14 hours ago, some industrious lads moved traditional media's wet dream to social media. In one week, Galloway posted 2 entries (here and here) about the possibility of Carol Porter running for Lt. Governor. Carol Porter is the wife of DuBose Porter, a candidate for Georgia Governor and the Minority House Caucus Leader. Today, I received this via facebook:

[name deleted] became a fan of Draft Carol Porter for Lt. Governor of Georgia 2010 on Facebook and suggested you become a fan too.

After clicking through the link, the facebook page says this:

Sound off! Let us know your opinions on Carol Porter running for Lt. Governor of Georgia. We know that Carol is the only democrat who can defeat Casey Cagle in the 2010 General Election.

So far, 40 folks have joined this movement. Click here to join.

Will Carol Porter run for Lt. Governor? I don't know. Will she win the Democratic nomination? Who knows. Stranger things have happened on the Democratic side. I remember not so long ago a candidate ran for State School Superintendent because her qualifications included having a sister and other family members with Ph.Ds in education, although she didn't have one. Hell, she even won the Democratic nomination.

It's a crazy political world down here in Georgia.

This past week marked the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's signing of the federal stimulus act. It's a fair question to ask how much good, if any, the stimulus act did in creating new jobs or saving existing jobs.

This week, Soldiers from Georgia's 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will begin returning home from a 12-month deployment in Afghanistan, though the fighting is hardly over. The seemingly overnight transition from a mild-mannered civilian occupation to the front lines in arguably one of the most definitive conflicts of this generation certainly isn't an easy one, so once again, a hat tip to those men and women who serve as citizen soldiers.

A first batch of 175 soldiers is expected to arrive at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah on or about Feb. 23. The rest will return in groups through March and early April. Families will be reunited with their loved ones at Fort Stewart.

Starting in February of last year, about 3,200 soldiers from the brigade deployed to train Afghanistan's police and security forces, a key part of U.S. plans to stabilize that country.

"These soldiers represent what our National Guard is about, ready to serve whenever called and ready to return to their lives and jobs when their duty is complete," Maj. Gen. Terry Nesbitt, Georgia's adjutant general, said in a prepared statement. "I cannot be more proud of these soldiers, nor more appreciative of the sacrifices made by their families and loved ones."

Though it will be a time of celebration and homecoming for roughly 3,200 families throughout the state, it unfortunately won't be as joyous an occasion for some. Seven members of the 48th fell in combat during this tour. An eighth died from injuries sustained during a vehicle rollover. With that said, deepest condolences for the families of 1st Sgt. John D. Blair of Calhoun, Sgt. Raymundo P. Morales of Dalton, Sgt. Brock H. Chavers of Bulloch, Spc. Isaac L. Johnson of Columbus, Maj. Kevin M. Jenrette of Lula, Sgt. 1st Class John C. Beale of Riverdale, Sgt. Jeffrey W. Jordan of Rome, and Staff Sgt. Alex French IV of Milledgeville. We are forever grateful.

Please show some love for the men and women of the 48th. On March 13, the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation is hosting an Army National Guard vs. Air National Guard basketball game at Phillips Arena as a fundraiser for the foundation.

All Soldiers of the 48th should complete their re-deployment by May 1.

In case you were wondering, Trust Dale.com, via Nita.

Ox, Towery, And The Rest Of The Story, from Peach Pundit

But whether it is setting up PACs in Alabama to illegally launder campaign funds, or using the investigative authority of your office to silence a political critic, Oxendine has demonstrated he believes he is above the law.

He is unfit to remain as Insurance Commissioner, and any reasonable voter should disqualify him from consideration as our next Governor.

Apparently the TeaBaggers are chipping in their Social Security money, oh wait no, they are using their US savings bonds, to place billboards like this up in Lake City, Florida:

According to the leaders, their message is:

The cost of 10 months rental of the billboard and doing the artwork was $6500. The folks responsible for the billboard say they feel it's a reasonable cost to reach out to 1,000,000 vehicles per month to motivate participation in the electoral process to get our country on sound footing and VOTE OUT everyone in Washington.

What are they gonna do when they find out that Republicans are now touting how great stimulus dollars are to America's economic recovery. Or that Scott Brown, the latest to win the Tea Party Idol contest, voted for the Jobs Bill.

Oh the lunacy of folks who think that "liberuls" are destroying the fabric of America.

Rasmussen is out with a new poll on Georgia's Governor race. Roy Barnes' numbers have dropped and he's polling behind three of the top four Republican candidates. That doesn't bother me so much because these numbers will just invigorate Roy to crank it up a notch. What does bother me a lot, a whole lot, is this statement:

Voters not affiliated with either major party prefer the Republican in all four contests.

WHAAATT???? How can that be? Seriously, the Georgia Republicans are the new version of the "The Bad Girls Club". Dysfunction runneth over. The hell with ethics and family values, they continue to behave like that the Gold Dome is Spring Break 2010.

How is this message being missed by independent voters? What are Democrats not doing to get this very clear message out that the Georgia GOP has bankrolled their lavish lifestyles off the backs of Georgia's working families? Is it not enough that the State is furloughing teachers - Georgia is at the bottom of the education barrel but we are laying teachers off - yeah, that's the best way for our kids to excel? Let's not even discuss the Republicans' failure to keep jobs in this State.

Democrats can turn Georgia Blue; but we need to get our message to the voters. The countdown until Election Day begins now

Time until Tuesday, November 2, 2010
251 days
6,045 hours
362,700 minutes
21,762,054 seconds

251 days people...251 days...

Is finally here. If Thursday's Health Care summit goes as expected, and the Republicans pick up their toys and go home, the Democrats may still have one last chance to get this done. Hope springs eternal.

So guess who is the newest Republican State Representative -- Daniel Stout. Tonight, Stout won Glenn "I had lots of sex with that woman" Richardson's State House seat in Paulding county. Daniel Stout beat two opponents with 59.5% of the vote.

You're probably wondering why I'm cheering for this bit of news...well Galloway posted this little tidbit about Mr. Stout this morning.

Daniel Stout, a 29-year-old banker from Dallas, has been compelled to address a personal incident from 10 years ago: he had an affair with his first wife's mother while his first wife was pregnant with their daughter. Stout and his first wife subsequently divorced.

Stout confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with Crawford.

"It's not something that's a beautiful thing with me," he said. "I hurt some people."

So let me understand Stout's "family values" - the dude was 19 years old, got some chick knocked up, was probably coerced into marrying her, and then he CHEATED on her with her own mother. EWWWWW..... Let's all say in unison EWWWW.

It gets even better when Stout offers this lame ass explanation:

Ten years ago I committed adultery that led to a divorce from my first wife. While the relationship was stopped short of "sex", I recognize my mistake as adulterous and unfaithful nonetheless. I own the reality of the pain I caused to my first wife, my daughter and others. This humbling experience changed my life dramatically.

Oh I'm calling bullshit on the "stopped short of sex". Ummm yeah right dude. What kind of an "affair" does a horny 19 year old have with an older woman which doesn't involve sex? Yeah right, keep this story line going...it so believable. I mean why wouldn't we believe this explanation since Stout did invoke God into his statement when referring to his relationship with his second wife.

The Lord has blessed us with a wonderful marriage, and through God's strength we remain faithful to one another.

Daniel Stout is a perfect fit for the Georgia GOP. We now have a new poster boy for the Georgia Republicans. So Georgia families here is another legislator who is going to dictate how your family lives when he didn't even have good common sense or morals to know that having an "affair" with your mother-in-law is wrong. You just can't make this stuff up even if one tried very hard.

The U.S. Justice Department told Georgia election officials this week that their program for verifying the citizenship of voters has been rejected because it violates the Voting Rights Act. You would think that our state's officials would have gotten the message by now -- this is at least the third time in nine months that the DOJ has turned down this plan because it discriminates against non-white voters.

You've got to love the voters of Paulding County -- they appreciate a good joke better than any other group of people I know. Where else in Georgia would you see the voters put such a colorful bunch of horndogs, carousers and hypocrites into public office?

What: Potentially interesting live broadcast of meeting between Republican & Democratic leaders from House and Senate regarding stalemate over Health care bill.

President Obama will moderate the discussion, which will take place with 37 members of Congressional leadership (20 Democrats and 17 Republicans) around tables set up in a hollow-square in the 42-foot by 36-foot Garden Room. Latest news from the Republicans on the bill here, and the chorus from a herd of cats on the Dem sides, here here and here.
When: Thursday February 25th 2010
Time: 10:00 am EST
Location: Blair House - the presidential guest quarters across from the White House.
Coverage: Not one of the 37? Mere mortals can watch on CSPAN. They've announced "gavel to gavel." coverage on CSPAN-3- TV, and CSPAN radio live throughout. Don't have CSPAN 3, According to Scott Wilson the "White House website will likely be streaming it". Likely-really.. can't tell us for sure? Oy.

Picture above from Vancouver-Canadian hockey fans upon learning the US Team beat them. I love their humor!

First off, I'm being really genuine...I am really confused about the 2010 Democrats Attorney General race. I'm confused about which of the two candidates to support, State Rep. Rob Teilhet or former Dougherty County District Attorney Ken Hodges. What usually sways me early on in primary elections are what strategies the candidates are taking to reach out to the Black community. Yeah, I'm biased that way...must have something to do with me being Black and all. I am so over candidates who think that they don't have to touch or appeal to the Black community until the last 30 days of a campaign season.

Normally, like anything on the democratic side is ever normal, candidates are either permanent ticketholders on the crazy train or sane enough to let them babysit your kids. Let's take Hodges, all that Phoebe Putney stuff is definitely a high speed rail pass on the crazy train. But then his campaign today releases yet another endorsement by a Black politician I trust. On top of Hodges receiving endorsements from Ambassador Andrew Young, former Chief Justice Leah Sears, Hodges now has DeKalb County Sheriff Tom Brown's support.

Sheriff Brown is quoted as saying this:

"If anyone in this race is the best pick to be Georgia's top prosecutor and chief law enforcer, it's Ken Hodges," Brown said. "I've worked with Ken firsthand on prosecuting public corruption. He's a veteran of the courtroom. His record of working with state law enforcement and getting results is impeccable."

So why is it that teachers are constantly getting the short-end of the stick? Tell me if you can see which way the winds are blowing when it comes to society's view of teachers.

Here is the front page of the U.S. Section of CNN.com. Click on it to see the full-size as it appeared to me.

UPDATE: The White House feed has been spotty today. If the window below is black, go to the MSNBC stream here or C-Span steam here.

Carol Porter to run for lieutenant gov, creates husband-wife ticket

Carol Porter will seek the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, joining her husband, DuBose Porter, as a potential husband and wife team at the top of the party's ticket.

DuBose Porter, the House minority leader, is one of five Democrats seeking the gubernatorial nomination. Should they both become Democratic nominees, it sets up a potentially historic one-two punch. But Carol Porter said it's not a gimmick aimed at boosting her husband's campaign.

Hang with all 5 mins, it's pretty good.

Rep. Anthony Weiner represents the NY 9th district, and my new hero.

It's been awhile, and maybe some of you need to vent.

I've have a busy day. First was shopping for Spring shoes, and aren't these fabulous, made out of recycled TV's. From OlsenHaus vegan Spring 2010 collection, more here.

After that bit of exhaustive research I learned a little about Nikola Tesla. Why? Do I really need a reason?

Ugh, alrightPrincess Sparkle Pony made me, that's why.

Just a reminder on this day in 1848 Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto", and Republicans begin immediately to misquote it.

Oh yeah, yawn...The Patriot Act is renewed without any civil liberties protections and it appears no one cares but the ACLU and Boing Boing. Interesting combination to say the least.