We grieve, but not sadly , in the death of Lovick Corn. Gentle, unflappable..to know him made you better, to be influenced by him makes the world better.

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Online story: "A homemade drug that causes severe damage to the flesh of those who use it has reportedly shown up in the U.S. * Previously reported in Russia, Krokodil, a disfiguring and potentially lethal mixture of codeine and hydrocarbons such as oil, paint thinner, gasoline or alcohol, has made its way to Arizona. * Once injected, the drug causes damage to blood vessels and tissue that cause flesh to rot from the inside out. * It is reportedly 20 times cheaper than heroin, but produces a similar high." -- Nahhhh, entry level "recreational" drugs aren't going to hurt you or lead you on to different experiences. Drugs are "fun"!

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Online story: "O.J. Simpson found out how the cookie crumbles when he was allegedly caught stealing gooey goodies from a Nevada prison cafeteria. * The former gridiron great was recently caught with a stash of not one, but more than a dozen oatmeal cookies," -- Hmmm, the new face for "Cookie Monster"...now we'll find out how popular OJ's 'cookies' are in the prison's common area.

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HuffPost headline/story: "Barilla Pasta Chairman Makes Shocking Anti-Gay Comments * Guido Barilla said, per a Huffington Post translation of the interview. "For us, the 'sacral family' remains one of the company’s core values. * Our family is a traditional family. If gays like our pasta and our advertisings, they will eat our pasta; if they don’t like that, they will eat someone else’s pasta. * You can’t always please everyone not to displease anyone. * I would not do a commercial with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect toward homosexuals – who have the right to do whatever they want without disturbing others – but because I don’t agree with them, and I think we want to talk to traditional families. The women are crucial in this." * Barilla said he respects people's right to do what they want without disturbing others, but that he does not agree with gay adoption." -- Only in the extreme mainstream media is this "shocking". I guess people without our values feel it's wrong to have our values. To hell with them...and that!.

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Online story: "UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock, the United States and Russia agreed on Thursday on a U.N. Security Council draft resolution that would demand Syria give up its chemical arms, but does not threaten military force if it fails to comply. * Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said a deal was struck with Russia "legally obligating" Syria to give up its chemical stockpile and the measure went to the full Security Council in a closed-door meeting on Thursday night." -- Legally "obligating"? "does not threaten military force"? Mainstream media and Judas 00-bama are proud of this?

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Online story: "Sen. Kelly Ayotte is blocking Senate action on President Barack Obama's nominee for Air Force secretary until she gets answers about the fate of the military's A-10 attack aircraft. * "As ranking member of the Armed Services readiness subcommittee, Sen. Ayotte's central concern is that our troops, including New Hampshire servicemen and women serving in harm's way, have the close air support they need to safely accomplish their missions," Liz Johnson, a spokeswoman for the senator, said in a statement Thursday. "The A-10 airframe is credited with saving 60 American lives this summer in Afghanistan." -- You know, Sen Ayotte will be the loser on this.. not only will mainstream media beat her up for personal greed (since her hubby is a former A-10 pilot), mainstream media will blast he since Judas 00-bama won't cross the lines he draws in the sand, the USA no longer needs an "attack" aircrfat.

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Online story: "National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said the NSA wants to collect more phone records, even after being the subject of recent public unease. * Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) asked Alexander if the NSA wants "the phone records of all Americans" during a congressional hearing Thursday. * "I believe it is in the nation's best interest to put all the phone records into a lockbox that we can search when the nation needs to do it, yes," --"A searchable "lockbox"? Well, I guess we do have a "lockbox" available. Remember....Algore had one made to put all our social security money into, and it looks like it was never used.

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The nerve of NSA Director Keith Alexander to tell us our personal info would be 'safe'! Maybe he'll clarify if it will be safer than our military and political secrets were in "WikiLeaks" and Snowden's situations?

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I tell you what... if the NSA will publish all the e-mails and phone call transcripts of all our National Politicians once a year, maybe.. just maybe, I could see some value of the NSA putting all of mine in a "lockbox" until "needed".

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Online story" "SANTA ANA, Calif. — A 19-year-old man was charged Thursday with hacking webcams at the home of Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and other women to extort nude photos and videos from them" -- What was he doing... getting a resume' video up to apply for a job at the NSA? Tell you what, I'm going to put a piece of duct tape over the lenses on the computers and phones we do have, and not buy another in the future if it has a camera lens without a camera lens cover.

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Online headline: "MLB Commissioner's Retirement Plans Revealed" -- Hmmm, wonder if he new about this before he read about it?

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Online headline/story: "School to Dad: Dead Son Not in Class * Jonas Pierre says officials from Prospect Heights' International High School call him to complain of son's attendance record months after the boy drowned upstate. * The Prospect Heights dad this week said he is receiving calls from the Prospect Heights' International High School claiming his son Jean Fritz Pierre has missed too many classes. His son died four months ago in a school trip upstate." -- One call is unacceptable, but "calls"? Once again, education has proven itself inefficient in delivering public service... of being unworthy of government protection... and of being too intrusive into the public's lives. All federal programs need to be defunded and a moratorium placed on any new programs being presented to Congress or by any president. I do not know whether any (or most) of you are familiar with theses robo-call school phone 'trees", but they can be a nightmare. Our daughters school's robo-call system calls randomly and excessively , and dials all five of the numbers 'it' knows about at the same time. It sounds like an alarm system going off announcing WW3 when ever the school wants to remind us of something they've already e-mailed us about.

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Thinking about all those robo-calls... wonder how much the NSA storage costs will be to keep all of those?

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Hey... maybe we can get our Congresspersons to make something useful out of NSA's intrusions. Make a new law that requires NSA to detect and divert ALL robo-calls... especially the re-election ones!

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The state of education is frightening. Robots are learning and picking up new skills while they learn, while our children in schools aren't.

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Online story: "Could your brain keep on living even after your body dies? Sounds like science fiction, but celebrated theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking recently suggested that technology could make it possible. * "I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like a computer," Hawking said last week during an appearance at the Cambridge Film Festival, The Telegraph reported. "So it's theoretically possible to copy the brain on to a computer and so provide a form of life after death." -- Wow! Stephen Hawking must have talked with my computer geek b-i-l in California. Tears ago, I related a theory I had about our brains basically being computer memory banks, and when we're born, we have 'data' from our ancestors "stored" like 'deleted files'. The data was still there, but the access link was erased which is how computers handle deleted data, and until it's 'overwritten' with new data, it's 'mine-able'. I told him and my sister that on more than a few times, places I've been or items I've handled seem like I've been there before or know something about the item. This is probably the basis of "deja vu" we have all sensed at one or more times in our lives. Of course, Hawkings theory is probably something that doesn't need to be pursued. After all, we all know that computer data can be hacked, corrupted or accidentally erased... beside, if you convert your brain to a computer, it'll become obsolete next month, and become a doorstop.

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Random thought: "IMHO, all campaign funds left over after an election should be turned over to the local level of government where election is/was sought the day an election is over, and no campaign funds should be able to be donated nor accepted except during the physical year of the next election. At least criminalize the conversion of such accounts to personal use when a politician retires or loses.

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Oh yeah, elected officials should be banned from making donations from their campaign accounts to other politicians running for office. This is a complete violation of controlling the amount one supporter can give to any one candidate. Example: I'm a uncontested candidate... donor "A" makes a maximum donation to another candidate, then gives me one which I will not need to spend with a 'suggestion" I make a similar donation to the same candidate he's maxxed-out on. According to current election laws, this is legal yet it's still very wrong.

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A V-8 moment! Call/write/e-mail/text your Congresspersons today that all our foreign aid payments to non-Christian countries be paid in cash and air-dropped into the capital city like propaganda pamphlets. If the finders of our money are Christians, they'll get "help from above" for themselves and their families. If the finders are not Christian, they'll burn it because it says "In God We Trust". That way our Christian beliefs will be honored, and since most of the money will be destroyed, our savings accounts won't be diluted or weakened by too much money being in circulation. Yeah!

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Online headline: "Mariano Rivera makes emotional final exit at Yankee Stadium" -- Thank goodness the Yankees aren't going to the playoffs. Mariano has had a stellar career.. now he can 'retire' once instead of every time the Yanks suit up in an elimination game.

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Online story: "It was one of candidate Obama’s most vivid and concrete campaign promises. Forget about high minded (some might say high sounding) but gauzy promises of hope and change. * This candidate solemnly pledged on June 5, 2008: “In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year….. We’ll do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States.” * Unfortunately, the experts working for Medicare’s actuary have reported that in its first 10 years, Obamacare will boost health spending by “roughly $621 billion” above the amounts Americans would have spent without this misguided law." -- I gues 'political correctness' has seared the concept of "in black & white" as it applies to reading material as well.

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Online story: "WASHINGTON, D.C. – The IRS is unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report released today. * The “Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund” (HIRIF) was tucked into Obamacare in order to give the IRS money to enforce the tax provisions of the healthcare law." -- Hmmm, now we know why (and how) Lois Lerner is getting to 'retire'.

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Online story: "A school district in southern Virginia is finally standing up to stop violence in the school system. They have stepped forward to take definitive action against the latest scourge to school safety – Duck Dynasty t-shirts." -- Yep, no public school wants to promote earned self-esteem, the effect of self-sufficiency, prayer and marriage to the students that the school wants to estrange from their dependency on their natural parents.

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From the "out of the closet department".. dusting off the past news - Online story: "Those of us who pay attention to the real news know that in 2006, as a newly elected United States senator and rising star in the Democratic Party here, Barack Hussein Obama traveled to Kenya and illegally used his office (in violation of the Logan Act) to campaign for his cousin of the Luo tribe, Raila Odinga, who was running for president there. * Odinga wound up officially losing the 2007 election, but he and his socialist/Islamic Sharia platform hard-line supporters refused to accept the results. * Odinga’s faction already had an action plan in place in the event of their election defeat, and they carried it out with utter ruthlessness. * They waged violent jihad against Christians, hacking them to death with machetes, and conducted a prolonged campaign of “ethnic cleansing” and murder, riots, and all kinds of terror, including the burning and total destruction of at least 80 Christian churches. The body count from that ”religion of peace” program was in the thousands, with a half a million people displaced by the violence." -- Is there any doubt why Judas 00-bama has a problem of crossing a 'line
he's drawn in the sand' involving Muslim factions? Hey, the "line" is actually a "fence" he sits on.

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L-E headline/story: "2013 SAT scores released: Muscogee County continues improvement, led by Carver High School * Carver's score increased 42 points from 1202 last year to 1244 this year. * The Muscogee school with the biggest gain the during past four years is Spencer, which added seven more points to its composite score for a 1206 this year -- a total improvement of 69 points since 2009. * The bad news for the district is that Early College (minus-50), Kendrick (minus-43) and Jordan (minus-24) took double-digit drops the past year. -- It's amazing how the L-E can fall prey to the conniving of the MCSD press spokespeople! The SAT score are atrocious, but the MCSD has made the Le think it's "positive" by comparing mediocrity as a success when compared to failure. We had 3 high locally last year that could not produce a single student to qualify as a "S.T.A.R." student. If you take away the SAT scores of CHS, the average for the rest slip down into the abyss of failure. Again, it's time we petition our legislature to override the laws that have given us political school boards versus the appointed schools of the past.

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You know what's even a sadder note about the MCSD SAT results.. All our high schools have some magnet programs, and those programs should effect at least part of the SAT results in a positive manner, but other than CHS, we, no, the MCSD is wasting tax dollars by running higher costing magnet programs.

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Online story: "A subsidiary of Visa, a key Obama campaign donor, that specializes in credit card transactions has abruptly stopped servicing the nation’s largest gun store after four years because the store sells guns, a fact the owners never hid." -- Since guns are a legal product, what a merchant sells should have no boundaries for card processing. Even drug dealers can acquire one of those cell phone card processors and their customers could pay for their drugs with a "Visa". I'm going to CB&T today and request a new debit card that either has a "MC" identity or is devoid of the "Visa" mark; otherwise, I will change banks.

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Now it's official... Extreme terrorists are going online to recruit jihadists. Now 'foes' will take advantage of California's new "erase" law which makes online networks let teens spout off at will, and as soon as the results are obtained, the teens can eliminate all traces to them. Don't you know terrorist cells in California will take that option and run with it?

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Online headline: "Anthony Weiner Thinking About A Career In Media: NY Observer" -- Well, he has become a "media star"... uh, "spectacle".

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Online story: "LONDON (AP) — The statue of Michael Jackson outside Premier League club Fulham has been hauled down. * On the orders of new owner Shad Khan, the tribute to the late "King of Pop" was removed Wednesday from outside Craven Cottage in west London. * The statue is being returned to Mohammed Al Fayed, a friend of Jackson's who sold Fulham to Khan in July. * Khan also owns the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. He says "our supporters' views on the statue have been made clear." He adds that "the removal of the statue is the right thing for Fulham." -- Hmmm, guess the Muslims figured out Michael was either a Christian or Jew, but nevertheless, an infidel.

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Do liberals really think Judas 00-bama had a grasp of reality? Obamarats raised the taxes on cigarettes with the revenue targeted for some healthcare program, but so many have stopped smoking, those programs are super underfunded. Now he's counting on young people who don't need/want medical insurance to "buy" it, but at the same time, they can stay on their parents policies.

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L-E headline/story: "Woman accused of Medicaid fraud * Indictment: Della Upshaw filed $269,000 in false health care claims * According to the attorney general, an investigation into Upshaw’s companies started “when it was discovered that Upshaw submitted an extraordinarily high percentage of claims … without any documentation.” -- Excuse me, but why isn't documentation the first step in paying any claim? No private business operates this way, and neither should government. Is this why Judas 00-bama and Eric Holder are so anti-photo ID?

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Very, very low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "Mr. Obama is still digging this country out of the hole that President Bush left it in, and you say there hasn’t been any improvement. You need to see a psychiatrist. " -- You know, my grandfather told me the best way to start getting out of a hole is to "STOP DIGGING"! Only the ignorant keep digging thinking they are moving forward.

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L-E story: "GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The Ku Klux Klan has been granted a permit to hold an event at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pa. * Park officials say the special-use permit was approved for a Maryland-based KKK group to exercise its First Amendment rights on Oct. 5." -- Guess what, the KKK is a legal organization and no more, no less racist than the Congressional Black Caucus, the UNCF, the Miss Black America contest, or any other segregationist organization, and is entitled to our Constitutional 1st Amendment rights. I'm exercising my 1st Amendment rights by not endorsing any of the above organizations because they are racist. Welcome to America. Mainstream media and libs, get over it.

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L-E headline: "Feds direct $100M in grants to help broke Detroit* -- Brilliant...NOT! Pour good money into a sinking ship... might as well throw it another anchor as well. This is akin to giving a non-interest loan to a shop-a-holic when the right track is to cut up their credit cards.

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Random thought.. I just paid $3.159 per gallon for regular guess this week for 'branded' stuff, and the oil prices have been at over $103.00 a barrel. Makes those claims of higher oil prices spurring escalating pump prices seem to be liberal posturing.