Online headline/story: "Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania Governor, Rips Vikings-Eagles Postponement * Vince Lombardi would be spinning in his grave," Ed Rendell said in a live interview with a television station. * "I think it is a joke," Rendell said. "I was looking forward to this. It would have been a real experience. This is what football is all about. We're becoming a nation of wussies." -- I agree, but Rendell opens up a whole can of worms at why he wasn't even more indignant at Congress for repealing "Don't ask, don't tell", and the House DUMB&DUMBERats keeping Pelosi as their spokesperson?
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Online headline: "$5-a-Gallon Gas Could Be Here By 2012" -- That should reduce the DUMB&DUMBERats in Washington, DC to 'zero', and run off a lot of 'moderate' Republicans as well. Maybe it will finally get Congress moving on opening up our oil fields for drilling.
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Nearly every government 'entitlement program' should be audited for financial efficiency. With the exception of the military and social security (people pay into this and cannot be responsible for the way the government has bungled the funds) , all government entitlement programs should be modeled after private service businesses, and a payroll/benefits package for employees of 'government programs' be limited to 60-65% of revenues. As it is, government programs use 78+% for salaries/benefits (the MCSD uses 85% of its revenues) leaving very little for serving the needs of the people "needing" the program. A good way to see what is needed would be to account for all revenues distributed to 'users', and calculate that as 1/3rd of the total revenues any program can be allotted.
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L-E story: "LOS ANGELES — Rep. Charles B. Rangel, whose 40 years in the House have come under a cloud because of an ethics scandal, announced Tuesday he has established a new defense fund to help pay off past legal expenses and to deal with pending and new complaints. * Rangel, D-N.Y., was censured by the House earlier this month for financial and fundraising misconduct and had to stand on the chamber’s floor to listen to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., read the censure resolution, which passed 333-79. * The new fund, called the Charles B. Rangel Legal Expense Trust, was approved by the House Ethics Committee, Rangel announced in a prepared statement." -- Unbelievable! How can the House Ethics Committee approve something that a future House Ethics Committee might have to investigate how the funds are raised to pay off the debt Rangel ran up defending how he raised other funds?
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The L-E reported of a basketball game score being 80 to 75, but look (and add up) the quarter-by-quarter scoring recap: "Tuesday at Jordan Kendrick 18 21 22 10—75 Central 7 11 26 25—80" -- It must be either "new math" or teams get 'handicap points' like bowling. I get the line scores to add up to Kendrick - 71 points, and Central - 69.
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L-E headline: "Bulldogs, Buckeyes agree to play in ’20, ’21 * UGA, Ohio State to work out details" -- I guess one such detail will be if Ohio State will have enough eligible players on game day.
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Why are local high school football players from Hardaway playing on the GACA South team, and Carver players playing on the GACA North team?
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Where are the pundits talking about inflation and the dollar effect? Gas has risen to $3.00+ a gallon and predicted to reach $5.00 in 2012, my coffee has risen from $5.80 a pound to almost $7.00, I recently passed on a loaf of bread that was priced at $3.19, other grocery items at Walmarts are almost as high as Publix's regular prices. All this, and the government doesn't see fit for a Social Security cost-of-living-adjustment.
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From a story in the L-E's "Neighbors" section: "Since 1991, Bring One for the Chipper has collected more than four million trees and provided over one million tree seedlings to participants" -- Excuse me but according to my math (using 20 years as the divisor) that would mean that a city of 55,000 homes (assuming no one has any 'permanent trees they use annually) is bringing in 200,000 Christmas trees per year for 'recycling', and replacing them with only 50,000 per year. Can, would, someone from "Trees Columbus" (or in contact with) please confirm "Keep Columbus Beautiful" committee's figures?
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