Grasping at straws is not going to find that Malaysia airliner. Think about this.. if a wooden pallet was found intact floating in the ocean, it more likely is jetsam off a ship than flotsam from a plane that crashed into the water at a high enough rate of speed to break up the superstructure.

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HuffPost headline: "Washington State Governor Calls Scene Of Deadly Mudslide 'Total Devastation' -- Well, well, well....now the governor can issue an emergency distribution of "legal" marijuana and no one will care whether FEMA comes or not.

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HuffPost headline: "Turkey Shoots Down Syrian Plane" -- Oooops, my bad.. thought mainstream media was implying that Judas 00-Barnum had finally crossed that "red line".

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HuffPost headline: "Jimmy Carter thinks the NSA is spying on him" -- Yeah, right Cuzzin Jimmy, in your dreams...sorry, but you have not regained relevance.

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TV basketball announcers/analysts must be in shock now.. there's no one left in the Buffett Billion Dollar Challenge Bracket Competition. Don't you know the networks were sitting on ready to send teams out for interviews with the survivors of each round to spark interests in the post game shows?

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Online headline/story: "529 Egyptians Sentenced to Death in Killing of a Police Officer * A criminal court here sentenced 529 people to death on Monday after a single session of their mass trial, convicting them of murder for the killing of a police officer in the city of Minya during riots after the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported." -- Glad this was in Egypt.. can you imagine what it would cost us taxpayers to house 529 death row prisoners, and pay their lawyers for the next 25 - 30 years waiting for their executions to begin?

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A couple of days ago, one of my neighbor's home was the object of an attempted daytime break in. This followed a Homeowners' Association missive about other recent crimes in our neighborhood. In this latest "event", the alarm went off when the perpetrator(s) broke down the door and scared him/them off before anything was taken, but...and this is a serious "BUT", it took 45+/- minutes for a police car to arrive. If it happened to my home, I do believe I'd have had an attorney fire off a quick letter of discovery to my alarm system monitor to find out why no one stayed on top of getting the police to respond sooner, but the real problem falls directly of Mayor Obamalinson's shoulders. Questions need to be answered. Why does it take so long for police response to the heaviest taxed neighborhoods in Columbus? Why do we not have access to an up-to-date, online accessible crime/attempted crime map? Set up and maintenance of a website should be simple, and revenue from the LOST should cover expenses easily. Maybe it's time for the Crime Prevention Committee to focus on Crime ATTENTION.

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Hospitals and doctors could really put 00bamaCRAP out of its misery if the followed a policy of not giving services unless the patient could pay for services (cash/check/plastic) or had a valid insurance policy. Links to the OObamaCRAP website could be in the waiting rooms.

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Online story: "According to the Arizona Republic, Arizona's Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) now has a funding ratio of just 59 percent. That means it has only enough money to pay for just over half of its current and future liabilities. Yet, despite that, the Republic reported on August 1, 2013, that the PSPRS gave "five- and six-figure bonuses and additional pay ... to managers and investment staff even when the pension trust posted financial losses in 2008, 2009 and 2012 ...." * To make matters worse, a federal grand jury is now investigating the PSPRC to determine whether it may have inflated its real estate investment values in order to trigger those huge bonuses to top staffers. And the PSPRC appears to be in full cover-up mode. When the Republic requested a copy of the grand jury's subpoena of the PSPRC, the system's pension-trust managers refused to hand it over, despite a ruling by the assistant state attorney general that it is public document." -- Congress should enact a law protecting non-government citizens from being responsible for any government pension or healthcare shortfalls.... now!

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L-E headline and story: "Ledger Inquirer: Former sign business’ backyard is an unsightly mess * We encountered a property this week that looks just fine from the front, but it’s quite unsightly when viewed from the rear. * Sort of like Kim Kardashian. " -- Yes! There is hope for our nation after all! When liberals regain their sense of humor and can write satirically about other liberals, then the Kool-Aid is wearing off!

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LIV (Low Info Voter)'s L-E "soundoff": " I encourage my fellow conservatives to back off of the criticism of Obama filling out his NCAA bracket. There are more substantive issues we can discuss without whining about the 10 minutes it took him." -- "my fellow conservatives"? I don't think so... Anyway, filling out a NCAA bracket is not a 10 minute job for Judas 00-Barnum. No one "publishes" such a indicator of your sports knowledge/prowess without a lot of research, and that wastes huge amounts of time for our president who should be focusing on repairing the world's image of America's place in history.

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Another LIV's L-E "soundoff": "The war on poverty may never be won totally, but each battle won is progress and that’s what counts." -- Good grief... even a bad general knows there comes a point when you have to cut your losses and retreat and regroup.

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L-E headline: "Shaping a response to Russia will be a high-stakes test for Obama" -- "high-stakes test"? This made page 3 of the L-E. It was a "high-stakes test" weeks ago when Judas 00-Barnum drew his "red line" and Putin drove over the stick 00-Barnum was drawing with.

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Martin Army Hospital.. the new one.. will be finished and open soon. It's taken nearly $400,000,000 to build. That's a lot of money. Still it's less than what we have invested in buildings/buses for our school system, and it's considerably less two years of budgets for our school system, and when people walk out of Martin Army Hospital, most of them will be ready to face the world in a productive sense. Can our school system say the same about most of our students who will walk out the doors of our high schools?

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At one time, it was against the rules for the MCSD to do business with any of the board members. John Wells led the attack that got that rule overturned so his Bi-City Paint Company could bid on and do business for school jobs. Now we have a lawyer who is hell-bent on making changes on the legal needs of the MCSD board. I think it's time for the Board to revisit and re-instate that 'no compete' rule of board members before the election takes place in May.

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L-E headline: "Marijuana industry finds new allies among conservatives * BY EVAN HALPER * Tribune Washington Bureau" -- Hmmm, funny, but none of the names or organizations listed would be on any conservatives donation lists. Guess you have to consider the source, and the writer's and L-E's agenda.

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Hmmmm. there was a fund raiser for the United Negro College Fund... Was it "The Mayor's Masked Ball" or "Mayor Obamalinson's Masked Ball"?