Online headline: "Obama Vows To Put Pressure On Iran To Halt Nuclear Program" -- Yeah...what's he gonna do, put TSA agents in Teheran to pat down suicide bombers?
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Online headline: "Obama Calls Penn State Scandal 'Heartbreaking' -- "Heartbreaking"? Losing a basketball game on a 3/4 court shot that "gets nothing but net" as the buzzer sounds is 'heartbreaking'; the Penn State scandal is perverted in many way. Ooops, better not say that again or the LGBT or ACLU will be out in force saying it's a civil rights intrusion!
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L-E headline/story: "Local leaders vow to get city in rail plan * It’s been over 40 years since Columbus residents could hop aboard the old Central of Georgia Man O’ War for a three-hour trip to Atlanta." -- " a three-hour trip to Atlanta"... sounds more like a verse from Gilligan's Island than something anyone would ever want to do again. Besides, with Atlanta only a 90-100 minute car ride with the convenience of having transportation once you get there (like all the shopping areas are in Downtown on Peachtree), the railroad companies lost passenger service to progress, much like stage coaches losing out to railroads 125+ years ago, and railroads losing out to modern cars and airlines in the last 50 years. This is nothing but a bunch of politicians getting together to draw a horse and getting a camel.
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Online headline: "Obama Warns Debt Super Committee Not to Cheat on Deficit-Cutting Mandate " -- Hmmm..... this only leads to thinking about what potUS O'Blather wants them to cheat on.
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Online headline/story: "Questions Arise Over $433M Smallpox Drug Contract to Company Tied to Dem Donor * The Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend that U.S. officials took unusual steps to award the contract to Siga Technologies. Democratic donor Ronald Perelman has the controlling share of the company. * Earlier, in December, the government also reportedly blocked other companies from bidding on the contract in a second round. * The government already has a smallpox vaccine on reserve. Siga's pill is meant to help people diagnosed too late for the vaccine to be effective, according to the Times. * But the drug has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, * One epidemiologist described the plan as a "waste of time and a waste of money." -- Oh, a half billion here, and a billion there; it's just money...yeah, but it's OUR money!
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Online headline/story: "Ex-Obama Operative Urged White House to Oust Energy Secretary Chu, Emails Show * A White House spokesman said Friday the plan to oust Chu was not taken very seriously. " -- Yeah, and his pink slip will carry a "we're behind you 1,000%" (keyword is 'behind', and don't let us see you again)
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Repeat: L-E headline/story: "Local leaders vow to get city in rail plan" -- Guess they figure it's the only way to eventually get a Fall Line Trace extension to Atlanta and Macon when the railroads abandon the tracks in a few years.
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L-E headline/story: "Alabama collects lowest tax of any state * The state has more than 25,000 inmates but only employees about 4,000 correctional workers." -- No wonder government can't figure out how to operate anything at reasonable costs. a 1 - to - 6 employee/inmate ration is even worse on the taxpayers as the teacher/student ratios in the other mandatory incarceration institution....education.
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L-E headline/story: "Bowers: Dougherty cheating probe nearly complete, could effect 60 educators * ALBANY -- State investigators say as many as 10 principals and 50 teachers could be caught up in a cheating investigation in Dougherty County" -- Sadly, probably just the tip of the iceberg... Even sadder is that if this many are readily identifiable, how many other teachers knew and didn't report this to their principals? Ooops, they probably did. Sorta reminds us of the chain of events at Penn State.
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Match.COM should really watch what and how it advertises. It's currently advertising "More Dates, More Relationships, More marriages". After this summer's event, some competitor may start adding on to that add with "More clients killed in Aruba on a long weekend".
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L-E story: " The Mobile County school board said it is restarting its search for a new superintendent. * The board interviewed three finalists last week but couldn't agree on who to hire. * Board President Ken Megginson said the most important thing is to get the "correct person" in the superintendent's office. * The finalists are.. Dee Fowler...Ed Smith...and Marc Smith". -- I'd venture to say that all three of the 'finalists" have a pretty good lawsuit against the Mobile County School Board for libelous damage to their reputations and careers; or at least a claim of 'public humiliation'.
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Speaking of government lawsuits, if the City of Columbus had simply had the State Attorney General file criminal charges against Expedia for not turning the proper tax amounts over to the state and city, then a civil suit following probably would be eith not necessary or a much easier route to follow... But did they do that? Nooooooooooo, because some lawyers wouldn't be able to get some judge to give'em the big bucks! The City of Columbus is worse off for letting this happen as it has happened.
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