Online story: "According to the New York Times, T(_*_) Steyer wants to make his group, NextGen Climate (_*_)ction, a critical player in this year's races by putting $50 million of his own funds into the San Francisco-based group and seeking an additional $50 million from outside donors. The former hedge fund manager reportedly met with two dozen liberal donors earlier this month to offer details on his plan." -- "Former hedge fund manager"...You know, lib wackos like this (_*_) are the worst. He made a 'killing' on other people's investment miseries, and now he wants to inflict more miseries just to bask in the light of "look at me, I care". Of course, Democrat politicians fawn, and line up at his money trough knowing his vanity will put donations into keeping them in office whether or not the campaign promises are kept or not.

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Online story: " 40,000 tons of New Jersey-bound rock salt has been stuck at a port in Maine because the Department of Homeland Security denied the state’s request to waive a provision requiring transport on an American-flagged vessel * The shipment was held up for failing to comply with the Jones Act, a 1920s maritime law that mandates commercial vessels transporting shipments between U.S. ports to be built and operated by U.S. citizens and to fly a U.S. flag * In 2012, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) request to waive the Jones Act flag provision was approved under the Obama administration in an effort to alleviate fuel shortages in the Northeast after Hurricane Sandy." -- Hmmm, Christie is getting "McCained". When will Republicans "get it" that fawning over liberals will get you plenty of kudos in the mainstream media, but expecting MSM support and Democratic Party cooperation are not going to be there if you need anything political. NY has a Democrat Gov so it got the waiver,

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From the "half empty or half full glass" department - Online headline/story: "Consumer Debt Hasn't Jumped This Much Since Before The Recession * U.S. household debt rose in the latest quarter by the most since before the recession, a sign that Americans may be nearing the end of a multi-year belt-tightening trend, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed on Tuesday." -- Take a deep breath and hold your nose for as long as you can... What this means is that you have to be prepared for another bubble burst "dunking" or an influx in political methane gas emissions. Credit jumps amidst the declining household income trend just say that people are either running up debt frivolously or because they really thought that new job/raise was going to happen... but it didn't.

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Online story: "Reid's Fine Foods employee D--- S--- initially asked if he could help McCrory. After realizing he was speaking to the governor of North Carolina, he reportedly told McCrory "thanks for nothing" and walked away. * S--- told the paper the governor was upset with his dismissive comment and began "yelling" at him, saying he shouldn't be addressed that way as a customer. Swope said he doesn't fault the store for firing him, but told the newspaper he thought it was "shocking" that the governor "had me excluded from the workplace because I upset his feelings." -- Whatta (_*_)! Being an (_*_) on another person's nickel should get you fired... regardless! Now, can you imagine the mainstream media focus had the NC Governor been black or a Democrat, or if S---- did the same thing to Judas 00-Barnum?

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Online story: "President Barack Obama is ordering a new round of fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by March of 2016. He is highlighting improvements already undertaken by companies such as Safeway to cut back on gasoline costs for their fleet of trucks." -- I'm confused.... how can Judas 00-Barnum claim that by requiring big trucks to get better gas mileage, it will help us at the pump? First, semis use diesel which is used in few passenger vehicles, but even more suspect is that even if gas usage should go down, new taxes will be enacted to make up for fewer gallons being used, so how do we save ?

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WTVM9 news story: "Construction on a new roundabout in Columbus is making it difficult for some residents to maneuver in and around their homes on Schatulga Road. A portion of Schatulga Road is blocked off while crews work to improve traffic congestion along the busy roadway. * This is a problem that will eventually go away, but for now drivers will have to deal with the inconvenience of taking a detour to get home." -- "a problem that eventually will go away"? Yeah... right.. interested in some swamplands?

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Speaking of "roundabouts".. let's talk about the one being planned at Green Island Drive & Cascade Road. First, any construction is going to be a nightmare for residents in the main Green Island complex... as it is, there are only two egress/ingress intersections for the whole area... disabling the main one for any length of time will be a political fiasco, but the fiasco will be worse AFTER it is finished. Has Mayor Obamalinson (or anyone in the traffic division) even looked on the map to see the proximity this intersection has with the River Road intersection? That's a state highway and controlled by a traffic light which operates under state provisions. No amount of hopeful wishes will stop the major traffic jams that will be crated when AM & PM rush hour traffic "happens".

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L-E story: "With the (Guantanamo) prison camps now in their 13th year, the U.S. military is willing to allow some war-on-terror captives to have family visits — if the International Red Cross can find a Caribbean country to host the prisoners’ relatives between day trips to this remote U.S. Navy base." -- Good grief! Conjugal visits for terrorists? Doesn't the world have enough of terrorists already? I guess we're seeing the results of all the generals Judas 00-Barnum has fired in order to get some who will be Muslim terrorist friendly. If the Red Cross does get involved, cut off your support for everything they do other than blood donations.

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L-E story: "Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour could lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty but also cost a half million jobs, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report" -- Hmmm, let's parse this economically.. First, Judas 00-Barnum's interest in the minimum wage raise is purely political fodder for union support. Union contracts have clauses that effect union wage ratios based on the minimum wage. Secondly.. if 900,000 people get a $2.85 hourly wage, that's a total revenue increase of $2,565,000.00 per hour gain. On the other hand, if 500,000 jobs are lost at $7.25 per hour, that's a loss of $3,625.000.00 per hour loss. In effect, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is saying that $1,060,000.00 an hour will be lost of taxable income. That's a 52 week/40 hours per week loss of $2,204,800,000.00 revenue taken out of the economy annually!

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Online quote source: "“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” - Les Brown " -- Hmmm, another good tidbit that will never be seen in a welfare office or public school text book.

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Hmmm, those student loans, especially for non-professional careers, Judas 00-Barnum pushes so hard to spread around are becoming an albatross around the necks of new home buyers once they've left school.

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You know, it's easy to figure out why public sentiment and respect for the majestic and powerful elephant is higher than the political party of which it symbolizes . Unfortunately, it's even more obvious why the public sentiment is higher for the jackass than for the political party it symbolizes.

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Speaking of jackasses, Jesus may be the reason Democrats hate Christianity . Huh? you say... Well, Jesus rode one pretty hard into Jerusalem and it doesn't appear Democrats are ready to forgive Him.

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Online story: "4 1/2 months have passed and Cover Oregon OObamaCRAP still hasn't signed up any online insurance buyers. * The head of the Oregon OObamaCRAP state exchange created a fake website to fake out the feds on the progress that was being made. The damage before getting caught was $160,000,000.00. Hmmm, this may be a better damage control expense plan than getting the bill overturned by Republicans.

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Good grief! The mainstream media is now claiming the unionization election at VW in Tennessee was defeated because of racism and a second Civil War. Slob Beckel truly revealed his second generational liberalist bias as a political advisor and Fox "contributor". In fact, while he's never claimed to be "fair", Beckel had blown his covert efforts to appear "balanced" as well.

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With a tip from a fellow BCer: Important to see YouTube clip. Watch before you post anymore cellphone pictures on FaceBook or other I-net sites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvZF-yP_ceU

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L-E story: " The Columbus area is expected to grow by 1,400 jobs this year — virtually all in the private sector — as the city rides the “tailwind” created by the improving Georgia and U.S. economies. * That, and the stark realization that the local economy hinges on an evolving federal budget scenario, were major points made Tuesday by University of Georgia economist Jeff Humphreys at an economic outlook luncheon in Columbus." -- Hmmm, sounds suspiciously an orchestrated political message for Mayor Obamalinson. Name one of the predictions an UGA economist has picked correctly.. we only have to go back to BRAC to verify their validity.

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L-E story: " A vacant part-time Juvenile Court judgeship in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit has drawn intense interest from attorneys throughout the six-county region * There are 20 applicants for the $55,000-per-year position vacated late last year by the retirement of Judge Wayne Jernigan. * In addition to the salary the three-day-per-week job offers health insurance benefits and a state retirement." --Yeah, a part time job with full time benefits ..... great if you can get it, but don't look for one in the private sector. As Mel Brooks might opine, "It's good to be the king".

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Low...very low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "Had Michael Dunn not had that gun with him he wouldn’t be in court being charged with murder. A 17-year-old scared that man so bad he shot him." -- Hmm.. another half-empty-half full situation.. How about if the teens didn't commit a crime, none would have ever known Mr Dunn had a gun in his home?

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Another low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "We’ve got engineers bagging groceries, college grads and elderly parents living in our basements. Over $7 trillion in foreclosures and home equity loss, and Republicans still profess there’s too much financial regulation." -- Hmmm you know, if we had a time machine, we could go back and unplug Judas 00-Barnum's money printing machine, defeat OObamaCRAP, and stop the Carter/Clinton & Dodd/Frank agenda of destroying responsible mortgage qualifying. None of these were acts of Republican involvement.

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L-E's "Thought for Today": “There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.” — Alexander Meiklejohn, American educator (1872-1964) -- Hmmm, reminds me of Democratic Party election strategy planning meeting, "You won't know what's in store until you elect us".

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I'm sorry I can't get the picture to "copy", but there's a picture in today's L-E that was taken by Sergei Chuzavkov of the AP. It depicts an anti-government protester firing his scoped rifle at riot police in Kiev. I wanna know, did Sergei Chuzavkov believe the picture he took was more important than saving the life of the man the shooter was aiming? Chuzavkov had a choice. take a "shot" with his camera or stop a "shot" by the protester. Now, why did the L-E print such blatant selfishness?

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L-E story: " The nation’s shortage of execution drugs is becoming increasingly acute as more compounding pharmacies conclude that supplying the lethal chemicals is not worth the bad publicity and the legal and ethical risks." -- Hey, publish the names of the companies that "feel" this way, and the general public will show them what bad publicity will do to the company shares of stock value!

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Hey, you states that are getting cut off from execution drugs... I'll donate as many bullets as you need to carry out those death sentences.

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The Columbus L-E has a feature called "Looking Back | Fifty Years ago" - Today's entry was this: "EDITOR’S NOTE: The Looking Back archive is temporarily unavailable due to technical problems." Technical problem? Have they forgotten how to walk down to "the Morgue" and scan and copy/print info? Reminds me of the person standing outside a car with a dead battery in his/her key fob, and frustrated because the door won't unlock. All the person had to do was insert the key into the lock and open it manually. Good grief!

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L-E headline: "COURT: MAN STABS WOMAN WITH MACHETE * Hooten allegedly stabbed roommate in head, arm; neighbors say he has past of mental instability" -- Hmmm... another jailbird with mental health problems.. Hey Mayor Obamalinson, are you going to pay for this yourself because Sheriff Darr's budget is already busted trying to keep in federal compliance?

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L-E headline: "PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE * Mayor to speak at national conference in Dallas" -- Hey, Mayor Obamalinson... how many mental health sessions at the jail could be funded from the money being 'spent' on your vacation?

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L-E story: " While the Muscogee County School District mulls the superintendent’s proposal to save money and add more time for remediation and enrichment by changing high school schedules from a modified block to a seven-period day, across the Chattahoochee River in Phenix City, the Central High School administration has requested to do the opposite." -- Good grief! Why do we search outside for new superintendents, when it's obvious we'll never find on that has the answers we're looking for. There are no new ideas out there, and none of the past superintendents (since Shaw) have been empowered long enough for any changes to show they actually work...

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You know, I once got asked to leave a court room because I was wearing Bermuda shorts. Why is a murder suspect allowed to wear a printed t-shirt into the court?