Georgia school makes cheerleaders move religious signs off the field.

This is from one of Georgia's Republican candidates for governor. We'll offer it without comment and leave that up to you.

Do you folks remember Cynthia McKinney? Yeah .. the cutest little communist in Congress. Well, I have good news for you. Her seat in Congress is being occupied by someone who is every bit as nutty as she was. Just not as cute. His name is Hank Johnson. Johnson wants to be on the list with Jimmy Carter of people who blame Joe Wilson's comment on racism. Here's is the asinine comment from Rep. Hank Johnson.

Yup .. there you go. Hank Johnson says that people are going to start wearing white hoods if the House of Representatives doesn't rebuke Joe Wilson for his outburst.

Don't you folks fret none about the people who live in Johnson's district. Remember .. Cynthia McKinney. They're used to being represented in Congress by race pimps and fools. They've perfected the practice of going to congressmen in neighboring districts for constituent services while their congressman parades around all day in clown makeup.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us that there were four perfect 2400 scores in Georgia on the SAT test. Wunnerful wunnerful. Let's have our own little test right here: First, we'll do what the diversity mavens like to do so much, and that is divide Georgia school children into four different ethnic classifications.

[  ] White
[  ] Black
[  ] Hispanic
[  ] Asian

There you go. Remember, to the diversity cops it's all about ethnic heritage, not so much about personal character, ability, effort or traits.

OK ... Now you go ahead and put a number beside each ethnic classification showing how you think those four perfect SAT scores were distributed.

Done? If you put the number 4 beside Asian, you have just made a perfect score on our own little test! Aren't you proud! Their names are Cong "Tom" Hui, Michelle Liu, Marissa Pan and Tanya Nguyen. You can read their stories here.

So - do you think that all four of the Georgia students who scored a perfect 2400 on their SAT did so because of some genetic inherent superiority of the Asian people? It's not genetics, folks. It's culture. Read the stories. In every case these kids came from a family - a culture - that honored and prized education. You can bet that when these students worked hard in class or actually brought in their homework their Asian classmates didn't accuse them of trying to "act white." You can also bet they weren't denigrated by friends for learning to speak English in an understandable and proper manner.

This "culture" message doesn't sit well with a lot of people. Why not? Because culture is something you can change. You cannot change your race. If you fail to rise above the negative aspects of the culture in which you were raised, your bad. For many it is so much easier to blame failures on skin color - something you can't change.

During a recent audit here in Georgia, the state Board of Education discovered something fishy about some standardized test scores. Specifically, the fifth grade Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRTs). Administrations and/or teachers at four elementary schools are believed to have tampered with the CRT results.

The audit was conducted by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement. It noticed something was strange when some of the answer sheets had up to 40 erasure marks on them; when students on average only changed their answers twice. Not to mention that most of the changed answers always went from a wrong one to a right one.

Here's the deal. Based on previous results, the four schools involved must have been on the verge of being sanctioned under the federal No Child Left Behind law. In other words ... they were going to receive an "F." Once the answers were changed on these tests ... guess what? No "F"! Now suddenly these schools look golden! Whoever changed those scores ... were they helping the kids? Hardly. If the school was sanctioned the parents could then transfer kids to another school. In effect, the altered answers trapped these kids in these poor schools.

So now the state board has to vote on whether or not to toss the scores. The principal at Atherton Elementary, James L. Berry, has already resigned. His assistant principal Doretha Alexander also resigned. Both have been arrested and charged with altering public documents. Isn't that just sweet!

Now state senators have called for a bill that would make it a crime for educators to change answers on standardized tests.

Last year, Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel put together a program whereby election officials would use state driver's license databases and match them against voter databases to determine if any illegal aliens participated in the voting process. The process would apply special scrutiny to any person registering to vote who said that they were not a citizen when they got their driver's license. Seems fair, doesn't it? The Justice Department thought so, and the process did indeed find illegal voters.

Well now Barack Obama's Department of Justice has decided that this program is discriminatory. So let the battle begin. Here's what the DOJ had to say for itself:

We have considered the accuracy of the state's verification process. Our analysis shows that the state's process does not produce accurate and reliable information and that thousands of citizens who are in fact eligible to vote under Georgia law have been flagged....

An error as simple as transposition of one digit of a driver[s] license can lead to an erroneous notation of a non-match.....

....Although the state has not provided data on the racial and language minority characteristics of all registrants whose applications went through the verification process, we have been able to compare the composition of those persons whom the state has flagged for further inquiry because of a non-match with both the composition of newly registered voters in the state and the composition of existing registered voters....

[A]pplicants who are Hispanic, Asian or African-American are more likely than white applicants, to statistically significant degrees, to be flagged for additional scrutiny....

So ... what is the Justice Department's beef here? Well, it seems that they're concerned that when Georgia starts to ferret out illegal voters they find more among Hispanics, Asians or Africans than they do among whites! Who would have thunk it? And since Hispanics (for instance) are more likely to be illegal voters than white folks, the entire process must be discriminatory, and therefore illegal.

Get it?

Naturally, Karen Handel is more that peeved that the DOJ has rejected her program for voter verification. So she decided to respond to the DOJ about its rejection:

The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia's already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections.

With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ's decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election.

The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.

DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia's elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant's citizenship status or whether the individual even exists.... Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.

Get an eyeful and an earful of the Talkmaster at a couple of upcoming events:

• Friday, May 8th in Naples, Florida I'll give my own State of the Union Address and more at this Boortz Bash
• Wednesday, May 20th in Kennesaw, Georgia I'll deliver my newly updated Boortz Commencement Speech to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation
• Saturday, June 13th in Columbia, Missouri for the Midwest FairTax Rally

Chris is commenting on my piece from yesterday about seat belts in pickups in Georgia.

Name:Chris Akers
Subject:Normal for Libertarians?
You are against government growth and control for everyone and everything unless it relates to the two things that seriously bother you, smoking and seat belts. Then you try to justify it by saying that you should not have to pay for those mistakes made by others. You cannot pick and choose. You either want government in or government out. Picking where you want government to interfere makes you sound like a wimpy liberal.

Who is Glenn Richardson? My home town listeners probably know. He's the Republican Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives. By the end of this year he will have blood on his hands. Sounds rather strong, doesn't it? Well ... actions have consequences. Read on:

Several years ago, when Georgia passed its mandatory seatbelt law, the esteemed legislators in Atlanta decided to exempt pickups and light trucks. The exemption of light trucks like SUVs was later lifted, but pickup drivers can still drive around without buckling up.

Statistics show that fatalities in pickup accidents in Georgia exceed fatalities in other vehicles by 31%. You want an example? On March 15th Jack Sandifer was driving a Dodge pickup near Hawkinsville, Georgia. He lost control in the rain and hit a tree. Sandifer and his grandson died at the scene. Sandifer's wife died later at the hospital. None of them were wearing seatbelts. Georgia law didn't require it.

There is a picture of Jack Sandifer taken just after the accident. He's lying across the hood of his pickup - half in and half out of the car - his body sticking through the windshield. You can see the gash in his neck where the windshield sliced it. He was alive when the picture was taken .. but bled to death very soon after. I thought about posting it .. but out of respect for the Sandifer family I did not.

Georgia is the ONLY state in the nation where pickup trucks are exempted from mandatory seatbelt laws. There is a bill in the Georgia General Assembly this year to lift the exemption. It has already passed the Georgia Senate and there are enough votes in the House to pass it. It doesn't look like the House is going to get to vote on the bill however. I'm told that Speaker Richardson is refusing to allow it to come up for a vote. When asked why, he mutters something about government intrusion into our lives. Who knows what the real reason might be.

You want to talk about government intrusion? How about the government seizing money from me to pay for the medical treatment of idiots who don't fasten seatbelts? How about the expanded Medicaid costs? How about the danger from secondary collisions caused by people who aren't kept behind the wheel when they get into a wreck? Oh .. and how about the millions of Federal highway dollars the State of Georgia loses every year because of this pickup exemption?

And ... what about Jack Sandifer, his wife and his grandson. There's Jack ... lying on the hood of his pickup with his life pouring out of his severed neck.

Don't give me that "You're not a libertarian" crap either. You can drive your car all you want .. 24/7 .. on your own property or on the private property of another person without wearing a seatbelt. Go rent a racetrack and do it. When you elect to drive on public highways you are a party to a contract with every other driver. If that contract, which requires insurance, headlights, brakes and such as well as seatbelts, is too inconvenient for you .. then catch a cab.

How many people will die on Georgia roads during the next year because of one obstinate politician in Atlanta?

Oh ... someone asked me for Richardson's office number. Wait .. I think I have it around here somewhere. It's 404-656-5020. I'm not telling you to call. In fact, I'm asking you NOT to. He wouldn't understand what you're trying to tell him anyway. I just thought you might like to have the number on your rolodex in case you should ever need it.

Here in Atlanta, Georgia, home of the Mothership News/Talk 750 WSB, we have some racial chips on some shoulders in the state government. On Friday, about two dozen black Georgia lawmakers apparently stormed out of the Georgia House. They did so because they were angry that a white Congressman blocked a proposal to make Barack Obama an honorary member of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus.

State Representative Austin Scott says that he blocked the proposal because the wording would have put the full chamber on the record and it declared Obama as a man with an "unimpeachable reputation for integrity." After Democrats balked at revising the wording, Scott blocked the proposal.

But naturally, this automatically turned into an issue of race. Some black lawmakers saw this as a snub to the nation's first black president. State Representative Al Williams says, "It drips with racism .. I call it just like it is." Al Williams is an idiot who couldn't define the word "racism" if his per diem depended on it, and it doesn't.

There are still some backward minds out there who think that any amount of "disrespect" (to use the vernacular) shown PrezBO is evidence of racism. Unfortunately this one is in my back yard.

A resolution has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature to condemn a modernization project for Chicago's O'Hare airport. They are calling it the "Runway to Nowhere." Representative Joe Wilkinson introduced the resolution, calling attention to the Georgia Congressional delegation to stop wasteful spending projects approved for Obama's "stimulus" package.

The Georgia legislatures are upset that Chicago's expansion project is estimated to cost $20 billion, while Atlanta's request for Hartsfield is a mere $500 million.

Wilkinson explains, "Why should the people of Georgia and the rest of the nation cough up $20 billion to build an airport in Chicago, when their own state won't even pay for it?" continued Wilkinson. "Compare Chicago's project to Atlanta's request of $500 million for the new Hartsfield-Jackson international terminal. Atlanta and Chicago have virtually identical airports with identical traffic volume, yet Chicago's terminal will cost more than $19 billion more the proposed Atlanta project, and the airlines have affirmed that it will do very little to alleviate flight delays. The American people were right to stand up against the 'bridge to nowhere,' and it's time to do the same with the 'runway to nowhere.'"

Now if the Georgia Legislature really wanted to do something for the people, it would seize operational control of Hartsfield International Airport from the City of Atlanta and then put it up for sale or lease. The Georgia legislature could then use the proceeds of that sale or lease to fund tax relief for Atlanta's hammered home owners. But really, that makes too much sense ... so let's hammer O'Hare.

A nifty little fight going on in the Georgia General Assembly about whether or not Georgians should be allowed to buy alcohol on Sunday. Right now you can have a drink if you go to a restaurant on Sunday - in certain jurisdictions - but only after 12:30. The politicians figure that this gives the Baptists time to get home from church. However, if you decide at the last minute to have some friends over for dinner or brunch on Sunday you are not allowed to go buy a bottle of wine.

What has finally driven the political class to consider ending this stupid blue law? Money, of course. They want the tax revenues from Sunday alcohol sales. Frankly I don't believe that it would result in any significant additional revenues .. but I do believe that the state should not be controlling the behavior of one group of citizens to appease another ... the church-goers.

When I first moved to Georgia in the late '60s the Blue Laws were in full force. How bad was it? Well ... you could go to visit a sick child in the hospital on Sunday, but you couldn't stop anywhere and buy that child a teddy bear or a toy? Why not? The Baptists were going to church .. that's why not.

In times past bootleggers provided a lot of funding to keep Sunday alcohol sales down. I wonder if they're in the mix this time.

That would be government school bus drivers, by the way. They're all going to be dressed up in khaki pants, blue blazers and red shirts. This is happening at a time the school is laying off workers due to budget shortfalls. Also .. just in case you didn't know ... this school lost its accreditation last year, generally because its being run by a bunch of idiots. The cost of these snazzy uniforms? About $75,000. Now of course when a government official comes up with an asinine idea like this, they have to have a reason. So ... here's your reason. The uniforms will prevent school bus hijackings. Now does Clayton County have a history of school bus hijackings? Nope. Can't think of one .. but when a hijacker does happen to come along he will most certainly be frightened off by the uniformed drivers.

Clayton County is losing students hand over fist. There are actually some parents there who don't want their children attending unaccredited schools. These uniforms should bring them back. They will turn the looser cruiser into a party bus!

We have located your future celebusluts. These are girls that wish to emulate such spectacular role models as Britney Spears and other sex icons. Here in the Atlanta area, the dance team at Jonesboro High School has been disbanded after a racy performance at a basketball game. The eight girls were wearing little booty shorts, tight tops and dancing on chairs. Once they leave the chairs, their gyrations look like got their choreography straight from BET music videos. A video of the performance showed up on YouTube titled "The Sluts of Jonesboro." That about sums it up.

The school has disbanded the group for the rest of the year. The faculty advisor has been removed. The school will not be punishing the girls beyond that .. but let's only hope that the parents take care of the rest. One thing for sure ... there's a lot of boys in this school who know where they're going to go for their next sexual conquest.

If you aren't having a look at your county or city's mugshots from time to time, you really should. You'll find some gems. Sometimes the t-shirt message totally makes it.

We still like this one we found a while back a little bit better.

It's Election Day in Georgia.  Today the people of Georgia may well decide how Obama is going to "rule" (his word) for the next  two years.  If people don't show up at the polls in Georgia today the Democrat-socialist machine could well roll on without brakes until the next congressional election.  It will allow them to enact policies that will be damaging not only for you but more importantly for your children and grandchildren.  I'm talking about policies like universal healthcare, federalizing pension plans, turning a blind eye to the failings of our social security system. 

A vote for Jim Martin - who was campaigning with Ludacris yesterday - is more than the ousting of a Republican from the Senate.  It is a mandate for the liberal agenda .. at least that is how the Democrats would like to see it and that may well be the way things work out - especially if we give the left just this one more Senate seat.

Now .. the notes are short today.  I'm heading for the polls.

All eyes on Georgia tomorrow.  There is one more election where the voters still have an actual say ... and that would be right here.  Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss is facing Democrat Jim Martin in a runoff.  The vote is tomorrow; and it's all about turnout.

Yeah, I know.  They're still counting votes in Minnesota, and Norm Coleman may still prevail against Democrat funny guy Al Franken.  But this one is in the hands of the politicians, lawyers and judges.  Georgia is in the hands of the voters - it this may be the last stand before a 60-vote filibuster proof Democrat majority in the Senate. 

There is voter anger against Chambliss in Georgia.  This I understand.  Saxby's vote in favor of the bailout bill has a lot of people fuming .. but there's a lot of second-guessing here.  We now know that that the $700 billion bailout essentially amounts to a slush fund .. and hundreds of billions may be saved for Obama to spend.  This is not what the people wanted and not what the Republicans in the Senate voted for.  But now it is what it is, and letting the Democrats have their 60 seats isn't going to change anything.  This is about votes to come.  Votes to raise taxes, votes to redistribute wealth, votes to expand the power of government, votes to confirm anti-Constitutional Supreme Court justices and to pass the unionization-by-intimidation bill.  In a worse-case scenario this election tomorrow in Georgia could be about votes on whether or not the government will seize all or a portion of our 401Ks and pension plans, and a vote on whether or not to remove the cap on Social Security taxes.  Would you like to see means-testing for your Social Security benefits?  Would you like for the government to come to you when you reach retirement age and tell you that you have simply been too successful to collect your Social Security -- that the money is needed for people who didn't work quite so hard?

It's all about turnout.  The polls show it too close to call.  You can bet that those who vote for a living will be at the polls.  The unions will be sending their vans out, driven by union volunteers, to collect as many Democrat voters and deliver them to the polls as possible.  Hey ... they have the card check bill to protect.  Churchgoers across Atlanta were admonished to go to the polls and vote for Martin on Tuesday.  The Democrats are running ads of Saxby Chambliss pictured next to a multi-million dollar yacht cursing the seas - the wealth envy card being played to the hilt.  Those with no job - those who vote for their living - will have no trouble leaving work (yeah, right) to vote.  Will you? 

Oh you betcha! There's Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin preparing to go to Washington to attempt to glom on to some of that bailout cash. I live in Atlanta and I've been watching Atlanta goings-on for about 40 years now. So let me send a message to the taxpayers of America. Bailout cash for Atlanta? No way!

For at least two decades Atlanta has had a reputation for one of the most over-staffed and bloated city governments in the nation. The City of Atlanta has been a glorified jobs program for the poorly-educated graduates of one the nation's worst school systems (Atlanta Government Schools) for years. Before the taxpayers of this country fork over the money to cover these years of mismanagement there are just a few things the City of Atlanta should be required to do. Work on these goals and then come begging:

• Sell the Paulding County and Dawson Forest. Oh! Never heard of these massive City of Atlanta land holdings? It seems that Atlanta owns 10,000 acres in Paulding County, Georgia and another 10,130 in North Georgia near the city of Dawsonville. The Dawsonville property is extremely valuable North Georgia mountain land. The 10,000 Paulding County acres were purchased for $935 an acre 33 years ago. Before Atlanta comes begging for taxpayer money these two giant holdings should be sold. If the city wants to wait until the real estate market improves it could pledge to sell these properties within five years and use the proceeds to reimburse the taxpayers .. with interest. What do you think? Five thousand an acre? Let's see ... that adds up to about $100 million?
• Privatize Hartsfield International Airport. This idea was first floated by former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and it's been bouncing around ever since ... to the distress of Atlanta political types. Here's a link to a 14-year-old study from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation which indicates that revenues from the sale or lease of Hartsfield could amount to $166 million a year - and, as I said, this was 14 years ago. You can only imagine how much that figure would be today.
• As this presently stand it is illegal for the City of Atlanta to take one penny in revenue from the operation of Hartsfield. This is past asinine. By leasing of selling that airport Atlanta could be taking in hundreds of millions a year. Until the city is willing to take this step there should be no federal bailout.
• Privatize a few other things. Garbage collection and maintenance on city-owned vehicles, to name two. That would be a good start.
• Fire Some Folks. After all of the above has been accomplished .. then start sending out the pink slips. And don't give me that horse squeeze about how it would affect essential city services. How many times has some local TV station sent out undercover reporters to video city employees at work .. and how many times have we seen these people doing private errands, sleeping, and gobbling down Krispy Kremes while they were on the clock. Give me a break ... some of these people need to be collecting unemployment.
• Adjust pensions for city executives. Everybody else is taking it on the chin with their retirement funds ... why not the officials of any city coming to the federal taxpayers for a bailout?

There's your short list. You can forward this to your favorite elected official and tell them that you don't want Atlanta in your pocket until these things are done.

Check this out. Click here and take a look at this one ballot in Minnesota. Minnesota, in case you don't know, is where the Democrats are busy stealing a Senate seat. Just 150 or so votes separate the incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and ultra-leftist Democrat Al Franken. Al Franken is actually taking this one particular ballot to the courts saying that the voter was obviously voting against Norm Coleman. Again ...just look at the ballot to get a clear idea what is going on here.

Are we going to allow the Democrats to use tactics like this to get their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate? Well, that depends on the voters in Georgia. On December 2nd Georgia voters can prevent that 60-vote majority, no matter what Al Franken manages to pull off in Minnesota. The Minnesota Senate race will be determined by politicians ... the Georgia Senate runoff between Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin will be decided by the voters ... and it's all going to rest on just who heads to the polls.

There is going to be much gnashing of teeth of the last roadblock - the possibility of a Republican filibuster - is removed from the path of Obama, Pelosi and Reid. There is absolutely nothing in Martin's past that indicates he would be anything other than Obama's dog washer and Reid's sock puppet in Washington.

Weeks ago I was saying that the political focus was going to be on Georgia after the general election. Finally I get something right. We need something to slow down the big-government goals of the Democrats. Georgia voters are that something.

Well, for better or for worse, the Boortz Show really has to be on its game the next couple of weeks ... just when I'm feeling a bit lazy. (So, what else is new?) The nation will be tuning in to see Georgians Saxby Chambliss and that anti-FairTax liar Jim Martin battle it out for the Senate. We still have one county counting its votes, but it looks like it's going to be a runoff to be held December 2nd. Yesterday CNN was reporting that Chambliss had the 50%. Finally, when it came down to it, Chambliss missed it by 0.1% ... he ended up with 49.9% when he needed to get 50% of the popular vote.

The good news is that with Alan Buckley (also an anti-FairTax candidate) out of the race, we will have to see how many of those Libertarians will defect to the Republicans versus the Democrats.

We'll see if Jim Martin has the onions to abandon this "Saxby Chambliss will add 23% to the price of everything that you buy" line and campaign on the truth. This is one of the big problems with the FairTax, it is easy to demagogue. Martin proved that in this Senate race. Let's see how many informed voters there are out there.

It appears that Saxby Chambliss got his majority over that anti-FairTax liar Jim Martin. This is one victory I am really glad the Democrats cannot claim today. Imagine how much damage could have been done with this Jim Martin adding to their 57+ Democrat majority.

Fox News has now called my home state of Georgia for McCain. Also - to make the news even better - Fox has called Georgia's Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss the winner in the Senate race. The Chambliss win is comforting on several levels. One, his opponent campaigned on lies about the FairTax. I still believe in the FairTax as strongly as ever .. but more on that later. Secondly, this is one Senate seat the MoveOn Democrats won't be able to count on for their filibuster proof majority.