Yesterday morning around 7:40, as I was taking my daughter to school, I witnessed what could have been, and eventually will become, a tragic accident. With traffic zooming bumper-to-bumper at 65 MPH on the J R Allen Parkway heading east, a MCSD bus tried to enter traffic from the clover leaf ramp at Bradley Park Dr. There was no where for the bus to merge into traffic, so it literally had to stop on the access path and wait for traffic to open up, which meant it had to enter the J R Allen Raceway from a complete standing stop. At the same time, the bus had traffic blocked behind it and was blocking the exit ramp for those wanting to get off J R Allen on to Bradley Park. The DOT needs to get a move on redesigning this setup (and every other one on J R Allen), but until then, the MCSD should find another route for the bus(es) that use this entry.

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Where is the compassion when a politician addresses the families of victims of a mass shooting and rails on about more gun control? Don't you think those victims' families wish their lost loved one could have had his/her own gun to shoot the sicko before he caused so much tragedy?

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Latest from barackobama.com: "Hal -- It's August 23rd. And 75 days from now, I'll either be looking at another four years in the White House -- or the end of this opportunity. - Barack" -- Did I hear that an opportunity presents itself 75 (well 74 today) days from now to 'change' the direction of America? We do 'hope' so.
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Michelle Obama has an ad out encouraging voters to get out on November 2 to vote... Say, huh? That's a Friday before the actual Tuesday voting date. If a Republican had run an ad saying that, the Republican would have been charged with election fraud for trying to dilute the vote on the actual election date.

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HuffPost headline: "Bill Clinton Stars In New Obama Ad: 'This Is A Clear Choice'-- Yeah, it's clearly one written in black and white. What fronts will the DIM&DUMBERats avoid offending? They've created right-to-work, racial, gender, sexual, and class divisions as no other campaign has ever come close to doing. Even worse, the DIM&DUMBERats are creating this state of division within their own party ranks. Just look at the primaries.

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Passed on by a fellow BCer - From the "what if" department:

 

Now, what if Mitt Romney had a "Whites for Romney" donation site and political merchandise? It's easy to see the bigot in this race, it's right in front of you in black and white.

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Hypocrisy is with us many way, but none so blatant as at CSU Riverfront Campus. On a non-smoking campus, he "Den", the food/snack/student meet area sells cigarettes from a closed cabinet. The 'Den' sells food in some of the least environmentally friendly Styrofoam containers. And as to recycling, not a collecting station in sight. I guess CSU is providing some educational value, but not in the citizenship category.

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L-E movie review: "2016: Obama's America": If there is a tragic aspect of the film, it's that the only people likely to see it are those who have already made up their minds against Barack Obama." Kyle Wingfield, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" -- The movie opened to record (for genre) viewers in its limited opening cycle but the number of screens showing it will escalate by 10-to-15 fold this weekend. Will I see it? Probably not.. I've seen enough of King Arpege (and every other DIM&DUMBERat politician who will ever run), but the author is wrong that only those who have made up their mind will see it. Inquiring people are clamoring for a different view from the mainstream media propaganda message.

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I usually don't involve myself with the goings on across the river, but the recent dropout of one candidate who then endorsed a competitor who is also his son goes beyond my ability to ignore this as a normal political happening. In a way, hadn't the son already 'dissed' the father by running against him versus supporting him?

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L-E's "Quotable": "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." Confucius, Chinese philosopher (551-479 B.C.)" -- Dang... were there DIM&DUMBERats 2500 years ago? This must be the advice social workers give to those on entitlement programs... to consider receiving government aid as a job.

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Go Glenn Davis! Hadn't seen this much testosterone since his days as a Columbus Astro working to make 'the show'. And he's right, the City Manager definitely shouldn't be using City resources to celebrate a job promotion for one person and not every one else who gets a promotion, BUT where is the prudence of spending tax dollars on frivolity rather than functionality?

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I'm curious as to how the Fed can additionally help the economy... once the Fed interest rate hits zero, is the Fed going to start paying 1 or 2% interest for businesses to TAKE a loan?

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