Online story: "A U.S. military official on Thursday outlined plans to retake the key Iraq city of Mosul from Islamic State terrorists as early as April -- an unusual move that immediately drew criticism from two U.S. intelligence officers." -- Why hasn't HEBDObama fired this official.. Hmmm, a very good question...why?

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Online story: "Iran's foreign minister and lead negotiator in nuclear talks with the United States has been ordered by the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader to stop shouting and yelling at Secretary of State John Kerry during negotiating sessions. " -- Good grief.. did Kerry call for a "time out" .. or did Kerry calll the other man's mom and tattle?

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Online headline: "White House urges higher wages" -- No way! At least until HEBDObama starts working harder and earning his keep!

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Online story: "The Wall Street Journal reports that the 60 companies who lobbied Clinton's State Department between 2009 and 2013 donated over $26 million to the Clinton Foundation in that period. The donors include instantly recognizable names like General Electric, Exxon Mobil, and Boeing. * The Journal also reports that at least 44 of the 60 companies participated in philanthropy projects valued at $3.2 billion set up by the Clinton Global Initiative, which is a wing of the foundation. At least 25 of the companies also contributed to 15 public-private partnerships created by Clinton and coordinated by the State Department. * there is no evidence that any laws were broken," -- "there is no evidence that any laws were broken"? Good grief... the Clintons make sure there is no connectable evidence,, well, Bill did slip up on "the blue dress", but that's only because the laws were written by lawyers with just enough flexibility to allow other lawyers some wiggle room. It still doesn't mean there were no laws broken.

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Online story: "A Utah woman will be the plaintiff and the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit that has legal experts scratching their heads. * Barbara Bagley was driving her family's Range Rover Dec. 27, 2011 on Interstate 80 near Battle Mountain, Nev., when it slid on sagebrush on Interstate 80, and flipped. Her husband, Bradley Vom Baur, was sent flying from the vehicle, suffered major injuries and died nearly two weeks later in a hospital, according to the Salt Lake Tribune * Now, a Utah court has ruled Bagley, the representative of her late husband's estate, may sue Bagley the driver in the fatal accident for wrongful death." -- "wrongful death"? If that's the case, then the DA should greet Ms Bagley at the court house steps and arrest her for the murder of her husband....Of course, the real travesty hear is that a judge/court even accepted her premise.

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L-E commentray: "Findings by the research group TRIP have been presented around the state, including Wednesday at the Government Center, where it was reported that only about 9 percent of the roads in the Columbus metro area are rated in "poor" condition. To put that in context, Savannah is rated as having 36 percent, Atlanta 23 percent and Augusta 19." -- Hmmm...9% of roads being rated "poor" is not indicative of a healthy City condition....Now..are those 9% set to be made whole in the next 3 months?

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L-E guest opinion: "Vicki Alger: Free market, not 'free' college * The biggest problem with President Barack Obama's proposal to make two-year community college "as free as high school," which he has dubbed America's College Promise, is that the new "free" associate degrees will become as costly and meaningless as many high school diplomas. * For the record, American public elementary and secondary schools already spend more than $13,500 per pupil per year on average -- slightly more than two-year colleges spend. * The national high school graduation rate may have reached an historic high of more than 80 percent, but the average college freshman reads at a middle-school level" -- This must have slipped the L-E publisher's desk..it hits the MCSD "ails" right on the head...

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Online headline: "Eric Holder Says He's Only Had a "Single Failure" as Attorney General" -- Technically, I agree with him...his whole legacy is a "failure". He cannot look back and say he left America safer and better off.

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Online story: "After proposing legislation to ensure equal pay for equal work during his annual State of the City address earlier this month, Mayor Kasim Reed signed legislation Tuesday to ensuring that for all female employees of the city of Atlanta." -- Good grief.. cannot politics be set aside for reality? Take baseball... A star pitcher throws 100 pitches in a perfect game.. even no foul balls are hit. The catcher catches them all and pitches them back to the pitcher who also catches them all. On offense, the catcher hits two home runs and the pitcher doesn't even come to bat. Now.. two baseball players have tossed and caught 100 balls...and the catcher even hits two home runs.. have they done equal work and is similar compensation warrantied? Will similar compensation ever occur? Well, maybe in Cuba.

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Online story: "Running Atlanta’s new streetcar system will cost 50 percent more than the city estimated a year ago – from a projected $3.2 million to $4.8 million, according to data provided by Atlanta officials. * In addition, ridership on the sleek blue cars is 18 percent lower than projected. And that’s during an introductory period when it’s free to ride the Atlanta Streetcar." -- Hmmm .. in one year.. reality has surpassed political rhetoric by 50%... imagine the reality of Mayor TomLYINGson's cost estimates of her high speed rails folly in 20130...

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HEBDObama and his minions are trying to mimic the Hatfield's&McCoys resolution to end the feud with Islamists. The Hatfield's&McCoys joined together to produce legal moonshine liquor. Of course , to suggest the same avenue to the Islamist would get the messenger's head cut off.

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Online story: "Georgia stands to recover $90 million in Medicaid payments following a federal court ruling in Washington. But the details of the judge’s decision paint an unflattering picture of the state agency that handles billions of health care dollars. * Through a series of mistakes, Georgia overpaid the $90 million to the federal government for Medicaid services and didn’t discover the erroneous payments for years. By then, it was well past the time states have to file claims for mistaken payments. * Despite the state’s blunders, a U.S. district judge last week ruled that the federal government must return the money." -- If it's good for the goose, it ought to be good for the gander.. A couple of years ago, I was "invited" to re submit my IRS forms for the past 7 years. Doing so, I added the charitable deductions I usually don't file for. After all the smoke cleared, it turns out that IRS owed me some $17,000+ dollars. IRS quickly decided that refunds from 2005 and 2006 were to late to be refunded (hey, IRS "asked" me to do this), but while IRS admitted refunds for 2010 & 2011 were owed.. I haven't seen the checks YET. Will someone tell me which judge this was?

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L-E headline: "MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * LEWIS CRITICIZES DEAL'S FAILING SCHOOLS PLAN * Under proposed law, 18% of schools would be eligible for state take over" -- Yeah.. I guess Lewis should... a lot of the SPLOST requests would be spent on those 18% of schools and probably would be commandeered by the State if voters approve the SPLOST. Oh... wonder if Lewis and the carry over MCSD board members know what Deal thinks of their work?

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Hmmm....I got an idea... add a classroom or two/three each year at the top 20 schools, and close 2 or three failing schools completely.. Perhaps putting students in a world of positive achievement can reeverse the present course.

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Jonathan Gruber LIV's L-E "soundoff": "The Ledger-Enquirer should re-run that excellent article on school audits. Apparently, a lot of people either never read it or don’t know how to read." -- Once again.. a forensic audit cost would be about 1/1000th of an annual budget.. possibly less. If it shows up negative of problems. the school system could eliminate the doubts the citizens have, and if there are irregularities, those would be curtailed. Now.. who but someone who is worried about the results would be interested in stopping a forensic audit?

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Jonathan Gruber extra stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Here's a fun fact. Automatic weapons and rockets didn't even exist when the Second Amendment was written back in the 1700s." -- Well, TV's, radios, and cellphones didn't exist in the 1770's either, but are covered under the 1st Amendment and others as well.. now something else we have now that barely existed in the 1770's are a proliferation of liberals...

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L-E's "Thought for Today" “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” — Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist (born circa 1817, died this date in 1895)." -- Good grief.. Frederick Douglass would be more disappointed in Obama, Jackson, Sharpton and Rangel than even Martin Luther King, Jr would be..

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L-E story: "BOSTON — A lawyer for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pressed a federal appeals court Thursday to move his trial out of Massachusetts, citing “saturation publicity” about the case and the large number of people in the state who were personally affected by the deadly attack." -- Hmmm.. I could have my arm twisted to agree, but only if a venue can be found that allows "drawn & quartered" as its preferred execution method. Hey, Iran... are you good with this?

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L-E story: "The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee castigated former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Thursday for comments he made about President Barack Obama, and she called on a field of prospective 2016 GOP candidates to also condemn the remarks. * While speaking at a private dinner in New York on Wednesday night, Giuliani, who ran for president in 2008, said he does not believe Obama “loves America.” -- Well, unfortunately, after the November 2014 election resultds, mainstream media isn't honest enough to ask Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to admit how she feels when not in public....

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You know.. the MCSD 2009 SPLOST only received $174 Million for the $ $223 Million in wishful projects it covered.. Now the MCSD is asking for another $192 Million at the time FT Benning job losses (hint: sales tax payers) of up to 12,000 people is likely to occur. Why doesn't the SPLOST committee pare down the "wish LUST" to a figure it might actually attain. It would nice for something like this to be determined a success... and accepted by the public when another SPLOST is proposed.

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From the MCSD website, we learn that 5,224 persons are working for the MCSD.. That list shows, 1197 (including substitute teachers which I assume aren't assigned to particular schools) person in non-school jobs, so I guess that means 4,027 people are actually working on/in actual schools. Now if 2,197 (or 2196, or 2181 depending on which state count you use), then 1,830 (or 1,831 or 1,846) other people are assigned to actual school grounds. It looks like there are about as many non-teaching personnel as there are teaching personnel at each school.. surely.. not that many non-teaching personnel are needed on school grounds. Whether or not 20% of our schools are meeting state failure rates, 100% of our schools look to be failing in being efficient at personnel management... but then again, that probably isn't a course taught in college education majors.

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L-E story: " The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, a sign that a recent string of strong job gains may continue. * Weekly applications for unemployment aid dropped 21,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 283,000" -- Good grief.. mainstream media is still spinning HEBDObama's numbers.. The fact that most of the mid-west and New England was snowed or iced-in made a huge difference in people getting out to file.. wait until the weather improves and theses figures will bne adjusted upward.