Online story: "WASHINGTON -- The progressive movement lost one of its biggest primary battles in the 2012 cycle Tuesday. Ilya Sheyman, a 25-year-old community activist, was defeated by businessman Brad Schneider, who will now face Rep. Robert Dold (R-Ill.) in the November election for Illinois' new 10th Congressional District. * The progressive movement threw all its muscle behind Sheyman, who had a team of 600 volunteers participating in a get-out-the-vote effort. He told The Huffington Post Tuesday, before the polls closed, that in the past couple days his campaign had knocked on more than 12,000 doors and made more than 15,000 phone calls. * "We have 15,000 MoveOn members on the ground in the 10th Congressional District," (Sheyman) said. "We have thousands in the American Federation of Teachers, AFSCME, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America," Sheyman said. "So these are literally the people who are the boots on the ground, who have worked in campaigns in the past, who are fired up to elect a progressive. They're the ones who have built the backbone in the district with their volunteer army." -- Hmm, Guess all those "15,000 MoveOn members", "thousands in the American Federation of Teachers, AFSCME, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America" either forgot to vote more than once or were from out of District and weren't able to vote in Sheyman's District.
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There seems to be a story circulating about corruption in the 50 state governments. Seems none got an "A" and Georgia got a "F". To put things in perspective, Illinois, with two of its past governors now in jail, got a "C". How bad is the polling data or how bad is it in Georgia? Haven't looked in today's L-E yet, but the story hasn't been in there so far.
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Online story: "Two top executives at Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced their resignation, amid reports that the breast cancer charity is struggling to raise money and repair its reputation after its decision to defund Planned Parenthood and subsequent reversal." -- What liberal media bias! Most donators probably stopped after learning that Komen was diverting their donations from breast cancer research to Planned Parenthood!
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Oprah Winfrey... billionaire...hypocrite extraordinaire... She's canning Rosie O'Donnell ( for which we can thank her), but she's also firing about 20% of her network employees. After all her sanctimony about and support for potUS O'Blather, you would think, no, 'feel' she would just absorb her losses form her personal wealth just to keep those people from being unemployed.
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Today's birthdays: "Comedian-talk show host Rosie O’Donnell is 50." -- Make that EX-Talk Show host(ess)....heh heh heh. Happy Birthday, Rosie!
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WTVM 9 story: "Georgia is banning three-a-day football practices and will fine schools that violate new guidelines aimed at keeping student-athletes from succumbing to heat." -- Too much government interference....AGAIN! The number one threat high school coaches had to get their players to work hard twice a day was telling them that if they didn't work hard twice a day, then they'd have to do a third workout!
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WTVM 9 story: "The Public Service Commission voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve the company's request to decertify two coal-fired units at Plant Branch in Putnam County and an oil-fired unit at Plant Mitchell in Mitchell County. The company filed the request because of pending U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations. * The decision allows the company to replace the electricity generation with power purchased from three Southern Power Company generation plants. * The commission also allowed Georgia Power to recover an additional $2.30 per kilowatt hour per year from customers to recover the cost of purchasing the additional generation." -- Well, there they go again. GA Power can close 3 plants, and still has the resources to supply adequate electricity by buying it from other parent company plants, and we're not only prepaying for construction of another nuclear plant, the PSC is going to allow GA Power to charge us more for the power GA Power id buying from itself! Recall the PSC!
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Mark your calendars......NOT! There's a bicycle event on April 28th dubbed the "Prison to Peanuts" park-to-park bicycle adventure starting at Andersonville Prison site to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. Talk about a true DIM&DUMBERat event; it begins at a prison, has no benefiting value, and then heads downhill to the finish site.
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L-E headline: "COLUMBUS COUNCIL * Inequities in pension plan proposals raise concerns " -- Why not just give retirees from the city free concert tickets instead, and let them sell them on the open market. On the other hand, equalize the pension plans at the 30 year mark, but don't start paying our retirement benefits until the retirees reach age 65.
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L-E headline: "General: U.S. war effort in Afghanistan is on track " -- Would someone actually define what is "on track"?
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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Actor Robert De Niro opened a fundraiser starring Michelle Obama by listing her Republican rivals and jokingly suggesting that America isn’t “ready for a white first lady.” -- Well, I just realized that I am no longer 'ready' for another De Niro movie.
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L-E story: "Two Muscogee County School District schools, Rothschild Middle School and Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, are on a list of 156 “focus” schools released Tuesday by the Georgia Department of Education. * The Columbus schools are on the list because they are among those in the state with the largest gap between the school’s highest achieving subgroup and the lowest achieving subgroup. * School Superintendent Susan Andrews said the gap at the schools is likely between typical students and special needs students. * “Both of the these schools have a high number of special needs children,” she said." -- Yoo hoo! Why not separate the 'typical' and 'special needs' students into two schools? Both sets of students would benefit from an appropriate focused curriculum and a better learning environment.
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L-E story: "A man accused of picking flowers from the yards of homes in the downtown historic district faces charges of loitering and theft by receiving stolen property, Columbus police said." Why is this in the newspaper? The man has had substance abuse problems, but he has children, 2 in college, and one in high school who get zero benefit from reporting this story. Shame on the L-E!
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