Online story: "Just as one Clinton scandal seemed to be coming to a close, the former president ignited a new controversy. Before a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Iowa on Saturday, Bill Clinton rallied the crowd by praising his wife's performance at the Benghazi hearing on Thursday. "We had the friends of our lifetime emailing me furiously saying they thought she was doing great," he said. "To everyone of them, I wrote back, 'I think I’ll vote for her.'" * The problem: How was Clinton emailing furiously when his spokesman claimed in March that he's only sent two emails in his entire life? * a Clinton aide tells Politico the answer is much simpler: Clinton misspoke, and meant to say he was texting." -- "I think I'll vote for her"? Hmmmm.. right away we KNOW that Bill Clinton is lying... first..he said he was "thinking", secondly.. his lips were moving...

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Online story: " Hot dog makers and meat sellers say a report from the World Health Organization labeling wieners, bacon and other processed meats as cancer-causers is baloney." -- Hmmm.. wonder what the WHO thinks about starvation and Michele's School Lunch Program?

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Now Walmart is ramping up for home deliveries via drones..you know, between Walmart, Amazon, and Google, there will be a bigger market for an anti-pest spray for drones than mosquitoes.....On the other hand,, delivery drones equipped with lasers ... or tasers may just be the answer to street crimes in Chicago...

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Online headline: "Kerry talks Syria with Saudi king" -- Good grief.. what do we have left for Kerry to promise to give away?

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Online story: "The University of Mississippi has stopped flying the state flag on its Oxford campus because the banner contains the Confederate battle emblem that some see as a painful reminder of slavery and segregation. * Interim Chancellor Morris Stocks ordered the flag lowered Monday morning." -- Hmmm... and the school "removed Col. Reb as its mascot 5 years ago, but have you seen "Black Bears" replace "Rebels" in the football stadium? I do wonder if Mississippi State legislators will withhold Ole Miss funding for "dissin" the state flag..

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AOL and CNN are conducting a poll on what is the number 1 issue the next president will have to address. The choices are:

Jobs and lowering the unemployment rate

Clarifying and fixing the immigration process

Decreasing student debt and incentivizing education

Overhauling the tax system to make it clear and fair

Reforming what drug offenses constitute actual crimes

Improving access to and the cost of health care

Creating policies that improve our environment

Making the U.S. less dependent on foreign oil and energy

Hmmm.. looks more like AOL and CNN are supporting HILLsbury DOUGHgirl openly.. there no "choice" to vote for  "Restoring honesty and respect to the White House"

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Online story: "California voters passed Proposition 1A, titled the “Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century,” in November 2008. Since that time, it has become clear that riding under up to 36 miles of the San Gabriel and Tehachapi Mountains will be dangerous, unreliable and slow–if the project it is ever completed. * The original estimates in the bond disclosure statement promised the cost would be only $33 billion, with a 2010 construction start and full operation by 2222. But when the project actually broke ground earlier this year, the official estimate was raised to $68.4 billion and a 2028 completion for the Los Angeles to San Francisco project. * according to a Los Angeles Times interview with MIT Professor of Civil Engineering Herbert Einstein, that projection assumes optimal mountain conditions for the dig. He expects California’s maze of fractured granite rock and fault lines will slow progress to 10 to 20 feet a day. Boring at 20 feet a day and working 261 days a year, the tunnel would take seven years to complete by 2026. At 10 feet a day, completion date would double to 2033. * These added time delays to bore through the southern mountains will add another $25 billion in expenses, pushing the bullet train’s total costs closer to $93 billion."  -- Good grief..it sounds like the California Bullet Train will be finished before our Whittlesey Road widening project and cost less....

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Online story: "A targeted jobs program with a proven track record for keeping at-risk youth safe from summer violence is in line for a dramatic expansion, thanks to a $10 million gift from a former NBA great. *  Hall-of-Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson, along with Mark and Kimbra Walter, are partners in Inner City Youth Empowerment LLC. *  provide 5,000 summer jobs for young people at risk of being exposed to violence. The city will contribute $6 million during the same period. * One Summer Chicago Plus is a costly but effective summer jobs program whose 16- to 19-year-old participants are drawn from high schools in high-crime areas.
* To qualify for the 25-hour-a-week summer jobs — as well as a mentor, cognitive behavioral therapy and social-skills building — students must first have missed six to eight weeks of high school or been directly involved in the juvenile justice system." -- "a proven track record for keeping at-risk youth safe from summer violence"? Good grief.. what this basically does is put money in the pockets of 5,000 teens who will become prime targets for street thugs...

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From the above story: "students must first have missed six to eight weeks of high school " -- Hmmm.. as if truancy wasn't a big enough problem in Chicago to begin with, now it's a resume enhancer...

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Word on the streets of Columbus (as opposed to a story in the Columbus L-E) is that the Columbus Visitors' Bureau has hired a marketing firm from Montgomery to replace a local firm. It appears that said local firm told her something she didn't want to hear, so she "showed" them...Hey.. those are our tax dollars being spent out-of-state and out of the community..

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Why is the FBI investigating HILLsbury DOUGHgirl? It should be the DOJ, but the DOJ has simply impaled itself with the decisions not to prosecute her, Lois Lerner, or Fast 'N Furious.. and in jumping into cases like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray when it needed to be neitral until all the facts were laid out.

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Uber lib Alan Colmes...you know more people hear him in one Fox News "contributor" session than he draws to his radio show in a week or more. The sad thing is he doesn't attract any of the Fox News audience to his show...( Radio Show Alan Colmes has a poor overall rating on RadioRatingz.com. )

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They're baaccckkkk!!!!.. Those irritating previous metal ads... You know..if a broker/owner was so sure that prices were going to double...triple..wouldn't they be buying now rather than selling?

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You know...mainscream media has jumped on Trump's religious comments as hard as they defended Obamageddon's comments...anyone know what HILLsbury DOUGHgirl's or Bernie Sander's religious faults are?

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HILLsbury DOUGHgirl  said Ambassador Chris Stevens "knew the risks" of taking the job in Libya..You know..Stevens probably did know of the risks, but, more importantly, I'm sure Stevens "knew" his back was covered.. Unfortunately, he thought HILLsbury DOUGHgirl was trustworthy and honest. Hmmm... Democrat voters should take note of this..

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A strike settlement clause at GM by the UAW includes a 4 year job security clause. Good grief...I could understand it if GM produced world leading quality cars, but when only 1 of its offerings can crash the Top 10, and it's not from Cadillac, we consumers are looking elsewhere for a car maker. To boot.. job tenure actually reduces the incentives to make better products.. hey.. maybe we ought to look into eliminating "tenure" within our public schools as well since "better quality" IS the goal...

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Online story: "The head of the New York Police Department's union has called for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films after the director took part in an anti-police protest Saturday, four days after one of New York's Finest was murdered by a suspect he was pursuing." -- Just add Quarantino to Starbucks, Arby's and Duncan Donuts, and movies with Fonda, Damon, Glover and Alec Baldwin plus music of Bruce, Madonna, Katy and Adam Levine to the "avoid at all cost" list.

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Jonathan Gruber incredulously stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Hillary Clinton is counting on the educated, thinking people to vote for her, not the brain-dead Republicans." -- Good grief.. just the thought of anyone associating "thinking" people supporting HILLsbury DOUGHgirl is pure folly...

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Another Jonathan Gruber incredulously stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " The poverty and the pain inflicted on us by the one percent and their Republican henchmen are shameful and unforgivable." -- Good grief.. will some one ask this idiot whether he would like to be part of the 1% or remain among the group that $22,000,000,000,000.00 (hey, Dumbocrat,, that's 22 TRILLION dollars) has been spent on Democratic Party poverty programs that still have him in poverty...

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Hmmm... now that Webb and Chafee have left the Democratic Party list of candidates, and Biden has rejected running.. it's a cinch there cannot be a Democrat debate held on Guam hosted by Rep Hank Johnson (D-GA4).. That much liberalism in one spot would tip Guam over...

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Tell you what.. Trump and Carson should team up.. Trump should announce that when he wins, he will appoint Carson as Secretary of Education and the goal, after getting Public Education back on track, will be to shut the DOE down and give state and local authorities control of their schools.

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L-E headline: "SCHOOL BANS LARGE BOOK BAGS, WEARING CAMOUFLAGE - Possible gang activity, increasing discipline problems causes restrictions" -- Hmmm.. two things.. how can there be gang activity when the  at least 6 of School Board members believe every thing Mayor ObamaLYINGson says, and the Mayor is on record saying we have no gang problems.. and as far as banning large book bags.. banning large books would be a better and less costly option...

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L-E headline: "Lawsuit seeks third option besides male, female on passports * " -- Oooops, my bad.. thought it had to be Caitlin...

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Good grief.. a letter to the editor from someone who lives in Alabama is suggesting "we" build a train bridge over the roads at the "spider web" at the Buena Vista/St Mary's, Brennan Road intersection. He does mention such be built at a 1 or 2% "grade so trains could handle it.. Good grief.. train tracks have a rule of thumb that grades be limited to 1% (in this case. 1 ft per 100 feet) PER 100 feet.. does this letter writer (who has zero interest in Columbus' business) know how much it will cost to raise 4000 feet (2000 up and 2000 back down), plus the forever altering the view for homeowners along the way? And what about the effect it would have on any other streets that the current railway track currently crosses?

http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/grades-and-curves

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You know.. why should we trust Mayor ObamaLYINGson or the Tax Assessor's office with anything to do with property taxes/freezes/evaluations.. the house next to me is very similar in build and square footage, and has been sold twice (and on the market again as we speak) yet, though the price is lower than mine when I bought it in 2003. Being sold at a lower price means it still pays lower taxes than I do. How come the Mayor or the Tax Assessor didn't voluntarily lower my taxes and home evaluation? Now, do you think removing the freeze will change this.. no way.. they would "up" the evaluation in order to get more taxes (this is what happened that brought on the freeze), but lowering it.. no way...

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L-E headline/story: ":MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD * Board member to conduct second forum * Kia Chambers, the nine-member Muscogee County School Board’s lone citywide representative, will conduct her second public forum this week. * “I was elected to represent all Muscogee County citizens on the school board,” Chambers wrote in the release." -- " “I was elected to represent all Muscogee County citizens on the school board"? Hmmm.. funny.. I can't recall one of her votes that I feel represents me.. or one that represents the needs of the students...

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Hmmm.. I've got $1.42 in my pocket,,, hmmm.. do I buy a daily Columbus Ledger-Enquirer or a share of McClatchy stock.. probably the share of stock as it has print that doesn't rub of and ruin my clothes.