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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DannyX
January 19th, 2013
11:42 am
Just another example of the great Tea Party con. You would think Georgia, the capitol of the Red State Confederacy, would show some evidence of that Tea Party philosophy their followers have been conned into.
clem
January 19th, 2013
11:46 am
hey td, how’s this working for you
Just Saying..
January 19th, 2013
11:50 am
Con Pride…
Just Saying..
January 19th, 2013
11:51 am
Actually, make that Con Pride conned…
clem
January 19th, 2013
11:52 am
this will hasten the end of public broadcasting
Erwin's cat
January 19th, 2013
11:54 am
the Peter principle?
Truth-o-meter
January 19th, 2013
11:54 am
Since the government does not create jobs, and Rogers was planted in this position by the Gov., I am sure he will refuse this pay. You think?!!
breckenridge
January 19th, 2013
11:57 am
It’s a terrible thing.
PBS is the only bastion of intelligent programming on the airwaves. It needs to be kept free of right wing extremists. Look at what happened next door in Alabama. They appointed a politician and religious right lackey to the board and he tried to force PBS Alabama to air videos made by professional liar and faux historian David Barton. In these pieces Barton insists the Founding Fathers intended America to be a Christian nation. When the top brass as PBS Alabama refused to air such garbage they were sacked.
Talk about your entitlement programs. Chip Rogers gets a bunch of taxpayer dollars for contributing absolutely nothing. Sickening, truly sickening.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
11:59 am
Moocher.
Erwin's cat
January 19th, 2013
12:01 pm
just how many executives is he supposed to produce?…..could be a good deal for $150k
barking frog
January 19th, 2013
12:03 pm
Well, Deal could have put him at the University of Georgia.
Cutty
January 19th, 2013
12:08 pm
Lazy moocher who wants to use taxpayers dollars for his own welfare. What? He’s a republican?…… Well that’s just the free market at work.
Cons getting conned, and we all suffer.
indigo
January 19th, 2013
12:08 pm
It seems, for reasons utterly unknown, that Georgia’s Republican politicians are determined to keep our state at number one in the laughingstock category.
So far, they are doing a great job.
Real Scootter
January 19th, 2013
12:08 pm
Must be nice to be a member of the good ol’ boys. Whew!
Erwin's cat
January 19th, 2013
12:16 pm
executive producer?…more like executive consumer?
Rafe Hollister
January 19th, 2013
12:22 pm
Another reason to quit funding PBS and NPR. I don’t think the next pledge drive will mention the need for donations to support their new useless executive, but people will pony up anyway, because Big Bird’s existence is so vital. If our children don’t get started learning early, how can we expect them to attain an 8th grade reading level, by the time they graduate from high school.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 19th, 2013
12:23 pm
Well, if they need another good GA citizen at PBS I reckon I could tear myself away from this beer truck driving job for $150,000. And I’d do a real good job. For example I always wanted to see the Rev. Jim Bob Buice get his own TV show. And the state couldn’t keep him from preaching on it because he wouldn’t be around little kids while he was telling us the Good Word. Having him on there would be alot better than some Climate Change program or other librul junk.
Anyhow, I’ll always be grateful to this Chip Rogers for keeping thugs from chasing me down and putting a chip in my brain. My brain works real good the way it is, it don’t need no chip to super-charge it.
In closing I just want to give a shout-out to all the folks for a real good FNM this week. When we got to playing the Beach Boys I knowed we was on the right track and it wasn’t just the PBR I was drinking at Billy Bob’s.
It’s too cold for golf today and besides Joe Bill don’t want to get his new Goodwill golf shoes all dirty from the mud that all the rain made. So I reckon I’ll just stay in the trailer today. Have a good weekend everybody.
stands for decibels
January 19th, 2013
12:25 pm
Two questions:
1. How long does he get to stay there before the deal is done? (This was a deal, right–you go away and “work” for GPB?)
2. Why does this AJC reporter seem to think it’s especially interesting newsworthy that a broadcasting outfit would have a some people making more than $150K? (I might be misreading that, but that was my takeaway.)
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 19th, 2013
12:26 pm
Is he a job creator or taker?
Oh wait, he’s Republican. IOKIYAR.
This is all Obama’s fault for not taking out Big Bird.
Seriously though, Georgia can’t “afford” to help uninsured and others but it can afford this kind of waste?
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
12:35 pm
What’s that age-old saying. “We’ve already established your profession, now we’re just dickering over price.” Or something like that.
Orange13
January 19th, 2013
12:41 pm
What’s all the hub bub? It’s only $150K.
stands for decibels
January 19th, 2013
12:41 pm
From the Department of Stating the Obvious:
It’s a pretty classic conservative strategy–complain about how crappy a government service is, then proceed to deliberately screw it up so you can say “see? how crappy?”
nelson
January 19th, 2013
12:43 pm
It is not as if his pay was unusual. The Georgia Lottery Chief gets $350,000 plus $200,000 fringe benefits. It is the way of the world, public servants make more than their counterparts in private enterprise. The ones in the private sector pay taxes to support the public servants in luxury.
Pizzaman
January 19th, 2013
12:46 pm
Makes ya wonder what Chip has on the Gov! Must be big!
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
12:48 pm
Makes ya wonder what Chip has on the Gov! Must be big!
That’s why cons are so “loyal” to each other.
Look before I leap...
January 19th, 2013
12:50 pm
$150K a year. Must be a real important job. So important that PBS interviewed exactly ZERO candidates for it. Honey Boo Boo is more qualified than Rogers.
The entire article mentions that the head of GA PBS was NOT pressured into hiring Rogers – yeah right (roll-eyes). She goes on to say that Rogers has really dug in and studied hard to be knowledgeable when he starts his new gig.
“Oh, you look through THIS end of the camera!”
“And where is my parking space again?”
I think I’ll stop donating to and watching PBS as long as the idiot crook Rogers is drawing a paycheck there. Gonna miss you Charlie Rose!
Chris Salzmann
January 19th, 2013
12:51 pm
Cronyism at it’s best. Further proof that the Tea Party is more about “Do as I say” and not about “Do as I do”.
Guest
January 19th, 2013
12:55 pm
“It is not as if his pay was unusual.”
It wasn’t? He makes more than the Governor!
Mama Says
January 19th, 2013
1:08 pm
Well folks here we go again. You libs love to argue for more governmental power and cronyism then you go crazy tryi g to put it in cons faces when a government official abuses his governmental position. You see libs, the folks who vote against big government are serious. If we had it our way there would be no taxpayer funded television station for Chip to run off to and hide. It’s you libs who believe government should be running TV stations with taxpayer money. Jay why not mention that part of the story ?
Some day libs will understand, given the chance government is naturally invasive. It’s like Kudzu. Power is enticing and abuse of it often comes from those who want to do a good thing. That’s why we as cons don’t trust the case that you libs make. EVERYONE wants more pay, the government is the entity with the power to take from you to get it for them.
Jay I hope your next story is about how much money your liberal buddy’s make off the taxpayers in their retirement, we know its a lot don’t we ?
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2013
1:09 pm
There’s some “growing up” needed by some here. If an elected official needs to be moved aside, the voters don’t do it, and there is no grounds to send him/her to jail, this is the way it is done. It happens all the time in government and similarly in business. It will be surprising if Rogers is still at GPB by the end of Deal’s term. On first blush it’s offensive, but most likely worth the bucks in the end.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
1:10 pm
Why would PBS hire a con when the gop want to cut PBS?
getalife
January 19th, 2013
1:12 pm
Oops GBS.
My bad.
I am surprised the gop do not want to cut that too.
markie mark
January 19th, 2013
1:14 pm
Actually, I think this is probably a step up for state govt. At least this jackass isn’t involved in governing at PBS, but I do feel sorry for Nancy Zintak….but I bet him staying in state government would cost us a lot more than $150k a year….
Also, isnt this an employment at will state?….may not have to pay so much after all…..
td
January 19th, 2013
1:21 pm
It is about time Deal started putting Conservatives in leadership positions in the bureaucracy. I told him 3 years ago on the square in Marietta that he needed to clean all the progressives out of the bureaucracy so that true Conservative philosophy could be implemented in fully in places where we still have government.
That is one Mr Governor, only a couple more thousand to go.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
1:22 pm
mama,
It is not about the libs cons.
It is about your failed party.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:23 pm
What breckenridge said.
Letting a slimy card carrying member of the GOPerpetually Stupid Party into an organization committed to quality and intelligent broadcasting is absurd.
And as Mama notes, If they had it their way there would be no non-filth television stations at all…
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 19th, 2013
1:25 pm
A Proper Progressive Statist should NEVER question how stolen loot is spent.
t…The State-sponsored propaganda will remain the same.
(See the dialectic.)
.
It is for the collective…………and that is all you should know………….or care, so………..
Tighten up Bookman…..YOUR guy will have his chance next at the trough. ..so….quit belly-aching…………Forward Soviet and…….
.
Carry on.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:27 pm
“Failing upward is more lucrative than most of us imagined.”
Ah ………………….. and thus we have Obama with his salary, perks, lifetime pension for only 8 years of work and lifetime security.
It’s tough out there for Rogers AND Obama !
independent thinker
January 19th, 2013
1:27 pm
This is almost as funny as ultra con Wingfield moaning and groaning about Georgia’s hospital bed tax passed by the clown Repubs in that circus under the gold dome.. If a con passes a socialist healthcare program that rips off the rich and insured so as to fund medical care for the poor, it cannot possibly be socialism , can it?Pass an individual mandate and the same cons become apoplectic. Kinda like wasting $150,000 on this clown to ensure Georgia public TV has a reason to go off the air .
getalife
January 19th, 2013
1:29 pm
tom,
Could you tell rand to take off that silly wig?
Thanks.
td
January 19th, 2013
1:31 pm
Rogers has a BS in economics from GT and an MBA from GSU so he is more then qualified for the job. You progressives just do not like the fact that Deal gave a job to a conservative when you feel all these government jobs are suppose to be set aside for Progressive minorities.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
1:33 pm
In scout’s mind, Deal’s payoff to get rid of a kooky con is the same as President Obama’s established salary and benefits. Geez. Only in conland.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:33 pm
Meanwhile:
“A WEAPONS GUIDE FOR THE UNIFORMED”
(Average homicides or deaths per year by category)
18 ……………………. Military style “semi-automatic” rifles (assault weapons)
453 ………………….. Regular style “semi-automatic” rifles (hunting weapons)
674 ………………….. Blunt objects (hammers, rocks, etc.)
869 ………………….. Hands, feet, fists, etc.
1,817 ……………….. Knives and other sharp instruments
6,009 ……………….. Handguns
10,389 ……………… Automobiles/Trucks (used as a weapon by drunk drivers)
NOBODYYOUKNOW
January 19th, 2013
1:34 pm
JAM-VET, talking about not seeing the forest for the trees? You’re one to talk! Adoreing ANYONE who’s DemocRAT.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:35 pm
Careful td, your sheets are showing!
Being an ethically challenged nitwit trumps his education.
He belongs on the Excrement in Broadcasting network, where he can aid Rush in his War on Sluts, Prostitutes and FemiNazis…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:35 pm
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
“Wow, is Illinois and Chicago great or what?
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago ?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago .
221 killed in Iraq AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.
President: Barack Hussein Obama
Senator: Dick Durbin
House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Governor: Pat Quinn
House leader: Mike Madigan
Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Mayor: Rahm Emanuel
The leadership in Illinois – all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .
Of course, they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois .
And he is going to ‘fix’ Washington politics for us???
George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in the big house. Of course he was replaced by Rob Blagojevich who is…that’s right, also in the big house. And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned a couple of weeks ago. That is because he is fighting being sent to…that’s right, the big house.
The Land of Lincoln , where our governors make our license plates.
But you know what? As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago , nothing is going to change, except the state will go broke before the country does.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:36 pm
“The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. ‘Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?’ He promptly replied, ‘No Ma’am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my shotgun.’ “
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:36 pm
“I was once asked by a lady visiting if I had a gun in the house. I said I did. She said, ‘Well I certainly hope it isn’t loaded!’ To which I said, “Of course it is loaded, it can’t work without bullets!” She then asked, “Are you that afraid of someone evil coming into your house?” My reply was, “No not at all. I am not afraid of the house catching fire either, but I have fire extinguishers around, and they are all loaded too.”
Erwin's cat
January 19th, 2013
1:37 pm
He makes more than the Governor!
you get what you pay for
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:37 pm
“Female gun owners are compensating for being smaller and weaker than most violent criminals.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:39 pm
AND FINALLY:
“Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to the police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.”
getalife
January 19th, 2013
1:39 pm
td never blames his failed party for mooching.
No cred td.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
January 19th, 2013
1:40 pm
MAMA-SAYS, No they will NEVER understand. Those who point fingers at others and call them stupid need to look in the mirror. The country is going over the cliff and all they can say is “that stupid BUSH”. Caused it. After 5 years they can’t get over it. They will be saying that the next 10 years. OH WHAT FOOLS THESE LIBERALS BE.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
1:40 pm
Tim Donnelly, Republican Legislator, Says Guns Are ‘Essential To Living The Way God Intended’
And when Eve, with AR-15 in hand, looked up at Adam and said, “No means NO, I have a headache” Adam wisely respected her demands.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:41 pm
Twinkie is up from his nap. But apparently with a raging hangover…
Corporal, focus!
The topic is not how much you hate Obama and blacks, it is about this boob on GPB…
Maybe the fraud can get on the air and tell us how to avoid paying back bank loans…
td
January 19th, 2013
1:41 pm
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:35 pm
Careful td, your sheets are showing!
Being an ethically challenged nitwit trumps his education.
He belongs on the Excrement in Broadcasting network, where he can aid Rush in his War on Sluts, Prostitutes and FemiNazis…
Yes, throw out the race card and the name calling when you can not argue on the facts and someone is getting near the truth. Very nice and very telling.
Scott Fresno
January 19th, 2013
1:43 pm
Yay! I am going to start saying nutty thing at my job so I can get $150k a year, too!
What? You mean it doesn’t work that way in the real world!
NOBODYYOUKNOW
January 19th, 2013
1:43 pm
Careful JAMVET your BLACK PANTHER credentials are showing.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 19th, 2013
1:44 pm
No ……………. in Scout’s mind Obama is more kooky (and dangerous to this Republic) than Rogers.
NEXT ?
td
January 19th, 2013
1:45 pm
getalife
January 19th, 2013
1:39 pm
td never blames his failed party for mooching.
No cred td.
After every government job, currently being held by a progressive, has been replaced by a good conservative then adding additional jobs would be mooching.
DannyX
January 19th, 2013
1:47 pm
“Rogers has a BS in economics from GT and an MBA from GSU so he is more then qualified for the job. You progressives just do not like the fact that Deal gave a job to a conservative when you feel all these government jobs are suppose to be set aside for Progressive minorities.”
I was wondering how td would dodge this one. Of course, the old “progressive minority” race card!
td
January 19th, 2013
1:47 pm
Scott Fresno
January 19th, 2013
1:43 pm
Yay! I am going to start saying nutty thing at my job so I can get $150k a year, too!
What? You mean it doesn’t work that way in the real world!
When you have achieved the necessary skills to become a powerful politician or a high up executive in private industry you can do it. Until that time then you have to just keep your head down and continue to work hard and hope.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
1:47 pm
td,
Good for nothing conservative mooching off your tax money.
Just tell the truth td.
You can do it.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:47 pm
td, the race card?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
…jobs are suppose to be set aside for Progressive minorities.
Your enmity towards blacks is something you are very proud of. Which is great for everyone. Except the GOP! And your religion.
Twinkie, go slash some black person’s tires, you’ll feel better…
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
1:48 pm
Given that scout’s mind stays in Tim Burton’s Wonderland, it’s no wonder he thinks that President Obama’s salary and benefits can be associated with a crooked Georgia con’s hush money. NEXT!
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
1:48 pm
To add to scout’s statistics: 600,000 abortions by God in the US every year.
td
January 19th, 2013
1:49 pm
DannyX
January 19th, 2013
1:47 pm
I was wondering how td would dodge this one. Of course, the old “progressive minority” race card!
What is your definition to progressive minority? Mine is the same as you progressives use. It is anyone that is NOT a white straight Christian conservative male.
td
January 19th, 2013
1:53 pm
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:47 pm
td, the race card?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
…jobs are suppose to be set aside for Progressive minorities.
Your enmity towards blacks is something you are very proud of. Which is great for everyone. Except the GOP! And your religion.
You just proved how much of a racist you really are when you did not ask for my definition of progressive minority. When you ASSume facts not in evidence then it makes you look like one.
philospher
January 19th, 2013
1:55 pm
Well-said, Jay. Are you ever discouraged by the complete and total lack of concern, accountability, or consequences for corruption here in this state?
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:58 pm
td, you have huge demons regarding black people. We get it.
Alas, you are about fifty years too late for that White Power thing. Even though you would be hard pressed to agree after seeing the racial composition of the crowd at the RNC in Tampa last summer.
No worries, outside of your Lily White Party, we libs crushed that little segregation game played by you conservatives…
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
2:00 pm
Just sent GPB an email titled “Chip Rogers????”
LOL.
http://www.gpb.org/about/contact
Those silly fun-loving 47%'ers
January 19th, 2013
2:02 pm
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/01/11/nr-banfield-pittsburgh-brawl.cnn#/video/us/2013/01/11/nr-banfield-pittsburgh-brawl.cnn
DannyX
January 19th, 2013
2:03 pm
Nathan Deal- Received no-bid government contracts that he fiercely defended. He also declared bankruptcy.
Chip Rogers- Took out a $2.1 million dollar, no-collateral, “I could never pay it back” loan for a run down roach motel. Rogers sure does have a “BS” in economics, as in Bull S…
The business genius Governor appoints the business genius Majority Leader to run a fake department at a government run tv station. Its like the economically blind leading the gullible.
No wonder 0311 and td have to run to their boogieman! OBAMA!!! PROGRESSIVE MINORITY!!! Look over there…
Ronald Reagan Parkway
January 19th, 2013
2:04 pm
This is no surprise. Nathan Deal was ethnically challenged when he was elected governor of this great state. He continues to do what he does best; “questionable agendas”!!!
F. Sinkwich
January 19th, 2013
2:04 pm
This is an outrage!
I’m sure most here will join me to DEMAND absolutely NO government GPB funding !!!
td
January 19th, 2013
2:05 pm
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
1:58 pm
“td, you have huge demons regarding black people”
There you go ASSuming something not in evidence again. Just because you FEEL like white male Christian conservatives do not like black people does not mean it is so. Maybe the problem is that you are so paranoid that you can only see the KKK behind everything. Guess what it is not. Maybe it is you that need to exercise some demons?
getalife
January 19th, 2013
2:10 pm
td,
White flour!
Mr. Dithers
January 19th, 2013
2:13 pm
I sent my email to GPB last night asking them to take me off their list. I will not donate to them until Mr. Rogers is not longer on the job.
Mr. Roger’s education is not the problem. It’s his conspiracy theory mindset. It’s his bald faced lack of ethics. Gov. Deal apparently recognized a kindred spirit and couldn’t allow him to stay in the Senate. Gotta be pretty bad if even the guv thinks the guy is too stupid and unethical to be in government.
td
January 19th, 2013
2:15 pm
Mr. Dithers
January 19th, 2013
2:13 pm
Great. Can you please talk more progressives to do the same so that we can get 100’s more progressives out of state government?
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2013
2:22 pm
How many of the outraged Lefties here sent a letter/email to Obama about his czars?
My guess, none.
It’s difficult to get the salary of the Obama czars and exactly how many exist today. However, at one time there were 32 and of the salaries that could be identified they were over a 110K.
You guys are a hoot. Blind uniformed rage.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
2:25 pm
reb,
I find you cons hilarious.
After all the lies and “facts don’t matter,” you still think you are credible.
Psst, you are not .
Fact.
TDS
January 19th, 2013
2:26 pm
Next time the state senators meet for their Glenn Beck conspiracy party, maybe Rodgers can have GPB do a documentary on it..
DannyX
January 19th, 2013
2:27 pm
“You guys are a hoot.”
Czars, Obama, oh my. Czars, Obama, oh my. Czars, Obama, oh my.
Can we get a Benghazi!
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
2:28 pm
Bookmans jealous.
Jay
January 19th, 2013
2:29 pm
I do love the posts attempting to blame this on liberals.
Impressive. Quite impressive.
TBS
January 19th, 2013
2:30 pm
Didn’t even type my initials correctly.
LOL at me
getalife
January 19th, 2013
2:34 pm
Progressives.
So now we have the pros and cons.
Right td?
DannyX
January 19th, 2013
2:40 pm
“Next time the state senators meet for their Glenn Beck conspiracy party, maybe Rodgers can have GPB do a documentary on it..”
TDS, I can’t wait for that one. I’m also looking forward to another program Rogers is going to produce.
“This Old Roach Motel” Chip Rogers and Tom Graves host a weekly series showcasing the renovation of the old Crack and Quickie Motel in north Georgia. Watch the progress as Rogers and Graves document $2.1 million dollars vanishing into thin air.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
2:43 pm
Read one bookman column, you have read them all. GOP bad, Democrats gooooood. Reid, Piglosi should be paying him for all the slobbering over them he does.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
2:43 pm
Paul Broun’s resume for that GPB job is just as impressive as Chip’s.
Dixie Normous
January 19th, 2013
2:45 pm
anyone remember NPR firing Juan Williams because he stepped out of line one time. Liberals are self righteous thugs. They even eat their own if they dare think for themselves, even if its just one time. Lieberman is another fine example of that.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
2:46 pm
This Old Roach Motel.
I like!
And Georgia still has an abundance of unemployed plumbers and electricians and carpenters and such so there shouldn’t be any problem getting all the talent needed for the show at a reasonable price.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2013
2:46 pm
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.
Deal successfully shuffles a problem to the side and you are oh so outraged. Con this and Con that.
It’s ridiculous.
getalife
January 19th, 2013
2:48 pm
“It’s ridiculous”
Your ODS is ridiculous.
Real Scootter
January 19th, 2013
2:55 pm
Kinda nice to see things back to normal around here.Keep up the bickering,I’m going to make some popcorn!
td
January 19th, 2013
2:55 pm
We need more Conservatives in leadership positions in state government. I think I will have to talk to Deal again and volunteer to serve in a leadership position in his second term so that we can get rid of more progressives from government.
TaxPayer
January 19th, 2013
2:59 pm
George Bush appointed himself a reading czar after he struggled with the big words in “My Pet Goat”.
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:01 pm
td
I’m sure he is waiting on your call..
Maybe you can call Rodgers to see if Broun will do a Moses owned a T Rex show
That would be great
guy
January 19th, 2013
3:02 pm
This country has a community organizer for president so now GPB has a community jobs executive. Both are not worth the salt in their body but they are getting good pay because of others stupidity. What a circus!At least we can laugh at the clowns. Fools we all are!
TBS
January 19th, 2013
3:02 pm
td
I’m sure Deal and Rodgers have you on speed dial
Bwhahahahahaha
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
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
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
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!
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
7:32 am
I see godless heathen was packing pools last night. I sure hope he doesn’t buy one of those 100-round pool magazines.
Don Abernethy
January 20th, 2013
7:32 am
Just think if Romney had been elected we ( the taxpayers) would have gotten rid of another mouth of the liberal machine. Maybe Chip Rodgers will change it into something conservative and we won’t be reviewing DE-segregation for the ? time. Lots of luck.
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
7:34 am
I will never donate to a program that has Chip on it. I like the GPB so long as the GOP is not messing with it.
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
7:38 am
If Romney had been elected, he would have installed window cranks on Air Force one and then we would be looking for a new president. That is so wasteful of you big spender cons.
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
7:59 am
…gotten rid of another mouth of the liberal machine.
Yep, look a the filth on GPB tonight:
The Abolitionists: American Experience
Part 2 of 3. Frederick Douglass escapes slavery.
That negro was the epitome of liberal agitators! And our godly southern white Christian Republicans can’t allow stuff like that to be offered up to the nation! Wht will their kids think if they learn about Douglass!!
No wonder, Abernethy and that weakling little candidate of his want to get rid of it.
His corporate conservative machine is trying to compete and can’t.
They offer quality programs like How I Met your Mother, NCIS, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, Law & Order SVU, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Revenge and other such vapid and vacuous fare. The kind preferred by the Abernethy family!
indigo
January 20th, 2013
8:35 am
td – 8:22 – “we eat what we kill”
Of course you do.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
January 20th, 2013
8:41 am
Good morning to all y’ll on this historic day!
As to Mr. Rogers, he sold his soul along time ago. This is probably some right wing conspiracy to kill
Georgia Public Broadcasting…
DownInAlbany
January 20th, 2013
8:42 am
When Romney suggested defunding NPR and PBS ($445 million annually) he was ostracized for wanting to kill Big Bird. I’m not defending this deal, it’s outrageous, but, oh the hypocrisy. But, but, but…
Mick
January 20th, 2013
8:52 am
I rarely go to the everglades anymore, a few reasons-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7sCl56PsXQ
kayaker 71
January 20th, 2013
8:56 am
So, now it appears that Bookman is blowing more smoke up our collective arses when he implies that no respectful Democrat has ever taken a job after retiring that was lucrative and more than equaled his previous salary. I would suppose all of those retired Democratic Senators and Congressmen/women can be excused for taking some cushy lobbying job and working for two or three times what they made as an elected official. You gotta’ quit this, Bookman.
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
8:57 am
Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500GB hard drive. ~Neil deGrasse Tyson
You willfully uninformed Republicans need to start listening to brilliant men like him. And confess that the money has nothing to do with your desire to kill PBS. You hate that intellect and literacy in science, history, philosophy, civics and the arts still has a wonderful place in modern society.
At least non-Republican society…
Freddy Douglas
January 20th, 2013
8:58 am
Us slaves had a term for the poor denuded souls who groveled for government cheese and licked the boots of their respective masters.
And that term sure wasn’t progressives.
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
8:58 am
…he implies that no respectful Democrat has ever taken a job after retiring…
71, have you NOTHING but bald faced lies to support your childish claims?
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
8:59 am
I can’t think of a single Democrat that Deal paid off in order to get him, or her, out of the Georgia Legislature.
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
8:59 am
Some Uncle Sam hating, Republican coward feigning to know the first thing about Douglass.
That is hysterical!!
Well played, meat…
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 20th, 2013
9:02 am
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
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lol
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
9:03 am
At least non-Republican society…
Don’t be talkin’ like that. You could get yourself moderated.
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 20th, 2013
9:03 am
Ole Freddy had Washington figured out———-
.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass
Black Label
January 20th, 2013
9:04 am
Kayaker
Get over yourself. The election results seem to have brought out your anger, bitterness and pettiness more than ever. Those poor qualities shine like the north star each time you post
kayaker 71
January 20th, 2013
9:05 am
JamVet, 8:58,
You mean to imply that no Democrat has ever been brazen enough to accept a job outside of his elected position that was more lucrative than the the job he just left? Sometimes for being a supposedly pretty straight up guy, you can be pretty naive. Or is is just ignorance?…. perhaps a dose of looking the other way?
Mick
January 20th, 2013
9:06 am
Yaker
Where have you been? Hardly anyone does sour, PO’ed and surliness as well as you! It’s a talent never the less, you’ll always get high marks for creativity in perspective from me…happy new years, good health and prosperity for you and your family..
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
9:07 am
Think for a second just how staggeringly stupid the neocon position is on this matter.
Out of one side of their fetid mouths, they moan and groan endlessly about the liberals in Hollywood.
And out of the other side, they berate the ONE organization that competes – and blows out of the water – that often titillating and generally vacuous garbage.
These right wing fanatics are liberal obsessed.
Everybody is a liberal! And everybody is their enemy!
Uncle Sam, scientists, economists, all foreigners, all minorities and certainly all of academia – all enemies of the Republican State.
Stay stupid, my con friends…
kayaker 71
January 20th, 2013
9:10 am
Mick, 9:06,
And to you as well. May the New Year bring you peace prosperity and a dose of reason. I’ve been out of the mix for awhile. My wife had a major stroke and I have become her full time caregiver. You really don’t appreciate what freedoms you once enjoyed until something like this happens.
Interesting AJC article today -- so goes DeKalk, so goes the below cities, so goes the US
January 20th, 2013
9:11 am
Image troubles mount for DeKalb — Corruption investigations, school woes tarnish reputation. Damage could take years to undo.
DeKalb County is not unique. There is Washington, DC. There is Oakland, CA. There is Detroit, MI. There is Baltimore, MD. There is New Orleans, LA. There is Birmingham, AL. There is Clayton County, GA. There is Philadelphia, PA. There is Atlantic City, NJ. There is Atlanta, GA….
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
9:11 am
You mean to imply that no Democrat…
No 71, I do not mean to imply anything.
I mean to state unequivocally that your are an unabashed and shameless liar.
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
9:15 am
And Heyward is another mental midget.
He takes a quote from that American hero, who spoke vehemently against the brutal institution of murderous slavery and uses it to denigrate Uncle Sam, our system of laws and the greatest institution of freedom and liberty ever devised.
Which Douglass had infinite respect and love for.
Stay stupid, Heyward…
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 20th, 2013
9:18 am
Fredirick Douglas on government schools—in this……Obamanation——————–
.
“By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvesttime, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.”
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lol
DownInAlbany
January 20th, 2013
9:18 am
According to libs, it’s only ok to look the other way when you are the one looking the other way.
Vet: PBS is only one example of hundreds, if not thousands of examples of tax waste. But, of course, I think you understand that…
Gotta go for several hours…
kayaker 71
January 20th, 2013
9:19 am
jamVet, 9:11,
“an unabashed and shameless liar”?….. Wow, that’s pretty harsh for Sunday morning, especially when your liberal hero is going to be sworn in for his second term this weekend and takes the plaid rabbit for being even worse than me, if, in your opinion, this is possible. I personally don’t give a good rat’s ass how you feel about much of anything. Your false bravado and pumped up sense of self importance has gotten to the point of ridiculous. You seem to have achieved something that I didn’t think was possible…. being more of a narcissist than your president. F*ck you.
JamVet
January 20th, 2013
9:24 am
…tax waste…
Unadulterated neocon garbage.
It is a fantastic investment in our people and children. And American men and women of conscience and intellect will protect it for the treasure it is.
Wow, that’s pretty harsh…
The unvarnished truth, often is.
You are an inveterate liar.
That you don’t like it and will never admit it, is your problem.
Simplythetruth
January 20th, 2013
9:24 am
We the taxpayers of Georgia have been screwed over by both Deal and Rodgers. The people on this blog are talking about political affiliations rather than trying to correct this filthy wrong. As long as people keep tearing each other apart, both Republican and Democrat do-nothings will keep on screwing all of us. We should DEMAND better representation from every single elected official, no matter their party affiliation. There is no defense for the crap just unloaded on the people of Georgia by Deal and Rodgers. To try and defend this type of action just shows us all where the real problem lies.
Net Judge
January 20th, 2013
9:36 am
I never realized until recent events the genius it took to be Monty Hall and steer the buffoons to pick the curtain with Carol sitting on the jack ass. Governor “Let’s Make A Deal” is a genius.
He has removed a pariah from his party ranks and poisoned the well at GPB with one move and there is no harm no foul to his own regime, just a little nick to the taxpayers. The Chipster got the Big Deal of the Day and the lovely parting gifts of 9 times salary now and 9 times pension later.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 20th, 2013
9:45 am
JAM
You seem unusually chippy this morning…I’m not sure where you are coming from on the DEMS v REPS in terms of generally piggish behavior. Based on what I see, the competition at least in DC of congressmen turning lobbyist, is neck and neck race..
We will have a great opportunity to razz this particular scumbag when he gets on the tube with fund raising programming…
TBS
January 20th, 2013
9:46 am
Kayaker
Hope your wife’s condition improving and will continue to do so.
Best wishes and thoughts to both of you.
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
9:47 am
MEDINA, Ohio — Accidental shootings at gun shows in North Carolina, Indiana and Ohio left five people injured Saturday, the same day that thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter firearm limits.
Is that any way to teach your children about gun safety, cons, by putting their eye out.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 20th, 2013
9:48 am
kayaker 71
January 20th, 2013
9:19 am
For the record, I am by far the most accomplished narcissist on this forum…if anyone wants to have a bro-down on that issue, bring it.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 20th, 2013
9:51 am
TAXPAYER
I’m all for whatever improvements in gun control we can get…unfortunately, no additional lives will be saved and our kids are no safer now than before. Nice political theatre…kids, NRA wingnuts, liberal whiners all for some show they feel obliged to undertake simply due to the idea that people expect them to do something…
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
9:52 am
I’m all for whatever improvements in gun control we can get…unfortunately, no additional lives will be saved and our kids are no safer now than before.
Cite your proof. Some unskewed polling results perhaps.
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
9:57 am
The latest show from Stevie King entitled “Children of the Conned.” Of course nothing could have been done differently to keep those children any safer.
Mick
January 20th, 2013
9:58 am
yaker
God bless! I’ve been there, almost a decade of caregiving with a slow and agonizing decline, it’s the toughest challenge any mortal will deal with. Stay strong, take care of yourself first above all, cause without you right now, there probably is nobody! Peace…
the cat
January 20th, 2013
10:09 am
Let’s see-we have five people accidentally shot at guns shows and then we have one teenager dead as a result of his brother finding his mother’s handgun.
Who was it said you are safer WITHOUT a gun in your home:
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/police-henry-county-teen-accidentally-shot-and-kil/nT3CG/
catlady
January 20th, 2013
10:12 am
Yet another example of “small government” that the conservatives demand! Absolutely disgusting. (not saying who or what is disgusting. Could be all three.)
Fred ™
January 20th, 2013
10:13 am
Wow, this is how stupid our deluded Rpeublican frineds are and how low the party of lies has become.
When faced with gutterscum like Chip Rogers and Nathan Deal and their out and out thievery, rather thatn try to correct it they say: “But But But……. Clayton County.”
You people have neither a shred of honor, integrity, decency, and morals, nor the character or brains to acquire any.
i may be a complete ass hole, but I’m a decent and MORAL ass hole with honor and integrity. I won’t sit silently by while slime like those two pull their shady deals. But then I’m not a Southern Baptist either. Speaking of which……. what is Don Balfour stealing today?
Fred ™
January 20th, 2013
10:19 am
kayaker 71
January 20th, 2013
9:10 am
Mick, 9:06,
And to you as well. May the New Year bring you peace prosperity and a dose of reason. I’ve been out of the mix for awhile. My wife had a major stroke and I have become her full time caregiver. You really don’t appreciate what freedoms you once enjoyed until something like this happens.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Crap. That sucks. I’m sorry. I’ll ask my buddy to pray for her.
appleseed
January 20th, 2013
10:23 am
When the Gov.thinks you are unfit to serve.Lord have mercy.Unfit to serve under this Gov.??????.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 20th, 2013
10:30 am
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
9:52 am
Any clearly thinking individual would understand that no evidence exists to confirm or deny our kids are safer due to these superficial, political proclamations.
Here’s the logic. What has been proposed that in a common sense analysis, would keep this and other similar folks from getting into that or other schools? Second, do you think any of these proposals will really put a dent in the 310,000,000 guns in circulation…that we know about? Finally, what will be a kids response that he is safer since anyone who gets in his school with a gun will only be able to get off ten shots before he has to change cartrige..if he isn’t shot with first, he may be able to use the few second interval to escape?
Anything they do is all well and good, kids are no safer as a result of what BO is pushing…
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
10:40 am
Any clearly thinking individual would understand that no evidence exists to confirm or deny our kids are safer due to these superficial, political proclamations.
Given your earlier comment to the contrary, do you care to tell us more about your “clarity” of thought.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 20th, 2013
10:46 am
You can either debate this issue by a counter argument or this typical deflection…how you think these presidential suggestions will reduce risk of bad guys getting in schools? I dont recall ever indicating any evidence existed but somethings are what they are. What evidence exists that our kids are safer? Old adage in my business about security, the best one can expect is to Deter, Deflect or Delay when considering breaking and entering. These laws do no such thing. Wouldn’t have saved these kids or any others from recent school shootings…
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
10:48 am
Cons can dream up the most outlandish legislation geared to ensure that a rapist’s unwanted creation or a deformity with its brain outside its skull are carried to term but they just cannot for the life of them (or born children) think of anything, anything at all, that they can do to reduce deaths by gun. Pools. Cars. Drunks. Those are different stories too. After all only guns are constitutionally protected, by God.
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
10:49 am
You’ve certainly mastered the three D’s, stevie. Good for you.
TaxPayer
January 20th, 2013
10:53 am
Well, it looks like a nice day to get outside and dodge cons and their guns that they apparently prefer to carry around with a shell in the chamber at all times.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
11:25 am
Kayaker
My prayers to you and your wife.
————
On the topic of Rogers, crooks will always be crooks. It doesn’t surprise me at all about this crap. Some posters here rag on government employees, but won’t say much about the actual jackasses that make us look bad.
Soothsayer
January 20th, 2013
12:00 pm
Here’s a little nostalgia for your Sunday.
indigo
January 20th, 2013
12:10 pm
Don Abernathy – 7:32
No doubt Chip will try mightily to remove those pesky shows on slavery and desegration and replace them with programs from that great conservative historian David Barton.
That will make you very happy. Right, sport model?
indigo
January 20th, 2013
12:14 pm
Soothsayer – 12:00
That America is dead and gone.
Those of us who remember those far better days know we’re in a cesspool now and will never get out.
Public Works
January 20th, 2013
12:14 pm
I rarely survey an entire blog, but this one is a sociological gem. Just wish I knew how to interpret. An article about the state executive in power essentially buying off a political enemy all within the party in power is responded to by much gnashing of teeth about national politics, diatribe full of vitriol for the party out of power and very little examination or opinion about how the public SHOULD respond to this episode.
Some of us wonder why or how the people in power get there. Here’s an example. Jay tells you about questionable goernment players, you want to talk about guns.
Mr Right
January 20th, 2013
12:25 pm
Obama sworn in for 4 more years in office—— sad day for America!
Old Goober
January 20th, 2013
12:32 pm
Kayaker,
You are not alone. This coming Valentine’s Day will mark the two-year anniversary of my wife’s severe stroke—paralysis on one side, loss of speech, mental impairment, etc. The therapists say she may never speak again, and of course using the telephone or even a PC is out of the question. The loss of freedom is the price that must be paid for having her still around.
You men out there: treasure the times when your wife talks to you. I pray that there never comes a time when she is unable to do so.
Dave
January 20th, 2013
12:33 pm
So much for the WABE billboard on I-85 North in Gwinnett that says something like “Intelligent Radio.”
Mr Right
January 20th, 2013
12:34 pm
Jay tells you about questionable goernment players, you want to talk about guns.
Here is the problem, Jay will about all the time ONLY point out the questionable things the GOP does. If you would go by him you would think the Dems are saints!
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
12:36 pm
Public Works
January 20th, 2013
12:14 pm
It’s always like that here.Come here more often and you will see all kinds of stuff not relating to the topic. Jus sayin………..
DownInAlbany
January 20th, 2013
12:53 pm
On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama said the Obama campaign, officially known as Obama for America, will soon be turned into a 501 (c) 4 social welfare non-profit called Organizing For Action that can raise unlimited donations and will become “the next phase of our movement for change.” Former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina will become the group’s chairman of the board, Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod will be a consultant, and Obama media strategist David Plouffe will join the group once he exits the White House.
According to Politico, the group claims it will disclose its donors and not take money from lobbyists or political action committees (PACs), but will take unlimited money from corporations.
“It’s ironic and puzzling that a grassroots organization with a public interest agenda is going to take unlimited corporate money. It doesn’t square,” said Mary Boyle of Common Cause. “There’s one reason that corporations spends money on politics–they’re looking for something in return.”
I’m sure Jay will make this a topic in the near future? Yeah, when pigs fly.
GT
January 20th, 2013
12:55 pm
The real question is what interest does Rogers a Neanderthal have with a progressive pocket of this state like educational television.
But then the same question could be added to the list of questions when we look at the Port Authority and many other entitlement positions that if managed correctly would greatly benefit the welfare of this state.
It is a matter of respect. You had Hitler in the day surrounding himself with loyalty, thugs being another definition, mainly because he couldn’t depend on a real thinking person carrying out his selfish and corrupt agenda.
This state cannot afford the luxury of entitlement; we are so far behind the rest of the world as it is. We need intelligent leadership in the few pockets we have a chance to advance it, not more monkeys for a zoo full of them.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
12:58 pm
Here is the problem, Jay will about all the time ONLY point out the questionable things the GOP does. If you would go by him you would think the Dems are saints!
That’s not a problem. That is simply pointing out one view of an issue. Also, Jay does not portray Dems as saints. Only dummies with no English or reading comprehension skills would assume such a thing.
The real problem is that someone points out GOP flaws and the “conservatives” here can’t even acknowledge the log in their own eyes for their incessant need to point out the splinter in the eye of their neighbor.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
12:58 pm
Can the Falcons finally win a Super Bowl like the Saints?
DownInAlbany
January 20th, 2013
1:00 pm
The real problem is that someone points out Dem flaws and the “liberals” here can’t even acknowledge the log in their own eyes for their incessant need to point out the splinter in the eye of their neighbor.
There, fixed that for you.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
1:02 pm
Didn’t fix anything for me. You actually make my point for me. Thanks for being so predictable.
DownInAlbany
January 20th, 2013
1:06 pm
You’re welcome. Thank YOU for being so predictable. No comment on my 12:53? This 501(c)4 will be receiving tax payer money, as well.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
1:16 pm
How am I predictable? You’re assuming that I’m a Democratic Party supporter, huh? I don’t give a sh*t about either party, so you obviously got me confused with someone who cares.
Last time I checked, the NRA was 501(c)3, so if Obama wants to form his own tax exempt group, who cares? He’s an American, and he has just as much of a right to form his own group as you do. If you don’t like it, then quit complaining and form your own group.
DownInAlbany
January 20th, 2013
1:22 pm
Last time I checked, the NRA was 501(c)3, so if Obama wants to form his own tax exempt group, who cares?
With Axelrod and Ploufe employees.
The real problem is that someone points out Dem flaws and the “liberals” here can’t even acknowledge the log in their own eyes for their incessant need to point out the splinter in the eye of their neighbor.
And, apparently, what Chip Rogers is doing is not illegal. So, if they GPB wants to employ him, “…who cares?” Kettle, meet pot.
Thanks for proving MY point.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
1:24 pm
Still no accountability in our cheating society.
The ole mindless but the other side does it too does not help your children growing up in a cheating society.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
1:32 pm
DIA
Go up to my 11:25 post to see what I think about Rogers. I don’t give a crap about him or his job. He is nothing more than just another unethical jackass to me. Party affiliation does not matter. There are unethical republicans and democrats. You obviously have no clue as to my political opinions. You’re doing the same stupid sh*t that some conservatives here do when someone’s beliefs don’t match yours. You go to labeling the person you’re debating with as one of those “libs” and using that typical rhetoric. The only problem is I don’t believe your rhetoric nor the crap rhetoric you think you’re debating against.
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
1:41 pm
getalife
January 20th, 2013
1:24 pm
I don’t know if the Falcons are Super Bowl material but keep your fingers crossed for us!
Republicans own this state
January 20th, 2013
1:42 pm
td and the others, your beloved Republicans own this state, complete control of all the legislative levers. Is it not time to quit blaming these phantom “liberals”? Just admit that starting ten years ago Republicans took control and they own whatever happens. So far it has been bad for the average Georgian.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
1:45 pm
We should join the rest of the world and demand accountability for government to end our cheating society.
President Obama failed on accountability for his first term but if he wants to level the playing field in his second term, now is the time to stop our cheating society with accountability.
Of course, the people need to unite for this change for their children to have a better shot to make it.
DownInAlbany
January 20th, 2013
1:46 pm
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
1:32 pm
DIA
Go up to my 11:25 post to see what I think about Rogers. I don’t give a crap about him or his job. He is nothing more than just another unethical jackass to me. Party affiliation does not matter. There are unethical republicans and democrats.
We agree! Peace out, Bro!
getalife
January 20th, 2013
1:48 pm
Real Scootter,
They said the Saints would not win too.
I think a NFC team will win the Super Bowl again so today will determine the Champions.
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
1:49 pm
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
1:32 pm
I don’t have any party affiliation either. Please consider joining me in being a member of Fred’s “Free Beer Party”.I’m hoping he will also add lap dances!
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
1:49 pm
DIA
See how easy it is to respond to the poster instead of what you think the poster said? Enjoy your day.
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
1:49 pm
not if he’s doing the dances though!
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
1:52 pm
They said the Saints would not win too.
Yeah and I hope the Falcons will do exactly what your Saints did!
getalife
January 20th, 2013
1:57 pm
Real Scootter,
It can happen.
Good luck.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
2:05 pm
Real Scootter
Beer is always good. I belong to the Party of Brosephus, but I have no problem with an alliance.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
2:14 pm
Kay71
The a–clowns here generally aren’t worth paying a lick of attention to
Jm
January 20th, 2013
2:17 pm
And for some of you here
Please note the use of the word “generally” in my previous post
getalife
January 20th, 2013
2:18 pm
jm,
willie robme is history.
appleseed
January 20th, 2013
2:30 pm
Obama from community to National organizer.Next step World organizer.Way to go Mr President.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
2:31 pm
Get
Yep
getalife
January 20th, 2013
2:36 pm
Our President and Vice President are sworn in for their second term.
The gop are divided and conquered.
Now is the time to level the playing field.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
2:41 pm
Get
Now is the time to stop the fascist president
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
2:44 pm
It can happen.
Good luck.
Thanks getalife!!!!!!!!!!
Public Works
January 20th, 2013
2:44 pm
“…ONLY point out the questionable things the GOP does…”
If Jay wants to talk about Georgia there is only one party. No “Dems” to talk about. When will you want to talk about the problems of the party in power in GA, Mr. Right?
Public Works
January 20th, 2013
2:47 pm
Anyone want to compare GA’s national standing in 2000 compared to 2010 – or now. There has only been one party. It’s pretty easy to figure out how it has performed.
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
2:47 pm
Beer is always good. I belong to the Party of Brosephus, but I have no problem with an alliance.
The United Beer Drinkers? I like it! Gooooooo Falcons!
Public Works
January 20th, 2013
2:50 pm
Easy to see the answer to “what’s happening in Georgia?” Just talk about Obama.
As was said earlier, Georgia’s in for some misery.
Real Scootter
January 20th, 2013
2:50 pm
Public Works
January 20th, 2013
2:47 pm
Go Fish Georgia!
getalife
January 20th, 2013
2:52 pm
jm,
Define fascist.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
2:54 pm
Public works
Georgia republicans are Mostly just crony capitalists, not real conservatives
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
2:55 pm
The country has not been this divided since 1861.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
2:58 pm
Orange,
Majority rules.
Your party is defeated.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
2:59 pm
Get
A militaristic ideology usually associated with a far right political view
Fascist economic policies happen to describe obama’s economic policies though
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
3:05 pm
Getalife, I stated what I consider to be a fact. Prove me wrong.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:06 pm
jm,
You described your failed party.
Our President’s agenda is center left .
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
3:07 pm
I am under the impression that economic policies of the Obama administration is Keynesian, through and through?
What am I missing?
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:08 pm
Orange,
You will be in the minority until your failed party is “fixed”.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:11 pm
Great start Falcons.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:13 pm
Jackie,
You are correct.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
3:13 pm
Getalife, No, only until the Gov runs out of free stuff.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:13 pm
Jackie
Keynesians would never suggest regulating the amount of profits a company can make
Obamians do
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:14 pm
Orange,
What free stuff ?
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:15 pm
jm,
Regulate profit?
Linky?
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:15 pm
Get
Wrong
Cons don’t advocate regulating profits and processes, to nearly the extent Obama does
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:15 pm
Get
Look up dodd frank and obamacare
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
3:17 pm
@jm
I have not seen any information that suggests the Obama administration has suggested and/or proposed limiting/regulating profits of business.
Do you have information that points to something different?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
3:17 pm
Getalife, I stated what I consider to be a fact. Prove me wrong.
I ain’t getalife by any stretch of the imagination. You may consider something as fact, but until you prove it as fact, it is nothing more than your opinion. Opinions are like colons: everybody has one, it likely stinks, and there is no way to prove them wrong as an opinion does not have to be factual for it to be valid.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:17 pm
Get
Obamacare says insurance companies can’t make more than a 15% profit
Which is dumb
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:18 pm
Jackie
I’m afraid you’re poorly informed
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
3:19 pm
Brosephus, are you blind?
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:20 pm
jm,
You are a liar with zero credibility.
You need to work on that.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:20 pm
Yeah TD
Go falcons
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:20 pm
Orange,
Where is your link to prove it?
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:22 pm
Get
You are a person who insults without basis
You should probably work on that, but I’m not holding my breath
Google is your friend
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
3:25 pm
@jm
You ability to extrapolate is lacking. What the study says is with President Obama’s health care initiative, the insurance companies will have 15% to 20% of their net income remaining for profit.
Here is what you attempted to cite as proof.
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/02/new-report-compares-obama-romney-health-care-plans/
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
3:27 pm
@jm
You have ample opportunity to disprove my assertions, or, prove that you have presented specious information.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:28 pm
Jackie
First off I didn’t cite anything
Second the law says they must spend 85% of their revenue, which by defacto limits their profits
Since you can’t understand this relatively simple fact, we’re done
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:30 pm
Ok jm,
You are just a con liar to be ignored.
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
3:31 pm
@jm
Of course you did not cite anything because there is nothing to cite.
Proves my point about your ability to extrapolate and conflate.
Simple enough.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:32 pm
Jackie google MLR
Like I said I’m done with you
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:33 pm
Get
You and Jackie are either dumb or liars
Either way you’re a waste of time
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:34 pm
jm,
Get lost sore loser.
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
3:35 pm
@jm
I posted the link that clearly states how and when you came up with the assertion of limiting profits.
Wonder if you took the time to read it so that you may be able to comprehend simple facts.
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
3:37 pm
@jm
Using pejoratives, are we?
Sounds like you have not way out of the corner you painted yourself in.
Give it a few minutes, the paint will dry!
Jm
January 20th, 2013
3:40 pm
Good ATL D
Dixie Normous
January 20th, 2013
3:43 pm
Go Falcons
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:43 pm
If you can’t type the truth, don’t type about politics.
Enough with the rw lies.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
3:45 pm
Orange
I am not blind. Your point?
Dixie Normous
January 20th, 2013
3:48 pm
Orange,
Majority rules.
Your party is defeated.
Does it rule in the House of Reps too? How about here in GA? Your party lost too
getalife
January 20th, 2013
3:52 pm
Check out this mooching cons:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/us/medicare-pricing-delay-is-political-win-for-amgen-drug-maker.html
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
4:00 pm
Orange
You claim we’re the most divided since 1861. In the summer of 1919, we had riots and cities burned down. There were Black WWI soldiers lynched in their uniforms. In the 50s and 60s, we had lynchings and cities burned down. In 2013, nobody’s getting lynched or burning cities down. Division is in the eye of the beholder.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
4:01 pm
Brosephus,
What I am saying is that both partys are not going to work togather for the betterment of the American citizen. It’s almost as if they hate each other and who cares about the American voter as long as they can make the other party look bad. In other words all either side is interested in is making political points. On another note. Are you still working for the fov? If so did you get Microsoft 2013 unfer the HUP program?
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
4:06 pm
Sorry Brosephus,
That was suppossed to be Gov and under.
Serious Robuck
January 20th, 2013
4:17 pm
Somehow, I think Chip must have the goat pictures…some really bad goat pictures.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
4:29 pm
Good drive Falcons..
getalife
January 20th, 2013
4:31 pm
Ryan is on fire.
Unstoppable.
josef
January 20th, 2013
4:31 pm
Dang! Y’all are sure in a foul a33 mood, ain’t you?
On the topic…
So? What else is new? Been going on a long, long time. Just go read Juvenal…
Jackie
January 20th, 2013
4:34 pm
If John Abraham can play and play well in the 2nd half, the Falcons will win.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
4:34 pm
Good drive
josef
January 20th, 2013
4:38 pm
BROSEPHUS
An interesting one piggybacking on your @ 4:00 pm. As you know from SE, we’ve been looking more closely at a certain place over in the Magnolia State that Dr. King called “the most unfriendly town in the world.” It’s absolutely amazing to see how far they’ve come in the last half century.
I was pulling up info on the local “academy.” It was one of those segregationist institutions thrown up in a hurry when D-day came. Now? Looking over their web site, there are little melanin enhanced faces right along with the lilly whites and a few Asian and Latino ones. Seems it’s the school of choice for Nissan’s managers, etc.
Like you and I have said, we’re finally moving beyond racial segregation into class-caste segregation. I guess that’s what’s passing for progress…still, and all, though, it’s a heap sight better than it was.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
4:39 pm
Obamacare starts soon.
Will be an entertaining four years
Crappy but entertaining
So I will not go away
getalife
January 20th, 2013
4:43 pm
I am in a great mood josef:
http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef017c360efd70970b-800wi
josef
January 20th, 2013
4:53 pm
getalife
I’m not in a bad mood…but far from jumping with joy over that one…we’ll see…
getalife
January 20th, 2013
4:56 pm
josef,
Better background checks, immigration reform and deficit reduction.
What is not to like about that agenda?
AlterEgo
January 20th, 2013
5:03 pm
Chip Rogers? Ah well, at least Jay isn’t whining about the 2nd Amendment for a change.
On that subject, certainly will be interesting to see where Mayor Reed ends up after he’s done lining his pockets from Airport concessions….
getalife
January 20th, 2013
5:05 pm
Uh oh.
Interception.
SF has the momentum.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
5:06 pm
“deficit reduction”
How is he going to do that when he’s going to borrow against it?
josef
January 20th, 2013
5:07 pm
getalife
I have my issues, but I’ve already learned to keep them to myself… I’ve got enough enemies already, don’t need any more!
getalife
January 20th, 2013
5:17 pm
Another turnover.
Ryan is chocking in the second half.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
5:20 pm
Bad call ref.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
6:02 pm
Falcons lose.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
6:02 pm
That is sad!
indigo
January 20th, 2013
6:06 pm
The Falcons blew a 17-0 lead and lost to San Francisco, just as I knew they would.
I learned, years ago, not to give my heart to the Falcons.
If you do, they will break it, EVERY SINGLE SEASON.
dan
January 20th, 2013
6:12 pm
i have been a state employee since 1992, 21 years as of today. When I started, I made $18,000 a year. 21 years later, i make only $49,000. Could I have gone into private sector and made more, absolutely. But, I chose to serve the public. Can I get a raise before I retire?? The last raise I got was in 2007.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
6:19 pm
Orange
Why should the parties work together? Look at how people treat each other here on this blog, for example. Why would you expect people who are supposed to differ accomplish something that we should do here and can’t? DC is nothing more than a grand reflection of all of us. The only thing I expect from them is more screw ups.
Haven’t gotten Microsoft yet because I am perfecting my procrastinating skills.
—————-
josef
Interesting… I’ll have to look into that.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
6:26 pm
Deficit reduction.
How is he going to do that when he’s going to borrow against it?
+++++++
Cut spending and raise taxes.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
6:26 pm
Brosephus,
“Haven’t gotten Microsoft yet because I am perfecting my procrastinating skills.
For $9.95 what is there to procrastinate about?
http://884314.r.msn.com/?ld=6v6O8hCMkdUkR1sF623tICVzVUCUykhfnTMXC8a2EtEfAMNegGS-T0OBU6C_jP5wTkF2Q0I8PNtnEQXS6-KC2DDhU6iKMdZ0VCbLPACn9q1FbSAHaBkkR13i1liYPuBaHdlMm2Qg&u=https%3a%2f%2ftrack.digitalriver.com%2f%2fsi%2fcm%2ftracking%2fclickredirect.aspx%3fsitrackingid%3d538306161%26siadid%3d1320905362%26siquerystring%3dmicrosoft%2520hup
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
6:28 pm
Oscar,
He’s not cutting spending.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
6:39 pm
Orange
Well, sometimes life gets in the way of well intended plans. I’ll eventually get it. It’s just not a pressing need right -now.
appleseed
January 20th, 2013
6:42 pm
Sad day for Atlanta,great day for America.
indigo
January 20th, 2013
6:47 pm
Brosephus – 6:19
The people we send to Washington are supposed to be a cut or two above us average folks on this blog.
That they apparently aren’t makes you wonder if the really good people are no longer in our political arena.
Soothsayer
January 20th, 2013
6:50 pm
Well, this was a bitter loss for the Falcons. At least it wasn’t a blowout.
I think that in spite of this loss, we can all be proud of our Falcons for a great season of 13-3 and a great post-season victory against Seattle.
Maybe some trades in the off-season will help them go on to the Super Bowl and win in 2013.
captguitarman
January 20th, 2013
6:52 pm
Yes, it is beyond disgusting, especially since it is so obvious that the fix was in. It would really be appreciated if the GPB officials would stop gushing about how great this is and how they were planning to do it all along, etc. and following the script provided by the Gov’s office, because even if the GPB execs are too dumb or naive to know the fix was in, the public — from whom they solicit financial support – is not. Wonder how those solicitations are going to fare in the future?
It does not bode well for the GPB, but the Pub/Cons now firmly and safely in power can do this kind of thing now without fear or recrimination or consequences. If the people don’t like it . . . tough toe nails. Of course the Dem/Libs (who ruled the Dome for 150 years) during the King Roy years thought they would be bullet proof forever too. Thankfully, things change in politics, and they change now more quickly than ever.
Rogers, despite just being a whacko wing nut, and an ethically challenged business man, must have known something, or had some ugly evidence or some dirty laundry tucked away, in order to get such chi-chi treatment and a big paying, cushy, unnecessary job created out of thin air. Interesting that the job did not exist or even have a job description until the Pub/Cons needed a place to park him. Just more solid proof that the political culture under the Gold Dome is no respecter of party or persons. In fact, it has nothing to do with party. This could have easily been an article about a rogue legislator and King Roy and the Dem/Libs during the King Roy years. Jes good ol’ boys doin’ bidness.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
6:56 pm
indigo
I don’t think they’re supposed to be any different. We don’t have a royal or leader class. Our government is supposed to be for, of, and by the people. They are exactly who we are. BTW, in regards to your earlier questions to me, I didn’t do the flu shot nor have I ever done ‘them.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:01 pm
INDIGO
“The people we send to Washington are supposed to be a cut or two above us average folks on this blog.”
They are? Why?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:03 pm
orange – it is up to congress to cut spending. they pass the laws. the president executes them.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:06 pm
bro – why no flu sot. afraid of imurities in you body?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:06 pm
impurities
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:09 pm
Let’s see…who WOULD I consider voting for my representative from the blog regulars.
Hillbilly in a flash, but he’d never accept….
Brosephus for at least one term.
Paul, maybe, but he’s got some ’splainin’ to do on a couple of issues.
DDR in a minute, if for no other reason than a good stirrer-upper
TBG might be able to convince me, but since he’d run GOP I couldn’t cast a vote for him on that ticket
and then, of course, there are those I would actively campaign against, but well I do have that pesky New Year’s resolution, so I won’t name them and say why!
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
7:09 pm
Oscar,
Hence the quagmire. Republicans want to cut spending and not raise taxes. Democrats want to do the exact opposite. Sadly none of the leaders want to give any ground and the American people are the ones getting the screws put to them. Obama says cut spending but the only thing he’s done so far is raise taxes and spend.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:10 pm
josep = i think you should vote for me.
Super Bowl XLVII
January 20th, 2013
7:11 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wSwAJ98Zk
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:12 pm
OSCAR
Why? Convince me…
indigo
January 20th, 2013
7:12 pm
Broseph, josef
The ones we send to Washington are supposed to be among our brightest and best.
I am not in that category.
I don’t know either of you so, maybe you are.
Even so, most of us here are probably not congressional material.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:12 pm
orange – once again i repeat, congress raises taxes. the president cannot raise taxes.
TBS
January 20th, 2013
7:13 pm
Indigo
DC is pretty close to a microcosim of what you see and experience in life..
Some are a cut a above, some a cut below, yet others are “avg Joe”..
Nothing new in American politics or politics in general for that matter
Is there a certain period of time that you thought on avg that the politicians were a on avg a cut a above? If so, when and why?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:14 pm
josep – because i think we should cut spending and raise taxes. other than that, i am not making anystatments.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:14 pm
INDIGO
“The ones we send to Washington are supposed to be among our brightest and best.”
Why? And I’m not being snarky when I ask this, but are you an elitist?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
7:15 pm
Oscar
Flu shots are a 50/50 chance. If you’re protected against one strain and contract a different one, you still get sick. The best way to protect yourself is to be aware of those around you and practice great hygiene. Even when you do things right, you can still end up sick.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:15 pm
OSCAR
So, you’re a single issue candidate?
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
7:17 pm
Oscar,
Really? Why doesn’t he talk to his party and say let’s do something for the people instead of playing partisan politics. I’m quite sure the Republicans would be more than willing to talk with them.
Nduka
January 20th, 2013
7:17 pm
What does a ‘community jobs program’ executive do? It sounds like a make-work position. This doesn’t exactly make me want to open my wallet next time GPB does a membership drive.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:18 pm
bro – - the best way to avoid the flu is to get a flu shot, and wash your hands and that other stuff you mentioned.
josep – I will add another issue, I endorse flu shots.
Other issues may be added later as motivated.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:20 pm
OSCAR
Ah! You’re beginning to sound like a candidate already!
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:21 pm
Orange – You are sure? That’s a laugh. And the president does not contol his party. Separation of powers between executive and legislative branches. in conress
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:22 pm
Some of my friens think one way and some another . I agree with my friends.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
7:24 pm
“the president does not contol his party”
What???
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:25 pm
OSCAR
@ 7:22
So far, so good!
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:25 pm
What this country need is a good five cent cigar, log cabins and hard cider and what;s good for general motors is good for the USA.
Recon 0311 2533
January 20th, 2013
7:26 pm
Well the Falcons defense stunk up the Georgia dome.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
7:26 pm
The best way to protect yourself is to be aware of those around you and practice great hygiene. Even when you do things right, you can still end up sick.
I have got a bushmaster loaded with flu shot just looking to take down the flu if it shows up.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:27 pm
And for sure I can’t earn money by typing and spelling.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:30 pm
Got to score more than 24 points to win in the NFL. And need to sore in the seond half.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
7:30 pm
“Well the Falcons defense stunk up the Georgia dome”
Matt Ryan’s back to back turnovers is what killed the Falcons.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:31 pm
OSCAR
A chicken in every pot and pot in every chicken?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
7:32 pm
Oscar
I’ve had the flu twice in my almost 40 years of living. I have not gotten a single shot. There are many strains of the flu virus, and there has never been one shot to protect against them all at one time.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
7:32 pm
Two close games.
The Saints won the Super Bowl.
Just sayin.
Bill Orvis White
January 20th, 2013
7:39 pm
I just read up on this and from what I can tell, the honorable Georgia State Sen. Chip Rogers is giving what PBS needs the most: true diversity. Why is that it’s OK to put shows on that promote the gay agenda, but it’s not OK to put a true conservative on its board? What am I missing here? The honorable Mr. Rogers worked hard for the state and did a job that he didn’t really have to do as a low-paid public servant looking out for the common man. Then, He rightfully earned his way into a good paying TV job. By the way, the honorable Mr. Rogers has a background in TV which makes Him even more qualified to take on the job. Whenever I’m in town, I’m going to try to look up Chip Rogers on the television. Amen, Bill
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:44 pm
Josef – There is good news just around the corner. And a light at the end of the tunnel.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:45 pm
Hey, BIll Orvis! Long time, no see. Hope all is well with you and Roosevelt down on the Leaf.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:46 pm
OSCAR
And the only thing we have to fear is fear itself if we ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country…oh, BTW, DID you have sex with THAT woman?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:48 pm
No, I did not have sex with THAT woman.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
7:48 pm
Well I heard Mr. Rogers is bringing back a much more conservative Mr. Drummond. He’ll adopt Honey BooBoo this time.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:49 pm
Well, I may have, it depends on what your definition of is is.
Recon 0311 2533
January 20th, 2013
7:50 pm
http://player.vimeo.com/video/38356372?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0
Recon 0311 2533
January 20th, 2013
7:52 pm
My last is for Scout and others who know the truth.
stands for decibels
January 20th, 2013
8:00 pm
This country has a community organizer for president
Thanks for the reminder.
Since I never got around to saying it–yes, Hank Johnson was right.
josef
January 20th, 2013
8:00 pm
OSCAR
It is what it is.
josef
January 20th, 2013
8:02 pm
And sometimes they don’t just fade away.
indigo
January 20th, 2013
8:05 pm
joseph
Just as you want the very best jurists for the supreme court so you want the very best people for the House and Senate.
Unless, you’re like President Andrew Jackson who thought any average citizen was good enough for any public office.
indigo
January 20th, 2013
8:10 pm
TBS
Suppose you’re in a large shopping center.
Further suppose you must pick out 30 adults for high public office.
If you simply picked 30 people at random, without even talking to them, I hope you’re not thinking they would necessarly make good public servants.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
8:23 pm
Based on results so far, community organizer has proved to be an excellent background for presidents.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
8:36 pm
Obama has set a target of $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years — a number that even many deficit hawk economists view as more than sufficient to stabilize the economy. Budget and spending deals he made in his first term are worth $2.5 trillion. So he’s already not too far from that target, and the GOP may be unable to stop him from getting the rest of the way there….Total U.S. debt is about $16.4 trillion — a scary, oft-cited number that’s about equal to the country’s total annual economic output. But that includes some $5 trillion that the government owes itself, primarily to the Social Security Trust Fund. The less-frightening amount that economists care about is what Uncle Sam owes the public, and that’s a little over $11 trillion, or about three-quarters of the GDP. Such a debt level is historically high, but nowhere near a record. And it looks even better next to the significant assets the government holds….Deficit concerns are usually raised as a proxy for unpopular ideological preferences, Galbraith notes. Instead of demanding cuts to Medicare because it constitutes what Ronald Reagan once called “socialized medicine,” conservatives now insist that such programs must be cut to avoid the supposedly greater pain caused by fiscal trauma.
Recon 0311 2533
January 20th, 2013
8:42 pm
Keep up the good flight sure gets sucked into bull shyte.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
8:50 pm
Oh look Recon is pouting again.
appleseed
January 20th, 2013
8:54 pm
Old Faithful erupting again.I suppose birds of a feather support other same birds.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
8:59 pm
Too many facts in that one Keep.
Facts scare the cons.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
9:02 pm
getalife, they sure don’t deal well with reality. It’s been shown time and time again. But we’ll get some more unskewed pouting.
Serious Robuck
January 20th, 2013
9:02 pm
Dear All,
Atlanta is Losersville. In every conceptual way, this place is now the CAN’T DO city. Our attitude: Elect Republicans. Give them a super majority. Enable their corruption. Buy into their ideas that we just have to cut spending and cut government jobs and reduce regulations and sell our souls to any industry who wants to come and play for a few years (e.g. Kia, Caterpillar) and play defense and pray that our schools will get better, that somehow traffic will get better, and perhaps we’ll win the lottery. We can never ever plan for or invest in the future again.
Losersville.
Georgia is my native state and my home. It is, however, Losersville. Period.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:04 pm
“That they apparently aren’t makes you wonder if the really good people are no longer in our political arena.”
-Indigo
Indigo must be 18 years old
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:05 pm
“I’ve had the flu twice in my almost 40 years of living. I have not gotten a single shot. There are many strains of the flu virus, and there has never been one shot to protect against them all at one time.”
You are one healthy resistant hombre
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:09 pm
Robuck
Love you pal and agree, but for different reasons
getalife
January 20th, 2013
9:10 pm
It is going to be a long four years of pouting
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:10 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
9:02 pm
getalife, they sure don’t deal well with reality. It’s been shown time and time again. But we’ll get some more unskewed pouting.
LinkReport this comment
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That economy you live in and the air you breathe, not real
Unfortunately
Sorry life is complex
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:11 pm
Get
I’m not pouting
Just entertained
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:12 pm
I wonder why jay never goes old school and posts some “old and in the way”
Would be apropos too
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:13 pm
I wonder how many posts I can stick in a row
TBS
January 20th, 2013
9:13 pm
Indigo
I’m just saying what it is.
Did not imply it was the optimal scenario
It is reality whether you like it or not
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:14 pm
Getting us to page 7 could take a while
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:15 pm
Optimal scenarios never occur
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:15 pm
page 7
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:16 pm
page 6.8
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:16 pm
Recon 8:42
If that’s what you eat sleep and breathe, hey man that’s just normal
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:16 pm
page 6.81
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:17 pm
Oscar
Nice try
What’s happenin?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:17 pm
page 8.2
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:18 pm
Oscar
Are you having difficulty counting?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:19 pm
drew barrymore and oprah on tv. i watched the game this afternoon. paybacks are hell.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:19 pm
If bro does a face smack post that may zip us right to 7
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:20 pm
page 6.3
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:21 pm
Drew Barrymore is talking to Oprah?
Hell. I had no idea doping was prevalent in the acting biz. Jk
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:21 pm
focus
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:21 pm
I thought they had stunt doubles….
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:22 pm
“focus”
On what?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:22 pm
really bad hair
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:23 pm
my problem with numers is lack of focus
Catfish John
January 20th, 2013
9:25 pm
Damn Nate silver
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/what-is-driving-growth-in-government-spending/
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:26 pm
Oscar
Which elixir have you been imbibing in?
(apologies for ending the sentence with a preposition, I’m too lazy right now)
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:35 pm
page 6.4
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:37 pm
You know
A few all male colleges are probably not a bad idea
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21569724-only-few-holdouts-survive-old-all-male-ways-die-hard
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:37 pm
Coca-Cola. That’s it for me these days.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:38 pm
Oscar
Step it up
7is a long way away at this point
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:38 pm
Oscar
All kinds of bad things in coke
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:40 pm
Oscar
It’s fair to say atl would be a backwater today absent coca-cola
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:40 pm
jm – the college I attented was 25 per cent co-ed. Would have preferred more women.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:42 pm
Oscar
Yes
But most dudes act like steak heads around women
I’m not blameless either
Nash equilibrium for guys might be at the bottom of the barrel
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:43 pm
I went to the Coca-Cola school. Coke makes a good mixer.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:46 pm
Oscar
Coca cola school?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:47 pm
coke helped, but Atlanta grew as a rail road, ware house and transportation center.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:49 pm
Oscar
Yes
But coke put Atlanta on the map
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:50 pm
i dated a lot of high school girls, nursing students and some from agnes scott.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:51 pm
page 6.5
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:52 pm
Emory
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:53 pm
Oscar
What did you major in at Emory?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:54 pm
we only drank cokes. no other soft drink could be bought on campus
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:55 pm
psychology
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
then i went to law school
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
What’s my personality type?
Myers Briggs
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
page 6.6
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:58 pm
m-b had not been invented when i was in college.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:59 pm
we talked about defense mechanisms a lot.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
i think ou do a lt og projection.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
Fair enough
Are u an ot tourney now or do something else?
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
Attorney
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:03 pm
What’s an it og projectin?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:03 pm
jm
My mom was a hospital lab tech, and several of my aunts were/are nurses. Most of my good health came from listening to them, but i
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:03 pm
drew was smoking pot at club 21 at age 11
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:05 pm
I also try to take good care of myself. Fat fingered the cell phone.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:06 pm
retired now. worked for a private company for 40 years as an attorney
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:07 pm
10:43 example of lack of focus
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:08 pm
10:03
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:10 pm
“retired now”
Good profession
Bro
Cell phones are a pain
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:11 pm
Bro
I figured you live in a cabin in the woods
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:12 pm
Who is drew?
Oscar is multi blogging methinks.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:13 pm
Yes they are. Y’all have fun. My time is up for the evening.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:14 pm
6.9?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:15 pm
jm
Not living like that yet, but that would be nice.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:15 pm
bro is more of a manic
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:16 pm
Bro’s sentiment, while fundamentally misplaced, is hard to dispute
I’m tired too
Oscar, over and out
Multitasking is our enemy
getalife
January 20th, 2013
10:16 pm
“I figured you live in a cabin in the woods”
I figured you are dead wrong as usual.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:17 pm
oprah is finally over. i know more about drew barrymore than i ever wanted to
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:17 pm
Oscar is dropping psych
Uh oh
Ok, zzzz
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:19 pm
Get
Figures of speech are Arabic to you apparently
td
January 20th, 2013
10:26 pm
On a good note for the day. It does my heart good to see all these women standing up for the 2nd Amendment by purchasing guns and learning how to shoot them. I have heard from 6 different lady friends this weekend that have told me that they have bought a gun and have learned to shoot it the past couple of weeks.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:44 pm
everyone shold have a gun and know ho to use it.
RF
January 20th, 2013
11:11 pm
“I have heard from 6 different lady friends this weekend that have told me that they have bought a gun and have learned to shoot it the past couple of weeks”
Wonderful!! Now when the have PMS, their husbands won’t need to sleep on their stomachs…they’ll need to sleep in another county.
As if having a gun makes you more American. If you buy that, then ol’ Chip is a saint to you…
I’m late to the par-tay, but DANG, I wish I had kept my membership card for the Republican Party. Apparently, if you say enough stupid stuff, they’ll pay you big bucks to go away. I could use some of that cash right about now.
appleseed
January 20th, 2013
11:26 pm
6 different ladies,putting you on alert.
Alex
January 20th, 2013
11:56 pm
inauguration cost to taxpayers?…………perhaps when this gets out of the way the president will get to work,like the rest of us……..
Cherokee
January 21st, 2013
1:22 am
Yeah ’cause that worked so well for Nancy Lanza, right td?
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
7:19 am
WE always knew what Chip Rogares was…..Now we know his price.
WE also now know what Nathan Deal is.
Pimps and Hoes.
Isn’t that special?
Rightwing troll
January 21st, 2013
7:31 am
“I’m late to the par-tay, but DANG, I wish I had kept my membership card for the Republican Party. Apparently, if you say enough stupid stuff, they’ll pay you big bucks to go away. I could use some of that cash right about now.”
If this were true, there’s quite a few regular wing nut posters here that would be prime candidates for those cushy GPBS jobs… Quite a few.
stands for decibels
January 21st, 2013
7:44 am
inauguration cost to taxpayers?…
Seriously?
perhaps when this gets out of the way the president will get to work
again: Seriously?
Hank Johnson was right.
GT
January 21st, 2013
7:46 am
Could you imagine Arthur Blank giving some crony a job as quarterback of the Falcons, for an entitlement or a backdoor compromise? Resumes mean something in the rest of the world; it just happens most of the right doesn’t have resumes, that is why they are in the right, couldn’t make it in the other party. This is like a banana republic; it is like the country sections off the nuts, the crooks, and the uneducated, sends them south. Use to be California had a lot of the loose marbles but they are now prospering under Brown. If Georgia is a show case for the right what could possibly be anyone’s motivation to be red.
stands for decibels
January 21st, 2013
7:48 am
everyone shold have a gun and know ho to use it.
…because this approach has worked so well in freedom loving nations like Afghanistan and Somalia.
The trendlines are pretty clear–rational Americans who do not keep a handgun in the home (and reasonable Americans who do, but who don’t see it as some absolute unfettered right) will so outnumber the gun-tards that we will have rational regs on ownership. It might not happen during this President’s second term, but it will happen.
stands for decibels
January 21st, 2013
7:59 am
Could you imagine Arthur Blank giving some crony a job as quarterback of the Falcons
meh, in the case of Chip, it’s more like some team taking on the contract of a crappy, past-his-prime guy who you don’t really intend to play, in a trade deal that includes something better.
Problem is, in this case the “something better” is “we don’t sell your operation for scrap, this year.” Which is what right wingers have been known to try to do.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
7:59 am
Waiting on President Obama’s comments on the debt today.
stands for decibels
January 21st, 2013
8:00 am
Anyhow, enjoy this day when the USA celebrates the life of an epochal black civil rights leader AND publicly swear in for a second term our nation’s first African American President, as we endeavor to form a more perfect union.
Back, maybe, if/when Jay’s got somethin’ new for us.
Skip
January 21st, 2013
8:05 am
I like how Orange hangs on Obama’s every word.
Brosephus™
January 21st, 2013
8:05 am
dB
It should be a day of celebration, but we know everybody’s not happy.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:09 am
Skip, That National Debt ticker keeps heading North.
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
8:11 am
Bro
I’m with you on the celebration.
Our governments peaceful transition every four years is something for us all to be proud of.
DannyX
January 21st, 2013
8:11 am
“Skip, That National Debt ticker keeps heading North.”
Wow, Orange, that is serious. Tell us all about the Republican plan to fix it.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 21st, 2013
8:11 am
Gun nuts bragging about how great more sales are….. tell that to the parents of the kid who shot his brother playing with a gun.
Adam
January 21st, 2013
8:13 am
Where’s MAH SHEETZ????
Doggone/GA
January 21st, 2013
8:14 am
“Skip, That National Debt ticker keeps heading North”
Tell that to Congress
Gale
January 21st, 2013
8:17 am
The real problem of guns in homes with kids is failing to teach them respect. We always had guns in the house and were taught early that they were dangerous and not toys, and never ever to point a gun at anyone. How hard is that?
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
8:18 am
Keeps
Saw the stats that although gun sales are rising, the number of households with guns are dropping.
So what we have here is an ever decreasing passle o’ nut cases building personal arsenals.
Most folks are getting smarter, yet some are doubling down on stupid and dangerous.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:20 am
Danny, that has already been addressed in earlier posts
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
8:20 am
Gale
No harder than making your kids…eat broccoli, go to sleep, do their math, sit quietly in church….
Cosby
January 21st, 2013
8:20 am
Simple..defund GPR and NPR as well as planned parenthood..we do not need them they have outlived their original intent. Save the taxpayers money!! but you, Jay, want to point fingers rather than provide a simple solution
honested
January 21st, 2013
8:21 am
Is rogers’ real job to tamp down stories expressing discontent at the destruction of the mouth of the Savannah River and the simple fact that long term support of wildlife is impossible?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 21st, 2013
8:23 am
Granny, a little scary when you see some of the crazies loaded up on shows like preppers or the guys like that TN case.
Gale
January 21st, 2013
8:26 am
Point taken, Granny. I guess my dad was more diligent than I gave him credit for.
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
8:26 am
Keep
I imagine a few of them will blow themselves up….
See the accidental shootings at 3 different gun shows on “Gun Appreciation day”…..?
In that case the stupid not only hurts but leaves scars.
DannyX
January 21st, 2013
8:26 am
“Danny, that has already been addressed in earlier posts”
Orange, no it hasn’t. Proclaiming Republicans want to cut spending and don’t want to raise taxes is hardly a plan. How much do they want to cut and what do they want to cut?
Skip
January 21st, 2013
8:30 am
All spending must go through the house, cons control the house. Cons are responsible for all spending, the end.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:31 am
Danny, How about some welfare and give away programs?
DannyX
January 21st, 2013
8:34 am
“Danny, How about some welfare and give away programs?”
You are flailing, Orange. What exactly is the Republican plan?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 21st, 2013
8:35 am
I did see those shootings. Unfortunately, some others were injured too. Then there was the clown shopping with an semi-assault rifle on his back at the mall to “prove a point”.
kayaker 71
January 21st, 2013
8:36 am
Danny 8:26′
How about aid of dependent children, planned parenthood, free birth control pills, free school lunches, 99 wks of unemployment benefits, free cell phones, free child care, subsidized housing, welfare checks, EBT cards with no restrictions on usage….. that will do for a start.
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
8:36 am
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:31 am
Danny, How about some welfare and give away programs?
.
.
.
Orange 13, Like subsidies and special tax deals for big income individuals and coporations?
ok fine.
Next?
Jm
January 21st, 2013
8:37 am
It’s a tragedy that Fenty and his education reforms lost out to another crooked politician in DC
If I was Rhee, I’d be disgusted
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/vincent-gray-resignation_n_1668335.html
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:39 am
Flailing? I think not. Cutting some of those programs would be huge in addressing the debt. It sure beats tax and spend doesn’t it?
indigo
January 21st, 2013
8:39 am
Brosephus – 8:05
There are far too many people in America who, looking down the road, see a whiter White House as being the promised land.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:41 am
“Orange 13, Like subsidies and special tax deals for big income individuals and coporations?”
Another good idea Granny.
Doggone/GA
January 21st, 2013
8:41 am
“Cutting some of those programs would be huge in addressing the debt”
Got proof?
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
8:41 am
Kayaker 71
WHat’s the difference in dollar value of your suggestions versus mine?
I don’t know exactly myself, but it is my understanding that “welfare” as subsidies and tax deals for high income indivuals and corporations far exceed that which is given to the poor or elderly.
ARe you scared the rich might hurt you in some way while the poor will simply go hungry or homeless and it’s no big deal with you?
How brave!
indigo
January 21st, 2013
8:43 am
Granny – 8:11
It can be a real eye opener to realize just how many countries in our world don’t have peaceful transitions.
It can be truly amazing and disheartning to discover how many Americans aren’t aware of this.
DannyX
January 21st, 2013
8:43 am
“Flailing? I think not. Cutting some of those programs would be huge in addressing the debt. It sure beats tax and spend doesn’t it?”
You have nothing, Orange. Nothing at all. For the 3rd time, what is the Republican plan? How much in spending cuts and what do they want to cut?
kayaker 71
January 21st, 2013
8:45 am
Indigo, 8:39,
You confuse whiter with more responsible, truthful, honest government…… something that Bozo and his gang have fallen way short in providing. We’re sick of his lies. “No increase in taxes for those who make 250K or less”. Looked at your most recent paycheck lately? “This health care plan will lower health care costs and you can keep your own insurance plan and your doctor”. “This health care plan will only cost the American taxpayer 940B dollars”. All lies. Blatant, purposeful lies designed to raise govt revenues without cutting spending.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 21st, 2013
8:46 am
Well it looks like yaker hit most of the fear buttons in a single post……
No facts. But great fear distortions.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 21st, 2013
8:47 am
Brosephus™
January 21st, 2013
8:05 am
It is doubtful that MLK would be approving of the plight of african americans during BO’s term. Nobody seems to pay attention to that…I know he would.
Jm
January 21st, 2013
8:48 am
Kayaker
Obama is a huge government liberal
That’s reality and he’s president
So we’re going to get what we deserve
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:49 am
Doggone,
Sorry I can’t find a more up to date article. This should give you the jist of the cost.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary/item/13460-enough-spent-on-welfare-in-2011-to-give-every-poor-household-nearly-$60000
Welcome to the Occupation
January 21st, 2013
8:50 am
Jm: “Obama is a huge government liberal”
Lie.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:51 am
Danny,
Thr Republican plan is to streamline SS and other healthcare programs. But you already knew that didn’t you?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 21st, 2013
8:51 am
kayaker 71
January 21st, 2013
8:45 am
C’mon Kayaker, we all know it’s Bush’s fault that he broke all those campaign promises. Haven’t you learned anything?
At least he has a handle on immigration and he has done a great job minimizing lobbyists control of DC agenda. Think of all the wall street and telecom villians he has brought to justice…
It’s ok to give credit where credit is due..
kayaker 71
January 21st, 2013
8:52 am
Granny, 8:41,
We’ve been subsidizing black America to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars/yr since 1964. We have more of the black community on public assistance than at any time in our history. At lease corporate America produces jobs for those who choose to work, provides retirement programs for long term employees, up to now, has provided health care benefits for their workers and some sense of responsibility for those who choose to work. You compare apples and bananas, my friend.
Gale
January 21st, 2013
8:53 am
The politicians on both side know what cuts really would improve out spending to GDP ratio and allow us to improve the debt imbalance. The problem is those cuts are unpopular and their power would be at risk for voting for such measures, or even publicly suggesting them. They want to force the “other side” to propose those cuts.
stands for decibels
January 21st, 2013
8:55 am
Cutting some of those programs would be huge in addressing the debt.
no it wouldn’t. It would not do dick. Not that it matters, because deficit scolds don’t actually care about the deficit or the debt. They care about screwing ordinary Americans.
And sheets.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 21st, 2013
8:56 am
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 21st, 2013
8:46 am
I agree, he clearly didn’t raise taxes on those under 250K, he simply didn’t extend the payroll tax holiday. That kayaker is a big silly. He thinks not extending a tax benefit is same as raising a tax. It’s not important that those folks pay more today than in December, it’s only important that it is successfully spun as an expiration as opposed to additional tax..
All these guys care about is optics….you bit hook, line and sinker.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
8:58 am
Stands,
Why not? Show me some proof that it wouldn’t help.
Brosephus™
January 21st, 2013
8:59 am
indigo
You wouldn’t guess that by looking at the crowd on the national mall.
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Stevie Ray
I think that MLK would understand that Obama is president for everyone and not just for Black America.
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
9:02 am
“It is doubtful that MLK would be approving of the plight of african americans during BO’s term. Nobody seems to pay attention to that…I know he would.”
Funny thing.
1/2 what you read from the right says Obama favored blacks the other half repeats the above.
I wish they would pick one and stick with it.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
9:04 am
Stands,
Check my 849
Granny Godzilla
January 21st, 2013
9:05 am
Stevie Ray
It is doubtful that MLK would be approving of the plight of african americans during BO’s term. Nobody seems to pay attention to that…I know he would.
Kayaker 71
We’ve been subsidizing black America to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars/yr since 1964.
Mixed messages?
DannyX
January 21st, 2013
9:05 am
“Thr Republican plan is to streamline SS and other healthcare programs. But you already knew that didn’t you?”
Show me the money, Orange! What do they want to cut? How much? Does their plan fix the deficit? Does it pay down debt? Is there a plan or not?
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
9:11 am
Danny,
I don’t have those figures. I only get information the same way you do, newscasts. I do know those suggestions were brought to the congressional bargaining table with no interest shown by the Democratic side.
Orange13
January 21st, 2013
9:11 am
Danny,
I don’t have those figures. I only get information the same way you do, newscasts. I do know those suggestions were brought to the congressional bargaining table with no interest shown by the Democrativ side.
yuzeyurbrane
January 21st, 2013
9:42 am
Just read news about latest Bushmaster incident in Albuquerque—15 year old boy murders all 5 other members of his family; Dad was pillar of church and prominent prison chaplain. TD–didn’t you say your boy is 15 and you taught him to shoot? Hope you are right not to worry.
lovelyliz
January 21st, 2013
10:25 am
By the time you add benefits that $150k turns into more like $200k for what will most likel;y turn out to be a part time job
yuzeyurbrane
January 21st, 2013
7:28 pm
Re new Albufquerque assault weapon shooting, it has now been reported that 15 year old was model student with no prior history of any problems.