Online story: "BEIRUT -- The head of the U.N. observers' mission in Syria demanded Sunday that warring parties allow the evacuation of women, children, elderly and sick people endangered by fighting in the besieged city of Homs and other combat zones." -- The U.N. "demands"? Yeah... Syria takes those folks running around in blue helmets about as seriously as the NCAA thinks the UNC Tarheels in their blue helmets will be in next years BCS Bowl. --- Online headline: "Worst Fathers In The Animal Kingdom" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought the HuffPost was doing an expose' of NBA players. --- Online headline: "Cruise's 'Rock Of Ages' Stumbles At Box Office" -- Guess it was just "Cruisin' along and had an ego 'trip'. Justice can be sweet at times. --- Rodney King.... dead at 47. Seems like he shoulda been 147. It's been the longest 20 years. May we rest in peace. --- What an ironic happening.... the 40th anniversary of "Watergate" in Washington. Now we have "Holder-gate" as in 'hold da gate' open until we can kick'em all out. --- Riding a bicycle will not get safer until bicyclers learn and obey the laws, and police start ticketing bicycle law violators. About the only way the first is going to happen is that the state requiring bicycle driving tests/licensing, and requiring bicycle owners to purchase tags with the revenue going for road/trail maintenance, and for more police to monitor/ticket them. --- Comments on other letters in the L-E today: The Reverend Flakes should take to heart his concerns, and the IRS should monitor him for compliance; Mr Hobbs should go to the bathroom and wash his nose at once! --- There's a sicko out there who has hijacked the late T Sam Rawls' yahoo.com e-mail account! I have received 2 e-mails from Sam this week. If you have received some, please go to www.yahoo.com, scroll to the bottom, and click on the 'feedback' link, and report the irreverence to Yahoo. --- L-E story: "ATLANTA — The battle over how the region would spend $6.14 billion to fix metro Atlanta’s transportation quagmire is in full roar. * Little noticed in the din: $1.08 billion in tax revenue that would go directly to local government, part of the $7.2 billion expected from the proposed 1 percent sales tax. * Each of the region’s counties, cities and towns would get a share of the $1 billion to spend on transportation. But unlike the regional $6 billion fund, there is no requirement to list a single project for the $1 billion local fund. In many cases, voters at the polls July 31 will have no way of knowing where the projects are that the local money would build" -- If the permanent T-SPLOST passes, you'll be spending an additional 25% in state sales taxes for everything you buy anywhere in GA, and our Columbus will never receive its fair share. Make sure the first thing you do when you vote July 31, 2012 is to vote "NO" on the T-SPLOST. --- An ExxonMobil TV ad concerning the state of math in the USA says we must 'raise our standards'. Standards are nice to focus on, but the reality is that we need to raise our performance... on both sides of the desk.