Cynical? 2 reasons why not
One joy of life in the newspaper business is that it’s an open invitation to drop by — sometimes for a whuppin’, sometimes for a treat.
The first visit with Brunswick banker Ron Adams was for a whuppin’ — though I’d debate still whether it should have been his or mine. Some decades-long friendships, like this one, start in strong disagreement.
Others, like a more-recent friendship with Joe Moss, a former Delta pilot and Atlantan now living in New York and Texas, started as conversations about public policy.
Through both, I have been introduced to others, living and not, who have brought a richness to life that, but for the newspaper, I’d never have known.
Adams and I first met about two decades ago when I was writing extensively about “shadow governments,” those that spend public money but lack public accountability. He served on the board of one I had written about, one that hired a blue-chip Atlanta law firm to resist state inspection of its books. Our first meeting, therefore, was adversarial.
As an aside here, I should note that while I started my newspaper career as a plain-vanilla traditionalist, my political roots were those of an FDR Southerner.
When I had ample opportunity as a newspaperman to see how most federal programs worked, my views changed dramatically. People grew rich, or at least prosperous, on them — but it was rarely the intended beneficiaries. More often than not, it was the administrators, the well-connected and their friends.
Politicians didn’t want to know how wasteful and ineffective programs were because the glory came in creating them.
Adams was a reformer, a conscientious, highly ethical board member who would never cotton to abuse of public trust. And that is one of the other lessons of a newspaper career. Citizen-oversight boards contain thoroughly decent, good people who — armed with information — will do the right thing. Hence the need, always, for transparency and for accountability.
Like Adams, Joe Moss is one of those who rescues the drifting editorialist from cynicism.
You may have seen his farewell tribute in Friday’s paper to fellow pilot J.O. Mangum Jr. of Fayetteville, who died last weekend at the age of 88.
Back from service as a Marine in World War II, Moss began a life-long love affair with Delta, where he met Mangum. “He was a wonderful pilot,” says Moss. Their friendship grew after both settled in College Park with their wives and first-born sons.
Polio, the plague of the 1950s, struck Captain Mangum at the age of 33.
For the next 56 years the “aviation precisionist,” as Moss called him, accepted his fate without complaint. That grace through suffering left a deep impression on Moss.
It’s not just in honoring a friend, though, that Moss reminds us of the goodness of people and arrests our slide into cynicism or pessimism.
While a commercial pilot, he used layovers to educate himself about companies and their leaders. That, combined with his faith in America, drew him into investing for himself and later for others.
The combination brought prosperity that allowed him to give generously in 2005 to help provide care to a young Mexican boy in need of a kidney transplant, a need he’d read about in the AJC. Three years later, impressed with the care provided the boy by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Moss gave the hospital its largest gift ever, $25 million.
Cynicism? Not in this lifetime. Beyond government and the foibles of politicians, there are ordinary Americans like Adams and Moss living virtuous lives, helping others.
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Dusty
June 12th, 2009
10:01 pm
Ah, Jim, you are like a breath of freah air from a river of reliability and respect. You remind us of those who reach out with care and concern to do good in this world.
If only we heard more about such citizens, their hard work, their decent lives, their concern for others and the honesty that is inherent in their living.
So I thank you for telling us about your two friends. They present the cherished vision we wish for all Americans. Ordinary Americans, you wrote. Extra ordinary I would say.
Churchill's MOM
June 13th, 2009
7:30 am
Enter your comments here
Reggie
June 13th, 2009
8:10 am
Local Hispanic leaders there, in opposition to pending Immigration Legislation, boycotted all Caucasian owned businesses in the Victoria area this past weekend as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community. The boycott was declared a success by the Hispanic community, noting that revenue in Caucasian owned businesses was down by 19%.
Business owners declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out that shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money orders sent out of the country were down by 97%, and the cost of daily clean-up and trash collection was down by 84%. Shoppers reported that they could actually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers actually paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards.
Redneck Convert
June 13th, 2009
8:39 am
Well, Wooten’s went all soft on us. First there was the long piece praising this Commie Cynthia Tucker. Now we get a piece putting halos on old political enemas. That ain’t the Conservative way.
I say bring on this Wingfield guy so we can get back to ripping and tearing and calling names and hinting about what the mamas of the enemas do in their spare time. We ain’t never going to get out of the political wilderness if we just pat the libruls on the back and buy them beers and act like there ain’t a thing in the world wrong with them. Here’s a guy Wooten praises for helping a Mexican kid out. Well, why ain’t there anything about helping a good redneck kid out? That Mexican kid will grow up and be a American citizen and go out and cancel our vote by voting for a librul.
I’m just disgusted. Have a good Saturday everybody.
@@
June 13th, 2009
9:36 am
Great column, Jim — just what I needed to begin my blog hiatus. It’s the rare exception when mankind’s goodness shows through on the AJC’s political blogs.
1984
June 13th, 2009
9:36 am
Reggie, very very cool.
In other news, Obama Hussein is wanting bulldoze cities around the US. I’m just going to sit back and watch this administration implode. And to think, it’s only been 6 months. Next November can’t come soon enough.
1984
June 13th, 2009
9:38 am
Wooten, just wondering, have you ever had the urge to walk into Bookmans cubical, while he’s out at lunch eating his TOFU burgers, and pee in it?
Churchill's MOM
June 13th, 2009
10:33 am
The weeklong scuffle between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and late-night comedian David Letterman has given many on the political right something they’ve lacked in recent months — a tasty target.
By cracking wise with references to Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” and her imaginary need to keep her daughter away from Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, the “Late Show” host set off a significant political tempest.
Experts and observers of politics and the media see two larger expediencies present: the funnyman’s need to break through the late-night giggle chamber, particularly with Conan O’Brien’s new gig on “The Tonight Show,” and conservatives’ need to find a foil.
Indeed, the Letterman-Palin feud has prompted a question: Can Ball State University’s most famous alum become the right’s version of Rush Limbaugh — their new public enemy No. 1?
Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, says the Letterman flap “underscores everything that conservatives are saying. If Rush Limbaugh had made a joke about Barack Obama’s daughter, he wouldn’t finish the sentence before they were calling for him to be fired. It is beyond a double standard. It is a rank hypocrisy, and everyone sees it.”
RNC Chairman Michael Steele has advocated a “Late Show” ban, saying in a statement that, “when Letterman starts making tasteless jokes about kids, it’s time to turn the channel.”
However, as the Limbaugh-Letterman comparisons proliferate across the Web and cable news shows, some Republican strategists question the wisdom of trying to make a political target out of the 62-year-old comedian.
“If the right goes after Letterman, they make him look big and themselves small,” says Mark McKinnon, a former campaign adviser to George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). “It’s win-win for Letterman.”
Republican media consultant Fred Davis, a chief ad-maker for the McCain campaign, added: “I think it’s a mistake too many conservatives are making right now. They are trying to find anything to attack.”
Davis sought to downplay the egregiousness of the offending Letterman cracks, saying, “David apologized. He said it was over the line. He is a funny guy, and his job is to do sarcastic humor. That’s his thing.”
On Wednesday’s program, Letterman suggested he didn’t want to be in the spotlight quite like this and sought to clarify the joke, saying that while it was “in poor taste,” he was referring to Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, and not her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, with his Rodriguez reference.
Palin, however, doesn’t appear inclined to stop answering questions about the episode — or letting up on the pressure.
On Friday, she told NBC’s Matt Lauer that Letterman’s jokes reflected a “sad commentary of where we are as a culture” and went on to complain about a “political double standard” that was being perpetrated by the mainstream media. Palin said that during the campaign, the press honored Barack Obama’s request to keep his family off-limits, mocking the president as “the candidate that must be obeyed.”
“They haven’t done that on the other side of the ticket, and it has continued to this day,” Palin said.
Others on the right found their outrage only further heightened after Letterman’s seven-and-a-half minute response Wednesday, which amounted to something between an apology and a defense.
“That was truly the insulting thing,” says Bozell. “It was snarky, it was arrogant, it was insulting and pretty much underscored for conservatives that this guy has no problem with personally attacking conservatives.”
Through a publicist, Letterman declined to speak with POLITICO. But observers have noticed a change to the “Late Show’s” comedy in recent years, beginning with his frequent criticism of the Bush administration over the Iraq war and continuing with his takedowns of Limbaugh and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.
Munch
June 13th, 2009
12:37 pm
1984 @ 9:38….classy to the last. Get beat up on the playground alot, Dipshyte? Had trouble making friends? Can’t figure out why people are always backing away from you at gatherings?
Whadda tool.
fearless fosdick
June 13th, 2009
12:56 pm
Munch…1984 is kinda retarded, amongst a host of problems he has delusions of grandeur having claimed his wife is a doctor, and he is a graduate of Duke or Florida depending on the week! He goes by 1984, Che or Commie AJC….
He also harbors a Boehner for Bookman … Bookman banned him from his blog awhile back and, well 1984 is still soiling his panties over the fact!
1984
June 13th, 2009
1:00 pm
Munch aka fearless fosdick, one in the same, yep, as predicted you gals keep hurling insults without any proof of your accusations.
Don’t you have some gays to make out with or babies to kill?
Or how about some Jews to shoot?
1984
June 13th, 2009
1:02 pm
fearless fosdickless, what is with your obsession with whoever Commie AJC is? I mean, I know you’ve talked about getting anal raped in prison, but please don’t take your pain out on the rest of us.
fearless fosdick
June 13th, 2009
1:05 pm
I have to admit, I love Jay Bookman. I have posters of him hanging over my bunk bed so that I can stare into his old grey eyes at night. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Jay gives me a chill up my leg!
Munch
June 13th, 2009
1:09 pm
Oh fearless, I’m with you 100%! Jay Bookman makes this old gal feel like an 18 year old girl all over again. I tell you what, I can’t wait for government insurance to pay for my hemorrhoid operation. I can barely sit down at night to catch Keith Olbermann let alone sleep at night.
fearless fosdick
June 13th, 2009
1:13 pm
Munch, I had hemorrhoids about two years ago while I was protesting fur in NYC. Some right wing monster hit my back side with a broom and sent a pain up my anal chord. I have not felt pain like that since Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court. Hey, we should get together and cook up some dead fetuses, I mean aborted goo, in the deep fryer and write Ariana Huffington some love letters. Oh boy! I can’t wait!
fearless fosdick
June 13th, 2009
1:16 pm
1984, now you are masquarading as me 1:05 and MUNCH @ 1:09…..Sad Sack!
Did your doctor wife hide your tinker toys???? HardeHarHar………………….
Munch
June 13th, 2009
1:18 pm
fearless fosdick, yes, we should definitely meet up and deep fry some aborted goo. I like mine with marsh mellows. I still have a sleeping bag from when I went with my diversity team to North Korea to celebrate our beloved leader, Kim Jong Ils, birthday last year.
fearless fosdick
June 13th, 2009
1:19 pm
Who am I? I don’t even know myself anymore! Irene, is that you? No, wait, it’s Dorris. STOP!! The voices in my head just won’t stop!
fearless fosdick
June 13th, 2009
1:26 pm
Mom is that you?
fearless fosdick
June 13th, 2009
1:37 pm
My life partner is a doctor.
Eli Whitney
June 13th, 2009
1:44 pm
Looks like the democrats have themselves a real delimer here. You betcha.
Gays decry Obama’s stand on gay marriage case
By LINDA DEUTSCH and LISA LEFF
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gay rights groups expressed dismay with the Obama administration Friday over its championing of the Defense of Marriage Act, a law the president pledged to try to repeal while on the campaign trail.
The government filed a motion late Thursday to dismiss the case of Arthur Smelt and Christopher Hammer, who are challenging the 1996 federal act. The law prevents couples in states that recognize same-sex unions from securing Social Security spousal benefits, filing joint taxes and other federal rights of marriage.
U.S. Department of Justice lawyers argued that the act — known informally as DOMA — is constitutional and contended that awarding federal marriage benefits to gays would infringe on the rights of taxpayers in the 30 states that specifically prohibit same-sex marriages.
“The president made very explicit and emphatic campaign promises that he opposes DOMA and would provide leadership calling on Congress to repeal it,” said Jennifer Pizer, marriage project director for Lambda Legal. “This brief is not consistent with that promise.”
Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said Friday that the department is abiding by its standard practice of defending existing law and that the filing doesn’t mean Obama has changed his mind about wanting to see gay couples win federal recognition.
“Until Congress passes legislation repealing the law, the administration will continue to defend the statute when it is challenged in the justice system,” Schmaler said.
More than four months into his first term, Obama has been under growing pressure from gay rights activists who supported his candidacy to move forward on repealing DOMA and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prevents gays from serving openly in the military.
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights lobbying group based in Washington, called on Obama to reassure his supporters by sending Congress a bill to lift the federal marriage law.
“The Administration apparently determined that it had a duty to defend DOMA in the courts. The President has just as strong a duty to put his principles into action,” Solmonese said in a statement.
In the papers, Justice Department lawyers said federal court was not the right venue to tackle legal questions raised by Hammer and Smelt, who got married in California last year during the five-month window in which the state sanctioned same-sex unions.
Lambda Legal’s Pizer said the government’s stance in some ways marks an improvement from Justice Department positions taken on the Defense of Marriage Act when George W. Bush was president.
The brief acknowledges that gay couples who tie the knot in the six states where same-sex marriages are permitted are legally married and does not cite the oft-used argument that children fare better in households headed by a married man and woman, Pizer said.
At the same time, it repeated several arguments made under Bush, including the argument that a union between a man and a woman is “the traditional, and universally recognized, version of marriage.”
The Obama administration will have more opportunities in coming weeks to weigh in on the subject. Another challenge to DOMA brought on behalf of married couples in Massachusetts and a lawsuit seeking to overturn California’s gay marriage ban under the U.S. Constitution are making their way through the courts.
C Tucker
June 13th, 2009
2:08 pm
with Republicans trying to reclaim the mantle of fiscal conservatism, they ought to have something important to contribute to the debate. They don’t. The plan introduced by House Republicans, which they claim would save $75 billion a year, has specific spending cuts amounting to only about $5 billion. During the March budget debate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) slammed “earmarks,” but Republicans grabbed a substantial portion of them for their districts.
They spent no time fighting against huge money-wasters such as agricultural subsidies. Instead, Republicans such as Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss helped protect subsidies for agribusinesses. Worse, the GOP’s signature economic prescription is cutting taxes. That’s voodoo economics, just as it was when George H.W. Bush said so in 1980.
Jackie
June 13th, 2009
2:21 pm
News reports indicate the Repubs are becoming a smaller minority. Their strength, mainly in the South, is beginning to ebb there.
They have problems with their agenda matching their rhetoric. The ability to attract minorities to their party is fading; attracting the suburban population is fading.
They keep digging the hole deeper with their solution to the problem is getting a longer handle on that darn shovel.
Fabfivefreddy
June 13th, 2009
3:11 pm
“News reports indicate the Repubs are becoming a smaller minority. Their strength, mainly in the South, is beginning to ebb there.”
Hey Jackie: you liberals just go on telling yourselves that Republicans are dead, Conservatism is dead, and whatnot. You want to know the irony? The exact same thing was said about you liberals and the left BY your people on the left not even four years ago after Bush’s re-election. So you go on ahead now dear and drink your liberal C. Tucker Kool Aid and pretend that your party is perfect and not one single non-Republican has a problem with your heroes running Washington. We’ve got time for you people to fail. Again.
clyde
June 13th, 2009
3:42 pm
I’m still waiting for the answer to 1984’s question @ 9:38.I think it a fair and legitimate query.
AmVet
June 13th, 2009
4:07 pm
“You want to know the irony? The exact same thing was said about you liberals and the left BY your people on the left not even four years ago after Bush’s re-election.”
Freddie’sdead,
You want to know some more irony?
The lefties did not lose a jaw dropping 94% of the contested seats in the United States Congress and state houses. From coast to coast. And of course the faux conservatives lost the White House in grand style. Couldn’t even get one of their BushCo acolytes nominated.
No, an unprecedented slaughter like that took a bunch of neo-cons and chickenhawks.
A combined 67 – 4 annihilation.
OUCH!!!
That’s gotta hurt, no? And is NOT something the reactionary Old White Guy Party of Dixie is just gonna shake off either.
In fact, the demographics indicate that the future for this hijacked, hemorrhaging train wreck of an GOP looks horrific. Which now resembles a floundering, self obsessed and petulant teenage brat who can’t understand why nobody likes her.
Given all that and a long standing and growing track record that is beyond abysmal, the future for the good old USA looks brighter than it has in many a moon…
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
4:31 pm
Oh goodie, we have a player – ScamVet:
“The lefties did not lose a jaw dropping 94% of the contested seats in the United States Congress and state houses. From coast to coast.”
You might want to recheck your figures, homie. Where you LibDims pull 96% out of your stinkin’ sweaty butt cheeks is beyond me:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/
Insofar as local state elections, I can’t say. Don’t really care actually because a Republican state Rep in one area might be more liberal than a Democrat Rep in the same area, and vice versa. But, why help educate you ignoranus LibDims.
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
4:40 pm
Oh wait, my bad:
“The lefties did not lose a jaw dropping 94% of the ***contested*** seats”
CONTESTED seats. Okay. Got it. Enjoy! Because the people know your people are in charge now and will hold you LibDims accountable for failures (irrespective of what your beloved DNC main stream media won’t report). It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Two hundred and thirty three years of history proves it.
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
4:43 pm
“Business groups are daring President Barack Obama to impose pay caps on labor union bosses in light of indications the White House will limit how much corporate executives can be paid. President Obama has argued “corporate greed” has contributed to the economic crisis and appointed a “compensation czar” to review executive pay for several companies receiving taxpayer bailout money Wednesday. Now White House officials have told the press legislation should be enacted to limit executive pay in private companies through nonbinding shareholders votes.”
You don’t honestly expect the same LibDim administration that stole bondholder stake in Chrysler to be “fair” and “honest” in equity now, do you? Please.
AmVet
June 13th, 2009
4:48 pm
Good catch at 4:40, frederica.
Yep, just like a rose, back to back electoral annihilations by any other name are just as sweet…
Keep up the good work Republiconned.
You’re doing a heckuva job…
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
4:50 pm
If a Conservative like Hannity “joked” about what Buck Tooth Gap LibDim Letterman “joked” about with regards to sex with a minor, exactly how much longer do you think Hannity would be on air, let alone front page head line news calling him a child rapist initiator? Yeah. So let’s see how that pos PMSNBC Keith Olberboy takes things on the Palin/Letterman flap:
‘”Countdown” host Keith Olbermann Friday evening accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of using her daughters, as well as the brouhaha surrounding jokes made about them by “Late Show” host David Letterman, to further her political career. In a twelve minute segment about the former vice presidential candidate, Olbermann called her, “Sanctimonious, holier than thou, exploitative, undignified, pedantic, childish, self-inflicting, insipid, backwards, embarrassing, over-reactive, overreaching” as well as a “delusional lunatic.” Potentially even more disgraceful, in Olbermann’s almost unimaginably perverted view, Letterman is actually “the victim” who has “continued to take the high road” in this sordid affair.’
You LibDim filth want to get over Palin and Rush and Bush and Cheney or what?
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
4:55 pm
ScamVet: again, enjoy!
Now moving along in LibDim land………….
It’s always a good week when MSN.com gives the beatdown to Paul Pugman, that LibDim pseudo economic hack from hell.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/ContrarianChronicles/blame-reagan-for-our-financial-mess.aspx
Yeah, and this article goes to Cindy Tucker’s latest nonsensical (as per usual) OpEd as well.
AmVet
June 13th, 2009
5:06 pm
freddiekrueger.
Oh, no worries!
Like countless other Americans I am enjoying the helloutta watching you HeadRush and DickHead neo-conned get beaten like a cheap drum!
Le the good times roll…
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
5:16 pm
Yep ScamVet, like what was said earlier: the more you LibDims continue to defecate yourselves over Rush & Palin, the more you are digging your own graves wasting energy. But I’m not going to help you and your ilk self destruct. I’ll just let your increasing hostility and vitriol speak for itself.
Toodles.
AmVet
June 13th, 2009
5:22 pm
Exactly who is self destructing, fredaliqua?
Talk about reality averse.
Nobody is worried about the Manteats in Black or Sarah BaraClueless.
They are just the most obvious pitiful poster girls for the imploding Party of No.
Ta ta…
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
5:30 pm
You still here, ScamVet? You are the one name calling, not me. By the way, I do actually agree with you: the Republicans are worthless. If I had wanted a Dimocrat in office, I’d have damn sure voted for one.
Eli Whitney
June 13th, 2009
5:45 pm
Well well well, AmVet comes in here and goes after another blogger. AmVet makes fun of Sarah Palin and calls her clueless. Has AmVet heard of Joe Biden? Talk about someone who doesn’t have a clue….or a brain for that matter. AmVet calls the Republican party the old white guys party. Michael Steele and Condi Rice would slap you silly for that remark. The only reason the baby mama blacks vote for democrats is because democrats promise them all the money in the world. Oh but wait, democrats have done nothing to advance black people in decades. Bill Clinton never appointed a minority to high power except for Eric Holder and that’s not saying too much. I wonder what AmVet would say to all the great things the Republicans have done for blacks. I also wonder if AmVet would like to comment on how blacks were treated in the 50’s and 60’s when democrats controlled the south.
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
5:47 pm
Eil: you do realilze that Blacks like Steele and Rice in a Republican administration are “sell outs” now, don’t you? I know it’s hard, but we have to reach back into our childhood mentality to understand where modern LibDim mentality originates – and festers.
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
6:00 pm
Speaking of LibDim mentality, get a load of N.O.W. (where is the National Organization of MEN?) showing LibDim hypocrisy. They slam Limbaugh and then slam Letterman. Huh?
“Someone of Letterman’s stature, who appears on what used to be known as “the Tiffany Network” (CBS), should be above wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer. It’s important to note that when Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old she was the target of numerous insults based on her appearance. Rush Limbaugh even referred to her as the “White House dog.” NOW hopes that all the conservatives who are fired up about sexism in the media lately will join us in calling out sexism when it is directed at women who aren’t professed conservatives.”
Joking about someone “ugly” is one thing (and Rush didn’t – it was a pic of a dog he saw when it was supposed to be Chelsea):
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m sorry. Let me tell you very quickly what happened last Friday night. There was a new in list and new out list that was published in the newspaper. The writer said in, cute kid in the White House; out, cute dog in the White House. Could we show the cute dog in the White House who’s out, and they put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton back in the crew. And many of you people think that we did it on purpose to make a cheap comment on her appearance. And I’m terribly sorry. I don’t–look, that takes no talent whatsoever and I have a lot of talent. I don’t need to get laughs by commenting on people’s looks, especially a young child who’s done nothing wrong. I mean, she can’t control the way she looks. And we really–we do not–we do not do that on this kind of show. So put a picture up of her now and so we can square this.”
But, BUT, “joking” for their statutory RAPE is another thing altogether, N.O.W. Which one do you liberals think would hurt more?
Yeah, like you open minded, tolerant, peaceful, and loving LibDims give a damn about other Americans if they just by chance don’t share your philosophies, right? Right.
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
6:10 pm
So, Iran is having “issues” about the vote. Sounds so American, doesn’t it? Unless, of course, you are a Dimocrat and win – then NOBODY ever cheated. Here’s an idea: send Jimmy Carter over there. According to the Constipated Urinal, Mr. Peanut is being awarded a “Palestinian international award for excellence and creativity.”
AmVet
June 13th, 2009
6:50 pm
Eli the fake inventor, you live in the world of a parallel losers. Or the evil of the two lessers.
Because you love the GOP you think everyone who doesn’t is a Democrat.
That the Old White Guys in Dixie switched from one failure of a political party to another seems to bring you comfort.
“The only reason the baby mama blacks vote for democrats is because democrats promise them all the money in the world.”
BTW I always love it when one of the erudite uses a lower case d for Democrat and a capital R for Republican.
The first time I saw that technique was about thirty years ago when I read the racist tracts of last century where the author would spell the words black and White.
Bigot much, Eli?
Fabfivefreddie
June 13th, 2009
7:25 pm
The Shrillary on Iran’s election outcome:
“We are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in Iran, but we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to see what the Iranian people decide,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a news conference with Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Lawrence Cannon. Minutes after Clinton spoke, the White House released a two-sentence statement praising “the vigorous debate and enthusiasm that this election generated, particularly among young Iranians,” but expressing concern about “reports of irregularities.”
So, ya think those “irregulatrity” concerns will transcend to the senate seat that Mr. Saturday Night Live himself stole…errr…I mean allegedly won?
By the way, just for the record, any time you see a LibDim whine about racism, just remember two things: 1) how the Clintons treated Obama during the election year and 2), what former Dimocrat VP candidate Gerry Ferarro said about Obama: “he would not be where he is if he were white.”
Finally, take note of a resident bedwetter, one of the biggest fecal slingers on this blog, taking issue with another blogger using a lower case “d” for Dimocrat and an upper case “R” for Republican. Anyone got a hanky for Ms. ScamVet? They sure as hell can dish it out though, can’t they?
AmVet
June 13th, 2009
7:49 pm
“…one of the biggest fecal slingers on this blog…”
So good it bears repeating: talk about reality averse.
Maybe you’ve not read the scintillating posts from 1984 or Che? Of course, you have. But as he is one of yours, you act(?) stupid.
OK, enough feeding the trolls for one day. Off to the deck of my favorite cantina for margaritas with some of favorite evil lib friends!
Enjoy your blogging…
Fabfivefreddy
June 13th, 2009
11:05 pm
“Maybe you’ve not read the scintillating posts from 1984 or Che? Of course, you have. But as he is one of yours, you act(?) stupid.”
Oh sure, and you and your ilk on the “troll” left act “stupid” (?) when THE RACE MONGER posts here daily. Uh huh.
Munch
June 14th, 2009
1:48 am
Quiet down children…
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Appears that Ahmadinejad really admires Bush. Stealing the election…how derivative!
Shammed
June 14th, 2009
12:44 pm
Why so quiet around here? Where are the usual liberal mouth breathing drooling trolls? For shame. I look so forward to reading hate speech.
So, North Korea is getting more belligerent. You think the UN needs to step up their hard core threats of sanctions or what? Maybe Al Gore can get his two women back and talk “peace” with Kim Short Dong and therefore really save the world from global warming.
Idunno, maybe it’s just me, but I believe the world has become even more dangerous with Democrats, liberals, and Obama in office. What has Obama offered to show strength other than bowing to leaders? What has Obama offered to show competence other than reading from teleprompters?
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) – The United States said on Saturday that North Korea must stop its “provocative” actions and return immediately to stalled six-party talks on its nuclear program.
WOAH. Surely Short Dong is scared now. Let’s see what other wonders of liberalism are out there:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House spokesman says the Obama administration hasn’t decided whether or not to release Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama has made clear “we’re not going to make any decision about transfer or release that threatens the security of this country.”
Asked if that meant he was ruling out releasing any detainees in the United States, Gibbs said: “I’m not ruling it in or ruling it out.” A tentative plan to release some Guantanamo detainees in the United States drew fierce opposition from Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, forcing the Obama administration to shelve the plan.”
So, how many of you bed wetting liberals who bed wet about Gitmo for seven years want to take in some of those “residents” at Gitmo? Any takers? Anyone?
Finally, leave it to the liberal New York Slimes to continue to fester and dwell in liberal misery over conservatism.
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By FRANK RICH
Published: June 13, 2009
WHEN a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network’s surging e-mail traffic, warns urgently on-camera of a rise in hate-filled, “amped up” Americans who are “taking the extra step and getting the gun out,” maybe we should listen. He has better sources in that underground than most. The anchor was Shepard Smith, speaking after Wednesday’s mayhem at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Unlike the bloviators at his network and elsewhere on cable, Smith is famous for his highly caffeinated news-reading, not any political agenda. But very occasionally — notably during Hurricane Katrina — he hits the Howard Beale mad-as-hell wall. Joining those at Fox who routinely disregard the network’s “We report, you decide” mantra, he both reported and decided, loudly.
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Frankly, that’s just rich (get it?). You liberals hate Faux News, you pinhead mouth breathers equate few and far between violence on AM hate radio hosts (too bad your liberal talk radio failed, eh?) while ignoring daily gun violence in cities where guns are OUTLAWED, and you people hate gun rights. Yes, we got that.
Sure is funny that you never read the New York Slimes talk about a radical Muslim who shot up a US military recruiting station. Oh, and there have been a couple other incidents at recruiting stations in recent years that you never hear about either. I wonder why that is?
Shammed
June 14th, 2009
12:49 pm
Uh oh. The Algorebot global warming nazis are going to have to come up with something new. Global COOLING may now be a threat. Yep, you do realize that global warming actually can create global COOLING now, do you not? If it rains for days, it’s global warming. If it doesn’t rain for days, it’s global warming. If there are no hurricanes, it’s global warming. If there are hurricanes, its, yep, you guessed it, global warming. See how that works? Anything can be spun into the interwoven world of liberalism and “climate change” as it is now called instead of the original bedwetter phrase, “global warming.”
By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:04PM BST 13 Jun 2009
For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend “climate change”. In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.
There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people.
None of this has given much cheer to farmers. In Canada and northern America summer planting of corn and soybeans has been way behind schedule, with the prospect of reduced yields and lower quality. Grain stocks are predicted to be down 15 per cent next year. US reserves of soya – used in animal feed and in many processed foods – are expected to fall to a 32-year low.
Munch
June 14th, 2009
3:15 pm
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Eli Whitney
June 14th, 2009
7:54 pm
AmVet, as an African-American, I take your accusations with a grain of salt. I served my country for 15 years and I will not tolerate such hateful ignorant comments from a half-wit like yourself. I’m no more a GOPer than I am a democrat. I just happen to agree with conservatives like Reagan, Buckley and the great black man Thomas Sowell. So, feel free to call me an uncle tom or sell out. I’m used to ignorant uneducated fools like you calling me names. Jerk!
Eli Whitney
June 14th, 2009
7:57 pm
Munch, President Bush won both elections and you have no proof that he “stole” the 2000 election. Al Gore went down quietly because he knew he’d lost and did not want any more embarrassment. I assume that you believe 911 was and inside job.
Eli Whitney
June 14th, 2009
7:58 pm
Shammed, the reason most liberal trolls are not here is because their parents make them work on the weekends to pay room and board. That or they are out smoking weed at Stone Mountain.
AmVet
June 14th, 2009
9:09 pm
“The only reason the baby mama blacks vote for democrats is because democrats promise them all the money in the world.”
Just the black ones?
No I doubt you are an Uncle Tom or a sell out. Just REALLY angry.
But BHO? It’s hard to say isn’t it?
So, notwithstanding that plaintive (non)defense, Eli the fake inventor, I stand by statement – you’re a bigot.
A black fake conservative one. So what?
No worries Mr Insulted, just the musings of “half-wit jerk, someone who doesn’t have a clue….or a brain for that matter”.
Hypocrite much, Eli?
Eli Whitney
June 15th, 2009
9:18 am
AmVet,
1: You don’t know me.
2: You’re uneducated because no intelligent person would fly off the handle and name call like you have.
I am no more a bigot than you are educated.
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