Remember when liberals were gung ho about erasing all mention of Christopher Columbus because of the ills he thrust upon Native Americans? Now you can't get them to remove an annual $500+K funding for Christopher Columbus stuff. Just shows DUMBERats don't want anything to do about curtailing taxes or unnecessary programs.

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Senator Kerry's appointment, and Senator Chambliss' announced retirement would be an excellent time to start new practices for election reform. Both of their "campaign chests" for reelection should be frozen, audited, prohibited from new deposits, then turned in to the government for use. Politicians should not be able to convert such payments to personal, unmonitored use.

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Online story: "WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan said Saturday that Republicans need to stick together and pick their fights during President Barack Obama's second term, rejecting some White House proposals outright and trying to infuse others with conservative principles." -- Boehner needs to be shown the back door, and Ryan seated in the Speaker's chair.

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We may have a bigger audience than I realized. Prominent Republicans are looking at the voting patterns and realizing that the Electoral College format overweight's the vote of large urban areas, and one or two Congressional district's results can swing all of that state's Electoral College vote at the expense of the voters in the majority of the the state's districts. I am still stunned at California's even split of counties voting for Obluster and Romney (29-29), but of course, California gave 55 votes to Obluster.

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Online story: "(Paragraph 1) Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli helped a trucker out of her rig after he noticed the back of her semi-truck was engulfed in flames, Richmond's WWBT reports. * (Paragraph 8) Cuccinelli is currently up against Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a competitive race for Virginia's governorship that will be decided in November 2013." -- It takes until paragraph 8 for the reporter to mention Cuccinelli is a Republican candidate for Governor. Of course he's running against Terry McAuliffe the chair of presidential campaigns for both Clintons, and a former DNC chair.....and you'd probably win a bet that if the hero of the moment had been McAuliffe, his party staut and deed would have been in the headline.

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Online headline: "Rick Scott Praised By 'Satanists' At Mock Rally" -- Proof positive that Satanists are DUMBERats.

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WRBL3 story: "SAVANNAH, Ga. --Park rangers are trimming the century-old fence around Georgia's oldest surviving colonial estate because the pointy tips of the fence pickets were proving deadly to deer. * Deer trying to jump the six-foot fence at the Wormsloe Historic Site were impaling themselves and ending up either mortally wounded or dead. * Chris Floyd, the historic site's manager, says the state Historic Preservation Division agreed to allow his staff to remove the pointed tips from the wrought-iron fence's 3,200 pickets. * Wormsloe is the site of the colonial estate of Noble Jones, who arrived in Georgia in 1733 with the colony's founder, Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe. The estate's tabby ruin is Savannah's oldest standing structure." -- Question.... Why was the fence (w/spikes) erected in the first place? Probably to keep moochers, 4-legged and 2-legged, out of the grounds; probably because of crop damage. That's a historic event being undone by liberal's rewriting facts to accommodate personal causes.

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From a fellow BCer came this suggestion... you know all those 'announcement signs' that greet you when you enter Columbus.... why not add "Columbus, a re-certified City of Ethics" within a state supposedly one of the least ethical in the nation.'

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Why is it the mainstream media applauds a liberal's proclamation of taking "full responsibility" for a snafu, yet the MSM does not demand "accountability" ? Latest case in point, Hillary and the death of 4 Americans in Benghazi terrorist attack.

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Why is media trying to promote the surge in gun sales as Obama-paranoia? It has nothing to do with paranoia... Just the talk of gun and ammo bans has sent the costs rising, but if, and it's a MIGHTY BIG if, some Executive Order to do so is issued, people want to be assured of their protection needs rather than wait out a Supreme Court ruling on the president's Executive Order.

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For the matter of getting the most exposure for tourism at the Whitewater Amusement Park, how about a flashing neon sign proclaiming the basin below the E&P dam site as "Jethro Beaudine's Concrete Pond". Trying to resell the area as the restored Chattahoochee River is out of the question... Shoot, the flashing neon sign may draw bait fish for a new nocturnal industry.

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L-E story: "The death penalty case against Ricardo Strozier casts him as a repeat burglar prowling Columbus in the days leading up to the fatal Sept. 7, 2010, shooting of radio disc jockey David Heath Jackson. * Prosecutors allege Strozier broke into two other homes before Jackson was killed confronting him inside 1667 Carter Ave., where the morning on-air personality for the Christian station The Truth came home around lunchtime the Tuesday after Labor Day. * Police say Strozier shot Jackson with a .38-caliber revolver stolen in an Aug. 11, 2010, burglary at 14th Avenue and Virginia Street, four blocks off Lakebottom Park’s west side. Jackson’s home was four blocks east of the park. " -- "Strozier shot Jackson with a .38-caliber revolver stolen in an Aug. 11, 2010, burglary"... Makes my point that any stolen gun used in a crime should result in an unappealable death sentence on its own, and the sentence be carried out within days. THAT is a GUN CONTROL law that will work and prevent killing out of indifference ot the laws already on the books.

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The MCSD SPLOST totals are going to be even further short of the current projections. A full 4 years of collections have been made, and those totals should be aired to the public before any further discussions are started on any SPLOST projects.

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L-E headline: "Harris County takes first-ever City wrestling championship title" -- There's something "wrong" with a school from another county being entered in a "City" championship in another county's school system. Maybe the reason will come to me if I keep thinking about it...

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L-E headline: "Phasing out property tax freeze could lead to lower taxes" -- Could...and should for most people, BUT that is not what Council and Mayor Obamalinson want. They want to capitalize on the windfall aspect of raising long time frozen taxes to the level inflicted on new homeowners rather than working towards a middle ground. Poll the buyers who are buying first or moving into nearby counties/states to list their #1 reason.... it'll be lower taxes.

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Inaccurate (but right thinking) L-E "soundoff": "The envelope, please … Hillary Clinton should receive a Best Actress Award in a Leading Role for the Benghazi hearing." -- The category should be "Best Actress in a Mis-Leading Role".

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Dusty Nix can rail from his soapbox all he wants about how Saxby Chambliss treated Max Cleland, but Max Cleland exploited his injuries for the maximum sympathy he could get in order to get what he wanted.

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The L-E intentionally omits that Karl Douglass' opinions are biased by his direct connection with the The Democratic Party. This is a shameful omission by the L-E.