A fellow BCer brought up a question for Mayor TomLYINGson to answer..In the last 30 years of no job growth, did the tax freeze or cheap foreign labor send all our mill jobs overseas? I'd like to throw her another question...how come the principles at the WC Bradley Charbroil Division a stay in their "tax freeze" homes when they sent all their grill production (and mainstream jobs) to China?

 

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From another fellow BCer: If her majesty (Queen TT) was as concerned about reducing crime as she is about lifting the freeze there would be no crime in Columbus. Anyone who thinks property taxes will be reduced if the freeze is lifted I have some Pacific Ocean beach front property in Arizona I'd like to sell you or you can buy the thirteen street bridge and make a toll road out of it.

 

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Since we're talking about tax revenues, would someone from the MCSD/MCSB tell us exactly how much SPLOST tax revenue has been received into the school system from ticket sales at Whitewater?  A la Jeopardy. "What is ZERO?"  For that matter, neither City LOST or the states T-SPLOST  gives a cent either.

 

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Hey Mayor TomLYINGson... how much in budget saving have "we" realized in fuel savings with gas being so much lower than when your budget was made? (Smile.. I know you get all of the BC blog info I post)

 

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Online story: " Hurricanes in the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans will grow more than twice as powerful and damaging as ocean temperatures rise from global warming, a new study says. * Warming seas could produce more rainfall and far more destructive storm surges of water along the ocean shorelines in the next 50 to 100 years, said the study by U.S. scientists published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. * "It could affect the entire Atlantic coast," said William Lau, a co-author and research associate at the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center." -- Hurricanes have been "tracked" since 1851... Pop Test: Are "double digit" annual hurricanes in the North Atlantic a product of "Global Warming/Climate Change"?  No cheating... and especially, no checking with Algore or the NERO-bamageddon Administration.. Grant you, 2005 leads with 15, and there were 10 & 12 in 2012 & 2010 respectfully, but there have been 10 other years in which "double digit Hurricanes" have been recorded.. 1969 saw 12, , and there were 11 each in 1995, 1950, and 1887, while 1998, 1933, 1916, 1896, 1886, and 1870 saw 10 apiece..somehow, I do not think the science world  thought "man" was responsible for the hurricanes of most of these years with high hurricane activity, and if weather recorders then had today's detection instuments, there would probably been more storms designated as Hurricanes then than today.

 

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From the "stupid is as stupid does" department - Online headline: "FBI's 9 most wanted fugitives are still on the run" -- DOH! If the FBI is still looking for them, of course they are "on the run"... and will be until caught!

Oh, by the way, Jada Pinkett Smith, there are no blacks among the FBI's 9 most wanted fugitives.. are you going to complain about that as well?

 

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Oh, has anybody heard if our Police Department has captured/arrested the third suspect in the brutal triple homicide in Upatoi? Hey, maybe we can get Jada Pinkett Smith to put the suspects picture on the FBI list!

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Jada Pinkett Smith... name me one white person nominated for the BET Awards, or one white contestant in the Miss Black America pageant...

 

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Jada Pinkett Smith... who ya gonna vote for in the Democratic primary... the white Socialist male..the white Socialist (what difference does it make) female, or the other white stage prop that keeps JILLary in the center of the stage in debates?

 

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Online headline/story: "Harvard just proposed a radically new approach to college admissions in America *

The Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report Wednesday endorsed by dozens of other schools that proposes radical changes to the way colleges evaluate prospective students. * The proposal seeks to make college admissions less of a rat race that favors well-off students, and it has three specific recommendations to achieve this goal:

 

Promoting more meaningful contributions to others, community service and engagement with the public good.

Assessing students' ethical engagement and contributions to others in ways that reflect varying types of family and community contributions across race, culture and class.

Redefining achievement in ways that both level the playing field for economically diverse students and reduce excessive achievement pressure.

Despite colleges' efforts to have diverse student bodies, students from poor families are still rare on the campuses of elite colleges in America

 

Hmmmm... guess Harvard is eliminating "keeping score by grades"...

 

I can only surmise that Harvard is feeling an economic pinch that alumni are finding it harder to make a sizable donation so their offspring will get preferential admission treatments, and they don't have grades/GPAs to qualify on their own.

 

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Online headline: "One-third of voters like 'nothing' about Trump presidency * Gallup polled over 1,000 Americans to ask what they thought would be the most positive thing about the GOP front-runner if he won in November." -- Hmm..wonder what a Gallop Poll would show about any of G.I. JILLary's voters knowing anything worthwhile she has accomplished... Oh.. they did one and the answer was "zero".

 

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Thinking about something Joe Biden said....Biden says he owns no stocks .. Think about that.. how can someone who influences the economy of this nation not owning any stocks.. What can he know about the effects his decisions make/made on the successes of businesses and that affect on the savings/retiement accounts of

 

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Congressman Bishop (D-GA) sent out his 2015 "accomplishments".. He sent them in "poster" form rather than in typed form... guess he figures the constituency cannot read/

Well, other than giving tours, traveling and signing on to other people's bills.. what did he do last year? I did notice that he left the number of tax fundedchecks he distributed to "pork projects" off this list.

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Online headline: "Broncos player calls Brady a 'whiner'" - Good grief.. is this suppose to be some SuperBowl L(loser) hype? Guess we can expect Brady to respond that the Bronco player is nothing but a "neigh-sayer".

 

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Online headline: "Alarming amount of college grads think Judge Judy serves on SCOTUS" -- Well we can wish, can't we?

 

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Online story: "U.S. Senate Democrats narrowly blocked legislation on Wednesday that would slow the entry of refugees from Syria and Iraq into the United States in a contentious vote cloaked in presidential election-year politics. *  The vote was 55-43, with "yes" votes falling short of the 60 needed to advance the Republican-backed measure in the 100-member Senate. No Republicans voted against the bill, and only two Democrats backed it.  * Republicans said the tighter screening was essential to ensure the safety of Americans and prevent attacks within the country by Islamic State and other militant groups. * Democrats called the legislation an attack on people who are fleeing war." -- "an attack on people who are fleeing war"?  Good grief..let's parse reality...

1 - It over 6,700 miles to get to America.. Syria abuts Iraq, and Iraq abuts Saudia Arabia 

2 - Republicans want tight screening of individual refugees to prove they are not terrorist invaders

3 - All but 2 Democrats want to allow such terrorist to come and go as they please.

 

Show your preference..." terrorists out or terrorists in" when you go to vote this year!

 

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Online story:"A contractor in Louisiana is discovering that no good deed goes unpunished. After David Mahler, the owner of H&O Investments, was hired by the city of New Orleans to remove monuments to the rebellious Confederate States of America, he was subjected to death threats. Then his Lamborghini was set on fire. * What's bizarre here is the sequence of events. The death threats started rolling in after Mahler was announced as the city's contractor to remove monuments to Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, PGT Beauregard, and Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis. Then the threatening phone calls started rolling in, New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU reports. Mahler then pulled his company out of the job, but that didn't stop the torching of the new Huracán" -- Wait a minute.. what about the removal of the "White Man's League Memorial? You would think that it would have deserved removal far more urgently than stautes of 3 generals. Maybe it's because the White Man's League  was an element of the Democratic Party, and current Democrats are trying to dodge history and the truth.

 

Collaborative info: "The White League, also known as the White Man's League,[1] was an American white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in 1874 to turn Republicans out of office and intimidate freedmen from voting and political organizing. Affiliated with the Democratic Party, its first chapter was formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana and neighboring parishes, made up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873. Chapters were soon founded in New Orleans and other areas of the state. Active during the later years of Reconstruction, it was one of the paramilitary groups described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party."[2] Through violence and intimidation, its members suppressed Republican voting and contributed to the Democrats' taking control of the Louisiana Legislature in 1876.[2] * After white Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1876, members of the White Leagues were absorbed into the state militias and the National Guard.[3]

 

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Online headline: "President Obama takes aim at 'dark money' in politics * The president is considering taking executive action to force mega-corporations to outline their political campaign contributions." -- Hmmm... well,how about NERO-bamageddon getting the ball rolling by disclosing how he paid for his college education.

 

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Online headline: "US agencies say 2015 was hottest on record, shatters records" -- You know.. how come none of these "maps" or data bases compare Southern Hemisphere weather compared to the corresponding  longitude/latitudes in the Norhern Hemisphere?

 

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Online "headLIE": "Evidence suggests 9th planet lurks at edge of our solar system" -- Wait a minute,, wasn't planet status restored to Pluto? Wouldn't another planet be number 10?

 

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Online headline: "Georgia senator: Pot laws snare too many blacks" -- Hmmm.. well, how about telling us an acceptable number?

 

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Online headline: "Education groups lining up to fight Georgia governor's plan for failing schools " -- DOH! This alone tells us the Governor's plans already don't go far enough.. Not surprisingly.. the "education groups"are State and local school boards and associations.. they are the ones that will have their only power stripped.. being able to distribute money and assign bids to contractors.. It also means that the Governor should demand forensic audits on every school board/school system .. beginning with the first complainers.

 

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Online headline: "Rep. Hank Johnson takes aim at private probation companies " -- What... is he afraid they will tip over?

 

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L-E story: "Along with approving the $56 million budget for a new Spencer High School, the Muscogee County School Board also authorized the purchase of 9.23 acres, which contain Country Village Apartments on Cusseta Road, for $525,000 to expand the land for the new school and a multi-sport athletics complex that will be constructed next to it.  * The late Tuesday vote on the new Spencer budget was 6-2. First-term board members John Thomas of District 2 and Frank Myers of District 8 said they were opposed because Superintendent David Lewis’ recommendation didn’t include a guarantee of local contractors nor oversight of cost overruns." -- Thomas and Myers are right.. everything possible should be done to distribute work to local companies so that money paid out will recirulate in Columbus and participate in paying the SPLOST taxes that will pay for the totally unnecessary new Spencer.

 

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From above story: " • $180,000 for construction testing.  •  $25,000 for environmental and geotechnical expenses.   •  $25,000 for surveying" -- You would think that the MCSD would have tested the soil and such  BEFORE buying/acquiring the land, and before using that site to sway voters during the referendum.

 

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Double incredibly stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Obama is not “leaving a mess” for the next president. He inherited a mess, and very few on Capitol Hill have tried to help him clean it up." -- Well the ones that could have helped in his first two years were all Democrats.. and when the voters replaced those Congress members with Republicans, NERO-bamageddon pulled the "welcome mat" from the White House door.

 

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Dense and stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Every last vote from the House of Representatives is straight down the party line. Get rid of these people in the next election and get someone new. Doesn’t matter if they are Republican or Democrat.: -- It's not quite that simple.. it seems the votes go along the "what's good for America" line, and the Democrats are just on the wrong side on those votes.

 

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Another incredibly stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " These supposedly educated, intelligent people seem to think they are always correct and must lead us illiterate masses by the nose because we aren’t smart enough to breathe. Heaven help us if they are elected." -- Yopu know.. if you let someone lead you around by your nose, you probably deserve your lot in life.. the remedy is just not stick your nose up any orifice that can grasp on to it..

 

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Potentially a LIV's L-E "soundoff" that would serve the public good if "tweaked" a bit: " Leave Bill & Hillary alone and get a life of your own." -- How about if we leave JILLary alone with Bill for about 15 minutes in the closet off the Oval Office following the Vermont primary?

 

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L-E story: "Abortion and race, two of America’s most volatile topics, have intersected in recent flare-ups related to the disproportionately high rate of abortion among black women. *  In Congress, Rep. Sean Duffy, a white Republican from rural Wisconsin, lambasted black members of Congress for failing to decry these high abortion numbers. *  The next day, Rep. Gwen Moore, a black Democrat from Milwaukee, fired back — accusing Duffy and his GOP colleagues of caring about black children only before they are born." -- Hmmm... OK. Democrat Congressperson Moore.. would show us exactly how you have cared about black children after they are born? Have you made their education path better? Have you improved job opportunities for the parents of these babies? Have you made it safer or the babies to grow up in neighborhoods? You brought it up.. tell us what you've personally done...