The last time the U S Army had troop levels as low as Judas 00-Barnum is seeking, even we didn't have nuclear capabilities. Now 3rd world countries do.

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If our Army has fewer forces since before WWII, and fewer available options to reassure our friends we "have their back", how long will "our friends" be able to resist their enemies.... or their enemies' offers?

Online story: "Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told a crowd of 18,000 in Detroit on Sunday that African-Americans should set up their own courts after being failed by the U.S.' own justice system." -- You know, if African-Americans are willing to leave America and become African-Africans, they can set up their own system of laws/courts/justice all they want. The African-Americans who want to become American-Americans can stay.

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Online story: "A convicted child rapist living in a Denver group home has cut off his ankle monitor and escaped, police say. * Eric Eugene Hartwell, 51, was convicted of raping a 6-year-old in 1991 and attempting to sexually assault a teen in 1996, according to 7 News in Denver. * Hartwell was released on parole in December after serving part of a 5-year sentence for failing to register as a sex offender in Texas. * That conviction came after he cut off an ankle monitor and fled to Texas from a group home in Washington state in 2009 just one week after being placed on parole, the Department of Justice stated." -- First question.. why was this (_*_) out of jail in 1996 after raping a 6 year old in 1991? Second question..why wasn't this (_*_) given the death sentence after the 1996 attempt? Child predators do not deserve a second chance, much less a third one.

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Online story: "The U.S. Olympic Commission awards cash prizes to Olympians who win a medal -- $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze. But the money is considered earned income abroad and subject to IRS taxation. * The marginal-income tax bracket in which an Olympian falls would decide how much he or she must pay. According to estimates by Americans for Tax Reform, those in the top bracket could pay as much as $9,900 for gold. Olympians in that bracket also could pay $5,940 for a silver and $3,960 for a bronze medal" -- And it should be considered earned income! Remember when the Olympics were about amateurism? Well, the concept of the Olympics was about amateurism until Russia basically put its hockey team in the army on government payroll and they became "professionals". Earning cash for the medals goes against amateurism in every way possible, because when Olympic winners get so much publicity within their individual sports world, it basically assures them to become a money generating "machine" for their sponsors and agents as well. Let the medal winners's agents work out the taxes with their sponsors.

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CNN commentary of Carol Costello: "(CNN) -- There is no debate. * Climate change is real. And, yes, we are, in part, to blame. * There is a 97% consensus among scientific experts that humans are causing global warming. Ninety-seven percent!" -- Good grief! Maybe there's a 97% consensus among scientific experts that appear on CNN, but who watches CNN? Somebody out to tell those "CNN scientific experts" that nobody but Algore listens to CNN.

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CNN headline: "Sequel won't live up to the original" -- Oooops my bad.. thought this was an early comparison of Judas 00-Barnum's second term.

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Online headline: "Kerry Kennedy drugged-driving trial opens in New York" -- Good grief! Another Kennedy with substance abuse problems. Could it be that the Kennedys just have a problem coping with the world members of their family have created through legislation?

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Online story: "Ares Armor is a small tactical company that operates a store in National City, California. Recently the town of National City disapproved of a sign displayed at the National City store location and told the store, “Take down the sign or go to jail. We do not approve of guns…or you.” * Prior to the city speaking to him about the sign, Dimitri says that a uniformed officer stopped by and took pictures from outside. Dimitri’s neighbor told him that the city didn’t like what they had on their sign, a picture of an AR-15. Notice that the issue was not the sign itself. It was not its dimensions or it being obstructive, but its message." -- Good grief! Is getting a promotion call to National City, CA the goal of the Columbus "sign police"?

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HuffPost headline: "A pregnant woman is just a "host" that should not have the right to end her pregnancy, Virginia State Sen. Steve Martin (R) wrote in a Facebook rant defending his anti-abortion views." -- Good grief.. another "stupid Republican.... trick". The RNC needs to simply make a blanket policy/platform statement that while against abortion, it respects individuals and couple to deal with god about it, but we don't think American taxpayers should pay for them.

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Why does the L-E find it a necessity to still print pictures of the St*cking Str(_*_)ler? I can still remember his smirking face when he was caught.

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Why is Judas 00-Barnum so proud of penning in the $10.10 minium wage? That just means fewer new jobs that will be created...well, if that was possible.

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In the mid-90s, I was asked to serve on a Mayor's Committee on Efficiency and Economy within the City government. The City at that time was operating on a 65/66% revenues going for salaries/benefits, which, while not an A+ compared to private sector service businesses, was pretty good. I wonder what that operating percentage is today?

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Susan Rice still says she has no regrets that she gave not only incorrect info, but out and out lies about Benghazi. She said she was happy to give the best info she had at the time. We even know that is/was a lie.

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The liberal spinmeisters are out in lock step saying job hours being reduced is exactly what 00BamaCRAP was designed to do.. that's right, 'designed' to do...to give workers more flexibility to work less hours and have more family time. Hmmm, how do families afford more leisure time on less money?

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From a fellow BCer... thoughts to chew on and ask to a liberal:

The six contradictions of America

1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

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Latest from www.barackobama.com (the "organizingforaction" mask has been dropped): "Last year, the House spent more than 80 governing hours trying to restrict or repeal Obamacare." -- 80 hours? A drop in the bucket for what should be given. Contact your Republican reps and have them step up closer to the plate.

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L-E headline: "MAYOR TOMLINSON WARNS CUSSETA ROAD TRAILER PARK" -- Hmmm, maybe Mayor Obamalinson needs to be asked why she wasn't saying this earlier than 3 months before her re-election bid... of course, what may happen is the owners just may come in, bulldoze the lot, and let Mayor Obamalinson's Homeless Committee relocate the residents.

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Innocuous L-E statement: "The Georgia Bulldogs men’s basketball team is currently in third place in the SEC. The team is trying to finish the season in the top four" -- Hmmm, shouldn't the Georgia Bulldogs be trying to finish higher than 3rd which they already possess?

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L-E story: "Samsung sought Monday to frame its new Galaxy S5 smartphone as a lifestyle product, as it emphasized a built-in heart-rate sensor" -- Hmmm a cellphone with a built in lie detector? Parents and spouses will rejoice!

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Unbelievable L-E story: " One of the men charged with the capital murder of Sayquawn Lamer Wiggins has been connected to four previous homicides, according to authorities and court records. * Antonio Darcet King, 44, was booked in the Russell County Jail this weekend along with Santago Montrell Davis, 32. Both suspects were Wiggins’ uncles — King by blood and Davis by marriage. Wiggins, 19, died from multiple gunshot wounds Wednesday afternoon in the cemetery of New Hope Baptist Church in Cotton-ton, Ala., off Highway 165. Sheriff Heath Taylor said Monday he believes the death was drug-related and that King and Davis used an assault rifle. * Both suspects have checkered pasts, but it’s King who was out on bond for a 2011 slaying and was wearing a GPS ankle monitor. * In 1994, King was arrested and charged with the 1992 homicide of Al Jacobs, with whom he argued over a $10 debt, according to Ledger-Enquirer archives. The jury in that trial deadlocked the first go-around before King later pleaded guilty to lesser charges of attempted assault in the first degree and possession of cocaine. King was sentenced to 15 years in 1996. It’s unclear how much time he served. * Four years later, King was again charged with murder — this time in Georgia, in connection with the slaying of Norman Long, a drug dealer who was shot to death in front of a Booker T. Washington apartment, according to records. * Before that case went to trial, King was charged in another homicide. Stacey Jackson, an assistant district attorney at the time, said King was not the gunman in the 2001 murder of Shareff Lewis, 23. The charges of murder and possession of a firearm during a crime were dismissed, but King admitted he helped dump the body and clean the car involved in the shooting, according to records. * After two trials for Long’s murder, the first ending in mistrial, King and the state came to a plea bargain in 2004 in connection with both Muscogee County slayings (his plea for Lewis’ death was merged). King pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and concealing the death of another and was sentenced to eight years. * He was released from a Georgia state prison Dec. 13, 2008, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections website. A little more than two years later, police said he killed Timothy Turman in Phenix City. King wasn’t arrested until May 2013 but was released on $1 million bond on June 25. * According to Alabama court documents, King has been charged with over 30 crimes — but has only been convicted or pleaded guilty to four of them.
According to the Georgia Department of Corrections website and the Georgia Sex Offender Registry, Davis served time for soliciting sodomy from a minor and child molestation from a 1995 crime in Chatham County.
He was in prison from Jan. 15, 1998, to Oct. 8, 1999.
He pleaded guilty in 2001 to the armed robbery of a Family Dollar.
Sentenced to 10 years in prison, he was released Jan. 10, 2012." -- You know... ANY "black leader" who steps up and says black criminals are discriminated against because they are black should be run out of town by the law-abiding, life respecting majority in the black community!