Lee Leslie

Lee Leslie
I’m just a plateaued-out plain person with too much time on his hands fighting the never ending lingual battle with windmills for truth, justice and the American way or something like that. Here are some reader comments on my writing: “Enough with the cynicism. One doesn’t have to be Pollyanna to reject the sky is falling fatalism of Lee Leslie’s posts.” “You moron.” “Again, another example of your simple-minded, scare-mongering, label-baiting method of argumentation that supports the angry left’s position.” “Ah, Lee, you traffic in the most predictable, hackneyed leftist rhetoric that brought us to the current state of political leadership.” “You negative SOB! You destroyed all my hope, aspiration, desperation, even.” “Don’t you LIBERALS realize what this COMMIE is talking about is SOCIALISM?!?!?!” “Thank you for wonderful nasty artful toxic antidote to this stupidity in the name of individual rights.” “I trust you meant “bastard” in the truest father-less sense of the word.” “That’s the first time I ran out of breath just from reading!” “You helped me hold my head a little higher today.” “Makes me cry every time I read it.” “Thanks for the article. I needed something to make me laugh this mourning.” “If it weren’t so sad I would laugh.” “Amen, brother.”
Number of posts: 154
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Posts by Lee Leslie:


    News

    Dog Days News

    by Lee Leslie | 3, Add your Comment | Aug 18 10
    Dog Days News
    So Blago’s guilty of lying, but after six and half years of Justice Department investigations, many millions spent, federal prosecutors couldn’t convince 12 of his peers that he was guilty of any of the other 23 charges. Blago will likely be re-tried. Our hemisphere is having the hottest summer ever recorded – wildfires in Russia, an iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, and Pakistan has more than 20 million affected by flooding with 8+ million in desperate need of food and clean water – yet, the Climate and Energy Bill is being held hostage by Senate ...
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    People & Places, Politics, Voices

    The verdict’s in

    by Lee Leslie | 1, Add your Comment | Aug 13 10
    The verdict’s in
    I was called for jury duty this week. Having polled the 300 jurors-in-waiting for Fulton County Court, our judgement was unanimous: if the price of voting is jury duty, we need to demand better candidates. It is a tradition to bitch and moan about being called to jury duty, but with almost no exception, those of us summoned, recognized that jury duty is a humbling honor. Plus, it is a once a year chance to be in a room for a day filled with your peers. I was again reminded of how diverse our citizen peers truly are. Beautiful people of all ...
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    Politics, Views, Voices

    Sermon on the stump

    by Lee Leslie | 7, Add your Comment | Aug 6 10
    Sermon on the stump
    The Damnitudes: Now when he saw the ratings, he went up on each of the networks and sat down. His disciples tuned in to him, and he began to teach them saying: Damned are the poor and unemployed, for theirs is the kingdom of the street. Damned are those who mourn, for they will be mocked. Damned are the meek, for they will inherit the nothing, though it will be tax free. Damned are those who hunger and thirst for leftedness, for they will suffer and starve. Damned are the merciful, for they will be shown no mercy. Damned are the pure in heart, for they will ...
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    News, Voices

    Mission Accomplished

    by Lee Leslie | 2, Add your Comment | Aug 2 10
    Mission Accomplished
    ATLANTA -- Today, President Obama announced to the National Convention of Disabled Veterans of America that he is keeping one of his campaign promises – America’s longest war will be unofficially* over on August 31, 2010. Twenty years and eight months since our Middle East invasion. More than 4,000 American lives have been lost and 30,000+ wounded or disabled. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians lost or maimed and millions more have been displaced or are refugees. An estimated five million orphaned children. Two failed Bush presidencies. Well more than a trillion dollars of treasury spent so far. No WMDs ...
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    Politics, Voices

    ASSume the position

    by Lee Leslie | 10, Add your Comment | Aug 1 10
    ASSume the position
    WADR for those in romantic relationships with a banker and actually want it in the ass, the banking industry, aka: we caused the greatest depression since the last and are too big to fail this election cycle so we get money from the Fed for as close to nothing as is measurable and may or may not lend it to you for 33.3% plus fees, are, surprise, taking advantage of real, or will be real loopholes in the passed, but not litigated, totally ruled or commented, but well-monikered Credit Card Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. Duh? Just what do you ...
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    Life, Views, Voices

    Keep your friends close & family closer

    by Lee Leslie | 15, Add your Comment | Jul 18 10
    Keep your friends close & family closer
    I defriended my cousin on Facebook. My father’s mother’s brother’s son. I feel bad about it, but he had stepped over the virtual line we had drawn by posting another pseudo-political diatribe/comment on my wall. My cousin’s belief system has little room for fact and he has found that Facebook is the perfect pulpit for his sputem-stained dogma. Please don’t misunderstand, I have tremendous respect and admiration for people of faith – especially, religious faith, faith in aliens, faith in spouses, children, the dollar – that sort of thing. I really don’t think it is any of my business what someone ...
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    Dewings

    Another long weekend

    by Lee Leslie | 4, Add your Comment | Jul 17 10
    Another long weekend
    Alert Dewsletter readers may have noticed their “Sunday Dews” arriving Saturday. Oops, my bad. Our automated email system failed overnight and a manual replacement version had to be created. As I hit the send button, I yelled out to my sleeping wife, “Your Sunday Dewsletter was just sent.” With her eyes still closed, she yelled back, “it’s Saturday.” We have a bug in our email system that has caused subscribers to receive multiple Dewsletters the last two weekends. We thought we had it fixed. We’ll work it on it some more. No telling what’s going to happen on the real Sunday. ...
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    News, Politics, Voices

    Earning Impunity

    by Lee Leslie | 32, Add your Comment | Jul 16 10
    Earning Impunity
    Goldman Sachs had revenues of $13.4 billion last year not including the $10 billion in bailout money. Without admitting wrong doing for helping former Treasury Secretary now hedge-fund billionaire Hank Paulson bilk investors by packaging and selling toxic mortgages designed to fail, Goldman has agreed to settle civil fraud charges for an amount equal to about two week’s revenue, $550 million, plus $1.3 million for lobbying and politicians. Were Goldman Sachs the first and last name of a person, they would be in jail and pennyless. As a corporation, their stock went up over $3 billion after the announcement. BP takes ...
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    Politics, Voices

    A Declaration of Dependence

    by Lee Leslie | 2, Add your Comment | Jul 3 10
    A Declaration of Dependence
    A recently discovered, candid, but politically incorrect draft with last minute changes. IN CONGRESS, JULY 2^4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for rich^one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and more than equal station to which the Laws of Capitalism^Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these beliefs^truths ...
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    Life, People & Places, Politics, Talk, Voices

    Joining the 50 million

    by Lee Leslie | 43, Add your Comment | Jun 9 10
    Joining the 50 million
    Our health insurance was canceled last month. We have joined the ranks of the uninsured. Collateral damage in health care reform and the race to parse the regulations, drive trucks of cash through the loopholes and squeeze every dollar out of every soul still breathing. Payments were current. We had not made a claim that exceeded our deductible in a couple of years. Nothing had changed. And we weren’t even told until three weeks after it had happened. There’s no appeal. No reason required. No COBRA. It is just gone. And it was done on purpose. Our business had used  Business Advantage, ...
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    Politics, Views, Voices

    Research shows what it doesn’t show

    by Lee Leslie | 5, Add your Comment | May 21 10
    Research shows what it doesn’t show
    If you don’t have a phone, you can’t hang up on them. Landlines have become quaint. It is almost funny to think that, here we are in 2010 and yet, some people still use those old style telephones that require wires to plug into the wall in order to work. Way back in 2004, more than 90% of households had a landline. In 2009, 25% of households were cell phone only. “Why is this a political story,” you might ask? It is against federal law* to use the automated dialers, which most pollsters use, to call cell phones. Add to that the ...
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    Politics, Talk, Views, Voices

    The day the music died

    by Lee Leslie | 29, Add your Comment | May 18 10
    The day the music died
    Something sinister must have occurred to start the cycle we are in now. A cycle in which our political center has moved. When being "pro-business" became more politically popular than being "pro-worker." When being for "free markets" could rally crowds and "consumer protection" would bring on "boos." When prosecuting a "war on terrorism" stokes jingoism instead of fears of "nation building," while "presumption of innocence," "due process" and the "right to counsel" was the treasonous coddling of our enemies. When "gun rights" became more important than "insuring domestic tranquility." When "faith" could claim a higher standing than "fact," or "truth," or ...
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    Politics, Voices

    Themmigration Reform

    by Lee Leslie | 15, Add your Comment | May 2 10
    We have 108 miles out 1,969 so far
    The only thing to fear is them themselves. It is going around. There are at least ten other states, Utah, Georgia, Colorado, Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska among them, considering anti-immigration laws in the same spirit as the one passed by Arizona (ThinkProgress.org). Arizona’s new law requires law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws "where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States." So, what would make you reasonably suspect someone? Language? Accent? Skin color? Hair type? Height? Weight? Surname? Intelligence? Car type? Living conditions? No driver’s license? ...
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