HuffPost headline:"US Senator From New Jersey Reportedly Under FBI Investigation" -- Hmmm - If it was a Republican Senator, name and rank would have been the headline..now, the rest of the story : "Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is the subject of a federal criminal investigation for his dealings with two Florida businessmen who are fugitives from Ecuador * the Justice Department is investigating the senator's ties to William and Roberto Isaias, the brothers who ran Ecuador's largest bank, and were convicted of embezzling more than $660 million during Ecuador's banking crisis in 1999. The brothers now live in Coral Gables, Fla. * he brothers turned to the New Jersey senator, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for help in seeking permanent residence in the U.S. * Federal election records show relatives of the Isaias brothers who are residents donated more than $10,000 to the senator's 2012 campaign. And those records show Roberto Isaias' family members also donated at least $100,000 to the Democratic Party in 2012. * Ecuador has repeatedly asked the United States to extradite the Isaias brothers, to no avail. When Vice President Joe Biden called Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to ask him to deny an asylum plea from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, Correa brought up the Isaias brothers' case. * "[Biden] told me that Mr. Snowden was a fugitive of American justice and didn’t have a passport,” Correa said, according to a report in El Telegrafo newspaper. "I told him, ‘Well, the Isaiases are fugitives of Ecuadorian justice and they also don't have passports and you won’t extradite them.' -- Hmmm, you know, this looks like it should have been handles by the Secretary of State.. Hey, mainstream media, will this make a difference whether you ask Hillary?

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From the "this proves my point" department concerning the above story - Online headline: "Feds subpoena NJ Gov. Christie's campaign, GOP" -- A federal investigation ..same state as Menedez, but a different party.

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Sopbox moment: How would decriminalizing drugs actually the "little guy", the "end user"? Talk of fines versus jail time would be worse for communities as fining someone would basically mean the user would have to find a way to feed the court system AND his/her daily use of drugs. Basically, crime would double. Individual drug use is not a "victimless crime".

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Online story: "In a new interview with Al Jazeera America, New York Times editor Jill Abramson called the Obama administration "the most secretive" she has ever had to contend with. * She added that the decision to be so aggressive towards the press "would have to" come directly from President Obama himself." -- Well, this story is now being seen by more people today than subscribe to Al Jazeera, so maybe it might even make enough noise that Ms Abramson might consider running it in her New York Times...

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Ah, "transparency"! Transparency by any other Judas 00-Barnum name would still smell.

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Muhtar Kent, Coca Cola chairman says the future for America is bright if the US attains "clarity". Hmmm, isn't "clarity" another name for "transparency"?

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You know... Judas 00-Barnum rewarding campaign donors with "plum" jobs like Ambassadorships pretty much describes a bribe. Why aren't such donors prohibited from accepting any job with an administration to which they contribute?

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I have on good authority that Mayor Obamalinson does not want to "visit" rescinding the Council's contribution to Columbus Regional (methinks she likes the cozy arrangement and party invites) for indigent care even though OObamaCRAP basically gives every previously indigent patient insurance coverage. Word is that she claims it'll be 10 +/- years before that would become true. Well, how about this, Madame Mayor Obamalinson: Take a surplus City computer and put it in the lobby of every Columbus hospital's ER Admission room, and make patients fill out an OObamaCRAP application while they are waiting. OOBamaCRAP could even use the computer's camera to take a photo to be used on each patients OObamaCRAP Insurance Card. As an added benefit, photo-ID OObamaCRAP insurance cards could then be the key to getting photo-ID requirements in states the DOJ is not letting them initiate such ID's as a voting requirement!

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Online story: "Kenneth Eugene Hogan, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after he received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. * Hogan admitted to stabbing 21-year-old Lisa Stanley but said he did so in self-defense after she lunged at him with a knife. Prosecutors said Hogan stabbed the woman more than 25 times in the back, neck and chest in January 1988, then knocked over several objects in her Oklahoma City apartment to make it appear as though she had been robbed. When interrogated, he gave police inconsistent statements." -- I usually don't mention the names of such (_*_)s, but this one is finally dead, and the girl's family can finally get closure. Ironically, this (_*_) lived longer behind bars r-than his victim lived. Justice this slow is questionably justice at all.

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Online story: "In the latest sign that Hillary Rodham Clinton will run for president, the nation's largest left-leaning super PAC said Thursday that it is raising money for the former secretary of state - an effort that will be led in part by two Bay Area residents. * President Obama's former campaign manager, Jim Messina. UC Berkeley law Professor Maria Echaveste, White House deputy chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, was also named Thursday to the PAC's 14-member board.* Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor who now lives in Oakland and teaches public policy at UC Berkeley, will co-chair the Priorities Action USA political action committee * "I want to elect a president who will appoint a Supreme Court justice who will overturn Citizens United so there is no necessity or no legality for this unfettered flow of money," said Granholm, who will be serving as a volunteer on the committee." -- Will someone pass this along to the US Supreme Court, and to the IRS who should revoke the 501 (c) x classification because this organization is conspiring to overthrow our Constitution.

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L-E story: "Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia unveiled plans Thursday to consolidate its Columbus operation — including nearly 1,800 local employees — to a new building that will be constructed and leased at Muscogee Technology Park in the Midland area of north Columbus." -- Looks like another blow to the Midtown area of Columbus.. it will be a big hit to restaurants and service businesses in the area, just as Mayor Obamalinson moving her own food company from Brown Avenue to Midland earlier.

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L-E story: "The final Columbus crime statistics for 2013 are out, and they don’t look good compared to 2012." -- Now we know why Mayor Obamalinson gave a campaign speech rather than a true state-of-the-City speech at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

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Attn: Colin Martin... Zeph Baker... start getting your messages out now!

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Moody's has downgraded the whole American Insurance industry. Now Moody's ratings have moved from "stable" to "negative". Moody's has determined that the industry cannot sustain it's profitability within the parameters of OObamaCRAP. Wow... the industry that was efficient for 85% of the nation is now in danger of collapsing .

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There's a NetFlix mockumentary coming that claims Romney "stole" the Republican nomination from Ron Paul.. If it's true, be thankful.. Ron Paul was about as electable as Ross Perot, and Judas OO-Barnum would have landslide him, and at the same time picked up more House and Senate seats, and we'd be in a more horrible fix that exists today.

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For some insane reason, my bride got a 2:07 AM "robo-call" alert on her cellphonefrom the CSU police concerning an incident on Warm Springs Road that may or may not have concerned a CSU student. Phone calls from police at 2:07 AM are quite alarming, and the only reason we can deduct for it is that one of our daughters takes CSU classes "online", and my bride's number is listed for emergency contact. Any of you lawyers want a class action suit from her and other parents in a similar situation to keep CSU nuisance calls from happening at 2:07 AM? CSU should be ashamed for upsetting a lot of parents.

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Online story: "A NEW ice age could be on its way to Europe after scientists warned of an alarming fall in the performance power of the Sun.* The number of gas explosions on the Sun's surface should be at the peak of its 11-year cycle of activity, but there has been an unexpected drop off. * One space physicist said he had not seen anything like it in his 30 year career, and there are fears the temperatures could drop so low the Thames might freeze over." -- Hmmm, maybe this guy is Algore's alter ego. Putting them in a debate would be ..wait a minute, I can't find a word to use,, no debate with Algore could ever be considered interesting.. help me out here.

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The above Algore contradiction just highlights a point. The Sun is not a source of perpetual energy so in actuality, the sun is burning itself up, so on a millennium basis, the sun is constantly on a cooling trend. Scientists who consider a 10 or thirty, even a 100 year time span for sun data should not even be credited with being scientists.

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Why does Fox keep Alan Colmes on their "contributors" list. He's gone so far left that even Judas 00-Barnum must cringe when Colmes defends/supports OObamaCRAP.

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Online story: "As the Super Bowl approaches New York much like a blizzard, here are some things to think about: in 2012, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was paid $29.5 million to run the organization. And that’s not all. The NFL, if you didn’t realize it, exists as a 501 c 6 organization. It’s not for profit! * In order to have that status, the NFL must be run as a charitable foundation. In 2012, they gave away a meager $2.3 million. Almost all of it–$2.1 million– went to the NFL Hall of Fame." -- I'm not even going to suggest this is obscene... it's ridiculous.. The Commissioner basically represents the owners and their interests, so why aren't the players suing Goodell personally for decisions "he" makes that have effected the safety of the players in the game? His decisions basically parrot the owners so they can make more money and s]do so without being scrutinized as the final authority of such issues. Goodell's pay set-up is basically guilt money.

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You know.. if the NFL owners are willing to pay NFL Commissioner Goodell $29M to run interference for them, then the owners should be responsible for building their own football stadiums.

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Low info voter's L-E "soundoff": " The wealthiest 85 people (people, not percent!) in the world possess more wealth than the poorest 3.5 billion, all combined. Mind blowing." -- Hmm.. there's a bit of parsing that needs to be done here before the libs start running down the wealthy as being the cause of poverty. When you get down to it, chances are the hundred or so wealthiest Columbusites probably have more wealth than the poorest 3.5 Billion as claimed, since most of those 3.5 billion have 'zip' to begin with and are probably not concerned with the wealth of others.

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L-E's "Quotable": “The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” - Alfred Whitney Griswold American educator (1906-1963)" -- Hmmm, maybe so, but he must have died and taken the rest of the good ideas for education to the grave.

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From L-E editorial: " House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta, is sponsoring a pair of bills that could render at least some of those arguments moot, at least in Georgia. * The more significant of the two would create a process of one-time voter registration for Georgians: “Once you register to vote in the state of Georgia, you shouldn’t have to re-register if you move across the county line or move to a new city,” Abrams says. “It would be permanent, portable voter registration." -- You know, some people, including the L-E editorial responder, think this would be good, but in reality, having such a policy would promote voter fraud, especially at the local levels, at rate we have never seen before. Students from one part of GA coild be enticed to vote in local elections where they go to school. Others who move could always be enticed to vote absentee back at there original voting city. This just reeks of Democratic Party politics. Fortunately, GA voters have limited Democratic Party representatives so this will not happen..hopefully ever!