Online story: "A San Francisco man who created the underground drug-selling website Silk Road was sentenced Friday to life in prison by a judge who cited six deaths from drugs bought on his site and five people he tried to have killed. * Ross Ulbricht's 2013 arrest shut down what prosecutors described as an unprecedented one-stop online shopping mall where the supply of drugs was virtually limitless, enabling nearly 4,000 drug dealers to expand their markets from the sidewalk to cyberspace * U.S District Judge Katherine also ordered $183 million forfeiture. Prosecutors had not asked for a life sentence, saying only they wanted substantially more than the 20-year mandatory minimum. * His lawyer, J***** Dr(_*_)tel, said he was "disappointed tremendously" by the sentence." -- "disappointed tremendously" by the sentence? I reckon so..his clients access to pay his fees was shut off..and now no drug dealers will hire him in the future.. but you know.. it sure would be refreshing to hear an attorney to say he/she was "disappointed tremendously" in his/her client and the miseries his/her client wrought on society. Unfortunately, that aint going to happen

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Online headline: "New trend scares Putin far more than Obama does" -- DOH! Reruns of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" scare Putin more than Obamageddon..

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Online headline: "The Tampa Bay Lightning will play for the Stanley Cup, winning their third straight game at Madison Square Garden 2-0 on Friday evening." -- Wow.. let's be honest, but who in the Baby Boom generation would ever have dreamt of a Florida team winning at ice hockey?

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Online headline: "The US may have attempted to hack North Korea" -- "may have attempted"? Good grief.. can't Obamageddon do anything right?

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HuffPOOPOO "headlie": "Every Child Worldwide Will Get 12 Years Of Free Education By 2030: UN" Good grief.. has the UN paid Bill Clinton to parse and define "free"? To liberal politicians, "free" just means somebody else pays for the costs and expenses while they take credit for a campaign promise that gets them re-elected.

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Online headline: "International pop-music icon Cher is not particularly impressed with how President Obama has been waging war on the Islamic State." -- Hmmm.. guess Cher is trying to get the Baby Boomers to start playing and buying her music again.. but it's not going to work..

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "GOP Candidates Can't Answer 'Just One Question': Would You Have Invaded Iraq?" -- Hmmm.. even Hillewinsky was for it before she was against it, but why is mainstream media more interested in Republicans' answers to this than they are to Hillewinsky's answers to Benghazi, her e-mail deletions, and her Foundations' "pay for play" (a.k.a. "bribery") donations? You know.. it would be nice if mainstream media asked Hillewinsky ANY question that wasn't pre-approved by HIllewinsky to be asked...

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From the "speaking of questions mainstream media ought to be asking Hillewinsky" department - Online story: "The State Department under Hillary Clinton authorized arms sales to countries that had donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, according to a new report. * The State Department approved $165 billion worth of weapons sales to 20 foreign governments during Clinton's tenure, the International Business Times reports. Among the countries involved in the sales were Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. * The Clinton Foundation received between $54 million and $141 million in donations from the foreign governments and defense contractors involved in those sales, the report says. * Certain defense contractors also paid her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for speaking engagements during that time" -- Once again.. why hasn't George Stomped-his-own-nose-in-it been fired?

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Online story: "A new book by Peter Schweizer, Clinton Cash, questions whether foreign governments sought to curry influence with the Clintons by making donations to the foundation. * The Clinton campaign has dismissed the book as a hit job by a conservative author, arguing it is filled with "sloppy research and attacks pulled out of thin air." -- "attacks pulled out of thin air"? I tell you what.. the mainstream media should at least ask Hillewinsky why she doesn't "sue" Schweizer in court to refute his claims.. yeah..right.. I don't think she'll ever get into a question and answer session in a court where she takes an oath to tell the truth. (PS - Congressional Committee hearing don't count, has half the "jurors" are Democrat supporters)

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Random thought: There's one real good reason not to merge the Columbus Police in with the Sheriff's and/or Marshal's Departments. I still want to tell my granddaughter to look for, and respect, the blue uniforms if she's needing help.

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Online story: "Just last week, while the overwhelming majority of Americans were preparing to pay homage to the fallen heroes of our military who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms, a Muslim leader in San Francisco publicly came out against the very idea of Memorial Day. * Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, took to Twitter to publicize her inner struggle with honoring the fallen on Memorial Day while remaining staunchly anti-war." -- Hey, Obamageddon.. would you please recount why you consider Muslims as being thread worn into the very fiber of our history? I think American soldiers serving our country can do without this receiving this "CAIR Package"...

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Rehash of yesterday L-E story: "U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop used his brief remarks at the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce military appreciation breakfast on Thursday morning to reiterate his concerns about deep budget cuts to the U.S. military. * Starting his comments by saying “our freedom is not free,” Bishop was adamant that this is not the time to slash military spending." -- Good grief.. I wish we could hear Bishop say, "the War on Poverty entitlement programs are not free"! When Democrats start wrapping themselves up in the American flag for re-election concerns, they ought to be asked why Democrats have started entitlement programs that have cost the American taxpayers $22 TRILLION dollars in the past 50 years, yet are the initiators of military cuts when faced with funding entitlements versus our soldiers. In the 239 year history from the date of declaring and winning our independence from England, ONLY $7 Trillion dollars have been committed to our military to keeping our freedoms.

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L-E headline/story: "Black clergy, LGBT community discuss film * The film, titled “The New Black,” drew about 25 people to an auditorium at the Columbus Public Library on Macon Road. The private screening was organized by EITA Inc., Georgia Equality and Promised Land Films, an organization that released the film in 2013. * Among those in the audience were about 10 members of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance in Columbus who serve as ministers at black churches in Columbus and Phenix City. They watched as the film depicted a national schism between socially conservative black congregations and the black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community. * some local black ministers who attended Friday’s screening said they see their religious views against gay marriage and the push for gay rights as two different issues.
* “I don’t think that we should equate sexual preference with being racially born,” said the Rev. Chester Hayes, pastor of Greater Beulah Baptist Church, during a question-and-answer period following the documentary. * “I think there should be a dividing line. Our preference and our birth are two different things and I don’t think that we should tie them together.” -- What I see is a very small element (about 15) is trying to drive an additional racial wedge between blacks and whites in order to push their own agenda. As Rev. Chester Hayes said, " “I think there should be a dividing line. Our preference and our birth are two different things and I don’t think that we should tie them together.” He's right, and this alone could be a unifying building block for better racial relations and tolerances in Columbus..

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Jonathan Gruber triple-double extra stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Will one Republican step forward and demand the millions stolen by Wall Street and other corporations be shared with Americans who have been robbed? We are waiting …" -- Hmmm.. on the other hand, how about a Democrat stepping forward and ask for accountability of Obamageddon's "bail out" of Wall Street and the Unions, the Carter/Clinton banking reforms that created the housing/mortgage "bubble burst", the waste of $22 TRILLION dollars on the Democrats' "War on Poverty" (speaking of that.. have you ever seen a Democrat wave a "Mission Accomplished Banner on this after 50 years) and the Clinton Foundation foreign donations?

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A "get's it" L-E "soundoff": " Superintendent Lewis asked board member Myers if he was calling MCSD staff liars, but didn’t want to discuss what Myers was accusing him of lying about … isn’t that strange?" -- No stranger than Hillewinsky trying to dismiss her scandals as "conspiracies", yet not wanting to discuss and/or refute them.... or Bill Clinton saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman... Monica Lewinsky" .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs

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L-E headline/story: "Cuba removed from U.S. terror list * The Obama administration on Friday formally removed Cuba from a U.S. terrorism blacklist," -- Good grief.. looks like getting the Democrats added to the list would be good for America's future....

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Instant repeat - L-E headline/story: "Cuba removed from U.S. terror list * The Obama administration on Friday formally removed Cuba from a U.S. terrorism blacklist" -- Did you catch that? ... "The Obama administration on Friday formally removed Cuba from a U.S. terrorism blacklist" .. Have you noticed how Obamageddon will spread the "credit" on his worst decisions, versus claiming it all on others that he doesn't feel will come back to haunt him in the history books...?

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Where is Bleep Veep Biden? He made such inferences to running for the Democrat nomination during Obamgeddon's first term, yet is suspiciously "quiet" at this moment.. has anyone checked the Clinton Foundation and Biden's checking/savings accounts for any huge corresponding amounts of money being exchanged?

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Random thought: Our Columbus Ledger-Enquirer still runs reruns of Doonesbury. Why? Is it just that the L-E cannot... will not .. let go of the past?

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L-E headline/story: "Columbus woman robbed outside of Greystone at the Woodlands apartment complex * A 55-year-old Columbus woman told police that someone robbed her outside of her Greystone at the Woodlands apartment Wednesday night, authorities said. * It's unclear if Columbus officials have named any suspects in the case, but reports show that no arrests have been made. * Two officers were called to the 6000 block of River Road in reference to the robbery Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. * Police revealed in the report that the incident happened on a front sidewalk between 9:40 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., but they didn't indicate what was taken in the robbery." -- "didn't indicate what was taken in robbery"? Well, for starters, a community/area of Columbus had its security and its expectations stolen.. add on that Mayor TomLYINGson supporters in the area are not going to slough this off as non-existent crime, and her argument for cutting the budget on our law enforcement personnel just got shot down.. I'd say there was plenty stolen...

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From the "you have to read between the lines to see what is not being said" department - L-E headline/story: "Federal judge arrested last year to resign from bench * Politicians from both parties called for him to step down after arrest for domestic battery * Several high-ranking politicians of both parties had called for Fuller to voluntarily resign. Alabama’s two U.S. senators, Republicans Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, have both said the GOP appointee should give up his judgeship." -- You know.. if this judge had been a Democrat appointee, there'd be only Republicans calling for his resignation, and Democrats would be crying "discrimination" and "right wing conspiracy".

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L-E headline: "Coaches blast new nCAA eligibility standards * A new organization of minority basketball and football coaches is calling for changes in NCAA eligibility standards set to be enforced in 2016. * The National Association For Coaching Equity and Development issued a statement to The Associated Press on Friday saying the changes disproportionately target minority and less affluent students. * Next year, the NCAA will set tougher standards for athletes to participate as freshmen. They include 10 core courses that must be completed before an athlete’s senior year in high school, and a grade-point average of at least 2.3 in 16 core courses, up from a 2.0 GPA. * NAFCED held its first annual meeting in Atlanta last weekend. The group is led by coaches such as Tubby Smith and John Thompson III." -- Good grief.. These coaches should be grateful that the NCAA is try to make better students out of high school athletes! Higher grade requirements will benefit all players to be better students.. capable students before they take on the rigors of a college curriculum.. Objecting to higher standards makes the NAFCED look like it doesn't care for the athlete's future after sports.

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L-E headline: "McIlroy misses cut at Irish Open" -- Well.. Rory has always said he wanted to emulate Tiger Woods.. but I'm guessing he would have liked to have 15 or more years more before he started..

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L-E headline/story: "TOP 10 HIGHEST-PAID FEMALE CEOS * Last year, the median pay for women CEOs rose to $15.9 million, a 21 percent gain from a year earlier, according to a study by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press. That compared with median pay for male CEOs of $10.4 million, which was down 0.8 percent from 2013." -- Well.. there are 10 women CEOs highlighted, and all are more eminently qualified to be a president of the US than Hillewinsky. All are required to live within budgets, control expenses, and create timely jobs.. none of those requirements are even in Hillewinsky's "playbook". Oh.. and do see any complaints about these women's pay having to be equal to men's?