Online commentary: "Rep. Maxine Waters: California Deserves a Better Deal" -- And the other 49 states deserve for California to give us a better Representative.
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L-E headline/story: "METRA to receive 4 new hybrid buses * Funding largely from $1.67M federal grant * The Orion VII buses, which cost about $505,000 each, are 35 percent more fuel efficient than buses currently operated by METRA. * “This is a huge thing,” she (Mayor Obamalinson) said. “It will save fuel and it will save money.” -- Without spending a nickel on new buses, Metra could save more fuel and money, and be 'greener' at the same time by reducing the schedule so we don't have buses riding around empty or with 1 or 2 riders. As it is, Metra doesn't have enough riders to attract public transportation robberies like other cities have.
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Online headline/story: "Forced To Join A Union: SEIU Collects Union Dues From Disabled Kids’ Medicaid Checks * What would you say if you found out someone was taking money - without permission - from medicaid checks meant for disabled children? Well, it's happening to thousands of families all over Michigan right now. This money is being deducted automatically by a state agency and given directly to a union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). * Whether they like it or not, these people are classified as state employees because they provide care for their children, who would have otherwise ended up in a nursing home. Each month, they see a portion of their Medicaid checks siphoned off to a union that provides them with no benefits." -- That's yours and my tax dollars being paid directly to unions!
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Protesters protesting the high cost of living fail to comprehend that they are one of the reasons that living has a high cost. Way to go education system!
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The only "zero-tolerance" plan the MCSD needs is one of holding teachers to a 'zero-tolerance' of excuses why students aren't learning. No coach wins with a team that he excuses because of the players economic background.
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L-E headline/story: "Portugal court refuses to send U.S. fugitive home * LISBON, Portugal - A Portuguese court has denied a U.S. request for the extradition of a captured U.S. fugitive who has spent 41 years on the run..." -- If the U.S. simply dropped a single bunker-blaster on Aruba, or Switzerland, or Portugal when they refuse to extradite a U.S. felon, we wouldn't have 'mice that roar'.
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How unfortunate that Willie Horton, honoree of the National Infantry Museum, shares the same name with the 1988 Presidential campaign bogeyman of DIM&DUMBERat Michael Dukakis, "Where's Willie"...
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Though glad no more damage occurred to "St Elmo" than it did, it's awfully funny to see repairs are going to cost $400,000.00 on a property that is valued on the MC tax digest at only $285,286.00. You'd think the insurance company would just "total" the house, and give'm a check for the assessed value.
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Online headline: "Roy Egan, Former O'Hare TSA Agent, Fired Over Repeated Anti-Muslim, Racist Facebook Remarks" -- Wonder if anyone in government would have cared if he's been Anti-Christian?
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Online headline: "Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, White House Shooting Suspect, Charged With Attempting To Assassinate Obama " -- Oh, this is the guy the Occupy Oakland group held a 'moment of silence' for yesterday morning. Can't you see the gun being linked to "Fast 'n Furious"?
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Where will it end? Now it's been revealed that one of the green energy loans in default had the president of the SEIU on its board.
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Do you think potUS O'Blather plans to go back to the Occupy DC crowd for some glad-handing since the Occupy leaders have been praising the guy that took pot shots at O'Blather's White House living quarters.
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DIM&DUMBERats, which compose 50% of the Super Committee to cut spending, want the Republican members to propose new tax revenue. Excuse me, but we don't have a tax revenue problem, we have a D&D spending problem.
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Online headline: "Pepsi Says It Will Stick With Penn State Sponsorship" -- Guess it's the perfect place to roll out its new product... "Frozen Pepsi Pops on a Rope".