Sen. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, filed the proposal to reverse that order. He proposed the motto would be the default on any license plates manufactured after July 1 but motorists could buy a county decal sticker to cover it if they wanted.

Not gonna fly. You can't charge people to make a something that is required become secular.

Sounds as sociopathic as usual.

They need to start drug testing their politicians

John Henry Eden: valdoespolitics.com

Oh, god. Every time I see that picture, I get this totally irrational but extremely unnerving feeling that his head is going to turn and he's going to look straight at me.

Oh, and they're jumping on the 'drug test poor people' bandwagon. Because the people least able to buy drugs.. uh..

Can't we set aside a separate country for these Talibapists? Say, some island somewhere? Maybe Rockall or some such other unused lump of rock? Then we can let these idiots legislate themselves back into the dark ages and die in their filthy, diseased, inbred, ignorant squalor.

I'm sure they're OK with the other 9 Commandments.
It's just the taking the Lord's name in vain one that they have a problem with.

/and probably the adultery one. I know I do.

Gyrfalcon: In other news, Georgia continues to cut off their nose to spite their face:

possible changes to Georgia's new state law that seeks to deter illegal immigrants from coming to Georgia by cutting off their access to jobs and public benefits.

Related to the immigration law, the state's powerful agricultural industry has already said farm labor shortages will cost Georgia $391 million this year.

"We don't want to make money! We'd rather not have too many brown people!!"

However laudable their goal, this might be the wrong way to do it, you know?

All those farm loses are a feature not a bug:
scare off all the workers
small farms fail
Big Agra buys land for cheap
Next year the legislature reverses the law
Big Agra (and the pol's via the lobbying) profit

0Icky0: I'm sure they're OK with the other 9 Commandments.
It's just the taking the Lord's name in vain one that they have a problem with.

/and probably the adultery one. I know I do.

Bearing false witness is their main industry.

Alphax: Bearing false witness is their main industry.

All right. Besides taking the Lord's name in vain, adultery, and bearing false witness. What have the Commandments not prevented us from doing?

Oh shart. My neighbor's ass. I want it so much.

Alphax: Oh, and they're jumping on the 'drug test poor people' bandwagon. Because the people least able to buy drugs.. uh..

So much ^^this^^ I know for myself the only time I've smoked pot is when I was employed and hanging out with fellow co-workers .

bayoubruce: LemonYellowSun: Alphax: Oh, and they're jumping on the 'drug test poor people' bandwagon. Because the people least able to buy drugs.. uh..

YEA....there ain't no drugs in them there poor neighborhoods....

Not the poor people, though.

bayoubruce: LemonYellowSun: Alphax: Oh, and they're jumping on the 'drug test poor people' bandwagon. Because the people least able to buy drugs.. uh..

YEA....there ain't no drugs in them there poor neighborhoods....

But it's only poor people's drugs. Like crack. Not like good white people drugs like cocaine.

I read the article until I came across the word "kerfuffle" and then had to stop there.
But now I've got Georgia on my Mind.

Stay (R)etarded, GA. politicians. First the Mexicans, then the farmers, now the poor, and next you're coming after our clean water supply. You f*ckers really have no shame do you?

Sounds like christianity in action to me. And they look down their noses at Muslims and other "heathens".

aearra: Sounds like christianity in action to me. And they look down their noses at Muslims and other "heathens".

At least they aren't posting their hate on Fark like certain atheists. Don't you have a public building to go destroy or a child to attack?

Kurmudgeon: aearra: Sounds like christianity in action to me. And they look down their noses at Muslims and other "heathens".

At least they aren't posting their hate on Fark like certain atheists. Don't you have a public building to go destroy or a child to attack?

1/10 Go back to troll school with you.

Kurmudgeon: At least they aren't posting their hate on Fark like certain atheists.

A skilled troll would have spelled "their" and "atheists" much more trolly.

Kurmudgeon: aearra: Sounds like christianity in action to me. And they look down their noses at Muslims and other "heathens".

At least they aren't posting their hate on Fark like certain atheists. Don't you have a public building to go destroy or a child to attack?

Kurmudgeon:

At least they aren't posting their hate on Fark like certain atheists. Don't you have a public building to go destroy or a child to attack?

Trolling or not, I think we can all agree that this is a valid point. Posting hate on Fark is MUCH worse than using your political position to force your religion on everyone else. Thank God that at the very least, they aren't posting their hate on Fark like certain atheists.

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Upcoming newspaper headline to be changed for Georgia....7,000 passed testing. 32 failed. Unclear if any state money was actually saved. That's some fine legislatin' Lou. Usually you try to avoid what doesn't work in other states.

Oh, that was known before it even started. By the states own numbers, iirc, the drug testing was expected to save something like 20 million and cost 230.

Healthy school lunches: we have no money for that.
welfare: definitely no money for that.

$1 billion airplane that will never be used by the military: approved
In God We Trust on plates: necessary and plenty of cash.

stuhayes2010: Healthy school lunches: we have no money for that.
welfare: definitely no money for that.

$1 billion airplane that will never be used by the military: approved
In God We Trust on plates: necessary and plenty of cash.

Oh, and just how is god supposed to know who the faithful are without huge displays?

cc_rider: Stay (R)etarded, GA. politicians. First the Mexicans, then the farmers, now the poor, and next you're coming after our clean water supply. You f*ckers really have no shame do you?

That water isn't clean, I heard it has fluoride in it!

/give it time
//never go full Birch

If you're a modern American politician, you've pretty much already chosen Mammon. Splashing "God!" everywhere won't help you.

Ed Grubermann: Can't we set aside a separate country for these Talibapists? Say, some island somewhere? Maybe Rockall or some such other unused lump of rock? Then we can let these idiots legislate themselves back into the dark ages and die in their filthy, diseased, inbred, ignorant squalor.

I'd rather give them farkall. They can pray to walk on water right until the moment they drown.

If Michigan were to print that on my license plate, I would scrape it off.

Pushy farking religious twatwaffles.

John Henry Eden: They need to start drug testing their politicians

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That's what I came to say. They come up with such great ideas. "Let's make sure that poor children with pot-smoking parents get nothing at all, and can starve."

With ideas like that, they have to be stoned.

0Icky0: A skilled troll would have spelled "their" and "atheists" much more trolly.

I'm not obsessed enough, you need a Fark atheist for that.
I just have to call them on their BS every now and then.
Regular atheists who can actually live around people who don't believe identically the same as them without complaint, I have no problems with.

FTFA:
The program provides temporary financial help to low-income families with children who cannot meet basic needs.

Keep rewarding that FAIL, America, as I am sure it will soon pay dividends.

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Upcoming newspaper headline to be changed for Georgia....7,000 passed testing. 32 failed. Unclear if any state money was actually saved. That's some fine legislatin' Lou. Usually you try to avoid what doesn't work in other states.

yeah but the drug testing company makes a lot of money. and they will give some of it back to the politicians who support their business with mandatory testing. so it's all good right?

I don't understand how Georgia can be this regressive in some ways but be so progressive in others.

1) Pay unemployment while in school (ok, makes sense...the unemployed can learn new skills to expand their job opportunities).
2) spend a bunch of money attracting film companies to the state & on other arts (notice how many movies at least partially take place in Georgia lately?)
3) Put "God" on everything (...what?)

Ahhhh GA politicians.
Farking jerks can't ever focus on what's important. All of them, from all all sides. High school cheerleaders and whiny brats. Every single damn one of them.
I'm so glad I don't live there anymore.

Keep God off of my license plate, asshats. Go spend my valuable time and money on something important like fixing the farming mess you created.

Well you were expecting reason and logic from a bunch of southerners. There's your first mistake. Then you expected reason and logic from republicans. Second mistake. Together though, subby, they're full retard. Exercise some better judgement next time.

cannibalparrot: I don't understand how Georgia can be this regressive in some ways but be so progressive in others.

1) Pay unemployment while in school (ok, makes sense...the unemployed can learn new skills to expand their job opportunities).
2) spend a bunch of money attracting film companies to the state & on other arts (notice how many movies at least partially take place in Georgia lately?)
3) Put "God" on everything (...what?)

Atlanta has a small, but important, progressive influence. I live here and don't know how I feel about the filming taking place here. Some friends of mine have gotten jobs and a few others have gotten small parts; but I'm not sure there has been a net gain in the local economy compared with the huge tax breaks film companies get from producing here. As to the put God on everything; this is still the land of the Baptists.

Why don't they put "clap your hands if you believe in fairies" on them if we're putting homages to imaginary beings on license plates.

Keep rewarding that FAIL, America, as I am sure it will soon pay dividends.

It already has. I don't get robbed every other week by some guy with no other way to feed his kids because self-righteous asshats have decided that poverty is a moral failing and thus dismantled all forms of government assistance.

The whole idea of the social safety net is to keep people from hitting rock bottom. People with nothing left to lose can do some very desperate things in the name of self-preservation.

If they would just use their turn signals and learn what to do at a 4-way stop they wouldn't need as much faith in a higher power.

They are cutting off Rush Limbaugh?

Matthew 6:5-6 5 "When you pray, don't be like hypocrites. They love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners so that people will see them. I assure you, that's the only reward they'll get. 6 But when you pray, go to your room, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is present in that secret place. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you."

I was brought up Catholic. I grew out of it when the hypocrisy became OBVIOUS. It was about the same time I realized that Santa wasn't real. I can see how religion is a useful evolutionary tool, I just wish everyone were a little bit more curious about the world around them. More people need to see 'Science Saved My Soul.'

SevenizGud: Keep rewarding that FAIL, America, as I am sure it will soon pay dividends.

Seems to have paid off in the GA education system.

As a former Christian, I just don't get THESE Christians. In the church I was raised in, I was taught that one of the core tenants of the faith was humility and not pushing your religion in other people's face. In fact, according to the theology of the church I was raised in, doing so was clearly sinful and very un-Christian. And there are all kinds of Bible verses that support this interpretation. Sometimes, I honestly wonder what Bible these people are reading. It sure isn't the Bible the church I grew up in used.