Online story: "The government has $73.8B left before it hits the debt ceiling. But one US company has more cash right now." -- Would you believe...Apple has $75.9 Billion in cash reserves? While it would be easy to suggest potUS O'Blather swap jobs with Steve Jobs, how about O'Blather just hiring Jobs; that way he could cunningly lie that he has created Jobs, and an APPLE a day will keep the debtors away.
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While accumulating $75.9 Billion in cash is particularly astonishing in today's financial atmosphere, it opens up to important questions: 1 - Why has the government let Apple accumulate that much cash instead of paying stockholders additional dividends which the government can double tax... again? and 3-2 - Do you the intellectual elitists feel cheated at how much they have overpaid for Apple Products that lets their idol accumulate that much profit margin?
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Online story: "Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt said he is willing to pay Casey Anthony $500,000 to pose naked for his magazine. * If Anthony agreed to pose nude, Flynt said a portion of the profits earned from the sale of the magazine would go to abused children and abused children's shelters." -- What an (_@_)... Casey Anthony, too! Guess Flynt has a conscience after all, and wants to toss a few dollars towards children abused causes that he probably had a hand in causing.
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After listening to our school system tell us how important it is that the schools be responsible for feeding children year round than it is to teach children the skills that will enable them to become adults with the ability to be responsible for their children. where are the video clips of the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaching "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."?
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From a fellow BCer:
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective
nouns for groups of animals......


There is a Pride of lions; a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens); a School of fish; an Exhaltation of doves and; presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.


Now consider the baboon. The loudest, most dangerous and viciously
aggressive of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a
group of baboons - a Congress. So, next time you hear the news out of
Washington DC.......

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L-E headline: "HOUSE OKS DEBT-LIMIT BILL; SENATE REJECTS IT " -- Hmmm, how come it was OK for Harry Reid that no one read the HELL-thScare Bill before voting 'yes' on it, yet now he's flip-flopping about this bill?

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In the L-E's "Today in History": "In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. " -- Hmmm, wonder it is because he had or didn't have union pallbearers?

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L-E story: "UKIAH, Calif. — Law enforcement officials say they have struck a major blow against illegal marijuana cultivation on public lands in the heart of Northern California pot country. * U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said Friday the two-week operation to purge the Mendocino National Forest of illicit pot gardens has uprooted 460,000 pot plants and led to more than 100 arrests." -- You have to wonder how long it took to plant 460,000 plants, and where were Park Rangers or other Fed agents doing that time?

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Recent polls show that only about 75% of DUMB&DUMBERats think potUS O'Blather is doing a good job. Of course, 100% of those will vote for him again. And there are those who fell my reference to them as DUMB&DUMBERats is mean spirited and insensitive... yeah, right!

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L-E headline: "Judge: It’s time to unseal Nixon’s Watergate testimony " -- Oh, has the media found out that potUS O'Blather's ongoing assaults on Bush43 are wearing thin on the American public, so now the media want to bring Nixon back and kick him some more?

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I really don't understand why scrap metal dealers would even buy 'scrap copper' from an individual in these times. When the police check and find such a transaction has occurred, and the pieces of the puzzle fit to show the copper was stolen, the copper will be confiscated and the buyer is just out of the money he paid for it. That is how it works, DOESN'T IT?

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I meant to write this yesterday while it was fresh, but I guess it will still beat the L-E: Senator McCain attacked the T.E.A. Party from the floor of the Senate. Does he not remember that if it weren't for the support of Palin by T.E.A. Party members and other Conservatives, McCain probably would have lost his presidential bid by the US history's largest margin. Apparently, McCain has 'crossed the aisle' once too often, and doesn't know how to get back.

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L-E headline: "ROGER CLEMENS TRIAL * Clemens accuses prosecutors of provoking mistrial" -- You better believe it! What federal prosecutor wanted to get a conviction on a beloved baseball icon following the jury acquittal of Casey Anthony?

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Nicolas Cage is starting to shoot a film based on an Alaskan serial killer who killed 17 women, and of raping another 30 over a 12/13 year period. He was convicted and sentenced to 431 years. Whew! Glad it was in Alaska rather than California, where he would already be released on parole, or Florida, where he'd probably been acquitted .

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Here are two letters recently sent to the parties affected; neither has had a response for such parties:

First - To our legislative members et al:

L-E story: "ATLANTA — The University System of Georgia and its 35 colleges had about 20 lobbyists at the state Capitol during the legislative session this year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. * The newspaper said the system’s lobbyists were paid about $2.5 million last year. "
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If true, this is an absolute disgrace, and criminal misuse of public funds.
Any UGA official affiliated with this situation should be fired, and criminally charged for his/her involvement. A situation that has lobbyist paid from public funds soliciting favorable decisions from officials paid with public funds to benefit any organization funded by public funds is intolerable!
Second - To the MCSD board et al:

Part of the problem (and a major problem, at that) is the school system's involvement in taking over parents' responsibility of feeding their children.

Children should know that parenting means being responsible for their children.

The school system has become a surrogate parent rather than an asset for the birth parents to educate the children in basic educational skills the children can use to become responsible parents themselves.

The school system thinks feeding children is more important than educating them the with skills (and the reasons) to be able to feed themselves, and their own children when they leave the school system.

Children need to know they are able, as well as educated. to be able, to be responsible citizens and parents as adults.

Making children dependent on the school system for subjects that should be learned at home is a problem the school system has cursed itself with, and this continued practice will continue, accelerate, and exacerbate the problem in the future.