Soapbox Moment: I'm beginning to believe that a local DA office should have to recuse itself from prosecuting any local law enforcement officer involved in the death of any previously plea bargained-out convict. The (_*_) arrested in the quadruple murder in Washington DC was convicted of an assault of his girlfriend in 2009, was back on the street to be convicted in 2010 of property damages and death threats to another woman and a child, additionally in 2010 he was arrested on a weapons charge but "plead-out to possessing and open container of alcohol. Police officers should not be blamed in the deaths of convicts engaged in additional crimes when the convicts would not even be on the street because the DA's Office/sentencing judge have put convicts back on the street because a plea-bargain to a lesser crime.

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Online headline/story: "Protests break out after men shot for shoplifting beer * Hundreds marched peacefully in Washington state's capital city to protest a police shooting that wounded two unarmed stepbrothers suspected of trying to steal beer from a grocery store. * The officer reported he was being assaulted with a skateboard early Thursday before the shooting that left a 21-year-old man in critical condition and a 24-year-old man in stable condition. * Both were expected to survive. * The stepbrothers are black, and the officer is white, but Olympia Police Chief Ronnie Roberts said, "There's no indication to me that race was a factor in this case at all." * "It was terrible," the young men's mother, Crystal Chaplin, told KIRO-TV. "It's heartbreaking to see two of my babies in the hospital over something stupid." -- "mom", it is "stupid" , but.... BUT why didn't you teach them it's ILLEGAL and a CRIME to steal! Maybe if you had married, and your children had one father around to be a role model for them... good grief.. what has happened to family values!

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Online headline: "Ireland votes on legalizing gay marriage; verdict Saturday" -- Hmmm, rumor has it St Patrick just gave up drinking and has revoked his endorsement of March 17th.

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Online headline: "Boy Scouts president says ban on gay leaders needs to end" -- No it doesn't.. what the BSA needs is a new president.

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If the Boy Scouts executive committee is taking away Scouts being able to use water guns and balloons, is the committee going to retroactively recall the "Rifle Shooting" merit badges? Hmm. and what possibly could be in store for the future of the "Shotgun Shooting" and "Nuclear Science" merit badges.

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Online story: "People joke that the iconic yellow Hostess snack cakes will outlast humanity, but we wanted to test that hypothesis with the Millennium Time Capsule. The Clinton administration spearheaded this collection of objects sealed in an American flag-shaped box that included a copy of the Bill of Rights, a piece of the Berlin Wall and a pair of sunglasses belonging to Ray Charles. The only edible item in the collection was a sealed package of Hostess Twinkies, but they were actually removed before the box was sealed for fear that mice would be attracted by their smell and damage the other contents. Give mice a little credit, they have better taste than that." -- Good grief.. the Clintons will lie about anything, but to take Twinkies out of the time capsule.. wanna bet who ate them?

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Online headline: "The Clinton Foundation acknowledged Thursday that it had received millions ($26+ MILLION) of dollars in payments that had not previously been disclosed under a 2008 ethics agreement with the Obama administration. * The Washington Post, citing foundation officials, reported that the payments were categorized internally as "revenue" instead of donations, which exempted the organization from including them in its public list of contributions." -- Good grief.. any accountant knows "revenues" are those funds are either created by an investment or product sales. Any confusion about this would be an obvious..intentional ploy to avoid reporting the donators. There are no other reasons/excuses Hillewinsky can claim.. the woman wants to be president! Maybe governments need to stop referring to taxes collected as "revenues" and list them as "confiscatory income" instead.

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I bought a new Afrin package recently.. undisclosed on the package, the sprayer had a whole new appearance.. a childproof spray cap.. I could not figure how to get the cap off until I read the directions.. thank goodness I was vision-impaired.. better yet, I had a child in the house to open it for me..Now, if I can just remember the sequence the next time I need to use it...

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When Robert Gibbs, Jay Carney, and now Josh Earnest stand up and lie for Obamageddon..I understand that..Obamageddon basically signs their pay checks. On the other hand..those "Fox Contributors" aired for "balance" to basically lie for Obamageddon or Hillewinsky..who's paying their salaries?

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So the economy is booming..? Not when a new Cadillac dealer is advertising great (well, great is an abstract opinion I do not share with the dealer) deals on 2014 models in May of 2015, and 2016s are ready to ship.

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Random act of goodness : http://www.ijreview.com/2015/05/327120-says-god-called-encourage-persecuted-christians-heres-14-story-bullet-proof-answer/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter

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Online headline/story: "Georgia Negotiates Over Developmental Disability Transfers * Georgia is in negotiations with the federal government over a 2010 settlement reached with the U.S. Justice Department. By June 30, the state was supposed to move all people with developmental disabilities out of state-run hospitals and into community settings. But the state is not going to meet to that deadline." -- Good grief.. why is the DOJ wanting to put people out on the streets of our communities who are not capable of fending for themselves.. Why.. to enhance the number son entitlement programs and get them registered to vote for Democrats!

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Jonathan Gruber stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff:: " It’s absolutely appalling to read an idiot statement concerning felons given a chance to work in the city government. Some mistakes made 10 years ago should not hold someone back from earning a decent living." -- Good grief.. why put known criminals in a work environment we are constantly discovering are already infested with criminal activity?

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L-E headline/story: "Six officers indicted in death of Freddie Gray * Gray suffered a critical spinal injury after police handcuffed, shackled and placed him head-first into a van" -- Good grief.. there's even video of the officers carefully "placing" him in the van so damages were self-inflicted as witnessed by another incarcerated person in the van.. whether policies were carried out to the "t" is one thing, but persecuting 6 officers is just wrong.

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From the "let me get this straight" department - L-E story: " Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received monthly missives about the growing unrest in Libya from a longtime friend who was previously barred by the White House from working for her as a government employee, according to emails received on her personal account. * Clinton’s earlier efforts to hire Blumenthal, who has spent nearly two decades working for the Clinton family, as a State Department employee had been rejected by Obama administration officials who said they feared his role spreading harsh attacks against Obama in the 2008 presidential primaries would cause discomfort among members of their new White House team." -- Huh? "Obama administration officials who said they feared (Blumenthal's) role spreading harsh attacks against Obama in the 2008 presidential primaries would cause discomfort among members of their new White House team." Good grief.. Obama shot down the messenger but appointed the message originator as his Secretary of State......

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L-E story: "Woman buys gun at pawn shop, then kills self" -- You know.. items in the story say that the woman ordered the gun, and when she came to pick it up, she asked if the pawn shop employees would load it for her, then died from a shot to her chest. How does this relate to a statement that she committed suicide? They way I read this is that she would have taken any gun in stock if she wanted to kill herself, not order one, and if she didn't know how to load it. chances are she probably unintentionally fired it while loading it. It's not like a chest shot is always fatal.

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L-E story: "As first lady in the final year of the Clinton administration, Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsed a White House plan to give tax breaks to private foundations and wealthy charity donors at the same time the William J. Clinton Foundation was soliciting donations for her husband's presidential library, recently released Clinton-era documents show. * The blurred lines between the tax reductions proposed by the Clinton administration in 2000 and the Clinton Library's fundraising were an early foreshadowing of the potential ethics concerns that have flared around the Clintons' courting of corporate and foreign donors for their family charity before she launched her campaign for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination." -- "an early foreshadowing of the personal ethics concerns that have flared around the Clintons"? Good grief.. Hillewinsky's ethics have been challenged since her short lived connection with the Nixon Watergate investigation, and Slick Willie's ethics have been challenged since he lined the bed of his pick-up truck with Astro-Turf...