Online story: "IOWA CITY, Iowa — (Occupy) Protesters drowned out Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich during a campaign event at the University of Iowa. * Gingrich watched impassively from the podium while the protesters shouted. They were led away by university officials. * The former House speaker was on the University of Iowa campus speaking about brain science research." -- Or in the protesters case, the lack of brains.
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Online story: "A new audit conducted by City Comptroller John Liu reports New York City schools overspent more than $400,000 in food last year. * Most of the overspending was traced back to markups as high as 890 percent for food items that include parsley, radishes, and scallions. * The audit found that in one out of every five items purchased, the Department of Education overpaid by at least 50 percent of the item's wholesale value" -- Like children even eat parsley or radishes... Wonder how much our own school system misspent on food here?
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L-E headline: "Oxbow Meadows: $1.3 million grant to restore longleaf pine ecosystem" -- First question I have is what is so special about longleaf pines versus other pines? Like all pines, they will eventually fall on someone's house or be struck by lightning.
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Harry Reid said "Millionaire job creators are like unicorns. They’re impossible to find, and they don’t exist.” -- I guess the only millionaires he knows got that way by sucking the life and resources out of government programs. Maybe if he tried looking for a few small businesspersons at their places of business he'd find out the only magic for private sector success is hard work and personal sacrifice.
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It's one thing for Harry Reid to hold a House Bill hostage unless the House will politically compromise with him, but it's a totally different thing when Reid tries to compromise this country's and it's taxpayers' future.
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Online story: "SAN FRANCISCO — Tech giant Google announced Wednesday it is donating $11.5 million to several coalitions fighting to end the modern-day slavery of some 27 million people around the world. * "Many people are surprised to learn there are more people trapped in slavery today than any time in history," said Jacquelline Fuller, director of charitable giving and advocacy for Google. "The good news is that there are solutions." -- Unfortunately, the figure of 27,000,000 people around the world does not include those enslved by poverty programs of the DIM&DUMBERats in our country.
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From a L-E story: "Johnnie A. Worsley, 50, has been on death row more than 13 years, but his case has not yet reached the Georgia Supreme Court for an automatic appeal." -- While the concept of an 'automatic appeal' emits an aura of a safety net, why isn't there a specific time frame, say 2 years, in which this 'automatic appeal' must take place so that there is more likelihood that the witnesses and evidences will still be fresh?
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Online story: " Lampooning the (Americam Airline) matter, (Alec) Baldwin pretended to be the American Airlines flight;s pilot during the show's (Saturday Night Live) Weekend Update news segment. * What harm would it do to let him keep playing his game," Baldwin mused as the pilot. Not any game, mind you, but a word game for smart people." -- There is a word for Alec Baldwin...smart-(_@_).
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L-E headline: "Marines promoted inflated story for Medal of Honor winner" -- Or was this simply the case of a virus attack on potUS O'Blather's TelePrompTers?
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From L-E's "Today in History": "1961, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court for crimes against humanity. (Eichmann was hanged 5 1/2 months later)." -- Thank goodness he wasn't sentenced in Georgia! He'd still be waiting for his "automatic appeal" or a new trial based on an "ineffective counsel" basis.
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After the constant bombardment of Jos A Bank ads offering every price cut, 2-fers, and 3-fers it can dream up. I'd hate to be either a customer trying to exchange a gift from there or a salesperson trying to explain to a customer exchanging a gift that no one knows what price that the gift cost.
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