‘Bravo’ for Marines, ‘boo’ for dainty cars
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
- Congratulations to DeKalb School Superintendent Crawford Lewis and his board for starting the DeKalb Marine Corps Institute come August. To those who resist it on any basis other than the usual neighborhood NIMBY-ism, shame on you.
- I’m a believer, yes, that a touchy-feely foreign policy built on empty phrases will defang adversaries of the sort who put a young Afghan couple before a firing squad for falling in love and trying to elope.
- When enforcement fails, throw in the towel. Mexico’s Congress debates legalizing marijuana for personal use. That’s what the U.S. will do with illegal immigration and states did with gambling. Decriminalize anything you can’t, or won’t, control — and maybe make a little money off it, too.
- Spring enrollment at UGA reaches a record, almost 33,000. Smart. Who’d want to leave college and start looking for work in this economy?
- MARTA bus flips in DeKalb. Though it was empty of passengers, 643 people will file medical claims for injuries. The Georgia Association of Trial Lawyers, meanwhile, buys TV commercials inviting mesothelioma victims who had ridden MARTA to call Willsu & Fleece, LLC, to participate in a nationwide class-action suit. Six liberal politicians show up to insist that new legislation be filed requiring buses to have roll bars. And the Al Sharpton entourage calls a news conference to denounce the rich for having an unfair share of the transportation resources, namely their own cars, thus privileged to avoid unsafe buses.
- Gwinnett’s going Democratic. A new League of Women Voters of Georgia chapter organizes there. All that remains to have a political movement is to mobilize the AARP and the Sierra Club, armed with the research of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. The LWV is one of the outfits that fought Voter ID.
- Just as you thought. Tiny cars are at substantial disadvantage in collisions, even with those only slightly larger, reports the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which performed the tests. Toyota’s Yaris, Honda’s Fit and Mercedes-Benz’s Smart all performed poorly. Bigger cars absorb the crash energy. In tiny cars, people do. GM President Barack Obama will surely order his plants to stop producing SUVs, big trucks and other vehicles that provide unfair protection to occupants in said collusions. Congress will not rest until both small cars and SUVs produce an equal number of wreck fatalities.
- Hallmark Cards Inc. will cut its work force of 9,200 by between 550 and 750 employees over the next six months. It was inevitable. Once America elected a president who speaks in greeting-card-ese, the market for homilies and bromides flooded. Hallmark should get an injunction to make him hush.
- A government health plan for the middle class wouldn’t kill off the private sector because it would pay reimbursement rates similar to the private sector, says Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform. Reports the AP: “Such a plan could still cut costs because it wouldn’t have to turn a profit and would also save on administration, said DeParle.” Here, now, a survey open to all, including liberals: Does any person in America believe what she just said? They just say things.
- Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle’s out of the governor’s race. Health reasons cited. Backbone region.
- Clayton State University students surrendered their cellphones and ceased conversation to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes. When my band of right-wingers comes to power, we will declare all public gatherings featuring a speaker or scheduled sound source to be GLBT support zones. No talking and no hand-held devices that emit sounds or require attention.
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Copyleft
April 16th, 2009
9:11 pm
Given that SUVs are CAUSING all the wrecks (through clueless, overly aggressive, and unskilled drivers who don’t even know how to turn without flipping over), I’d applaud the removal of SUVs and their demolition-derby heft from our roads, making us all safer.
Dusty
April 16th, 2009
9:31 pm
Copyleft,
You didn’t really say that, did ya? I mean post something as absolutely absurd as your 9:11 post?
Please stay off the road. Everyone will be safer no matter what they are driving.
oldtimer
April 16th, 2009
11:02 pm
I love my explorer…Paid for and pulls the boat or camper. Plus when I go to the beach, I get to take all the junk I want!!
Davo
April 17th, 2009
12:18 am
JW must have run into some of them ‘libertarians’ lately…his views are not as hard-line as they have been. To think it only took…3 days? Those talking point memos carry alot of weight I guess.
The GOP…when you’ve got nothing; you’ve got nothing to lose.
Mid-South Philosopher
April 17th, 2009
4:46 am
Good morning, Jim.
I am not a marijuana user. Never even “puffed”, let alone “inhaled.” Like “Georgie” Bush, I used to have a taste for sour mash, but, unlike the “man from Crawford, Texas,” I will admit to you that I have NEVER used cocaine. “Georgie” never admitted that he did or never denied that he did. Wait…maybe he just doesn’t remember!
All of that being said, the height of idiocy in government, and Lord knows that there is an over abundance of it, is when government decides that it should protect us from ourselves. Prohibition was a dismal failure, and it continues to be in those areas of the country that still entertain its remnants. Harry Reid’s pronouncement that “The war is lost” would be quite accurate had he been talking about the “War on Drugs” rather than the war in Iraq.
About the only government mandate of behavior designed to protect us from ourselves that has demonstrated major success is the seat belt law, and, while I buckle-up every time I am behind the wheel, it is because of the knowledge of what going through a windshield at 70 mph can do to one as opposed to any fear that I have for reprisals from that crowd of clowns that gather under the “gold dome” every January.
As for the growth in college enrollment, haven’t you heard, Jim. Only people who go to college are really successful. I mean, from “Georgie” Bush to “Barry” Obama, all these lousy politicians say something like, “we want to work for American families to be able to send their children to college.”
Have you ever heard one, just one, politician, lousy or otherwise, say, “we want to work to help American families to send their children to plumber school, waste disposal school, or barber college”?!?
Lynne
April 17th, 2009
6:19 am
Jim is such a bitter old man. I guess he see’s his “world” passing him by and changing too fast….all “de coloreds takin over and threatenin my way of life”….LMAO….GOOD!
catlady
April 17th, 2009
6:32 am
The government doesn’t have to protect me from ME; I need it to protect me from YOU.
Mid-South Philosopher
April 17th, 2009
6:34 am
And another thing….
Texas Governor Rick Perry is catching a lot of heat for his remarks at one of Wednesday’s “tea tax” parties that the liberal media have interpreted as being a suggestion for the possibility of secession of Texas from the Union. While that is not exactly what the governor said, far be it from the media to get it right.
Secession cannot be done. Once a state is in the Union, it cannot withdraw. If the stupid pundits on both sides of the political spectrum would study a little American history (authentic American history, that is), they would learn that Billy Sherman and Sam Grant helped Abe Lincoln settle that issue in 1865.
What a lot of folks do not know…and, again, this is because there is little study of real American history…is that, according to the agreement by which the Republic of Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845, at any time it desires to do so Texas can divide itself into from three to five states. Should the “Lone Star” state decide to do that we could end up with a total of ten new Texas senators who, likely, would be Republican or, at the very least, conservative.
I suspect such an act would take that perpetual smile off Nancy Pelosi’s “lifted” face! It might bring a frown to Harry Reid’s brow, too!
What the Governor of Texas was saying and what a lot of real Americans believe is that government at all levels…local, state, and certainly national…has become too intrusive, too incompetent, and too arrogant.
Unfortunately, the “real” American population seems to be in the minority. The majority of the population…good people that they may be…are part of the vast nose-picking herd of “pseudo” Americans snoozing along, allowing “big brother” government to make all the decisions, solve all the problems, and do all the thinking for them.
Come November 2010, I prophesy that 90% of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 95% of the members of the U.S. Senate up for re-election will be returned to office. So long as we continue to send the same folks back to Washington time after time, what do we expect!
Churchill's MOM
April 17th, 2009
6:51 am
The morning quickie, got to go get the kids up…
Far from her home state and the controversy she left behind, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin traveled to Indiana Thursday and reminded Republicans why she remains a party heavyweight and a top prospective presidential candidate in 2012.
Palin drew approximately 3,000 people to the Vanderburgh County Right to Life fundraising dinner in Evansville, an annual banquet that typically attracts some of the GOP’s top national talent. Her sold-out appearance in a local exhibition hall prompted organizers to set up a paid closed-circuit broadcast at a nearby auditorium for a large spill-over crowd and led local authorities to close down nearby streets.
“This is always a large event,” said David O’Steen, executive director of National Right to Life. “There was a lot of excitement about this among pro-life people. She is very well known and respected in the pro-life movement.”
Palin was mobbed by autograph seekers and picture takers as she tried to get into the fundraiser .
Jane Abraham, the general chairwoman of the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that supports female politicians who oppose abortion rights, called the dinner a “very high profile event” for opponents of abortion rights.
“It’s very exciting that she is doing this,” Abraham said. “It’s very refreshing to me as someone who has been involved in the pro-life movement for a long time.”
The Alaska governor received a warm reception from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, also in attendance, at a news conference ahead of the dinner.
“I think she is a standard-bearer right now,” Steele said. “She and Mitt Romney and Governor Pawlenty, Governor Sanford, Rudy Giuliani, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence. We have a significant number of men and women in our party who are in a very good position right now to carry forward the standard of the GOP.”
Upon taking the stage, Palin criticized President Barack Obama’s position on abortion and stem cell research. She chided the president’s campaign trail response to a question from Pastor Rick Warren about when life begins, saying that the answer was not above her pay grade.
For Palin, the event came at the tail end of a tough week back home.
Her controversial nominee for state attorney general, Wayne Ross, was rejected Thursday in a 35-23 vote by the Republican-controlled state legislature after a week of damaging confirmation hearings that revealed a string of past controversial comments. Ross came under fire for his past defense of a Ku Klux Klan statue and a 1991 quote that said: “If a guy can’t rape his wife… who’s he gonna rape?”
Palin said in a statement that she was “surprised” by Ross’s rejection. “Mr. Ross is a fine Alaskan,” she said. “He is held in high esteem by many Alaskans. I appreciate his willingness to serve the public.”
The legislature also made clear this week that it will rebuff the governor’s effort to reject more than $400 million in federal stimulus funds and instead will accept all the money.
Palin was skewered by her Alaska rivals for leaving the state during the last week of a contentious legislative session to come to Indiana.
“We need a full-time governor who is thinking about our issues all the time, who is working and negotiating with the legislators and getting the job done we need done,” Alaska Democratic Party Chairwoman Patti Higgins declared at a press conference Wednesday. “Where is Sarah Palin? She is going to be halfway across the country. She’s at a Right to Life fundraiser and another event.”
Palin will attend a second fundraiser Friday morning for S.M.I.L.E., a support organization for family members of people who have Down syndrome. The governor traveled to Indiana with her husband Todd and youngest son, Trig, who will attend the S.M.I.L.E. event.
“The Governor personally received and accepted this invitation. I don’t need to tell you that this personal and quick trip to Indiana reflects who she is,” Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton told POLITICO Thursday. “Tonight is a celebration of life and tomorrow morning is a celebration of Trig’s life along with other families blessed with special needs children. We are all thrilled to be here.”
************PALIN-MCCAIN 2012****************
skydog
April 17th, 2009
7:31 am
Can you name the 3 best reasons for Ga, Alaska, and Texas to NOT pull out of the Union?
William Tecumseh Sherman
Mid-South Philosopher
April 17th, 2009
7:41 am
Tell me, skydog, while we have some good ones, do you really believe we have a William Tecumseh Sherman in our armed forces today…and if we do, do you think “Barry” Obama would really use him?
jt
April 17th, 2009
7:50 am
Sherman couldn’t fight men. He had to take it to women and children. Regardless of the method, he still kicked the south’s azzzz.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
7:54 am
Palin for President…….HA HA HA………. HA HA HA……….HA HA HA………wow rolling about now !
Jim Speaking of “Just saying things”, did you say ANYTHING TODAY ?
Please retire soon Jim, and graze on what ever pleases your fancy !
Testing
April 17th, 2009
7:56 am
Another phone-in from Wooten.
Copyleft
April 17th, 2009
8:02 am
Not to mention the huge quantities of oil that SUVs are wasting needlessly, which as a direct impact on our national security.
There’s really no way to get around it–if you’re driving an SUV, you’re anti-American.
jt
April 17th, 2009
8:29 am
Copyleft- That’s insensitive. My wife (340 in the summer), couldn’t fit economically in the Hyndai we bought.
NRA
April 17th, 2009
8:31 am
Ross is an NRA board member, a guy who calls gays “degenerates,” a guy who drives a red Hummer with WAR on its license plate, and a guy who would deny subsistence hunting and fishing rights to native Alaskans.
Mr. Ross: “If a guy can’t rape his wife?who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouths shut.”
oldtimer
April 17th, 2009
8:33 am
Another good column. I am sick of welfare, free lunch and freeloaders. I work. Nearly everyone else can too.
RetLTC
April 17th, 2009
8:35 am
When enforcement fails, throw in the towel. Mexico’s Congress debates legalizing marijuana for personal use. That’s what the U.S. will do with illegal immigration and states did with gambling. Decriminalize anything you can’t, or won’t, control — and maybe make a little money off it, too.
Maybe it’s the sensible thing to do as well. Ever thought of that Jim? Otherwise instead of “making a little money” which should be a pretty desirable thing, it appears you would rather keep pouring massive amounts of money and resources continually down the drain. Jim, you are making a mockery of your own blog title. Common sense conservatism? Haven’t heard any of that from you lately.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
8:54 am
Wooten, sometimes I wish you would hammer libs a bit harder. You’re thoughts on the Gay and Lesbian moment of silence is pretty funny. I mean really, no one on the left prays, so what is the silence all about?
Also, your comment on touchy feely phrases with foreign policy is going to get us nuked. President Teleprompter continues to add left wing idiots to his cabinets. None of them pay their taxes and I hear his new Car Czar is in big big big trouble already.
CHAINS WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
Copyleft
April 17th, 2009
8:56 am
I see Commie’s as clueless as ever, since all real Christians ARE liberal.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
8:56 am
Hey CommunistAJC…..got anything to really say today ?
How is Christian life today ?
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
8:56 am
CNN Versus the Tea Parties
Mona Charen
When thousands of people in all 50 states assemble to protest government policy, you might suppose that this is news. Not according to the coverage on the front pages of the Washington Post, New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal. The “tea party” rallies went unmentioned. In Washington, D.C., despite temperatures in the 40s and a driving rainstorm, about a thousand demonstrators assembled across from the White House. The front page of the Times found space for a big story with accompanying pictures of competing public demonstrations in Kabul, Afghanistan, but not a word about the American protestors.
Perhaps this snub was intentional. Fox News (becoming a participant itself and not a recorder of events) had been beating the drums for these rallies for days, and some pressies clearly regarded them as therefore necessarily illegitimate. One reporter, Susan Roesgen, who “covered” the Chicago tea party for CNN, was downright confrontational with attendees she interviewed, challenging a protestor who referenced Abraham Lincoln with “What does this have to do with taxes?” The man attempted to explain. But the reporter interrupted him. “Did you know that you are eligible for a $400 rebate? Did you know that your state, the state of Lincoln, gets $50 billion out of the stimulus? That’s $50 billion for your state.” She then tossed back to the anchor noting that “This is really not family viewing.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/17/cnn_versus_the_tea_parties_96035.html
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
8:57 am
Copyleft, I see you’re in full swing of being a complete moron.
Peter, how’s your secular life today?
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:00 am
Copyleft, you write that ALL Christians are liberal. Explain how a liberal can be Christian if he/she rejects Jesus, rejects the Bible as the inerrant word of God, and never attends a Bible believing church.
Most libs I talk to don’t think Jesus was anything more than a nice man who fed the poor. Most libs I talk to make up stuff about the Bible. Most libs I talk to claim that there is no one way to Heaven.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:04 am
President Hussein Teleprompter shows us his true colors.
Not God’s Country Anymore
Patrick Buchanan
At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ.
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, had adopted the monogram in his seal and it became an emblem of the Jesuit order.
When it comes to rendering unto Caesar, Georgetown is not going to be outshone by Notre Dame, which stole a march by offering the nation’s avatar of abortion a doctorate of laws degree, honoris causa.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/17/rendering_unto_caesar_96034.html
Peter
April 17th, 2009
9:06 am
Hey CommunistAJC ….it’s wonderful day in Georgia, life is wonderful.
I hope you are having a great day !
Spirituality is a wonderful place to be……BUT has zero to do with Religion……..
I do applaud all who do go to church…..Jesus is a wonderful teacher, and God is in all.
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
9:08 am
Wooten must fear my posts as much as Commie. Commie begs me to lay off, and Wooten shuts down the mic like a third-rate Glenn Beck.
Common Sense cowardice mixed with Right Thinking conspiracy fantasies. You guys are funnier than Martin/Lewis at their peak.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:08 am
Peter, never said spirituality had anything to do with religion. It’s a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
9:11 am
Hey CommunistAJC….
Every Individual has their personal thought on Spirituality……..
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:11 am
“On a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009.”
Are we still at war?
by William Kristol
It wasn’t really a surprise that President Obama sided with leftist lawyers in his Justice Department and released, over the objections of the intelligence community, four Office of Legal Counsel memos that concluded certain interrogation techniques used in the last several years by CIA officers on certain al Qaeda terrorists were legal. Nor was it a surprise that the presidential statement put out by the White House was a medley of preening self-righteousness and defensive disingenuousness.
What was more interesting was the accompanying statement by the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, trying to justify Obama’s decision–or at least put it “into perspective.” The perspective, the context, is that in the months after 9/11, “we did not have a clear understanding of the enemy we were dealing with, and our every effort was focused on preventing further attacks that would kill more Americans. It was during these months that the CIA was struggling to obtain critical information from captured al Qaida leaders, and requested permission to use harsher interrogation methods. The OLC memos make clear that senior legal officials judged the harsher methods to be legal.”
Blair continues: “Those methods, read on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, appear graphic and disturbing. As the President has made clear, and as both CIA Director Panetta and I have stated, we will not use those techniques in the future. But we will absolutely defend those who relied on these memos and those guidelines.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/392stwpy.asp
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:14 am
Peter, yes every man does….BUT, if it is not in sync with Biblical teaching then it is made up.
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
9:17 am
In re: Wooten’s popular mocking of LGBT day of silence:
” On April 6, Sirdeaner Walker came home, walked up the stairs to the second floor of her home, and saw her 11-year old son suspended from a support beam in the stairwell, swaying slightly in the air, an extension cord wrapped around his neck, according to police. He apologized in a suicide note, told his mother that he loved her, and left his video games to his brother.
Walker said her son had been the victim of bullying since the beginning of the school year, and that she had been calling the school since September, complaining that her son was mercilessly teased. He played football, baseball, and was a boy scout, but a group of classmates called him gay and teased him about the way he dressed. They ridiculed him for going to church with his mother and for volunteering locally.
”It’s not just a gay issue,” Walker said. “It’s bigger. He was 11 years old, and he wasn’t aware of his sexuality. These homophobic people attach derogatory terms to a child who’s 11 years old, who goes to church, school, and the library, and he becomes confused. He thinks, Maybe I’m like this. Maybe I’m not. What do I do?”
His birthday, April 17, falls this year on the 13th National Day of Silence, a day on which individuals observe vows of silence for students bullied at school. ”
Because mocking gays, or mocking people by calling them gay, is the height of Christian charity and good will.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
9:17 am
Hey CommunistAJC….too bad we didn’t just go after Bin Laden……I hope he is found and eliminated !
I would pop a bottle of champagne and celebrate that accomplishment !
Steven Daedalus
April 17th, 2009
9:17 am
Please let Alaska and Texas secede, first, maybe we wouldn’t constantly have to see Sarah Palin’s dumd-a– face, and second Texas being the nearest nothing place on Earth could handle all the problems with Mexico without my tax money.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
9:21 am
Hey
CommunistAJC
Peter, yes every man does….BUT, if it is not in sync with Biblical teaching then it is made up.
Well to this I disagree……… Taoism, has been around allot longer than the Religion you practice, and Buddhism as well……..Getting to God is an individual choice………as I stated………. all religion is “MADE UP”.
Algonquin J. Calhoun
April 17th, 2009
9:22 am
Commie, You wouldn’t know Biblical teaching if it slapped your jowls.
Californication
April 17th, 2009
9:22 am
Mid-South Philosopher, You are on the money….
CopyLeft, who pays your bills, I am just wondering how a devote communist makes money?
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:36 am
Peter, I agree with you on Bin Laden.
BUT, Taoism is very self indulgent. There is not relationship with any god. The Bible is the only religious book that has fulfilled every single prophecy except for the coming of Christ. Christianity is the only religion that preaches love. It does not preach tolerance and that is what angers libs.
Getting to God happens ONLY through Jesus Christ. God can not tolerate sin and no one gets to God without first having Jesus as our redeemer.
Algonquin J. Calhoun, challenge me on the Bible. Ask me questions. Look Calhoun, I’m sorry for name calling yesterday. Now, if you want to ask me questions then ask me questions. Thanks-Commie
Big Bucks GOP
April 17th, 2009
9:36 am
Citigroup, the battered banking giant, announced a first-quarter net
profit on Friday after more than a year of staggering losses and three
rescues from Washington.
The New York-based bank reported first-quarter net income of $1.6
billion, after posting a loss of $5.11 billion in the period a year
earlier. Revenue was $24.8 billion, up 99 percent.
The earnings were helped by an accounting change that allowed the bank
to post a one-time gain of $2.5 billion. Under the rule, companies are
allowed to record any declines in the market value of their debt as an
unrealized gain.
Citigroup announced a loss per share of 18 cents. On average, analysts
polled by Thomson Reuters had expected a loss of 34 cents a share on
revenue of $22.9 billion.
“We are pleased with our performance,” Citi’s chief executive, Vikram
Pandit, said in a statement. “With revenues of nearly $25 billion and
net income of $1.6 billion, we had our best overall quarter since the
second quarter of 2007.”
Big Bucks GOP
April 17th, 2009
9:37 am
The American International Group agreed to sell its auto insurance
business in the United States to Zurich Financial Services for $1.9
billion, in what is the insurer’s largest asset sale since the
government stepped in with aid in September.
Big Bucks GOP
April 17th, 2009
9:38 am
Edward M. Liddy, the dollar-a-year chief executive leading the American
International Group since its bailout last fall, still owns a
significant stake in Goldman Sachs, one of the insurer’s trading
partners that was made whole by the government bailout of A.I.G.
Big Bucks GOP
April 17th, 2009
9:40 am
Activist investor Carl C. Icahn and private equity fund Oaktree Capital
Management have amassed hundreds of millions of dollars of MGM Mirage
bonds and have told the troubled casino firm it should quickly overhaul
its massive debts in bankruptcy,
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:41 am
Stileatin P’tang, bullying is nothing new. Bullies have been around since the dawn of time. It’s how you deal with bullies. With that said, the public has spoken on the issue of gay marriage and in every single state that the issue has been on the ballet box, it’s been voted down. The courts are shoving their lifestyle on America and there will be a backlash. Hopefully not a violent one. What is very interesting is the entire world sees something wrong with gay marriage. Every single major religion is against it. If a person wants to choose that lifestyle then fine. But don’t pretend its the same natural lifestyle as heterosexual marriage.
Big Bucks GOP
April 17th, 2009
9:42 am
Any hope of a high-speed bankruptcy by General Motors faces a serious
obstacle: a judge — not the Obama administration, not G.M. management
and not the company’s creditors — would reign in court.
Big Bucks GOP
April 17th, 2009
9:44 am
AbitibiBowater, the world’s largest newsprint maker, filed for
bankruptcy protection in the United States on Thursday and said it
would seek creditor protection in Canada today
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:46 am
Homosexuality is an illicit lust forbidden by God. He said to His people Israel, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:13). In these passages homosexuality is condemned as a prime example of sin, a sexual perversion. The Christian can neither alter God’s viewpoint nor depart from it.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:48 am
marriage- the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc.
Thom Thomsen
April 17th, 2009
9:50 am
So people in some remote village, who have never encountered Christianity, cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven? I ain’t buying it, but that’s just my literal and inerrant opinion.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:51 am
More stupidity from the Obama Hussein administration. This pretty much proves that the left wing party hates the American Vets.
Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and “militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups,” including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.
The initiative, dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle, was outlined in February, two months before a memo giving a similar warning was issued on April 7 by the Department of Homeland Security.
Disclosure of the DHS memo this week has sparked controversy among some conservatives and veterans groups. Appearing on television talk shows Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the assessment, but apologized to veterans who saw it as an accusation.
“This is an assessment of things just to be wary of, not to infringe on constitutional rights, certainly not to malign our veterans,” she said on NBC’s Today Show.
The documents outlining Operation Vigilant Eagle cite a surge in activity by such groups. The memos say the FBI’s focus on veterans began as far back as December, during the final weeks of the Bush administration, when the bureau’s domestic counterterrorism division formed a special joint working group with the Defense Department.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992665198727459.html
Peter
April 17th, 2009
9:53 am
Communist AJC…
You obvious don’t understand Taoism………for you to make that statement about it being self indulgence.
This is a self indulgent statement ……”Getting to God happens ONLY through Jesus Christ.”.
There are many Religions and many belief’s……….all an individual choice……..
I honor YOUR Choice, and applaud you for your belief’s, but you have yet to find God, if you are not tolerant of others belief’s……….Your narrow mindset is not a God like quality.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
9:55 am
Hey CommunistAJC………”More stupidity from the Obama Hussein administration. This pretty much proves that the left wing party hates the American Vets.”
That was not a God like statement !
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
10:01 am
A spate of stupidity from Commie. One by one:
One — “Christianity is the only religion that preaches love. It does not preach tolerance and that is what angers libs.”
Luke 6:29-30 — “Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either. / Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.”
Judging from Commie’s history of posts here, this is one tenet of Christ’s teaching that he finds, um, inconvenient.
Two — Commie trots out the Leviticus chestnuts, but manages to forget the incitements to stone his daughter to death, etc. The Bible is a wonderful source of supporting quotations…for any position at all. It proves nothing, save the quoter’s talent for cherry picking. Yes, that includes my quote in “one”, above. Save your quip.
Three — I’m shocked, shocked to think that an American military veteran might be suspected of a domestic terror plot. Timothy McVeigh.
Wes
April 17th, 2009
10:01 am
Jim,
I personally think that it’s better to keep government out of business. I think that businesses should make the products that sell. That means that everyone is responsible for their own decisions. It seems fair for everyone.
It does however amuse me how much you seem to concern yourself with safety on small cars. Granted this is just back of the envelope math but I think it might have some merit.
Estimated auto fatalities for 2008 stand at around 39000 or 1.28 deaths per 100,000,000 miles traveled. CAFE standards are responsible for about 2000 of those deaths (editorial in the WSJ today). CAFE standards were supposed to drive fuel economy from 20 mpg to 27.5. Now
Wes
April 17th, 2009
10:04 am
Jim,
I personally think that it’s better to keep government out of business. I think that businesses should make the products that sell. That means that everyone is responsible for their own decisions. It seems fair for everyone.
It does however amuse me how much you seem to concern yourself with safety on small cars. Granted this is just back of the envelope math but I think it might have some merit.
Estimated auto fatalities for 2008 stand at around 39000 or 1.28 deaths per 100,000,000 miles traveled. CAFE standards are responsible for about 2000 of those deaths (editorial in the WSJ today). CAFE standards were supposed to drive fuel economy from 20 mpg to 27.5. Now that means that each death saved about $20 million in current fuel costs.
At what point is it reasonable to trade safety for cost?
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
10:05 am
Peter, you’re a living breathing piece of flesh. You have no authority over me and you have no clue as to who I am or what my relationship with Jesus Christ is. Yes Peter, my view is narrow.
Matthew 7:14- But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Peter, also YES Obamas administration is doing some VERY stupid things. Like targeting American Veterans as domestic terrorists.
Chris Broe
April 17th, 2009
10:06 am
Wooten’s trolls must think a Hallmark Card is the new War and Peace.
I cant believe the tone of Wooten’s pick your nose Friday topical free-for-all I’ve never read a more dry piece ever. (So dry, they had to rename Texas). The problem with Wooten is that he’s making jokes and being serious, (definition of dry), so how are we to take his humorous threats about a coup? Or his LOL fascist remedy for our constitutional rights of assembly?
Wooten has made peculiar references to his motley band of space cadets many, many times. (The closer to miller time the better). Imagine the round-tabled Octoberfest Beer Putz reenactment these clowns act out every friday? Dey vill taken over der verlde! I always gave Wooten the benefit of the doubt, but with the Tea Party Uprising, (TPU), I’m beginning to wonder. We will soon have a pool of unemployed mercenaries (Blackwater) filling the ranks of regionally-consolidated neighborhood watches. With the war on pirates, the war on drugs, and the insidious rise of the aryan nation skinhead white supremacists, it won’t take much to justify a citizen’s militia arm to protect private property. You cant yell fire in a crowded theatre, or shark in a crowded swimming pool, (or “desert” in a crowded Jenny Craig meeting), so Wooten can’t rely on the free pass that poor word choices and bad jokes sometimes award embarrassed comedians.
Loose lips sink ships of state. The world wades into war with it’s eyes wide shut. Men act out war like automatons. The Tea Party is just the beginning of mindless Patriotism for Patriotism’s sake – Jingoism turned inside out – support your local posse as you would support the troops, etc.
Why so much nonsense? Why ignore geopolitics and foreign policy? Wooten doesn’t dare write about Iraq for the simple reason he can’t form the language necessary to state the mission, (and he never could). He’s afraid he would embarrass himself.
Today’s homework: Write a Hallmark Card mission statement 4 Iraq and send it as a get well card to Cagle.
Jklol.
Donnie
April 17th, 2009
10:08 am
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
9:46 am
Homosexuality is an illicit lust forbidden by God.
Here we go again! Andy, aka CommunistAJC, YOU are a homosexual. Why do you bash your own kind? We’ve had some very good times together and now you act like it never happened.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
10:08 am
Stileatin P’tang, funny, an old liberal tactic that you left wingers like to throw up in Christians faces. I was hoping you would do this. Stoning was a Jewish custom and NOT Christian custom. It was part of old Jewish law. Nice try comrade.
Oh, and Stileatin P’tang, wow, you’ve named ONE person is a sea of American people who have committed terrorist acts. ONE. I can name off a lot more Islamic Terrorist activity.
neo-Carlinist
April 17th, 2009
10:11 am
JW, given your comments about foreign policy, vis a vis the couple who what executed by the Taliban “for falling in love and trying to elope.” applies to Mexico’s debate on legalizing marijuana? I ask this because you seem to support the US domestic policies which “criminalize” things our Federal government cannot (and Constitutionally should not) control. Like, say for instance the decision of a gay or lesbian couple to “elope” (marry), or the desire of a taxpaying American to smoke a joint instead of drinking a beer. Is it possible that U.S. government (politicians) have no moral compass, but simply seek to “maybe make a little money” (have you seen the DEA budget these days?). Oh, and in Washington, DC, political capital is the currency of choice, so “making a little money” includes maintaining one’s position of power, via any means necessary (oppose or advocate gay rights issues). We the People need to stop worrying about what is happening in Mexico City, Afghanistan and the Gulf of Aden (Hoo-Yah! to the SEALs, nonetheless), and worry more about the exploitation of the Constitution.
Spring enrollment at UGA reaches a record, almost 33,000. Smart. Who’d want to leave college and start looking for work in this economy?
MART
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
10:11 am
Stileatin P’tang, I love how left wingers like to try to throw the Bible back into the faces of Christians. Makes my day because A: I know where I am going when I die and B: you will eventually be judged by God.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
10:12 am
Donnie, I’ve been married for some years now. I am not interested in butt sex. Sorry comrade, that must be your department.
Donnie
April 17th, 2009
10:13 am
I personally like goats but hey, everyone has their own preferences of sexuality. Mine just include farm animals.
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
10:14 am
@ Donnie
There is nothing like a good cow to help me sleep at night. I mean, grabbing onto those udders is wonderful.
Democrap Party
April 17th, 2009
10:17 am
Donnie and Stileatin P’tang, you fellas out to be reported to the police.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
10:22 am
Ok CommunistAJC…..Please don’t call yourself a Christian if you are so narrow minded……you don’t understand your own religion as of yet.
Please keep trying………. maybe one day you will understand……..
“ALL” ……..are created equal in God’s eyes, no matter the age, the nationality, rich or poor, Sexual orientation, religious belief’s or NOT !
Jesus Died for …….”ALL mankind”…… in YOUR belief system……Not just the folks YOU like……..or YOU PERSONALLY think are Christian.
That is the problem with Religion, there are so many belief systems out there.
You are basically saying is………if one doesn’t match yours, then they are Wrong?
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
10:22 am
Oh, dagnabbit, Commie lured me right into his Bible trap and bested me with his superior wit and intellectual firepower. Oh, the pain, the shame, the contumely. It’s a worse fate than being judged by his Imaginary Sky Fairy.
I love how Christians dodge and duck when the Bible is read back to them. Cafeteria Christians, I think they’re called. But grant them this…they are filled with certainty, and this leaves them free to not think. This explains the content of Commie’s posts, if not the anger.
Why so angry, Commie? Where is that spirit of forgiveness that was personified by the star of your personal favorite mythology? Why can’t you turn the other cheek as you have been instructed to do?
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
10:28 am
Breaking news….Bible calls for American surrender to Al Quaeda….
Matthew 5:39 — But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Democrap Party
April 17th, 2009
10:30 am
Peter, I believe you are confused. If you want me to answer your questions and comments please do so in a normal manner.
Stileatin P’tang, I’m not angry. I am laughing my butt off at your comment above about you having sex with cows. And Stileatin P’tang, I am turning the other cheek so you don’t try to grab it. Anyone who claims to have sexual relations with an animal has some serious issues.
Californication
April 17th, 2009
10:33 am
Real Christians are NOT liberal they are conservative, so CopyLeft wake up.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
10:34 am
Democrap Party, why are you answering questions that were aimed at me? Can you not read?
deegee
April 17th, 2009
10:38 am
We could save Afghanistan by doing what we do here in the U.S. with problematic, blighted areas – open a few casinos. Rockin’ the Kasbah, Rockin’ the Kasbah!
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
10:38 am
Peter, this conversation is going to go on all day and I don’t really want to argue with you. Believe what you want about whatever it is you believe in. You’re saying that I am this and that yet at the same time you are judging me.
Stileatin P’tang, I am not ducking and dodging anything. You’re trying to lure me into a name calling session and I am tired of name calling. Say and do what you want but you do not change anything about what Christianity is. You can declare it dead or you can declare it falling apart. But you too will die eventually. You will face the judgment of God. No escaping death, comrade.
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
10:40 am
Commie can’t keep his own names straight, and then he namejacks others.
A classic troll. Whadda maroon.
I’m outta here…50 miles on the bike stretches out before me like the smooth thighs of a beautiful young woman. And lunch awaits at the intersection ahead.
Stileatin P'tang
April 17th, 2009
10:41 am
True dat, Commie. In the end, we’re all just worm food.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
10:43 am
Stileatin P’tang, I’m guessing it was Democrap Party who hijacked your name.
Steven Daedalus
April 17th, 2009
10:53 am
CommunistAJC, The hottest places in Hell are reserved for people who think like you.
ncgreybr
April 17th, 2009
11:29 am
CommunistAJC: You said stoning was a “Jewish” tradition not a Christion one. Is that because it is in the Old Testamant? Isn’t ALL of Leviticus in the OLD TESTAMENT? So apparently homosexuality being an abomination is a “Jewish” tradition too.
I call “Christians” like you, “cafeteria” Christians. You take a little from this chapter and a little from that…but only parts that YOU agress with. Do you eat oysters? That’s an abomination too. How about shrimp? Do you wear polyester and cotton together…you’re going to hell! After all…it’s in the Bible! AND if you disagree, you obviously do NOT agree with the infalibilty of GOD! Are you saying GOD was wrong?
Show me ONE verse where Jesus Christ mentions homosexuality. Not just “it’s in the Bible”. CHAPTER AND VERSE where the leader of Christianity says it.
ncgreybr
April 17th, 2009
11:31 am
Hate to tell Californication this but Christ was killed because He was so liberal.
fearless fosdick
April 17th, 2009
11:31 am
Commie …MONA CHAREN? I thought that old hag died years ago! Jeez who you gonnna pull next from your little bag of reconstituted hack writers…Bob Novak!
fearless fosdick
April 17th, 2009
11:42 am
Oops now it’s Billy Kristol Commie is in love with! Commie have you ever thought Kristol has never been right about anything! This little twit who only has a job because of his father (now why does that sound familiar (oh yeah George W. Bush) I guess when your a clueless moron one needs their fathers connections to survive!
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
11:48 am
Steven Daedalus, sorry pal. I’m born again. Can’t go to hell.
ncgreybr, ah, more liberal tactics! Love it! Again, I’m not Jewish but the Old Testament was stacked with old Jewish Law. Stoning people was old Jewish law. Not Christians. Sorry ncgreybr, but you are the one who is misguided. Christ wiped the slate clean for believers. Old Jewish law does not apply.
fearless fosdick, comrade I post these articles to get a rise out of people like you. Comrade, I am not defending Bush. I am simply pointing out the hypocrisy of the left. The left blasted Bush for 8 years yet they sit silently and say nothing about the new president.
THE TROOPS ARE NOT LEAVING IRAQ, TERRORIST SUSPECTS ARE STILL BEING TORTURED AND NONE OF THE CIA OFFICIALS ARE BEING PROSECUTED.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
11:49 am
ncgreybr, let me ask you this. Do you believe the Bible to be the ACTUAL word of God?
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
11:55 am
Steven Daedalus, what is sad about your comment about me going to hell is the fact that people like you defend pedophiles and cold blooded killers. Also, you sound worse than any right wing person.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
11:57 am
Looks like Fox News beat out everyone…….AGAIN! It’s also sad when a fake news show like the Daily Show beats out CNN and PMSNBC.
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,980,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,239,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,947,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,740,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,401,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,185,000
COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1,777,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,499,000
COMEDY COLBERT 1,446,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,336,000
CNN KING 1,292,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,149,000
CNN COOPER 1,021,000
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
11:59 am
Maybe Meghan McCain is coming out of the closet. I mean, she did say she couldn’t get a date with men after her dad blew the election.
McCains lend a hand to gay Republican group
(CNN) – Log Cabin Republicans are getting some support from the McCain family.
Cindy and Meghan McCain will make an appearance at the gay rights organization’s four day convention in Washington, which kicks off Thursday night.
“Of all the causes I believe in and speak publicly about, this is one of the ones closest to my heart,” Meghan McCain, a vocal supporter of same-sex marriage, wrote in the Daily Beast this week. “If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/16/mccains-lend-a-hand-to-gay-republican-group/
ncgreybr
April 17th, 2009
12:04 pm
“Old Jewish law does not apply.” …well….except that part about a man lying with another man…right? Isn’t that part of the “old Jewish Law?”…and well….any other parts that we want to hold over someone
s head.
You didn’t pick up on my challenge: name chapter and verse where Christ condemns homosexuality. You can’t. BUT according to my minister there are 360+ verses where He finds it necessary to “guide” heterosexuals.
Peter
April 17th, 2009
12:08 pm
Hey CommuinistAJC…….. This comment……
“Believe what you want about whatever it is you believe in. You’re saying that I am this and that yet at the same time you are judging me.”
You actually may be correct that in fact I am passing judgment…….. No Problem there……..
Yet I never claimed to be Christian, just Spiritual…… on the other hand you claim to be Christian…….
The remarks you make are VERY Judgmental……This is what I am pointing out to you…….. Whether you are talking about Religion, Obama, George Bush, Gays, liberals, Conservatives, women or folks on this site……I don’t understand how that IS BEING CHRISTIAN ?
SO…….. there seems to be a disconnect ?
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:17 pm
ncgreybr, I posted from the New Testament, comrade, but apparently it did not post. Maybe you should brush up on the books of the New Testament.
“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.” (Romans 1:26-27).
Peter, don’t get angry with me about what the Bible says. I’m just one of many messengers.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:20 pm
Peter, when President Hussein has a statue or picture of Jesus covered up while he speaks, THAT troubles me. Especially when the guy claims to be a Christian. I am not defending George Bush and I don’t know where you got that from. I will defend the good things he did but I will call out the bad things that he did.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:23 pm
ncgreybr, do you ever think about the consequences of sex outside of marriage? It is no coincidence that disease can be a result of sexual behavior outside the marriage bedroom. I read somewhere that the average lifespan of a gay man is 44 years. There is a reason why God did not design sex to take place within the anus. The anus produces feces. I mean, what else is there to being gay? It is nothing but the celebration of butt sex.
Now, can give me ONE intelligent reason for the celebration of being gay?
ncgreybr
April 17th, 2009
12:36 pm
Sorry, communist, your quote is not attributed to Christ. Try Again.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:37 pm
ncgreybr, no, it is attributed to GOD!
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:38 pm
ncgreybr, give me ONE positive attribute to gay marriage.
ncgreybr
April 17th, 2009
12:38 pm
Maybe they are celebrating 2000 years of survival after being under the heel of people like you.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:39 pm
ncgreybr, the very reason why homosexuals want “gay marriage” is to obtain the health benefits of heterosexual couples.
ncgreybr
April 17th, 2009
12:39 pm
Give me one positive attribute of straight marriage.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:42 pm
ncgreybr, you wrote: Give me one positive attribute of straight marriage.
PRO CREATION
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:44 pm
ncgreybr, you wrote: Maybe they are celebrating 2000 years of survival after being under the heel of people like you.
You mean like Jefferson, Adams, TR, Ronald Reagan and Lincoln? Dern, those are some HORRIBLE people aren’t they.
CommunistAJC
April 17th, 2009
12:45 pm
ncgreybr, you’re basically saying that you’d rather be under Marx or Hitler.