Another one bites the dust.... another energy company, Beacon Power Corporation in Massachusetts, which received a $39 Million dollar loan from the same program that furnished over 1/2 a BILLION dollars to Solyndra, has gone belly-up. What's sad is not that these companies have gone bankrupt, but the moral bankruptcy of the DIM&DUMBERat Washington, D.C. element that gave them our money.
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Online headline: "White House Rejects Petition To Legalize Marijuana" -- Huh? Didn't the Marijuana Association make a big enough campaign donation to potUS O'Blather's re-election committee?
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After reading Chuck Williams' column today, I do have to agree with 'mccombsgrad's' assessment of Mescon, as I have had dealings with the man that more than confirm the angst he has created with the CSU faculty, and now I learn that his wife is leading an effort to give deadbeat and walk-away fathers more legal rights here in Georgia. I will buy the one-way bus tickets out of Columbus for both of them.
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WTVM9 headline: "After 3 World Series titles, La Russa retires" -- Talk about rubbing salt into the Rasmus' wounds. If Papa Rasmus had been the least bit patient, his son would be wearing a World Series ring, and his managerial angst would not be around for the rest of his career. Wonder if an adult child can divorce his father? Of course, I could be wrong, Colby may like Toronto.
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Online headline: "Report: Kim Kardashian Filing for Divorce From NBA Husband" -- Guess hubby wasn't spending enough time in the 3-second lane?
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You know, I haven't heard from one Councilperson (or Mayor for that matter) about the 8,000 person discrepancy in the population figure used in re-districting and the 2010 Census.
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Have you noticed the Columbus Police Patrol cars lately? They have numbers on the roofs for overhead identification, but not on the rear where motorists could note it if the cars were violating traffic laws.
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Online Quote source: "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton " -- Does this not describe the Mainstream Media, DIM&DUMBERats & Occupy Wall Street mantra to a "T"?
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I usually don't comment on Alabama news because so much of it is to incredible to waste my time analyzing it, BUT a L-E story caught my eye - "Montgomery, Ala. - Some of the more than 1,000 teachers expected to retire Ddec 1 to avaoid higher health insurance costs could end up back in the classroom through the end of the school year. * Under the state's retirement rules, teachers can go ahead with plans to retire Dec 1 and stay out of their classrooms for the month of December, which is a short month due to the Christmas and New Year's holiday break. Then they can suspend their retirement and return to their classrooms Jan 1 on temporary teaching contracts through the end of the school year." -- Let'em retire and hire new teachers that aren't milking the system for all they can! I just pray we don't have this same idiocy/lunacy in the GA teachers' retirement rules.
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Online headline: "Bill Gates: The Rich Should Pay More In Taxes" -- Of course, he means Carlos Slim and the Queen of England.
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Took a short memory walk with Sam Rawls yesterday...reread all the e-mails I've saved from him. I miss him. I know y'all do, too.
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A few of months ago, I suggested to the MCSD that now would be a good time to publicly review the SPLOST projects list, and start culling, or at least re-prioritizing the projects to reflect the reality that the SLOST revenues would be greatly short of the pie-in-the-sky estimate of receiving nearly $225 Million over the 5 year life-span of the SPLOST. Haven't seen one course correction, and it's approaching the end of the 3rd year. Columbus will suffer if planning for the worst-case-scenario is left until the last minute.
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