HuffPost commentary: "Obama's Bin Laden Ad: Hit Below The Belt Shows Democrats Can Be Tough Too " -- "Tough"? Tough is when you hang in strong while observing the rules of the game. Under this definition of 'tough'. I guess DIM&DUMBERats were 'OK' with Metta World Peace's sucker-punch-elbow on Harden, and probably sent sympathy cards to the New Orleans Saints' coaches because they got caught paying players to take cheap shots at other teams' players. Sorry, but rules and laws and civility are important to me. --- WRBL3 story: "Summer is around the corner and people are rolling out their bikes to hit the streets as another mode of transportation. But riding around town can be dangerous if you don't know the bike laws. * Yeah I seen it but I couldn't stop. There wasn't nothing I could do ‘cause everything happened so fast,” says Gedarrell Jacobs, who was struck by a car Monday afternoon. * Police say Jacobs was coming down Wynnton Road when he went through a red light, colliding with a mustang that was traveling on 10th Ave. * No one was seriously hurt in the accident, but Jacobs walked away with a traffic citation for running a red light on a bicycle. * Anyone 16 and under is required to wear a helmet when on the road. City law says no one is allowed to ride on the sidewalks in Uptown Columbus because it is a business district." -- City law says....? Actually the law says no one over 12 can ride a bicycle on any sidewalk, and it's not just a City law; it's a State law as well. --- Online headline: "Obama, Bill Clinton Campaign Together In First Joint 2012 Campaign Appearance " -- potUS Arpege better watch his back. XpotUS Clinton would love nothing better than to move back into the White House, and with Hillary is the only way. What's the old adage...., " ....but keep your enemies closer", especially in politics. --- Remember when Osama bin Laden was killed, and potUS Arpege said he wouldn't show the pictures bbecause he didn't think it was appropriate to 'spike the ball' (a la football players scoring a TD). Guess he's had a change of game plans since he needs something to boost his reelection campaign. --- Why does the media think we give a whit about the trial of John Edwards? Just wait until it's over, give us the results, let us be disappointed, again, with politics cleaning up after itself, and move on. --- It;s almost ironic, but closer to moronic, that you can get more interest back by spending on certain credit cards than you can get on the money you've stuck away in your savings account. What kind of message are the banks sending? --- After reading a students evaluation of the SAYs and remembering how my children were actually 'taught' classes on taking SATs, I remembered back to my high school days. We had no special classes, no lesson plans were made to teach us how to take such tests, yet we CHSers made higher scores than comparable students today who are taking crippled versions of the tests we took. Our only 'practice' was the Jr year PSAT's, and the only lessons we were given was about when to guess at an answer and when to leave a question 'blank', as 'no answer' was a better answer than a 'wrong answer'. Guess our teachers figured that if they taught us the work, we would be prepared to take such tests. Maybe the schools should go retro. --- Mug shot in the L-E:

Why was this man allowed to take a mug shot with a nylon hose (or whatever) on his head? --- L-E headline/story: "Cold-case slaying from 1996 expected to come to trial * Convicted of one homicide, Jerome Upshaw charged with murder again * Her (Joanne Walton) case remained unsolved for 13 years, until Long charged Upshaw with her killing in 2009. * Besides murder, a grand jury indictment delivered Dec. 20, 2011, charged Upshaw with aggravated assault, using a firearm to commit a crime, and being a convicted felon with a firearm. * Upshaw has been jailed since police ran him down Aug. 24, 2007, on Fifth Avenue near 32nd Street. * He was wanted for killing Anthony Jerome King, 27, who died after being pushed from the driver’s side of his 1994 Jeep Cherokee after Upshaw got into the Jeep with a gun. * After a two-day trial and two hours of jury deliberation, Upshaw was convicted Sept. 29, 2009, of murder, motor vehicle theft, motor vehicle hijacking, using a firearm to commit a crime and being a convicted felon with a firearm. * He was sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison. He also has 1999 convictions for theft by receiving stolen property and possessing cocaine. * The (Joanne Walton) murder case was on Superior Court Judge Gil McBride’s Monday trial docket, but after defense attorney Will Kirby entered a not guilty plea on his client’s behalf, McBride postponed setting a trial date because Assistant District Attorney Wesley Lambertus said prosecutors need time to assemble witnesses." -- One question, why wasn't the DA's office ready to go to trial yesterday!? --- L-E headline/story: "Number of newborns with drug withdrawal triples * Disturbing new research says the number of U.S. babies born with signs of opiate drug withdrawal has tripled in a decade because of a surge in pregnant women’s use of legal and illegal narcotics, including Vicodin, OxyContin and heroin, researchers say. It is the first national study of the problem." -- Just more validity to requiring welfare recipients to take drug tests. ---