Online headline: "Massive Sinkhole Opens Up On Chicago's South Side" -- Ooops, my bad.. thought Judas 00-bama had created a new entitlement program.

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Online story: "NEW YORK (AP) — A 1969 painting by Francis Bacon set a world record for most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. * "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" was purchased for $142,405,000 at Christie's postwar and contemporary art sale on Tuesday night. The triptych depicts Bacon's artist friend." -- $142M... some liberal just paid out $142 M for bragging rights amongst his/her friends rather than donate such to a program for the less fortunate. Tomorrow, he/she will probably hold a fundraiser to re-elect Pelosi and Feinstein.

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Online story: "A Russian performance artist was hospitalized Sunday after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights." -- What was he trying to demonstrate...he's nuts or something? Well, I believe him so I guess he has to be considered a good artist in the arts world...such as it is.

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L-E headline: "Top Japan official vows crackdown on mob loans" -- Hmmm, film at 11:00.... dead body found 12:00?

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NYT headline: "Typhoon Haiyan has left at least 10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless in the Philippines. And it has once again underscored for many development experts a cruel truth about climate change: It will hit the world’s poorest the hardest." -- Hmm interesting... the NYT compares a bunch of hot air to Algore... works for me.

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Guess we can expect a new theme song for the merger of 00-bamaCRAP and the IRS... "The Eyes of Taxas are upon you".

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Had another brain freeze on an item yesterday. I was thinking Gonzaga but wrote Washington when I was reporting that a University was thinking about expelling two students who fended of an attack on their dorm room with their guns. Sorry... of course, it could have been Washington just as easily.

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L-E story: "Columbus Council today approved allowing growler stores to give customers samples of the beers they're considering buying." -- I guess we can be glad marijuana wasn't legalized by Council. Wait a minute, didn't Council ban free happy hour samples.. you know 2-for-1, buy-one-get-one-free?

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Online story: "The idea of passing legislation to allow all Americans to keep their coverage got a fresh boost on Tuesday when Mr. Clinton added his voice to the debate. In an interview, Mr. Clinton joined the intensifying criticism of the health care rollout and called on Mr. Obama to accept a change in the health care law that would allow insurance companies to keep selling policies that do not meet the new standards." -- Hey, before anyone thinks Clinton is for reversing this because it's the tight thing to do. Clinton is only interested in how this will affect Hillary's electability. Of course, Judas 00-bama could care less what's good for America or Hillary compared to what he's trying to accomplish.

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McClatchy story: "Kerry pledges U.S. support for Typhoon Haiyan recovery" -- Hmmm, didn't then Senator Kerry also pledge support for Haiti, and we can see how good that's been.

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L-E story: "Arrests last week of five suspects charged in a burglary near Floyd Road has resulted in clearing 26 burglary and theft cases in east and north Columbus, police said Tuesday." -- Hmm, one of them was named Rickey Henderson..... guess his parents were fond of a record setting player, Rickey Henderson, "Man of Steal"....

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Does anyone know what Jay Carney's real name is? Are you sure? All we know for sure is that is the name Judas 00- bama told us, but we pretty well know how dependable his word is.

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In Douglas, GA. a clerk at a Circle K stored was fired for having a gun on location after he fired at a would be robber. Company policy was the reason. You know, companies that advocate policies like this are inviting criminals into their stores and endangering the lives of people who are working for a living. One class action suit should produce results, but until then, I'm avoiding all local Circle K stores. I do not want to be a customer when a criminal comes in to rob the place because he's aware the Circle K stores are "gun free".

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L-E story: " Columbus Council voted Tuesday to authorize the city to go forward with a plan to build a large roundabout at the intersection of River Road, Bradley Park Drive, Green Island Drive and Cascade Road * The traditional makeover had been approved and almost $1 million allocated for the project. About $158,000 had been spent for design work, which will be of little use in the new project. * The roundabout will cost considerably more than the initial plan, between $1.75 million and $2.25 million, said Deputy City Manager David Arrington, who brought the proposal before council Tuesday. It will also require about $154,000 in additional design work" -- Hmmm, you know, if Council scrapped this, it would have saved $312,000.00 in design work/rework which would offset the $300,000.00 Mayor Obamalinson wasted on another project for high speed rails, and the construction cost savings would offset the $2 million regular city employees are being hit up for the healthcare program which was designed to save everybody money.

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Low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "You need to pay attention. It’s the Republicans, not the Democrats, who are trying to keep people pressed down and, so to speak, on the plantation." -- Yeah, right. It's those dastardly Republicans that want everyone to be successful, rather than be dependent and enslaved by inadequate government entitlement programs the Democrats push.

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L-E story: "BOSTON — (_*_) Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect (_*_) Bomber Brother 2 renewed their accusations Tuesday that prosecutors are withholding evidence they need to defend their client against a potential death penalty. (_*_) Bomber Brother 2's (_*_) lawyers complained that prosecutors have failed to turn over several types of evidence they believe could help them argue against the death penalty." -- Excuse me, but isn't the trial about his bombing and killing and maiming American civilians? Death is just the potential sentence for his guilt, and the jury should give that based simply on his guilt.

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L-E story: " Under the Affordable Care Act, by January 2015, the Muscogee County School District might have to offer health insurance to possibly hundreds of more employees." -- Excuse me, but the MCSD doesn't "have to" do such. It can monitor the work schedules better to keep part time and substitute employees under the 30 hour thresholds as defined in 00bamaCRAP. For the record, though, we should contact our board and insist it not purchase software from the makers of the OObamaCRAP database.

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L-E headlines in one story grouping: "Third robbery in two weeks hits Miller Road Circle K" - " Summit customer held at gunpoint during robbery" - " Buena Vista Road Waffle House robbed" -- All the "suspects were armed, and all the suspects are black... hmmm, all the targets are "gun free".. what does that tell you about attracting street crime?

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Out of curiosity, are there any other MLB teams that have won their division as many times in the last 22 years than Atlanta? From the local sports page articles, you'd think the Braves had the worse combined record over that period than any other team in either league.

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Have you noticed (DOH!) how the sports writers around the country want to displace Alabama from its top ranking? Currently it's FSU being proffered. You know, Alabama is not my favorite team, in fact it's one of my teams biggest rivals, but i recognize that Alabama is holding the scores down by sticking to its game plan of using up the clock as much as it can between scores. Heaven forbid if Alabama started using the hurry-up offense of its competitors.. Las Vegas wouldn't even put out a line on the games if Bama did that.