Online story: "SEATTLE -- A Seattle couple who collected welfare while living in a $1.2 million waterfront home are headed to prison. * A federal judge sentenced chiropractor David Silverstein and his longtime partner, Lyudmila Shimonova, to 18 months in prison Friday. * Prosecutors say Silverstein pretended he was Shimonova's landlord at a home on Lake Washington that she occupied with her two children. In reality, Silverstein was living there too. * Prosecutors say the couple received more than $1,200 each month in federal housing assistance.

"In this undated photo provided by the King County Dept. of Assessments, the $1.2 million waterfront home where prosecutors say a Seattle chiropractor and his wife lived while claiming welfare assistance is seen. The U.S. attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, accusing David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova of filing false claims. Prosecutors are demanding they pay back more than $135,000 in federal housing assistance since 2003 and are seeking tens of thousands of dollars" -- For 8 years....8 years, mind you, our government failed to properly investigate filings for assistance. This is what happens in DIM&DUMBERat super-majority situations.

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New Jersey has instituted a 'no smile' policy for driver's license pictures. Guess that makes sense; other than the Giants and Chris Christie, New Jersians have little else to smile about.

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Random online pics:

Pretty much sums up a problem, doesn't it?

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HuffPost headline: "Obama Video Hits Mitt Romney On Tax Returns, Asks 'What Else Is He Hiding?'" -- DOH! King Arpege, Mr. Transparency himself... NOT, who has all his school, and travel data sealed, and had his HELL-thSCare Bull passed without reading it, is suggesting Mitt Romney has something to hide.. How gullible, how biased, how stupid can the mainstream media (and those who depend on it for their info) be?

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Sports babes.... why do we have sports babes. One was trying so hard to act like she was on top things so she matter-of-factly mentioned that Vandy hadn't won "between the hedges" since 2006. Of course she had no clue Vandy had only played twice in Athens since then.

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Missouri still hasn't gotten the hang of SEC football. Once again they showed up in ugly uniforms, the crowd laughed, and Mizzou got whipped.
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The Chevy VOLT, the icon of King Arpege's economic prowess is currently running on an empty assembly line. Guess it's the same problem his campaign has... They are both out of gas and electricity.

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Let's be realistic about the tax situation... is it fairer for the 47% or the other 53%?

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One thing no voter should forget is that when King Arpege's WH press guy, Jay Carney, finally announced that the assault/death of our ambassador was indeed a planned act of terrorism, 20 minutes later, King Arpege was out telling another group that this point was still being investigated. Everything Carnegie says has been approved before hand by King Arpege.... promise'em anything but give'em Arpege....

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Mulling a previous point... No matter what your politics are, the important aspect to cast your vote on is who is best able, most able, "to stop the bleeding'. With that in mind, there really is only one choice.... CHANGE!

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L-E headline" "Home sales slipping * Market down nearly 7 percent amid election uncertainty" -- This is reality... not the mainstream headlines orchestrated by the White House which bragged that builder confidence was surging when it moved from 37% to 40%, and when it bragged that census info showed a small percent of young folks were moving from their parents homes. All that really indicated was that parents are being foreclosed on or downsizing and there's no room for their adult children anymore.

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L-E headline: "EDUCATION * Newspaper reports complaints of cheating on tests glossed over" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought the L-E was admitting its part in the test sxcandals, but it was the AJC, again, bring such scandals to the forefront. Also, typically, our L-E placed this on page A9.

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L-E story: "The unrelenting attack on teachers unions has some measureable consequences, too. This is evident from the fact that more than 90 percent of Chicago teachers voted to authorize the strike and that the union's governing body so mistrusted the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel that it took two additional days to go over the proposed contract's fine print." -- Makes you wonder how Chicago's teachers can support Rahm Emanuel as their Mayor, King Arpege as their president, and former Chicago school superintendent Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education... but they do, and it's all about what that triumvirate gives them in tax dollar salaries/benefits. What a great education their children are getting..NOT!

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I'm about to change my opinion of the quality of Karl Douglass' opinion. Last week's effort as well as this weeks have been rather..."weak". The fact few people showed up for the MCSD search team's 'dog and pony show' is that people don't believe their input will actually matter, and it really is the Board itself that needs to make the decision. We voters can dot the 'i's, and cross the "t"s in general elections. Hope most of the Board got the message after the last election. Me? I think the next Superintendent should be someone who needs 10 or more years before retirement.

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It's nice to see there is a presentation of a Compliance Audit of the ARRA-funded "Stim-you-lie" projects. I've wondered where those green & hybrid $500,000.00 dollar buses are, and how spending twice as much as regular buses is going to be a fuel saver for American tax dollars.

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From the City Manager's Agenda: Approval is requested to enter into a contract with Lauren Mescon to provide consulting services to the Muscogee County Adult Felony Drug Court." -- Meson, wife of CSU's Dr. Mescon listed herself as a volunteer for Headstart when she contributed to Mayor Obamalinson's election campaign, and now represents Rodan&Fields skincare products. Shouldn't someone closer associated with actual felony drug convictions be a better choice, and not so political?

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Other than waste tax dollars and directing such to legal friends, why is there a feasibility study on high speed rail service from Columbus-to-Atlanta. Even flying to Atlanta costs more in time and dollars than driving there.... and that's a REALITY study.

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Why is Council even considering sending a member to a NLC Congress of Cities and Exposition in Boston at an obviously first-class flight/5-star hotel cost of $2,700.00? I'm sure some sort of computer attendance is available.