pot-US Obluster has announced the theme of his inauguration is "Our people, our future"... Had George W. Bush said that, Algore, Kerry, Sharpton, Jackson and mainstream media sources would have ripped Bush apart as a racist!

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Online headline: "'Less Festive' Inauguration Planned * High unemployment and partisan fights have reportedly sapped the president's second ceremony of the momentum it had in Jan. 2009." -- What spinmeister BS... The two things effecting pot-US Obluster's party are that less money has been donated, and fewer DUMBERats want to be near him.

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Online headline: "Republicans Lying Low for Inauguration" -- Hmmm as opposed to DUMBERats and media just lying outright?

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Online story: "WICHITA, Kan. -- The American Civil Liberties Union ended its legal challenge Friday to a Kansas law restricting private health insurance coverage for abortions. * The agreement follows a federal judge's Jan. 7 ruling that, as a matter of law, the ACLU failed to provide any evidence that the Legislature's predominant motivation in passing the 2011 law was to make it more difficult to get abortions. * The Kansas law prohibits private insurance companies from offering coverage for abortions in their general plans except for when a woman's life is in danger. Kansas residents or employers who want abortion coverage must buy supplemental policies, known as riders. * A court filing shows the parties have agreed to dismiss all remaining claims, with each side bearing its own costs and attorneys' fees." -- Wait a minute! Who's bearing the costs against Kansas and American taxpayers? Courts should come down hard on the ACLU whenever a case they file is dropped or not fully won.

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Online story: "Walmart's announcement that it will hire 100,000 veterans over the next five years has prompted a wide range of reactions" -- Hmmm, by the end of pot-US Obluster's second term, Walmart may have a bigger army than Obluster.

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Online story: "WASHINGTON -- A new group made up mostly of Democrats and independents has formed to pressure defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel on LGBT and other social issues, questioning whether he is truly committed to providing equal rights. * Dubbed "Use Your Mandate," the group already has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a source close to the group who declined to be named in order to speak openly. Use Your Mandate has already sent out a mailer to 350,000 people that says Hagel's "extremist" views on Israel, guns, women's reproductive rights and LGBT issues make him the "wrong choice" for secretary of defense. There is also an anti-Hagel banner ad from the group running on Politico's website, asking whether he's really "the best person for the job." -- Maybe there is a chance Congress will be effective this term... this is the first thing both parties have disagreed with pot-US Obluster on...

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In the spirit of the apology tour, It's rumored Bill Clinton is trying to get on Oprah to apologize for once telling the truth.

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Online headline/story: "Obama: Algeria Crisis 'Another Reminder' Of Al Qaeda Threat * "The thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the families of all those who were killed and injured in the terrorist attack in Algeria," Obama said in a written statement, his first comment on the hostage crisis." -- "The thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the families of all those who were killed and injured in the terrorist attack in Algeria,"? Of course, what pot-US Obluster didn't say was that he had provided most of the weapons to the killers.

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Online headline: "The Four (Controversial) Words Added To The Official Presidential Oath" -- "So help me God" are controversial words? God, help this person. Amen.

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Now there seems to be a controversy over which brand of shoes pot-US Obluster will wear for his second inauguration. Seems Allen Edmonds supplied the inauguration shoes for Reagan, Bush41&43, and even Clinton, but pot-US Obluster went for some Nike/Cole-Haan shoes in his first inauguration. Now, Nike has sold off Cole-Haan, and Allen Edmonds is appealing to pot-US Obluster to "Buy American" and use AE shoes. Hmmm, I didn't know Allen Edmonds made pairs of shoes with 2 left ones...

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Online story: "Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o tells ESPN that the person who created the fake online girlfriend that has become the talk of the college football season in recent days has apologized to him for the hoax." -- Hmmm, don't you know Notre Dame is hoping to get an apology from Te'o for wearing the Irish's uniform?

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Hmmm, if Te'o gets drafted and plays in an NFL game, when the defense huddles to set the its play, and holds hands, do you think the other 10 players will leave an open spot for Te'o's girlfriend?

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We're watching a comedy movie on HBO ... It's rated PG-13 for Violence, Language, and Adult Content. The opening scene has a half dozen gun deaths, and a man falling off a tall hotel. Later, the pixie leading lady gets sexual with two different men. It's called "This is War". In reality, Hollywood has declared 'war' on our morality; don't you love what Hollywood deems acceptable for our children and grandchildren to watch?

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Romney did not get enough votes to win. Think about this. I haven't seen numbers of the voters who actually cast their ballots on Election Day, but I'll bet Romney won handsomely from those who did so. pot-US Obluster won because his minions used the pre-election early voting days to get buses full of entitlement-dependent voters to an early voting precinct.

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I'll bet there were a bunch of liberals crying "it's Bush's fault" when Tiger Woods got cut at Abu Ghraib, uh, Dhabi.

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You know, after listening to medicine ads on TV, I am not sure the side effects don't outweigh any possible good those medicines are prescribed for.

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Why is it that whenever a DUMBERat tries to introduce a new spending bill, he/she talks about how much the spending today will save 10 years from now?

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Coke may have blundered into another free advertising bonanza. In the 80s, when Coke brought out "New Coke", the media flogged Coke for months until Coke rescinded. Now media is blasting Coke for running its"obesity" ad campaign, and parsing Coke's reasons. Like in the 80s, Coke "jest sits there an' don' say nothin" ..... and laughs all the way to the bank.

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Seems "swatting" is the latest fad in Hollywood. An anonymous cell call to 911 saying an intruder with a gun has been seen entering a celebrity home gets the S.W.A.T.team dispensed fully armed with their assault weapons. Guess Hollywood directors are checking to see if their movie scenes out swat S.W.A.T.

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So Homeland Security wants to stop the full body scanners at airports. All those previously 100s of million wasted tax dollars will now be wasted again as junk.

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Pot-US Obluster's spinmeisters were out in force on the TV talk circuit to spin the real inflation rates. Paychecks are down an average of $40.00 bucks a week, but corporate checking accounts are hit with an additional " matching" $40.00 a week as well.

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I just saw a medical person demonstrating the human cough and how far germs carry from a cough. He actually had a full sized male mannequin "coughing" a powder substance to emulate cough particles. The mannequin was even fully dressed including a cap! Surely an aerosol can of water vapor could do the same job at less initial and ongoing maintenance costs...and surely cheaper than buying it clothes.

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Talk about another union nightmare, now it' s being revealed that non-union crews wanting to help clean up after Hurricane Sandy are not being allowed to do so. I feel pretty sure that's neither the action nor attitude of the generalembership, so why are workers coerced to join one.

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Oh, NJ DUMBERats passed a law prohibiting non-union crews from helping clean up after Hurricane Sandy. Oh, it seems the leader of the NJ Senate DUMBERats is a union boss as well.

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Lance Armstrong says he wants to compete in bike races again. He even says he deserves the opportunity. WRONG! He had an opportunity, and didn't respect it.

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A fellow BCer has sent along a nice recap of the situation we have today:

According to Senator Feinstein, so-called assault weapons have been used in 385 murders since the AWB expired in 2004, or about 48 murders per year. But there were 8,583 total murders with guns in the United States in 2011, meaning so-called assault weapons were used 0.6% of the time.

Further illustrating the small role so-called assault weapons play in crime, FBI data shows that 323 murders were committed with rifles of any kind in 2011. In comparison, 496 murders were committed with hammers and clubs, and 1,694 murders were perpetrated with knives.

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Online story: "House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan just got a letter from the White House that comes as regularly as a Christmas card. Obama’s Acting Budget Director sent a letter informing Congress that the White House will miss the required legal deadline of February 4th for submitting a budget. It says they’re “working diligently,” but they were delayed by all those fiscal cliff meetings" -- At least Bill Clinton waited until after he'd taken office for two weeks before he apologized for not being able to figure out a tax cut he promised while campaigning... he even shed a tear as he told his followers that he was even going to have to raise their taxes. pot-US Obluster is no Bill Clinton... come to think of it, Obluster is not very American either.

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L-E headline/story: "Columbus High students head to inauguration * (One freshman said) “Not only do I get to miss a whole week of school,” " -- Hmmm excuse me... at best, it's a two day drive by bus. so if the bus left Saturday, the bus arrives today. The inauguration ceremonies are Monday. The bus should leave Tuesday, and arrive back to Columbus on Wednesday. Hmmm, does that mean missing school on Thursday and Friday are unexcused absences?

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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "I’m guessing Lance Armstrong is a Republican. " -- Probably not... if he was a Republican, and had gotten caught, he'd have come clean, apologized, and stepped out of the limelight.

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L-E story: "With support from local business leaders, Columbus Scholars Inc. held a scholarship signing ceremony for 10 new scholars Saturday at the Columbus Museum. " -- Just curious, but how does the scholarship money get distributed? If the scholar program is successful, all these kids will be eligible for a HOPE Scholarship to a system college/university, so what are the details?

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Karl Douglass has finally declared his Democrat persona; so isn't it about time the L-E reminds its readers that Karl Douglass's commentary carries a Democratic Party bias?

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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Four years ago, President Barack Obama used his inaugural address to declare “an end to the petty grievances, and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.” -- No wonder he campaigned on what he was going to do rather than what he had done.

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Rumor has it that the Alabama fight song will be updated by "Meatloaf" and the name changed to "Three out of Four ain't bad".

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Stan "the Man" Musial is no longer with us, but will never leave those who grew up when he played. Wouldn't it be a tribute if one current MLB player (doesn't even have to be a franchise star) would stick with one team for his entire career?

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Ironically, Earl Weaver also passed yesterday. Hope this is not a trend of the best MLB role models to leave us with the current breed.

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