Agenda 21: The lunacy infiltrating state leaders
Glenn Beck is an entertainer who pitches his schtick at the eagerly deluded and culturally paranoid. Given that we live in a nation of some 300 million, that’s enough of an audience to make a man wealthy.
So when Beck publishes a book titled “Agenda 21,” a fictional warning of a UN takeover of the United States in which the U.S. government is abolished and its citizens are allowed only two functions, “to create clean energy and to create new human life,” it’s easily dismissed as the harmless lunacy that it clearly is.
However, when seven leading GOP members of the Georgia Senate gather in the state Capitol on state taxpayer dollars to hear a lecture on that same “Agenda 21″ preaching much the same craziness, it gets a little more troubling. When Sen. Chip Rogers of Cherokee County submits legislation attempting to further that outlandish conspiracy theory, it gets more troubling still. (It is somewhat of a comfort that Rogers was deposed yesterday in a Senate Republican Caucus meeting.)
And when you consider that others in attendance included Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the Senate Science and Technology Committee; Jack Murphy, chairman of the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee; John Albers, vice chair of the Science and Technology Committee; Bill Heath, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Butch Miller, chairman of the State and Local Governmental Operations Committee, it doesn’t bode well for serious governance.
Now, attendance in a lecture should not be confused with adherence. But based on a 52-minute video and the Powerpoint slides presented, the level of crazy would have sent many a sane person fleeing the room.
For those not well-versed in tin-foil theories, Agenda 21 is an obscure document created in a U.N. conference 20 years ago. If you read the document, it is a perfectly reasonable, utterly harmless recitation of standard land-use planning techniques. It is particularly aimed at developing countries that are trying to adapt to sudden population shifts from rural to urban areas.
But somewhere along the line, sifted through the minds of the paranoid, Agenda 21 becomes something much more sinister. For example, GOP senators attending the Capitol briefing were warned that those spreading the traitorous Agenda 21 have been trained in the use of a mind-control technique known as the Delphi technique. Among the buzzwords that betray influence by Agenda 21 include “best management practices,” “international baccalaureate,” “historic preservation,” “livable communities,” and “public-private partnerships.”
Now, using tax dollars to build a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons would be a public-private partnership. And while personally I think that’s a bad idea given more pressing public needs, I would not have dreamed of attributing the idea to a U.N.-inspired attempted takeover of the United States. Does that make me a victim of the Delphi technique?
According to Field Searcy, who made the presentation, the influence of Agenda 21 can already be detected in the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Cumberland Community Improvement District in Cobb County and in Cobb County itself. Searcy also compared President Obama’s creation of a White House Rural Council to Josef Stalin’s five-year development plan that ended in the starvation deaths of millions of Ukrainians, and with Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward, which also killed tens of millions.
These are the ideas influencing some of this state’s top leadership. Has it become impossible for saner conservative leaders to publicly denounce this stuff for the lunacy that it is? Perhaps so, given that a condemnation of Agenda 21 was even incorporated into the GOP’s 2012 political platform.
– Jay Bookman
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Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
10:58 am
Stands,
Ahhhh.. I see. So it was the R candidates who were misleading these voters into thinking that they were gonna get something for free and they should therefore be sure to vote d. Who knew?
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
10:58 am
having little baby banjos?
on the gov’t teat no doubt
Mythical MARTA Bus Driver
November 16th, 2012
10:58 am
“What I said was that I earn a six figure income.”
So do I!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 16th, 2012
10:58 am
Well, it’s no wonder people are scared to death of Obamacare! What do you expect when we got Thelma Doom out there explaining it to folks? I say let’s get some real Intelligent people out there to explain it. Pronto. I’d sure like to know. All I know right now is it’s a plan to let a Committee decide if we live or die and doctors are going to be made to go to Communist Reeducation Camps and some guvment bureaucrat will decide what treatment you get and, heck, maybe sticking his finger or something else up your rear end.
Repro
November 16th, 2012
10:59 am
I am not sure I would use the word “entertainer” to describe Beck, there’s nothing entertaining about the guy. I would have preferred “bloviating buffoon”.
Ben Shockley
November 16th, 2012
10:59 am
Currently medical expenses in excess of 10% of your income are tax deductible. I have a special needs child, and this has been saving me about $5,000 per year on taxes.
I was recently informed by an attorney I engaged (for purposes of setting up a special-needs trust for my chiled) that under the terms of Obama’s “Affordable Health Care Act” that this tax deuction is going away.
So free health care just hit me in the wallet for about $5K per year.
monty
November 16th, 2012
11:01 am
lefty316
Something came from nothing? Really. Explain please. Even the smartest of philosophers like Aristotle and Plato knew better than to believe life came from nonlife, but I guess you are smarter.
DebbieDoRight - Crazee + Uninformed = Republican
November 16th, 2012
11:02 am
Then again, I don’t pay much attention to crazy anyway.
Thats because you’re crazy. Everyone knows that. Stop fighting it!
You take the blue pill, the story ends, you will wake up in your bed and believe everything is o.k. and that there isn’t any RMBDS.
You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. What is crazy? How do you define crazy?
Is it crazy to introduce legislation to fight the onslaught of brain chips that are being implanted into innocent republicans brains?
Is it crazy to actually BELIEVE that Bama wouldn’t get beat down by Auburn in about 2 weeks? You tell me.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:02 am
The right does not even try to be credible any more.
monty
November 16th, 2012
11:02 am
The Medicare supplemental health plans will go away under ObamaCare. JUst wait and see.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
11:03 am
now I know not to eat at Denny’s because some tightfisted, loudmouthed jerkwad franchisee might be in charge there.
it was just one guy who owned 41 franchises, and if this account can be believed, he’s (sensibly) walking it back now.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/dennys-pancakes-with-a-side-of-obamacare-tax-not-yet/
I do feel sorry for the other franchise owners who had nothing to do with this schmuck, who will either a) see business drop off or b) be forced to explain “that wasn’t me” a hundred times, over the next few days.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
11:03 am
Aristotle and Plato most likely would have enjoyed and apreciated the work of Oparin.
Smart folks all.
Ben Shockley
November 16th, 2012
11:04 am
The great thing about liberals is you can pee on them and call it rain. And they believe it. Ask Obama if you doubt it.
sam
November 16th, 2012
11:04 am
Glenn Beck is a clown, plain and simple. And the fact that members of Ga legislators on official time would sit through anything Beck had a hand in, well that tells you all you need to know about the Ga legislature.
Gee, i cant figure out why Georgia is a laughing stock?
the cat
November 16th, 2012
11:04 am
Ben-so sorry I do not save all your posts for future followup! So now you are telling us you are a MARTA driver making 6 figures. You really need to keep your stories straight.
Soldier Mom
November 16th, 2012
11:04 am
Nero @ 10:49 – that was good, real good! Thanks for making me laugh!
alex
November 16th, 2012
11:04 am
GT, “sport”, jamvet,”sport”——the “sporting” liberal(s), Hmmmm…..
@ getalife: if the republican party kills itself with primary-induced far right wing idealogues in 2014 you will be correct and have nothing to complain about, but if they learn from this election..you will still be looking for a life, here’s to the search….
Nero
November 16th, 2012
11:05 am
Petraeus lied to fit his boss’ political agenda, Big friggin’ woop! Nothing new for Washington. Pay attention to the Cliff! Sequestration now!! No more “Deals”! Stop passing the buck!
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
11:06 am
Good news for severe asthmatics, thought, Jay Bookman has a cheap alternative to the very expensive Xolair they take. Any day now, Jay’s going to let us all in on what that is, cause surely if Jay claims there is one, there must be!!!
Banderson
November 16th, 2012
11:06 am
First you tell us that Petraeus isn’t going to testify. The scandal was all timed to suspiciously. Then he testifies. Now you tell us that Peter King says that Petraeus says that some report was changed, but we don’t know who changed it. Nor do we have any idea why anyone would want to change it, as an attack would be pretty terrifying, even if not a “terror” attack. So we’re supposed to get excited about that. It was unfortunate that 4 Americans were killed, but I just don’t see any story here other than American can’t protect all its people all the time (wouldn’t that be a real nanny state?). All I see is sore losers trying to make a story out of what ever they can find in the moment. Why don’t you move back to the Agenda 21 story. That’s as good as anything else the Republicans have got. We sure wouldn’t want them to waste time trying to work with Dems on closing the budget gap or anything like that.
Politically Speaking
November 16th, 2012
11:06 am
This is what happens when you elect people based on their party affiliation. There are idiots on all sides of the political spectrum. You should never vote for someone based on whether he or she is a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or whatever. In Georgia, having an R beside your name on the ballot virtually guarantees that you will be elected in many districts. The result is that morons like these get elected as long as they can spout vitriol against the African American Yankee in the White House. There were several Republicans who were totally unopposed on the ballot this year. Even complete lunatics who belong in a mental hospital (see article above for specific names) can be elected if nobody runs against them.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
11:07 am
So it was the R candidates who were misleading these voters into thinking that they were gonna get something for free
yes. Repeatedly. They hoped people would be stupid enough to believe that Democrats were proposing something that out-of-character. If you want the most extreme example, consider the Fluke-is-Teh-slutty business: almost every account from the right characterized her advocacy as being about providing “free” contraception which, as an insurance guy, you know is not accurate. If you are paying for premiums, you are not getting stuff for “free.”
Banderson
November 16th, 2012
11:08 am
Repubs – here’s one you can work with. Voter id cards are the mark of the beast. Discuss.
the cat
November 16th, 2012
11:09 am
RB-have you discussed this with your doctor? I don’t think Jay is an MD. Maybe you just want to whine about it though so have at it.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:09 am
I would not ask him about talking points, I would ask him if they got them yet.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:10 am
There is no cure for rb because they cut mental hospitals.
Georgia
November 16th, 2012
11:11 am
Jay missed the point. Lunacy it’s not. Revelation it is. Four more years has exposed the infrastructure of the Tea Party, and those tentacles reach DEEP into our legislature and campaign apparatus. Unelected allocation of resources is a major threat to freedom. The Tea Party fears the logical consequence of any poll-free allocation of resources by the regional authorities collectively known as Agency 21: It’s no longer who you know. It’s no longer what you know. It’s now who knows what about you. The compromise is this: let Georgia secede and Georgians get recreational pot. We’ll vote for their bill, they’ll for vote ours, and the devil take the hindmost. Wouldn’t wanna be the guy pinning the tail on THAT donkey. (Insert emoticon of a patoot here).
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
11:11 am
“Petraeus lied to fit his boss’ political agenda”
No, I believe what Petraeus said was his account of events was changed by his boss to fit his bosses agenda. BIG difference.
Who made up the story about the youtube video and WHY?
monty
November 16th, 2012
11:11 am
Simply amazing that so many of you are for bigger govt. and more govt. control of our lives.More UN control of our sovereign rights. The US as was formed by our framers is quickly evolving into socialism, something they never envisioned and dedicated their lives against. They were for the rights of individuals and not the common good of the state or central govt. The govt was for the people and of the people, but that’s what we get when our kids are no longer taught the true history of our great nation. Instead they are beginning to be taught “sustainable development”,ie,for the greater good of the people(govt.)When our great nation morphs into something you can’t even imagine, be sure to tell your grandkids, you backed it. Take ownership.
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
11:12 am
Maybe pencil neck convert can splain aca. Then again maybe not. Its almost Friday afternoon pencil neck. Soon you can clock out and go park on that hill above the trailer park. Better take a jacket. Its a bit nippy for a day of drinking beer, looking down on those poor trailer park folk, and feeling all good bout yourself that you’re one notch above “them” on the totem pole.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:12 am
rb,
20 intell reports blamed the movie.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:13 am
Get back in your bubble rb.
Reality is too much for you to handle.
Peace
November 16th, 2012
11:14 am
Jay?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
10:45 am: “Regarding my 10:41 above, General Petreaus was OBVIOUSLY all wet because our crack senior intelligence expert Jay Bookman stated right after the incident:
“The premise of the entire debate is false, because the attack on our consulate in Benghazi was not an act of terror.”
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/10/17/on-benghazi-the-debate-and-acts-of-terror/
Morality?
November 16th, 2012
11:16 am
Fallout from the 2nd term of Obama begins…….. Twinkies goes out of business. What’s next?
GT
November 16th, 2012
11:17 am
Thulsa Doom lot of shock going on in your world, but I must admit you buying a dental plan is a bit of a shock to me. Rather like a bald man buying a comb isn’t it?
Aquagirl
November 16th, 2012
11:17 am
Simply amazing that so many of you are for bigger govt. and more govt. control of our lives.More UN control of our sovereign rights.
Cheer up, maybe the U.N. will provide you with free mental health care.
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
11:18 am
the cat, “RB-have you discussed this with your doctor? I don’t think Jay is an MD. Maybe you just want to whine about it though so have at it.”
You can discuss it with the best pulmonologists on the planet all you want to, moron, and every last one of them will tell you there is no low cost alternative to Xolair, but Jay Bookman says there is. He just refuses to tell us what that is.
And just for giggles, cat, go look up the UK’s decision to drop Xolair from their approved list because their “death panels” have determined it’s too expensive. Which is exactly what’s going to happen here even though you liberals pushed this plan on us claiming it was to protect these very same people.
alex
November 16th, 2012
11:18 am
Enter your comments here
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
11:18 am
Stands,
Actually the Obama plan would have put millions on medicaid which essentially is free health care. Fred Roberts threw a monkey wrench in that.
Nero
November 16th, 2012
11:18 am
Petraeus was the DCI. He knew the difference between the truth and the Administration’s “account of events”. He should have spoken up and resigned. Instead, he carried their water like a good little soldier and got shoved out anyway. Just another non-story of political agendas. Pay attention to the Cliff! It’s coming soon.
bman.
November 16th, 2012
11:19 am
need info : can you freeze twinkies for later??
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 16th, 2012
11:20 am
Enter your comments anywhere else but here
TiredOfIt
November 16th, 2012
11:20 am
Life begins at conception and ends at natural death. What about other types of death?
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
11:20 am
“20 intell reports blamed the movie.”
Maybe the CIA director should have read them, eh?
Idiot.
oops
November 16th, 2012
11:21 am
oh well. looks like the administration was definitely in spin mode.
“Petraeus told lawmakers the CIA believed it to be a terrorist attack from the beginning.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83966.html#ixzz2CP3×7djY
Peter
November 16th, 2012
11:22 am
RB from Gwinnett ………. Twinkies…… the Republican health food snack !
I guess reading is a hard concept for you buddy ! Now wasn’t this in the article ?
“The company, founded in 1930, was fighting battles beyond labor costs. Competition is increasing in the snack space, and Americans are increasingly conscious about healthy eating “.
Please before getting your panties in a wad……… I will repeat my comment……..
Seems these guys had the option of creating a Healthy snack in the factory don’t you think ?
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
11:22 am
Actually the Obama plan would have put millions on medicaid which essentially is free health care.
and that’s a good thing. However, are you now claiming that these three people were calling you asking for *medicaid* coverage?
if so, ya know… some folks is just dumb.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 16th, 2012
11:22 am
Robert Brown melting down.
Again.
the cat
November 16th, 2012
11:22 am
RB-I did some very cursory googling on Xolair. It appears there are severe side effects leading to its removal from the market.
GT-post of the day!!!
lefty_316
November 16th, 2012
11:22 am
Monty you sound as though perhaps you believe the Bible is word-for-word true. But note it’s no accident that, as the number of college graduates in this country hit another all-time high this year, the number of those that believe in the inerrancy of the Bible continues to decline. That’s because education is the enemy of religious fundamentalism.
Did the Christian beliefs of our Founding Fathers make this nation great? Absolutely not. All the thinkers of the revolutionary era – Jefferson, Madison, Sam Adams, John Adams, Hamilton, Dickenson, James Wilson, Gouvernor Morris, on and on – were Englightenment thinkers and disciples of John Locke. And the Enlightenment, by definition, valued reason, logic and science at the expense of the supernatural.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
11:22 am
OMG…..only doomsday preppers will have twinkies…. the horror, the horror.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:22 am
Rice used unclassified talking points signed of by the intell community.
Rice will replace Hillary.
Mary Elizabeth
November 16th, 2012
11:24 am
Erwin’s cat, 10:40 am
“Mary Elizabeth – our conspiracy theorists are better than you conspiracy theorists”
=====================================================
Erwin’s cat, this is not a matter of a competition between “conspiracies.” This is a matter of understanding truth. This is serious business that effects all of our lives in impacting ways.
Please do not close your eyes to truth. Be informed and be educated.
Knowledge is power. Public television does not broadcast conspiracy theories; it educates. We must not fear education in Georgia, and we must not be afraid to think for ourselves, beyond surface givens.
Again, I encourage you, and all readers, to watch “Independent Lens: Park Avenue, Money, Power and the American Dream,” which will air tomorrow at Noon on GPB-Knowledge TV. That channel is 246 on Comcast and it is free to Comcast subscribers. This program will also air on the 29th of November on that channel at 9 am, 3 pm, and 8 pm.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:24 am
rb,
When have you been right about anything?
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
11:25 am
monty – Even the smartest of philosophers like Aristotle and Plato knew better than to believe life came from nonlife, but I guess you are smarter.
Have you ever read Plato?
Peter
November 16th, 2012
11:25 am
RB from Gwinnett ……. have you always been this angry and so quick to call others names ?
Did you not learn how to play with others ?
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
11:25 am
Erwin’s cat, this is not a matter of a competition between “conspiracies.”
ME, you’re no fun.
Aquagirl
November 16th, 2012
11:26 am
moron
Idiot.
RB, no need to get so upset, you’ll live without Twinkies.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:26 am
rb will swallow any lie and lives in a bubble.
GT
November 16th, 2012
11:26 am
Simply amazing that so many of you are for bigger govt. and more govt. control of our lives.More UN control of our sovereign rights.
Wonder if the UN lets ya buy liquor on Sunday, or marry who you want to? Do sovereign rights include oppressing the opposition from voting or gun control?
will-o-the-wisp
November 16th, 2012
11:26 am
well, with people in georgia like paul broun sitting on science legislative committees; why not use the national guard to keep folks out of the forbidden zones( used to be known as: GT, GSU, UGA, EMORY , etc.) because these zones are inhabited by heretics,the ghosts of old demons( Darwin, Einstein, Newton, and Tesla), and haunted by sirens, whose music seduces those who listen, into a life of never ending learning .
guy
November 16th, 2012
11:27 am
All of these hosts and columnists get paid,some more than others I know, to get others riled up over and over. Each one is always right and everyone else is wrong. Time is too short to let them gain control over our thinking. What’s it going to change anyway? Find something more positive to do with the time left.
godless heathen - Support Small Business Saturday
November 16th, 2012
11:28 am
I see my Delphi mind control technique has been very effective.
alex
November 16th, 2012
11:30 am
There is no low cost alternative to the Xolair , someone must be mistaken, this is a very expensive med and is rarely used-only for severe refractory cases of asthma. I guess if you want it, it’s time to pony up the cash. However, many times the “big” pharm co. will provide significant discounts for those who cannot pay ,but for whom the medication is helpful. Expect more of the same as medicine goes genetic ( no, not generic) and VERY expensive meds will become available to a small segment of the population who needs them
bman.
November 16th, 2012
11:30 am
Keep Up… .. you don’t Twinkie? You don’t google?
You’re just plain weird…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 16th, 2012
11:31 am
Have you ever read Plato?
Only by opening the box may we determine if the cat has a dog-eared copy of the Republic.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
11:31 am
godless heathen – Support Small Business Saturday
Love your new suffix…
I too support small business Saturday.
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
11:32 am
Gt,
You still haven’t explained. How is my world going to be shocked? Only a loser like you thinks his fate is determined by others such as who is potus. And that is pathetic.
will-o-the-wisp
November 16th, 2012
11:33 am
guy — alex; well said
lefty_316
November 16th, 2012
11:33 am
Monty I said nothing about something coming from nothing. Where did you get that idea?
I said, or rather implied, is that people who believe the earth is 6,000 years old are either foolish or just plain stupid. Ditto for those that don’t think Darwin’s theory of evolution is sound science. Ditto for those that think a group of cells is a person at the moment of fertilization.
It was not by coincidence that Rick Santorum, the religious right republican candidate, won the primaries in the states with the lowest high school graduation rates in the nation, excepting Georgia. That’s because education is the enemy of religious fundamentalism.
Peter
November 16th, 2012
11:34 am
Find something more positive to do with the time left.
Yes……. like paying for the toll roads the Republican’s have lied about !
Or visiting the new Georgia lands the Republican governors have over paid for.
the cat
November 16th, 2012
11:34 am
Thulsa-you planning on getting drunk and turning into your usual charming self this evening? I will be watching you.
will-o-the-wisp
November 16th, 2012
11:35 am
kamchack — all this does seem like the myth of the cave
E. Dunwody
November 16th, 2012
11:35 am
Why are we wasting our tax dollars on this crap?
Peter
November 16th, 2012
11:37 am
Simply amazing that so many of you are for bigger govt. and more govt. control of our lives.More UN control of our sovereign rights.
Bigger government is a Republican idea…..but one they deny !
alex
November 16th, 2012
11:38 am
@ Mary, PBS can be excellent,NOVA, etc. Where’s our Krugman quote for the day?……”More Schumpeter…I have a fever….”@ aquagirl, YOU may be able to live without twinkies, but ME, NO,..NEVER…..pass the pies..OK.OK, I’m carbo loading…..
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
November 16th, 2012
11:39 am
Is the Delphi mind control technique more or less powerful than the Jedi Mind Trick? Would either work on a Vulcan?
JamVet
November 16th, 2012
11:39 am
Our misplaced 1950s, southern white, Republican males in general, and the GOP members of the Georgia Senate in particular, have become the laughingstock of the nation.
Well played, Chip Rogers, Jack Murphy, John Albers, Bill Heath and Butch Miller…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 16th, 2012
11:39 am
OK.OK, I’m carbo loading…..
Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Regnad Kcin
November 16th, 2012
11:39 am
“have you always been this angry and so quick to call others names ?”
Peter – yes, he’s always like this. If he calls you a name, he feels like he doesn’t have to respond rationally to you…
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
11:39 am
all this does seem like the myth of the cave
early Friday night music submission-time:
When I made a shadow on my window shade
They called the police and testified
But they’re like the people chained up in the cave
In the allegory of the people in the cave by the Greek guy
will-o-the-wisp
November 16th, 2012
11:40 am
E. Dunwody — it appears tax dollars, would, in this case, be better spent on psychiatric evaluations of the general assembly.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
11:40 am
Love your new suffix…
get a room you two.
Look before I leap...
November 16th, 2012
11:41 am
My wife, who generally refrains from political commentary had this to say after reading a few of the con posts here:
“We could try ECT on ‘em. You know, shock the stupid outta them?”
Not sure if she meant the posters or the politicians.
In either case, I don’t think the national power grid can handle the load.
Georgia
November 16th, 2012
11:43 am
Okay, Jay is not at fault when his pieces always play the crazy card. I don’t think he gets to pick his topic, nor his own attitude about it. His pieces are constructed by tonal compromises that sacrifice content for style. Beck himself mostly runs Obama sound bites and then makes monkey sounds and faces as Obama speaks. He sez “REALLY!?” Every. Other. Word. They all do. He thinks it’s entertaining. Ten years ago, Jay Bookman was a news writer. This blog and his sufferance of white noise has somehow mutated his own inner voice into accomodating the obvious reactions that litter the wash of his daily opinion piece. So he thinks, like Kyle, that he HAS to employ the omnicient first person narrative style profusely illustrated with asides and bromides. Blogged diaries, like JayKyle’s, have mind-melded into news copy. The effect on readers is that the power of real news and real words gets diluted and thus reporting strays from the events which morph without oversight. The campaign’s polls clearly showed the end result of creating copy to the height, depth and breadth our souls can reach. Great poetry. Great comedy. But not news.
Look before I leap...
November 16th, 2012
11:44 am
“Is the Delphi mind control technique more or less powerful than the Jedi Mind Trick? Would either work on a Vulcan?”
Yes, JMC is a parlor trick compared to Delphi.
It would only work on a Vulcan who suffers from Bendii Syndrome
getalife
November 16th, 2012
11:44 am
Drug test all pols now.
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
November 16th, 2012
11:49 am
I had to look up Bendii Syndrome. Guess I am not the geek I thought I was.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 16th, 2012
11:49 am
Jedi Mind Tricks don’t work on Toydarians.
Lord Help Us
November 16th, 2012
11:50 am
‘McConnell: We’re prepared to put revenue on table’
Uh-oh cons, RINO alert…
alex
November 16th, 2012
11:51 am
so peter, help me understand you a bit better, you call for the govenor to do something about FAT people and you say that repubs are for big govt. …Does that imply that YOU are a republican??
@look.. you could have stopped after:”MY wife”
@Jamvet: in the 50’s the southern whites where democrats….and yes some of these guys are Goobers, kinda like Jessie Jackson Jr,.Kusinich(sp) B. Frank (thank you for Fannie mae)……
will-o-the-wisp
November 16th, 2012
11:53 am
S F D — so, if one of the chained is released, and leaves the cave for one earth revolution around the sun, all the while observing and wondering on all that is seen; 1– should this one go back to the cave and tell the others what was seen?; and, 2 — if, yes, what would happen?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 16th, 2012
11:54 am
Fannie Mae — SQUIRREL!
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
11:54 am
off topic: another oil rig exploeded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana
Welcome to the Occupation
November 16th, 2012
11:54 am
Twinkie update
What do capitalists do when they’re caught with their pants down?
They lie, of course.
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Hostess-Spreads-Misinformation-on-Strike
Over the past eight years since the first Hostess bankruptcy, BCTGM members have watched as money from previous concessions that was supposed to go toward capital investment, product development, plant improvement and new equipment was squandered in executive bonuses, payouts to Wall Street investors and payments to high-priced attorneys and consultants.
BCTGM members are well aware that, as the company was preparing to file for bankruptcy earlier this year, the then-CEO of Hostess was awarded a 300 percent raise (from approximately $750,000 to $2,550,000) and at least nine other top executives of the company received massive pay raises. One such executive received a pay increase from $500,000 to $900,000 and another received one taking his salary from $375,000 to $656,256.
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
11:56 am
The cat,
You planning on staying terminally stupid as usual? Im glad that you will be watching me this evening. If I’m even here. Its nice to know you hang on my every word. Just another adoring and obsessed fan…
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
11:57 am
if, yes, what would happen?
Depends. Is Superman a Nazi?
the cat
November 16th, 2012
11:59 am
thulsa-no, I am a repulsed by you. I am a reader of Jay’s blog. Don’t flatter yourself, we know what you are.
Mary Elizabeth
November 16th, 2012
12:00 pm
alex, 11:38 am
“@ Mary, PBS can be excellent,NOVA, etc. Where’s our Krugman quote for the day?……”More Schumpeter…I have a fever….”@ aquagirl, YOU may be able to live without twinkies, but ME, NO,..NEVER…..pass the pies..OK.OK, I’m carbo loading…..”
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Alex, stand back a little and reread your post. Analyze it, yourself, for quality. Essentially, it is a post that indulges in name calling. I would urge you not simply to react to my posts about this subjet in a shallow way. I urge you, instead, to take some quality time tomorrow at noon to watch the public television broadcast, “Independent Lens: Park Avenue, Money, Power, and the American Dream” and become informed in a serious way, about a serious subject.
JamVet
November 16th, 2012
12:00 pm
And if they were messing up this state like these clowns, it would matter a whit.
Of all the really bad governments we have had in this state since I moved here in the late 70s, the current one is, in my estimation, the worst of them all.
From that hyper-corrupt governor of ours, on down.
Look no further than the five stooges highlighted above…