Online story: "...the young women, all of whom gave statements for the police report, which was obtained recently by several news outlets, including the the Cleveland Plain Dealer, NBC local affiliate WKYC and The New York Times." -- Oh, this was about the Cleveland kidnapping... of course, do you think any of the 3 'news' outlets have done this about Benghazi????

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Online headline/story: " Malcolm Shabazz Dead: Grandson Of Malcolm X Killed In Mexico * “He was murdered. He was in Mexico City and I believe they attempted to rob him and he didn't allow it, so they beat him to death and he died on his way to the hospital,” Juan Ruiz, a member of the California-based labor organization Rumec * Shabazz is the son of Qubilah Shabazz, who was the second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. In his youth, he set a fire that caused the death of his grandmother * Shabazz continued to have trouble with the law throughout his life, The New York Times reported. He plead guilty to attempted robbery in 2002 and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Just months after his release in 2006, he was arrested again, this time for punching a hole in a store window." -- What a legacy he inherited, continued, and passed along.

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Online headline: "Man Under Investigation For Fathering Too Many Children" -- Ooops, my bad... it's about a man in China and the "1 child' rule. I thought it might be about an NFL player.

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From the "Happy Mother's Day, mom" department - Online story: "CAMDEN, N.J. — Kobe Bryant says in a court filing that he never gave his mother permission to sell mementos from his high school days and early professional basketball career." -- "Character".... it has a way to be revealed.

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Off the wall: I'm still puzzled that both the Jewish and Islamic voters supported Judas 00-bama in both elections. How do warring religious groups agree on one candidate?

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I really don't understand how someone can claim a gun accident happened while cleaning a gun, but I really don't understand how one cleans a spear gun while it's loaded, but it's been claimed, and that's his story and he's sticking to it.

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The latest from www.barackobama/organizingforaction.com: "Hal --

Break out the tin foil hats, folks.

House Speaker John Boehner and the chairman of the House Science Committee are both unsure whether the science behind climate change -- the stuff that shows pretty clearly that carbon pollution produced by humans is damaging our environment -- is real.

Jim Messina

Chair

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My response to the former campaign manager of Judas 00-bama:

Jim,

Don't trees need carbon dioxide to 'live'? Aren't there more trees now than 200 years ago? You might want to wear a tin foil cap when you're at the next strategy meeting.

Hal

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The local powers that be need a new advertising guru. The whitewater gaffe is not the first time something that could drive our community economically has fallen flat. "BRAC" for housing and school growth; attempts to vote out the freeze, the 1980ish attempt at a special road tax and now the whitewater collapse 2 weeks before opening weekend. Perhaps a better plan would be to start slowly, get the ducks in a row, then finish with a flourish when it appears everything is going ad planned. It's a lot more pleasant than scraping egg off one's face.

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That remorseless woman in Arizona who stabbed her hubbies 27 times, shot him twice to dot the "eyes", then slit his throat from ear-to-ear for good measure is out doing her Br'er Rabbit skit of "please don't throw me in that briar patch/cell"! Give her wish and hang her tomorrow before any more tax dollars are wasted on any more lawyers.

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Now we hear that the woman guilty of stabbing & slitting her husbands throat "ear-to-ear" is under "suicide watch". Hadn't she cost taxpayers enough money? Give her a single shot shotgun and lock her in a window/slot less sound proof cell and .....

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Any lawyer who thinks Death in the case of the woman who killed her husband in Arizona is a worse sentence than life is only looking at a lifetime meal ticket.

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A 7 year old in a Suffolk County school was suspended for playing a Marine (ala his Dad) and pointing a pencil at his playmate. I guess it's against school doctrine to dream of being a hero like your Dad... Hmmm, maybe because we have too many at school without Dads so no else one can dream about one.

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Hey, I saw my first VOLT... on Veterans. Followed it about 3 blocks, and it before it turned into ... a side street. I held my distance just in case it suddenly turned into ... a fire.

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Have you seen that Ally Bank ad where $100K in a briefcase is given to a stranger to watch? I'm sure Ally Bank wants you to think that was a random person, BUT since Ally Bank is really a madeover GMAC, you know Ally Bank couldn't use an unknown person to do so since Ally Bank is a union house.

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Listening to DUMBERats fumbling for words in the Benghazi & Boston Marathon bombings makes you realize that the Democratic Party should call itself the party of "I know nuthink"

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Wouldn't it be nice if the T-SPLOST include connect I-185 with I-20 straight north of Lagrange? Consider the options for traveling to Atlanta or Birmingham.

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L-E headline: "LESSOR: EVICTION NOTICE FILED FOR CLUB CREAM

Club operators told shopping center lessor they were opening a barbecue restaurant " -- This is pretty lame since no one... and I mean "NO one" would suspect a bar-b-q restaurant to be named "Club Cream".

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L-E headline: "Work on Courtyard Marriott begins in Phenix City" -- Hmmm, guess the Marriott wants to be listed if someone "Bings" Hotels/Columbus GA on Expedia. Or it could be to escape the tax structure here.

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Low-info voter's L-E "soundoff": "Columbus kids are no different from the rest of the country. They are just lacking the home training the family unit can provide. Don’t blame the schools." -- I partially agree, but the schools, via federal funding/strings-attached-grants have stepped in and assumed parental duties such as transportation, feeding, daycare and quasi-esteem stroking. The schools catering to such are just a guilty.

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Another low-info voter's L-E "soundoff": "No, the reason Obama won the election is Mitt Romney was an overbearing elitist who thought he was better than everyone else. Americans, by nature, do not like overbearing rich people." -- Did I say "low-info voter"? I meant to say "EXTRA low-info voter"...

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L-E headline: "Chattahoochee Valley Libraries director finalists answer questions in public interview * The three finalists to be director of the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries found different ways to express the same sentiment" -- Hmmm, exactly the point I made yesterday... let the finalists write down the their salary 'wants', but knowing that the lowest will be picked. Have 3 rounds... or until 2 drop out.

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L-E's "Thought for Today": “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James, American psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910). -- Unfortunately, mainstream media has decided that overlooking 'the truth' gets them ahead.

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L-E story: "Meanwhile, bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was secretly buried in an undisclosed location outside Worcester after a frustrating weeklong search for a community willing to take the body, police said Thursday. " -- Hmmm.. while mainstream media was distracted by the Arizona woman's "guilty verdict", this was slipped by them. It will come out, and I do hope this aberration of justice gets corrected. The first places I'd check would be the Kennedy compounds and Chappaquiddick Pond. There must be plenty of bodies to be discovered there.

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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Talk about high expectations for a newborn: King and Messiah are among the fastest-rising baby names for American boys. " -- What did you expect with the implementation of 00-bamaCare... mothers are naming their boys after the perceived father.

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L-E's "Quotable": “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” -Anatole France French author (1844-1924)" -- Hmmm, now that's a quote you're likely to find inscribed on the walls of Nancy Pelosi's and Judas 00-bama's offices.

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L-E headline: "DOWNTOWN PARKING PROPOSALS * CITY SUGGESTS $35 CITATIONS" -- Well, that would work if the intent is to eliminate all shopping and lunch customers from coming downtown. As it is, when the new City Services Building open at Columbus Square, most of the traffic for those services will not have a reason to come downtown again, but this will seal-the-deal. While Council is at it, how about changing the hours of parking monitoring for nights and weekends as well. Let's keep Broadway 'car-free'!

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L-E headline/story: "RECORD PROFIT SIGNALS HEALTHIER FANNIE MAE * And it’s a big reason Fannie decided the time was right this year to capitalize on the tax benefits of the bad loans it absorbed during the crisis. * On Thursday, Fannie said that it applied tax credits it had saved from its losses on delinquent loans suffered during the crisis to its first-quarter earnings. * By applying those credits to its 2013 taxes, Fannie reduced what it owed the government and boosted its profit." -- Wait a minute! Fannie Mae is allowed to boost it's profits instead of paying back the taxpayers? What the 'boost" did was raise the bar on bonuses that the current political employees can get.

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Point of interest: Last week I pointed out the major holdings of George Soros.. the Billionaire guy behind "MovingOn.com" (which is tax deductible, and shouldn't be). One of such is "Google". You know you can 'pin' www.bing.com on your toolbar and use that as your search engine, or if you're using a 'smart phone' use Google to get to Bing then do your search.

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This should be etched into Judas 00-bama's TelePrompters: "“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

― Katharine Hepburn