Couple of things
- Folks are getting upset over the NAACP pseudo-supporting Michael Vick when, in actuality, I don't think it's that big of a deal. Why? Because what the NAACP is arguing is ultimately what our judicial system is built on, and that's that Vick is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. No one at that press conference said Vick is getting a raw deal because he's an African-American athlete, though the boys at Peach Pundit would have you believe otherwise.
- Trading for Mark Teixeira is a good thing for the Braves, but hardly the 'biggest thing since landing Fred McGriff.' The McGriff deal was huge and completely changed the scope of the National League West in 1993. In 2007, Teixeira, while good, ain't McGriff, and the Mets are still the deepest and most talented team in the National League East (even more so as they dealt for Luis Castillo).
- I'm sure it's definitely a little outside the box, but I offered a suggestion on what to do with the revenue from the sale of the local government's property on Willow Street.
- Bill Mayberry offers a murky rebuttal of the Athens Banner-Herald's report on health care for the poor, one which is devoid of statistical evidence and dismisses the work done by OneAthens solely because he doesn't feel it adds up. It's also not grounded in reality as he uses the example of a grocery store giving away food to the poor not being good business policy, but fails to recognize that there are those models already out there.
- Listen Michael Oxenreider, Fred Thompson ain't gonna do anything to do what you want him to do. For one, it's fairly obvious he's ideologically opposed to such a course of action, and for another, he'd actually have to wake up before noon to accomplish it.
- Blake speculates on the governor's race in 2010, and I think it's pretty much a given that Johnny Isakson will run and, quite frankly, be pretty hard to beat. For the Democrats, while I do like DuBose Porter, I think he'd have a hard time upending Isakson, but could do very well against either Casey Cagle or Glenn Richardson (though the latter getting out of the GOP primary is so far-fetched, it's not funny).
- Speaking of ABH blogs, J.T. offers a mea culpa on blogger etiquette after Peach Pundit gives him a hard time.
- You can count my parents as folks who fit this model, which is a shame. Also be sure to note that the president is saying he'll veto the bipartisan effort to fund SCHIP - one which stretched all the way down to the state level - with little explanation of why.
- While sifting through iTunes a few days ago, I came across Eric Church, who I only knew for his pop country song Guys Like Me which I didn't care for that much. His actual album, however, is pretty darn good. Big fan of Sinners Like Me and Pledge Allegiance to the Hag.
- Trading for Mark Teixeira is a good thing for the Braves, but hardly the 'biggest thing since landing Fred McGriff.' The McGriff deal was huge and completely changed the scope of the National League West in 1993. In 2007, Teixeira, while good, ain't McGriff, and the Mets are still the deepest and most talented team in the National League East (even more so as they dealt for Luis Castillo).
- I'm sure it's definitely a little outside the box, but I offered a suggestion on what to do with the revenue from the sale of the local government's property on Willow Street.
- Bill Mayberry offers a murky rebuttal of the Athens Banner-Herald's report on health care for the poor, one which is devoid of statistical evidence and dismisses the work done by OneAthens solely because he doesn't feel it adds up. It's also not grounded in reality as he uses the example of a grocery store giving away food to the poor not being good business policy, but fails to recognize that there are those models already out there.
- Listen Michael Oxenreider, Fred Thompson ain't gonna do anything to do what you want him to do. For one, it's fairly obvious he's ideologically opposed to such a course of action, and for another, he'd actually have to wake up before noon to accomplish it.
- Blake speculates on the governor's race in 2010, and I think it's pretty much a given that Johnny Isakson will run and, quite frankly, be pretty hard to beat. For the Democrats, while I do like DuBose Porter, I think he'd have a hard time upending Isakson, but could do very well against either Casey Cagle or Glenn Richardson (though the latter getting out of the GOP primary is so far-fetched, it's not funny).
- Speaking of ABH blogs, J.T. offers a mea culpa on blogger etiquette after Peach Pundit gives him a hard time.
- You can count my parents as folks who fit this model, which is a shame. Also be sure to note that the president is saying he'll veto the bipartisan effort to fund SCHIP - one which stretched all the way down to the state level - with little explanation of why.
- While sifting through iTunes a few days ago, I came across Eric Church, who I only knew for his pop country song Guys Like Me which I didn't care for that much. His actual album, however, is pretty darn good. Big fan of Sinners Like Me and Pledge Allegiance to the Hag.
posted by Jmac at 6:56 AM
4 Comments:
I did a post about 2010 a few days ago, and i think Cagle would be the best choice among GOPers. In fact, I believe Georgia is virtually a one party state. In such a case, we have to take what we can get.
Which would you rather have? Glen Richardson or Cagle? Come on, thats a no brainer. We may see the day when we all have to vote in the GOP primary and then vote for the sacrificial Democrat in November. Thats the way it was in the old south, only the roles were reversed.
I'll take a Republican governor in 2010 if it's fueled by backlash against a mighty blue national tide in '08. I, too, think it's Cagle's to lose. He'll end up having to distance himself from Sonny, though...which could be fun to watch.
The Peach Pundit Vick talk jumped the shark as soon as the poor, beleaguered Duke lacrosse team was brought up.
jmac, no doubt that the Mets are strong...but I don't know that they are particularly deep. In fact, I'm giving even odds that they activate Rickey Henderson before the season's over (I'm slightly-more-than-half joking). I think their fortunes rise or fall with Pedro's attempted comeback. Big, big, big potential psychological boost or blow.
And the Braves may not be done yet.
Mayberry is the Oconee County GOP water boy in the flaccid new publication called the Oconee News Leader in Watkinsville. He received at least one letter to the editor shooting down a lot of his horse manure column in the News Leader (which has a virtually non-existent web presence - their editor Rob Peecher did not want me to buy a digital camera either back in 1997 in Putnam County) Mayberry is also the County coroner, which I did not know until he spied on an Oconee Democratic Committee meeting
Dang, so much business, so little time. The folks at the home here are getting upset because I'm using up too much computer time. The staff is missing a lot of good deals on plasma tv's on Ebay.
You know, in the great scheme of things, it's really hard for me to get worked up over the NAACP supporting Michael Vick. I too am willing to suspend judgment until he gets a fair trial, defended by lawyers the combined cost of which exceeds a day of fighting in Iraq, and after a trial by twelve citizens, tried and true, he gets to spend the next several years in quite contemplative reflection on how his ghetto self blew a tens of million dollar career. The sad thing is that even a dolt like him has probably already squirreled away enough money to support his dissipation for the foreseeable future.
Of course I'm not sure how "Ookie" is being treated, as he has been holed up since well before the indictment came down.
I concur with some of the Peach bloggers (or more correctly, "commenters") that the NAACP's concern that we be dispassionate observers of the judicial system is a little attenuated, referencing the NAACP's inflammatory remarks about the rich white boys on the Duke Lacrosse team, http://www.naacpncnetwork.org/Publicity/768"
Just in case you don't want to read all 82 theses, I'll quote no. 78 as evidence of the NAACP's "wait and see" stance:
The three defendants they have two mountains to climb. First, they must deflect public attention from their boorish, racist, and illegal behavior by mounting outlandish attacks on the survivor and the D.A. Second, they must deal with a mountain of physical evidence, that is corroborated by, we have reason to believe, accounts of some of the men who were at the party who have cooperated with the police and the D.A. from early on.
And after the rape charges were dropped, the head of the NC NAACP had this to say:
Whatever happens in the courts, Barber said Saturday that the community still has to confront “classism,” racism and sexual violence.
so much for withholding judgment until the judicial systems plays out,
Oh well.
I'll bet the supporters of East Athens park could come up with suggestions with what to do with some of that new found money. Is anyone still surprised that this park is still apparently not on the county's radar screen? Man oh man, if I were in the park's "service area", I'd be madder than whatever about the apparent lackadaisical attitude of ACC of getting it finished and opened.
As ACC is not even thinking inside the box, here's an outside the box thought. How about a micro-credit bank for home improvements of homes in blighted areas (of course we don't have those in ACC, but let's say we do), with a freeze on the tax valuations of the improved homes. Especially target improvements at making the homes more energy efficient. Maybe put Carl "squeeze the nickel 'till the buffalo bellers" Jordan in charge of it (assuming the press will cover it).
Seems to me a forward thinking progressive city like ACC could quit worrying about taxing wine tastings and outlawing brown bagging, and use this as a job training program tied into maybe the jail. Lead by example by paying the folks a "living wage".
Call me naive but it seems to me that the downtown development authority parking services has a license to steal. Why does the county need to spend it's windfall on re-doing those folks offices?
Oh well.
Preface: I'm a hard shell, get the government off my back out and out of my pocket type of guy. But I work with the poor several years. I definitely don't buy a lot of the touchy feely "up by their bootstraps" crap--- there are plenty of people that are just plain sorry and no amount of money is going to change that.
Saying that, anyone who is opposed to full and complete children's healthcare is an idiot -- full and complete.
First, let me take the high moral ground, the children haven't chosen to be where they are, and they for sure haven't chosen their parents.
After working a while with the impoverished, you quickly realize that for every dollar spent on pre-natal care, and healthcare to about age six, you are probably saving at least a thousand dollars that you are going to have to pay in the future. This is a fact. I just don't understand why more bedrock conservatives don't intuitively understand this. Maybe our third doctor in Congress will be more aware of the problem.
Frankly, I'd make it a crime for a parent not to take a child in for regular checkups, or to what ever services the child required.
I hate to admit that I admire anything French other than wine and croques monsieurs, but the French dispense their version of welfare and foodstamps through medical offices. No checkup and treatment, no benefits. Consequently, the French, to whom the phrase "personal hygiene" is an oxymoron, have a child population that is healthier than ours by any measure.
On of the tremendous costs flying beneath the radar is the tremendous amount of SSI being paid out to people with conditions that were either treatable or subject to therapy at an early age.
The Braves are a .500 team. They don't have the pitching to pull them up. Teixeira may get them back into second place, but the Braves aren't even in the hunt for the wild card slot in the playoffs.
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