Online headline: "Armed men took control of two airports in the Crimea region in what Ukraine's government described as an invasion by Russian forces." -- Looks like Putin has been watching "Rocky IV" too long, but feels this time Drago can beat Rocky because he'll be fighting Obama instead of Rambo.

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Online headline/story: "Name a Martian crater for just $5 bucks * Putting your stamp on Mars isn't free. Naming the smallest craters will set you back $5, with prices going up as crater size increases. Uwingu will use the money raised by the project — which could be more than $10 million, if people name every available Martian crater — to fund grants in space exploration, research and education, which is the company's stated chief purpose." -- Good grief... besides anyone actually having the right to claim ownership of such right, and even if all the crater rights were "sold", $10,000,000.00 probably wouldn't fuel a space ship out of Earth's gravity, but would fill somebody's pockets nicely. BTW, "Uwingu" is said to be Swahili for "Sky"... it's probably a Nigerian bank term for "scam".

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Online story: " The cast of NBC's "Parks and Recreation" is getting a new member for a night: Michelle Obama." -- Hmmm, wonder if she'll get asked, "Boxers or briefs"?

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Online story: "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hospitalized Thursday after experiencing faintness and shortness of breath. * Holder is in "good condition" and is "alert" and talking with his doctors," -- Somebody must have wished him a day that 'he couldn't tell a lie' (Liar, Liar 2?) and he went into protective custody overnight.

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Instant replay: "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hospitalized Thursday after experiencing faintness and shortness of breath. 8 Holder is in "good condition" and is "alert" and talking with his doctors," -- Hmmm, Pric Holder goes under anesthesia, can the doctors ask him questions about where Judas 00-Barnum keeps his birth certificate and college records?

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Instant replay too: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hospitalized Thursday after experiencing faintness and shortness of breath. * Holder is in "good condition" and is "alert" and talking with his doctors," -- Hmmm, it looks obvious that Pric Holder is not there on his OObamaCRAP plan. Hmmm, if he's there on his old plan, does that mean it hasn't changed policy conditions since 2010, and that the insurance we taxpayers have paid for all these years has covered "previous conditions" and capless for benefits, and what is his deductible?

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Online headline: "Martin Walsh, Bill De Blasio To Boycott St. Patrick's Day Parades In Protest Of Anti-Gay Policies" -- Wanna bet the parade organizers will cave in and rename it the "St PATRInizing Day Parade"?

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Absurd (even for) HuffPost story: " The Republican lobbyist promising to introduce a bill banning gays from the National Football League unveiled the text of that legislation on Thursday.* The bill, titled "The American Decency Act of 2014," would make it illegal for "self-declared homosexual football players" to join an NFL team unless it "provides facilities for homosexual players which are entirely separate and distinct from the facilities used by heterosexual players." A violation of that provision would result in a fine between $3 million and $8 million. * Pushed by lobbyist Jack Burkman, CEO of Burkman Associates LLC, the bill would give the Department of Justice the power to enforce the ban." -- "Republican lobbyist"? Lobbyists represent/push "issues" and solicit support from all Representatives/Senators REGARDLESS of party affiliation. The HuffPost 'article' at least "admits" only a handful of such have signed on, but the HuffPost does not, probably cannot, give actual names of Congresspersons who have done so. Also take in the HuffPost political/cultural bias, and that "lobbyists" aren't members of Congress and neither submit or vote on bills.

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Online story: " The mayor of New Jersey's capital city was removed from office by a judge Wednesday, 19 days after a jury found him guilty of corruption as part of a government sting. * Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, 48, had fought to remain in office until his sentencing in May while also seeking to have his conviction thrown out. * But Judge Mary Jacobson rejected his arguments and signed an order removing him from office. Mack is also ineligible to hold public office in the future and has been stripped of his taxpayer-funded pension. He will be allowed to keep the contributions he made to his retirement plan." -- "Stripped of his taxpayer paid pension"? "allowed to keep the contributions he made"? Were not the "contributions he made" supplied by the taxpayers as well? All I can surmise is that this guy really PO'd some Democrats up the line in power.

My guess is that ex-Mayor M(_*_)ck must have exposed how the system of corruption worked so the pwers-that-be above him won't be able to continue to do the same thing.

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A heads up .... A movie coming out this March was partially shot here in Columbus/Phenix City...."The Need For Speed". Look for the bridge over the Chattahoochee River between our cities for some spectacular racing & crash scenes.

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Hillary says OObamaCRAP does need to be more transparent.....HUH? A Clinton talking about transparency..Yeah, like she's been...this is the woman who redacted her cookie recipes.

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Hillary...Ms "who, me...bake cookies?" Is now telling women it's wonderful they don't need to go to work to afford/get health insurance. I guess what's she trying not to say is there aren't any jobs available.

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The Republican campaign should be about being "The Party of Know", emphasize the Democrat's as the "Party of No Way"

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I don't believe it... I actually heard Nancy Pelosi start a statement about not voting on Irani sanctions with. " I think". Yeah, right.. Coming from a woman who encourages her party members to vote without reading, you know she's never had a thought of her own.

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Great! The Senate is kicking around a bill to ban marketing e-cigarettes to minors because it's a "gateway" to real cigarettes. These are some of the same guys that feel marijuana is safe and self contained.

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Prosecutors of Pistorius have had his iPhone for over a year but haven't "cracked" his password. They're stupid! I'm pretty sure Pistorius would get another iPhone and download his back-up info, THEN delete it, cancel the account, and open another number. His old number will have been re-issued to somebody else by now.

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Online headline: "Keith Olbermann Did Not Watch MSNBC For More Than A Year While He Was Working There" -- Hmm, and, obviously, neither did anyone else.

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Online quote source: "“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything.” - Anne Frank " -- 2014 & 2016 are on the way.. these are words to inspire conservatives until then.

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Online story: "A $60 million Texas high school stadium that got national attention for its grandeur and price tag will be shut down indefinitely 18 months after its opening, school district officials said Thursday. * Eagle Stadium in the Dallas suburb of Allen will be closed until at least June for an examination of "extensive cracking" in the concrete of the stadium's concourse, the district said in a statement Thursday. The closure will likely affect home games at the stadium this fall, the district said. * Built in 2012 as part of a $120 million bond issue, Eagle Stadium seats 18,000 people and sports a 38-foot-wide video board." -- Closed indefinitely after 18 months use...hmmm, musta used the same contractors that our school board uses....

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took off the gloves in his battle with education reformers, rescinding an agreement for the city to share space with several public charter schools. * The move undercuts educators, parents and some 700 students at four schools, including Harlem Success 4, one of the public charter school movement’s top success stories, and two set to open in the fall. While agreements at those schools were rescinded, expansion of a fourth school was also blocked. * de Blasio, who is an unabashed critic of charter schools and won election with full-throated support of the United Federation of Teachers" -- Hmmm "support" of the UFT? Hmmm, guess giving Charter Schools access to unused public school facilities cut back on available space for the hundreds of UFT members who have been stripped of classroom duties but get salary and pension benefits when they show up to a school facility every day and read, watch TV, play games etc.

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L-E story: " In a powerful and passionate plea for a jury to convict Dequandrea Truitt and Shaquille Porter in the 2013 New Year’s Day killing of Charles Foster Jr. at a Columbus nightclub, Senior Assistant District Attorney LaRae Moore attacked what she called “a code of silence.” * “Dec. 31, 2012; a club full of people; 21 shots fired inside and outside; one dead; six wounded and all we are left with is a handful of witnesses,” she told the Muscogee County Superior Court jury Thursday in her closing argument. “Why? ... What would make people in a crowded nightclub deaf, dumb and blind to gunfire?" -- Why is the ADA asking the jury? She needs to be asking that question to the NAACP, recipients of grants from the Crime Prevention Committee, the local Ministerial Alliance, the Congressional Black Caucus, from the pulpit of every predominantly black church, at every Jr & Sr high school asembly, and with the assistance of the Columbus, L-E editorial staff.

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Densely uninformed low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "Funny how the Jane Fonda haters never mention their hero William Calley, the pride of Columbus." -- Well, where do we start.. 1 - Calley was tried and convicted, but later pardoned, mainly because no one else was held responsible above his rank, 2 - Calley has paid a dear personal price long after he's paid his pennance, 3 - Calley has been the victim on pretty much personal annual media assaults, and 4 - he no longer lives in Columbus. What's Fonda "paid" in pennance?

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