Online story: "CHICAGO (Reuters) -- The mayor of Chicago and the city's police chief said Thursday nearly a third of the recommendations outlined by a panel last week will be implemented immediately to reform a police force under fire for racial bias and the use of excessive force. * "As a city, we cannot rest until we fully address the systemic issues facing the Chicago Police Department," " -- "we cannot rest until we fully address the systemic issues facing the Chicago Police Department"? Good grief..with the numbers soaring over last years pace of people shot and killed, pulling the teeth of the police is going to help? Well, I guess a lot of policemen will REST better as they will pretty have to  be hanging around their headquarters until the gun smoke dust settles.

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From the "look what I ran across" department: The first woman to run for president of the US was a Victoria Woodhull back in 1872, as the nominee for the Equal Rights Party.. Of course there was a lot  of opposition but it wasn't necessary.. Woodhull was only 34 and our Constitution requires a president to be a minimum of 35 year's old..and we know no woman (other than using a fake ID to get into a night club) would lie upward about her age.

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Prince is dead at 57. Looks like it's drug related. When will "they" learn.

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No wonder the housingmarket is struggling here, and it has nothing to do with the tax freeze. I am in the midst of buying a condo here, and wanted to write a check. Guess what..I was just told not only was that against the law, but I have to wire the money and the transaction has to go through Homeland Security to see if I'm part of a known terrorist organization. Vote for Trump and as often as you can!

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Another property transaction I wanted to make was basically changing my mortgage carrier from one investment banking house to the one who now owns the brokerage house I've used for over 25 years. You'd think with a 13 year in house record of mortgage account, the process would be a seamless signature transaction, but I learned it would take upwards of 45 days of jumping through hoops. At my age, I don't jump through hoops.

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Had the opportunity to hear one of the Republican candidates vying for Congressman Westmoreland's seat being vacated. The list looks pretty good but Mike Crane deserves your attention and vote. This is a driven man with a calling who we will be proud of representing us. Remember... Mike Crane for District 3.

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Today, I saw one of the worst abuses of our tax dollars happen at Sam's. Two women, probably a mother & daughter were checking out. Box after box of individually packed chips, cookies, candy bars, crackers, probaby 15 or 16 boxes, were scanned in and stacked in their cart. probably $200/$250 bucks worth..then out came the green EBT card. There wasn't a protein or dairy or fruit item in purchase. In fact, it looked like they were buying inventory to stock a concessions stand. Surely EBT purchases are monitored for such obvious abuses like this..bet the GA Department of Revenue hasn't seen a record of any sales taxes being reported or paid from the card owner.... and Sam's should have some responsibility in stopping purchase abuses like this.

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Tell you what, if I see a male go into a bathroom following the women/girls of my family, I'm going in too, and the pervert male will come out equipped like a woman.

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Online headline: "High court expresses doubts about drunk driving laws" -- Good grief.. guess the Supreme Court is so surrounded and numbed by "power/spending/taxing" drunken Congresspersons that it cannot distinguish the difference.

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L-E story: "A judge has rejected appeals from two Muscogee sheriff candidates disqualified after they missed a deadline to submit fingerprints for a criminal background check. *  “I have reviewed the Court file and considered the argument made by you on Tuesday,” Judge J. Richard Porter III of Cairo wrote in an email to the attorneys involved. “I have determined that the decision of the Board of Elections should be affirmed.” -- Let's keep this judge.. he didn't try to change earlier decisions. Now, I hope the Sheriff sends out collectors to get reimbursed what these appeals cost us taxpayers.

 

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " It is sad that with all the qualified people out there who could be president, we need to choose between Crooked Clinton and Tacky Trump." -- Then it's a no-brainer.. Vote Trump.. no where in the 10 Commandments does it say, "Thou Shall Not Be Tacky".. I heard Dr G. Othell Hand say this one time when the fashion police were grumbling 50 years ago.

 

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L-E Letter: " Thank you community for supporting the Homeless Resource Network’s efforts to connect people experiencing homelessness with the information and services needed to end their homelessness. The Homeless Resource Network served over 1,000 unique people experiencing homelessness in our community during the last year." -- "over 1000 unique people"? Wait a minute,, I thought Mayor TomLYINGson reported our "homeless" count was down to 150?

 

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Wait a minute.. there was an attempted "home invasion" yesterday morning in the neighborhood close to mine..shots were fired... there's no mention in the crime  reports in the L-E.. Selective journalism? No.. inept censoring!