The radical/liberal/socialist dominance of American colleges and universites can only be described as incestuous. The various department search committees are only hiring new faculty members who agrees with themselves socially and politically, and the students (innocent trend followers) are having their diapers changed by these people.

This administration is a bunch of unqualified, impotent, lying hacks. The panic and the lies were about the election plain and simple. The election their cowardness and their naivete, and the frightening realization that another unqualified liberal weakling, Hillary Clinton, would be exposed by her incompetence. "Al Qaeda is decimated" they were all saying while pounding their chests. "Most transparent administration ever" what a pathetic disgusting joke. The whole world is laughing.

A Republican was elected in a staunchly Republican district. This is another example of how deep the loathing is for anything or anybody Democrat. Like the poster above has said, the hypocrisy is laughable. Many will crucify this guy and give the king of sleaze BJ Clinton a pass. The polarization continues.

@Jim Thompson: Plucked a nerve there, didn't we Jim? Your disdain for the majority is noted.

"Democrats tired of being in the minority........." It should be pointed out to Mr. Jones that from 1872 until 2002, Democrats controlled this state. That's 130 years. There were no Republican governors and both houses had a democrat majority. If Democrats are so certain that this will flip in the near future, how about sitting back and letting the other guys drive for a while.

@emanon: And what are you talking about??? Did I mention anything about not wanting a university??? I'm sick of all the bellyaching about funding. Tuition goes up and the and the wailing is deafening. It's a constant melodrama of bureaucrats sustaining themselves and their postions. If you don't like what you are being paid, leave. Go to Nashvillle or Atlanta. That's how the real world works. There are plenty knocking at the door to take your place.

Nothing is ever right in the Emerald City. This is the charade that must be sold to the public and lawmakers to keep hundreds of millions pouring in year after year. A cynical view? Yes. But we hear this tired old whine about funding endlessly.

We are all in a tizzy when we hear about foreign terrorist hatching plots to kill us, but right here in our midst are home grown social terrorist like these two, who snatch wonderful people out of their homes and murder them for no other reason than a few dollars. And there is an endless pipeline of them doing this same kind of a thing everyday somewhere in the country. It's pure perpetuated evil.

What is amazing is how little Americans know about payroll tax from Mr. Grimes down to all the commenters. First of all that 2% decrease in payroll tax that Obama implemented should never have happened. Do you know where the 2% came from??????? SOCIAL SECURITY. Why on earth would a politician sap 2% away from the darling of FDR. Social Security has become sacrosant to the American public and well is should. You pay in, you get back out. It's not a grant, not welfare, and not a freebie. Workers pay in and when they retire they begin to pull out those funds for their final years. It's the collectivists dream, one big pot from which all retired workers dip. Why steal from Social Security? Because there has always been a surplus and that surplus has been repeatedly siphoned off for the general fund. Why do you think the 2% wasn't taken from Federal Withholding? Repeat, it should never have happened, it was partianship pure and simple. The new liberal president bestowing gifts to his supporters. Bush cut income tax rates, he didn't lower Social Security or Medicare tax rates. Republicans were villified for the Bush tax cuts, and Democrats were glorified for the 2% FICA decrease. Hypocrisy. If one is perceived to be rich they deserve higher taxes. If one is not, those should be taxed less. Class warfare pure and simple. Who is going to make up that shortfall of 2% in Social Security that went on for four years? My guess is that down the line it will be heaped on employers and small business persons. And let's not forget that employers still had to match the 2% that employees kept with the temporary ill conceived tax cut.

If in our own lives accumulating debt is the road to ruin then why is it not the same for our government. It appears this double standard is nothing more than a political tool to buy the votes of those who see the government as a benefactor for themselves. The U. S. is in an intolerable debt stuation and has been since 9/11 when a new department was created and two wars were launched. Add to that the massive spending for additional security, the massive expansion of the food stamp program, disability being handed out like cheese, Tarp, 800+ billion in stimulus spending, and buttressing it all, The Affordable Care Act. This level of spending makes Economics a joke and we were taught it was a science? It is the height of hypocrisy to require working contributing citizens to live in economic reality while the government operates in a fantasy. We are not ON the fast track to European style democratic socialism, we are THERE. A burning building will likely not extinguish itself. One option would be to watch the blaze while theorizing about the various chemcial reaction occuring, better known as the academic approach. A second option would be to work like hell to put it out using every resource available, better known as the realistic method or the stop digging principle.

[quote][b]xMarauderx[/b] - This is what happens with disrespectful, and stupid frat kids. Some of these kids were never taught how to behave in public by mommy and daddy. Glad he got charged, serves him right for being a moron.[/quote]

Congratulations!!! You are the BIGOT OF THE DAY.

@mpd0.59: Probably didn't have a carry license.

The nobodys criticizing a somebody.

Night of the Iguana

The feeders are called daily to the trough. Their heads are securely clamped. It is not painful. There is enough movement to eat freely and to look side to side to view the other feeders. There is also just enough head movement to look up and read the sign directly in front on the trough wall. '"They want to deny you your rights and take away what you deserve. Hate the man. The man has caused your misery. Vote Democrat, and don't forget your check and free phone." A life for a vote is a pretty rotten trade. When will it end? It won't. We are seeing reparations by executive order, and when the reaparations net was thrown (bypassing Congress where it would never have passed) it also had to cover poor whites and hispanics as to not appear so blatant. The"give away" party doesn't care. They control the printing presses. 16.5 trillion in debt, 50 million on food stamps, disability being handed out like candy, the downward spiral is gaining momentum.

In two months Kerry has done more as Secretary of State than Clinton did in four years.

Romney would have donated his whole paycheck, as JFK did. Obama ran for president for the pay and perks which he is taking full advantage of, and you can bet your next paycheck he will take full advantage of the tax deduction.

I am not a John Kerry fan and think that he is as hypocritical as Ted Kennedy was. But, I must say that in two months he has done more as Secretary of State that Hillary Clinton did in four years. Clinton was over matched as she would be as president. Obama gave her State to get her out of Washington and out of his business. One of his few accomplishments.

"The sun is here. We don't have to pay for the sun." Oh yea, just wait. If there is a way to tax anything that people use, politicians will concoct a way to do it. It will have a BS description something like, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PRODUCTION AND USE TAX or VISIBLE SIGHT ENABLING MEANS TAX.

The reality of gas and diesel prices keeps kicking us in the groin and slapping us in the face, yet all we can answer with is crying and whinning. Get rid of the suvs and image cars and get hybrids. There's nothing wrong with two hybrids in the driveway. They are perfect for the commute to work. Keep the pickup and drive it only when necessary. I have a hybrid and the consumption readout indicates 50.8 mpg since the last fill up. Pretty sure I'm not turning any heads, but after driving 450 miles and filling up for $31.50, I have no problem with being obscure. It's a fact that less demand because of fuel efficient cars will not decrease the price of gasoline. China, and other developing countries will snap up every available barrel. Only lower crude prices will decrease prices. Ain't gonna happen, and if it does it will only be for a few weeks. Adjust, adapt, overcome, and cut out the frivilous driving. Don't wait for the oil industry to make your life easier, ain't gonna happen. Smart trumps cool every time.

Being raised Catholic infuses one with a very complex set of variables especially if one also attended Catholic school. Looking back I remember the nuns and priests who taught us continually reminding us of the poor and persecuted. So, with that being a major theme of church leaders, the plight of the under priviledged was made a part of our thought process. Filling in the blanks, if there are poor, persecuted, and under priviledged in the society something must be done about it, someone or some group must be responsible and that whole dynamic can easily be translated into politics. The theme of social justice was planted very early.

Dixie Twit.

Very bad news about bee decline. Last year when the hollies were blooming I saw hundreds of honey bees attending the flowers. It was a joyful sight. Always looking for honey bees and bumble bee activity in the summer. However, there appears to no decline in carpenter bees or wasps.

The administration is in a panic over the sequester because the public will see very little perceptible change when implemented. The sky will not fall and the spending addicts, who brought this on themselves, will begin their rehab.

Parking is a cash cow for Athens, and when governments grow too large, build too much, and hire too many they become fixated on their few non-tax cash cows to provide revenue. This is a recipe to kill a public shopping area. Like it or not many of us do not like decks, especially if one's business downtown will not take long. Here's a fix. Decrease hourly parking fees for street parking. Decrease deck fees. This invites those in who can't find a street space. Decrease fines. Without a doubt high fines are a deal breaker. The anger and resentment takes a long time to heal. Put all the downtown spaces on the kiosk system after 6:00 p.m. and charge a flat rate, let's say $2.00 for the entire evening. Even so, spaces will still turn over. Enforce until 2:00 a.m. The ideal situation, which was missed, would have been to keep all the meters. They would have been used for parking from 8 a.m until 6 p.m. When properly working they are the most convenient means of paying to park. After 6 p.m. the kiosk system could have been used for all of the downtown spaces until 2 a.m.