Online headline/story: "Taxpayers may foot legal bills for NY prison escape * Authorities said Wednesday they are investigating if residents will have to pay Joyce Mitchell's legal tab as she faces up to seven years behind bars. * Mitchell, 51, who was a prison tailor shop supervisor at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, and her husband both held prison jobs that paid $57,697 a year. * Still, her attorney is court appointed and local authorities are investigating whether taxpayers must pay her legal bills" -- "whether taxpayers must pay her legal bills"? This is going too far... WAY TOO FAR!

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From above story: "A manhunt estimated to cost more than $20 million ended in late June with escapees Richard Matt, 49, shot and killed and David Sweat, 35, shot and captured" -- Maybe some justice might come out of this... taxpayers may revolt and demand that weapon violent criminals get the death penalty... automatically. This would accomplish so much more than letting violent people mill around, build up additional frustrations, and devoting themselves to planning escapes and vengeance. ... hmmm, and not to mention the savings dividend of reduced crimes (as potential criminals see what their fate will be), and reduced needs for more prisons and $57,000 a year seamstresses.

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Now a dentist in Minnesota is being scourged for shooting a lion.. he probably deserves it based on the early info, but, as usual, mainscream media is publicly convicting him, and supporting lynch mob mentality protestors. Soon, "Lion lives matter" will join the "Paws up * don't shoot" signs. Eventually Hillewinsky will show up with her own supporters carrying "Liars lives matter" signs.

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Good grief.. I just ran across this HuffPOOPOO headline after I commented on the dentist's plight above: HuffPOOPOO headline: "We Weep For African Lions. But What About Black Lives?" -- I guess since it wasn't a "black lion", it didn't matter as much. Wanna guess what race the two HuffPOOPOO writers are?

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Online headline: "McCain slams Iran nuclear deal as 'shopping spree'" -- Hmm.. too little, too late...go back to sleep , Senator...

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You know, there's more probability that life was on Mars at one time and disappeared as the sun cooled which, in turn, made Earth become habitable by the forms we recognize as life than the sun heating up and becoming too hot for Earth and just right for Mars to become habitable. Either way.. God has always had a plan and has His hands in it.

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Online headline: "Certain Chrysler owners eligible for buyback program" -- How appropriate... a bailout company becoming a real life Obamageddon sequel.. "Cash for Clunkers 2".

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Panda Accused Of Faking Pregnancy To Get Better Food, Air Conditioning" -- Good grief.. guess the HuffPOOPOO writer had a tell-all interview with a Panda trying to get her own reality show...

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Online story: "Donations to the Clinton Foundation by Swiss bank UBS increased tenfold after Hillary Clinton intervened to settle a dispute with the IRS early in her tenure as secretary of state, according to a published report.

According to the Wall Street Journal, total donations by UBS to the foundation grew from less than $60,000 at the end of 2008 to approximately $600,000 by the end of 2014. The Journal reports that the bank also lent $32 million through entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs it launched in association with the foundation, while paying former President Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of corporate question-and-answer sessions with UBS Chief Executive Bob McCann" -- ...sadly.. Low-Info-Voters will feel this justifies their support for Clintons, as they feel the Clintons will somehow be giving this money to them...

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Online story: "The Montana and Wyoming Rockies have been hit with what forecasters have called an “exceptional” and rare July cold front that has blanketed the region in a heavy snowfall. * The cold front deposited up to eight inches in some parts of the northern Rockies above the 8,000 feet elevations in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho." -- Hmmm... and "Where's Wal-gore"?

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Online headline: "Howard Dean on Huckabee, Trump: "Nobody is Going To Vote For Somebody They Think Is Crazy For President" -- Well, if there is an expert on "nobody is going to vote for somebody .. crazy". Howard Dean is the poster child.. but one question needs to be asked, "Crazy"... where are the liberal politically incorrect word police?

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From the "Things you find on the Internet without really trying" department - Online story: "The man who could become the city’s 109th mayor was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961, in Manhattan, his birth certificate shows.

In 1983, fresh out of New York University, he petitioned a Manhattan judge to formally change his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, according to legal records. * And in December 2001 he petitioned a judge in Brooklyn to formally change his name again, this time to Bill de Blasio. * De Blasio’s name changes did not become known in New York political circles until long after he emerged on the city's civic stage. Even now, most New Yorkers do not know he has had three different legal names." -- Well, he certainly never has looked "de Blasio".. now we know why...

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Online headline: "Here is all you need to know about Windows 10" -- Hmmm and here's all Microsoft needs to know about me..after 30 years, I am going Apple.. this weekend.

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Online story: "The Democratic presidential candidate went to New York's ultra-exclusive John Barrett Salon on Friday for a snip session of her oft-photographed blonde locks, according to the New York Post.
"An elevator bank was shut down so she could ride up alone, and then she was styled in a private area of the salon. Other customers didn’t get a glimpse," a source told the newspaper. "Hillary was later seen with a new feathered hairdo.” * While the Post notes it's not known whether Clinton doled out any money for the follicle fix, a typical haircut with the salon's owner runs $600." -- Yep... she's "one of us".... "broke"...of course what she's probably most embarrassed about revealing is that the $600.00 price is for a repeat customer's Senior discount.

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Online story: "You not might be aware that in 2009, the daughter of Secretary of State John Kerry, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry, John Kerry’s younger daughter by his first wife, married an Iranian-American physician named Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahed, an Iranian-American physician. * Guess who was the best man at the 2009 wedding between Kerry’s daughter Vanessa and Behrouz Vala Nahed? Javad Zarif’s son, Mahdi Zarif." -- Remember Javad Zarif? * Zarif is the current minister of foreign affairs in the Rouhani administration and has held various significant diplomatic and cabinet posts since the 1990s. He was Kerry’s chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations." -- Talk about "keeping it in the family"! -- Makes you wonder why this little arrangement was not brought to the attention of Kerry's Senate confirmation...it might have brought on legitimate "climate change"..

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Soapbox moment:

Incredulous... that was the feeling I had when I read that Council had made a generous donation of $376,000 of our tax dollars to a local, already generously funded non-profit company who's executive director takes a 6-figure salary for herself.

The Mayor and Council cannot create a balanced budget on anticipated revenues, so it dips into our fund balance, and recently voted to stop one citizen service to save money in hopes of getting the budget back on track, yet turns around and donates most of theses savings to a local already generously funded non-profit.. Who are these people? If they want to donate their own money, I won't stop them, but this is tax dollars that are to provide services to all of Columbus.

To compound things, our Ledger-Enquirer is not going to be our watch dog because one of its own is married to the 6-figure salaried executive director of the generously funded non-profit.

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Additional comment on issue above: And this is on top of what the Mayor has paid lawyers to sue the Sheriff's and Superior Clerk's office. You know, if those lawyers were worth half their fees, they would have known the GA Supreme Court would reject their suit UNANIMOUSLY (as in "LEAVE NO DOUBT"), but they continued on as long as their billings were paid. It's also in addition to the $700+ Thousands Council has donated to other non-profits from the Public Safety LOST revenues (annually, I might add). Where does Council get the idea it is a philanthropic foundation instead of the citizens' control committee for the best use of tax dollars for City Services?

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You know.. having Trump as our president following Obamageddon might be the answer to our National Debt problem.. he could file a "bankruptcy" for all debt increases created by Obamageddon with his "pen and phone".

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From the L-E's "Today in history" feature: " In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (“Out of many, one”)." -- Hmmm... well, well, well... you know, in 1956, Democrats controlled both Houses of government.. guess Democrats loved God back then... what has happened?

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L-E story: "CHICAGO — A Chicago man who served 17 years in prison for murder before being cleared of the crime has been shot and killed almost three years after being released from prison, police said Wednesday. * Alprentiss Nash, 40, was fatally shot Tuesday after an argument during “some sort of transaction” between Nash and his attacker," -- "some sort of transaction"? And Obamageddon continues to campaign for the release of "non-violent drug offenders".. or as I suggest.. "non-violent drug offenders....yet".

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L-E's "Late laughs": "A NEW YORK man was arrested Friday for driving an ice cream truck intoxicated wearing only underwear and yelling at children. So on the down side, he was arrested. But, on the up side, he is the Republican front-runner. - Seth Meyers" -- Truth be known... there are no Republicans in NY.. a few RINOs, but this just demonstrates the depth of liberal mainscream media bias.

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I tell you what, after seeing the GA DOT's interpretation of "improving" Moon Road, we are surely thankful Council did not let the GA DOT "improve" 13th Street through Lakebottom.

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L-E story: "Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Wednesday he’s gotten more than a million responses to his request for comments on how U.S. currency should be redesigned and recommendations for what woman should become the first female on U.S. paper money in more than a century. * Lew said it has been a “remarkable outpouring” of everything from tweets and retweets to handwritten letters. * He said among the “interesting commentary” are suggestions to replace some of the buildings now on the currency with more direct depictions of the democracy theme that will be used in the redesign." -- "more than a million responses"? Hold your horses, Lew! What is a "million".... it's less than 1/300th of our population.. it's less than 1/125th of the number of voters who did such in the 2012 presidential race.. In monetary terms. it's 1/18th TRILLION of our National Debt.. no, Lew, one million is not an impressive number when compared to reality. Heck, buying a million lottery tickets would only give you a 1-in-175 chance of winning