If ISIS threw in its towel today, and became civil, how much is the damage we caused going to cost us to rebuild? Now, why aren't the neighbors, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey et al stepping up to clean up their neighborhood terrorism?

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Juan Williams attributes the Republicans as undermining the trust of Obamageddon. Hey, lack of trust is probably the only thing Obamageddon had accomplished by himself in his career.

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Online story: "Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen sounded an alarm Friday about widening economic inequality in the United States, suggesting that America's longstanding identity as a land of opportunity was at stake. * The growing gap between the rich and everyone else narrowed slightly during the Great Recession but has since accelerated, Yellen said in a speech at a conference in Boston on economic opportunity. And robust stock market returns during the recovery helped the wealthy outpace middle-class America in wages, employment and home prices." -- Well, well, well.. Obamageddon's personal wealth has benefited greatly along with every super-wealthy individuals who supported him. Look at the donors connected with Solyndra.. (and 3 dozen other "green" energy companies) as they bankrupted after getting mega-million dollar "loans". And when was the last time you looked at your healthcare costs?

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On the Redevelopment Referendum: A local banker and neighbor wrote me that, " I have been told the bonds will only fund fifteen percent of the project. The developer will be responsible for the other eighty five percent. Is that not correct?" My response: I do not think that the 15% number is accurate, as what bank wouldn't jump at the chance to loan 15% on a project that has 85% funding by a person/group.? Of course. even if the percentage of funding was 15%, Council could get the local legislative caucus to raise it to 100%, even 115% a year from now without any other voter/taxpayer input.

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Looking at the wording on the Redevelopment Referendum, one must assume Nancy Pelosi was commissioned to write it. Voters should stay wary of laws that have to passed to know what's in them.

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From the "suspicions confirmed" department - Online story: "Morgan Stanley auto analyst Adam Jonas told Business Insider that "...we take seriously the growing signs of dealer concerns over the sustainability of practices meant to lower the monthly payment and the risk that we are taking consumers out of the normal trade cycle, pulling forward demand from the future." * Translation: longer-term loans with lower monthly payments and automaker incentives are luring used car buyers into new car show rooms. Leasing has also become more attractive -- 26 percent of vehicles are leased these days, up from 18 percent in 2008. And all of those new -- soon-to-be used -- cars have to go somewhere. Used cars could end up piling up on dealer lots in the next few years, driving the supply up and prices down. Jonas warns this could lead to the largest decline in second-hand vehicle prices in U.S. history" -- It wasn't too long ago I noted that the Car Industry was repeating the ploy that brought then industry to its knees 7 or 8 years ago. People are not concerned as much with the cost of big items, (whether cars or houses), but just whether or not they can make the "payment". The manufacturers' benefit from (basically) "sub-prime loans" as they report their revenues based on the invoice prices. Dealers report their revenues based on the prices written on sales/lease contracts. Dealers also count the "turn in value" of the cars leased at the contract price two or three years from now. What happened last go-round was that leasers didn't renew or buy their vehicles at the end of the leases, and when the vehicles were turned in, dealers could not sell the used vehicles for the amount they were being "carried", and new cars/interest rates were too high for old leasers to re-enter into a new lease. .. Kaboom!

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Online story: " When the ashes of Mattie Clyburn Rice, the daughter of a slave, are buried Saturday in her father's grave in the North Carolina piedmont, a color guard of Confederate re-enactors will be in attendance. So will members of the United Daughters of Confederacy.* The lives of Rice and her father Weary Clyburn, who was in his early 80s when she was born, illustrate the tangled the threads of history in connection to slavery, the Civil War and its aftermath. * "There's really no debate about the question of whether African-Americans fought for the Confederacy. We know they didn't," said author and historian Kevin Levin of Boston, who blogs about the rise of the belief in black Confederates." -- Good grief.. the Yankee libs just are having a hissy-fit about this. This disrupts their perfect convictions.. Of course, Boston libs never like to talk about Boston being a bustling slave trade port either.

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Online headline: "Why the Seminoles aren't No. 1" -- Hmmm.. because Mississippi State is!

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If Jason Carter never voted for a tax increase it would only be for two reasons.. 1 - Governor Deal hasn't proposed any or 2 - because he skipped Congress that day.

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Online story: "Passengers on a flight traveling from New York City to Nigeria experienced a terrifying incident when a man died from a vomiting fit mid-flight. While the preliminary examination of the corpse unveiled no trace of the Ebola virus, the episode did reveal that our nation’s airports are not prepared to handle a potential Ebola contagion. * Over, 140 terrified passengers were forced to remain on the flight after landing, while the CDC examined the man’s body for signs of the virus. How authorities determined so quickly the man was devoid of the pathogen is not known." -- You know.. any passenger who has heard Obamageddon "trust me" knows there's not a "dot" assurance in hearing "no ebola" from an administration spokeperson.

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Online headline: "Will the Left Apologize to George W. Bush After This New York Times Admission? " -- Good grief... their are some miracles even God probably can't make happen..

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Online story: "Katy Conrad is a booker and producer with CBS This Morning, but conservatives quickly made fun of her on Twitter when she mocked Rand Paul's medical opinion, as if he was a doctor. * She "tweeted", "Not sure when @SenRandPaul became a doctor, but says ebola can spread from a person who has the disease to someone standing 3ft away..uhmm" -- Why hasn't CBS fired this pariah of ignorance? Who's going to give anything else she "shoots from the lip"? Senator Paul IS a doctor (and his Dad, too), and has done humanitarian surgeries in Africa.

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An "Ebola Czar" is in the Obamageddon playbook. Another non-qualified appointee. Hmmm, more like a "Tsar".

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Hey, Obamageddon already has an Ebola Czar. Where Is he? Dr. Francis Collins, who heads the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He claims that cuts have slowed development of an ebola vaccine.. but where does he get his misinformation? Of course, the government spends billions upon billions of dollars on unnecessary programs promoting a political agenda rather than targeting those funds to the fight against health threats A $12.5 billion slush fund at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is used to fight the privatization of liquor stores. Also, in 2004, the Republican Congress passed The Project Bioshield Act. The text of that legislation authorized up to $5,593,000,000 in new spending by NIH for the purpose of purchasing vaccines that would be used in the event of a bioterrorist attack. A major part of the plan was to allow stockpiling and distribution of vaccines.

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Way to go, GA Secretary of State Brian Kemp.. standing up against racist like Stacey Abrams is what needs to be done. Now, if the GA House will do the same, and bring Rep Abrams up on ethics violations for running an illegal voter registration scam.

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A principal in Oklahoma is blaming the government on his schools skimpy/unappealing lunch menus. He said he has to serve what is approved or lose government funding for reduced/free meals even though most of the kids aren't eating what's given to them. You know, when our schools get a dollar from the feds for a program, the government took five tax dollars sent to Washington, ate it up in administrative costs/inefficiencies, then sent back the one-out-of-5 dollars to a school program.

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Hmmm... Since Ole Miss has officially ditched the "Rebels" nickname and mascot, for "Black Bears" why is the SEC allowing Ole Miss to use the old ones on the field?

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Carnival Cruise Line hasn't had much good news/luck in the past couple of years. Now it has an Ebola exposed passenger on board one of its ships, and it us staying at sea with all the other passengers at risk. How can Carnival claim to have a quarantine safe facility on board? Remember "Legionnaires Disease"? Remember the Dallas Hospital?

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " I have many guns and a carry permit, and I plan to vote for Michelle Nunn. Don’t let the NRA scare you. The membership is not with the CEO. The gun makers and dealers are." -- As a joke, let's suppose this is truthful.. he has guns and a permit and is going to vote for Know Nothing Nunn. Guess this LIV thinks that as a Senator, Ms Nunn-Martin will only go after guns owned by people who didn't vote for her...

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From the L-E's "Today in history" feature: " On this date: In 1767, the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, was set as astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon completed their survey." -- Hmmm.. actually, this is an historical error. the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland was established by the 1751 Map of Virginia, the first actually surveyed map of the area, conducted by Col Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson. An original of this map hangs in the White House Map Room, and recently, a copy of this map was displayed at the WC Bradley Museum. BTW, Col Fry is my 5th-great-grandfather.

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L-E's "Late laughs * GWYNETH PALTROW told the president he was so handsome that she couldn’t speak properly. I wish Obama would get a little bit more handsome so she would shut up forever. - Craig Ferguson" -- This is indeed choice...

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L-E headline: "MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * OPERATIONS CHIEF MYLES CAGGINS TO RETIRE" First the IT director...now Operations.. Looks like the able are abandoning ship pre-audit time.

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L-E story: " LaGrange Police Department officials warned residents on Facebook Thursday that there has been a “significant increase” in burglaries and robberies on the 500 block of South Greenwood Street and the 800 black of Truitt Avenue in the past several days, according to a release." -- I've repeatedly asked/wondered why the Columbus PD does not have a website with an up-to-dated of crimes/reported crimes that citizens can go to and see what's going on in their neighborhoods. Look like the Lagrange PD has been responsive.

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L-E headline/story: "FSU finds no indication Winston was paid * FSU coach Jimbo Fisher adamantly defended Winston Monday, saying the star quarterback had “never taken a dime” for autographs." -- ""never taken a dime"? Of course not, who would accept payment with a carload of dimes? Good grief... it's not like the company was paying via check, but you dang well know, there's a record of a cash expense somewhere, and you know Jameis Winston did not spend a day signing his autograph 2,000 times without some sort of "consideration". Besides.. how unbiased could FSU's coach be?

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L-E story: " A federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Friday voided the struggling (Trump Taj Mahal) casino’s contract with its union workers, giving owner Trump Entertainment Resorts a big part of its plan to keep the casino open and save its 3,000 jobs." -- Good grief.. it wasn't too long ago that unions were trying to keep jobs open.. now they seem to be more interested in keeping people under contract.. whether or not they actually have jobs to go to.