HuffPost headline: "Obama Announces New Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine" -- Good grief...isn't this about 5 months late and a lot of (now) rubles short?

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Online story: "A federal judge has ruled that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional. * U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney handed down an order Wednesday, finding that the system is arbitrary and in violation of the Constitution's 8th Amendment. * "California's death penalty system is so plagued by inordinate and unpredictable delay (over 900 sentences but only 13 have been carried out) that the death sentence is actually carried out against only a trivial few of those sentenced to death," Carney writes. "For all practical purposes then, a sentence of death in California is a sentence of life imprisonment with the remote possibility of death -- a sentence no rational legislature or jury could ever impose." -- Good grief.. I actually agree with a California federal district court decision... not that I agree with it being something unconstitutional in itself, but in the ineffective time delays that could have prevented future crimes from happening, and victims' families being subjected to extended delays in seeing justive carried out.

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Online story: "The Obama administration has awarded a $50 million contract to a charitable group to buy a Texas resort hotel and transform it in to a 600 bed facility for juvenile illegal aliens. * The plan is to have the hotel ready for illegal alien children ages 12 to 17 by October 1st of this year, a mere two-and-half months from now. It is expected the average stay will be about fifteen days. * The Palm Aire Hotel and Suites currently advertises amenities such as two outdoor swimming pools—one Olympic sized—Jacuzzis, sauna, steam room, two racquetball courts, outdoor tennis courts, picnic area with grills and a fitness center with twenty machines and free weights." -- Good grief... not only is that over $683,000.00 per illegal alien child.. it admits that this is not a short term "solution", and that means $50 MILLION is a drop in the bucket. Even worse that this is NOT part of the $3.78 BILLION the Man of Steal has requested from Congress!

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Good grief! Harry Reid..DemocRAT leader if the Senate said, "Our borders are secure!". Hmmm... I wonder if we have to parse the word "borders"? Perhaps Harry was saying/meaning, " boarders"..and they do seem to be "secure".. Secure in accommodations, secure in their next meals, and secure in getting government assistance.

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Solution to above.. a set time period..say sentence be carried out within 3 months of such, and say no more than 2 years for any appeal to be filed and court accepted, Then, carry out the execution on the original sentence date if an appeal is not filed by then, and if an appeal id properly filed, carry out the sentence within 30 days of any court rejection of such appeal that the court rejects it.

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Online headline: "Double Amputee Veteran's Wheelchair Breaks In Lowe's, Workers Drop Everything To Fix It" -- Standing "O" for Lowe's employees.. OK, Home Depot... one up this..

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HuffPost headline: "4 Gaza Children Killed By Israeli Shelling" -- OK... tell Hamas to stop using children as shields.

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HuffPost headline: "Syrian President Assad Sworn In For Third Term" -- Hey, Mosque Man.. are you going to draw a third line in the sand?

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Online headline: "Blagojevich renews effort to clear his name" -- Ain't gonna happen.. ain't gonna LET that happen.. I had to learn how to pronounce and spell his name when I could care less about him, and now that I know how to do those things, I will not let him off the hook!

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L-E story: "Police discovered former Muscogee County Coroner William Thrower naked in his front yard Tuesday after officers responded to a family dispute at his 11th Avenue home, according to Columbus police reports. * According to police and jail reports, the 63-year-old Thrower was charged with being disorderly while intoxicated and possessing a drug-related object. His wife Barbara, 50, was also arrested and charged with having a drug-related object." -- Good grief.. makes you wonder what went on in "the morgue" during after hours when he was Coroner.

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You know...Bill Clinton openly admitted to loathing the military. Can you imagine how much more Hillary loathes our service men?

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From a heads-up of a fellow BCer - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr077.pdf -- this is the July 15, 2014 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report on the numbers.. accurate numbers, of the sexual orientation of America. Most definitely a "just as I suspected" confirmation for normal Americans.

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L-E headline: "Muscogee schools shine on state high school tests" -- Huh? The L-E must think no one reads beyond the headline.. or , most probably, not many can read the story..Once again.. our local school test results.. especially in Math and English demonstrates how ill prepared most of our high school students are ready to go to college or work when they leave with their diplomas. Average is not a goal to begin with.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Speaker Boehner, the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled in favor of Obamacare and it would be asinine, and expensive, for you to sue to overturn it." -- Well.. the Supreme Court did rule it was a tax, and Congress is empowered to levy taxes. What the Supreme Court did not opine on was the fact that the OObamaCRAP bill illegally originated in the Senate.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Kudos to Columbus city management for requiring Mr. Coates to pass ICC certification requirements. He was given two years but found certification to be unimportant. Seemed a lot like hiring a lifeguard who couldn’t swim." -- Hmmm.. this must have been sent in by a Mayoral aide or Mayor Obamalinson herself..

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " As to the ruling concerning health clinics, we have five powerful, conservative Catholic men issuing incoherent edicts about women based on religious superstition and lies, assuming that women are imbeciles, requiring crude, aggressive bullying." -- Hmmm.. truth is that we have 6 Roman Catholic and 3 Jewish Justices. Truth is we have 3 women and 6 men. Truth is we had 9 men on the US Supreme Court when the Roe v Wade decision was handed down. Truth is all 9 of the Justices have Ivy League law degrees.. That's where the problem is...

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Wow.. two L-E letters-to-the-editors I can really support.. one from Judge Peters concerning Charles Tate.. this is a no-brainer, but none-the-less, the L-E did print it. I definitely agree with Judge Peters' assessment and praise. Now the second one stunned me.. I'm not a Frank Myers "fan" as I believed him to be self-interested in his political involvements. This view has made me look at him a little bit different. I do hope he continues in his quest to improve perspective of the school board's goals. I've been a long time proponent that our school system stop looking at "average" as a goal to seek. Average is either the best of the worst or worst of the best...

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L-E story: "HOOVER, Ala. — At this point, concrete details on the criteria for making the new College Football Playoff are still a mystery. * Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoff, tried to clear up some of the confusion with his presentation Wednesday at SEC media days." -- "Wednesday" presentation? That's the problem.. he didn't ask the Monday Morning QBs for help.