Older online headline/story: "Rush Limbaugh Show Moved From CBS Affiliate Station WPHT-Philadelphia * Rush Limbaugh's show has been moved from Philadelphia's top conservative radio station. * Philadelphia's CBS affiliate WPHT will now air the more moderate radio host Michael Smerconish. The New York Times reported that the move," -- This story happened in April 2012, but I came across it this AM looking for another matter. Having the NY Times call CBS the 'top CONSERVATIVE radio station" in Philadelphia was the 'red flag' I saw. All this occurred during the Sandra Fluke expose/challenge Rush lead, all of which was true then and now, but this is probably why urban areas have become impenetrable by conservatives during elections... there is no conservative base.

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee declared she was standing in Washington as "freed slave". Huh? Has she abandoned the DUMBRRat Party and joined the Republicans?

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Some Italian jeans company thinks it has trademark protection right to "Jesus". Hmmm, I do believe God claimed that right a couple of thousand years ago. It doesn't pay to mess with The Father of 'nature', either.

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Online headline/story: "Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Case: Scalia Condemns The 'Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement' * WASHINGTON -- Conservative justices on the Supreme Court expressed skepticism Wednesday about whether the federal government should still be requiring preclearance of voting system changes in certain places with a history of racial discrimination in elections. * Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that the continuation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act represented the "perpetuation of racial entitlement," saying that lawmakers had only voted to renew the act in 2006 because there wasn't anything to be gained politically from voting against it. * "Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes," Scalia said during oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder." -- Heaven help us if a DUMBERat's in office when Scalia dies/retires. Scalia is a NJ born, Catholic, Harvard grad who has seen the discriminatory and destructive nature of encapsulating minority groups in decisions.

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Did you know we have been paying federal union workers to work on union 'business' even though the wages are set by law and they are not allowed to "strike"? Well, we do... in fact over $156 Million in 2011, and even more for 2012. All total, federal employees were paid for over 3,400,000 hours of unneeded "union duties" work (that's over $45.00 per hour). Yeah, right. DUMBERats can't find budget cut items.

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Noticed something today that needs to be investigated. potUS 00-Bama said he converted WWW.barackobama.com to a 501 c (4) site named WWW.organizingforaction.com, BUT his staff is still using e-mail from barackobama.com, and still encouraging donations.

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For the first time in Papal history there be 2 men walking around wearing white skull caps. Wonder if Pope Benedict XVI will get a job as a CNN commentator?

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Online story: "WASHINGTON — The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants announced his retirement the same day the agency said that hundreds of people facing deportation had been released from immigration jails due to looming budget cuts, * ICE is required by Congress to maintain 34,000 immigration jail beds. As of last week, the agency held an average daily population of 30,733 in its jails. * Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned this week that DHS might not be able to afford to maintain those 34,000 jail beds and that mandatory budget cuts would hurt the department's core missions." -- "due to looming budget cuts"? If the program had 34,000 jail beds available, but were only using 30,733 of them, this constitutes to an equivalence of a pre-budget cut of nearly 10% already, so what does a possible 2% 'looming budget cut" have to do with sending criminal back onto our streets? Where's Guillermo Horton?

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Online headline: "There won't be another Seth MacFarlane Oscars" -- Don't you love it when liberals eat their own?

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From above story: "The (Oscars) telecast climbed to a strong 40.3 million viewers on Sunday, the biggest audience in three years. " -- If I was an advertiser, I'd like to see an ad audit of ABC's figures. My guess is that if 40+ Million viewers saw some of it, they were checking to see if the show was finally over, and if the late local news was on. Either that or 39 Million were in California.

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On the corner of Warm Springs & Miller Rds, there's a used car lot with the following signage used: "No high pressure salesmen Buy Here" Hmmm, perhaps a comma in the right place would clarify as to where 'high pressure salesmen do buy their cars'.

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I wonder if Miss Alabama had dumped that Alabama quarterback, you know, what's his name?

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As a layperson, I do not understand why a judge would throw out evidence of whether an officer was right to check a teen driver for intoxication while still on the site of the accident. Officers must have leeway as to what indications dictate their actions in such conditions. The precedence used was for a person of over 21, and alcohol laws are different based on being 21 or older, and under 21.

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Synovus' way of solving things is less and less caring about Columbus. More local layoffs, which followed Synovus' decision to make a major purchase of ATMs from a German manufacturer versus buying from NCR which is majorly invested in Columbus just demonstrates Synovus' distancing itself from its Columbus roots. Perhaps selling off its executive offices that overlook the Whitewater course, and reimbursing Columbus for the cost of 'terracing' the RiverWalk area in the Synovus building front yard to become a viewing station would salve local interests.

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Online story: "Secretary of State John Kerry was barely off the plane in Germany before he embarrassed himself-and all of us-with what is perhaps the worst defense of religious freedom ever offered. Kerry, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president in 2004, said the United States protects religious freedom because: "In America, you have right to be stupid." -- Hmmm, don't recall "that" in either the rights that are God given, nor professed in our Constitution, so I guess Kerry was talking about the "privilege/imitiative" DUMBERats take to woo stupid people into voting for kool-aid providers.

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Low... very low-info liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Every time a big corporation buys its competition, the light of capitalism dims. " -- Capitalism soars when an established corporation can provide a bigger audience for a fledgling idea/product, or when one corporation absorbs another and saves some of the jobs and all the collateral side businesses that would die if certain products disappeared altogether. Why aren't the positives of a thriving capitalist environment taught in public schools?

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L-E's "Thought for Today": “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, educator and Librarian of Congress (1914-2004). -- Hmmm, unless liberals are in charge of the curriculum. Then, education is about learning what liberals want you to know about not learning what else is out there for the driven and curious.

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A L-E editorial discussing water safety after the fact is sorta what's going on while Whitewater Project is evolving, but lets be cognizant that lots of interests do not have enough safeguards to prevent solo incidences of violence, bad judgement, nor bad editorializing. Quote from this editorial:

"As things stand now in Georgia, there’s little or no demand for demonstrated competence, and consequences for non-compliance are too … inconsequential. The fact that you have to get drunker in a boat than in a car to be in violation of the law is just one glaring symptom of the problem." --There is little or no demand for journalistic competence in the GA Code, either, and who knows better but individuals who buy ink by the barrel.

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Did you read the letter co-written/co-signed by well known local political pundits in today's L-E? I cannot comfortably discern whether the former head of Muscogee Democratic Party has had an epiphany or is setting a major trap for his Republican co-author? Whether its true or not, it is refreshing to see a DUMBERat concerned about excess government spending and waste. Wish that feeling could be transferred to our Mayor and Council.

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potUS 00-Bama's concern over gun control would better pass the skepticism of the majority of Americans if he subjected himself to the thorough background check he's avoided as a candidate and president.

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From L-E's "Online comment of the day": “I cannot believe that Sean eliminated AshLee...WHAT AN IDIOT. She is beautiful, refined, lives in Houston which is not far from Dallas, her father I believe is a preacher just like his father. She is also more mature.” — Excerpted from “Jan Qualia,” in response to “The Bachelor TV blog: Sean Lowe chooses Lindsay and Catherine, eliminates an angry AshLee and her killer stare” -- Does this not epitomize what wrong with mainstream media! What difference does it make whether this "Sean" has a brain or not? It's pretty well established that none of the women have any morals, self-esteem, nor standards because they've sought out to be in open competition to be a man's 'object'. Where is N.O.W. protesting this actually relevant issue?

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Why do politicians think "tweeting" their movement is of any interest to anybody else? All it means to me is that they've focused on themselves rather that the issues at hand, and demonstrated there they are basically "big twit".

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From L-E story: "Glenn Brock, the consultant leading the Muscogee County School Board’s search for its next superintendent, has left the law firm that was called Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers LLC, with offices in Marietta and Atlanta. * but his departure won’t hinder the superintendent search, said board chairman Rob Varner. * First of all, the board’s contract with Brock, whose fee can’t exceed $25,000, is with Brock himself, not his firm. Secondly, his new firm might increase his ability to find candidates, Varner said. * “It’s apparently a huge firm with 470 lawyers, up and down Eastern Seaboard,” Varner said. “They have a specialty in education law. He was able to take a team of folks with him to the new firm that all had some degree of specialty in education law. … So I suspect, net-net, it will be a positive for us.” " -- Hmmm.. a specialist in "education law"? First, it seems that his specialty would basically attract educators with problems, and secondly, taking educators with problems for clients means he won't disclose any personal knowledge of his clients as he tries to move them into a new position where nobody knows him/her. This cannot be good for Muscogee County.

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From the above L-E story, also: " One Soundoff reader — yes, we read Soundoff here in Chatterland — noted that poor attendance at Columbus Civic Center is due to 90-pound capacity seats for 300-pound patrons. Until 1996 seats are replaced with 2013 seats, attendance will be a problem, the reader noted. * That drew an email response from Civic Center Director Ross Horner, who has been in Columbus almost two years. *“I thought the same thing when I started — so about a year ago we purchased ‘larger than average’ seats that can take up to 500 lbs. for our handicap accessible areas,” Horner wrote. " -- Oh, so being in the 300 pound range is considered being handicapped by a City employee. I can almost feel the drool coming out of Lawyers' Row across from the Government Center.

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L-E headline/story: "Saban dismisses 4 players from team * All four arrested after two robberies * “Their actions do not reflect the spirit and character that we want our organization to reflect,” Saban said. -- Hmmm, coach speak for 'They aren''t starters
and I'll have 4 scholarship freed up.'

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