Time for Legislature to get serious about ethics reform
If serious ethics reform passes the Georgia Legislature this year, House Speaker David Ralston will have played a major role from beginning to end.
His biggest contribution probably came in helping to inspire the public crusade that has pushed the issue to such prominence in the first place. If he had not taken his family on a $17,000 holiday trip to Europe at lobbyist expense, and if he had not responded to criticism by shrugging it off as unimportant, it is unlikely that the ethics issue would have gained so much traction. The speaker is a smart guy who is widely respected, but that trip and his handling of its aftermath was a major blunder. He turned himself into a symbol of the type of political entitlement that angers voters and leads them to distrust government.
That distrust has become a major problem, as evidenced by an AJC poll published last week. It found that a major reason for metro Atlanta’s rejection of last summer’s T-SPLOST was lack of faith in the integrity of elected officials and a fear that they serve special interests rather than the public. That same lack of faith will make it difficult for elected leaders to build support for a public contribution to a proposed new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.
Earlier this year, however, Ralston performed a startling about-face. After steadfastly rejecting any limitation on lobbyist gifts to legislators, the speaker suddenly embraced an outright ban on such gifts. Whether that reflects an honest if rather swift change of heart will be determined over the next few months.
In the state Senate, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle has been a vocal supporter of ethics reform, even if that rhetorical support has seldom translated into action. The new leadership team elected in the Senate has also expressed support for such reform, although the speaker’s call for a total gift ban rather than a limit on gift value may test that commitment.
One early test of how seriously the Senate leadership takes ethics will be its handling of Senate Rules Committee Chairman Don Balfour, one of the most powerful figures in the Capitol. Last year, Balfour kept ethics legislation bottled up in his committee, refusing to let it come to the Senate floor for a vote. More importantly, in August the Senate Ethics Committee fined Balfour $5,000 for filing a series of false expense reports with the state, and a criminal investigation launched by the GBI continues.
Under those circumstances, allowing Balfour to return as chair of the Rules Committee would suggest that the Senate’s new leadership is no more serious about ethics reform than were its predecessors.
However, the most important test of legislative commitment to ethics reform and the rebuilding of public trust will be its handling of what was once known as the Georgia Ethics Commission. Political leaders in this state have never tolerated a truly independent ethics commission, but legislative attacks on the agency in recent years have stripped it of what little independence and authority it once enjoyed. They even stripped the word “ethics” from its title.
The Legislature’s most prominent ethics champion, state Sen. Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, has introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee a certain level of funding for the ethics commission. In the past, legislators unhappy with commission rulings have “disciplined” it by slashing funding or positions. McKoon’s proposal would be an important step in insulating the agency from such pressures and restoring public confidence in government.
– Jay Bookman
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Gale
December 14th, 2012
2:39 pm
Actually, TBG, no. My experience is shotguns and it would take me a week to load 400 shells to use for a weekend registered trap meet. I have a hard time figuring what kind of target competition uses up more than a 100 rounds of shells in short order. When do you manage to aim?
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
2:39 pm
Regnad,
It doesn’t. I just don’t understand why he posted something that’s kinda self evident and obvious to all of us. That’s all. I mean jeez. Who the eff doesn’t know that automatic weapons can kill a lot of people?
Regnad Kcin
December 14th, 2012
2:41 pm
“Only a complete imbecile thinks much can be done”
You’re a quitter and a fatalist, Mr.Doom. Let’s do nothing about the slaughter of innocents – is this a conservative position, Mr. Doom, or just yours?
getalife
December 14th, 2012
2:41 pm
This massacre is a nightmare.
We unite to show unity for the victims.
Not the time for politics.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 14th, 2012
2:41 pm
Only a complete imbecile thinks much can be done. He can bluster like a complete fool though
Posted by the absolute complete idiot Doom. Why don’t you try not being yourself and act intelligent for once.
I just got off the phone with a very close friend who is from Newtown. I have visited there a number of times myself. Her family members are there and relatives attend that school. Waiting for word on losses. One family member is distraught and left without her phone to go to the school.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 14th, 2012
2:42 pm
Doom — “Ya got that right! Apparently John Kerry thinks he can.”
Apparently you think you can, too.
godless heathen Christmas has declared war on me
December 14th, 2012
2:43 pm
Ya’ll keep waving your guns around and killing our kids and we will take them away from you. Either get a grip on the crazies owning guns or we are going to have to pull a Barney Fife and “nip the whole thing in the bud.
And because of opinions like Finn’s, the NRA exists.
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
2:45 pm
Gale
December 14th, 2012
2:39 pm
Actually, TBG, no. My experience is shotguns and it would take me a week to load 400 shells to use for a weekend registered trap meet. I have a hard time figuring what kind of target competition uses up more than a 100 rounds of shells in short order. When do you manage to aim?
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I take my handgun to the range along with 2 15 round clips. I usually reload about 5 or 6 times.
NEVER said anything about target competition.
I’m talking about going to the gun range where gun owners maintain proficiency with their weapon(s).
Some people also rent various guns to shoot at the range to try out before selecting one to purchase.
You go through a lot of rounds doing that.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 14th, 2012
2:46 pm
I have a hard time figuring what kind of target competition uses up more than a 100 rounds of shells in short order.
I go to the range maybe 6-7 times a year, and it takes about an hour for me to shoot 100-150 rounds. I’m pretty much ready to leave by then.
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
2:47 pm
“I’m not putting myself or my dogs knowingly in the way of someone who MIGHT decide that a live target is more fun than a paper one.”
Unfortunately there are crazy, nutty people who are complete asswipes all over and not much that can be done. My neighbor across the road found a puppy on the side of road that had cigarette burns all over him. She rescued him and now he has a great home. Out here in the country sometimes someone will randomly shoot a dog, cow, or other animal. In the Gulf right now dolphins have been found with their fins cut off, shot, and jaws sawed off. What kinds of sick asswipe cruel people do all these things? Nobody knows. We just know that they are out there and there’s really not a whole lot that can be done about cruel and viscious people like this.
indigo
December 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
Doggone/GA – 2:27
Japan, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, France and Germany, just to name a few, have plenty of knives, large sticks, machetes and cars. However, they don’t have the large number of personal guns we have in America.
So, I guess, large numbers of people are murdered in these countries every year by knives, bats, machetes and cars.
Right?
Doggone/GA
December 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
“We just know that they are out there and there’s really not a whole lot that can be done about cruel and viscious people like this.”
Maybe not, but one thing we CAN do is require that the marks on the bullets from EVERY gun be recorded and cataloged, with the owners name and SSN. That will go a long way towards identifying where a gun used in a crime came from
Gale
December 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
See TBG, that is the difference. I think of a gun as a target or hunting weapon. If one is not seeking accuracy, I don’t see the point. If you can hit the target, you don’t need lots of bullets. Shooters like the Conn. shooter apparently like the mayhem of spraying bullets around. Well, basically, I still like my way of limiting ammunition. You want to shoot em, you gotta load em.
Welcome to the Occupation
December 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
Here’s the guy’s Twitter feed. Some chilling entries.
https://twitter.com/Ryan__Lanza
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
2:54 pm
“Why don’t you try not being yourself and act intelligent for once.”
Why don’t you try heeding your own advice sandflea?
“I just got off the phone with a very close friend who is from Newtown. I have visited there a number of times myself. Her family members are there and relatives attend that school. Waiting for word on losses. One family member is distraught and left without her phone to go to the school.”
That sucks. The whole situation sucks and is a terrible tragedy. But what in the hell does that have to do with what we are mainly talking about- namely the idea that the govt can actually do something about crazy crap like this? I think everyone’s heart goes out to the victims. But what is it that you specifically think can be done to avert random crazy shyte?
Regnad Kcin
December 14th, 2012
2:56 pm
“Maybe not, but one thing we CAN do is require that the marks on the bullets from EVERY gun be recorded and cataloged, with the owners name and SSN. That will go a long way towards identifying where a gun used in a crime came from”
Bingo – I’m sure some cheap technology exists (or can be quickly developed) that can do this on a while-you-wait basis.
Okay, what are the scond amendment objections to this plan?
Doggone/GA
December 14th, 2012
2:56 pm
“Japan, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, France and Germany, just to name a few, have plenty of knives, large sticks, machetes and cars. However, they don’t have the large number of personal guns we have in America”
they also don’t have the history of personal freedoms that we have, and they have nowhere NEAR the population we have. You want freedoms? Well, freedoms aren’t free. Ask youself, WHY don’t they have the number of gus we have? Because they gave up the freedom to have them. We didn’t, and won’t.
indigo
December 14th, 2012
2:57 pm
Doom
Tell you what you do.
Go the some of the funeals for these murdered kids.
Go up to the grieving parents and say “well, take heart that you live in America where almost any old fool has the right to keep and bear arms”.
Then, before they can reply, say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”.
If that doesn’t comfort them, just repeat what’s been said here about knives, machetes, baseball bats and cars.
I just know this will make them feel sooooooooooo much better.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
2:57 pm
ethics – The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
- Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
Dharma Bum
December 14th, 2012
2:57 pm
getalife @2:41
Well said
larry
December 14th, 2012
2:57 pm
Shot and killed his own mother, who was an elementary school teacher at the school.
Speaks volumes.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 14th, 2012
2:58 pm
Here’s the guy’s Twitter feed.
Looks like he had problems being rejected.
Recon 0311 2533
December 14th, 2012
2:58 pm
“I have no patience with attacking the tools used when the PROBLEM is the violent PERSON”
Amen to that. In a free and open society these types of deranged people unfortunately can commit these horrible crimes. Many have their views as to what should be done but there is nothing that can be done to completely eliminate these tragedies short of curtailing our freedoms and closing our society. We can and should however, do a better job of protecting our children. I think there should be armed security in every school with CATV monitoring everywhere within the building and school grounds.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:00 pm
Now what do liberals know about ideas of right and wrong in a red state? Do we hear ethics concerns in NYC or San Francisco–nope just places like Ga. where liberals dont have control.
godless heathen Christmas has declared war on me
December 14th, 2012
3:00 pm
Police are also questioning another man in connection with the shooting. Witnesses told the Connecticut Post that a handcuffed man, dressed in camouflage, was led out of a nearby woods by officers.
Some poor deer hunter in the wrong place at the wrong time?
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:01 pm
Gale
December 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
See TBG, that is the difference. I think of a gun as a target or hunting weapon. – Are you saying that you wouldn’t use your gun as a means of self defense?
If one is not seeking accuracy, I don’t see the point. If you can hit the target, you don’t need lots of bullets. – OK
Shooters like the Conn. shooter apparently like the mayhem of spraying bullets around. Well, basically, I still like my way of limiting ammunition. You want to shoot em, you gotta load em. – Are you saying if he had to load his own rounds, this would not have hapened?
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
3:01 pm
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
1:56 pm
Don’tcha just know the libs are just dying to find out more so they can politicize it.
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Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
2:02 pm
granny godzilla,
Maybe we should adopt the gun laws of places like DC,Chicago, etc. You know-places where they have the toughest gun laws but the most gun violence.
Didn’t take 6 minutes before those liberals started politicizing this. Oh wait…. Nevermind.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:02 pm
The shooter should have gone to church more and this would not have happened.
indigo
December 14th, 2012
3:02 pm
Doggone/GA – “we didn’t, and won’t”
And, as a result of that kind of thinking, at least 20,000 people will be murdered by guns every year.
It’s next to unbelievable to see that gun owernship means so much to those like you that no gun murder tragedy has the slightest effect on the gun obsession that rules you.
Doggone/GA
December 14th, 2012
3:02 pm
” I think there should be armed security in every school with CATV monitoring everywhere within the building and school grounds.”
and damn the PEOPLE who make it neccessary to even contemplate having to do something like that
Doggone/GA
December 14th, 2012
3:04 pm
“Are you saying if he had to load his own rounds, this would not have hapened?
And what are you going to do? Sit and watch over him to be sure he does? He’d just buy them on the black market if he can’t buy them openly.
Aquagirl
December 14th, 2012
3:05 pm
But what is it that you specifically think can be done to avert random crazy shyte?
If that’s the real shooter’s twitter feed, he should never have owned a gun. The crazy guy in Arizona was kicked out of school for being crazy and he could still buy a gun. The VA Tech shooter was a known stalker and crazy. Did he buy guns? Does the Pope $#!^ in the woods?
But thank goodness some erectile-challenged dude out there can buy 27 guns whenever he thinks about his small wee-wee. That’s what’s important.
larry
December 14th, 2012
3:05 pm
I think there should be armed security in every school with CATV monitoring everywhere within the building and school grounds.
So let’s make schools like prisions ? Yep, that will help children learn.
I wonder if this fool bought his weapons over the internet. If he did , he got around the regulations that are in place to protect us from people like him. Thus, we need new regulations to curtail sales over the internet.
We shouldnt let anybody who wants a gun , get a gun. And there needs to be better reporting of mental health problems.
Regnad Kcin
December 14th, 2012
3:05 pm
“Maybe not, but one thing we CAN do is require that the marks on the bullets from EVERY gun be recorded and cataloged, with the owners name and SSN. That will go a long way towards identifying where a gun used in a crime came from”
In fact, sell no ammunition without the buyer’s SSN engraved on it.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:05 pm
He was an evil soul and his actions cannot be explained otherwise.
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:06 pm
indigo
December 14th, 2012
2:57 pm
Doom
Tell you what you do.
Go the some of the funeals for these murdered kids.
Go up to the grieving parents and say “well, take heart that you live in America where almost any old fool has the right to keep and bear arms”.
Then, before they can reply, say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”.
If that doesn’t comfort them, just repeat what’s been said here about knives, machetes, baseball bats and cars.
I just know this will make them feel sooooooooooo much better.
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WOW!!
That was just dumb.
Doggone/GA
December 14th, 2012
3:06 pm
“It’s next to unbelievable to see that gun owernship means so much to those like you that no gun murder tragedy has the slightest effect on the gun obsession that rules you”
I do not own, have never owned, and have no intention of ever owning a gun. It’s not gun ownership that is important to me…it’s not restricting the freedoms of LAW ABIDING OWNERS that is VERY important to me.
oops
December 14th, 2012
3:06 pm
this is the time when not to watch the news
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 14th, 2012
3:06 pm
Doom lies, people die. You are a buffoon Doom without a shred of reality and comprehension. You come to this blow whining because you failed to protect your dog and because you failed in your responsibility, the dog died. You intentionally act like a blogaswipe. There is plenty that can be done and if you don’t know it you are plainly stupid. Try looking up common sense solutions proposed by the Brady Center. The failure of you and others like you, to wail that “oh lordy there aint nothing that can be done” when police and others have called for new laws and money for enforcement, puts these bodies are YOUR feet. Take some responsibility for your support of poorly written laws proposed by the NRA. Take responsibility for not fixing “Stand your ground” laws. But do NOT shyte here as if you are using a brain when you are just pulling it out of your arse and say there is nothing that can be done to reduce this repeated insanity.
godless heathen Christmas has declared war on me
December 14th, 2012
3:07 pm
One thing the shooter could be sure of: He’d be the only MF in there with a gun.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:07 pm
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:06 pm
Really? What is dumb is asking the bereaved parents that question.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:10 pm
“Try looking up common sense solutions proposed by the Brady Center”
Now that is a great “sympathy law”! The Brady Act. She and her husband lost wealth and position so somebody should pay for it.
JamVet
December 14th, 2012
3:11 pm
willie, don’t you have your own private cesspool that you can wallow around in?
Recon 0311 2533
December 14th, 2012
3:13 pm
“We shouldnt let anybody who wants a gun , get a gun. And there needs to be better reporting of mental health problems.”
Unfortunately the age of political correctness has been an impediment to identifying those with mental issues and minimizing their access to firearms. BTW…children see armed police officers frequently, so I don’t think armed security in and around campus would have any effect on the learning process.
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
3:14 pm
it’s not restricting the freedoms of LAW ABIDING OWNERS that is VERY important to me.
THIS!!!!!!!
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
3:14 pm
Doggone,
That might do some good but even then guns and ammo can be stolen and I suppose ammo can be made black market. In the case of this crazy shyte in Conn. we would know he killed them after the fact. By then its too late. But I would be for that if it would be a reasonable and justifiable cost. And even then like I said I’m not sure it would even make a difference.
catlady
December 14th, 2012
3:14 pm
So many of our legislators and other “leaders” should be put out of office over their rampant self-aggrandizement.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:15 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
“But do NOT shyte here as if you are using a brain when you are just pulling it out of your arse and say there is nothing that can be done to reduce this repeated insanity”
Doom is right and you are wrong! I do not care how emotional you become. The only true fix is to become a police state or strict socialist state. I live in a free will state and I have to witness this kind of evil at times. Maybe your permissive liberal ideas have contributed to this evil event.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 14th, 2012
3:15 pm
School shooting SHEETZ!
AmericaShrugged
December 14th, 2012
3:16 pm
The environment of hopelessness created by Obama in the Millenium generation; no jobs, no future worth having, is now manifesting itself it the most tragic ways. Something must be done.
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:16 pm
JamVet
You are so kind!
JamVet
December 14th, 2012
3:16 pm
Think nothing of it. (As I hold my nose!)
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:16 pm
indigo
December 14th, 2012
3:02 pm
Doggone/GA – “we didn’t, and won’t”
And, as a result of that kind of thinking, at least 20,000 people will be murdered by guns every year. – No one has EVER been murdered by a gun. They were murdered by a PERSON using a gun.
It’s next to unbelievable to see that gun owernship means so much to those like you that no gun murder tragedy has the slightest effect on the gun obsession that rules you. – No one has EVER been murdered by a gun. They were murdered by PEOPLE using guns.
BIG difference.
Doggone/GA
December 14th, 2012
3:17 pm
“That might do some good but even then guns and ammo can be stolen and I suppose ammo can be made black market”
Yes, they can be stolen…and it would be the responsibility of the owner to REPORT it stolen, so that HE doesn’t get interegated for a crime. And stolen ammo will still pick up marks from whatever gun it gets shot out of. That’s why the marks from the GUN need to be recorded.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 14th, 2012
3:17 pm
Willie, absolute nonsense and apparently you have not looked as many of the suggestions of the Brady Center and others. But your scream of socialist shows that you are not thinking before you post
Dharma Bum
December 14th, 2012
3:19 pm
AmericaShrugged @3:16
Hyperbole at best…
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:19 pm
It’s next to unbelievable to see that gun owernship means so much to those like you that no gun murder tragedy has the slightest effect on the gun obsession that rules you.
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Doggone, didn’t you say you DO NOT own a gun, are AFRAID of guns, and do not KNOW anyone that owns a gun?
If that’s true, how can you be OBSESSED with guns?
catlady
December 14th, 2012
3:19 pm
And Ralston knows his “friends” won’t vote it in. It is a win-win for him. He can look like the is supporting it, but he “won’t be able to do anything about it” because it has to pass his equally-corrupt colleagues.
Jerome Horwitz
December 14th, 2012
3:19 pm
Don’t know what the answer is, but, it’s just too damn easy for crazy people to get guns in this country. Kids shot in schools, movie, theatres, dufus in FL shoots into a carload of kids because their music is too loud. Just something wrong.
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:20 pm
Doggone/GA
December 14th, 2012
3:04 pm
“Are you saying if he had to load his own rounds, this would not have hapened?
And what are you going to do? Sit and watch over him to be sure he does? He’d just buy them on the black market if he can’t buy them openly.
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EXACTLY
Crazy people find ways to do crazy shyte.
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
3:22 pm
“You are a buffoon Doom blah blah blah
“You come to this blow whining because you failed to protect your dog and because you failed in your responsibility, the dog died.”
What in the hell does that have to do with anything we are discussing on the blog today? Or with the price of tea in china for that matter? I mean jeez are you just melting down and you can’t stick to the subject at hand. You’re just going off on random crap in the faint hope that you’re gonna hurt my feelings? Dude you’re just looking stupid bringing up crap that has no relevance.
“There is plenty that can be done and if you don’t know it you are plainly stupid.” blah blah blah.
Well if there is so much that can be done that you are absolutely convinced would solve or decrease events like this then please enlighten all of us Mr. brilliant. I’m all ears. And try to keep it relevant. I doubt anybody gives a damn about Doomy’s dead dog. Jeez.
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
3:28 pm
The environment of hopelessness created by Obama in the Millenium generation; no jobs, no future worth having, is now manifesting itself it the most tragic ways. Something must be done.
Somebody’s ODS is kicking into overdrive. Geez. It’s not like anything like this happened before Obama was sworn in, right?
August 1, 1966: University of Texas: 13 victims
January 17, 1989: Cleveland School shooting: 6 victims
December 1, 1997: Heath High School Paducah, KY: 3 victims
No need to mention Columbine or Virgina Tech, but yeah this brand new problem is all because of Obama…
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:29 pm
williebkind
December 14th, 2012
3:07 pm
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:06 pm
Really? What is dumb is asking the bereaved parents that question
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Exactly. That’s what I said.
Not sure of the point you are trying to make.
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
3:29 pm
“And stolen ammo will still pick up marks from whatever gun it gets shot out of. That’s why the marks from the GUN need to be recorded.”
I dunno. I can see a lot of straw men purchases being made and then the straw man just turning around and claiming he had a burglary and saying bullets were stolen or lost when he really just sold them. And then there would be the added cost to the mfger and lawful gun owners.
Gale
December 14th, 2012
3:32 pm
TBG, Yes, I would use my shotgun for self defense and I feel much safer with it than I do with a handgun. I think just closing a double barreled shotgun would give some bad guys pause. I don’t have to be real accurate to make a big hole. I have to have much steadier nerves to aim a handgun.
And it is hard to say if loading his own shells would have kept him from his murder binge. I always found the repetition of loading had a calming effect on me, And shooting those same shells at targets was very calming as well. Maybe the same exercise would have helped work through what were apparently overwhelming issues in his life.
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
3:35 pm
Gale
December 14th, 2012
3:32 pm
TBG, Yes, I would use my shotgun for self defense and I feel much safer with it than I do with a handgun. I think just closing a double barreled shotgun would give some bad guys pause. I don’t have to be real accurate to make a big hole. I have to have much steadier nerves to aim a handgun
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i have a Mossburg 12 ga for the home, but the hand gun is for when I’m out. Kinda weird carring a shot gun in public.
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
3:41 pm
I’m out. I hate to start the weekend off on such a downer. But we had a great season so I’m taking the whole crew out for drinks for a few hours, dinner, and then some pony action.
Yall have a great weekend. You too Joe Mama.
keep up,
We may engage in jackassery with each other all day long but I sincerely hope your friend and her family’s children are ok. May God be with them. And you too sir.
Gale
December 14th, 2012
3:44 pm
Agreed, TBG. I have never felt the need to be armed when I am in public. I know the arguments for carrying guns in public. It just is not for me.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 14th, 2012
3:47 pm
Doom — “Yall have a great weekend. You too Joe Mama. ”
And you as well.
Be sure to use a designate driver, Doom. A drunk driver crossed the center line during the holidays 18 years ago and totalled my car out from under me. Fortunately, I was driving a Grad Student Special (a mid-70s Chevy Caprice Classic) and I had my belts on, so I walked away with only bruises.
The drunk? He did a header through his windshield, landed on the sidewalk and GOT UP to ask ‘wha happen?’
Witnesses were most helpful in describing the scene to the police.
Long story short, be careful around the holidays, especially if anyone’s planning on drinking.
Erwin's cat
December 14th, 2012
4:24 pm
Dog – Japan, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, France and Germany, just to name a few, have plenty of knives, large sticks, machetes and cars. However, they don’t have the large number of personal guns we have in America.
Look at Switzerland before making causation from coloration…if that’s what you are doing (I’m late to the party again)
fair and balanced
December 15th, 2012
12:05 am
I hear Deal got a couple business associates he thinks would be perfect for heading up a panel on ehtics reform-top priority for the guvrnor.
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