Online headline: "Rape Redefined -- More Victims Counted Under New White House Rules" -- Ah! They just added the 53% who are actually paying income taxes, and their children and grandchildren.
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Online headline/story: "Dems Fire Back At GOP Proposals To Drug Test Jobless: 'You Pee In The Cup' * The past year has seen an unprecedented wave of Republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. It also saw a smaller wave of Democratic bills that said in response, "No, you pee in the cup." * One of the most recent retorts comes from Georgia, where last month Democratic state Rep. Scott Holcomb introduced a bill requiring members of the local legislature to prove they're not Legislating Under the Influence. Holcomb told HuffPost he came up with the idea because he was struck by a bill from his Republican colleagues to drug test welfare applicants." -- For once, I agree with a DIM&DUMBERat. Make'em all 'pee in a cup'! Maybe then they'd stop pissing away our tax dollars and future!
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potUS O'Blather really has no grasp of the domino effect of military cuts, and how they effect the security and economic stability of the USA. Defense contractors will make quicker cuts than the government, and defense contractors are the biggest job supplier for veterans 'riffed' from active duty.
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L-E story: "When Georgia cut $54 million from the pre-kindergarten program last year to trim the state’s $18.3 billion budget, the Downtown Elementary School in Columbus lost its family resource coordinator who kept track of students. * The reduced staff forced Principal Tonya Douglass to fill in the gap while running a school with more than 500 students. “She used to spend an enormous amount of time building relationships with pre-K parents,” Douglass said of the coordinator. “She would be on them like a laser if there was a pattern of absence or tardy.” -- When will the MCSD and every other government run school system learn that until it holds parents responsible for their children, parents will not be responsible for them! School buses pick up and drop off their children, day & after school their children, and feed their children (many years round). How are these children going to learn what will be expected of them in raising children of their own?
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No heart attacks, please, but I am going to recommend you read Tim Chitwood today. It's probably the best piece he's ever penned. I hope he actually wrote it out with a pencil, first.
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L-E story: "SAVANNAH, Ga. — Gov. Na-than Deal plans to ask state lawmakers for $10 million to expand Georgia’s alternative sentencing courts, which the governor says will help reduce the prison population by diverting nonviolent offenders into programs focused on treatment and probation. * “As we divert more and more people out of a very expensive prison system that costs about $18,000 per person per year, we will begin to see savings,” -- Huh! When you add up the cost of unemployment checks. and state provided taxi, medical, and food programs and the cost of providing employees to run them, prison costs seem like a true savings. Build more jails!
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From the Purchase Agenda at Council: "HIGH SPEED MOBILE DATA MODEMS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY VEHICLES: It is requested that council approve the purchase of 287 High Speed Mobile Data Modems from Motorola (Shaumburg, IL), in the amount of $590,072. " -- That's over $2,000.00 per unit. Wouldn't it be cheaper if the mobile force used cell phones with "wi-fi hotspots" ?
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MOBILE DATA TERMINALS FOR THE POLICE AND SHERIFF DEPARTMENTS: It is requested that council authorize the purchase of 38 MW810 mobile data terminals, with applicable software and installation services, in the amount of $425,866 from Motorola Solutions Inc. * The unit cost for the Mobile Data terminal/AVL unit is $11,207. The equipment will be installed in 32 pursuit vehicles purchased for the police department, and six pursuit vehicles purchased for the Sheriff’s Department. " -- At $11,207.00 each, wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to use cell phones with 'wi-fi hotspots'?
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Additional comment: These seemingly unthought out expenditures total 4 times the savings Mayor Obamalinson wants to 'save' by cutting garbage pick-ups to once a week.
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LSU and Bama... their first game was a knockdown-dragout 9-6 affair worthy of a rematch. Guess what team held them to their lowest point outputs in their other games? Mississippi State! LSU beat us 19-6, and Bama beat us 24-7.
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Last Sunday was January 1st which use to be the big bowl day, but no bowl games were played. Today is another Sunday and there is a 'why schedule this at all' bowl game being played.
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