This quasi pope has really pissed me off. The nerve of him to blame capitalism for the woes of the world. Capitalism built the Catholic Church! The working poor, the middle class, the business class and even the wealth, built the Catholic Church with their honest toil , sweat, and tithes & donations. On the other hand politicians beat, coerced, imprison the same people to squeeze taxes out of them, and this guy wants to cure the ills of the world by putting the "cure" in the hands of politicians rather than hard working & honest citizens. Recall this pretender to the Vatican. He would be more suitably at home sitting at the right hand side of Judas Oo-Barnum so there'd be two leftist hands in the Oval Office!

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Man... is Donald St(_*_)rling's meltdown timely..it's as if God is revealing his plan to demonstrate the effectiveness of free will, unfettered capitalism and the folly of the pope. Public sentiment will bring down St(_*_)ing, free will will demonstrate the unity of all the races, and the pope's insistence that "inequality of wealth is the root of evil". Let him find new jobs for Clipper players.

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The NBA just blew it.. players who have gone after fans in the bleachers have been slapped on the wrist, but when a demented octogenarian becomes a babbling idiot, the NBA came out swinging baseball bats.. Of note, the owners sent an errand boy out to do it. Haven't been a fan since the early 80s,and do not see being curious enough to try again in the future.

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Judas 00-Barnum... see how easy it is to convict someone in the court if public opinion... try it in the court system with the DOJ, IRS, and Benghazi.

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Not since Judas 00-Barnum drew his first line in the sand have I seen a wimpier tirade than the one Adam Silver gave concerning Donald St(_*_)rling. I thought I was seeing James Carville doing Silver on a Saturday Night Live spoof.

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Online story: "Larry Johnson, who played in the NBA for ten years, has called for an “All-Black” basketball league in the wake of racist remarks made by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. * Johnson, who now works in the front office of the New York Knicks, tweeted, “Black people your Focusing on the wrong thing. We should be focusing on having our own, Own team own League! To For Self!!”" -- All right, where's the NBA now when it should be out whacking down a racist with baseball bats!

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It must be epidemic! Online story: "Former NBA player Shaquille O'Neal is facing sharp criticism from fans after posting a photo to his Instagram account making fun of (physically disfigured fan) Michigan-native Jahmel Binion, according to MLive." -- I don't think the NBA front office has anyone big enough to swing a big enough bat to Shaq's head....

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The harlot that illegally released taped conversations of the L(_*_) Clippers stupid owner.. what's the difference, the real difference, between what she's done,and what Edward Snowden did? Both illegal obtain intimate, personal info, and both posted it illegally, so what's the difference? Well, the difference is Judas 00-Barnum wants to convict Snowden, but not the harlot...Judas 00-Barnum sees more expedient gain in persecuting the victim.

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You know.. the NBA and mainstream media could have dealt St(_*_)rling an even worse fate.. simply turn their backs, walk away and end his spot in the limelight. Intentional and eternal silence is a better response to bad behavior.

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Online story: "BAGHLAN MARKAZI, Afghanistan, April 29 (Reuters) - Afghan police have arrested the parents of a 14-year-old girl after they attacked a religious cleric and cut off his nose and ears in retaliation for what they say were a series of sexual attacks on their daughter." -- Hmmm, personally, I'd thought they would have gone for the "eye for an eye" under sharia laws. Well, they should have!

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Just took a break to share a 2nd birthday moment with my granddaughter. That's right, she's two.. can hardly believe time has flown like this. One reminder of reality, though, is the thorough re-indoctrination into the world of disney (hey, even I know I can't avoid disney with a two year old). One thing I'd forgotten is how dastardly disney packages their products! It's war on parents and grandparents alike trying to open a disney gift package fast enough for a 2 year old!

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Irate L-E "soundoff": " Thanks MCSD, for taking Special Olympics away from our special ed students. The one thing they look forward to … You should be ashamed. Whoever cut that from the budget needs THEIR job cut!" -- Hmmm, and what's probable is that by cutting the job of the one who cut the Special Olympics, there would be enough money saved to participate in the Special Olympics. Hey, now thw the SO is gone, we don't need the"cutter's job" either! Double savings! Personally, the MCSD shouldn't have been doing so all along.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " With Georgia having a new gun law, my family and I will stay clear of Georgia. We will no longer go to any events in Georgia, you bunch of silly hillbillies." -- Well, ain't that special, and bless their hearts.. Georgian's will benefit forever from their non-presence.. especially having one less car with Bama plates terrorizing our streets.

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Lew Alcindor...Kareem Abdul Jabbar rose to stardom in the wake of all the furor some demented octogenarian has been crucified with this week. In a piece for "TIME", he said, "Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it." -- Well since it was published in "TIME", not many have seen it, but this may just erase the embarrassing image I last have of Kareem in a swimsuit on "Diving With The Stars".

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HuffPost headline: "Okla. botches man's execution * The state's first double execution in 80 years went horribly awry, resulting in inmate Clayton Lockett's death by heart attack." -- Huh? Sounds like it went "OK" to me.. Some cretin got a taste of well deserved hell, and those waiting will reflect deeply on what got them there, plus... plus some wannabe thug maybe having second thoughts about the life path he/she is thinking about. Yeah... things went better than "OK".

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Hey, the Oklahoma double execution went a lot better than the NBA's of the L(_*_) Clippers' owner. Stupid people with too much money aren't going to rush in and but a NBA team anymore.

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Between the goodwill created by Hallmark's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered", and the slick Spiderman ad campaign, I'd say the USPO has squandered millions of $$'s, and endless smart public relations by simply not delivering the mail in a timely manner. Dealing with family ritual mailings has been a nightmare. I'm not sure my daughter's fiance has received his invitation to the wedding .

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A fellow BCer expanded on the Twin Cities Mayoral "Dragon Boat Race".. I figures Columbus was a shoe-in with a real live dragon for a captain, but our friend pointed out, "What in the world does the Mayor need a boat for? After all she walks on whitewater."... Touche'

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Now Kerry claims he just "grasped" the wrong word... Hmmm, what other word would he use instead of "apartheid"? I'm sure Roget's Thesaurus is loaded with similar sounding and meaning words

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How sick is this... The Democrats are paying strategists to go on TV and defuse the scandalous wasteful spending in the USDA school food programs.. $6.2 Billion in documented waste. To boot, even the Democrat strategists can't talk about it and keep a straight face. They consider it chump change... Well, it's time to change the chumps. We've been it too long!

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L-E story: "A proposed "public-public partnership" between Columbus and Fort Benning could produce about $230,000 in revenue for the city's Recycling and Sustainability Center, Deputy City Manager David Arrington told Columbus Councilors today. * A section of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act allows military installations to enter into partnerships with neighboring governments in a number of different functions, one of which is recycling. When that became law, it created an opportunity for both the city and the post to take advantage of, Arrington said." -- Wait a minute... a public-public partnership? Who exactly will have financial liability for financial loss areas? Seems to me, we taxpayers are on the hook either way.

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The rose is definitely off the vine... As if Jan 1, incandescent bulbs ceased to be manufactured. We'll be stuck with ugly replacement bulbs forevermore. You'd think all the incandescent bulbs would be gone now, but they aren't .. In fact I think there are more now than in January. Of course, supply and demand has those 4/$1.98 packs retailing for $4.98 now as consumers see what they are going to have to spend on those ugly replacements.

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I hear a lotta talk about the Libertarian Party and the Tea Party as being "options". They really aren't..we conservatives need a bonding of like thoughts that are really the planks of the Reagan platform. Let's not tug away from the Republican Party, .. We just need to keep in mind that the Republican Party needs us.. needs us to regain leadership from the 00-Barnum administration, and needs us to reshape the party direction. What's not needed is draconian moral stances that God will ultimately resolve on a one-on-one.

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Another LIV's L-E "soundoff": " That bankruptcy you say Clinton spent us in — how come he ended up with a balanced budget, the only president to do so thus far?" -- Democrats don't understand economics at any level.. this one needs to be thanking Newt Gingrich for the balanced budgets during Clinton's reign. Yeah, like that will ever happen.

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L-E headline: "U.S. SUPREME COURT * Justices wary of unlimited phone searches" -- Hmmm, sounds more like Justices Kagan and Sotomayor suddenly remembered some text message exchanges with Judas 00-Barnum before they got appointed.

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L-E headline: "Notalone.gov   to assist campus rape victims" -- Whoa! After seeing the rollout of OObamaCRAP, what student would want to enter her/his info in another government database?