From the Benghazi BS department - Online HuffPost story: "(_*_)bu Kh(_*_--(_*_)-(_*_) pleaded not guilty during a 10-minute appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge * A lawyer from the federal public defender's office appeared alongside "(_*_)bu Kh(_*_--(_*_)-(_*_) " -- Good grief.. instead of Gitmo, the (_*_) terrorist gets lawyered up on our dollars, and and probably has a book deal lined up with Hillary as his ghost writer!

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A liberal, trying to be "humorous" (but in vain, as the first symptom of catching liberalism is the loss of such), asked what I would call Hillary should she become president. He made a few failed attempts at suggesting a few choices, so I replied to him.. first, I told him I didn't think that was going to happen, but since he was interested, I'd show him the difference between humor and what he thought was humorous. Off the top of my head, I gave him, "Hillsbury Doughgirl" and "Hillewinsky"....q;-) (PS - You saw this first in the Breakfast Club)

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The fact that the CSU "Foundation" footed the $50K dollars ($45K guarantee plus at least $5K for "expenses' ) to find an AD within a two hour drive time should be, no, probably is, disheartening to joyous donors to the Foundation over the years. Spending $50K for basically hiring a fund raiser with the title of Athletic Director at a higher salary than the previous hands-on and successful Athletic Directors just doesn't look like CSU is being a good ward of its resources.

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I finally figured out why the USPS named it's non-expirable postage the "Forever" stamp.. that's the guaranteed delivery time frame.

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Onlinw story: "A proposal is to increase per-gallon taxes on both gasoline and diesel fuel by six cents for two consecutive years. That'd bring federal gas taxes to 30.4 cents a gallon and diesel to 36.4 cents per gallon. After that, the gas tax would be tied to inflation." -- You know, the oil companies' profits per gallon come in around 7-cents. Combined, fed and state/local sales taxes give governments 3-to-4 times that much per gallon. Now the feds want to raise their share 60-80%.. and.. and get this, put automatic increases tied to inflation.. and gasoline prices are one of the primary inflation stimulators.

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Online story: "A 73-year-old veteran says he was fired from a Venice, FL Cracker Barrel restaurant for giving a needy man a few condiment packets and a corn muffin." -- Good grief... even if only partially true.. what was Cracker Barrel "thinking"?

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Latest from barackobama.com: "Come celebrate in Chicago * We're throwing a birthday party for President Obama here at OFA HQ. It'll be a celebration of historic health care reform—and you're invited." -- Hmmm, and where will the Mosqued Man be... North Carolina?

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Online story: "McDaniel Supporters Barred From Reviewing Voter Rolls in Nine Mississippi Counties * The McDaniel campaign has already found 1,000 examples in one county of Democrats who voted in the June 3rd primary as Democrats and then crossed over into the Republican primary this week. *This is illegal and their votes should not be counted." -- Hmm... and 9 more counties have been identified doing the same.. --so far. A PAC supporting incumbent Senator Cochran's campaign bought the services of a highly controversial Democratic political consultant to target black voters to cross over and vote for Cochran. Politics as usual ain't politics as usual anymore.

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Online story: "The man dubbed the leader of the free world -- beset by foreign and domestic policy crises, sinking in the opinion polls, and just clipped by the Supreme Court -- told a gathering in Minnesota Thursday that he's looking forward to spending a "couple days here in the Twin Cities." * "I've been really looking forward to -- to getting out of D.C.," the president said, getting a laugh in return. "Our agenda's still a little loose. You know, I might pop in for some ice cream or visit a small business. I don't know, I'm just going to make it up as I go along." -- "I'm just going to make it up as I go along"? Hmmm....isn't this what has got the Mosqued Man to this point? Making things up... then having his army of spinmeisters and mainstream media trying to convince the world "it's the truth"?

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Online headline/story: "Jews barred from African Union summit * "I have never seen such racism, such anti-Semitism. We were humiliated," said several of the Jews in attendance, who had left Equatorial Guinea in a fury after changing their flights. * "It all began when one of the Arab delegates, from Egypt, approached us at dinner the night before the opening and asked what we were doing here, pointing at the men wearing kippahs," said Israeli businesswoman Yardena Ovadia, who had organized the invitation of the Jewish delegation to the summit. * "We were already seated in the conference hall," said Ovadia. "The heads of the Arab League announced a boycott of the conference until the 'Israeli delegation' left. We officially declared that we were Americans, not Israelis, but it didn't help." * "There was a representative of the US congress with us. She was shocked and said that there will be an official government statement," Ovadia added" -- " will be an official government statement"? Good luck with the Mosqued Man standing up against Egypt...

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "To the “lifelong Democrat” who remembers the good old days of George Wallace and Lester Maddox … sir, that is now the Republican Party." -- Good grief.. I thought Democrat propaganda had hit bottom already...

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L-E headline/story: "JULY 22 RUNOFFS * ADVANCE VOTING STARTS MONDAY * The Community Room in the City Services Center, 3111 Citizens Way, is the only polling place in Muscogee County that will be open for the runoffs’ advance voting period: Mondays-Fridays, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m * Boren expects voter turnout for the runoffs to be less than 10 percent of the electorate. * Regardless of the turnout, conducting the runoffs still will cost the county’s elections office about $75,000, Boren said." -- Good grief.. There are 4 runoffs.. why should there be a need to "early voting"? Why not just give voters a choice to go get an absentee ballot or vote on July 22nd?

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Richard Hyatt's L-E commentary: "So despite decisions made elsewhere, schools in the Southeastern Conference aren't seriously considering the sale of beer in the stadiums where fans practice the ancient ritual of college football. * "We see no value in it. It's being done in some places but it is not an option in the SEC," says Greg McGarity, the athletic director at the University of Georgia. * This fall, Arkansas begins selling beer at concession stands serving 8,950 hog-calling fans in a special club section. Alabama, Auburn and LSU allow premium ticket-holders to brown-bag their own bottles but don't include beer on their stadium menus." -- "not an option in the SEC"?...Yet "fans" in "special sections" and "premium tcket-holder" are exempt... Marx was spot-on.. everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others... hmmm, sort a applies to political appointees of the Mosqued man as well.

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L-E human interest story: " Nathaniel Hawthorne famously said, “Families are always rising and falling in America.” I wonder if the same can be said about cities. * A recent film, entitled “Brick Mansions,” stars the late Paul Walker. “Brick Mansions” is an adaptation of a 2004 French movie called “District B13” in which a dystopian, Parisian slum has been so overrun by gangs, drugs and violence that police have turned it into an open-air prison surrounded by guarded walls topped with barbed wire. * In “Brick Mansions,” the premise is the same, but the city is in America. I’ll let Christy Lemire, writer at RogerEbert.com  , say more: “Walker stars as Damien Collier, an undercover police detective in a dystopian, futuristic Detroit. (Otherwise known as: next week. I kid!)” Call me a killjoy, but I’m not amused. I find it difficult to watch our country largely turn a blind eye to Detroit’s plight while we delight ourselves in economically thriving cities like New York and San Francisco. I think of Detroit in its heyday and wonder how a place full of hope and prosperity not too long ago is now useful for little more than the setting of a dystopian film or the butt of a joke." -- Hmmm, " I find it difficult to watch our country largely turn a blind eye to Detroit’s plight "? Good grief.. Detroit's "heyday" was filled with graft, corruption and taxpayer abuse as the city and the unions ran up $18 BILLION in public debt. Sorry, but that is not something the other 49 states need to bail out. It's even questionable whether Michigan should do so, but that's up to Michigan voters,\.

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There is a picture in the L-E taken from a "march" to save the "Garrard Center" of Girl's, Inc which is scheduled to close for lack of funding. Young girls are carrying signs of various content. Those signs would look a bit more sincere if they'd been hand-lettered by the kids.. it would also show that the powers that be were a bit more concerned about the expenses.

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L-E story: "WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama has taken the U.S. gay rights revolution global, using American embassies across the world to promote a cause that still divides his own country. * Sometimes U.S. advice and encouragement is condemned as unacceptable meddling. * And sometimes it can seem to backfire, increasing the pressure on those it is meant to help." -- "unacceptable meddlimg"? What.. the Mosqued Man worry? I can see it now.. the next president will have to go on another world tour the day after being sworn in to apologize for the Mosqued Man.

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L-E commentary: "Secretary of State John Kerry recently floated a mind-numbing idea: to help turn back ISIS, the Islamic terrorist group that has seized control of more than a third of Iraq, the U.S. could enter a cooperative arrangement with the mullahs of Iran. Yes, the administration still clings to the notion that it can advance American interests by cutting a deal with Tehran. No wonder we are losing everywhere on the foreign policy front. True, America and Iran have a mutual interest in Iraq, much in the way a robber and a customer have a common interest in a bank. Missing the difference in desired outcomes explains the core problem of the president’s foreign policy." -- "No wonder we are losing everywhere on the foreign policy front"? You know, there's only one thing I need to add to this item.. it was not written nor supported by anyone on the L-E staff. The author, JAMES JAY CARAFANO, is vice president of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies for The Heritage Foundation. Maybe McClatchy should hire him. well, we can wish, can't we?

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L-E commentary of George Will: " Amanda Blackhorse, a Navajo who successfully moved a federal agency to withdraw trademark protections from the Washington Redskins because it considers the team’s name derogatory, lives on a reservation where Navajos root for the Red Mesa High School Redskins. She opposes this name; the Native Americans who picked and retain it evidently do not." -- ROFLMAO...

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Froma Harrop camel excrement: " One sensed Chris McDaniel might be in trouble when Sen. Thad Cochran asked Democrats, black voters especially, to support him. (Such crossover voting is allowed under the rules.) But when the right-wingers went into rage mode, vowing to patrol the balloting, you knew it was all over. They had handed the opposition a crusade to march in." -- ((Such crossover voting is allowed under the rules.) ? -- Well, not entirely.. like in Georgia, if you voted in the primary for one party, you cannot vote in a runoff for the other party.. in another online story: "McDaniel Supporters Barred From Reviewing Voter Rolls in Nine Mississippi Counties * The McDaniel campaign has already found 1,000 examples in one county of Democrats who voted in the June 3rd primary as Democrats and then crossed over into the Republican primary this week. *This is illegal and their votes should not be counted."