“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

First, a moment of silent respect for Margaret Thatcher.

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How convenient was it for Judas 00-bama to be a politician last night? He could pull for Louisville out of one side of his mouth and Michigan out of the left side, and the leftist Unions didn't know what was going on. Sorta like life imitating his campaign speeches.

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Bleep Veep Biden let the cat out of the bag this weekend. He's more than eager to become the next leader of the New World Order. Unfortunately, he doesn't look like he'll get by Hillary in the primaries.

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Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine offers a history major that doesn't require one course in US History. This is where liberal educational doctrine is failing current and future generations. OK, so it's one college... unfortunately, there are more. The trickle down effect is that these colleges will produce teachers that our children can be assigned all over this country.

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GNN (Georgia News Network) has picked up on the Whitewater Project. A Whitewater spokeswoman is quoted as proclaiming the Whitewater Project is about "restoring" the Chattahoochee. Where did she go to school, the "Robert Gibbs/ Jay Carney School of Spin". True, the first mention of the project was about restoration, but that ended when the first 'concrete mattresses' were inserted to alter the esthetics and water flow... and then it got worse. "wave-shapers" have been installed and dams that should have been eliminated have instead been basically altered to influence rather than free the natural flow of the Chattahoochee.

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Mouseketeer Annette also passed yesterday... age 70. Remember when Disney was so concerned with family goodness, that when Annette began to blossom fully into a young woman, rather than having a starlet gawked at and talked about because of how she filled the costume sweater, Disney made her wrap her chest with an ACE bandage to minimize her figure. Now-a-days, Disney doesn't care if they run around sexting their bodies all over the Internet.

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Didn't a recent law go into effect prohibiting networks from raising the volume to a higher level during advertisements? Guess a new law needs to address what the cable companies do when they run the ads the "Cable Girls and a Guy" sell.

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L-E story: " Today is Tax Freedom Day for Georgians . This is the date on which Georgia residents will have earned enough money to pay this year’s tax obligations at the federal, state and local levels. Nationwide the date for all Americans is April 18. * “This year, Americans will work five days later than in 2012 to pay all of their taxes. The total tax bill at all levels comes to approximately $4.2 trillion, or 29.4 percent of their total income,” said economist William McBride." -- What brainwashing... of the reporter.... This 'sounds" good.. even reasonable.. for government 'news', that is, but the reality is that this is the "average" and if you're actually paying taxes, your share is above.. way above... the "average. Then you have to add the continuous "consumption" (sales/LOST/SPLOST) taxes for the rest of the year.

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L-E story: "SAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit scheduled for trial will determine whether makers of some baby foods and fruit juices that contain low amounts of lead should be forced to put warning labels on their products sold in California. * The suit filed by the Environmental Law Foundation in Oakland claims Gerber, Del Monte Foods and many other makers of baby foods and juices are selling products containing lead at levels that require warning labels under California’s Proposition 65. * The food companies say the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tested the products, and decided lead levels were below the standards that require a warning. * Both sides in the case agree on one fact: baby foods containing carrots, peaches, pears and sweet potatoes have some lead." -- What! Both sides agree that the foods "have some lead"? As a new grandfather, I'm upset that such is even sold on the shelves of Publix or Targets! Let me ask this, do the "organic" offerings of these foods contain lead as well?

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L-E headline: "Chinese officials urge calm as 7th bird flu victim dies " -- With a population in the billions, Chinese officials would probably be calm if a North Korea atomic test went awry and killed millions of Chinese as long as it wasn't near Beijing or Hong Kong.

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Make up your own caption contest:

Mine is: Kerry asks, "Did you see the size of the California DA's ta-tas that Judas 00-bama was hitting on?"

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Got a post card from a local real estate developer this past weekend hawking it's last condo's down by the Chattahoochee.. only "15 left" it says as it creates urgency. It also brags that it has the lowest tax rates in town. Some of the most expensive-per-foot properties in town have the lowest property tax rates, and you don't even have to give up your homestead exemption on another house in the county to get this rate. Property taxes on a $324,378.00 condo with Whitewater project views is $27.08. One going for $1,095,024.00 pays only $388.81. Hey, Mayor Obamalinson, how about working to rid these 'very special tax advantages' instead of our tax freeze.

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Tidbit gleaned fro the social network: Melissa Harris-Perry (Wikipedia:Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry (born October 2, 1973; formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell)^[1] is an American author, television host and far-left political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. Harris-Perry hosts the eponymously named Melissa Harris-Perry weekend news and opinion television show on MSNBC): Children Are Communal Property. She said that children are collective property — that is, they belong to the State. I saw her say, “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to their communities.” -- You know, I'm beginning to believe that most people who hyphenate their names, hyphenate their brains as well.

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L-E headline: "NCR to employ over 800 workers by 2014 " -- You have to wonder how many more jobs NCR could put on if Synovus bought its ATMs from localNCR instead of that German company.

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L-E headline: "Man convicted of hiring hit man who killed wrong target " -- Boy did a case that happened here in Columbus years back 'flash' across my thoughts. Remember when a late lawyer got his client acquitted of murder when he killed a person riding in the car of the intended victim? A jury here actually acquitted the man on the basis that the dead person was not who the killer was aiming at, so it couldn't be 1st degree murder. Yeah, we are indeed a nation of laws.

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L-E story: "ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is considering shortening deer hunting season to respond to a decline in the state’s deer population. " -- Decline? Bet the GA DNR has never taken a count of the deer population in my intown neighborhood!

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In another L-E story, Alabama has shut down the Fall Turkey Hunting season in the 6 counties that had such. Guess politicians didn't want to be targeted as the turkeys they are during campaign season.

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L-E comic strip:

The real DUMBERat Party Base

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Copy of Letter-to-the-(L-E) editor:

Last week, a local politico posted on a social network, that the Republicans lost because they weren't as good in salesmanship as the Democrats.

I posted that I disagree.

Democrats are not good salesmen at all; they are more like the strange people that frequent our parks and offer children 'free candy".

The mistake that Republicans are making is trying to convince that "free candy" isn't good. No kid will listen to that argument while looking around to see if anybody close by has another piece of "free candy" to give them. The Republicans are just going to have to educate the kids on how much better "free candy" will taste when they earn the money to buy it themselves; and can decide for themselves when and where and what type of candy they want to buy.

The other thing Republicans will have to work on is showing these 'kids' there is actually no "free candy", and what's offered is not only not "free" but has strings and conditions attached.