Saturday, December 31, 2011

Online headline: "Ron Paul Says He Might Not Support His GOP Rivals" -- And? I haven't seen him even support himself in a positive manner.
---
From L-E column: "No doubt, poverty is a huge problem in Columbus. Eliminate poverty and you’d have brighter students, happier teachers, a stronger educational system, a better-equipped workforce and lower crime rates." -- Is the glass half full or half empty? Poverty itself doesn't weaken the education system; education is supposed to be the route out of poverty, and it's up to the parents and teachers to convey this. Unfortunately, government is/has tried to take over being the parent of poverty students, and is failing miserably.
---
The Insight Bowl gave us a rare event last night (2 events if you count the camera collapse). The Iowa QB threw an interception, then was called for unnecessary roughness with a late hit during the tackle.
---
L-E story: "WASHINGTON — The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. and Afghan officials said. " -- This sounds exactly like the same story concerning talks between potUS O'Blather and the ultra-left-wing DIM&DUMBERat factions...
---
L-E story: "TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Scientists want to know if an underwater cannon can protect valuable Great Lakes fish from a greedy predator. * The round goby is an exotic species that hangs around spawning beds, gobbling up eggs of native varieties such as lake trout and whitefish that are important to the fishing industry. " -- This already sounds like another government snafu, but why this, now? Why didn't the government try to run off the little fishes that shut down the California water supply to farmers' irrigation equipment?
---
What good is an incarceration system/sentence if it isn't adhered to? There's a man pictured in the DUI section today that was arrested for his 2nd DUI in May, and sentenced to 180 days in jail. Further down is the same man arrested for his 3rd DUI less that two months later. If he'd served his sentence, he wouldn't have been out and getting arrested a 3rd time (only God knows how many times he was driving without getting arrested). Just saddens and reminds me of the death of a neighbor's son about 18 months ago. The driver of the car he died in was sentenced to 52 weekends in jail only a few months before the accident. What would be the situation today had the young man served all those weekends as sentenced vs being out early and back behind a wheel?
---

Friday, December 30, 2011

Latest from www.barackobama.com:
I just got the seating arrangement for my dinner (plus guest) with potUS and Flotus. Wonder what he told the other folks? Of course, he didn't say we had actually been invited, but he does want a donation of $3.00 or more. Might have done so if $2.00 was all it takes. NOT!

Please note that the 'contest' is for 4 winners plus their guests. That would mean a table seating 10 would be necessary. Guess some couple would be left at a table by themselves in 'left' field.
---
Online story: "PHOENIX -- Animal lovers threatened to pull donations to an animal rescue group and the public flooded the agency with scathing comments and calls after a man's cat was euthanized when he couldn't afford its medical care, * The group has hired a publicist, * injury that he described as non-life-threatening. The agency said it would cost $400 to treat Scruffy, money he didn't have." -- This is a "humane" group? The man could afford $400.00 for a 'band aid',and the Arizona Humane Society coughed up way more than that to hire a publicist for damage control...sick sick sick.
---
I wish that when the L-E reports a story about something that is funded by "federal funds", the L-E would say it was funded by Congressional Special Interest with our tax dollars instead.
---
What a hypocrite! Eric Holder, our Attorney General, that is. Holder is challenging South Carolina's new law requiring a photo ID to vote. Wish some national media reporter would ask Holder this simple question: Mr Holder, since you've been Attorney General, how many people have been to your office without either a work related phot ID badge, or either a 'visitor' badge for which a photo ID was required to obtain?
---
It's strange, no, more than strange, that there hasn't been an "Iraqi War ending/Welcome Home Troops" parade in Washington or NYC (or anywhere I know of). I think one huge parade needs to be staged...how about along our US-Mexico border..
---
Reports are that a meal hosted by the O'Blather's in a neighborhood restaurant near potUS O'Blather's Hawaiian homestead had 3 different types of butter on the table. Will butter be added to Michelle O'Blather's balanced diet plate, or does this mean Paula Dean is about to be named head of the school lunch program?
---
From the 'suspicions confirmed' department - L-E story: "The president’s great-grandfather’s name was Obama. Obama is derived from the word “bam”, meaning crooked or indirect, she (Sally Jacobs) said in her book." --Talk about being born a politician!
---
L-E headline: "Trash collection up 8.5 percent over holidays " -- Oooops, my bad. Thought the Crime Committee had a better than expected month.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

From the "Looking back" department...remember when the Big 3 auto CEOs were called to appear before a Congressional Committee, and they were all vilified, publicly 'whipped', for arriving in their private corporate jets in spite of their companies' losses? The liberal media waged personal crucifixions on them! Fast forward to this summer when potUS Obama, Flotus Michelle, AND "Bo", the Kennedy gift dog ALL took separate jets to Martha's Vineyard, and more recently, potUS O'Blather and Flotus Michelle separately took Air Force 1 and 2 to vacation in Hawaii, and who knows how "Bo" got there, yet none of the liberal media raises an eyebrow.
---
Online headline: "Youth Vote Expected To Decrease In 2012 Election: Report" -- DOH! They are 4 years older and job hunting, and potUS O'Blather doesn't sound so wise anymore.
---
Did you see the 'cute' picture of the baby sticking its hand into potUS O'Blather's mouth? Perhaps it was a sign that the young voters want him to shut-up... or maybe the baby had a sock in its hand just before the video began.
---
Ron Paul sorta looks like and reminds me of Mr Windish.... Mr Windish was the maintenance engineer at CHS when I went there. One year, the Seniors protested and voted to dedicate the Cohiscan to him, but the powers that be 'nixed' the idea, and used a teacher as the dedicatee. That's how I see the Iowa Caucus shaping up. Ron Paul is a joke for consideration.
---
Have you ever considered that military weapons would be cheaper and more efficient if manufacturers designed and developed them on their own rather than getting grants/contracts to develop concepts at taxpayer expense?
---

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Looking back, I wonder if GM should have named it's "green" car the Chevy DOLT?
---
Over the weekend, I thought HBO was running an economics expose on potUS O'Blather and Tim Geithner when I saw the listing, "Beavis and Butthead Do America"
---
Nancy Pelosi is truly thr champion of the 99%... NOT! For the holidays, she's been "Occupying Four Seasons in Hawaii" in a suite costing $10,000.00 per day. Wouldn't she be more sincere if she stayed home, and 'donated" the $10K per day to the US Treasury Department in the form of a tax donation?
---
In 21 states, government employees can 'buy time' in the form of years served to be calculated into their pensions. "The Arnold" bought 5 years of time for $75K which will benefit him an additional $320K if Mr HealthNut lives to be 80. Of course, every non-government employee would have benefited today onward if such practices are eliminated.
---
Were you aware that the Girl Scouts of America offer a merit badge in "media bias"? Of course, the GSA manual sends you to MediaMatters.com for research. Of course, MediaMatters.com is the most liberally biased source in our country. Put the squeeze on GSA by withholding checks until it corrects this abomination, and also, if you donate through United Way, let UW know by designating withholding GSA funding from your donation.
---
Online headline: "Arizona Schools' Ethnic Studies Program Ruled Illegal" -- Wow! Must be a judge that used to be a Congressman!
---
Online story: "The trustee liquidating MF Global's brokerage does not have a conflict of interest stemming from prior work done for one of MF Global's key lenders, a bankruptcy judge said on Tuesday." -- Must be another judge who used to be in Congress. or has sights on a future position.
---
L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best." -- Hell-thScare will promote the largest lobbying effort ever, and even laboratory assistants and there human guinea pigs will be wined&dined.
---
Why is it that when liberals write in a letter to explain potUAS O'Blather, it's more of a column, and it's based on the theory you'll soon tire of reading the gibberish and stop before the end?
---
L-E story: "ATLANTA — Public schools in DeKalb County are now allowing probation officers into the schools and in some cases providing them office space so they can monitor students who have been in trouble with the law. " -- Wouldn't be easier, and cheaper, to just put monitoring anklets on all the students who've been in trouble?
---
L-E story: "GRIFFIN (GA) — The Spalding County sheriff’s office says a Griffin man who apparently was trying to steal copper wire was electrocuted." -- Now that's the program our Mayor and Crime Prevention Commission should endorse and implement! Just think of the savings in rewards and detective work!
---

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Reflection - Looking back a month or so, potUS O'Blather really screwed up a game changing opportunity to look like a leader. With the Super Committee deadlocked as everyone anticipated, potUS O'Blather could have stepped in, done a little bargaining with the DIM&DUMBERat group, offered a scrap or bone to the Republican group, gotten some sort of deal agreed on, and walked out looking like a leader heading into the 2012 election cycle. But he didn't... stupid man.
---
One question not asked of Eric Holder: How many people have access to your office who don't have either a work related photo ID badge or have shown a photo ID to get a visitor's pass?
---
After dipping into the fund balance, Mayor Obamalinson claimed the City's salaries/benefits ratio to revenues is 59.4%. When challenged on the veracity of that, she said that was the figure the finance department gave her. Guess the finance office should be the next target of an internal audit.
---
Albany? What short memories at the L-E... or have all the employees here when Rigdon Road School's scores were 100% for a year or two been down-sized out? Oooooops, the principal was moved out and over to Macon as I recall.
---
As long as GA is passing new laws governing golf carts, how about one getting golf carts and Segways off our sidewalks. Of course, unless the CPD enforced such laws, the laws would be ignored like bicyclers now.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Online headline: "U.S. Homes Lose $700 Billion in Value in 2011 -- and That's the Good News" -- Pretty much sums up the potUS O'Blather presidency.
---
L-E story: "ACWORTH — Cherokee County officials say a man wielding a sword has been hospitalized after being shot by a deputy. " -- Once again, a situation created by revisionist history being taught in public schools. Guess the guy was never taught that you don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
---
Short but sweet today.
---
Hope all had the merriest Christmas day ever!

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas.... may you all be safe at home with your loved ones, sharing the celebration of the birth of Jesus.
---
Online Headline: "First Lady Answers Kids' Calls On Christmas Eve" -- Guess we should have expected this; potUS O'Blather wants DIM&DUMBERats to believe they can't exist without 'his' gifts, and now 'his' wife wants to get into the game.
---
potUS O'Blather still blames "Congress" even though his first two years he had a controlling majority in the Senate and the House. The truth is his lack of leadership ability cannot move his own party, and when he points the finger of blame at the Republicans, he uses his middle finger.
---
Of course the DIM&DUMBERats are against photo ID as a requirement to vote. Computers have made it harder for dead voters to renew their licenses.
---

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Online headline: "Security Risk: Woman Says TSA Confiscated Frosted Cupcake" -- Times have changed...it used to be donuts they were attracted to.
---
Online story: "COLUMBIA, S.C. — The (Obama Administration) Justice Department on Friday rejected South Carolina's law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls" -- Hmmm, maybe we ought to revisit whether potUS O'Blather ever had a Hawaii driver's license, too.
---
You know, I was thinking we should have a contest at picking either the worst or best exit on/off the J.R. Allen Parkway, but after thinking about that again, I decided that the winner in either category would probably be the same one, and there is no clear choice.
---
Online headline: "And the Most Hated NBA Player Is ..." -- You know, it wasn't really a struggle for me not to bother to check out the story. I do not care. As as I'm concerned,
you could fill in the blank with any name, and you'd probably be right.
---

Friday, December 23, 2011

The way I see it, the actual Occupy Wall Street protesters are the ones that really want to be in the 1% they are ranting at.
---
Online story: "School districts all over Illinois are tightening their belts to shoulder massive statewide budget cuts. Jean-Claude Brizard, the newly appointed CEO of Chicago Public Schools, is a man with a plan. * he inherited more than 400,000 high school, middle and elementary students and a $712 million budget deficit when he took over the Chicago job * Statewide, the public school system is taking a $2 billion hit, according to the Chicago Tribune * Most parents were surprised to find they had to pay about $100 more this year [for class and activities fees]." -- Hmmmm, Isn't this current Secretary of Education's immediate last job?
---
You know, other than they are the first showcases of political interest, why is there so much media interest in the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary? Between them, they have 10 Electoral votes.
---
Anthony Weiner and his wife just welcomed a new baby boy into the world. Great, just what we need, another little DIM&DUMBERat weiner.
---
The Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut has just declared himself US Supreme Court Judge and jury. He thinks the Constitution will allow illegal aliens living in his town voting rights. Yep, a DIM&DUMBERat.
---
Vacating US troops from Iraq haven't finished leaving Kuwait yet and Baghdad had 11 bombings yesterday. Guess publicizing the US troop evacuation has allowed the administration's "non-enemy Taliban" to plan its new assault plans.
---
Excuse me, but what is the attraction of Ron Paul? Other than a better hair cut, he reminds me of Ross Perot.
---
First time unemployment numbers dropped to 364K last week (as temporary holiday jobs opened). Hmmm, on an annual basis, that means only 19 Milliom more will be filing for first time unemployment benefits versus 22 Million previously.... YAHOO!....NOT!
---
Online headline: "Washington Monument Has Extensive Cracking, Chips" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought this was about potUS O'Blather.
---
Online story: "The man who found the body of Casey Anthony's missing baby is suing the Florida woman for defamation, claiming her defense team badmouthed him. * (Roy) Kronk's (a meter reader in Orlando, Fla) suit claims that her lawyers advanced the theory that he was involved in Caylee's death, portraying him as "morally bankrupt," according to The Sentinel." -- Let's all pray that a jury will make sure Casey Anthony and her lawyer will have to file for bankrupcy after this suit.
---
Belvedere Park...I remember back in the 80's when the Parks&Rec did a $100,000.00 makeover, including putting in new sod and sprinkler system on the football field. During the summer, the field was completely destroyed by lack of water. Between drought conditions and having a manually controlled sprinkler system, no one actually took the responsibility of going to the field and turning the water on.
---
With the weather as it is this close to Christmas, one would think Al Bore would be out doing his "Chicken Little" rantings. On the other hand, maybe he's afraid someone will mistake him as a "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree...
---
L-E headline: "Man fires handgun at two pit bulls to save neighbor’s dog * Whitledge will not face charges" -- Whew! Sure glad he was running off pit bulls. If he'd shot at two thugs robbing someone, he'd been arrested for discharging a gun in the City Limits.
---
The latest from barackobama.com: Julianna Smoot, Deputy Campaign Mamanger of Obama for America, sent an electronic card for everyone who supports him for 2012 to sign. Mind you, this is neither a Christmas nor 'holiday' card, just a 2012 support card.
Decided to sign it after all when I noticed I could sign in as "Merry Christmas" in the name slots.
---
L-E headline: "Troy to put mark on city * Chancellor says university will build 20-foot Trojan in front of new Phenix City campus" -- Oooops, my bad! Thought Phenix City was going to out-phallus the Viagra Falls sculpture fountain across from the River Center.
---
Liberal's L-E "soundoff": " No weapons of mass destruction were ever found in Iraq. Why did it take so long for our troops to come home?" -- It's a waste to attempt to educate, much less try to re-educate a liberal, but we can't let'em rant unchallenged. This is from an AP release of July 5, 2008: "The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. * The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy." In lay terms, this was about 1,210,000 pounds of 'yellowcake'. Whether it woiuld ever be made into a nuclear bomb was not the main concern. Think what 1,210,000 pounds of radiation could add to the suicide bombers' damages as "dirty bombs".
---
L-E headline: "Occupy protesters sue over free speech, force" -- Huh? Isn't what the Occupy Whatever protesters want is complete government control of everyone's lives? With that, there wouldn't be free speech nor the ability to file a law suit based on it.
---
There's a parcel, a large, valuable parcel (109 001 018) ( 6106 Warm Springs Rd) of land, located near the JR Allen Pkwy and Manchester Expressway intersection that is listed as co-owned by the City and a "Mr Lewis" and it's 'exempt' from property taxes. Can anyone explain what is the status of this parcel, and who "Mr Lewis" is?
---
L-E headline: "EX-PLAYERS SUE NFL FOR BRAIN INJURIES" -- This is too easy but can't decide whether its simply an oxymoron or a contradiction in terms.
---
L-E story: "ATLANTA -- Best Buy has alerted some customers that it will not fill their online orders, just days before Christmas." -- Guess Best Buy customers may suggest a new corporate name for it... Best Bye-Bye.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

VpotUS Biden has made the statement that "the Taliban is not really our enemy".... Huh? Well, it's probably true that the administration and the DIM&DUMBERat Party don't feel that the Taliban is their enemy, but the Taliban is certain yours, mine, the rest of the country's, and our military's enemy.
---
Once again, would sports pundits, even Saturday Night Live, have engaged in the Tim Tebow assault on his Christian beliefs if Tebow wasn't white? Remember the outrage when Rush Limbaugh, acting as a sports analyst on Monday Night Football questioned Donovan McNabb's prowess?
---
Online headline/story: "Matt Damon Slams Obama, Democrats: 'One Term President With Some Balls Would Have Been Better' * "The wealthy are paying less than they paid at any time else, certainly in my lifetime (born in 1970 - should thank Reagan for cutting the income tax from up to 90%), and probably in the last century," Damon told a reporter at the same ( Save Our Schools ) event. "I don't know what we were paying in the Roaring '20s; it's criminal that so little is asked of people who are getting so much (would he think that if he actually owned a business rather than milked an industry?). I don't mind paying more. I really don't mind paying more taxes (why doesn't he just make a larger separate donation to the US Treasury?). I'd rather pay for taxes than cut 'Reading is Fundamental' or Head Start or some of these programs that are really helping kids. This is the greatest country in the world; is it really that much worse if you pay 6% more in taxes? Give me a break. Look at what you get for it: you get to be American." -- Don't you love it when liberals eat their own and point fingers at themselves? What part of reality doesn't Matt Damon get? He has an agent who makes a seven-figure income doing nothing but jacking up what the market will bear for a movie deal, and managing Damon's money so he has nothing to do but attend liberal events complaining he doesn't pay enough taxes. Yeah, Matt, why don't you just tell us how much taxes you want to pay?
---
There's really only one solution for Congress to pass needed legislation and cut waste/earmarks. Make every bill be contained to a specific purpose.... no add-ons, no piggy-backed pork. They all know this..but it ain't gonna happen.
---
Oklahoma State's quarterback is 28... I remember when the only age extensions allowed for NCAA football had to do with either military service or mission work at colleges such as BYU. Retiring from pursuit of a major league baseball career is not in either category.
---

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Online headline/story: "Jules Manson, Failed Tea Party Candidate, Calls For Assassination Of Obama, First Daughters * Jules Manson, a failed Tea Party candidate for local office in California, recently called for the assassination of President Obama and his daughters in a racial epithet-ridden Facebook screed. * Manson, an avid Ron Paul supporter and libertarian, also writes that he has since been visited by the Secret Service, with whom he says he cooperated fully as he "was hiding nothing. * In a post listed since the latest flare-up, Manson derisively announces a 2012 run for California's 28th State Senate district as a Democrat. * "I intend on representing the Democratic Party with due dignity, and loyalty for my campaign contributors which will happen to be public-sector labor unions and other collective bargaining institutions that help keep the poor man down and dependent on government," -- Finally the truth emerges. Remember when Chris Rock stated that he thought President Bush43 and his family should be dead, and the media yawned?
---
Online headline: "3 Popular TV Shows Canceled" -- Can you say, "narcissistic oxymoron' ?
---
I know you've heard that "Christmas" song about "there'll be no snow in Africa this year for Christmas"...I'm sick and tired of it... there's never any snow in Africa at Christmas. Most of Africa is either in the Tropics Zone or below the equator and December 25th is the about the same weather as we experience here around the 4th of July.. It's summertime!
---
The latest from barackobama2012.com: "Beyond the titles, it's easy to forget sometimes that our President and First Lady are, when it comes down to it, regular people like us." -- Yeah, we all take separate jets on vacations, and even send our dog on another one.
---
If there any 2 African-American politicians in this country who do not have the right to 'throw the race card', they are the president and the US Attorney General. Eric Holder has cavalierly delegitimized, thrown under the bus, mind you, any other real claims of discrimination.
---
L-E headline: "Obama blames GOP for upcoming tax hike" -- FL Rep Allen West is absolutely correct in identifying the Goebbels propaganda plan being tweaked and elevated by the DIM&DUMBERats. Next Br'er potUS O'Blather will be begging the GOP not to throw him into the briar patch.
---
L-E headline: Cheating in Georgia schools called 'disgraceful'" -- "Disgraceful"? Unforgivable is more like it! It's 'disgraceful' when you're caught stealing someone's 'things', but to rob students of their intellectual self-esteem is unforgivable. Unfortunately, that's the DIM&DUMBERat way to solve problems.
---
Once again, why is the William H. Shaw Basketball Tournament being scheduled BEFORE Christmas instead of after Christmas? In the beginning, the tournament was scheduled after Christmas when things were not as hectic, and it gave something for students, parents, and public-in-general to do in the after Christmas lull. Since the MCSD doesn't resume until Jan 10, 2012, one must assume that not scheduling the tournament after Christmas is simply designed to facilitate school administrators/teachers a longer vacation time, and to leave children and their parents to fend for themselves.
---

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

L-E headline: "Principals say keep kids reading, doing math during Christmas break" --
Just selfish planning by the MCSD. Parents will have to find another means of supervision for the extra week after the New Year's holiday, while school officials go vacationing.
---
GM...just another Saab story.
---
Judy F. Brouillette is the elected treasurer of the local DIM&DUMBERat Party. I have asked Dusty Nix to identify her as such whenever the L-E prints one of her rantings. I have sent Dusty a copy of Dick McMichaels' Blog for documentation, but Dusty doesn't do the right thing. Dusty is simply biased.
---
I really don't mind that drinks are served in restaurants on Sundays when compared to people buying 6-packs or liquor by the bottle. I figure I'd rather be driving near someone who has had a beer/wine or two with a meal than to confront someone who spent less money on a 6-pack of beer to take home, but went out for another 6-pack when the first was gone.
---
Why is the Development Authority filing to issue bonds for $4.5 MILLION dollars to acquire the land at 6830 River Road which is carried on the tax digest valued at less than $2.2 Million?
---
Lipitor is now available in generic form. Sales have dropped 1/2 since the generic became available on November 30. I do not understand why the drug companies that own the original pill just doesn't reduce it's price by 1/2 when it loses copy protection to keep it's patients happy and loyal...
---
Mayor Obamalinson panicked on her claim of the City ratio of salaries/benefits to revenues being 59.4% by passing on that this was the figure she got from Human Resources and Finance Departments. If 40.6% of revenues were available for maintenance, repairs, and current projects, we wouldn't have every garbage truck needing to be replaced, no list could include Columbus as one of the "brokest", and there'd be no need to dip into the fund balance to balance the budget. What was the old saying about figures not lying, by liars figure a lot? Heck, there'd been no need to add the second LOST tax either.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Hey, Mike! Speaking of dead trees, where's the follow-up on the Veterans Parkway 'beautification' project? None of the dead trees there have been replaced as promised when cold weather hit, and there are two dead ones that were never actually planted that are still in the 1100 + block of veterans still in their root balls.
---
Political correct diversity has caused too many people to develop too thin skin. Can no one take a joke anymore?
---
A rabbi bashed Tim Tebow saying, "nothing, not even God, is more popular than football". God must have a real deep sense of humor about armchair quarterbacking rabbis.
---
Speaking of the purge on Tim Tebow, truth be told, if Tebow was an African-American, none of these pundits would be uttering a thing about his religious conscience.
---
I wonder if atheists will ever comprehend that when they plan a protest against Christian beliefs that they set a date based on the calendar inspired/adapted to the birth of Christ?
---
Exchange with Mayor Obamalinson:
When I served on a Bobby Peters select committee to study efficiency and economy in the City government in the mid-90s, the City of Columbus' percentage of salaries & benefits to revenues was about 66% which was pretty effective for a government entity (Well run private sector service companies were about 60%. On the otherhand, MCSD 85% & USPS 80% are examples of way to excessive distributions). What is the City's current ratio?
:
Response - Hal - It's 59.4%. Our pension contribution of nearly $30 million a year is a significant contributor obviously.
:
Re-response - I really do have to question your math. With the inclusion of the second LOST and it's restrictions, there may be a way to claim such a low ratio, but if the city is operating at such efficiency, then we would have no financial woes , no streets with potholes, a fully staffed auditing department, no unfilled job positions, and no need for the 911 or 311 call systems.
Addendum: Oh, and there would be no campaigns to end the tax freeze or raise the garbage fees!
---
The Iraq War is "over" and the monetary cost over the nine years was $832 Billion, and a big "W" (ironic since Bush43 made "W" iconic). potUS O'Blather spent more than that with the sweep of a pen for the bailouts and 'stim-YOU-LIE' bills, and we haven't won anything but his promise to spend more.
---
Liberal L-E "soundoff": "The future of our country is our children. The future of our children is in education. Withdrawing funds from education for any purpose is unpatriotic." -- "Unpatriotic"? What's 'unpatriotic' is teaching children that our forefathers were warmongers and the defense of our country is less important than schools. Believe it or not, an education can be acquired by an individual (but of course, teachers are probably teaching Abe Lincoln got his education sitting around a Wi-Fi computer in the library at Harvard), but it takes a well-trained, well-prepared military to insure our children have this opportunity.
---

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Online headline: "Last US Troops Leave Iraq" -- Hmmm, guess we have to 'dot the i's' with a little of "the Arnold"...'we'll be back'.
---
Online headline: "Kevin Diers And Gina Alfano Charged With Skinning, Gutting Puppy And Feeding It To Other Dogs" -- Now here's a case that should be tried under Sharia Law so the proper justice can be dispensed.
---
Online headlinme: "Government Spending Bill Passed By Congress As Democrats Declare Victory" -- After reading what got cut and what remained, I think FL Rep Allen West nailed the DIM&DUMBERats pretty much on the head. Goebbles, indeed, was the propagandist trainer for the D&D 'spinmeisters'.
---
When I served on a Bobby Peters select committee to study efficiency and economy in the City government in the mid-90s, the City of Columbus' percentage of salaries & benefits to revenues was about 66% which was pretty effective for a government entity (Well run private sector service companies were about 60%. On the otherhand, MCSD 85% & USPS 80% are examples of way to excessive distributions). What is the City's current ratio?
---
The Columbus Naval Museum should break its tie with the City, and snuggle up with there MCSD and get the status of the Columbus Museum.
---
L-E headline: "Hawaii parade honors Japanese-American WWII vets" -- Wish Hawaii could say the same about how the CBS crew making "Hawaii 5-0" did the same for Pearl Harbor survivors and their families.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Online headline: "Bloomberg Invites Congress To Slain Cop's Funeral To Highlight Gun Laws" -- Guns laws don't need to be highlighted, criminals using guns to murder need to be highlighted by swift, certain death...preferably by public firing squad or hanging the same day of the conviction.
---
Listening to sound clips of the GOP candidates, Michelle Bachmann once again felt she had to state she was 'a serious candidate'. Wrong! At this stage, if she has to make such a statement, then she isn't such a candidate.
---
Online headline: "California Cops Have New Theory on 'Geezer Bandit'" -- Hmmm, has anyone been keeping up with Al Bore?
---
L-E story: "Also indicted on Thursday, in a separate case, was Yancy D. Craft, a 41-year-old pediatrician accused of possession and receipt of child pornography. * Craft, who is free on $10,000 unsecured bond, previously practiced medicine in Arkansas, according to public records." -- Why. how does the ultimate pervert, a pedophilic pediatrician no less, get such a low, unsecured bond? The Grand Jury should investigate the judge who set it.
---
Online headline: "Barry Bonds Sentenced To House Arrest" -- Hmmm, That will show him! That's about as good a punishment as sending your son to his room where you've furnished it with an X-box, cable TV, internet access computer, cell phone, and small refrigerator.
---
From a fellow BCer...don't miss!

WIllie and Kris at the AVA's! - YouTube
---
Congress just passed trillion dollar spendin bill to keep the government funded until next October. Congress allocated $4.3 BILLION for itself. Even though it's a 5% "cut", Congress's budget for 435 Representatives and 100 Senators comes out to over $8,000,000.00 each. Ridiculous!
---
L-E headline/story: "Lawmaker bashed for likening Dems to Goebbels * (U.S Represtative Allen) West (R, FL) told reporters, in his remarks at the Capitol, that he was comparing Democrats to Nazi propaganda, not the Nazis themselves. * West... made the Nazi reference Thursday when asked abot Congress' approval ratings and the blame that the public has apparently assigned to Republicans." -- Freshman Represtative hasn't learned not to argue with the liberal media that buys ink by the barrel.
---
Have you noticed how hospitals are aligning themselves with doctors? How can this be good for the individual patient who prefers a certain doctor and also the other hospital?
---
L-E headline/story: "Race to the Top * Georgia not a winner in grant competition * The state, long considered a national leader in pre-kindergarten, did not make the list of nine recipients of $500 MILLION in "Race to the Top" money." -- Hmmm... wanna bet which states got money and which of those states look like they will vote for potUS O'Blather in 2012?
---

Friday, December 16, 2011

Why is anyone surprised at the controversy concerning potUS O'Blather's awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor? Like anything else the 111th Congress voted on, even the DIM&DUMBERat majority didn't get to read it until it was approved.
---
I knew it! Justin Bieber is not the father in the paternity suit. I knew it because with his voice, I don't think he's gone through puberty yet.
---
From a fellow BCer: The Occupy Wall Street etc has organized and become a new political entity, "The Flea Party".
---
L-E's "Late Laughs": "Iran is now in possession of an American drone. When I heard that I thought, "Oh, my god, the captured Joe Biden." - Jay Leno" -- Well, Jay has finally awakened.
---
Most of you remember my grandfather...he was born 128 years ago, today.
---
L-E headline/story: "Police arrest 'defiant' student at Spencer High * (Rakequis) Rogers (18) refused to go to the office and told the assistant principal that "she was not going to suspend him", the report says. * "No folks, I ain't going nowhere," Rogers declared, according to the report, shouting and causing a disruption in the hall. "You can't suspend me." -- Just another expected result of lack of discipline since the Supreme Court gave students "rights" too many years ago, and it's been exacerbated by excessive emphasis on keeping the daily attendance rate as high as possible for the 'head count'. You get what you cultivate.
---
What an oxymoron.... Taliban Headquarter hosting Santa Claus.
---
The Housing Authority of Columbus has acquired a rather large tract of pretty valuable property on Moon Road between the JR Allen and Veterans Parkways. There goes the neighborhood!
---

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Online story: "IOWA CITY, Iowa — (Occupy) Protesters drowned out Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich during a campaign event at the University of Iowa. * Gingrich watched impassively from the podium while the protesters shouted. They were led away by university officials. * The former House speaker was on the University of Iowa campus speaking about brain science research." -- Or in the protesters case, the lack of brains.
---
Online story: "A new audit conducted by City Comptroller John Liu reports New York City schools overspent more than $400,000 in food last year. * Most of the overspending was traced back to markups as high as 890 percent for food items that include parsley, radishes, and scallions. * The audit found that in one out of every five items purchased, the Department of Education overpaid by at least 50 percent of the item's wholesale value" -- Like children even eat parsley or radishes... Wonder how much our own school system misspent on food here?
---
L-E headline: "Oxbow Meadows: $1.3 million grant to restore longleaf pine ecosystem" -- First question I have is what is so special about longleaf pines versus other pines? Like all pines, they will eventually fall on someone's house or be struck by lightning.
---
Harry Reid said "Millionaire job creators are like unicorns. They’re impossible to find, and they don’t exist.” -- I guess the only millionaires he knows got that way by sucking the life and resources out of government programs. Maybe if he tried looking for a few small businesspersons at their places of business he'd find out the only magic for private sector success is hard work and personal sacrifice.
---
It's one thing for Harry Reid to hold a House Bill hostage unless the House will politically compromise with him, but it's a totally different thing when Reid tries to compromise this country's and it's taxpayers' future.
---
Online story: "SAN FRANCISCO — Tech giant Google announced Wednesday it is donating $11.5 million to several coalitions fighting to end the modern-day slavery of some 27 million people around the world. * "Many people are surprised to learn there are more people trapped in slavery today than any time in history," said Jacquelline Fuller, director of charitable giving and advocacy for Google. "The good news is that there are solutions." -- Unfortunately, the figure of 27,000,000 people around the world does not include those enslved by poverty programs of the DIM&DUMBERats in our country.
---
From a L-E story: "Johnnie A. Worsley, 50, has been on death row more than 13 years, but his case has not yet reached the Georgia Supreme Court for an automatic appeal." -- While the concept of an 'automatic appeal' emits an aura of a safety net, why isn't there a specific time frame, say 2 years, in which this 'automatic appeal' must take place so that there is more likelihood that the witnesses and evidences will still be fresh?
---
Online story: " Lampooning the (Americam Airline) matter, (Alec) Baldwin pretended to be the American Airlines flight;s pilot during the show's (Saturday Night Live) Weekend Update news segment. * What harm would it do to let him keep playing his game," Baldwin mused as the pilot. Not any game, mind you, but a word game for smart people." -- There is a word for Alec Baldwin...smart-(_@_).
---
L-E headline: "Marines promoted inflated story for Medal of Honor winner" -- Or was this simply the case of a virus attack on potUS O'Blather's TelePrompTers?
---
From L-E's "Today in History": "1961, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court for crimes against humanity. (Eichmann was hanged 5 1/2 months later)." -- Thank goodness he wasn't sentenced in Georgia! He'd still be waiting for his "automatic appeal" or a new trial based on an "ineffective counsel" basis.
---
After the constant bombardment of Jos A Bank ads offering every price cut, 2-fers, and 3-fers it can dream up. I'd hate to be either a customer trying to exchange a gift from there or a salesperson trying to explain to a customer exchanging a gift that no one knows what price that the gift cost.
---

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Online headline: "Obama Could Win Conservative State" -- Must be one of the 51st - 57th states he campaigned in 2008. Either that or the "State of Denial".
---
Online headline: "US Postal Service To Delay Closing Post Offices Until Mid-May" -- Guess they are delivering the pink slips via snail-mail.
---
From a L-E story about "Simple Steps": "The program is designed to get books and reading into the homes of at-risk families * “A lot of parents don't feel like they have the time to read to their young children,” (program director Lyn) Seaman said.
-- Government feeds them, government drives them to school, government houses them, and now government is reading to them. No wonder poverty children don't get any role modeling on how a parent is suppose to be, nor any visual training on how they are suppose be parents for their children. Government is recycling the poverty circle.
---
I'm confused, again, over who I want to support for the GOP candidacy. I supported Romney in 2008, and he bailed out early (I guess thinking Hillary was not beatable), and I think he'd have faired much better, as would have Republican Congressional Race candidates. I've looked for new leadership this time around, and had almost forgiven Newt for bailing out in 1998 leaving the Republican majority in the House to begin acting like DIM&DUMBERats. I even agree with his illegal alien strategy, and have always admired his historical knowledge, but to hear him state his admiration for FDR has me back tracking from supporting him. Whew!
---
San Francisco has raised the local minimum wage to $10.24, about $3.00 higher than the federal minimum wage. This must make minimum wage effected union scales happier, but what about part time seniors and teens who will just not be hired or kept on?
---
L-E headline: "Handling racist joke among topics at diversity conference" -- This is why "political correctness" is such a farce. Is a joke racist only because a person of one race uses another race in a stereotypical manner? Isn't it just as racist when a person of one race tells another of the same race the same joke? Political correctness advocates have just made it that if we don't have 'thin skin' we are not well adjusted. Of what I read, most of the situations were more 'bullying" than sexist or racist, and handling a bully is different.
---
L-E headline: "New train links Moscow to Paris in 37 hours" -- Hmmmm, what's that in flight time...2 hours and 45 minutes... So much for high speed rails.
---
I remember 40 years ago when I last tried public transportation to Columbus from Atlanta. The Grey Hound terminal in Atlanta was across the street from the Atlanta MDSE Mart. I hitched a ride to Atlanta with my neighbor with the plan to check out whether riding a bus back to Columbus would give me work time to write orders from my day at the Mart. Got on the bus about 5:00 PM, and after 4 hours and 30 minutes rolled into the downtown bus terminal. I was exhausted from not having a work environ on the bus and the time it took compared to driving my own car, and the ticket cost more than the gas I would use in my car.
---
L-E story: "In a recent survey, the campaign found 42% of unmarried 18-to-29 years olds said they know very little about birth control pills and two-thirds knew little about even more effective long-lasting contraceptives" -- Well, so much for all the dollars taxpayers shell out for sex-ed in schools, and so much for the most effective form of birth control for unmarrieds...abstinence!
---
"Head Start" was a product of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration in the mid-60s. Can some one give me a 'heads up' as to when it will start showing positive results?
---
L-E headline: "Egyptian Islamist envision sin-free tourism" -- Well, so much for Egypt attracting a DIM&DUMBERat Convention.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Online headline/story: "Kyoto Protocol: Canada Withdrawing From Climate Change Agreement * Canada's conservative government under Stephen Harper, who assumed the title of prime minister in 2006, has long been hostile to the Kyoto agreement, which was ratified by Liberal Party Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in 2002 * It has also issued concerns, shared by the U.S. and other developed countries, that Kyoto's emissions rules apply only to rich nations, leaving up-and-coming polluters like India and China off the hook." -- Even Canada agrees with Bush43. Where's Al Bore?
---
The latest lists are out: Columbus is neither in the top 'most dangerous' or 'safest' cities. Wonder if Mayor Obamalinson will blame that on Expedia?
---
L-E headline: "Two acquitted, one found guilty of killing Army Veteran" -- Did I miss something? I thought the law was that if you were a participant (other than victim) in a crime where a death occurred, you were just as guilty as the one who pulled the trigger..
---
Oh, so BCer Chuck W. is going to start writing a blog, too, again... For a title, how about "the 12th Street Rag"; or since Chuck's planning to write whatever comes to mind in his underwear, how about "Depends"?
---
L-E headline: "Program aims to save longleaf pine trees" -- Typical liberal agenda; what we need is a program aimed at saving small businesses.
---
Good luck as to Cantina Bar and Grill getting any liquor law changed that will be of value to its business. A committee just proposed changes to the current laws to allow some businesses to have alcohol on premise for certain events, but it failed to fill the main need of the community. If people want to have a private luncheon, bridal shower/show, or other lunch time event with wine, then they have to own a large home or be a member of a private country club. The ordinance want allow people to have such luncheon activities until after 5:00 PM, and that's suppertime.
---
Hillary Clinton is trying to get Arab countries to 'accept' gay marriage. Poor Hillary, she doesn't even understand that the Arab countries don't even "accept' her other than when the cameras are rolling.
---
Thanks to a fellow BCer...you have to watch this football play. Millsaps is 2 points down, 61 yards from the goal, and only 2 seconds remain:
dump.com/2011/02/22/end-zone-a

---

Monday, December 12, 2011

Online headline: "Obama Makes His Case For A Second Term" -- Yeah, and it's shaped like a coffin.
---
With the Herman Cain character assassination fresh on the minds of liberals everywhere, Anita Hill, the Clarence Thomas 'hitman' so endeared to Ted Kennedy, came out of the woodwork and made an appearance....you guessed it, in Chicago.
---
Online headline: "Obama 2012 Gaining Support From Democrats" -- "GAINING support from Democrats"? Talk about 'spin', potUS O'Blather will only (and always) get votes from DIM&DUMBERats; it's the Republicans and Independents that will matter in November 2012.
---
Speaking of no recycling in the Downtown area... that includes CSU as well, and the foam food contains emanating from CSU's "The Den" are the type college protesters raised cain about McDonald's hamburger litter in years past.
---
No diversity conference will be fruitful unless it's about focusing on the positive things we all have in common...needs and wants; not the differences or angst brought to the table from past generations.
---
Tim Tebow... he's bearing 'the cross' well in spite of the politically incorrect critics.
---
It's bad when a committee is appointed to find a way to create something, such as the high speed rail system, rather than appointed to first weigh whether it is a needed service and can be a viable self-supporting entity. It's a shame that no one on such committee is associated with the rail industry.
---
L-E story: "ROME - Italian union leaders say they are going ahead with their call for a general strike today to protest pension reforms that are a part Premier Mario Monti's rescue package to save Italy from financial disaster." -- Looks like unions world-wide do not understand Economics 101. Either that or union leaders don't care about their members having a future. Probably both.
---
L-E headline/story: "Northeast states cut heating aid to poor * WASHINGTON - Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can't afford enough heating oil to stay warm." -- Typical liberal created boondoggle. Drive up the costs of heating oil through over regulation of the industry, and when the industry struggles with making profits to pay taxes on that the federal government can redistribute, bail out on those most affected
---
L-E headline: "Debate flows on about still teaching cursive" -- You mean there is something still be taught? Guess 'ritin is the next 'budget cut, and schools can concentrate on "readin 'n rithmetic" instead of all 3 R's.
---
L-E headline/story: "Assigment: Reinvent high school * The premise? American high schools are broken. * The solutions? The founders of the Sustainability Workshop are trying to find them." -- Unbelievable! The solutions are clear, get the federal government out of education, starting with busing and dumbing down curriculum. Then stop coddling/excusing poor grades for the poverty areas by showing students that education and hard work are the best ways to improve their future.
---
The Associated Press is reporting "Fact Check' on statements made by Republican candidates. and that is good, BUT what we really need is for Associated Press to parse the statements of potUS O'Blather, Harry Reid , and Nancy Pelosi.
---

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Online headline: "U.S. Postal Service Plans Dramatic Service Cuts" -- Does this mean all the previous service cuts were just accidents?
---
I love parades. Watched the Christmas Parade from start to finish yesterday. It was really disappointing in how institutional Columbus basically ignored it. Where was an AFLAC, Synovus, or TSYS entry?
---
I love parades. I understand why Mayor Obamalinson was in it, but why was the District Attorney in it? Early campaigning?
---
One of the first participants was the MCOE band. One of the last displays was the Central High band. Other than those two, there were no other bands in the parade. Where were all the Columbus high school bands? I finally just figured that the bands didn't participate because they probably wouldn't be allowed to play Christmas songs.
---
The worst parade exhibit was the Russell County Sheriff's entry. Vehicle after vehicle drove through, all bearing Sheriff Heath Taylor's name boldly emblazoned across the sides of the vehicles. There's got to be some illegal campaign issue with that.
---
I think about some of the best teams in the South which earned special names in the past such as the LSU "Chinese Bandits", or the UGA "Junkyard Dawgs", but today's only choice of a special name for a team would be one to easily adopted by too many teams to be memorably special. Let's face it... there are a lot, too many in fact, that could easily be referenced as the "Chain Gang".
---
Poor Dusty... he can see how a DIM&DUMBERat tax increase proposal is good for the economy, but a Republican one isn't. Neither Party's increase proposals will help the economy as creating more government jobs actually strains the revenues received from private sector ventures.
---
What's this attempt by Texas A&M to hire a SEC coach from an existing SEC university? Is it an admission that SEC coaching is better than Texas A&M coaching? It was bad enough that the SEC invited two teams from locations that will make college roadtrip football weekends nearly impossible for students.
---
Rode by the Whitesville RD/Whitlesey RD dealership yesterday and the first thought I had was, "Taliban Headquarter".
---
Diversity is a complex, if not complicated word. The mere mention of it conjures up split images to different people. One thing for sure is 'diversity' can be, no, will be, a divisive word unless everyone focuses on the positive differences all people bring to the table. Unfortunately, most diversity events are geared at exposing the negative aspects.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Do I like it that Republican candidates have had problems within their married relationships.....no..., but I like the conservative aspect of guilt versus the DIM&DUMBERat ho-hum philosophy of their candidates' private lives, their veracity, and that their voting records are not up for public discussions.
---
The chief lawyer for Starbucks has joined potUS O'Blather's re-election team. First thoughts are that potUS O'Blather is out of touch with American families which cannot afford $5.00 lattes, but as you analyze it, he's just trying to appeal to the Occupy Wall Street jobless grads.
---
There's a fervent ad asking us to contact our representatives and 'tell Congress to stop online piracy'. Yeah, like Congress listens to us about spending issues and balanced budget needs?
---
The FDA wanted to make "Plan B", the after sex birth control pill, in the over-the-counter aisle so even preteens could buy it without prescription or parent's knowledge. Sebelius did stop this, BUT probably because it didn't go far enough in making it available through school counselors or Girl Scout cookies sales.
---
I have great admiration for the "Relay for Life" operation of the American Cancer Society, but I find it hard to accept that the Muscogee County Chapter would go to Harris County for a 'kick-off' retreat. Let's keep as much local money "local" as we can.
---
If all of the 99% paid their 'fair share; in taxes, the share of the 1% wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket for the budget.
---
The answer to lowering healthcare costs is not in making people buy HEL-thScare Insurance, but in keeping the hospitals and insurance companies from setting exorbitant level of costs for basic services. Let hospitals and doctors negotiate with consumers as th what the market value is, and let insurance companies deal directly with the consumers as to how their products will fit in to the consumers' needs and budgets.
---
One would think that Congressman Bishop sponsoring a Small Business Seminar would know a lot about "creative financing", but like all DIM&DUMBERat Congresspersons, the only source of money he knows about comes from taxing successful small businesspersons' pockets.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Why would any Republican candidate be shy about having Donald Trump moderate a debate? Surely, none of the candidates can call themselves viable if they think a moderator from NPR, CNN, MSNBC, ABC or the Comedy Channel is going to be favorable to any of them.
---
You know, if my Dad was trying to put those magical mechanical Christmas displays in the windows today, the Facade Board would order him to take them out because the figures move and the lights blink. Pathetic!
---
The New York Times, the Oracle of Liberalism, invariable supporter of potUS O'Blather, has run an article ripping the Chi-Com government for over regulating private industry. How did that article, at least the certain paragraph, get past the head editor?
---
If Eric Holder genuinely had no idea about "fast 'n furious" going on under his nose, then that alone should be enough for him to be fired.
---
Next question to ask Holder is: When you claim you finally heard about it, what was the time frame in which you fired everyone below you that knew about it and hadn't told you about it?
---
Bob Woodward, liberal of liberalist, has done what no conservative journalist could get away with without being called "mean spirited". Woodward has dropped his political correct veil and called Al Gore the worst person he's ever had to talk with. Mr Woodward has inadvertently coined a new name for Algore in this effort to enblighten. For evermore, he shall be referred to and remembered as "Al Bore".
---
Speaking of new names, DIM&DUMBERat Gov/Sen/Scumbag John Corzine, disgraced CEO of MF Global, shall now be referred to as John Corzine, a global MF.
---
In a L-E story, the attorney for Ricardo J. Strozier says, "A death penalty case normally takes at a minimum three years before trial." -- This is how the indigent legal program has become a welfare program for attorneys. Did it take 3 years for the defendant to decide to pull the trigger....twice? How does this qualify for the defendant's, as well as public's, right to a fair and speedy trial?
---

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Online headline: "Apple Under Investigation by Feds" -- A little White House payback for the book Jobs wrote? Guess potUS O'Blather will call this another successful "Jobs" Plan.
---
Tim Geithner, Butthead for potUS O'Blather's Beavis, has gone to Europe to try to straighten out that economic mess. First report came back that he's liking their plan. Of course he would! After 3 years with O'Blather, Geithner has never seen a plan, and the fact there are plans at all excite him.
---
Just a random question: Why would anyone want to hear "Taps" played by a bagpipe rather than a bugle?
---
Why should Ricardo J. Strozier get preferred, almost 'star' treatment; he didn't treat his victim with such respect...
---
How sick can a federal agency be? The FDA was planning on making "Plan B", the after unprotected sex pill, to be available over-the-counter to children of all ages. Even a potUS O'Blather appointee saw how sick this was and she stopped the implementation... but for how long?
---
For once I kinda agree with Dick McMichael. Funneling smart kids through one school does change the scales of measuring other schools performances, but there is one thing being learned at CHS that can be used to help all schools.... high standards for students. Not all students are cut out for a college based curriculum. When grades are not kept up to a college required level at one school, reroute those students to a school with a curriculum based on more basic or technical skills so that students do not feel overwhelmed, and they get a head start on being prepared to move into society as productive individuals.
---
Does anyone actually know what the "community service" job of Tony Adams was?
---
Alec Baldwin was recently booted off an American Airline's flight for playing himself. Guess that credit card company will have to pull the ad they use Baldwin in saying he's 'not a pilot, but played one on TV once'.
---
Jerry Sandusky should be sent to the prison where "The Longest Yard" got its storyline.. but not as the quarterback, one of the cheerleaders from cell block "C".
---

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

A moment of reflection, please, in order to make sure our media never gets to rewrite what happened this day in 1941.
---
Online story: "A recent investigation by Oregon Fox affiliate KPTV has found that Frappuccinos can now be bought with food stamps at Starbucks stands located within grocery stores." -- This must be a concession to the "Occupy Oregon" jobless college grads who became addicted to Starbucks while on student loans or parents' credit cards.
---
From L-E story: "The (proposed) municipal complex (in Phenix City) is part of a major capital improvement project that city leaders say could change the face of the city. Wetzel said architects are now designing the layout of the municipal complex, which he said is estimated to be about 100,000 square feet and cost about $10 million." -- Ask your Councilperson or MCSD representative why it costs 1/2 or less to construct a public building in Phenix City versus Columbus...
---
L-E story: "“While Columbus may not be the first city connected to any Georgia passenger rail line, we have to know whether we should be the second, third or fourth city to be on the line,” Tomlinson said. “We can’t sit on the sidelines and let Georgia’s transportation future pass us by.” -- Of course we can....and should! What's "future" about building an anachronistic form of transportation that even the existing railroad companies abandoned because of lack of use, need, and profitability?
---
On above: The only examples any one will be able to demonstrate will be in countries that are so overcrowded that individual car ownership isn't feasible.
---
On above again: Why is it that politicians feel they can make something work when private industry has ruled against further investments? A reverse to this is that FED-EX, UPS, and DHL saw how inefficient the USPS was, and implemented efficient competing services that the people were glad to pay for?
---
One more comment about above: "How do you appoint a committee to look into 'feasibility", and not include people who work in the railroad business that can give first hand info and insight to the project?
---
Now that the truth is out, potUS O'Blather's plan to keep the payroll tax is tainted by the fact that he wants to rob the Social Security funds to make up the revenue lost by the payroll tax cut shortfall. He plans to "pay Social Security back" with future taxes on the wealthy. Yeah.
---
Did you realize that Bibles had been banned from being used or brought into Walter Reed Hospital? Republican outrage has had this ban lifted, but on another note, the Quran was not banned.
---
"The Donald" nailed Karl Rove's megalomania in an interview with Sean Hannity. Glad someone said it has Sean doesn't seem to hear me when I scream the same thing at the radio.
---
Speaking of 'the Donald". I'd love to see him in a one on one interview with potUS O'Blather.
---
Hmmm, speaking of Trump interviews, I'd love to see Donald Trump interview George Soros along with potUS O'Blather in the Oval Office.
---
And ex-Gov/Sen John Corzine, too!
---
Speaking of Corzine, can you believe XPOTUS Clinton was receiving a $50K a month consulting fee from the company Corzine drove into bankruptcy? Can you believe "I have too much money; tax me more" Clinton would take it? Do you believe Clinton will give any back to the shareholders who just got fleeced?
---
A California woman was found murdered and hidden under Christmas presents. The murderer could have at least hung her on the mantle with care.
---
So Lady GaGa is heading to the White House for a command performance on her song about 'bullying'. Wonder if she'll warm up the audience with one of her nude Music videos?
---
Online headline: "WATCH: Occupy Groups Protest Foreclosures Nationwide" -- Well, if the Occupy Wherever groups were at home taking care of their bills, or in most cases, gratefully helping their parents who went into debt sending them to college, there'd probably less to protest about.
---
Online headline: "Hillary Clinton: Russian Election Was Rigged" -- Hmmm, this should clear up where ACORN went after 2008.
---
Georgia Trend just announced the winners of the best medical facilities for GA hospitals in a number of categories. Saint Francis shown brightly; Columbus Regional, other than a blip by Hughston Hospital, was snuffed out.
---
An obvious high-brow elitist writes in the L-E that "..,patrons of the arts in Columbus might consider earmarking a portion of their annual giving specifically for such programs." -- First, who writes tripe like that anymore, but Mr Fry should practice what he preaches. The rest of us already do give annually through our tax dollars paid to the City and MCSD for such programs.
---
To the UN...with a wink to Henny Youngman, 'take our potUS O'Blather...please!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Online headline: "University President's Salary Tops $4M Per Year" -- Who does she think she is...the football coach at Alabama?
---
Online headline: "Biggest Black Holes Ever Discovered" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought this was about Steve Williams making another politically incorrect joke, only about some Congressmen.
---
L-E headline: "U.S. Postal Service cuts could hurt Columbus, Macon" -- Oh, like eliminating the "Columbus, GA" postmark hasn't already done so?
---
You know, offering "Dinner with Barack" as an enticement/reward for donating to his campaign is really a serious misuse of the Office of the President. It's a direct form of political abuse of the Office, and a flat out bribe. Charges should be made by the House and Senate Ethics Committees.
---
Seeing the sentence of the man driving a truck involved with the death at a Bradley Park/J.R.Allen interchange, I have this to say: Not discounting personal responsibility as none of us were there to witness the actions, but the architect who drew this interchange should be equally responsible for the young girl's death and consequences thereof.
---
No jokes here, but will reserve any comments about Chuck Fesseden until the light of truth has been shown. Will pray for all persons involved. Hope you will, too.
---
Oh, BTW, I've got a new name for Isaiah Crow-well.... I-say-I Crow-wail.
---
I agree with the Charter Review Committee's recommendation of a minimum fee for properties that are taxed less than $500.00, BUT will it apply to all the exempt state and churches properties? I do have one suggestion for the Council if it applies such, and that is to put a 'cap' on what any residential homeowner has to pay in property taxes. It's a form of class warfare to collect some of the taxes that are assessed on some properties.
---
Hmmm, it's strange that when the L-E listed the names of the 25 person Charter Review Committee, the L-E only named 24 people.
---
The L-E letter writer complaining about a child's voice ruining the CSU Choral performance for her. Lets hope she never has (or had) children of her own. Obviously she has no tolerance for life or the circumstances others had to deal with. Will someone tell her the story of Jesus?
---
As I sit at the traffic light at I-185 and Macon Road, you can't help but notice the trashy site where the I-185 overpass support system is being rebuilt. It made me wonder: Why are we taxpayers paying for this obvious construction flaw? How did it happen in the first place? Has someone, either the architect or the site contractor, been held to cause for this? Why not?
---
It's sad, though a sign of the times, that for the first time in its history, the freshman class at the U of Alabama has a majority of out-of-state students. How many in-state students were denied admission to their state college because the admission committee saw more income available through the out-of-state fees charged non-Alabamians?
---
Raising the price of stamps would not help the USPS out of its death spiral. Like any other government program, throwing more money at it is just a waste of good money.
Customers are looking for efficiency, not arrogance.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Online headline: "Ron Paul Takes A Jab At Donald Trump" -- Yeah, then 'the Donald" overTRUMPED him.... big time.
---
If the US Post Office is going to treat my mail like 3rd Class, then I want to pay only the 3rd Class rates!
---
A CSU professor mentions in a Chitwood column that visitors 'are down' at the little White House in Warm Springs. The contributor 'feels' it is because of a misconception that a fire burned it down. Sorry, but with potUS O'Blather in office, Roosevelt's actions have been filleted to the point not many people are blind to the socialist manner that FDR injected into our country.
---
How about a follow up on the dead trees of the Veterans Parkway beautification project. The installer acknowledged such in an earlier inquiry, and said he would wait until cold weather to replace them. Guess what, we have cold weather, and the rtrees are still not replaced
---
Wonder if Texas A&M and Missouri are second guessing why the SEC let them in? With two SEC teams slugging it out in the BCS Championship game because other conference champions would not even place in the SEC this year, the newbies must now realize the SEC was trolling for homecoming conference game opponents.
---
From Saturday's L-E "Cryptoquotes": "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else. - John Burroughs" -- Wish I could say this only applies to potUS O'Blather, but it sums up the whole DIM&DUMBERat Party.
---
From a fellow BCer:
I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are called the “right”
and Liberals are called the “left.” By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:
“The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to
the left.” Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can’t get any simpler than that.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Online headline: "PHOTO: World's Largest Insect" -- Gotcha.... it's not a picture of a DIM&DUMBERat Congressional Roach.
---
Online headline: "Is The U.N. Coming To Occupy's Rescue?" "Rescue"? The U.N. is the ORIGINAL Occupy New York group!
---
L-E story: "The Georgia Council for the Arts will hold a community forum in Columbus Wednesday to help plan for the future, the GCA announced this week. " -- Now this is a forum that will look at all aspects of 'the arts'....NOT! The only issue will be how to extract more tax dollar support. You know it; I know it.
---
L-E headline/story: "Tuskegee professor to interview families of Syphilis Study victims *
In the study meant to find how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites," -- Does the study include family members of any of the white men used in the 'study'? If not, why?
---
I do hope UGA doesn't get/accept a Chick-fil-A bowl invitation...UGA's appearances in the GA Dome have not been good this year.
---
L-E headline: "Study: Many go online for no good reason" -- As opposed for going online for "A" good reason? Maybe there is some truth to Algore's claim that he 'invented the internet'.
---
Interesting L-E headline: "Northside 79, Bolivar, (Tenn) 72 * Dyersburg, TN" -- While I'm proud a Columbus team was successful, how can the MCSD allow travel to another state for a non-conference/region ball game when there has been so many budget problems?
---
What's wrong with Mark Richt? Isaiah Crow-well literally turned his back on Richt in the middle of a conversation, and Richt didn't plant one on Crow-well's rear.
---

Saturday, December 3, 2011

The Bredakfast Club - December 3, 2011

Online story: "Vanessa Gibbs had no problem getting her Western-themed purse through (TSA) security at Jacksonville International Airport. But, on her return trip from Norfolk, Virginia, she was told her purse was a federal offense, reports News 4 Jax. * Agents eventually recognized the gun was fake, but she was told to check the bag or surrender it. The ordeal caused Gibbs to miss her flight and be re-routed to Orlando * The TSA still upholds the position that the purse could be considered a replica weapon, which have been prohibited since 2002. * This isn't the first time the definition of replica weapon has been stretched. Last January, two tourists were stopped at Gatwick because of a toy soldier's three-inch rifle. And, back in 2009, an eight year old had his Disney plastic sword and toy gun confiscated in Ft. Lauderdale." -- What are these guys doing...establishing themselves as qualified to be a member of their local School Board?
---
Online headline: "Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Director, Says Lone Wolf Threat Growing " -- Well, well, well...nothing a little 'profiling' couldn't handle.
---
There has been a list published naming "The 10 Saddest Cities". Good news for Mayor Obamalinson in that Columbus wasn't on the list, but that's probably because the judges only went to cities that they could find via Expedia.
---
Online headline: "Time Magazine Attacks GOP Candidate" -- DOH! TIME probably just left a 'fill-in-the-blank' spot so liberals could insert the GOP candidate they hate the most.
---
L-E headline: "State weighs Detroit takeover" -- Why not just turn it over to the unions like potUS O'Blather did Government Motors? Or, make it a sister-city with Chicago? Why drag down the rest of Michigan...
---
Don't believe anything is earthshaking about 'jobs' for the next 6 to 8 weeks. Temporary Christmas (or 'holiday' if you're a DIM&DUMBERat) help always gets potUS O'Blather's spinmeisters in a tizzy.

The Breakfast Club - December 2, 2011

Online headline: "Obama Turns To A New Campaign Phrase: 'Change Is' " -- potUS O'Blather's new campaign phrase gives us a great opportunity to 'fill-in-the-blank". CHANGE IS..."necessary, mandatory, inevitable, a blessing, ....
---
Here's a question for the Mayor for her Town Hall Meeting:
Why do you think you can build and run a profitable high speed passenger railway when AMTRAK has been a horrible tax drain and pretty much unaffordable for the masses, and existing railway companies do not see the profitability of using rail cars for people versus freight which can be more densely packed in cars than humans?
---
The latest from barackobama.com says that potUS O'Blather is going to bring his wife to the next dinner with the selected few. Does he think he's 'sweetening the pot' so more people will donate for a chance to dine with her?
---
In a L-E article on the Chamber diversity Carmen Cavezza said, ‘Why don’t we do better than we’re doing?’ ‘Why don’t we have more minority businesses in the chamber?’ ‘Why don’t we have more small businesses in the chamber?’” -- Could be simply the membership pricing structure. The minimum membership pushes $400.00.
---
Talk about irony, the Occupy Wherever crowd would be the 1% in 99% of the countries that governments actually practice providing all the benefits that the Occupy Wherever protestors want here. Why don't they just move to one of them?
---
Please take time to read this marvelous testimony to the greatness of an naturalized American citizen and veteran. BTW, he's the father of one of our BCers.:
http://sharing.mayoclinic.org/2011/11/11/healing-a-wwii-veterans-66-year-old-injury/
---
A "LA Occupy Wherever" dissident claims 'they' will 'occupy' addresses of banks and bankers to protest the banks' 'greedy' methods of causing evictions. Hmmm, let's define 'greedy'. Was it 'greedy' for banks to follow Congressionally mandated regulations, or was it 'greedier' for home buyers to knowingly buy houses their income couldn't support?
---
Speaking of 'greed', Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac are having an employee get-together conference in Chicago at a cost of $640,000.00. Other than it is being held in Chicago for obvious political reasons, is there any other reason that this conference be held at all?
---
A thought probably not considered by the Occupy Wherever crowd: How many banks are going to send human resource teams down to a tent city to recruit new employees?
---

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Now a Georgia spokesman says that even if the I-Net company you buy from isn't charging you the GA/Muscogee Cty sales taxes, but if you are sitting at a computer that's in GA, you have to go online and fill out a "GA USE tax form" and send in that amount to the dept of Revenue. Think that's gonna fall right into the 'volunteer more income tax' division of 'laughable government regulations'.
---
One thing for which there is NO Doubt is that the DIM&DUMBERat Party is the party of the "Lurking Class"; "lurking" around every entitlement program that offers a hand out.
---
L-E headline: "Columbus State University Recreation Center open now for alumni" -- It's bad enough that faculty mingles with students in a spa environment, but allowing alumni is a bit much. Hope alumni membership includes a police check and a 'married status'. Could this be an indicator that all's NOT well with the cost structure/payoff of the campus spa facility?
---
doesn't allow governments to force citizens to pay other citizen'Question: How come bailiffs are on a per diem versus per hour pay plan?
---
Worthy L-E "soundoff": "If our Constitution doesn't allow governments to force citizens to pay other citizens' bills, then why do my taxes pay for free lunches and free tutoring that my kids can't receive because I pay taxes? -- Great question to ask any DIM&DUMBERat politician when you can get to any town forums, especially ones involving the MCSD board. Also, it's a great thought to remember anytime you are in a ballot booth.
---
L-E headline: "Obama pushes GOP to extend payroll tax cuts" -- Watch out! If potUS O'Blather is for a tax cut bill, there's something in it we can't read until after its passed and signed that we're not going to like!
---
If the investigation of the Civic Center ticket scandal is going to be productive, it needs to begin with when and why the manager was allowed to receive and distribute free tickets at his own will and whim. Once again, it is imperative that city employees and Council members who were issued publicly paid for tickets step forward with reimbursements for them.
---
Warren Buffet is a favorite patsy for poTUS O'Blather to focus on taxing 'the rich', and now we know why. In recent months, Buffett has bought into technology and print newspapers which he has always spurned in the past; Dementia/Alzheimers? Makes sense....