Online headline: "Can the GM brand recover from its recall woes?" -- Whatta fiasco... First, Judas 00-Barnum bailed GM out... and now he's bailed out ON Government Motors.

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I'm gonna bet naming a woman as the latest head of GM was as calculated as it gets. With all the recalls of late, Democrats are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for Republicans to attack her as "proof" of the Republican "war on women".

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HuffPost dueling headlines: "Pat Quinn Wins Primary In Illinois Gubernatorial Race" & "Bruce Rauner Wins GOP Primary In Illinois Gubernatorial Race" -- "wins primary" & "wins GOP primary" Hmmm, looks like even the Democrats in Chicago are trying to avoid association with Judas 00-Barnum.

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HuffPost headline: "Ukraine's Soldiers In Crimea Allowed To Use Weapons" -- Good grief... Judas 00-Barnum must have used "his pen and phone" to order the Ukrainian aremy to use the same "Barney Fife rules of engagement" our soldiers have if Afghanistan.. 'let the enemy take the first shot, and if you aren't dead, you may take the bullet out of your pocket. load it, and fire back'.....

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Incredibly as it may seem, the loss by a 16-17 team just eliminated a ton of bracket hopefuls chance at a BILLION dollars. The main question is why a 16-16 (now 16-17 team was invited to play in the NCAA Championships to begin with.

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Online headline: "Horror as high speed train arrives at French station with dead body stuck to front" -- Oooops, my bad..thought it was Mayor Obamalinson's political career.

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Instant replay: "Horror as high speed train arrives at French station with dead body stuck to front" -- Musta been like a "dear caught in the headlights".

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L-E story: "PORTLAND, MAINE — A state lawmaker is demanding answers after a company under fire for its poor performance in providing non-emergency rides to Maine Medicaid patients was paid an extra $1.2 million last month. * State Rep. Drew Gattine says he noticed that Connecticut-based Coordinated Transportation Solutions was paid $3.3 million in February while in previous months it was paid a $2.1 million. * CTS won $28.3 million worth of contracts last year, but thousands of MaineCare patients say they have missed rides to medical appointments" -- Hmmm, we have a CTS operation here in Columbus... It used to be located behind the Veterans Parkway downtown Burger King, but now is situated on 1st Ave. I inquired about it a couple of years ago, but no one in our state government knew anything about what was going on. It appeared to be, basically, a taxi service for indigent medical patients. Counted 18 15-passenger vans parked behind the Burger King one weekend plus several 'regular' cars. After seeing the story about CTS in Maine, I can see why our state legislators didn't want to respond.

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L-E headline/story: "LONGTIME FRIEND BETRAYS WOMAN TO ROBBER * Two plead guilty to robbing single mother of $3,000 cash from income tax return" --What a sad story.. well, maybe a sadder commentary on cultural decline. Friends robbing another friend, yet the person robbed said she had plans to spend most of it on material things for her child. I can only guess she was not concerned about where she was getting food for her child's next meal from.. the government through taxpayers.

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HuffPost headline: "Putin Signs Treaty Making Crimea Part Of Russia" -- Hmmm, wonder if Judas 00-Barnum learned anything... you know, about how to cross a "red line"?

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If Judas 00-Barnum were at the Alamo and drew a line in the sand to see who was going to stand by him, do you think anyone would have stayed?

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Online headline: "GM CEO apologizes for ignition switch recalls" -- Now, will he take the high road and make good on the repairs or take the liberal road feeling now that it has been addressed, he can move on to something else?

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Online headline: "White House backs off surgeon general nominee push amid Dem resistance" -- The Democrats obviously don't want to campaign on voting for another guy who's FOR OObamaCRAP and AGAINST the 2nd Amendment.

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Online story: "The first phase of a three-year plan by Arizona wildlife officials to bolster herds of bighorn sheep has resulted in the death of half the population, after the 31 sheep were transplanted at a cost of $150,000 into the Catalina Mountains where mountain lions killed 15 of the protected species within a few months. * Some animal welfare groups are pushing for an end to the project, but wildlife officials say the conservation effort is not a failure and expect the projected $600,000, three-year plan to result in greater numbers of bighorns in an area where they once co-existed with mountain lions for centuries." -- Only in the world of government is losing have your project considered successful. Only baseball considers lower percentages a success. Not since the days of the Roman gladiator days at the Coliseum have lions been happier.

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It's wonderful that Judas 00-Barnum initiated the research to bring the military records of past Black, Latino, and Jewish soldiers to find those worthy of recognition for the Congressional Medal of Honor that may have been overlooked. I find it politically manipulative that he didn't look at or for "wasps" that may have had their acts of heroism overlooked or lost in the processing as well.

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Online story: "Stunned by an unexpected uprising within their party's minority base, Democratic lawmakers on Monday dropped a push to reverse California's 16-year-old ban on affirmative action in college admissions.

* Constitutional Amendment 5 -- which would have put the issue before voters -- cleared the state Senate in late January on a party-line vote. But as word of the bill spread, so did resistance, mostly from families concerned that race-conscious admission policies would unfairly disadvantage Asian applicants to the intensely competitive University of California system and its flagship campuses, Berkeley and UCLA." -- Hmmm, The Democrat finger-in-the-dike to hold all minority boats afloat is springing a new leak.

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From above story: "Its author, Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, is making no promises about its revival. * "I'd like to bring it back," Hernandez said in a phone interview. "I believe in it. I believe we need to make sure there's equal opportunity for everyone in the state of California." -- How can "affirmative action", the process of favoring one segment at the expense of another even be on the scale that balances equal opportunity?

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You know... if the US minimum wage was so terrible, why are illegal aliens coming here to get jobs? Not only that, they live here and have money to send home to their families. The minimum wage is not too low. High taxes have eroded the basic foundation of the cost of living. It starts with the unavoidable sales taxes. In Columbus, if you take your family out for dinner, the sales tax is almost as high as what was considered a fair "tip". That's something that can be, no, needs to be corrected.

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That proposed traffic circle at River Road-Bradley Park-Green Island Drive-Cascade Road.. After spending about two hours discussing the plans with Councilman Davis last week, I cannot fully verbalize the potential horror stories if it is constructed in either of the 2 plans being discussed. It will merge commercial state highway vehicles (semis, dump trucks, loggers, buses) into residential work/school traffic in a space way to small to handle the needs of the commercial vehicles. Current plans call for a "leveling off" of the intersection area. What that means is the overweight behemoths heading south on River Road will have to downshift to make a right turn into the residential traffic area, then make a rather confined continuous left circle turn (ala NASCAR) which increases the G-force on the loads, then suddenly swing back to the right as they accelerate to get back up to highway speeds. All of this shifting weight and changing centrifugal force will occur on a flat road bed (versus NASCAR banked road beds). Councilor Red McDaniel can remember the joy and relief of the elimination of the old Traffic Circle at Victory Drive and Benning Road back in the early 70s.

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How come CNN finds it fit to cover a missing airliner on a 24/7 basis, yet didn't feel Benghazi was/is newsworthy?

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Latest from Congressman Hank Johnson, D-GA 4: Dear Hal, Last week OUR President, and my friend, Barack Obama, endorsed my re-election for the 4th Congressional District." -- Hmmm... isn't this the same Congressman Johnson who was skeptical about sending more military equipment to Guam for fear that the new equipment would cause the island to tip over?

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WRBL3 TV story: RE: High Speed Rail project: "While it's the most expensive of the three at a whopping $3.9 billion, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson says it won't cost a dime to taxpayers, as money will come from grants, bonds and private investors. " -- Won't cost a dime to taxpayers as money will come from grants, bonds..." -- Can it be that Mayor Obamalinson is a bigger liar than President Obama? Where does she think/feel/believe grants come from the sugar plum fairies?

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From above story: And where does she come up with a $41.00 ticket price for a ride that won't begin until 2020 at the earliest? A one-way AMTRAK ticket from Washington, DC to Dover, DE (92 miles) costs $64.50 ($110.50 if you want legroom) TODAY!

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Online story: "Georgia taxpayers will have to pay the more than $156,000 in legal fees that state Sen. Don Balfour incurred in defending himself against the state’s charges that he tried to falsify his expense reports. * A Fulton County jury acquitted Balfour of all 18 counts against him after a trial in December. * On Monday, a Fulton County judge found Balfour’s legal fees of $156,787.60 to be reasonable" -- Hmmm...a politician runs up $150K plus in legal charges defending his charges of falsifying his expenses... and a another lawyer/judge thinks the fees are reasonable? Did the judge even examine the legak fee charges to see if any were falsified?

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Online story: "The group People for Bikes picked Atlanta and five other cites as part of its Green Lane Project. * The goal is to help the city build protected bike lanes, meaning lanes that are separated from traffic by curbs, parked cars or plastic posts. *“This design has been used in Europe for the last 40 or 50 years. It’s incredibly successful at getting people to ride bikes because it makes people feel safer,” said Martha Roskowski, who’s with the project." -- Hmmm lanes "protected by plastic posts"... "used in Europe for the last 40 or 50 years"... Good grief.. there are more bicycles than cars in Europe!

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L-E headline: "City faces growing health care deficits" -- Well, IO guess we can officially rename the Mayor's plan as "ObamalinsonCRAP".

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L-E's "Thought for Today": "No one is such a liar as the indignant man." - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900) -- Hmmm, add "arrogant" and Nietzsche nails Judas 00-Barnum..

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L-E headline/story: "Four Georgia football players arrested * Matthews, Taylor and De-Loach are charged with what amounts to double-dipping: Each allegedly took normal stipend checks from UGA and deposited them via a mobile app, and then also cashed them somewhere else, according to UGA chief of police Jimmy Williamson. LeMay is charged with taking his roommates’ deposited stipend check and cashing it." -- I think a charge of "kiting the hand that feeds you" is a better one. I know UGA alumni around the world are ultra proud of the football recruiting standards at UGA... NOT! Bet the NCAA will be tougher on this than the Athens court system.