Online headline: "Disease Resurging in Some Areas" -- Ooops, my bad, thought the DIM&DUMBERats were regaining poll momentum.

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Paul Ryan has mentioned his admiration for "Rage Against the Machine" as a favorite band of his. The guitarist for the band has blasted Ryan in return. Who amongst would want an endorsement from a rock that advocates for "Occupy Wall Street and Occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"?

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Online story: "SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico is holding a two-part referendum on Sunday that could see the island amend its constitution for the first time in nearly half a century. * The referendum would reduce the size of the U.S. territory's government by almost 30 percent as a cost-cutting measure, and would give judges the right to deny bail in certain murder cases. Puerto Rico currently is the only place in the Western hemisphere where all suspects, including those charged with rape and murder, are entitled to bail. * The proposals would save the government money, reduce crime and protect witnesses and the relatives of victims." -- Hallelujah! We will have an optional country to go to if we don't prevail in November!

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A Louisiana school has installed a 'palm scanner' in the lunch line 'to speed things up' as to who pays regular or reduced prices. A lot of parents are upset. I would be too, but for a different reason. Can you imagine all the germs from every student being passed on to every other student using the scanner just as they are sitting down to eat?

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Online story: "OSLO (Reuters) - A floating robot has been deployed to track great white sharks in the Pacific as part of efforts to understand the giant predators. * The "wave glider", which from above looks like a yellow surfboard, picks up signals from tagged fish up to 1,000 feet away in the ocean and then sends their positions to researchers via a satellite transmitter." -- Typical liberal approach to a problem... why not just putting in a stronger transmitter when they are tagging the sharks so the satellites can pick up the sharks every move!

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WRBL3 story: "Officals tell our media partner, The Ledger Enquirer that the plane had taken off from the airport when it immediately experienced engine problems. The pilot of the small craft tried to return to the airport when the aircraft crashed on its nose. * At this time, Wade's cause of the death is undetermined. His body will be sent to the GBI lab on Monday for autopsy; something Thrower says is routine when dealing with plane crashes." -- Is there anyone in media that understands that dodging the obvious is not always the way to report something? The plane had engine trouble, turned back, didn't make it to the landing strip, nosedove into the ground. Wanna bet the autopsy shows he died from crashing his plane into the ground? Bless George Wade.

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Leonard "the pits" Pitts is on his high horse of indignation. The shooter at the Sikh mosque is a 'white supremist', and the Southern Poverty Law Center list of organizations that it considers 'right wing terrorists'. Funny, though, that 'the pits' doesn't mention the left-wing terrorist that shot the security guy at Family Research Center, nor did he label the "Beltway (or DC) Sniper" a black supremist. Oh, BTW, the Family Research Center is on the list of right wing terrorist organizations according to the Souther Poverty Law Center. Imagine that.

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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "George Washington was probably the first American millionaire. He and his wealthy friends assembled an army to fight the British because "they had the most to lose." Sounds familiar, doesn't it?" -- The sad thing is that he/she probably believes this; sadder still is that he/she was probably made to think this way in our public schools. (Remember when our school board ordered George Washington's 'watch fob' be painted over in student textbooks? Even worse was when the D&D's determined to honor all presidents instead of honoring George Washington. You have to understand that D&Ds didn't want studenys growing up associating politicians with being honest)

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In an article today, mention was made of the whitewater course having Class 4 and Class 5 rapids. Up until this, the UPtown director has insisted the rapids whould top out at 3-3.5. I asked him specifically at a lunch meeting as he addressed a crowd of active senior women. Class 4 and Class 5 rapids are not a family outing... and there are no natural ones. There is nothing concerning restoring the Chattahoochee to it natural state going on.

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Since the L-E doesn't want to identify Karl Douglass as an agent of Sanford Bishop, how about a switch? Publish Sanford Bishop's comments and let Karl Douglass run in his spot for Congress. Bishop would be exposed for his DIM&DUMBERat philosophy, and Douglass would be a better representative.

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Sorry this is later than normal, but between being up late and scouring the L-E for the Columbus Council Agenda, time just move quickly. I saw the Phenix City and Harris County Councils' agenda, but not Columbus'. Did I miss it, or did the Mayor omit this week so I couldn't let y'all know what they are doing with our money?