Online headline/story: " Flag Featuring Obama's Face Angers Veterans * Lake County, Fla., veterans are up in arms over an American flag featuring stars, stripes -- and President Barack Obama's face." -- Isn't this the same guy who shunned American Flag lapel pins, and saluting our flag when the National Anthem is being played?
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From L-E story: ""After the first breach (of the first dam), two more will follow later as crews move west to east toward the Georgia side, where the dam’s to remain intact until rapids are sculpted below it" --Once again, the original proposal, the original goal, was to 'restore' the natural river bed/flow. Sculpting rapids hardly fits in to that concept, and has escalated the original estimated cost by 10+ times. Now that is something you can really say has BLOWN UP!
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L-E story: "Five Muscogee County School District schools are on a list of Georgia’s 78 lowest performing public schools released this week by the Georgia Department of Education. They are listed as “priority” schools. * Included are three high schools -- Spencer, Kendrick and Jordan -- as well as Fox and Cusseta Road elementary schools. * The three high schools listed are receiving School Improvement Grants from the federal government. Those grants go to low performing Title I schools. Title I schools have a high number of low income students." -- With the consistency of said schools leading the pack of non-performing schools in Columbus, and said schools also leading the pack in getting additional federal (read: our money) grants, could it simply be that the low grades are by design to ensure such federal grants? I could be wrong, but this needs to be looked into.
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WRBL3 story: This week's Golden Apple Award goes to Kendrick High School teacher Josiah Sumbry. * Sumbry was nominated by student Tiffany Price. * Price told us in her nomination letter that Mr. Sumbry makes sure all of his students are knowledgeable of the subject matter. * Sumbry, who teaches 11th and 12th grade American Literature and Journalism, has been at Kendrick for six years and says he thoroughly enjoys it." -- Normally, this would be something to applaud, but having just posted a story about Kendrick consistently being one of the worst schools locally and state wide, this seems oxymoronic. on the other hand, I was glad to know what had become of Josiah Sumbry since parting ways with the L-E years ago.
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It's been hard to not to notice how much credit Dr Andrews is getting for her part in getting the last SPLOST passed. Could it be that the obvious shortfall of SPLOST receipts has had anything to do with her not wanting to be around to explain the results?
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Speaking of the SPLOST, 2 complete years have passed, and I haven't seen the results of collections published. According to the overzealous projections, anything short of about $90 Million is a problem.
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Tell you what...watching the exchange between potUS O'Blather, and England's Prime Minister Cameron, I do not feel the two should be addressing each other by first names when talking about world matters in public. Too chummy!
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The latest from www.barackobama.com: "I know that March doesn't feel as urgent as September or October will. But we're running a grassroots campaign -- that means we're building this organization one donation at a time. " -- A 'grassroots' re-election campaign? Maybe he's smoking a few grass roots.
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potUS O'Blather finds himself in a very precarious, and embarrassing position... does he fire Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and offend Asian-Americans, or does he just start by referring to the Secretary as Steven SHOO.
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Why is potUS O'Blather concerned about maintaining an ally friendship with Afghanistan when Afghanistan hid and protected Osama bin Laden all those years? Carpet bomb Afghanistan with 'bunker blasters' and convert it to the largest soccer complex in the Mid-East.
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A liberal among us tried to compare a 30 year veteran teacher's salary to a military Captain. A teacher now a days may have 20-25-30 kids under his/her responsibility, and no means of measuring his/her effectiveness. How many people does a Captain have under his/her command, and is measured daily as to his/her effectiveness.
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Obvious liberal's L-E "soundoff": "If you didn’t complain about gas when it was over $4 a gallon during the Bush era, don’t complain about it now under President Obama. " -- This person must be the ultimate DIM&DUMBest liberal in town, if not the 2-state area! But in a sense, a very sad sense, this person represents the ideal D&D voters the D&D politicians are trying to reach...the ones that can't remember a campaign promise the minute after they cast their votes, so they can be 'bought' with the same campaign promises next time.
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L-E 'headlie': "DOCTORS HOSPITAL ER TO BECOME URGENT CARE CENTER * Columbus Regional says move will save consumers money, free up Medical Center ER for true emergencies " -- Just where do I begin...there is nothing Columbus Regional has ever done that has been motivated to reduce costs to consumers! Something being initiated may reduce Columbus Regional's 'overhead', but you can bet no consumer will see more money back.
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