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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JamVet
January 19th, 2013
7:25 pm
Of course, Stinkwich doesn’t want high quality television programming.
Like all good Republicans he prefers the vapid, vacuous and violence filled, overpriced filth on the other channels.
Low brow TV for flat earthers…
indigo
January 19th, 2013
7:26 pm
Mike
Hunting for food and “sport” hunting are two completely different things.
How is it you don’t know this?
indigo
January 19th, 2013
7:27 pm
USA Patroit
Don’t assume I have your bad political but*kiss habits.
Passerby
January 19th, 2013
7:28 pm
@ Dixie Normous
I can tell you’re a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome.
F. Sinkwich
January 19th, 2013
7:32 pm
“Of course, Stinkwich doesn’t want high quality television programming.”
Sure I do. I just don’t want taxpayers to fund it.
Thanks for asking though.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
7:42 pm
Any gun regulation is too much for our cons.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
7:45 pm
I still laugh when I think of that cowardly little weakling, Mitt Romney saying he was going to defund PBS.
We are very disappointed that PBS became a political target in the Presidential debate last night,” PBS said in the statement. “Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation.”
“Elimination of funding would have virtually no impact on the nation’s debt,” it continued — “yet the loss to the American public would be devastating.”
Citing Romney’s self-proclaimed support for education, PBS said the presidential candidate should be in favor of funding public broadcasting.
Per the statement:
For more than 40 years, Big Bird has embodied the public broadcasting mission – harnessing the power of media for the good of every citizen, regardless of where they live or their ability to pay. Our system serves as a universally accessible resource for education, history, science, arts and civil discourse.
Over the course of a year, 91% of all U.S. television households tune in to their local PBS station. In fact, our service is watched by 81% of all children between the ages of 2-8.
Each day, the American public receives an enduring and daily return on investment that is heard, seen, read and experienced in public media broadcasts, apps, podcasts and online – all for the cost of about $1.35 per person per year.
Cons want their kids to be as ignorant, uneducated and willfully stupid as they are.
The money that PBS receives is less that one one hundredth of of one percent of the federal budget, so no, even the Uncle Sam haters are not dumb enough to contend that the reason is money.
They hate that Uncle Sam does something really great on a relatively tiny amount of money, which makes the profiteers and slime merchants look awful in the process.
You want to make some real dough? Make those parasites on those other channels pay us for using our airwaves.
THAT would be some real money…
Banderson
January 19th, 2013
7:48 pm
What’s the point of being governor if you can’t rip off the taxpayers?
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
7:52 pm
RALEIGH, N.C. — Officials say three people were wounded when gunfire erupted at a gun show at the North Carolina state fairgrounds.
It happened Saturday at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show, a quarterly event that usually draws thousands of people.
State agriculture department spokesman Brian Long says a 12-gauge shotgun discharged while its owner unzipped its case for a law enforcement officer to check it at a security entrance.
Two bystanders were hit by shotgun pellets and taken to a hospital. A retired deputy sheriff suffered a slight hand injury.
Long says the shotgun’s owner, 36-year-old Gary Lynn Wilson of Wilmington, brought the weapon to the show to find a private buyer.
You cons need to be careful or you’ll put your eye out or you’ll put your child’s eye out or your wife’s or someone else’s.
Recon 0311 2533
January 19th, 2013
8:03 pm
We sure do have some left wing epistles this evening. As usual they don’t say much for all of their cut and paste efforts. Libs are sorry followers of causes they don’t even understand themselves.
n
January 19th, 2013
8:04 pm
Of course he was planted to implement the destruction of GPB.
I see post after post of folks proclaiming they will no longer support GPB now that he’s there.
Get a clue folks. Without a doubt this is a coup that the far right crazies in the state leadership and throughout the country are celebrating, and which the hapless people at GPB or PBS had no power to thwart.
These nihilists seek to insinuate themselves into all productive and beneficial enterprises–and destroy them.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
8:11 pm
Anthony Weiner was a pretty good shot with a camera. LOL
td
January 19th, 2013
8:22 pm
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.
Deer meat taste very good. We eat what we kill.
Predatory Lender
January 19th, 2013
8:28 pm
Jay,
Chip’s attitude, “who is the smartest guy in the room?”. Looks like we have an integrity issue with him as well……repayment issues along with expense reports and his PAC…..conservative? No, more like a crook.
PL
td
January 19th, 2013
8:31 pm
Wonder why Jay has not posted these numbers in all his anti gun rants this week. Could it be because it does not fit the Democratic narrative?
By NBC’s Mark Murray
As Washington prepares for a political battle over the Obama White House’s proposals to curb gun violence after the Newtown, Conn., shootings, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the National Rifle Association is more popular than the entertainment industry.
Forty-one percent of adults see the NRA — the nation’s top gun lobby — in a positive light, while 34 percent view it in a negative light.
By comparison, just 24 percent have positive feelings about the entertainment industry, and 39 percent have negative ones.
The NRA’s fav/unfav score is virtually unchanged from its 41 percent-to-29 percent rating in the Jan. 2011 NBC/WSJ poll, nearly two years before the Newtown shootings.
“That seems to me to be a pretty remarkably stable figure,” says GOP pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.
But it’s a substantial improvement from the 1990s, when the NRA’s negative ratings outweighed its positive ones in the NBC/WSJ survey.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/17/16567367-nbcwsj-poll-nra-more-popular-than-entertainment-industry?lite
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
8:34 pm
If NBC conducted the poll then the NRAs favorable ratings are much higher than their skewed results.
Public Works
January 19th, 2013
8:39 pm
I’ve been around a while. I remember when conservatism was a political philosophy that stressed strong local government, strong national defense and planning (yes, government policy) that promoted a stronger economy, better opportunity and a better quality of life.
I have lived long enough to see conservatism become the opposition to anything “government,” – a political philosophy that great republicans – eisenhower, goldwater, ford, even bush 1 would barely recognize. Conservatism comprised of followers who will automatically bow to rhetoric.
Ultimately, the saddest thing is that people have lost that ability to see people for who they really are. Someone said earlier the voters who elected Rogers must have been pretty uninformed. That’s probably not true. They just couldn’t see what must have been obvious.
Georgia, a state I care for deeply will have much misery before the tide turns.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
8:40 pm
I hope everyone had a great Gun Appreciation Day.
I celebrating by participating in a military rifle match at the local gun club. Fantastic. We had old white guys, young white guys, old guys of color, young guys of color, and females shooting and enjoying a beautiful Georgia day in the great outdoors.
People shot guns, talked guns, sold guns, bought guns, socialized and made friends.
While shooting sports may not be your thing, I respect that. Just leave us the ef alone.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
8:41 pm
“Firearms owners and their advocacy groups headed to gun shops, shooting ranges other places Saturday as part of “Gun Appreciation Day.”
Organizers are encouraging gun-rights supporters to “send a message” to President Obama two days before his second inauguration by “lining up around the block” at gun shops, ranges and shows with a copy of the Constitution, U.S. flags and a “Hands off my Guns” signs.
“We’re just supporting the second amendment,” said John Kenney, who went to Clark Brothers Guns, in Warrington, Va., where the parking lot was full for much of the day.
Kenny said he visited the shop-shooting range in part to try to reverse recent efforts to make gun ownership “look ugly,” instead showing Americans owning a firearm is “a fabulous thing.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/19/firearms-owners-advocacy-groups-head-to-ranges-gun-shops-for-appreciation-day/#ixzz2ITXWMt00
getalife
January 19th, 2013
8:42 pm
I don’t think slobbering on a gun lobbyist is going to help stop slaughter of your children at school.
You should be honoring those 20 children for dying for your freedom.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
8:45 pm
How many children have died because of the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments ………… ?
Mick
January 19th, 2013
8:45 pm
**Libs are sorry followers of causes they don’t even understand themselves.**
Says the man who predicted a romney win. Credibility? You got nothing…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
8:47 pm
Recon @ 8:03
Precisely …………. emotion over reason. That’s their mantra.
td
January 19th, 2013
8:47 pm
getalife
January 19th, 2013
8:42 pm
I will give Obama some credit for making sure more Mental health problems are going to find their way into background checks and that he has said to enforce Federal laws on gun crimes. I also think he is on the right direction by endorsing the NRA plan to put armed guards in schools.
The rest of his agenda is nothing more then attempting to take away my right the keep and bear arms.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
8:50 pm
godless, gun owners can do their gun thing but they have to keep the bullets out of school kids, people at the theatre, people shopping at a mall, law enforcement,…… I am sure they would have loved to enjoyed a beautiful Georgia day in the great outdoors. Those that loved them would like to have shared the day with them.
Mick
January 19th, 2013
8:51 pm
Conservatives are oh so prone to over reaction; I mean really, who’s coming to get your guns? What legislation is being written? Nothing so far. Cliffs, guns, certain people just live in fear. Not for me…
getalife
January 19th, 2013
8:52 pm
“The rest of his agenda is nothing more then attempting to take away my right the keep and bear arms”
Okay, I will go with better background checks is the only change we will get.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
8:54 pm
Keep: godless, gun owners can do their gun thing but they have to keep the bullets out of school kids, people at the theatre, people shopping at a mall, law enforcement,…… I am sure they would have loved to enjoyed a beautiful Georgia day in the great outdoors. Those that loved them would like to have shared the day with them.
I’m sure they would have. Too bad libs are focused on inanimate objects as the reason they couldn’t.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
8:58 pm
Keep: Who has a greater interest in guns being used responsibly than gun owners?
Mick
January 19th, 2013
9:00 pm
Here’s another myth busted about hitler and guns-
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:02 pm
too bad cons can’t deal with reality.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:03 pm
Well then Godless, should be no problem with the proposals on the table for background checks, registration, etc. being responsible gun owners and all
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
9:12 pm
Keep: Most people I have talked to understand the upped background check law will probably come about, and I guess it is the best way to reduce the “straw purchase” problem.
Noone sees an upside to registration of guns or sees a crime-fighting benefit. I posed this question here the other day, and “The cops want it” was the only reason given. Well the cops want to search without warrants, they want to coerce confessions, and they want to question suspects without warrants.
Libs used to be defenders of civil liberties, but now that they have one of their own in the WH and envision total control by a collapse of the GOP, police state seems to be quite palatable.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
9:15 pm
A murder victim was discovered in the 1300th block of main street. The police have determined that the victim was shot with a 30 caliber bullet. They are currently bringing all people within 1/2 mile of the murder scene that have a registered 30 caliber weapon in for questioning. Details to follow.
Obama seeks "fuller understanding" of what happened in Algeria siege
January 19th, 2013
9:20 pm
What happened was the result of a spontaneous protest over a video gone awry…yeah, that’s what we’ll tell them…
Mick
January 19th, 2013
9:20 pm
godless
You always seem to be pretty level headed, do you really believe that gun ownership is in danger? This is the USA, we kick and scream but in the end, guns will prevail. No question the mental health component is the most important; keeping weapons out of their hands, that has to be strengthened…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
9:22 pm
VIGILANCE !
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:23 pm
dawner and birther…. a crazy mix
Mick
January 19th, 2013
9:23 pm
Hey scout…forgot to wish you and your family a healthy & prosperous new year! Man your post!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
9:24 pm
School Shooting
Prozac WITHDRAWAL
2008-02-15
Illinois
** 6 Dead: 15 Wounded: Perpetrator Was in Withdrawal from Med & Acting Erratically
School Shooting
Prozac Antidepressant
2005-03-24
Minnesota
**10 Dead: 7 Wounded: Dosage Increased One Week before Rampage
School Shooting
Paxil [Seroxat] Antidepressant
2001-03-10
Pennsylvania
**14 Year Old GIRL Shoots & Wounds Classmate at Catholic School
School Shooting
Zoloft Antidepressant & ADHD Med
2011-07-11
Alabama
**14 Year Old Kills Fellow Middle School Student
School Shooting
Zoloft Antidepressant
1995-10-12
South Carolina
**15 Year Old Shoots Two Teachers, Killing One: Then Kills Himself
School Shooting
Med For Depression
2009-03-13
Germany
**16 Dead Including Shooter: Antidepressant Use: Shooter in Treatment For Depression
School Hostage Situation
Med For Depression
2010-12-15
France
**17 Year Old with Sword Holds 20 Children & Teacher Hostage
School Shooting Plot
Med For Depression WITHDRAWAL
2008-08-28
Texas
**18 Year Old Plots a Columbine School Attack
School Shooting
Anafranil Antidepressant
1988-05-20
Illinois
**29 Year Old WOMAN Kills One Child: Wounds Five: Kills Self
School Shooting
Luvox/Zoloft Antidepressants
1999-04-20
Colorado
**COLUMBINE: 15 Dead: 24 Wounded
School Stabbings
Antidepressants
2001-06-09
Japan
**Eight Dead: 15 Wounded: Assailant Had Taken 10 Times his Normal Dose of Depression Med
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
9:25 pm
The above is only a very small partial list of the original.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:25 pm
No godless. Just because you claim “no one…” does not make it true in any respect. And “because law enforcement wants it” did not seem to trouble you cons much when it came to the Patriot Act and things like warrantless searches.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
9:28 pm
You always seem to be pretty level headed, do you really believe that gun ownership is in danger?
Short answer.
No.
Do I believe that stupid laws will be passed that will chip away at our freedom but will do nothing to thwart the kind of sh*t that happened in CT or Colorado? But that will give politicians cover that they DID SOMETHING and make libs feel all warn and fuzzy for a day or two.
Yes.
And the next time some nut uses a gun as tool to do something bad, they will pass more stupid laws that don’t do any good.
To paraphrase Edna St. Vincent Millay:
It’s not freedom’s going that pains my days,
but that it went in such little ways.
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
9:28 pm
To celebrate Gun Appreciation Day a firing squad will be held at dawn
and only volunteers from death row will be accepted as targets.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
9:30 pm
“Guns don’t kill people, antidepressants do!”
http://shiftfrequency.com/facts-you-need-to-know-about-crazed-shootings/
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
9:31 pm
Keep: No godless. Just because you claim “no one…” does not make it true in any respect. And “because law enforcement wants it” did not seem to trouble you cons much when it came to the Patriot Act and things like warrantless searches.
You know squat about how I felt about the Patriot Act. Must have been pretty popular with Dims, though, because President Obama owns it now and he was re-elected in a landslide(sic).
Failed liberal (including the MSM) policies
January 19th, 2013
9:31 pm
“So why don’t the media focus on the epidemic of fatherlessness in our inner cities and on the tragic consequences for boys?”
“Because that would mean admitting that conservatives are right about marriage, commitment, self-control, and personal responsibility.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/337929/war-against-black-men-lee-habeeb?pg=2
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:32 pm
5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows On Gun Appreciation Day
Hows that gun appreciation day working for ya? Supposedly trained gun owners not doing too well showing they can handle themselves.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
9:32 pm
godless heathen:
“Do I believe that stupid laws will be passed that will chip away at our freedom but will do nothing to thwart the kind of sh*t that happened in CT or Colorado? But that will give politicians cover that they DID SOMETHING and make libs feel all warn and fuzzy for a day or two.
Yes.”
Excellent point !
I will support any regulation or legislation that does TWO things:
1) Will actually make a difference.
2) Is Constitutional
Mick
January 19th, 2013
9:35 pm
heathen
If we do get any kind of new laws they probably will be more symbolic than anything. The people that are in the middle just aren’t as engaged, so its both the extremes going at it and they usually cancel each other out…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
9:36 pm
Good Fight:
How many car accidents, boating accidents, chain saw accidents, drill press accidents, bowling accidents, etc., etc., etc. do you think there were today?
Do you know that 20% of the names on the Vietnam Wall were not “combat deaths” ?
You get dangerous equipment and people together and there can be accidents ……… and there
WILL be accidents.
So …………… so what and be careful !
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
9:37 pm
godless
You always seem to be pretty level headed,
Can I officially request that to be put on my headstone?
Mick
January 19th, 2013
9:40 pm
0311
I do agree that those meds seem to scramble some brains…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:41 pm
You get dangerous equipment and people together and there can be accidents ……… and there
WILL be accidents.
You mean like School Resource Officers leaving their guns in the bathrooms for kids to fine….
First you proclaim these things as the “cure” and then you backtrack with “well accidents will happen”.
Let’s stop the stupidity now. Support sensible gun controls. Only idiots proclaim that Obama is trying to take away your guns.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
9:44 pm
Keep: How many gun shows were held on Gun Appreciation Day? How many people attended? How many people were killed in car wrecks on their way to said guns shows? How many slipped and hit their heads in the shower and died while getting ready to go to said gun shows? How many children drowned in the family swimming pool while their parents watched MSNBC today? Don’t have those stats? Geez. I wonder why.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:48 pm
Absolute nonsense. You cons first claim more guns is the answer and now you admit more guns means more “accidents” and who knows what else.
Pool safety is constantly improving. Do you have any comprehension of what VGB cost to implement? Pools have fences and public pools have health/safety inspections annually and have to be updated frequently.
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
9:53 pm
The gun folks who keep and bear to defend against tyranny and the
folks who want to know when the anti tyranny folks should take up
arms should check some California Black Panther history at
Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
9:54 pm
Absolute nonsense. You cons first claim more guns is the answer and now you admit more guns means more “accidents” and who knows
You talking to me? More swimming pools will equal more swimming pool deaths. More cars will equal more car deaths. More ladders will equal more ladder deaths. More guns will equal more gun deaths.
More non-sensical gun laws will you feel all squishy but will do very little to reduce the crimes that have the grabbers all fired up.
guy
January 19th, 2013
9:54 pm
taxpayer, Your comment about cons aborting their sperm is sick. That’s why anger and bitterness is killing this once great nation. Wake up people!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:54 pm
A child has an “accident” in a pool and the pool is shut down and the water treated just on the chance it could pose a real health risk.
In the real world, every day actions are taken to protect people from possible risks…except when it comes to guns and suddenly “Oh lordy, there ain’t nothing we can do.”
Or “more guns, more accidents” is the answer. 
Mick
January 19th, 2013
9:55 pm
Well, I’m all shot out on the subject; have a great evening all-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6lymJy57E
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
9:56 pm
More swimming pools will equal more swimming pool deaths. More cars will equal more car deaths
Now you are just making things up. When you have to lie you are admitting you’ve lost.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:03 pm
Pool safety is constantly improving. Do you have any comprehension of what VGB cost to implement?
What’s VGB? I know that all Macon city pools were closed this past summer because the Feds required permanent installtions to accomodate the handicapped. They had temporary devices they could install for the handicapped but the Fed Gov determined these were inadequate. The City of Macon had no funds for the permanent installations so all city pools were closed. So instead of the inner city kids spending the summer at the local pools exercising and socializing they were at home playing violent video games, having premarital sex, taking drugs, and playing with guns.
Liberalism at work, in other words. Own it.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:10 pm
Now you are just making things up. When you have to lie you are admitting you’ve lost.
Keep: Set the bourbon glass down and step away from it. Do the research and make yourself a little graph. Across the bottom (x axis) put # of cars. On the left (y axis) put number of car deaths. You will see a linear relationship. Then do the same with swimming pools and guns. You might start to see a pattern. Well most people would, anyway.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
10:11 pm
heathen:
“A well regulated park being necessary for a good time, the right of the people to swim in a pool shall not be infringed”.
There ……………….. that makes it equal to guns !
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
10:14 pm
It’s not about the f&cking guns. They just make it real easy.
it’s about the sickness that is rampant in this country and the adoration of wanton violence. Body counts and indiscriminate killing. Yeah baby! Let’s pump out more and more and more of that and see how many 20 somethings we can help turn into serial murderers!
While we’re at it, lets crank up a few more moronic invasions and occupations and kill a few hundred thousand more of the “enemy”. Many of whom are just bystanders and innocent women and children.
Psychopaths, sociopaths and misanthropes, all heavily armed with enormous firepower and hiding behind the frauds and cowards at the NRA. Funded, aided and abetted by the people who will stop at nothing to keep decent people from trying to stop these mentally deranged criminals and these horrific slaughters.
The answers are damn difficult and even if they weren’t the gutless want to do what they always do …………….. nothing.
Nothing at all. Save pretend there isn’t even a problem.
So to you who fit that category, enjoy the carnage.
And pray to you god that it never happens to you and your children…
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 19th, 2013
10:15 pm
I still laugh when I think of that cowardly little weakling, Mitt Romney saying he was going to defund PBS.
Well, I told my buddy Jim Earl and my other buddy Joe Bill that Romney was finished when he come out and said he was going to defund PBS. With all those Mamas out there, you don’t take out after Big Bird and Bert and Ernie. That’s what cost him the women’s vote big-time. There was binders full of things he could of went after, but going after those shows was worse than going after Social Security. The old folk will forgive you, but those women never will. Once you got a woman mad at you, you might as well swallow the barrel of a .45 and pull the trigger. They don’t never forget and if Romney was able to run 50 years from now the women would still be against him.
Have a good night everybody.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:16 pm
“A well regulated park being necessary for a good time, the right of the people to swim in a pool shall not be infringed”.
If the crips can’t swim, ain’t nobody gonna swim, dammit!!
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:18 pm
It’s not about the f&cking guns. They just make it real easy.
it’s about the sickness that is rampant in this country and the adoration of wanton violence. Body counts and indiscriminate killing. Yeah baby! Let’s pump out more and more and more of that and see how many 20 somethings we can help turn into serial murderers!
You were good up to that point. Peace brother.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
10:19 pm
The number of deaths – and deaths relative to the total population – have declined over the last two decades. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 14.97% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35.46%. Traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 63 years (1949). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
Again, Godless… you have lost and proven your lack of credibility, child.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:21 pm
I was talking to a gun store owner today. He said, “If I had known he was going to be this good for business, I would have voted for the SOB.”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
10:21 pm
And yet, despite the clownish claims to the contrary, pools are regulated every day.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:23 pm
Again, Godless… you have lost and proven your lack of credibility, child.
Sorry I have to school you some more, grasshopper, but more swimming pools still equals more child drownings.
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
10:24 pm
The whine about more kids are killed by pools than guns lament
the safety changes to stop that…o.k.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:24 pm
Keep: They aren’t as regulated as guns.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:25 pm
You mean I have to undergo a background check to buy a swimming pool? I didn’t know that.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:27 pm
The whine about more kids are killed by pools than guns lament
the safety changes to stop that…o.k.
Frog: So you’d be ok with the Fed Gov determining if you qualify to put in a swimming pool? i.e. are you responsible enough?
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
10:31 pm
godless
I have a pool and I have to upgrade by about 1000.00 this year
with the anti suction drains and pump….and I already have to
limit access by kids. no requirements on my guns…other than
my own common sense. I would not be concerned by inspection.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
10:33 pm
You have entered a world where gun nuts make all sorts of absurd unproven claims. And when proven wrong they make even wilder assertions, outright laws and unproven claims.
We’ve left reality long ago in Gunnutotopia. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 19th, 2013
10:35 pm
Well once again, I must close the exchange of ideas from this end. Unfortunately some are so married to their beliefs that they refuse to perceive the other side’s position. They google up a study that shows improved pool safety standards = reduced pool deaths and think that is relevant to the point being discussed. But all I can do is try to shed a glimmer of reason into dark minds. Maybe I can occasionally say something that will make someone say “hmmmm”.
Good night.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
10:36 pm
frog, in some cases you have to get HOA approval to install a private pool. During the drought, pool building permits were restricted as part of the water restrictions.
Public permits for pools are even more stringent.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
10:39 pm
Maybe I can occasionally say something that will make someone say “hmmmm”.
hmmmmm….. pure buffoonery.
Mama Says
January 19th, 2013
10:41 pm
Jay,
I blamed it on government. Pure and simple. You can find examples of this kind of pay off in both parties. They both do it with our tax money.
Get a life,
Some day reality will hit u and you will understand that just because you are blind to the facts does not make the party that received 50 million votes in the national election nor the party that has ran this state for 12 years a “failed” party.
Once again you completely ignore that your tax dollars are running a TV network and focus on the republican that that networked just hired as an obvious political in an obvious political move to keep funding flowing in.
Your real question should be why is the state giving anything to a TV network while you libs are yelling about handouts not being big enough.
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
10:45 pm
Keep Up
You have to meet several layers of government regs for private and
public pools plus insurance demands also. Once you own a gun the
restrictions are mainly on where and how you can carry it.
Mama Says
January 19th, 2013
10:46 pm
Enter your comments hereby the way libs, how is it that when cons complain about governments waste of taxpayer money you say that it’s all well spent. Until that is a con gets the government money, then it’s a crooked republican network abusing taxpayers.
Last time I checked the base con voter has been trying to tell you libs that government wastes our money and you guys defend it. Well this is the government that you defend, in all its glory.
Oscar
January 19th, 2013
10:58 pm
I don’t think anyone would defend a waste of government money. But there exists strong disagreement about what types of government money expenes constitute waste.
Spending more of defense than the next eleven countries combined seems to me to be good evidence of waste that should be cut.
Oscar
January 19th, 2013
11:01 pm
the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Is it not true that requiring registration is an infringment on that right. No owning a gun unless it’s registed. That’s an infringment on the right to own.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
11:08 pm
Thanks, heathen, back at ya.
I blamed it on government…
Wow what do you know?
That’s a real shocker.
Maybe not, considering you Uncle Sam bashers blame everything on government!
Oscar
January 19th, 2013
11:12 pm
Always strange to me that cons want no government regulation, then when the private sector screws something up, they blame the problem on lack of the government to regulate.
Oscar
January 19th, 2013
11:23 pm
Your real question should be why is the state giving anything to a TV network while you libs are yelling about handouts not being big enough.
_____
The answer to that question is plain. Big Bird is necessary for the general welfare of the country. It’s in the constitution.
Jm
January 19th, 2013
11:28 pm
The gun thing has gotten silly
Someone in FL now wants a ban on guns in nursing homes after a shooting down here (guy killed his senile wife and then himself in the nursing home)
Please explan to me how a law against guns in a nursing home is a disincentive and can stop someone who is about to commit a far worse crime and clearly doesn’t care one iota about the laws
People are stupid
getalife
January 19th, 2013
11:28 pm
Mama please.
Lets stop the blind hate for America.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
11:30 pm
jm,
It is not about one person.
It is about the majority and they wanted action.
Oscar
January 19th, 2013
11:42 pm
Jm ==people are stupid.
So . . . Does that mean you are an alien – or what else?
captguitarman
January 20th, 2013
2:29 am
This kind of thing makes life difficult for moderate Pub/Cons these days. How do you defend the indefensible cronyism that is still rampant under the Dome and in the executive branch? One can only hope and pray that the same Gods of Politics that took down the Dem/Libs and King Roy will one day take these shameless, ultra-right, holier than thou, pompous, and “morally superior” hypocrites and political hacks down, just as they did with the Dem/Libs and King Roy back when their greedy and corrupt political reach exceeded their grasp.
The government (federal or state) no longer serves the people. It is now its own interest group, its own constituency, protecting and isolating itself and the right cronies and bureaucrats from the people that they “serve.” It is now all about preserving and maintaining government jobs, benefits, and perks. Ever notice how fast your property tax assessments for taxes go up in a boom market. Ever notice how slowly they go down, if at all, in a bad market? Just one little example.
So this pompous, holier than thou, not at all shy about working his high level “connections” gets an unnecessary, created just for him, cushy and high paying job because he screwed up big time in his regular job, but probably knows some things that are best kept quiet. Bidness as usual in Gawga, which, in case you have not been paying attention, is bringing this state down. Deal, entered the governor’s office in huge debt, and nearly flat busted broke – a fact he carefully kept hidden during the primary and the election. Wonder how many millions his net worth will be, at a less than $150,000 salary when he leaves office. It would be nice to know, but we never will.
Fred ™
January 20th, 2013
6:14 am
Stan “The Man” Musial has died. He was 92.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bkhD9Qzilc
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
6:17 am
Jeep is going to be made in China. That’s unamerican!
Wilbur
January 20th, 2013
6:37 am
Ok, Joy. Let’s let the Democrats run things. Then the whole state would look like ClayCO and Dekalb where the democrats run things. Who in the world would want that??
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
7:07 am
Guy at 9:54,
The sickness is this new age GOP and the hate they preach. I merely offer a win-win solution for all. Not to worry though. Your sensitivities have been protected since my post has been placed in moderation.
Hey Libs, how is your paychecks looking now
January 20th, 2013
7:28 am
Hey Libs,
I don’t agree with this crap either but don’t be using this as a another reason to hate cons! Libs say and do things just as a stupid, remember most politicians say one thing but do another! It just sucks that we on both sides put trust in people aka politicians and they fail us miserably! This is another reason as a capitalist pig that I am, that I refuse to donate and will never donate to GPB!