Online story: "A former employee at a Christian college has enlisted the help of high-profile attorney Gloria Allred to sue a California school that allegedly fired her for engaging in premarital sex, NBC's "Today" reports. In a bizarre twist, the school reportedly went on to offer the pregnant woman's job to her then-fiance. * Teri James, 29, told the news outlet that she did sign a two-page contract with San Diego Christian College that included a provision agreeing not to engage in "sexually immoral behavior including premarital sex." * During a news conference featured in a KTLA report, James said she felt she was treated unfairly. * "I was unmarried, pregnant and they took away my livelihood," James said. -- A work contract for specific situations must be a tool an employer should have at its disposal. Shouldn't a Christian based school be able to demand its teachers to teach personal values by example as well as text? It's obvious the school wasn't on a 'witch hunt', and the teachers obvious "whatever attitude" about showing up at work obviously pregnant was a flagrant disregard for her job responsibilities.

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Watching Golden Park idle away could have been avoided back around 20 years ago when Council was challenged to build a new baseball/concert facility out Veterans Parkway instead of band-aiding Golden Park. Hindsight has 20-20 vision, but this is one time Council needed to look forward 20 years ago.

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Online story: "WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top fundraisers brought in at least $186 million for the president's re-election campaign. * Nearly 250 campaign bundlers each raised at least $500,000 for the president. Those donors included actors Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Eva Longoria, Wendell Pierce and film producer Harvey Weinstein. * Other top donors included musician Gwen Stefani, fashion editor Anna Wintour, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe." -- "Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley"? No elected official should be able to campaign or donate for another politician, period, under any circumstance! A photo-op meeting to welcome a current visiting politician is one thing, but accompanying one to a campaign event, even showing up at a fundraiser dinner should not be allowed, and certainly actually donating from one campaign account to another should be strictly prohibited as is essentially allows donors to funnel illicit amounts of funds to a candidate.

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Online headline/story: "Sequestration News Spurs Calls To Congress From Irate Constituents * The president on Friday said of the cuts, "This is not a win for anybody. This is a loss for the American people." -- On day one, potUS 00-Bama declares budget cuts a loss to the American people..... hmmm, seems a little short sighted to me... sorta like declaring the winner of the opening tip-off to be the winner at the buzzer.

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Why is the City bothering to still work on changing 10th St. to two-way traffic? With most of the traffic generating government services being moved to Columbus Square, not many folks will need a westerly traffic lane in the day time, and a host of parking spaces will be lost for Springer and RiverCenter events. That, and there won't be as many parking spaces for Mayor Obamalinson to charge $1.00 per hour.

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A fellow BCer has supplied me with some information I have been unable to personally verify because the government does not want people to have easy access to specific information like this. The number may be wrong (either upward or downward) but at this point I am relying on the source as it is very honorable. There are "11000 plus USDA field offices, at least in places where there have not been farms in more than a century--like New York City." I collected the following budget figures for the USDA though I cannot verify this is the total of all agencies or just the main tier:

2011 enacted 2012 estimate 2013 budget

$140,677,000,000 $147,534,000,000 $154,666,000,000

Further more, the USDA has recently announced "it will close 259 domestic offices, make other changes to save $150 Million per year." -- Wow... saving $150 Million seems like that would be a big sacrifice, BUT that's less than .001 percent, less that 1/1000th of the budget, In a department like this, that could be saved just by buying toilet paper when it goes on sale.

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L-E story: "In an appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court, Public Defender Robert Wadkins accused Muscogee Superior Court Judge Bobby Peters of threatening a witness in the trial of Andrew Solomon, convicted of murder in one of Columbus’ four killings over Labor Day weekend 2010. " -- Aren't there enough cases for the Public Defendant's office to handle without trying to get a new trial every time it loses a case?

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From L-E commentary by undesignated Sanford Bishop campaign staffer: "On March 7, 1965, 600 activists, including John Lewis, set out to march from Selma, Ala., to the state capitol in Montgomery to draw attention to the need for African Americans to have full voting rights. " -- Wouldn't it be nice... appropriate to see John Lewis stand up on the steps of the Capitol in Washington and declare that there have been a great many improvements, changes, and a great future is ahead, and that we should look foirward rather than to the rewar?

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We should all applaud the future of the Urban League.... the past... not so much.

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L-E headline: "Who will get job of fixing Detroit’s finances?" -- Well. obviously not Government Motors... a recent speech by a GM executive to Chinese officials stated proudly that 7 out of 10 GM vehicles are being made outside the USA.

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L-E headline: "U.S. SUPREME COURT * Public opinion could sway court’s ruling on gay marriage " -- This is exactly what's wrong with the mainstream media... The MSM does not understand what the role of the US Supreme Court is. It's sole purpose is to compare bits of enacted legislation with the The US Constitution written by our founders and occasionally amended along the way by our ancestors to make sure such enacted legislation falls into those parameters. It is not a trendy or popularity contest, nor one dependent on the glibness of a petitioner.

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L-E headline: "Kerry: Divided Egypt needs political compromise " - DOH! When something is divided, that is a compromise, but since Kerry's a lifetime DUMBERat, he will never be comfortable trying to convince divided parties that both will have to concede a bit.

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From an online quote source..."Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill" -- Bet you want see this adage hanging on the wall behind any unemployment entitlement office worker's desk.