HuffPOOPOO headline: "Malia Obama is living your summer-in-the-city dream" -- Yeah "summer-in-the-city dream" at OUR expense... in other words,, OUR nightmare,,,, She "interning" (basically "slave" labor) while we get stuck with the bill. Even if Obamageddon is paying for her, WE are paying for multiple 24/7 Secret Service bodyguards. Wanna bet Obamageddon will/won't confiscate the guards guns?

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Obama Unveils Ivory Rules To Protect Elephants" -- Who is this guy? I think that's the number 1 question Kenyans must be asking themselves..First he told them they needed to embrace homosexuality and its mutations, and now he tells them that he's going to restrict, even further, the sale of antique ivory pieces in the US, yet hasn't addressed the slavery that exists in Kenya, nor pushing for a $15.00 an hour minimum wage for Kenyans. No wonder Kenyan souvenir vendors sold American Flags hung in the :distress" mode.

These ads wanting money "for a/the cure".... they really have stopped having any appeal to get my donations..I'd much rather hear an ad telling me new methods are in place that are helping people " now", and they are working on other treatments.

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You know, now that the Civil War has been stricken from the history of the US, isn't it about time that the NAACP, Al Sharlatan, and Jesse Jackson stopped asking for reparation?

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L-E story: " A gunman robbed a homeless couple of a $10 scratch-off lottery ticket at the Chattahoochee River-Walk Pavilion late Thursday, Columbus police said." -- "robbed a homeless couple of a $10.00 scratch-off lottery ticket"? Good grief.. should there be a law that Lottery Outlets be required to get a Photo ID, paycheck stub, and proof of residence before selling anyone a lottery ticket?

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Now it looks like there's Black Jim Blanchard Symposium, too. Although it was recently annpounced that AFLAC Chairman Dan Amos was added as a speaker, it must have been "too late" to add his picture to the posters and ads.

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L-E story: "CITY ATTORNEY’S AGENDA
First readings: An ordinance revising Columbus Code Sections on annual leave (vacation), and sick leave to provide that such leave may be taken in minimum increments of one hour, to confirm the administrative policy implementing the Columbus Police Department Pay Reform and Restructure Plan, and for other purposes. (Councilor Jerry “Pops” Barnes)" -- While I'm a great supporter of the needs of our law enforcement personnel, I do believe this opens the door to every City employee for taking paid lunch hours, and sneaking off early (with pay) for long weekends. Council should tread carefully before going any further with this if only to make sure only law enforcement personnel are involved.

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From above City Attorney's Agenda:

"An ordinance amending the “Official Street Map, city of Columbus, Georgia,” by changing the official street name for the section of public roadway currently designated as Gunboat Drive to Chastain Drive, to be one street name consistent with the length of roadway; authorizing the replacement of existing street name signs labeled as Gunboat Drive to Chastain Drive. (Councilor Mike Baker)" -- Excuse me, but are there TWO maps of Columbus Streets? The Google map I'm looking at shows the current Gunboat Drive starting at a Milgen Road intersection and connecting at a T-bone intersection at Olde Town Drive... and Chastain Drive basically being an Apartment complex access. Where is the "confusion" or "continuation" that necessitates the expense of new signs and new maps?

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From the City Manager's Agenda:

" ALLOCATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HOUSING ORGANIZATION FUNDS TO NEIGHBORWORKS COLUMBUS INC.: Approval is requested to enter into a HOME CHDO Written Agreement between the Columbus Consolidated Government and NeighborWorks Columbus Inc., to award Home Investment Partnership Program CHDO set-aside funds in the amount of $123,442.14 for the acquisition and rehabilitation of a single-family housing unit to resale to an income-eligible household. The set-aside funds are from a 2008 grant allocation that was not utilized and will expire if not committed to a project and expended by Sept. 30." -- "grant allocation that was not utilized and will expire if not committed to a project and expended by September 30"? -- Good grief.. isn't there anyone in government who thinks about the taxpayers and has the willpower NOT to spend money just because it's "there"?

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L-E's "Thought for Today" “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” — Aldous Huxley, English author (born this date in 1894, died in 1963)." -- "an infinite capacity for taking things for granted"? Hmmm.. and never has this adage been so etched in stone as Low Info Voters believing the same unkept Democratic Party promises made every election cycle...

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From the L-E's "Today in history" feature: "On this date: In 1775, Benjamin Franklin became America’s first Postmaster-General." -- Hmmm... and this was the last day in which Lightning has ever been associated with the Post Office.

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Random thought: Has anyone ever accumulated how many parolees who served sentences for "non-violent drug crime" were 100% rehabbed and or never arrested afterwards for a "violent drug crime"?

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L-E editorial: "One thing the recent Supreme Court decision manifestly did not do with regard to same-sex marriages is require any religion to conduct, sanction or even recognize them. The government can’t force gay marriage on any religion, any more than it could prevent any religion from conducting same-sex weddings or recognizing such unions even before the ruling, whether civil law sanctioned them or not." --

Just curious... the Supreme Court ruled that pastors are not required to perform same-sex marriages.. should that not also be the protection of bakers not wanting to make same-sex wedding cakes?

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L-E commentary headline: "Leonard Pitts: GOP condemnations of Trump pure hypocrisy" -- Hallelujah! I can finally say I read something posted by Leonard Pitts that actually resembles the truth.. Of course, I'm not going past the headline because I pretty much know where Leonard "the" Pitts will take this. Now, if we could only get Pitts to be a "Pttis-Bull" and report the truth about Obamageddon, Hillewinsky, and the Siamese twins.. Jackson and Sharlatan.