Spring is indeed here! God sent a flock of robins to feed on our holly berries, and tanagers to reap the HIS bountiful provision in the grass.

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I'm looking at the MCSD website... did you know the MCSD has a Security payroll of 182 employees? That's a lot of personnel when you consider the amount of money the MCSD has spent on alarm systems, and the number of trained Police and Sheriff's Office patrol officers we have. Why does the MCSD have a staff 182? Think about this.. when/where do you see MCSD Security personnel? When I go to a high school sporting event, I see droves of off-duty Police and Sheriff officers, but I can't think of a MCSD Security officer I've seen. Why doesn't the MCSD pare itself of such a staff and just pay half of what it spends now to the City of Columbus for such services? In fact, in addition to saving a ton of money, the citizens of Columbus would also benefit from knowing we have real security personnel on duty.

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Now I'm looking at the website of the Columbus Consolidated Government.. On the front page is an alternating advertisement for voting on the SPLOST... Hey.. Council doesn't have a dog in this fight.

http://www.columbusga.org/

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Online headline: "Beer battle brewing in Congress as craft producers seek tax break" -- Ooops, my bad... thought Obamageddon was negotiating a plea bargain to Republicans to get a vetoed bill rescinded.

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You know...the US Military could wipe out ISIS pretty quick if it staged a recruitment camp in a country we could care less about. ..say Syria, Yemen, Libya .. Hire a few hundred "virgins" to parade around, and offer a huge signing bonus,, that would be paid after completion of a 6 week training camp..After 30 days or so, when the camps are filled with Jihadist, lock the placed down and carpet bomb it with bacon-wrapped incendiary devices. We won't even have to pay the signing bonuses.

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Online quote source: " “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” - Rabindranath Tagore " -- Hmmm..."makes our life in harmony with all existence"? That sorta deflates the Education system's claim that 2+2 doesn't necessarily have equal 4.

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Online story: "At the Austell, GA City Council’s pre-agenda meeting this week, Mayor Joe Jerkins proposed a plan to pay city employees $5 for each day they exercise for one hour. Jerkins said nobody came out against it at the meeting and he expects it will be easily passed at the council’s meeting Monday. * Employees would be required to sign in and sign out to log their time at the gym — which is behind the Threadmill Complex on Austell Powder Springs Road — and must exercise for at least an hour for the time to be counted toward the incentive program, Jerkins said." -- Hmmm.. talk about instant graft and corruption...bet the will be taxpayer revolts with signs about Mayor JERK-ins.

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Online story: "Amazon, a technology company obsessed with secrecy, is hiring a former press secretary for President Obama, whose administration has been widely criticized for its aggressive leak investigations. * Jay Carney, who resigned as the president’s chief spokesman last spring, is joining Amazon as senior vice president for global corporate affairs, a new position, the retailer said Thursday. * It is an unusual hire for the Seattle-based company, which tends to groom its talent internally rather than bring in prominent outsiders. Mr. Carney, who begins his new job on Monday, will report to Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive." -- "a company obsessed with secrecy" is hiring Jay Carney? Well, there goes any credibility of any delivery dates and order confirmations. Well, I guess Bezos may have hired Carney to be in charge of drone development.. Carney sure taught his replacement how to "drone" on about the current lies Obamageddon is tryng to float.

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L-E story: "More than 17,000 Muscogee County School District students have received enhanced education this school year in the critical STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math, thanks to a partnership with Columbus State University." -- I'm all for new exposures to math and science but I have a question... over the years, how has this enhanced the 6th grade CRCT and other results?

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Jonathan Gruber elitist LIV's L-E "soundoff"; " The charging port on 11th and Broadway is unsightly? Maybe so, but the reduction in exhaust emissions there should be lauded rather than criticized. We shall all breathe easier, literally, which is the point." -- Good grief.. why not ban all cars from Broadway, heck, downtown, and make all the parking for skate boards and bikes!

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Don't feel threaten when the MCSD Board presents raising the millage rate if a SPLOST doesn't get passed...we already pay one of the highest millage rates in GA at 23.37, and the maximum for MCSD is 25.00 so there's are only 1.67 millage points and if that was increased to the max, it would only bring in about $7 Million additional revenue.. Hold their feet to the fire.. No tangible set of plans/priorities.. NO SPLOST!

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L-E headline... uh, "headlie": "House rejects funding for Homeland Security" -- Good grief! What time does the L-E shut off news.. the DHS funding for a week extension was passed and signed by President Obamageddon yesterday evening.

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L-E story: " The president of the local chapter of the NAACP is asking the Tuscaloosa City Council to consider regulating air guns as a way of preventing possible mistaken-identity shootings of children." -- Good grief.. look at the futility of a plethora of laws that try to curtail illegal possession of real firearms and then look at the request to do so to bb-guns and such.. you know.. all a law of such nature would do is raise the street cost of buying an illegal air gun versus a legal one..