HuffPOOPOO story: "Cheap oil is great when you're filling the tank of your car or topping off fuel for your oil burner for a last-minute winter blast. But not everyone benefits from low oil prices, * For seven years, there was a shortage of staff," said Tobias Read, CEO of staffing firm Swift Worldwide Resources, to Bloomberg. "Now for the first time, there's a surplus. Currently almost no one is hiring." -- Hmm the Democrats' conundrum.. their demon.. "big oil", becoming sympathetic as electric cars pass gas stations.. oh, and "big oil" taxes drying up.

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Hmmm.... GA State upset Baylor in the opening round of the NCAA basketball championship. A 14th seed beat a 3rd seed... a 56th+ seed beat a top 12 team. If the field had been 32 instead of 68 teams, this couldn't have happened. While I'm happy for the temporary joy of GA State, tell me..did the NCAA basketball playoffs actually benefit? Dittos for the 14th seed UAB in its upset over 3rd seed Iowa State.

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Reflecting on the SPLOST.. the "YES" vote attracted 8,900 +/- voters out of some 100,000 or so who are registered.. the parents of 32,000 students alone constitute more than half of that figure, and the MCSD has over 5,000 employees (plus family members) , yet very few were driven to go out and vote in support of what the MCSD/MCSB is doing for their kids. This alone suggests that no tax referendums should be held on non-general election dates. No matter how strong feelings are for parents, one issue elections (especially tax ones) do not have the drawing power to reflect the community interest... either way.

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Random thought: You know.. any one , and I mean ANY ONE, who thinks we need new gun laws to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and gangs has no idea about the number of laws already on the books that do just that. Laws.. neither new nor old.. aren't the problem.. the problem is a court system that's not restrictive enough on incarcerating/executing abusers of guns.

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Hmmm... some unknown perpetrator has plastered "Exclusively for White People" sticker on about 6 business in Austin, Texas... pitiful...but then how come mainstream media wasn't/isn't upset at Obamageddon's 10% tax on indoor tanning salons for white people wanting to get tanned?

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Online headline: "Petraeus: The Islamic State Isn't Our Biggest Problem In Iraq" -- Wow.. so 2 + 2 does equal HEBDObama!

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From the "well, well, well" department - Online story: "The Clinton Foundation's flagship public health program reportedly stopped publishing lists of its donors for a five-year period beginning in 2010, breaking a disclosure rule agreed to by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. * CHAI spokeswoman Maura Daley described the lack of disclosure as "an oversight, which we made up for this year" in an e-mail to Reuters. * Reuters also reported that at least seven foreign governments either began supporting or increased their support for CHAI during Clinton's time as secretary of state. * However, the State Department told Reuters it could not find any records of its officials reviewing or approving any new money for the foundation." -- "couldn't find any records"? Well, at least the State Department is consistent when it comes to not being able to find any records Hillewinsky was responsible for compliance.

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I was watching a History Channel series on some possibly manmade roads/breakwater barriers some 90 feet deep off the Bahama Islands. The narrator said today's sea level is 100 feet above the sea level in 10,000 BC. Hmmm, and what manmade activity caused this? We haven't had fossil fuel internal combustion engines but a little over 100 years...

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Online headline/story: "University of Georgia Greeks Ban Hoop Skirts Because They Look Racist * Victor Wilson, UGA’s vice president for student affairs, explained that the ban was due to concerns over what kind of “message” the skirt might send, and compared it to a previous ban on Confederate uniforms, according to an article in the Athens Banner-Herald. In other words: The fact that people wore hoop skirts during the era of slavery in the U.S. makes them symbols of racism." -- Good grief... I guess sandals will be next since Jesus wore them...

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An "almost gets it" L-E "soundoff": "To the 56 percent of the 17 percent who voted, you’re on notice: I will not be buying my car in Columbus." That won't matter.. if you buy a car after June 30th of this year in any state, you will pay the SPLOST tax. Now, there is a way around it.. instead of waiting, buy your car BEFORE July 1st.... double down with the option to pay then one-time fee rather than the annual property tax and you'll save further.

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Another "almost gets it" L-E "soundoff": " The Iranians are playing Obama and Kerry like a couple of fine violins." -- Yes, the Iranians are "playing" them, but the Iranians are playing them for the fools they are.

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Jonathan Gruber stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "How many members of Congress would want their personal or private e-mails made available to public? Like the Benghazi farce, the investigation of Hillary’s e-mails will take months and cost millions of tax dollars." -- Well, how many Congresspersons use their own home network server to conduct government business on the same e-mail accounts? I'm sure every member of Congress has a non-government e-mail account, but I'm pretty sure most government business e-mail is done on the government URL.

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There's a movie opening this weekend called "GUNMAN". Trailers show the St(_*_)r as a "bad(_*_)" .. at 5'8" (in heels?), the (_*_) is way beyond his acting skills at being a "bad(_*_)".

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One of the detriments of a SPLOST, whether for schools or transportation is that millions of dollars are drawn out of the local economy during the collecting process and are aren't seen back "helping" the economy for a year or more. Take today's story on some T-SPLOST projects mentioned that won't happen until 2019 after such money has been collected. Even worse is what has happened with the $30,000,000.00 the MCSD has collected and squirreled away for the past 10+ years to build an elitist Fine Arts Academy. That money could have been used to fund actual and current needs (Autism, Handicap, Foundation repair, Textbooks), and at the same time contribute to the local economy as circulating revenues. Instead. it has been stashed away in accounts that basically benefit the financial firm that holds it. It's sorta like the Biblical parable about the servant who buried his master's money while the other two invested it and showed gains.