Georgia
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9:28 p.m.
Things that appear certain, based on polling: Mitt Romney is on his way to a relatively easy win in tomorrow's caucuses in Nevada. Romney is also in pretty decent shape in the two late February primaries in Arizona and Michigan, two states that (on paper) set up pretty well for him. Gingrich's national standing, at least in the Gallup tracking polls, has taken a mighty dive. What...
DailyKos (Georgia) - 5:50 p.m. - 8 clicks 
Wow apparently we have a new King in Georgia - yeah Georgia of all places - why am I not surprised? Ya'll might remember Bishop Eddie Long from a sex scandal that was settled out of court in May 2011. The lawsuits say Long engaged in intimate sexual acts with the young men, such as massages, masturbation and oral sex. ...One Atlanta pastor predicted Long will survive the scandal beca...
DailyKos (Georgia) - 5:50 p.m. - 7 clicks
The court decision is in: http://www.scribd.com/... Orly Taitz represented one of four plaintiffs challenging President Obama's eligibility for placement on the Democratic ballot in Georgia. The President and his counsel were subpoenaed to appear in court to defend against these challenges, but the President's attorney issued a nice letter to the judge stating that the Court had no bus...
DailyKos (Georgia) - 2:46 p.m. - 11 clicks
From The Wall Street Journal : U.S. companies are booking higher profits than ever. But the number crunchers in Washington are puzzling over a phenomenon that has just come into view: Corporate tax receipts as a share of profits are at their lowest level in at least 40 years. Total corporate federal taxes paid fell to 12.1% of profits earned from activities within the U.S. in fiscal 2011, which...
Cracker Squire - 4:23 a.m.
Two million people have no water. Crops are wiped out in the northern half of the country. The worst drought in Mexico's history is likely to worsen until summer rains come devastating the northern half of Mexico, damaging Mexico's economy. Indigenous communities in rural northern Mexico have no water, no food and no crops. Communities have had no rain in 15 months. The Mexican government is m...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Thu 2:26 p.m. - 4 clicks
The history of the United States of America is a short one but one that could be painted with disgust and prejudice. In order to protect either ourselves or our nation's youth, we are taught about the demons America has attempted to conquer but with a bit of preselected lessons. Most of us, at least those who grew up in the late-90s/early 00s could tell you a lot about Jackie Robinson, M...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Mon 7:25 p.m.
Every week, my email box sees newsletters from Georgia's two Republican senators. Often I delete them without reading, as their content is seldom uplifting if you are anywhere to the left of center, politically speaking. Here is an excerpt from the latest offering from Senator Isakson: On Tuesday, which marked the 1,000th day since President Obama's Democrat majority in the Senate ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Mon 3:09 p.m. - 16 clicks
From The New York Times : A month after the last American troops left Iraq , the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as well as American personnel. Some senior Iraqi officials expressed outrage at the program, saying the unarmed aircraft are an affront to Iraqi sovereignty. The program wa...
Cracker Squire - Mon 4:50 a.m.
From The New York Times : If the 2008 presidential race embraced a 24/7 news cycle, four years later politicos are finding themselves in the middle of an election most starkly defined by Twitter, complete with 24-second news cycles and pithy bursts. With 100 million active users, more than 10 times as many as in the 2008 election, Twitter has emerged as a critical tool for political ...
Cracker Squire - Sun 7:26 a.m.
James Salzer pens a keeper in the ajc : Newt Gingrich described his first congressional opponent as corrupt and incompetent. His next one, according to Gingrich, supported welfare cheaters. After being elected to Congress from Georgia in 1978, his target became the liberal welfare state. He called the Democratic leadership destructive and thugs, dubbed his opponents’ positions radical and ...
Cracker Squire - Sun 7:26 a.m. - 14 clicks
though rebuffed by the marxist muslim kenyan usurper and his local attorney for georgia, michael jablonski, birthers won a long-fought once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to present their complete case, unopposed and unfettered , against their opponents' empty bench, in an atlanta courtroom on thursday: at long last, freedom-loving americans have the usurper on the run ... ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Sat 2:43 p.m. - 24 clicks
From The Wall Street Journal : Within the president's defense-budget plan is funding for an intriguing new item: a floating drone base that also could be used as a launching pad for commandos. The vessel—called an "afloat forward staging base"—would be a platform that could be configured to carry and refuel small patrol boats, helicopters or pilotless aircraft. It would also give the U....
Cracker Squire - Sat 7:28 a.m.
Maureen Downey in the ajc obverves, accurately I pray: I suspect Georgia voters are going to be wary of turning over the keys to their local treasuries to the state Legislature. School taxes represent a sizable chunk of the local taxes collected, and this constitutional amendment would cede unprecedented access to lawmakers in Atlanta in the name of school choice. The topic: Rep. Jone...
Cracker Squire - Jan 27 - 18 clicks
From The Wall Street Journal : North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue said Thursday she wouldn't seek re-election, an unexpected development that could complicate Democrats' efforts to hold on to the governor's mansion and President Barack Obama's chances of carrying the swing state in November. ...
Cracker Squire - Jan 27 - 16 clicks
From The Wall Street Journal : The Indiana House passed legislation Wednesday that would ban contracts requiring employees to pay union dues, ending Democratic efforts to block the bill and making final adoption almost certain for the country's first right-to-work law in more than a decade. The bill now heads to the Indiana Senate—controlled by Republicans 37 to 13—which could move the legi...
Cracker Squire - Jan 26
"The Third Jihad," a film that cast a very hard light on American Muslims, was shows to some New York officers and is now in the news. See the story in The New York Times that notes: The film posits that there were three jihads: One at the time of Muhammad, a second in the Middle Ages and a third that is under way covertly throughout the West today. This is, the film ...
Cracker Squire - Jan 24
From The Wall Street Journal : The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police violated the Constitution when they attached a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect's vehicle without a valid search warrant, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test privacy rights in the digital era. The government said Federal Bureau of Investigation agents use GPS tracking dev...
Cracker Squire - Jan 24
I've been clearing out some of my old maps recently and publishing them, and this was my attempt at a 9-5 gerrymander of Georgia. 4 seats are black majority, 2 over 40%, and all but one are over 58% Obama. All 5 Republican seats are packed to over 70% McCain. I tried my best to satisfy the VRA here while still finding the limits of the state, so if you think I've made VRA viola...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 23 - 3 clicks
Arrested for not providing identification on demand. Two Occupiers are now in custody for "obstructing" an officer. We must ALL OBEY the papers please request to be good Germans Americans. This yet again shows how far we have fallen as a free society. Madison County deputies arrested two protesters this morning, members of an Occupy Wall Street group that has walked all the way from Ne...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 23 - 5 clicks
From The Washington Post : Hoping to put to rest the mounting controversy over his personal finances, Mitt Romney said Sunday that he will release his 2010 tax returns and an estimate for 2011 Tuesday. The Republican presidential candidate had said previously that he would make some of his tax information public in April. “We just made a mistake in holding off as long as we did,” Romney...
Cracker Squire - Jan 23
A T-shirt worn by members of the Teamsters has been interpreted in various ways. INDIANAPOLIS — This city is in full preen for its moment in the spotlight, its first Super Bowl . [I]nside the Statehouse, people are consumed by something else entirely: a partisan fight over union strength has boiled over. The standoff, three weeks old, is over...
Cracker Squire - Jan 23
Some time before 900 CE, people begin migrating into what will become present-day Georgia from the area around the Mississippi River near present-day St. Louis. Culturally, archaeologists consider these immigrants to be Mississippian people and they know that this is a migration because the material culture they bring with them (and the material culture they leave behind for archaeologists to st...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 22 - 2 clicks
In general, the federal Voting Rights Act requires states to draw majority-minority districts as long as they are compact and respect communities of interest. What might congressional maps of the 5 “deep south” states look like if this were not required? ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 22
From The New York Times : If Newt Gingrich soars on his strong debate performances this week, overcomes the blowback within his party from attacking Mitt Romney as a corporate buyout king, and goes on to do well when South Carolina voters go to the polls on Saturday, one political strategist will get both blame for the stumbles and credit for successes: Mr. Gingrich himself. &...
Cracker Squire - Jan 21
blind squirrel orly taitz , self-deluded queen of the birthers and hands-down worst lawyer in the universe, was handed a nut ( malware warning! ) on friday: I WON!!! I WON!!! I WON!!! JUDGE MALIHI RULED IN MY FAVOR. OBAMA’S MOTION TO QUASH MY SUBPOENA IS DENIED! HE HAS TO APPEAR AT TRIAL AND PRESENT ALL THE DOCUMENTS THAT I DEMANDED TO PRODUCE IN MY SUBPOENA! ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 21
David Brooks writes in The New York Times : Mitt Romney is a rich man, but is Mitt Romney’s character formed by his wealth? Is Romney a spoiled, cosseted character? Has he been corrupted by ease and luxury? The notion is preposterous. All his life, Romney has been a worker and a grinder. He earned two degrees at Harvard simultaneously (in law and business). He built a business. He’s perseve...
Cracker Squire - Jan 20
From The New York Times : A review ordered by the Obama administration of virtually all 7,900 deportation cases before the immigration court here has identified about 1,300 foreigners — 16 percent — who pose no security risk and will be allowed to remain in the United States, although with no new legal status, immigration officials said Thursday. ...
Cracker Squire - Jan 20
Check it out. PPP has Newt up 6 over Mitt. Rasmussen has Newt by 2, ARG by 1, and Insider Advantage by 3. Newtmentum is at hand! Consider this a SC open thread. Also, please see David Nir's far more substantive analysis of the PPP poll here . ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 19
We all know -- let's say that the great majority of Americans who are not elected officials serving in Washington recognize -- that solving the deficit is going to require tax increases along with decreasing expenditures, including entitlement reform. This self-inflicted wound by Romney is going to assist on the tax issue. From The New York Times : [Romey's] effective tax ...
Cracker Squire - Jan 18
From The Wall Street Journal : ROSWELL, Ga.—The waiting list for subsidized housing here, just 40 families long a year ago, is up to 500. The number of children eligible for free or reduced lunch is up 50%. A little more than a year ago, the Methodist church began seminars for marriages strained by job losses. Roswell is a pre-Civil War cotton mill town that grew into a w...
Cracker Squire - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
From The Wall Street Journal : Iraq summoned Turkey's ambassador on Monday to protest what it called Ankara's meddling in Iraqi politics, the latest sign of a rising rift between Sunni Turkey and its Shiite neighbors. Iraq's government was angered by recent warnings from Turkish leaders that Sunni-Shiite tensions in Iraq could engulf the entire Islamic world, as well as by Turkey's support f...
Cracker Squire - Jan 17
From The New York Times : Democrats and union supporters . . . say they will submit at least 720,000 names on petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker , the Republican who curtailed collective bargaining rights for public workers, leading to a face-off in this state. Only two governors in the nation’s history have lost their jobs in recalls, but Mr. Wa...
Cracker Squire - Jan 16
File this story in the overstuffed folder labeled Republican Hypocrisy That Borders on Satire . Georgia state Rep. Kip Smith, who is co-sponsor of a bill requiring that public assistance recipients be tested for drug abuse , has been arrested and charged with DUI. Smith, who has been pushing for mandatory drug testing of Georgia's poorest citizens, was pulled over and arrested while driving ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 15
From The New York Times : Mormons consider themselves Christians — as denoted in the church’s name, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yet the theological differences between Mormonism and traditional Christianity are so fundamental, experts in both say, that they encompass the very understanding of God and Jesus, what counts as Scripture and what happens when people die. ...
Cracker Squire - Jan 15
Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal : Newt's a battering ram who'll wind up in splinters, but he can do plenty of damage along the way. The candidate people immediately speak of here when talk turns to the GOP primary is a man named Romneybut. "I like Romney but I could change my mind." "I like Romney but I like Santorum too." [I]f Mitt Romney wins here, he will ...
Cracker Squire - Jan 15
From The Wall Street Journal : A funny thing happened on the way to the New Hampshire primary: ABC moderator George Stephanopoulos embarrassed himself on national television with questions plainly intended to embarrass the Republican candidates. On Saturday night, Mr. Stephanopoulos stepped outside the role of honest interlocutor when he pursued Mitt Romney with the issue on nobody's...
Cracker Squire - Jan 10
From The New York Times : Newt Gingrich may not have much money to spend on advertising here. But he does have Joseph W. McQuaid, the publisher of New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, The Union Leader. And Mr. McQuaid will happily spill barrel after barrel of ink trying to tear every other candidate down. “Our job is to say, ‘Here’s our guy. Here’s why he’s th...
Cracker Squire - Jan 9
From The Wall Street Journal : Should broadcasters be able to air whatever the &#%@ they want? Nine years after Cher used a swear word during a live awards show, the U.S. Supreme Court is finally addressing the constitutional issues behind that question. On Tuesday, the court will consider whether the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to police the U.S. airwaves for dirty words ...
Cracker Squire - Jan 9
I wrote this essay in October and think it is worth sharing. I would recommend that anytime you stop seeing someone in a romantic sense that you sit down with that person and have a chat about it. The things you can learn are quite useful, and it goes a long way to soothing hurt feelings. Some of you are aware that in the past couple of months, I have felt terribly wronged, misled, and otherw...
Blue Heart of Dixie - Jan 2
UPDATE: The AJC continues to report on Dr. Austin's involvement with Newt's campaign and continues to make no mention of the fact that Newt is using a convicted Medicaid scammer to work the crowds on his behalf. "The good doctor and his wife Meredith were dispatched to a caucus representing 11 precincts in Urbandale, a modest Republican bedroom enclave in the largely Democratic area of Des ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Jan 2
In case any of you are still wondering whether S.C. Governor (and aspirant for national office) Nikki Haley is working, like a whole raft of Republican governors across America, from the DeLuxe Embossed Leather Binder no doubt handed out at the Koch Brothers' annual How Can We Sell America Down The River? conference of politicians, CEOs and others on the inside of the corporate establishment tha...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 29
According to in-depth research that CNN has done , including viewing the divorce papers that were thought to have been sealed, it appears that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has been lying to the press about the facts surrounding his first divorce. I'm not surprised that he'd be dishonest about this subject. Are you? ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 26
I've had a fairly up and down last few years - I lost my job almost 3 years ago but I went back to grad school and met a wonderful girl and got hitched last October. I am a bit rough around the edges for most Southerners as I grew up in Buffalo N.Y. and lived 9 years in Philly whereas my wife was raised in Florida and her father is a Baptist preacher in Mississippi - I guess that opposites attra...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 25
Sad face for Jennifer Keeton, who won't be able to pretend to be a scientist anytime soon. ( Alliance Defense Fund ) Jennifer Keeton failed in 11th Circuit Federal Appeals Court last week in her attempt to coerce Augusta State University (ASU) of Georgia into awarding her a master's degree the school contended she was refusing to earn. Keeton, a psychology student, refused to do coursew...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 21
So, I went to check my email. I still get mail from Ga Democrats. WOW ! Moved just in the knick of time. Now that Fig Newton has dropped in the polls and the president has risen in the polls...the republican red state has come up with a sure fire way to bring Newt into winning Georgia. Yes siree. They found them a sure fire way...NOT ! They decided to drop ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 21 - 2 clicks
Ah, yes. Looks like I have to get all the Gingrich name puns out there. Y'know ... while I still can. Another day, another set of data which confirms that the Gingrich sojourn at the top of the charts is not long for this world. The main question, as we head into the holiday weeks which will still be politics-heavy (thanks, Iowa and New Hampshire!): is this the start of the acceptance phas...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 19
Caregiver charged after alleged stabbing by mentally ill man Snellville police have charged a caregiver at a personal care home with reckless conduct after one of the men in her charge allegedly stabbed another resident. Typical of MOST of the caregivers I have the displeasure of talking to, this one was not giving very seriously ill people their medications on time and correctly. Most of ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 17
Today, the Sierra Club is celebrating a landmark victory that was a long time coming. We have reached a settlement with LS Power to cancel their plans to build two new coal plants - the Longleaf plant in Georgia, and the Plum Point 2 plant in Arkansas. These two coal plants are #160 and 161 on the growing list of new coal plants defeated by the Sierra Club and our allies since 2002. These are ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 12
With Newt Gingrich, the not-Romney du jour in the Republican front ranks spouting off about English as an official language, it's time once again to have another look at this solution in search of a problem. I can haz xenophobia? As you might imagine, this is being fought on two fronts, state and federal, and the federal version, should ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 11
Before we hit the numbers, a quick programming note. The polling Wrap returns on Monday night, while the normal weekend digest will remain in its now-customary position on Saturday evenings. Now, for those GOP primary numbers: NATIONAL (Fox News): Gingrich 36, Romney 23, Paul 12, Perry 8, Bachmann 5, Santorum 4, Huntsman 2 NATIONAL (Gallup): Gingrich 37, Romney 23, Paul 9, Bachmann ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 9
Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn, who goes by Vandy Beth, is a transgender woman who was fired from her job editing legislation for the Georgia General Assembly Office of Legislative Council when she informed her supervisor that she would be transitioning from male to female in 2007. Legislative Council Sewell Brumby conceded to the court that Vandy Beth's "intended feminine appearance" was the r...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 9
If you read the Polling Wrap on Wednesday night, you'll recall that I wondered aloud whether new data due on Thursday would shed further light on the whole "Newt vs. Mitt" electability thing. The new data came, but the conclusions are pretty hard to come by. A few writers latched onto the Quinnipiac poll in Ohio as evidence that Newt Gingrich is every bit as electable as Mitt Romney. But w...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 8
This is the first part of two posts describing a fascinating election in Georgia. The second part can be found here. Georgia is a red state. It votes reliably Republican; the Republican Party controls every level of Georgia's state government. It would be miraculous for Barack Obama to win the state in 2012. However, Georgia used to be a very blue state. It belonged to the Solid South, a D...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 6
A Georgia state senator wants to make all license plates in the state carry "In God We Trust"-- and make those who didn't want it pay to cover it up . Georgia SB 293 would amend current law to mandate that, starting next summer, all plates would be imprinted with the religious declaration. If someone does not wish to exhibit this statement of faith, they would be required to purchase a sticker...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 4
Georgia In 2006 Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn (only that was not her name at the time) told her supervisor that she was in the process of transitioning from male to female. Vandy Beth's job at the time was to edit the text of legislation. She first appeared in women's clothing at work at an office Halloween party. Sewell Brumby, who at the time was head of the Office of Legislati...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 3
Oh please forgive your Bloguero his excesses and tantrums. Yesterday your Bloguero was vexed and found himself exploding when Noot Gingrich proposed yet again that poor children (read: poor, urban children of color) work as assistant janitors and that they mop floors and clean bathrooms. These children, Noot told us, don’t have good work habits, and neither do their parents. They need to learn...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 2
Georgia took a big step toward a better, more progressive state today. As the founding Executive Director, I’m glad to announce that we launched Better Georgia with a statewide campaign to organize Georgia voters who are disappointed with the direction Gov. Nathan Deal and the leaders of our General Assembly are taking the state. Better Georgia will focus lawmakers on schools and jobs inst...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Dec 1
Today, I wrote the US Department of Justice to urge it to reject the proposed Georgia legislative maps for violating the spirit and intent of the Voting Rights Act. If you wish to write the Justice Department with your concerns about these maps aiming to create a super-majority white conservative control of the legislature, here's how you do it: Write a letter to the Department of Justice. Wher...
Blue Heart of Dixie - Nov 27
Turns out the Georgia business owner who won't hire till Obama is gone, is also a Birther, a Truther, an Oathkeeper, a Militia member, and he has ties to terror. ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 27 - 3 clicks
Back in October, a contributor for Tea Party Nation called for businesses not to hire anyone in a deliberate effort to hurt the Obama administration. Well, a Georgia crane operator seems to be taking up that offer. He claims that current conditions don't allow him to hire as long as Obama is in office . "Can't afford it," explained the employer, Bill Looman, Tuesday evening. "I've...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 25
Cumberland Island National Seashore. It's probably not a place you're familiar with, unless of course you're truly a National Park Service connoisseur or from southern coastal Georgia or northern coastal Florida. In fact, Cumberland Island is probably one of the less traveled parks and for good reason: there's no bridge to the island. The only way to visit is by ferry, boa...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 24
Georgia the Empire State of the South, was once a solid Democratic state. Giving us figures such as President Jimmy Carter, Sam Nunn, Wyche Fowler, and yes even Zell Miller who was a good Democrat until start drinking that hard right kool aid. When he did that he went from that to this . In 2008 alot of pundits was surprised on how well Obama did in The Peach State, coming within five points ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 18
A series of possible tornadoes have cut a path through east-central Alabama and west-central Georgia over the last few hours, knocking out power to tens of thousands and destroying many buildings in their paths. The same thunderstorm is responsible for all the damage, and it will take NWS surveys to be sure exactly what caused the damage. However, based on the damage reports, there's little do...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 16
This is a depressing time to try to believe in the rule of law in this country, because of so much in the way of rampant fraud on behalf of the banking industry, the robo-signing, the delays and obfuscations, the obvious collusion, etc. However, there is still a long history of the rule of law in this country, and even despite our philosophical and political differences, there are lots of ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 16
I don't think I'm allowed to say the kinds of things I want to say about Georgia in the title, and technically I only promised I wouldn't post entirely blank diaries, so I'm going with blank title. Because seriously, WTF! A Democrat is sponsoring the "personhood" amendment In the Senate, the sponsor will be Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville – no surprise, given his pro-life reputation. In th...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 15
Originally posted at Fair and Unbalanced Troy Davis was executed in Georgia despite substantial questions about whether he committed the murder that put him on death row. Hank Skinner has just obtained a stay only two days before his scheduled execution in Texas, which incomprehensibly continues to fight DNA testing of key evidence that could prove Skinner's innocence -- or reaffir...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 7
A few meteorology students/meteorologists at my school have a Facebook page devoted to weather (and some news) in the Mobile and Montgomery/Auburn areas of Alabama, and one of them is covering a huge textile mill fire in downtown Columbus GA right now. He's reporting that the entire building is engulfed in flames and has started to collapse in on itself, the buildings around it and on the rail...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 5
Topics: Researchers: BP oil spill may have contributed to Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths, Some dolphins in massive die-off killed by bacterial infection, NOAA says, Bacteria may have caused dolphin abortions, deaths, Bacterial infection blamed in some dolphin deaths, oil link unclear, Research led by UT Marine Science Institute seeks to unravel mysteries of BP spill, Kenneth Feinberg vows better ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 2
So I have been ignoring Herman Cain for some time...he didn't seem to have much going for him as a candidate for the Republican nomination. And let's be realistic, it is too early in the race to have any real clue who the nominee will be. Romney and Perry remain the names most commonly viewed as the likely choices. But by now there have been a large number of polls, both nationally and, more imp...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 2
Remember a while back all the flak on the right about the Obama Administration's warnings about the threat of terrorist activities by far right groups ? Remember how propagandists like Michelle Malkin called it a "hit job" by the Administration? ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 2
Good work by FBI, and informants, in halting another terrorist plot against the U.S. And, no surprise, the alleged terrorists were not from any foreign group. The four men arrested Tuesday were from an anti-government militia group in the state of Georgia. ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 2
November 1, 2011 The Honorable Johnny Isakson 131 Russell Senate Office Building United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Senator Isakson: During a recent talk at the Athens Country Club, you called for reform of entitlements saying, “…the real debt culprits are Medicare and Social Security.” You went on to predict that Social Security would begin to see benefit ...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Nov 1
The Southern Baptist college in Rome, Georgia, aptly named Shorter (certainly shorter in human rights), has adopted a “faith” policy that bans the employment of gay people. The university also adopted a new motto: “Transforming Lives Through Christ.” Who would Jesus hate? Apparently Shorter University believes that a man who was inseparable from 12 other men would hate the LGBT commu...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Oct 28
Migrant workers offend Republicans by being productive members of society. (Zenpix/Dreamstime.com) Alabama farmers are getting killed by a new draconian law that has chased thousands of undocumented immigrants out of the state. Tomato farmer Wayne Smith said he has never been able to keep a staff of American workers in his 25 years of farming. “People in Alabama are not going to do thi...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Oct 27
While our eyes have been focused on Oakland this morning, another police raid has taken place at Occupy Atlanta. A Local station reported this as breaking news last night: An interesting moment occurs at 7:45 in this video where the reporter claims the police have asked his crew to move to the perimeter and he justifies not reporting the event up close because there are...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Oct 26
This was quite a week! The end of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is dead after a NATO air strike on his caravan alerted the new Libyan government to his presence. Bush lied to unilaterally invade Iraq, leading to a quagmire occupation that is only now ending. His goal was to bring down Saddam Hussein, yet we remained on the ground until now. It was illegal, unpopular and hugely expensive in t...
DailyKos (Georgia) - Oct 23
