You know, a Russian news anchor just bolted, cracked up, over having to lie for Putin...to try to make Putin look good in spite of what the public knows. Hmmm, you know..is it worse to be in Russia and not have the freedom to speak the truth as a journalist, or to be in America and intentionally fail to speak the truth about the President?

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HuffPost "headlie"/story: "American teen beaten in Mideast talks about ordeal * TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Palestinian-American teen left with stitches and bruises from his detention by Israeli security forces said Sunday he was beaten, kicked and blindfolded on a family trip to the Middle East * Fifteen-year-old T**** A** K***** flew home to Tampa last week and told The Associated Press from his home in Florida that he holds out hope that he can visit the region again and "come back safe." * Israeli authorities released T**** three days after he was detained and sentenced him to nine days of house arrest while they investigated what they said was his participation in violent protests" * the teen told AP that he did not take part in rock-throwing disturbances shortly before he was picked up by Israeli security forces. He said he just was watching and listening to a commotion surrounding the investigation of the disappearance of his cousin when Israeli forces began shooting rubber bullets and tear gas into a crowd that had formed. * "I didn't do anything to them (Israeli authorities) to do this to me," he said" -- Hmmmm... "American teen"?... hmmm.. how about a "Palestinian-American" Muslim teen? "just watching and listening" at a rock throwing protest? Good grief... I'm sorry anybody has to be subjected to pain, but his being "American" had nothing to do with this event, and I'm sure the Israeli authorities/security had nothing better to do than rouse "innocent bystanders who were not involved". The whole situation is tough, but we do not need American media distorting truth.. distorting what happened.

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HuffPost story related to above: "Israeli police raided the home of 15-year-old T**** A** K***** early Friday, just hours after the Palestinian-American teenager left for Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport to return home to Tampa, Florida. * According to H(_*_)ss(_*_)n Shibly, A** K*****'s legal counsel and the director of the Florida branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations, Israeli police burst into the family home in Shufat on Friday and destroyed furniture and emptied cabinets. Shibly said the police then arrested and detained Abu Khdeir's uncle and two other cousins without charges. * State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a press briefing Friday that the United States was "shocked by the treatment of Tariq and strongly condemned any excessive use of force." -- Wait a minute.. wait a DAMN minute.. A spokesman for the US Secretary of State is "shocked" by Israel responding to direct assaults, and for Israel's raid on the home of the family of a radical Muslim?

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Online story: "U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sounded exasperated during a candid moment between interviews on Sunday as he discussed the ongoing conflict in Gaza with an off-camera aide. * "It's a hell of a pinpoint operation. It's a hell of a pinpoint operation," Kerry, apparently unaware he was being recorded, said to the aide. "We've got to get over there ... I think, John, we ought to go tonight. I think it's crazy to be sitting around." -- Good grief.. this Secretary of State "thinks it's crazy to be sitting around" when what he's talking about is how another nation responds to its people being attacked by terrorist, and one of his spokespersons has already blasted the Israeli response to Muslim radicals? I think it's time for the Mosqued man and his minions to officially declare their obvious hatred for Israel and the Jewish heritage. Of course they won't do that before the November elections because they don't want the Jewish vote to change.

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Another HuffPost story: "Max Steinberg and Nissim Sean Carmeli grew up in America. But they both developed a passion for Israel. * The young men's love of Israel ultimately led them to join the Israel Defense Forces, and they ended up fighting for the Jewish state in the Gaza Strip this week. * On Sunday, Steinberg, 24, and Carmeli, 21, were killed there. They were among 13 Israeli soldiers and 65 Palestinians killed Sunday during the first major ground battle in two weeks of fighting between Israel and Hamas." -- Hmmm no "Israeli/Jewish-American" status for two Americans who were committed to their ideals. Parents grieve, but there's no whining.. no denial of what these young men stood for. God bless them and their families.

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Here's a commentary that deserves attention from all the Columbus readers of the Breakfast Club. It's written by one of our group who's personally served on the MCSD with distinction. Othe BC members might find this very informative of how the politics of an elected school board are deteriorating their own community's educational system.: http://curmudgeoncommentary.wordpress.com/

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Elizabeth Warren quotes:

1 - "We believe that immigration has made this country strong and vibrant, and that means reform." -- Hmmm.. so something that has worked for America's benefit for hundreds of years now need to be scrapped?

2 - "We believe that students are entitled to get an education without being crushed by debt." -- Hmmm, so you encourage student loans which keep excessive quantities of ill-productive professors able to send out ill-prepared graduates into a world where they can't find a career in a world based on being able to produce a product people want...

3- "We believe that no one should work full-time and still live in poverty, and that means raising the minimum wage." -- Hmmm.. so if minimum wage is associated with poverty.. won't raising the minimum wage just raise the poverty level?

Good grief.. liberalism is dependent on educating the next generation to expect an entitlement lifestyle, and we wonder why education seems diminished and goal free?

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Online story: " U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, * The Border Patrol agents believe the rounds are .50 cal too, and given the range involved there, that well might be the case" -- Hmmm... know we know why Where's Waldobama declined to visit the Texas border.. He had already read the weekend's news in advance.

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L-E story: " Speaking of the city’s misspelling, the historic marker in front of the old slave cemetery on Sixth
Avenue has been taken down so it can be fixed." -- Let's call it for what it is.. a lie. How much money - tax money - was spent trying to prove that area was ever used as a cemetery for anyone? Even the archeological group was embarrassed that they could find absolutely no evidence, not even a misinterpretable sign, that would indicate any burying had been done at any time? Let's not encourage misinformation.. our schools and politicians do enough of that.

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L-E story: "The Muscogee County School Board is expected tonight to fill the assistant principal position at four high schools. * The board will meet at 6 p.m. in the Muscogee County Public Education Center on Macon Road. * At Carver High School, it is Lisa Norris, a math teacher at Carver since 1992, whom Lewis is recommending." -- Excuse me, but not even knowing the teacher (she could be a real gem) at Carver being promoted to assistant principal, I have to question the Superintendent's choice simply because Carver had the lowest test scores in Columbus. Why not bring in new, more proven leadership? The taxpayers have spent over $50 Million in the time frame that this teacher has been at Carver (about $19M in 1993 and close to $40M in the recent rebuild of the whole school), and the taxpayers have seen negative return on this investment.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Rush Limbaugh and most conservative talk show hosts were Vietnam cowards. Rush got a deferment for a cyst on his butt, an easily treatable condition. Quoting Limbaugh: “I did not want to go.” -- Typical liberal misinfo.. yet quite revealing.. After the ink has settles it's quite apparent this lib soundoffer IS a butt cyst.

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L-E headline: "Democratic planners assessing Birmingham for 2016" -- Heh heh heh... Why? Because none of the delegates can walk the streets of Chicago with their guns, and no Democratic Party official wants even their followers seeing what Democratic Party leadership has done to Detroit?

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On a sad note, but not a gloomy one, we lost James Garner on Saturday. Decided not to comment yesterday so I could reflect on his career and how it affect me.. Gonna miss him, but glad his legacy remains with us. Hopefully, the next generations will enjoy his insights. his humor, and his work ethics. Heaven knows the next generation is going to see positive work ethics from the government or education systems, or this generation's entertainment industry.

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L-E story: "Volunteers, including teachers and their family members and friends, Columbus High School students and employees from Columbus Bank and Trust, joined forces Saturday for a “paint party” to paint several classrooms and others rooms at South Columbus Elementary School. Principal Patrice McFadden said the common areas in the school were repainted last year but the classrooms needed a fresh coat of paint in bright, child-friendly colors. “We wanted a bright environment that was conducive to learning,” McFadden said. She said the Muscogee County School District provided the five-gallon buckets of paint in assorted colors, which had been donated to the district for this purpose" -- Hmmm.. just shows how out-of-touch the Board and Administration is out of touch with classrooms needs. There's no budget, and no input process in the system for the type of changes that create good classroom learning environments. Way to go frontline employees, volunteers, and taxpayers!

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The above is ironic considering John Wells led the change to get board members able to be able to bid on school projects. Wells owned Bi-City Paint at that time, so he knows what paint can do, but has not lent that knowledge to the current school needs.

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You know.. Auburn held a football camp Saturday.. Over 700 hopefuls got to show their stuff to Auburn. Auburn used this to show Nick Marshall to them. Thought it was rather dumb to do so when most of the players' parents were there as well.

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