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Decatur Metro | February 20, 2014
Downtown Decatur, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Squirrel-Headed Bastard)
Downtown Decatur, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Squirrel-Headed Bastard)
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That’s awesome!
You just KNOW that Vernon Jones watches House of Cards with a notepad in his lap.
UNDERWOOD/JONES ’16: Why settle for the lesser of two evils?
A crook for sheriff – What a great idea!
I thought that was a prerequisite.
Judging from his election website, other prerequisites include cowboy boots and a big-ass hat.
Derwin Brown wasn’t a crook, and he died because of it. I know you were just making a joke, but there’s real human tragedy attached to that office.
Wasn’t Derwin Brown murdered after winning the election, but before he took the office? Murdered because he planned to investigate the corruption in the sheriff’s office under Sidney Dorsey.
It is a tragic story, and for Vernon Jones to pursue that office is a kick to DeKalb County’s groin.
Well chosen to not ignore the Derwin Brown episode. My father was a public official, and word on the street was that he was the next target. We had to have protection 24/7 for a good while. Corruption brings trauma.
What’s he running on? “You couldn’t catch me as CEO, you’ll never touch me as Sheriff!”
Vote Fox for Henhouse Manager!
That yard sign is illegally placed. Not good for a sheriff candidate.
+1 – if he’s sheriff who will charge him?
Code Enforcement is a DCPD issue, not Sheriffs.
I don’t expect Vernon knows that, though.
Vernon for sheriff, God help us. South DeKalb will probably vote for him.
” South DeKalb will probably vote for him.”
Why do you think that?
Those things were all over downtown today and most of them were in illegal places, like the Old Courthouse lawn. Not surprising, considering the name on them.
How many others are running for Sheriff? If there are several, Vernon might just be able to slip in through the back door.
He will probably will be elected because illiterate people will vote for him several times as they are instructed by their voting mentor. . After all they elected Obama., the worst president in American history with his money being furnished by Soros, a man that hates America,. and Obama;s ” minister” a man that said “God Damn America “, and railed against America and the white race for over 20 years in Obans presence and Obama never defender his white mother.
Did you know a county in Montana reported that the new voting machines handled 144.000 votes
with no problem but, the county has only 19,000 registered voters.
My voting mentor instructed me to encourage you to post around here much more often.
Hold on, lemme get my popcorn.
I think he will be elected as well, to our great misfortune.
As for the rest of your post I can only say !Ay Caramba!
Cynthia McKinney proved that the voters of this county will elect damn near anyone.
. . . over and over and over again.
Careful. Cynthia still has many ardent supporters around here, as I learned when I (correctly) referred to her as an embarrassment.
And that was kind of you!
Hey. She opened the FBI’s file on Tupac.
That counts for something.
(and I’m actually semi-serious here – his family deserves closure as much as anyone’s.)
I don’t know what qualifies him to be sheriff, but he may well be elected because many people, maybe most, in DeKalb think they were better off when he was around.
Really? I mean, my mom and crazy uncles send me lots of wacko emails that I “must read” about Obama’s awfulness, but on DM I thought I was safe. As a wonderful bumper sticker I saw the other day read: “Do you keep hearing crazy voices? Then turn off Fox news.”
OH MY GOD DID YOU KNOW HE WAS A MUSLIM I’M PRETTY SURE HE IS MUSLIM AND HE IS FROM ZIMBABWE AND SOME STATES LIKE AFRICA AND OH MY GOD HE HATES THE TROOPS AND HE HATES FLAGS TOO THE CHRISMAS TREE IN THE WHITE HOUSE WAS JUST FOR SHOW BECAUSE AND I READ HE IS BIN LADENS COUSIN AND MR SOROS IS TRYING TO CONTROL PEOPLE AND MY BRAIN I CAN SEE THEM WHEN THEY TALK THROUGH THE RADIO THEY TRY TO SAY NICE THINGS BUT I THINK THEY ARE EVIL AND COMING TO GET US REALLY SOON BUT I AM NOT SCARED BECAUSE I KNOW THERE SECRETS
And he ate a baby once.
While I don’t subscribe to Theron’s point of view, I do find it humorous that most of you seem to have forgotten the Bush years. The level of ridiculousness coming from the left cannot be overstated. And, sorry, but Obama does have serious baggage whether you choose to believe it or not. First issue for me was his complete lack of experience in anything that would prepare him for office. But you all just continue to turn a blind eye. After all, he clearly has done a great job…
If I live long enough and become senile enough, I might be fortunate enough to finally forget the Bush years.
What has been better for you/us the last 5 years? Same ole wars? Weak economy? A joke healthcare legislation? Really, tell me what is better now that you are so glad the Bush years are over.
I’m much better off personally, but that’s mostly irrelevant. Things that don’t personally affect me that are better: no more don’t ask, don’t tell; somewhat tougher environmental standards ( I know you won’t agree that’s better); some degree of reduction in the military’s budget (though that happened more by default than from Obama’s doing); no more talk of privatizing Social Security (or, from today’s news, even minor cuts–and again, I know you won’t agree that’s “better”.) And though I don’t think the ACA is a good law, it’s the one that’s affected me the most personally, as I have at least three relatives who wouldn’t have health insurance without it (and one of them has major health problems, and, incidentally, can’t stand Obama).
How about at least some minor semblance of respect for LGBT Americans? That’s something Bush never bothered with.
If you’re gay? Yeah, you’re better off under Obama than Bush.
No doubt about that one. Though he initially followed on that issue more than led.
Not sure that is accurate. Initially he was aligned with his anti-lgbt church and was opposed to gay marriage. That isn’t following. But, he did cave to overwhelming political pressure and switch his stance. Not sure that qualifies as leading. However, I will concede that no matter the reason, he eventually arrived at the correct answer.
I’ll concede some of that, but I think he has led since making the switch. And I will also add that I lament the fact that politicians feel they have to align with any church.
As a card carrying LGBT member, I actually supported him waiting until his second term to blow the lid off the issue. I don’t think we would have such a progressive movement now if he had tried to tackle that big white elephant in his first term. Of course it would have been great to have his support earlier, but I honestly believe more Republicans are embracing us now than would have four years earlier.
Either that, or it was the hipster movement.
That “joke healthcare legislation” is as much Congress’ fault as it is the President’s.
It’s the same healthcare idea proposed by Nixon, that the Heritage Foundation talked up, that Bob Dole ran on, that Romney passed in Massachusetts (which he then ran against (!) to placate those in his party who have no concept of history). So the ACA came about because Congress demanded bastardized legislation from Obama, who really wanted single-payer.
What’s your point? Crap is crap. I don’t care who sits on the toilet.
Seemed as if you were resting the failures of the entire government on the executive branch, which is not the case.
The ACA was Obama’s baby – there is no denying that. And he signed it into law.
Sure. And it was written and approved exactly how he intended it to be with no input or changes whatsoever due to other politicians’ unwillingness to seriously craft the best legislation possible or other politicians’ willingness to smash anything through to approval.
He seems to be pretty proud of it.
Oh, you know you can’t trust anything he says…
(can’t reply to above for some reason)
I’ve never been interested in the political history of the ACA. It’s just a terrible bill, no matter who supported variants of its general approach in the past. And now it’s a Frankenstein, what with various mandates being postponed and other post-passage “edits” being made on an ad-hoc basis. Soon enough we’ll be bailing out the insurance companies through the “risk corridors,” and, I would think, even liberals will rail against lining the pockets of health insurer CEOs and wealthy shareholders. Or maybe crony capitalism is a feature, not a bug, of progressivism.
Well I wish more people were familiar with the history of how things came to be. Might help avoid going down the wrong path in the first place.
I agree with that, I just meant that the argument over who supported what in the past never struck me as a convincing argument to pass Romneycare writ large. But I wasn’t suggesting that ignorance of the relevant history is a good thing.
I wonder sometimes if crony capitalism hasn’t corrupted the Democrats as much as Republicans. Because why else didn’t Democrats ignore lobbyists while they were in control and pass what a sizable majority of the country would prefer: Medicare for all.
All capitalism is crony capitalism. I don’t know why this is surprising to anyone. A so-called “free market” only works if all dealers are honest. There is no impetus to be honest when financial gain is on the line.
+1 for Rival’s initial post about Obama wanting single payer.
. . . but . . . but . . . Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.
“After all, he clearly has done a great job…”
No, but I’d still take him over Bush all day and–in the spirit of Therons post– three times on Sunday.
Glad our new standard is “Well, he done better than the last guy.” And, I ask you as well – What’s better now?
Under Obama, the fed has printed money incessantly, inflating equity values to the great and nearly exclusive benefit of the 1%. So, there’s that.
A toast to income inequality!
I firmly believe we would have had boots on the ground again in Iraq (and who knows where else) if McCain were President and quite likely the same would be true with Romney. That’s enough for me.
As disappointed as I’ve been with the Obama administration, I have no doubt that the McCain or Romney administrations would have been as bad or worse.
This is not praise.
“Glad our new standard is “Well, he done better than the last guy.” ”
Why is that such a bad standard? It certainly isn’t “new”. Look Walrus, my friend, neither your ideal candidate nor mine will ever be President; it’s always a matter of the lesser of two evils (literally, in our two-party system). I’ll take the one I believe is less likely to enter into unnecessary wars, above anything else.
Believe me, I hear you on the lessor of two evils (though I don’t vote that way). What I have a problem with is not being honest about calling these politicians out on the terrible job that they do strictly because they are of the same party affiliation or political ideology. Obama has done a terrible job. Just awful. One can say that and still say that they are ok with voting for him over the other guy.
“What I have a problem with is not being honest about calling these politicians out on the terrible job that they do strictly because they are of the same party affiliation or political ideology. Obama has done a terrible job. Just awful.”
I’m not trying to be dishonest; I simply wouldn’t go as far as “awful” (see my above post for some things I think are better). Disappointing, yes.
Would you agree that Obama (or any President, for that matter) needs a Congress that will work together with him in order to enact legislation? Regardless of your politics, I don’t think that you can place all of the blame at Obama’s feet. That’s how our system of checks and balances works. And unfortunately, too many politicians would rather obstruct legislation that would really help the country than allow Obama any victory or progress. But, surely you know this.
Well, he did get his two biggest proposals passed by Congress — a nearly trillion dollar stimulus that came nowhere close to achieving the promised results, and Obamacare, a hastily-passed monstrosity that virtually no one read, much less understood. The resulting problems are of his own making, not the result of a lack of cooperation by Congress. He wrote the law, after all.
And now he’s making a mockery of the separation of powers in the process of trying to patch it up, which will come back to haunt liberals — and, alas, the country itself — in the near future.
The hidden value in all of this has been to shed some light on just how radical today’s left really is. When the CBO recently said, hey, giving all these people free health care is going to incentivize a lot of them not to work, the administration’s response was, essentially, “precisely!” It’s one thing to argue that a disincentive to work is a lamentable but unavoidable byproduct of necessary welfare programs. But Obama and the left has abandoned that in favor of increasing dependency for its own sake, while at the same time denying the very existence of earned success (i.e., you didn’t build that). This is terrible governance borne of a worldview that is inherently . . . what’s that fashionable word? Unsustainable.
+1
+2
Agree with everything DEM says. In all fairness, I am a registered Republican, but could not be more disappointed in my party. DEM talks about the radical left, but there is also a radical right that is fracturing the Republicans into irrelevance.
The radical elements on both sides wield so much power, government as a whole becomes more and more paralyzed, and we get debacles such as the Iraq war and the ACA.
Thank you for that. Talk about radical, there are Republican legislatures passing or trying to pass Jim Crow-like laws to discriminate against gays and lesbians in several states. It’s disgusting, and as long as Republicans are held hostage by the neanderthal religious right, I really don’t care about anything they have to say about Obamacare or anything else.
So much wrong. So misinformed. So deliberately obtuse.
Feel free to correct.
The Affordable Care Act and the stimulus were passed when there was a Democratic majority in the house. But, yes. Those are both good examples of a President needing a non-obstructionist Congress to pass meaningful legislation.
What DEM said. But also, even Democrats have said that this President has been just absent in building relationships with members of congress, even those in his own party. Yes, of course they have to work together, but Obama has not been a leader. At all. He is very divisive. His administration has been the most closed off in history. Even the liberal media is complaining about this. And finally, as DEM said, he had two years to pass all the legislation he wanted, and those policies have failed miserably.
They are all corrupt by the time they hit Washington, this whole system is a joke. No laws are getting made in this country that lobbyist aren’t instrumental in crafting in some form or another from banking, education, food policy, the defense industry, etc… No one has your back and most of them would sell you out in a second for a higher campaign contribution, some are better than others though. A million years ago I interned for a British MP and they can’t take contributions individually, and are only given postage to mail things. Average folks can actually call up their local MP and have a sit down meeting with them to discuss anything within reason. Can you imagine actually getting 5 minutes with a Congressman here one on one in his office? But of course, you can get a one on one in a campaign office anytime if the price is right. I guess what i’m trying to say is this system is broken and works for no one, except the politicians because they keep getting paid no matter who they screw or what crap they pull up there.
“Can you imagine actually getting 5 minutes with a Congressman here one on one in his office?”
Grow a beard and spout homophobic and racist nonsense and you might get invited to the SOTU!
Your best post ever. Thank you.
Oh, this is bringing out some QUALITY posters.
I assume you’re one of the sub-literate people not planning on voting for him? I think you might have mistakenly wandered over from the AJC comments, where they allow rank nonsense and not-so-veiled racism.
Yeah, here at Decatur Metro, we prefer to leave our racist activity to the cops.
OH MAN RECENT POLITICAL HUMOR I AM THE JON STEWART OF 30030
You’re a Jay Leno at best. But keep at it.
Jay Leno?! I thought personal attacks weren’t allowed here.
http://facefa.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ahmadi-nejad.jpg
*heavy sigh*
And this, right here, is why we can’t have nice things…SMH.
+1 a buncha times
Which part? Vernon Jones or the racists? To be clear, I agree with either sentiment…
BOTH. My mama used to say, “Put both of ‘em in a box & shake it, no telling who’ll fall out first.”
LOL
I’m not sure if Vernon will get elected, but I think he’ll probably make the runoff. I think there are 8-9 people running.
I will legally change my name to NOT VERNON JONES and see how far it gets me.
I’d vote for ya.
Yall are gonna hate on me for this but here goes (or is it go’s?) (And does the punctuation go inside or outside the parenthesis?)
I’d like to see this thread end or change its course. Or end and start over. I think we risk damaging the integrity of our beloved local blog with this conversation.
Let’s keep it local, Decatur. There are plenty of places to declaim or rant on national issues elsewhere.
Just one reader’s respectful request.
+1 even if I’ve been guilty myself of straying away from metro Decatur topics
Thanks, At Home. I’ve been guilty, as well. But this thread is way out there. And I have no objection to the Squirrel-Headed Bastard’s original EOTS post. Vernon is a subject worth discussing.
Sheriff Thomas Brown’s longtime second-in-command, Chief Deputy Jeff Mann, is running and endorsed by Brown.
There were several Tony Hughes for Sheriff supporters at last night’s Blueprint Redefine DeKalb meeting, so I checked out his site. He also looks to be a candidate worth considering.
Hopefully the weekly community newspapers and local blogs will come through for us in highlighting all the candidates. Unfortunately, there’s a tendency to continually focus on the sensationalistic as being “the story.” Here’s the only article I’ve found so far (and it’s the only one the supporters knew of):
http://crossroadsnews.com/news/2013/dec/27/six-already-line-run-dekalb-sheriff/
If I’m reading that article right… Vernon Jones literally does not know what the Sheriff’s Department *does*. Shutting down crack houses? Unless there’s one in the jail…