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Re: Speak Out ... It's Anniston's fault | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:43:27 -0000

Anniston is just the way they like it. no fort, no mall, Donoho so the haves kids can go there. Saks or Blue Mountain were never developed, only south of town. So the powere that be the joint do it exactly how they want it to be done.

Re: Speak Out ... Great field trip | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:49:29 -0000

No sir W will be remembered as the worst American President ever, and he really was too nice a guy for them to use him that way. Sorry Charlie! You have to get over Bush, McCain was your choice in 2000 and you missed it because you followed the money. Seventy million spent to elect "W" over the POW hero reformist and moderate, McCain.

Re: Speak Out ... Great field trip | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:39:56 -0000

The debt was tripled under Reagan and quadrupled under Bush. The fat contractors sucking the tax payer money is not a little government philosophy. The size of the government is the size of the budget. Give President Obama 8 years and you will see what America can become when the average Americans are in charge and not the wealthy. It has been the haves against the rest of us since the beginning of time, only they called us slaves or serfs back then.

Re: Speak Out ... Great field trip | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:46:28 -0000

You have not nor will you ever if you only read Limbaughnian propoganda. Remember there are still those on the planet who thought Hitler and later Stalin were great leaders. They are classified among those who still think George W. Bush was a great president. It is time for "interlligent people" to admit they made a mistake. They should have voted for McCain in 2000 and never for a moron for president. A great leader needs to be somewhat intelligent, as least as much a Ronald Reagan, who was not a great president but was a great statesman. Bush was neither. He was a puppet, a Pinocchio, only instead of his nose growing it was our National Debt and our negative image around the world. So get over it and be a man and admit it was a mistake. You were not alone, there was no shame in it, but to continue to attack President Obama because your side lost is childish and futile and only reinforces your stupidity.

Re: Speak Out ... Let's help Alabama | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:58:25 -0000

Everyone knows the poorest among us gamble more of our money away, just as we give more to charity and pay more taxes and do not eat as well or live as long as the "haves and have-mores" ( as George W. Bush so eloquently referred to them in Michael Moore's "SICKO". What is wrong in society is not gambling, or our lust to do so. What's wrong is our desire to control, manipulate and corral our working and poorer into a group separate from those who have money. When we judge our people by how much they give to their churches, what kind of car they drive and where their children attend school. Lea Fite is the only one from the aforementioned article who has a dog in this fight because he has tried to do all he can to help the poor, the working class. He has been sucessful in many attempts. Bob Riley is just sucking up to his church buddies supporting the Nazi agenda they have chosen over Christ. We saw McCain/Palin banners say it best "Country First" not "God First". For der fatherland! Achtung! Scream it loud God is listening.

Re: Speak Out ... Dancing with KFC | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:03:28 -0000

As one who has actually toured a chicken plant, in all fairness, the chickens are shocked to unconscientiousness before beheading. And if you ever worked live hook you know the legs and wings are not broken as they beat your hands when you hang the chicken upside down, and it is dragged through water and then shocked to stop its heart and then beheaded all in about 2 seconds before going on to be defeathered and gutted. Fast and furious but not nearly as cruel as grandma and a good neck ringing.

Re: Speak Out ... Honoring RSVP | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:35:14 -0000

The saga continues of Native People getting the short straw when it comes to rights, whether human or civil. The sublime comedy of the US government continues as usual so why should the state or local governments be any different. Also on PBS was the story of Native American Sioux not being allowed to grow "industrial hemp" on their reservation and selling it on the free market. FBI et al cut and burned their efforts and the US government continued to import "industrial hemp" from places like the former Soviet Union. Your tax dollars at work for "Corporate America" and still being used to destroy what it left of "Native Americans". That reservation land has value folks, and the developers want it too!

Re: Speak Out ... Constitution and Bible | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:55:19 -0000

Religion, like a marraige, is a relationship. It is the relationship between a human being and the God they choose to worship. It has no place in government of any form, in school, unless the school is a school for the education of the religion, or in the workplace, and certainly not in the media. All of that aside, if government, education, the workplace or any media choose to promote any religion then they open themselves to the scrutiny of opposing opinions and in all fairness should give equal opportuinty to those opposing viewpoints. All of the worlds troubles, its wars, genocide, poverty and hate are caused by the promotion of religion as a social issue. It is no more a social issue than the pair of underwear you chose to wear this morning. But mankind has made it so. So do not blame God, or the lack of him, for our woes. The fault belongs to the person in the mirror. Give your money to the poor, not your church. Make your donation in their name and you will see just how much they love you.

Re: Speak Out ... Memorializing sacrifice | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:58:04 -0000

You got personal. Why do you false prophets always get personal? And please do not quote Christ to me. He was the ultimate liberal. Turn the other cheek, feed the hungry, heal the sick and today's GOP make him out to be a war mongering, Islam hating, Jew loving ultra conservative. He was not. He was representative of all of God's world and he said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." In other words no other human being but himself.

Re: Speak Out ... Memorializing sacrifice | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:52:47 -0000

You assumed that I am an Obama supporter. What I am is a supporter of the truth. Bush is a moron and the birth certificate has been all over the news and web and in most major publications. Sorry! Know the truth and the truth shall make you free!

Re: Speak Out ... Memorializing sacrifice | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:57:45 -0000

Mr. Cates,

His birth certificate has been published and shown on every news source except the one you are watching. I suggest you go online, change the channel, come back to earth, something and let it go. By the way, where were your instincts when you voted twice for that moron George W. Bush?

Re: Speak Out ... Ladiga Trail can help reverse negative images of Anniston | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:41:31 -0000

no oh wait "The use of condoms in Africa would make the Aids epidemic worst". sighned The Pope. It looks like the Catholic Church has found another George W. Bush to worship. We still have 1 moron in power.(over the Catholics that follow him that is) Quite an original thought though even for a moron. Condoms helping spread aids. That means the boys at the Vatican must reuse theirs if the Pope believes that one.

Re: Speak Out ... Shame on council | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:22:29 -0000

Ms. Grace, if you heard it on FIXX News you cannot be sure it is true. Check your sources. Sounds like steep punishment to me.The peanut guy of PCA who essentially murdered a few people and ruined an industry has not been charged.

Re: Speaker's Stand ... History doesn't lie | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:51:30 -0000

Mr. Kreh forgets that George W. Bush went to war against a dictator with no political connections to the Saudi Arabian citizens which were the alleged highjackers of the planes used on 9-11. He also forgets the military was used during WWII because all of the men fit for military duty were in uniform. 98% of the firemen, policemen, railroadmen bus drivers, truckdrivers, schoolteachers, professors, doctors, lawyers, and let's not forget our nurses, secretaries, managers, bankers etc. were in military service. Housewives replaced their husbands in the factories to make weaponry and planes. All of this because our military at that time was pitifully small and our Pacific Fleet had just been destroyed. Stop trying to compare the Iraq war with anything other than a way to make money for Haliburton (an oil service company prior to Cheney's rise to power) et al with no bid contracts off of the American Taxpayer. Bush was a moron, you voted for him instead of a war hero John McCain in the 2000 GOP primary because you were paid to do so by the 70 million Bush spent to brainwash you. Now it is over and the king is gone, get over it. I am sorry that God fearing Americans have been told what to watch and who to trust and no longer read and seek out the truth for themselves. That is the real tragedy of the last eight years.

Re: Speak Out ... The tale of two chimneys | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:54:45 -0000

Govenor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee stated 3 weeks ago he would accept the stimulus package money but not the unenployment compensation funds due to federal requirements to increase the compensation even after the 2 years of funds ran out. The next week he announced he would accept all the money. Tennessee is getting 4.5 billion in stimulus package money in addition to the budget money it will receive. The stimulus money breaksdown like this: 1.5 billion for education, 1 billion for highways and infrastructure, 1 billion for unemployment and healthcare. The rest is more discretionary as needed. For Governor Riley to have turned down any stimulus money shows how narrow minded he truly has become. He is following the 26% of the GOP faithful, who are "the haves and have mores", as George W. Bush called them at a fund raiser documented in Michael Moore's "SICKO", and forgetting about the 74% of us who are the average American working for a living. Do you now see who the GOP really cares about? How much will your offering plate suffer during this depression when many in your congregations are without a job and your hero governor turned down money to help them?

Re: Group protests mayor over Lee comments | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:28:15 -0000

For decades, since the founding of the United States and even going back to colonial times, there had been a strong antislavery movement in the country. While it was centered in the North, there were many people opposed to slavery in the Southern states, as well.

This antislavery movement sought to end slavery legally and legitimately, through the course of law. They were strong proponents of legislation that would stop the expansion of slavery, for example. There were those in the antislavery movement that proposed legislation that would actually purchase the freedom of slaves, as had happened in Europe. This sort of solution would have ended slavery, but done it without the violence and death that the Civil War brought.

The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement as a Cause of the Civil War
February 10, 2009 by John Paulus

Re: Group protests mayor over Lee comments | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:50:42 -0000

It does not matter what King thought about Robert E. Lee. Lee was a statesman and leader in his own right and did what he thought was best at the time. It was a mistake but hindsight affords us that. Lincoln, had he not meddled in the 1000 year old practice of slave ownership and tried for a peaceful means to end it gradually the whole mess could have been avoided. I do not agree he was the greatest president because he was responsible for the secession and the Civil War. Many scholars say slavery would have run its course and they would have been freed and if that had happened as it did in the rest of the world there would have been no Civil Rights movement because African Americans in the US would have been treated the same as any other citizen. The Emancipation Proclamation may have been great from a human rights stand point but from a political and social standpoint it was a mistake. The constitution already afforded certain unalienable rights to all men. Lincoln should have argued that color did not matter and used the constitution alone for his peaceful argument to end slavery and avoided secession.

Re: Speak Out ... The Star needs to be straight with facts, not its liberal slant | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:02:49 -0000

Someone should go to Talladega and get a picture of mr Anderson. He obviously lives on another planet. You can get yourself a shot of an alien being. The Republican Party has historically been a pro-big business anti-labor party. Their recent actions to prevent any aid from reaching the average American by voting against President Obama's stimulus package should be proof enough to any save those who are either the very ignorant or the incredibly stupid. As Mr. Nipper from Glencoe points out even Shelby, Rogers and Sessions voted against the Lilly Ledbetter bill to pay women, who do the same work as men, the same salary as those counterparts. How big of a moron do you have to be to vote against equal pay for equal work? I guess you have to be a US senator from Alabama. As for the lending crisis, it began by greedy lenders during the GW Bush administration, and the push to sell houses and prop up the failing economy. After the saturation occurred and homes were being left empty simply because there was no market mortgage brokers forgot about requirements altogether and started the beginning of the end. This was about 3-4 years ago. If you watch PBS and other sources of news, especially Sunday's line up of programs you can hear the experts, from both GOP and DNC, talk about what happened to trigger the collapse of our financial system.

Re: Riley to reject some stimulus funding | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:34:20 -0000

Bob better be careful. Denying hungry people money for food for their children and shelter simply because Honda might have to pay more taxes in 4 years might just get him kicked out of office literally. He should look at the riots going on around the world and think twice about denying free federal aid to those who desperately need it. Our new president is simply trying to give those who need it a hand in collecting the money that is paid in by every worker and drawn out by only a small percentage. What are you going to do with the rest of it Bob? Give it to Honda?

Re: Of mice and men | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:05:25 -0000

It is strange, to say the least, how we develop land to ruin coastal properties for hotels and resorts that have empty rooms for many months out of the year simply to accomodate the desire to overcrowd, and thereby pollute, the area during peak season. It is like all those used car dealerships Anniston had when the Fort was ful of troops. It is like trying to make sure everyone gets a slither of pie which means no one is satisfied, and now you have three times as many dishes to wash. Let's remind our city leaders that more is not always better, especially when you now have twice as many businesses as you needed and no one is doing that well, even in a good economy. You should take a trip to McAllen Texas. They do not have 15 grocery stores but the ones they have are full of customers and fully staffed from 5:00 am until midnight seven days a week. There was one hunting and fishing supply store, it was huge and had everything imaginable in stock, including every model of the Swiss Army Knife. Maybe we should learn a lesson from them. By the way, the sales tax revenue would be the same but the store profit would be higher, they could pay better wages and offer better service. Apply this to the coastal or any development for now we can all see what over producing can cause.

Re: Speaker's Stand ... Star's editorial missed the point | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:45:05 -0000

It is politics as usual with the GOP, they had their chance and here we are in the worst recessu\ion in a century. Everyone said prior to Obama taking over that massive government spending would be needed, just like in the 30's of the 20th century. Duh! We have 2 wars going and we are still going downhill. Unless Mike (do nothing) Rogers is going to keep you and your family up then he should step aside and let Obama have his turn.

Re: Speak Out ... Efforts of M.L. Kirby | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:55:23 -0000

You are right John. I sympathize with the Palestinians. As one of the former leaders of the PLO said of suicide bombers, "We do not have Apache Helicopters and M-1 Abrahms tanks, we only have our young people who are willing to die for their cause." He was referencing the US military aid to Israel. Then we condemn Syria and Iran for helping the Palestinians. They just want to be able to fight back. I cannot blame them. Militias or guerilla groups have always used those tactics to fight off oppressing forces.

Re: Speak Out ... Efforts of M.L. Kirby | AnnistonStar.com

billdjennings — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:49:13 -0000

Of course not! But you can understand why they do that sort of thing to Israel. It is an old conflict betewwn the sons of Abraham. Ishmael was the oldest, the birthright is his, that is why Islam has spread over the globe. The second born Isaac, who gave birth to Judea, has tried to take his share by reclaiming the old kingdom. What needs to happen is all of Islam should make peace among themselves then make peace with their brothers of Israel. They could share the ancient lands. Many have suggested already that portions of other nearby countries be given to the Palestinians as their home. But the hatred is too deep and it is actually a curse among their descendents from God because Abraham did not listen to him and sired a child by Hagar at his wife's coaxing. This is symbolic of Adam' fall at the beguilement of Eve. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his own son saved Isaac's descendents from anihilation but not from suffering. The enslavement in Egypt, wandering in the wilderness and not having a country of their own was all part of this disobedience by Abraham. Or at least it began with him. Now it is time for those brother's to make peace instead of replaying the Cain/Able saga everyday in the Middle East.

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billdjennings — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:21:04 -0000

The Cubans never threatened us with missiles it was the Soviet Union trying to get a deal for their aiding Fidel after we turned him down to help overthrow our CIA dictator Bautista. The Russians thought they would park the missles there to have a first strike capability without fear of retaliation. But Kennedy, a Democrat and a Liberal shut them down and they crawled back to Russia with missiles in hand. And the Cubans that left in the beginning were the ones fleeing Castro because of what they had done to the Cuban people. Like work them to death for peanuts.

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billdjennings — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:14:45 -0000

It was the region. It was 3 to 1 Muslim to Jew and the Christians (Who are the most discriminated against in the Middle East.) If you actually talk to Pallestinians they will tell you that how after 10 generations of farming the same land their land was taken piecemeal to give to Jewish settlers. It is just like the US did to our Native People. I had a Pallestinian friend in college whose family went from 170 acres of olive trees to just 17 in 1 generation. It was the rob from the rich Pallestinian and give to the poor Israeli. That is wrong in any culture whether you think you are the "Chosen People" or not. So there is a lot more to the story than we usually hear about. And it was called Pallestine since before the time of Christ and there was a Judea but there should never have been a taking like which has occurred just to attract settlers and enlarge your population to settle the land. Oh that's right we did that here. Maybe that's where Israel got the idea.