Online story: "Citing budget concerns and falling enrollment, Chicago Public Schools officials announced Thursday they plan to close 54 schools next year and shut down 61 school buildings -- the largest single wave of school closures in U.S. history. * For months, looming closures seemed inevitable. After a teachers union strike last fall concluded with an expensive contract, observers were left without a doubt that the only way the cash-strapped district could afford it was to shut down schools and fire the teachers who worked there." -- Between the past leadership of former Illinois Senator Judas 00-bama, past Chicago school head/current Sec of ED Arne Duncan, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, union greed, and the rampant Chicago street killing, Chicago's education system has become the sequel to "The Perfect Storm".

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Online story 'fact' (liberal argument point): "The U.S. incarcerates its citizens at a rate roughly five times higher than the global average. We have about 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of its prisoners, according to The Economist,." -- Simple solution... send prisoners back to their country of origin.

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Online headline: "Powerful Chicago Democrat Found Guilty Of Tax Evasion" -- Ooops, hoped I'd see how Jay Carney spun Judas 00-bama's demotion from being the 'powerful Chicago Democrat'...

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Online story: "Of all places one would expect to find Pope Francis celebrating a major ceremony before Easter, a youth prison probably ranks pretty low on the list. * Yet that's precisely where Pope Francis will celebrate Holy Thursday next week, washing and kissing prisoners' feet at Rome's Casal del Marmo jail for minors." -- Albeit that Pope Francis has always been recognized as a public people's person, due to so much past pedophilia concerns in the past, is it really in the best interest of him or the Catholic church to be kissing minors' feet?

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Online headline: "Powerball Jackpot Soars To $320 Million Prior To Saturday Drawing" -- Hey, that's an idea... Let Congress buy one of each number combination! Ooops, at $2.00 a pop, they'd have to buy 175,223,510 tickets at a cost of $350,044,620.00 to win the current prize of $320Million. Oh, and don't forget the one-pay buyout deduction and what the government was already going to get in taxes. When you look at it, Powerball isn't even worth it if you won all by yourself.

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Online headline: "Space Probe Date Suggests Universe Older Than We Thought" -- And why not, everyone thinks "40" is the new "30".

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Remember when Judas 00-bama was saying he was going to be campaigning in all 57 states.... and we laughed and pointed at him? Well. he may have not been in error.From Wikipedia: "The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is an international organisation consisting of 57 member states. The organisation states that it is "the collective voice of the Muslim world" and works to "safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony"

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Kicker to above: (Judas 00-bama appointee) Rashad Hussain (born in 1978), is an American attorney, and U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN, with 57 member states. Hussain, a Muslim of Indian heritage, has served in the White House Counsel's Office, and in his role as Envoy, has advised the Administration on policy issues related to the Muslim world. He has traveled to numerous countries and international conferences, and has met with foreign leaders and Muslims around the world

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From a fellow BCer...food for thought:

 

 

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On Fox news, a spinmeister for government employees argues that federal employees should not be fired for owing taxes because they wouldn't have a job to earn money to pay those taxes. Huh? They didn't pay them the first time around... what would be different now?

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Michigan union picketers (versus taxpayers) are protesting .... protesting Michigan's new "Right to Work" law. Unions have no other people's interests

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Judas 00-bama estranged most of the DUMBERat base while in Israel. He acknowledged Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as the top religions. Now he'll have to appease the atheists, wiccans, agnostics, Queen Jamesers, et all.

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Judas 00-bama says Israel has "no better friend".... hmmmm, didn't Judas Iscariot say that to Jesus?

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Judas 00-bama is dead set on "getting the facts" about chemical weapons being used in Syria. Does that mean he really wants to get the facts and do something, or does that mean he wants to 'get the facts' and bury them under bureaucracy like Benghazi, Fast & Furious, and ACORN?

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Senator Ayotte wants to end "The Missile to Nowhere" program. There's $381 Million set to be spent on a so-far- $3BILLION-already-been-spent project that the military doesn't want, and the Pentagon doesn't think will even work, but it's an " earmark" for the home states of powerful Senators/Congresspersons. Wanna bet their party allegiances?

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Other sales taxes, what does the City of Columbus get from the whitewater concessionaires to pay for the access and exit ramps the City (read "US") are paying for, and who pays for the ongoing maintenance of such?

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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Three years, two elections, and one Supreme Court decision after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, its promise of health care for the uninsured may be delayed or undercut in much of the country because of entrenched opposition from many Republican state leaders. " -- Let's face it... there are 30 states with Republican/conservative leadership... if they all hold their ground, there's no way the Judas 00-bama administration can enforce HELL-thScare there. Another dividend for those 30 states would be mass migration of Medicaid recipients to the other 20 states, and migration of productive individuals and businesses into the Republican/conservative lead states. 2014 & 2016 elections are looking better already.

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L-E headline/story: "DIVERSITY CONFERENCE * Poverty, class issues dominate speeches * "I believe very strongly that communities today are segregated by income, that we don't labor any longer under Jim Crow laws, certainly, but we have segregated ourselves by income.", Mayor Teresa Obamalinson." -- Let's address that more pointedly.. Under the War on Poverty of Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic game plan, controlled income for the poverty levels was established to keep lower income persons under control of the government, and to insure, not loyalty, but fear that if government programs were eliminated, poverty stricken persons would have no other safety net to catch them. The War on Poverty was an enslavement plan from the beginning, and has grown evefr since.

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L-E story: " It should take about three weeks to remove the pieces of the City Mills Dam, Meadows said. When the dam was blown March 12, whitewater organizers were hoping to get a preview of the upper part of the course that runs from City Mills to the North Highland Dam in Bibb City. * “We would have hoped the pool would have dropped more than it has,” said Richard Bishop, president of Uptown Columbus Inc., the nonprofit downtown redevelopment corporation charged with building the $25 million course. " -- Well, there it goes again. The original expected cost of simply restoring the Chattahoochee River was about $2 Million, and now we're talking $25 million "they" will

admit to. Remember the National Infantry Museum? Originally it was to cost $60 Million, but has risen to over $100 M and still not finished.

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Jarvis Jones, bless his heart, thinks his 4.92 40-yard-dash won't bother his status in the draft, but it doesn't negate the fact that if he doesn't make a tackle in front of him, he's not going to catch them from behind. Maybe the timer erred, or he's jockeying for a team that doesn't have the first few picks. Either way, he's a good one for some team.

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L-E headline: "Four-week jobless claims fall to 5-year low " -- Don't get too excited... no consideration is given to there actually being less jobs to be terminated, but also how many full time jobs are now being cut in half so it takes 2 non-healthcare eligible workers for a lot of low/mid-level jobs?

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