http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:00:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:21:59 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/is-it-1980/feed/ 1 Just listened to Mitt “the Mittstigator” Romney’s speech and the Republican National Convention. He said something like: “We need change alright. We need to change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington.” Wait a sec. I’m confused. Fourteen years of a Republican Congress (out of the last 16), and eight years of Bush as president. [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/novak-mccain-vp-pick-to-come-this-week/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/novak-mccain-vp-pick-to-come-this-week/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:37:50 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/novak-mccain-vp-pick-to-come-this-week/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/novak-mccain-vp-pick-to-come-this-week/feed/ 0 (closes eyes, grips fists) Please let it not be Perdue. Please let it not be Perdue. Oh! Hi there. (shuffles papers, sits up straight) Beltway columnist Robert Novak, the Corvette-drivin’, right-leaning pundit who prides himself on his “Prince of Darkness” moniker, says John McCain’s pick for his running mate will be announced sometime this week. Mitt [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/13/morning-headlines-8/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/13/morning-headlines-8/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:19:01 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/13/morning-headlines-8/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/13/morning-headlines-8/feed/ 0 MCCAIN/ROMNEY: BFF now. MALINGER LONGER: State auditor, legislator and citizens’ group disagree with developer’s and island officials’ grim diagnosis of Jekyll Island’s economic condition. CHORUS OF BOOZE: House committee unanimously votes to attach Sunday alcohol-sales rider to Gwinnett Braves bill; Gov. Perdue has said he’d veto any bill that would endanger Georgia’s world-renowned time-management skills. WATER WARS: Ga., [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/05/live-at-the-georgia-primary/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/05/live-at-the-georgia-primary/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:51:45 +0000 Web Editor http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/05/live-at-the-georgia-primary/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/05/live-at-the-georgia-primary/feed/ 1 [liveblog]http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=5352e901bf&height=550&width=470[/liveblog] Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/romneys-bigoted-speech-part-deux/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/romneys-bigoted-speech-part-deux/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:31:43 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/romneys-bigoted-speech-part-deux/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/romneys-bigoted-speech-part-deux/feed/ 1 (photo by Joeff Davis) I was so busy being indignant about Romney’s religious bigotry in my previous post, I forgot to express indignance at his racist hypocrisy. This morning Romney stood at a podium and said, “Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom.” FACT: The Mormon church did not allow black people into Mormon temples for services [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/tolerance-republican-style/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/tolerance-republican-style/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:48:40 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/tolerance-republican-style/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/06/tolerance-republican-style/feed/ 0 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a speech this morning begging Republican voters not to hold his Mormonism against him. It was billed as a pro-tolerance speech. It was the opposite. Romney didn’t ask voters not to discriminate against candidates based on their religion. He instead asked religious-bigot voters to let Mormons into their gang so, together, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/20/pork-rinds-20/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/20/pork-rinds-20/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:00:08 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/20/pork-rinds-20/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/20/pork-rinds-20/feed/ 2 MITT ROMNEY AT THE VARSITY: I’m just like you, only richer and with thicker, more lustrous hair.” (Photo by Joeff Davis) Candidates for president are typically wealthy and privileged people, insulated from the demands of everyday life (shopping, bill-paying, dog-walking) by support staff. Nevertheless, the American voting public (and the profoundly petty political broadcast media) seems to demand [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/atlanta-blogs-today-devotion-to-the-virgin/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/atlanta-blogs-today-devotion-to-the-virgin/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:42:12 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/atlanta-blogs-today-devotion-to-the-virgin/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/atlanta-blogs-today-devotion-to-the-virgin/feed/ 2 IS it Holy Bishops? People Praying? Good Catholic Education? Devotion to the Virgin? All the above?I think this can be duplicated. -James H. at Opinionated Catholic on a report that Catholicism is booming in Atlanta while it declines elsewhere in the nation —– I have no idea what happened in there, but I can only imagine a few [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/the-candidates-are-coming/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/the-candidates-are-coming/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 21:26:00 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/the-candidates-are-coming/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/the-candidates-are-coming/feed/ 0 4.5 presidential candidates are coming to Atlanta this week. Why 4.5? Newt acts like he’s running, but he hasn’t declared. Check them out while you can. Georgia is solidly Republican, so the likelihood of seeing them in 2008 outside the doors of a high-dollar fundraiser event is pretty low. In strictly nonpartisan, alphabetical order: Hillary Clinton: Sat., May 19, 7 [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/17/georgians-for-mitt-romney/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/17/georgians-for-mitt-romney/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:12:50 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/17/georgians-for-mitt-romney/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/17/georgians-for-mitt-romney/feed/ 6 From the website OpenSecrets.org, here are some of the notable Georgians who’ve donated to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s ‘08 presidential campaign. $2,300 is the maximum legal donation. To clarify, by “notable” I mean people whose names stand out to me when I look at the list. Clark Dean, $2,300 — Dean is a managing director at [...]