AOL/HuffPost "headlie": "Ferguson officer who shot Michael Brown resigns" -- Wrong! Should have read: "Ferguson officer who was wrongfully persecuted, publicly crucified, and denied true due process by DOJ, Obamageddon, and the mainstream media recognizes pursuing a future in Ferguson would be detrimental to his fellow officers so he sacrifices himself for the good of the city."

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Online story: "Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced Friday the Highway Patrol and National Guard would need more money to continue their peacekeeping work in St. Louis." -- Hmmm.. more could be accomplished for less if less political correctness were practiced whenever looters and street thugs broke laws.

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From the "things you stumble on by accident on the I-net" department - Online story: "On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official. * "I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said earlier this month as he recounted his discovery. "I told the commanders, 'If you get a call from the White House, you tell them to go to hell and call me.' * To Gates, the phone in Kabul came to symbolize Obama's efforts to micromanage the Pentagon and centralize decision-making in the White House. That criticism later would be echoed publicly and pointedly by Gates' successor, Leon Panetta" -- Good grief.. some of you probably remember this but it was new to me, but does "splain a lot, about the turnover (and turn downs) in the Secretary of Defense position. It also 'splains wht so many top military officers have been summarily dismissed by Obamageddon.

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Online headline: "Bill Cosby dropped by alma mater over rape allegations" -- Talk about blatant racism... did Georgetown, Yale or Oxford drop Bill Clinton?

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Anybody got a snake bite kit? There's no way Ole Miss should have beat State!

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A while back, Columbus, GA citizens were informed that the ongoing, and much needed widening of Whittlesey Rd between Whitesville Rd and Veterans Parkway was running 6 months behind and $1 Million plus over budget. Why then are there so many days when no one seems to be working at all?

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L-E headline: "Ga. Democrats debate future after 2014 election losses" -- "debate" the future? What Democrats need to debate is their past which was the voter motivation in the November elections.

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L-E story: "Nobody needs to tell a public school educator that teaching poor and otherwise at-risk children involves challenges no textbook, curriculum or testing formula can adequately address. What many an educator could tell the rest of us is that the problem is getting more widespread, and it's getting worse." --

Good grief...Public education has intruded so far into the responsibilities of the students' parents (feeding, busing, and day care) that now the students and parents are beginning to feel public education is responsible for all aspects of their lives such as passing grades and unqualified for loans.

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Follow up to my www.booking.com (represented by Priceline in the US) complaint;

First my complaint:
On a personal note.. when booking hotels online, stay away from anything offered through www.booking.com. We were going to go to Savannah last Friday (Nov 21st) to follow our child's football team engaged in a playoff game, and on last Wednesday decided to make a weekend of it so our daughter could enjoy seeing Savannah. We had stayed at the Marriott Riverfront on other occasions so we went to travago.com and sought out accommodations there. The only "booking" opportunity was through www.bookings.com . It's rates for the Marriott were considerably higher than other areas hotels, but bit the bullet and booked anyway. We got there on Friday and checked in.. the 2-bed room we booked wasn't there, but the effervescent clerk quickly upgraded us to a "Jr Suite" with a sofa bed. Went upstairs, and while a nice room, the sofa bed was not very comfortable, so I went back online to check out current state of rooms available at www.booking.com. I was shocked to see the 2-bed room I wanted was still available.. but.. at less than half of what I was charged 2 days earlier. Called www.booking.com and asked representative Carmen about this as the website "guarantees the lowest available rates". She looked it up and apologized but said she was not authorized to make such a large adjustment, and would talk with her supervisor. Here it is, 5 days later, and no word from www.booking.com. I've sent two follow up e-mails, but have gotten no response. I want y'all to know about www.booking.com not being a good site to use.

Secondly: www.booking.com response:

Dear Hal,

Thank you for contacting the Booking.com Customer Service team.

In response to your inquiry regarding our "Best Price Guarantee," we are sorry to inform you that your claim at Savannah Marriott Riverfront was unsuccessful.

Per Booking.com Best Price Guarantee, all Best Price Guarantee claims must be made while your booking will allow free modification/cancellation. Unfortunately, when you contacted Booking.com, your booking was outside of free modification/cancellation policy (Booking.com was contacted 2014-11-21 1800 hours). Please reference your email confirmation to confirm free modification/cancellation ended at November 19, 2014 11:59 PM [Savannah].

Therefore, Booking.com’s Best Price Guarantee does not apply in this particular case.

For your reference, we are including a link to the Booking.com Terms and Conditions of the Best Price Guarantee. We hope that this helps you to understand our decision:

http://www.booking.com/general.html?tmpl=doc/rate_guarantee

However, due to the delay in getting back to you, I am willing to offer you 25% of the difference, or $39.92.

To provide you with this refund as quickly as possible, we recommend the refund be made by credit/debit card.
This refund can only be processed to cards with the Visa or MasterCard logo.

If you accept this refund method, you will receive an email from customer.care@booking.com which contains a secure link. This link allows you to enter your credit or debit card information. The email will be sent to: gagolfer@aol.com.

Please reply to this email by 11-30-2014 to confirm you accept the credit card refund option as described above.

Once again, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience this situation has caused.

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

--
Kristen Gladney
Customer Relations Associate
Direct line: 616-254-3656
Booking.com Customer Service Team
Fax : +44 208 612 8005 (Cambridge, UK)
Fax : +31(0) 207 153 073 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

My response to this:

Good morning.. first off, your math is flawed... there was a $250.00 difference in the price you charged than later changed on your site. Secondly, you promised me a room with two beds which the Marriott Savannah failed to keep my contract.

Thirdly.. I'm not interested in a partial settlement as you offer. I'm going to have fun posting my complainnt and your much delayed response on my "Breakfast Club" blogsite (38,000 worldwide viewers) and all over FaceBook.

Good people need to know who they are dealing with when www.booking.com/priceline is involved.

Happy Thanksgiving weekend .. Turkey!

Hal Kirven

The Breakfast Club

Follow up to my www.booking.com (represented by Priceline in the US) complaint;

First my complaint:
On a personal note.. when booking hotels online, stay away from anything offered through www.booking.com. We were going to go to Savannah last Friday (Nov 21st) to follow our child's football team engaged in a playoff game, and on last Wednesday decided to make a weekend of it so our daughter could enjoy seeing Savannah. We had stayed at the Marriott Riverfront on other occasions so we went to travago.com and sought out accommodations there. The only "booking" opportunity was through www.bookings.com . It's rates for the Marriott were considerably higher than other areas hotels, but bit the bullet and booked anyway. We got there on Friday and checked in.. the 2-bed room we booked wasn't there, but the effervescent clerk quickly upgraded us to a "Jr Suite" with a sofa bed. Went upstairs, and while a nice room, the sofa bed was not very comfortable, so I went back online to check out current state of rooms available at www.booking.com. I was shocked to see the 2-bed room I wanted was still available.. but.. at less than half of what I was charged 2 days earlier. Called www.booking.com and asked representative Carmen about this as the website "guarantees the lowest available rates". She looked it up and apologized but said she was not authorized to make such a large adjustment, and would talk with her supervisor. Here it is, 5 days later, and no word from www.booking.com. I've sent two follow up e-mails, but have gotten no response. I want y'all to know about www.booking.com not being a good site to use.

Secondly: www.booking.com response:


Dear Hal,

Thank you for contacting the Booking.com Customer Service team.

In response to your inquiry regarding our "Best Price Guarantee," we are sorry to inform you that your claim at Savannah Marriott Riverfront was unsuccessful.

Per Booking.com Best Price Guarantee, all Best Price Guarantee claims must be made while your booking will allow free modification/cancellation. Unfortunately, when you contacted Booking.com, your booking was outside of free modification/cancellation policy (Booking.com was contacted 2014-11-21 1800 hours). Please reference your email confirmation to confirm free modification/cancellation ended at November 19, 2014 11:59 PM [Savannah].

Therefore, Booking.com’s Best Price Guarantee does not apply in this particular case.

For your reference, we are including a link to the Booking.com Terms and Conditions of the Best Price Guarantee. We hope that this helps you to understand our decision:

http://www.booking.com/general.html?tmpl=doc/rate_guarantee

However, due to the delay in getting back to you, I am willing to offer you 25% of the difference, or $39.92.

To provide you with this refund as quickly as possible, we recommend the refund be made by credit/debit card.
This refund can only be processed to cards with the Visa or MasterCard logo.

If you accept this refund method, you will receive an email from customer.care@booking.com which contains a secure link. This link allows you to enter your credit or debit card information. The email will be sent to: gagolfer@aol.com.

Please reply to this email by 11-30-2014 to confirm you accept the credit card refund option as described above.

Once again, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience this situation has caused.

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

--
Kristen Gladney
Customer Relations Associate
Direct line: 616-254-3656
Booking.com Customer Service Team
Fax : +44 208 612 8005 (Cambridge, UK)
Fax : +31(0) 207 153 073 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

My response to this:

Good morning.. first off, your math is flawed... there was a $250.00 difference in the price you charged than later changed on your site. Secondly, you promised me a room with two beds which the Marriott Savannah failed to keep my contract.

Thirdly.. I'm not interested in a partial settlement as you offer. I'm going to have fun posting my complainnt and your much delayed response on my "Breakfast Club" blogsite (38,000 worldwide viewers) and all over FaceBook.

Good people need to know who they are dealing with when www.booking.com/priceline is involved.

Happy Thanksgiving weekend .. Turkey!

Hal Kirven

The Breakfast Club

Now.. back to the daily grind:

Online story: "Demonstrators temporarily shut down two large malls in suburban St. Louis as rallies were held nationwide to protest a grand jury's recent decision not to indict the police officer in nearby Ferguson, MO. * at least 200 protesters sprawled onto the floor while chanting, "Stop shopping and join the movement" at the Galleria mall" -- You know, if I was still in the retail business, and 200 people laid on the floor to block traffic at opening, I think I'd give the protestors something to think about. I think I'd have placed 2 or 3 70" TVs in the middle of them, taken a bull horn and announced that for the next few minutes, anyone who could get to those TV's and carry them out of the protestor "circle" could have them for FREE. Then I'd anonymously call 911 and report a massacre.

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Online story: "Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are filing phony tax refund claims and the IRS is not doing enough to quash the problem, according to a watchdog report." -- Excuse me, but wouldn't making sure prisoners didn't have access to computers in jail, and monitoring all mail sent out having only "letters" in them sorta solve MOST of the problems? In addition, all prisoners' Social Security Numbers should be in an IRS registry for comparison.

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Oh.. on the above problem.. where are W-2 and 1099 forms coming from?

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Online story: "Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, criticized President Barack Obama over the 2010 health care overhaul. Schumer said the party should have focused on helping more of the middle class than the uninsured, whom he called “a small percentage of the electorate." -- "a small percentage of the electorate"? Didn't Romney get crucified after the release of an illegal video of him writing off the same people Schumer just publicly threw under the bus?

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Online headline: "White House receives official Christmas tree * The 20-foot white fir was hauled up the driveway to the North Portico for inspection on Friday morning." -- mHmmm.. wanna bet the Secret Service shook it out to see if any "fence jumpers" were in it?

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Online story: "Illegal immigrants who apply for work permits in the U.S. under President Obama’s new executive actions will be eligible for Social Security and Medicare, the White House says." -- The Mexican government could bankrupt America by busing all its senior citizens to the border and turn them loose!

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Online story: "Last July, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and thousands of AFT convention delegates joined members of the American Postal Workers Union and other community members in a rally telling the United States Postal Service and the Staples corporation that the “U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale.” They demanded an end to the United States Postal Service’s plan to let Staples employees operate postal counters inside 1,500 stores, ultimately putting 80,000 postal service jobs in jeopardy." -- Good grief.. the US Postal Service recognizes it has a better chance to save its business against other shippers by reaching out to businesses where they shop, and the AFT would just as soon shut down even more Postal jobs.

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Online story: "American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers unions in the United States, passed a resolution last week to ban Coca-Cola from its facilities and events. * The teachers union stated its decision was based on human rights violations" -- Wow.. the AFT is a busy group, and has zero interest for teachers it claims to represent. Hey, teachers, isn't this nice to know... you know, how your dues money is being spent so focused on your needs?

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Online story: "Officials at Magpul Industries, firearms-accessories manufacturer, unveiled Wednesday its new facilities in Texas and Wyoming, making good on a vow to leave Colorado in response to the state’s sweeping gun control legislation. * Magpul was the largest and most prestigious firearms company to announce it would leave Colorado after Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper signed three gun control bills in March 2013. * 200 direct and 400 supplier jobs were "lost"." -- And let's not forget their families. In effect.. 600 hundred families took their paychecks, and numerous "businesses" did likewise, and became taxpayers in other states.

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Online story: "On Tuesday night, Cornell Brooks, president of the NAACP, appeared on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront to discuss the shooting death of Michael Brown and dismissed calls for violence by a member of Michael Brown’s immediate family as inciting violence. Burnett played video of Brown’s stepfather, Louis Head, telling a crowd of protestors to “burn this bi*** down” after the grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson and asked Brooks if “that served as a call for violence?” Rather than condemn Brown’s stepfather’s highly charged rhetoric, the president of the NAACP proclaimed “I don't think that was a call for violence or it caused violence.” -- Good grief.. Obamageddon and Hillewinsky tried to blame Benghazi on a video, and the National NAACP president poo-poos such video as being inciting in nature.

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One final tidbit on Michael Brown.. his "thc" level was TWICE the level of being intoxicated. The man was 6'4" and weighed nearly 300 pounds.. Can you even guess at the amount of marijuana, illegal I might add, that he had to ingest to achieve that level?

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Online story: "Nineteen year-old TK Hancock was a sophomore at the University of Memphis and a new father. He was shot, execution style, while sitting in his car outside of the library. Hancock was not shot as part of a violent altercation on his part and it was not gang related. He was murdered, shot several times in the head and neck, in cold blood, for his cell phone. It’s possible he was targeted because the girl he was dating was also seeing one of the people who ultimately killed him. * His killers were not white. * They were black, just like him. " -- Where was Obamageddon? Where was Holder? Where were Jackson & Sharpton?

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I know Mizzou is still an SEC newbie, so I It has a learning curve for learning about uniform propriety, but Arkansas has been a member for a while. Between the two, the game qualified as the worst dressed of the year..at least do far..Mizzou, in all black -helmet/pants/jersey- and Arkansas, in all red -helmet/pants/jersey- looked like two commercial league women's slow-pitch softball teams.

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Do you reckon because he's working towards closing GITMO, that Obamageddon is not taking new prisoners to send there for interrogation so our intelligence info is suffering?

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You know.. I wonder how the CFO at St Francis filled out the IRS forms and got board approval to submit them without noticing a $30,000,000.00 "accounting error".

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You know.. with what has happened at St Francis, with some juggling of IT personnel between the MCSD and the City, there needs to be immediate and in-depth audits of the MCSD and the City finances.

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L-E "shooting" headlines/stories in today's editions:

1 - "A young Columbus woman was shot during a Baker Plaza Drive home invasion Thanksgiving night, Columbus police report."

2 - "A Steam Mill Road man told Columbus police an unidentified man shot him late Thanksgiving night on Harvest Drive."

3 - "Gunmen rob clerk, south Columbus store on Thanksgiving"

4 - "Columbus man reports robbery outside Buena Vista Road store"

5 - "Columbus police: Three men rob 13th Avenue Lucky Food Mart"

6 - "Columbus police: Man shot in neck at Victory Drive and 30th Avenue"

7 - "Columbus police have issued warrants for an armed robbery suspect after a man demanded money from a Kap's 777 gas station on Fort Benning Road"

--- Hmmm.. Before there was Black Friday.. there was black Wednesday/Thursday. C'mon, Columbus, we can do better that this!

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L-E headline: "Michael Brown’s legacy continues to evolve" -- "continues to evolve"? Evolve is what Obamageddon's lies do...

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There will be lots of fireworks and possibilities in the SEC West today... the Mississippi State Bulldogs tackle the Ole Miss Black Bears (still hard to get out with out giggling). If State wins, it adds a bit of drama for the Iron Bowl later on.. Alabama must then beat Auburn to win the SEC West title and move on to Atlanta against Mizzou. HAIL STATE!

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In a way, Mississippi State can destroy "The Grove" at Ole Miss today... if State buries the Black Bears for their 4th straight SEC defeat, changing the name to "The Grave" will be about right.

Online headline: "FBI probing threatening note sent to Ole Miss" -- Good grief.. The FBI couldn't find Lois Lerner's IRS 30,000 e-mails an out group discovered, nor Obamageddon's birth certificate, passport or college records, but think they can waste tax resources on what is probabl an Ole Miss coach's effort to motivate the fans after 3 straight SEC losses. Guess some FBI agents want to get free passes to the Egg Bowl!

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Follow up: Remember the 18 year old who was arrested in Minneapolis before boarding a plane with a one way ticket to Syria to join ISIS? Well, he is back on the streets after being released to his parents, which, by the way, said they had no clue what their son was planning. Poetic justice would be for the parents to be arrested for harboring a know terroist!

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You know, Obamageddon's immigration edict not only will infuriate American's looking for jobs, but American's will be further po'd when illegals can be hired to work 40 hours (versus 29) because businesses won't be punished for not offering healthcare because illegals cannot qualify for subsidies.

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Online headline/story: "Ferguson gives thanks after a quiet night * "They don't represent the community, they don't represent the mood nor the feelings of the community," the Rev. Tommie Pierson of Greater St. Mark Family Church said. "I would imagine if you talked to them, they probably don't even live here. So, we don't want to be defined by what they did." -- "we don't want to be defined by what they did"? Hey Al! Hey Jesse! Hey, Holder! Hey Obamageddon! You, too, LeBron! He's talking about y'all!

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Now speculators are blaming Officer Wilson for not having a taser on him..good grief..didn't mainstream learn anything from the Rodney King chaos..that several tasers couldn't even slow down a huge man on drugs?

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Online story: "The man found shot to death in a parked car in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday morning has been identified. * The body of Deandre Joshua, 20, was found at around 9 a.m. inside a white Pontiac with the driver’s side window shot out * Police are investigating Joshua’s death as a homicide, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Even so, his grandmother, Renita Towns, has doubts about the amount of effort they’re going to put in. * "Police don't care — he's black,” -- "Police don't care"? The police's biggest obstacle will be getting a witness, probably black, to step forward and tell the police what he/she saw and possibly provide a name. Now.. who is it that "doesn't care"?

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Online headline: "Feds forcing companies to disclose pay gap between CEO, workers?" -- Good grief.. If any group of workers need to know what their CEO gets in salary and perks, it's federal workers needing to know how much Obamageddon and family spend out of the same revenue source as their pay checks.

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Note on above: In comparison, Private/public corporation CEO's are RESPONSIBLE for generating the resources each worker in the corporations earn.. the federal revenue source is parasitic in nature.. it's sucked out like blood.

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Online story: "A plan to open what would be the nation's only museum centered on the trans-Atlantic slave trade would focus on the Episcopal Church's role in its history and the sometimes-buried legacy of slavery in northern states like Rhode Island. * A report issued in 2006 found that about 60 percent of all slave-trading voyages launched from North America came from Rhode Island. * The Rev. Canon Linda L. Grenz calls it a "teaching museum" and says it would be part of a larger project to show how people can use painful history to help overcome differences and be honest with one another. * "What's dropped out of our public memory, largely as a result of the Civil War, is that the North had a great deal of slavery," he said. "We like to talk about as if most Northerners were anti-slavery and abolitionists."" -- Hmmm.. here's another little tidbit mainstream media and the Democrats wish would stay buried...sorta like the number of prominent Democratic Party leaders that grew up involved in the KKK.

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Hmmm.. doesn't this mean that the Confederate Battle Flag didn't fly in as many "slave states" as the US Flag?

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Online story: "Nearly five months after the release of Taliban prisoner Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the military has yet to release a report on Bergdahl leaving his Afghanistan post in 2009 that also makes recommendations on whether he should be punished. * The Pentagon says it is not holding up the decision, though the review by Army Gen. Kenneth Dahl was finished in early October." -- Hmm.. the Pentagon specifically states, "it is not holding up the decision"... hmmm.. who does that leave to ask.. Hagel and the Obamageddon, and we know Hagel is "gone".. maybe this is why.

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Online headline: "CNN Reporter Blasts Jesse Jackson Over How Little Sense His Ferguson Rhetoric Makes" -- Hmmm.. the actual video is anti-climatic to the fact that CNN called out Jesse Jackson, and Jackson was ill-prepared. ill-equipped to respond.

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Online story: "There's no free lunch - or breakfast or dinner - for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving Day. Or any other day for that matter. * He has to dig into his pocket to pay for his holiday feast of turkey, ham, two kinds of stuffing, sweet and regular potatoes and six different kinds of pie. It's a longstanding practice that a president pays for meals for himself, his family and personal guests. * Obama also pays for other basics - everything from toothpaste to dry cleaning. * the payment rule dates back to 1800 when the White House was first occupied by President John Adams and there was no staff. Presidents brought staff with them and paid for everything. * Congress gradually began spending money to maintain an official White House staff to oversee operations and maintenance, but presidents continued to pay for personal expenses.

* What it boils down to, Walters said, is that the White House is first and foremost the president's home. * "All those things that are personal in nature that we all pay for, the first family pays for," he said." -- First, since every president has done this for 200 plus years, why is this even a story? Secondly, and the main point is that the White House is not "foremost the president's home". The White House is a taxpayer funded symbol of freedom and liberty and equality and justice for the rest of the world to view. I just wish Obamageddon was a better tennant.

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www.booking.com update. Following my posting my complaint on FaceBook, a representative did respond and said someone higher would be in touch "soon". More as it unfolds.

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L-E story: "BOSTON — The University of Massachusetts-Amherst has cut ties with alumnus Bill Cosby amid allegations by women accusing him of sexual assault. * A university spokesman told the Boston Globe on Wednesday university officials had asked Cosby to step down as an honorary co-chairman of their $300 million fundraising campaign and Cosby agreed. * Cosby received a master’s degree and a doctorate in education from the university. He and his wife donated several hundred thousand dollars to the university." -- Hmmm .. an attempt by liberals/mainstream media to destroy a black man.. perhaps because he's a conservative and not quite black enough? Or maybe mainstream media feels there won't be black or white backlash when it tries to publicly lynch Bill Cosby. Now, why didn't the mainstream media follow up on that other "Bill" and the women who actually had proof and evidence of "his" assaults?

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Jonathan Gruber Stupid LIV's "letter to the L-E: "The Republicans are loudly calling executive action by our President in connection with the immigration problem an unconstitutional act. Similar actions by Reagan and Bush were not protested by these self-anointed constitutional scholars. * The only difference is that Reagan and Bush were white and Republican." -- Hmm "the only difference was Reagan and Bush were white and Republican"? What a racist comment/view! The only real difference is that Obamgeddon has done this in an act of arrogance and revenge rather than in an effort to correct an injustice.

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L-E headline: "Bay Avenue construction * City improving sewer lines" -- Excuse me, but I remember when the Columbus Water Works and Mayor Martin held a "gun" loaded with possibilities of up to $100 MILLION 1993 dollars in bonds to our heads, with the promise that the sewer overhaul would correct ALL the sewer problems we would have in the future.. Short future, huh... Wanna bet this was waited on until after Red died as no one else on Council would remember?

Gobble, gobble!

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Online headline: "Obama Pardons Thanksgiving Turkey" -- Oooops, my bad..figured Michelle was tired of not being in the headlines.

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Probably the biggest unanswered question in Ferguson, MO is "where was the National Guard Gov Nixon called out?" Don't you remember earlier in the phases when Gov. Nixon specified he was calling out the National Guard to protect fed & state buildings. Based on seeing the Ferguson Court House/Government Center having its doors and windows boarded up, I guess Nixon kept his word at the expense of the citizens & taxpayers of Ferguson...and the town of Ferguson itself.

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You know, we have a lot to be thankful for, and none will be lost by having our attention diverted to the chaos caused by rioting and looting disguised as seeking justice. The black community should be indignant at our president and attorney general for promoting racial animosity.

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Online story: "Businesses reportedly will have a $3,000-per-employee incentive to hire illegal immigrants over native-born workers under President Obama’s sweeping action on illegal immigration. * Because of a kink in ObamaCare, businesses will not face a penalty for not providing illegal immigrants health care * Illegal immigrants are ineligible for public benefits such as buying insurance on ObamaCare’s health exchanges." -- You know.. this not only stinks economically, it stinks politically. Any public effort to correct this by the Republicans will be exploited by mainstream media and the DNC as racism, profiling, and anti-Latino.

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L-E headline/story: "Obamacare enrollment surpasses 500,000 in first week * The HealthCare.gov total – which is split roughly evenly between new enrollees and people renewing coverage they had in 2014 – is a major advance from last year, when the website did not work for more than a month. * The Obama administration has already substantially reduced enrollment targets for 2015. * About 6.7 million people had health plans through the marketplaces before the current open enrollment period began Nov. 15, according to the federal agency." -- "6.7 million had health plans"? Wait a minute.. wasn't the absolute bottom goal for year one 7,000,000... and there was a much ballyhooed claim of 8,000,000?

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Did you hear Chuck Schumer washing his hands of OObamaCRAP? Guess what..he's up for reelection next time.

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HuffPost headline: "Congressional Research Service: Yes, Congress Can Defund Obama's Immigration Action" -- The political "stink" has already begun.

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Two Minneapolis men, 18 & 20, were indicted for conspiracy to aid Islamist terrorists. One had already gone to the mid-east, but the 18 year old was stopped at the airport with a one way ticket to Syria. Some community spokesman said he shouldn't have been arrested because he's not an "organizer" . What stupidity! It's not the "organizers", it's not the leaders that deliver the suicide bombs. It's the recruits they have brainwashed.

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Rumor has it that the Liars Club is canceling their awards ceremony..Obamageddon's Press Agent said he wasn't going to be available, and no one else was close enough . Of course, how do you believe Obamageddon's Press Agents?

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Online story: "National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel received a huge pay raise this year while the teachers union lost more than 40,000 members. * Van Roekel, who retired this summer, was paid $541,632 during NEA’s fiscal year ending Aug. 31 * NEA, the nation’s largest labor union, has lost 272,014 members since 2009" -- And now fewer teachers will pay his retirement and perks for life. Common Core? How about "rotten to the CORE"... and Corps.....

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Online story: "The Defense Secretary job opening is emerging as a thanks-but-no-thanks opportunity, as some of the top potential prospects have already said they’re not interested in the job. * Within minutes of reports Monday that Secretary Chuck Hagel would resign, the names of Michele Flournoy and Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed emerged as top prospects. * But each made clear by the end of the day that they didn’t want the coveted but high-wire, Cabinet-level post." -- "coveted" post? Smart people are not going to vacate their existing jobs for a maximum 2 year stint for a lame duck Obamageddon.

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Online story: "State Rep. Mike Foley, a Democrat from Cleveland wants stores in the state to pay triple wages for employees who work on Thanksgiving -- an effort that comes as Macy's, the holiday's quintessential retailer, is allowing its workers to choose whether to work that day." -- Democrats have no clue as to how supply-side economics works.. and the current economy supports my claim. Stores usually have excesses of volunteers who want to work on holidays at usually "time and a half" incentives.

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Online story: "In the past five years, Oklahoma City taxpayers have cut checks totaling $20.6 million to retiring city employees for accrued vacation and sick leave, Watchdog.org found through an analysis of city databases. * Nearly 500 employees — almost half — left the city with checks of $10,000 or more, including one employee who cashed out $108,000 and another 17 who took home more than $80,000 each upon retiring, records show. * State Sen. David Holt, an Oklahoma City Republican who served as an Oklahoma City mayoral chief of staff, has been a critic of the state system that can take union negotiations out of local elected officials’ hands and can put them before an arbitrator. He said the payouts are based on salaries negotiated in the contract so that’s why payments are costing taxpayers so much." -- Hmmm, Oklahoma City politicians must have copied the Detroit Council's retirement plan.

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Misinformed.. but not too far off L-E "soundoff": "Tax Return information: Wounded Warrior Project collected $150 million and gave less than $5 million to veterans. Paralyzed Veterans of America gave about 2 cents of every dollar collected. Give to the Salvation Army!" -- While I heartwarmingly believe in giving to our Salvation Army, and I do question the fundraising/Administrative expenses (42%) of Wounded Warrior Project, about 55% of the funds raised go to projects. Figures are based on 2012 at Charity Navigator. Of course, there seem to be a lot more TV ads running for Wounded Warrior Project than ever before, so the figures may be different for 2013, and 2014.

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Online headline: "Atlanta civil rights advocate to call for Black Friday boycott " -- "boycott"? Is that from buying or looting?

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I really cannot understand the St Francis board response to a $30,000,000.00 "accounting error".

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Online headline: "Another twist in Hernandez's murder case * A Massachusetts judge listened to Aaron Hernandez's legal team, which is reviewing 500,000 pages of evidence for a double murder." -- "500,000 pages of evidence"? You know.. if a prosecutor threw 500,000 pages of evidence into the jury room and I was serving on it. I'd pretty much figure the prosecutor was wanting a jury to get pretty PO's at him and find for the defendant.

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L-E story: "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a heart stent implanted on Wednesday, reviving talk about how long the 81-year-old liberal jurist will be staying on the court." -- Welll.. this might explain some of her "bleeding heart" decisions....

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On a personal note.. when booking hotels online, stay away from anything offered through www.booking.com. We were going to go to Savannah last Friday to follow our child's football team engaged in a playoff game, and on last Wednesday decided to make a weekend of it so our daughter could enjoy seeing Savannah. We had stayed at the Marriott Riverfront on other occasions so we went to travago.com and sought out accommodations there. The only "booking" opportunity was through www.bookings.com . It's rates for the Marriott were considerably higher than other areas hotels, but bit the bullet and booked anyway. We got there on Friday and checked in.. the 2-bed room we booked wasn't there, but the effervescent clerk quickly upgraded us to a "Jr Suite" with a sofa bed. Went upstairs, and while a nice room, the sofa bed was not very comfortable, so I went back online to check out current state of rooms available at www.booking.com. I was shocked to see the 2-bed room I wanted was still available.. but.. at less than half of what I was charged 2 days earlier. Called www.booking.com and asked representative Carmen about this as the website "guarantees the lowest available rates". She looked it up and apologized but said she was not authorized to make such a large adjustment, and would talk with her supervisor. Here it is, 5 days later, and no word from www.booking.com. I've sent two follow up e-mails, but have gotten no response. I want y'all to know about www.booking.com not being a good site to use.

Online story: "The Obama administration on Tuesday threatened to veto a bipartisan tax deal that would reportedly create permanent tax perks for corporations without advancing key tax breaks for middle- and low-income families." -- Good grief..Obamageddon knows less about economics than he does about the Constitution!

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Abe Lincoln reminded us that we are a country "of the people, by the people, for the people", do you think he was telling us there's a time we have to take our government back from the current elected rulers? I'm sure Lincoln would approve if "the people" chose to bypass the Constitution and Congress like Obamageddon does, and just impeach and convict him ourselves.

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You know, the lootings and violence following Officer Wilson being cleared just shows that liberals do not believe we are a nation of laws. Sadder is that the leader of the liberal element, President Obamageddon , has been instrumental in creating this disrespect for laws.

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Ferguson..how can a community be safe..feel safe ..when it's the community devouring itself?

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Listening to David Clarke, Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin on Fox News.. an impressive individual.. His grasp of reality and problem solving really topped all the inflammatory rhetoric we've been subjected to by mainstream media, Obamageddon, Pric Holder and Missouri Gov Nixon. Sheriff Clarke should be the only spokes voice for the duration of the current racial flare-up.

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Online headline: "Activist Attorney General Eric Holder to Officer Wilson: It’s Not Over Until I Say It’s Over" -- Well.. that seems appropriate.. it was Pric Holder that inferred he was the hanging judge and jury when it started.

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The simple truth is that if Michael Brown obeyed the laws, obeyed police instructions, then Michael Brown would not be dead, and we would not know Officer Wilson's name.

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This Thanksgiving, there is no shortage of turkeys in Ferguson, MO.

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From the "poetic justice" department - Online story: "Alexis Templeton has become extraordinarily vocal in the case of Mike Brown. Although she was living in Arizona, Templeton flew to Ferguson, Missouri to join the riots after learning of his death. * In mid-November, Templeton left her home in Arizona to protest. When she came back, she found her house ransacked and looted." -- You can't make this stuff up...

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Online story: "An Atlanta coalition called “Shut It Down Atlanta” plans gatherings at Underground Atlanta at 5 p.m. Tuesday, the day after the Ferguson grand jury decision is announced." -- "shut it down Atlanta"? Shut what down.. the city? the legal system? civility? common sense? Looks to me that the :it" this group is shutting down is its "brain:.

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I tell you what.. if a woman is qualified to be Secretary of Defense, so be it, but.. don't try to tell us Hillary is. Ask Ambassador Chris Stevens..

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Having to 'splain' Cuzzin Jimmy Carter for the last 40+ years are do has been taxing . Recently, I discovered another Cuzzin I don't have to 'splain.. just found out General George S. Patton is also kinfolk.

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Hey.. let's not let the riots and lootings (did Ferguson win the NBA Championships?) make us forget that over 30,000 Lois Lerner e-mails have been recovered!

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L-E "headlie": "MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING * Local group speaks about fight for justice" -- This is what's holding back racial progress in Columbus and this country.. Justice was served.. but the black leadership does not accept the rulings in the justice system when it's not what the black leadership wants. Justice cannot be served by appeasing personal convenience.

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Jonathan Gruber Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " If only 28% of registered voters elected Josh McKoon to state Senate, do the remaining 72% still have a voice?" -- Hmm.. all it took was 28% of the voters to easily re-elect Josh McKoon.. the rest felt good enough that the dependable voters were enough to overcome any Democrat opponent, so why embarrass the loser any more than necessary.

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Jonathan Gruber "even more" Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " It seems to me that the president has not usurped congressional powers. Congress, by its own inability to pass any meaningful legislation, has ceded that power to the president." -- Good grief.. it's bad enough when a voter isn't turned off by a president usurping unconstitutional powers, but it's depressing that the same LIV doesn't know that the same Constitution also limits the roles Congress and the Judicial System have as well.

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Stupider still Jonathan Gruber LIV's L-E "soundoff": " When my grandson goes to high school football games I used to worry about the thugs. Now I worry about the cops." -- You know..this should give you a good idea why so many teens are street thugs.. it's being passed down as a character trait.

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Just when you though we'd hit bottom on Jonathan Gruber Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff"s. this is also offered: "Thanksgiving is another day of gluttony for the rich and middle-class, and the poor and the hungry and the homeless continue to be uncared for. I hope the Christians remember that." -- What a pity party.. I hope this guy will take in the food kitchens around Columbus any day, but tomorrow particularly, to see who are manning the serving lines..it's not the atheists.

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From an opinion column in the L-E: "cannabis oil, a derivative of marijuana that is illegal in Georgia." --

I remember when laertrile, derived from the pits of apricots and peaches, was hailed as the cure-all of cancer, but wasn't legally available in the US so people flocked to Mexico to get.. Guess what.. it was a scam. Unleashing a harmful element that hasn't had a long enough history of long term results is not the answer. Be thankful that someone can go elsewhere and get this treatment, but since that solution is available, let's not rush into bringing it home until the long term results show it's worthwhile.

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Regardless of outcomes this weekend.. the SEC will have 12 of its 14 teams "bowl eligible".

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On a personal note.. when booking hotels online, stay away from anything offered through www.booking.com. We were going to go to Savannah last Friday to follow our child's football team engaged in a playoff game, and on last Wednesday decided to make a weekend of it so our daughter could enjoy seeing Savannah. We had stayed at the Marriott Riverfront on other occasions so we went to travago.com and sought out accommodations there. The only "booking" opportunity was through www.bookings.com . It's rates for the Marriott were considerably higher than other areas hotels, but bit the bullet and booked anyway. We got there on Friday and checked in.. the 2-bed room we booked wasn't there, but the effervescent clerk quickly upgraded us to a "Jr Suite" with a sofa bed. Went upstairs, and while a nice room, the sofa bed was not very comfortable, so I went back online to check out current state of rooms available at www.booking.com. I was shocked to see the 2-bed room I wanted was still available.. but.. at less than half of what I was charged 2 days earlier. Called www.booking.com and asked representative Carmen about this as the website "guarantees the lowest available rates". She looked it up and apologized but said she was not authorized to make such a large adjustment, and would talk with her supervisor. Here it is, 5 days later, and no word from www.booking.com. I've sent two follow up e-mails, but have gotten no response. I want y'all to know about www.booking.com not being a good site to use.

Online headline: "ABC, CBS, NBC won't carry Obama" -- Now he's "heavy"? Truth is, :they" are talking about showing his planned speech on Thursday night which WILL be carried by Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, so they know Fox would 'best' them ratings wise if "they" show the speech, too.

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I tell you what, when the grand jury announcement creates a riotous atmosphere, if the National Guard will take out the mainstream media, the uproar will dissipate quickly. PS: This is being written at 4:00 PM yesterday.

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One if the Ferguson "pre-protestors" says "it's all about respect". Respect? How about respect for due process, respect for individual rights of the officer and private property, respect for laws in general, and respect for jury findings.

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You know, Officer Wilson testified that he had no choice but to shoot Brown. He's wrong... he had the choice not to shoot and be killed himself by Brown.

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Give Al Sharpton & the Ferguson protestors what they want. Build a fence separating the area of the Michael Brown shooting from the rest of Fergerson, remove all police service, then see who calls 911 first.

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Oh, do you wonder if mainstream media knows ISIS is still at work?

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Online story: "Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times, Valerie Jarrett claimed that Speaker John Boehner asked Obama to wait until after the elections to publicly move on the immigration issue." -- Is there anyone in this administration with any credibility?

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Online story: "An Internal Revenue Service watchdog has located an estimated 30,000 of the lost Lois Lerner emails, according to a source familiar with the matter. * The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration told congressional staffers Friday the emails belonging to the most controversial figure in the IRS controversy were located on disaster recovery tapes." -- Yes! I can hear Richard Nixon sitting up in his grave yelling, "YES!"

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Online story: "Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson on Saturday posted 2011 email correspondence between attorney general Eric Holder and communications adviser Matthew Miller on how to best manipulate press coverage of the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. * (President Obama withheld the email under executive privilege but it was recently released as a result of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the Justice Department).:

Here are excerpts from Miller’s advice to Holder:

1. Send a letter to the Hill explaining what happened. Put in context the amount of information you get every week, say that you don’t recall reading those bullets or being aware of Fast and Furious at any time before early this year, but in any event, you certainly weren’t aware of the gun walking aspect of it until the news broke earlier this year (at which point you took immediate steps to have the IG investigate, etc.).

This needs to happen tomorrow. In fact, it should’ve happened today. The last time your credibility was directly questioned was whether you had disclosed all of your amicus briefs — the story started to break on a Thursday night, and we made people stay up all night compiling information so we could get a response out by 1 pm or so on Friday.

2. Find a way for you to get in front of a reporter or two about this. You don’t want to call a press conference on this because it will blow things out perspective, but if you have any events in the next few days (preferably tomorrow), you could find a way to take two or three questions on it afterwards.

Or if that’s not easily doable, you could find a way to “run into” a couple of reporters on your way to something. Maybe Pete Williams, Carrie, Pete Yost — that part can be managed. Most important is that you’re in front of a camera in a relaxed manner giving a response you have rehearsed.

It would be ideal if those two things happened in the same day so you didn’t have two news cycles of responding — you want to do it all at once.

There may be things you need to do to go on offense as well, but I think most important right now is that you answer the charge about covering this up. Then you can move to offense.

Once again I ask..Is there anyone in this administration with any credibility?

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I fully support our soldiers and their families but I'm still unsure exactly what the Wounded Warrior Project actually does. I've visited the website and have listened to seemingly wall-to-wall TV ads at what must be at extraordinary expense, and I'm just not sure how the donations the WWP asked for are going to be used other than run more ads.

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I got a holiday invitation from Spring Harbor (retirement facility) to take a "Tour of Homes" following a 4:30-5:30 cocktail /reception hour. I might suggest they schedule the tour first..otherwise, a lot of homeowners might have already gone to bed.

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Sec of Defense Hagel got fired.. That's what happens to Obamageddon minions who don't work hard at brown-nosing.

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Did you watch the resignation ceremony for Chuck Hagel? The cameras must have been carefully strategically placed. I didn't see the bus Obamageddon was throwing Hagel under.

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So 32000+ school children are out for the entire week for Thanksgiving... how convenient for the school personnel..but not most of the parents which will have to find (& pay for) younger children's care or wonder what their older kids are doing with such free time on their hands.

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Online story: "Anthony Brown, the Maryland Democratic gubernatorial nominee who lost in an upset in November, took out a $500,000 loan from a labor union late in his campaign and has so far failed to repay the money as agreed, according to a financial report filed earlier this week. * Taking out such a loan is Maryland in legal." -- Now this is definitely an area of "campaign reform" that needs attention. Election donations are one thing (and have limits), but a private "loan" is another. Were the payback terms the same whether he won or lost? What exactly did the union demand/expect for such a loan? Does Anthony Brown now have broken kneecaps?

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Online story: "When the New York Times first reported that activist and MSNBC host Al Sharpton has more than $4.5 million due in federal and state taxes, he had quite the response. * “We’re talking about old taxes,” Sharpton claimed during a news conference at his non-profit, National Action Network that’s located in Harlem, NY." ("old taxes"? Well, that's exactly the IRS's point.. he OWES them.) * But there’s more.

* As if the excuse of “old taxes” wasn’t quite enough, he resorted to something we’ve all heard before. * "I think it’s political, he said. A lot of people don’t like the fact that President Obama’s the president. A lot of people do not like the fact that Bill de Blasio won for mayor. And they certainly don’t like that I’m still here, and I ain’t going nowhere." -- Good grief... Sharpton is now throwing the "race card" at the IRS.. I guess he's claiming there's a difference between "light green" and "dark green" money.

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Online headline: "Bill Cosby faces more disturbing allegations" -- How come "the other Bill", you know, the jackass one, has been ignored by mainstream media for all the women who came forward with their sexual horror stories? 

Online headline: "Obama says voters want 'new car smell'" -- Yeah one that doesn't stink.

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Online headline: "Peter Kassig remembered for 'selflessness'" -- Well, This is the main thing we will not remember about Obamageddon.

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Online headline: "In Ferguson, residents hope justice is served" -- A head on a platter has never been justice. Any group or movement that has declared a jury finding of only one acceptable result has never been interested in justice.

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Online headline: "Holder frustrated with governor over Ferguson action" -- Frustrated by what.. not being able to initiate a "fast&furious" program in Ferguson?

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My bride and I enjoy, no, we love the Hallmark Channel series/movies "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." It's a well done and humanizing peek into the Post Office. Considering how we perceive the List Office, the Post Office probably hates having to try to live up to this series.

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Catching up a bit:

HuffPost "headlie": "Obama's action will affect five million people" -- WRONG.. it will affect every American citizen today and tomorrow.

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It's as simple as this...Obamageddon did not push his immigration campaign promises during the first two years of his presidency when he had Chamber majorities that would have given him what he asked because he would not have won reelection in 2012.

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Well, 5 more GITMO terrorists have been release..The premise is "they are no longer dangerous". Golly gee, maybe we should just hire some of those no-longer-dangerous people to head up our stateside prison rehab programs.

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You know, when Josh Earnest starts an answer with, "The truth is", I immediately know what follows is nowhere close to being the truth.

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Why does Fox News even want to give Josh Earnest air time? Going in, the Fox Anchors know Earnest is not going to actually directly answer their questions.

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Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre recently said that the Pac-12 South is better than the SEC West - Yeah... like we don't know what he's smoking.

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Online story: "Common ingredient may sap memory * A new study says an element of milk, meat and junk food may be linked to significant memory loss." -- Yeah, this is what hap pans when veggans gather in numbers.

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Jonathan Gruber Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "LIV's "soundoff": Only 37 percent of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, yet 71 percent of those who have it report satisfaction." -- Hmmm.... 71% of 8,000,000... that's 5,680,000 people out of 300,000,000+ people. Wanna bet how many of those 5.68 MILLION actually pay anything themselves?

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L-E's "Quotable": “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” - Nikos Kazantzakis Greek author (1883-1957)" -- Hmmm, the first Democratic Party campaign strategist?

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Good grief.. even the Bloomberg News thinks.. "feels" Obamageddon's "Immigration grandstanding" speech is an Obamanation of political grandstanding

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Online story: "The Friday Benghazi report by the Republican-led House Select Committee on Intelligence found no intelligence failure prior to the attacks, no evidence that the White House told the military to stand down during the attack and no evidence that the CIA was involved in related arms shipments. The report did, however, find that the consulate was inadequately protected". -- Hmmm ..."consulate was inadequately protected.".. seems this was a duty of the Secretary of State's obligation/responsibility.. Hey Hillewinsky,, what difference will this make?

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Online story: "BERLIN (AP) - A watercolor of Munich's old city hall believed to have been painted by Adolf Hitler a century ago was sold for 130,000 euros ($162,000) at an auction in Germany on Saturday. * Kathrin Weidler, director of the Weider auction house in Nuremberg, said the work attracted bidders from four continents and went to a buyer from the Middle East. She declined to elaborate" -- Wanna bet it was an Islamist who sympathized with Hitler's Jewish hatred?

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Online story: "The president of the University of Virginia, Teresa Sullivan, issued a statement Saturday saying all university fraternities are suspended until Jan. 9 following a Rolling Stone story earlier in the week that documented the assault of an 18-year-old woman by seven men." -- Good grief.. this tops the list of things being profiled/stereotyped! Since on fraternity was guilty, all fraternities MUST be guilty. And, of course, it's obviously gender biased. Hmmm what about the sororities?

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Jonathan Gruber Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Plotting the correlation between gun deaths per 100,000 and percent of homes with guns of industrialized nations reveals an almost perfectly straight diagonal line. All alone, up in the top right corner, you’ll find America. -- Hmmm hey buddy.. you go collect all the illegally owned/used guns possessed by known and future felons, and our death by gun rates will plummet. Then all we would need guns for would be to protect you, along with ourselves, from a government run by an empirical narcissistic egotist should one ever get elected... like now!

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Bill Cosby is not the first "Bill" women have come out of the woodwork and claimed "rape". Bill Clinton is an alleged rapist, Too. Why wasn't mainstream media outraged about that?

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The Daily Currant story: "The state of North Dakota has named a new publicly-owned landfill after President Barack Obama. * When completed, the Barack Obama Memorial Landfill will be the largest waste disposal site in North Dakota, and the 17th largest in the United States. It will be especially rich in toxic waste from the local petroleum and medical industries." -- Hmmm...rumor has it that North Dakota has filed a copyright for Obamageddon 'relief sculpted" septic tank covers.

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Hey, did those libs protesting the non-existent SOA pay for the use of the Civic Center and the required police coverage?

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You know, those Atlanta attorneys hired by Countryman & Bishop wouldn't even be here except for being paid with our money. Countryman and Bishop didn't misuse budget dollars, they misused the hard earned tax dollars we paid.

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Online story: "When a woman was told to vacate her home to make way for a city bike path, she built a new home with the land she had left: http://aol.it/1xQn2dS" -- Oooops, my bad.. thought this was another article written by our Mayor TomLYINGson.

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Marion Barry.. former Mayor of Washington, DC and role model for former Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, has died. Unfortunately, mainstream media will report how much a loss this will be`.

Weekend off - Catch up on Monday

Thanx!

Online story: From the text of Obamageddon's speech: "When I took office, I committed to fixing this broken immigration system. And I began by doing what I could to secure our borders. " -- Yeah, right... "fast and furious", fighting local authority citizenship searches, suing states' governors, and doing zilch when he had a super majority in both Houses which would have passed laws which would have been declared unconstitutional by now.

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If Obamageddon opens the floodgate on our border, it will be the biggest 'dis' to the black voting bloc ever. The black vote cannot point to any progress promised by multitudes of Democrat politicians as the Democrats have used the black vote to promote its LGBT and "green power" agenda, and now Obamageddon is trying to lessen the power of the black bloc vote by wrapping up the Latino vote. Of course.. if you continually vote for jackasses......

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L-E story: "St. Francis Hospital is eliminating 80 jobs effective immediately as it wrestles with a $30 million accounting inaccuracy it discovered last month, President and CEO Robert Granger said on Thursday." -- Hmmm... $30 Million is not an "accounting inaccuracy"...65 people being "let go", plus 15 other people not being hired because of someone being "inaccurate" is not a just situation.

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WTVM9 story: "COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - The Columbus Aquatic Center on Macon Road has only been open about 15 months, and now facility management is already getting bad reviews. * A city auditor presented Mayor Teresa Tomlinson with the results of an investigation of the Columbus Aquatic Center and the report did not leave her feeling impressed. She described the findings as "quite unfavorable." -- Good grief...is there anybody surprised at a private company running a publicly owned facility is going to put facility needs ahead of revenue margins?

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Online story: "U.S. Rep. John Lewis on Tuesday predicted “massive, non-violent protests” all over the country if there is a “miscarriage of justice” in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo." -- How dare a sitting US Congressman excuse vigilantism or public rioting as acceptable if a grand jury finding vindicates the actions of a police officer! The only "miscarriage of justice" brooding is the anticipation of a grand jury that doesn't meet one's desire regardless of the facts.

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This is a quote from a 2012 story about Congressman Sanford Bishop giving scholarships from the Congressional Black Caucus to his family and friends: "A Bishop spokesman told POLITICO that there were no nepotism rules in the mid-2000s to bar the CBC scholarships from going to family members. A CBCF spokeswoman said such restrictions were not put in place until 2008. " -- This is a lie.. the Congressional Black Caucus Scholarship Program is basically a foundation funded by taxpayers, and general foundation rules prohibit giving funds to benefit family and friends.

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Online headline: "Fla. nurse latest to accuse Bill Cosby of forced sex" -- Shades of the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings! You know.. if a black person is a conservative, there is no length the Democratic Party supporting black leadership will not go to discredit a successful black businessperson. Where was, no, is, the black leadership on reigning in the shenanigans of its inner circle?

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Jonathan Gruber Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "When did the Republicans “give Obama a chance” to do anything? They have blocked everything he has tried to do. You people live in fantasy land." -- Good grief.. Pelosi asked the House to vote of OObamaCRAP without reading it.. guess this lib CAN'T read at all. It's not about whether Republicans "give him a chance".. the voters did, then.. then the voters woke up and elected Republicans to act on their behalf and stop Obamageddon from doing any worse damage.

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No one questions the service of Tom Buck, and he's a good choice as an interim Councilor, but why wasn't the seat offered (I'm assuming it wasn't) to former Mayor, Bob Hydrick. Hydrick's grasp of Council politics would be more inline than Buck's Atlanta statehouse experience.

Online story: "Ten years after banning the use of firing squads in state executions, Utah lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow the practice again to avoid problems with lethal-injection drugs." -- Go, UTAH! Taxpayers get a huge savings!

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Online headline: "'I HAD PROMISED' Obama readies executive action that could keep millions from deportation" -- Oooops, my bad.. thought maybe Bill Ayers was disappointed by Obamageddon, and threatened to publish Obamageddon's real birth certificate, and Obamageddon is trying to protect himself.

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Online story: ""We are paying $5k cash for location of Ofc. Darren Wilson. Real $, no joke, no crime we just wana [sic] get his photo an [sic] ask him a few questions," RbG Black Rebels Tweeted on Nov. 9. * A $1,000 reward for the location of a "close family" member was also offered, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch." -- Why hasn't Pric Holder issued an immediate arrest warrant for an act of terrorism!

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WTVM9 "headLIE": "Columbus Housing Authority to receive $837,119 in housing vouchers from Sanford Bishop" -- What BS! Sanford Bishop intentionally tries to take credit as the donor whenever he gives an "earmark check" that's come from taxpayers' pockets!

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So Tom Buck will be interim Councilor.. nothing much will change except potholes won't get fixed at all.

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Jonathan-Gruber-Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Anyone who believes we’ve landed a spacecraft on a comet needs to come on down here to Seale, Ala. I’ve got some diamond mines for sale." -- Hmmm.. "we've"? Wonder if this LIV knows that "we" didn't do so.. the European Space Agency did this...

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Since a freezing temp was in all 50 States, do you think Obamageddon is getting the message? His has "frozen over".

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Obamageddon is still manipulating. the "employer mandate". He postponed implementation until after the 2014 election, and it looks like he's going to try to blame Republicans for future delays as well.

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Obamageddon says his job is to execute laws.. No, his job is to manage our country's needs within the boundaries of the Constitution as penned by our forefathers, and occasionally amendment by the people.

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We had a trial here in Columbus for first degree murder involving a drug deal/armed robbery. The jury seemed "hung" at 8-to-4 for guilt. The DA's office accepted a plea for involuntary manslaughter from the two defendents in exchange for 20 years (probably 3-5 before some lib judge releases them). Really.. what's the difference between Intentional Manslaughter ( First Degree Murder) and Voluntary Manslaughter?

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If I didn't know better, I'd have thought the results of the above trial was a final show for the TV show of "How to Get Away With Murder", but this season has already been ...."shot".. pun intended..

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Jonathan-Gruber-Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "We are from New York, middle of fracking country. If you think Keystone is a good idea, how would you like to turn on your water and it catches on fire?" -- If this lib was smart, why would he/she still be in New York?

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Once again... why aren't our local elections held at the same time as the General election? Higher voter turnouts reflect more of the citizens' concerns, and there's less "lame duck" time for deposed City officials and MCSD board members to influence issues that the voters wanted some one else to vote on.

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Just curious.. how do Alabama fans like having Western Carolina pinched in as a "home game" following last weeks "home game" with Mississippi State, and next weeks "Iron Bowl"? Perhaps a "paper bag" demonstration is in order...

41 of the 55 Democratic caucusing Senators voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline bill. Guess they figured, "why should Mary Landrieu of Louisiana benefit and keep her Senate seat?

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You know.. I can only guess that the Democratic Party's strategy is to let the Republican Senate pass the Keystone XL Pipeline bill in January and when Obamageddon vetoes it. claim that the Republicans won't work with the Democrats. What are the Dims thinking? The coal industry unions are already upset, and now the oil industry & construction industry unions will be PO'd as well.

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I sorta hope the Republicans will put impeachment talk to sleep for the next two years.. Obamageddon will hang himself with out any help of Republicans..

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HuffPost headline: "Regulators Demand Takata Airbag Recall Be Made Nationwide" -- Hmmm sorta like what the voters did to Democrats earlier this month. I like that idea.

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You know..anyone in Ferguson, MO who is carrying a sign saying "We want an indictment" is not interested in "justice".

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HuffPost headline: "Ferguson Protesters Fear Police Crackdown After Grand Jury Decision" -- Well.. if you break the law, attempt to have a "public lynching" then you SHOULD have FEAR.

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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon says he's called out the National Guard to protect federal and state buildings. Hmmm, what about the buildings/homes of the taxpayers who paid to have those federal & state buildings built?

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You know.. this weather blast of cold is just what Ferguson protestors need.. The mayor should have the Ferguson Fire Department on hand to soak any hotheads in water.

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Let's talk about Jonathan Gruber being employed at MIT. MIT gets a lot of federal funding for lots of research programs. In January, the Republicans should issue a moratorium on MIT funding if MIT doesn't fire Gruber, and, in addition, the Republicans should also issue a warning to every other college or university and any other government funded programs, that if they hire Gruber, no federal funds will be forthcoming.

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Online headline: "Jason Carter on a potential comeback: ‘I’m not ruling it out.’" -- Huh? Don't you have to have had achieved something on your own and lose it before you can claim a comeback? Any politician who's primary campaign strategy is to have his political ancestors lead the way doesn't qualify as a "comeback kid".

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Soapbox moment:

While there may be more detail available after this hits the Ledger-Enquirer, I'd like to know why the MCSD has over 500 buses (figure provided by a MCSD board member) yet only 207 bus drivers (figure provided by another MCSD board member), and yet early speculation says that the MCSD system wants to purchase another 60 buses in the new SPLOST project list.

While 'we' are at it, why hasn't the MCSD initiated selling the bus maintenance/storage facility off Whitesville Road? It's about 44 cares of PRIME real estate that could easily bring between $1,000,000.00 and $1,500,000.00 or more PER acre, and since the MCSD has more buses than it needs/uses, then selling those excess ones off should bring in millions of dollars more. Oh, and there's definitely already owned MCSD property that could be set up for a new, more efficient bus maintenance/storage facility.

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L-E story: "An attorney for Marshal Greg Countryman and Municipal Court Clerk Vivian Bishop insists that his clients were "forced into" their legal situation with the city and that they had no choice but to use city-issued credit cards to retain legal representation.." -- Good grief... sounds like the excuse Jameis Winston used when we stole crab legs.. sorta I didn't have any and wanted some because someone else had some.

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In addition, Countryman's and Bishop's use of taxpayer provided budget funds without known ability to reimburse the taxpayer funded budget is an absolute malfeasance of duties offense, and should be criminally persued.

Online headline: "Obama calls act 'pure evil'" -- Hmmm.. wonder if Obamageddon will tell them he can be more flexible after the next election?

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Tell you what.. there are groups who want peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson, MO following the grand jury verdict... first.. they must pretty well accept that Officer Wilson was not acting in an unacceptable manner to be even contemplating the verdict being just. Secondly, if they are concerned that "outside.. other" protestors will be violent, then the peaceful groups should cancel any appearance after the grand jury makes its announcement... Oh! Mainstream media should be banned...period.

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Have you seen the Jason Carter for Governor ads that are still running, the ones about Georgians out of work? Hmmm .. guess the ad is true, in a sense.... there are more Democrats unemployed now than before the election.

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HuffPost headline: "Charles Manson Gets Marriage License" -- Wanna bet it's to scam the California US welfare systems?

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There's speculation that the Republican Congress may "shut down" the government. How do you "shut down" something that's "broke down"? What's really in need is for Congress to " shut off" the flow of cash to programs, and their staff, that aren't working according to their business plan.

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HuffPost headline: "Chocolate Companies Warn Of Looming Global Shortage" -- Good grief..have Valentine displays already been put out?

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HuffPost headline: "Almost 36 Million People Around The World Live As Slaves" -- Obviously the Democratic Party voters in the US were not counted.

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You know..Jonathan Gruber wasn't blaming American voters for being "stupid", he was talking about the Democratic Party Congresspersons and mainstream media blindly stirring up the American voter to think OObamaCRAP was their cure-all.

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HuffPost story: "Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) responded on Monday to comments made by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) about net neutrality, the latest exchange in what is becoming an ongoing, public back-and-forth. The debate began when Cruz dubbed the concept "Obamacare for the Internet." Franken said in an interview on Sunday that Cruz has no idea what he's talking about. * “When [Cruz] says this is the Obamacare -- Obamacare was a government program that fixed something, that changed things,” Franken said. “This is about reclassifying something so it stays the same. This would keep things exactly the same that they've been.” -- V-8 needs to put Franken in a commercial, and let Cruz slap him upside his head a few times.. Who's Franken's publicist.. Jonathan Gruber?

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Do you wonder what else Jonathan Gruber has an opinion on how stupid mainstream media has been on other Obamageddon decisions?

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Jay Carney says the Jonathan Gruber's comments will hurt... How do we believe what Carney says?

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Online headline: "Oops! Obama Says Gruber “Never Worked on Our Staff” -- You know.. technically, Obamageddon may be right depending on how you define "worked". Gruber could have just been the speechwriter.

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WTVM9 story: "COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - The husband and wife team of Ken and Lakeisha Degourvill. are accused of doctoring more than 2,000 tax returns and receiving at least $2 million worth of fraudulent money. * Both Ken and Lakeisha Degourville are being held in the Muscogee County Jail on a $75,00 bond, per felony, for a total of $37,500 each" -- Good grief.. why would "bail" be set, much less at what would be "petty cash" , when they have untold amounts of cash stowed away, probably out of the country where they are sure to flee once out on bail!

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Online Mayor Teresa TomLYINGson story: "In 2030, you will be able to ride high speed passenger rail from Columbus, Georgia to Atlanta for $41 one-way. That’s what the 2014 Columbus to Atlanta High Speed Rail Feasibility Study shows. * According to the study, the ride will take approximately 60 minutes with one stop in Newnan. The electrified train will have travel speeds up to 220 mph. The 91 miles of rail will stretch along existing right-of-way on I-85 and I-185 between the two cities. The rail line, including stations and six electric trains, will cost $3.9 billion, with a generous 30% contingency. This cost is comparable to other major mass transit projects at $42.5 million per mile." -- 6 electric trains... hmmm.. and how long will it be before some Common Core educated computer jockey sends one off from each direction to see where the two will collide?

Second comment: Who realistically thinks... well other than Mayor TomLYINGson who thinks $244,000.00 bathrooms are a bargain, that the time to or from Atlanta with a stop to unload/reload in Newman will happen within an hour?

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From above story: "The rail line is expected to accommodate 1.1 million riders in its first year of operation. Its first year profitability ratio is expected to be 1.21, meaning that its $23.6 million anticipated annual revenue stream will off-set its $19.5 million annual maintenance and operations costs. This profitability ratio is expected to grow each year to an estimated 1.34 in 2040 and 1.5 in 2050. Such a rail line would create a minimum of 11,000 jobs" -- Hmmm... 1,100,000 riders the first year.. that's over 3,000 riders per day buying tickets at $21.00 a pop starting in 2030. If the high speed trains were running today, no $21.00 tickets would cover the costs. much less cover the maintenance, and there would certainly be no return on investment for the taxpayers who are being bilked into paying for this construction.

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Online story by Isaiah Hugley on "How TSPLOST is working for us" - :In Columbus, Georgia we voted yes to impose a dedicated tax on ourselves in a bold move to insure that local transportation needs that were long range will be met now. * Over the next ten years, the landscape of Columbus will change as a result of the TSPLOST vote. Eight new transportation projects will be designed and built, while over $250 million in infrastructure and capital projects will be invested. Another $30 million will be collected for discretionary use." Good grief.. what's the use of having "transportation Projects" when you won't be able to get to them via local roads because Red McDaniel won't be around to get them fixed. I've spent more "around town riding time" in the last week, and the pothole and repavement programs must be nonexistent.. Other than JR Allen and I-185, I dodged road hazards on every street I rode on.

http://atlantaforward.blog.ajc.com/2014/06/16/columbus-on-the-move/

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Online headline/story: "Colorado Public School Bans Praying, Singing Hymns, or Talking About “Religion” * Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the students. He says the school rebuffed a letter of explanation ADF sent to the administration. “We sent them a letter explaining that it clearly violated our client’s First Amendment rights,” * “They responded and said "We don’t see it that way" -- Hmmm.. wonder if the US Supreme Court will take it lightly that a group of local politicos has decided they are the only "wisdom" they need to consult?

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Another Jonathan Gruberesque LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Wouldn’t it be horrible if we had England’s gun regulations? The majority of handguns outlawed. Much harder to obtain guns. Of course, there would be over 30,000 lives saved each year, but that’s not important." -- You know.. Gruberesque type people operate on the premise that criminals will obey laws.. why do we let them even vote on laws?

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Another Jonathan Gruberesque LIV's L-E "soundoff": "The present condition of climate change is due to man-made pollution. It has nothing to do with creation, evolution, religion or atheism." -- Good grief.. the only man-made pollution we have to fear is generated by liberal opinionaters.

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L-E's "Thought for Today": “Your way of giving is more important than what you give.” — Vietnamese proverb. -- Hmmm.. this should be cut into the walls of Congress... giving from someone else's pocket is not compassion.

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L-E story: "Leaders of the grassroots group trying to save the building that housed the first school built for black children in Columbus want the Muscogee County School Board to help. * The Rev. Richard Jessie and Alexis Jarrett presented the $10.8M proposal from the Friends of Historic Claflin during the board’s meeting Monday night. They asked the board to contribute $8 million — and the Friends would raise the rest — by putting it on the school district’s pending list of projects for the next Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Superintendent David Lewis plans to submit that list to the board in January and ask for authorization of a March referendum that would renew the 1 percent sales tax for another five years. The SPLOST Muscogee County voters approved in 2009 for the school district’s capital projects expires after Dec. 31." -- Aside from the 'rev" Richard Jessie outrageous claims that children of slave went to Claflin, if the MCSD puts such a project on the new SPLOST ballot, don't just vote "no", vote "HELL NO!"

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On a local basis.. two letters in the L-E today need responses.. Former L-E publisher and current Carter Chair professor at UGA thinks Obamageddon is not a "lame duck" president.. semantics of course, but it's his way of liberal denial of reality, and he shouldn't be allowed to be within a 1,000 feet of a classroom; and whatever Judy F Brouilette, officer of the Muscogee County Democratic Party, says is just the opposite of what we need.

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You know.. if blacks in this country want to sue someone for retribution for slavery, why aren't they suing African slave merchants that still exist today?

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L-E story: "Japan’s economy unexpectedly slipped back into recession as housing and business investment dropped following a sales tax hike, hobbling its ability to help drive the global recovery." -- "unexpectedly slipped back into recession"? Only Democrats would think more sales taxes.. any tax hike for that matter, would jump start the economy. 

Online story: "ST. LOUIS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - A crowd of a couple hundred demonstrators, angry about the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer, took to the streets of St. Louis on Sunday, briefly blocking a major intersection in protest." -- This is not about "justice".. it's about campaigning for being a category winner of a "Jonathon Gruber Stupidity Award".

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Another US soldier, a certified EMT, who was medically discharged, converted to Islam returned the middle-east as a an aid worker for Syrian refugees is the latest American victim of ISIS decapitation. So much for Islamic compassion for anything.

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From the "only in California... (I hope)" department: 'An elementary school "fund raiser" involved students getting week-long "homework passes" for $100.00. It was stopped after a few parents brought this up to their school board. The option was stopped, but get this, parents who had paid fro the "passes" were re-mbursed! Those parents should have had their children taken away from them!

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L-E headline: "Inquirer: Time to assess what progress we've seen around town" -- Obviously the Ledger Inquirer is blind to pot holes and street re-pavement issues.

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What's with the AL DOT's desire to "rape and ravage" the Eufaula Historic District? At least it's not the GA DOT.. remember when Columbus citizens banded together and got the GA DOT plans to "rape and ravage" the 13th Street corridor through Lakebottom scrapped? What the AL DOT wants to do is even worse.. think about it.. the Eufaula Pilgrimage Tour is long weekend in April, and if you get stuck moving 5 MPH through the area, you get a wonderful slow-enough-opportunity to see and smell the roses and azaleas. In addition, during that week, an alternative re-route running parallel and west of Hiway 431 could be implemented. The locals use it and southbound traffic not interested in the glory of the Old South could take it and reconnect with HWY 431 south of the district.

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Jonathon-Gruber-Stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Republicans sweep the House and Senate and their first action is to give control of the Internet to Wall Street corporations. Forget the public and small businesses." -- Slow down, factless one, the Republicans Senate majority will not become reality until January. Until then, you're looking at a lame duck Democrat majority trying to "pile-on" before they leave.

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You know.. Obamageddon has coined a new word.... "C-LIE-MATE".

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Pelosi must live a charmed life.. For the second time as House Majority or Minority Leader, the Democratic Party has been decimated in the House, but those Democrats still elected/re-elected seem anxious to keep her on as their leader. The "Jonathon Gruber Effect" is obvious..

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Deposed Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is being portrayed as "smart" for adding Elizabeth Wareen to his leadership team.. let's look at that.. what this seems to indicate is Elizabeth Warren is not too smart.

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L-E story: "A Polish doctor says she has been in “deep shock” since learning that a 91-year-old woman she pronounced dead woke up in a morgue. The doctor said on TVN24 television Friday that she was sure the patient was dead after finding “no basic life functions” during a house call on Nov. 6. Prosecutors are investigating whether the patient’s life and health were endangered by the inaccurate death diagnosis. An official says the woman is now in good health." -- Hmmm.. if this was in America.. OObamaCRAP death panels would have given DNR instructions.

If Democrats are so fired up about online voting & online voter registration, how come they aren't pushing for online Congressional service? Think of all the money taxpayers would save on Congressional travel allowances.. plus.. think about how much better represented their constituents would be, too, if Congresspersons were in their states/districts daily. In addition, lobby groups in Washington would dry up. I'll vote for this!

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Alabama did outscore Mississippi State, but State won all the statistical battles. Mental errors cost State 6 points..2 points on a bad play call , then settling for a field goal after a blown TD pass (3 points vs 7). It's definitely not over as a possible Bama loss to Auburn and a State win over Ole Miss make State SEC West Champs.

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Mississippi State and Alabama could and should be in the final 4 in opposite brackets setting up another all SEC West championship game.

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While not the ugliest uniforms by far, the Texas Tech ones certainly qualify as tacky.the ugly ones, though, belonged to Miami.

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WTVM9 story: "According to police reports, an 18-year-old male was arrested on Saturday Nov. 15 at 1:00 a.m. for multiple charges. * Police also located several documents that implied Cotton is the gang leader or "BOS" of the Gangster Disciples 74 gang and a list of his associates were also in his room. Columbus police say Gangster Disciples is a recognized gang group across the nation" -- Good grief... how can this be.. it wasn't even 6 months ago that Mayor TomLYINGson reassured the media supporters that there are no gang problems in Columbus.

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You know.. Pelosi now says she doesn't know who Jonathon Gruber is.. Well, Gruber sure knows who Pelosi is.. one of those stupid people he was talking about

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Alabama's "Achilles Heel" was truly exposed on ESPN "Game Day". Lane Kiffen gets the quarterback's attention by whistling. Other team coaches should just have their own whistle and blow it right after Kiffen has changed the play, so the QB will get confused.

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Online headline: "Bill Clinton says he's surprised by midterm loses" -- Hmmm, another one of those that Jonathon Gruber said was "stupid". Well, "Stupid", it WAS the economy!

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Online story: "Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that Democrats lacked a "national advertising campaign" in the recent midterm elections" -- Good grief... the Democrats DID have a "national advertising campaign". The Republican's are "The Party of KNOW", Oh, and the voters had a "national advertising message" as well...when it comes to Clintons, "Just Say NO!".

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Online headline: "A-Rod Peed On His Cousin's House To 'Send a Message' -- Rumor has it that the doors became swollen shut and the Neighborhood Homeowners Association suspended the house for two years.

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HuffPost headline: "Obama's Message To GOP After Elections: I'm Still The President" -- Who does Obamageddon expect to believe him?

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L-E headline: " LAST RESORT * With nowhere else to turn, convicted sex offenders find shelter in tent city near J.R. Allen and Second Avenue" -- Seriously, is advertising on the front page of the Sunday L-E where this element camps out good for them or Columbus?

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A "Jonathon-Gruber-STUPID" LIV's L-E "soundoff": "The sheriff, marshal, Municipal Court clerk and Superior Court clerk should not be suing the mayor and council. They should be suing the 15,000 Columbus households that don’t pay their fair share of property taxes." -- Good grief.. What's "fair" in this libs mind? People pay what they are legally obligated to pay, and that's totally "fair". Personally, I think this "Jonathon-Gruber-STUPID" lib should post his/her tax bill.

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Another "Jonathon-Gruber-STUPID" LIV's L-E "soundoff": "The police officer charged in the shooting of Michael Brown should be indicted just like any other regular person would be, and let the courts and a jury of his peers decide his fate" -- Hmmm. so a police officer doing his sworn duties to protect citizens should be indicted whether he's done something wrong or not....that's why grand juries exist.. to determine whether a case should be explored further... not this LIV or the mainstream media.

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L-E commentary: "Natalia Naman Temesgen: Bill Cosby's meme challenge backfires" -- Why is Ms Temesgen using her access to 'ink by the barrel' to persecute/prosecute and convict Bill Cosby? What's her next subject.. Officer Wilson of Ferguson, MO?

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Justice... isn't it more about being "just" than persecution?

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Noise is being made about replacing Red McDaniel. First none of the ones publicly mentioned are anything but politically motivated and are more interested in what this would do for them rather than what they could do for Columbus, but there is a perfect, and available, option staring Council in the face. Mike Gaymon.. retiring CEO of our Chamber of Commerce. No one is better infromed of what is going on today and tomorrow for Columbus than him, and he's not eligible to run in Red';s district in 2016 which would give interested people equal opportunity to show that district what there true political motives are. All mentioned publicly so far have been Democrats, which Red's district is surely not. If not Mike Gaymon, then draft Jo McDaniel to serve out Red's term.. she probably made all his decisions, lovingly, anyway.

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From L-E editorial commentary: "On at least one point, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson is absolutely right: A cluster of lawsuits by local elected officials over their budgets is a “grand embarrassment” for Columbus." -- Close, maybe, but "no cigar".. Columbus is not embarrassed.. Columbus is actually amused at the circus of which Mayor TomLYINGson is the ringmaster.