Online story: "TAMPA, FLA. -- The most important moment of Monday night's presidential debate -- the first in the crucial state of Florida -- may have come before any candidate actually took the stage. * Prior to the camera rolling, NBC, the debate's host, told audience members to hold their applause. It was not an agreed-to rule among the candidates themselves." -- If NBC thinks this is a good idea, how about they mute the sound and don't show pictures of the Congressional DIM&DUMBERats at potUS O'Blather's State of the Union speech tonight.
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Speaking of potUS O'Blather's State of the Union speech tonight, I predict he'll confidently say he has the backing of the Union leadership. You know, maybe the Union states are the extra 7 'states' he was talking about having had campaigned in during the 2008 election.
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From L-E story: "Garner, 19, faces two misdemeanor counts of reckless conduct and one misdemeanor count of pointing a pistol at another in connection with the shooting inside a Celia Drive home. * The juvenile then identified Garner as the shooter * Garner, interviewed at the Columbus Public Safety Center, then admitted to firing the gun, the detective added. * The gun has not been recovered, Carter said. * Cielinski dismissed the weapons charge against Garner after public defender Charles Lykins argued his client legally couldn’t face the accusation. * Someone must be charged with a felony for them also to be charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Garner, who remained in jail Monday evening, faces no felony charges." -- Huh? Isn't possession of an unregistered gun a felony? Isn't firing at and hitting someone a felony? Isn't tampering with evidence and a crime scene a felony? If a gun has been used in a shooting and the shooter has 'ditched' the gun before the police arrive, why not withhold any bond until the shooter accurately tells the police where he ditched the gun?
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From Chuck Williams column: "It hit home for me Thursday night when Gingrich took apart CNN anchor John King during a debate in South Carolina. Gingrich was in full control as he slashed King for having the audacity to question him about a marital issue broached by one of Gingrich’s ex-wives."-- John King got what he deserved. He chose exactly what question he asked. IF King had simply opened with a question such as this, "Mr Gingrich, ABC aired an interview with your ex-wife, but did not give you a rebuttal opportunity. Would you like to respond to this before we begin the debate?, then the response Gingrich made would have been addressed to ABC rather than the tabloid-type question King chose to ask.
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A report says that attendance at Ivy League schools is in decline. Guess when parents saw their children on the steps of their businesses in Occupy Wall Street because their high price education hasn't qualified them for a job, then those parents started looking at other schools for their other children.......
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Reports are that since our troops have been removed from Iraq, that the Iraqi government is going downhill fast. Oh, so now that our troops are back on our soil, maybe their presence will have the reverse effect on our government.
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I thought I had read that the RiverWalk wall that collapsed by the old power house had been repaired. Went by there yesterday, and if applying a band-aid is considered repairing, Webster had better redefine the word.
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L-E headline/story: "Man pleads guilty to pointing pellet gun at officers * Superior Court Judge Gil McBride sentenced Apt to a year in prison, followed by four years’ probation, court officials said" -- Law as it should be, yet another arm of the law gave a small bond for a guy who shot someone, tampered with evidence (ditched his gun), coerced the victim to lie, and lied about the incident to police officers.
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