Bibi... a.k.a. Benjamin Netanyahu won.. though I use the term "we" loosely, "we" still have an ally in the Middle-East..at least the next Republican president has an ally he/she can depend on. How embarrassing for the Democratic Party element of our government. Once again.. will someone please explain why America's Jewish community bloc votes for Democrats?

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After close to $250,000.00 being injected by the special election costs and the "Yes for US..uh..Kids" committee, a slim win with less than 17% of voters getting to the polls can only be considered a further embarrassment for the public conception of the MCSD. Special thanks to Frank Myers and John Thomas for shining the light of truth on the shadowy performance of the MCSD/MCSB over the past 10+ years.

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You know, of the 8900 votes for the school SPLOST referendum, an inherent truth is that over half of those were from teachers/employees or families of. Why are such allowed to vote on issues that they have a personal benefit from the results.

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The "yes" vote got 54% of less than 17% of the registered voters, at that. Add that more than half of the "yes" vote was probably current MCSD employees, family members or retired employees that probably shouldn't even be allowed to vote on an issue that directly affect their job security.

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You know.. in effect.. by having the power of calling for a special election date on a tax issue, the MCSB has become it's own type of government... a quasi-dictatorship based on the whims of a few rather than following the democratic/limited republic process as laid out in our Constitution for general elections.

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You know.. perhaps the saddest aspect of the local SPLOST election results is that 7 of the MCSB members and the L-E think that transparemcy and accountability issues are now "moot". Don't count on it.

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All public, especially public school, buildings should have the construction cost per sq ft on the plaque with the names if the board/Council members names placed on the wall in the building, and how they voted on the project.

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Oh... I was planning to buy my bride and myself new cars next year... now I think I will go ahead and buy them in June so I can save $800.00-$1,000.00 in MCSD SPLOST sales taxes. What a difference 1% makes.

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Can you believe that the White House has not produced an answer as to whether Hillewinsky signed her required disclosure form as she stepped down from Secretary of State? What's it take.. Obamageddon using his phone to call and ask someone to walk to Hillewinsky's employment file, and fax a copy to him...even more realistically.. how hard could it be to get one from Hawaii?

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You know... asking Obamageddon to produce such a file is like a farmer asking a fox to double check whether the henhouse door is locked.

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "US vet charged in a disturbing plot to join ISIS * A 47-year-old New Jersey man was arrested Tuesday after officials found damning evidence of his support of the terrorist militant group." -- Sadly.. who can really blame him.. I'm sure the vet tried to get Obamageddon's attention about VA issues, but felt slighted compared to how Obamageddon coddles jihadist terrorists.

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Online story: "MUD LAKE, Idaho (AP) - Some 2,000 migrating snow geese have died recently in eastern Idaho, likely from a disease that comes on quickly and can kill birds in midflight, wildlife officials say." -- You know.. the first thought this conjured up was that Thanksgiving promotion on WKRP when live turkeys were thrown out of a helicopter into a shopping center parking lot, and WKRP station manager Arthur Carlson (a.k.a. Gordon Jump) declared, "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" .

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The NCAA is at it again.. how can two teams be scheduled to "play into" the NCAA Basketball brackets as the 11th seed in their bracket (actually there are two such pairings)?Hhow can teams be given 12th. 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th seeds yet two teams that could qualify as the 11th seed must play to get a spot?

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Jonathan Gruber dangerously stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Legalize marijuana and sell it from government owned stores. Then you wouldn’t need a SPLOST, and could probably lower our taxes. Also reduce our crime rate at least 40%." -- Even "Yes" SPLOST voters may want to change their vote after seeing something sent in by an obviously public education product.

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Almost gets it L-E "soundoff": "Pi to four decimal places is 3.1416. Anybody who didn’t sleep through geometry class knows that. So the “pi day of the century” is next year." -- Well, what did you expect from a mainstream media society that celebrated "the Millennium" on January 1, 2000 rather than January 1, 2001 which was the proper date to celebrate?

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L-E's "Thought for Today: “It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing — that’s the Lord’s test.” — Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (1911-1972). -- Hmmm, and the "Devil's Test" is when you feel that being on food stamps, housing allowances, given free phones, having subsidized healthcare, and a meaningless public education diploma makes you an "independent" and contributing member of society.

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L-E headline: "Secret Service director faces Capitol Hill’s wrath after agents allegedly drove drunk
Director says he wasn’t informed until 5 days late" -- Hmmm.. guess he read about it in a memo from Josh Earnest explaining that HEBDObama had just read about it in the newspaper. Oh.. BTW, the Secret Service chief is Joseph Clancy.... maybe the CIA didn't know Tom had died..but then, again.. we aren't surprised at that.

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L-E headline/story: "Lawmakers make big changes to Ga. transportation bill * The Senate plan also moves $250 million annually from the state’s general fund to pay off debt service owed by the Georgia Department of Transportation." -- "pay off debt service"? There's that phrase again.. in our SPLOST, $4,000,000.00 of the revenues will pay banks for "debt service" on issuing bonds to bring in early revenues. State and local government entities should not be allowed to sign up for "debt" that becomes a load on the backs of the taxpayers. Just look at Detroit with it's upwards of $18 BILLION in various debt that, even with bankruptcy rulings will hang over the heads of Detroit citizens. Government agencies should not be allowed to issue service orders without having the cash-in-hand.