Happy birthday, George. I remember when George Washington got his own holiday and one day sales event.

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Online headline: "NBC Falls To Fifth Place In TV Ratings" -- Let's see... there's ABC, CBS... hmmmm....5th in a 3-way race?

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From the 'it's not one world' department: "Sherry Rehman, the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, is under investigation by Pakistani police for allegedly blasphemous remarks she made more than two years ago on a Pakistani talk show, Agence France-Press reports. If convicted, Rehman could be sentenced to death." -- And she has to wonder whether potUS 00-Bama would stop a spontaneous Muslim "protest" on the Embassy.... and how well potUS 00-Bama has armed them.

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WRBL3 story: "The U.S. Supreme Court will not halt the execution of Georgia death row inmate Andrew Allen Cook. * Cook was set to be executed Thursday at 7 p.m. by lethal injection, but the execution was delayed while the high court weighed in on Cook's last-minute appeal" -- This was the worst appeal ever filed... thank God the US Supreme Court squashed it hard and fast! I could have an ounce of sympathy if the appeal were made on some evidence issue, but the lawyers appealed the execution based on whether the drug being used had a proper prescription. Of course the drug had a proper prescription... our legislature prescribed it and our governor signed it. GA should sue those lawyers and bar them from practice in GA!

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Pistorius... I hate to even mention him, but he's also already shot wholes in his own story... he'd had more credibility if he'd 'bolted' for the front door at the sound of the first shot, or at least pulled up after the 'second one'.

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Do you ever wonder if anyone associated with PETA ever thought about the animals they protest other people eating or wearing their skin/fur are mostly carnivores?

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Anyone seen the US Army ad featuring/naming Myles Caggins III? Kin to the MCSD's Myles Caggins?

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Fisker Automotive... One of the recipients of potUS 00-Bama's check kiting investment "stim-YOU-LIE" program is on the market at a bargain basement price, and China is trying to scoop it up. 00-Bama "invested" more than $529,000,000.00 of money he borrowed from the Chinese on the backs of our grandchildren's future.

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As recently as 3 days after the November elections, potUS 00-Bama was claiming he did not want to send, much less see, our "green technology" in China.

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Strange...we have the largest wind farm in the world in Texas, but the wind turbines were made in China.

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potUS 00-Bama is bypassing the White House press corp and even major networks to spread his sequester propaganda. Why? Simple... what fringe radio or local TV reporter is going to ask him a follow up question concerning his agenda?

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We finally have found a subject potUS 00-Bama will grant an interview to liberal journalists.... golf, specifically golfing with Tiger. Otherwise, "mum's the word".

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I'd have thought potUS 00-Bama would have wanted to play golf with Phil Mickelson before Tiger Woods. After all, Phil is left-handed like 00-Bama. Maybe 00-Bama had another preference.

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Geraldo Rivera is claiming he is s "modern Republican".... no wonder there is such confusion about what Republicans hope to accomplish.

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News story of the day...there was "a rolling shootout on the Las Vegas strip". Hmmm, what's newsworthy of a street fight in Las Vegas or Chicago?

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Online story passed on by a fellow BCer: "Last week, President Obama opened the door to a temporary fix of sequestration. When asked to elaborate on what that fix would look like, Spokesman Jay Carney again advocated paying down (potUS 00-Bama's on bill) sequester with more defense cuts. * Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey:“We built a strategy last year that we said we could execute and absorb $487 billion. I can't sit here today and guarantee you that if you take another $175 billion that that strategy remains solvent....* The question I would ask this committee: What do you want your military to do? If you want it to be doing what it's doing today, then we can't give you another dollar. If you want us to do something less than that, we're all there with you and we'll figure it out.” -- Support our military any way you can!

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It's come to my attention that most of the Council (save Judy Thomas) is going to allow all new furniture to be used in the new Service Center versus utilizing what it can from the Government Center offices that are moving out. There's no need, no excuse for wasting money on new office furniture when the other is just as viable and useful. The excuse Council has used as that the next 'user' of the old space can use it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. New users will need to configure the space to their own specific needs, and will probably need specific furniture to do that. Council needs to hear from you about scavenging what works in the old space as ity will work in the new space as well.

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Low-info lib's L-E "soundoff": "The 9 Tenets of the Republican Party are bigotry, hypocrisy, elitism, fascism, greed, corruption, incompetence, arrogance and insanity. Read it and weep. " -- Hmmm, I can see this as the ultimate set-up line for Pee-Wee Herman... I know you are, but what am I?

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L-E headline: "Drew Peterson gets 38 years" -- Hmmm, wish it read "Drew Peterson gets 38 hollow-point between eyes"

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Don't you love it when liberals eat their own... Chicago Tribune commentator John Kass ripped Jesse Jackson, Jr (directly, and Sr by implication) a 'new one. There's something about the name "John Kass" that intrigues me... you know, most liberal "Johns" adopt John F. kennedy's nickname... "Jack" in tribute... Hmm, maybe that's what's giggly... Jack... Jack Kass... say that quickly and it makes a lot of sense.

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L-E headline/story: "Gun pointed at students at Baker Middle School; no injuries reported * No injuries were reported. The suspect was not named or arrested. No further details were available." -- Hmmm, so much for the 'zero tolerance' policy.

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L-E headline: "Flu shot doing poor job of protecting elderly * Vaccine only 9% effective for those 65 and older against this year’s strain" -- DOH! Name me anything the government does that does a GOOD job protecting the elderly?

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Richard Hyatt's column in today's Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reminded me of a recent event in the frozen food section of a Florida Walmart. Some unknown terrorist 'dropped a daisy' that even a dozen Fabreze plugins wouldn't have concealed. Made me wonder why someone hasn't made a fortune marketing Fabreze-filtered underwear.

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When I heard David Axelrod had signed a performance contract with NBC, my first reaction was that he would make a great addition to one of those 'zombie' shows.

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