Online story: "More than 100 patients might have been exposed to a potentially deadly superbug bacteria at a California hospital. * In a statement, UCLA said the exposures occurred "during complex endoscopic procedures that took place between October 2014 and January 2015. * "CRE, this superbug, lives in the gut. ... They detected it on endoscopes which are used to do upper GI studies. ... The manufacturer says it's hard to disinfect that scope," * According to a previous press release from the CDC, the superbug bacteria can "kill up to half of patients who get bloodstream infections from them." * CRE has also popped up several times in recent years all across the country. It's what CDC director Dr. Anthony Fauci has referred to as a"nightmare" bacteria. * "It's resistant to virtually all antibiotics." -- Now.. patients from which side of our border started this?

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I'm looking at a report on the MCSD website under the GA Report Card for schools. On the same page, one column lists PK-12 teachers by degrees attained - 4 YR, 5 YR, 6 YR, 7 YR, "other". The corresponding numbers are: 688, 1020, 422, 39, 27 for a total of 2196. In the same column, the report also lists PK-12 teachers by other categories: Certified Personnel, Gender, Full/Part Time Personnel, Race/Ethnicity, Years Experience.

According to the Report, we have 66 provisional Certified and 2131 professional certified teachers (total- 2197;
443 male/1753 female (total- 2196),
Full Time2156/Partime 41 (total- 2197);
Total Positions 2181;
Black 653/White 1478/Hispanic 29/Asian 16/Native American 18/Multiracial 2 (total- 2196)

Years Experience: <1- -="" 1-10="" 108="" 11-20="" 21-30="" 404="" 735="" 814="">30 - 135 (total- 2196)

Let's see, according to the GA Report Card figures, we have the total number of PK-12 teachers is either 2197, 2196,or 2181. Who knows?

How can a forensic audit of the MCSD not be demanded?

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Other interesting figures pulled off the MCSD website are the number of personnel in various areas of the MCSD. Did you know there are 392 people working at the Public Education Center on Macon Road? How about 182 people in School Security? How about 326 in Transportation (yet the number of bus drivers was revealed to be 207)? Or how about 603 Substitute Teachers? Oh, and how about our tax dollars paying for 15 personnel positions at the Columbus Museum (donated to the Museum lately?) and 102 positions at the Columbus Libraries. A forensic audit would reveal the duplicity of work and whether positions are necessary/unnecessary.

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Now. my favorite figure pulled off the MCSD website.. Records... an important category for any audit, and there is 1.. that's right, 1 person in Records Management. Hmmm, how important is it to be on the good side of that person? Makes you wonder how any, much less a complete, audit can be accurate.

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Online headline: "U.S. Preparing To Sue Ferguson Police Over Charges Of Racial Bias: Report" -- Looks like everything is black or white to Pric Holder... except the facts and truth...

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Online story: "In the fight against violent extremism, President Barack Obama has argued the U.S. has one thing going for it that Europe doesn't: a long tradition of warmly embracing its immigrants, including Muslims." -- Good grief.. Now he thinks he "Gandhi"...what's HEBDObama going to do next, offer them jobs and/or evolve into Mother Teresa and give them OObamaCRAP... ooops, my bad, he's already trying that.

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Jeb Bush is out and about talking politics... he's released a "casual list" of people he's being advised by.. Most are "the usual suspects", but one is Meghan O'Sullivan, a former national security adviser to George W. Bush, who now teaches at Harvard and is seen as key to Jeb Bush's idea of lessening U.S. dependence on Middle East energy. Check back with me in a month or so, and I'll let you know whether Harvard, upon learning it has a "big oil advocate" teaching its students has fired her or not.

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Online headline/story: "New research shows where church attendance is highest and lowest * Vermonters are the least likely to head to church on Sundays, according to Gallup, with only 17 percent reporting weekly church attendance. Fellow Northeastern states New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts rounded out the top four states where residents are most likely to skip services." -- Hmmm. did you notice the weather patterns of recent times?

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Seems like "deflategate" isn't going away. Now it's being revealed the Patriots tried to get an upapproved "K" ball (kicking) into the game for a punt, but an alert official noted the lack of "proper markings" and got an approved one in for the kick. Now.. that in mind, were the "K" balls tested after the game to see if they had suffered any cold weather deflation that is/was claimed by "inflation/deflation experts"?

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Taliban, U.S. To Launch Peace Talks, Sources Say" -- Wait a minute.. how can HEBDObama offer a peace talk with a non-entity? Treaties and such are only authorized with government officials, and HEBDObama says Taliban and al Qaeda, and ISIS/ISIL are neither religions nor governments.

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HuffPOOPOO story: "a video surfaced late Sunday showing Islamic State fighters beheading 21 men in Libya * The men were laborers, gone for months on end, who sent home hard-earned money to feed entire families. They left their impoverished home in Egypt to work in Libya for a better future, despite the dangers. What they found instead was a militant group hell-bent on humiliating and harming them because they were Christian. While most of the people killed by the Islamic State have been Muslim, the group's recent propaganda video made a point to threaten Christianity as a religion." -- You know.. the men HEBDObama will not refer to as Islamic jihadist openly refer to the men they decapitated as Christians. HEBDObama at least could admit those decapitated men were Egyptian Christians, not just Egyptian citizens.

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HuffPOOPOO story: "A new multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit alleges that UPS unlawfully shipped almost 700,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes in New York, undercutting anti-smoking efforts and depriving the state of millions of dollars in tax revenue * "Our lawsuit alleges that UPS blatantly disregarded New York and federal tax and public health laws, by shipping tens of millions of cheap, untaxed cigarettes to New Yorkers," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement Wednesday. "We contend that UPS cost this state millions in revenue and is helping to make illegal, low-cost cigarettes available to our young people, who are disproportionately lured to smoking by lower costs." -- Hmmm.. like UPS opens up packages to see what's in them.....Oh, and since the NY AG has the shipping info, why isn't his suit against the senders/receivers? Oh, and since it involves Native American Reservations, why isn't this a job for the FBI?

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Online story: "A retired teacher in New Jersey is facing 10 years in prison and the loss of his state pension for possessing a flintlock pistol that may not have been fired since George Washington was alive * Gordon Van Gilder readily acknowledged the unloaded 1760s flintlock pistol was in his glove compartment and wrapped in cloth when he was pulled over for a traffic violation in Cumberland County in November 2014, according to Nappen. He had recently bought the gun and was planning to add it to his collection of antiques, which includes other old firearms, the lawyer said" * Van Gilder said,"Apparently there must be a lot of drive-by flintlock shootings in North Jersey." -- Hey, Chris Christie, explain your gun laws and Second Amendment position!

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Online story: "The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has banned Iranian nationals from admission to certain graduate programs in a move that school officials say aligns its policy with U.S. sanctions against Iran. * The National Iranian American Council says UMass' interpretation of the law is flawed and may violate protections against discrimination." -- Wow! Will this confuse academic liberals, CNN, MSNBC, and White House spinmeister Josh Earnest or what!

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How come Scott Walker's college records are available, but the president's grades/records, the man claiming he's going to be the most transparent president ever, are locked up from public scrutiny?

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L-E headline: "Columbus metro area fares well in report on transportation * Group says 9% of local roads listed in ‘poor’ condition" -- 9%...I wonder what route the messenger was taken on to get around the really bad roads? Regardless.. no progressive town should have 9% of its roads considered in "poor" condition. Tommy Buck hasn't filled Red McDaniel's shoes...

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Watched a video on Fox & Friends of a woman driving on a sidewalk somewhere. If Fox thought that was newsworthy, Fox should come down to Columbus and watch the Post Office deliverers drive on sidewalks all over town to put mail in mail boxes that are accessed from sidewalks rather than the streets. Hmmm.. wonder how the transportation examiners rated the sidewalks used as roads?

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Jonathan Gruber LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Is everyone on the MCSD Board of Education incompetent, wasteful, and stupid except for Mr. Myers and Mr. Thomas? I think not." -- Not the issue.. the issue is whether or not Myers and Thomas are the only ones representing the taxpayers first..

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L-E's "Today in history" : "In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, clearing the way for the U.S. military to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans during World War II." * " In 1976, calling the issuing of Executive Order 9066 “a sad day in American history,” President Gerald R. Ford issued a proclamation confirming that the order had been terminated with the formal cessation of hostilities of World War II." -- Once again... a Republican cleaned up the labeling and denigration initiated by a Democrat.

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L-E headline: "Obama picks Clancy to lead Secret Service" -- Oooops, my bad.. thought it meant Tom Clancy, the author, which would probably been a better choice.

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Hmmm.. wonder if those new quick charge meters set up in downtown Columbus will charge only for the time until the car batteries are fully charged or for the entire time they are hooked up? A two hour lunch could cost $10.00 to park, and a two hour and 5 minute lunch could cost that $10.00 plus a $30.00 parking fine for overtime parking.

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Comment on above item: You know, what's really going to happen is that those two spaces for charging will actually end up costing gasoline driven cars to lose parking spaces, and since not that many electric vehicles will actually be used, METRA will more than liklose the opportunity to get parking fines on those spaces. Did anyone consider putting those charging stations on Front Avenue where 8 hour parking is already allowed?

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No wonder libs defend Islamists... Islamists also believe the 1969 Moon Walk was faked.