Columbus' Tim Hudson gives me the excitement to pull for that Giants for the first time since Willie Mays was playing!

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You know, between the local Public Safety/Infrastructure LOST, the T-SPLOST, and the MCSD SPLOST, we taxpayers contribute over $75,000,000.00 annually to the things the proponents of the Redevelopment Referendum in addition to our 'some-of-the-highest-property-taxes-in-the-state'. When is enough enough?

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Online headline: "Florida woman killed by airbag" -- Ooops, my bad.. thought someone died during a Democrat Party political rally speech.

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Soapbox momement: Another business property on the tax digest has been removed..CSU is now the owner of the property that formerly housed the Columbus L-E. Now those thousands of tax dollars used by the City and MCSD have gone "poof". I bring this up because there's a referendum on the ballot to remove the tax status on all property under university ownership. It's particularly disturbing that off campus housing rental will be exempt from taxes while privately owned rentals will not. This gives the universities both an advantage over private rental owners, and will lead to an even higher tax on non-university owned properties.

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Online headline/story: "Obama’s Ebola czar was a Michelle Nunn campaign adviser * That means the longtime Democratic hand no longer has time to help out Michelle Nunn’s U.S. Senate (debate preparations). Ron Klain, was the former chief of staff to vice presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden" -- Hmmm... this may be devastating to Know Nothing Nunn.. previously we just thought she wasn't capable.. now we know she was being coached to be ineffective.

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Online story: "America's newly appointed Ebola ‘czar’ is not yet in the House — at least not the ones on Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill. * Ron Klain, appointed last Friday by President Obama to direct the nation's response to the Ebola crisis, sent his regrets Monday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee * “The White House has informed us that he has not yet officially started and will not be able to attend Friday,” the committee aide told Fox News. * He is expected to start sometime this week." -- Huh? If I were appointed by the president to take over an important task, I would be on it immediately! Klain's "excuse" just epitomizes the lack of urgency this administration has for addressing state issues. Besides, didn't Klain already use the excuse that he had a new job so he couldn't work for Know Nothing Nunn anymore?

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You know, why isn't mainstream media bolting on Obamageddon's appointment of another "Czar"? Good grief...hasn't watching Putin at work shown mainstream media what happens with a Czar in charge?

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You know.. we sorta have to wonder whether Sam Nunn may want his daughter to start running on her own name instead of his..

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Liberal bias headline/story: "Headline: David Perdue backs UGA on canceling journalist visit because of Ebola fear * Last line of Story: "Nunn has also called for a travel ban". -- You now.. a fair headline would have been "GA Senatorial candidates support UGA canceling Liberian journalist's visit"

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I posted a FaceBook page of opposition of the Redevelopment Referendum on the ballot here in Columbus, GA about a week ago.. through "sharing", it has now reached over 1,000 area like thinking people.

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You know.. why is it that the MCSD lost funding because of the high tax base compared to other school systems? You would think with all the bellyaching the MCSD and Mayor Obamalinson do about our tax freeze that the State Legislature would think we deserve more state funds.

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Online story: "Arkansas Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor argued that the federal government’s desegregation of Arkansas’s largest public school in 1957 was an “unwilling invasion” that took “a local problem out of the local authorities’ hands” and led to deep suspicions of democracy in the state, according to a copy of his college thesis obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. * Written in 1985, the 30-page paper—which also suggested that the state’s Democratic Party was hindering economic progress, and attributed policies such as welfare and the Equal Rights Amendment to “wild-eyed liberals” -- Wow.. and mainstream media hasn't lynched him? Remember when Paula Dean mentioned that 30 or so years ago (hmmm, about the same time as Pryor wrote his thesis) she had a single negative thought about a black person, and the MSM destroyed her business empire?

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Speaking of Arkansas.. Hey, Walmart.. you abandoned Paula Deen after her admission.. what are you going to do about Mark Pryor?

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Remember the Vermont College that played a recording of a convicted cop killer's speech at its graduation ceremony? Well, Governor Corbett of Pennsylvania has signed a law (as in passed by the PA legislativ bodies) that allows prosecutors or victims to stop such an occurrence from happening again. Civil rights groups are claiming that's a violation of his civil rights.... Good grief.. he's a convicted cop killer.. he has no more civil rights involving "free" anything (other than room & board), and what about his victim's civil rights this killer took from the victim and his family. Why is that killer still breathing!

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Online story: "The Taliban are claiming that two senior members of the Haqqani terror network recently visited the five former Guantanamo detainees who were traded for an American soldier," -- Hmmm.. well. at least someone knows where they are.

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Online story: " A federal judge on Tuesday delayed the arraignment of an alleged White House fence-jumper because of questions about his mental competence to stand trial. * After he was apprehended in the White House on Sept. 19, Gonzalez told a Secret Service agent that he was concerned that the atmosphere was collapsing and needed to get the information to the president so that he could get the word out." -- Yeah right.. the arraignment will be delayed until after the election to make sure the he gets to cast his vote.

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Online story: "Asia Bibi was harvesting berries in Pakistan five years ago when she took the drink of water that could cost her her life. * the Christian mother of five was quickly assailed by the other women working the field in a tiny village in the Punjab province. First they said they would not drink from the same water bucket as a Christian. Later, they told police Bibi had insulted the Muslim Prophet Mohammad. The crime, blasphemy, is punishable by death" -- Talk about a country that needs separation of church and state!

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Why are the US government and ACLU giving a pass to the Quran but not the Bible?

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Curious... How can Carter "blame" Deal for fewer students on Hope Scholarship? Rises in the number of college professors and their salaries, lower Lottery receipts, and dilution of the Lottery Funds for K-3 programs have lowered the funds available for high school grads, and fewer students can afford the difference in higher tuition.

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Online headline: "Earth's magnetic field could flip in our lifetime" -- Whoa.. where's Representative Hank Johnson, D-GA? I guess since Guam didn't tip over as he predicted, he needs another distraction.

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Hank Johnson... GA's District 4 elected him because the voters thought Cynthia McKinney was embarrassing...

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Online story:"Detroit officials are fuming after two visiting United Nations lawyers scolded the city for cutting off water to delinquent customers and described the shut-offs as a “human rights” violation." -- Good grief.. you know, if two UN lawyers wanted to make a difference, why don't they file suits against all the UN countries to recoup all the fines and parking tickets they don't pay, and send the money to the Detroit Water Works.. and if they are really concerned, how about them donating their salaries as well.

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Online headline: "US probing claims ISIS fighters seized airdropped weapons meant for Kurds"-- "seized airdropped weapons"? Good grief.. the bundle was dropped in their laps... of course.. all this does is speed up the acquisition of ISIS getting more American weapons along their trail of terror like ISIS did when Iraqi soldiers abandoned them.

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L-E headline: "Sheriff's employee indicted after years spent on paid leave" -- You know.. this should be the DA's opponent's main campaign promise in the next election... not to ever let this happen to the taxpayers again. The evidence has been sitting on Slater's desk for over 3 years without being addressed.. over $120,000.00 tax dollars wasted on her inaction.

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Online headline/story: "Fliers promoting Democrat Kay Hagen use lynching imagery * The front of the flier blares: "Kay Hagan doesn't win! Obama's impeachment will begin! Vote in 2014." * The words are superimposed over a grainy reproduction of a photograph of what appears to be a lynching. * At the bottom, the flier reads, "Not endorsed by any candidate. Paid for by Concerned Citizens of Cumberland County." No contact information for the group was on the flier" -- Good grief.. is the Hagen and Democratic camp so desperate as this?

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How has "early voting" been allowed? Even though it's not a "presidential election year", all of the House and about a third of the Senate are up for election/re-election, and Article II, Section 1 of our Constitution specifies a single day of voting for the only other federal elected postion.. our President. Since voting is a privilege, voters should be willing to sacrifice something, whether self-determined inconvenience or time, to cast their vote.

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Remember "The Blind Side".. the movie about Michael Oher..left tackle for Ole Miss & 1st Round pick of the Baltimore Ravens? The head coach at Ole Miss now is Oher's high school coach..the one the movie used a different name because it made him such a doofus for Sandra Bullock's role as Leigh Anne Tuohy.

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I understand the need for utility companies' to provide vehicles to employees to take care of their business ...BUT...I really don't like to see Columbus Water Works vehicles parked outside of a doctor's office. One was doing so yesterday at my doctor's office, and my visit took a full hour & 15 minutes from appointment time.

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L-E headline: "(Phenix City, AL) Commissioner Ronnie Reed claims racial bias in portrait controversy" -- Good grief.. it looks like Reed has created a racial situation only in his own mind... and intentionally! What value does this kind of race-baiting have for a community? Shame on him!

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Online headline: "FBI Director Warns Google and Apple "If You Don't Decrypt Phones, We'll Do It For You"
-- Good grief... haven't enough federal agencies already been embarrassed by listening in to out everyday conversations already? What I want to know is why the President was allowed to keep and use his encrypted Blackberry phone when elected without any complaint from the FBI et al...

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Online story: "Thousands of federal workers who have been put on administrative leave for more than a month have been allowed to collect a paycheck, and accrue vacation days and pension benefits, while taxpayers were forced to foot the multi-million-dollar bill, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. * During a three-year period, more than 57,000 employees were told to go home – and stay home -- for 30 days or more, costing taxpayers $775 million in salary alone. The report found that 53,000 civilian employees were kept home for one to three months. Another 4,000 were kept off the job for three months to a year and hundreds more for one to three years." -- Good grief.. I even wonder if anybody checked to see how many filed for additional "unemployment benefits" as well! A couple of other question needs to be asked in conjunction: 1 - Did we taxpayers have to pay the salary of a replacement worker as well, and 2 - if no replacement worker was added, were any job opening eliminated?

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Online quote source: "“Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it.” - Unknown" -- "Unknown"? Probably a Democratic Party strategist observing reasons not to solve problems with entitlement and economy programs.. the Democratic Party voter base would abandon them if they stopped have campaign promise to solve things.