Travelin’ Music to carry us to the cheatin’ side of town
The first song ever written was a love song. You know, somebody pledging their ever-lasting love and fidelity to somebody else.
The second song ever written was a cheatin’ song, complaining about the lyin’ SOB who wrote the first song.
Given recent events, it’s time to pay homage to the second oldest song topic. I’ve invited the great Miss Kitty Wells to kick off the evening’s festivities, performing a song dedicated to Paula Broadwell and all the other honky-tonk angels out there, wherever you are.
– Jay Bookman
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indigo
November 18th, 2012
2:56 pm
Thomas heyward Jr. – 1:29
Not all of us can, like you, be born with a silver spoon in our mouths and be a home schooled rich kid who is looking foward to NOT having to work a single in his whole life.
Life is actually hard for many of us, as incredibe as that may seem to you.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
2:56 pm
rb,
Focusing on the middle class instead of the wealthy will give us another Clinton economy.
It is the right course.
The wealthy does not need your help or anymore welfare.
It is going to be a long four years for you.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
3:02 pm
“Far-right extremists in Greece and Hungary are exploiting old enmities and new fears across Europe.” NYTimes.
There ya go cons.
Self deport to Greece and Hungary.
The Nov. 6 election delivered a punishing message to immigration hard-liners within the GOP.
November 18th, 2012
3:27 pm
When desperation clashes with Reality…
Many states thought that they were creating laws that would not isolate the Hispanic population…Once the election was over; they realized that they would NEVER be able to regain control of the White House without their votes. They have received a revelation from God to pander to the Hispanic community to secure future votes…what a bunch of desperate hypocrites!!! Alabama and Georgia should go down in history as one of the most heartless states when it comes to dealing with people of color…
________________________
Facing big demographic changes, Alabama GOP to reach out for Hispanic vote
MONTGOMERY — When Hector Caballero came to this country, he had $200 to his name.
Caballero, 45, is now a neurologist, practicing medicine from an office in Northport.
“This is the only country where you can do something like that,” said Caballero, who said he left Cuba at age 26 and lived in other countries before coming to the United States.
Caballero is a rock-ribbed Republican who says he voted for Mitt Romney and “would do it again and again.” But he thinks his party screwed up the fine points of the immigration issue.
“You cannot give citizenship to people who came here illegally,” he said. “But for those who were one or two years old and had no choice, you have to give them a pathway to citizenship. That’s how we lost the argument.”
Caballero ran for a seat as a delegate to the Republican National Convention earlier this year — and he lost. But now that GOP nominee Mitt Romney lost the election, due in part to the loss of the Hispanic vote, party leaders have developed a keener interest in hearing his voice.
“We’re going to be reaching out to Hispanics in Alabama, in terms of honing our message to them,” said Bill Armistead, chairman of the Alabama Republican Party.
The Nov. 6 election delivered a punishing message to immigration hard-liners within the GOP.
In the years before the election, several states, from Arizona to Georgia, passed immigration laws that allowed police to ask people for proof of citizenship on routine traffic stops, and giving them the power to detain people who couldn’t prove they were here legally. Alabama’s law, by most accounts, was the toughest of them all, demanding proof of citizenship for all sorts of government transactions, from getting an electrician’s license to buying a car tag.
http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/20873311/article-Facing-big-demographic-changes–Alabama-GOP-to-reach-out-for-Hispanic-vote?instance=home_news
RB from Gwinnett
November 18th, 2012
3:27 pm
“Our President won the tax argument.”
Not exactly. YOUR President called me your”enemies” on whom he needs to get “revenge”. Remember? I do, and I have no interest in coming together with people who are stealing from me. NONE!! Can you tell me you would befriend the thief who robbed your home? Be honest.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
3:29 pm
Pay no mind to our[sic] Hands in your pocket wealthy people…
There’s your sign.
RB from Gwinnett
November 18th, 2012
3:39 pm
Kammie, do you honestly believe this election was about something other than getting free stuff?
Serious question. What do you say to the $20k employee who is now REQUIRED to buy a $6k insurance policy?
indigo
November 18th, 2012
3:40 pm
RB from Gwinnett – 3:27
Big Business and The Republican Party loves brainwashed tools like you.
Obama IS your president, whether you like it or not, sport model.
(p.s. – no one is stealing from you. Lose the paranoia)
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
3:46 pm
Kammie, do you honestly believe this election was about something other than getting free stuff?
Robert Brown, yes I honestly believe that.
Serious question. What do you say to the $20k employee who is now REQUIRED to buy a $6k insurance policy?
I say, “Too bad we don’t have the same kind of health care most of the rest of the world enjoys, huh? Maybe if we got the insurance industry out from between doctors and patients it would be affordable.”
RB from Gwinnett
November 18th, 2012
3:47 pm
Indigo, “p.s. – no one is stealing from you. Lose the paranoia)”
If somebody takes what you worked for at ‘gunpoint’ what do you call it?
indigo
November 18th, 2012
3:50 pm
RB
Perhaps you can clairify just what is meant by ‘gunpoint’.
Doggone/GA
November 18th, 2012
3:51 pm
“If somebody takes what you worked for at ‘gunpoint’ what do you call it?”
The same thing that goes on the world over. You’d have a hard time trying to find a place to live where they DON’T “steal” from you at “gunpoint”"
Brosephus™
November 18th, 2012
3:55 pm
Just curious.
Have you been ordered to “stand down ” or anything concerning this security threat?——
Consider this your curiosity fulfilled. I don’t work for TSA anymore. I don’t know about their policies, nor is my job determined by their policies. I hope that bit of information helps you out. I haven’t worked for TSA for more than 5 years. It would probably help you out a bit if you joined us in the present instead of living in the past.
Oh, I forgot… Ron Paul
2008!!!!2012!!!!2016!!!!Rand Paul 2016!!!!RB from Gwinnett
November 18th, 2012
3:58 pm
“Perhaps you can clairify just what is meant by ‘gunpoint’.”
Do you also want me to tell you what the definition of ” is” is.
Stay in the shallow end, tool.
Brosephus™
November 18th, 2012
4:00 pm
“This is the only country where you can do something like that,” said Caballero, who said he left Cuba at age 26 and lived in other countries before coming to the United States.
…
“You cannot give citizenship to people who came here illegally,” he said.
That is pure comedy coming from someone who’s group benefits from that very thing. Cubans have a free ride to citizenship, even after arriving here illegally. All they have to do is say they’re Cuban, and they’re put on the instant path to citizenship.
Freakin’ hilarious…. A Republican, who may have benefitted from amnesty says we shouldn’t give others amnesty.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
4:01 pm
Robert Brown is melting down.
Again.
GTBOB
November 18th, 2012
4:28 pm
Impeach Obama! No one died in Watergate!
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 18th, 2012
4:28 pm
oh the militia dog whistles.
bring the cra-zeee, cons.
Can we chip in on some ads?
getalife
November 18th, 2012
4:34 pm
Let me be clear for rb.
Our President whooped you twice so he wins the arguments.
cons are sore losers.
indigo
November 18th, 2012
4:40 pm
RB – 3:58
Needless to say, that is NOT what I asked.
(sigh) Just another yahoo who can’t back up what he posts.
josef
November 18th, 2012
4:49 pm
I just love watching the GOP jarabe tapatio with immigration reform! Talk about an oops, nevermind. I’m now offering Spanish lessons for the GOPers.
Ahora, repite después de mí.
“Siento mucho que usted me ha malentendido. No dije váyanse la mierda tú y tu mamá.” Lo que dije fue bienvenidos a la carpa grande, hermanos! Aquí están sus papeles. Registrense para votar republicano a tiempo para las elecciones de 2016.”
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 18th, 2012
4:49 pm
RB from Gwinnett
November 18th, 2012
3:39 pm
That will not be the case regarding the 20K employee paying it is not likely he will have to pay that much if any…I recall that if you are below 130% or so of poverty line he may qualify for free Medicaid…one of the many reasons this bill is a dog and will turn into another trillion(s) of dollars of unfunded liabilities…this and no cuts will offset this regardless of what supporters may say..
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 18th, 2012
4:54 pm
GETALIFE
I have finally come up with a reasonable analogy to describe your posts…
Your posts are like wackamole..popping up consistently but easy to whack down…how about something relevant instead of “cons are stupid” wackamoles that pop up unusually consistently…
Substance?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
4:57 pm
Jerry Springeresque in 3…2…1….
Brosephus™
November 18th, 2012
5:00 pm
josef
I don’t even think that’s gonna help them out.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
5:01 pm
stevie,
Do not whack in public.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
5:09 pm
“When whacking is outlawed, only outlaws will whack.”
– Thomas “Bourne” Jefferson
josef
November 18th, 2012
5:19 pm
Another one from today…I don’t know which is funnier, the secession petitions or those calling for the arrest and deportation of those who sign them…hard to tell which is more “unamerican!”
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 18th, 2012
5:24 pm
LEFTIES
Signs of our immediate future…tax and spend…It’s running your promised land economy into the ground..notice the symptoms..
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/17/france-rebellion-ceos/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
5:26 pm
josef
Do you know anyone who has been to Fernbank and visited the Chinggis Khaan exhibit?
josef
November 18th, 2012
5:27 pm
K’CHAK
One of my co-workers…highly recommended it…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
5:29 pm
josef
Thanks, I’ll be saving my pennies.
josef
November 18th, 2012
5:34 pm
K’CHAK
Let me know what you think…you would know more of what it is you’re looking at and how it’s presented.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
5:36 pm
stevie,
France is all you can come up with?
Brosephus™
November 18th, 2012
5:46 pm
Government spending now amounts to 56 percent of GDP in France, more than double what it is in the United States. To pay for this profligacy, the government’s 2013 budget proposes taxing top earners at a 75 percent rate and those earning more than 150,000 euros, or about $191,000 per year, at 45 percent. Other taxes also are going up (on dividend income and certain capital gains, for instance). All of which has pushed France’s wealth and jobs creators – its business leaders – to the point of desperation.
Yeah, that is really so much like our immediate future… Lemme see, first, we’d have to double our spending percentage to GDP. That would require the GOP to go ape shiite crazy with the appropriations bills in the House.
Then, the top 1% tax rate would have to double from it’s current rate. Then, the top 20% would have to get an increase in their tax rate up to 45%.
Nevermind the fact that all Democrats are suggesting is a return to Clinton level rates, which are far less than what France is going through.
On the “in touch with reality” meter, this one get’s a Nelson…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
5:56 pm
Yeah Bro, but think of the berets and the bagettes!
getalife
November 18th, 2012
5:58 pm
Can we go back to calling them french fries now?
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
5:58 pm
These pompous far-left phonies talking about patriotism when they haven’t even served one day of their worthless lives in service to our country is too far out in left field for words to describe.
josef
November 18th, 2012
6:02 pm
STEVIE
Not that I know the first thing about economics, mind you, but I know a little bit about the French and putting them and us in the same discussion in most matters is not a very good idea. Their reality and ours are, well, too distinct one from the other…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
6:03 pm
I see England, I see France
I’ve seen Doutzen Kroes’ underpants
Brosephus™
November 18th, 2012
6:03 pm
Keep
That sounds good, but when you talk about the snails… ewwwwwwwwww
josef
November 18th, 2012
6:04 pm
Yahoo…get the testosterone to flowin’ here comes the Wa-do and seems he’s in his cups…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
6:04 pm
As oppose to those who served but are not worthless? Service does not make you a patriot.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:05 pm
“Service does not make you a patriot.”
And cowardice certainly does not.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
6:07 pm
I support our President and troops to catch all the attackers in Libya.
What about you del?
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:10 pm
The supporters fall short when it gets down to putting theirs on the line.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
6:13 pm
Well chest thumper… why are you cowardly? Failure to engage your brain before you chest thump does not make you a patriot either, Wimpy.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:14 pm
Says the one who has never served the country. Pathetic.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:18 pm
Enough for engaging the pant waists but I may be back unless I have better things to do.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
6:19 pm
You have no idea what I have and have not done. You really are disgraceful in your chest thumpin. An embarrassment to those who serve and have served and who don’t think that their service allows them to be a chest thumpin arse.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:20 pm
Oops, panty waists. Oh well it doesn’t matter anyway as they are what they are.
josef
November 18th, 2012
6:20 pm
Wa-do
“Says the one who has never served the country. Pathetic.”
Says the one who voted for the draft dodger who fled to France. Yep. Vraiment pathétique,
getalife
November 18th, 2012
6:21 pm
del,
Why are you and scout the most unpatriotic cons on this blog?
To get our President?
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:22 pm
“You have no idea what I have and have not done”
Probably more like what you have not done.
josef
November 18th, 2012
6:26 pm
GOOOD FIGHT
Buford Puffer has deep psychological problems stemming back from early childhood…be kind. Bless his heart…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
6:28 pm
So chest thumper… with your pyschic ability, you would think you could find your way out of the clown car.
Do you believe those who wish to secede are being patriotic? Are you one of them? (And do try to answer the questions without evasion or running away like a clucking chicken)
rightwing troll
November 18th, 2012
6:32 pm
“Enough for engaging the pant waists but I may be back unless I have better things to do.”
You can’t quit Bookman’s libural blog… and you know it.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
6:37 pm
Well I guess he chose the chest thumpin clucking chicken. I think I saw that in a dance
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:38 pm
“You can’t quit Bookman’s libural blog… and you know it.”
Like anyone else of course I could but sometimes it’s just more fun not to.
josef
November 18th, 2012
6:39 pm
GOOD FIGHT
The Wa-do WAS on CNN…
http://allaboutroswell.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/chicken_little-sky-is-falling.jpg
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:42 pm
Sadly we have for the most part on this forum those who’ve never served our great country pretending to be patriots while hiding behind those who really are.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
6:43 pm
Like anyone else of course I could but sometimes it’s just more fun not to.
As far as I know, Hillbilly Deluxe is the only one to voluntarily walk away from here and never come back.
JamVet
November 18th, 2012
6:46 pm
Service does not make you a patriot.
Boy, ain’t that the truth.
But with this one?!
If you did serve, but dare disagree with him, you are not a real veteran.
And if you didn’t serve, you cannot be a patriot.
What a master of mental masturbation.
It’s all good, because this is one of the reasons that they keep getting wrecked when Americans go to the polls…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
6:46 pm
Chest thumping cluck cluck….
getalife
November 18th, 2012
6:47 pm
It is sad to see some Vietnam vets are the most unpatriotic cons in our country just to get our President but it is free speech.
If a gop ever wins President, these same cons will suddenly turn very patriotic like they did with w destroying our country.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:47 pm
” Hillbilly Deluxe is the only one to voluntarily walk away from here and never come back.”
H.D. is good people but his decision may be right for him but for anyone else, so what.
moonbat betty
November 18th, 2012
6:50 pm
“Can we go back to calling them french fries now?”
getalife,
People quit calling them “french fries” back in the 1920’s.
Since then, they have been called “fried taters” (except by the Sling Blade guy, ummm hmmm) or simply “fries”.
I never understood all the hoopla…
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
6:51 pm
The followers, I think are in for a rude awakening…stand by.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
6:52 pm
Veterans who have served this country should be and are highly offended that some wingnuts are even talking about secession. It’s not patriotic, its not American and it is not about what a democracy represents.
moonbat betty
November 18th, 2012
6:52 pm
“As far as I know, Hillbilly Deluxe is the only one to voluntarily walk away from here and never come back.”
Kamchak, you’re just too irresistible!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
6:53 pm
H.D. is good people but his decision may be right for him but for anyone else, so what
You made the declaration that you would leave here and never come back. You could’ve done the suicide by blog thingie like Bruno, Andy, Dave R., Dusty, and she who’s name will automatically put a post in moderation but you didn’t, and I respected that.
I wondered if you had it in you to stay away.
getalife
November 18th, 2012
6:54 pm
moonbat,
The cons changed the name to “freedom fries” after France said no to the occupation of Iraq.
I think we changed back to french fries after we won Libya’s freedom.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
6:55 pm
betty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk
moonbat betty
November 18th, 2012
6:55 pm
“It’s not patriotic, its not American and it is not about what a democracy represents.”
Keep, from many of the comments posted by the libs on this site and others, you don’t want them here anyway (or want them to die off), so why do you even care?
moonbat betty
November 18th, 2012
6:58 pm
Kam, lol – shouldn’t that be Fred?
josef
November 18th, 2012
6:58 pm
getalife
I thought that freedom fries thing came when France refused to allow the US to fly over its airspace when we bombed Khadaffi back in ‘86…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
7:01 pm
Betty, anyone who wants to renounce their US citizenship is welcome to do so. Seceding is not a part of what this country stands for. It only gives more support to some idiots who suggest there will be a “rude awakening…stand by” [wink, wink, nudge, nudge -- second amendment remedy violence]. Unlike the GOP, true patriotism involves accepting that others disagree with you and that they may elect someone not your choice. Real americans know how to act like grown ups. So no, betty, are you going to be an adult and tell those who claim false patriotism and demand to secede to grow up?
getalife
November 18th, 2012
7:02 pm
josef,
I don’t remember much about the 80’s but the cons went berserk when France said no to w on Iraq.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
7:06 pm
“You made the declaration that you would leave here and never come back. You could’ve done the suicide by blog thingie like Bruno, Andy”
Kam, I never said I’d never come back. Sadly for the arrested development types on this forum, I do return now and then because as evidenced by you and others I have a following.
rightwing troll
November 18th, 2012
7:10 pm
You confuse mocking for following…
Thanks for your service and all, I’m sure you in the KP took a lot of heavy fire…
rightwing troll
November 18th, 2012
7:12 pm
Freedom fries came about in the early mid 2000’s… that was when wingnut stupidity was on a slow burn… over the last 4 years they’ve fast tracked it.
josef
November 18th, 2012
7:12 pm
Wa-do
“I have a following.”
But, of course. We love a good drag show and EEOC requires us to have at least one male impersonator.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
7:14 pm
Funny how in the warped thinking of those who claim “a following” responding to their post responding to one of yours is “following them”. Especially when they had a hissy girlie fit about scrolling by your unless you used their name.
And I see the resident chest thumpin clucker still has not indicated his stance on secession.
josef
November 18th, 2012
7:16 pm
I was served “freedom fries” (as a joke) at the retired French admiral’s on Corsica in 1988…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 18th, 2012
7:18 pm
Kam, I never said I’d never come back. Sadly for the arrested development types on this forum, I do return now and then because as evidenced by you and others I have a following.
I’m not gonna wade through months of threads just to make a point, so I’ll concede.
I’ve remarked before about the strangeness concerning the dynamics of this place — some folks on the opposite side of the con/lib divide can get along while others cannot; some cons can’t get along with other cons and some libs can’t get along with other libs — but I’ve taken a two or three week Jaycation from this place and I heartily urge other regulars here to do the same.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
7:18 pm
“I’m sure you in the KP took a lot of heavy fire…”
Sorry troll I was all infantry and recon. We all feel good that you were ineligible for military service. Carry on
josef
November 18th, 2012
7:20 pm
K’CHAK
He probably didn’t claim he was not coming back in that hissy fit…he was going to have Jay’s blog shut down by his buddies in the AJC board room…remember?
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
7:21 pm
” but I’ve taken a two or three week Jaycation from this place and I heartily urge other regulars here to do the same.”
Probably good advise.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
7:23 pm
Sorry, in my mind, veterans who serve also show respect for those they have served. Perhaps age has just made some forget in their delusions of grandeur.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
7:24 pm
Well we have fairy land weighing in to the discourse.
josef
November 18th, 2012
7:26 pm
Wa-do
Yep. I’m the good fairy, And, poof! You’re a delusional lickspittle pile of sh*t!
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
7:26 pm
Keep Up the cowardly Good flight…what a patriot.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
7:29 pm
Why thank you chest thumpin clucker…. you still cowardly ducking answering a simple question?
Tundra Dude
November 18th, 2012
7:30 pm
Josef:
I was served “freedom fries” (as a joke) at the retired French admiral’s on Corsica in 1988
I plead guilty. Around that same time, I ate real French fries in Madagascar, (formerly a French colony)
As punishment, I was constipated for 2 weeks.
Recon 0311 2533
November 18th, 2012
7:30 pm
Good night y’all and if I insulted you well… eh.
josef
November 18th, 2012
7:33 pm
TUNDRA
Wa-do
Well, just take your GI Joe Doll and go home, then… spoil sport… you ain’t no fun…
Tundra Dude
November 18th, 2012
7:33 pm
Recon:
Good night y’all and if I insulted you well… eh.
“Insults are the arguments of those who have no arguments.”
~Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, (1712-78), French philosopher and social critic
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
7:33 pm
Ftroop to the rear…cluck!
moonbat betty
November 18th, 2012
7:38 pm
Keep, Are you going to quit beating your dog?
I have not encountered anyone considering secession.
However, if they did, that’s their opinion and dont take that stance or postion very seriously.
Kind of like all the libs that said they would move to France if Bush was elected.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 18th, 2012
7:45 pm
False equivalence betty. Sorry you are so out of touch with what is happening in this country.