Comments on: Clark Howard slams SB 31

By: Icarus

Icarus — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:14:16 +0000

Stan Wise don’t need no stinkin rules.

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:12:24 +0000

Hmmmm, that hasn’t stopped Stan Wise from testifying before the Senate committee that heard SB 31. Isn’t that against PSC rules?

By: ChuckEaton

ChuckEaton — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:59:33 +0000

I’m going to post something on this either later today or tommorrow. Keep in mind, this case is before us at the PSC and we’re quasi-judicial. Which means I have to base my vote on the evidence presented at the hearings. So the post won’t be very opinionated, but it will give some of the pros and cons as I see them.

I don’t want anyone to think I’m avoiding this issue.

By: Doug Deal

Doug Deal — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:34:43 +0000

Thats what those classy thick black lines over the eyes can do for you.

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:31:01 +0000

Nah, I prefer to leave my wife out of my politics.

By: Doug Deal

Doug Deal — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:14:30 +0000

I like this one:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=883316&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=500538128&id=500538128

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:46:22 +0000

Doug,

Go through my Facebook profile and pick one out for me.

By: Dash Riptide

Dash Riptide — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:43:36 +0000

I was a nobody until I uploaded a Gravatar.

By: Dave Bearse

Dave Bearse — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:17:12 +0000

Where are you Governor Perdue?

Out to lunch, as has been the case since he was first elected.

By: Doug Deal

Doug Deal — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:15:52 +0000

How can they be the same person? They have completely different nicknames, and GSUEagle06 wears glasses.

Also, get a freakin’ Gravatar, Pye.

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:11:13 +0000

No joke.

By: Icarus

Icarus — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:07:58 +0000

amateur.

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:35 +0000

I’m sure it’s no coincidence that the two comments are from the same IP address.

By: Icarus

Icarus — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:44:13 +0000

“while I am not in the business of defending Georgia Power, lobbyists, …”

Gee, don’t know why anyone might think you might be paid on behalf of GA Power, just because a brand new poster registered to attack Clark Howard, and then we get the praise of GA power for “complying with the new state ethics laws” (Praise be!) by another brand new poster right behind that one.

No, don’t know why we would think that at all.

By: GSUEagle06

GSUEagle06 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:54:19 +0000

I checked. It is 78 lobbyists, not 70. http://www.ethics.ga.gov/Reports/Lobbyist/Lobbyist_Groupsearchresults.aspx?&Year=2006 and Newer&GroupName=georgia power&GroupNameContains However, while I am not in the business of defending Georgia Power, lobbyists, Clark Howard, or Sonny Perdue, it does look like the vast majority of the “registered lobbyist” for Georgia Power are complying with the new state ethics laws, so the list includes local official lobbyists, board and agency lobbyists, etc. I sort of drought that all 78 are working the bill Clark mentioned.

By: Sapelosnd

Sapelosnd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:18:32 +0000

Hey I remember hearing about this and I did some checking. Looks like Clark Howard has a conflict of interest on here. He fails to mention that he is on the board of a group that is opposing the Bill (SB-31) that he talks about. A little surprised about that with him, he is usually pretty unbiased. http://www.georgiawatch.org.

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:51:08 +0000

You know what I like about the term “the SCOTUS” ?

It sounds like a disease….

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:49:46 +0000

Oh, I differentiate between a central banking cartel and a U.S. Government bank.

But don’t you think it would be fun to throw a challenge their way? And the legislation would bring light to the fact that the Federal Reserve is not Federal, nor does it have a reserve–until it starts demanding payment from the U.S. Government in “public” land. Things might just get nasty then.

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:34:31 +0000

Thank you, Jason, for bringing up that opinion of the Court. But that opinion was in regard to a U.S. Bank, which the Federal Reserve is NOT. It is a private banking entity, bilking the U.S. Government (and thus the taxpayers) but not of the U.S. Government. Perhaps I’m missing your intended point diving so quickly on the more obvious. If so, please redirect more plainly.

I’m sorry, I figured you would have understood plain English and would have been able to figure out things yourself.

There is no way the SCOTUS will over turn established case law that recognizes a central bank as a function of government in Article I, Section 8.

I don’t agree with it either, but you’re not going to change it.

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:28:37 +0000

The Supreme Court is not interested in Individual Life and Liberty. I do not focus my attention on them in any manner other than with the happy hopes that one day America will force the hand of Congress to impeach the whole lot of them and start over.

The Supreme Court “Justices” (to make a mockery of that term) are activists whose opinions have become “law” in the minds of sleeping Americans. But America is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and will soon be awaking from her slumber, and we will see that the revolutionary spirit that made this country is merely lying dormant and will come forth again to take back.