Online story: "A mansion under construction in Bel Air is expected to be on the market for a record $500 million. * The property includes a 74-thousand square foot main home. That's more than half the size of an average Costco store! * The master bedroom alone is 5,000 square feet. The estate will also have three smaller homes, a 30-car garage, four swimming pools and a tennis court. * It's all expected to be completed in a couple of years." -- Hmmm wonder if the MCSD SPLOST Committee dreamed this up...it's not quite as simple a comparison to the structures that the MCSD SPLOST Committee threw out as the $500,000,000,00 estate not only includes the 74,000 sq ft main house, but 3 smaller homes, outdoor amenities plus, I'm sure, ample prime property versus the "guesstimates" of the MCSD SPLOST Committee for stand alone slab & metal buildings for wrestling/weight rooms, but ..BUT at $675.00 a square ft for, I'm sure "extravagance personified", construction, the California home is a bargain compared to the $312.00 a square ft free standing "Action Buildings type structures on a slab" projection for wresting/weight rooms at our schools.

---

Now here's an Attorney General, Doug Peterson, we might want to hire for Columbus.. The Nebraska legislature overturned its Governor's veto of a bill to end the death penalty. One of the aspects of that law was "It is the intent of the Legislature that in any criminal proceeding in which the death penalty has been imposed but not carried out prior to the effective date of this act, such penalty shall be changed to life imprisonment." The AG cited a Nebraska Constitutional Amendment that gives the Board of Pardons exclusive power to change final sentences. He added, "We believe this stated intent,(to commute existing sentences to life) is unconstitutional,".. Obviously Peterson doesn't stand a chance as an Obamageddon appointee to DOJ..

---

Once again.. I ask why Wake Forest University invited Stephen Colbert to address its graduating class of 2015.. His remarks, "From now on, you fill out your own report card. So do yourself a favor: Be an easy grader. Score yourself on a curve. Give yourself extra credit. You have the power. You are your own professor now. I hope you find the courage to decide for yourself what is right and what is wrong, and then, please, expect as much of the world around you. Try to make the world good according to your standards.", sound like what the high school graduates in the Baltimore and Ferguson riots must have heard.

---

HuffPOOPOO "headlie": "Iran is America's de-facto ally in the war against ISIS" -- Good grief.. this is the 21st Century version of "the spider and the fly" or "the Lady or the Tiger".. Of course, with the Common Crap school curriculum, mainstream media and Democrat voters missed the poem and fable in school.

---

HuffPOOPOO headline: "Sweden Is About To Give New Fathers A T paid paternity leave,hird Month Of Paid Paternity Leave" -- Good grief.. if fathers need "paid paternity leave", it should be saved for when their sons reach the teen years and need the full time support only a dad can give.

---

Mainstream media is convinced that Hillewinsky "is the worlds smartest woman". Of course, mainstream media decided that on how Bill defined "is", and we know what he feels sex "isn't".

---

I ask one question.. how does a Secretary of State not have a government e-mail address, and the President and Harry Reid not KNOW this at the time?

---

Remember Shepard Fairey? He's the artist of the famous "HOPE" posters for Obamageddon. Rumor has it that Fairey is working on an outgoing poster to capsulize Obamageddon's presidency.. and the working title is "NOPE".

---

One last comment... The NFL needs to get its act together on footballs. Both teams in the NFL, MLB, even the MSL use the same ball for all aspects of every game. Shoot, even the NHL teams play with the same puck. Why does the NFL let each team use its own balls then quibble about how the QB's like the air pressure?

---

You know..if Darwin was right, during ape evolvement, wouldn't apes have learned to speak the language(s) of man? Sorry, libs, God lives.

---

Online "headlie": "Sharpton Becomes Laughingstock After Asking Controversial Question on the ‘Cause’ of Texas Flooding" -- Wrong! Al Sharlatan has been a laughingstock since he first referred to himself as "reverend".

---

Online story: "The United Nations World Food Program in 2013 and 2014 used millions of dollars of specially designated donor trust funds as an all-purpose piggy bank, often without creating safeguards to ensure the money was used properly and as its donors had intended, according to an internal report by WFP’s Office of the Inspector General." -- Good grief.. it sounds like the UN used the Clinton Foundations as its model... hmmm, how much did the UN pay Bill for an organizational speech?

---

Online story: "A prison in downtown Detroit that was deemed too expensive to complete is now a construction site frozen in time that still costs cash-strapped local taxpayers more than $1 million a month.

* It was supposed to be a state-of-art lockup in the heart of the Motor City, but four years after breaking ground, with construction costs totaling $150 million and no end in sight, the city pulled the plug on the project four years ago." -- Shoot.. why not finish it and make it the home of all Michigan Democrat politicians while serving in office.. call it "the CON-domaximum Gated Community".

---

Online story: "Hillary Clinton went down to Dixie this week and tried to pull off a faux Southern accent. Sweet Lord Almighty, folks – it was pitiful. * Miss Hill’ry was drawling and dropping “g’s” all over the stage during a speech to Democrats in South Carolina" -- "dropping "g's"? More like dropping "G's" to buy votes so she can beat "none of the above" in an uncontested primary election.

---

Online headline: "Hillary Clinton pledges to strengthen equal pay for women in Southern debut" -- Hmmm sorta easy when she doesn't have to create ..or promise to create.. jobs to begin with...

---

Oh.. if Hillewinsky was to win, can you not see her standing up in her first State of the Union speech and apologizing that she tried but just couldn't find a way to equalize pay...just like Bill did when he campaigned on tax cuts but couldn't deliver?

---

Good grief.. Augusta citizens are trying to find out details to a proposed "storm water fee".. please don't let Mayor TomLYINGson see/hear about this. It would be like having her propose another Queen TT Lounge and having the SPLOST Committee issue the specifics.

---

Oh! While in Fernandina Beach last weekend, we were introduced to a "roundabout" in a casual traffic situation with a mix of experienced and inexperienced drivers.. and both looked bewildered at how to complete their driving tasks.. Out-of-staters seemed not to know the difference in a :Yield" and "Stop Signs".. just glad there were no semi's or logging trucks flying through..

---

L-E headline/story: "MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * SUPERINTENDENT PROPOSES RAISES IN 2016 BUDGET * Plan would set aside $2.7 million for raises * After the meeting, MCSD chief human resources officer Kathy Tessin estimated 30-40 percent of the 3,900 full-time employees would receive some salary increase (part-timers won’t) if the board passes the recommended budget. Three more meetings are scheduled to do that:" -- "After the meeting"? Why did this have to be explained "after the meeting"? 30-40% of full time workers mean that only 1170-1560 would see raises .. and those would be capped at an average between $1730.00 and $2307.00.. of course it doesn't look like all teachers will get one..and administrative staff weren't eliminated although "they" recently averaged a nearly 10% raise. Any teachers want a recall election on the SPLOST?

---

From above story: "Revised pay scale for bus drivers and skilled maintenance workers, totaling $678,200, an average increase of 4 percent for 269 employees." -- Wait a minute.. is claiming bus drivers are "full time employees? How does even two 3-hour routes a day equate to "full time employees"?

---

From above story: " The administration proposes the following raises:
• $1,200 one-time lump sum for all certified educators who have at least 22 years of experience. Teachers and administrators who would qualify total 437, amounting to $625,000." -- Good grief.. the "raise" gets even more paltry as the details emerge.. 437 teachers with a minimum working experience of 9,614 combined years will get a $1,200 "bonus" to make up for 8 years of no raises. Hmm that's only $150.00 a year for 8 of the most productive tears of their services. On an hourly rate (based on 40 hours a week for 38 weeks (1,520 hours) annually or 12,160 hours over 8 years for an 8 year pay raise of less than 10-cents an hour.. Yeah.. Lewis loves his teachers.. some of them anyway. Wonder how many teachers with 21 years of=r less experience will perceive their future in the MCSD system?

---

From the same story above: "The proposed raises are the payoff of one of Lewis’ key arguments he made for renewing the 1 percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales. Columbus voters in March passed the referendum to collect $192,185,000 for capital projects or until the tax, which returns July 1, expires in five years. Lewis emphasized during the campaign that SPLOST money can’t be used for personnel, but he also stressed that having the SPLOST makes the district’s financial situation more conducive to giving raises because less operating money would be needed for capital expenses." -- "less operating money would be needed for capital expenses"? Wait a minute.. then only way to accomplish this would be cut a barely existing maintenance budget which means more buildings and HVAC systems would "rot" at a quicker pace.. and another SPLOST would be "justified"..in the minds of the MCSD/MCSB.. Contact your reps FAST to get SPLOST referendums scheduled only on General Election dates!

---

L-E headline: "Bishop concerned on military spending cuts" -- Good grief.. why hasn't Bishop been concerned that in the last 50 years.. $22 TRILLION has been spent on entitlement programs versus $7 TRILLION spent on our military over the past 239 YEAR since America declared its independence from England in 1776!

---

Jonathan Gruber triple-double LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Lord, I do love my neighbors, but if they are Republicans, You must be very patient with me." -- Good grief.. it their is a finite moment of stupidity for a Democrat. there's not much room to pass this one..Lord.. give his neighbors tolerance for knowing they are paying their mortgages and supplementing his!

---

Jonathan Gruber extra stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Thank you Mayor Hydrick for putting the information in the Ledger. I do hope the people on the council read and understand that that’s probably about 90 percent of the citizens’ feelings." -- Good grief.. the Columbus Water Works has put Kool-Aid in the Hilton Avenue water pipes. That and Mayor TomLYINGson is about as adept at Obamageddon as surrounding herself with sycophants..

---

L-E story: "George Pataki, the 9/11-era New York governor who achieved electoral success as a Republican in a heavily Democratic state, announced his candidacy for the presidential nomination Thursday, offering himself as a unifying figure in a divided nation." -- Well.. with the possible exception of Rudy Giuliani (but he transcended from Democrat-to-Independent-to-Republican), there are no true Republicans in NY.. Illinois for that matter.. Just wanted to set the record straight.

---

L-E story: "Nebraska ended the nation’s last ban on driving privileges for young people brought into the United States illegally as children, after the Legislature voted Thursday to override a veto from the state’s new Republican governor." -- Good grief.. the legislature overrode Governor Ricketts' veto on eliminating the death penalty a couple of days ago, and now this.. this is probably worse that the previous veto override.

---

L-E editorial commentary: "Nobody should spare any tears for Timothy Foster. Almost 30 years ago he brutalized, sexually molested and murdered a 79-year-old Floyd County woman, and he's been on death row since his conviction the following year. If anybody has ever been a capital punishment poster child, Foster fits the specs. * But while his conviction and sentencing might be otherwise moot, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review one important aspect of the case -- the prosecutors' striking of all blacks from the pool of jurors qualified to hear a death penalty case." -- Good grief.. let's take a poll of black citizens of Floyd County who were old enough to serve on a jury at that time, and ask them if they think Foster was innocent. Case moot..

---

Online L-E story: "Nearly half a million years ago, a lifeless body was brought to a communal burial site and dropped down a 43-foot shaft into a mass grave known as the “Pit of Bones,” located in what is now northern Spain. Scientists have reconstructed the skull and discovered that the person died of blunt force trauma and was victim of the world’s oldest known murder." -- Good grief.. how can anyone claiming forensic/scientific credentials make this claim? To begin with.. even live. a 43 foot drop would kill a man.. even one who was dropping another body down the "shaft".. Who knows.. this might have been simply a burial site/ceremony of respect for an accidental death at another location. No praise should be given for cockamamie..