From the "can you believe this department?" - HuffPost headline/story: "US Warns: Russia Has Only 'Days' To Uphold Deal * Russia has not fulfilled its part of an international agreement to defuse tension in Ukraine and Washington will only wait "days" more for the accord to be implemented, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. * "Russia has not taken the steps that it needs to take" under the agreement reached in Geneva last week, Daniel Baer, the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said." -- Hmmm, we have an Ambassador to something called "Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)? Sounds like the name of a group that meets over tea & crumpets to discuss playground rules of what fair.

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The oldest former Major League player has died at 102 years old... Connie Marrero. I don't remember him (he played for the Senators from 1950 to 1955) so any baseball cards I had of him probably served as "varoom" clothespin clipped as my bike's spokes churned, but there's a recount of an interview segment he gave talking about pitching against Ted Williams, my HERO. Marrero said, I recall "struggling against left-handed batters in general, and southpaw slugger Ted Williams in particular, a frustration shared by plenty of his contemporaries. * "One day Williams got two home runs off me, and afterward he came up to me and said, 'Sorry, it was my day today,'" Marrero told the AP in 2012. "I responded, 'Ted, every day is your day." Can you imagine Bonds or Pujols or any other of today's "franchise players" having the humility of Ted Williams? Marrero probably have been met with a flurry of in-your-face smack talk by any of today's "heroes". Don't worry Ted, none of these guys will ever replace you.

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Confirming online story: " New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was ejected from a game against the Boston Red Sox in the second inning Wednesday night after umpires found a foreign substance on his neck." -- And in Ted Williams' "house".. good riddance...

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HuffPost headline (though it's more like a Post of a Huffy lib): "Gov. Signs 'Unprecedented' Gun Rights Bill" -- "Unprecedented Gun Rights Bill"? Good grief, it was just one man's approval of two groups of "elected-by-the-people" representatives' reinforcement of the 2nd Amendment of our US Constitution. Doesn't mainstream media read anything? Even Nancy Pelosi should read the Constitution.. our ancestors' already passed it!... and died to uphold it...

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HuffPost headline: "Three American doctors killed in Afghan hospital * An Afghan security guard opened fire on a group of American doctors at a Kabul hospital, killing three and wounding a nurse." -- Hey Hillary, does it make a difference, or is this just one of those, "it's not my job anymore" circumstances?

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Curiosity question: Why does our government just give away foreign aid? Why not just set up a bank-type system where countries that want our help apply for a loan or grant or gift, and sign for it, pledging something of value for our assistance?

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Soapbox moment - Latest discovery in OObamaCRAP: "While the debate continues over how many ObamaCare enrollees are actually paying their premiums, one aspect of the law temporarily rewards those who actually stop paying – and doctors may wind up bearing the cost. * “This law provides a 90-day grace period for people who have subsidized ObamaCare exchange plans and stopped paying their premium," said Betsy McCaughey, health care author and former New York lieutenant governor. *But the insurance companies are only obligated to cover the first 30 days of the 90-day grace period *"You're still entitled to care for another 60 days," said John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis. "The insurance company doesn't pay, you don't pay, who pays? Well, the doctors and the hospitals have to eat it. That's a very strange feature of this new health reform." -- Wow! What this basically means is additional taxpayer costs for low income or unemployed insurance holders. Example: Insurer buys best level of insurance with tax credits for the next filing tear. Insured pays one premium. He's covered for 30 days. Next month, he doesn't pay his premium, and he's covered for 30 days plus guaranteed care for an additional 60 days which Doctors and hospitals will write off at "rack rates" on their next tax filing. OK, 4 months have now been covered for 1 premium and the insured then reapplies for insurance elsewhere (with guaranteed acceptance of existing condition" and makes a payment. He's covered again for 30 days, The next month he doesn't pay. He gets another 30 days coverage plus the 60 days coverage which Doctors and hospitals write of at "rack rates' . Now 8 months have past.. he repeats the process sequence, so after 1 year, he's made 3 payments, got 12 months of medical care. Then he files his tax return and gets a medical tax credit refund which IRS is not going to question. Then doctors and hospitals file for price adjustments for the 6 0f 12 months they had to 'eat' their losses, and OObamaCRAP realizes it too got shafted for 3 months of non-payments that it covered, and rates go up again for all the responsible people who try to do the right thing. You know, the POST OFFICE is probably cheering right now because OObamaCRAP is going to make the USPS look efficient, President Carter is cheering just a happily, too, for the same reasons.

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Online quote source: "“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”- Pope John Paul II" -- You would think this would be an inspirational saying hanging on the walls of every government welfare office in America, but I'll bet it's not on the wall of any of them.

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WOW! I just experienced an event I've never experienced before.. a pleasant cable company result. The guy got here on time, checked out my problem, showed me how I can check it myself if anything changes from the results I should be getting (as to power signal strength), was impressively succinct, pleasant and respective. I actually feel good about my cable company.. and that's something I didn't think was possible. They still charge too much, but other than that I am happy. It's WOW, formerly known as "Knology".

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There was a Democratic Party debate for the US Senate candidates in Columbus a couple of nights ago. Michelle Nunn opted out, primarily as she is the front runner , and figured she had nothing to gain butting heads with the other also-rans. Well, Hmmm, Michele didn't want 'none of Columbus", so the turnabout's fair thing to say is that Columbus don't want "Nunn" of Michele.

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L-E editorial comment: "Maybe after the election, Columbus Council will take a courageous stand for truth, justice, the American Way and whether or not to install a public restroom under the Frank Martin Memorial Bridge on the Chattahoochee Riverwalk. Until then …* As most already know, the issue is a facility costing about $244,000, a price that apparently gives pause to some in the Columbus Consolidated Government's legislative branch. Except that 80 percent of that tab is to be picked up by the state Department of Transportation" -- Hey, that "free money" you refer to as a "grant" is our tax dollars, too, and a lot taken out ain't coming back. Truth is we are paying all of it. Hey another better idea.. just open up the extra bathrooms at the L-E building. It's close enough to the Frank Martin Bridge, and certainly the public 'deposits' wouldn't even be notice amongst the other crap the L-E flushes into the Chattahoochee.

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When you think about the GA DOT designing a public bathroom for $250,000.00, you have to wonder how much overbilling goes into the design of our highways and bridges? Hey, groups like this usually have one formula it operates on when setting projected costs.

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Another good idea expressed by a fellow BCer: Let the Whitewater concessionaire pay for it.

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L-E story: "A suspect fleeing from Columbus police was nabbed Tuesday afternoon by Phenix City police after he swam across the Chattahoochee River near Oglethorpe Bridge, police said." -- Hmmm, I hope the police charged him for not wearing Personal Flotation Device (PFD). At least that charge will stick,and produce a fine.

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The ultimate voting guide... even for the low-info-voter: "Voting guide. Do you want bigger or better government ? Then you should look at the candidates asking for your support and ask them why they are wanting to be elected.. to spend your money or to save you money. It's that simple.

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What's wrong with this picture.? I'm talking about the IRS giving bonuses to employees who haven't paid their back taxes. Lottery winners get their payments dunned by IRS and state welfare fraud centers, so you think IRS would at least send out notices to its own payroll department to garnishee its own employees... especially on bonus payments!

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Don't those mesothelioma ads bug you? Law group after law group blast ad-after-ad about a $30 billion dollar "trust fund" waiting to be tapped. I'd think most asbestos sources and uses have about been reversed, and that "trust fund" has about served its purpose other than being a lifetime source of welfare for the administrators? Why not end and dissolve that trust fund and return unclaimed monies back to the companies that paid into it? At a minimum, we wouldn't have to listen to those ads anymore, plus our world would be safer having so many lawyers having so much free time on their hands to chase this " ambulance".

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Hmmm, Colorado and Washington State voters have opened the Pandora's Box. Well, boxes of cookies and candies laced with marijuana. Kids will have no clue about what will happen when their parents catch them with their hands in the wrong 'cookie/candy jar'.

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GM's troubles just will not end.. Now an Impala, equipped with the automatic braking system, engaged itself when no apparent collision object was present. The car and driver got rear- ended. Maybe if GM gets a dose of being rear-ended......

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Filipinos are protesting Judas 00-Barnum's upcoming trip there. Why are they butting heads with the police? All they need to do is draw a line at the end of every runway, and Air Force 1 won't cross it.

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Online headline: "Material on Australian shore examined in jet hunt" -- Good grief... is MSM so desperate for news fillers that it runs with a story that has no indication of being valid. Latter comments from Australian spokesperson say the more they look at it, the less interested they are coming. Truth is, if it doesn't obviously look like a jet part, it probably isn't and doesn't need to take up resources of financial or emotional worth.

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Online story: Allen West, a former congressman and retired Army lieutenant colonel, agrees with conservative pundits who believe the Republican Party is way too divided as it prepares for a tough battle against the Democrats in the 2014 midterms. * "We need resolute leadership on our side to bring all the different factions together -- bringing the Libertarians, bringing the conservatives, bringing the more moderate Republicans, mainstream Republicans, the establishment -- because we have to unify," he insists" -- West gets it! Wonder if he's a closet Breakfast Club blog reader...

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Judas 00-Barnum and Pric Holder are hot and heavy to release drug offenders from jail using presidential "clemency". Has either of them or anyone in the mainstream media considered the message this sends to the drug dealers? It'll be just another "line in the sand" that drug dealers won't have to worry about the DOJ crossing over....

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Online story: "An Augusta Republican running for Congress cites the Bible in his first campaign commercial as he accuses President Barack Obama of “immoral” spending." -- Good grief! Why can't the Republicans simply agree that there is no benefit to the Republican Party, this country or uncommitted voters to wage war on moral issues? The only thing it does is give libs and mainstream media "fodder" to feed on while keeping real issues from being discussed openly. It's one thing to state your positions on things in moral decline, but it's another to tell others they have to answer to you rather than God.

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L-E headline: "RUSSELL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE * DEPUTY CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING *
Officials believe Williams was helping drug dealer; find 1.5 pounds of drugs at his home" -- Good grief.. word travels fast when Judas 00-Barnum and Pric Holder initiate "clemency" for drug dealers.

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The L-E posted it's Q&A's with the two candidates for at-large Council Post 9 - Judy, Judy, Judy... your billboard proclamation of "Putting People First" should be your answers, and digging deeper into their pockets is not the way. I see one effort financed by the Crime Prevention Committee that's worthy and needed... the Jail Ministry. The rest are just placations. As for twice a week trash pick ups, the Mayor has already told us that the maximum savings would be around $250K.. that beaks down to less than $6.00 annually that households would save, and that is not worth having overloaded trash cans littering our air with odors. I love ya, but don't mess with or tiptoe around the tax freeze.. I already pay more than my share, but rather have the freeze than get dumped on more by an activist tax assessor's evaluation for a place I don't intended to sell until after I've departed this Earth.

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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — The number of Americans buying new homes plummeted in March to the slowest pace in eight months, a sign that real estate’s spring buying season is off to a weak start. * The Commerce Department said Wednesday that sales of new homes declined 14.5 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 384,000" -- You know.. this is after the coldest January/early Feb weather in at least modern history, and you'd think that there would have been a build up of interest spurred by those storms.