Online story: "Jon Stewart's fans were gobsmacked by the sad news he delivered on Tuesday's edition of NBC's "The Daily Show": He's leaving his phony anchor desk and ending his reign as phony newsman, and the loss is to real news." -- Oooops, my bad.. confused this with the Brian Williams story.. hey wait a minute,,why is NBC upset at Williams when NBC hired Stewart to lie everyday... it's not that we ever thought Williams was truthful in his support of Obamageddon anyway.

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6 months suspension without pay.... that's what Brian Williams' "penalty is as announced by NBC.. With what NBC has paid Williams over the years, the only one who will miss the income will be Williams' agent. In fact, NBC may have a tough time 6 months from now to get Williams to come back into the studio after 6 months of vacation and leisure time. Besides, in six months, his old audience will have attached themselves to a new liar.

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Online headline: "Don't put your shovels down yet, New England" -- Ooops.. my bad... thought that either Obamageddon released his fundraising speech schedule or the DNC announced its 2016 Convention location...

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Kayla Jean Mueller, the American woman ISIS claims was killed in the Jordanian bomb runs...It is disturbing, terrible, in it's own right, but we will always wonder whether she was already dead and ISIS is just using Jordan's retaliation as a cover-up.

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L-E story: " It was the third of the 11 public forums on his request to renew the sales tax that funds the Muscogee County School District’s capital projects, and for the first time Superintendent David Lewis showed a map of where the proposed new Spencer High School would be built. * Lewis, however, was more cautious in the first two public forums — and opponents criticized him for the fuzzy information. Tuesday night, he explained why." -- Hmmm... now just 23 more items to clarify to the public.. and, it seems, to the actual MCSD Board members as well.

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From the same L-E story: " During the question-and-answer portion of the forum, a woman said a ditch runs through the area targeted for a new Spencer. She asked how stable the land is there and wondered aloud whether it would cause the same problems plaguing the current Spencer. * The 37-year-old school adjacent to Fort Benning has an increasing amount of structural concerns because it was built on what officials call “plastic soil,” which contracts and expands and causes cracks in the foundation, floors and walls." -- "plastic soil".. that sounds sorta "ominous", but all it is is clay soil which is the norm around Columbus! Clay reacts to the amount of moisture in the ground, and if there was a problem, it was the architect who should have built in preventative actions. Speaking of such.. the architect and builder of "this problem" should be banned from future contracts with the MCSD.

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Earlier I requested info from the MCSD Open Records department concerning the 120 empty classrooms mention in a L-E article with Dr Lewis. Just got the info back.. Fact is we have 127 empty classrooms.. 51 in Elementary schools, 55 in Middle Schools, and 21 in High schools. My question now is why doesn't the MCSD Board/System utilize the taxpayer funded facilities in a better way.. Obviously we have too many classrooms through out the system.. enough for 4-to-6 schools.. How about realigning the grades.. by making all Elementary Schools serve K-6th grades, all middle schools serve 7-9 grades, and high schools serve 10-12 grades, the MCSD could eliminate the need for building a new high school altogether and save the taxpayers $56,000,000 today. In addition, eliminating 4-to-6 schools would cut back on unnecessary administrative and support jobs, PLUS.. generate millions of additional state funds for schools that don't have the state minimum enrollments. These savings and increased revenues would continue on EVERY year in the future. Oh, there could be one exception to the high school grades.. for complete magnet schools where maintaining grades is a requirement for continued enrollment, allow qualifying students entering the 9th grade to attend those so a 4 year curriculum would be consistent.

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The taxpayers and MCSD Board should be on the same page, but that's not how the MCSD is presenting the SPLOST. The MCSD is playing...actually manipulating groups of one issue people... A great example is the autism affected families. Autism is tough on families, but the SPLOST tosses a biscuit at them. There is no list..no priority for projects in the SPLOST " wish LUST", just numbers and political promises for a heart tugging project. Should the SPLOST pass, we know the first 2 years worth of revenues, approximately $70,000,000.00, will go to a new and unnecessary Spencer, and after that, the other individual board members are going to want "their share", and the politics start hopping. Later, as revenue projection indicate that revenues will come in below expectation and then the board will start bumping the smaller projects down the list of priorities and passed onto a future SPLOST " wish LUST".

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You know... the 2009 $223 MILLION SPLOST brought in only $174 Million.. some $48/$49 Million "short". How about asking the current chair to list the projects that were listed in that SPLOST that never got off the drawing board. You know.. since one of the projects, a Fine Arts Academy, is still a dream, but $30,000,000.00 or so has been stuck into an account waiting for another $6,000,000.00 from the current SPLOST "wish LUST", the Board could actually spent those tax dollars on fixing other problems areas, but was/is afraid of offending certain supporters that it can keep dangling as long as the :"promise" of an Arts Academy is still on the table...

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One of the tidbits of wisdom I remember my grandfather giving my brothers and me was, "if you watch the pennies, the dollars will take care if themselves" . It was good advice then, and good advice now. Registers were balanced daily..major discrepancies were generally a key punch error, and usually easy to correct.. but when the discrepancies were small, it usually meant a "red flag" was necessary to watch for reoccurrences.

Additionally.. we ran two inventory counts each year.. one was required for tax purposes, but we ran another 6 months later.. it gave us three things, an updated inventory figure, a confirmation of the previous "official count", and an early warning if trouble was brewing. I'm a great believer in forensic audits...they keep everyone on their toes, and prevent years of accumulated "accounting errors" like the $30,000,000.00 situation at St Francis Hospital.

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So somehow information is getting to/from Syria's ASSwad, but our military isn't sure where it's getting exchanged. Sounds to me our military has either a double agent inside or is getting played by an "ally". Or, maybe, ASSwad crossed those lines HEBDObama drew in the sand.

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Online story: "Despite a supposed White House policy against meeting foreign leaders facing elections, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry both met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog in Munich on Saturday. " -- Good grief... is there absolutely no shame in HEBDObama?

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You know.. if HEBDObama, Kerry and Biden are for Netanyahu's opponent... isn't that enough to sway the Israeli voters to keep Netanyahu?

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Online quote source: "“Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.” - Les Brown" -- Hmm, this is something Obamageddon should take to heart about mainstream media fawning, and Republicans should gird their loins when under mainstream media assault.

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Online headline: "Close aide claims Obama misled on controversial issue * David Axelrod has revealed in a new book that the president essentially lied to the public about his position on a hot button issue for years." --"lied to the public about his position on a hot button issue"? Good grief.. Axelrod probably wrote out Obamageddon's "position" ..Axelrod probably wrote out most of the lies Obamageddon campaigned on, and I don't need to buy a book written by him to learn this.

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HuffPOOPOO story: "Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said in a statement Tuesday he would skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress next month. * Leahy called the speech by Netanyahu -- whom House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) invited to speak without consulting the White House -- a "tawdry and high-handed stunt" -- Hmmm.. wonder what "kind of stunt" Leahy refers Obamageddon sending a former campaign staffer to Israel to help Netanyahu's opponent in the March election.. or what "kind of stunt" it is fro Obamageddon to send Kerry and Biden to meet with Netanyahu's opponent?

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L-E story: "Columbus Council unanimously approved numerous changes to parking regulations in the downtown business district, including raising the fine for parking violations from $20 to $30, effective Feb. 25." -- Hmmm.. yeah... that will encourage Columbus shoppers and lunchtime diners to visit downtown...NOTR. Now, if the Council is so money hungry for fines, it could make a mint by ticketing CSU students and staff that park on the first and second floors of the Front Avenue garage. CSU has a gated parkiung area on the 3rd and top floors for its students/staff to use, but many.. way too many just park in the lower floor spaces that are there for shoppers and WC Bradley Company employees.

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L-E story: " A Public Safety Advisory Commission established in 2004 to improve police-community relations in Columbus has only reviewed one complaint since September 2013. * The case involved a citizen who complained to Columbus Council that he had been unlawfully stopped and detained by police officers while riding his bicycle in the Midtown area, said Geniece Granville, chairwoman of the commission. Granville said the commission forwarded the case to the police department for further investigation, but it was never resolved because the man couldn’t be reached for follow-up. * “Attempts to contact him were made by the mayor’s office, myself and the police department,” she said. “While the board had the complaint and the police investigation on the complaint, it was not heard because the citizen was not present at the meeting.” -- Good grief.. this person's complaint could probably been solved by simply giving him the website of the state's drivers' license manual.. bicycles are considered vehicles and at 16 years of age and up, drivers are under the same regulations as cars.

Now, why do we have this unnecessary Commission expense on the backs of taxpayers?

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Jonathan Gruber extra-stupid L-E "soundoff": "Nobody ever said board members are obligated to support the administrator. Board members are obligated to support the consensus of the board. It’s called democracy." -- "obligated to support the consensus"? With this thought process, we should eliminate the two-party system in politics at every level.. and the founding fathers' efforts to create a "majority rule with respect for the rights of the minority" would have been moot before the Constitution was signed.

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L-E headline: "White House asking authorization for military to fight Islamic State" -- Wow... if HEBDObama still had a Democratic Party majority in the Senate, he'd have just issued an Executive Order/Memorandum. Now he wants to be able to "blame" Republicans to his voter base.

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L-E commentary: "Commentary: Charlie Harper * Education woes not just fiscal * It’s almost universally accepted that money is the biggest problem with Georgia’s public education system. Local school systems certainly love to help with this rhetoric when it comes time to divvy up the state budget. This despite the fact that over a half billion was added to local education funding in last year’s budget, and the governor has proposed over a quarter-billion in additional funding this year. * As a percentage of Georgia’s total state expenditures (from both state and federal funds), Georgia devotes 24 percent — almost one in every four dollars spent — on K-12 education. * On the basis of spending alone, Georgia is clearly not neglecting its responsibility to educate our children. Where we appear to be missing out is ensuring accountability of results for this investment. * Questions should never be avoided when dealing with public money. They should also not be avoided if they account for one-quarter of Georgia’s total expenditures." -- Wow,, somebody must have served Charlie Harper non-decaf the morning he wrote this..but, he just left out one solution.. forensic audits... to make sure that all of the state's enormous expenditures towards public education are spent effectively...., and if each district system paid for its own forensic audit, it could get done efficiently

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L-E headline: "SPLOST * Board will open only one early poll." -- At least some sanity is still involve....

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L-E headline/story: "Parents of toddler hurt by flash grenade in Atlanta seek damages * ATLANTA — The parents of a toddler injured by a flash grenade during a drug raid in north Georgia in May have filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages." -- In the interest of justice, why doesn't the state DCFS sue the parent(s) of the toddler for having the child in an unsafe environment, and if the suit against law enforcement has merit, let any court ordered settlement be given to DCFS...