Online headline/story: "Chicago Shootings: Garry McCarthy Defends Police Strategies As Weekend Gun Violence Continues * As of early Saturday, Chicago had seen 46 homicides in August and 351 homicides so far this year, according to the RedEye's homicide tracker. As of the end of July, homicides this year at up about 27 percent over 2011 and that year-over-year surge is expected to increase once August numbers are in. * Gun violence in Chicago was the subject of a recent segment on HuffPost Live, which featured a panel of activists and journalists including Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church weighing in on what has been a violent summer in the Windy City." -- You would 'think' that with King Arpege as president, his former right hand man, Rahm Emanuel, as Mayor, and his spiritual guru, Father Michael Pfleger, Chicago would be the model city for Utopia. You would think that, but 'what it is' is basically a DIM&DUMBERat 'get the vote out' drive-by registration rally.

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XpotUS Clinton is out telling us that King Arpege has a plan to build us up but only after he tears US down to the ground to start over. King Arpege has been a failure at doing the easy part; what makes Clinton 'feel' he's going to be good at the hard part of his equation for success. Obviously, King Arpege and Clinton were brought up during the public schools' 'new math' era where nothing truly added up.

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Did you know there was an Amish reality TV show? Think about that.. what do they use for lighting...candles? And video.... maybe a couple of fast sketch artists?

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Poor Tiger Woods... It's tough enough for him trying to regain his his game, but now the commentators are making that tougher by making sympathetic excuses for him.

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Can only laugh, well..smirk, really..., at the Columbus Tech ads aimed at undermining 'for-profit' schools recruitment of students. Too bad Columbus Tech doesn't operate at a 'profit'.

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Prince Harry had been called to come see his father, Prince Charles. Looks like Harry may be on the receiving end of the "royal shaft" this time.
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Online headline: "Series of Earthquakes Shake Up Southern California" -- Wouldn't hurt if an earthquake or two shook up the California State House in Sacramento and the Pelosi District as well.

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I feel everyone on the BC e-mail list knew Judge Cohn in some aspect of your lives, but if not, every accolade given him in death was well earned while he lived.

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With the Phenix City elections tomorrow, I am reminded that in the weeks preceding all elections, checking absentee ballots would be a good way to make sure local death rolls have been updated.

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Liberals L-E "soundoff": "Why does the United States, $15 trillion in debt, spend half a trillion dollars a years (sic) for the military to be the world's policeman? -- To begin with, the US is not $15 (closer to $16) trillion in debt because of what we spend on the military to preserve our freedom and safety. Even among the periodic situations of military supplier abuse and occasional uniformed megalomaniacs, the military is responsible for itself and makes the corrections. Thank God for our Constitution and our military!

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Super liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Teaching your children to stand their ground may not always be a good decision." -- Sounds like someone who lets government teach his/her children morals; the decision and importance of standing one's ground, or not as the occasion dictates, is a job for each child's parents to instill.

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Speaking of standing one's ground, who can understand why liberals stand their ground on the rights of a homosexual/lesbian/transgender, yet not on the rights of an unborn child?

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L-E's "Thought for Today": "Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right." - Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States (1908-1973)" -- Unfortunately, LBJ, typical DIM&DUMBERat politician, had no clue about what 'right' entails; they are all bent to far 'left'.

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L-E "headlie": "Emory University * Misreporting stems from desire to get top students" -- Is there no shame in the education system? Misreporting facts and figures, whether at Emory or Ridgon Road School, is/was a desire for some administrators to make themselves look good without actually having to work hard to achieve those facts.

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L-E story: "Atlanta - A state agency wants Georgia residents to help it select designs for four new wildlife-themed license plates." -- Hmm, may I suggest at least one of those be "roadkill" in honor of the Statesboro area "Honey Boo Boo" reality show?

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Too be fair, I think the all school systems need to show "2016: Obama's America" in every classroom like they did with Algore's "Inconvenient Truth". Our kids deserve a little reality.