Chip Rogers’ price a cool $150,000
From Kristina Torres of the AJC:
Former state Sen. Chip Rogers will start his new job Tuesday earning a lofty $150,000 – making him the seventh executive at Georgia Public Broadcasting earning six figures annually, despite a rather pedestrian title: “Executive producer, community jobs program.”
The position, like others at GPB, is paid solely through state taxpayers’ money. But it is more than Gov. Nathan Deal and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle each make in their public jobs.
And it is more than what some of Rogers’ new colleagues made in the last fiscal year, including GBP’s vice president for radio and its chief information officer.
Rogers, of course, is the former Senate majority leader whose crank theories — land-use planning is a UN conspiracy to take over the country; Georgians must be legally protected from microchips being implanted in their brains — made him an embarrassment. His colorful business dealings — claiming that he could not be held liable for a major loan because it was the bank’s fault for being stupid enough to lend him the money — only added to his “charm”.
In effect, the governor is paying Rogers to go away to a place where he can do less harm, and he is using $150,000 in taxpayer money to do so.
Failing upward is more lucrative than most of us imagined.
– Jay Bookman
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0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
3:05 pm
Breaking News Headline: “All Hostages Dead in Algeria”
Now ……….. who is to blame:
a) The animals who did this.
b) The AK-47’s they used.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
3:07 pm
td is propaganda czar.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
3:07 pm
JohnnyReb @ 2:46:
“The undeniable point is, Obama can create as many useless positions as he wants, waste millions of tax payer dollars a year paying the special interest “advisors” and not a peep from the Left.”
Thank you !
It’s also known as “BLIND LIBERAL HYPOCRISY” !
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
3:08 pm
and the community dear leader was organizing is one great big ghetto. and now barrack is turning the entire country into a ghetto.
yuzeyurbrane
January 19th, 2013
3:08 pm
folks, td is surely pranking you? At least I got a good laugh out of his posts today. But, if not a big joke, I finally understand how he can defend his wife’s current job at DFACS while she holds views similar to his. He has a logical point–nothing like employing anti-govt. people in govt. jobs to prove that govt. does not work.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
3:10 pm
why is it that Hillary is healthy enough to discuss Algeria but too sick to testify about obamas failures in Libya that allowed our Ambassador to be murdered?
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:10 pm
White Power td,
You counterfeit conservatives (note that it is spelled with a little c!) are a joke.
Look at how diverse this country is – blacks, browns, yellows, reds, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus.
And look inside your disgusting little tent; it has virtually NO diversity. Non-whites and non-Christians are not invited into the GOP’s pup tent, thank you very much.
Which I absolutely love!
You nutjobs are going the way of the dodo bird.
Until then, good luck with your Southern Strategy!
Segregation yesterday! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!!
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:11 pm
Now ……….. who is to blame:
Barack Obama.
(Just doing my Republican imitation…)
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 19th, 2013
3:16 pm
Has anyone here tried to LIVE in the DC area on 100,000 a year/
hard to do
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
3:16 pm
Now ……….. who is to blame:
Barack Obama.
(Just doing my Republican imitation…)
when Bush was in office you blamed everything on him. Now Obamas in office nothing is his fault. Stupid liberals.
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:16 pm
Scout
And since you have said nothing regarding Rodgers, it can be chalked up as “BLIND CONSERVATIVE HYPOCRISY”?
thought so
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
3:17 pm
Dixie Normous:
“why is it that Hillary is healthy enough to discuss Algeria but too sick to testify about obamas failures in Libya that allowed our Ambassador to be murdered?”
Excellent point.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
3:17 pm
Has anyone here tried to LIVE in the DC area on 100,000 a year/
hard to do
Has anyone tried to live in DC without a gun.
Impossible to do, unless you have armed guards like Feinstein.
td
January 19th, 2013
3:18 pm
yuzeyurbrane
January 19th, 2013
3:08 pm
Huge difference between no government (which conservatives do not believe in) and limited government.
I do know the Governor and I was factual about talking to him on the square in Marietta about placing Conservatives into key leadership positions in State Government.
As far as taking a job in his second term, how about Department of Human Resources commissioner? We need conservative rules in place to make sure only the truly needy keeps receiving government handouts.
larry
January 19th, 2013
3:18 pm
What ticks me off is this Deal was in the works before the election .
Rogers should have to pay for the special election.
Maybe Deal can arrange Rogers’ hotel to be bought by his porn/pawn buddy in California. He’ll even set up the financing deal.
No wonder his approval rating is 37%
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:20 pm
Twink, you never got the memo.
George Bush was responsible for nothing.
Except maybe ensuring that the ensuing two GOP candidates for the White House both got crushed.
You’re doing a heckuva job, Twinkie…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
3:22 pm
TBS:
The scale between the Rogers situation and what Obama has done is astronomical.
Rogers doesn’t even deserve a footnote but Jay brings it up here when he would never address
Obama’s carnage !
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:22 pm
…Ambassador to be murdered?
Meh. He was just another useless government employee and moocher, twink. Deep down you’re happy…
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:27 pm
scout
moan and whine all you like
You are a hypocrite if you are not going to say anything about this Rodgers “deal” yet call others hypocrites for not speaking out against Obama
“I call them like I see them”
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 19th, 2013
3:28 pm
So, why is this such a surprise to anyone? Sure Rogers is a typical slimeball who could represent either party…
He, however is not the culprit here…PBS is the entity that is, in this case showing no respect for our tax dollars..same as BO, Congress and the like..
larry
January 19th, 2013
3:31 pm
The scale between the Rogers situation and what Obama has done is astronomical.
Malarky, Rogers and his buddies all but took over the State Senate in what amounted as an internal coup from tht Lt. Gov.
Rogers and his buddies voted to increase my property taxes by getting rid of the Governors credit. The average property owner taxes went up $250 or more.
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:32 pm
and yes, seeing that a state Senator who is causing problems within his party end up with a made up job, it deserves mention whether you like it or not
This is GA and the issue is in the state government of GA
You whine about Bookman but the conservative leaning Wingfield has also wrote about this issue several times
yes there is as much hypocrisy on the left as there is on the right, however you need to take that log out of your own eye………………. but without taking it out you probably can’t see that you are as guilty of doing some of the same things you call out the left for doing
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
3:32 pm
Too bad the legislators aren’t salaried, we might have retained
this valuable Senator.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
3:33 pm
Scout should apply for President Obama’s shoe-shine czar.
td
January 19th, 2013
3:33 pm
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:10 pm
LMFAO. You have ASSumed today and have had it handed to you and all you can come back with is more blah, blah, blah, blah.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 19th, 2013
3:34 pm
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:20 pm
Since the general concensus on this blog is that everything that matters is all Bush’s fault, why do you keep comparing Obama to Bush ad nausea? Why not compare him to a higher bar? At some point, most of you will realize that continuing on this path, Obamas legacy, unlike any other in history, will have to include a prior president as a stilt. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
What if we dip into recession again and debt continues to pile on it’s current trajectory then in 4 years our interest rates go up…leaving the next occupant with a situation that is embarassingly worse than when he arrived?
This is not outside the realm of possibility..
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 19th, 2013
3:36 pm
Anyone know what exactly Rogers job description entails? What is his experience? Perhaps he simply has the perverbial “donkey” pictures of key PBS leadership?
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:37 pm
larry
Getting rid of the credit and raising fees is the way Deal taught the Republicans in the state to raise revenues and still tell the believers in the flock that they didn’t raise taxes
Deal just did it again this week. He side stepped having the legislature vote for that bed tax and him signing it into law by pushing it under the Dept of Health or something similar
Heck even Wingfield basically called it a chicken$hit move
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
3:38 pm
Candy and nut prices have skyrocketed leaving ifs and buts with no place to go.
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:40 pm
Stevie
There might be a job description now, but when the job was announced there was not one to be found
I can’t wait for the earth is 6000 yrs old documentaries
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:42 pm
Since the general concensus (sic) on this blog is that everything that matters is all Bush’s fault…
SR lose the word all and try again.
The severity and quantity of problems that this nation faces began in earnest forty years ago. Specifically, the economic destruction of the working people in this country.
That the Bush administration was the most incompetent and shameful in nearly a hundred years only exacerbated the problems.
As for comparisons, Obama’s administration reminds me of Reagan’s – some good, plenty bad. Just minus the huge number of criminals that Ronnie had on his team…
Don Coyote
January 19th, 2013
3:43 pm
“In effect, the governor is paying Rogers to go away to a place where he can do less harm, and he is using $150,000 in taxpayer money to do so.”
Actually it is worse than that. Rogers was already eligible for a state pension since he had served more than 8 years in the legislature. Now if he keeps the GPB job for 2 years his pension will be based on the 150k amount vs the 17k legislative pay. And don’t forget the bennies either, the pension includes health insurance and other lovely departing gifts. KaChing!
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:46 pm
Don
I guess Chip will end up being another small government conservative who will never work to make to small for his own personal gain
I just don't get...
January 19th, 2013
3:47 pm
…what all the consternation is about from Jay and friends – Obuma has helped run up a $16trillion deficit of taxpayer money, and you guys are quibbling over $150K of taxpayer money….hahahahahahahahahaha….
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 19th, 2013
3:53 pm
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
3:42 pm
Of course you a more of a thinker than most here…however, the final couple paragraphs of you post go right to the concept I’m referring to. Are you suggesting all of our ills started 40 years ago with Reagan and his crooks? History will continue to be kind to Reagan no matter who has an opinion. We felt strong. Bush,for all his shortcomings, was over-reacting to 911, we were afraid and wanted payback…other thing to consider is that we have never been attacked with so many deaths in the history of our country. I think his preoccupation was to make sure that didn’t happen on his watch again, despite the fact that he really had no hand or real opportunity to stop this. We have seen, even in BO’s term, how boggled the communication is with our various intelligence and defense resources…
I can assure you that PelosiCare..big signature thing, will make the cost of D seem irrelevant…
Here’s another reason to be scared of PelosiCare..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-the-time-bomb-within-obamacare/2013/01/18/673a113c-6108-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html?tid=pm_pop
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 19th, 2013
3:56 pm
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:40 pm
That’s funny…here’s something to look forward to. Hopefully, this guy Rogers will be one of the frontmen when they do the fundraising which is done periodically…We should have great fun calling the phones and razzing the ever loving sh*t out of him..
TBS
January 19th, 2013
4:00 pm
Stevie
Just another government crony being take care of by his party. I can see where Scout would call liberals hypocrite for not denouncing the left and some of their shenanigans, but as you read, he was unable or unwilling to do the same about Rodgers.
Just as he did, I call that hypocritical.
This has been going on for ions and will continue to do so. This will be off the radar within a week
pogo
January 19th, 2013
4:03 pm
This kind of crap happens in both political parties. Anyone who denies it is an idiot. Of course I am sure some of the homesteaders here will.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 19th, 2013
4:05 pm
TBS
January 19th, 2013
4:00 pm
Yeah, I really can’t imagine any credible analysis that suggested that the dopey GOP was more corrupt than the dopey DEM’s…The dysfunctional system makes it impossible for otherwise well-meaning newly elected folks to have stones to take a real stand on anything sigificant. As BO has proven, all that he and congress are capable of doing for the immediate future is play small ball…
larry
January 19th, 2013
4:10 pm
What Rogers did was exactly what my state Rep. did. He quit to take a cushy job with the Dept. of Community Affairs.
I wonder how much Deal is paying him .
yuzeyurbrane
January 19th, 2013
4:14 pm
td–I’d love to see you back at DFACS. If you get the job, just tell everyone you are td so I can follow your words vs. your actions. You know it is already almost virtually impossible for an adult to get cash welfare in Georgia–only about 3400 total in whole state–and that Medicaid for non-nursing home adults is also quite difficult to get. Now, one of of Deal’s criticisms of Obamacare exchanges is that it will direct 100,000 “eligible” folks to Medicaid (his words, not mine) who are not currently on Medicaid rolls. Now what would you do to reduce further the 3400 adults on cash welfare and reduce the number of non-nursing home adults currently receiving Medicaid as well as keeping the 100,000 additional “eligible” Medicaid recipients that Deal predicts will be added as result of Obamacare?
luangtom
January 19th, 2013
4:19 pm
Open your eyes and ears, Atlanta. Just look at MARTA and other such entities and see how much such personnel collect on the public-dole. Look at what school-administrators get in APS, Cobb or Fulton County Schools. ANY job in the public sector can be looked at with dismay. It is not only GPBS and the newest name on their payroll, it is all of them.
Public Works
January 19th, 2013
4:21 pm
The state pays a Superior Court judge in Georgia just under 121,000 in annual salary. The job requies 20 years of school and 7 years experience, and is usually more This public radio gig is beating that by more than 20%. Public school teachers with Masters Degrees and 15 years experience are paid less than half Rogers’s new salary.
Priorities.
larry
January 19th, 2013
4:24 pm
Just look at MARTA and other such entities and see how much such personnel collect on the public-dole. Look at what school-administrators get in APS, Cobb or Fulton County Schools. ANY job in the public sector can be looked at with dismay.
Yes, but were all those jobs arranged by the governor of the state before an election ?
Pizzaman
January 19th, 2013
4:31 pm
0311/#####,etc,etc @1:27,
You do know that W is getting the same salary, perks, retirement and security don’t you. He is the first to get it as a matter of fact. FYI: current retirement pay for POTUS starting with W $190,000/y.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
4:33 pm
Armed School Security Guard Clark Arnold Leaves Gun Unattended In Student Bathroom
Oops!
Pizzaman
January 19th, 2013
4:33 pm
Forgot: W has only 8 years with the Fed. The President has 12. He WAS a Senator, not a gov! Same retirement!
We need to do away with all [public sector] unions!!
January 19th, 2013
4:34 pm
The strike that began Wednesday, which idled more than half of the city’s school buses and forced about 113,000 children to find new ways to school, was prompted by a fight over union jobs. But its true roots are in an attempt to reform one of the most inefficient transportation systems in the country, one that costs almost $7,000 a year for each passenger, an amount so high that many of those children could hire a livery cab for about the same price.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/nyregion/new-york-school-bus-drivers-go-on-strike.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=all&_r=0
To all'a'y'all
January 19th, 2013
4:39 pm
I’m new here. Hey, everybody!
Isn’t this microChip Rogers thing really about the Rs trying to kill public broadcasting in Georgia. I’m reading and hearing all over the place that people are going to withhold their donations now that this igno-moron has a $150K puffball for a job. In six months, I can’t wait to hear: “See, even the people who support PBS don’t want it anymore. Let’s lynch Ernie and Bert.” Please, please, let’s not send that message.
Oh, and, I wish I’d gotten that much from unemployment when I was laid off.
Pizzaman
January 19th, 2013
4:41 pm
Folks don’t bother with 0311/3333/etc,etc. He/She’s smoking or drinking or injecting something weird. Scrambled brain if I’ve ever seen one.
larry
January 19th, 2013
4:47 pm
Armed School Security Guard Clark Arnold Leaves Gun Unattended In Student Bathroom
Yeah, that legislation to arm adminstrators looks better everyday.
oy.
pogo
January 19th, 2013
4:49 pm
I was at the grocery store this morning and it was hilarious to watch all of the people buying their MLK holiday and Obama inauguration staples like hotdogs, chips, dip, hamburger meat and “sides” of pork ribs with SNAPS cards. And this is supposed to me some kind of a celebration of their “liberation”? Whenever you cannot provide something as basic as food for yourself and you depend upon the government to provide it you are anything but free but apparently they just aren’t smart enough to know it (or don’t care). Oh well, whatever makes them and their arteries happy!
Go FALCONS!
The Thin Guy
January 19th, 2013
4:49 pm
That’s why those pledge drives last so long. If only 1,000 viewers contribute $ 150 we can afford Chip Rodgers’ leadership and you’ll get a tote bag with a picture of the other Mr. Rodgers. Well at least, unlike the virus in the White House, he’s an American.
larry
January 19th, 2013
4:50 pm
Oh, and, I wish I’d gotten that much from unemployment when I was laid off.
Only if you are Republican Senator or Rep. and one of Deals buddies.
Then you can get as much unemployment you want.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
4:52 pm
Limbaugh barked on his radio show about how sickening he found Obama’s display. “He brings these kids, supposedly who wrote letters to the White House after Newtown … to paint a picture of support [mocking voice] among the children!” Limbaugh said. He continued in a falsely sympathetic tone, “They don’t want to die. How can you not listen to them?”
You tell ‘em, Rush. Those little children acting like they have a right to life or something. Well, not it it imposes on the cons and their rights to guns.
larry
January 19th, 2013
4:52 pm
pogo
January 19th, 2013
4:49 pm
Did you see them put it in the Escalade? Along with their lottery tickets?
Don’t ya just love stereotypes.
Jack ®
January 19th, 2013
4:55 pm
Obama fell upward. And our paychecks fell downward.
nomaj
January 19th, 2013
4:57 pm
Disgusting and insulting. Georgians who have supported and defended PBS while dumb-ass greedy people like Rogers and his kind were mocking us with epithets (to them) like “elitist,” “wine drinkers,” and so on now have this puke running the State PBS organization? Make perfect sense, given the caliber of people that this peculiar state has elected to high office. Ever since Sonny Perdue defeated Roy Barnes, the political leadership of GA has been composed of not-too-bright, venal talk radio stereotypes. So unfortunate.
Don Coyote
January 19th, 2013
5:03 pm
But…but….but…Marta….but…but…welfare…but…but…Obama…but…
QUIT TRYING TO OBFUSCATE.
I am a fiscal conservative just to the right of Attila the Hun but I know BS when I see it or smell it and something is wrong when a Governor can get a party embarrassment/Cagle rival out of the legislature with a golden parachute. There is also something wrong when a Governor has the power to unilaterally appoint state employees at a level below department head. Positions like this should be created, advertised, and appointed through normal human resources channels.
The Governor had the audacity to end his State of the State speech talking about ethics and basic ethics is simply discerning the difference between right and wrong. This is wrong.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
5:04 pm
That bigoted little pervert, Rush Limbaugh, is still on the air?
LOL!!!
I LOVE that guy!
That guy is the best friend a non-Republican could ever have…
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
5:04 pm
Obama fell upward. And our paychecks fell downward.
That’s too bad. Maybe you should change jobs.
No one knows yet what Michelle Obama will wear at the second inauguration but many will be watching, not only for its fashion statement but also for its potential business impact.
Michelle Obama is “probably the greatest rainmaker in the history of fashion,” says Bloomberg BusinessWeek reporter Ira Boudway. He tells The Daily Ticker that the J. Crew web site crashed from the extra traffic that followed after shoppers saw the green leather gloves Michelle Obama wore at the inauguration. J. Crew stock surged 25% the week after the event. (The company is now privately held.)
NYU Finance Professor David Yermack has calculated that the first lady’s public appearances has added $5 billion to the stock price of various publicly traded clothing companies.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
5:12 pm
Just look at cities that have a history of liberal leadership. Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, San Francisco, DC. Not exactly meccas that everyone is wanting to flock to. They are mostly ghettos because of failed liberal leadership. And now the whole country has decided to follow their example. That just goes to show how stupid the American electorate is.
larry
January 19th, 2013
5:13 pm
Speaking of Perdue, i wonder how hard he is lobbying to have that port at Savannah project to go through?
He had $ in his eyes long before he left office.
Real Scootter
January 19th, 2013
5:17 pm
He had $ in his eyes long before he left office.
larry,that creap had money in his eyes before he got in office. Jus sayin…….
larry
January 19th, 2013
5:21 pm
larry,that creap had money in his eyes before he got in office. Jus sayin…….
Yep, no doubt about that.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
5:23 pm
What politician doesnt have money in their eyes? Have you seen how much obamas campaign was fines because of illegal campaign contributions?
larry
January 19th, 2013
5:30 pm
Ahhhhhhh…….. but Obama did this …………….
Deflection. Again.
td
January 19th, 2013
5:46 pm
Hope you all missed me. Had to take my 15 year old son out and teach him how shoot, drop the 15 round clip and put another one in within 2 seconds, and get back on target and shoot more. What a wonderful state we live in where I can actually teach good gun techniques to my great children.
nathan's political arsonist
January 19th, 2013
5:55 pm
will the bookie and calhoun motel financier will cost taxpayers over $230,000 a year with the fringe for insurance, retirement, and employee payroll taxes
Jm
January 19th, 2013
5:59 pm
Positively absurd
Living With Open Eyes
January 19th, 2013
6:05 pm
Being a liberal – I was a Republican conservative for 8 years, watched Reagan let factory jobs go overseas and illegal immigrants plant their roots here – I am not happy with a Repubrobot running our only liberal news source. But I am even more angry with Al Gore for selling Current TV to antiAmerican foreign radicals.
Tap Out
January 19th, 2013
6:07 pm
That $150k could have provided three $50k jobs in law enforcement or emergency services….three jobs that would have helped the state and the families of the new employees.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
6:08 pm
Anyone seen the news about the Michigan Supreme Court Judge? The Democrat thats is retiring because of fraud charges.
The good news:
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder will choose Hathaway’s successor and likely stretch the GOP’s majority to 5-2.
DannyX
January 19th, 2013
6:12 pm
“Had to take my 15 year old son out and teach him how shoot, drop the 15 round clip and put another one in within 2 seconds, and get back on target and shoot more.”
That brought a tear to my eye, td!
I took my 15 year old son for a visit to the GPB offices today. I told him that if he is real stupid, becomes a Republican politician, is a failure in business, can swindle a bank out of a 2.1 million dollars, and believes in ridiculous conspiracy theories he can one day work for GPB making an absurd taxpayer funded salary as a bribe to get him out of office.
My son then looked up at me and said, “Daddy, can I be nicknamed Chip?” I felt so proud. I said to him, “Yes Chip, you can.”
Liberals embellish, again...??
January 19th, 2013
6:15 pm
Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s claim that he heard the gunshots of a 2006 school massacre while playing golf is raising questions about his veracity or his memory.
Mr. Biden told a meeting of mayors in Washington Thursday that he was about a quarter-mile away from an Amish schoolhouse on Oct. 2, 2006, when a gunman shot and killed five students and wounded five others.
“I happened to be literally — probably, it turned out, to be a quarter of a mile [away] at an outing when I heard gunshots in the woods,” Mr. Biden recounted. “We didn’t know … we thought they were hunters.”
But a search of maps of the area in Lancaster County, Pa., shows the nearest golf course to the site of the shooting, Moccasin Run Golf Club, is about five miles away. Rodney King, the golf pro at Moccasin Run, said Friday he was working at the course on the day of the shooting and never saw Mr. Biden, who was then a U.S. senator.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/18/bidens-claim-brush-gun-massacre-questioned/#ixzz2ISxh5l00
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Forseti
January 19th, 2013
6:15 pm
Looks like old Chip Rogers was using the same excuse so many other deadbeats are using for not paying their loans they signed for!!! He must have been the subject of predatory lending also!! LOL. Poor old Chippy was fooled into signing up for a loan he knew he could not or would not pay.
Jm
January 19th, 2013
6:17 pm
Scout 3:22 true dat
td
January 19th, 2013
6:17 pm
DannyX
January 19th, 2013
6:12 pm
Ha, Ha, Ha. You are so funny, I bet you made an “A” in fictional writing while I made an ‘A’ in marksmanship.
To all'a'y'all
January 19th, 2013
6:20 pm
Bear with me. First, a very short story:
A man came up on a restaurant owned by cannibals. On the menu, he saw: North Carolina barbecue, $10. New York cheesecake, $5. Georgia politician, $250.
“Why does the Georgia politician cost so much,” the man asked.
“Have you ever tried to clean one?” the cannibal inquired.
Second, was that Chip Rogers I just saw hauling butt up Marietta Street with a guy in a chef’s hat right on his tail?
I could be mistaken.
Forseti
January 19th, 2013
6:20 pm
Danny X,
Why does he have to be a Republican to line up all the illicit gains? Seems to me Ray Nagin was a democrat that used public office to line his pockets. I think you can find many pols from either party that have done the same thing. Not sure how you assume your boy will have to be a Republican to do it unless you have a political axe to grind. I know that could not be the reason for your narrative above could it?
marko
January 19th, 2013
6:23 pm
The Peter Principle suggested that employees rose in a hierarchy until they reach their level of incompetence. Aren’t we there yet. Repubs hate PBS. Isn’t this like asking the church lady to run a whore house? This is about as funny as appointing a man that considers evolution and the big bang theory lies from the pit of hell to the science committee. Government is inherently wasteful and inefficient, and by god they won’t stop until they prove it.
Forseti
January 19th, 2013
6:23 pm
Bill Campbell (D) and Mitch Skandalakis (R) also come to mind as pols who used public office for personal gain. Marion Barry also like to smoke crack on tape…..just goes to show that power tends to corrupt many people.
yuzeyurbrane
January 19th, 2013
6:39 pm
td–Adam Lanza’s mom taught him how to shoot. . . better be careful.
td
January 19th, 2013
6:46 pm
yuzeyurbrane
January 19th, 2013
6:39 pm
td–Adam Lanza’s mom taught him how to shoot. . . better be careful.
1: My son is not crazy.
2: He has been hunting (killed his first deer at 12) for a while. I was teaching him how to shoot, reload a clip quickly, and shoot accurately again,
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
6:47 pm
the best part about Mayor Berry is that even after he was busted and videotaped smoking crack with a prostitute liberals still voted for him. Thats how dumb they are.
td
January 19th, 2013
6:49 pm
It’s important to teach your children to fear everything irrationally.
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
6:50 pm
Power corrupts. Absolute Georgia Power corrupts absolutely.
Steve
January 19th, 2013
6:53 pm
I support public broadcasting, but GPB has seen the last on my money.
td
January 19th, 2013
6:55 pm
The 6:49 comment is not mine. We have a name jackoff tonight.
indigo
January 19th, 2013
7:03 pm
All TV commercials on the nightly news seem to indicate network execs think most of their vievers are old white men with erectile dysfunction and COPD.
I wonder why that is?
indigo
January 19th, 2013
7:06 pm
td – 6:46
It is very difficult for animals to survive in the wild. They don’t need you hunting them for your “sport”.
Teaching your 12 year old son to murder animals for sport only shows what a yahoo you truly are.
F. Sinkwich
January 19th, 2013
7:07 pm
“I support public broadcasting, but GPB has seen the last on my money.”
Good!
They should not receive any government money either.
From here to evermore!!!
td
January 19th, 2013
7:08 pm
When I was a youngster my daddy, Bojangle Ezekiel Corbin, warned me that the government, people of color, the liberal elite, and deer were all conspiring to kill me. I’m still here today, but only because of my guns.
mike
January 19th, 2013
7:10 pm
How much you wanna bet ole Chipperooo shows up to run again in a few years. These sacks of ship always resurface. This one is a real doozie. Cherokee County folks must be low information voters!!!
mike
January 19th, 2013
7:13 pm
Indigo, go back to your little midtown apartment and lock up tight. Where do you think much of our food comes from?
I guess in your world twelve year olds are suppose to be at the mall or out skateboarding
Passerby
January 19th, 2013
7:14 pm
“I was teaching him how to shoot, reload a clip quickly, and shoot accurately again.”
Why?
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
7:16 pm
Speaking of cons and their guns, they do more damage to themselves than anything they try to aim at.
USA Patriot
January 19th, 2013
7:20 pm
Indigo – I hear Hank Johnson is looking for you to shine his helmet. Hurry up little man!
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
7:20 pm
“I was teaching him how to shoot, reload a clip quickly, and shoot accurately again.”
Why?
Would you rather he teach him to shoot inaccurately? Why?
TBS
January 19th, 2013
7:23 pm
TaxPayer
Cheney must have been there demonstrating his firearm safety and shooting knowledge