HuffPost headline: "Obama still weighing strikes on ISIS in Syria" -- Good grief... is Obamageddon so inept that he tests the mainstream media for their opinions before he pulls an strategy option out of his hat?

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Online story: "The manager of an Arizona gun range where a 9-year-old accidentally shot and killed an instructor who was showing her how to use an automatic Uzi defended his operation on Wednesday, telling MSNBC's Chris Hayes that hundreds of children have handled weapons at the range without incident" -- Good grief.. whatta (_*_)... defending letting a 9 year old "play" with an Uzi submachine gun. While I have no problem with a 9 year old being taught the mechanics and respect for firearms, there are suitable weapons and unsuitable weapons to train with.. a 9 year old.. actually any child, and 99% of adults, and an Uzi are totally non-suitable.

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HuffPost "headlie": "Hillary Clinton breaks silence on Ferguson" -- Wrong! At best, the Hillsbury DOUGHgirl "broke wind".

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Texas has always proclaimed "bigger is better"... bigger buildins, bigger cars, bigger egos.. but now has a real big something of interest and value.. "the 99-Pack of beer" . An Austin brewery made a promotional 7' long, 82 pound 99 pack of beer as a promotional item, but demand has put it in production. My guess is it won't be a big "drive-thru window" purchase.

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HuffPost "headlie"/story: "Bush or Obama: Who's the big vacation prez? * much is made of these presidential vacation days — and how to count them. Knoller doesn’t include visits to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland often used to host foreign leaders. On Aug. 8, the day before Obama left for Martha’s Vineyard, Knoller tweeted that Obama had spent 125 full or partial days on vacation, and at the same point in Bush’s president, he had spent 381 days at his Texas ranch plus 26 days at his parents’ home in Kennebunkport, Maine, for a total of 407." -- Hmmmm... Bush43 working out of his and his family's homes is not the same as vacationing at taxpayer expense in exclusive and luxury rentals. Now, how many "vacation" days has Obamageddon spent at his home in Chicago?

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Online story: " Hundreds of items that belonged to civil rights icon Rosa Parks and have been sitting unseen for years in a New York warehouse were sold to a foundation run by the son of billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett, the younger Buffett said Thursday. * Howard G. Buffett told The Associated Press that his foundation plans to give the items, which include Parks' Presidential Medal of Freedom, to an institute or museum he hasn't yet selected. Buffett said the items belong to the American people. * A yearslong legal fight between Parks' heirs and her friends led to the memorabilia being removed from her Detroit home and offered up to the highest bidder." -- You know, the "heirs" of two of out nation's most recognized civil rights icons, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., have spurned the ideals of their ancestors and fallen prey to personal greed.. none of which this generation has earned by their own efforts. What kind of legacy are they passing along?

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HuffPost headline: "Lawsuit Claims Police Brutality At Ferguson Protests" -- Good grief.. there hasn't been time to even fully investigate this, and the 99% of lawyers who give the other 1% a bad reputation are already plying their trade.

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HuffPost "headlie"/story: "James Foley Was Tortured By ISIS Militants Using CIA Techniques * The Post reported that, during that time, he and at least three others were "waterboarded several times." -- Mainstream media is concerned about "waterboarding"? James Foley is DEAD... BEHEADED by an ISIS terrorist! Good grief.. is the Post claiming decapitation is a CIA practice, too?

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Online story: "U.S. President Barack Obama took a tough stand on Russia and the Islamic State, but all anyone remembers from his press conference is a tan suit." -- Heh heh heh.. mainstream media is finally admitting that Obamageddon is merely a suit...

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Hmmm, looking at the probable loss of 11,000 jobs affiliated with Ft Benning.. what's the course of action to stop the T-SPLOST project to build a military industrial park outside the entrance at I-185?

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Online story: "Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed defended on Wednesday payments his administration gave to select employees under a little known “hardship” program. * Speaking to the council’s finance committee, Reed insisted the payouts — some as high as five-figures to at least three executives, including Police Chief George Turner — did not violate city code. * But he acknowledged that the decisions to allow some workers to trade unused vacation, sick or compensatory time for cash lacked documentation and could raise fairness concerns from other employees." -- "little known "hardship" program"? "lacked documentation"? Doh! How about "lacked any ethics"! Then again.. Reed is a Democrat, and Democrats define ethics by whatever is convenient at the time.

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Online quote source: " “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” - Steve Maraboli -- Hmmm, you definitely won't see this hanging on the wall in SG Pric Holder's office or any civil rights plaintiff attorney's office.

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GA DOT is spending beau coup bucks on sound/sight baffles along I-85 to Atlanta. They are 10' tall precast concrete, and are being put up in areas that never had them before. It's not like I-85 is going into preexisting areas so it must be just another way for the GA DOT to waste money or for political payback. On top of that, they are just ugly..

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L-E headline: "‘SHOOTER’ WON’T FACE MURDER CHARGE * Officials say Streeter shot at 3 teens in self-defense in dispute over stolen gun" -- Good grief! The kid who shot the other kid was using a stolen gun he then stole out of the lap of another teen who was in a stolen vehicle.. there should a death sentence automatic in a case like this for a violent crime committed with a stolen, and in case, stolen twice, weapon! And the other's still living should be charged with premeditated murder.

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You know.. maybe police officers should be made to procure their own weapons by theft.. then they will be forgiven of any shooting death if they are using a stolen weapon..

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L-E story: "The Daily Beast has rated Columbus High School as the No. 1 public high school in Georgia for the second straight year, and it significantly improved its ranking in the country. * The national news website’s listing, called America’s Top High Schools 2014, ranks Columbus 38th nationally, leaping from No. 105 in 2013. * No other schools in the Chattahoochee Valley are on the list this year or last year." -- "no other (local area) schools"? The question is "why not"? Now that's a forum the MCSD board should be calling for!

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Watched the Debate: Mr. Perdue was arrogant, condescending, unyielding, and a typical stuffed shirt with no new ideas. Another rich guy who wants a claim to fame. Just what we need in Washington these days." -- Wonder who sent his in Sam or Michelle?

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Instead of taking the ice bucket challenge, it seems to me it would be much more feasible to take money from the military budget to fund ALS research." -- Good grief.. why isn't it a thought, well, a 'feeling', process for liberals to reach into their own pockets and help?

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On a local note.. the Exchange Club of Columbus is hosting a pancake breakfast this weekend.. I'd tell you where, but the crack L-E folks either left the address out, or simply didn't ask where? Help please..

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L-E story: "An Oklahoma death row inmate who died following a problematic execution succumbed to the lethal drugs he was administered, not a heart attack, after the state’s prisons chief halted efforts to kill him, an autopsy report released Thursday says. * Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton had said inmate Clayton Lockett died from a heart attack several minutes after he ordered the execution stopped. But the autopsy report performed for the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety says all three execution drugs were found throughout Lockett’s system. A medical examiner declared that the cause of death was “judicial execution by lethal injection.” -- Good grief.. the execution was carried out as planned.. not botch here.. Personally all such deaths should involve as much discomfort as befits the crime the sentence was given.

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Other than some Halloween Party, can you imagine having a dinner party/banquet at a funeral home? One such location is available here in Columbus.. good grief...

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My brother brought me a book he found at a Goodwill Store. It was a still-in-plastic-jacket copy of "The Carters of Plains" written by local historian (of sorts) Richard Hyatt. It came from the library at Carver. The old card ticket was still in the back envelope.. It had never been checked out.. at least not officially.. doesn't look like it was ever read either. How'd it get to Goodwill?

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L-E story: " Democrat Jason Carter picked up the endorsement of one of the largest teachers’ groups in Georgia on Wednesday, a move that helped him underscore a central message of his campaign against Republican Gov. Nathan Deal. * The Georgia Association of Educators has historically backed Democrats, so it was not a surprise when the group announced its support for Carter, a state senator from Atlanta. In its announcement, the group’s president, Sid Chapman, cited a “demoralizing and dismantling” of public education in recent years." -- When is a perpetual given really a news story? Now, what's rreally "demoarlizing" and needs "dismantling" is the current education protocol.