Hey, it's California again.... Online story: "On Friday night, transgender teen Cassidy Lynn Campbell was crowned homecoming queen at a California high school. * She is the first transgender homecoming queen at Marina High School and hopes that her win echoes outside her town. * She decided to run for homecoming queen this year to make a statement. * "If I win it would mean that the school recognizes me as the gender I always felt I was," * I'm doing this for the kids who can't be themselves." -- "for the kids who can't be themselves"? Who are these people? "She" wasn't elected Homecoming queen, "she" was elected homecoming QUEEN. I feel sorry for all the 100% girls who were slighted by a teenage joke.

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I'm not sure it's still a practice, but when I was in high school, the students always voted for a teacher to dedicate the annual to. One year, one of the cliques organized a push for voting for the school custodian as "the teacher". He really was a nice person, but 'the joke' was insensitive to the actual teachers. In fact, it was insensitive to the head custodian as well. Even though he knew we 'loved' him, he knew this was a joke rather than a true honor. Fortunately, the school administration overturned the student vote.

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Online story: "NBC's Chuck Todd just can't escape the backlash over a stray comment he made about the media earlier in the week. * The background, briefly: Todd was speaking with former governor Ed Rendell about Obamacare on Wednesday's "Morning Joe." Rendell said that the White House had not sold the program successfully, and that most Americans opposed to Obamacare had probably been given incorrect information about it. * Then came the fateful words: "What I always love is people say, 'Well, it's you folks' fault in the media.' No! It's the President of the United States' fault for not selling it." -- You know, this could fall into a 'Hillary' WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE category, but in reality, it started out and has grown as a Palin "moment"... it's a pig with too much lipstick. PS- I do love it when libs eat their own.

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Online headline: "Radwanska defeats Pavlyuchenkova to win Korea Open" -- Pop Test! Without looking this up (I'm not going to either), what sport/activity are they talking about? Never heard of these people, or knew there was anything but egotistical despotism that was "Open" in Korea.

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How about the dawgs yesterday... My Mississippi State ones played the whole game, while my bride's UGA ones finally showed up after halftime.]

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Why are all the speculations of Hillary running in 2016 floating about.. Of course she's running... it's the only thing that keeps the mainstream media from asking her to explain Benghazi for them. Mainstream media knows she will have more ad money to spend with them than they can get by selling ads issues that bring her down.

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Online story: "The great Dodgers-Diamondbacks pool controversy entered its second day Friday. The short version: The D-backs are still steamed. * U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the Dodgers “spoiled brats,” among other unpleasant things. New Dodgers reliever Brian Wilson then jabbed at McCain for losing the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama. * "Senator McComplain knows a thing or two about coming in second and watching someone take a plunge in the pool (I mean poll)" -- The one thing the Diamondbacks AND Sen. McComplain (I likethat!) fail to grasp is that the D-backs could have avoided this very simply.. just by winning the game on their home field!

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From a fellow BCer:

 

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Ugly TV uniform of the weekend..Michigan State.

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Harry Reid is blaming the Colorado floods on global warming. I guess Reid doesn't read newspapers either.

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L-E "headlie": "Already struggling to make ends meet, local food stamp recipients fear cuts " -- The L-E KNOWS that no family with children will get a single dollars worth of cut inn its food stamp allocation. Sadly, the "fear" demonstrates exactly WHY familes should cut their dependence on government and learn to depend on themselves.

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From above L-E story: "(Jane Doe) gets $250 a month in food stamps, but it only buys three weeks of groceries." -- The food stamp program is/was a program to help, to supplement, with buying food, not a complete food purchasing plan.

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From above story: "The south Columbus resident stretches the dollars by avoiding expensive stores in her low-income neighborhood. She travels by bus to a Walmart in north Columbus and then pays a cab driver $20 to get the groceries home. Some days, she just doesn’t have the funds." -- First is there not a Walmart on Buena Vista with the same prices as any Walmart in North Columbus? Secondly, are the stores selling food nearer to her charging more than the $20.00 cab (plus bus fares) she pays? Help thyself.

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Online story: "A journalism professor at the University of Kansas was placed on administrative leave Friday after posting a comment on Twitter regarding Monday's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard that killed 12 people. * David Guth, an associate professor at the school, went after the National Rifle Association in a Twitter message that read: "#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you." * Guth, who said he was writing as a private citizen simply looking to start a debate, has stood by his message. * "I dont apologize for it because I'm not saying in the tweet that I want anybody harmed, and I expanded on it in my blog," Guth told Fox4KC.com. "I defend the NRA's rights first and second amendments and I hope they respect mine." -- Guth wants "respect"? Me, too, but while I don't live in Kansas, the practice of putting 'teachers in general' on paid administrative leave for such crassness is disrespecting taxpayers everywhere. Besides, his wrath should be directed to A(_*_)ron Alexis' dead body!

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L-E story: "Columbus attorney Maxine Hardy, who has been practicing employment and discrimination law for more than two decades and has been involved in cases against the city, said it has been her experience that Land has a lot of leeway at this juncture. * “In my mind, the plaintiffs still have a claim for equitable relief,” Hardy said. “The judge has a lot of options available at this point. He can order promotions, back pay, front pay or attorneys’ fees.” -- "(the judge) can order promotions, back pay, front pay or attorneys’ fees." Hmmm, I'm sure Ms hardy reversed the order of importance of those choices to appear concerned...

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L-E headline: "Columbus Tech leads state system in enrollment growth " -- Hmmm, OK, L-E, how about doing a story on the enrolment DROPS in the University system. Start with CSU as y'all pretty much did front page heralding of the times it grew.

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Low-info voter's L-E "soundoff": "In Iowa the gun nuts are actually debating issuing gun permits to the blind! " -- Aside from "profiling" and "discriminating" against those with visual challenges, what else you got? Blind people use other senses to compensate, and hasn't this idiot ever seen blind people walking unattended down sidewalks and crossing streets. I repeat, IDIOT!

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I really don't think Judge Allen grasped his faux pas. It's hard to believe a sitting, soon-to-be-retiring judge would by-pass picking the best qualified jurists as his replacement or for the additional judgeship. Someone who does not know Judge Allen might think Judge Allen is not sure whether he was the top pick when it was his time. Rest assured, Judge Allen, anyone who has followed you, and known you, has no doubt you were the right choice at the time you were selected. Let the replacement and the additional judge get to feel that way, too.

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L-E story: " A man acquitted in a 2011 gunshot killing in Athens is still facing a prison sentence on related charges. * The Athens Banner-Herald reports that a judge sentenced Sabien Jacquand Jones to 20 years in prison on Friday. * A jury in June acquitted Jones on a murder charge in the shooting death of 25-year-old Fernando Leondus Terrell. But they convicted him on lesser charges of aggravated assault and possession of a gun during a crime. " -- Hmmm, a man died, and the accused killer was acquitted but convicted on assault and possession of a gun during a crime. Hmmm, was this the same jury panel that heard the Darr trial?

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L-E story: " A judge sentenced a Dothan man to 10 years in prison for sending a nude photograph of himself to a teenage girl. * The Dothan Eagle reports that 49-year-old Franklin Whaples also was accused of having photos of the girl on his phone. * Houston County prosecutor Kristen Shields says Whaples pleaded guilty to a single felony count of transmitting obscene material to a minor and three felony counts of possessing child pornography. He was arrested in November. * Defense lawyer Terry Bullard says Whaples is a “very nice guy” who made a mistake." -- A "very nice guy"? Is it any wonder why the public has such disdain for lawyers as a whole?

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L-E story: "Tuesday’s special primary election in a southwest Alabama congressional district has attracted a large field of candidates and drawn the interest of national political figures. * Nine Republicans and two Democrats are competing for their parties’ nominations in the 1st Congressional District. The office came open in August when Republican Jo Bonner traded his $174,000-a-year congressional post for a $350,000 job with the University of Alabama System." -- "traded his $174,000-a-year congressional post for a $350,000 job with the University of Alabama System"? Talk about using one's office for personal benefit! Surely there is going to be an ethics investigation of Bonner AND the University of Alamaba system.. especially the guy/guys that filled the job with Bonner.

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L-E's "Looking back | Fifty years ago today, September 22, 1963" * The nation would do better by building a canal across Georgia than Florida, Gov. Carl E. Sanders said last night, although admitting that his state’s chances are slimmer. * A canal connecting the Flint and Altamaha river systems “will be completed within our lifetime,” Sanders said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Georgia-Alabama Moose Convention. " --Wonder if Mayor Obamalinson has any idea of how much "study" money was spent on this?

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Interesting "item" in the Columbus Council Agenda: "A Resolution directing the mayor and city manager to get approval from the Columbus Council for any new personnel hired above Step C in any pay grade during fiscal year 2014 or any subsequent budget year until this resolution is modified or rescinded by the Columbus Council. (Councilor Berry “Skip” Henderson) " -- Hmmm, sounds like there may have been such hiring going on prior to this that wasn't approved by Council...

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