China has banned Hillary's book "Hard Choices" two different ways.. no publisher has bought the rights to translate/publish it in Chinese languages, but China has also has prohibited the sale of it in English. Guess for the Chinese, they were "easy choices", and so much for her effectiveness as a political representative of the US in the future as well. Wow... in comparison, , the Chinese preferred Nixon to Hillary...

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HuffPost headline: "Obama Dismisses Boehner Lawsuit As Nothing More Than A 'Stunt' -- Good grief, guess just taking over Congress's duties isn't enough.. now the Man of Steal has taken of the Judicial Branch's duties.

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Online story: "Obama's physician revealed the 44th president has been suffering with a little-known foot issue for 6 months." -- Hmmm, well it certainly can't be talking about the Mosqued Man's foot-and-mouth disease.. he's, well, we've suffered with that for his entire elected career.

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Online story: "U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday blasted House Republicans who have threatened to sue him for issuing executive orders to implement policies that would have a hard time passing in the Republican-controlled chamber of Congress. * "They don't do anything except block me and call me names," Obama said in an economic speech that concluded a two-day visit to Minnesota." -- "call me names"? Good grief.. Daniel Snyder, the NFL's Washington franchise owner should rename his team the "Washington Thinskins". It would be the Man of Steal's true legacy.

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Online story: "As the world is watching the impact of marijuana legalization measures in Uruguay and several American states, the United Nations warns that the widespread public perception that pot is a low-risk drug is dangerously mistaken. * "Medical research tell us clearly that the use of cannabis, particularly at early ages, can be very harmful for the health," UN Office on Drugs and Crime chief researcher Angela Me told a news conference on Thursday, Reuters reported" -- Whoa! Well, maybe now Democrats in Congress will finally vote for shutting off funding for the UN!

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HuffPost story: "The other (GM) recalls are much smaller and also had no reported injuries. One affects nearly 4,800 Chevrolet SS and Caprice police cars with faulty windshield wiper modules. Gear teeth can become stripped, causing the wipers to fail. Dealers will replace modules if needed." -- "dealers will replace modules if needed"? Good grief.. when will you know "if needed"? Failure will probably in a hot pursuit chase during a rain storm which could kill an officer.. Replace now!

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HuffPost story: "Los Angeles’ first medical marijuana farmers market is set to launch July 4, marking a unique opportunity for card-carrying cannabis patients to purchase a variety of products, including cannabis flowers, edibles and concentrates, directly from growers. * The new farmers market, which will feature 20 to 50 vendors, will be held at the West Coast Collective in East Los Angeles." -- Good grief... there are pretty strict amounts of marijuana and marijuana plants that a legal grower can have at any one time, and 20-50 legal vendors are going to supply enough to fill a 15,000 square foot venue? Must be the new math.

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WRBL3 story: "Columbus State hired Todd Reeser as the newest Cougar athletics director. * Reeser was announced Friday afternoon by university president Dr. Tim Mescon. He comes to CSU after spending the last five years at Georgia State as an associate AD." -- CSU paid a headhunter $45,000.00 plus expenses to hire an associate AD from a school within the state? Good grief.. that could have been accomplished with a posting on the university system bulletin board for the cost of a few keystrokes.

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Interesting.. when you think about it, a higher percentage of FOP members/voters supported Colin Martin for Mayor than the percent of non-FOP voters who supported Mayor Obamalinson. That sorta shows that the criminal elements didn't want Martin for Mayor; they preferred the status quo.

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L-E story: "A new U.S. Army assessment is calling for cutting nearly 11,000 military and civilian jobs at Fort Benning by the year 2020, with the total job loss in the region — on and off post — estimated at just under 14,000 * “Our citizens need to know how serious of a threat this is to our community, and it’s really the broader Chattahoochee Valley community,” Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson said of the potential devastating impact on the region * “When people say government jobs aren’t important and they don’t create economic value, this proves that nothing could be further from the truth,” Tomlinson said" -- Good grief.. Mayor Obamalinson is trying to equate excessive government service jobs are valuable compared to the Constitutionally authorized/mandated jobs our military performs? How dare she. What she's trying to do is justify not cutting back on local government employees.. the same stance will be taken by our School Board as well. .

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Oh, another 'general order' for American patriots.. when you get called in by the IRS for an audit, claim you're innocent, your hard drive crashed and you recycled it, then take the 5th Amendment as ask for a government provided lawyer.

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Two men are suing the NJ Lottery because they checked the lottery web site, which posted wrong winning numbers, so they through their winning tickets away. You know, they have a better argument than the IRS.

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Online story: "Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border." -- I think it's time to free Sgt Tahooressi the good old American way. Where's Bush43 when we need him!

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Online story (and not on the HuffPost): "The socially conservative group National Organization of Marriage (NOM) accused the IRS of leaking documents to the Obama campaign in 2012. After going public with their accusations, a top Obama campaign official Joe Solomese actually used the information to attack Mitt Romney during the election, with the help of left-wing operative “journalists” in outlets such as the Huffington Post. The documents used shows that Romney donated $10,000 to NOM, which is information that was not supposed to be known by anyone else… except the IRS. * Two years after activists for same-sex marriage obtained the confidential tax return and donor list of a national group opposed to redefining marriage, the Internal Revenue Service has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to settle the resulting lawsuit." -- No wonder those 7 hard drives were "recycled"!!!!

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Online story: "When President Obama announced an unprecedented effort by the EPA to strong-arm states into adopting cap-and-trade, he made the announcement not by focusing on the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but rather on the so-called co-benefits that closing coal plants will have on particulate matter, which is already tightly regulated. These purported co-benefits are based on two secret studies that have never been publicly validated. Amazingly, the architect of this co-benefits strategy is a long-time EPA staffer named John Beale, now known as federal inmate number 33005-016 and locked up for fraud at Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution * Now Beale is locked up for fraud, but his secret science trick marches on." --- Hmmm, Guess Beale will get a professorship at the University of Chicago with an office next to Bill Ayers....

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You know...it really bothers me that our school system tries to meet the average scores.. gets excited if student scores are within a few points of average. I was raised under the pretense that average is not a goal. Average means you're the same as the worst of the best or the best if the worst. Neither of those is satisfactory as a goal.

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Online story: "A group that supported Republican Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran in his re-election bid against state senator Chris McDaniel paid a controversial political consultant $44,000 to conduct political phone calls. * Mississippi Conservatives PAC Mitzi Bickers “to make paid calls to potential Cochran supporters. * Bickers is the former head of the Atlanta School Board and a pastor at the city’s Emmanuel Baptist Church. * Last year, as an aide to Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed, Bickers was forced to change her financial disclosure forms after WSB-TV 2 discovered that she had failed to report over $500,000 she earned on political campaign work she did in 2012. She eventually left the position. * Failure to disclose such information comes under the penalty of perjury." * Bickers was hired to target black voters, Barbour said. The demographic, which leans heavily Democratic, became a key focal point for the PAC and the Cochran campaign after the incumbent lost to McDaniel in the initial June 3 primary by 2,000 votes" -- Good grief.. the Republican PAC bought black cross-over votes to win the primary runoff for the weaker Republican candidate in the November elcetion, and we know those voters will vote Democrat in the General Election which probably means a Democrat will win a seat in Mississippi since the Republican conservative vote probably won't support Cochran...

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L-E's "Thought for Today": “One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.” - Helen Merrell Lynd, American sociologist and educator (1896-1982)." -- Hmmm... Ms Lynd was obviously a psychic... she left us with a way to survive the Mosqued Man.

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L-E story: " The Syrian rebels that the U.S. now wants to support are in poor shape, on the retreat from the radical al-Qaida breakaway group that has swept over large parts of Iraq and Syria, with some rebels giving up the fight. It is not clear whether the new U.S. promise to arm them will make a difference." -- Oh, arming the rebels will make a difference even Hillary can distinguish between... arming the rebels will asure that the "radical al-Qaida breakaway group" will get a weapons upgrade.

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L-E story: " A fear of voting has gripped Democratic leaders in the Senate, slowing the chamber’s modest productivity this election season to a near halt. * With control of the Senate at risk in November, leaders are going to remarkable lengths to protect endangered Democrats from casting tough votes and to deny Republicans legislative victories in the midst of the campaign. The phobia means even bipartisan legislation to boost energy efficiency, manufacturing, sportsmen’s rights and more could be scuttled. * The Senate’s masters of process are finding a variety of ways to shut down debate" -- Hmmm, and the Mosqued Man's spinmeisters will blame this on the Republican objectionists, and mainstream media will support his lies.

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L-E headline: "Library manager apologizes to father for treatment of autistic son: -- Hmmm, I do not think it was unreasonable for the library manager to ask that a 14 year old, 6' tall boy who plays "Minecraft" to vacate the children's department computer area. Minecraft gets pretty heady for a 5 or 6 year old who cn watch - There's a limit to politocal correctness....

Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.
It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sun rise over a blocky ocean. It’s pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land of mushrooms if it sounds more like your cup of tea.

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L-E half-story: " The Harris County School District students in grades 3-8 improved on more than half of their standardized tests and increased their margin over the state average in more than one-third of them, according to results released this week by the Georgia Department of Education. * This spring, those six grades took the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests in five subjects, producing a total of 30 scores for school districts to measure their progress. *

Harris County’s highlights in the CRCT scores include:
• Third grade outscored the other districts in the RESA in reading, math and science. “This is particularly outstanding due to the fact that third grade is a pivotal grade where there exists a reading promotion requirement,” Branham said.
• Fourth-grade reading improved by 3.3 percentage points to 95.9. “There is historically a dip in scores when the curriculum changes slightly and there is an increase in levels of independence,” Branham said.
• Fifth grade has a reading and math promotion requirement, and 96.6 percent passed reading and 92.0 percent passed math.
• Sixth grade outscored the RESA in all subject areas, except reading, where Harris County’s 98.2 was nipped by Coweta County’s 98.4.

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Hmmm.. how convenient.. the L-E did not post all the scores in the print edition so Muscogee County citizens could compare how bad the MCSD scores were in comparison to Harris County's. Harris County students drink the water from the same sources as Columbus students, so that can't be the problem......

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For the BCers whio do not get the online edition:

Here are the HCSD figures:

2013 scores, followed by the 2014 scores. Numbers denote the percentage of students who met or exceeded the state standard)

Eighth-grade reading                                  Muscogee County 2014 figures:

Harris County 98.5, 98.2, -0.3                           96

State average 96.8, 97.0, +0.2

Eighth-grade English language arts

Harris County 97.8, 96.9, -0.9                           92

State average 94.3, 94.5, +0.2

Eighth-grade math

Harris County 91.3, 89.8, -1.5                            72

State average 83.0, 81.5, -1.5

Eighth-grade science

Harris County 92.8, 88.7, -4.1                            65

State average 74.0, 77.9, +3.9

Eighth-grade social studies

Harris County 87.9, 90.6, +2.7                           74

State average 77.9, 80.6, +2.7

Seventh-grade reading

Harris County 99.0, 97.1, -1.9                            91

State average 94.7, 94.7, 0.0

Seventh-grade English language arts

Harris County 98.2, 95.8, -2.4                             90

State average 93.0, 93.9, +0.9

Seventh-grade math

Harris County 96.7, 92.9, -3.8                             81

State average 89.9, 87.6, -2.3

Seventh-grade science

Harris County 94.3, 89.6, -4.7                              77

State average 85.2, 84.2, -1.0

Seventh-grade social studies

Harris County 91.5, 88.3, -3.2                             79

State average 82.7, 83.5, +0.8

Sixth-grade reading

Harris County 96.2, 98.2, +2.0                           95

State average 96.0, 97.2, +1.2

Sixth-grade English language arts

Harris County 92.5, 94.5, +2.0                            87

State average 92.4, 91.8, -0.6

Sixth-grade math

Harris County 90.2, 93.9, +3.7                            74

State average 82.7, 84.1, +1.4

Sixth-grade science

Harris County 80.8, 86.1, +5.3                            62

State average 74.0, 75.1, +1.1

Sixth-grade social studies

Harris County 84.2, 88.9, +4.7                            69

State average 77.5, 79.8, +2.3

Fifth-grade reading

Harris County 94.9, 96.6, +1.7                             93

State average 92.9, 94.8, +1.9

Fifth-grade English language arts

Harris County 95.9, 95.7, -0.2                              92

State average 94.2, 94.7, +0.5

Fifth-grade math

Harris County 94.6, 92.0, -2.6                              86

State average 89.5, 87.7, -1.8

Fifth-grade science

Harris County 86.2, 86.3, +0.1                               74

State average 79.6, 81.9, +2.3

Fifth-grade social studies

Harris County 81.4, 84.0, +2.6                               72

State average 80.5, 80.7, +0.2

Fourth-grade reading

Harris County 92.6, 95.9, +3.3                                88

State average 92.5, 93.6, +1.1

Fourth-grade English language arts

Harris County 91.1, 93.0, +2.0                                83

State average 90.2, 88.7, -1.5

Fourth-grade math

Harris County 86.9, 89.2, +2.3                                70

State average 84.3, 81.7, -2.6

Fourth-grade science

Harris County 89.4, 91.6, +2.2                                68

State average 82.7, 80.9, -1.8

Fourth-grade social studies

Harris County 87.5, 89.3, +1.8                                67

State average 81.3, 81.2, -0.1

Third-grade reading

Harris County 96.4, 95.2, -1.2                                   88

State average 92.1, 92.3, +0.2

Third-grade English language arts

Harris County 95.5, 93.8, -1.7                                   82

State average 88.1, 88.5, +0.4

Third-grade math

Harris County 86.6, 90.7, +4.1                                 75

State average 78.5, 80.7, +2.2

Third-grade science

Harris County 88.1, 86.8, -1.3                                    65

State average 78.4, 77.1, -1.3

Third-grade social studies

Harris County 89.0, 91.4, +2.4                                   77

State average 83.4, 83.7, +0.3

And don't believe Realtors don't have these figures close at hand when showing newcomers to the area places to buy...