Online headline/story: "Former Christie Aides Don't Have To Comply With Bridgegate Subpoena, Judge Rules * Calling the decision one involving "complicated and untested jurisdictional issues," Judge Mary Jacobson expressed reservations about using judicial power to compel the production of documents.
"The fact that the committee has the power to enforce its own subpoenas through orders to compel and grant immunity in return, and the lack of a clear jurisdictional basis for this court to intrude upon that power, raises serious questions concerning the exercise of judicial power," Jacobson wrote in the 98-page opinion.
Her ruling is almost certain to be appealed. Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the investigative committee's Democratic co-chair, said he and his colleagues would consult with their attorneys on any further moves." -- Hmmmm ... Assemblyman John Wisniewski said he "would consult with their attorneys on any further moves"? Good grief! Only politicians would turn something like this into a way to pad the pockets of their friends. Probably 50% 0t the investigative committee are lawyers.. can't tyhey figure it out on the time the taxpayers are already paying for?

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Online story: " NATO's top military commander in Europe, drafting countermoves to the Russian military threat against Ukraine, said Wednesday they could include deployment of American troops to alliance member states in Eastern Europe now feeling at risk." -- Judas 00-Barnum won't defend "the lines he draws in the sand", but apparently doesn't mind some other country's commander to deploy our soldiers to do his job. Guess 00-Barnum won't find out when until he reads it in the newspaper.

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You'd think by now that Judas 00-Barnum would have learned that if you're going to draw a line in the sand, draw it with a sword, not chalk.

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HuffPost story: "Senate Republicans blocked a vote on Wednesday to open debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would hold employers more accountable for wage discrimination against women * The bill would prohibit retaliation against employees who share their salary information with each other, which supporters say would eliminate the culture of silence that keeps women in the dark about pay discrimination. It would also require the Department of Labor to collect wage data from employers, broken down by race and gender, and require employers to show that wage differentials between men and women in the same jobs are for a reason other than sex." -- Hmm, the truth is that the Republican Party has protected businesses from another Big Brother intrusive regulation! This bill basically would give, no, mandate, private information be publicized and be available to unions, to businesses, and to scam artists! As it is, the IRS already has access to all this info, but even Judas 00-Barnum is not likely to violate the IRS laws and regulations that are on the books. He's already involved in one IRS scandal as we speak.

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Stacey Dash, a conservative Hollywood actress who was scourged as an Uncle Tom" by liberals for tweeting her support for Romney, hit the nail on the head while on Fox & Friends yesterday morning. When asked about OObamaCRAP, she said, "Let me put it this way, OObamaCare won't have a sequel."

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Online story: "Officials say the number of passengers believed to be sick with the highly contagious norovirus has nearly doubled aboard a cruise ship sailing to ports in California. * Princess Cruises spokeswoman Karen Candy said on Wednesday that 66 passengers and 17 crew members were sick and had to be isolated to their cabins aboard the Crown Princess. That's up from about 37 passengers who reported being sick while the ship was in San Francisco on Monday. * The Crown Princess is on a seven-day cruise that includes stops in San Diego and Santa Barbara. It ends in Los Angeles on Saturday." -- Good grief! Does this means that the cruise left port with sick people to begin with, and more people have gotten sick, and the cruise is still trying to force them finish all the stops on the cruise? Stacey Dash maybe wrong.. this maybe may be the sequel to OObamaCRAP... yeah.. OObamaCruiseCRAP.. that's the ticket!

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Online story: " NASA is working on sending a manned spacecraft to the asteroid, but then, through the use of robotic technology, scientists are also looking at ways to knock the asteroid -- or possibly a boulder from the asteroid -- into an orbit around the moon to collect samples from it. * William Gerstenmaier, an associate administrator, was clearly excited about that project. He said that while it may not be as flashy as a manned expedition to Mars, it's the kind of mission that gets kids and the public reinvigorated about space exploration and NASA's projects." -- Good grief.. Stacey Dash is way off! This looks like another sequel to OObamaCRAP.. engineering a change to an asteroid's orbit to adopt a new orbit around the moon.. After billions of years,, it doesn't look like "the moon" has been able to accomplish this on its own merits (as witnessed by the thousands of craters caused by meteors/asteroids that have simply crashed into the surface rather than become "captured" into the moon's gravitational pull) -- What's the working name for this disaster.. OObama-GEDDON?

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HuffPost story: "- A new report by the Congressional Research Service finds that Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-Calif.) probe of the Internal Revenue Service is veering into territory last trod by Congress in the McCarthy era." -- Arrggghhhh!!!!! What is wrong with our mainstream media! MSM not only tries to avoid looking into Judas 00-Barnum scandal, but objects to any other groups from doing so. Maybe somebody should remind mainstream media that in days passed, journalists have been known to get Pulitzer Prizes (and peer recognition) for uncovering government waste and treachery!

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Online story: "Before their home opener Tuesday night, the Atlanta Braves paid tribute to baseball legend Hank Aaron on the field. Meanwhile, the organization set off a fireworks display at the back of the stadium that went... just a tad awry. * The explosives somehow drifted into the vicinity of Old Glory and lit it ablaze, making for a PR executive's nightmare: a burning American flag." -- Even Rick Monday couldn't have saved the flag this time.. On the other hand, this could have been a protest for allowing Barry Bonds' "drug enhanced performance" to be given credit for beating Aaron's record.

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Maybe its karma (there aren't any coincidences), maybe its just appropriate, that Tiger Woods is not able to walk the hallowed grounds of golf at Augusta. Last year, golf "lost" when the tournament rules committee looked the other way at his "drop" transgression", but Tiger Woods forever tainted his integrity by not WD-ing before the committee stained itself.

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L-E headline: "Robotic milking system ups profitability" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought this was another Judas 00-Barnum plan to redistribute the wealth equally.

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Online quote source: "“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

- Ronald Reagan " -- Hmmm, this should be chiseled into the walls of every law school classroom, and every jury room in the nation!

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Online story: "The MRAP weighs an impressive 49,000 pounds, stands 10-feet tall, and possesses a whopping six-wheel drive. Originally designed to resist landmines and IEDs, it sure seems like the MRAP will come in handy for the notorious war zone otherwise known as Washington County, Iowa. * Moving along to the subject of today’s absurdity, the tiny city of Washington, Iowa with a population of 7,000 and 11 police officers, will be receiving a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle. * These things normally cost $500,000, but will be given to Washington, Iowa for free under a Defense Department program that gives surplus military equipment to domestic law enforcement." -- Hmmm. can't you imagine the ongoing story line of "The Dukes of Hazzard" if Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane had one of these to combat "The General"?

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Oh, no! Now the cat's out of the bag, and our Mayor Obamalinson knows about this program, and if a town of 7,000 can get one, she's gonna want 25-30 for Columbus. Can you imagine the road maintenance cost with these 49,000 pound (plus fuel and personnel) behemoths cruising the neighborhoods?

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Online headline: "House Ways and Means Committee, in 23-14 vote, approves criminal referral asking Justice Department to consider criminal prosecution against ex-IRS official Lois Lerner." -- Hmmm, the names of the 14 who didn't vote "yes" should be in the headline as well!

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If you have a custodial staff of say six people, and you assign one of the staff to be responsible for driving the van and, say, signing out new supplies, do you pay all of them the same? If that same staff has three women and three men, and the women have been there 2 more years than the three men hired to balance out the staff, do the men get equal pay? The Democratic Mantra .. the Democratic agenda is so transparent in its attempt to buy voters with other people's money.

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You know, if McCain had challenged Judas 00-Barnum's foreign policy naivety in 2008 like he did Kerry this week, 00-Barnum would have been a historical asterisk of being the first black Democratic Party presidential candidate.

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Attorney General Eric Holder has a p*ssing contest with Congressman Gohmert of Texas. I hope Gohmert took "samples" for a drug test on Holder.

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Whether Judas 00-Barnum publicly chastises Price Holder for his arrogant outbursts in the Congressional Investigation is irrelevant, he should do so in private and then apologize to Congress for his appointee's responses.

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A moment of reflection.. Tom Black passed at 81...have known, revered, praised, and been blessed by knowing Tom Black for 46 years. A wonderful man, a wonderful family. We celebrate his earthly life , and now his eternal life.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "I ask the voters to please not vote the Dark Ages anti-science Republicans back in office. We need to move forward, not to the 12th century." -- Good grief.. moving forward with Judas 00-Barnum's plan is in essence, a step back to the indentured slave and feudal landlord system prevalent to the 12th Century.

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L-E's "Thought for Today": “What is more unwise than to mistake uncertainty for certainty, falsehood for truth?” — Cicero, Roman orator, statesman and philosopher (106-43 B.C.) -- Hmm, it's a shame Cicero is not available as a rehab instructor for "Democrats Anonymous".