Online story: "the House narrowly approved $1.1 trillion in government-wide spending Thursday night after President Barack Obama and Republicans joined forces to override Democratic complaints that the bill would also ease bank regulations imposed after the economy's near-collapse in 2008. * 57 Democrats supported the bill, including two of the top three party leaders and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who doubles as the chair of the Democratic National Committee." -- Hmmm interesting... We know Pelosi didn't support it, but "two (unnamed) of the top three party leaders" did. Hmmm.. guess that makes last election's Chair of the DNC out on her rear as the House Democrats look towards January.

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Whoopi Goldberg took claim for "passing gas" on the view one day, then denied it the next. Personally, after listening to the video, it was the most intelligent thing she's ever been associated with.. guess that why she denied it later.

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From "the (hopefully) only in California" department - Online story: "Next year, three California school districts will soon participate in a experiment that will examine whether school buses can be used beyond their traditional scope of transporting children to and from classrooms. * A group of companies operating a Clinton Global Initiative grant envision a zero-emissions future for school buses that's far more versatile. They're working with the schools to retrofit six school buses that double as rolling generators in their spare time. * Once their appointed rounds are complete, these school buses can be used to make additional money for their owners by charging their new electric battery packs at off-peak hours and later selling the electricity back to power companies at higher prices during high-demand times." -- Looks like California is about to take "Common Core" to a whole 'nother level... "Common CRAP"! First, we can only assume that some School Board/System has been sold a bill of goods that "charging electric battery packs" is free (people using other people's money tend to think that); secondly, that School Board/System "feels" (ain't know thinking here) that there would be no costs (maintenance or depreciation) in using buses for other purposes; and thirdly, that equipping school buses with "power packs" would never be a problem in an accident when 50-75 children are riding on them!

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Hmmm, you know.. if schools want to reduce some costs, why don't they work with the city transit departments and rent out those school buses for public transportation during "off hours"? Hey, in fact, our MCSD has about 300 or so buses without drivers.. the MCSD could probably run Columbus METRA out-of-business as a competitor!

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Oh.. of course those school buses in New Orleans could have been used to transport people out of the way of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 instead of leaving them parked in a flood zone.

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Online story: " Dozens of congressional staffers walked out of their offices Thursday afternoon to show solidarity with demonstrators who are protesting the decisions not to indict police officers who killed Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri." -- Wait a minute.. we just got hit with another $1.1 TRILLION dollar bill to keep government running and hundreds of congressional staffers just took a "protest break" on time we are paying for? Obviously, none of those protestors were necessary to keep the government running, so FIRE THEM ALL!

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L-E story: "The severity of the financial issues came to light Nov. 20 when St. Francis officials outlined what they termed a $30 million accounting inaccuracy that was discovered in late October. " -- Why.. no, how can a $30 MILLION dollar discrepancy be referred to as an "accounting inaccuracy"? There had to be a lot of paper shuffling to create a financial report that covered this up, and merely shuffling paper would not benefit the upper executives. There has to $30 Million in assets out there somewhere, that the financial juggler(s) felt was worth the risk and effort.

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St Francis' "accounting inaccuracy"? Hmmm, David Copperfield might be interested in an illusion of this magnitude,, $30,000,000.00 up in smoke and no one knowing where it went but him.

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Online story: "Portland, Ore., is the latest city to make drivers pay to park, even if they have a handicapped tag. Supporters say the move prevents drivers -- handicapped, and able-bodied -- from overusing parking spots, not to mention ending the fraudulent use of handicapped tags. But disability advocates and others say it's just unfair to those who are truly disabled. * Since Portland started charging in July, the number of cars parking with placards has plunged 70 percent. It's evidence, some say, that many tag holders were scamming the system. But advocates for the disabled argue there could be another explanation: They can't afford to pay. * More than 20 states still require their cities to provide free parking to the handicapped. Several of those states, including California, impose no time limits, allowing cars to park with a placard for days or even weeks at a time. " -- Good grief.. when you try to be compassionate to the really deserving, the parasites come out of the woodwork. To begin with, if someone has a car, they can afford to pay for parking.. especially preferential/convenient parking. Oh yeah...and give tickets to cars marked with HDCP plates or hang tags which use non-HDCP spaces.

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Hey Obamageddon.. hey, Pric Holder.. if we are (and we are) a nation of laws, why aren't all laws fit to be applied equally to and for all citizens? Our forefathers gave us a way to change laws that need to be changed, but they did not provide for any body of the government to decide on its own to ignore particular ones.

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Online quote source: "“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill" -- Obviously Obamageddon confuses failure as a success way too far.

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L-E's "Thought for Today": “To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard, American author and publisher (1856-1915)." -- Obviously, Hubbard never anticipated al Sharlatan or Obamageddon...

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L-E headline: "DOJ says tribes can decide whether to legalize pot" -- Good grief.. since when has the DOJ become the "trump card" to override the US Supreme Court?

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L-E story: "Crews worked carefully Thursday to remove a time capsule dating back to 1795 from the granite cornerstone of the Massachusetts Statehouse, where historians believe it was originally placed by Revolutionary War luminaries Samuel Adams and Paul Revere among others. * The time capsule will not be immediately opened but instead taken to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, where it will be X-rayed to determine its contents." -- Wow! This needs to be unveiled on national TV...with one little condition.. that Geraldo Rivera be given a court order and confined to the "vault" of Al Capone until the time capsule is opened in Boston!

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You know.. our road/bridge infrastructure problems are not to be blamed on time.. time is a given. Deterioration is human oversight (now this is something the "climate change" wackos could redeem themselves with).... mainly politicians.. Once roads and bridges and public buildings are built, they require ongoing maintenance, but politicians would rather kick that can down the road and build newer monuments to themselves. We have a dog run, and negative revenue producing natatoriums and ice rinks, and public office/school building erected because the old ones were not maintained along the way. Of course, my favorite wasteful legacy monument is the $244K public bathroom Mayor TomLYINGson built for us to remember her time in office.

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L-E headline/story: "GBI: INFANT FATALLY INJURED BEFORE FIRE * a later autopsy revealed Mitchell was fatally stabbed prior to the fire, officials could not easily determine Conner’s cause of death. * Less than an hour after investigators pulled the bodies from the fire, Columbus Police Officer Jason Swails found Mitchell’s boyfriend, Brandon Conner, sitting idly at the corner of Cedar Avenue and Wynnton Road in his blue 2001 BMW 740iL. * Police said the 35-year-old man, who was Dylan Conner’s father, had blood on his face, chin and shirt. * After securing a search warrant for the vehicle, police say they found bloody clothes on the vehicle’s seat and floorboard and a serrated knife with blood on it." -- "blue 2001 BMW 740iL."? What is this, a car advertisement or a police report? Unless the knife found was an "original factory installed car accessory" , describing the perpetrator's vehicle simply as "car" would have been perfectly acceptable.

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L-E story: "Columbus law enforcement officials, city leaders, local activists and concerned residents gathered Thursday for a town hall meeting to discuss recent police shootings of unarmed citizens across the nation. * The event, organized by the newly formed Columbus-Metro Association of Black Journalists, drew about 100 people to the Davidson Student Center Auditorium at Columbus State University." -- "newly formed Columbus-Metro Association of Black Journalists"? Good grief... do the members have to be graduates of journalism schools from "traditional black colleges"? Does the news have to have a particular color to be reported? What happened to Martin Luther King's "dream".. character, not color?