HERMAN CAIN FOR PRESIDENT?
We Can Only Hope

I woke up to an email from Maurice Atkinson containing a link to the following article: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/91481-black-republican-radio-host-suggests-he-will-run-for-president

Herman Cain for President....we can only hope!!!!!

NO CHARGES AGAINST ROETHLISBERGER
ANOTHER BLOW TO BALDWIN’S AILING ECONOMY

With the announcement earlier this afternoon that Fred Bright, Baldwin County DA, will not be seeking charges against pro footballer Ben Roethlisberger, another nail was pounded into the coffin containing the ashen remains of a middle Georgia county already rocked by closings in both the private and public sectors, layoffs, and downsizing.

“Baldwin was already a disaster area,” whined one resident who prefers anonymity to putting his ass on the line, “now this’.

Since the accusations of sexual impropriety were first leveled at the massive Steeler’s star, Milledgeville, the little city that might could, has become something of a tourist destination where the simply curious, the brain-dead, and the insane choose to congregate in eateries and watering holes to discuss the charges, real or trumped up.

Sadly, gone is the cash cow which might have alleviated Balwin County’s economic woes at least through the spring of her discontent.

Holocaust Commemoration Day 2010

Been under the weather for several days now. Fired my old Colt Woodsman in a pistol match Saturday morning and went to bed by need, there to remain.

The match? Dead last I think, didn't stay around to see the scores.

Some of you know that I am a fan of a group calling itself the JPFO or JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP, a kind of NRA on steroids.

This week the JPFO sent out an alert reminding us of Holocaust Commemoration Day 2010. It is well worth looking at and can be accessed directly here:

http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/movieplay-hol-com-2010.htm

Powerful stuff.

Succumbing To The Yellow Peril

Not talking about an invasion of hords of oriental aliens here, not at all.

This time of thew year the YELLOW PERIL is pollen…cascading sheets of the stuff, pouring from the trees, covering everything with a yellow film, coating our lungs and nasal passages.

My lungs, anyway. Until yesterday’s rains. This aging chest ached as if I had been smoking four packs a day for decades.

Don’t smoke. Did once upon a time.

We seem to grow less able to endure the ravages of pollen in our systems. This year it has hit me hard. Until now the yellow stuff was little more than a nasty nose-dripping nuisance.

The noxious cloud reminds us, sometimes termed ‘the elderly’, of our own mortality….as if we didn’t need the not so subtle hint.

To this senior citizen ‘elderly’ is a fighting word.

Sure has been a miserable week in dying Maconga.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
04/09/2010

SHOTGUN PACKIN'
ERICK ERICKSON

Global Warming returned to the mid-state with a vengeance this week. Temperatures are expected to reach into the nineties later today after what seems like an eternity of lower-than-average temps. It’s hot! Hot!! Hot!!!

Taking another kind of heat this morning is Macon’s own Erick Erickson, pundit, city Councilor, editor of RED STATE dot COM, CNN regular, and, temporary, replacement host for Chris Krok who has moved on to the greener grass of Dallas Texas despite what the fact-challenged, NAACP head, Al Tillman would like us to believe.

Heat? Why?

Simply because he threatened to run off (“usher”) (with his wife’s shotgun) his property any census taker who tried to get him to take the “Census Bureau’s American Community Survey”.

The story has hit the national blogosphere big time e.g.: http://www.redstate.com/retiretherinos/2010/04/03/politico-the-census-and-slamming-erick-erickson/ , although barely making a ripple in Middle Georgia.

The exception is a piece in today’s MACON T’GRAPH by Mike Stucka called “ERICKSON DRAWS FIRE FOR GUN COMMENT” which can be accessed directly here: http://www.macon.com/2010/04/06/1084164/erickson-draws-fire-for-gun-comment.html

The article promises to be neck deep in comments and diatribe before the day is out.

THE RED NECK INTERNET
An Open Letter To The Editors of the Macon Telegraph

Enough is enough. And boy do I mean ‘enough’.

I am talking about the comments that appear following news stories, op ed pieces, letters to the editor, and virtually anything else found in our local paper. This junk is injurious to both good sense and intelligence.

Personally, I would rather see the whole thing scrapped, eliminated, torn forcibly from the ties that bind the T’GRAPH to its declining readership. A friend and a frequent (tho less so of late) poster in the cerebral swamp, a chap who is usually spot on when it comes to the Forest Hill Road project or early release on low bail of violent criminal types, tells me I am helping destroy the First Amendment guaranteeing free speech.

Doing no such thing, of course. What I am pushing for is a higher level of discourse among people who truly have something to say, not a gaggle of regulars who vie to insult one another and post and re-post daily ad nauseam.

We don’t see this waste material in the written daily paper. It is found only in the on-line edition. Quite frankly, it has gotten out of hand. Many of the comments are purely ad hominem aimed at specific other folks who have already stated an opinion. Many of these are downright nasty, tasteless, and horribly personal. Not a few are inarticulate, poorly written and punctuated, riddled with spelling and syntactical error. This last category, obviously, reflects the sad state to which Bibb County’s educational jungle has fallen.

I believe I recall Charles Richardson arguing to keep the Red Neck Internet alive and flowing over the objections of Kenny Bergamy some months ago during their morning radio gig. It seems obvious that the paper thinks it derives something of value from the interactive contentiousness. Kenny thought it was time then to pull the plug.

I will offer a compromise. Keep the feature, but limit the posters to one inclusion per day per article. That will wipe out the tedious, back-and-forth stupidity so currently prevalent in our DAILY BLATT and BUGLE. The intrepid little band of regulars, who seem to have little else to do with their lives, could go out, find a job, and spare the sensibilities of the rest of us, who do not enjoy slogging through the fetid slough the comments have become.

SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH
DISCOVERED: FULL SKELETON OF HUMAN ANCESTER

A most interesting story from the online LONDON TELEGRAPH describes the discovery of the complete skeleton of a hominid child, perhaps 2,5000,000 years old which may be one so-called ‘missing link’ between ape and man in the largely unknown cycle of how HOMO SAPIENS evolved to where he is today. Here is the direct link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/7550033/Missing-link-between-man-and-apes-found.html

It’s a fascinating read. Most fossil remains of what might be man’s ancestors are fragmentary…a jawbone, femur, part of a skull, remains that are tantalizing to the scientist, but largely incomplete. This discovery is different, the fossilized bones make up almost a complete skeleton.

An artist’s drawing, based on the remains, is included in the story.

Scientists are never satisfied with partial truth. One chap, using what forensic laboratory personnel often refer to as ‘computer aged progression’ took the original depiction, applied the appropriate software, and came up with a truly remarkable of what this hominid might have looked like had it reached full maturity.

The direct link can be found here: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-pelosiriveter.htm

Happy Easter!!

KOP KORNER
04/02/2010

Would You Vote For This Guy?
Georgia Congressman
HANK JOHNSON

This You Tube clip shows congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA.), who has become the laughing stock of the Internet over the last few days.

Here is a video clip of the poor, smarts-challenged politician interrogating a high ranking military officer. Apparently he thinks that Guam (and other islands, presumably) floats atop the ocean and might tip over should we add a few thousand more military people to its surface. Click on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs23CjIWMgA

No, he’s not on medication, nor is this an April Fool’s joke. This is the essence of an American Congressman….sadly from Georgia, who makes Cynthia McKinney look like a sho-‘nuff genius.

LAST NIGHT
A Major Presidential Address

President Obama last night, his eyes brimming with tears, walked resolutely to the podium and addressed The American People without benefit of a teleprompter.

He spoke the following, “My fellow Americans, I come to you with heavy heart. Earlier today, after a one on one session with my personal spiritual advisor, Imam Hassan Ben Sobre, I have decided that it is not in the best interests of our beloved nation to fly in the face of public opinion. So I am urging Ms Pelosi of the House of Representatives and Mr. Reid of the United States Senate to draft legislation that will, before summer, repeal the so called ‘Obamacare’ health plan which I signed into law just recently.

“The plan as it stands clearly commits The United States to a level of spending it clearly cannot afford.

“Further, my staff and I as early as next week will begin to explore the idea of pushing an initiative in each of the fifty states which would lead to the establishment of a Constitutional Amendment requiring the Federal Government to perform all functions under a balanced budget. This Country’s finances will no-longer reflect self-serving smoke and mirrors.

“This afternoon I requested letters of resignation from both Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod whose strong arm tactics have offended many congressional members of both parties. This administration will not tolerate intimidation, threats, or back room deals for or against any member of Congress, their families, or their staffs.

“Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Clinton will resign from that position to take a job as special assistant to former Vice President Al Gore in his campaign to fight some non-existent Global Warming. She will be joined by her husband who said it will be a pleasure to go to work for Mr. Gore.

“Thank you. We have much to do overf the next few months. May Allah bless the fruits of our labor.”