What is it with Mexican officials chastising America for wanting to control the flood of illegal aliens. If Mexican officials got their act together, its citizens would be happy there.

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HuffPost "headlie"/story: "AP reporter's account of botched execution * FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) -- J*****h R***lph W**d looked around the death chamber and glanced at the doctors as they made preparations for his execution, locating the proper veins and inserting two lines into his arms. * Officials administered the lethal drugs at 1:52 p.m. W**d's eyes close * W**d's jaw dropped, his chest expanded, and he let out a gasp. The gasps repeated every five to 12 seconds. He could be heard snoring loudly when an administrator turned on a microphone to inform the gallery that W**d was still sedated, despite the audible sounds. * It took one hour and 57 minutes for the execution to be completed, and W**d was gasping for more than an hour and a half of that time * " -- Now what was botched? Just liberal bias. The guy brutally murdered two people.. a father and daughter 25 years ago, and has been a drain on taxpayer resources since. So what if he didn't die instantly.. I'd like video to "go viral"... maybe it would stop some other murder.

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Other side of the story from above: "W**d was convicted of murdering Debbie Dietz and her father, Gene Dietz, in 1989 at a Tucson auto repair shop. Minutes after the execution, the victims' family members spoke to the media. * "What I saw today with him being executed, it is nothing compared to what happened on Aug. 7, 1989," said Debbie Dietz's sister, Jeanne Brown. "What's excruciating is seeing your father lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying in a pool of blood." * Her husband, Richard Brown, had a similar thought. * "This man conducted a horrifying murder and you guys are going, `let's worry about the drugs,'" said Richard Brown. "Why didn't they give him a bullet? Why didn't we give him Drano?" * About an hour and a half after the execution, Gov. Jan Brewer said she had ordered the Corrections Department to conduct a full review of the process. She added that she believed Wood "died in a lawful manner, and by eyewitness and medical accounts he did not suffer." * "This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims - and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family," Brewer said." -- Hmmm... HuffPost's headline should have been: "One giant step for mankind; Another one bites the dust!".

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L-E story: "In March, police in Birmingham, Ala., approached a pastor who was handing out hot dogs and bottled water to homeless people living beneath a viaduct. He had to stop, police said, because he didn't have a food truck permit. * Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced an ordinance last year to ban public feeding of the homeless. Residents complained that their neighborhoods were becoming squatting grounds after meal times. Handing out food without addressing the root causes of homelessness was an ineffective response to the problem, the residents argued * Chicago has had similar vexation with its homeless population. Last summer, a city alderman ordered a Salvation Army food truck to stop feeding people in his ward. He said the homeless were becoming dependent on the truck and swarming to his community from other areas." -- Hmmm.. looks like liberal mayors want an exclusive on "compassion". Guess they are afraid the homeless might stop voting for Democrat handouts if the homeless get used to better foods and a conservative 'hand up'....

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L-E story: "In second year, Chattahoochee course could see 20,000 rafters" -- Hmmm.. let's do some math - Say high priced "runs" are 75% of that 20,000 and 25% are the "jr edition". OK the basic prices for the big runs are $46.50 and the mild run is $32.50 and the "fee" is .035%. Total "fees" collected will be around $30,100.00 and that will be split between Columbus and Phenix City governments. In the past year, Columbus has paid $1,900,000.00 to fix the river bank damages, and Phenix City has spent about $600,000.00 on an exit location for rafters, (this is over and beyond the millions Columbus & Phenix City taxdollars that went in before completion). That's about $2,500,000.00 taxdollars spent on maintaining the whitewater course that the operator hasn't contributed anything. If our Councils do not spend anything else for the next 8 years, the fees collected (at $30,100.00 Anually) will still come up short nearly $100,000.00 over those 8 years to being revenue neutral for the taxpayers. Of course, that doesn't include any safety or daily maintenance expenses caused by the "business" that isn't paying anything.

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Online story: "For some inexplicable – and hilarious – reason, Barack Obama likes to refer to himself as “The Bear.” “The Bear is Loose” has been tweeted by the White House several times when Obama, who is rumored to be “bored” and “restless,” trots out for a burger or a beer, or simply to press the flesh with adoring fans. * Former Secret Service Agent, and current Maryland Republican candidate for Congress, Dan Bongino pretty much defined why "The Bear" is such an apt reference bname for Where'sWaoldobama. He "tweeted: "It's actually quite appropriate that the President calls himself "The Bear" being that he has hibernated throughout his presidency." -- Hmmm How can I add to that summation?

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Whoa... Our Secretary of State, John Kerry had a strategic meeting with the Egyptian president, but before Egyptian security would let Kerry in, the security team scanned Kerry with a metal detector. Wow! I guess since Kerry is the messenger for the Mosqued man, Egypt knows not trust anybody associated with Where'sWaldobama.

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Hmmm, no one has come forward to claim they pulled off the white flag swap out on the Brooklyn Bridge. Wonder if they would come forward if we set up a "legal defense fund" to take care of whatever offenses NYC tries to charge them with?

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Isn't it a bit hypocritical for the IRS czar to stop looking for Lois Lerner's (et al) missing e-mail, but demanding citizens to keep files, hard copy or electronic, for 7 years?

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Online story: "Undercover government investigators were able to obtain thousands of dollars in taxpayer subsidies under ObamaCare using fake identities, according to findings presented to Congress on Wednesday. * In the case of the GAO investigation, 11 out of 12 applications submitted using "fictitious identities" were accepted, resulting in subsidized health coverage. * "For each of our 11 approved applications, we paid the required premiums to put policies into force, and are continuing to pay the premiums. * According to the GAO, the total amount for these credits was $2,500 monthly, adding up to $30,000 a year * The administration pointed out that six of the GAO's fake online applications were blocked by eligibility checks built into computer systems at HealthCare.gov. Still, the GAO says its undercover agents found a way around that by phoning the call centers and were able to enroll anyway. * The GAO said its investigators concocted fake identities using invalid Social Security numbers and falsely claiming citizenship or legal residence. In other cases, they made up income figures that would disqualify them from getting subsidies." -- Good grief!...and this was before the Supreme Court rulings on the feds giving subsidies!

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Online headline: "Apollo 11's scariest moments: perils of the 1st manned moon landing" -- Hey.. this wasn't the only scary moment or "secret" of the Apollo 11 landing that night. My sister was a programmer at MIT-NASA for this event. She and two others got calls that night saying they had 117 minutes to get back to MIT-NASA and rewrite the landing codes for the Eagle. The current landing projections would have put the Eagle landing in a shadowed and rocky area of the moon and without radio contact with Houston. The 117 minute dead line was based on that was all the spare fuel they had to get back. My sister's program was the one used to make the corrections to the orbit path. Proud of my sister today as well.

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WTVM9 story: "The College Career Ready Performance Index or CCRPI starts measuring students in kindergarten and follows them to their senior year of high school, determining how well-equipped they are to succeed in higher education and finding a good job. * According to the study, Muscogee County high school students are trailing the state average by more than a percentage point. Middle school students are doing slightly worse, at about five and a half points below the Georgia average, and elementary students are about fifteen points behind." -- You know... the MCSD board should hire a research team to go out and find teachers and administrators from schools that students make test scores in the upper 1-to-10% and recruit them as replacements for Columbus teachers/administrators bringing up the rear in local testing.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " I sat with a broken down vehicle on J.R. Allen Parkway and Flat Rock Road for one hour and 45 minutes. Not one person offered help, including the four police cars that rode by and looked at me. Great city, Columbus!" -- Hmmm... don't tell me the only person in a 50 mile area who doesn't have a cellphone was right here amongst us... I'll bet one thing that this "soundoffer" didn't do was get out, raise the hood of the car, and turn on the emergency flashers.. I do believe no police officer would have driven by without assisting.

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You know.. every story, every situation has "two sides".. I'm just worn out with Where'sWaldobama and his minions giving both from opposite sides of their mouths.

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L-E story: "The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday proposed a two-year phaseout of older railroad tank cars used to transport crude oil, which have been involved in several serious derailments over the past year. * Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx outlined the long-anticipated proposals more than a year after a deadly derailment in Quebec focused government and public scrutiny on the rising volumes of crude oil shipped by train." -- "after a deadly derailment in Quebec "? Is this what Where'sWaldobama's strategy has been about.. swapping our government for Canada's?

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L-E's "Quotable": “A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.” - Gertrude Stein American author (1874-1946)" -- Ooops my bad.. thought she meant Hillsbury DOUGHgirl should open her eyes, and painters would be better if they looked like Ross Perot...

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L-E story: " Montana Sen. John Walsh’s thesis written to earn a master’s degree from the U.S. Army War College contains unattributed passages taken word-for-word from previously published papers. * The Democrat is running against Republican Rep. Steve Daines to keep the seat Walsh was appointed to in February when Max Baucus resigned to become U.S. ambassador to China, and national Democrats said Wednesday they remained “100 percent behind Sen. Walsh.” * All six of the recommendations that Walsh lists at the end of his paper are taken nearly word-for-wordwithout attribution from a Carnegie paper written by Carothers and three other scholars at the institute. * One section of the paper is nearly identical to about 600 words from a 1998 paper by Sean Lynn-Jones, a scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a research institute at Harvard." -- You know.. Walsh is indeed the perfect Democratic Party candidate.. he's already shown he's willing to repeat what the Democratic Party 'line' is on any issue.

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L-E headline: "White House working on new birth control insurance rule" -- You know, if "abstinence" or 'no ' were taught in Sex Ed, and movies showing non-marital sexual scenes/innuendo were rated RR-21 or over, a lot of single/teen pregnancies wouldn't be an issue... and that's free.

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If there's one thing Mark Richt does well, it's to stand firm on team rules, and hold his players responsible. Another potential star has been dismissed. Unfortunately, some other coach will offer him a place to play. The NCAA should grab this opportunity by the hand quickly and impose a participation ban for two seasons, and elimination of any "red-shirt" proviso. And the NCAA needs to do it quickly .. both to beat any union situation, and to keep unscrupulous coaches/boosters from using dismissals as a way to change teams once they've signed scholarships.