Tea Party Express chair targets Saxby Chambliss

Amy Kremer, chairman of the national Tea Party Express and a Georgia resident, made it clear in a CNN interview today that as far as she’s concerned, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss has earned himself a primary challenge with his vote in favor of the “fiscal cliff” legislation that passed the Senate by a vote of 89-8.

“The Tea Party Express, we haven’t decided anything at this point, but I can tell you I live in the state of Georgia and Saxby Chambliss is going to be primaried. Our own senator. It’s unacceptable to have somebody who votes with the Democrats more than they do with the conservatives, and he has proven time and time again he’s all about the spending.

“And we’re a red state, we deserve a conservative senator, a conservative senator that would stand with [Sens.] Marco Rubio [R-Fla.] and Rand Paul [R-Ky.] and Mike Lee [R-Utah] who all voted ‘no’ for this bill.”

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, also of Georgia, also voted in support of the bill, which was opposed by all eight of Georgia’s Republican congressmen.

It should be noted that the Tea Party Express also championed the campaigns of Sharron “Second Amendment remedies” Angle, who lost a winnable race against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell, who lost a winnable Senate race in Delaware.

– Jay Bookman

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Adam

January 3rd, 2013
4:18 pm

Adam

January 3rd, 2013
4:18 pm

*grabs popcorn*

I love the sight of Republicans eating their own.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
4:18 pm

… but I can tell you I live in the state of Georgia and Saxby Chambliss is going to be primaried.”

Pleaseohpleaseohplease.

Defeat Saxby in the primary and then nominate Elmer Fudd.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Adam

January 3rd, 2013
4:19 pm

First and second, WOOOO!

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
4:21 pm

The gauntlet is thrown! Kentucky, Utah, and Floriduh aren’t gonna out-crazy us!

Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten

January 3rd, 2013
4:22 pm

Most of the Tea Party funding comes from the Koch brothers through Americans for Prosperity.

Really good Netflix documentary on this.

They are just made to look like a grass roots organization when they most certainly are anything but.

I doubt most of their members know that or would even care.

Thomas Heyward Jr

January 3rd, 2013
4:23 pm

As if the voters have a say in the………………….USSA.
.
lol

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
4:25 pm

Well, the senate minority leader dared to work with our President so he will have to fight or retire.

Oscar

January 3rd, 2013
4:26 pm

Georgai may have a democrat for senator sooner than we thought.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
4:26 pm

I’m sure those Tea Party tools can get ole Tom Price or Paul Broun to take on Saxby. In fact, I think it would provide some entertaining banter. Will Broun accuse Saxby of being in league with the devil and sling holy water on him. How many times will Tom Price object to any discussion requiring facts. Ya gotta love it. :lol:

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
4:28 pm

As far as the perky Ms. O’Donnell, I would have considered becoming one too, if the costumes were “cool” enough. (Know what I mean guvnah? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)

And to Aquagirl’s point, the unperky Amy’s trying to outcrazy the crazies…

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/former_tea_party_leader_says_ex-comrades_are_suing.php

Christian Conservative

January 3rd, 2013
4:29 pm

LOL… A Repub will easily maintain this seat Jay. You and your ilk should worry about all the dem seats that will be extremely tight….

Li'l Aynie

January 3rd, 2013
4:29 pm

Let’s see now… the Tea Party wants to lower taxes and cut expenses. So, they opposed a bill that would give tax breaks to the middle class and cut some government expenses. Sure, they want to extend tax cuts to high-earners also, and they want even more spending cuts. But, why don’t they first support the tax breaks and spending cuts that the Senate proposed, and they favor, then quarrel over bigger tax cuts and spending cuts later?

Those people are dangerously hostile to well-being of America and Americans.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
4:29 pm

I hope Chambliss decides to go to the middle and make it interesting.

Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)

January 3rd, 2013
4:30 pm

Well, sounds like the story of the two mental asylum inmates that were going to escape by climbing over a high wall around the place. They thought and thought about how they were going to do it. Then one said, “I know. We’ll wait till night and then I’ll shine a flashlight beam and you can climb up it till you get on top of the wall. Then I’ll throw you the flashlight and you can hold it while I climb up the beam.”

“Think I’m crazy?” said his buddy. “I’ll get halfway up and you’ll turn off the flashlight.”

Old Saxby is nuts, but some of these Tea Party people are nuttier. My guess is they’ll run that nut that had you-know-what with a mule against him. Then some librul Democrat will look good by comparison and get elected.

Have a good night everybody.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
4:30 pm

Cheesy, well Dick made their coffers $8 million lighter. :lol:

indigo

January 3rd, 2013
4:32 pm

If this means the Tea Party is self destructing, then maybe there’s some hope for American after all.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
4:33 pm

CC

“…dem seats that will be extremely tight”

Dat do be sumpin you know sumpin about! :-)

indigo

January 3rd, 2013
4:34 pm

Christian Conservative

Be a good humble Christian now.

God is watching you every second of every day.

And, his judgment is harsh for those who don’t toe the line.

Theres a good boy.

Granny Godzilla

January 3rd, 2013
4:37 pm

Karen Handel is looking for a job…..

EEK!

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
4:37 pm

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/former_tea_party_leader_says_ex-comrades_are_suing.php

From the linkee: For months, the Tea Party Patriots have been embroiled in a dispute with a former leader, Amy Kremer, over her involvement with the Tea Party Express, a rival faction of Tea Partiers which the Patriots see as inauthentic and overly tied to the GOP.

Reminds me of The People’s Front of Judea vs. the Judean People’s Front.

“Laissez les bons temps rouler!”
– Thomas “Lafitte” Jefferson

josef

January 3rd, 2013
4:38 pm

Chambliss has already signaled some move back toward the center. He knows how to read mene, mene tekel efarsin and is positioning himself to be on the side of the winners in the GOP civil war…

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
4:42 pm

The People’s Front of Judea….. p*ss off! :lol:

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
4:45 pm

The People’s Front of Judea….. p*ss off!

BIG NOSE!

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
4:46 pm

Kam,

Splitter!

josef

January 3rd, 2013
4:46 pm

GOOD FIGHT/K’CHAK

Calm down! Blessed are the cheesemakers…

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
4:47 pm

K. Chak — “From the linkee: For months, the Tea Party Patriots have been embroiled in a dispute with a former leader, Amy Kremer, over her involvement with the Tea Party Express, a rival faction of Tea Partiers which the Patriots see as inauthentic and overly tied to the GOP. ”

Aha. I *knew* that name sounded familiar.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
4:47 pm

josef @ 4:38

Exactly. Like those on both sides today and for ions before him, he is first and foremost a politician.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
4:50 pm

Has anyone broken the news to the Tea Party tools about the other 88 senators that voted yes to that bill.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
4:51 pm

Since the Republicans can’t clean their nest, the Democrats should
cross party vote these nuts in the primary.

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
4:52 pm

the Tea Party Patriots have been embroiled in a dispute with a former leader, Amy Kremer

Who looks absolutely smashing in a crown….

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
4:53 pm

Amy Kremer! She looks more like a member in very good standing of the Twinkie Party Express.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
4:54 pm

TBS

He is that and not a dumb one.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
4:54 pm

Cheesemakers? Literally or any manufacturers of dairy products?

How’s that PJ pizza pricing today?

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
4:54 pm

Ion, yuon, eon.

Paul

January 3rd, 2013
4:55 pm

Maybe Sen Chambliss can appease Miss Amy by immediately sponsoring legislation to cut the deficit by closing Robins AFB, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, eliminating all road construction funding for Georgia, all other transportation funding, all education funding, all federal research grants to Georgia universities…

Think she’d be happy then?

Redeem yourself, Sen Chambliss!

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
4:56 pm

Taxpayer
Ion, yuon, eon.
…………………………
the bases are loaded….

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
4:56 pm

Perhaps we can get a tea party witch to run….. and then stone her!

Then the Dems can pull a Clair Caskill (sp??).

Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)

January 3rd, 2013
4:58 pm

Amy Kremer considers herself a true Southern belle. She was born and raised in Atlanta and attended Auburn University.

An Auburn person. I might of knowed. Maybe she’s really Matti or DebbieDoesEverybody.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
4:59 pm

The progressives were the first to hold their party accountable to end the dlc.

The tea party are still waiting on the cuts on spending.

Our President cut a trillion but the tea party has ods.

They should be cheering our President when he does cut spending.

For credibility

Paul

January 3rd, 2013
4:59 pm

Hiya Keep!

“Perhaps we can get a tea party witch to run….. and then stone her!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSb8H5C1F0

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
5:00 pm

How’s that PJ pizza pricing today?

Well, I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:00 pm

TBS

I caught part of an interesting interview with Olympia Snow who was saying that she felt she was needed more outside the Senate where she could speak more freely. The moderate old guard advising some of the young blood can be signalling a sea change in the GOP. I’ve found it interesting to see that Paul Babeu has been being trotted out for the talking heads rounds (talking Roundheads :-) )

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
5:00 pm

Keep Up
Perhaps we can get a tea party witch to run….. and then stone her!
……………………………………………………………..
The Christian way is more efficient, just takes one stone and a pond.

liberal hack

January 3rd, 2013
5:01 pm

Chambliss hasn’t been that bad, he’ll survive a primary challenger. Chambliss has also called for deeper cuts than most Democrats have.

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
5:02 pm

The republicans really don’t have much of a party left anymore, just a motley crew of assorted anarchists who are masquerading as representatives of a failed ideology. Their goal is to gum up the works, as if they are helping anyone except themselves, losers…

GOP Conservative

January 3rd, 2013
5:02 pm

I am a conservative Republican. I didn’t like the fiscal cliff bill. I think spending is the biggest problem. Having said that I AM A REALIST. Elections have consequences. There’s a time for principle and then there’s a time to govern. Sometimes you’re not holding a strong hand — and the Republicans aren’t. As Paul Ryan said, they’re just trying to limit the damage.

I applaud the mature and realistic approach taken by Chambliss and Isakson. I don’t know who this Tea Party bimbo is, but she needs to climb back under a rock.

harvey

January 3rd, 2013
5:03 pm

Honestly, every one of those idiots in Congress now should be released. None of them have done their jobs for years. There is more pork in the recent bills than Paula Deen ever used in her recipes.

glacialspeed

January 3rd, 2013
5:03 pm

This Democrat will cross over and vote for whatever fruitcake the Teabaggers decide to run.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:05 pm

harvey

“There is more pork in the recent bills than Paula Deen ever used in her recipes.”

:-)

Sure, double down on conservative crap

January 3rd, 2013
5:05 pm

A Tea Party Christian Conservative person I know sent me a chain email about how on March 23, 2013 Obamacare is mandating all Americans to get a chip implanted in their bodies to track their bank account and location. It even sited the page, 1003.

And this ladies and gentlemen is the level of paranoia and idiocy we are dealing with when is comes to the Tea Party.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:07 pm

josef

Congress needs more pragmatic folks on both sides of the aisle. Democrats are nothing special, but it amazes me that some on this blog would deny there are major rifts and problems within the Republican Party. At this time, they make the Democrats look good and truth be told, they are not that good themselves.

Doubt it will happen because it is DC, however one can hope that the Republicans will get themselves together and Democrats will respond in kind.

liberal hack

January 3rd, 2013
5:07 pm

Mick, I’d rather be governed by an anarchist than by bloated big federal gov’t beauracrats who feel more and more entitled to spend tax revenue the way they see fit…

Hate to tell you, there isn’t enough revenue that can be taken from US citizens to run the kind of gov’t you endorse, unless you advocate the gov’t confiscating all wealth and letting them distribute it out “equally.”

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
5:09 pm

I don’t care about the gop.

Disband would be fine.

They are divided and conquered.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
5:10 pm

A police officer can’t pull you over and arrest you just because you gave him the finger, a federal appeals court declared Thursday. In a 14-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the “ancient gesture of insult is not the basis for a reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation or impending criminal activity.”

Shout out to Senior Digits. :lol:

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
5:11 pm

… unless you advocate the gov’t confiscating all wealth and letting them distribute it out “equally.”

There’s your sign.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:12 pm

hack
“governed by an anarchist”

That is what’s called an oxymoron I think….

TBS
Just an observation here, but if the GOP takes the lead in reining in their lunatic fringe, they’ll be a step ahead in wooing the middle ground. The Dems might ought to be paying closer attention…

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
5:13 pm

Mick, I’d rather be governed by an anarchist

How do you get an anarchist to govern? They kind of stop being an anarchist when they do that, don’t they?

pogo

January 3rd, 2013
5:13 pm

Have a good time preaching to your little choir of like-minded believers Jay. The GOP is dead. You said it yourself. Any opposition to the radical left is pretty much gone so now you have your way. As for the rest of us? We’ll just wait and see. I can’t imagine it would be much fun to be a journalist nowadays because you are pretty much told what you will say. Isn’t that right Jay?

td

January 3rd, 2013
5:14 pm

I do not know if Saxby will lose a primary challenge or not but he sure needs one just to bring him back in line with the Conservative goals and philosophy of the state that sent him to DC.

I think Gingrey, Kingston, Westmoreland or Graves could beat him.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
5:15 pm

pogo,

Don’t blame Jay.

Self reflect.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:15 pm

josef

Good point, but “if” is a big word at this time. I could be 100% wrong, but I see small changes at best before November 2014. Depending on how that goes, I think we will see real or superficial changes after that.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:16 pm

GOOD FIGHT

American Jurisprudence aside, it might not be a good idea nevertheless! :-)

liberal hack

January 3rd, 2013
5:16 pm

Kamchack I’ve got a sign for you dude, I deliberately went over the top on that statement to make a point. The point is, you want a large federal gov’t that provides/controls the health insurance industry, prop up “green energy companies, allows 49 million individuals to get food stamps, uses tax revenue to give out free phones, help provide retirement income, hire more teachers, policemen, construction workers, or whatever and I’m saying there isn’t that kind of revenue to sustain the spending our President wants to enact or unleash on this country.

Since you are apparently the know it all, why don’t you tell me how large of a budget our gov’t should have and how it can pay for all this spending!

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
5:16 pm

…because you are pretty much told what you will say.

drudgey spammer says, “What?”

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
5:16 pm

Aquagirl
How do you get an anarchist to govern? They kind of stop being an anarchist when they do that, don’t they?
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
Not if they are willing to compromise…

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
5:16 pm

td — “the Conservative goals and philosophy of the state that sent him to DC.”

I thought it was abject fear and terror of teh Mooslims that sent him there. After all, he had to slag on Max Cleland to get elected in the first place.

MANGLER

January 3rd, 2013
5:17 pm

Yes, we deserve a Conservative Senator in this Red State so we can continue to take more in subsidies and handouts from the Federal Government than we give to them in Federal Taxes while blaming the Liberals for all the over spending issues.

liberal hack

January 3rd, 2013
5:17 pm

I understand anarchist don’t govern, but it was Mick who said the GOP was a misfit bunch of them…

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
5:18 pm

getalife — “pogo, Don’t blame Jay. Self reflect.”

ERROR

INVALID PROGRAM OBJECT “SELF”

SUBROUTINE “REFLECT” NOT FOUND

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:20 pm

TBS

Oh, they’ve got their work cut out for them, no doubt, but it will be interesting to see what comes out in 2014 and I agree with that small steps thingie, but

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

–Thomas Lao-tzu Jefferson

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
5:20 pm

Mangler,

Ouch.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
5:21 pm

The point is, you want a large federal gov’t that…

Why don’t you try asking me what I want rather than build a strawman, sport?

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
5:22 pm

josef, you need to live on the wild side once and awhile. :lol: ;)

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
5:22 pm

Aquagirl — “How do you get an anarchist to govern? They kind of stop being an anarchist when they do that, don’t they?”

There are countless instances of anarchic ‘governance’ during Hurrican Katrina. Rather than the lawless hellhole some people would have you believe it was, the Superdome actually spawned several small and self-supporting groups. Those who were able foraged for food, water and medical supplies, and those who weren’t particularly mobile were generally asked to watch over the infants and children while the fitter folks went ‘prospecting.’

I can’t speak for how *long-term* anarchy might work out, but there’s plenty of anecdotal (and probably some documentary) evidence that, at least in the short term, Americans will form their *own* anarchic self-supporting social structures when local government and/or services give out.

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
5:23 pm

If the Tea Party believes in their message so much, why don’t they form their own party to see how many followers they really have instead of trying to usurp an existing party?

liberal hack

January 3rd, 2013
5:23 pm

okay, I’m game….what would you like sport? seriously. what would you like the size of our federal gov’t be and what size should the budget be?

td

January 3rd, 2013
5:23 pm

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
5:16 pm

td — “the Conservative goals and philosophy of the state that sent him to DC.”

I thought it was abject fear and terror of teh Mooslims that sent him there. After all, he had to slag on Max Cleland to get elected in the first place.

I am pretty sure Saxby beat Cleland because he was a lib hack of Jimmy Carter.

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 3rd, 2013
5:24 pm

JHM

pogo doesn’t have a reflection :-)

too little time

January 3rd, 2013
5:25 pm

Let’s see…. Chambliss just allowed a tax increase without so much as a single budget cut, when our current budget deficit is well over a trillion per year, and our national debt is over 16 Trillion. If Republicans cannot get spending concessions in the debt limit debacle, Saxby Chambliss will not be reelected.

The President got his tax increase… and we will see in less than a year how MINUSCULE that is in the scheme of things. The U.S. has a spending problem that no amount of tax increases will fix. Republicans who vote for a tax increase without getting a single spending cut will be voted out. Democrats SHOULD be demanding the same thing of their office holders as well.

In four years, we will have a $22 Trillion national debt. The question is: how long can the U.S. maintain yearly Trillion+ dollar deficits before no one will finance our debt? Democrats are gambling that we can do it… indefinitely. Democrats are betting that our debt, whether $16 trillion or $100 trillion, will be tolerated and that the world will still finance our debt.

Moody’s, Fitch’s, etc., along with every respectable economist in the world… begs to differ. At some point, we will no longer be able to sell debt. With annual trillion+ dollar deficits, I believe we hit that point in less than 10 years. And when that happens…. no more food stamps, earned income tax credits, housing subsidies, energy subsidies, mortgage interest deductions, etc. etc. In other words, when we finally spend too much, everyone ( especially the poor) loses.

Jay likes to talk about the dysfunctional Republican party, and how they are doomed. But Democrats are spending us into unimaginable debt, and their power WILL collapse when the world no longer finances their spending. Remember, every effort by the left in Greece to maintain the status quo there has failed. No one will finance Greece’s spending any more without significant strings attached, regardless of the will of the left in Greece’s politics. Democrats in the U.S. will be similarly robbed of their power to dole out goodies to constituents, and their power will similarly fade.

In short: The Republicans may be in decline. But Democrat power relies on unsustainable deficit spending, and their influence collapses when they can no longer deliver perks to their constituents. At this point, WHEN that happens is the the only question.

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
5:25 pm

I understand anarchist don’t govern, but it was Mick who said the GOP was a misfit bunch of them…

…who don’t govern.

Sitting on your @$$ screaming NO to everything is not governing. It’s called a tantrum. Why GOP voters indulge their spoiled brats is a mystery.

td

January 3rd, 2013
5:27 pm

MANGLER

January 3rd, 2013
5:17 pm

Yes, we deserve a Conservative Senator in this Red State so we can continue to take more in subsidies and handouts from the Federal Government than we give to them in Federal Taxes while blaming the Liberals for all the over spending issues.

And if all the Obama supporters that have moved down here from IL, MA, NY and NJ over the past 10 years would move back up north then Georgia would not be receiving more then we send.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:29 pm

“And if all the Obama supporters that have moved down here from IL, MA, NY and NJ over the past 10 years would move back up north then Georgia would not be receiving more then we send.”

And for td’s next magic trick, he will present facts that back up this statement.

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
5:31 pm

And for td’s next magic trick, he will present facts that back up this statement.

LOL!!!! You made a funny there… td and facts in the same sentence.. :shock: :lol:

Bob Loblaw

January 3rd, 2013
5:32 pm

I love the TEA Party factions. There’s a million TEA Parties. We need a TEA Party Cage Match and the winner gets to be the TEA Party leader. Wait…that would mean they were united and, well, since a divided house can’t stand, y’all just keep fighting.

Good luck getting into the Speaker’s Office in Washington for the next two years, by the way.

Great work, Paul Broun. I’m sure you’re constituents are going love having your influence for the next couple of years. Need a passport? Call your U.S. Senator.

Native Atlantan

January 3rd, 2013
5:33 pm

Wow td…who do you think populates the greater Atlanta region from Buckhead north to Cumming? It’s not who you think it is. Mostly business professionals who has moved here because of job opportunities or transfers. I don’t think they are quite the drain on the economy you reference. In fact, they are probably the folks paying more of their hard earned money into the system. Without them, we would be (no offense to Josef) Mississippi…..

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
5:34 pm

td — “I am pretty sure Saxby beat Cleland because he was a lib hack of Jimmy Carter.”

That begs the question of how Maxie got elected to the Senate in the first place.

And as far as being a “lib hack” goes, I’ll take a wounded Vietnam vet any day over some dude who took a deferment for a foo-baw injury.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
5:35 pm

…when our current budget deficit is…

Did someone mention deficit?

Which brings us to the economic level. The deficits that Bush ran up in the years in which the country was teetering on the verge of a serious recession had the beneficial effect of righting the economy. In that sense, deficits not only didn’t matter, but were a force for economic good.

Translation: IOKIYAR

Moody’s, Fitch’s, etc., along with every respectable economist in the world… begs to differ.

Moody’s and Fitch along with their counterpart Standard and Poor’s deserve nothing other than to be repeatedly kicked in the balls for being complicit in the global economic melt-down. They certainly don’t deserve to be lauded as “respectable”.

Phlogiston economists — AKA “supply siders” — deserve no respect either.

td

January 3rd, 2013
5:36 pm

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:29 pm

“And if all the Obama supporters that have moved down here from IL, MA, NY and NJ over the past 10 years would move back up north then Georgia would not be receiving more then we send.”

And for td’s next magic trick, he will present facts that back up this statement.

1: My wife works for DFCS and over the past 10 years the majority of new cases are from people that have moved here from those states.

2: Look at the exit polls from the last Presidential election. 65% of people that made under $30,000 voted for Obama.

A+B=C.

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 3rd, 2013
5:37 pm

Where the hell did JM run and hide?

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:37 pm

TD

I’m for immigration control from both north of the Mason Dixon AND the Rio Grande, but the ones coming from the places you mentioned are hardly Obama supporters, and while I may not agree with their politics and imperialist colonial imperatives in coming here, they are the ones with the shekels..

Sadly, now as through the centuries, Dixie has had to import its middle class….

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
5:38 pm

td — “1: My wife works for DFCS and over the past 10 years the majority of new cases are from people that have moved here from those states.”

Now all you need to do is prove that ten years ago, GA sent Washington more money than it received, and you’ll be golden.

Good luck finding that, though.

Native Atlantan

January 3rd, 2013
5:41 pm

OMG….I need to go rinse now….td’s comments made me throw up a little….

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:41 pm

NATIVE ATLANTAN

No apologies necessary,,,I might not like the way it sounds, but it’s the truth…

td

January 3rd, 2013
5:41 pm

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
5:34 pm

td — “I am pretty sure Saxby beat Cleland because he was a lib hack of Jimmy Carter.”

That begs the question of how Maxie got elected to the Senate in the first place.

It appears you were not either alive or living in this state when “maxie” was elected. This was a Democrat run state in those days and “Maxie” ran on his Vet status. Soon after he was elected then his true lib side came out and when he ran for re election the state was turning Republican.

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 3rd, 2013
5:42 pm

td

My wife works for DFCS and over the past 10 years the majority of new cases are from people that have moved here from those states
—————————————————————–

so you are saying that at DFCS they ask where they lived 10 years ago?

or that over the last 10 years she is still dealing with former residents of those states who after 10 years still don’t have a job?

or are you just making shyte up

:-)

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:42 pm

td

Those are assertions & assumptions not facts. You are as usual unable to back up your rhetoric and hyperbole.

Don’t take it personal, not many on here are surprised.

If you would like to provide facts over the years of GA’s fed dollars sent out vs dollars taken in then provide information showing that the increases are directly due to your assertion then you have proven your point.

What will you say if your numbers (which you don’t have nor will present) show that GA has been taking in more than they receive even before the huge migration to the state?

I wont be waiting.

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
5:44 pm

My wife works for DFCS and over the past 10 years the majority of new cases are from people that have moved here from those states.

A secondhand account of your wife’s b!tching about Yankees is not fact.

Bob Loblaw

January 3rd, 2013
5:48 pm

@Aquagirl:

that was funny.

td

January 3rd, 2013
5:48 pm

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:42 pm

I know your head is in the sand and you refuse to accept anything that is not written in leftwing publications (and you know none of them would ever do such a study).

To answer your question as to how: Caseworkers are required to ask about residency and the residential history for the Federal requirement of checking to see if a person is getting benefits from 2 different states.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:48 pm

Aguagirl

Now, now…not Yankees…”those people!” :-)

Seriously, though, how many of “those people” down at DFACS are either themselves or are the children of those who fled the conditions of their homeland only to be returning now that conditions have improved courtesy in no small part to that group of imperialist colonialists of the GOP who have packed their Carpetbags and moved in with the Scalawags?

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
5:49 pm

josef
Sadly, now as through the centuries, Dixie has had to import its middle class….
…………………………………………………………………………………………….
middle income workers, class, not so much..

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:49 pm

td

Present the FACTS. if they are FACTS I will acknowledge them

As usual you are all mouth. You made an assertion and have yet to back it up.

Why is that?

td

January 3rd, 2013
5:49 pm

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
5:44 pm

My wife works for DFCS and over the past 10 years the majority of new cases are from people that have moved here from those states.

A secondhand account of your wife’s b!tching about Yankees is not fact.

Since you are a teacher then tell us how many of your students came here from northern states and how many of them are on free or reduced lunches?

Jm

January 3rd, 2013
5:50 pm

Tea Party should remember who the enemy is

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
5:53 pm

Jm
Tea Party should remember who the enemy is
…………………………………………………..
who is the enemy ?

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:53 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen

This concludes another not so fact filled segment of “td’s: hyperbole, rhetoric and talking point land. ”

Stay tuned for another segment of the same…………

pogo

January 3rd, 2013
5:53 pm

If one were so inclined, one could draw a correlation between the United States in 2012 and 2013 and Germany in the 20’s and 30’s. Germans were looking for a “saviour” who promised them what they wanted no matter the cost to the nation. And they got one didn’t they? And apparently, judging from the November election, Americans today are looking for exactly the same thing. Obama voters think that the evil “rich” and big industry are the ones who have all the money and that money should be given to them. They feel entitled to this because their leader (and years of liberal indoctrination) tells them they should be. This is a fools game. Nothing comes free. Ultimately there will be a huge price for what Obama is doing to this country. Yea the checks are coming now but they won’t be forever and then what are they (Obama supporters) going to do? They may actually have to get off of their ass and feed themselves(or starve). Of course, I believe that before many of Obama’s supporters would actually work, they would take to the street to try and take what they want. Notice I said “try”. The next 6 years are going to a hoot in this country. The media will have plenty to report upon.

Doggone/GA

January 3rd, 2013
5:54 pm

I saw the mention of anarchists…which I once saw defined as “someone who doesn’t know what they want, but does know what they don’t want”

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:55 pm

TD

I can answer that…very, very few of our registrations from the Northern states apply for or receive free and reduced lunch.

FROG

Respectfully, I disagree…Dixie has never been able to supply the middle class demands. I think there has probably been a greater success in a domestically produced middle income than in a domestically produced bourgeoisie.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
5:56 pm

pogo
why don’t you post as chicken little…or even little chicken ?

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
5:57 pm

josef
so you find the imports classier than homegrown ?

josef

January 3rd, 2013
5:58 pm

POGO

The socio-economic conditions in the United States today have nothing in common with those of the Weimar Republic. You would be wiser, imeoiauo, to draw a comparison to Britain or France in that period.

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
5:58 pm

Since you are a teacher then

Uh, no, that would be josef. Who, like the rest of our teachers isn’t an @$$hole polling his students trying to determine which ones are yank—excuse me, “those people” leeches and which are upstanding right-thinking ‘Mericans.

Really, the rest of us don’t do that $#!^.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
5:59 pm

barking frog

“chicken” would be a good first name, but I was thinking something else for the second………………..

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 3rd, 2013
5:59 pm

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:01 pm

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
6:01 pm

td — “It appears you were not either alive or living in this state when “maxie” was elected.”

Actually, at the time, I was stationed in Hawaii.

“This was a Democrat run state in those days and “Maxie” ran on his Vet status. Soon after he was elected then his true lib side came out and when he ran for re election the state was turning Republican.”

And of course, Republican voters preferred the slimy f**kweasel with the gimpy foo-baw knees to the guy missing three limbs — particularly when the gimp slagged on Maxie’s patriotism.

Of Chambliss’ campaign ads, other Republican senators said this:

“[I]t’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible” — Senator John McCain

“beyond offensive to me.” — Senator Chuck Hagel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss#2002_race

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
6:03 pm

…one could draw a correlation between the United States in 2012 and 2013 and Germany in the 20’s and 30’s.

Godwin’s Law in just over 100 comments.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:04 pm

TBS
naughty, naughty…..

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
6:05 pm

barking frog

“chicken dumplings”

:-)

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
6:05 pm

frog

How is the grand baby doing?

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:05 pm

Translation: IOKIYAR

Sorry, I don’t speak Greek. In Englais por favor?

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
6:06 pm

Godwin’s Law in just over 100 comments

I think it only took around 60 comments this morning, our cons are slipping.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:06 pm

AQUAGIRL

The only reason I could answer that question from him was that one of my job tasks is the processing of new registrations and with that the Free and Reduced lunch form. Everybody has to fill one out whether they wish to apply or not. I also am required to ask of they receive any form of public assistance including food stamps…if I were still in the classroom, I’d have no idea who is and who is not on “free lunch.”

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
6:07 pm

pogo,

The nazi card?

Seriously?

Come on man.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:07 pm

Common Sense
Joe is appropo….

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
6:08 pm

barking

Of course, take out the “lings” from “dumplings”…………….

:-)

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
6:08 pm

lib hack, pogo etc…

Nice job of reframing, the debt isn’t the problem, employment is. The more people working with good jobs the more revenue we get. So why is the debt always the issue? Why now? Solve the revenue side first then start the cutting, not the other way around.
At this point in time, the deficit numbers are not lethal. If it took us ten years to get here expect at least that long to get out..if you can’t lead, get the hell out of the way…

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:08 pm

‘Scuse me. I meant to say EN Englais, por favor.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:09 pm

TBS
the grandtadpole is back in his home pond as of noon today….

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:10 pm

and where does this “employment” come from? A magician waving his hand?

RF

January 3rd, 2013
6:11 pm

@td 5:49- in my school district, it’s all homegrown southerners on free or reduced lunch. The yanks among us are pretty well off, since most of them live on “the lake” anyway. Even when I was in Clayton county, as the population demographics changed, the free/reduced kids were by a large majority locals.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
6:11 pm

frog

Good to hear. Hope all continues to go well.

Sure, double down on conservative crap

January 3rd, 2013
6:11 pm

Yeah, We make about 300,000 K a year and voted for Obama. As did most of the educated people I know. The people I know who are super GOP conservatives would be totally F’ed without SSI and Medicare. No savings and under water in debt. But I feel better knowing they are praying for me. Better start praying your party does not rise again or you will be living in the poor house as a senior citizen.

Aquagirl

January 3rd, 2013
6:12 pm

one of my job tasks is the processing of new registrations and with that the Free and Reduced lunch form.

Oh, I’m not surprised with all the paperwork nowadays you know such things, but how disappointing for td you don’t randomly interrogate the little buggers for this critical info.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:12 pm

Nunna Yobinnes
Scuse me. I meant to say EN Englais, por favor.
………………………………………………
It’s okay, if you are a republican…..

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:14 pm

Aquagirl
but how disappointing for td you don’t randomly interrogate the little buggers for this critical info.
……………………………………………………………..
or waterboard them, an interrogation technique you and I are immune to……….

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:15 pm

BF – I am neither Rep or Dem.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:18 pm

Nunna Yobinnes
Did you hear a whooshing sound when you read that post ?

Harry Reed

January 3rd, 2013
6:18 pm

The best thing for the country now would be a sunami to hit Hawaii !

Paul

January 3rd, 2013
6:18 pm

Why don’t people realize the Tea Party Express is nothing more than comic relief and when they do try to influence elections all they do is take what should be easy wins for Republicans and turn them into Democratic victories?

Here’s wishing you many more fruitful years, TPE!

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:18 pm

nor, not or. Stupid keyboard. ;^)

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:19 pm

AQUAGIRL

Oy! The paperwork! I kid you not, when someone wants to know “how long it will take” we tell them, “if there are no problems, allot an hour and a half. If you would like, you can pass by the office and pick up a registration packet and fill it out at your leisure. You will be required to have certain residency documents notarized, so figure that into your timing as well.”

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:19 pm

Sorry BF, you lost me. After all, I am a native Georgian.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:21 pm

Nunna Yobinnes
Translation: IOKIYAR

Sorry, I don’t speak Greek. In Englais por favor?
…………………………………………………………………………..
It’s O.K. If You Are Republican=IOKYAR

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:21 pm

HARRY

That’s just plumb mean and hateful…

RF

January 3rd, 2013
6:22 pm

“Obama voters think that the evil “rich” and big industry are the ones who have all the money and that money should be given to them. They feel entitled to this because their leader (and years of liberal indoctrination) tells them they should be.”

NO, actually they just want to be paid fairly for the job they do, without having to watch the CEO get paid millions and have all the benefits while the “underlings” get laid off or fired or furloughed. They don’t feel entitled to anything but a chance to make it and maybe see their pay go up a little every now and then. The only indoctrination is in the American Dream, which over the last thirty years has been increasingly denied to those either in or trying to get into the middle class.

You’re wrong again, but thanks for spewing more of the right-wing nutjob talking points. President Obama is our president, representing one branch of the federal government and possessing only the powers given to that branch, like every other president before him. He can do nothing without congress, and both must pass the Supreme Court. Neither the court or Congress is about to let any president take that much power even if one tried. They were by far more united behind Republican presidents from Reagan forward than they have ever been with any Democrat. GWB got away with a lot more than this president could ever hope to try if he wanted to, and you guys know it. So move on to something substantive please, the Rush/Glenn/Sean lines are getting more ridiculous by the day.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
6:22 pm

Sorry, I don’t speak Greek. In Englais por favor?

Let me google that for you, since like ilk-boy, you are totally incapable of accomplishing such a menial task.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:22 pm

Oh, I get it. You are so clever BF (really).

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 3rd, 2013
6:22 pm

Nunna
I OK I Y A R
It’s okay, if you are a republican

Doggone/GA

January 3rd, 2013
6:23 pm

“That’s just plumb mean and hateful”

It takes a special kind of ugly to wish disaster on others…and no, claiming you were “kidding” doesn’t make it less ugly

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:23 pm

Nunna Yobinnes
sorry, I dropped the I, insert I between K and Y

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
6:24 pm

harry,

ods much?

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:26 pm

Nunna Yobinnes 6:22
thanks. just here to help.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:26 pm

FROG

“an interrogation technique you and I are immune to.”

I just caught that… good one… :-)

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:26 pm

ilk-boy – I googled that (actually Bing’d it). I couldn’t find a clear definition of “ilk-boy” I got bored with it after two pages. Sorry.

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 3rd, 2013
6:26 pm

frog

Don’t tell anyone about inserting I between the Y TMI

;-)

Paul

January 3rd, 2013
6:27 pm

RF 6:22

You’re wasting your time. Unless you like operating in an alternate reality where anything you say is grounded in….. something……..

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:27 pm

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:28 pm

FROG

” insert I between K and Y”

Ooooo so many lines, so little time!

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:31 pm

josef
started to use U but it would have complicated the explanation too much.

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
6:32 pm

Harry Reed — “The best thing for the country now would be a sunami to hit Hawaii !”

They have done so several times in the last few years.

Too bad for you that the Hawaii Civil Defense system is *quite* well-organized.

There are tsunami sirens around the shores of all the major islands. There are strip maps in all the island phone books showing you *exactly* how far to go inland during an alert. And once a month, every radio and TV station in the state goes on simulcast at noon to perform a civil defense test. It’s spooky — no matter what radio station you switch to in your car (or what TV station you switch to at home) — EVERY ONE IS BROADCASTING THE SAME THING.

When you’re prone to earthquakes, tsunami and volcanoes, you have to learn how to look out for yourself. And Hawaii’s got that *down cold.*

Mr_B

January 3rd, 2013
6:33 pm

“Since you are a teacher then tell us how many of your students came here from northern states and how many of them are on free or reduced lunches?”

Out of my 140 students about 60% qualify for FORL. Maybe 6 are transplants from up North. Not all 6 (probably) qualify.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:34 pm

Kam – feeling a little angry today? And you all say cons are angry? Ask a simple question, get your ears pinned back. Excuuuse meee.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:35 pm

JoeHusseinMama
How is the relationship between the Hawaiians and the latecomers ?

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:37 pm

“And once a month, every radio and TV station in the state goes on simulcast at noon to perform a civil defense test.”

Mississippi, as some of you may now know ( :-) ) leads the nation in emergency preparedness. Well. they, too have that monthly test in their planning. Highest death toll in decades in a tornado came one year when the s*cker hit right at noon on the first of the month!

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
6:38 pm

josef – they just thought it was a loud car horn.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:38 pm

FROG

I wouldn’t ask a native Hawaiian that question! :-)

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:40 pm

josef
me either…

josef

January 3rd, 2013
6:44 pm

FROG

My undergraduate school had one of the first and an excellent Pacific Rim studies program, so we had a lot of Polynesian students. Believe me, I got an earful of capitalist running dogs of imperialism information.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:45 pm

josef
when on Okinawa I had a lot of interaction with Okinawans
who wanted Independence and many of their parents had
cooperated with the US soldiers in the removal of the Japanese
in WW2. I know how betrayed they must have felt when we
gave control of the Islands to the Japanese.

Paul

January 3rd, 2013
6:45 pm

Say what you will about drudgery spam, but it’s the first I’ve heard of Scout in a long time…

http://www.guns.com/2013/01/03/marine-writes-letter-to-sen-dianne-feinstein-i-will-not-be-disarmed-video/

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
6:53 pm

B. Frog — “JoeHusseinMama How is the relationship between the Hawaiians and the latecomers ?”

Depends on how you treat them. Like any stranger-in-a-strange-land situation, how you’re received and treated depends a lot on you, how you behave and how much respect you show to your hosts. IMO, there’s a lot of culture shock for white folks when you step off the plane in Hawaii, because you almost immediately start to run into Hawaii words and slang PLUS you’re no longer in the ethnic majority. So it really pays to watch the locals, to learn from their behavior and to ask polite questions. Kamaainas (islanders/locals) know that mainlanders are different, and if you come across as genuinely curious and not just nosy, you’ll quickly find all sorts of new cultural vistas opening up to you out there.

I resolved to learn as much as I could about the peoples and cultures of the islands, and I had a GREAT time in my four years out there. Locals were perfectly willing to show a haole boy from the mainland what was going on, provided I asked politely and was game to try anything.

I had an AJA (American of Japanese Ancestry — Hawaiian slang) buddy in Army Signal school — he was Army Reserve, so when we graduated, he went back home and started doing the weekend warrior thing. I took a couple of weeks’ leave, and when I flew in to HNL, he was waiting to pick me up. We got a friend of his (Irish-Korean) and all went down to the food court at Ala Moana Mall to get some lunch. We all got different foods, and I pointed out that we and our lunches were all ethnically different, and that nobody’s lunch matched anyone’s ethnicity at the table.

“Well,” said my buddy’s friend, “that’s just the way it is out here. Everyone eats everyone else’s food, and everyone marries everyone else.”

That paints the picture really well, IMO. :D

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
6:57 pm

JoeHusseinMama
Pretty much the same in Japan and Okinawa when I was there.

Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)

January 3rd, 2013
7:00 pm

“Well,” said my buddy’s friend, “that’s just the way it is out here. Everyone eats everyone else’s food, and everyone marries everyone else.”

So Hawaii people are Rednecks too? Dang! The things you learn on this blog!

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")

January 3rd, 2013
7:00 pm

The Republican Party has ceased to exist, and any useful remnants will be taken over by the Tea Party. May be too late to stop baracka claus and his minions from destroying the country, but that is the present state of affairs. Chambliss and Isakson will have to go, as will anybody that wants to vote with the moron democrats.

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
7:01 pm

B. Frog — “I know how betrayed they must have felt when we gave control of the Islands to the Japanese.”

You will occasionally find folks who have axes to grind; some Native Hawaiians can be prickly to haoles, but most of them recognize the difference between the ones *intentionally* supporting the power structure and those who are completely unaware of it. Even though I was Army, I just listened to what they had to say. They know that as mainlanders, we’re totally ignorant of their cultural history and their sovereignty issues.

Samoans can sometimes be a bit dicey to deal with; they’ve got some cultural hangups about the obligatory demonstration of respect to your physical superiors. Translation: they like to get drunk and fight like hell on weekends. :D

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:02 pm

JHM

And the Kanaka Maoli?

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
7:02 pm

And you all say cons are angry?

And of course you can document where I have asserted, “cons are angry”, yes?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

January 3rd, 2013
7:03 pm

Kamchak

Yeah, at 7:02.

:-)

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
7:04 pm

B. Frog — “Pretty much the same in Japan and Okinawa when I was there.”

The Japanese are some *incredible* hosts, aren’t they? :)

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:04 pm

JHM

Sorry…you posted on that…

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
7:04 pm

JoeHusseinMama
Looks like Redneck Convert was right.

retiredds

January 3rd, 2013
7:04 pm

If the Tea Party is for it, then I will vote against it. And I hope the TP continues in operation because they will always be a small vocal group that will lose elections for Republicans.

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 3rd, 2013
7:05 pm

Kam

I think he meant cons are MAD

as in LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA I can’t hear you

:-)

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
7:05 pm

R. Convert — “So Hawaii people are Rednecks too? Dang! The things you learn on this blog!”

In Hawaii, a “Bubba” would properly be called a “Kimo” (if you don’t want to get beat up) or a “moke” (if you’re spoiling for a fight).

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
7:08 pm

LOL at the seniorile delinquents next door.

Daddy Kyle has to pull the plug on them every evening to keep them from stinking the place up.

Hi, knuckle-dragger!

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
7:09 pm

josef — “JHM And the Kanaka Maoli?”

Just stay out of the Trask sisters’ way and you should be all right. They pretty much want *everything* associated with the US the hell out of the islands, tourism included.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunani-Kay_Trask

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
7:09 pm

JHM 7:04
They are indeed. I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival at a
rural resort with hot springs.. The owner came by my table
and asked my companion about me. When he was told that
I was in the Air Force he said he had been an airman also
and would not let me pay for anything.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:11 pm

“Translation: they like to get drunk and fight like hell on weekends.”

:-)

One of the interesting things to watch from the sidelines in college was who hung out with whom in “time off.” The Somoans hung out with the Lummi on the Rez!

After we came back home I was talking to an old college chum still in school, a Maori, and asking her “what’s going on.” She was at a party “watching a herd of Somoans and Lummis grazing contentedly!”

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:14 pm

JHM

I think a lot of the Trask sisters’ brothers and sisters were a part of that program at college!

Peadawg

January 3rd, 2013
7:17 pm

“is going to be primaried”

That made me lol. I love it when people use nouns as verbs. Like “ninja’d” :)

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:20 pm

peadawg

It’s a perfectly legitimate English language lexical technique.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:22 pm

“And you all say cons are angry?

And of course you can document where I have asserted, “cons are angry”, yes?

Thanks in advance.”

Sorry, when southerners say you all, that usually implies a group, not you specifically. There’s your sign.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:22 pm

Uh Oh! Someone just got schooled.

Corey

January 3rd, 2013
7:23 pm

@td

January 3rd, 2013
5:36 pm

In other words, only 40% of the 51% who voted for Mr. Obama make more than 30k/yr. Damn, America sure has a whole lot of poor folk. Please do some research and notice when the productivity line and wage line diverged on the graph, and while you’re at it pour yourself a nice cup of tea.

Peadawg

January 3rd, 2013
7:23 pm

“It’s a perfectly legitimate English language lexical technique.” – I know. It’s still funny to me.

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
7:23 pm

josef — “She was at a party “watching a herd of Somoans and Lummis grazing contentedly!”

I had to look up the Lummi; I had never heard of them.

One of my wife’s good friends at the U of Oregon was a Coos; my wife tells me that her friend planned to take some sort of position with the tribe in an effort to preserve the Coos language family (I presume there are multiple tribes and languages involved).

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:24 pm

A “southerner” that says “you all” is not very southern if y’all know what I mean.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:24 pm

Nunna

Right! Otherwise it would be all y’all!

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:26 pm

Kam

“I think he meant cons are MAD

as in LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA I can’t hear you”

Again, please point out where I specifically indicated that Kam was the only angry one? Reading is fundamental.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
7:27 pm

Sorry, when southerners say you all, that usually implies a group, not you specifically.

I understand the colloquialism.

I was born on Peachtree St., sport.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:28 pm

JHM

One of our buds was a Choctaw from Mississippi who had a government grant to study the Lummi language. a close relative of Choctaw. They used to kid him that the walk across the continent made ‘em scrawny!

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:29 pm

Have y’all tried Foxworthy’s Grit Chips?

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:29 pm

“A “southerner” that says “you all” is not very southern if y’all know what I mean.”

I’d say more than five decades would qualify me.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:30 pm

Kam – Crawford Long Hospital myself.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:31 pm

I was born on Peachtree St

Can you narrow it down a little bit. :grin:

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
7:31 pm

TaxPayer — “Have y’all tried Foxworthy’s Grit Chips?”

I saw that ad earlier today and posted a link here. I have to say that I’m rather disturbed by the notion.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:32 pm

I’d say more than five decades would qualify me.

Newcomer.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:32 pm

“I was born on Peachtree St., sport”

Which lane?

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
7:32 pm

Crawford Long Hospital myself.

The wrong side of the tracks.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Corey

January 3rd, 2013
7:32 pm

It has been argued every time rasing the minimum wage is debated that fast food workers are mostly teen agers, and they do not even need to be paid minimum wage. The next time you fly Delta. Ask yourself who cleaned this plane? Answer. Adults, many with children who work for a company called Air Serv and are paid a whopping 7.25/hr. I remember back in the day when people who did that work for Delta and Eastern instead of a contractor were paid enough to purchase a starter home in southwest Atlanta. Today, their grandchildren are snatching and grabbing. America, we need to wake the hell up and stop propping up the rich.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
7:34 pm

I was amused to find when studying Russian that
they use Bbi BCE or you all, also.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:34 pm

I saw that ad earlier today and posted a link here. I have to say that I’m rather disturbed by the notion.

I just saw the ad and it shore don’t sit well with me. Grits in the form of a chip just ain’t natural. Are you sposed to dip the thing in butter ’til it gits soft or what.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:34 pm

“Crawford Long Hospital myself.
The wrong side of the tracks.”

Sorry, I had no say in the matter.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:35 pm

Kam – Piedmont I suppose?

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:36 pm

I don’t care for grits in their solid form.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
7:37 pm

“All right, everyone. For a while, I plan to turn off the immediate posting of comments each evening and turn it back on each morning. I realize that’s an unpopular inconvenience for many of you — to be frank, it’s pretty much a pain in the neck for me — but I think in the long run these comment threads will prove to be more civil.” Kyle.

Interesting strategy but he has unhinged cons posting there so it will never be civil.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:37 pm

peadawg

Got ya! One of the facets of Southern dialects is the free wheeling use they show in using some of those techniques which have faded from some of the other dialects. There’s a great deal of personal manipulation at work that can, indeed, lead to some really interesting constructions,

One of those is the compounding. One of my favorites came from a friend of mine’s mom who had just come home from a visit with a much disliked sister. “The only thing she gave me to eat was a mean-old-dried-up-I-hate-you pork chop.

******

You all is the non contracted form. Y’all is the contracted. The former in daily speech is for a somewhat more limited group. The second is more inclusive. The forms, along with you, can be used interchangeable once it is established just who we’re addressing.

“Look, when you all (the family) get back home, make sure y’all take Mama this cake. You know how much she likes it. But I do wish the next time we get together all y’all’ll make an effort to be here.”

Are we aware ourselves we’re doing it? Not really, but we do.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:37 pm

Corey – Would $30/Hr. be sufficient?

Christian Conservative

January 3rd, 2013
7:38 pm

Chambliss won’t have any competition. He’s a great man and will easily win…

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
7:40 pm

getalife
Kyle is just manifesting his conservative impetus to control.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:42 pm

Paul Broun for Senator. heheheh

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:42 pm

OK, I’m sorry. I thought if I said “y’all” I would be ridiculed for using a southern colloquialism. You know how Yankees are. ;^)

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:42 pm

TAXI

I’m wiling to give them a try…but, some things just don’t sound right…

FROG

“Standard” English is one of the few languages that doesn’t have a second person plural…

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
7:43 pm

Christian Conservative
Chambliss won’t have any competition. He’s a great man and will easily win…
………………………………………………………………………………….
What if his primary opponent is a Christian Minister ?

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
7:43 pm

Piedmont I suppose?

Yep, a brand spanking new facility at the time.

I can still remember the new car smell like it was only yesterday….

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:44 pm

josef – how about “you’uns”?

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:45 pm

Wow Kam, you have a remarkable memory. My life was just a blur until I was 3 or 4.

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
7:45 pm

Would $30/Hr. be sufficient?

HA!

How about the same rate (adjusted for inflation) that Americans were making in 1968 for starters?

If Suxtobeus were on fire, I wouldn’t whizz on him to put out the flames. I’d just fan them with a picture of Max Cleland. LOL!

Corey

January 3rd, 2013
7:45 pm

addendum to my most recent post- I know some on here will reply that why don’t they find better paying jobs. You have a job making $7.25/hr., and you take one day off without pay to look for or interview for a better job could leave you without enough money for rent or the electric bill or water bill. Get the picture? We all agree that public assistance does not lead people out of poverty, neither does working for comapnies lke Air Serv or Aramark. At least on public assistance you have the luxury of looking for a job and interviewing without having to worry about becoming homeless or having no lights nor water.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
7:46 pm

frog,

He should just tell the truth.

His cons need supervision because they are unhinged.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:46 pm

BF – never trust a preacher.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
7:48 pm

“I thought if I said “y’all” I would be ridiculed for using a southern colloquialism.”

NAW, as long as you use it right, you’d be just fine on the verandah. Despite our tendency to denigrate the “carpetbaggers”, we do let the nice ones stay as long as they know how to behave. :-)

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:49 pm

I thought the carpetbaggers were Yankees.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:51 pm

Nunna

Actually, that’s another legitimate English language technique. It is a contraction of you ones and is an even more limiting second person plural in that it makes clear that the speaker has in mind an actual list of individual “yous.” It’s also what gives us young’uns (young ones) etc.

One of my favorites was when I heard one of our kids’ pyoh-blood Hillbilly friends come up with “y’all’uns’s” Those which belongsto you (plural) as individuals!

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:52 pm

we do let the nice ones stay as long as they know how to behave

Such as not whizzing off the front porch. Back porch is okay though.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
7:53 pm

“I thought the carpetbaggers were Yankees.”

Yep, and the term is usually reserved for the more despicable among them. Sorry for the confusion! Southern English is a tad complicated at times and depends a lot on hearing so you know the connotation of a word. It’s all in how you say it.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:53 pm

Ahhh. Kids…AKA young’uns.

Oscar

January 3rd, 2013
7:53 pm

aS IN “wILL Y’ll’un be

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:54 pm

“we do let the nice ones stay as long as they know how to behave
Such as not whizzing off the front porch. Back porch is okay though.”

Good to know.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
7:54 pm

“Back porch is okay though.”

I don’t know, I’ve seen some nights in the trailer park where peeing off either porch was allowed after enough of the home brew was consumed! ;-)

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:54 pm

y’all’uns’s

:lol:

I gotta remember that one.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:55 pm

How ’bout spittin’?

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
7:55 pm

I remember when I was two because the firemen scolded me for lighting Popsicle sticks on fire to play caveman under the bed. I burned the house down. Then I ate a whole bottle of baby aspirin and had to get my stomach pumped. I was bored with kindergarten and would walk home many times.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
7:55 pm

NUNNA
Yankees–folks born up North
Visitors–just what it says
Immigrants…Northerners who come with the intention of staying and assimilating
Carpetbaggers…Northerners who come to pillage and go home
Scalawags…S*ckb*tts to the Carpetbaggers

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:56 pm

RF – just as long as “honey boo boo” don’t see ye.

Oscar

January 3rd, 2013
7:56 pm

As in “Will y’all’uns be quiet so I can hear the dogs barking?”

Shine

January 3rd, 2013
7:57 pm

yes Ga needs a crackpopt like Rubio who didnt even get 50% of the vote to “win” his seat.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
7:57 pm

get

Kyle does a bad job of oversight with his regulars (most of them being ex Bookmanites) in my opinion. He seems ok with their bs as long as a left leaning blogger doesn’t start throwing bombs back.

Once the bombs start flying back and forth he then tries to get a handle on it by shutting down the blog. Haven’t checked his blog out too much in the last few days so I don’t know what prompted this shut down. Do you?

Of course that isn’t 100% and I have read some left leaners attempting to rile the blog, but generally speaking that is how it goes down over there.

End of the day, it is his blog to run and monitor; so his rules no matter how selectively enforced.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:57 pm

Getalife – Really? Dang you were a rambunctuous little’un.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
7:58 pm

Josef – I was missing that “going back home” part. Thanks for the lesson.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
7:59 pm

As in “Will y’all’uns be quiet so I can hear the dogs barking?”

In that form, I would assume that you were referring to all the young’uns.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
8:00 pm

Nunna: hearing the conversation is all important in the south. For instance, the phrase “well bless his heart” can be used both as a request for blessing of someone or as a preceding line for a discussion of his faults, such as “bless his heart, he can’t help it that he’s dumb as a fence post. His momma’s people are all that way, you know.” You learn early how to be indirectly offensive.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:00 pm

TAXI

Wasn’t that a good one! You can imagine how it tickled my linguists’ funny bone!

Nunna

“How ’bout spittin’?”

Like whizzin, not if there’re ladies present.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
8:01 pm

Kyle does a bad job of oversight with his regulars (most of them being ex Bookmanites) in my opinion.

Those are the same ones that crapped all over CT’s blog, but they get all butt-hurty when it’s their sand box.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:02 pm

“Will y’all’uns be quiet so I can hear the dogs barking?”

Now, that one I’d interpret as being addressed to JUST the ones kicking up a fuss…

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:02 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOabsfRNyxs

Jam: Thanks for tuning me in. I’ve enjoyed many tunes since you told me about this.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:03 pm

When I was a kid, one of the field trip highlights was to go to the State Capitol while the legislature was in session. Ever’whar ye looked, there wuz spittoons. (sp)?

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:03 pm

Noneya.

Really.

Also, I remember this guy lived in my neighborhood and friends with my Dad. Both born in Brooklyn and heavy drinkers and women chasers.

http://www.threestooges.com/bios/bios.php?intStoogeID=3

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:03 pm

Belchin’ contests OK?

RF

January 3rd, 2013
8:05 pm

“Ever’whar ye looked, there wuz spittoons”

Shoot yeah, because a lot of folks dipped or chewed tobacco. I also remember ash trays in movie theaters and hospital waiting rooms. My how times have changed!

Truth-o-meter

January 3rd, 2013
8:05 pm

One reason the electorate does not take Rebublicans seriously about reducing debt is because they didn’t care when Bush put 2 wars and Medicare D on a credit card. Obama cut $17 billion of waste out of Medicare and they excoriated him during the campaign. And we are to believe they want to cut waste and get spending under control? Well, all reasonable people want less spending. I just don’t trust where Republicans will make the cuts.

Obama’s election proved that a person of color can win the White House. The GOP fears losing control for generations.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:05 pm

Kam

Went over there and came across Dusty’s diatribe about liberals. Wonder if she actually believes what she is posting or just does that to piss off the lefties.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:07 pm

Both,

She is hardcore gop and a big w cheerleader.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:07 pm

get

Did you grow up in Ga or La?

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:07 pm

COREY

I may be off here on one of my lighthearted topics, but as for what you’re saying YES!

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
8:08 pm

Spittoons is for formal spittin’. For everyday use, a used snuff can will suffice or so my great grandmaw said.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:08 pm

getalife – that’s cool. I never could figure it out though. Curly had a short haircut and Larry had long curly hair. It was a difficult concept for me to grasp as a child.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
8:09 pm

“The GOP fears losing control for generations.”

And sadly, they just keep doing more and more of the same right-wing extreme stuff to make sure it happens.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:09 pm

Both,

Born in Vegas and lived in Nevada,Texas, Louisiana and Georgia.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
8:09 pm

Dusty’s tetched. Bless her heart.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:10 pm

Noneya,

He made me laugh and was drunk most of the time.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:12 pm

TBS

Dusty is an interesting one to me. She’s one of the more literate and can quote from memory long passages from literature, speaks, reads and writes French, has a wonderful sense of illusion and metaphor…but, L-rd, when she goes off on a tear, she can be just plumb nasty…

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:13 pm

Shoot – if you had moved from Nevada to Arizona, you mighta met up with ol’ King Tut.

F. Sinkwich

January 3rd, 2013
8:14 pm

Truth played both the Bush card and the race card in a single post!

Top that, other ilks!

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:14 pm

(before he moved to Babylonia of course.)

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:14 pm

get

Texas A&M and Bama better show up.

SEC is down this year. Gators were beat worse than the score indicated.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:15 pm

josef,

She wrote many love poems with w and showed great patriotism under w.

Under President Obama, no patriotism.

That was today’s topic over there.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:17 pm

Both,

Louisville is better than most people thought.

Both teams were getting head injuries from hitting so hard.

They would get up and wobble like a boxer in a standing eight count.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
8:17 pm

josef
the you’ns was quite frequently used in the Tennessee mountains
and it was particularly detested by my mother, she said it was
vulgar.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:17 pm

Ya know, that song never did explain how Tut got from Babylonia to Egypt. One of those enduring mysteries I suppose.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:17 pm

“when she goes off on a tear, she can be just plumb nasty…”

Without a doubt. And the funny thing is that she will broad brush liberal and say how nasty they are while she is showing more anger and contempt then anyone on the blog.

I’ve read where she has posted poems and such. That seems to be more here thing than politics. If not for talking points and rhetoric, she is lost and will get upset if called on it.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:18 pm

TAXI

When I was a tad. among my grandparents’ neighbors was the Schmitz, known locally as The Preacher and Gert and not held in very high esteem. My Grandfather, though, thought very highly of The Preacher, but Granny? Wellll…anyway, one of my earliest memories was going over to their house, Granddaddy overruling Granny on this occasion, and watching in awe as Miz Gert (yes, even Granny insisted that we address her with the honorific) aimed a spit from all across the living room into the fireplace and hit every time.

And Granny? “She should at least have the good graces to use a ’spit can!”

F. Sinkwich

January 3rd, 2013
8:20 pm

Saxby has some serious RINO tendencies with all this “Gang of X” crap. I fear he is more interested in invitations to Sally Quinn’s cocktail parties as one of them “good Republicans” rather than someone who is interested in America.

It all depends on who primaries him.

If it’s Price, Saxby is toast.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:21 pm

get

I saw that as well. That one FL safety was delivering blows. He hit one dude so hard and fast that the guy’s legs were still moving as if he was still running, but he was falling down on his back.

But overall, FL’s D looked bad and of course they don’t have the O firepower they usually have. FL QB is ok if they stay close or ahead. He can manage the game, but not put team on his back.

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
8:22 pm

Great stuff, huh TBS?

get, your dad was friends with Curly? Wow!

IMUO, they are still the greatest comedy act in American history. I could watch them for days on end.

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
8:26 pm

josef,

The trips to the great grandparent’s and grandparent’s homes were always memorable adventures.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:26 pm

I followed in my Dad and Curley’s footsteps and partied hard from age 12-45.

I don’t remember much but will get flashbacks of good and bad things.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:26 pm

Jam

It rocks…………….. Awesome stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL8gR7__As

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
8:27 pm

“get, your dad was friends with Curly? Wow!”

Yup, he was our neighbor in Vegas.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:27 pm

RINO – sounds like a radio station for ungulates.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:28 pm

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
8:29 pm

F. SInkiewicz — “It all depends on who primaries him. If it’s Price, Saxby is toast.”

The louder the con, the farther he/she fell in November.

If Price wants to primary Saxby, he’s going to have to find a way to do it without opening his yap. And for a loudmouth blowhard like Price, that’s a tall order.

Go ahead, Congressman Price. Run for Saxby’s seat. I dare ya.

It’s the easiest way for Georgia to make you sit down and shut up.

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
8:31 pm

It all depends on who primaries him.

If it’s Price, Saxby is toast.

Given that this state put Nathan Deal in office, I would argue against that…

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:32 pm

Bro – but having to choose between Raw-ee and Deal – it was a no win situation.

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:33 pm

I guess you could say we got a Raw-ee Deal.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:34 pm

FROG
I think one of the things that drew me to linguistics was the environment I grew up in. My Granny was a Victorian school marm whose use of English was flawless Southern educated elite. When we kids spoke with her, we knew the slightest error would get a lesson in “that is not pro-puh” She saw it as her doo-tih to model the correct usage at all times under all circumstances. Granddaddy taught us to use the language befitting the context, “you don’t speak the language of the lectern at the ginyard, and you don’t speak the language of the ginyard at the lectern. The area was where the Highlands and the Lowlands met and there were those two dialects in daily use and we kids knew to speak the dialects of whichever home/situation we were in. Add to that the distinctive versions spoken by the black and white. I grew to love the Mother language in its Southern variant with a passion…

yuzeyurbrane

January 3rd, 2013
8:36 pm

td @ 5:48–I read TBS’s 5:42 post and it seems to question your assertion that Georgia is a donor state re Federal taxes, not anything re welfare recipients who move here from out of state. To repeat his question, cite your source for your assertion re donor state status? As to welfare recipients, it depends on whether you are talking about Medicaid, children, adults, etc. I have read that there only about 3,400 adult recipients of cash welfare payments in the whole state because Georgia has the most stringent cash aid requirements in the country. If that is true then they are obviously not flocking here from other states to get it and it is substantially irrelevant whether even all 3400 are from other states. It also defies common sense that people seeking welfare would leave a higher assistance state like NY for parsimonious Georgia. Ask your wife, she is DFACS social worker.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:37 pm

getalife

One of the cable channels was having a Stooges marathon the other day…I got a chance to see some of my favorites and even a couple I had never seen before…and Curley? Always my favorite!

TaxPayer

January 3rd, 2013
8:37 pm

Tom Price for senator! Nah! He’d object and rightfully so.

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
8:38 pm

Such an awesome song that Ella Fitzgerald, Todd Rundgren, Laura Nyro and this songbird, among others, covered it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmu-UUl_dLE

Nunna Yobinnes

January 3rd, 2013
8:40 pm

Now Miss O’Donnell was dumber than dirt, but she’s a cutie.

yuzeyurbrane

January 3rd, 2013
8:40 pm

Amy Kremer is either stupid or a liar. I am no fan of Chambliss but I could only wish that he voted with the Democrats a majority of the time. If we all were not suffering from the anarchists that call themselves Tea Partycans I would shake my head but enjoy the specter of Republicans eating their own.

TBS

January 3rd, 2013
8:40 pm

yuzeyurbrane

td’s ” I don’t know what the f I’m talking about, but will say it anyway” segments can be annoying but humorous at the same time.

He runs in circles, becomes the king of semantics and technicalities or as he did today……… leaves

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
8:45 pm

But according to research published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, having a pro sports team in town may be a net negative for the local economy. Paul Staudohar, professor emeritus of business administration at California State University, found in an examination of last year’s National Basketball Association lockout that shutting down sports leagues can be good for a city’s finances:

Even if the 2011–2012 season had been canceled, it likely would have had little, if any, effect on the economic health of the cities that host NBA teams. A 2001 study of past work stoppages found that, in 37 metropolitan area economies with professional sports franchises, there was no overall financial impact. Indeed, the cities appeared to perform better financially in years that games were canceled. There were other options that people spent their entertainment dollars on, in a substitution effect, while security needed for public safety at sporting events cost less because games were not played.

Hosting the NCAA Final Four tournament has also been found to be a net negative for a city. So perhaps cities kvetching over the NHL lockout don’t have as much to worry about as they think (though of course individual businesses can be substantially harmed). Recent data also shows that Canada’s economy is taking an extremely slight hit due to the NHL stoppage

Looks like if them Tea Party characters really mean business about tax issues, they ought to start by stopping the new stadium effort.

Joe Hussein Mama

January 3rd, 2013
8:45 pm

“…and Curley? Always my favorite!”

When it comes to Stooges, Iggy was always my favorite.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
8:47 pm

JHM

Took me a minute! :-)

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
8:48 pm

JamVet 8:38
actually met Linda Ronstadt at a bar/dancehall in rural Maryland in
1966. me and another AF guy went for some entertainment and got
there around 5 o’clock. the place was empty and she was warming up.
the place had picnic tables and we got a beer and sat down. she
finished and came over and sat down and we offered a beer but she
declined. we stayed the rest of the night and she danced with each of
us during breaks. she was beautiful and nice.

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
8:49 pm

but having to choose between Raw-ee and Deal – it was a no win situation.

In a Republican leaning state, there is still a choice between right and wrong in the primary. The fact that Deal made it out of the primary is more than enough reason to judge the sanity of Republican voters in Georgia.

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
8:52 pm

Damn, froggie! You danced with the lovely Linda Rondstat?!! Wow, you are my new hero!

(Aim High, baby!)

What can ya say? The cons are in a helluva hole. They gotta just keep on digging! (Hat tip Lloyd in Dumb & Dumber)

From that fantastic Rundgren-produced soundtrack…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZQEojATqQ

Towncrier

January 3rd, 2013
8:54 pm

Recon 0311 2533

January 3rd, 2013
8:54 pm

Jay and his minions sure are having cerebral orgasms thinking that they’ve won some kind of victory. Sadly, the country lost but these bozo’s are too deep into their left wing ideology to fathom that unfortunate fact. The country will bleed, while the bozo’s feed on their pathetic ideology.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
8:55 pm

josef: it is the melodies and nuances of the various versions of the Southern dialect that have fascinated me for years. From learning the proper way to discuss someone’s character flaws with my grandmother while hearing my grandfather get right down to plain truth of the matter when it was just the boys, I figured out early that language is about context and an educated southern boy was expected to be aware of and fluent in whatever situation he was located.

“The fact that Deal made it out of the primary is more than enough reason to judge the sanity of Republican voters in Georgia.”

All he needed was the blessed ‘R’ behind his name on the ballot and that sealed the deal. Which makes me wonder how a primary fight would go with Saxby. That kind of fight will be interesting to watch!

WillinRoswell

January 3rd, 2013
8:55 pm

Karen Handel is just lickin’ her ole chops. Can’t wait to get back to hometown DC on the Feds dime. If the Teas follow Handel and get rid of Saxby, they will prove to be the idiots they are.

Recon 0311 2533

January 3rd, 2013
8:59 pm

“she was beautiful and nice.”

frog, she probably felt safe with you bus drivers. She wanted to keep her panties on, so she stayed away from infantry units back then and particularly Marine Corps infantry.

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
8:59 pm

RF

The same group that voted Deal into office continuously raises a fuss over everything that Obama does, even if he actually has nothing to do with it. Chambliss is bad enough, but I think there would be a substantial number of Democrats who would vote in the GOP primary to put him back on the ticket if the other option was Tom Price. I could be wrong, but that’s how I see it.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
9:01 pm

“The country will bleed, while the bozo’s feed on their pathetic ideology.”

The country will bleed, as you say, as long as the counter to the Democrats is so lost in its own infighting and ideological bloodbath. The system works because both parties pull at the ends and the real work gets done with compromise in the middle. The extremes of either party can’t be allowed to run the show for too long. In my memory, the Dems have never had that happen, but we’re right in the middle of such a struggle in the Republican party. Nobody here is having any kind of orgasm about the fiscal cliff deal, but it’s high time something, anything came out of Congress that had some support on both sides. The Republicans have spent four years trying to simply stop the Obama administration from doing anything so they could get him out of office. That didn’t happen and now they have no idea how to really govern, which requires debate, compromise, and giving something to get something. They turned down all offers for a deal that included spending cuts and ended up voting for a bill with none. That’s their own fault for not being willing to negotiate and doing what they’ve done for four years- demand it be done the far-right way or nothing gets done at all.

Do you seriously believe a Republican administration right now could do any better with the mess they have in the House?

Doggone/GA

January 3rd, 2013
9:02 pm

“josef: it is the melodies and nuances of the various versions of the Southern dialect that have fascinated me for years”

It’s not just the South. It happens everywhere. I’ve told this before but it’s an illustration: we got a new District Manager and he came to our building for face-to-face meeting with our group. I literally did not pay attention to what he was saying because his accent was so familiar, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I grew up in Harrisburg, PA. It wasn’t New York, and it wasn’t New Jersey. It wasn’t the accent I was familiar with from my home area. It wasn’t Ohio…but it was close. Just as I was wating for a break to ask him where he was from, he said he grew up in Pittsburgh.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
9:03 pm

Recon
We were just a hop,skip and a jump from FT.Meade Md. where
we were stationed. The place was full of soldiers but I don’t know
if any were marines but none had on ‘funny clothes’.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
9:03 pm

“I think there would be a substantial number of Democrats who would vote in the GOP primary to put him back on the ticket if the other option was Tom Price. I could be wrong, but that’s how I see it.”

Now that you could be right about. Price is about the only person I see right now who could really give Chambliss a challenge in a primary. Do you think the Dems might actually have someone to run against either one in the general election?

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
9:06 pm

Do you think the Dems might actually have someone to run against either one in the general election?

Nope. All the more reason I think the Dems would try to ensure a primary win for Chambliss.

Recon 0311 2533

January 3rd, 2013
9:06 pm

Do you seriously believe a Republican administration right now could do any better with the mess they have in the House?

Yes, without a doubt in my mind, however, it would certainly help if Democrats lost the Senate. I’m no fan of Republicans but the Democrats now mostly belong to the hard-left.

josef

January 3rd, 2013
9:07 pm

RF

Ah, yes! I can’t abide it when somebody starts to lord their supposed superiority over someone else using the language. It’s like this one poster here who is always touting his non Georgia education, but still, even after having had it brought to his attention, cannot distinguish between the nominative plural and the genitive singular! His subject verb agreements…? Oy!

Now, I know OREP will be on ME in a minute for my own, uh, inattention to such… :-)

josef

January 3rd, 2013
9:10 pm

DOGGONE

Any Irishman, but especially one from Ulster, could say anything to me and it’d be music to my ears…

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
9:12 pm

:lol: Its unskewed blogging time from the right wingnuts. Them dang “hard-left” Dems adopting proposals put forth originally by the GOP. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

RF

January 3rd, 2013
9:13 pm

“I’m no fan of Republicans but the Democrats now mostly belong to the hard-left”

Really?? That’s a very broad statement that I don’t think you could prove. The reality is most Dems aren’t as far left as they seem. When contrasted with the formerly popular far-right nuts we elected in recent years, I’m sure anyone in the Democratic party must seem very far left, but they’re not.

And I’ll respectfully disagree with you about a Republican administration. That would be very popular with the far-right, but if you think about it, they’d have a hard time governing from that extreme. Their own moderates and the Dems wouldn’t let very much of that get through Congress. And looking at the changing make up of the 113th Congress convening today, I’d say it would be even harder to govern from the far-right. Their numbers have shrunk a bit.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
9:13 pm

del,

No scandals, no attacks on the home land, no collapses, economic growth with your party fighting against our recovery playing politics.

The adults are in charge and you don’t have a leg to stand on.

Doggone/GA

January 3rd, 2013
9:13 pm

“Any Irishman, but especially one from Ulster, could say anything to me and it’d be music to my ears…”

What strikes me is how similar the modern (as opposed to the tradidtional) Yorkshire accent is to the “generic” Southern accent.

Recon 0311 2533

January 3rd, 2013
9:14 pm

frog,

Marines for the most part in the mid-60’s only wore Vietnam utilities and didn’t see their dress greens or tropical uniforms after out posting from boot camp until coming back and getting of Marines.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
9:15 pm

Keep: what’s even funnier is how many time the far-right folks voted against legislation they wrote themselves once the President said he supported it!! All he had to do was say he liked it and they’d cut their own hands off while they were writing it.

Recon 0311 2533

January 3rd, 2013
9:16 pm

Getting out of Marines…correction on my last.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 3rd, 2013
9:16 pm

RF, yep. If Obama said he was an ultra conservative, they would all become ultra liberals. :lol:

RF

January 3rd, 2013
9:19 pm

“Nope. All the more reason I think the Dems would try to ensure a primary win for Chambliss”

But wouldn’t it be nice if the did have someone to run against him? I’m ashamed of how weak the Democratic party has gotten in this state. They need to get together and start looking at what they have and getting busy doing some PR for him/her. That person wouldn’t win, but it would be nice to see some fight from the Dems in a mess like this.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
9:20 pm

Their unhinged actions are deplorable and pathetic.

del should be ashamed of himself but he has no honor or dignity.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
9:20 pm

Recon
Yeh I know, we were all in civvies, and there was a Marine detachment
at NSA so there probably were marines there but they just couldn’t
stand up with the AF.

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
9:23 pm

brosephus

Here’s a miami columnist on saban:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/02/3165360/alabama-coach-nick-saban-is-the.html

The reason its stings a bit more is because saban took over for mike shula, who has had a big hand in the players saban inherited. It seemed like a raw deal and we still have deep respect for don shula down here. Just a messy departure…go irish…

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
9:26 pm

Roll Tide.

SEC!

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
9:27 pm

But wouldn’t it be nice if the did have someone to run against him? I’m ashamed of how weak the Democratic party has gotten in this state.

Most Southern states have been single party states since being re-admitted to the union. Conservative Democrats ran the South until they shifted allegiance to the GOP. True Liberals exist in small numbers here, and there have not been enough to enable a true two party system in the South in a very long time.

guy

January 3rd, 2013
9:27 pm

If we keep running up the deficit,and with odummy in charge, it won’t matter if it’s tea party or not.When one does things with payback as the motive,we all end up destroyed. As in Nazi Germany!

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
9:28 pm

getalife

I just want a great game…and of course notre dame prevailing!!!

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
9:29 pm

guy,

Another con played the nazi card.

Sad.

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
9:31 pm

getalife

People that buy into the deficit bogeyman forget who really put us there! In the end it’s all smoke and mirrors…

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
9:31 pm

guy
first thing the Nazis will do is check for circumcisions. are you safe?

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
9:34 pm

Mick,

I think it will be a close game.

Alabama plays great on last drives.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
9:36 pm

guy must be checking. If you are in jeopardy call 1-800 ask randy….

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
9:36 pm

Mick

Sacking Shula was one of the best decisions made in Tuscaloosa. I don’t think Shula should have been hired in the first place. Bama passed on Sylvester Croom to hire Shula, and Croom made us pay every year we met.

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
9:37 pm

Mick,

I watched w put us there.

They know but our economy needs spending right now to get us back to full employment.

The fiscal cliff bill is a spending bill. They know.

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
9:38 pm

get

I just like to razz you diehard tide fans….saban is a great college coach, still, I’m thinking it’s the fighting irishs’ year…

getalife

January 3rd, 2013
9:39 pm

Mick,

I am a LSU fan but will stick with the SEC.

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
9:40 pm

brosephus

Maybe, but shula might have been on the cusp of fielding some great teams, we’ll never know….indisputable fact is that saban won his first championship with all of shula’s recruits. I’m not taking anything away from saban, just give shula some props too!!!

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
9:45 pm

Shula kept getting whipped by Auburn. He could have won championships, but losing to Auburn will get you fired.

Paulo 977

January 3rd, 2013
9:47 pm

RF

January 3rd, 2013
9:47 pm

“They know but our economy needs spending right now to get us back to full employment.”

Which is exactly what they’d do if it weren’t for that doggone muslim-socialist-liberal-Kenyan guy in the WH. Seems Reagan knew to do that, but they don’t like being reminded of it.

Doggone/GA

January 3rd, 2013
9:53 pm

“if it weren’t for that doggone ”

Hey!

guy

January 3rd, 2013
9:54 pm

barking frog, like a catfish,all mouth and full of s – - t! Take a froggy leap and kiss my – - -!

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
9:55 pm

guy
just trying to help….

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
9:57 pm

If we keep running up the deficit…

But…but…but…Cheney said that Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.

Translation: IOKIYAR

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

td

January 3rd, 2013
9:57 pm

Corey

January 3rd, 2013
7:23 pm

@td

January 3rd, 2013
5:36 pm

In other words, only 40% of the 51% who voted for Mr. Obama make more than 30k/yr. Damn, America sure has a whole lot of poor folk. Please do some research and notice when the productivity line and wage line diverged on the graph, and while you’re at it pour yourself a nice cup of tea.

I see reading comprehension skills are not your strong suit. If you want all the numbers then it looks like this

2011 total family income:
Total Obama Romney
Under $30,000 20% 63% 35%
$30,000 – $49,999 21% 57% 42%
$50,000 – $99,999 31% 46% 52%
$100,000 – $199,999 21% 44% 54%
$200,000 – $249,999 3% 47% 52%
$250,000 or more 4% 42% 55%

The bottom 42% voted for Obama because he was Santa Claus.

guy

January 3rd, 2013
9:58 pm

barking frog, i feel much better. thanks!

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:00 pm

The bottom 42% voted for Obama because he was Santa Claus.

Obama won, ’cause the best that y’all could do was nominate Romney.

Put better players on the field if you wanna win.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:00 pm

guy
you’re welcome.

guy

January 3rd, 2013
10:02 pm

now kamchak is a chaney fan! wow!

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:04 pm

now kamchak is a chaney[sic] fan!

Not intended to be a factual statement.

:razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz:

guy

January 3rd, 2013
10:06 pm

barking frog, we can still agree to disagree and that means this is still the greatest nation!

guy

January 3rd, 2013
10:07 pm

sleep well to all!

Mick

January 3rd, 2013
10:08 pm

**but losing to Auburn will get you fired.**

I guess that sums it up quite nicely…

RF

January 3rd, 2013
10:08 pm

“if it weren’t for that doggone ”

Hey!

Sorry!! Take it as a compliment that we remember you so often! That’s my PC word when I think I might get in trouble for using the more common ‘D’ word… :-)

“Put better players on the field if you wanna win.”

Doesn’t matter what players you have when the team is playing several different games on the same field, ya know? I don’t think there’s any single person out there who could effectively lead and represent that party right now. Who’d want to try right now?

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:08 pm

guy
I can agree not to disagree with that…

td

January 3rd, 2013
10:09 pm

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:00 pm

The bottom 42% voted for Obama because he was Santa Claus.

Obama won, ’cause the best that y’all could do was nominate Romney.

Put better players on the field if you wanna win.

And just whom might that have been? Romney was the most moderate candidate. Everyone else was a Conservative or did not have enough experience to get run.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:11 pm

Romney was the most moderate candidate.

Not intended to be a factual statement.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:11 pm

Romney talked himself out of a sure win.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
10:18 pm

“Everyone else was a Conservative or did not have enough experience to get run”

Actually, Huntsman and Pawlenty weren’t conservative enough, Bachmann is nutty as a fruitcake, Perry couldn’t remember his own name too often, and Cain….well, no need to go into his foibles. I gotta tell you, I honestly would have loved to see Huntsman or Pawlenty go up against Obama. I think either one, IMO (and by no means expert or researched, just my opinion) could have given him a run for the money. Pawlenty didn’t have the guts for the cutthroat nature of the primaries, so I can see why he quit so early. As for Santorum and Gingrich, well they just didn’t know when to shut up and tried so hard to play the uber-conservative that they just tripped all over themselves and ended up looking like the fools they are. In the end, Romney was the only reasonable guy left after Iowa. It was kinda like picking a puppy from a litter of mutts- you just have to do the best you can with what you have.

JamVet

January 3rd, 2013
10:19 pm

Everyone else was a Conservative pathetic joke.

As bad as that pathetic joke of a slate in 2008.

And I’m pretty sure that the neocons won’t disappoint and we’ll see a third straight one in 2016…

Jm

January 3rd, 2013
10:19 pm

td

January 3rd, 2013
10:19 pm

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:11 pm

Romney was the most moderate candidate.

Not intended to be a factual statement.

Romney is a Mass. country club Republican. Very moderate on most issues. He was more moderate the McCain or Dole. The only other person more liberal was Huntsman and he is more liberal then Bill Clinton.

Jm

January 3rd, 2013
10:20 pm

“Romney talked himself out of a sure win.”

funny

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:22 pm

Jm
why are you sleeping ? how much did you blow hedging the fiscal cliff ?

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:22 pm

Romney talked himself out of a sure win.

Obama has been labeled the worst president in U.S. history.

It has been asserted here several times by several individuals (or one individual using multiple sock-puppets) that Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama.

Romney couldn’t secure a win despite these two assertions.

“Sure win”?

Inevitable loss.

Jm

January 3rd, 2013
10:22 pm

“Not intended to be a factual statement.”

i suppose one could argue huntsman was more of a moderate

but I wouldn’t be absolutely certain of that

Jm

January 3rd, 2013
10:23 pm

frog

a few thou

still in place through debt ceiling

Georgia

January 3rd, 2013
10:24 pm

Pelosi handed the gavel over to Speaker Boehner today and he cried like a pathetic little girly man. Apparently all that heat he has been taking has taken a toll. It was a new insight into the man. I’ve only seen his sound bites, stern and uncompromising.

td

January 3rd, 2013
10:25 pm

RF

January 3rd, 2013
10:18 pm

“Everyone else was a Conservative or did not have enough experience to get run”

Actually, Huntsman and Pawlenty weren’t conservative enough.

Neither one of them were even viable candidates. Jeb Bush might have been the best to run.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:27 pm

Neither one of them were even viable candidates.

And there’s your sign.

Thulsa Doom

January 3rd, 2013
10:27 pm

Tea party envy…

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
10:28 pm

The only other person more liberal was Huntsman and he is more liberal then Bill Clinton.

Only a convenience conservative would say that. Someone who knows what a true conservative looks like would laugh at that statement.

http://www.businessinsider.com/conservatives-discover-an-inconvenient-truth-jon-huntsman-is-one-of-them-2011-12

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:29 pm

Kamchak
The President had nothing but a failed incumbency to run on, not
that it was his fault. He allowed Romney to talk and when the 47%
tape was revealed, he just played it. In the debates he allowed
Romney to talk and was criticized for it but he was correct. Romney
talked himself into last place.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:31 pm

Jm
you may need that debt ceiling hedge.

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
10:31 pm

Huntsman IS conservative. What he is not is one of those rabid, foaming at the mouth, bile spewing, flame throwing jackasses that some people think is what makes one a “true” conservative nowadays.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:32 pm

Boehner may have sold his soul to the tea party for that gavel.

hamiltonAZ

January 3rd, 2013
10:33 pm

Irrelevant voice in increasingly irrelevant state.

Thulsa Doom

January 3rd, 2013
10:33 pm

“And there’s your sign.”

The over/under odds on how many times the repetetive post bunny would retread this particular post is 5 for today.

Its official-and it looks like the over wins the bet.

Collect your winnings in liberal fantasyland- the payout is an Obama phone, a tanf card redeemable at your local liquor store, and a free lifetime supply of unicorn pooped skittles.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:34 pm

He allowed Romney to talk and when the 47%
tape was revealed, he just played it. In the debates he allowed
Romney to talk and was criticized for it but he was correct. Romney
talked himself into last place.

That is what politicians do, they talk.

Romney couldn’t say anything to talk himself into the White House but Republicans believed that he was their best choice.

Thulsa Doom

January 3rd, 2013
10:34 pm

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:35 pm

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:35 pm

hamiltonAZ
Irrelevant voice in increasingly irrelevant state.
……………………………………………………….
self description?

Jm

January 3rd, 2013
10:36 pm

frog

i doubt it ultimately, but insurance is useful

i’m out

RF

January 3rd, 2013
10:37 pm

“Jeb Bush might have been the best to run.”

Nobody with the name Bush would have had a chance, even in 2012. Hell, they didn’t even have George at the convention, and that wasn’t just a lost invitation in the mail, me thinks. Jeb would never have been able to distance himself enough from his brother to get the support he needed, and would have ended up in worse defeat than Mitt.

“Huntsman IS conservative. What he is not is one of those rabid, foaming at the mouth, bile spewing, flame throwing jackasses that some people think is what makes one a “true” conservative nowadays”

Ain’t that the truth!! In the end, Romney was the only one out of the pack that could talk the neocon talk well enough, and his record certainly didn’t support him trying. He just ended up with enough money and willingness to play to the money crowd to get the nod.

innerjuju

January 3rd, 2013
10:37 pm

I’ll campaign for Saxby. I might not be thrilled with 100% of the decisions he’s made but the Senate showed real leadership in this mess created by the House. I’m sick of the Tea Party and their hostage hold on the House.

barking frog

January 3rd, 2013
10:38 pm

Kamchak
That is what politicians do, they talk.
………………………………………………
In the first debate, Obama didn’t.

td

January 3rd, 2013
10:40 pm

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
10:31 pm

Huntsman IS conservative

He may be a conservative by your standards but he could only get 15% of the vote in the moderate state of NH.

Soothsayer

January 3rd, 2013
10:41 pm

Kam, great Karen vid.

Even in this vid, you can see she is starving herself to death. She’s “fluffed up” with her clothing to mask it.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:42 pm

He may be a conservative by your standards but he could only get 15% of the vote in the moderate state of NH.

And there’s the same sign.

RF

January 3rd, 2013
10:43 pm

Here’s an interesting tidbit on a would-be Republican congressman who just couldn’t handle being defeated:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/ap/crime/nm-candidate-accused-of-slashing-opponents-tires/nThck/

Seems the guy went a little postal after being knocked off the ballot in the primaries. The candidate who went on the general election lost to the Democrat anyway, and then the former opponent went on a tire slashing spree evidently. Crazy stuff from someone who’s supposed to represent what true, patriotic Americans are supposed to be these days.

Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes

January 3rd, 2013
10:44 pm

Sooth

Lovely woman and a distinctive voice. Too bad she was a product of the cheesy 70s.

Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)

January 3rd, 2013
10:47 pm

I might have to switch parties temporarily to beat this tea party.

Thulsa Doom

January 3rd, 2013
10:51 pm

“I don’t think Shula should have been hired in the first place. Bama passed on Sylvester Croom to hire Shula, and Croom made us pay every year we met.”

Brocephus,

I don’t think Shula should have been hired either. Or Croom. There was a 3rd candidate that no one talked about who was eminently vastly more qualified than either of them. For some reason that never got talked about.

Croom was a better candidate than Shula but in retrospect I’m glad he didn’t get that job. It would have been doing nothing more than setting up the first black coach at Alabama for failure. That was an impossible situation to win in with the program at a low point and with the probation and scholarship losses being the 2nd worst ever handed down at that point in time.

And Croom didn’t win every game against Alabama. He went 1-2 against Shula and 1-1 against Saban.

Thulsa Doom

January 3rd, 2013
10:56 pm

Wow. Oregon just scored a 1 pt. safety against Kansas State.

Brosephus™

January 3rd, 2013
10:59 pm

td

Not my standards. Had you bothered to click on the link I posted, you would have seen some prominent mouthpieces who said he was conservative. Then again, I know you’re one of the reading challenged posters here when the source doesn’t fit your version of the truth.

—–

Doom

I didn’t say that Croom beat Alabama every year. He did, however, make people question the hiring of Shula each year that he met up against Bama.

vuduchld

January 4th, 2013
12:00 am

Tea Beggers, those bottom feeding maggots still around?

getalife

January 4th, 2013
12:12 am

First time I have seen a one point safety.

Good luck in the NFL coach.

Georgia

January 4th, 2013
12:16 am

That 41 year old Bartow county school board member who deliberately ran over a student with her SUV has resigned. This monster belongs in a cage. Look at her photo. Her eyes are set too far apart. She’s an animal mutant. She belongs behind bars. The student was saving a parking place that the witch wanted. Big mistake.

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
6:14 am

actually met Linda Ronstadt at a bar/dancehall in rural Maryland in
1966. me and another AF guy went for some entertainment and got
there around 5 o’clock. the place was empty and she was warming up.
the place had picnic tables and we got a beer and sat down. she
finished and came over and sat down and we offered a beer but she
declined. we stayed the rest of the night and she danced with each of
us during breaks

BF, add me to the “I’m not worthy/so in awe of your awesomeness” club.

weetamoe

January 4th, 2013
6:35 am

To the person Bookman called a liar: Among the *alleged* pork items in the hurricane Sandy aid package were/are funds for improvements to the Kennedy space center, for refurbishing some overseas embassies, for a buncha new federal vehicles and for US fisheries –even some as far away as governor Palin’s Alaska.

Wilbur

January 4th, 2013
6:50 am

If I were Jay I would work hard to not talk about the fiscal cliff deal that his Lord and Master jammed through the congress. I would try hard not to talk about the signing statement he attached to the bill. I would try hard not to talk about how irrelevant this process has become to the out of control federal budget. I would especially try hard not to talk about the miserable economic recovery the Obmamorons still try to defend while so many are out of work.

Way to go Jay.

Buzzy

January 4th, 2013
7:04 am

Did anyone take note of the fact that Gov. Chris Christie (R. N.J.) really tore into the Tea Partiers in the House regarding Sandy relief this past week? He did not mince words with the Tea Party radicals.

The Tea Party has turned itself into a dangerous radical and obstructive group and I truly hate to see Georgia go the way of the Neanderthal Tea Party.

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
7:36 am

“Did anyone take note of the fact that Gov. Chris Christie (R. N.J.) really tore into the Tea Partiers in the House regarding Sandy relief this past week? He did not mince words with the Tea Party radicals.”

other than the “Chris Christie Lashes Out at GOP, Boehner” article blog entry by Jay … nope. no one noticed.

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
7:37 am

” for US fisheries –even some as far away as governor Palin’s Alaska.”

wow. this whole fisheries thing has legs.

the wingnuts have been all aflutter about it since they got their FOX-approved talking points yesterday.

Corbin Sharpe. Baby Boomer...and Ban the Gun Thug!

January 4th, 2013
7:51 am

Good Friday morning to all y’all… I’m back at work…on crutches, but I couldn’t take another day on home rehab. I was going stir crazy! I didn’t get to wish many of y’all a Happy new Year, so belatedly…HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL Y”ALL!!! May this year be everything you envision.
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I guess I’m going to have to back up on this fishery thing…haven’t heard about it.

GT

January 4th, 2013
7:52 am

This is like one of those Indian weddings where someone else picks you spouse and you learn to love them. It always ends up being the nonsmiling wife with the diary. Money dictates politics and that money becomes corrupt money, and now from outsiders who can’t even vote in your district.

One of the Tea Party’s blind spots for last election was not realizing people do care as much about social issues as they do about the economy no matter what their polls say. You got a governor who would leave Georgia citizens dead on the street, not participate in Obamacare, to entertain these carpetbaggers and get their monetary support.

I have never understood mega churches where you have to ride a bus to church from the church parking lot is so far away. The minister that marries or buries you has not a clue who you are. Now we will have to ride a bus to Washington to find who pulls the strings of our local politician and unless we belong to one of those mega churches we won’t even get a hearing. This is how mad white men get off track and show up very mad with guns. We are lost in a sea of greed and power struggles that very well may not be our main issues in life, yet no one cares what our issues are. Their’s are more important.

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
7:52 am

Happy New Year Corbin “Hop-Along” Sharpe!!!

I hope you and yours had a fantastic holiday (even with a mangled knee)

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
7:56 am

Among the *alleged* pork items in the hurricane Sandy aid package were/are funds for improvements to the Kennedy space center, for refurbishing some overseas embassies

yeah yeah yeah, this was discussed already, and it’s clear that those who are raising those pissant little items as talking points well after the fact are covering their collective asses.

Face facts–your House screwed up, again. It is getting to be quite the nasty habit.

One of the reasons Republicans opposed reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act was the issue of giving tribal governments jurisdiction over white men who assault Native American women. To have done so would have given clarity to who enforces what laws and how, a threadbare patchwork, at best, now. To oppose it is, well, savage.

are you actually *proud* of this, wee-in-so-many ways?

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
7:58 am

dB – “To oppose it is, well, savage.”

and just look at the whirlwind they reaped as a result!

Saxby

January 4th, 2013
8:02 am

Primary this.

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
8:07 am

Now we will have to ride a bus to Washington to find who pulls the strings of our local politician and unless we belong to one of those mega churches we won’t even get a hearing.

We should abolish the Senate and increase the number of Representatives and, of course, place the responsibility of establishing districts in some kind of less-corruptable, less-partisan hands than the frickin’ free-for-all that exists now.

That would not solve everything, but it would solve (I humbly submit) >50% of what is messed up in America today.

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
8:10 am

…and by “abolish” @ 8.07 I mean it should take a backseat to actual lawmaking. I guess I would be ok with having some kind of honorary House-of-Lords kinda deal where they get to go on pretending to be Da Greatest Legislative Body in Da World, providing some advise, perhaps, but no consent.

Being the actual conservative that I am, I would suggest phasing this in over the course of a decade or so, to minimize the bloodshed and upheaval.

ylojkt

January 4th, 2013
8:11 am

Good! Anything to get rid of Chambliss is A-OK in my book. I’m fed up with his support and advancement of legislation that erodes our civil liberties. He has not seen one single bill that violates our Constitution that he doesn’t like; his support of NDAA, FISA, and many other bills of this ilk has proven that he is a threat to the American way of life.

Gale

January 4th, 2013
8:21 am

I have never been a fan of Saxby-Chambliss, but I agree with someone who said he was just positioning to stay with the winners. The Tea Party is proving to be losers. They are too radical for the moderate majority. What I would like to see is a Congressional rule that only amendments actually pertaining to the subject of a bill may be added to the bill. Too much spending gets added to needed legislation to “buy” votes. The bill should pass or fail on its own merit.

oops

January 4th, 2013
8:24 am

“The bill should pass or fail on its own merit.”

Earmarks have been ended by the Republicans. Which is good in my mind. It does make corralling votes for tough issues more difficult though because people are only voting on their conscience, not bribes. Which is as it should be.

independent thinker

January 4th, 2013
8:24 am

Amy Kremer has guaranteed that Saxby will get many ofthe Democrats to vote for him.Which part of the Tax compromise offends her- taxing the rich or the fact that it was proposed by a Black president?

Willis

January 4th, 2013
8:25 am

I’ve been trying all my adult life to get primaried but haven’t yet. Is there still hope?

UNCLE SAMANTHA

January 4th, 2013
8:27 am

are the white racist democrats going to run an old white man for senate in 14 like roy barnes………

its disgusting what they did to thurbert baker in 10 when he would have beat deal for the govenor

except the racist white democrats kept him out

vinny

January 4th, 2013
8:31 am

I’ll take any one of em over Barry “spread the wealth” Obama. Talk about an incompetent tool…….

DannyX

January 4th, 2013
8:31 am

“Earmarks have been ended by the Republicans.”

Very, very funny oops! I can’t stop laughing!

Doggone/GA

January 4th, 2013
8:32 am

“because people are only voting on their conscience, not bribes. Which is as it should be.”

Sure, it SHOULD BE…but how many of them are now voting against out of spite?

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
8:34 am

Earmarks have been ended by the Republicans.

und zhere hass NEVER been a successful eshkape from Stalag 13.

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
8:34 am

goooooooooooooooo economy!!

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

gain of 155K jobs … plus an extra 15K in November!

TaxPayer

January 4th, 2013
8:35 am

Do Republicans use any condiments while munching out on each other.

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
8:37 am

and, in fact, there was decent job growth throughout the year:

In 2012, employment growth averaged 153,000 per month, the same as the
average monthly gain for 2011. In December, employment increased in
health care, food services and drinking places, construction, and
manufacturing.

slow growth, but that prevents hyper-inflation …

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
8:37 am

“Do Republicans use any condiments while munching out on each other.”

dude.

that much fat can NOT be good for one’s cholesterol.

Common Sense isn't very Common

January 4th, 2013
8:38 am

TP

Do Republicans use any condiments while munching out on each other
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Of course they do, they you horses ass sauce :-)

Jack ®

January 4th, 2013
8:38 am

Handel for governor. Chambliss for president. They both have to move to the middle, though. And promise to give away a lot of stuff.

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
8:38 am

gain of 155K jobs … plus an extra 15K in November!

well, it’s not quite time to cue up Song 2 from Blur, but good news nevertheless.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 4th, 2013
8:38 am

USinUK, clearly you do not know what you are talking about. I know our cons all promised us that the October and November numbers were being cooked to help Obama win the election and we would see big big big drops in December. :lol: Unskewed jobs, right?

TaxPayer

January 4th, 2013
8:40 am

One trillion dollar coin would cover the cost of Sandy with enough left over to pay down most of the deficit for one year.

Should a trillion dollar coin be sized such that it can be carried in one’s pocket or should should it be bigger?

What image should be on a trillion dollar coin?

What should the trillion dollar coin be made of?

How many trillion dollar coins should we have?

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
8:40 am

Now, just think what the job numbers would look like if the House hadn’t been controlled by psychopaths the past two years.

USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)

January 4th, 2013
8:42 am

dB – at least you didn’t refer to any song by Muse. gah. too pretentious by half.

Keep Up – and they tried to derail the economy to give us those numbers just this week!!

TaxPayer

January 4th, 2013
8:44 am

I hear there are lots of jobs available in statistical analysis… and no Republicans that qualify. Bummer.

JamVet

January 4th, 2013
8:47 am

And promise to give away a lot of stuff.

But only to the right “people”, like corporations and the super-wealthy, huh Jack?

The only good thing about you self-destructive Republirubes, is that you cannot evolve, ergo…

curious

January 4th, 2013
8:47 am

Who added all those “pork” line items into the Sandy relief bill?

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
8:48 am

Taxpayer @ 8.40, fortunately for you I have already given this matter some serious thought.

The answers are:

Slightly bigger than an Eisenhower Dollar;

Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Twighlight Sparkle, and Cheerilee Pony;

Platinum; and

Four ought to do it for now.

(They can be deposited as needed, but might as well have ‘em minted and ready to spend.)

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 4th, 2013
8:50 am

Who added all those “pork” line items into the Sandy relief bill?

Republicans.

This has been another episode of answers staring you in the face but you refuse to believe if. Republican Alaskan fisheries!

TaxPayer

January 4th, 2013
8:53 am

The minting of a trillion dollar coin highlights the obvious need for the minting of millions of billion dollar coins and million dollar coins in order to make change when only a portion of a trillion dollar coin is spent.

Granny Godzilla

January 4th, 2013
8:58 am

Taypayers

Can we get the change in chocolate coins?

My endorphins need stimulating this morning.

stands for decibels

January 4th, 2013
8:59 am

jerbs SHEETZ.

Ben Shockley

January 4th, 2013
9:00 am

Saxby Chambliss is a RINO in bed with the farm subsidy/cotton subsidy cabal (The AJC ran an excellent expose’ on this several years ago) and voters from both parties should be glad to see him go.

GT

January 4th, 2013
9:45 am

Saxby Chambliss is far better than someone sent down from the home office to keep their satellite state under their thumb. This is a great chance for Georgia to get out from under the boot and maybe start improving our lives. We haven’t done this ever in the history of our state, stop blaming others for our weak character, show some guts instead of always hitting the greed button.

Uh Huh.............The GOP will self-destruct

January 4th, 2013
10:45 am

I HOPE and PRAY that the GOP will self DESTRUCT.

They REAP what they SOW.

nowayjose23932

January 4th, 2013
12:47 pm

Hey, Georgia Republicans, it looks like Jim Martin was right about Saxby Chambliss after all. The sweet taste of schaudenfreude.

Jmaguire

January 6th, 2013
7:18 am

It would be nice to have a conservative run against the moderate Saxby. I think Georgians would all be better off if someone with principle ran and won versus this politician.

Jay – what is better, a principled man you disagree with or a politician who wants to “win” votes?