Online story: "- Italian authorities discovered 18 bodies in a boat of migrants Sunday as rescue operations went into overdrive this weekend, picking up some 3,500 would-be refugees at sea. * Interior Minister Angelino Alfano renewed his demand for the European Union to relieve pressure on Italy, which has seen some 100,000 migrants arrive so far this year alone. * The country says it spends 9.5 million euros ($13 million) a month to operate the beefed-up air and sea patrols that were launched after more than 360 migrants drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa last October. * "Italy will make its own decisions" if EU partners don't offer assistance, he warned in a tweet. * The EU's home affairs commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom, thanked Italy for its "huge efforts" to save lives and said in a statement she would meet Wednesday with Alfano "to better define priorities and provide assistance." -- Hmmm .. "Italy will make its own decisions"...."to better define priorities and provide assistance"? This sounds like the script for a new series of Clint Eastwood "spaghetti" movies satirizing the Texas/Arizona showdown with Pric Holder and Obamageddon.. A working title could be "The Goods, the Baaaaaad, and the Show Is Ugly".

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That was some earthquake that struck California this weekend. My sister lives about 90 minutes from there and felt it about 3:20AM. And those pictures of devastation.. homes and stores were destroyed/shattered. Friends and neighbors helped each other.. did b=n't see of hear of a single incidence of looting and pillage. Hope the mainstream media reports that to Ferguson, MO.

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Online story: "On April 10, 1912 the mighty ship set off on its maiden voyage. Five days later it would sink into the cold waters of the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg -- a monumental disaster that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people. * Let's fast forward 100 years to the research published in the magazine "Significance", which proposes that the sinking was the result of a lot more than human, design and construction errors. In fact, they're saying It could also have been a case of bad meteorological luck. * Researchers in the paper point to the possibility of a greater number of icebergs that appeared unusually early that year, as a result of southern weather conditions. This meant the crew was likely unprepared for such an unimaginably large iceberg appearing in their path." -- " bad meteorological luck"? "unimaginably large iceberg "? Dare I say what this article is implying? "Global Warming" sunk the Titanic! You know what that means don't you.. Like the Internet that Algore didn't discover.. Algore didn't discover "Global Warming", either.

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Online story: "Little League Baseball would consider compensating future players, CEO Steve Keener told Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan. * The organization will make $76 million the next eight years on its TV deal, and Keener said the organization would think about sharing some of that money with the kids." -- Good grief! It's bad enough that LL has allowed adults on the field in the coaches' boxes, but paying kids for being kids-with-a-dream is going bonkers. What next.. Little League player agents?

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Online story: "This year's Emmy nominations saw a historic first: Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox was nominated for the outstanding guest actress in a comedy series award, making her the first openly transgender person nominated in an acting category." -- Good grief.. the real travesty here is that is a category for a "guest actor/actress" on a serial show. Besides, if there was a legitimate "guest actor/actress" category for anything, it should be given to the Obamageddons for their occasional appearances at the White House.

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Online story: "The Drug Enforcement Administration has announced tighter restrictions on prescription painkillers in an effort to curb drug abuse in the U.S. * According to a notice published in the Federal Register, the regulation will classify hydrocodone-combination products, such as Vicodin, as a Schedule II drug instead of a less-restrictive Schedule III drug. Pure hydrocodone has already been listed as a Schedule II drug since the 1970s." -- Well,, another nail in the OObamaCRAP coffin as this will surely spike the costs upward, and at the same time, this will drive the street price for "the good painkillers" off the chart which will also make pharmacy store robberies/burglaries more common .. and violence prone.

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The Reverend Al is staging an "anti-police" march in NYC in a Staten Island business district. It would be more than fitting for the NYPD to announce it will not arrest vigilante security squads that the Staten Island businesses want hire to protect their investments if looting or rioting occur.

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Online story: ""Tomorrow (Monday) all I want is peace while my son is being laid to rest," Michael Brown Sr. told hundreds of people in St. Louis' largest city park during brief remarks at a festival that promotes peace over violence. "That's all I ask. And thank you." -- I sincerely hope he gets it, and that he wants peace before and after the burial ritual. We'll see.

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L-E headline: "Fatal shooting at The Supper Club leaves one dead in fourth homicide in three days" -- Number 19.....hey Mayor Obamalinson..how about an upgrade on your views of the crime picture in Columbus, and how about submitting your record to a recall vote?

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There's no political correctness in golf..It's probably the only aspect of our lives that isn't. A golf announcer was describing Jim Furyk's play from a very dense rough. The announcer casually opined that it was tougher for Furyk because he's " elderly"... then, even more casually, the announcer confirmed his boss by saying Furyk is 44. Reality can be cruel.

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Online story: "Three White House officials will attend Michael Brown’s funeral Monday on behalf of the Obama administration, a White House official told NBC News. * Assistant to the President and White House Cabinet Secretary Broderick Johnson, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Marlon Marshall and Heather Foster, an advisor to the public engagement office will be at the ceremony" -- You know.. it would seem more sincere, more unifying, more realistic if one or more of those White House staffers were white. On the other hand, I'm glad Obamageddon didn't send Robert Gibbs, Jay Carney or Josh Earnest.. no one would be them if they passed on sympathy and condolences from the White House.

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Must see:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByFUzo9KwryWWkRwUEw4bmZNaVk/view?pli=1&sle=true

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "If 71% of Americans want a minimum wage increase, 88% want background checks, 80% want a path to citizenship and 90% want equal pay, why are Republicans still getting elected?" -- "why are Republican's getting elected"? Good grief.. even libs know that none of these "wants" can happen with a super-majority Democrat government. If so, there would be 71% of American just wanting any job, 88% would be victims of the criminals who care less about background checks, most of the 80% of citizens would be seeking asylum in their previous countries, and the 90% who want equal pay will actrually have to work to earn it.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Anti-peace, anti-environment, anti-gay, anti-female, anti-minority, anti-living wage, anti-public education, anti-regulations that keep us all safe, etc. In a word, conservatives." -- Oh,, and liberals are pro-individual rights, pro-individual right-to-life, pro-individual success, and pro-individual security in the home and on the streets? Gimmee a break!

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L-E's " Thought for Today, “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote (1924-1984)" -- Unfortunately.. today's libs/Democrats still feel success in government programs just need a lot more failure to succeed.

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Good grief.. the MCSD is a sponsor of Jamie Vollmer, the author of "Schools Cannot Do It Alone". What hypocrisy! Our schools have successfully eliminated parents and God from the classroom, so who does the MCSD think is left to answer their plea of help!

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Went to the Country's Midnight Run Saturday night.. Attendance was obviously down from previous ones. I hope it was because of the heat index, not because people stayed away after the rumors circuated that there was going to be racial troubles this past weekend.

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Dan Magill.. the legend will live on forever.