Online headline/story: "Arizona May Require Hospitals to Check Citizenship" -- Go, Arizona! Can you imagine the reception in a Mexican or Canadian hospital if an indigent American showed up at an emergency room asking for aspirin or cold medicine?
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Online headline: "Charlie Sheen Says Sobriety 'Bores' Him, Crack Okay if You Can 'Manage It Socially' " -- Webster should make Charlie Sheen the official icon for "stupidity" in all future dictionaries.
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L-E headline: "Phenix City’s long-awaited audit finds weaknesses in accounting" -- Isn't this redundant?
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From L-E story: "According to the job (Park&Rec Department Head) posting, the position’s annual salary ranges $69,770-$106,163. Adams was making $78,939 at the time of his termination." -- There's just something wrong here when the top end of a salary range for a position is more than $27,000/34% higher than the current top salary paid to the last sitting Director. It almost makes it seem that the last director could file some sort of lawsuit.
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L-E headline: "Groups to study city revenue, land use, neighborhood improvements * Committees will only make recommendations to City Council * Neighborhood Stabilization and Improvement - Ken Henson, Habitat for Humanity (chairman); Philip Adams, business development; Phillip Aldridge, banking; Andy Bussy, builder; Johnny Cargill, builder; Danita Gibson-Lloyd, banking; Tim Gregory, builder; Leslie Anne Heard, MidTown Inc.; J.A. Hud, volunteer; Scott Jones, builder; Justin Krieg, land bank authority; Jimmy McCorlew, McCorlew Realty; Dorothy McDaniel, Trees Inc.; John Paul Marvets, homeowner; Will Rembert, builder; John Ryles, builder; and Cathy Williams, NeighborWorks." -- It's one thing to appoint members of the community to a panel, but it's another to appoint elected officials or their spouses without mentioning that detail.
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L-E headline: "Columbus shoppers, stores cope with 20% hike in produce prices" -- Yesterday, we were 'informed' our next clothing purchases would be jumping because of the major increase in cotton costs, before that, gas jumped back up to $3.00+ for regular with projections to $5.00 by next year, and now our produce prices are spiking upward, yet our government proclaims there's "no signs" of inflation... yeah, right...
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Online headline: "Iranian Lawmakers Want Opposition Put to Death" -- DOH! What's new! It's written in the Quran for followers to kill everyone who isn't a follower.
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Online story: "NEW YORK -- CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was recovering in a U.S. hospital Tuesday from a sexual attack and beating she suffered while reporting on the tumultuous events in Cairo." -- While senseless, regrettable, and irreprehensible, when you send women reporters into a riotous situation in a country that regards women as second class, personal property or worthless, what do you really expect? It's not like CBS was sending her into the safety haven of a professional football or basketball locker room.....
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Online headline: "Obama Raises Stakes in Pakistani Standoff" -- Yeah, Emporer Obama bluffed them with a powerful " I don't have any jacks, Go Fish!"
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Way to go, Mike Gaymon and the Chamber staff! Obviously, those competing Florida Chambers of Commerce didn't stand a "ghost of a chance" in taking Pratt & WEhitney from Columbus.
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L-E's " Thought for Today" : “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). -- Unfortunately, any liberal jackal can rewrite it and sell it to school systems to teach our children with.
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L-E story: " NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Billy Ray Cyrus says the Disney TV show “Hannah Montana” destroyed his family, causing his divorce and sending daughter Miley Cyrus spinning out of control." -- It looked a lot like Billy Ray himself was the one spinning out of control. How could a "dad" let his teen daughter pose provocatively for a major magazine, and let her date men much to old for her?
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Why is it liberals will vilify "gas guzzlers" for being polluting, yet stand by proudly as one of their own pollutes facts that harm the world more drastically?
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L-E headline/story: "Obama lauds Medal of Freedom recipients * Rep.(John) Lewis (D- GA told reporters later that the award was all the more special coming from Obama, the nation’s first black president." -- What an absolute disgrace coming out of the mouth of a US Congressman! The president's color should have absolutely nothing to do with the honor of the award. This action almost trumps the purpose the award is given. Shame on Lewis!
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I'm proud Shirley Brady of Americus is an American!
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