you evade any discussion of the lies your team has made? GOP made it’s share…is it really that difficult for you’all?
Stevie — can’t speak for Kam, but I have forgotten a lot of those lies. Do you think that you can list all of them so that i can respond to them? Possibly, the best thing would be to list all the lies the dems have told in the past 30 years. Just to make sure we get them all.
SoCoBro: We Black people already know we don’t have to support anybody because of the melanin content
I supported Obama’s white side.
Bro: From what I read, I think the girl was drunk, although the news report says she was on her way to work. Dude could be a Vietnam Vet with PSTD and flashbacks.
Uh huh — from her actions that I saw, since it wasn’t posted what happened BEFORE that caused the argument in the first place, this GIRL could be a PTSD survivor. Lots of victims are angry for no reason, restless, can’t coordinate their thoughts, etc. For her to have told a man 3x her size to “Come on!” means that SHE had issues, not so much him. He, IMO, was just a punk azz.
Mary Elizabeth – I’ve heard and seen the video that you referenced. Very sad. I’ve learned that when my niece gets older, (nephew too), I will have to be super vigilante with internet access.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
7:18 pm
Billionaire William Koch is facing a lawsuit in federal court from a former top-level employee who claims the energy mogul lured him to a secluded property, where he was imprisoned and interrogated for a period of time, according to a report in Courthouse News.
John Houston Scott, an attorney for Kirby Martenson, a former executive for a number of Koch subsidiaries, confirmed the story to HuffPost, adding that he guessed the case could go to trial in a year. …
Martensen alleges that the multiple-day-long incident was set off by an anonymous letter accusing Martensen of mismanaging and stealing from Oxbow Carbon & Minerals International while serving as the company’s vice president. That accusation prompted the company’s leadership to read Martensen’s letters and emails without his knowledge, the suit charges, which led the company to discover that Martensen had deep reservations about the legality of the company’s tax avoidance strategies.
Martensen alleges he was told by his superiors that he was transferred overseas to Asia so that the Koch company could avoid paying U.S. taxes on some $200,000,000 in profits.
______________
I am certain that our conned will be outraged at this major Romney/Republican supporter. Right?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:18 pm
josef you celebrate christmas? You don’t celebrate Hannukkah? (I know i spelled that wrong — sorry
)
josef
October 13th, 2012
7:19 pm
DDR
It’s his white side that gets on my last nerve! No profile in courage there, imeoiauo…
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
7:20 pm
josef
————————-
DDR
I guess I’m racist since I supported Hillary.
On the girl, that’s something that only those on the bus know. I would have called the police on her ass, but that’s just me. I won’t hit a female, but if she hits me, then she’s not trying to be nice to me either.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:21 pm
Martensen alleges he was told by his superiors that he was transferred overseas to Asia so that the Koch company could avoid paying U.S. taxes on some $200,000,000 in profits.
Those Koch brothers, such great Americans! They’re doing their share to enrich and propel China into a super power!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
7:21 pm
Possibly, the best thing would be to list all the lies the dems have told in the past 30 years.
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
There is no way in hell their “team” has any standing whatsoever to make any judgments at all about lies and deflection.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
7:21 pm
DebbieDo
don’t let the kids watch
frog porn..
josef
October 13th, 2012
7:23 pm
DDR
I like Baby Jesus birthday and Santa Claus. And Unmentionable’s Gr-at Sp-rit IS Nicene Creed! We do Hannukah, too. (Don’t worry about the spelling. Nobody knows how, even the Yids!) We don’t go for the commercialization of it, though, since it ain’t “Jewish Christmas!”
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:25 pm
I would have called the police on her too — but I would’ve told them that they needed someone who could give her a psych eval too.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
josef –
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
7:25 pm
Ahh, Debbie, don’t you know that its different.
Tax avoidance is okey dokey, even when it goes into tax fraud. You know like Son of Boss.
josef
October 13th, 2012
7:25 pm
FROG
Unmentionable was scrolling through this a.m. (He likes the FNM thread, otherwise he says we’re a pack of social malcontents) He thinks you’re funny as sh*t,,,
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
7:27 pm
josef
Indian sense of humor..
Mick
October 13th, 2012
7:27 pm
debbie
The canes play at the former joe robbie stadium which is now dolphin stadium. I never go there – too far, too expensive….I’ll take my big screen and some bbq thanks you…
josef
October 13th, 2012
7:29 pm
FROG
Funny you should mention that…this year’s Christmas theme is “Merry Christmas from the Rez.” We’ll see how long it’s up before the “sensitive” Buckhead plantation liberals take offense!
Mick
October 13th, 2012
7:29 pm
josef
Love the feeling of the holidays coming on and can’t wait to get rid of them by new years…
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:30 pm
Hiya frog!!! I’ve come to the realization that no matter WHAT you do, you have to step out on faith when you’re raising kids. Sometimes the ones you have to worry MORE about are not always the girls, it’s the boys:
Teacher who had group sex with teens says she’s the victim
Kam – Have some faith in me Kam!! It’ll take him, (if he looks), at least 5 days to gather that much information and present it!! There’s always a METHOD to my madness!
josef — Jewish Christmas!!!??!! Classic!!
SoCoBro — Tell that head Bamaer (whatizface), to stop running up the score on some of those poor schools! He could’ve put in his 5th string players, he didn’t have to keep the starters in.
Mick
October 13th, 2012
7:32 pm
This would be appropriate-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBZ8ulc5NTg
josef
October 13th, 2012
7:35 pm
DDR
You got that right on raising kids! Our guiding principle was always, “our kids learn a lot more by watching us than they do by listening to us.” As Unmentionable always says of ours and the way they’ve turned out, “we must’ve done something right.”
Thulsa Doom
October 13th, 2012
7:40 pm
Koch Brothers.
What’s that the kooks say?- There’s your sign?
I see its mighty loud in the echo chamber tonight.
moonbat betty
October 13th, 2012
6:47 pm
You’re a great American, Kamchak!
Australian for humor.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:44 pm
Mick: The canes play at the former joe robbie stadium which is now dolphin stadium.
WHAT!?! All the way out in CArol City? Darn near in Broward county? heck! UM is in Coral Gables! Man! On a good note, my aunt lives out that way. Usually when there’s a game, she puts signs out so that people can pay her to park in her yard, which is full of concrete!
Keep – since we are in a time of war, I’d throw the Kochs’ in jail for aiding and abetting the enemy.
Thulsa Doom
October 13th, 2012
7:48 pm
Koch brothers-
B
O
O
!
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
7:49 pm
DebbieDo
Wow! That teacher really got
____ed. 5 yrs for legally
consensual just because
she is a teacher. And the
guys legally men and still
in High School.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:49 pm
Did you click on that link josef about the teacher having sex with (drum roll please), FIVE of her students, four of them at the same time AND she was stupid enough to let them FILM her!
Whats going on with the epidemic of teachers bopping their students? I know you’re an Elementary school teacher, but it seems to me if a teacher had a problem with impulse control, then that should be weeded out BEFORE they hire said teacher to teach!
If you have thing for teenage girls/boys, perhaps it would be better NOT to teach high school. Just makes sense to me.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:51 pm
She was STILL their teacher, in a position of power over them. She KNEW the law, yet she chose to break it anyway. And for what? Sex with some pimply teenager who couldn’t keep his mouth shut?
If she’s a freak, she could’ve went to Ashley Madison, hooked up with someone, and got her freak on–legally.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
7:53 pm
Well it looks like one boomboom child has returned to beg for attention.
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
7:54 pm
DDR
The game was fairly close until the 4th quarter. Sagan started subbing in the 4th when it was out of reach.
Mr. T
October 13th, 2012
7:55 pm
If you ignore it, it’ll go away……………..I pity the fool that doesn’t ignore the boom boom!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
7:56 pm
Debbie, it is rather digusting that they will support tax fraud but whine about those who need real help.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
7:56 pm
Oh please bro! They had 21 points (to ZERO) before the end of the 1st quarter!!!
Satan is just a show off! Tree killer!
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
7:58 pm
The Doom is booing the
Koch bro.s ? Will wonders
never cease?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
8:01 pm
Keep – Amen to that. Those taxes go to support roads, the military, bridges etc. America’s bridges are falling down, with people/cars on them. they don’t want to pay their fair share, yet they want the protection that being an American affords them.
I am sick to death of these leeches that call themselves patriots just because they have a little money in their pockets. What they really are are parasites.
josef
October 13th, 2012
8:02 pm
DDR
That teacher thingie…it’s been going on a long time, it’s just now getting press. I have a lot to say on that subject, but first, there are some things you just don’t do if you’re in certain professions and particularly those that put you in contact with the young and impressionable.
And the odd thing is that for some reason we’ve been under the impression that it’s not just okay, but a good thing, when it’s heterosexual and female teacher. Having the hots for the teacher is a normal thing for the adolescent. Having the hots for the student is not.
My own experiences back in high school were one thing. But I did learn that it was the ones who went running into the night that I was supposed to emulate when I entered the profession.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
8:02 pm
Ok — South Carolina and LSU are about to get it on. Its about to get UGLY!!
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
8:07 pm
josef — whats so dishonest about the whole thing, (the female teacher/male student thing) is that if that were a MALE teacher caught with 5 female students, he’d be UNDER the jail.
She only got 5 years! She deserved 20! If she was a male, the whole world would’ve been crying for the death penalty at least! IMO
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
8:08 pm
Debbie, in the long run, the world is developing a class of “super-rich” beholden to no country, only themselves. They play “patriot” but only to line their pockets.
josef
October 13th, 2012
8:14 pm
DDR
And if had been male-male…well, it probably WOULD have been the death penalty! It’s a triple standard at work and the Sandusky syndrome cuts across gender and choice of target lines. Sandusky deserved everything he got and more, too, But if they had been females? There would have been no such outcry, and if he had been a she and they hes, it would have been a heterosexual male wet dream come true…
Brosephus™
October 13th, 2012
8:16 pm
DDR
Complacency doesn’t lead to excellence.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
8:27 pm
Walk the bases loaded?
Never a good thing.
getalife
October 13th, 2012
8:30 pm
Stevie,
The gop and their cons exist on this planet to fight for Americans that do not need any help from any American. .
Their cons will even pay 8000 dollars so those Americans that do not need any help from any Americans get another tax cut.
There is your other side of the issue.
josef
October 13th, 2012
8:33 pm
Observation
Sea salt and vinagre potato chips go most excellently with G & T’s
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
8:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOf3kYtwASo
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
8:40 pm
Complacency doesn’t lead to excellence.
Whatevah………
josef: it would have been a heterosexual male wet dream come true…
Every teen movie has that scene in it! The sexy sultry vixen of a teacher suddenly falls for the nerdy boy with the good looks……..So I guess you’re right……..
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
8:42 pm
Keep: They play “patriot” but only to line their pockets
Oooh good one Keep — I am sooo stealing that for future use!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
8:47 pm
Debbie
Feel free. As you stated, we built “that” but they don’t pay for it. They just abuse it.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
8:47 pm
Gin and tonics on a Saturday night! Hmm reminds me of a song………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeUQ861X9g
Hate his politics, love his music!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
8:59 pm
For the moments when one just has to go boom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0xKmOakqI
josef
October 13th, 2012
9:02 pm
DDR
If it were being done today, he’d be graduating from middle school…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnW59E-zyZY
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
9:04 pm
Kam, bazinga…..
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:06 pm
I hope this blue states r ready for riots in november. Detroit, Newark, Philly and Oakland
May need to vamp up police
josef
October 13th, 2012
9:11 pm
FRANK
Do you really think the GOP would do that?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
9:12 pm
The GOP is still up to their slimey voter registration fraud….new name, same criminal management.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:13 pm
Vamp up police?
I suppose so, but the special appearance fee has to be enormous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDRBlJEEdys
Ahem
October 13th, 2012
9:18 pm
An average of polls conducted by the RealClearPolitics website Saturday gave Romney a 1.3 percent lead nationwide, and showed him winning in swing states Florida, North Carolina and Colorado — also targets for Obama.
Obama retains narrow leads in Ohio, Virginia and Iowa but polls in those states since the first presidential debate have shown clear movement towards the Republican.
Police in Denver meanwhile said a shot was fired Friday at an Obama campaign office shattering a window but injuring no one.
A photo posted online showed a window broken at the front of the office. Police said they were searching for a “possible vehicle of interest.”
A detective I am not, but I’m thinking the “vehicle” for the shot was most likely a gun. Sounds like a clear case of a terrorist attack; not a demonstration or protest against a caampaign video.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:21 pm
“Guns don’t kill people, vehicles of interest do.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:23 pm
“When vehicle of interest are outlawed, only outlaws will have vehicles of interest.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:24 pm
We spent over a trillion again this year, the yuan is at an all time high versus the dollar, Afganistan war continue to have use soldiers dying with no idea of what winning looks like. Oh boy Obama is hoping that change happens for sure! I mean Osama and Iraq pullout are due to bush intel and bush surge… Both of which obama was against. This guy make amateur hour look professional. It’s time for the adults to run the country and let the libs go back to crating the next ozone scam or bullying crusade or dieting crusade.
Oh and gas prices are abysmal
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:26 pm
Ahem I thought Romney led in Virginia by seven.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
9:27 pm
“Lowly parking meter maid (not a detective) seeks vehicle of interest for empty brain chamber” — Thomas Craigslist Jefferson
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:28 pm
…crating the next ozone scam…
How much does a crate of ozone scam go for on the open market?
Wildwood
October 13th, 2012
9:28 pm
So when you build for those leeches do you favor Deere or Cat? I am sure you don’t go air conditioned cab because of the extra carbon involved. No sir no foreign made Hyundai for these guys and gals. Get a good night rest as you have a lot of building to do for all them leeches!
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
9:29 pm
HA! The GOP are KNOWN for their dirty tricks. Remember last election when some woman claimed that a black male Obama supporter marked a “B” on her cheek?
This time though, they’ve just went and got medieval on the Den’s azz — they shot up a Colorado Obama campaign headquarters.
I mean if they can’t lie on you, sabotage you fro voting, then they’ll just do a John Wayne on ya.
==============
josef – LOVED the Mrs. Robinson shout out!! My folks have that soundtrack. At first they had it as an album, then they had it as a tape (both kinds), now they have the CD. They absolutely love Simon & Garfunkel.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:30 pm
“You can have my vehicle of interest when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.”
– Thomas “Heston” Jefferson
Josef
October 13th, 2012
9:32 pm
Frank
It’s the end of the world as we know it…and with a few G & T’s you, too, can feel fine
K’CHAK
Are you going to see your hero”’s exhibit at Fernbank?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
9:34 pm
How much does a crate of ozone scam go for on the open market?
“I can get you one real cheap — Just let me hide some money real quick” — Mitt Romney
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:34 pm
josef
I have been mulling that over for the past week, and if I save my pennies I might can go before the exhibit closes.
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:35 pm
Climat scams are worth about 200 million…ask gore about it. He is knee deep in happy endings since he became fabulously wealthy of climate hange
Josef
October 13th, 2012
9:38 pm
DDR
A big Simon and Garfunkle fan myself, and, yep, had a mad schoolboy crush on Dustin Hoffman…
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:40 pm
Actually mean ole mitt hides his money in charities. How much did Biden give last year?
Josef
October 13th, 2012
9:40 pm
K’chak
It’s tempting. I’d be interested in how he’s being presented…
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
9:41 pm
DebbieDo
Not familiar with the law
but this seems over the top.
Not on school property. No
coercion. 18 year olds are
fighting in Afghanistan. No
teacher has that much power over guys this age
and this is illegal just
because she is a teacher.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
9:42 pm
How much are tax evasive Swiss “shelters” going for these days?
“I like being able to fire people who provide services to me. ” –Mitt Romney
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:45 pm
I think an Obama voter is responsible for the Colorado shooting. I mean most Obama constituents live in high crime areas. It’s not like Reph locals are really worried about Obama after the mile hole massacre that happened during their last debate.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
9:45 pm
Only a buffoon or a fraud “hides’ money in charities. They are a tax deduction. But lets see all the tax returns…its easier to salve your guilt for your tax frauds and avoidance by giving money to your church to buy your good standing. The simple fact is that many wealthy people only “give” to charities as part of a quid pro quo for their own gain.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
9:46 pm
josef – Dustin hoffman?!?! Eeewwwww!! He’s so short! And ummmm attractively challenged!
Frog — It’s against TEXAS law. I’m sure, as a teacher; she was aware of that law. She deliberately lured those boys over to her house to take advantage of them. She deserves those 5 years for EACH child she had sex with.
Frank – Mitt made 10xs what Biden made, NATURALLY he should give more. Duh!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
9:47 pm
josef
He should be presented as a randy old goat.
Saw a documentary where some 70-90% of the residents in and around Ulaanbaatar have his DNA, though I can’t remember how they established that.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
9:49 pm
Frank + Think = Oxymoron
“I’m not concerned about the very poor.” — Mitt Romney
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:52 pm
U moderators are so gutless. Grow a pair and let both sides be heard.
Josef
October 13th, 2012
9:53 pm
DDR
To you, perhaps, but, well, he’s a nice Jewish boy type…
K’chak
I saw that program…that was an intriguing tidbit…
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:54 pm
Enter your comments here
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
9:56 pm
saw that program…that was an intriguing tidbit…
Who are you guys talking about?
Randy old goats?! I’m loving it!! R-E-S-E-A-R-C-H opportunity!!!
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
9:57 pm
DebbieDo
The illegality was not sex
with children it was teacher
student sex. These were
men and could have been
25 and still in High School
and it would have been
illegal. Teachers should
not be singled out like this.
Minors would be different.
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:57 pm
Romney evading taxes? News to me. You know when you look back mitt just seems a little too clean. Not a lazy pothead in school, never hanging out with domestics terrorist like bill ayers, not involved in Acorn, no daddy issues, not backed by billionaire felons like Doris. He is just too clean so the tax evasion does make sense!
Libs r funny. Worth their weight in foodstamps
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
9:59 pm
Dang apple spell check… Meant Soros not Doris
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
10:00 pm
DDR
The individual’s name is Temujin, but you know him by his title, Chinggis Khaan
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:00 pm
I understand what you’re saying Frog — but she KNEW what she was doing was wrong. She KNEW she should NOT be having sex with her students. Period.
And yes, I think teachers SHOULD be singled out when they deliberately abuse the trust of the parents who put their children into their care.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
10:01 pm
not involved in Acorn
GOP voter registration fraud under new name, same management…. but hey use those dog whistles
“FOOOOODSTAMMPPPPPPS”
The stoopid is strong in these conned.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
10:03 pm
The bloomberg troll has a new sock-puppet.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:03 pm
Ahh Genghis Khan – One of Dudley’s favorites too. I don’t even have to do research — Dudley is a virtual encyclopedia / fountain of info on him.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:07 pm
The stoopid is strong in these conned
Whats amazing to me is that, in this instant information era, all they have to do to learn the truth is GOOGLE it. But they refuse, they rather take someone else’s word than find out the information for themselves.
I don’t know if they’re as “conned” as much as “lazy”.
Frank B. Inya
October 13th, 2012
10:07 pm
When all ideas are wrong make fun of spelling and name call. Or in bidens case laugh like a jackal.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
10:08 pm
DebbieDo
If she knew the law and
lured 5 men to her house
and allowed them to film
the event she either wanted
to get caught or she is
insane. Either way the
punishment is too severe.
Career is ruined. Probation
would be enough.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:09 pm
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” –Mitt Romney doing his Miss Teen South Carolina Impression.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
10:13 pm
Debbie, have to disagree. Being lazy woul mean that if someone gave them the truth, they would be open. They are either conartists or conned….they ignore the truth given because they don’t want to know the truth.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 13th, 2012
10:13 pm
When all ideas are wrong make fun of spelling and name call.
We just tease someone ’til they develop an eating disorder.
Josef
October 13th, 2012
10:16 pm
Frog
I’m with Deb on this one. When you go into teaching it carries with it a much stricter code of professional ethics. This violates those ethics. You simply do NOT boink your students.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:19 pm
No Frog she’s not insane, what she was was “cocky” (pun intended).
She thought she could get away with it.
She’s a teacher, that would put her as an authority-type figure. Those kids saw her as a teacher. She’s breached that authority.
Here’s something you might like to read as a reference:
Women Pushing Boundaries With Teens
One woman just got out of prison for a second time, after being convicted in the statutory rape of a 15-year-old boy whom she eventually married and bore a child with.
And another woman may be heading to jail after allegedly opening up a Pennsylvania hotel room last Friday to a group of teens for what police describe as a sex- and drug-fueled party.
In both cases, the women find themselves in trouble with police for what is considered inappropriate and illegal behavior with minors. But neither woman is saying she is sorry or even offering regret for decisions that led to their respective arrests.
And experts say that it should not come as a surprise that some women do not see why society and law enforcement look unfavorably at adult women who get involved with teenagers. Shades of the infamous Mary Kay Letourneau case, some say.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4354752&page=1#.UHogUmeHn1s
Josef
October 13th, 2012
10:25 pm
Okay, truth time. When I was 14 I knocked off a piece of one of my coaches. I knew exactly what I was up to, and it took every trick in my book to convince him it was my idea. Consensual? Of course. Was it therefore all right? Not by any stretch of the imagination.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:25 pm
they ignore the truth given because they don’t want to know the truth.
You mean sorta like Ted Bundy’s mother who said, “Teddy was such a good boy”? Ok. got it!
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:27 pm
Eeeewww josef!! Shameshameshsameshame!!!
You should’ve went to catholic school and had a bunch of nuns to teach you. THAT would’ve cured you!
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
10:34 pm
josef, DebbieDo
Are those ethics involved in
college affairs where 18 and
19 year olds freely romp?
Again these were not
children and the punishment
too severe.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
10:41 pm
http://www.youtube.com/results?gl=US&client=mv-google&hl=en&q=rod+stewart+maggie&submit=Search
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
10:44 pm
josef
you were a minor without
the status to consent.
Josef
October 13th, 2012
10:45 pm
DDR
I went to Catholic School right after that! That was prep school…literally and figuratively. Oh, and he was a nice Jewish boy, only he was more the Paul Newman type…and no shame on my part..the prob was I couldn’t tell anybody. I promised I wouldn’t and that was part of the bargain and even then I was a man (?) of my word…and, yeah, he went home to the wife and kids…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 13th, 2012
10:46 pm
When I was 14 I knocked off a piece of one of my coaches. I
From that description, you sure that was not a rockem sockem robot. Or maybe Robert Conrad in that old TV commercial.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
10:51 pm
Frog – I didn’t write the law — however that IS the law in Texas and if she wanted to teach in Texas then she should’ve known the law.
Ignorance of the law does not excuse her — she should’ve KNOWN the law.
Josef
October 13th, 2012
10:51 pm
Frog
And now you’re citing the law. That’s what that woman broke. We can argue the arbitrary nature and not without some justification, but we also would agree that lines do have to be legally drawn somewhere and crossing them brings the clearly stated repercussions.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
10:56 pm
DebbieDo
Yes I know, probably 5 counts, 1 year on each
consecutive and the judge
will probably relent after
90 days and another 5
grand in legal fees and
change to concurrent.
Justice and Ethics.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
11:00 pm
josef
A 50 year old student sexing
a 25 year old teacher should
not get the teacher 5 years
in jail.
Josef
October 13th, 2012
11:26 pm
Frog
University is one thing, high school is something else. Arbitrary “cut off”? Perhaps. Now, the age differences between me and the coach was not that wide in terms of years, and I was mature enough to know what I was doing and, yes, take responsibiliy, i.e, discretion. That still does not make it right. So, who was ” to blame?” Me. I started it. I came on to him. But the law wouldn’t even consider that. I wasn’t old enough to ” consent.” had I been over age 18 and he a professor? It would have been the same in substance, now wouldn’t it?
Doggone/GA
October 13th, 2012
11:28 pm
“So, who was ” to blame?” Me. I started it”
Sorry, I know it’s your memory and all that…but while you share the blame, it is still the coach who bears the greater blame. He said yes and then followed through. Doesn’t matter how much you were the intiator, he still violated the trust placed in him by the people and the parents of the students he was supposed to be teaching.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
11:31 pm
“When you give a speech you don’t go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.”
–Mitt Romney, when asked about failing to mention the troops in his nomination speech at the Republican National Convention, Fox News interview (Sept. 7, 2012)
Doggone/GA
October 13th, 2012
11:33 pm
” you talk about the things that you think are important.” ”
And I’d be willing to bet that to this day he doesn’t see the insult in that.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
11:37 pm
josef
If you were 18 there would
be no legal problem except
in Texas a teacher and
student may not have sex
no matter the age of the
student.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
11:39 pm
You were NOT to blame! The teacher KNEW it was wrong yet chose to do it anyway. He didn’t have to go through with it, what he should’ve done was told you to get lost, leave him alone, and went home out of harms way.
All of us have been tested — in different ways.
You could find $10K in a bag outside of a dumpster and you are faced with the dilemma of whether to turn it in or use it (your lights are off and your rent is past due).
You could make good choices or bad choices (what I always tell my “little sisters” when we’re together); it’s up to you especially if you know what’s right and what’s wrong.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
11:39 pm
josef
the Texas law makes it
illegal for a teacher to
have sex with a student
no matter the age of the
student thus teachers are
differently treated by the
law than other professions.
No justice there.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
11:43 pm
Hiya Doggone!!
BF: If you were 18 there would
be no legal problem except
in Texas
Frog —
Just let it go…… 
Doggone/GA
October 13th, 2012
11:46 pm
Hi DDR…and g’nite! I’m up later than normal and I’m just about to shut down and hit the sack.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 13th, 2012
11:47 pm
Well LSU won — getalife is gonna be real happy!
I’m going to turn in. Ya’ll have a nice night.
barking frog
October 13th, 2012
11:47 pm
DebbieDo
Letting go allowed many
unjust laws to remain in
place many years. Teachers
may deserve this law but
I don’t think so.
YouLibs
October 13th, 2012
11:50 pm
Congratulations, getalife.
I wanted to tell you earlier that this was going to happen, I just wasn’t quite sure enough. I figured that after the huge win over UGA that USC2 would b vulnerable.
Mett looked great. That one interception was due to someone getting one or two fingers on the ball.
The bad news is that Bama looked even better.
Josef
October 13th, 2012
11:53 pm
The point I am trying to make is that we’ve got this thing about blame. The coach was beset with his own, well, lack of good sense, I suppose, and certainly was out of line and courting disaster. As for the law, well, at that time it would have been 20 + even if we bothe been over 21.
DDR
I’m not arguing that that is not what he SHOULD have done, but that is a matter more of ethics and, just being EOI here, if I were not to ” blame,” then why home out of ” harms” way?
td
October 13th, 2012
11:54 pm
Josef
October 13th, 2012
11:26 pm
The age of consent in GA is 16 and a 16 year old can have sex with whomever they want except a teacher or other public professional that may be in an authority position in relation to the 16 year old and then consent can not happen with the 16 year old.
td
October 13th, 2012
11:58 pm
Josef
October 13th, 2012
11:53 pm
BTW: I agree with you that it is an ethics problem and the teacher should never be allowed to teach again but it is not a criminal matter if it was consensual sex.
Josef
October 14th, 2012
12:17 am
Td
My incident was years ago in a different time and place…as for the law relative to authority figures, I agree with it given that ethics seems to be increasingly of no consideration.
Josef
October 14th, 2012
12:23 am
G’night
Oscar
October 14th, 2012
12:41 am
I had some teachers in high school I wanted to be taken advantage of by. Never happened.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
12:53 am
Thank you You libs and Debbie.
LSU is back.
We partied with one cool teacher once but never banged any.
That came later at the teacher convention in Vegas when I lived there.
Frank B. Inya
October 14th, 2012
8:16 am
It’s bad enough that mettembergwr is a sex offender but instead of trying to rehab his image and maybe looking clean cut he goes for the porn stace \ creepy pedophile look. Nice!
Also good to see another sexual assaulter Jeremy hill running the ball. Stay classy LSu
Mary Elizabeth
October 14th, 2012
9:14 am
Debbie Do Right, 7:16 pm, Oct. 13
“Mary Elizabeth – I’ve heard and seen the video that you referenced. Very sad. I’ve learned that when my niece gets older, (nephew too), I will have to be super vigilante with internet access.”
=======================================
Good Morning, Debbie. As I also said to Kamchak yesterday, thank you for having viewed Amanda Todd’s tragic video and for addressing the need for society to take steps against the destructiveness of bullying. Your niece and nephew are blessed to have you for their aunt.
Mick
October 14th, 2012
10:04 am
Good Morning!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7csvgL-G3E&feature=related
Mary Elizabeth
October 14th, 2012
10:30 am
Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed is knocking it out of the ball park on “Meet the Press” right now on channel 6 on my cable channel. I urge every person who might read this blog to tune in until 10 am. Reed is not accepting any BS spin. He goes straight to the truth with detail and facts. I cannot image anyone seeing truth and stating it with as much razor sharp perception and impact as he is doing. What an asset he is to Atlanta and to America.
Mary Elizabeth
October 14th, 2012
10:31 am
Correction: Until 11 a.m., not 10:00 am
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
11:29 am
The Benghazi embassy
attack may cost the
President the election
He is looking either dishonest or incompetent.
Proof of either may do him
in.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
11:36 am
frog,
The CIA was there so look for our President to attack mitt for going crazy after the attack.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
11:37 am
frank,
Yeah the dwags are role models con.
indigo
October 14th, 2012
11:37 am
barking frog
The truth is we still don’t know the full details of the Benghazi attack. The President must rely on what our intelligence people tell him.
And yet, you’re willing to vote him out of office for something he had no control of?, If that’s the case, I don’t think you’re qualified to vote at all!
getalife
October 14th, 2012
11:38 am
frog,
I was thinking there is one thing missing from this President.
Scandals.
JamVet
October 14th, 2012
11:45 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWlnJoO7_yY
getalife
October 14th, 2012
11:47 am
You will never learn the details of the attack because the CIA was involved. Patreaus might come out and tell the gop to stop talking about it after that hearing. We have ongoing operations there and will not be surprised if our President attacks mitt for going crazy after the attack in the last debate.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
12:17 pm
“The simple fact is that many wealthy people only “give” to charities as part of a quid pro quo for their own gain.”
When you can read minds like keep up can and have his omniscience to know the intentions of many wealthy people you can make crazy ass blanket statements like that.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
12:29 pm
getalife
IMO he should fire both
Petraeus and Clinton now.
Damage control is starting
to look like a coverup. GW
tried to blame the WMD
debacle on intelligence
and no one believed him.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
12:31 pm
getalife
there are no scandals with
this president.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
12:32 pm
indigo
you are wrong but that is
your right..
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
12:34 pm
When you can read minds like keep up can and have his omniscience to know the intentions of many wealthy people you can make crazy ass blanket statements like that.
Is the logic behind that statement any different that the thought process in which people state that Obama got 95% of the Black American vote because of race?
getalife
October 14th, 2012
12:37 pm
frog,
The WMD’s hinged on one man’s lie. His name was “curveball” w wanted to finish off saddam no matter what the intell said. I think if w did not get him, the Arab Spring would. Petraeus is grooming for a run for President. They have drone video of the Libya attack.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
12:42 pm
getalife
The Petraeus run may be
getting in the way of good
intel or even influencing it.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
12:50 pm
Brocephus,
Well at least one of the 2 statements at least has some empirical data to back up the belief. What empirical evidence does keep’s blanket statement have to support his conclusion?
getalife
October 14th, 2012
12:54 pm
frog,
The outing of the CIA facility in the gop political hearing is like the outing of insider trading in corrupt congress.
Americans don’t care because they are focused on their team winning this election.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
1:06 pm
“Arlen Specter Dies” Aol.
JamVet
October 14th, 2012
1:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIVQMJB9FQE
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
1:31 pm
Well at least one of the 2 statements at least has some empirical data to back up the belief.
Actually, neither one has data to back it up. I don’t know of any study that’s been done that can actually decipher why Blacks voted for Obama. I also don’t know of any study that’s been done that can prove that rich people donate just to take advantage of the tax write off.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
1:39 pm
Doom, I’ll get back to you as soon as you back up your claim that I made that statement on Thursday night with a link…. or apologize.
Are doing your Doomdumb wifebeater style dance of lies and buffoonery?
And to be clear, I did NOT claim that all rich people donate just to take advantage of the tax write off.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
1:40 pm
I never read Dowd at the NYT until she wrote about the neocons in mitt’s foreign policy team.
Sadly, not many writers are writing about neocons so Iraq is the forgotten disaster and doomed to repeat it..
” Ryan ended up simply parroting Senor, who made his name as spokesman for the botched Iraq occupation. That’s a scary thing unless you want to go back to the messianic mind-set of imprinting our “values” in the Islamic world, an attitude that brought us interminable wars and trillion-dollar deficits.
Ryan echoed the bankrupt neocon philosophy of going to war to prevent war. With Iran, he said, the best thing to do is threaten war. “The key is to do this peacefully,” he said, sounding as woolly as Paul Wolfowitz. Ryan didn’t seem to understand what much of the world does: The administration has worked with allies to strengthen sanctions, which have turned Iran into an economic basket case.
Biden also boxed Ryan into looking as though he wants to send more American troops to Afghanistan and to intervene in Syria, which isn’t so appealing to war-weary America.
Ronald Reagan knew how to bluster for peace. Neocons do not. When they run the show, threatening a war is followed by going to war and that is followed by bollixing up the war and that is followed by our troops’ dying at war and money-pit nation-building to end the war, and that is followed by economic disaster for America.” Dowd NYT.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
2:00 pm
Inter your comments here.
JamVet
October 14th, 2012
2:06 pm
Missoula, Montana (CNN) -– As the nation wrestles over who will occupy the White House for the next four years, Montana is in the midst of a fierce battle over 100 years worth of campaign finance law. And what happens in the Treasure State could set the tone for the future of campaign funding around the country.
On Election Day, voters in Montana will decide on a ballot initiative that would direct each of their elected officials to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment would allow states to ban corporate funding of campaigns and set sharp limits on the money individuals can donate to candidates.
It is a test of government control over campaign spending versus corporate influence over candidates.
For a century, Montana has had some of the toughest limits on campaign funding in the country. That has its origins in the 19th century when copper barons openly bought politicians and ran mining operations that left pollution and scars across the state. Outcries led to sweeping reform, including a ban on corporations funding campaigns in the state.
That ban was overturned 100 years later, in June, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Montana’s law limited free speech rights of corporations, pointing to the court’s earlier decision in Citizens United.
Now a group called “Stand with Montanans” fears that, without a Constitutional amendment, well-heeled mining corporations can again take over the state’s government.
http://cnnradio.cnn.com/2012/10/12/the-biggest-election-fight-youre-missing/?hpt=hp_bn3
getalife
October 14th, 2012
2:11 pm
“The amendment would allow states to ban corporate funding of campaigns and set sharp limits on the money individuals can donate to candidates.”
That is freaking awesome.
We need pols to run on that with a simple yes or no answer.
G Mare
October 14th, 2012
2:20 pm
Getalife re Dowd: AMEN!
Mary Elizabeth re Meet the Press: you are right about Mayor Reed.
Jm
October 14th, 2012
2:30 pm
This thing we call the Atlanta Airport is about as well run as MARTA
What a fiasco.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
2:37 pm
My original post: “The simple fact is that many wealthy people only “give” to charities as part of a quid pro quo for their own gain.”
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
12:17 pm
…When you can read minds like keep up can and have his omniscience to know the intentions of many wealthy people you can make crazy ass blanket statements like that.
I guess the “crazy ass” is the ignorance of a poster who makes claims about mind reading while demonstrating their ignorance:
For decades, surveys have shown that upper-income Americans don’t give away as much of their money as they might and are particularly undistinguished as givers when compared with the poor, who are strikingly generous. A number of other studies have shown that lower-income Americans give proportionally more of their incomes to charity than do upper-income Americans. …
But in the larger context of “the psychological culture of wealth versus poverty,” says Paul K. Piff, a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, the paradox makes sense. Piff has made a specialty of studying those cultures in his lab at the Institute of Personality and Social Research, most recently in a series of experiments that tested “lower class” and “upper class” subjects (with earnings ranging from around $15,000 to more than $150,000 a year) to see what kind of psychological factors motivated the well-known differences in their giving behaviors. His study, written with Michael W. Kraus and published online last month by The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, found that lower-income people were more generous, charitable, trusting and helpful to others than were those with more wealth. They were more attuned to the needs of others and more committed generally to the values of egalitarianism. …
a 2007 report from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found that only a small percentage of charitable giving by the wealthy was actually going to the needs of the poor; instead it was mostly directed to other causes — cultural institutions, for example, or their alma maters — which often came with the not-inconsequential payoff of enhancing the donor’s status among his or her peers
Orange12
October 14th, 2012
2:42 pm
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/romney-tops-obama-in-georgia-as-economy-dominates-/nScjq/
Mary Elizabeth
October 14th, 2012
2:47 pm
Hi G Mare!
Wasn’t Reed wonderful? And, only 43 years old, with that insight.
I think of you in your coming ordeal, even when I do not post – my thoughts and prayers remain with you in this. Getalife was correct – express your fears to your nurses and that will help you, and give you more peace, as you go through it.
bman
October 14th, 2012
2:49 pm
Keep up the Bing’n
paulo977
October 14th, 2012
2:49 pm
Orange12 @2:42pm ……..
_________________________
Surprised ? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
G Mare
October 14th, 2012
2:53 pm
Thank you for your thoughts & prayers, Mary Elizabeth. They are much appreciated.
paulo977
October 14th, 2012
2:56 pm
Mary E …..”Wasn’t Reed wonderful? And, only 43 years old, with that insight.”
________________________________________________
Wonderful ! Unfortunately people in GA apparently need years more before they develop anything close to insight re: THE HUMAN CONDITION
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
2:56 pm
Poor b’man…. can’t figure out the internets still. Well the good news is that you are blissed in your ignorance.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
2:57 pm
Felix made it:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/815313/thumbs/r-FELIX-BAUMGARTNER-JUMP-huge.jpg
G Mare
October 14th, 2012
2:58 pm
I also think young Mayor Reed has a bright future in political life. One has to hope he doesn’t “shoot himself in the foot” as Corey
Booker seems to have done.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
2:58 pm
Jam, United Citizens is just wrong. It has to be stopped.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
3:00 pm
neocons plus deregulating the banks again equals another collapse.
I have no doubt and don’t expect a different result.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
3:09 pm
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes reported today on another CEO — Arthur Allen of ASG Software Solutions — who said in an email to his employees that they’d only have themselves to blame if they lose their jobs if Obama wins.
What an idiot….. ASG already has serious issues and defections. So this clown CEO wants to blame Obama for his failures since it is likely the company won’t survive anyway.
http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/14/14429803-exclusive-ceo-suggests-employees-jobs-may-be-at-stake-if-romney-doesnt-win
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
3:11 pm
Orange12
October 14th, 2012
2:42 pm
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/romney-tops-obama-in-georgia-as-economy-dominates-/nScjq/
And in other breaking news…
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/scientists-discover-water-is-wet/
*Not really a web page, but it seems about as relevant as news that Romney leads Obama in Georgia. I think the tribes living in the Amazon with no communication with the outside world even know that Georgia won’t vote for Obama.
Thomas
October 14th, 2012
3:23 pm
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/restaurants-face-full-plate-of-issues-in-health-ca/nScjx/#cmComments
Jay- you were ignorantly cocky (per usual) about restaurants/business and Obamacare last week.
See you colleagues article above- one of two things- should a) Leon Stafford be fired from the AJC or b) should you come off your ingorance
Biden is the Warrior
JamVet
October 14th, 2012
3:40 pm
Keep…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll3uipTO-4A
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
3:53 pm
Jam, ironic that Trump uses that as his theme song….
getalife
October 14th, 2012
4:16 pm
“Biden is the Warrior”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWxBrI0g1kE
josef
October 14th, 2012
4:22 pm
Kasim Reed needs to remember that he’s Mayor of Atlanta.
pogo
October 14th, 2012
4:48 pm
Watching Felix Baumgartner jump from 128,000 feet today was one of the most exciting things I have seen in a long time (even with the 20 second delay). I have to admit that I was concerned when he appeared to be spinning out of control through the stratosphere due to its low air density which offerred him absolutely no control on his trajectory. With so much that is wrong nowadays we still have people like this that show us the human spirit survives. Since America’s space program has now been gutted by Obama I guess private funding for these types of things is the way forward and that is probably as it should be. The suit that Baumgartner wore will now be studied as part of an escape package for future astronaunts. Innovation lives in the human imagination and the private sector is only place that has the freedom (free from the chains of un-ending governemt beaurecracy and government inefficiency) to promote things such as happened today. It was a proud day for all of those involved.
getalfe
October 14th, 2012
4:56 pm
pogo.
NASA was socialism.
Greed will probably screw it up like it always does and return to socialism.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
5:00 pm
Everything works better with RepubliMath smeared on it. With it, 1+1=3. It’s also what helps make RepubliScience work (together they make it possible for the earth to be 9000 years old and for Romney’s and Ryan’s tax math to work and for ice to melt below freezing, etc.). They’re two of the three “R’s”, RepubliMath, RepubliScience, and RepubliSpeak, needed to become a Republicon.
josef
October 14th, 2012
5:01 pm
getalife
Still no statement from Turkey on what, if anything, they found on that flight.
getalfe
October 14th, 2012
5:03 pm
josef,
I know but they banned all flights from Syria over their airspace.
getalfe
October 14th, 2012
5:08 pm
josef,
Here is the link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19940506
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
5:18 pm
Since America’s space program has now been gutted by Obama I guess private funding for these types of things is the way forward and that is probably as it should be.
One would think that a “conservative would be ashamed of blatantly telling lies on a Sunday, but of course, our “conservatives here have absolutely no shame whatsoever.
Posted 3/2/2006 11:32 PM
WASHINGTON — Spending cuts President Bush proposed for NASA science projects will cause far more harm than the administration has acknowledged, top scientists warned a congressional panel Thursday.
If it passes, the Bush budget will turn out the lights on a whole generation of young scientists and researchers, said Joseph Taylor Jr., a Princeton University physics professor.
….
The Bush administration budget request provides $3.1 billion less for science through 2010 than was promised in last year’s spending request.
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February 1, 2010 |
2:02 pm
The Obama administration has officially decided to end the Constellation mission back to the moon, although the replacement plan faces a tough route through Congress.
The new plan, which had been rumored for months, was announced today with the release of the Obama administration’s NASA budget request, which despite the axing of the moon plan delivers a $6 billion funding increase over the next five years.
If you look at the historical funding of NASA, their funding reached it’s peak in 1991-1992 and has been steadily dropping ever since. If you look at who’s been in control of the purse since then, the House has been (D) 1991-1994, (R) 1995-2006, (D) 2007-2010, and (R) since 2011. He who controls the purse strings controls NASA funding. Since NASA reached it’s funding peak in recent history, Republicans have been in the driver’s seat a bit longer.
josef
October 14th, 2012
5:47 pm
getalife
The new Prime Minister in Libya is a liberal, secularist. He has two weeks to form a government. He defeated the Islamacist candidate. He’s was tight with Sarkozy.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
6:17 pm
TP” Everything works better with RepubliMath smeared on it
Good to know! I’ll try some republimath on my toilet paper….
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
6:23 pm
They can never take away my memories — by Jerry Sandusky
http://www.theonion.com/articles/they-can-never-take-away-my-memories,29877/?ref=auto
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
6:30 pm
Scattered Deaths Of Elderly Floridians Expected Throughout The Week:
http://www.theonion.com/video/scattered-deaths-of-elderly-floridians-expected-th,29597/
Jay
October 14th, 2012
6:38 pm
So Thomas, you liked Stafford’s piece today? You thought it fair and accurate?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
6:44 pm
Romney Proudly Explains How He’s Turned Campaign Around
Boston AP, “Romney has pulled even with President Obama, and the former Massachusetts governor credits his rejuvenated campaign to one, singular tactic: lying a lot.
“I’m lying a lot more, and my lies are far more egregious than they’ve ever been,” a smiling Romney told reporters while sitting in the back of his campaign bus, adding that when faced with a choice to either lie or tell the truth, he will more than likely lie. “It’s a strategy that works because when I lie, I’m essentially telling people what they want to hear, and people really like hearing things they want to hear. Even if they sort of know that nothing I’m saying is true.”
“It’s a freeing strategy, really, because I don’t have to worry about facts or being accurate or having any concrete positions of any kind,” Romney added.
getalfe
October 14th, 2012
6:48 pm
josef,
Good. He should convert loyal militias to his army and try to get the rest in government. I wish him luck because it will be tough going at the start.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
6:50 pm
“And to be clear, I did NOT claim that all rich people donate just to take advantage of the tax write off.”
Keep up the sorry fight,
And I did not claim that you said that either. I merely cited what you yourself claimed- which was that many(not all as you foolishly said I claimed) rich people used the charitable deduction for their own gain. You really need to work on your reading comprehension keep.
Secondly, I see that you cited some study by a perfesser at that bastion of liberalism Cal- Berkely as a source for your assertion. Silly boy. Does your mind actually consider a kook left perfesser from the most kook left university in the nation to be credible? Geez.
Why is it that libs mock postings from con websites like breitbart which just rehashes main stream articles for the most part? I’ve seen many a lib recently mock these breitbart postings that USMC posted but when you actually look at the links the articles are usually reprints from AP or a mainstream news outlet. But you kooks then think your postings from kook left perfessers from Cal Berkeley are credible or links from kook left websites like americanthinker. Bizarre.
Only keep could take an article from a kook left perfesser from a kook left school and take it as the gospel truth.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
6:51 pm
DebbieDo
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/10/every-marine-a-rifleman-under-new-policy-all-marines-to-receive-infantry-mos/
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
6:53 pm
Brocephus,
There is no study that proves emphatically either case. But there is data that certainly suggests one and not the other. And there is just some common sense observation. How else does a vastly more experienced Dem heavyweight like Hillary Clinton lose the Dem primary to a man with virtually no meaningful experience?
getalfe
October 14th, 2012
6:54 pm
josef,
My empathy gene is acting up about the civil war in Syria. It is gnawing at me that the world should do something more but they have to fight for their own freedom. We can’t dictate who wins like mitt wants to do without another occupation.
josef
October 14th, 2012
6:59 pm
getalife
I was reading some commentaries for Libyans and all agreed that the biggest concern now is to weld the militias into a new military and police force under civilian control in a western mold. It was interesting to read their comments on the Islamacists. There is a widespread belief that they’ve had enough of the preachers telling them how to be good Muslims, noting that the Libyans are “already good Muslims.”
I had thought at first that if there was a chance for success out of the Arab Spring, it would be Tunisia. It looks more like Libya, if they can just get through these first trying days of building up their institutions and the West will just be patient.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
7:01 pm
getalfe
is your i on the beach in
florida ?
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:01 pm
David Siegel, Arthur Allen, Steve Wynn, Bernie Marcus, Donald Trump, Jack Welch, and on and on and on….
But but but the liberals on the Bookman blog say Obama is good for the economy. Apparently the guys that actually start companies and hire people tend to disagree with you.
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:07 pm
getalife
I tend to agree with Jay when it comes to Syria. There’s not much anybody can do now beyond trying to contain it and provide a road out with the clothes on their backs for the refugees as much as possible. There appears, though, to be precious little effort being put into the coordination of even that. That much the outside world could do if it could muster the courage.
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:09 pm
THULSA
Just being EOI here, but how do you explain the recovery of Wall Street?
getalfe
October 14th, 2012
7:09 pm
josef,
That is encouraging. When I watched the video of the Libyan pulling the Ambassador out of the window the translation was “he is still alive” and another Libyan said “God is great” and they rushed him to the hospital. That was the first time I heard God is great for life instead of for death.
getalfe
October 14th, 2012
7:11 pm
frog,
i?
getalife
October 14th, 2012
7:12 pm
Oh, my name.
My bad.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
7:13 pm
getalife
the ‘eye’ in your name.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
7:16 pm
doomy is focusing on the negative half of our country.
The other half say thank you for saving us President Obama.
kayaker 71
October 14th, 2012
7:18 pm
getalife, 7:16,
Saving us from what?
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:20 pm
Kayaker
The abyss we were headed for full tilt boogie…
I’ve had my issues with Obama and am still far from an Obamista, but all things considered given what he has been up against at home and abroad, he’s done a pretty good job of it.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:21 pm
josef,
Wall Street is recovered? Try telling that to Bear Stearns. Depends on what you mean by recovered. Stock prices are going higher. Is that what you mean? I was watching CNBC a few weeks ago when they announced QE3. Stock market was up huge that day. Why? Because of QE3. The analysts were saying all this money printing is good for stocks because all that freshly printed money has to go somewhere and it will go into stocks. In other words its just an illusion. Looks like we may be creating another price asset bubble similar to the housing fiasco which is going to have a day of reckoning sooner or later.
Cons for the most part understand that the reason real incomes have fallen nearly 9% in the last 4 years is due to QEs 1 and 2. We understand this. How many liberals do you honestly think understand that?
Judging by the conversation that several of us cons had on here a few weeks ago regarding QE3 it was clear from a lack of input from the liberals on here that they simply don’t understand what’s going on. But they sure understand catchy bumper sticker sloganeering like “trickle down economics” which isn’t even a real economic philosophy.
Mary Elizabeth
October 14th, 2012
7:21 pm
G Mare, you are most welcome.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
7:21 pm
I enjoy being better off than I was four years ago. Republicans apparently prefer to be worse off.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:24 pm
“The other half say thank you for saving us President Obama.”
getalife,
You gonna thank Obama for a nearly 9% decline in real wages over the last 4 years?
Mary Elizabeth
October 14th, 2012
7:24 pm
Paulo 977, 2:56 pm
“Wonderful ! Unfortunately people in GA apparently need years more before they develop anything close to insight re: THE HUMAN CONDITION.”
—————————————————————————-
Paulo, if I have failed to tell you in the past, let me do so now. Some of your posts have been ones that have affected me most deeply and have been the most meaningful to me. Thank you.
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:25 pm
THULSA
If it’s our pocketbooks we’re voting, mine’s better than it was four years ago. Unemployment has dropped below the still-too-high 8%, housing starts are up however slightly. Given the free fall he inherited, things could sure be a helluva lot worse.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:27 pm
Taxpayer,
I’m better off also. But judging by the sheer stats of another 15 million people on food stamps(1 in 6 Americans), 23 million fewer people working, etc. you and I are the exception to the rule. The hard stats don’t lie. Most people are worse off and its a fact that real income has declined nearly 9%.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
7:29 pm
Koch Brothers Send Pro-Romney Mailing To 50,000 Employees, Allegedly ‘Stifle Political Speech’
The poor pitiful Koch crooks. How will they ever survive. They might have to lay off thousands if they do not get some massive tax breaks and deregulations. Look at how they are struggling. Barely getting by. They can hardly afford the 100 million they vowed to the GOP just this election cycle.
kayaker 71
October 14th, 2012
7:30 pm
taxpayer, 7:21,
Well, you can consider yourself pretty fortunate. There are a bucket load full of Americans who are not better off than they were 4 years ago, especially with home equity. Your stock market portfolio may have improved over the last four years but mine and others home values are in the tank. We still have millions out of work, our growth is pegged at a paltry 1.7% and we owe more than we produce. If you consider that progress, then you better vote for Bozo. But we can do better than that. We have in the past and we will in the future but not with Bozo at the helm.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:33 pm
josef,
This freefall that Dems seem to think that O saved us from has taken on quite a life of its own. It doesn’t jive with the facts. The fact of the matter is that jobs losses had already bottomed out in Jan. when O came into office. And the recession ended a mere 6 months later. The worst of the recession was under W’s watch. As for saving the financial institutions TARP was started under W as the liberals have pointed out numerous times when it suits their argument. As for the stimulus it seems to me that it was unnecessary. It was put in as the recession was ending and as the economic and employment data verified things were getting better before and as Obama was coming into office. This idea that he “saved” the U.S. economy is a piece of fiction when lined up against the economic facts.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
7:33 pm
Thanks Frog!
New York, NY – Military Working Dogs are more intelligent than second and first lieutenants, according to an article to be published next week in Army Times.
They didn’t mention Frogs………much smarter than dogs, lieutennants, and a couple of congressman!
getalife
October 14th, 2012
7:33 pm
They cry about not cleaning up their mess yet but their party is obstructing and they say nothing about the gop obstruction.
Their logic does not pass the common sense test.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
7:36 pm
The cons want everyone to be miserable because they’re miserable.
Save the world………..hug a Con.
(Wear some gloves first though — might catch cooties)
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:36 pm
Would someone please explain this to me: if so many are on Food Stamps as an indicator of the failure of the Obama economic policies, i.e. not their fault, then why, pray tell are they being vilified as cheats and frauds? You can’t have it both ways the way I see it. But, then, that’s just me and I don’t know what I’m talking about even half the time. So enlighten me. please.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
7:37 pm
Thulsa,
We lost something around 9 million private sector jobs during the great recession. Following Bush’s minor recession and the implementation of his tax cuts, the economy added about 155,000 private sector jobs per month. We’re currently averaging out about the same number of private sector jobs per month but we have to recover from a much larger loss of private sector jobs so it will naturally take longer. Further, this time around government is not adding jobs as it did under Bush but is losing jobs each month so that further delays the job recovery.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
7:38 pm
DebbieDo
Thanks. Did you read the
Air Force articles. Hilarious.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
7:39 pm
You can’t have it both ways the way I see it.
Of course Republicans can have if both ways so long as it suits their needs.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
7:40 pm
doomy,
Steady job growth disagrees with your fac er lies.
Just give it a rest doomy.
Nobody is buying your lies.
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:40 pm
THULSA
“It doesn’t jive with the facts”
Oh, I wouldn’t say that. When it comes to jiving with the facts, both parties seem to be on their game there, and yours and other posts just confirm that the way I see it. Now as far as jibing with the facts, like I say, I don’t speak economics and I don’t practice cabala either…
getalife
October 14th, 2012
7:40 pm
I stand with our Vice President to tell the world the gop are full of crap and only vote for the wealthy that needs no help. I fight for the middle class to save SS, Medicare, Medicaid and all programs that help the people that do need help. Join us and vote D.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:42 pm
josef,
One other thing. I don’t know how you have more money in your pocket as opposed to 4 years ago unless its due to ordinary courses of promotion or raises which happen in the normal course of employment. As for gas your paying twice as much as 4 years ago and for many basic foodstuffs such as coffee, eggs, sugar, peanut butter, the prices for those normal items have skyrocketed. And if purchasing power is down nearly 9% due to all the money printing then I can only surmise that you are better off due to you or unmentionable getting raises/promotions or your portfolio increasing which is on paper only and could quickly change.
kayaker 71
October 14th, 2012
7:42 pm
taxpayer, 7:29,
Koch industries has not terminated much of anyone from its payroll. Why don’t you ask the more than 70.000 people that Koch employes world wide how they feel about working for Koch industries? You can harp on about how you hate Koch for backing a political candidate of their choice but we get nothing from you about SEIU and numerous other Bozo donors doing exactly the same thing. It’s OK for Goldman Sachs to give Bozo over a million dollars and for SEIU to contribute over 28M but the Koch brothers are devils and demons. They can’t do this….. they are capitalists and we all know how liberals feel about the evil capitalists, now don’t we? Empty rhetoric, taxpayer….. nothing more.
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:46 pm
Thulsa
Buy low, sell high. No credit cards. No mortgage. No car note. I haven’t had a raise at my public sector job in 7 years.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
7:47 pm
Our President broke the donor record with 4 million donors.
How many for mitt?
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:48 pm
Kayaker
Capitalism has been pretty good to this liberal. No complaints about the system. Plenty about the unfettered greed and lack of a moral compass from many of its adherents.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
7:50 pm
frog — reading it now! I’ve even sent the link to some of my old “military dependents” friends that I still “talk to”. They’re gonna love it!!
josef: Would someone please explain this to me: if so many are on Food Stamps as an indicator of the failure of the Obama economic policies, i.e. not their fault, then why, pray tell are they being vilified as cheats and frauds? You can’t have it both ways the way I see it. But, then, that’s just me and I don’t know what I’m talking about even half the time. So enlighten me. please.
josef — this is how i see it, (what the cons are selling):
Are You Gonna Believe Me Or Your Lieing Math Not Adding Up Eyes??
OR
Those Lazy Azz Moochers!!! — (As said to the rich and conned at rallies); I FEEL For the Plight Of Middle America (Said to everyone else, especially reporters).
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:50 pm
josef,
I disagree with you on the facts. The economic data I speak of is not in dispute. The work force participation rate is the lowest its been since 1983 with about 23 million people, 47 million are now on food stamps, the household staples I mentioned have soared in price relative to 4 years ago, and the economic report that came out a few weeks ago that stated we have lost nearly 9% in purchasing power is not in dispute. Its like gas. It was $1.81 the day O came into office and is $3.58 today here where I live- double. The data I presented is not in dispute- it is what it is.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
7:51 pm
Empty rhetoric is what I have come to expect from you, kayaker, and you continue to fully meet expectations. Now tell us all about how the poor pitiful Koch crooks need another tax cut in order to offset forking over 100 million to the GOP this election cycle. Then tell us all about how much donors to the Democratic party whine about how taxes are just destroying them and making it so hard for them to afford to hardly keep their mansions clean for dinner parties.
josef
October 14th, 2012
7:53 pm
THULSA
Okay, now how much of that is the result of the massive shipping of jobs overseas?
getalife
October 14th, 2012
7:55 pm
The cons will continue to serve our country by fighting for Americans that need no help from them.
I believe there are more Americans fighting for Americans that do need help and will beat these cons.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
7:57 pm
josef – As Hoover said, ” The only thing wrong with capitalism is capitalists”.
It’s not the system that’s broken, its the people who run the system with a broken moral compass.
kayaker 71
October 14th, 2012
7:57 pm
joseph, 7:48,
I don’t doubt that you are correct. Capitalism has it’s warts, you can be sure. But this country has been founded on capitalistic ideas and methods since it’s inception. There are casualties along the way but overall, this country could not have been built any other way. We have a lot that we can be ashamed of and Bozo has pointed this out pretty well. We don’t need to be reminded. But the end result has been yours and my ability to prosper as we could not have done in any other country in the world. There is no such thing as a perfect scenario but to demonize the very thing that allows us to enjoy the lifestyle and freedoms that virtually no one else in the world has……
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
7:59 pm
josef,
I have the same exact formula which may be why my car is paid off, cc debt non-existent, this modest house is paid off, and money is in the bank. And yes. I am much better off but that’s because my business is recession proof and I’ve grown it through my own efforts. And lived very frugally and within my means. I’m just saying though that most people that haven’t seen raises are seeing their food and gas prices skyrocket. That’s real pain to a lot of real people.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
7:59 pm
When I first started driving, the local stations had gas wars where they sold it as cheap as $0.25 per gallon. Then along came all those presidents. Look what they’ve done to this world, ma.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:00 pm
How else does a vastly more experienced Dem heavyweight like Hillary Clinton lose the Dem primary to a man with virtually no meaningful experience?
It wasn’t race. If you go back and look, most of the Black support in the primaries went to Clinton. Obama didn’t begin to pick up support from the Black community until later in the race. Many Blacks originally didn’t think Obama had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the nomination. Add that, and the admiration that Black America has for Bill Clinton, and it’s much easier to see why Clinton had the early support. Blacks didn’t give Obama a second thought until after Iowa, when Whites overwhelmingly went with Obama over Clinton.
But, I’ll let you live in your little fantasy world where Blacks simply vote for melanin.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
8:02 pm
So it begs to question, why do you fight for Americans that do not need your help cons?
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:02 pm
josef,
Outsourcing is a phenomenon that’s been going on for quite awhile- decades in fact. Its not something that just up and started happening under W or O. We could go protectionist and protect all those jobs but economic history shows us that that would be disastrous.
josef
October 14th, 2012
8:03 pm
KAYAKER
The problem, as I see it, is bringing more people into that system. That begins with education. That education begins in elementary school when we teach percentages. We should be doing that within the framework of how to budget, income and outgo, investment and return. We aren’t. Even if we started today, it will be a generation before the effects are manifest. In the meantime, if we don’t provide the social safety net for the children we are making the effort to bring in, all we’re going to get is a festering sore sure to lead to collapse of all we hold dear.
kayaker 71
October 14th, 2012
8:05 pm
taxpayer, 7:51,
Spare us. Mansions and dinner parties. When will the envy end? Koch has broken no laws or someone like our Justice Dept and Holder would have arrested them long ago. They are working within the framework that our legislators in Congress have deemed lawful. If you have a beef about how much they contribute to a political candidate, take it with the Supreme Court and Congress. You are so against someone having success in their life. Envy? Don’t know what but you are troubled.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
8:08 pm
And everyone KNOWS that the office of President has everything to do with the gas prices!! The gas companies? Not so much………
josef
October 14th, 2012
8:10 pm
No doubt the gap between the haves and the have nots has widened. But would the gap be any less under another administration?
THULSA
Just call me an isolationist!
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:12 pm
Brocephus,
And in my fantasy world I suppose a white Dem candidate would have won over a corruption ridden candidate like say Marion Barry or Kwame Kilpatrick huh? I never said that blacks vote exclusively based on color btw. But I’m sure some of them given the chance will vote for the black guy just cause he’s black. Just as some whites will vote for a white guy for the same reason.
But I do see numerous examples of con blacks winning in white con districts, the black female mayor of Salt Lake City Mia Love, Allan West, JC Watts, and others.And Herman Cain was making a serious move in the R primaries before the sex allegations came up. Now maybe I am mistaken but I don’t see too many white Dems that have been voted in over black Dems in heavily majority black cities or congressional districts. I’m sure they probably exist. I just don’t know of any.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
8:12 pm
If you think things are bad now, just wait until 2525. That’s when things really start going downhill.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:13 pm
As for gas your paying twice as much as 4 years ago
Let’s take a closer look at that statement….
Now, this isn’t exact to the date, but it’s within a week of the 4 year timeline, and within 2 weeks of today.
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2008/10/gas-prices.html
October 6, 2008
Regular gasoline/gallon
Price: $3.48 Down .15 from previous week
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2012/10/average-gas-prices-oct-1-2012.html
October 1, 2012
Regular gasoline/gallon
Price: $3.80 Down .02 from previous week
Given, those are national averages, but they are far from anywhere near prices being twice as much as 4 years ago. One simply has to look at the calendar and count 4 actual years to debunk that idea. Four years ago October, the stock market crashed and we really began to see the bottom falling out. October 2008 was the second month of 400,000 plus jobs lost too.
That’s why the whole 4 year ago argument is bull. Four years ago, Bush was still in charge and we had no idea of how bad things were about to get as the bottom was just falling from below our feet.
josef
October 14th, 2012
8:14 pm
The problem with the Koch-Trump-et al lot is that they have no class. They’re cheap, tacky and trashy with no sense of noblesse oblige. Parvenu upstarts. Vulgar. Ignorant. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
8:15 pm
When will your strawmen end, kayaker. The Kochs have broken laws and they’ve had their little wrists slapped and they whine about it and try to get rid of all those mean people that get in their way. You are the troubled one, kayaker.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:17 pm
And everyone knows that with all the money printing and QE that inflation means that oil and gas prices are going to be higher under this president. How someone doesn’t recognize that is beyond me. And everyone knows that stopping or slowing down new drilling projects is going to lessen supply and hence raise gas prices. Well not quite everyone. That supply and demand thing just escapes a few of em. And everyone knows that when W lifted the moratorium on drilling that the price of a barrel of oil dropped $10 overnight.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
8:18 pm
pare us. Mansions and dinner parties. When will the envy end?
Envy has changed history and the world……..
Like the French Revolution — “Let them eat cake”.
Or the Russian Revolution — Bolshevik uprising – all started because of “envy”.
Beware of envy 1% — 99% have WAY more people than you do…..
kayaker 71
October 14th, 2012
8:19 pm
joseph, 8:03,
Probably one of your best posts. If we invested our resources into education of those who are in need, we would go a long way toward getting our house in order. The playing field is not level. And that is what many of the have nots in our society rail on about. But it also takes drive, determination and a dedication to succeed that is difficult to achieve with those that need it most. I remember numerous residents in training where the lack of confidence in what they could do was severely lacking. Most of them never had a mentor that took them by the hand and guided them to succeed. We are ignoring the very asset that we need the most to maintain our continued success….. our young people. Anyone with the knowledge to run a gang on the South side of Chicago and manage to run a multi-million dollar business in drug trafficking could do most anything they want in life if just given the guidance and opportunity to do it. Again, good post.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:20 pm
Now maybe I am mistaken but I don’t see too many white Dems that have been voted in over black Dems in heavily majority black cities or congressional districts.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but I don’t see many White Dems actually running in heavily majority Black cities or congressional districts. In order to prove your point, you actually have to prove that it even exists.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2012/May/17/endangered__white_democrats_in_ala__legislature.html
White Democrats opposed to new legislative districts designed by Republicans said they will turn the Legislature into a body of white Republicans and black Democrats.
The Legislature’s special session on redistricting opened Thursday with the Republican-dominated reapportionment committee voting along party lines to recommend districts that House and Senate committees will consider Friday.
House Minority Leader Craig Ford and Senate Minority Leader Roger Bedford said the recommended districts appear designed to get rid of several of the 18 white Democrats in the Legislature either by making their districts more Republican or by combining the white Democrats into districts with veteran black Democratic incumbents.
Story posted May 17, 2012
getalife
October 14th, 2012
8:22 pm
4.25 gas under w doomy.
Self reflect for a moment and think to tell me why do you fight for Americans that do not need help from any American.
Do tell.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:22 pm
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/11/04/election_nearly_wipes_out_white_southern_democrats/
WASHINGTON—The white Southern Democrat — endangered since the 1960s civil rights era — is sliding nearer to extinction.
After this week’s elections, the Democratic Party barely holds a presence in the region outside of majority-black urban areas such as Atlanta and Memphis. The carnage for the party was particularly brutal in the Deep South, where just one white Democrat survived across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
The Republicans’ effort to win over the South, rooted decades ago in a strategy to capitalize on white voters’ resentment of desegregation, is all but complete.
“Right now in most of Dixie it is culturally unacceptable to be a Democrat. It’s a damn shame, but that’s the way it is,” said Dave “Mudcat” Saunders, a campaign strategist for conservative Democrats such as Jim Webb of Virginia, one of the few remaining Southern Democratic senators.
The losses were particularly disappointing for the party after the baby steps it made in the South in 2006 and 2008, when it picked up a host of Republican-leaning House districts and won Senate seats in North Carolina and Virginia. Many thought the party had learned its lessons and had begun to reverse recent history by nominating conservative candidates who hit the right notes on divisive social issues such as abortion and smaller government.
None of it mattered Tuesday.
Democrats didn’t just see most of their recent gains obliterated, they lost at least 19 Southern House members and a senator, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. Even some of the most conservative Democrats such as four-term Rep. Jim Marshall of Georgia and 10-term Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi couldn’t withstand the wave. It also snared such veterans as John Spratt of South Carolina, the 14-term chairman of the House Budget Committee, and 14-term Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia.
When the new Congress convenes in January, there will be at most 16 white Southern Democratic House members out of 105 seats in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Two races in Virginia and Kentucky were still too close to call, so the total could be as low as 14.
November 4, 2010
G Mare
October 14th, 2012
8:23 pm
Getalife@7:40, mailed my absentee ballot today.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012. And NO on school amendment!
kayaker 71
October 14th, 2012
8:23 pm
Debbie, 8:18,
Be glad you can live in a country where you can also have mansions and dinner parties. It’s all out there, my dear……. just for the taking.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:24 pm
If you’re wondering where the stories came from, I simply put “White Democrats representing majority Black areas” into a Yahoo search.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:27 pm
“Barack Obama was sworn in as president on January 20, 2009. In the week that ended on January 19, 2009, the weekly retail gasoline price in the U.S. was $1.90/gallon. Most people don’t remember that given the recent history of high gasoline prices, but I will get to that.”
http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2012/09/15/gasoline-prices-doubled-under-obama-true-or-false/
Brocephus,
Was that about easily debunked? I said $1.81 because that’s what I think it was here in GA. The national average was $1.90. I stand vindicated. Gas prices are in fact roughly double what they were 4 years ago. No spinning around this one by picking a point in time that fits your narrative.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
8:29 pm
Bro @ 8:13 — STOP giving facts to cons!! You want their heads to burst open or, worse yet, you want them to start melting?
josef
October 14th, 2012
8:29 pm
KAYAKER
“Anyone with the knowledge to run a gang on the South side of Chicago and manage to run a multi-million dollar business in drug trafficking could do most anything they want in life if just given the guidance and opportunity to do it.”
My point exactly. I remember one of my kids several years ago who was, let’s just say an IQ over the 150 range and street wise, already at age 8 targeted as a future leader by the criminal class (i.e. the Kennedys
) I was trying to teach him about the stock market, investments, red-black in the ledger books and what have you. Anyway, his Mama came to talk to me and put it this way, “I don’t delude myself that he’s not going to be a criminal. I just want him to be a Fortune 500 corporate raider, not a street corner drug pusher.”
Today? Oddly enough the little snot nose went on to become a policeman and is now a detective. His car and house out in the suburbs? Well, he didn’t get it from his public sector paycheck. I guess I ought not to take so much pride in having taught him the lessons in how to launder money. But, well, that was in history class and my mention of Great Granny Martha and her “reconstruction!” He was less interested in the socio-political than the economic and money laundering!
getalife
October 14th, 2012
8:29 pm
G Mare,
“OBAMA/BIDEN 2012″
Thank you. Felt good didn’t it?
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:30 pm
April 25, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Republican redistricting plan for the Mississippi House would increase black majority districts at the expense of white Democratic lawmakers.
The plan, released Wednesday and approved by the House Elections Committee, could come to a vote as soon as Thursday. A Senate plan has yet to be released.
“It’s fair and it complies with the law,” said Reapportionment Committee Chairman Rep. Bill Denny, R-Jackson. The chairman of the Joint Reapportionment Committee read his statement word-for-word in three separate meetings Wednesday. He said districts are more tightly drawn and that fewer counties and precincts are split.
House Republicans, who gained control of the body for the first time this year, could increase their 64-58 margin if their plan is approved. However, legislative redistricting is already under challenge in a federal lawsuit and Democrats indicated they would introduce their own plan on the floor of the House.
The GOP tilt is obvious in the three pairs of white Democratic incumbents who could be forced to run against each other in the next state election, as well as the white Democrat drawn into a Republican district. But efforts to snuff out what was once Mississippi’s dominant political species run deeper.
The plan divides Mississippi’s voters into 79 districts that have a voting-age population that’s less than 35 percent black, and 42 districts whose voting-age population is more than 50 percent black.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Miss-House-redistricting-targets-white-Democrats-3509611.php#ixzz29K60aNpW
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:32 pm
http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992912064017974&ShowArticle_ID=11011506112976262
A Republican plan to re-draw district lines in South Carolina attempts to squeeze out certain white Democrats and increase the number of Republicans in the state Senate from 27 to 31.
If it works, the plan would create a filibuster-proof majority among Republicans in the upper chamber.
….
The apparent strategy is to consolidate Democratic districts together, thus pushing one Democratic senator out of each. For instance, the plan would put Sheheen in the same district as Fairfield County Democrat Creighton Coleman.
….
Another strategy appears to be to make Democratic Senate districts lean more Republican by shifting district lines, such as in the case of Horry County’s Dick Elliot and Sumter’s Phil Leventis.
The six Democrats representing the districts at issue are white.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:34 pm
Doom
Today is October 14, 2012. Four years ago, it was October 2008 and not January 2009. You’re talking more than a 3 month difference between four years ago vs when Obama got elected. Why not frame your argument as a factual statement then? As I stated earler, four years ago we were still under the Bush Administration.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
8:34 pm
US natural gas wellhead price was $6.82 per thousand cubic feet in January 2001 and it was $2.59 in July 2012.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:35 pm
Brocephus,
Are you trying to make my point about white Democrats losing? You certainly seem to be. Only 14 or maybe 16 of them left in the south.Looks like they are having a hard time getting elected.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
8:36 pm
Again:
And everyone KNOWS that the office of President has everything to do with the gas prices!! The gas companies? Not so much………
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:40 pm
Are you trying to make my point about white Democrats losing?
Are you seeing why they are losing?? They are being forced to run against each other OR they are being forced to run in districts that are designed to go Republican. You only seek to confirm what you think instead of reading everything there.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 14th, 2012
8:41 pm
And everyone knows that with all the money printing… [...] And everyone knows that stopping or slowing…[...] And everyone knows that when….
You don’t have the authority to go boom in your diaper and claim that I had anything to do with it.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:42 pm
DDR
You know the gas price control switch is in the basement of the West Wing.
Funny that people who chastised people for claiming the president controlled gas prices under the previous administration are currently arguing the polar opposite under this administration. The things that a switch in party control brings out. Same thing can be said for some on the opposite side too.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:43 pm
Brocephus,
Perhaps I should have clarified since you’re a stickler for detail. Since the day O came into office through today gas prices have roughly doubled. Happy now?
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:46 pm
Funny how Nancy Pelosi and people on here who complained about gas prices and all those oil men in the white house when W was president are so silent today when gas prices are near record highs. Its amazing what a switch in party control brings out.
josef
October 14th, 2012
8:46 pm
THULSA
And the oil companies are rolling in it…sounds like Obama is their bestest friend in the whole wide world…
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
8:48 pm
Doom
Doesn’t make me happy or sad. I’ll simply say that you make a factual claim now as opposed to before. You may not have seen it, but I’ve stated my disgust with that whole “four year ago” argument for that very reason. It’s easily debunked by simply looking at a calendar. My four year old can do that. I don’t consider it being a stickler for detail. I see it as being a stickler for fact.
As one who claims to know so much, I figured you’d care a bit more about being factually correct than what you were saying.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:49 pm
Kamspam with another non-brilliant debate point. Something about boom and diapers. He’ll make some sorta sense one day. We hope anyway. Maybe…
getalife
October 14th, 2012
8:50 pm
cons never answer the question of why they help those that need no help. Too tough to answer I guess.
They can’t even cut big oil welfare so shut up about gads prices doomy.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
8:51 pm
One should think that the very least we could get from our trillion dollar Iraq war would be lower gas prices.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
8:54 pm
Taxpayer
we did get lower gas prices
for the Iraqis.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:54 pm
Brocephus,
Be serious man. When some of us are referencing 4 years ago its not technically 4 years yet since O walked into office. Obviously. Some of us whether its lib or con are thinking in terms of when the Obama presidency began. Of course its not 4 years as of yet but its fairly close. Seems to me that you’re just nitpicking regarding a technicality. But lesson learned. Instead of just saying 4 years ago I will state since the day O came into office. Much lengthier but at least we’ll be on the same page.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
8:57 pm
A loss of refinery capacity in the US has been a major contributor to higher refined product prices. Of course, that is how that supply and demand portion of capitalism works.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
8:58 pm
josef,
Yeah. That’s the irony. The oil companies are rolling in it. Thank God W isn’t potus or else we would never hear the end of the nonsense about the Rs and big oil colluding to screw us all.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 14th, 2012
9:01 pm
We hope anyway.
(shrug)
I am not so insecure as to call upon the unauthorized consent of “we” and “everyone”.
Maybe if you concentrated less on making “boom”….
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:02 pm
Buy shares of oil companies and refiners if you want in on the high gas price action. Profit off of your neighbor’s oil consumption. And if you really want to get them, convince them that big SUV’s are the bestest mode of transportation.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
9:04 pm
Thulsa Doom
Big Oil doesn’t have to collude, one just raises the
price a penny, the others
follow and they rake in
billions while we get the
shaft but at least it is oily.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:05 pm
And a new refinery hasn’t been built since the 1970s I think it is. Wonder why?
Could it be gubment red tape?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/business/09refinery.html?_r=0
Even so, Mr. McGinnis – an industry veteran who joined Arizona Clean Fuels last year as chief executive to give the project more heft against long odds – cleared a significant hurdle recently when Arizona awarded him a crucial emissions permit. Still ahead are countless rounds of negotiations with local, state and federal agencies to secure dozens more permits.
“Countless rounds” of negotiations and red tape to get more permits?
“So far, the effort has consumed six years and $30 million, with precious little to show for it.”
But but but the liberals say govt regulation and red tape is not an issue.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:07 pm
barking frog,
Well I reckons you got a point there. At least they screw us with a well lubricated shaft.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:09 pm
Something puzzles me about the GOP tax mantra. Why do Republicans continually call for lower federal income taxes for the wealthiest but do not call for lower payroll taxes or lower gas taxes or lower sales taxes or lower property taxes for everyone. If you are against taxes shouldn’t you speak out for reducing all taxes. Who are Republicans representing. And if the Republicans are going to claim that the so-called job creators need lower taxes so they can create jobs, wouldn’t it wise on their part to get a contractual commitment from the job creators.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:11 pm
“Maybe if you concentrated less on making “boom”….”
Sez the poster who has mentioned “boom” twice already this evening while I have not. Sound like Kammypoo has his usual unhealthy obsession with Doom’s “b–m”.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:13 pm
Those darned regulations. You know you can’t even release benzene into the atmosphere any more. It costs money to prevent that. And spills. Don’t even get me going about how much it costs to cut down on those.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
9:13 pm
If President Obama loses
this election he may be the
only democratic President
in history to not raise taxes,
unless you count Obamacare as a tax.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
9:14 pm
Be serious man.
I am serious man. The GOP started that argument after Obama had been in office a little over three years. It’s a completely faulty argument, regardless to what you think it insinuates. You can say whatever you want to say. The only time I have a problem with it is if you’re claiming to speak the truth and your argument is faulty. If you start off with a faulty premise, then your entire argument is worthless.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:17 pm
“Maybe I’m mistaken, but I don’t see many White Dems actually running in heavily majority Black cities or congressional districts.”
Brocephus,
And did it occur to you that maybe even a liberal white Democrat doesn’t think he can win head to head versus a black Democrat in a heavily black district?
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:20 pm
“wouldn’t it wise on their part to get a contractual commitment from the job creators.”
And how would we do that? Create a new govt agency that assigns job hiring quotas to private businesses and tells them they must hire x amount of employees in line with that agency’s dictates- whether the employer needs that employee or not?
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
9:22 pm
And did it occur to you that maybe even a liberal white Democrat doesn’t think he can win head to head versus a black Democrat in a heavily black district?
And why fault race then if it’s somebody’s lack of courage or testicular fortitude that’s keeping them from doing something? That’s the same thing I fault the Conservative White Republicans for. They b*tch and whine about how Blacks vote for Democrats, but how many do you actually see try to make any serious attempts to reach out to urban Blacks? Demonizing and/or castigating people isn’t reaching out, and it will not likely end up with you getting much support at the ballot box.
It’s almost like y’all wanna fault Blacks for everything wrong in the world but don’t want to make the effort to try to figure out what the problem is.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:23 pm
“You know you can’t even release benzene into the atmosphere any more. It costs money to prevent that. And spills.”
Oh lordy, Someone help TP to the fainting couch.We’re right back to the “Republicans want dirtier air and water” hyperbole again.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
9:23 pm
frog,
Our President cut taxes many times and the gop can prove they want to help the middle class with another tax cut but refused.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
9:25 pm
Ask any con why they help Americans that need no help and watch them squirm.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
9:26 pm
getalife
That is correct.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:27 pm
“but how many do you actually see try to make any serious attempts to reach out to urban Blacks? Demonizing and/or castigating people isn’t reaching out, and it will not likely end up with you getting much support at the ballot box.”
Brocephus,
They’ve made serious attempts. But unfortunately its not working too well and the Republican message does not resonate. Mitt spoke at the NAACP this year. The last serious effort I saw was when Bush 1 spoke at Morehouse I think it was. The students openly disrespected him by closing their eyes, staring at the floor, rolling their eyes, showing total disinterest. After that the Rs pretty much just realized it was a waste of time for the most part. You can’t make someone hear who refuses to listen to you. That dialogue is a 2 way street brocephus.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:27 pm
And how would we do that? Create a new govt agency that assigns job hiring quotas to private businesses and tells them they must hire x amount of employees in line with that agency’s dictates- whether the employer needs that employee or not?
If the Republicans wish to continue to make the faux claim that these wealthiest will create jobs if only they can get more relief from their tax burden, then let them back it up with a commitment that will hold up in court.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:32 pm
“It’s almost like y’all wanna fault Blacks for everything wrong in the world”
We wanna fault blacks for “everything wrong in the world”? Are you freaking kidding me? There are wayyyyyyyy too many white people to blame for the problems of the world before we even get to black people. And frankly I don’t see how the majority of the world’s problems could be attributed to Africa itself or to only 40 million African Americans in the U.S. Don’t worry bro. You’re wayyyyyyyy down the totem pole on the to blame list.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:34 pm
I posted no hyperbole regarding the release of benzene, Thulsa. You should educate yourself on its toxicity and even on the release of benzene before you make another one of your signature comments..
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
9:36 pm
Kam is too nice to say that someone is mostly just talking sh##t and dropping it into their diapers. he’s such a gentleman….
SoCoBro: You know the gas price control switch is in the basement of the West Wing
It’s right next to the Bat Signal and the red button that calls Superman in to save the day!
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:37 pm
“then let them back it up with a commitment that will hold up in court.’
TP, I don’t see how that would be constitutional. Or enforceable. And it looks to me like you’re coming from it from the perspective that you’re “giving” these people something and that in return for what you are “giving” them you expect something in return. You’re not “giving” them anything in the way of lower taxes. You’re just taking less of their money- money that they and their businesses earned. You didn’t earn it, the gubment didn’t earn it. They did. And that money is theirs first and foremost and not yours. Though you try as you may to use the power of the vote to redistribute that money to yourself.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:39 pm
Well of course Kamchak is a gentleman. That’s why he made a joke about my puppy getting run over- cause he’s a gentleman. And apparently a comedian too in his own eyes.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:41 pm
Thulsa,
Republicans make the claim that the job creators need the tax cuts in order to create the jobs. I simply say to them to back up their lies. I know they cannot. You apparently believe they can. If you truly believe they can then you should be willing to push for a commitment since you must also believe that they have nothing to lose by making such a commitment. It’s a sure thing, right. No gamble at all, right.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:43 pm
Taxpayer,
Nobody that I know of is against reasonable and safe regulations regarding Benzene and other dangerous chemicals. You’re putting up a red herring sir. What I’m talking about is that it shouldn’t take years and years of jumping through permitting hoops and govt red tape to build one single damn refinery. Did you see the article. Its been 6 years and millions of dollars and they still had numerous hurdles to overcome. We all want the environment and people to be safe but it shouldn’t take that long and be that damn difficult dealing with the govt just to get one damn plant built. Its ridiculous.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
9:43 pm
Oil is a naturally occurring
solution, organic, but
when it or one of its
components spill onto the
earth from which it came
a tragedy occurs.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:47 pm
TP,
I see what you’re saying but neither you nor I nor the govt can enforce our view of how many jobs they should create. You can’t make someone create a job when there’s no work to do. If and when they feel the economy is picking up and they have the demand for more work they will in fact hire. But it doesn’t seem they have that confidence in the economy under this president.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
9:47 pm
A law should be passed to
stop these volcanoes from
erupting all over everything,
or at least a regulation to
limit their emissions.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:50 pm
Nobody that I know of is against reasonable and safe regulations regarding Benzene and other dangerous chemicals.
I don’t know the Koch crooks, et al, personally either. As for taking years to get through government red tape, if it saves lives that’s a good thing.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
9:51 pm
Mitt spoke at the NAACP this year.
The NAACP doesn’t speak to all Black Americans, nor do all Black Americans belong to or embrace the message.
The students openly disrespected him by closing their eyes, staring at the floor, rolling their eyes, showing total disinterest.
As with the NAACP, students don’t represent ALL of urban America Doom. Blaming one segment for everybody is pretty weak, even for you.
As long as the background noise coming from the Right is one that is unwelcoming for the average Black person, you won’t get Black support. I’m not talking about candidates either. When you have people, like Ann Coulter rewriting history and getting kudos for doing so, you basically spit in the face of those who actually do know the history of this country.
When supporters label people as leeches and other stuff, you’re not going to get support from the community.
After that the Rs pretty much just realized it was a waste of time for the most part. You can’t make someone hear who refuses to listen to you.
And so, the whining will continue on because of the defeatist attitude of Conservatives. If Black support was something they truly wanted, they wouldn’t be such pansies and give up so quickly. Making token gestures simply to reinforce stereotypical beliefs don’t help out much.
Are you freaking kidding me? There are wayyyyyyyy too many white people to blame for the problems of the world before we even get to black people.
Need I remind you of how hard you wanted to argue me about percentages of populations on welfare when I brought up the point to you a ways back that there were more Whites on welfare than Blacks? When I pointed that out and that Whites cost more in welfare dollars, you kept going back to the point that as a percentage to population, there are more Blacks on welfare.
You keep telling yourself that. You make so many different arguments here that I honestly don’t think you remember half the stuff you say. You’ve done the very thing that you say is waaaaaaayyyyyyy down the list. I don’t tend to forget those kinds of things. If I knew exactly where to find those statements, I’d pull them up right now just to see you try to wiggle your way out of it.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
9:52 pm
Well I see Doom is still spreading lies and false claims. But that easy when his goal is to be the leader on the pompous board…..dancing…Doomdunce style
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 14th, 2012
9:52 pm
Well of course Kamchak is a gentleman. That’s why he made a joke about my puppy getting run over- cause he’s a gentleman.
(shrug)
You were the one that played the “dead puppy”card not me.
You were the one that swore on the death of your dead puppy that you would stop being you.
I didn’t believe it then, I don’t believe it now.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:54 pm
barking frog,
Rush Limbaugh already proposed that law regarding fining and penalizing volcanoes for emitting all that sulfur dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the air. To date the volcanoes are refusing to be regulated. They’re an ornery bunch.
The ocean floor also needs to be regulated for all the oil and gas emissions that it emits into the ocean. We just got to figure out a way to get down there and regulate and fine it.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
9:54 pm
When I was a child I drank
a half glass of kerosene.
It didn’t hurt me but since
then I cannot tell if a glass
is half empty or half full.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
9:55 pm
Lets try another simple question.
Why will you pay 8 grand to pay for another tax cut for the wealthy?
Is a vote for mitt worth 8 grand?
You have skin in this game.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:56 pm
If the job creators cannot commit to creating jobs (that will lead to more taxes being paid by new hires to help offset the loss of tax revenues from the job creators) in exchange for more tax cuts, then we are better off collecting the taxes and using that money to pay for things like the debt and the military, etc. Cuts will not pay off the debt and fund the very things that the job creators want funded as well.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
9:58 pm
Kamchak,
I tried. I really did. But you and keep decided to continue your jackassery. The 2 of you lost your civility privileges. End of story. Don’t worry though. You didn’t hurt my feelings with the joking about the puppy. I actually felt sorry for you that you’re that kind of a person. You upset G-mare a bit but as for me it was just the expected nastiness that one would expect from you. You were just being you of course.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
October 14th, 2012
9:58 pm
They b*tch and whine about how Blacks vote for Democrats, but how many do you actually see try to make any serious attempts to reach out to urban Blacks?
What you talkin bout SoCoBro? Newt himself said he’d be more than happy to stand in front of the NAACP and ask them why “their people” wanted to get foodstamps rather than jobs.
Duh!
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
9:59 pm
The ocean floor also needs to be regulated for all the oil and gas emissions that it emits into the ocean. We just got to figure out a way to get down there and regulate and fine it.
Actually BP and company are the only ones that need regulating. Unless you know of some natural leaks that dumped anything close to what BP dumped in the Gulf.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 14th, 2012
9:59 pm
When I was a child I drank
a half glass of kerosene.
Tadpoles have opposable thumbs?
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:00 pm
“then we are better off collecting the taxes and using that money to pay for things like the debt and the military”
Taxpayer,
And on that point you just might be right.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
10:03 pm
A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was spotted wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words “Put the white back in the White House” at a campaign event this week
You mean this is not reaching out.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
10:03 pm
Thulsa Doom
I have not listened to Rush
so I did not know that. He
sounds like the kinda guy
that would call a caldera a
caldera. The ocean can be
fined a lot of fish but I
think the Japanese are
doing that in retaliation
for the tsunami.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:04 pm
TP,
The BP spill was bad but the ocean regularly emits more oil than what the BP spill did. The difference of course is that its emitted in very small amounts throughout all the oceans of the world and distributed widely and then easily roken down and dispersed because its not concentrated.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
10:06 pm
DDR
And when one can’t see or refuses to see the issue that comes from the choice of words used to convey the message, they will never understand the ramifications of their speech.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
10:06 pm
Ahhh, Doom is blaming others (and falsely at that) instead of taking personal responsibility for his failure to live up to his pledges. Dance Doomduck style
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:07 pm
barking frog,
I was kidding about Rush-> kamchak disclaimer to let you know I was kidding and not serious.
But I did hear him one time years ago whining about the climate change thing and saying something about volcanoes because of the enormous amounts that Mt. St. Helens spewed. He might have said something about regulating them in jest. Wouldn’t suprise me.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
10:08 pm
Kamchak
No thumbs but three fingers, one of which is
currently in use.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:08 pm
keep up the sorry fight,
Ya did it to yourself missy. At least I tried to be civil though. You on the other hand…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 14th, 2012
10:10 pm
No thumbs but three fingers, one of which is
currently in use.
T-M-I!
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:10 pm
“Put the white back in the White House”
Must have been kamchak working undercover as a plant.
Brosephus™
October 14th, 2012
10:11 pm
Y’all have fun… Quittin’ time here.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
10:12 pm
By May 30, the Deepwater Horizon site had released between 468,000 and 741,000 barrels of oil from the single point source, compared to 60,000 to 150,000 barrels from natural seeps across the entire 615,000 mi² Gulf of Mexico over the same 39 day period. Governor Jindal should have been complaining about all that natural seepage making its way to the shoreline instead of focusing on BP.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
10:14 pm
Kamchak
Too-Much-Imagination.
Merely pointing.
TaxPayer
October 14th, 2012
10:15 pm
I’m out too. Someone keep a tally of overnight converts to each political party so I’ll know where we left off.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
10:15 pm
Thulsa Doom
Can Kamchak imitate a
plant ?
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:16 pm
TP,
Well now you’re getting technical. Jindal would have to share regulating the Gulf’s natural seepage with the other governors in addition to Feds and on top of that all the Carribbean and Latin nations that border or are in the gulf.
Ahem
October 14th, 2012
10:18 pm
A Chart. Maybe Bookman will use it tomorrow, and then, maybe not. And all the while, Al Gore has enriched himself while NOT practicing the things he demands of others, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it
The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures
This means that the ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996
…The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued quietly on the internet, without any media fanfare, and, until today, it has not been reported.
This stands in sharp contrast to the release of the previous figures six months ago, which went only to the end of 2010 – a very warm year.
Ending the data then means it is possible to show a slight warming trend since 1997, but 2011 and the first eight months of 2012 were much cooler, and thus this trend is erased.…
…Others disagreed. Professor Judith Curry, who is the head of the climate science department at America’s prestigious Georgia Tech university, told The Mail on Sunday that it was clear that the computer models used to predict future warming were ‘deeply flawed’.
Even Prof Jones admitted that he and his colleagues did not understand the impact of ‘natural variability’ – factors such as long-term ocean temperature cycles and changes in the output of the sun. However, he said he was still convinced that the current decade would end up significantly warmer than the previous two.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
10:18 pm
Ya did it to yourself missy. At least I tried to be civil though. You on the other hand…
More Doom lies and bullspit. But a great whine… tring to make other take a guilt trip for his nonsense like a jewish grandmother stereotype. Doomwhine jewishstyle
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:19 pm
Barking Frog,
Can Kamchak imitate a plant? I dunno. If he could he would certainly be a weed. But I don’t think he could imitate a plant since plants are quiet and kamchak well all he do is yak yak yak. I also don’t think he could pull it off because people inherently realize that the average house plant is much more interesting than a kamchak. Smarter too.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:21 pm
I see that keep up the sorry fight is still pining for my attentions. The more things change the more they stay the same.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
10:23 pm
You could argue that oil evolved from organic material to prove evolution but it is easier to prove a tadpole evolved into a frog .
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
10:25 pm
getalife
and a damn sight more
time relevant.
barking frog
October 14th, 2012
10:32 pm
getalife
frogs are not fathered by
seamen but marine life
is involved in the process.
If airmen would get involved
then we could fly and
not bump our butt so much.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
10:36 pm
Nope Doom, I am calling you the piece of garbage that you are with your personal attacks, false attributions, lies. If you want to whine and cry, then that is your issue. You want to make it personal, you got it Mr. Pompous one.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:51 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
10:36 pm
“Nope Doom, I am calling you the piece of garbage that you are with your personal attacks, false attributions, lies.”
Piece of garbage? Name calling is forbidden on the Bookman blog. Besides, you’ve lost once you have to resort to man to man name calling.
“If you want to whine and cry, then that is your issue.”
Oh there is some whining going on there is. Its just that its you doing the crying and whining. Waaaaa!
“You want to make it personal, you got it Mr. Pompous one.”
Making it personal? You did that a long time ago sport. I better not upset you too much though. You one baaaaaad man being that you are the North point mall starbucks internet tough guy and all.
Meltdown by keep.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
10:52 pm
I feel like a musician and keep is my fiddle. And I do play him I do.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
11:01 pm
sure thing speedo boy….
You can always try this music since you like to pay the cheap cards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak0_fa1DDpc
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
11:04 pm
Moving on… Looks like Ryan has been caught lying more about his involvement in making stimuluos requests… Biden got him on that one but it was 4 not 2.
getalife
October 14th, 2012
11:12 pm
doomy has never been right about anything and nothing but bluster and bs.
Typical con.
Keep,
Saw that about ryan.
Joe smacked him the whole debate.
It was a classic beat down that made the media cry.
I absolutely loved it .
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
11:17 pm
Getalife, yep. And those in his district know it. It would be great if he lost both of his elections.
G Mare
October 14th, 2012
11:30 pm
Getalife@8:29: “felt good, didn’t it?”
YOU BETCHA! And/or if you are old enough to remember, “you betchum, Red Rider.” (With apologies to Un, Josef.)
getalife
October 14th, 2012
11:42 pm
Keep,
Yup but unfortunately there are many doomy’s in his district so he will probably stay
G Mare,
I am going to stand in line and start chanting Four More Years! and I live in a very red district.
Thulsa Doom
October 14th, 2012
11:42 pm
Time to hit the sack. Keep up I suggest you do the same but you need to relax for a little bit and let the blood pressure sort of drop a bit after your meltdown. Not good to go to bed all huffy and puffy missy.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 14th, 2012
11:52 pm
The drama queen of meltdown and booms lecturing others not in meltdown.
Backing out the door and clucking victory all the way. 
Move along…..
G Mare
October 15th, 2012
12:17 am
Getalife@11:42: If my health permitted I would join you on that cheering line. I do know a few other Dems here in Smyrna, but am surprised that my OBAMA/BIDEN yard sign has not (yet?) been vandalized, not to mention my Stoner sign. Mr. Stoner is my state senator, one of the few good guys left in the GA legislature. Fortunately, Dem Stacy Evans, my state representative, is unapposed this cycle.
Doomy, if you are still here: yes, I was upset about the nastiness re your puppy. And I wanted to believe your promise. Sadly, it seems those kinds of promises are hard to keep. I refuse to take sides here. I understand there are grievances (sp?) on both sides. So just call me the “eternal optimist.”
stands for decibels
October 15th, 2012
6:04 am
Left unstated in this piece, is that having absolutely no sense of shame (and thus lowering any expectations of same from your constituency) is a great political advantage, so it’s kind of stupid to imagine anything changes because the editorial board at the Gray Lady wag their fingers at you.
Still, it’s a good piece, pretty much my take as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/republicans-have-no-shame.html?_r=0
There are many unanswered questions about the vicious assault in Benghazi last month that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. And Congress has a responsibility to raise them. But Republican lawmakers leading the charge on Capitol Hill seem more interested in attacking President Obama than in formulating an effective response.
It doesn’t take a partisan to draw that conclusion. The ugly truth is that the same people who are accusing the administration of not providing sufficient security for the American consulate in Benghazi have voted to cut the State Department budget, which includes financing for diplomatic security. The most self-righteous critics don’t seem to get the hypocrisy, or maybe they do and figure that if they hurl enough doubts and complaints at the administration, they will deflect attention from their own poor judgments on the State Department’s needs.