His Hoooomme's In Alabama...

I missed this Ivan Maisel I-Formation from a few weeks back. Maisel likes to act all high-minded because he went to that fancy hippie-tree school in Calleyfornia, but in his heart he is but a true Bammer. He kindly shared his faux social awareness with us to riff on Georgia's tag dispute, entitled "Bonfire of the Vanities."

. . . That's more than $100,000 from the wallets of fans who don't like Georgia or Georgia Tech. Rep. Fleming introduced legislation that would require a reciprocal tag in any other state with a university that has a vanity license plate in the state of Georgia.

I've heard of legislators who spend the people's money like drunken sailors. I don't recall hearing of legislators who work to shut off money from the people. What's worse, the Georgia House passed the legislation, 142-10.

As the song says, "Glory, glory to old Georgia."

Wow, hard to argue with any of that. This year's State budget was approximately $20 billion. For those of you keeping score at home, that's approximately 1/2 millionth (?) of the budget. He must not know that the Georgia Legislature is trying to end taxes altogether. Georgia will make that $100K back in one day from gambling Alabama rednecks on the border who would rather send governors to the federal pokey than vote for their lottery proposals.

Ivan Maisel: Learned College Football Writer/Political Commentator/Zip-Cardigan Model

Listen, I have no real opinion on this one way or the other, and its one of those issues that make me glad my preferred party is nowhere near power. But Mandel's self-righteousness is petulant. If his argument is that no legislature should refuse tax monies of any kind, why doesn't he call for all of Georgia's neighboring states (ahem, Alabama) to sell other state's university tags? Imagine his guffawing if he heard that Georgia allowed Gator tags: "Georgians must be desperate for money- they sell their civic pride $25 at a time!"

Ivan, I understand, if my native state was the epicenter of Redneck America, I would be looking to make illogical cracks on other states as well.

Obviously Furman Reads the 4WFS

Furman Bisher gets the same idea I had last year. I'd wager he had to dust off the 4 years of dust on it since he wrote it though. The article basically talks about how Brett "Fov" drank, then pissed away his opportunity with the Falcons. It's amazing how circumstances can define a person. The NFL should send the Falcons a gift basket for getting rid of him before the ATL broke Brett's ass-slapping spirit. I wonder where the Vickster would be if he latched on with a competent franchise?

Sure, he could booze, but could he make it to the federal pen?

The real reasons to read Furman's column are the enlightening comments afterward. Furman really draws the vitriol out for some reason. I don't understand it; frankly I'm impressed at how lucid he is. Good for him. But, I just wanted to point out one comment in particular. I should make this a running documentary on 4WFS just to preserve the utter stupidity of AJC.com readers for posterity. [As I'm writing this, I discovered that the ajc.com took down what was the be the featured quote. Thank God they do this now. I was going to cut and paste a comment by "Bob" who basically said "yepper, Buckhead used to be great but blacks ruined and the Mexicans are doing it to Sandy Springs now." Um, ok. I bet Bob loves the Hawks commentary on this blog. The thread also devolved into anti-Bob and pro-Bob camps. Pro-Bobbers expanded on his logic for even broader social commentary and argued against the northern expansion of MARTA. Way to keep it on topic, Bobby. How embarrassing. For your family.]

Here's a backup quote:

"By las

March 4, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

Typical Bisher! The greatest QB of all time retires and all he can do is liken him to some former QBs that couldn’t hold Favre’s jock and then spotlight the low points of the most wonderful career ever. Can Bisher ever say anything good about anyone without dwelling on the negative. I hope that when Furman retires all anyone writes about is his reprehensible behavior when he maligned, libeled and slandered Bear Bryant and Wally Butts back in the 1960s. Is it not time we washed our hands of this sorry charlatan!"

Again, I don't get the Bisher hate. And LAS must have the longest memory ever.

Driving with Diapers!

Despite Tim Hardaway's proclamation of his hatred for gays, (note that Tim has recently affirmed his hatred by commenting on past articles found in this blog) I have decided to write about people driving with diapers on. I am not talking about this famous cosmonaut. However, I am talking about NASCAR.

Let us first remember that NASCAR is the organization that prides itself on safety. They have even gone so far as to install flaps on the tops of the cars to reduce the highlight reel flips that drew people to the sport.

Because of the above, I was shocked to read about this 72 year old hotrodder attempting to qualify, for America's Greatest Race, today at almost 200 miles per hour. This was even more shocking after learning of this incident that took place today.

The intimidator would spin the old man out. Love the Gargoyles Dale.

Long live Dale! We miss you 3 Car.

Salutations,
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