With New Year, a chance to dump ‘negative waves’
In cultures around the world, the arrival of a new year means more than the mere changing of the calendar. It is a time of cleansing and renewal, an opportunity to set past disappointments aside and to look ahead with optimism.
But let’s be honest: These are not the easiest of times in which to set aside fear in favor of optimism.
The financial meltdown of four or five years ago lingers like a hangover from a holiday party that went on much too long. The economy continues its slow recovery; Georgia’s unemployment rate last month was 8.5 percent, down a full percentage point from a year earlier and down almost two full percentage points from 2010. But it is sign of diminished expectations when a statewide jobless rate of 8.5 percent is considered evidence of progress.
And as too many of our fellow Americans know, those cold, impersonal numbers hide deep personal pain, loss and frustration. The American dream and its inherent promise that hard work will be rewarded no longer seem plausible for many, particularly the young. Only the foolish would try to deny that profound, unsettling changes are under way, and for one of the few times in our nation’s history, parents have cause to wonder whether their children and grandchildren will live in a world of reduced opportunity.
On the other hand, anger and disappointment can become self-fulfilling prophecies if indulged too long, and a backward-looking fixation on what used to be will blind you to what can be. That is as true for nations as it is for individuals. Previous generations of Americans faced times much more challenging than these and overcame them, and there is no reason to believe that we are not their legitimate and equally capable heirs.
At the moment, though, such context seems in short supply. In a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, just 40 percent of Americans describe themselves as hopeful about the course of world events in the coming year, while 56 percent described themselves as fearful. Unfortunately, a good part of that dismal showing can be explained as the aftermath of a deeply divisive, hard-fought election campaign that both political parties treated as a life-and-death struggle.
According to the Post poll, just 18 percent of Republicans report that they are hopeful about the course of world events in 2013, compared to 38 percent of independents and 61 percent of Democrats; 72 percent of Republicans describe themselves as fearful about what the next year will bring.
In the political world, such numbers have a way of compounding themselves. As Ronald Reagan knew better than anyone, and as the Democrats learned from Reagan the hard way, a party animated by the belief that this is a country in decline will find it difficult to rally others to its cause, creating a spiral that is hard to reverse.
It’s also important to remember that people of all political persuasions tend to exaggerate the importance of government and who runs it. Except in times of war, and at moments of economic crisis such as that of 2008-2009, government actually plays a relatively small role in the course of human events. At times we like to believe otherwise; we like to believe that acting through government, we exert direct control our own fate, but most of the that time, that simply isn’t true.
Faith in ourselves, each other and our country — or the lack of it — is far more important.
– Jay Bookman
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barking frog
December 31st, 2012
7:55 pm
Towncrier, josef
how many amens does it take to make myth into truth ?
josef
December 31st, 2012
7:55 pm
TC
I’m not a Christian, but where do you come off assuming that I DON’T have Jesus in my heart?
josef
December 31st, 2012
7:56 pm
FROG
Legend, not myth…get the terms right!
barking frog
December 31st, 2012
7:58 pm
josef
I’m not a Christian, but where do you come off assuming that I DON’T have Jesus in my heart?
……………………………………………………………………….
if you do, let him out, he is needed in DC…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 31st, 2012
7:58 pm
Brosephus, it was clearly a Michelle Bachmann moment on the blog.
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
8:00 pm
Happy 2013 to USinUK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBZ-DPe0iys
barking frog
December 31st, 2012
8:01 pm
josef
i’m a legend, jesus is a myth…
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:01 pm
TC
I got tickled the other night after Indigo’s “wannabe” one when Moonbat said I converted so I could tell the jokes!
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
8:01 pm
“Well, I hate to rain on your parade, but the federal budget is not, in any shape, form or fashion, equivalent to a household budget.”
Perhaps not. But it sure as hell doesn’t stop economists on both the left and the right from using it as an example. I know when I was in college at least 2 of my econ professors used it as an example.
Economists use simplistic, easy to understand examples like that all the time. Nothing wrong with that and in many instances the examples are good examples with the main difference just being one of scale.
I just watched my favorite left wing economist Yanis Varoufakis do an hour and 15 minute lecture on c-span. He used at least 5 simplistic examples just like the federal debt/U.S. household example. Matter of fact in his latest book and in the lecture I just watched he compares the U.S. trade deficit to the minotaur of Greek mythology. Simplistic examples yes. But they make sense and get the point across in an easily understandable manner.
After all not all of us can readily understand everything with superior powers of logic and reasoning the way that Indigo can.
Doggone/GA
December 31st, 2012
8:03 pm
“i’m a legend, jesus is a myth”
they aren’t neccesssarily mutually exclusive
Towncrier
December 31st, 2012
8:03 pm
“I’m not a Christian, but where do you come off assuming that I DON’T have Jesus in my heart?”
You need to familiarize yourself with the “plans of salvation” I was specifically referencing in my post. I said nothing about you. But I do believe you cannot be “in Christ” without being his disciple (or apprentice). The word Christian means “little Christ”. So I don’t know how one can claim NOT to be a Christian and be in Christ. You’ll need to explain that to me. And unlike I guess most Jews, I do believe you can be a Jewish Christian.
CharlieB
December 31st, 2012
8:04 pm
On this eve of 2013 I hope you all would look at your life and give thanks for those who love you and those you are lucky enough to give love.
I’m going to ask that you indulge me in listing the things for which I am thankful…If you feel you have to respond negatively, please just bypass my post…
I am thankful for a man that loves me even when I don’t deserve to be loved…
A man that just by watching me learned that I love double over potato chips and will always pull those out of the bag for me.
A man that will not allow anyone in the house to eat the wings off the chicken/turkey becuase he knows they are the only parts I will eat.
A man who turns my car around every night (well he doesn’t want me to run over the drive way lights) so that I am facing out.
Step sons who call me…
Step granddaughters who are glad to see..
A good relationship with the mother of my stepsons..
Having my mother until age of 40 and still having my dad
Siblings that still believe they have to take care of me (I’m the youngest)
Nieces/Nephews that love me.
Happy New Year to You All…Hope you can find the love in your life…Has nothing to do with the man in the White House.
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:05 pm
FROG
Nyanh uhn…you a wannabe!
And JC said to tell you, unh-unh. I ain’t goin;there…my name ain’t Mr. Smith…
barking frog
December 31st, 2012
8:05 pm
doggone/ga
tell josef that.
CharlieB
December 31st, 2012
8:06 pm
Step granddaughters who are glad to see..
Should have been step granddaughter who are glad to see me… DANG
Towncrier
December 31st, 2012
8:08 pm
Happy New Year all! I hope to see you next year!
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:09 pm
CHARLIE B
Amen to that! What more could you ask for…?
Thomas Heyward Jr
December 31st, 2012
8:09 pm
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
7:45 pm
Thomas Heyward Jr @ 7:28
You forgot to praise Ron Paul and freedom. You’re slipping bro. That’s ok as I know that keeping an eye out for those wedding drones takes a lot of concentration.
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Kepp laughing dude.
i remember you apologizing for your Employer (the TSA) .
You kept saying that “FLYING is a priveledge”
That was before the Blue-Shirts branched out into bus stations, train stations, malls and everywhere else.
But anyhoo………….Now that you mentioned Doctor Ron Paul………go ahead and take your dose of decency.
I know as a Federalie………its hard medicine.
From Dr. Pauls New Year’s message-to the Federalie Gang of 525———
.
“I also urge my colleagues to end unconstitutional wars overseas. Stop the drone strikes. Stop the covert activities and the meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Strive to observe good faith and justice towards all nations, as George Washington admonished. We are only making more enemies, wasting lives and bankrupting ourselves with the neoconservative interventionist mindset that endorses preemptive war that now dominates both parties.
All foreign aid should end, which is blatantly unconstitutional. While it may be a relatively small part of our federal budget, for many countries it is a large part of theirs and it creates perverse incentives for both our friends and enemies. There is no way members of Congress can know or understand the political, economic, legal and social realities in the many nations to which they send taxpayers’ dollars.
Congress needs to stop accumulating more debt. U.S. debt monetized by the Federal Reserve is the true threat to our national security. Revisiting the parameters of Article 1 Section 8 would be a good start.
Congress should resolve to respect personal liberty and free markets. Learn more about the free market and how it regulates commerce and produces greater prosperity ever than any legislation or regulation.
Understand that economic freedom is freedom.
barking frog
December 31st, 2012
8:10 pm
josef
in the faith of my father Christians are spiritual jews….no
circumcision necessary….so no problem with a spiritual
Christian I think even circumcised..
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:17 pm
FROG
Jokes aside. I see no problem with any of that, Maimonidean that I am. We all have our traditions but we’re all on the same road and in the same boat…I’m far more interested in what unites us than in what separates us. As Granddaddy taught me and I believe, dogma is fine and good for parlour games. but in the stillness of the night as we contemplate the meaning of it all, it is of no consequence in the order of things…
getalife
December 31st, 2012
8:22 pm
Get your religion out of politics.
Life is all about choices.
We made some bad ones and some good ones.
They are not called the dark side for nothing.
barking frog
December 31st, 2012
8:23 pm
josef
I find that religion is an an attempt to bring order to chaos though
probably futile certainly worthwhile.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 31st, 2012
8:24 pm
I wonder where ol’ twinkie has gotten off to.
td
December 31st, 2012
8:24 pm
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
6:49 pm
I could do this or I could do that!!! So you say, talk is cheap so get off the government tit and become a productive citizen instead of sucking my tax money down doing nothing for a living.
See I can do the same thing on an anonymous blog and can claim that I am an elected politician or a teacher and you could never definitively say that I am not.
barking frog
December 31st, 2012
8:26 pm
Kamchak
I haven’t looked back but I would think he got his wish and has
been dropped..
getalife
December 31st, 2012
8:30 pm
td,
Get lost con.
td
December 31st, 2012
8:32 pm
getalife
December 31st, 2012
8:30 pm
td,
Get lost con
Why, So that you can keep living in your fantasy world of socialism and worshiping at the feet of your messiah?
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:33 pm
FROG
I agree entirely with that. From the time Ugh came down from the trees we’ve been doing just that. And that quest for order and meaning has sent us to the stars. And, if we were able to have “the answers,” would we really want that?
What was it from “The Penguin on the Telly?”
“How would I know…I’m not Dr. Bloody Bronowski?
“How would Dr. Bronowski know…?”
“Oh, he knows everything.”
“I wouldn’t like that. That would take all the mystery out of life.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgoRDYZQMrQ
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
8:34 pm
That was very nice CharlieB. Very nice. And a happy new year to you also.
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
8:34 pm
One of the more rewarding aspects of 2012 was the groundswell of protest that came back to this country.
Started out by the kids, of course; but then joined all around the country (and globe!) by middle aged and even the elderly. Jews, gentiles, atheists, rich, poor, professionals, students, housewives and veterans; black and white and every other hue!
And I believe that the misguided right wing hostility towards and wholesale slurs against those countless Americans was part of why the GOP got beaten so badly in November.
And for them, I’ll keep quoting a hero of mine…
If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. ~Frederick Douglass, 1857
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFHXhwbQRBc
getalife
December 31st, 2012
8:34 pm
td,
No because you are a kook insulting people.
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:37 pm
Where’s Twink…
I dunno, but the last I saw of the Imam he was looking over the weekend thread and….
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/files/2012/12/125563-mayan-calendar-300×225.jpg
td
December 31st, 2012
8:38 pm
getalife
December 31st, 2012
8:34 pm
td,
No because you are a kook insulting people.
Pot meet kettle.
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
8:39 pm
Twink fizzled out and slithered away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
8:40 pm
josef,
Hell that’s funny than the vaunted facepalm.
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
8:40 pm
frog @ 7:53
getalife
December 31st, 2012
8:43 pm
“So that you can keep living in your fantasy world of socialism and worshiping at the feet of your messiah?”
ODS really bad.
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
8:43 pm
BTW, which one’s Twink?
And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do.
I don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There’s no reason for it, you’ve gotta go sometime.
I never said I was frightened of dying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCEPytSFqU
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:46 pm
THULSA
Wasn’t that a good one..?
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:48 pm
ZamVet
Did you miss it? WOW, etc. was back over the weekend, posting with a long tag which included dropping his twinkie…it got shortened to Twinkie…Twink…
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
8:52 pm
JamVet,
The poet looked so young in that pic he didn’t even look like himself.
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
8:53 pm
CharlieB
Welcome amongst the living!!! AMEN to your post and a Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Take good care of them, and they will take good care of you.
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Jr: i remember you apologizing for your Employer (the TSA) .
You kept saying that “FLYING is a priveledge[sic]”
Flying IS a privilege as there is no inherent right to fly or travel by any other means. Even such a “freedomist” such as you should know that. I guess you haven’t gotten to the Good Doctor Reverend Brother Paul’s lesson on flying yet. I think that’s on tape #9 if you’re still playing the cassettes. It’s obvious that your thinking is just as dated as I haven’t worked for TSA since 2007, and you didn’t know me then.
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td: So you say, talk is cheap so get off the government tit and become a productive citizen instead of sucking my tax money down doing nothing for a living.
See I can do the same thing on an anonymous blog and can claim that I am an elected politician or a teacher and you could never definitively say that I am not.
If you want to tell me what to do, then become my boss. Otherwise, piss off with that crap. For what I make, you likely don’t even put a penny towards my personal pay, so don’t be offended by me saying I don’t give a rat’s ass about what you say on an anonymous blog.
As to you being a politician or teacher, as fact challenged as you come off here, I already figured you were some elected official somewhere. You fit the bill better than Nathan Deal himself. As for a teacher, God help us all, including the students, if you’re ever allowed anywhere near a chalkboard inside a school building.
I honestly don’t care what you do in real life, as you’re about as important to me as a pimple on my ass.
josef
December 31st, 2012
8:55 pm
BTW
Haven’t heard from RF lately…hope he and his boys are having a grand old time enjoying the holidays…
TM
December 31st, 2012
8:58 pm
I understand they x-rayed Hilary’s brain and found nothing but a clot.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 31st, 2012
9:00 pm
…as you’re about as important to me as a pimple on my ass.
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:02 pm
josef,
That was good. Its the 2nd time today you made me laugh out loud today. You’re on a roll.
BTW I hadn’t had a chance to go back and view those Argentinian films but will do so when I can. The last 2 that I saw were based in Argentina with I think Argentinian actors but they were speaking English so I’m not sure as to how “Argentinian” they were.
In the credits there were Hispanic, Italian, and some German sounding names so to me they seemed like Argenine films. Just strange that they were in English. One was a really interesting plot about an author that had a grand masterpiece that he never completed. His little brother came to visit when his ship was in port. Several interesting plots and subplots in that one.
And then I watched one where a couple lives way down in the southern tip of tieera del fuego in a rural setting. A guys car breaks down and he walks to their house and he and the husband coverse about fixing his car in the living room. Meanwhile the wife in the bedroom hears everything and realizes the guy was her rapist/torturer going back to the dirty war. Things got real interesting there with a turning of the tables.
Can’t remember the names of the films- I think one may have been the sargon, salton or sardon sea. Something like that. Not sargasso.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 31st, 2012
9:03 pm
I understand they x-rayed Hilary’s brain and found nothing but a clot.
There’s your sign.
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
9:04 pm
Kamchak
Think he can handle the honest truth?
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
9:05 pm
I saw some of it, jonix. More churlish, boring, post-election, post-pubescent meltdowns.
All this idiotic talk about Obama the Messiah, yet who is it that is getting killed by one of their own commandments.
The 11th.
And when someone does have the moral courage to stand up to and speak against “the agents of intolerance”, they get RINO’d all the way back to Arizona!
And great post, CharlieB!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBpu3MHmtM
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 31st, 2012
9:05 pm
SoCo/Bro
He can’t handle Shoots and Ladders or Candyland.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 31st, 2012
9:08 pm
Well there are a few pimples around here with delusions of grandeur who think they are twinkie tough.
josef
December 31st, 2012
9:10 pm
THULSA
Those may have been dubbed…the Argentines are masters of that.
I don’t know the last one you’re talking about but if you remember, let me know.
But, man, they can do a multi-layered, sub-plot film…
td
December 31st, 2012
9:11 pm
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
8:53 pm
Like I thought. Your loser government employee attitude has been well documented now on these blogs. The sooner we the people get rid of your jobs and make you actually work for a living instead of molesting old people and children the better off we will be as a nation.
getalife
December 31st, 2012
9:11 pm
twinkie was the best meltdown so far but we got four more years to go.
josef
December 31st, 2012
9:12 pm
ZamVet
The 11th?
Thou shalt not shtup a shiksa?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 31st, 2012
9:13 pm
White House, Senate leaders reach deal on taxes, delaying ’sequester’ cuts
Government works.
Throw Norquist under the bus and gain credibility.
getalife
December 31st, 2012
9:14 pm
td,
Who started the TSA?
F. Sinkwich
December 31st, 2012
9:14 pm
New year resolutions?
I think Jammie should resolve to refrain from ending his dum-azz posts with dum-azz YouTube videos, which no one with an IQ above our current outdoor temperature clicks on anyway.
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:16 pm
“So you say, talk is cheap so get off the government tit and become a productive citizen instead of sucking my tax money down doing nothing for a living.”
Not cool. I’m not down with criticizing someone just because their paycheck comes from the govt. And while I like Neal Boortz I want to punch his ass every time I hear him rail about “govt employees”. I’ve known a lot of “govt employees” who work every bit as hard or harder than private sector employees.
I disdain govt bureaucracy because of its inefficiencies in allocating resources and because by its very nature a bureaucracy is going to be inefficient. But that doesn’t mean I diss a man who works for the govt as somehow being less of a man just because of where he gets his paycheck. That is not right.
getalife
December 31st, 2012
9:16 pm
filky,
You are a very miserable con.
Why so angry con?
F. Sinkwich
December 31st, 2012
9:17 pm
Proof positive the lib ilk media is batsh*t blind:
“Hillary Clinton has beaten First Lady Michelle Obama to be named Most Admired Woman in 2012–and Sarah Palin came in at number five.”
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
9:18 pm
td
If you thought, that was probably the first time. I don’t deal with old folks or kids on a regular basis, and my job will be around long after both of us are dust. Why don’t you get business of your own and stay out of mine? You’re so wrong about mine that I feel too sorry for you to even laugh at you anymore.
getalife
December 31st, 2012
9:20 pm
Oh, I see.
palin finished last.
No wonder.
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
9:20 pm
jonix, that one too!
And LOL at S. Frankwink. He’s one of the most even tempered guys here. He’s always p*ssed off!
Walkin’ down this rocky road,
Wondering where my life is leading,
Rollin’ on, to the bitter end,
Finding out along the way,
What it takes to keep love living,
You should know how it feels, my friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0o3TA6A3Bc
josef
December 31st, 2012
9:21 pm
THULSA
@ 9:16
Hear, hear!
SINKWICH
I click ZamVet’s vids…and I’ll put my IQ up against yours any day of the week, and I ain’t bragging about mine, mind you,,,
getalife
December 31st, 2012
9:21 pm
It is New Years Eve.
Time to party not argue.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 31st, 2012
9:21 pm
twinkie was the best meltdown so far but we got four more years to go.
Ilk-boy melts down here every day.
The gift that keeps on giving.
RIP Sinkwitchie-poo.
On a daily basis.
moonbat betty
December 31st, 2012
9:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SkT6vflu3M
LSU better tighten up.
Kudos to Tech for knocking off SoCal.
Niiice.
moonbat betty
December 31st, 2012
9:24 pm
I hear ya, get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLk75fFXqH4
Jackie
December 31st, 2012
9:24 pm
President Obama and the Senate reached a deal to avert the fiscal cliff.
The slow-motion crowd in the House will not vote on the measure until Monday or Tuesday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/fiscal-cliff/biden-mcconnell-continue-cliff-talks-as-clock-winds-down/2012/12/31/66c044e2-534d-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html?hpid=z1
Oscar
December 31st, 2012
9:25 pm
Government employees do real work that is necessary for our society to function. They deserve a break.
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:25 pm
“Those may have been dubbed…the Argentines are masters of that.”
josef,
Dang. I never thought of that. I got both of them from netflix when I was just searching for good foreign films. I saw a third film that was very moving- I think it was a French film-subtitles. Anyway, it had several plots and subplots and I believe like the film you sent me it had some tie ins to discrimination and such. In the movie a son was being accussed of a serious crime he didn’t committ. The important politician who did commit the crime was visiting his father to convince him to tell his son to turn himself in for a lenient sentence. The father knew the deal and told the pol that if his son was innocent he would slash his own throat. And he did. The self torment the pol went through it was kind of a twist on crime and punishment by doestovesky if you’ve ever read that.
CharlieB
December 31st, 2012
9:26 pm
If I can offer just one suggestion…Get KEM’s Christmas CD…I know it is after Christmas commercially, but the 12 days of Christmas run 12/26 – 01/06 I think (for the true believers). But if u put KEM in, any tension in the household will cease. Believe me.
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:26 pm
josef, the son and his father were poor Albanians in that last film I was telling you about.
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
9:26 pm
Doom @ 9:18
You don’t do that because you actually have the ability to think for yourself instead of having others think for you. Kudos for that post.
Doggone/GA
December 31st, 2012
9:27 pm
“The slow-motion crowd in the House will not vote on the measure until Monday or Tuesday”
That’s so they can claim to have voted for a tax cut
getalife
December 31st, 2012
9:29 pm
moonbat,
Great games this bowl season and I am watching every single one of them.
moonbat betty
December 31st, 2012
9:31 pm
I knew Obama would come through in the end, I just knew it!
I must have ESPN
GO oBAMA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUT9KQ-LuaU
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
9:34 pm
Don’t hate the player, Frank.
Wait till tomorrow, think of today
Think of the days gone by
Bye-bye is too late
Cry, cry is heartache
Bye-bye, the days gone by, days gone by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2jRl4oVE8
Jackie
December 31st, 2012
9:34 pm
The public opinion of the House will continue to decline.
moonbat betty
December 31st, 2012
9:34 pm
get, LSU will roll 2nd half.
They will wear them down and finish them off in the 4th quarter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2OM7HEfrs
Cherokee
December 31st, 2012
9:35 pm
“The sooner we the people get rid of your jobs and make you actually work for a living instead of molesting old people and children the better off we will be as a nation”
What a disgusting thing to say td. Especially from someone who wears his Christianity on his sleeve, as you do.
josef
December 31st, 2012
9:35 pm
THULSA
I’ve really gotten taken by the Balkan films…
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:35 pm
“Like I thought. Your loser government employee attitude has been well documented now on these blogs.”
td,
I hope you’ll take a break and think about what you’re saying about people. My mom retired from the state, my brother is one of them “govt employees” as a colonel in the Army, and my sister in law is a teacher. With the things you’re saying it feels like you just slapped my mom upside the head.
Hate the bureaucracy and inefficiency all you want. But take it easy on the people who get up and go to work every day looking to do a good job as best they know how whether they work a govt job or private sector job.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 31st, 2012
9:37 pm
It doesn’t seem like many of our conned are celebrating the results of “sticking to their conservative principles”. Going off the cliff was their heart’s desire rather than actually compromise.
F. Sinkwich
December 31st, 2012
9:38 pm
“Government employees do real work that is necessary for our society to function.”
Well, true, unless they work for the EPA, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Energy, HHS, Housing, and such…
td
December 31st, 2012
9:39 pm
Sock puppet “extraordinaire”- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:35 pm
Just Bro and the people like him with the “I know what is best because I am a government worker” attitude. You could get rid of half the Federal Government bureaucrats and you would never miss them.
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:41 pm
josef,
I’ve kinda noticed these last few years that these small indie films and small foreign films tend to be very well written and acted. I guess its the same reason that in years past most black films like the Color Purple, some Spike Lee movies before he became big, etc. were always good films. If you’re going to appeal to a wider base and you don’t have the big budget money for a film like a Titanic then you damn sure better have a well written story with good acting. I’ve noticed that seems to hold true a lot.
Georgia
December 31st, 2012
9:42 pm
New Year’s Eve Party with Ryan Seacrest rocks!! I know this is crazy, but here’s my number, call me maybe……This is like the best new years eve ever ever, never ever gonna get back together……oh, the fun just doesn’t stop……Dont wanna miss this kiss……This kiss is something I can’t resist……what a party down get down funk fest, man……
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
9:48 pm
Y’all take it easy on td. If he actually knew what I do for a living, he would already know my job is explicitly spelled out in the Constitution, and there is nothing he can do to change that. I can only surmise his feelings are hurt because I refuse to buy the crap sammich he’s selling.
Contrary to his belief, I have never proclaimed to know what is best. I do, however, know BS when I see it and I will call it out without hesitation.
josef
December 31st, 2012
9:49 pm
TD
You tickle me. I’m one of those public service employees. You have no idea what it takes to deal with your kind. The good part is that you’re generally few and far between and we can smell you coming from a mile off. You provide us with that chance to “smile in your face” and make sure we go by the book while we tie you into a knot just for the stress relief!
JamVet
December 31st, 2012
9:49 pm
betty, no sooner do I read your post and then…
Bang! The Bayou Bengals strike!
One of, if not the best hit I’ve ever seen, and it happened smack dab, right in front of my eyes! And other than TMac’s incredible TD run, it was in an otherwise devastating loss.
http://deadspin.com/5964960/nebraskas-kenny-bell-delivered-the-best-legal-block-in-college-football-this-season-so-of-course-he-was-flagged-for-it
Sock puppet "extraordinaire"- aka Doomy
December 31st, 2012
9:49 pm
“Just Bro and the people like him with the “I know what is best because I am a government worker” attitude.”
td,
I hear ya and I have the same criticisms but I think they should be reserved for the bureaucrats and policy makers as opposed to rank and file employees. Good example is my sister in law. She works hard as a teacher and when I was home for Xmas she told me that last year that final grades for public schools had to be in around May 20th. School then lasted another 2-3 weeks even though final grades were done and given. So students had a long lame duck session knowing nothing counted. Incredibly dumb, dumb, dumb. But that’s all on the idiot(s)in charge and has nothing to do with the regular employees.
Anyway, its all cool. That just bothered me and practically nothing on this blog ever bothers me.
josef
December 31st, 2012
9:52 pm
THULSA
Much agreed on that about the “small” films…John Sayles comes to mind…
moonbat betty
December 31st, 2012
9:53 pm
JamVet,
Your boys better buckle it up tomorrow.
Hope it’s a hard fought game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quVERH404pA
F. Sinkwich
December 31st, 2012
9:54 pm
“You provide us with that chance to “smile in your face” and make sure we go by the book while we tie you into a knot just for the stress relief!”
Thanks for your lousy service.
Kinda fun to have a monopoly, isn’t it?
josef
December 31st, 2012
9:56 pm
THULSA
As for that “lame duck” session…many, if not most, teachers will tell you that it’s following the standardized tests in April that they get the most teaching done, since they’re really teaching and not preparing for “the test.” The teachers are relaxed, the students are relaxed, and they can actually enjoy what it is they’re doing…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 31st, 2012
9:57 pm
Kinda fun to have a monopoly, isn’t it?
Private schools abound.
Kinda silly to not know what “monopoly ” means.
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
9:59 pm
Kamchak
Knowledge is power.
josef
December 31st, 2012
10:01 pm
SINKWICH
You get the service you ask for! Come at me with respect and dignity and I’ll bust my a33 to see that you get what you want/need. Like I said, we can smell your ilk coming. We can also smell the decent folks. I can honestly say, in both cases I can honestly say, “it was my pleasure.”