In Olens’ run, will religion matter?
More than 20 years ago, Cathey Steinberg set out on a journey that Cobb County Commissioner Sam Olens now launches.
Had she won her 1988 race for the Public Service Commission, Steinberg would have been the first woman and the first Jew to win partisan statewide office. The first woman, former state School Superintendent Linda Schrenko, came six years later.
Olens, a Republican, toyed briefly with running for governor, but opted for attorney general.
Whether her religion was a factor in her loss 21 years ago is conjecture — though it can be. Mitt Romney, a Mormon, lost Georgia last year to both Mike Huckabee and John McCain. Huckabee got clobbered in Atlanta; Romney got clobbered in much of rural Georgia, where his vote dropped by 10 percentage points or more. Religion — or something else?
Steinberg, a 10-year state representative from DeKalb County in 1988, still has harsh feelings about her runoff loss to former state Sen. Bobby Rowan of Enigma, a longtime Georgia political figure, a rural moderate who at age 26 in 1962 had become the youngest state senator ever elected. “Anti-semitism, from the time I started to run, was always less than I thought it would be,” recalls Steinberg, a native of Kingston, Pa., who moved to Atlanta in 1971. But she thought the Rowan campaign, while never referring to religion, had appealed to Southern prejudices by attempting to link her with the New York, liberal Jewish wing of the party personified by former Rep. Bella Abzug.
A newspaper ad for example, said she had attended Carnegie-Mellon University in New York — it’s actually in Pittsburgh — and adding, for good measure, that she sponsored legislation “legalizing whiskey on Sunday.”
Southern Jews and Northern Jews would, at the time, elicit entirely different reactions. Small Southern towns have a rich tradition of Jewish merchant families, like that of former Board of Regents Chairman Charles A. Harris of Ocilla, now deceased, or the Mooneys in Jesup, the Wisebrams in Barnesville, the Steins in Cartersville, the Cohens in Alma or the Smiths in Vidalia. Merchant families assimilated and became respected leaders in their communities, as the Rich’s department store family did here.
While Mormons were never prominent in the state, Southern Jews were.
Steinberg, as she says, “was clearly a Yankee, Jewish person. I had a Yankee accent and a heavy voice.” As is often the case, any number of factors, including gender, utility politics and her identification as a metro Atlanta liberal, were also in play. Olens’ style is much more in the Southern tradition. He works extraordinarily hard to make political friends across the spectrum, neutralizes opposition before it takes root, and runs Cobb without drama.
His story will resonate with all who have overcome adversity. He’s a native of Miami, where his father co-owned an auto repair business. His mother died when he was 5. His father moved Sam and an older brother and sister to South Jersey, where he operated a one-truck wholesale auto parts business.
When he was 12, his father died. An aunt and uncle took him in. The uncle died when he was 14.
After getting a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from American University in Washington, he came to Emory University for law school in 1980. He practiced full-time until 2002 when he was elected Cobb County Commission chairman.
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Bill
May 2nd, 2009
9:27 am
I’m sick of politics. I’m sick of all the backstabbing, the outright lies, the spin, the ignoring of citizens and the promises not kept. I’m sick of liberals being labeled as anti-capitalists who only want to destroy this country, and I’m sick of conservatives being labeled as gun-hugging, war-raging radicals who hate foreigners and the poor.
What we need in the political scene is someone different, someone who is a free thinker unafraid to speak the truth. What we need is another Ross Perot, the American businessman who ran for president in 1992 and 1996. Not only was Perot a straight shooter, he also didn’t spin his words. He was not out to gain personal power; he just had some great ideas and expressed them.
Best of all, Perot was fun. He would make us laugh and brought some fun to the political scene. Thanks, Ross Perot, for the what you brought to the political scene. We need more people like you, please.
neo-Carlinist
May 2nd, 2009
10:33 am
Bill, I agree and disagree. Sure our political process is a rigged game which benefits everyone but John Q. Public, but do not forget Perot made his billions with EDS via the outsoutcing of HUGE government contracts with Medicaid/Medicare (and subsequently, any number of other taxpayer funded programs). In essence, his individual/private wealth was via the “redistribution” of OUR wealth. He wasn’t one of us, he was one of them. I also find it astute that you refer to Obama’s “cling to guns and religion” observation. What do politicians/the government do? The cling to their religion – the law/Constitution – which the appropriate and interepret to serve their own “special interests”. And as far as “guns” go, the Law Enforcement/Military protect their interests, not ours. This is not some “right wing” extremist view. It is a sobering take on the status quo. Dirty politics is a sideshow. It’s a distraction which diverts attention from the snakeoil salesmen and hucksters who are buying/selling OUR freedom.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
11:03 am
Jim Wooten,
In answer to your question, Yes, religious bigotry is alive and real in the Deep South, still. It’s unfortunate, but impossible to ignore. In the case of Jews, who’ve been here from the beginning and have made their disproportionate contributions to the upbuilding of Georgia, the pain is particularly accute. Would that it were not so. But if wishes were horses, Jewish candidates would ride them clear into office.
There’s so much work to do.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
11:12 am
Just for fun, Jim…no anti-semitism intended.
For today’s politician a big nose is required. How else would they stick it into the peoples’ business?
My gynecologist is Jewish and a personal friend but his nose doesn’t loom large. He’s very much the conservative.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
11:21 am
@@,
Sometimes I wish you’d not be so damned cute.
Dealing in stereotypes, though, sometimes I’ve wondered whether a person’s electability doesn’t depend on hat size. I mean, as a rule, politicians have objectively large heads. Really. It’s something to consider.
Redneck Convert
May 2nd, 2009
11:28 am
Well, I wish somebody would tell me why I’m suppose to vote for a person that ain’t even Southren Baptist and a Northrener and woman to boot. This is GA, not some yankee state where people get everything mixed up.
There’s lots of people that didn’t vote for Romney. I talked to a bunch of them. Sure, what he said agreed with what we beleived but he was a Mormon. You expect us to vote for somebody that thinks our Lord Jesus Christ walked in North America? It’s against the Bible and we can’t have politicans that are against the Bible.
Anyhow, most GA voters don’t live in Atlanta. We don’t hold with alot of the stuff Atlanta folks say is OK. So if you want to get the redneck vote be sure you go to a Baptist church and sort of hint you’re against this equal rights stuff. That’s just the way it is.
Have a good weekend everybody.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
11:28 am
Poultry:
You tempt me with ^^^ that one, you do.
Dare I bring up….
?
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
11:29 am
Perhaps this gets us back to Mademoiselle Sanger and her theoretical husbandry that promised us a riddance from Jews, or, failing that, from miscelaneous persons with bony cranial protrusions. The history of American anti-Semitism is so colorful and complicated. It even took in some of our greatest presidents; among them, Truman and both the Roosevelts. How sad.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
11:29 am
….?Dick’s hat band?
Whoops, I just did!
Couldn’t resist.
(IS&WH)
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
11:37 am
I know. It’s irresistable. Not to mention the hair plugs.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
11:43 am
And for your information, @@, on the off chance that you didn’t already know:
Cigars also are graded by bandwidth.
{exhale}
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
11:51 am
I mean, consider our Vice President, or Newt Gingrich or the late Tip O’Neil. These guys sport big noggins. The reason you can be sure that Geraldo Rivera eventually will run for public office is simply that his head is too big for his shoulders.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
11:54 am
And by the way, that explains similarly why we can be sure that Arlen Specter will lose his somewhat desperate bid for reelection: his head is too small.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
12:01 pm
Poultry:
Cigars also are graded by bandwidth.
Even though I did, on rare occasions, enjoy a Swisher Sweet (no gay reference, mind you) I did not know they were graded by such.
On your Margaret Sanger reference? Do you not find it ironic that it was with a man named “Fairchild” that she promoted her eugenics. Together they wrote a book entitled “The Melting Pot Mistake, in which he accused “the Jews” of diluting the true American stock.
Loving wordplay, I’m thinking “stock” market…..dilute?
Hardly from a conservative’s perspective. A Marxist such as Sanger? Most definitely.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
12:08 pm
Yeah, @@, I appreciate your close study of Sanger. She was a real threat, from within, to the broader without. I hadn’t remembered her Fairchild collaborator. That’s a bit disturbing. The underpinning of Jim Wooten’s thought this day is a stubborn Southern belief in the efficacy of Sanger’s lementable, poisonous pseudo-reason.
Stay on it, please. The dithering libs will overlook it every time.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
12:22 pm
Poultry:
You forgot John Murtha. Now his is another HUMONGOUS NOG nodding off.
You don’t appreciate Joe’s candor?
I must say, I DO!
For me, at least, his impromptu responses reveal who he really is. From a political perspective, I find his “honesty” invaluable. Watching Obama, HIMSELF, pay the price for HIS OWN lack in judgment is nice for a CHANGE.
I’m off to rescue a turtle from the pool. Then it’s on to the garden to play in the dirt.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
12:22 pm
Er, make that “lamentable”, as in worthy of lamentation.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
12:52 pm
Actually I like Joe a lot. I’ve always liked him. I wish he were back in the Senate, though. And you’re right about Murtha.
Somebody ran over and crushed a turtle here last week. What a weird, sad fate for turtle. My dog got so curious about the corpse that I finally scooped it up and disposed of it. Felt like I should’ve said a little prayer or something, but I don’t know any turtle prayers.
This looks like a really good day for fish-slaying. I think I’ll descend to the River and get me some, c/o our Corps of Engineers.
Republitards are irrelevant
May 2nd, 2009
1:09 pm
What does religion have to do with governing?
Republitards are irrelevant
May 2nd, 2009
1:11 pm
I know if I were looking for cutting edge OBGYN and gynendocrinology which is a factor at @@’s age, I would no doubt require a conservative gyn. It has so much to do with medical competence.
Republitards are irrelevant
May 2nd, 2009
1:14 pm
Roosevelt’s cabinet was imploring him to act on the halocaust, and for years he turned a deaf ear until the Jews in Roosevelt’s cabinet threatenSomed to resign. Our entry into WWII was for multifaceted reasons, not the least of which was economic.
Some of the best history is written in books that chronicle Roosevelt, Churchill, WWII, and the Jewish refugees who drove the Manhatten Project after flight to this country.
Republitards are irrelevant
May 2nd, 2009
1:15 pm
That’d be holocaust with an “o” the same letter in the President for 8 more years’ name.
Republitards are irrelevant
May 2nd, 2009
1:29 pm
Jesus wasn’t anyone’s” lord.” If he existed at all, he was a Jew who would hate the bigotry and racism, and antisemitism that is the infrastructure of the party of intolerance, the pubtards.
The “Bible” may be myth and allegory at best.
By the way wingnutters–it tickles me that in Texas, the curriculum standards attack evolution. H5N1 is a great example of microbiological evolution and natural selection.
LOL is Rick the Perrytard gonna accept Relenza and Tamiflu while resistance from asymptomatic human pigs and their arrogant doctors grows by the hour as people promiscuously gobble them who have no disease or symptoms to help the resistance along? BTW where is piggy zero? So far the virus hasn’t been isolated in a pig which is typical of pandemic flu from the nexus of poor conditions for both animals and humans, with animals in absurd conditions being force fed antibiotics and antivirals.
When will Congress stop being owned by Wingnut banks? Durbin was right on point.
Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST
May 2nd, 2009
1:32 pm
How can a REAL LOBBYIST work for free?
WASHINGTON — Representative John P. Murtha, chairman of the House military spending subcommittee and a decorated former Marine, has long acted as a protective Uncle Jack to the Marine Corps.
Now the corps has named one of his nephews, Col. Brian Murtha, to the office charged with advocating for its interests on Capitol Hill, where Representative Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, helps write the military budget. In relocating to be near the Pentagon, Colonel Murtha has even moved into a unit in the same condominium building where his influential uncle lives in Arlington, Va.
This convergence of the Murthas is an example of Washington’s special centrifugal force that so often brings relatives together on opposite sides of the same table. It does not appear to violate any rules or ethics guidelines, though it may well raise some eyebrows among legislative liaisons competing for resources on behalf of the other military services.
“I am sure that he provides a valuable service to the Marines,” Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, an Army spokesman, said of Colonel Murtha, declining to comment further.
Matthew Mazonkey, a spokesman for Mr. Murtha, said his nephew’s role in the legislative liaison office did not influence the lawmaker’s official actions.
“Congressman Murtha’s family has been serving our country in uniform since the Revolutionary War,” Mr. Mazonkey said. “He’s proud of their service.”
Col. David Lapin, a spokesman for the Marines, said only that Colonel Murtha, a helicopter pilot previously assigned to the European Command, was moved to the legislative liaison office last July.
Mr. Murtha is not the only congressman with relatives who have interests before the lawmaker’s office. Representative David R. Obey, for example, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Committee, has a son who works for a national parks advocacy group. And the committee’s senior Republican, Representative Jerry Lewis of California, has a brother in the government relations office of Loma Linda University, which often benefits from the special provisions known as earmarks that Mr. Lewis inserts into legislation.
Nor is Colonel Murtha the first member of the Murtha family to be in a position to profit from his uncle’s influence. The congressman earmarked millions of federal dollars to an institution in his district, St. Vincent College, while the Rev. John F. Murtha, his cousin, was its president. He has directed millions more in earmarks to clients of a firm, KSA Consulting, where until about three years ago his younger brother, Robert Murtha, known as Kit, worked as a lobbyist.
Colonel Murtha is one of Kit Murtha’s sons. Another son, also named Robert Murtha, is a former Marine with a master’s degree in engineering. He previously worked for two military contractors who, seeking earmarks, hired a lobbyist with close ties to Representative Murtha.
Over the last three years, the younger Robert Murtha has operated Murtech Inc., a small contractor in Glen Burnie, Md., that runs a warehouse and offers engineering services. It has received more than $3.5 million in military contracts over the last three years, not including subcontracts through other companies.
He is also a founder of another company, Ocean Energy Systems Inc., which is seeking federal financing to support its research into the generation of power from the motion of waves.
There is no evidence, however, that this nephew has received any earmarks or otherwise benefited from Representative Murtha’s position.
Asked if the family name helped Ocean Energy, the company’s chief executive, Brian Cunningham, said, “It does and it doesn’t.”
Representative Murtha is under so much scrutiny, Mr. Cunningham said, that Robert Murtha “can’t raise his head at all on this, for fear that it will be connected with his uncle.”
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
1:56 pm
@Rublitards are irrelevant; 1:09 pm
“What does religion have to do with governing?”
Everything, and nothing I guess, depending upon the candidate and upon what animates her. But Wooten’s right, anti-Semitism still rules here.
We should face it down, once and for all. For all, at least, would do.
Jackie
May 2nd, 2009
2:32 pm
Warren Buffet indicates the government is “doing the right things” in dealing with the economy.
Wonder if the Repubs are going to have a rejoinder relative to his expertise in the financial arena?
Should we believe Warren Buffet or the Repubs?????
@@
May 2nd, 2009
3:07 pm
It has so much to do with medical competence.
Tardy:
Missin’ a funny bone, are ‘ya?
Obviously!
Republitards are irrelevant
May 2nd, 2009
3:31 pm
Murtha may be culpable. Time will tell if he’s in trouble. But if you’re looking for scandle, you’ll find a helluva lot more on the elephant sideg of the aisle.
It’s amusing howg much fun the media is having with Blago, who may have more of a defense than the superficial media understands at trial, but if you scrutinize most wingnut and dem candidates you’ll find very similar MOs to Blago. They just haven’t been “caught” if in fact Blago is as guilty as the tape snippets out of context imply. Further, although they are a bit more subtle, hundreds of Congressmen and Congresswomen and scores of Senators are culpable. When Durbin said the banks own Congress, he was accurate, and the stories of why and how they own Congress are everybit as scummy as anything Blago has done.
And if the district court had any testicular fortitude, Fitzie would have been sanctioned for his pre-trial circuis attempting to poison the jury pool.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
3:49 pm
Yes, Murtha reminds me of Cunningham. It’s a mystery to me why seem to choose, or to have chosen for us, which hands to notice in which cookie jars at any given moment.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
3:59 pm
Yes, Donna, I too have been through a lot of death and dying in recent years. It makes me sick. I’m sick of it. Imagine yourself administering the lethal dose to your beloveds. That’s kind of crap I’ve seen.
Just as America sends to the polling booths tenagers who’ve been prevented from having any experience with democracy, so do we fields adults estranged from the natural phenomenon of death. (My late mentor Ivan Illich was voluble on this latter subject.)
But I’m still here, and I still love my Father in Heaven. I feel sure that He has a plan to rectify all this mayhem.
Amen.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
4:02 pm
Sorry, folks. I posted my ungrammatical ramblings in the wrong place. Please excuse.
VP Joe
May 2nd, 2009
4:39 pm
Vice President Joe Biden will headline the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference, which begins tomorrow in Washington, D.C., a source at the group said.
The announcement that Biden will speak Monday morning comes a day after a victory for the group and the pro-Israel community; the Justice Department decided to drop charges of mishandling classified information against two former AIPAC staffers.
The conference, a chance for AIPAC to flex its unmatched Beltway muscle, is expected draw 6,500 people, and a phalanx of top officials of both parties. Other speakers include Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, Newt Gingrich and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as congressional leaders Steny Hoyer, Dick Durbin, Eric Cantor, and Jon Kyl. The event typically draws more members of Congress than any outside a joint session or State of the Union.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will also be addressing the group, live via satellite from Jerusalem, getting up at 3:00 a.m. local time to do it. Rep. Jane Harman, who was investigated in connection with the dropped case against AIPAC staffers, will also be speaking.
jt
May 2nd, 2009
4:43 pm
He is still a lawyer. If he is a member of the Georgia Bar, then he is as slippery as a snake in lard. Crooks.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
5:11 pm
Yes, but as snakes go, he’s a good one. Netanyahu should come in person. Prabably he has some snake-handling of his own to do at home, or else he would come, and help to keep old Joe in check. I miss Biden. Too bad he’s buried in the Vice Presidency. I guess maybe now we see why.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
5:30 pm
From playing in the dirt to playing in the mud, I return.
Kyle Wingfield has written a worthwhile read today. I didn’t know he’d been living in Europe for the last 4 and one-half years. Said it was like stepping back in time.
And here I thought it was progressive Europe.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
5:33 pm
Hey @@,
Mustn’t complain about free water, lest we get treated to another gubernatorial rain dance.
What do you make of Obama’s sending Joe to repair Jewish relations?
@@
May 2nd, 2009
5:53 pm
Not complainin’ Poultry. It’s good for the veggies.
Once again, Joe’s candor on numerous occasions has left me confident that he’s the perfect “dignitary” to address the Jewish community. I recall an interview where he said:
“I’ve had disagreements. Israel’s a democracy and they make mistakes. But the notion that somehow if Israel just did the right thing (the peace process) would work, I mean that’s the premise, give me a break.”
Joe may have his shortcomings, but he’s never come up short in his support for Israel.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall were Joe and Bebe to find themselves alone….in a room….engaged in debate.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
5:54 pm
By the way, I’ll be very interested to watch Brendan Gleeson play Churchill in HBO’s “Into the Storm”, the sequel of Paul Greengrass’ superb “The Gathering Storm”, in which the Churchills were played wonderfully by Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave. Greengrass doesn’t direct this time, but I bet the movie’s going to be stirring nonetheless.
The official biographies of Churchill, the ones by Gilbert and Bulloch, are as dry and drained as Churchill’s own autobiographies. Churchill himself was earthy and funny. Once he quipped to his war cabinet, “Gentlemen, I feel certain that history will look favorably upon us, for I intend to write that history.”
And indeed he was a lucrative hack, as well as a pretty fair historian.
He and Theodore Roosevelt met once, in Latin America prior to the First World War. TR liked Churchill, but the Englishman gave him the cold shoulder. They had so much in common that I always have wondered what could be the cause of Churchill’s animus. Probably Churchill didn’t like seeing his mirror reflection in such a flattering light, but perhaps it was that Churchill, a great judge of character, immediately appraised TR as a crypto-fascist, American-style.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
6:00 pm
Yeah, me too. Wouldn’t it be great to be there when Joe and Bebe get together? I bet they have done, on several occasions, but ain’t nobody tellin’. I’d buy a National Enquirer just to read those transcripts. (Don’t tell Jim Wooten.)
@@
May 2nd, 2009
6:05 pm
I’ve always wondered if Joe is so gaffe-prone when not playing to an audience?
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
6:18 pm
He’s a splendid fellow in person. I can’t think that he’s foolish when the cameras aren’t on. Thing about Joe is that he’s fundamentally happy, despite his terrible personal tragedies. If he’d just be himself, the country would come to love him. Strangely enough, I feel the same way about Mr. Obama and his overdependency on aids and aides of every kind. I wish these guys could just relax, like Jack Kennedy skinny-dipping with cheerleaders in the White House pool, but they’re in the Bubble now, and it makes Joe a real Bubble-head.
Chad Harris
May 2nd, 2009
6:26 pm
Gaffes Joe Biden makes are extremely mild compared to commercials like the one Behner just aired. Nothing like offending Hispanic voters, when you right now have 13% of the vote at bests.
And compared to the moron who wanted to be VP from the party idiotic enough to nomiate her, Biden is a veritable genius. He’ll be of considerable help in domestic policy and foreign policy after they have both been run into the s__house by Bush’s administration.
And just to parse things, whether it would be less safe to take public transportation instead of your big butt gas guzling CAFE ignoring rotting on parking lots SUV this would depend on
a) ability to mutate
b) severity
c) any herd immunity conferred by exposure to previous Type A influenza
d) how fast stupid selfsih people and their stupid doctors gobble up Relenza and Tamiflu and exponentially increase the resistance of H1N1 to them. Right now those numbers are going up every day faster than the stock prices of Glaxo and SmithKline. You do not and should not take those 2 antivirals if you have no flu symptoms. I wonder why that’s not being show cased by the air headed air brained talking heads on the cable channels.
Maybe Biden realizes that while we have abouty 304 million in the US, we are making vaccines by chicken egg embryo methods that were used over 50 years ago instead of cell culture and reverse genetics that are par for the course in every antiviral lab in this country and others.
Why these modern methods haven’t been extrapolated and ramped up for mass vaccine production after the wakeup call from H5N1 is an on point damn good question. Of course the pannels on TV ignore it. They have no good answer for talking about how they look like with pants down.
Chris Broe
May 2nd, 2009
6:31 pm
Jim Galloway has hit a nerve today. Wow.
Movie reviews: “Bottle Shock”: Only see this if you are a snob.
“The Reader”: 90% soft porn, 10% is proof that it’s NOT better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. Kate Winslet. Who is this gal?
“Frost Nixon” dont bother. the actual tapes are 1000 percent better. And Ron Howard left out the real revelation, when Nixon riffed a coulda would and shoulda solution, “I could have just pardoned them”. When he said that, Nixon’s countenance changed like he thought of something wonderful. How could Ron Howard have missed that?
Instead we get only to see Richard Nixon emerge in the soul of that amazing actor, Frank Langella. I guess it’s worth it. Some of the scenes are stunt doubles of Nixon, no doubt.
Over at Bob Barr’s, he incorrectly uses a metaphor for Joe Biden’s Swine flu remedies with a reference to Walter Mitty and his daydreams. No excuse. True Pathos is not pretty.
Bookman is his at his troll coddling worst.
‘muff said.
HEY! I heard the term “muff said” on television. Some black guy said it on a talk show I think. I forgot where. But I get read and I get aired. Actually, I control the entire world from my little keyboard.
Jklol.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
6:34 pm
Well you do indeed ask some damn good questions, Chad Harris, and I think maybe I’m starting to understand you now, through all the ‘tude you cop. It’s life-and-death stuff you’re discussing, and I appreciate that when it comes to such matters you park the bloggy posturing. This scare turned out to be something of a false alarm. But what should we make of this wake-up?
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
6:36 pm
@Chris Broe,
It’s your own damned fault for not copyrighting the thing when you had the chance. I’d have been your witness, unaware of your fiscal thoughtlessness.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
6:56 pm
Broe,
I like and trust your movie reviews. Funny stuff. Hollywood’s always good for a laugh, yet they’ve got some seriously talented folks out there, so who knows what comes next.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
7:03 pm
Damn ChaddyWick!
I see your temper-ature is still high.
Try using an oral thermometer next time.
Chad Harris
May 2nd, 2009
7:17 pm
The Bookman trolls are almost 100% pubtards. He attracts them like flies. They feel sorry that Jay was kicked off the AJC editorial board along with fellow liberals Tucker (kicked out of town) and Downey (talented and relegated to a dark corner of education when she’s far more qualified to do right wing nut Julia Wallace’s job).
Here’s a movie review for ya Chris:
Josh Brolin nailed the teenage and drunk most of the time idiot Bush to a T in his recent movie “W” or as the hick crackers pronounce it “Dubya–the imbecile who killed so many people and facilited breaking this country economically with his dim witted appointments and dimwitted blind followers in Congress.
Chad Harris
May 2nd, 2009
7:19 pm
You can use that oral thermoemeter for the human gratification you ain’t gettin’ @@. You still have refused to do any quality reading to educate yourself.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
7:19 pm
I wonder if Obama is still heavily invested in Tamiflu?
@@
May 2nd, 2009
7:22 pm
You can use that oral thermoemeter for the human gratification you ain’t gettin’ @@.
‘Tis not I that’s racked with “antibody” furor, ChaddyWick.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
7:24 pm
As to Tamiflu, you can bet that the Nobel Laureate in Entrepreneurship is so investing…
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
7:26 pm
Tucker was kicked out of town? Really? I hadn’t heard.
Best news in years.
Chad Harris
May 2nd, 2009
7:27 pm
I wonder how many of your friends and their doctors are dumb enough to take either Temiflu or Relenza at a point in time when they are asymptomatic? Both the greedy ignorant people and their compliant doctors are guilty of improving the fast growing resistance of H1N1 to both meds.
This is born out by the current data base that tracks every script in this country for those drugs. The scripts for exceed the number of reported cases of H1N1 or even people presenting to ERs and clinics with symptoms of the normal seasonal flu.
If that happens (and a review of the 1918 pandemic showed 3 different waves, one over a year after the second), given that we make vaccines the over 50 year old way with chicken-egg methods, a lot of people could be in trouble. We won’t know how this plays out for a good while yet.
If you are wearing a mask
You’re stupid and do not understand the viral particles can barrel through the mask like Indy 500 cars at the finish.
If you’re asymptomatic and taking either of those drugs, you’re stupid and putting yourself and the rest of the population at risk for the period of time when you would contract H1N1.
But of course, Georgia’s favorite export is stupid.
saul good
May 2nd, 2009
7:27 pm
Why ANYONE would even consider religion when one is voting for someone is beyond me. Religion and politics do not mix. It’s the very reason why states like GA are still known for their hate and racism.
Chad Harris
May 2nd, 2009
7:29 pm
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Tis you who is pervaded systemically with pandemic ignorance. And ’tis you who are the 13% of Palin worshippers. And ’tis you who makes it easy for us to
a) Control Congress
b) Win every major election
c) Make the decisions while you p___ and moan menopausally on blog comment sections.\
Gotta go. It’s Sat Nite. Call your friends 40 years younger and ask ‘em what that means.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
7:41 pm
ChappedWick:
Had you been here at Wooten’s when Palin was put forth as a possible for 2012, you’da seen my post that said “I don’t think she’s ready to jump into the shark pool.”
A woman deserving of respect, no doubt.
Have a good time ChaddyWick!
Yeah…..like that’s possible. It’s hard for me to imagine anyone wanting to engage in foreplay with a gloomy forecast like you.
Chad Harris
May 2nd, 2009
7:55 pm
Palin was not someone not ready to jump into the shark pool and everyone except the irreversibly stupid know it whichever party they are for.
Like many adults, she grew up with a child’s grasp of government, foreign affairs, and domestic policy. It makes no difference that she is presiding over one of the most devastating 4 years in Alaskan history with a growing number of people starving in the boonies of Alaska and Palin so narcisstically absorbed in her delusiona career to nowhere that she hasn’t appointed major people in those areas. The deficit in Alaska is at a billion under her stewardship. The pipeline she yammers about will never be built. And Palin will never reach elected office
a) again
b) outside Alaska
Jindall, Pawlenty, Romney and all the other white men including Joe the Sam the unemployed uneducated moron, who are as capable as cadavers don’t have a 2012 prayer and in the Senate and House the Dems will increase their lead, pulling away like Mine That Bird at the 3/8 pole on the rail.
What woman who failed to educate herself to the degree Palin did deserrves respect? And the fact that irrelevant Chambliss who is considered a joke in Congress like Tom Price gushed about her appearance here and called her brilliant is an excellent insight as to why Price and Chambliss mean nothing and are going nowhere as far as influencing what happens in this country.
Chad Harris
May 2nd, 2009
7:58 pm
It’s a reason why states like Georgia are perenially ridiculed for their stupidity, coming in last in education, first in fetal wastate, and now will be stripped of many of their medical grants for their regressivelly stupid and irrational emb stem bill.
Pubtards think because they can win elections in the ignorant South, the bastion of redneck, cracker superstitution, stupidity, ignorance, and lack of education they can somehow extrapolate that 13% of the base moving further to the irrelevant right to win elections.
They can’t and they won’t, and I love watching the clown show.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
8:03 pm
Well this is interesting. I’ve just read that Syrian Intelligence helped escort four members of Hezbollah through Syria into Turkey but only after notifying Turkey of their impending arrival.
One arrested, three at large.
Will Syria choose Turkey ascending or Iran on the decline? Who best serves Syria’s interests?
@@
May 2nd, 2009
8:06 pm
Oh hush Chad!
Wear cologne.
Poultry
May 2nd, 2009
8:09 pm
Serya won’t get it, but we’d be their most advantageous ally, and such an alliance could benefit us as an opportunity to peel them from Moscow once and for all. Besides, they’ve probably got some of Saddam’s worst weapons. (Perhaps that’s why they’re bargaining.)
Chris Broe
May 2nd, 2009
8:14 pm
Quentin Tarantino is so drugged out, that he’s involved in a production called “Sukiyaki Western Django”
This movie would stink even if you were on acid. Quentin Tarantino has obviously surrounded himself with yes men, and that is the kiss of death for anyone’s evolution.
Reservoir Dogs. yes. Pulp Fiction. yes.
Kill Bill 1+2. Missed. By. A. Mile. And he’s ain’t done nothing but drugs since.
Goodbye, Mr. Tarantino. You stink.
Never surround yourself with yes men.
You fool.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
8:21 pm
I don’t know about that Poultry. A U.N.-backed tribunal just released four Lebanese generals that were implicated in the al-Hariri assassination. I think there’s some trade-offs goin’ on. Lebanon is on the table. Sarkozy’s in the mix.
Syria appears to be offering cooperation one piece at a time.
I’m just watchin’ the nest.
sucatash
May 2nd, 2009
8:26 pm
true CB.
hopefully c.harris can learn something as well.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
8:28 pm
I loved Reservoir Dogs.
Harvey Keitel….Michael Madsen.
Love those guys!
But then I also loved the sweet innocence of Nalah in “Australia”.
“I sing yu tu me Meesus Boss.”
“I not a wite fellah…not a blak fellah. I ah haf fellah.
Too cute…
Chris Broe
May 2nd, 2009
8:32 pm
Donald Trump tried to copyright “You’re fired”.
“muff said.
@@
May 2nd, 2009
8:42 pm
I goin’ ah walkabout now.
Algonquin J. Calhoun
May 2nd, 2009
8:42 pm
I’m glad you brought religious bigotry up. During the presidential campaign one of your headlines was Barack the Bomb Thrower. Clearly, you were trying to link him to Muslim insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere. You don’t have any room to point your crooked finger at anyone else!
sucatash
May 2nd, 2009
8:49 pm
donald made the unibrow hip again
Chris Broe
May 2nd, 2009
8:50 pm
Here’s One for You, Joy: Would Christ have saved any more souls if HE had copyrighted the beatitudes?
What if Christ HAD sold out? “Look, Jesus, we can’t sell the raising of the dead thing, it frightens too many people. BUT! We chisel the beatitudes on some stone tablets and offer the ten commandment at a discount price, and I think we’ve got a pretty good revenue source”
Jklol.
Chris Broe
May 2nd, 2009
9:40 pm
Movie Review: The Dewey Cox Story, “Walk Hard” + a 6-pack of beer = a can’t miss.
Trust me on this one. Jenna Fischer, who is a comedic genius, with incredible range, steals every scene and I love her. Do not see this movie if you’re attending weekly meetings of AA with people and persons things and others…LADY!
(Jerry Lewis had no part in any of this review).
Jklol
BILL
May 3rd, 2009
6:10 am
You have to hand it to those folks in Austin, Texas. They know a good campaign issue when they see one. Just the other day, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas mentioned “secession” – resigning from the United States – as a way to escape the odious government in Washington.
A few days later, Gov. Perry’s lawyers were in the U.S. Supreme Court begging for relief from the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Gov. Sonny Perdue’s mouthpieces were trying to help the Texans. They, too, were in Washington, arguing that the Peach State didn’t need any federal badges to police its elections.
The lawyers admitted that Georgia once deprived African Americans of their liberties right and left, but that occurred in the bad old days. Georgia stopped violating black folks’ legal rights a long time ago. We don’t need the feds looking over our shoulder now – or so the legal arguments of Georgia and Texas and Mississippi go.
About the same time, a pandemic of swine flu threatened to sweep the globe. Only the United States had the wherewithal to fight off the bug. Gov. Perry, Gov. Perdue and other Confederate re-enactors yelled for help.
Then there were the floods and terrible storms. Who do you call for rescue and cleanup help? Uncle Sam, of course.
What in the world is going on here? One moment Southern Republicans are talking up secession, and in the next instant, they are begging the feds for help.
What you’re seeing here is the Republican Party and its Dixie headquarters searching for a makeover and a new beginning for itself. It wants to find a sweet spot that voters will adore. So far, the GOP has had no luck.
First, the elephants mounted a full-court-press attack on the Democrats and President Barack Obama for their tax-and-spend stimulus to recharge the economy. The GOP leadership figured independent voters would balk at throwing around such money. Didn’t happen. At least not yet. Obama’s popularity didn’t suffer in the slightest.
Second, some Republicans decided firing up the old racial furnace might work. Gov. Perry is fighting for his political life in Texas, so he has decided to run as far to the right as possible.
What could be more conservative than advocating secession?
Advocating secession may also amount to treason, but that’s another story.
The Texans, along with other Southerners, then decided to hearken back to the bleak days of the 1960s and remind us that outside agitators were neither needed nor wanted to instruct us on how to run legal colorblind elections.
If Republicans can rally conservatives around the states’ rights flag, the GOP might spring back to life – though arguing over a 1965 civil rights law in the crisis-ridden 21st century seems a bit silly.
In fact, ridding itself of silliness may be the GOP’s biggest problem. Just look at some of the candidates for president and vice president whom the Republicans offered for election last year.
Don’t get me wrong. We need a conservative Republican Party to moderate the liberal Democrats. We don’t need a Republican Party built on states’ rights and new threats of divorcing Uncle Sam. Such a platform simply underscores the GOP’s predicament of keeping its elephant from turning into a dinosaur.
President Obama’s popularity may not last forever. The Democratic tide will eventually ebb. The nation needs a political alternative besides left and center-left. But we don’t need another major party built on the ashes of the old South.
Unless the direction of the Republican Party changes, we will see the party become smaller and smaller and more dedicated to espousing the hard-right position on a number of causes.
Of course, failure by the current administration to deal with the economy and another couple of big problems could shift the tide of politics once again.
Remember a few years back when Zell Miller wrote a book titled “A National Party No More.” He was talking about the party of his fellow Democrats, not long after George W. Bush took office. During those days the Democratic Party was the one that seemed doomed.
Maureen
May 3rd, 2009
6:37 am
The Republicans are concerned about checks and balances.
The specter of Specter helping the president have his way with Congress has actually made conservatives remember why they respected the Constitution in the first place. Senator Mitch McConnell, the leader of the shrinking Republican minority, fretted that there was a “threat to the country” and wondered if people would want the majority to rule “without a check or a balance.”
Senator John Thune worried that Democrats would run “roughshod” and argued that Americans wanted checks and balances. Senator Judd Gregg mourned that “there’s no checks and balances on this massive expansion on the size of government.”
Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, tried to put the best face on it, noting, “This will make it easier for G.O.P. candidates in 2010 to ask to be elected to help restore some checks and balances in Washington.”
This is quite touching, given that the start of the 21st century will be remembered as the harrowing era when an arrogant Republican administration did its best to undermine checks and balances. (Maybe when your reign begins with Bush v. Gore, a Supreme heist that kissed off checks and balances, you feel no need to follow the founding fathers’ lead.)
After so many years of watching a White House upend laws, I now listen raptly when President Obama plays the constitutional law professor. He was asked at his news conference Wednesday night about the Republican fear that he will “ride roughshod over any opposition” and establish one-party rule.
“I’ve got Democrats who don’t agree with me on everything,” he said. “And that’s how it should be. Congress is a coequal branch of government.” You almost thought the professor in chief was going to ask the assembled students to please turn to page 317 in their Con Law book.
He went on to reassure Republicans that his vision of the presidency is very different from the imperial view held by the Boy Emperor and his regents.
“I do think that, to my Republican friends, I want them to realize that me reaching out to them has been genuine,” the president said, adding, “The majority will probably be determinative when it comes to resolving just hard-core differences that we can’t resolve, but there is a whole host of other areas where we can work together” and “make progress.”
The officials who actually represented a threat to the country while they were running the country are continuing to defend themselves. But they just end up further implicating themselves.
Condi Rice, who plans to go back to being a professor of political science at Stanford, got grilled by a student at a reception at a dorm there on Monday.
I’ve often wondered why students haven’t been more vocal in questioning the architects of the Iraq war and “legal” torture who landed plum spots at prestigious universities. Probably because it would have taken the draft, like the guillotine, to concentrate the mind. But finally, the young man at Stanford spoke up. Saying he had read that Ms. Rice authorized waterboarding, he asked her, “Is waterboarding torture?”
She replied: “The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations, under the Convention Against Torture. So that’s — and by the way, I didn’t authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency.”
This was precisely Condi’s problem. She simply relayed. She never stood up against Cheney and Rummy for either what was morally right or what was smart in terms of our national security.
The student pressed again about whether waterboarding was torture.
“By definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture,” Ms. Rice said, almost quoting Nixon’s logic: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
She also stressed that, “Unless you were there in a position of responsibility after Sept. 11, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans.”
Reyna Garcia, a Stanford sophomore who videotaped the exchange, said of Condi’s aria, “I wasn’t completely satisfied with her answers, to be honest,” adding that “President Obama went ahead and called it torture and she did everything she could not to do that.”
As Mr. Obama said in his news conference, it is in moments of crisis that a country must cleave to its principles. Asserting that “waterboarding violates our ideals,” he said he had been struck by an article describing how Churchill would not torture prisoners even when “London was being bombed to smithereens.”
“And the reason was that Churchill understood, you start taking shortcuts and over time, that corrodes what’s best in a people,” he said. “It corrodes the character of a country.”
Condi Nixon
May 3rd, 2009
6:43 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA
Condi Nixon
May 3rd, 2009
6:44 am
Don’t call me Bill Clinton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prxin-Lj5Ks&feature=related
South Ga Boy
May 3rd, 2009
6:51 am
Good day to all of my fellow Christians, firstly my apology for being out of topic. I came here to remind you people that the judgment day has started already. Please depart from cursing, smoking, violent entertainment, fornication, occultism, and for watching pornography etc. lest you be found not worthy to inter the kingdom of God in the Day of Execution.
Condi Bush
May 3rd, 2009
9:43 am
OMAHA, May 2 — Billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett spent Saturday praising the decisions U.S. officials made to try to right the economy in the midst of a “financial hurricane” and defending the ones he made to help his company navigate the storm.
The state of the economy and his company Berkshire Hathaway’s recent performance were among the first things addressed at Berkshire’s annual shareholders’ meeting. About 35,000 people packed an arena to listen to Buffett and Berkshire Vice Chairman Charles T. Munger answer questions for five hours.
“Overall, I commend the actions that were taken,” Buffett said regarding the administration’s response. But he said no one should expect perfection because the economy experienced a “financial hurricane.” Buffett said he can’t predict how quickly the economy and the markets will improve.
Diogenes
May 3rd, 2009
9:48 am
Good morning, Jim,
I stated a week or so ago that, as you near retirement, you are seeing things more clearly and moderating your extremist views somewhat. An endorsement for anyone save a CESR [Conservative Evangelical Southern Republican] sounds downright liberal coming from you, but as we all know religious bigotry — all forms of bigotry for that matter — is still alive and well in Georgia. Huckabee’s winning the state Republican primary attests to that, as you point out.
deegee
May 3rd, 2009
9:53 am
“Merchant families assimilated and became respected leaders in their communities, as the Rich’s department store family did here.”
I wonder if JW understands how truly insulting that sentence is? Probably not.
Chad Harris
May 3rd, 2009
10:02 am
Some WASP believers in the delusional fable of Christ as a diety if he even existed at all,assimilated and became hypocritical respected leaders in their communities, and Jim Wooten now writes for a high school paper that kicked their experienced journalists, one a Pulitzer Prize winner off their editorial and rep[laced them with right wing suits from Cox with as much journalism experience as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
Bookman was demoted to 2 columns per week; Tucker was shipped out of town, Downey was buried into the annals of education which draws interestin in Georgia at a rate about 75 back from Dawgs, Falcons, and whoring worthless clutzy Atlanta housewives. Tucker’s replacement has been paid to sit on his fatt butt and do nothing.
Putbards are Dead Losers
May 3rd, 2009
10:30 am
Tragi-comical to see the talking heads on networks and cable clucking about H1N1 who have all stupidly gobbled up Tamiflu and Relenza as asymtomatic people, provided by their networks for their families contributing to rapidly growing resistance to Relenza and Tamiflu.
We are also seeing a reflection of total non-preparedness in the US as people panic to put on masks that do absolutely nothing when there is a case in their community, and the US admits it can’t make vaccine in time because it stupidly uses a 50+year old chickenegg embryo method to produce vaccines and is completely handcuffed from ramping up vaccine production.
What Besser means when he tells people with a cold to call your doctor is to stupidly get your doctor to Rx Tamiflu or Relenza which is exactly what will happen if most people call their doctor–or they’ll just start calling other doctors.
There needs to be explicit advice from the CDC who is cowering not to take the drugs if you’re asymptomatic because you just help make the resistance of H1N1 formidiable.
Party switchers usually vote with the party they switched to, but that’s not going to be the case with Specter at all with the exception of health care because Specter had leukemia.
What the media, and least of all Wooten won’t tell you is that during Super Bowl party, a deal was made by Specter to secure $40 billion for the NIH budget in the stim law that wasn’t there previously in order to get his vote. The deal was brokered by Dick Durbin.
Pubtards cut almost a billion dollars from the pandemic flu preparedness budget because apparently pubtards like death. It will be replaced by Obama with a billion and a half for pandemic flu–but horsie is out of barn and galloping. Vaccine production is slow and via a 50+ year old method.
Putbards are Dead Losers
May 3rd, 2009
10:59 am
Jack Kemp died last night and more than 10 years ago, he said he wanted to see an America where half the blacks voted for Republicans. Instead, he sees an America where white racist papers kick the black American off their editorial board along with the rest of the liberals and replace them entirely with white male suits who have no significant journalism experience or writing skills.
Welcome to High School AJC Dumbed Down for a Dumbed Down Jaw Jaw where students who fail every standardized test are defiantly promoted anyway to grow up to be big dummies.
Poultry
May 3rd, 2009
11:22 am
Sad news about Jack Kemp, a good guy. I admired his optimism, his diligence and his ability to speak economics in lay terms.
Jack from Suwanee
May 3rd, 2009
1:00 pm
I do think Romney’s religion hurt him in the primary, not just in Ga but everywhere he ran outside of Utah.
I remember when Steinberg ran for PSC. Who is to say if her religion hurt her, maybe it was her nasal “yankee voice”. I am sure that did not help. Can a longtime Jew win a statewide race? I see no reason why they can’t. As Wooten said Jews have been part of Southern life and culture since the beginning of our nation.
Putbards are Dead Losers
May 3rd, 2009
2:36 pm
One thing to miss about Jack Kemp is that consistently, he was the last of a dying breed. He sincerely had a bipartisan approach to a wide number of problems. While those exist, they seem to be going the way of a bygone era.
Hawks vs. Cavs Thursday nite if the first 6 games of this series have any prognostic value. Hands will be full considering the rested Cavs and their abuncance of talent. But hope springs eternal.
I open up the high school local paper, ole AJC 2.0, the one with right wing Cox suits for an editorial board who can barely write their name and have zilch journalism experience. Doug Franklin gets brought in to the paper losing a million a week.
30% of the staff has been let go. 230 news positions are gone.
Maybe the pubtards at the paper who now run its editorial board after kicking Bookman, Tucker, and Downey off the board will ask their man Obama for an AJC bailout.
It’s ironic that eccentric and reclusive Anne Cox Chambers still controls the paper (if she wants to between her expensive horiscope readings and voodoo ideas as the Chair of Atlanta Newspapers).. Her daddy left her all that money. She didn’t earn a penny of it. Anne still gives the Dems money, but she has allowed her paper to be taken over by Right Wingnuts like Julia Wallace and the Cox white boys.
Andre Jackson is a right wing former business editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has yet to write a word. Is he skeeeereeed? Right Wingnut Ken Foskett will make sure that the shrill JawJaw pubtard crackers get what they want on the editorial page.
Right Wingnut Julia Wallace hides from all questions.
Arts coverage is essentially in a coma. National and international coverage is dead, imported from the ditzbrained Associated press 95%, and once in a while from old NYT articles.
Bookman has been muzzled to two columns per 7 days and his blog which is nearly completely full of wingnuts calling everyone’s mommy a MF.
Brock, Ruhe, Fox, Murray has done gone. Only one reporter covers Fulton and Dekalb courts and crime while another covers the rest of the metro counties.
Terence Moore is history. Pulitzer winner Hank Kilbinoff is long gone.
The copy desk full of newbies is doing the “editing.” The one Pulitzer winner has been exhiled to D.C. and muzzled, essentially told to dumb down her opinions to the right wingnut end of the spectrum. Look for Cynthia to jump elsewhere as her D.C. contacts multiply.
Bookman, Downey, and Tucker have been replaced by inexperienced right wingnuts Wallace, Franklin who has experience but is a wingnut, and inexperienced Jim Mallory and right wingnut Andre Jackson who may be bucking for Broken and soon to depart Michael Steele’s job with the WingnutterNC.
Wallace has turned Dumned Down AJC into a Wingnut Weekly Reader, and perhaps Anne Cox Chambers has moved onto Brooke Astorland, obvlivious to how badly her paper has been whizzed on and destroyed.
Woo Woo in retirement will get more column space than the much younger Jay Bookman. Go Figure.
Wallace is poison for the AJC and she has wrecked it beyond return. You don’t run a newspaper responding to 13% of the shrill population who wanted a moron to be within a heartbeat of the launch codes. But Sarah and Wallace are a lot alike.
The focus group design looks like a high school paper, and if you can’t see bylines that’s because they are gone–to the land of few and far between.
You m ight want to try Creative Loafing to get your serious news, since Wingnuts hat the NYT without reading it. If you read it you’d know your girl Michelle Obama has a deadly serious Congressional team and Michelle is weighing in heavily. What’d you expect her to do with a Harvard Law degree? Peel aphids off the tomatoes and potatoes in her garden all day? Cleanup after Bo? She ain’t dimwit Laura Bush.
Poultry
May 3rd, 2009
2:56 pm
At my annual church fundraiser, an arts and crafts festival, last weekend, an AJC rep set up a tent and was giving away free newspapers and souvenir fans emblazend with the AJC logo. He also offered dirt cheap subscriptions. I spoke with the man several times during the day, during my work breaks. None of the Cobbers would accept his gifts or sign up to subscribe. They didn’t want to be seen with AJC stuff, and didn’t want to be associated with the paper or its readership. In the kitchen an elder teased me about my having picked up a free paper, saying, “The AJC made its decisions, and in Cobb they’ll have to suffer the consequences.”
catlady
May 3rd, 2009
4:44 pm
Religious bigotry in the South: either you are Southern Baptist (good), or you are not (bad).
catlady
May 3rd, 2009
4:57 pm
You certainly can’t be a Jew AND a woman AND a Yankee! That is the Devil’s trifecta, the Kiss of Death.
Republitards are irrelevant
May 3rd, 2009
5:55 pm
So if you is a Jew woman Yankee then you gots to get a 20 grand sex change operation not counting the hormones, and learn to say “how ’bout them grits” ah kin hardly read Jesus Jesus Jesus ah wants Jesus fo Presoodent in 2012.
Republitards are irrelevant
May 3rd, 2009
5:57 pm
Ah don’t unnerstan why they ain’t puttin’ Wooten’s comment section on the web as mandatory for all college English 101 classe as well as poly sci classes so them students kin learn what the world is like.
Republitards are a dead party
May 3rd, 2009
6:13 pm
JawJaw Surveillance for H1N1 is Joke; Worst in Nation
Many physicians are clueless as to transport; don’t know the prtryocedure because they are too lazy to go on line to get it; don’t have appropriate media.
On line Tamiflu and Relenza without Rx buit with the jacked up buying price of $160 is helping to decrease the efficacy of said antivirals. Welcome to Moron USA. Also idiots are reselling and buying the drugs on sites like Craig’s List–more medical stupidity.
If schools are closed in this country, that’s the least of anyone’s worries, because no one seems to be learning anything. If the kid has H1N1, they’ll spread it at the mall or fast food place.
Chris Broe
May 3rd, 2009
6:29 pm
600 plus comments over at Jim Galloway’s has to be a record. Secession! Actually, what the pollsters uncovered was not a secession threat, but rather a dissatisfaction time bomb.
Georgians are dissatisfied with themselves. They believe that others are better off then they are, and they’re bitter. The question the pollsters should ask is, “Do you think other people perceive you as a loser, and are you willing to turn the tables on them by force?”
This brings up the movie, “The Reader”. It’s main point was that the workers bees of the Nazi party were simpletons merely following orders with no compunction or remorse, or even understanding of the magnitude of their crime. Himmler was a chicken farmer before the war, after all. However, every human is a genius at being an avenging demon. Humans are really at their best when they’re hurting others to get even for their own perceived slights and abuses, whether they actually happened or not.
We’re just rotten to the core, all of us, and it wouldn’t take much to have all out chaos. I’m dropping out. I think Amsterdam is a good destination. Space cakes. Legal ho’s.
Pubtards are Dead Losers
May 4th, 2009
12:51 am
Can Georgia secede by the morning so the Union can take it down again. Then it can start the cycle of white redneck crackers all over again. First in fetal wastage, last in education, last in pandemic surveillence. Quite a distinction for the white crackers in trouble.
Only transportation system not funded by the white crackers in the state, and losing enterprises who refuse to move to Georgia now at an exponential rate.
Chris Broe’s psychoanalytic ability is as superficial as his attempt at being a movie crtitique. He would fit in well at the AJC who got rid of everyone who covers culture there.
Copyleft
May 4th, 2009
11:08 am
Will Olens’ religion matter?
DUH! This is Georgia and a Republican race; of COURSE it will matter. Heck, it will probabl predominate all other issues among the fearful and ignorant Southern Baptist loons that infest our state.
Ray Pugh
May 4th, 2009
12:50 pm
God you people are so stupid I’m surprised you remember to breathe.
sd
May 4th, 2009
2:08 pm
I think that for most Georgians, the answer to “would you vote for a jew?” is not the same as “would you vote for a Mormon?”.
I think that this Olens’s lady will not be effected by her religion.
No Chance for Tom
May 10th, 2009
9:26 am
Wish Olens would run for Governor instead of AG. The governor’s race isn’t really measuring up to be a good one. Not much choice on the Republican side and No choice at all on the Democratic side. Attorney General Thurbert Baker will be lucky to make it through the primary. African-Americans don’t like him and rural Whites won’t vote for him either. If Olens does win AG, the first thing he should do is clean up the mess Thurbert Baker made-CLEAN HOUSE!