HuffPost "Headlie": "Boeing Paid No Federal Income Tax Last Year: Analysis" -- Hmmm so Boeing paid "no" income tax last year.. hmmm.. guess that's a sign of good management. On the other hand, 169,000+ employees making between $21.00-to-$143.00 per hour paid income taxes, shareholders of 751,450,000 shares paid income taxes on $2,006,371,500.00 paid in dividends. Only a liberal or liberal group would claim Boeing, or any corporation didn't pay income taxes. Truth is, no corporation should have to pay income taxes.

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Online headline/story: "Activists Petitioning To Split California Into Six States * The proposed measure would divide California into six states, called Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California and South California." -- Not a bad start, but who in the rest of the country wants to have 12 Senators like Feinstein and Boxer. I have a suggestion... how about if California just splits itself off from the US and officially lives in its own little world it has carved out for itself already?

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Online story: "President Obama will not include cuts to Social Security and other earned-benefit programs in his upcoming budget, the White House confirmed on Thursday. * The cuts had been included in past proposals to lure Republicans into a so-called "grand bargain" that would raise taxes and cut spending with the goal of deficit reduction." -- What hogwash...Judas 00-Barnum is going to have a rough time getting any Democrats re-elected to Congress as it is without upsetting Seniors anymore than they are, but to claim that Republicans liked cutting earned SS pensions and raising taxes is another out-and-out lie.

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Another HuffPost "headlie": "Turns Out Anti-Union Volkswagen Workers May Have Screwed Themselves And The South" -- Hmm, the head of the German Works Council (union) says co-determination may mean no more expansion of VW in the South. Wanna bet? VW chose the South following the successes of BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Kia et al , and others will follow suit. The South is not only a "right-to-work" area, it's an area employees actually "like-to-work".

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Online story: " Two senior officials at JPMorgan Chase & Co and predecessor companies repeatedly confronted Bernard Madoff over irregularities in his business, a new lawsuit said, suggesting that bank leaders had "direct knowledge" of his Ponzi scheme. * The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Steamfitters Local 449 Pension Fund in Pittsburgh and Central Laborers' Pension Fund in Jacksonville, Illinois, both shareholders of JPMorgan." -- Hmmm, seems to me, the real lawsuit to file is by the employees who contributed into their pension funds against their own pension fund committee that swallowed Madoff's pie-in-the-sky profit scheme.

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The libs are at it again... now they are dumbing down obesity..Michelle's pet project isn't working so nowthey want to rewrite "normal" and add a few pounds so it will look like things are improving.

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Has any one from the mainstream media actually asked Judas 00-Barnum as to which side he supports in Kiev? The government, which wants the citizens to have fewer rights, or the protestors who want less government and more freedoms? Can anyone from the mainstream media tell us which side 00-Barnum takes on those issues in this country.

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Bleep Veep Biden has been appointed the sacrificial lamb for OObamaCRAP. He's out shaking his head that they won't get the 7 Million signees Judas 00-Barnum said was the magic number to make it work. You know, for a program with the intent of getting 30+ MILLION people who weren't insured into an insurance program. 7,000,000 was an embarrassing goal to begin with, but with it missing it by so much is pathetic.

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Why would the FCC want or need to spy on our newsrooms/newspapers? Doesn't the FCC have control of all airwaves the NSA is scanning?

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Online headline: "Feds warn of possible shoe-bomb threat" -- Ooops, my bad, thought Judas 00-Barnum was warning us about the latest Jimmy Choo line.

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Hmmmm...the FCC spying...Kiev....and now Shoe Bombs...hey... what about Benghazi? What about 00bamaCRAP?

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Kiev has turned from beautiful to Detroitish.

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Is Judas 00-Barnum is trying to pull the wool over mainstream media's eyes by jabbing the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 10th while what he really wants to circumvent is the 22nd? Guess he figures mainstream media and the Republicans will give him the 22nd if he will leave the others alone.

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Latest from www.barackobama/organizingforaction.com: "Hal * It's been nearly four years since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. * It makes you wonder when the Health Care Repealers in Congress are going to face reality. They voted 46 times in the House to repeal or restrict health care reform -- some have even said repeal is their top priority." -- "when the Health Care Repealers in Congress are going to face reality"? What I want to know is when mainstream and the White House is going to face reality!

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Is there no shame in the White House? The newest press spokesperson is named Josh Earnest, but he still spins the truth just as bad as that Carney shill.

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You know, candy packaging has really changed over the last 50 years. Not near as many come in cardboard boxes, but remember when those that did had a message on one end that read either, "Do not open this end" or "open other end". My bride bought some "Sweethearts" to give to her church charges, and I got a box that was left over. There it was, "Open Other End".. I didn't, and the little sugar bombs tasted as sweet as I remembered when I opened the other end all those years in the past. Test those tags off your mattresses and pillows! You will feel better!

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Online story: " Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was also found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun * Talley was found "with eight nail gun wounds to his torso and head" in his own garage." -- At first, I thought this was the punch line to an old joke, but it's reality. Wonder if the coroner ordered an autopsy? Glad it wasn't in Columbus.

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Online quote source: "“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” - Abraham Lincoln" -- Hmmm, no doubt he was a Republican.. this is surely lost on those who run as or vote as a Democrat.

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From the L-E's "Looking back | Fifty years ago today, February 21, 1964 * EDITOR’S NOTE: The Looking Back archive is temporarily unavailable due to technical problems." -- Hmmm. twice in one week.. Guess either they lost the key to the Morgue, or there was good things to say about this date in 1964 that the L-E just didn't want to admit happened.

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L-E headline: "Cardinals delve into divorce-remarriage debate" -- Hmmm... like they are so in tune with the intricacies of marriages ....

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While Columbus should be glad to have Owen Ditchfield run for another seat on the MCSD board.. kit's a little disconcerting is that he says he's doing so to support the new Superintendent.. That's not what his job is supposed to do. School board members should be the Columbus taxpayers/voters monitor to watchdog how the school administration handles our young peoples education and public dollars.

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L-E story: " Sandra Okamoto, a 39-year veteran of the Ledger-Enquirer, was honored by the Springer Opera House at its annual season announcement Thursday night." -- In unison... a well deserved Standing "O" for Sandra. Hear, hear!

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On a personal note, 2014 is a varied emotional year for me so far. I bask in seeing my oldest daughter planning her marriage and life with her friend and husband-to-be, but have also lost three family members this year. My older brother died on January 1st, and this week two other "members' passed. Louise Morris, a church, and Kirven's Department Store family legend passed at age 95, and "Mr. Richard" (Richard Howard Bickerstaff) died at age 96. Mr Richard and his late wife Margaret were my other set of parents growing up and throughout my life. I last saw and spoke with him about 3 weeks ago when I went to see him and thank him for a donation he'd made to a shared favorite charity in memory of my brother. His memory will be ongoing through my friendships with his children and grandchildren.

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L-E story: " Fannie May Confections is recalling 12,000 boxes of chocolates because one of the chocolates inside contains peanuts, a fact that isn’t reflected on the packaging. * The company announced the recall Wednesday and it started pulling the red heart-shaped gift boxes off the market the same day. The boxes weigh four ounces each and contain eight chocolates, including the peanut/caramel candy. They had been sold since Jan. 10 in up to 450 stores, including Walgreens, Hallmark Gift Shops and Jewel Grocers, in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin." -- How convenient... that is making a recall of heart-shaped boxes of candy the week after Valentine's Day, and AFTER the next day clearance sales. How many boxes actually got pulled for recall. 5, 6?