The Breakfast Club - July 26, 2010

Regardless of the context, regardless of eventual outcome, whether you worked for the government or in the private sector, but when a person came to you for help, and the color of his/her skin, or the thickness of his/her wallet made you think/decide to do less than your best to help, you were a racist or bigot or class biased at that time. You were wrong! It doesn't matter whether you were Senator Byrd or Shirley Sherrod.
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L-E headline: "ANALYSIS: PRIMARY VOTING IN MUSCOGEE COUNTY * HOW WE VOTED * HANDEL RUNS STRONG, BUT SO FAR BARNES TRIUMPHS LOCALLY IN GUBERNATORIAL BALLOTING" -- Tim Chitwood is obviously not an accomplished political analyst. I do use the word 'stupid' lightly when describing another's thoughts or ideas, but when a person analyzes the results of dual party primary results, and makes an assessment as to which victor is stronger compared to the other based on votes received, that is stupid.
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L-E's "Thought for Today, “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw (born this date in 1856, died 1950)." -- I used to agree with this 100%, but the 2008 election has changed my mind. If those who voted for DIM/DUMBorats had not gone to the polls, they would have made the future of this country a great deal more honorable by doing nothing.
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A L-E "soundoff": "June was the hottest month on record. Rush Limbaugh, is the debate back on over global warming? Got something to say?" -- Lets see...winter was the coldest in most parts of the country....what's your point?
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Another L-E 'soundoff': " School teachers now have to pay for their child to go to Columbus schools. They stay late every day, work during summer breaks, use their own money — doesn’t make any sense! " -- Lets see, they avoid paying property taxes which support their salaries, and they don't pay the SPLOST tax on purchases they make for home services. They should never have been allowed to send their children to Muscogee County schools for free.
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Mayor Wetherington should not have to be the driving force behind the Parks & Rec audit investigation. Once it was discovered, the City Manager should have cleaned house of employees not complying with City laws and regulations governing departmental procedures.
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L-E headline: "Tony Hayward said to be leaving as BP CEO * Public relations gaffes push chairman out during Gulf spill " -- Dang! if public relations gaffes worked to get rid of politicians, we'd have something to feel good about! Just in the last couple of weeks, potUS Nero-bama, VPOTUS Biden-Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid would all have been packing for home.
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When Chris Wallace inform the tirading Howard Dean that Fox News did not even run the Sherrod/NAACP speech until after she had been fired by Nero-bama/Vilsack, Dean paused for a second and took his foot out of his mouth. Then he put it back in and continued gnawing it off. Reminded me of one of out past mayors (the one between Feighner and Martin).
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L-E headline/story: "Chavez warns of U.S. oil cutoff in Colombia dispute * CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to halt oil sales to the United States if Venezuela faces any military attack by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia. * Chavez said that “we wouldn’t send one more drop” of oil to the United States, which is the top buyer of oil from the South American country" -- Shut him off, shut him down, shut him up! Citgo must go! While we're at it, shut Mexico off, too, until Mexico helps shut down the border crossings on its side.
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From the 'it's not one world' department: L-E story: "MEXICO CITY — Mexican prosecutors say guards at a prison let inmates out and lent them guns to massacre 17 people at a party, then allowed them to return to their cells." -- Gosh, then what's a little border crossing, boys will be boys, huh. Geez!
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