DeKalb school board has forfeited right to office
Two rules of good governance:
Rule No. 1) It is never a good idea to let unelected people sit in judgment of and even remove officials who have been put into public office by the vote of the people. The practice contradicts the entire concept of self-government and undermines accountability. If voters elect bad officials, they ought to live with the consequences of doing so.
Rule No. 2) In case of a true emergency, Rule No. 1 can and must be broken.
The DeKalb County School Board is the perfect case study of why Rule No. 2 exists. The board and the district that it is supposed to oversee are not merely dysfunctional; they have been dysfunctional for years. Superintendents have come and gone, often walking away with nice payoffs and in one case with a corruption indictment. Studies and audits have been authorized, conducted and then buried. Pledges have been made that this time, things will finally change, and time and again the change has been for the worse.
Millions of dollars in taxpayer money have been wasted. Precious years have been wasted. More important, tens of thousands of students have passed through a school system that did not treat their education as its top priority. There is too little sign that is changing.
Quite the contrary. Since December, when the DeKalb school system was notified that its repeated misbehavior had put its accreditation in danger, board members have made it more clear than ever that their top priority is maintaining their own power and authority. They have hired outside legal counsel, at considerable taxpayer expense, to protect their own jobs. They have filed state and federal lawsuits, again at considerable expense, challenging the state’s right to remove them.
Had they shown similar initiative and energy in fixing the district’s problems, they would not find themselves in this situation.
In another step to deflect criticism, the board has hired former state legislator and labor commissioner Michael Thurmond to serve as its interim superintendent. Thurmond is a good man and is generally well respected by both Republicans and Democrats. By nature and experience, he is well-suited to bridge the geographic, racial and economic divides that make DeKalb such a complicated place to govern.
In a marathon meeting of the state Board of Education on Thursday, Thurmond committed himself to changing the district’s direction and leadership.
“This is the job of a lifetime,” he said to the state board, telling them that he would not have been lured out of his private law practice by anything less than than the opportunity to solve a major crisis.
Thurmond also vouched strongly for the current DeKalb board’s willingness to help him. The problem is, as an employee of the DeKalb board, he cannot fix the board. His own competence, reputation and experience have no real relevance to the board’s fate. Furthermore, it is unfair and inappropriate for the board to use Thurmond as a mouthpiece to plead publicly on their behalf. His job as interim superintendent is to improve the education being offered to DeKalb students, not to preserve the jobs of the board members who hired him.
Last night, the state board voted unanimously to recommend removal of most of the DeKalb board. Sadly, the district’s issues are too profound to be solved by that step alone. But if Gov. Nathan Deal ends up following that recommendation, and if the courts decide that he has the authority to do so, progress can begin.
– Jay Bookman
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0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 22nd, 2013
10:42 am
http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
10:44 am
Brocephus, you shoulda seen the honey that was trying to pick TBS up last night………..
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
10:44 am
Perhaps your definition of racist is a bit BIASED.
No. I think not.
But after four hundred years of murder, torture and brutality, I can understand but do not condone black racism militarism in this country.
What I DO NOT understand is why there is SILL a significant number of white wingers who are STILL so rabidly racist and bigoted.
Hoiw many more decades will it take?
It does not matter we progressives and nosy northern Jewish liberals are on a sixty year winning streak and we are not about to let the so-called conservatives in this country have their way with minorities. Ever again.
Hate Abraham Lincoln as you will. But he is on that list that Morality wants no part of…
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
10:45 am
Bro, “Yet, nary a damn mention about Gwinnett and the people ALREADY SERVING TIME? ”
Who from the Gwinnett School Board is serving time? Facts please….
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no one said a thing about the school board silly. Nice try at diversion from your crooked County Commissioners………
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
10:45 am
Way of life in the Atlanta political mafia – contracts go to those that are related and those that “support” the Atlanta political mafia.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 22nd, 2013
10:45 am
“DeKalb school board members caught napping during meeting?”
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/21088877/photos-show-dekalb-school-board-members-apparently-sleeping-during-meeting
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
10:46 am
The “ethnic” makeup of the Board is irrelevant……. what is relevant is their connection to the Atlanta political mafia and who scratches who’s back.
So, Nathan Deal can get Chip Rogers hooked up without nary a mention of race and/or political mafia type dealings, but let someone Black sneeze wrong, and the bigots come down from the trees. Why is it a problem now with political mafias? Is it because other races have watched and learned how some Whites actually “worked hard” to get ahead in this country and are duplicating that “hard work” down to the letter?
*shaking my damned head at this crap
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
10:46 am
In the middle, too funny…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8UJ9vD3dX4
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
10:47 am
Here is something that everyone can use to determine how school systems in the state are ranked.
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ga/schools/
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
February 22nd, 2013
10:47 am
What I DO NOT understand is why there is SILL a significant number of white wingers who are STILL so rabidly racist and bigoted.
Well, like I said before I’m not a rascist. Why, I even waved to one of Those People on my way to work this morning.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
10:48 am
Way of life in the
AtlantaGwinnett political mafia – contracts go to those that are related and those that “support” theAtlantaGwinnett political mafia.There silly, I fixed that for you.
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
10:48 am
Who from the Gwinnett School Board is serving time? Facts please….
Did I say school board? I simply said Gwinnett County. Last time I checked, their County Commission was controlled by Republicans, with a few former commissioners doing time. Why talk about someone else’s problems while turning a blind eye to your own? I think the Bible has something to say about that…..
In the middle
February 22nd, 2013
10:48 am
So how do you get into the Political Mafia, do you have to run a crew and become “made”. Can you just send in an application with box tops from your favorite cereal.
If I join the mafia can I get a contract.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
10:49 am
Well, like I said before I’m not a rascist. Why, I even waved to one of Those People on my way to work this morning.
You have to use ALL your fingers for it to be considered a wave……….
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 22nd, 2013
10:49 am
In closing……………….our present Obamanation/Washington .trickle-UP wealth doesn’t work for the people.
Neither does …………….trickle-DOWN authority.
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Wealth and authority belongs to the people.
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Put THAT through your Free Obama Hopium pipe…………….and smoke it.
Jm
February 22nd, 2013
10:50 am
amen.
damn unions. (just kidding)
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
10:50 am
Fred
I’m gonna have to get out with you guys as soon as the lil one gets on a regular schedule. It’s not right to leave mommy to fend for herself right now, even for just a few hours. Somebody might call me a “deadbeat negro daddy” or something.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
10:51 am
Bro – “So, Nathan Deal can get Chip Rogers hooked up without nary a mention of race and/or political mafia type dealings, but let someone Black sneeze wrong, and the bigots come down from the trees. Why is it a problem now with political mafias?”
Shake it off man, just consider the source of the post.
Van Jones
February 22nd, 2013
10:52 am
Dekalb needs some diversity in it’s string of superintendents.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
10:53 am
JV – “jews and northern progressives”……. some Jews are very conservative and did not vote Obama. On the other hand ALL “Progressives” ( just a sweeter word for Socialists) voted Obama – if they voted – since Chavez wasn’t on the ballot. I support the survival of the Jewish nation of Israel – as Obama “says” he does. I just don’t feel his LOYALTY there.
Paul
February 22nd, 2013
10:53 am
RB from Gwinnett
““Where in the article does Jay note the ethnicity of the board members?”
“Some of us don’t need Jay Bookman to tell us what’s going on in the world outside of this blog. Some of us pay attention to the news from lots of sources and know the ethnicity of the school board without that information being spoon fed to us by Bookman. ”
I am regularly awed by your awareness of the most mundane events that extend beyond the borders of Georgia.
So tell me, RB from Gwinnett, as you don’t need to be spoon-fed anything because you keep up with things in the world outside this blog, please tell me (responding in about a minute, in case you’ve figured out how to use The Google) what is the racial makeup of the board overseeing Brady, Texas. hmmmmm?
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
10:54 am
Butch
Sorry bro, this bigoted sh*t gets on my damned nerves. Somebody’s gotta body check this crap into the glass. I refuse to let it fester in this country into my daughter’s generation without a fight.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 22nd, 2013
10:54 am
“GOP obstructs Obama because he’s black”
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/gop-obstructs-obama-because-he-s-black-132224538.html
Well, there you go !
HDB
February 22nd, 2013
10:54 am
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
10:26 am
We try to teach….they still don’t want to learn………..
Thomas
February 22nd, 2013
10:55 am
_________ government leaders have forfeited right to office.
_________ CEOs have forfeited rights to egregious compensation and rights to office.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 22nd, 2013
10:55 am
You liberal racists ……. you !
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
10:56 am
I refuse to let it fester in this country into my daughter’s generation without a fight.
Just in case someone missed it the first time Bro.
Paul
February 22nd, 2013
10:58 am
RB from Gwinnett
Minute’s up.
You might not want to try out for Jeopardy.
I don’t expect a response, as it’s likely you’re out exploring that vast world outside Gwinnett, seeking new information and understanding of those different from you.
ATL Born and Raised
February 22nd, 2013
10:59 am
@HDB The Ptolemeic pharoahs were of Greek descent. Cleopatra is a Greek name. I would pick a different example…
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
11:00 am
Morality? – “I support the survival of the Jewish nation of Israel – as Obama “says” he does. I just don’t feel his LOYALTY there.”
Is that the same Obama that Israel just honored and awarded for his support of the nation?
alex
February 22nd, 2013
11:01 am
Indigo, I TRIED to read the actual studies from Tenn and other states as after reading the Noise and the Signal I am very cynical about data, they are very difficult to read (for me) .There is even a meta-analysis which , in my field< brings into mind a whole lot of contoversial thoughts on study interpretation. Anyway, I hope that you can make heads/tails of the morass, I cannot…
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:01 am
You can’t just join the Atlanta political – have to be BORN in to it. Have to say that Reed is more in tune with reality than most former Atlanta mayors. Not having to say a lot to give that observation.
indigo
February 22nd, 2013
11:01 am
HDB – 10:13
That is not correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
11:03 am
Sorry Morality?, I couldn’t get a picture of the actual medal being placed around Obama’s neck, but here are the comments from President Peres:
“Barack Obama will become the first serving US president to receive Israel’s presidential medal, from his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on a visit to the Jewish state next month, Peres’s office said on Monday.
“President Obama has made a unique and meaningful contribution to strengthening the state of Israel and the security of its people,” it said in a statement.
“Barack Obama is a true friend of the state of Israel and has been since the beginning of his public life. As president of the United States he has stood beside Israel in times of crisis,” it added.”
Perhaps you’d like to phone Israel with your concerns?
southpaw
February 22nd, 2013
11:04 am
Paul@10:58
So local politics has become a “Jeopardy” category? Wow! Who would have guessed? My slightly autistic son can quote a LOT of “Jeopardy” questions and answers. I’ll have to ask him if Texas politics, or the racial makeup of ANYTHING, has shown up in a category or question.
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
11:06 am
“GOP obstructs Obama because he’s black”
…
Well, there you go !
Geez… I never thought I’d see the day when someone trained in enforcing laws would ever use one person’s opinion as proof of a fact. Given the background, I don’t know of anybody in law enforcement that would ever attempt to pass off an opinion as a verified fact.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:06 am
In all honesty, I have no clue what color the skin of my elected school board member is. I THINK the guy I booted was white. All I know is there were 2 names on the ballot and I voted for the one that didn’t have (I) behind it. Dang, i may have even voted for a WOMAN.Or worse, a BLACK WOMAN. The horror. How will I face myself?
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:07 am
B. C. – YES! That’s the same Obama that just got recognized by the gub’ment of Israel as they are a bit nervous to make him upset while he has his pointy finger on the billions that Israel receives from the USA annually. Maybe Obama can support Islam and Israel at the same time – playing both sides is what politicians do.
In the middle
February 22nd, 2013
11:07 am
Can we be done with stupid yet? or do we need more time in the idiot chamber..
Buzz Belle
February 22nd, 2013
11:08 am
jhunt163 @ 10:39 am
I hope you don’t take this the wrong way but it is time for your sister to retire. She has fought the good fight but either needs something to inject her with teaching enthusiasm which means you have to fight for what you think is right, just like I do in the business world, or you give in and play along. It is sad she has “given” in and I can’t blame her but what this state needs now are people who are willing to fight hard for what is right, for the sake of education. Perhaps she could get into the administrative side and make changes there. It is obvious we are not doing something right, we need people with courage and the strength to fight against the machine.
Paul
February 22nd, 2013
11:08 am
southpaw
You might want to reread RB from Gwinnett’s response to my asking 0311 (in response to his assertion Jay’s piece is racist by normal liberal standards) where Jay mentioned the racial makeup of the board. RB’s position was everyone who isn’t spoonfed by Jay and keeps up with things outside their little world knows such things. As I’m not a Georgian, I simply used his reasoning to ask him about the goings-on in my back yard.
But keep asking your son. Sounds like you might learn something about reasoning!
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
11:08 am
Well FUN GUY’s attempts to rally his White Power buddies didn’t turn out so well this morning, did it?.
I am very proud of the best aspects of my white race.
I am also embarrassed by people like him and Michael Richards.
And as long as there is breath in my body, I will never stop denouncing degenerates like them.
YOU are the poster boy as to why us socialist Jews are not Republicans, Morality.
I could not be more thrilled the my tribe is generally decent and smart enough to avoid you for the reactionary plague that you are…
Peadawg
February 22nd, 2013
11:10 am
“Peadawg, you definitely have the victim shtick down pat.”
No victim. Just laughing at you and feeling bad for you. Bless your heart.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
11:10 am
Morality? – “as they are a bit nervous to make him upset while he has his pointy finger on the billions that Israel receives from the USA annually.”
Proof please.
Jefferson
February 22nd, 2013
11:10 am
Numbers is pip.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:11 am
In the middle
February 22nd, 2013
11:07 am
Can we be done with stupid yet? or do we need more time in the idiot chamber..
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It’s not nice to talk about Morality and RB like that.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:11 am
Most Libs just vote for whoever has a DEM beside their name without regard to anything else including INTELLIGENCE and that also goes for a lot of Repubs. Time to actually KNOW who you are voting for – if you have time to put down your Nintendo.
HDB
February 22nd, 2013
11:11 am
indigo
February 22nd, 2013
11:01 am
From your SAME website……..
Scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois,[115] Chancellor Williams,[116] Cheikh Anta Diop,[117][118][119] John G. Jackson,[120] Ivan van Sertima,[121] Martin Bernal[122] and more recently Robert Bauval [123] have supported the theory that the Ancient Egyptian society was indigenous to Africa and mostly Black.[124] The oft criticized Journal of African Civilizations[125] has continually advocated that Egypt should be viewed as a Black civilization.[126][127] Supporters of the Black theory saw the Ethiopians and Egyptians as racially and culturally similar,[128][129] while others felt that the Ancient Egyptians and Ethiopians were two ethnically distinct groups.[130]
Early advocates of the Black African model relied heavily on writings from Classical Greek historians, including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and Herodotus, and on the disputed translation of the Greek word “melanchroes”, which some authors translate as “black”.[131][132][133][134] Snowden claims that Diop is distorting his classical sources and is quoting them selectively.[135]
Go further into the reading of Margaret Meade and anthropology….and understand the controversy! What has yet to be contradicted is the “cradle of civilization”….and the migrations therein….which debunks Caucasian historical theory……..
Thomas
February 22nd, 2013
11:13 am
DeKalb school board members caught napping during meeting?”
Probably their highest and best use. At least they can’t inflict damage while napping.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:13 am
Oh and for any that are interested? That stupid crap FUN GUY posted was a lie.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/proudwhite.asp
HDB
February 22nd, 2013
11:14 am
ATL Born and Raised
February 22nd, 2013
10:59 am
You need to look further than just the Greeks……although a Greek NAME, Cleopatra came from EGYPT……therefore, more associated with those of (as Margaret Meade stated) “Negroid descent”…..
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
11:14 am
Fred – “Oh and for any that are interested? That stupid crap FUN GUY posted was a lie.”
Shhhhhh……K71 already gave him two thumbs up.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:15 am
B C – Certainly you know that the U S A gives Israel somewhere around three billion annually? Obama. being Prez, has to sign off on that. That’s all I was saying.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:18 am
J V – As far as I know I have ZERO white bigots as friends. But you never know for sure. Should I do a background check? You have no CLUE.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
February 22nd, 2013
11:18 am
wow, this topic turned unsavory…
but i just don’t hate on white people any more.
my yardman’s white.
my pool boy is white
hell, some of my best friends….
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:19 am
Cleopatra wasn’t black – nor was she white. You history revisionists crack me up.
RB from Gwinnett
February 22nd, 2013
11:20 am
Bro, “Did I say school board? I simply said Gwinnett County.”
Oh, so if the conversation is about the school boards in those counties and it suits your purpose to toss out irrelevant drivel instead of defending the obvious problems with those 3 school systems, we’re supposed to just go with it or what? Should we bring up all the people in those 3 areas who’ve been indicted, sherriffs putting out hits on each other, county CEO’s having charges filed against them, county sherriffs being re-elected even though they still have charges pending? Do you REALLY want to go there?
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:20 am
HAVE A NICE DAY! (smiley face patent applied for)
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
11:21 am
Shhhhhh……K71 already gave him two thumbs up.
Don’t forget about the rest of the amen choir and golf claps…
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
11:22 am
Morality? – “B C – Certainly you know that the U S A gives Israel somewhere around three billion annually?”
Yes, I’m aware of the aid that Israel receives from the U.S.. I was asking for proof that Israel is in fact “nervous to make him upset”. That’s the part that I will need verifcation on, and not something that you just made up out of thin air.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:22 am
You do have to admit that it’s odd that not a single white person has been considered for the Superintendent job in APS OR Dekalb…………
Oscar
February 22nd, 2013
11:23 am
Someone here is looking for a magic cut off line for white and black. Don’t think you will find one. Just blends in together. Anything else on the table this moring to talk about?
Oscar
February 22nd, 2013
11:24 am
Fred – Don’t think it’s odd at all. There is another name for it.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:25 am
OH – one small point Jay’s article was about the DEKALB school board… how did you get off on the Gwinnett Count school board?
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
11:25 am
RB
Save the drama for your mama. I simply posted about Gwinnett Co. as a reminder to you that, while you are pointing your index finger at others, there are three other fingers pointing back at you.
If you wanna bring up all that stuff, go ahead until you’re blue in the face. I don’t give a flying rat’s ass. Seems that some of y’all only feel good about yourselves by pointing out the shortcomings of others. That says more about your self esteem than anything else. I really feel bad for y’all as you’re probably really good people deep down inside. It’s a shame that you hate yourself so much.
Why don’t you talk about Henry County too, while you’re at it? That’s where I live and my concerns lie. I don’t live in Gwinnett, Fulton, Clayton, or Dekalb. That’s why you don’t hear me rail about any of them. I didn’t elect them, and I can’t remove them from office. If you’re really that concerned about those communities, why don’t you move there and leave crime infested Gwinnett?
Oscar
February 22nd, 2013
11:26 am
And what do we get for the three billion a year we give to Israel?
Jerome Horwitz
February 22nd, 2013
11:28 am
Kam – Starting pitcher for the Braves? Won’t it interfere with your position as striker with the Blues?
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:28 am
Jay is 99% Obama ……. that 1 % keeps him unbiased.
No
February 22nd, 2013
11:29 am
No news here- incompetent boneheads doing their thang. Surprising thing is Jay peeking out from the liberal pocket he’s in to shine a tiny bit of the light of truth.
Why doesn’t Obama get “credit” for the ridiculously high gasoline prices. Huh, Jay?
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
11:29 am
As far as I know I have ZERO white bigots as friends.
As far as you know, Obama voted to invade Iraq.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:30 am
Oscar: A gold Star of David to take home to mommy.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:31 am
Oscar – “And what do we get for $3 billion annually to Israel ? – a nice shiny medal for Obama.
Oscar
February 22nd, 2013
11:32 am
I know a lot of white bigots, and a lot of black ones. And a lot of people of both sides wah are not bigots.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
11:32 am
Jerome
I’m still waiting on word about when they dump Torres. We’re playing City tomorrow, which one do you dislike the most?
Also looks like there’s a chance we’ll draw you evil Red Devils the next round in FA Cup.
Aquagirl
February 22nd, 2013
11:32 am
As far as you know, Obama voted to invade Iraq.
That one’s gonna leave a mark.
Oscar
February 22nd, 2013
11:33 am
. . .who are not bigots . . .
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:33 am
JV – Obama voted to financially support the ongoing “conflicts” in Iraq and Afghanistan – same as voting for the war to me.
Harold Westerling
February 22nd, 2013
11:34 am
Wow…by your very own rules the current administration in the White House should be run out of town. Please institute Rule number 2 on the Obama administration!
Great job Bookman! I always knew that you would come around to the truth
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:35 am
Kam: You should met us yesterday. They had soccer on right next to the races. And you wouldn’t BELIEVE the hottie that was trying to pick up TBS at the restaurant.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
11:35 am
Oh and Fred
Did a little looking and there is an Italian Serie A club named Atalanta.
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
11:35 am
For people with an iota of shame it would, Aquagirl. But for him I very much doubt it. He seems very content, even smug with his vast ignorance and endless plausible but misleading, fallacious arguments.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:35 am
Oscar – “bigot” is in the eye of the beholder……. words are constantly redefined these days to suit whoever is using them.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
11:36 am
Morality? – “Obama voted to financially support the ongoing “conflicts” in Iraq and Afghanistan – same as voting for the war to me.”
Really? Because yesterday you emphatically implied that Obama voted to INVADE Iraq. Totally different context buddy.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:36 am
JV – Obama voted to financially support the ongoing “conflicts” in Iraq and Afghanistan – same as voting for the war to me.
So what? The lies you write are the same as truth to you as well.
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
11:36 am
…same as voting for the war to me.
Need I say more?
Ronald Reagan
February 22nd, 2013
11:36 am
Only Liberals could have imagined this scenario would have worked. Now they will have to figure out how to cheat & lie with multiple votes in order to keep their cronies in elected positions. Dumbing down is a Liberal tradition & it produces future voters by the thousands!
Thulsa Doom
February 22nd, 2013
11:36 am
Looks like these assclowns are giving the assclowns that ran the Clayton county school board a run for their money when it comes to incompetence and malfeasance. And then there’s the APS system. What a mess.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
11:37 am
Fred
Where’d y’all go?
Oscar
February 22nd, 2013
11:37 am
It’s up to Congress to decide if the president should be removed by rule number two. Don’t think they will do that.
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
11:38 am
Good information concerning the high gas prices.
http://useconomy.about.com/od/commoditiesmarketfaq/p/high_gas_prices.htm
http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
11:38 am
JamVet @ 11:35
Somebody’s been reading the thesaurus lately, huh?
You know y’all corn-fed MidWesterners don’t talk like that.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:38 am
Kam, it was Atletico Madrid. (ATL).
Jerome Horwitz
February 22nd, 2013
11:39 am
Kam – City by far……………… I’d rather listen to KY71 all day than cheer for Man City. Will cheer for Chelsea tomorrow! And would be good to meet you guys in the FA Cup. Give us a little more reason to cheer!
barking frog
February 22nd, 2013
11:39 am
Bigots need love too.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:39 am
If you voted to financially support something you must be in favor of it? Or you got “favors” to go along with it. Bush wanted support for the war and the Dems wanted expansion of the gub’ment SOCIAL socialist programs. They “compromised” aka sold the USA down the river.
RB from Gwinnett
February 22nd, 2013
11:40 am
Paul, “what is the racial makeup of the board overseeing Brady, Texas. hmmmmm?”
Well, gee, Paul, if I lived in the area of Brady, TX I might be inclined to know the answer to that question, but since I don’t, I have no clue and don’t care to have one. But, since I do live in the Atlanta area and own a home in Dekalb county (and others), I do keep up with the local happenings and politics even without Jay Bookman telling me what information is important and what’s not. I actually watch the local news and when they show graphics of the board members, I pay attention.
So, Paul, if I happen to buy property in the Brady, TX area sometime, I’ll be happy to answer your question, however, at this time I’d have to tell you to go waste somebody else’s time if this is going to be the best you can do at coming up with relevant comments for debate.
Oscar
February 22nd, 2013
11:40 am
M – words have always been redifined. That’s why dictionaries have to be updated.
Aquagirl
February 22nd, 2013
11:40 am
For people with an iota of shame it would, Aquagirl. But for him I very much doubt it.
Think of it like branding an elephant—the elephant may not feel a thing, but passers-by know that one ain’t right in the head, and don’t throw him any peanuts.
GT
February 22nd, 2013
11:41 am
In the middle in the case of the Republicans all fits well, like in all white, male. You are like a religion not a government of the people for the people.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:41 am
Kam: Bench Warmers (where we watched football that one day) and then to a Greek place by Sams. Mykonos