HuffPost headline: "Bill Maher's Campaign To Find The Worst Member Of Congress Is Underway" -- Hmmm, Sorta appropriate... we can see HuffPost has already determined the worst commentator on TV.

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HuffPost headline/story: "Gay GOP Candidate Boycotting Party Convention: The Platform Takes Us 'Backward * Last month, Massachusetts Republicans approved the new plan, which includes a more conservative stance on issues like gay marriage and abortion. Tisei told the Boston Globe this week that he is not going because he doesn't want to "be seen in any way to be endorsing that." * Openly gay GOP congressional candidate Richard Tisei (R-Mass.) is boycotting the state's Republican convention in protest of the party's platform." -- "Backward"? How appropriate... most of the aspects of this story are "backwards", including running as a Republican because if he is electable, he'd run as a Democr(_*_)t in M(_*_)ss(_*_)chusetts.

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HuffPost headline/story: "Whitey Bulger's Defense Bills Cost Taxpayers More Than $3 Million * Documents submitted Friday show Bulger's defense lawyers have charged the government a little more than $2.7 million for their work. When the costs of experts, paralegal services and transcripts are added in, the total reaches slightly over $3 million. * The 84-year-old Bulger spent 16 years on the run before being convicted in August of playing a role in 11 murders while he led a violent gang. He's serving a life sentence in federal prison. He's appealing, so the legal costs are expected to go even higher." -- Hmmm, sounds like the legal team was a bigger crime ring than Bulger's.

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The minimum wage and the work ethic should be compared to golf. The more you put into the game, the more the game gives back, and even when you get to a new level of proficiency, you must renew your efforts to get more out of it.

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You know, Mayor Obamalinson's plaintiff plea for the high speed rail system will be profitable rings spuriously weak. If there is enough need for one to Columbus, then it'll have to be full each trip which means a stop in Newnan would pretty much be useless an time consuming. If the train has more riders getting on/off I'm Newman, then the Columbus leg will be an economic drag.

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Another disconnect in Mayor Obamalinson's high speed rails venture is the 20 year span. Who knows what personal vehicle technology will be in 20 years. We may have those long awaited flying cars, or Star Wars hover scooters by then, or who knows, Google may have those driverless cars perfected that can drive us safely at 100+ MPH, drop us off at the airport, then drive back home by itself. Needless to say, planning a land based transit system that will take 20 years just to complete is pretty much folly.

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Latest from : "Hal - More than five million Americans have already signed up for insurance through Obamacare's health exchanges. Millions of women have access to cancer screenings and other preventive care without having to pay more. And up to 129 million Americans are like me -- people with pre-existing conditions who know the value of the security and relief that come with access to affordable health care. * Thanks * Debbie Wasserman Schultz - Chair - Democratic National Committee" -- Hmmm... like she's ditched her Congressional plane and signed up for OObamaCRAP....

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You know, having insurance companies on board in making 00bamaCRAP law of the land was no different than Judas 00-Barnum recruiting GE's Jeffrey Immelt as his business advisor. Now we have high priced, never-gonna-live-up-to-expectation high energy bulbs, while low cost incandescent bulbs have history and banned in the future.

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Be on the alert for Republicans kowtowing to any new federal minimum wage increase bills. If someone running as a Republican says he/she is on board with that, then we do not need for them to win. We lick our wounds for two more years, and support the Republicans that are interested in our nation's growth & future. A simple answer for mainstream media onslaughts would be to ask back, "Well, do you want 3 people to be working at $10.00 an hour, or have 4 people working at $8.00?"

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Before Council is an ordinance to eliminate 10th and 12th Streets as 1-way streets. It now looks like 11th Street has been taken out of the sequence by political pressure, making changing the other two streets somewhat, at least arguably, "stupid/unneeded". Since 11th Street will now give vehicles on 10th and 12th Streets parallel return outlets, and since there are no businesses on 10th and 12th Streets that would technically benefit from 2-way traffic, then what's the City's concern with changing the routings?

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The Atlanta Falcons' "sweetheart deal" is actually a better one for Atlanta and the State of Georgia.. they will get annual returns on investment through the sales taxes patron pay to attend events there. On the other hand, the City's and State's "sweetheart deal" in the Whitewater Project are so fortunate.. no sales taxes are collected from rafters using the concessionaire's services.