Notes From Atlanta
 Friday, October 04, 2002

McKinney supporters file suit asking to have primary overturned and McKinney declared winner

Cynthia McKinney continues to whine and blame everybody but her mouth for losing her primary. Suit is without merit, because in Georgia you do not have to declare your party and are allowed to vote in either primary. I guess the plantifs are trying to say that if you have ever voted as a Republican, you can never vote in a Demoratic primary?

I'm still thinking that McKinney lost her election because of her and her father's mouths. They just run them too much without thinking.


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Soccer the Ronaldo way.

The finer points of getting up for a World Cup, and other important games. Knowing how and when to score.

2. Study the videotape. In the old days it once was enough to rely on knowledge from prior games and advance scouting. Not anymore. Today's game demands that you use all technologies available and that includes reviewing videotapes. One favorite that I've found to be very effective is "Soccer Moms ... And Daughters.''

And don't cheat yourself. I've learned that it takes repeated viewings to pick up all the nuances and tendencies.

Nice to have groupies! Better to have Brazillian groupies!

Ahh, the life of being a handsome, rich, professional soccer player!


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Jeb Bush puts foot in mouth.

"As (Pamela Graham) was being arrested, she told her co-workers, 'Tell my wife I've been arrested.' The wife is the grandmother, and the aunt is the husband," Bush explained, using his fingers to indicate quotation marks to emphasize the word "grandmother."

They two sisters were arrested for stealing $14,000 in public assistance funds, money they collected for keeping Rilya, the 5-year-old who the Department of Children and Families finally realized was missing 15 months after she dissapeared. Their lawyer calls Bush's allegations and comments outrageous and disgusting. Local gay and lesbian advocacy groups were not too pleased either.

"Bet you don't get that in Pensacola," Bush told his guests, a group of lawmakers from Florida's Panhandle.

Yuck, yuck, yuck! I don't know if Jeb was implying that they don't have gays and lesbians in Pennsacola, or if some of his conservative constituents are too dumb to get the poor joke.


Confederate flag flap at school board meeting.

Freedom of speech means that we will not always like what we hear. The speech that we dislike the most is probably the speech we need to protect with the most passion. Therefore, if a bunch of kids in Cherokee County, Georgia, want to be known as ignorant, racist, redneck hicks, then we should let them.

"I'm concerned [about] what students are being taught in the schools. I'm a taxpayer and I think I have a right to know. It bothers me that a flag of honor is considered racist. It's not racist to be Southern."

No, it is not racist to be southern. However, if you are driving around in a truck with a rebel flag on the bumper, wearing a rebel flag t-shirt to your first day of 9th grade for the third time, and thinking your cousin with the big hair is kind of cute, then you could be a redneck racist.


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