Online headline: "More than 5,500 drug inmates to be set free early * The Justice Dept. says about 40,000 prisoners may eventually be eligible for release as part of a new program aimed at reducing prison populations." -- "reducing prison populations"? Good grief.. how about restocking the streets with habitual offenders...

 

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Online story: "U.S. President Barack Obama kicked off a sales pitch on Tuesday for a 12-nation Pacific Rim trade agreement, urging farmers to push their lawmakers to approve what he called a "generational deal." -- "generational deal"? Yeah.. but more like a "deal from the bottom of the deck". There's no provision to corral .. nor penalize.. currency manipulation of China and Japan... 

 

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Online headline: "DC considering 16 weeks paid leave" -- Oooops, my bad.. thought Democrats in Congress were going to leave Washington until after the 2016 elections...

 

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Instant replay - Online headline/story: "DC considering 16 weeks paid leave *  New D.C. Council legislation introduced Tuesday would give workers 16 weeks of paid leave in circumstances ranging from the birth of a child to caring for a dying parent. * The legislation would allow employees who work in Washington and city residents who work outside the city to access a fund that would pay for the leave, its sponsors say. * A government-run fund created by a new tax on employers would pay for the benefit. Workers earning up to $52,000 a year would get 100 percent of pay. Higher earners could get $1,000 weekly plus 50 percent of additional income up to a maximum of $3,000. * Workers can use the time to bond with an infant or adopted child, to recover from an illness, to recuperate from a military deployment, or to care for an ill family member.*  D.C. Council member David Grosso, who introduced the bill along with six other members of the 13-member council, said in a statement Tuesday that the so-called Universal Paid Leave Act "will support our D.C. workers and families." -- First, before we all feel suckerpunched in the stomach..  the DC Council cannot include federal government employees.  Still, this will be a catastrophe for non-government employers... and their customers!  Basically, every private business employee could take 1/3rd of the year off in paid leave... and still get vacation time as well.

 

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Online story: "California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation on Tuesday aimed at closing the wage gap between men and women, a law that supporters say is among the strongest in the country." -- Good grief.. all this will do is assure men get preferential treatment over jobs and promotions as employers are shutout from getting a job done by whomever will/can do it for less. It will hurt women that way directly, and in the future as well as a vital "foot-in-the-door" access will be slammed shut.

 

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Online headline: "Beyonce and Jay Z snag a massive LA mansion * The pop power couple just put down new roots in Los Angeles and are reportedly renting ($150K per month) a $45 million Holmby Hills palace." -- Just last night, a show about the "Filthy Rich" came on after a favorite show of ours, "Shark Tank". Though we weren't planning on watching the "Filty Rich" show, it started out mentioning the excessive gifting to each other Beyonce and Jay Z are engaged in.. She gave him a $2 Million dollar car, and a $5 Million dollar watch.. he reciprocated by buying her an island off Mexico for $20 Million, then she 1-upped him by buying him a nearly $40 Million dollar jet. The show ended before letting us know how many millions it provided for the homeless or how many scholarships they gave to needy students... yeah.. right.

 

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Online headline/story: "HARVARD VS. CONVICTS Ivy League debate team loses to New York inmates * the inmates were tasked with defending the position that public schools should be allowed to turn away students whose parents came to the U.S. illegally. Harvard's team responded, but a panel of neutral judges declared the inmates victorious." -- What a condemnation of the education system curriculum basically created/influenced by Harvard graduates....

 

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Online story: "One of the top public universities in the state of California has recently announced a new $20 million fund to endow scholarships for African-American students and to foot the bill for diversifying faculty chair positions. " --- Hmm .. let's look at the "diversity " in California:
                                                                                                        California     USA
Black or African American alone 2014 (a)                                              6.5%         13.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone 2014 (a)                                  1.7%          1.2%
Asian alone 2014 (a)                                                                           14.4%          5.4%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 2014 (a)                         0.5%          0.2%
Two or More Races, percent  2014                                                          3.7%          2.5%
Hispanic or Latino, percent 2014 (b)                                                       38.6%        17.4%
White alone, 2014                                                                                 38.5%        62.1%

 

Hmmm.. wanna bet that some Harvard education specialists had a hand in figuring this out.? Probably the debate team coaches....

 

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Online story: "the lying President of the United States said this: "We know that the states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths. So the notion that gun laws don't work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals will still get their guns is not born out by the evidence." Right...only in the mind of Barack Obama." -- Good grief..Washington, DC though not a state.. YET... has the toughest gin laws and the worst per capita "gun deaths" in the country.. and Obamageddon's home city.. Chicago.. has had 2,354 people shot so far in 2015 (351 have died).. wanna talk about Chicago's gun laws?

 

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Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke has entrenched himself in my Top 3 Law Enforcement officers in the country. (Numbers 1 & 2 are in Columbus). Responding to a story about a Dunkin' Donuts refusing to serve a police officer ( in uniform) a cup of coffee (and subsequent generic apology by Dunkin Doughnut) Clarke responded to a suggestion made by Fox Anchor Gleta van Susteren that Dunkin Donut's CEO issue a directive that all police officers get free coffee and doughnuts.. Clarke showed his proficiency and accuracy in taking out a target.. he simply added that he preferred Krispy Kreme... We already avoid Arby's for a similar reason, but avoiding Dunkin Donut coffee will be a true sacrifice as my bride loves DD coffee..but it's what we must do in support of our law enforcement men and women.

 

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Online story: "On August 28, the NRA presented ATF and FBI data showing Americans have purchased “170 million new guns” since 1991, and violent crime has fallen “51 percent.” * The NRA tweeted, “Since ’91, Americans have acquired over 170 million new firearms and violent crimes have declined by 51%.” -- Hmmm.. though not a member of the NRA or its poll, I did buy my first hand gun in 1993 following the Chicago riots after the Bulls won the NBA championship, the Rodney King riots, and a local carjacking in a neighborhood I passed through often. I could no longer consider not being able to defend myself.  I have never had to pull it.. nor brandish it, but I have had a couple of incidences in a mall parking lot where wearing it on my hip seemed to divert possible criminal acts... It was good money spent ..

 

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Could the Democratic Party leadership's focus on "climate change/global warming" simply be that the Democratic Party leadership is so old that they are all post-menstrual and need estrogen treatmemts?

 

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L-E headline/story: "PATH-TEC TO ADD 100 NEW JOBS IN EXPANSION * Company taking over plant left vacant by Litho-Krome *  A Columbus company called Path-Tec is expanding into a 126,000-square-foot plant left vacant earlier this year by the closure of the Litho-Krome printing operation by greeting card firm Hallmark. *  Path-Tec said Monday it has purchased the facility at 5700 Old Brim Road, inside Muscogee Technology Park, and expects to add 100 new jobs within a few years. The 10-year-old company already has 100 people on its payroll at its existing 79,000-square-foot location on Belfast Avenue, an area in which Char-Broil once assembled outdoor grills before moving production out of the United States. * Litho-Krome vacating the facility and the city a “kick in the gut, * The closure by Hallmark eliminated about 50 jobs locally and ended Litho-Krome’s more than eight-decade presence in the city. The erosion began years ago, however, with Litho-Krome’s work force at about 275 in 1998 when it operated off 13th Street near downtown Columbus. It fell to about 140 employees as it moved into the new and more efficient showpiece printing plant in the Midland area in 2003" --- Hmmm.. so Litho-Krome closing shop was a"kick in the gut".. Funny, I don't remember Char-Broil's shipping local jobs to China being described that way back then.. local favoritism?

 

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Jonathan Gruber LIV's L-E "soundoff": "To the counselors who haven’t made up their minds about the tax referendum: The voters put you into office. Why can’t the voters speak with the same wisdom and judgment to decide this significant issue?" -- You know.. It's not an issue among homeowners.. just greedy politicians.. The freeze was enacted by homeowners and defended by homeowners on separate occasions.. if there is another onslaught by greedy politicians, it should voted on only by property owners...