The Breakfast Club - July 25, 2010

Online story: "In Chicago, officials say more than 7 inches of rain fell early Saturday, inundating the sewer system and overwhelming waterways. " -- Now it will smell like it did before potUS Nero-bama, Rahm Emanuel, and Arne Duncan left and went to Washington - fishy and slimy.
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Online headline: "White House Expects Unemployment Above 9% Until 2012" -- Guess potUS Nero-bama figures that many on unemployment will vote for him to keep their checks coming. Otherwise, they'd be working again and seeing how much the new tax rates were affecting their paychecks and would vote against him!
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Online headline: "Six Reasons to Expect Slow Economic Growth Ahead" -- Without reading I'd say, potUS Nero-bama, Nanct Pelosi, Harry Reid, House DIM/DUMBorats, Senate DIM/DUMBorats, and number 6 would be a toss up between unemployment & increased government taxes/regulations.
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Looking back at how potUS nero-bama has shot from the lip before thinking issues through, why does he have access to our missile launching buttons?
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A reminder from a fellow BCer: "The Washington Post reported again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. So once more, a short civics lesson:
Budgets do NOT come from the White House. They come from Congress, and
the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic
Party.
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Just watched a video a fellow BCer sent concerning Ford's most advanced assembly plant in Brazil. Looking at the number of robotics used in assembly versus humans, the video should be renamed, "Star Cars".
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Passed on from a family member:
Starting Aug 1, Georgia will launch a 30 day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that 9 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets. 1 million will go to pay state troopers' overtime. The rest to help with dwindling budgets. There will be 50 state troopers on duty at all times patrolling the 7 main intersections and highways. They are the following:
I-20 east and west
I-75 north and south
I-85 north and south
I-675 north and south
GA-985 north and south
GA-316 east and west
GA-400 north and south
5 mph above the limit can justify a ticket and every state trooper is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 10 to 20 minutes. They have issued 30 brand new unmarked Dodge Charger Police cruisers and are bringing in all of their part timers on full time. If you work in the Atlanta area, you will probably take one of these highways. It's up to you how fast you are going when they clock you.
WSB and WXIA & CBS confirmed all of this. So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you.
Look for city and county governments to adopt similar polices in the near future. -- Judging from the aggressive hiding stations I've recently observed Columbus Police using on River Rd and Whiteville Rd, I'd say it has/will be started soon here in River City.
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L-E headline: "Zsa Zsa Gabor remains critical" -- Gimmee a break (no, I'm not being insensitive to her plight), but why is Zsa Zsa Gabor worth a headline in any newspaper? Her claim to fame was being a misfit in "Green Acres", but she's being fawned over more than Sister Teresa ever was.
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L-E's "Thought for Today": “Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.” — Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995). " -- Sometimes life is a millstone...like when you remember the exact moment potUS Nero-bama was sworn in.
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L-E "soundoff": "Gov. Christie of New Jersey could get my vote to be my mayor, my governor or my president with the way he is tackling these public service unions and limiting tax increases and budgets by 2 percent a year. " -- While this does seem 'good' compared to what other elected governors/the President, and Congress are doing, what we need is elected official willing to reduce the budgets and size of government so that a fair tax would be enough to pay for such services/intrusions and provide a surplus so tax decreases could be considered in the future.
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L-E story: "ATLANTA — Attorneys for Wesley Snipes want to question the jurors who convicted the movie star of tax-related charges to determine whether any had made up their minds about the trial before it started. " -- The real question to be asked by Snipes and his attorney is whether he had any doubt that he was doing something illegal to begin with.
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L-E headline: "AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY * Christian student files suit against university * School says master’s candidate must change beliefs, suit states " -- Where is the encouragement for diversity and freedoms of thought, voice, and religion? Freedom of thought, voice, and religion are guaranteed in our Constitution, but I cannot find the Amendment for 'diversity'.
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We have an overload of property tax exempt buildings/property here in Columbus for religious/school interests. While I pretty much support the exemptions, those 'businesses' conducting school or religious interest should have to pay/contribute some towards police and fire protection. Sure would relive the taxpaying property owners.
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We used to be members of the BBB until we asked them to issue a warning to other businesses about a business that issued us a bad check. Didn't ask the BBB to collect it, but only to warn other members. The BBB refused, so we ended our membership. While we still operate on the principals of the BBB, the BBB offered no service for us to deserve continued support.
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Go, Larry Mize! You, too, Sam Mitchell!
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On another note: It's about time for Tony Adams and Isaiah Hugley to 'go', but in a different way. On further thought, it's passed time.....
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