State of the State

Like Bennett is qualified to stand in Haslam's shadow, let alone presume anyone cares about The Wart's opinion about the speed and direction Haslam is taking the state. I moved to Tennessee in part because it was not what the "progressives" have turned many of the other states into.

Bennett, if you don't like it, how about you pack up and take your leftist propaganda somewhere it might be appreciated.

(Bring it on all of you limp wristed socialists that lurk on this page)

Pussy boy Haslam,who was born with that silver spoon in his mouth and has had it all handed to him by Daddy,is surprise surprise, bigs boy.

big,you are commenting on, Haslam the Governor of TN.'s Socialist "Republican" Corporate Welfare Party. Haslam is not worthy or qualified to stand in Clay or my shadow, not even within a hundred miles of either one of us. He was born a rich boy and are besties with Corker and Thunder,and believe this, the people of TN. are in big trouble with this bunch,throw in "Alexander" that has a money stake in our schools and you have a State being run by a bunch of not very bright boys. Tennessee has the Socialist Welfare Co-operations pussy pencil pushers, just what we need and the pitiful voters will deliver.

Quit being a child with that tired ole line, if you don't like it, leave, its so stupid!

I assure you i am not limp wristed and Clay sure as hell is not, looks like his wrist is doing just fine! So why don't you take your limp comments and every thing else thats is as limp as an old dishrag and you leave.

This is a great caricature of the governor. What I perceive missing is a fast approaching steamroller labelled "right-wing congressional leaders".

What I see missing in this cartoon is a picture of the pathetic communist obama behind our wonderful American governor being carried by a bunch of wimpy liberals like bigridgepatheticwimp with karl marx in obama's lap. LOL!

By the way Clay. That cartoon about Judge Moon was disgusting and tasteless. But what else would I expect from another hate filled liberal?

Clay, you should consider doing a toon about Stacy Campfield and his inexcusable propagation of LIES concerning HIV/AIDS. Perhaps something highlighting the courageous woman that recently kicked his @ss out of her restaurant for using his position in government to disseminate such dangerous information would be particularly resonant.

Leading by example(??) in Tennessee oil conservation..if only..Woody

Hate filled liberals or Republicans should not be put down by a judge sitting on his throne spewing hate filled racist bigoted remarks to anyone, including Hispanics, homeless, prostitutes, and poor people who are not perfumed up,or lawyered up.

I would never say something like this about anyone unless i have seen and heard it first hand.

Clay's cartoon was right on. This so-called judge could and should have been removed a long time ago.

He was unkind and unfair and condesending to the extreme.

Sure his friends and peers loved him, but they did'nt know him as a person standing in front of him being judged, unless they had a lawyer who was his friend or he was due a favor, then you got off.

You sicko justice for a few,who have called me every thing but the devil, oh, i've been called that too, because i called Moon just how i saw him,and just like Haslam is, both should never be able to judge or govern a rat.

Wonderful America, right joneses, are you talking about the America that LOVEs to borrow money for Wars from Communist China and gets all their goods from Communist countries, even their medicines.

And joneses don't get it mixed up with its Obamas or Clintons fault, because thats not TRUE. Yeah, we love our Communist business partners!!!

Shouldn't his daddy be behind him pushing him, poor little weak kneed thing. It's enough to bring a tear to a glass eye,he had it so hard growing up.

Gee I don't get the meaning of this cartoon. Did Governor Haslam die? Mr. Bennett usually specializes in insulting the freshly deceased.

"Haste makes waste."

"He who hesitates is sometimes saved"--James Thurber.

"Have you no idea of Progress, of Development?" "I have seen them both [happen] in an egg. We call it Going Bad in Narnia."--C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

President Obama rushed off the deficit cliff with his worthless stimulus bill, and rushed into taking power from the 99% and giving it to the 1% of bureaucrats with Obamacare. There's something to be said for caution.

On the other hand, "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice! Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"--Barry Goldwater. The faster Gov. Haslam replaces tax-paid schools with education vouchers spendable anywhere, and tax-paid health care/insurance with health care/insurance vouchers so that each of us can keep the money we save by healthy living instead of having to get sick to pick other people's pockets, and the faster he makes the barber board and other worthless bureaucracies' personnel go get real jobs, the better. Jesus is libertarian.

Hey potcat, do you feel better now that you have gained your revenge on the deceased?

And we wonder why there is so much hate around us....

Why do decriers of Clay Bennett always sees a negative in his cartoons? Why not look for the positive for a change? I see a new governor learning how to move Tennessee forward. Once he gets his balance, he can remove the training wheels.

"The faster Gov. Haslam replaces tax-paid schools with education vouchers spendable anywhere, and tax-paid health care/insurance with health care/insurance vouchers so that each of us can keep the money we save by healthy living instead of having to get sick to pick other people's pockets, and the faster he makes the barber board and other worthless bureaucracies' personnel go get real jobs, the better. Jesus is libertarian." - WendyLohr

Oh, the idiocy of believing that healthy living alone is any kind of solution to our health care dilemma! You libertarians and "rugged individualist" types are so friggin' weird you're funny. Ever hear of MS, MD, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, Cancer (all the various types), car accidents, sports injuries, etc., etc., etc.? Sure, healthy living can prevent certain illnesses but accidents happen no matter how cautious or healthy we are, and serious illnesses can and do occur, due in large part to our genetic predisposition. To think that health care should be entirely the individual's responsibility and not have something in place to cover us those times accidents and serious illness occur is just silly, immature reasoning. But then, such is the mind of the libertarian.

And Jesus was a libertarian in your libertarian mind only. To the Christian soldiers, he came bearing a sword; to the pacifists he came in peace; to the greedy, he came to bless their riches; to the poor he came promising salvation and riches in heaven; to the Republicans, he would have been a Republican today; to the Democrats, he would have been a Democrat. Jesus is whatever people want him to be. There was no virgin-born, death-defying, water-walking, all-perfect man/god. Like Santa Claus, he exists in your mind only - as does your libertarian utopia.

Rickroo, that just might shut Wendys dumb A$$ up for a minute but I doubt it.

(Bring it on all of you limp wristed socialists that lurk on this page)

Stay the course, wingnut. No one has to say a thing about you. Just keep vomiting your rhetoric.

When do you secede?

Jesus is libertarian.

Oh lord. LIBERTARIAN?

You people are just pathetic.

PollCat:

I see that you have progressed from the denial stage of your political reality and are now in the anger stage.

Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance

But dayam bro. you are definitely overripe.

Gypsyhero said...

"Clay, you should consider doing a toon about Stacy Campfield and his inexcusable propagation of LIES concerning HIV/AIDS. Perhaps something highlighting the courageous woman that recently kicked his @ss out of her restaurant for using his position in government to disseminate such dangerous information would be particularly resonant."

Yes let's see that toon on the absolutely bat-$^&& crazy hate and intolerance that oozes out of a certain segment of the Libtard population if you in any way differ from their dogma on certain issues. Mr. Campfield may have espoused some odd ideas but the response was revealing in its hate and viciousness from the touchy feeling tolerance crowd.

Someone calling Campbell on his lies is considered "hate and viciousness"? Especially when his lies are crafted to cause hate and fear? I think that intolerance towards lies should be lauded.

No Ricky the biggest killers and costliest healthcare crisis in this country is Lard-@&& Disease and Drug Abuse and it is 100% self administered.

“Citizens” who are “truly” incapable of providing their own means of paying for healthcare should be assisted by the government. Those that can … should. It is sadly true that some that can … will not.

Those people, that will not, still demand and receive care at other’s expense although rightly it should only be emergency care. This increases the costs to the general public but the government has no right to dictate that anyone should be required to purchase healthcare coverage. The fact that they even think they have the right to force the citizens to purchase a product or service as a condition of living in this country is reprehensible. (Now is the point for some of you dunces to bring up car insurance)

For those that can but will not provide for the expense of their healthcare should be stripped of their assets including future income to the amount needed to do so. If they think that they would just move to the dole if the former occurred, they should be disabused of that idea immediately by disqualifying them. A few of those cases covered in the media will, for the most part, deal with that problem.

BTW … Jesus is not a registered voter or citizen and I mean that in the best sort of way and on several levels.

Joneses sees Obama behind Haslam. When you were young you probably saw monsters under your bed. In the 60s, it was Communists. Now it's Obamas. Maybe it's time you quit looking under your bed.

Ok everybody, Haslam is a wimp. He is a luke warm, moderate Republican (You notice I said Republican versus conservative). The only thing worse would have been a liberal democrat.

potcat....your first paragraph was dead right..."Pussy boy Haslam,who was born with that silver spoon in his mouth and has had it all handed to him by Daddy,is surprise surprise, bigs boy."

I couldn't have said it better myself. The only thing worse would be a democrat.

I would rather have an honest person who I don't agree with than a dishonest one I do agree with.

lkeithlu said...

“Someone calling Campbell on his lies is considered "hate and viciousness"? Especially when his lies are crafted to cause hate and fear? I think that intolerance towards lies should be lauded.”

Why don’t you list those “lies” for us so we can review them and judge if you are full of “it’ or not.

Your intolerance is not for any “lies” that Campfield (need to get your enemies names right if you are going to be taken seriously) that you may or may not be able to prove. Your basic problem is that he disagrees with your views, especially on this subject, and can’t tolerate that he gets to speak his views in public. People like you are tolerant only of views that you agree with and all others should be suppressed.

“Intolerance for Intolerance” that’s a Libtard term right up there with “Fake but Accurate”.

I admit I got his name wrong, but that doesn't make what he said about HIV any less wrong.

Here is a list of his lies already put together for you, all you have to do is look:

http://www.wate.com/story/16619782/health-director-disputes-sen-stacey-campfields-aids-claims

Good Lord i got the nutjobs going today..tu=lu, you don't make a bit of sense, as far as you trying to analyze me, you are really analizing your own overripe ego! All you promote is anarchy, your imaginary political authority, disorder and confusion is what you thrive on,and the analogous way you write, thinking you are so clever and smarter, the absence of any perpose and standards is very telling though, but Oh how you try to be the smart one in the group, when everyone knows the insecurity is so real,your lack of insight and inteligence. Every post is just a mask of sadness. someone has really put you in your place, and your EGO MAD, and its only going to get worse, the bad thing is, you want get by with it on this thread.

What can i say about timboo, nothing really, he makes no sense at all!

If you think i am mad and in denial, i really can't imagine anyone thinking that of me, i'm so happy, i'm beside myself with bliss! My hubby and i are going to walk to the lake with the dogs. I could not be happier, maybe if i lived in denial, i would be a little bit more relaxed, but i like reality and the truth, good, bad and ugly.

wendylohr is actually andrew dressed in drag

shoe_chucker, Andrew (my husband) forgot to sign me out before he posted. He is not in the habit of dressing in drag. :)

potcat......and you make sense ? You are illogical, emotional, and trapped in your liberal fantasy . I I said I agreed with 1 paragraph . If I don't make sense ,and I printed your paragraph , I guess you don't make sense either . FYI, that is an exercise in a logic .

mtngrl:

"My understanding is that it's virtually, not completely, but virtually impossible to contract AIDS, outside of blood transfusions, through heterosexual sex. It's virtually impossible.”

"It's very difficult for a man to catch it from a woman through vaginal sex unless they are of a high risk group, people from Africa, Haitians, IV drug users, prostitutes, things like that"

… Stacy Campfield

"Anyone who's having intercourse with other people, and more than one person, they're at risk for HIV and AIDS regardless of their sexual orientation,"

… Dr. Martha Buchanan, director of the Knox County Health Department

She says they are at risk but gives no data as to the likelihood so I don’t see where she proved him wrong.

“In the radio interview, Campfield also said he believed AIDS was transmitted to the human population through a man having sex with a monkey."

"HIV did come from monkeys. We know that. And it resulted from the hunting of those monkeys in Africa and then exposure to the blood of the monkeys that had been killed,"

… Dr. Martha Buchanan, director of the Knox County Health Department

The fact is that neither can claim their version is the truth as no one knows how the initial transfer took place. At least he said his version was based on his beliefs but she stated hers as fact.

"What's the average life span of a homosexual? It's very short."

… Stacy Campfield

"As the top health official in this county, I worry when anybody gets up and publicly gives misinformation about any public health issue"

… Dr. Martha Buchanan, director of the Knox County Health Department

He doesn’t state what time frame “very short” covers but she offers no time frame at all.

Where are the lies?

PoleCat:

The more you post the more I think that some RWNJ political PAC is paying you to pretend to be a Libtart. I also think that the real Libtar(d)/(t)s would gladly take up a collection to get you to shut up. They know that you do more damage to their cause than any of their opponents could ever accomplish.

You are really grasping at straws there tu_quoque.

"My understanding is that it's virtually, not completely, but virtually impossible to contract AIDS, outside of blood transfusions, through heterosexual sex. It's virtually impossible"

That is only anywhere close to the truth if women are not counted at all. We count. He lied. 14% of all male heterosexual AIDS cases in 2009 were from heterosexual contact, 85% of cases for women were: http://www.avert.org/usa-transmission-gender.htm

“In the radio interview, Campfield also said he believed AIDS was transmitted to the human population through a man having sex with a monkey." "HIV did come from monkeys. We know that. And it resulted from the hunting of those monkeys in Africa and then exposure to the blood of the monkeys that had been killed,"

So you think hunting equals sex? There are no official theories that include man/monkey sex as the cause (and even if there were, you already stated men cant get it heterosexually so by that theory the monkey would have to be the assailant)

http://www.avert.org/origin-aids-hiv.htm

check out the rest of that site if you are actually concerned with truth instead of your own ego

Damage to the Liberal cause, the libtards would gladly pay me to shut up. Is your overripe delusional ego in overload and can't process an intelligent thought? The above post from mtngrl really proved how STUPID you are.

I am a Liberal, but not a fan of Obamas. If i am so bad at posting and writting and make the posters on this thread wince at the very sight of me, i will make this proposal, they can vote yes for me to stay on this thread or no for me to go.

Please be honest and i will stay or go ,you decide. I don't want to be where i am not wanted.

I am tired of being told how everyone feels ashamed of my post, honestly i thought i was no better or worse than the rest.

So tu_lu we will see if every one feels as you do, you seem to know what they are thinking, 123 GO..

At least he's wearing a safety helmet.

Hang around, potcat, though when I went to school they taught me to capitalize "I."
shoe, LOL. (This is still Andrew. Easier to make that clear than to sign out and log in.) From Rickaroo "Oh, the idiocy of believing that healthy living alone is any kind of solution to our health care dilemma!" Did I call for "healthy living alone"? Obviously healthy living would help; it would shrink the problem. Giving people incentives to use less health care would reduce demand for health care and thus reduce its cost without "death panels." High-deductible insurance for unexpected emergencies, yeah. Spreading the costs of long-term chronic care, maybe. Reducing regulations so prices can fall, yeah. Prices convey information, so prices should be free to reflect reality: STD insurance should be allowed to cost more for prostitutes than for nuns. (Not forced either way, but allowed.)

Jesus is a wax nose in which anyone sees what they want to see? You sort of have a point, but on your own terms, is that and a fairy tale what you want to see in Him, as opposed to the Judge to whom you will give account for your life? Look, you know I see more love in Jesus dying for my sins, and more power in his rising up alive on the third day, than I see in anyone else (Marx, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Lyndon Johnson...). So repent and follow Jesus.

But as a minor league historian (B.A. and lots of reading), how did mankind get from Caesar Augustus B.C. (no Jesus movement) to Nero A.D. 60s (killing "immense multitudes" of Christians in Rome according to Tacitus)? The Bible gives one account, but even most doubters admit some kind of Jesus really lived and impressed people enough to start a movement. So there was a real Jesus and we know at least something about him. I intend "Jesus is libertarian" is partly to tease and to provoke thought, but I think it and He are similar enough to make the overstatement, or imprecision, true enough for present purposes.

(N. T. Wright on Wright's account of Jesus in "Jesus and the Victory of God": "...it is not a self-portrait. I wish it were." If JVG's 700 pages are too many for y'all, read Wright's "The Challenge of Jesus," < 200 pages with more than JVG on resurrection and Christian living.)

Don't go, potcat. I would miss your perspective. Your posts are easily understood.

Oooooh! mtngrl b-slaps tu_quoque like she's his pimpanzee!

tu_... are we to blame Dian Fosse or Jane Goodall?

I can see tu_ running terrified from a silverback with earrings and a homosexual erectus.

thank you and goodnight. potcat should occupy this page.

[Here's my version......]

http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo180/Police_Moderator/TFPDrivenoffCliff.jpg

I vote 'potcat' stays. Andrew should also stay. Tu-quoque can go, along with bigridge. Alprove' should stay.

"I vote 'potcat' stays. Andrew should also stay. Tu-quoque can go, along with bigridge. Alprove' should stay."

Thanks, Clay.

Hang in potcat! You obviously care about things that matter.

Ignore the narcissist mega-troll!

mtngrl :

Why did you not include the second part of his statement that showed he was talking primarily about male cases and was not as extreme as his earlier claim?

"It's very difficult for a man to catch it from a woman through vaginal sex unless they are of a high risk group, people from Africa, Haitians, IV drug users, prostitutes, things like that"

The below data came from you first link.

Through 2009 there were cumulative about 60,000 males infected by heterosexual activity and about 820,000 by other means with 610,000 involving homosexual activity. That means that heterosexual is only about 10% of the homosexual total. Considering that about 95% of sexual contact is heterosexual then you can easily see that heterosexual contribution is miniscule. Even if you include the females which they list as being acquired thru only heterosexual activity, drug use, or other, you add about 230,000, with only about 130,000 thru heterosexual, to the total. Now you have about 190,000 heterosexual to 610,000 homosexual and you are still dealing with 95% of sexual activity being heterosexual. Comparing the heterosexual to homosexual you have 75% of the cases in the homosexual group even though their activity makes up about 5% of the total.

His statements about the chances of contacting aids are somewhat confused and at times considered to be exaggerated but he was and is closer than you would state.

This statement came from your second link.

“It is likely that we will never know who the first person was to be infected with HIV, or exactly how it spread from that initial person.”

I did not endorse his version but his is just as likely as yours and at least he stated his was based on his opinion however you and the good doctor are claiming yours to be fact. As for the monkey being the aggressor in the monkey sex scenario it is just as likely he had his way with a native since no one knows for sure.

Pollcat:

You are running an excellent scam and you have these Libtards cheering you on.

A Righteous job, Dudette.

Dud Boy:

At least mntgrl is making the attempt while you are strutting around behind her saying ... Sic him !!

Why don't you step up front and do a little combat or are you unequipped intellectually to do so. You never add anything of substance so what is your purpose for being here except to feed off of other's efforts.

The links provided make it clear that Campfield is wrong, and Campfield's motivation in making his claims is transparent. That you don't understand how science works and that you have the same prejudices as Campfield is also obvious. It changes nothing.

wow, tu_quoque, you sound like timbo more and more. If you don't mind, I think I'll just say what I want, when I want.

dude_abides said...

"wow, tu_quoque, you sound like timbo more and more. If you don't mind, I think I'll just say what I want, when I want."

Which is very little but it is at least mindless drivel.

LMAO

lkeithlu said...

"The links provided make it clear that Campfield is wrong, and Campfield's motivation in making his claims is transparent. That you don't understand how science works and that you have the same prejudices as Campfield is also obvious. It changes nothing."

I am at least able to provide an analysis of the data in the links which is more than I can say for you. I guess you just post them and its not your job classification to understand them.

You have shown no more understanding than Campfield has.

lkeithlu said...

"You have shown no more understanding than Campfield has."

You keep saying I'm wrong but I don't see any analysis from you personally that is any proof. Present your case or vacate the field.

Campfield said: HIV transferred from apes to humans via sex. You agreed. The report suggested that depending on the version of the virus (and there are several) the bush meat trade is most likely. Only in your and Campfield's twisted imagination would sexual contact with apes be the transmission venue.

I'll post more later when I have time, unless someone else beats me to it. By the way, you have no say on who else posts here. So your telling me to vacate will be ignored.

"“My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex…very rarely [transmitted],”

Incorrect. HIV is transmitted through heterosexual sex. See CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/basic/index.htm#spread

”What’s the average lifespan of a homosexual? it’s very short. Google it yourself."

Distortion of research conducted by Hoggs, R.S et al (about which they lodged a formal complaint)

Want to read much much more?

http://antigayliesandliars.blogspot.com/2010/09/top-six-religious-right-distortion.html#more

lkeithlu said...

"Campfield said: HIV transferred from apes to humans via sex. You agreed."

Typical Fleabagger trick. Lie about your opponent's positions. You won't and can't back that lie up so we will discard your statement.

I do have the right to tell you to post your facts or vacate the field. I have that right under the common law concept of the "Priesthood of the Poster".

You are welcome to try and prove my statements wrong if you like.

I wonder about people sometimes.

lkeithlu said...

"“My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex…very rarely [transmitted],” Incorrect. HIV is transmitted through heterosexual sex. See CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/basic/index.htm#spread

You are still avoiding his follow up statement and he did not deny that you can contact AIDs through heterosexual sex and I definitely did not. However you are overstating you position that it is just as easy as homosexual sex which it is not.

lkeithlu said...

"You are welcome to try and prove my statements wrong if you like."

What statements have you made that contain any objective facts. You have done nothing but post links that obviously you do not understand.

And you are implying that he is being truthful when in fact he is not. And nothing that I posted implied that there was equal risk. But his statement of "virtually impossible" is meant to mislead, and can be interpreted that one is safe from HIV AIDS if one is hetereosexual. He MEANT to mislead. And you condone this by defending him. This is not a matter of opinion, but based on medical evidence. Statements like these are meant to mislead people into supporting discrimination against the LGBT community.