Obama’s bow, America’s eating woes
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
- Never thought I’d see this day: An American president bowing down to a foreign monarch, as Barack Obama did before Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah. The White House denies it was a bow. Check it out on YouTube.
- The news is filled with stories identifying some advocacy group as “fearing” that children will die, or some such, if any spending is cut anywhere. So here’s a clip-and-save headline. Just fill it in: “Advocates fear budget cuts will (blank).” Choices: a) destroy life as we know it. b) cost lives. c) put life at risk. d) force the cancellation of coffee service.
- It may be a little windy, but the fishing ought to be good at the base of the proposed windmills that President Obama is pushing along the Atlantic coastline, including Georgia. Birds flying into them feed the fish below. Best potential for windmills is off the coast of Delaware, Massachusetts and other Northeastern states. There, U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy loves the idea of windmills, but not in his backyard. Here, Southern Co. and Georgia Tech researchers think they’re uneconomical. But that shouldn’t slow government.
- Michael Vick has suffered enough. Let him play when he’s released from federal custody July 20 — or get lost in the crowd, whichever suits him.
- America doesn’t have a hunger problem. It did. Now it has an eating problem. By age 4, researchers find, one in five children are tubs of lard. As usual, it’s the government’s fault. Obesity is especially high among Indian children (31.2 percent), a fact blamed on commodity programs heavy on pasta, rice and other high-carbohydrate foods. No matter the problem, government’s the villain or the solution.
- Providing taxpayer-subsidized insurance to the middle class will kill the private insurance market, according to a report by the Lewin Group. Duh! Does anybody suppose the lefties propose this because that fact never occurred to them?
- An incredibly telling sentence, one that will apply to virtually everything Congress has spawned over the past year, including the pork-laden “stimulus bill,” is contained in a story by AJC reporter D.L. Bennett on a pre-Obama foreclosure aid program. The sentence: “Even though the Neighborhood Stabilization Program was designed for quick results, it hasn’t produced anything so far but lots of red tape and policy debate.” Worse than the waste of $153 million — the sum coming to Georgia — is the invitation to local governments to become slumlords by buying, fixing up and renting out foreclosed housing.
- Wednesday is tax day — and the beginning of the tax revolt. At the State Capitol. In Ellijay, Savannah and elsewhere. Bring it on.
- Think America’s too strong militarily with an “unfair” share of the best weapons? Elect Bill Clinton. Elect Barack Obama. Killing the F-22 Raptor program after four more are completed in 2011 will give the Air Force 187 of the fighters, well short of the 381 it needs to replace 660 F-15s.
- Diversity is good. Democracies, monarchies, dictatorships and thug regimes. Ask U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), who was among a group of six congressmen visiting Cuba who met Monday with Raul Castro. “Well, congressman,” he was asked by National Public Radio’s Melissa Block, “you well know that supporters of current Cuba policy, supporters of the embargo, say if you lift sanctions you are going to just aid and justify a repressive regime, you are going to kill any hope of democracy — that regime will just use more resources to become more oppressive than it already is.” To which Cleaver replied: “Well, the world operates at its best when there’s diversity. Every nation does not need to be like the United States.”
- Atlanta needs more elected officials like Howard Shook, chairman of the City Council’s finance committee. He resists new taxes this year, declaring that if he voted for one, “I would resign so I could run against myself.” Such talk really offends those who think there’s too little government.
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Just Nasty & Mean
April 9th, 2009
10:43 pm
Hello Jim, et al
Not only did Obla-bla-ma bow, the White House lied when they said he didn’t. What a petty thing to lose credibility of the President of the US. Just proves these dolts are amateurs at best, blatant liars at worst.
Michael Vick is qualified to be a bussboy at McDonalds, and that’s about it.
The Tea Parties planned for Tax Day, April 15, is more than a complaint about taxes. It is a show of general dissatisfaction on the direction of the country–directly towards Socialism, led by Obla-bla-ma and Nancy “Crazy-Eyes” Pelosi. The mainstream media doesn’t want to cover them. But when a nationwide demonstration of average Americans expressing their displeasure–can the media just ignore it? You betcha!
Those lightweight left-wing Congresspeople that went to Cuba should have stayed there. I think they would LOVE Castro’s centralized control, healthcare, and the fact he is a thug dictator, ruled using terror and gangs, that killed thousands of his countrymen to gain power. Their press conference sounded like a kindergarten Q&A., and the replies like low-grade elementary children.
Have a good weekend everybody!
The Party of No; Panic and Pepubliards
April 9th, 2009
11:52 pm
How many more days until Wooten, with the writing skills of a child, is outta here? Vick is a to serial killer. Defenses should be getting ready to scramble his orthopedic and neurological nexus soon.
F22 should have been ended completely. The cuts didn’t go near far enough. F22 was a plane built for cold war Soviet Union. It has no strategic mission in any war backdrop now. So much for Cracker Chambliss.
Country Boy
April 9th, 2009
11:57 pm
Obama and the Democrats are on fast track to bankrupt this country and make all of us including senior citizens learn Chinese. I fear for the younger generations that bought into political correctness. All peolpe are not created equal in the real world, maybe in church, but not the real world. If you don’t believe so try out for the Braves or Falcons..
One Voice
April 10th, 2009
12:59 am
Politicians have given other heads-of-state a bend at the waste as a show of respect for thousands of years, as have men as a gesture to women. It’s amazing the minutia the right will whine about. However, I did think it was funny a couple years ago when GW walked through the rose garden holding the King’s hand. So Obama bowed to the king as a man would to a woman, but GW held his hand in an amusingly effeminate gesture. Hmmm…
I’ll take the windmills. We’ll need some backup, any backup, source of energy for 5 years from now, when Mexico, our second biggest supplier of oil, runs dry. You’re right Wooten, let’s just stick with oil… Get an education.
So there’s going to be a tax revolt because everyone is continuing to pay the same amount, except for the top 2%, who will be going from 35% to 39%? Conservatives lack intellect; there’s just no other way to put it. Somehow, I’d like to see this revolt, as the 25% of the country who still identify themselves as Republicans get crushed by the other 75% of the country. Yes, we’ll pry your guns out of your cold…
Speaking of the tax revolt, I keep hearing how Republicans are advocating tea-bagging. I always knew the party was made up of self-loathing, closet homosexuals, but I never thought they’d become overt advocates for such a “tasteless” act. Gross.
Somehow, I haven’t heard of the terrorists’ production of new stealth MIGs to fight against our F-22s. Uh, that’s because no enemy (or friend) will be producing any jets that will be able to rival our existing fleet, much less the F-22s, any time in the near future. It’s a plane that will never fight anything. It will just cost millions to keep running to fly training missions. For the next 100 years there will be no rival who can put a plane in the sky that would necessitate the F-22. And by that time we’ll have three more generations of fighters. Use your other head, not the impotent organ between your legs.
And, no Wooten, every country does not have to be like the U.S. I think Americans have come to a point when we don’t feel the need to force other nations and cultures to replicate every facet of our existence.
Cutty
April 10th, 2009
1:27 am
I mean seriously Jim, they pay you to write this gar-bage’? I’m a democrat and believe that yeah, Obama bowed. So what? Did he walk and hold hands with the guy like Bush did? Did you report that? Doubt it.
When did a Republican care about wildlife? A windmill may kill a few birds, but eliminating just about every environmental law like Bush did has done far more damage.
The private insurance marker should die, if it can compete with lower prices. They overcharge as is, and once you get sick, they try every trick in the book to deny you service. This is a free market right Jim? Compete or die. But its hard to get anything through to a republican defending a corporation.
And I thought you hated pork Wooten? Except when that pork is made in your beloved Cobb County huh. How can you justify the F-22 when it has yet to fly ONE mission in combat and has cost billions of dollars. That isn’t wasteful to you Jim, honestly? Besides 187 of them will be built, how many do you want? You’re just like every other hypocrite republican, yell and scream about spending and pork until its your pork getting the axe. I don’t see any terrorists flying around in planes anyway. The F-35 will take up the slack anyway.
And you must be with the terrorists, since you don’t support your president. Remember, “you’re either with us, or with the terrorists.”
ANd I do agree with you about Howard Shook, he’s one of the few councilmembers at City Hall that have a clue. Along with Clair Muller and…….. well I think the rest should go. But I’m sure by the time the budget is passed at the end of June, you’ll be hating Shook because he has no other choice to get the city out of the deficit. I would recommend to any City of Atlanta citizen to watch the committee and council meetings on the city’s website. Watch Jim Maddox fall asleep at every one of them. Is there anyone in the 10th district that will run against him PLEASE!!!!
Peace Jim, at least I know a redneck like you is always going to be on the side of the Republicans. Simple-minded soul you are. If Roy Barnes had a multi-billion dollar budget on his watch, you’d be screaming from the N. GA mountaintops. But theres nothing more than a peep from you this entire year. Go figure. Good riddance hack.
Lee
April 10th, 2009
5:13 am
The reason the Obamonkey bowed is because he mistook the Arab guy for an Israeli and was going to bend down and kiss the Israeli’s butt. Luckily, he caught his mistake just in time.
ihategeorgians
April 10th, 2009
6:08 am
Every time i read comments from my fellow citizens, I say to myself, why in the heck did I waste my time. These forums are like car crashes that you cant turn away from. There are ALWAYS two sides to every debate, yet people in this forum can do nothing more than say one minor, insignificant counterpoint, and then start with the childish insults.
Okay, i want to belong, so here is my childish comment. On both sides, the comments are asinine and ignorant.
Tim Golden
April 10th, 2009
6:51 am
Since the Republican Party assumed majority control of state government six years ago, Georgia has been sliding backward in almost every area that the governor and legislature can influence.
Our public schools have suffered from $2 billion worth of cuts in state Quality Basic Education funding, causing higher taxes on local property owners to make up the difference.
Manufacturing jobs have been lost by the hundreds of thousands.
Rural health care is on life support because of drastic cuts in Medicaid reimbursement.
Our transportation system’s failure to keep up with a growing population has gone unaddressed.
Seeking to recruit biomedicine and related technology businesses and retaining academic leaders in the field of science is becoming more difficult.
And fiscally irresponsible policies during better economic times have left Georgia especially vulnerable to the recession, causing an unprecedented $3 billion budget deficit.
But as poorly as the legislative majority has performed since 2003, the 2009 session – which ended last week – would have to be considered the worst in recent history. And that’s saying something.
Consider that from the first day of the session back in January, finding a solution for the transportation funding crisis was the state’s No. 1 priority. In metro Atlanta, drivers sit for hours in traffic, causing untold losses in productivity. In rural Georgia, we are at least 10 years behind the curve in making the road improvements needed for economic development.
The Senate voted Feb. 3 – two months ago – on a transportation funding plan, one of the first actions we took this session, calling for a 1-cent sales tax to be voted on, collected and invested on a regional basis. The House of Representatives, meanwhile, insisted on a statewide sales tax to finance a predetermined list of transportation projects in selected areas.
But the two houses were unable to work out a compromise plan, primarily because the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker were preoccupied with pushing through separate legislation to give them tighter control over transportation revenues and road-building decisions. For the second year in a row, helping Georgians get from Point A to Point B more efficiently was doomed by misplaced priorities at the top of the executive and legislative branches of government.
Regarding the new budget passed for fiscal year 2010, there is no question this was a difficult year because of the revenue shortfall, and cuts were inevitable. But the failure to beat back the governor’s insistence to eliminate Homeowner Tax Relief Grants will cost the average Georgia homeowner $200 to $300 on his or her next local property tax bill.
Partisan politics also reared its ugly head in the budget process when the Republican majority decided to withhold needed funding from districts represented by Senate Democrats because we had the audacity to offer a budget amendment that would have kept the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home in operation by reducing spending on a new luxury resort on Jekyll Island.
The lowlights of the 2009 session don’t stop there. The Republican majority couldn’t go without passing a few more unfunded mandates on counties and cities, while still prohibiting them from making their own decisions on Sunday alcohol sales. Thankfully, the House stopped a Senate bill outlawing potentially lifesaving embryonic stem cell research, but this is a battle we now have to fight year after year.
Georgians don’t expect much of legislators when we go to Atlanta each year. They do want us pass a budget that meets basic needs such as education and health care while respecting taxpayers. They want us to focus on the major problems, such as transportation funding and unemployment. They want us to put public policy over partisan politics.
After the 2009 session, I wouldn’t blame them if they start expecting less and less.
Ga Values
April 10th, 2009
6:58 am
Let’s see we have 2 wars going, yet the F22 has yet to fly a single combat mission. Looks like it is not need to me. It is hard for a Conservative to understand how the AJC thinks you are a conservative when you support this waste of the tacpayer’s money.
Mac
April 10th, 2009
8:14 am
Jim about fat kids and government-as-culprit: I have to spend a lot of time around social workers, most of whom draw a paycheck directly from a government, or indirectly from a government grant. They are always looking for ways to find ways to “assist new client populations,” or “enhance the lives of stakeholders,” through new programs.
These folks (maybe because many of them are hot chicks) are very effective at buttering up lawmakers for more money for existing and “pilot,” programs. Perhaps the most effective way to cut government spending is to have fewer social workers.
Squidward
April 10th, 2009
8:17 am
If Ted Kennedy doesn’t want windmills along his coast, let them put them under the water and collect those winds (currents). The technology is similar, and the forces of nature driving them perhaps more reliable.
Vick
April 10th, 2009
8:20 am
Yeah… and when George Bush held hands with the Arab monarch that was OK with you? You are such a partisan hypocrite Wooten.
Capt. Kirk
April 10th, 2009
8:22 am
Then buy some more F-15s. They’re cheaper and still technically superior to anything anyone else if flying.
Capt. Kirk
April 10th, 2009
8:23 am
Of fix the F-15s we’ve got. Seems to me I heard B-52s — in service since the ’50s — will outlast me.
Hi there
April 10th, 2009
8:25 am
So, Obama doesn’t see anything wrong with bowing, nor do must Dem’s. Figures, it’s hard to see past the end of your nose sometimes.
Dr. Phil just did a show on kids who wouldn’t stop eating and what do you know, the parents were just as big as the kids. If you don’t want your kids to eat donuts, don’t go to the donut shop. If you want them to eat fruits and veggies, eat them yourself and keep crap out of the house. It’s not that hard, just takes a little effort and planning. Of course most parents will say they don’t have the time, but I work two jobs and still manage to workout six times a week and keep healthy food in the house. Wonder what I am doing wrong? Guess we need a fat tax to keep everyone in line. Oh wait, fat isn’t a strain on healthcare or anything else, so I guess we’ll let it slide.
Give me a break!!!
Let’s see how happy people are when we have no defense fund since we really don’t need it anyway, we have our “savior” to keep terror and extremist at bay. Hello, does anyone remember 9/11? Oh wait, that was Bush’s doing so it doesn’t count and Obama is making all the past ills go away.
I wonder whats next?
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
8:45 am
Did Obama bow to a Muslim king? Be concerned only if Obama starts wearing a bow tie.
The Party of No; Panic and Republitards
April 10th, 2009
8:47 am
Republitards bankrupted this caountry with deregulation beginning with Raegan, Senate Finance Chairman Grahams, Greenspan, Paulson and the Goldman Sachs Republitards. Obama is putting it economically back together. The Party of Woe and No is reduced to whining. You m ake no decisions because you are in the 15% minority that will win no elections for the WH or either House or Senate majorities.
Judge David Hamilton, who struck down an absurd abortion law will soon be confirmed to the 7th Circuit. Al Franken is close to taking his Senate seat, another wingnut rejection. Dawn Johnsen will be confirmed. The party that railed against the filibuster a short time ago is now clininging to it desperately and that tack is not going to work. Retiring RINO Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) endorsed Hamilton, “endangering” his own state of Indiana and ruining his own legacy according to Wingnut Jesus freaks.
That may be why Senator Lugar is not just another Republitard.
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
8:49 am
Sounds like City Council Chairman Schnook, who would run against himself, would make a great troll, posting to himself, on Bookman’s blog. (I hope he likes to be coddled.)
DB, Gwinnettian
April 10th, 2009
8:56 am
I had to read this bullet item a couple of times to figure out what really had Mr. Wooten upset:
America doesn’t have a hunger problem. It did. Now it has an eating problem. By age 4, researchers find, one in five children are tubs of lard. As usual, it’s the government’s fault. Obesity is especially high among Indian children (31.2 percent), a fact blamed on commodity programs heavy on pasta, rice and other high-carbohydrate foods. No matter the problem, government’s the villain or the solution.
I’ll admit to not having seen the original story that got Jim upset: Here’s a link to it.
Now, here’s what one (1) spokesperson actually SAID when told of the findings. You tell me where “government’s the villan or the solution” here:
Jessica Burger, a member of the Little River Ottawa tribe and health director of a tribal clinic in Manistee, Mich., said many children at her clinic are overweight or obese, including preschoolers.
Burger, a nurse, said one culprit is gestational diabetes, which occurs during a mother’s pregnancy. That increases children’s chances of becoming overweight and is almost twice as common in American Indian women, compared with whites.
She also blamed the federal commodity program for low-income people that many American Indian families receive. The offerings include lots of pastas, rice and other high-carbohydrate foods that contribute to what Burger said is often called a “commod bod.”
“When that’s the predominant dietary base in a household without access to fresh fruits and vegetables, that really creates a better chance of a person becoming obese,” she said.
Also, Burger noted that exercise is not a priority in many American Indian families struggling to make ends meet, with parents feeling stressed just to provide basic necessities.
To address the problem, her clinic has created activities for young Indian children, including summer camps and a winter break “outdoor day” that had kids braving 8-degree temperatures to play games including “snowsnake.” That’s a traditional American Indian contest in which players throw long, carved wooden “snakes” along a snow or ice trail to see whose lands the farthest.
The hope is that giving kids used to modern sedentary ways a taste of a more active traditional American Indian lifestyle will help them adopt healthier habits, she said.
I know this is stating the obvious, but Mr. Wooten, you are a sad, hyper-reactionary conservative, building straw-man arguments in hopes that nobody will notice how little support your failed ideology really has among voters these days. This is just another in a long string of examples; a legitimate issue has been raised about childhood obesity and grown-ups are working to address it.
Left to the likes of you, such problems only get worse.
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
8:59 am
So many countries are putting gigantic windmills off their shores now, that scientist say the earth is in danger of spinning faster on it’s axis, and it is estimated that if the earth spins even one inch more than it should in a year, that people could start flying off the face of the earth into space and be keeled.
Japanese Whalers, who spend all their time in cramped quarters on whaling ships, are increasingly being found harpooning these off-shore windmills, as they get cabin fever and go nutso. If enough Japs harpoon enough off shore windmills, then wind power (as we know it) is finished.
"Charles", The Original
April 10th, 2009
9:03 am
Michael Vick has suffered enough. Let him play when he’s released from federal custody July 20 — or get lost in the crowd, whichever suits him writes Jim Wooten.
You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I’ll show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes with respect to Michael Vick. Congratulations, you’ve decided to take the red pill this Good Friday morning. But before ingesting, remember – all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.
When Michael Vick removed his helmet at half-time and shot a bird at the booing crowd in the Georgia Dome on national television, many of my friends turned to each other and predicted that Michael Vick’s career is over. It was just a matter of time before the powers that be turn the system on Vick. In no uncertain terms the powers that be asked prominent Negroes, are you with us, or are you with the terrorist. If they had chosen Michael Vick’s side, they would have suffered his fate. Now there are many of you out there who have voluntarily taken the blue pill. Consequently you believe that Michael Vick’s legal troubles are all about the issues of dog-fighting and people for the ethical treatment of animals.
Most of my trusted friends were born during the years of separation, before integration. The red pill, reality, was forced upon us at an early age. We learned the folkways and morays of Africans. And the reality of our sordid condition taught us that no African American can openly show disrespect to the people that sustain our physical lives by providing food, clothing, shelter, employment, education etc. And you certainly don’t publicly display rude behavior in American society living under those circumstances. That would be equivalent to committing suicide, right? But reasoning isn’t that simple if a fantasy world has been forced upon you. If you remember nothing else, remember that the fantasy world of integration is forced upon the masses of Negroes primarily by the so-called educated integrationist Negroes.
People within my circle are extremely sympathetic towards Michael Vick. He hasn’t experienced reality a day in his life. He was born into the fantasy world of integration taking on the folkways and morays of everyone except Africans. And in the final analysis, he shouldn’t bear sole responsibility for his legal troubles. He and his generation didn’t have a choice between the red or blue pill, reality vs. fantasy. They were forced to swallow the blue pill at birth. And as they say, the rest is history.
I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end…
Copyleft
April 10th, 2009
9:04 am
A quick review of today’s topics:
The president bows upon meeting a foreign ruler, as all our presidents regularly do. Non-issue.
Generic complaint about news stories presenting both sides of any issue. Pointless.
Right-wing complaints about non-oil-based energy masquerading as environmentalism(!). Hypocritical, trivial, AND irrelevant.
And, in the next breath, a call for animal cruelty to be overlooked for the sake of football. More irrelevant hypocrisy.
Denial of America’s child-hunger problem by pointing to a different problem… and blaming both on government instead of capitalism (cheap food = fattening food). Predictable, dishonest, and wrong.
A cry of fear for the well-being of our precious, precious insurance industry. Laughable.
A complaint about the implementation of part of the stimulus plan, while offering no solution himself. Typical whining.
Another call for an utterly purposeless and fact-free ‘tax revolt.’ (Against what? Keeping more of your paycheck, which is what the plan has done so far?). More whining about the chance to whine louder and more publicly.
A half-truth about the changes in the defense budget, completely ignoring our current defense needs. Not trivial, but certainly false.
Feigned outrage at the notion that “everyone doesn’t need to be like the U.S.”, a statement which is obviously true. Pathetic.
And finally, praise for a sound bite, as long as it’s steadfastly opposed to any taxes for any purpose or application whatsoever. Ignorance be praised! Welcome to the far right.
This is a pretty feeble assortment of non-ideas Wooten’s offerring, even for a lazy Friday.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
9:10 am
I love sparring with the global warming cults ie Greenpeace on Michigan Ave. Chicago has had its coldest winter in over 30 years and these idiotic pansies want to tell me that global warming is killing the Earth. I simply tell these peons that I gladly welcome the warming simply because I am tired of single digit temps. I also tell him that Al Gore is a marxist idiot who was born with a silver spoon in his hand. That seems to piss the greenpissers off quite a bit. But hey, I’d gladly debate anyone who seriously thinks man can change God’s creation. The Earth can take care of itself and has for many years now.
Oh, and anyone who thinks Al Gore is the saint of climate change needs to be informed that this idiot loser of the 2000 election doesn’t practice what he preaches. He has a mansion, flies numerous jets and drives 7 SUV’s.
Californication
April 10th, 2009
9:10 am
One Voice, for who?
We have never had a President Bow to a terrorist before, so that is why it is a big deal and men holding hands is quite acceptable every where in the world except America. That shows how much you don’t know about the rest of the world. By the way in a lot of countries men kiss each other as a greeting.
Wind mills could be part of the solution, so please One Voice you go get an education. But until then we should tap our resources here in America.
No taxes you are really lost, what are you going to do when the top 5% who pay the lions share of taxes leave to more tax friendly places. What are you going to do with the $13 that the Obama plan will give you per week? Well I will tell you will dig deeper into your pocket to pay for energy prices that will, under a conservative estimate, triple. That will be due to what the democrats “call cap and trade”, which is just a new higher tax rate on energy. There goes my $13….and more!
As far as calling people names with out any real substance to your argument, I am glad to see that you are still on the play ground One Voice.
The whole reason nobody has tried to take over America is because we have the most advanced weapon systems in the world, which includes the F-22. But I know we need to fire highly skilled Americans so we can put illegal aliens to work on our roads. So please One Voice listen to the ignorance that you are writing, complete school, get a job and watch 38% of your paycheck disappear and see if you don’t want to keep more of your money.
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
9:11 am
Bookman’s blog today is entitled, “Socialist taking over America…..Harrumph!!”
My response to Bookman: No onomatopoeia, moron. (almost a perfect palindrome!)
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
9:11 am
Here is some irony for all of you. The Party of No; Panic and Republitards calls republicans and right wingers retarded and this bozo can’t even spell. IRONY.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
9:14 am
Chris Broe, Jay Bookman is a third rate “journalist” who never made it at a well-respected newspaper. He knows his days are numbered and will write anything even if it doesn’t make sense. A friend of mine met Bookman at a bar once and said after talking with him he came to the conclusion that Bookman is the type of person who would have surrendered to the the Red Coats at the first sign of trouble. Bookman envies people like Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold.
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
9:14 am
$153 million for Georgia’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Slumlord Millionaire!
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
9:15 am
Vick will tear up the league again. Have no doubt.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
9:20 am
Copyleft, where are these starving children you speak of? I’ve never seen them except in bad Sally Struther commercials and those kids were in Africa.
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
9:22 am
Tax Revolt? You kiddin’ me? Don’t talk about a tax revolt. Tax revolt? You kiddin’ me? First Wooten calls the Indians fat then he goads them into going Full-Cochise and dumping tea into Boston Harbor again.
So I’m reading Wooten’s blog, drinking my coffee, and all of a sudden Wooten starts whooping it up, splashing war paint, Indians are everywhere, there’s tea in the harbor, Wooten was out of CONTROL!! (If Regis Philbin were a troll.)
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
9:24 am
Wooten was out of CONTROL!
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
9:28 am
Bookman wrote an “opinion piece” about how socialism is good. And at the same time he wonders why his job is about to disappear.
Bookman=naive little caveman
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
9:35 am
Ever wonder why Sally Struthers is so fat? (She’s eating those poor kids that we’re fattening up).
In the movie, “The Getaway”, with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, Sally Struthers has a nude scene, and she burns the screen up, man. It’s hard to believe she’s the same woman. That’s why marilyn monroe is still the reigning queen of hollywood sexkittens: she doesn’t get any fatter.
This is why Obama bowed to the Muslim King, man. What’s the number one rule of Islam? No Fatwa Chicks, man! I’d bow to the Muslim King too, man, if he woulda prevented the older, fatter Sally Struthers from being filmed, man.
It’s like the proposed legislation to ban future Octomoms: I’m for it if it woulda prevented the Jonas Brothers, man.
Same idea, (but without the bodily fluids), man.
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
9:38 am
So Bookman’s trolls were impersonating their own aliases, and posting to themselves, and stealing material from my blog, and suddenly Wooten gets all the Indians riled up, and then Bookman makes fun of Castro; now we’ve got Cuban Commies joining in, the AJC went out of CONTROL!!!!
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
9:38 am
Chris Broe, remember the South Park episode where Sally was eating all the food for the poor kids? Yeah, she used to be hot and so did Princess Leia but MAN, is she one ugly woman now.
Chris
April 10th, 2009
9:52 am
The first campaign commercial for 2012, thanks youtube!
Peter
April 10th, 2009
9:53 am
HA HA HA Commie………basically said…….it was cold here in Chicago this particular winter, thus conclusion, there is so no such thing as Global warming……
Yes he has such a wonderful education, he knows all……..Gee hasn’t it been cold in Chicago EVERY winter ..Duhhhhhhh ?
HA HA HA……….
I guess he or she is Fat as well, thus no one in the world is hungry or starving !
HA HA HA…….
williebkind
April 10th, 2009
10:02 am
It is a fact that King Obama bowed to another monarchy. Why did he bow? Was is to make American less in the eyes of the world? Or was he and his wife ignorant about protocol!
Tell me progressive liberals why would the most powerful man in the world representing the most(well almost)free people in the world bow to another man. The only conclusion I have is that King Obama is a baffoon who has spoofed the leftist and moderates into believing he can change Amercia.
Chris Broe
April 10th, 2009
10:15 am
So, what do you think is funnier? Sally eating the children, or the children’s food? Imagine a fairy tale of Hanzel and Gretel’s witch going on TV to “Save the children” and then using the donations to fatten children up so she can eat them. And as the years go by and the witch’s charity goes global, she slowly gets fatter and fatter. I think that fairy tale would be the perfect metaphorical simile for conservatism’s collateral-damage ethic during their self-inflicted gunshot wound called the invasion of Iraq, don’t you?
BTW: what IS the mission of us troops in Iraq?
JR
April 10th, 2009
10:17 am
I hate to tell you children this, but “but Bush did this” is not a good defense of Obama’s actions. You would expect to hear that on a playground but you as an adult should be able to justify actions without saying “you did something too”.
Peter
April 10th, 2009
10:18 am
Gotta Love the Christan attitude from the Republican Right this morning…..just in time for Easter.
Make fun of folks, but don’t forget to go to church on Sunday !
Not one of these goof balls would have the guts to do what Sally Struther’s did, but they will ridicule, make fun of, and then call her names, as in “ugly”.
“Yeah, she used to be hot and so did Princess Leia but MAN, is she one ugly woman now.”
The Christian Right will always show their true colors….. isn’t true beauty something that comes form within ?
Do you folks REALLY go to church……. or maybe it is your place to doze off and sleep ?
Funny stuff today……..HA HA HA.
fearless fosdick
April 10th, 2009
10:18 am
“The Earth can take care of itself and has for many years now.” COMMIE .. I guess you’re now a scientist, what happened to that MBA from Duke?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming_2.html
One Voice
April 10th, 2009
10:24 am
Californication @ 9:10,
One voice for who? For one person, dumbass. I don’t think it could get more obvious.
Work on the reading comprehension. It states in my original post that heads-of-states have bowed to foreign dignitaries for thousands of years, and it’s much more common than men walking around holding hands. So not only are you unaware of what happens around the rest of the world (as you accuse me of), but you lack knowledge of history. If you prefer to go around kissing other men, that’s fine with me- I’m a liberal and support Iowa’s new marriage laws, but your fictitious god may not like it.
The top 5% can go “f” themselves. Do you seriously think anyone is worried about CEOs moving to France? Good riddance. We can find 12,000 other idiots to do their jobs just as badly. And I’m not worried about taxes; they’re just a right wing talking point to keep their stooges in line (like you).
So no one has tried to take over America because of a plane that has never flown a combat mission? Somehow I have a feeling it has more to do with the fact that no one else has an actual navy, since I doubt Mexico or Canada have designs on a land invasion of the U.S. Get it through your head, genius, the F-22 is a dogfighter and there will be no planes for the F-22 to dogfight against. Not for the next 50 years at least and by that time we’ll have new technology for a better, more reliable fighter. I hope your wife does your finances because it seems you have some trouble with priorities and numbers.
I’ve got a job, thanks. I’m a high school teacher and I’m doing my best to make sure we have a new generation of socialists to take over when the last of the Republicans vanish in about 20 years. But I’ll put my education up against yours any day, because unless you’ve already completed your dissertation, then you’ve got less than me. And it’s clear you have difficulty recognizing sarcasm and substance. Typical Republican’t.
ProgressivePeach.com
April 10th, 2009
10:30 am
I’m sorry, but kissing the sheik on the lips and holding hands trumps a head-nod in my book!
Watta Load
April 10th, 2009
10:33 am
CommunistAJC,
I can’t imagine anyone obtaining an MBA from Duke University and landing a job that lets them spend an entire day blogging..every day, every week.
Most people I know with an MBA from a prestigious University are actually actively putting that education to work and don’t have time to blog all day.
So you either are lying about Duke, lying about your MBA, or you have taken a job that you are way overqualified for..either way, you’re a loser.
deegee
April 10th, 2009
10:33 am
I never thought I would see a president of the US walk up behind a seated Chancellor of Germany and give her a surprise shoulder squeeze but it happened.
findog
April 10th, 2009
10:33 am
Jim,
Through my years I have seen many of our presidents bow their heads as a traditional sign of greeting. Kind of like President Bush walking hand in hand with the same monarch. I believe all of them have bowed to the Pope upon his visits. Thing is did he genuflect or fall prostrate to our oil lord?
I say outlaw advocacy of every type from these save the children groups to the K-Street lobbyists. I call for a swift and certain death to the moneychanger’s in our temples of governance and law making. Now lets be consistent and apply #2 to #6 today…
The F-22 is a jobs program plain and simple. For the price of one every soldier going into Iraq could have had body armor. For the last four that will be made every Hummer could have been hardened and light infantry units like the 101st Airborne could have had their own Bradley’s instead of having to barrow them from the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Brigade they replaced in theatre a couple of years ago. I agree with Ragnar’s point on the military being one of the very few parts of the federal government that should be funded but the F-22 proved it was waste when congress tried to dump it with the Speaker of the House in 1998. Any program that can face extinction based on whose district they are in is suspect at best.
Lewis
April 10th, 2009
10:34 am
WillieB: “The only conclusion I have is that King Obama is a baffoon who has spoofed the leftist and moderates into believing he can change Amercia.”
But that’s the only conclusion you EVER have, on ANYTHING, WillieB… that’s why your logic is suspect. You’ve yet to display any.
Tale of the Tape
April 10th, 2009
10:39 am
BRIAN NICHOLS: Washed-Up ex-football player, treats women like physical objects, violent to other living creatures, believed to be carrier of VD, sadistic, refuses to take full responsibility for actions, moved to Atlanta from a Mid-Atlantic State, stated to be “normal, very well mannered with no problems at all” by those who met and knew him PRIOR TO his crimes coming to light, known smoker of marijuana, violently brings death to other living things, previously held a high-income position with a prestigious organization in the Atlanta area, blames others for his own stupidity, widely believed to be mentally & emotionally unstable, keeps it real, claims to now be religious after being caught by law enforcement authorities
MIKE VICK: Ditto.
Tallulah
April 10th, 2009
10:40 am
That’s “Native American” to you pale face!
Peter
April 10th, 2009
10:45 am
Lewis ……..the real conclusion is you are a racist, and a typical example of the Republican Ideology !
There is Nothing Christian about any of the writings from the Right on this blog today.
Jim you must be proud of your followers today !
fearless fosdick
April 10th, 2009
10:50 am
deegee @ 10:33…The big Surprise!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTQY1Aw9zcs&NR=1
blah
April 10th, 2009
10:54 am
I love it! Wooten articulates the fear of most conservatives: A U.S. President Bowing down to a Saudi Arabian leader? Oh god, white supremacy may very well be coming to an end. Prepare to start bowing, Wooten!
Peter
April 10th, 2009
11:03 am
Hey……..Tale of the Tape …….. Nice racist comment ……..Mike Vick and Brian Nichols are not the same person at all…….
Example…….. Ronald Regan …Iran Contra Affair……… Richard Nixon……. Watergate……….Thus they are they same ?
Lewis
April 10th, 2009
11:05 am
Peter: Huh? Where did that come from?
Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST
April 10th, 2009
11:11 am
Daddy makes big money saying the same thing about the F22 that Mr Thinking Right does. It does not pay to work for free.
Dusty
April 10th, 2009
11:24 am
Good grief, libs are over at Bookman’s and now they are here too, the Bobble Head Brigade.
Jim Wooten has made many good points. Some are not earthshaking. So President Obama bowed to another leader. Surprise? No. Obama is a bobble-head too. Wait ’til he bows to Mickey Mouse, head honcho at Disney Land.
Obese children? I thought Libs said children were starving to death because America (read Republicans) would not feed them.
Leave the windmills to the Dutch. They thought of those a long time ago. Their windmills are now used for “looks” among the tulips, not energy efficiency. No more costly energy playtoys for us.
Did US Rep. Cleaner bow to Castro? Might as well. Seems Cleaver is about as enthusiastic about America as is Michelle Obama. He said “Every nation does not need to be like the United States.” Michelle said she had finally found ONE thing she liked in America. Maybe these two could get together and write a new pledge of allegiance. Something like… we don’t like it here but we are stuck with it. Poor babies! Always suffering from foot in mouth disease among other things.
fearless fosdick
April 10th, 2009
11:28 am
“Good grief, libs are over at Bookman’s and now they are here too, the Bobble Head Brigade.” DUSTY, Then, I guess you would be part of the same Bobble Head Brigade that you speak of! HMMMMMMMMMM
Big Bucks GOP
April 10th, 2009
11:36 am
Financial Rescue Nears GDP as Pledges Top $12.8 Trillion (Update1)
By Mark Pittman and Bob Ivry
March 31 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s.
New pledges from the Fed, the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. include $1 trillion for the Public-Private Investment Program, designed to help investors buy distressed loans and other assets from U.S. banks. The money works out to $42,105 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. and 14 times the $899.8 billion of currency in circulation. The nation’s gross domestic product was $14.2 trillion in 2008.
President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with the chief executives of the nation’s 12 biggest banks on March 27 at the White House to enlist their support to thaw a 20-month freeze in bank lending.
“The president and Treasury Secretary Geithner have said they will do what it takes,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein said after the meeting. “If it is enough, that will be great. If it is not enough, they will have to do more.”
Commitments include a $500 billion line of credit to the FDIC from the government’s coffers that will enable the agency to guarantee as much as $2 trillion worth of debt for participants in the Term Asset-Backed Lending Facility and the Public-Private Investment Program. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair warned that the insurance fund to protect customer deposits at U.S. banks could dry up because of bank failures.
‘Within an Eyelash’
The combined commitment has increased by 73 percent since November, when Bloomberg first estimated the funding, loans and guarantees at $7.4 trillion.
“The comparison to GDP serves the useful purpose of underscoring how extraordinary the efforts have been to stabilize the credit markets,” said Dana Johnson, chief economist for Comerica Bank in Dallas.
“Everything the Fed, the FDIC and the Treasury do doesn’t always work out right but back in October we came within an eyelash of having a truly horrible collapse of our financial system, said Johnson, a former Fed senior economist. “They used their creativity to help the worst-case scenario from unfolding and I’m awfully glad they did it.”
Federal Reserve officials project the economy will keep shrinking until at least mid-year, which would mark the longest U.S. recession since the Great Depression.
The following table details how the Fed and the government have committed the money on behalf of American taxpayers over the past 20 months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
11:49 am
Peterless, are you retarded or seriously illiterate?
THIS IS WHAT I WROTE TROGLODYTE: CHICAGO JUST HAD IT’S COLDEST WINTER IN 30 YEARS.
WHAT PART OF THAT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?
By the way libs like fearlessfosNOdick, I have several windows open on my Mac. Yeah, you see, on a Mac you can have multiple windows open at the same time.
IT’S CALLED MULTI-TASKING. DOES THAT COMPUTE WITH YOU IDIOT LIBS?
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
11:50 am
Watta Load aka Jeffery Dahmer aka fearlessfosNOdick, nope, I have an MBA, comrade. I’m sorry your GED didn’t work out for you but you don’t have to take your failures as a human being out on me.
Copyleft
April 10th, 2009
11:50 am
Ahh, Commie’s ravings are always so funny to watch. He’s just so darn FRUSTRATED that nobody takes him seriously!
Hint to Commie: It’s because you’re a raving loon. You might want to stop being that.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
11:52 am
Peterless, what is interesting about you is the fact that you like to point fingers and name call yet at the same time tell us right wingers that we should be ashamed.
By the way, it’s also interesting that you play all high and mighty yet you don’t even believe in God or Jesus. Ponder that one for a while.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
11:54 am
Copyleft, since when did I ask you to take me seriously? This is a faceless blog, comrade.
Let’s see: Copyleft says no one takes me serious yet he/she calls him/herself copyleft.
Copyleft, here is a hint for you: get a life and get out your mom’s basement.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
11:57 am
Dusty, any time a high school drop out like Peter, Fearless fosNOdick, copyleft or a new guy/gal whom I presume is one of the first three idiots, Watta Load, calls you a name or says that you are not to be taken serious, just remember that these morons are all bottom feeders who probably blog from Starbucks or their mom’s basement. Also know that these troglodytes probably scored a total of 200 on their SAT, and that number comes from the fact that they wrote their own name on the test.
@@
April 10th, 2009
12:04 pm
I didn’t really have that much of a problem with Obama’s bow. Does make me wonder why the WH felt the need to deny it. His left hand didn’t go down to pick something up — his shoulders didn’t shutter, indicating that he was sneezing or coughing. Maybe his shorts were in his crack?
Well, Jim, there’s manufactured fear, and then there’s clear evidence of what is to be feared. I’d say there were a lot of kids who still experience the fear of having lost their parents on 9/11.
I actually like the windmills, Jim. The hillsides of my home state are covered with them although they don’t do much good when environmentalists refuse to let powerlines be built to major cities. The underwater turbines are a great alternative that I don’t hear to much about. I wonder why.
…and isn’t it strange that many of the foods allowed to be purchased on welfare are those that fall within the high-carb category. Slow death by government’s benevolence.
I’m not really shocked by what Rep. Cleaver (D) said about his comrade in arms, Castro. When it comes to communist dictators and socialist dictators like Cleaver, the required message is “It’s all about “ewes” not US.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
12:06 pm
Wooten, I was thinking about this while I was at the gym this morning. So, you know how libs were all howling in 04 at Bush and his gay marriage constitutional amendment thingy? Anyway, libs cried and bitched about government and religion YET right now, libs are all giddy that government started legalizing gay butt sex marriage. Hypocrisy at its best.
I mean really, can anyone actual inform this idiot conservative just what it is that gay marriage is? Is it celebrating life? Nope, because butt sex produces turds. Literally. Is it celebrating natural love? No, because God intended marriage to be between man and woman.
So libs, please explain to me what gay marriage is celebrating.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
12:08 pm
@@, President Teleprompter was just bowing to his comrades in arms. He will soon bow to the Chinese, Castro, Chavez and Putin. Democrats are now showing us who they really are and that’s a good thing.
Dusty
April 10th, 2009
12:13 pm
Copyleft,
CommunistAJC overwhelms you bobbleheads so easily. No followup is necessary. Bookman banned him which is a badge of honor in Commie’s case.
CommunistAJC gets tired of the repetition of the BORING Bobbleheads. The ignorance and blind partiality displayed here makes him react with vim and vigor!! It is understandable.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
12:16 pm
Dusty, word. There are usually at least 5 libs who try to attack me yet I can take them all on simultaneously.
In other news, more stupidity from President Husseins cabinet. The most intelligent woman in the world has no clue if Iran has nukes. This makes me feel so much better.
Hey libs, your democrat party makes Napoleon like like a genius.
U.S. does not see Iran’s nuclear claims as rebuff
“We don’t know what to believe about the Iranian program. We’ve heard many different assessments and claims over a number of years,” said Clinton of Iran’s latest claims.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090409/pl_nm/us_iran_nuclear_talks_usa_2
One Voice
April 10th, 2009
12:18 pm
Here are some excerpts from Communist AJC’s post @ 12:06:
This is what Commie AJC said; “While I was at the gym this morning” “I was thinking about” “gay butt sex”. “I was” “giddy” “about” “Bush and his gay marriage”. “God” “produces turds”. “Literally” “celebrating” “gay marriage”.
Okay, if you say so, Commie.
Obama Tha Carter II
April 10th, 2009
12:23 pm
Don’t you just love that screen name? Is it irony or what? We truly are living under another failed Carteresque presidency, and it sure didn’t take long.
Pirates in the news meharties! Yesterday some liberal buttpirate (yeah that’s you, Peterhead) made fun of a post stating that under the O-Team, we are less safe and look weaker now. Let’s run down the details as of late and see what’s happened under this wonderful “change” we are going through:
1) Iran is bragging about all their centrifuges up and running (yeah, for power grade uranium only you moonbatards© on the mindless left would be believe that), and our left wing liberal Veep, Joe The Plugger (another good one!), points a staunch Bill Clinton-like finger at Israel and tells them to not do ANYTHING about it. NOTHING said to Iran.
2) North Korea fires a multi-stage rocket over Japan after multiple so-called “stern warnings” from both Obama and Clinton. NOTHING said to North Korea post launch.
3) Somali pirates take a US merchant ship but eventually fail and take the captain hostage. A US Navy ship is “monitoring” the situation but has orders to not so much as touch any of the pirates. Today, the captain attempted to escape and swim to the Navy ship, but he was pursued by the savaged animals and pulled back in. Meanwhile, more savaged animals are on their way to back up their pirate brothers. A freaking US NAVY SHIP cannot do anything because of orders from Washington. What’s next, these animals taking one of our Navy ships and the Demotards in Washington apologizing to them?
4) The O-Team and Nannycrat Congress are pondering a bill to grant all illegal immigrants in this nation amnesty and become US citizens with full benefits. Nobody even so much as KNOWS how many we have here, let alone if any of them are terrorists who came in through Mexico. So long as you liberals get your additional Democrat votes, that’s all that matters to you people, isn’t it?
I’d like one of you moonbatards on the mindless hysteric left to explain to the rest of us exactly how we are safer now. I hope we don’t have anything more serious to deal with than Somali pirates, because their management of that alone is DISGRACEFUL. Then again, why get upset. This current crop of leaders and their mindless minion followers want a weaker America under the guise of increased international liking of us. So long as other nations no longer hate us, like they did under Bush, everything is cool. It takes a weakening of this nation for others to like us again, including bowing to a King of an Arab nation. That’s just plain pathetic. Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and Franklin are all collectively rolling over in their graves.
Enjoy your Fugly Friday trolling on a non-non-Conservative, & irrelevant Conservative blog, moobatards.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
12:24 pm
One Voice aka Peter aka Fearless FosNodick, nice, we have a serial idiot on our hands. Instead of answering a question you do what any mindless lib does. She acts like a retard.
Oh, and don’t take retard as an insult. I mean, President Hussein said he bowls like a retard. Which he really is.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
12:33 pm
Wooten, I really like your blogs. You don’t act like a pansy like Bookman. Bookman likes to play nanny and tell people what they can and can not say. Yet, most of the time his pansy anger is aimed at conservatives while he ignores liberal drooling from girls like Peter and Fearless. Anyhoo, props to you pal!
Capt. Kirk
April 10th, 2009
12:41 pm
Seems like a coordinated sniper shoot, i.e. one sniper for each pirate firing at once would be the best way to end this hostage standoff.
MoJohnson
April 10th, 2009
12:52 pm
Charles the “Ora-vaginal”
Lay off the red, blue, yellow, green and white pills, Chuck. You’re starting to sound like Dennis Hopper in “Apocalypse Now.”
Jackie
April 10th, 2009
1:02 pm
Wonder why those who purport to support the Constitution and are staunch patriots do not understand this countrys “rule of law” concept is what keeps the fabric of the country tightly knit.
Many want to make up rules to suit them, ignoring the fact there are rules currently in place for those perceived wrongs.
They would rather see their myopic point made, knowing their approach will only benefit a few that have their view(s). Either these folks are selfish or unwilling to understand there are others that aspire to live with a known and consistent set of rules that benefit all the citizens of the country.
Where did these people come from?
Capt. Kirk
April 10th, 2009
1:03 pm
Oh, I see it’s not an open boat. Well, then snipers with X-ray glasses. I saw some for sale in the back of my Green Hornet comic book.
One Voice
April 10th, 2009
1:05 pm
Come on, Commie, unleash that famed Duke “MBA” intellect on us. Let me guess, your fictional god will take care of everything as long as people like you continue to attempt to hoard wealth for yourselves and attack everyone else, right? You’re very sure of your own beliefs, but psychological experiments have consistently shown that there is no correlation between confidence and accuracy. You are essentially completely convinced in beliefs that are absolutely incorrect. Hmm… Whoda thunk?
MoJohnson
April 10th, 2009
1:13 pm
Big Bucks GOP
A link would do just fine. The book-length tome you pasted doesn’t make you any brighter and your writing is so much more insightful when I can simply breeze by with just one turn of the mouse wheel.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:14 pm
One Voice, like I told taxpayer aka taxevader, on Bookmans blog, YOU DON’T MEAN ANYTHING TO ME. I HAVE NOTHING TO PROVE TO A FACELESS BLOGGER SUCH AS YOURSELF.
Oh, I’m sorry, did I hurt your whittle feewings, One Voice? Ahhhh, I’m so sorry pubic education failed you, comrade. Continue to try to put me and my education down. It ain’t gonna work!
Go home and cry!
Peter
April 10th, 2009
1:18 pm
Well at least we won’t have to worry that the Right wingers here are Religious……
A True Christian practices each day of the week being with God !
Imagine getting a MBA and spending your entire day Blogging…… Amazing use of an education !
jm
April 10th, 2009
1:19 pm
Dusty@11:24, do you realize that Denmark gets about 20% of their electric power from windmills? That is out of the “playtoy category”. Granted Denmark is nowhere near the size of the US but numbers like that call call for more than a casual look.
As for “obese” kids, maybe if the feds cut some of those farm subsidies, maybe our store shelves would be loaded with something other than “processed” carbohydrates.
deegee
April 10th, 2009
1:22 pm
I have not had a complaint about my employer based medical insurance until Monday of this week. My spouse has been covered under my policy for at least five years. We have been paying our premiums and using very little services until March of this year when my spouse fell seriously ill. Coincidentally, I received an email from my employer on Monday of this week indicating that I was selected at random for an audit of spousal eligibility for coverage. They said that if I didn’t comply with their demands for information by May 8th they would drop my spouse’s coverage on May 31st. I responded immediately, and I suspect that this will be the first in their series of attempts to kick my spouse off of my insurance policy. Greedy bazzturds.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:23 pm
Useful Idiots Caucus
Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus traveled to Cuba last week and were delighted with their reception. They met with Raul Castro for four hours (including dinner). Three lucky members of the delegation were even entertained by Fidel at his home. As the Miami Herald reported, the representatives found Castro, to be “very engaging, very energetic … very talkative.” Imagine. The dictator known for his five-hour speeches. Who could have guessed?
http://townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2009/04/10/useful_idiots_caucus
MoJohnson
April 10th, 2009
1:25 pm
deegee
No need to worry if he’s really your spouse, right?
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:26 pm
Peter, once again, you prove just how illiterate you really are. And, once again, I have to embarrass you in front your peers.
Ok, Peter, in the year 2009, people who use computers can have multiple windows opened up on their 30 inch computer screens. And, when we have these screens open, we can chose to multi-task and blog while we work. It’s not that hard to understand, but then again Peter, you can’t read basic Engwish!
Peter, since you are so hell bent on being jealous about my education, enlighten this guy on where you went to college. I mean, you are complaining about me blogging yet you are here…..blogging.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:27 pm
jm, but your democrat party has banned windmill power in Mass. Ted Kennedy banned them. Uh oh, spaghettios!
jm
April 10th, 2009
1:29 pm
sorry to disappoint commie, but I am registered as an independent.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:30 pm
It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea’s missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed:
“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response.”
A more fatuous presidential call to arms is hard to conceive. What “strong international response” did Obama muster to North Korea’s brazen defiance of a Chapter 7 –”binding,” as it were — U.N. resolution prohibiting such a launch?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/its_your_country_too_mr_presid.html
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:31 pm
jm, my bad. Apologies to you.
Peter
April 10th, 2009
1:31 pm
Hey CommunistAJC ..
I am sure Jesus is important in your life, and you try to emulate him and his teachings daily !
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:37 pm
Peter, what is your beef with me anyway? I don’t see you trying to irritate other bloggers.
One Voice
April 10th, 2009
1:43 pm
Commie, you’re right that you don’t have to prove anything to me. You do, however, prove on a daily basis that from time to time Duke develops products (alumni) who are inferior to those produced by many community colleges.
And public education has done very well for me, thank you. Except for a couple years during my masters program, all of my education has been in public schools- from elementary to my current PhD program. The opportunity is there for everyone. Unfortunately, some people won’t make use of it and either won’t educate themselves or will go to decent institutions without gaining a lick of education (like yourself). What a shame for you to have spent all that money and invested all that time and still come out the other end as ignorant as you obviously are.
Tell us again what you were thinking about in the gym this morning? On second thought, don’t.
deegee
April 10th, 2009
1:45 pm
MoJohnson, your naivete is astounding. We are married and there was never any question about that until the bills started rolling in.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:50 pm
One Voice, what I find interesting is the fact that libs call conservatives idiots, simpletons and nazies because we don’t believe in what you believe in.
Again, what is it that makes you think I am not educated? Because so far, you and Peter have yet to call me out on anything.
CommunistAJC
April 10th, 2009
1:53 pm
One Voice, by the way, I graduated high school with a 3.8 GPA, 1380 on my SAT and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Auburn University. Still want to call me an idiot, comrade?
deegee
April 10th, 2009
1:55 pm
There was this jerk that lived in my neighborhood twenty years ago. He was fresh out of Duke and thought that the world was waiting at his doorstep. All that azzhole had going for him was a degree from Duke. He had the most irritating, know-it-all personality of anyone I had ever met. I ran into him not long ago and sadly, he never really got anywhere with his degree. Apparently Duke never taught him how to get along with people.
JLK
April 10th, 2009
1:55 pm
Um….. Regarding Saudis, I am not upset by basic meet-the-leader protocol. Even GW’s facial smooch and hand-held tiptoe through the bluebonnets did not anger me, though it did creep me out in a skin-crawly “Get a room!” sort of way. Ewww!
If I were going to be angry about the Saudis, it would more likely be the way they, for so many years, directed our foreign and energy policies IN SECRET, via their ties to the Carlyle Group, in which the Bush family fortune is deeply involved and prosperous. If I were going to be angry about the Saudis, it would be about how 15 SAUDI MEN participated in the mass murder of Americans back in 2001, and how the federal government UNDER PRESIDENT BUSH’S ORDERS, allowed dozens of Saudi royals, executives, and family members flee our country on private jets, without interrogation, while the rest of us were grounded, in shock, and wondering what the heck happened. Or how the Saudi leader whose face our President kissed and whose hand our President held did NOTHING to help bring Osama Bin Laden, our SAUDI enemy (currently living well off Saudi money in Pakistan) to justice for his crimes against us. And how the Saudis laughed while holding us all over over their oil barrells last summer, raping us at $4/gallon on gas, because private energy-policy meetings, (classified by Cheney as none of our GD business) orchestrated this mass rape and many others. The money that’s no longer flowing through our economy did indeed GO somewhere. Into the tax-exempt pockets of a few — many of those pockets hidden in flowing silk Saudi robes instead of American energy-producing, citizen-employing enterprises. Or how women in their country have NO RIGHTS at all, and are even jailed for being raped, something our government has never bothered to challenge because the oil t-e-e-t is so tasty. But Mr. Wooten is upset about what may or may not have been a protocol gesture? Riiiiiiight.