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2008-07-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

'Liberal' decision making == When kids run the show because adults can't think faster

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Posted by gorb 2008-07-08 03:30|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 We didn't do it for the fame or the glory

Which is why they're not turning down interview requests...right...and that's why they're touring Ghana so that the villagers can thank them properly. What a self-righteous group of douchebags.

'If that guy didn't have such a nice car, then that guy could have a nice meal,'

I don't even know where to start with this one. The confusion of ideas...

Posted by gromky 2008-07-08 05:55|| 2008-07-08 05:55|| Front Page Top

#2 If they dropped the price $200k, it'd sell.

Better to have it sit for a year, then they can move back in without shame.

I mean, they tried, right? It was Bush's economy that was against them.

Posted by Bobby 2008-07-08 06:02|| 2008-07-08 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey Joan, whatcha doing for half the night? The less fortunate need lovin' too.

Posted by Homeless and horny 2008-07-08 06:12|| 2008-07-08 06:12|| Front Page Top

#4 > 'We love the concept of half. We are going from a house that's 6,000 square feet to a house that's half the size, and we're giving away half the money.

Don't worry, many Foreclosed Americans will be joining you, except involuntarily. I'm sure you can remain Smug though.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-07-08 07:44|| 2008-07-08 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 We didn't do it for the fame or the glory

Which is why they made a video on it. And I'm sure Daddy and Mommy are looking for a book deal and appearances on Larry King, ~~We Hate~~ Good Morning America and other talk shows (for a fee of course)....

Hannah and Joseph said most of their friends at school don't know about it.

Missed the above mentioned video eh?

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-07-08 08:29|| 2008-07-08 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 'If that guy didn't have such a nice car, then that guy could have a nice meal,'
How does one guy having a Mercedes prevent the other guy from having a meal? Liberals (especially naive young ones) are so out of touch with reality. "I think what we have here is a failure to have enough clue-bats."

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-07-08 08:35|| 2008-07-08 08:35|| Front Page Top

#7 No doubt Spot because the Mercedes guy didn't give half of his hard-earned income to the homeless guy who prefers to sit on the curb and do nothing (besides drink and/or do drugs or whatever it is he's into).

Look for them to want to start making 'half' mandatory - isn't that what the Obama 'home and dream' economic plan all about?

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-07-08 08:43|| 2008-07-08 08:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Hannah has obviously never tripped over a bum sprawled out on the sidewalk on her way to work and then been told to watch where she's going.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-08 09:15|| 2008-07-08 09:15|| Front Page Top

#9 They should do a sweet hunt in schools, but the kids can decide whether to bother hunting or not.

Now all the sweets found are pooled and handed out equally, regardless of whether you search for them.

Best lesson the kids will ever learn IMHO.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-07-08 09:51|| 2008-07-08 09:51|| Front Page Top

#10 It's prolly easy to be a generous liberal asshole when you are living in a 6,500 ft^2 house. I don't know that I have ever been on the inside of a privately owned house that big, who knows, they may suck ass.
Maybe if I lived in a 2million dollar house I'd feel differently about it, but for now I have to go with gorb on this one and say maybe the homeless guy should get off his ass and go to the free clinic for starters.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-08 10:15|| 2008-07-08 10:15|| Front Page Top

#11 " the money will be channeled through The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta over a six-year period and end up in Ghana"

Gotta wonder how much "leakage" there will be in that pipeline.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-08 10:58|| 2008-07-08 10:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Here's an idea. Give the city your 1.8 million dollar house. Probably make a swell homeless shelter.
The neighbors will love you for it I'm sure...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-08 11:02|| 2008-07-08 11:02|| Front Page Top

#13 The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta played a major role in the collaborative effort to house the King Papers at Morehouse College, King's alma mater. Mayor Shirley Franklin and a broad group of civic, education and business leaders completed an agreement with the King family to buy thousands of the Atlanta native's papers and books with borrowed money backed to the lender by pledges and guarantees. We formed ATLCF Collections LLC, a company owned and operated by The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. to purchase the papers. We are proud that The Community Foundation could play such an integral role in this historic project that will be a wonderful legacy for the city of Atlanta.

I certainly hope at least some of their proceeds make their way to this... worthy cause.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-08 11:11|| 2008-07-08 11:11|| Front Page Top

#14 ' the money will be channeled through The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta over a six-year period and end up in Ghana'

From whence it shall come to find its way to secret Swiss Bank accounts of a soon to be deposed dictator from which it can be liberated only with the use of your bank account number...

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-08 11:38|| 2008-07-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#15 I'd feel a lot better if the money was donated to a church group. Giving the money to a group controlled by Atlanta's politically connected and hanger oners is like asking the Hamburgler to guard the Golden Arches.

Posted by ed 2008-07-08 11:57|| 2008-07-08 11:57|| Front Page Top

#16 Ghana? Ain't Kofi from Ghana?
Come to papa....

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-08 11:58|| 2008-07-08 11:58|| Front Page Top

#17 I have a couple of VERY wealthy friends, (Around 18 megabucks) You'd never know it, how unlike these self-serving assholes.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-07-08 20:08|| 2008-07-08 20:08|| Front Page Top

#18 One day while driving with her father, Hannah Salwen noticed a Mercedes stopped next to a homeless man sitting on the curb.

'I said to my dad, 'If that guy didn't have such a nice car, then that guy could have a nice meal,'' the 15-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia, recalled.'

'the money will be channeled through The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta over a six-year period and end up in Ghana'

uh, what about the bum on the corner?

Posted by a yankee 2008-07-08 21:40|| 2008-07-08 21:40|| Front Page Top

#19 He's shit outa luck Yankee.
Serves him right for being American.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-08 23:05|| 2008-07-08 23:05|| Front Page Top

#20 My family and I live in a 2800 sq foot house that might sell for $350 or so.

I think I'm damned lucky--though my wife and I worked hard to get it.

My house is plenty big; I don't know what I would do with a 6000 sq foot house.

I've got no problem with people giving their money away, they might even do some good if they are smart about it. Good luck to 'em.

But I also agree with previous posters that the homeless guy would be better off with 1) detox and/or treatment for mental illness; and after that, 2) a job.

Posted by Some guy 2008-07-08 23:18|| 2008-07-08 23:18|| Front Page Top

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