Online headline: "Donald Trump says he regrets some comments he's made" -- Hmmm...A sign of a good man... and he's one-upped Hellary.. sorta "Trumped" her.

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Online headline: "State Department: $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on US prisoner release" -- Good grief.. Guess it depends on how Slick Willie's friends and family define" contingent"...like any kidnapping solution, "contingent" means paying the ransom.

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Online headline/story: "Bible removed from officer's desk for sparking controversy * For some time, Maj. Steve Lewis, an officer stationed at Colorado's Peterson Air Force Base, had displayed an open Bible on his desk, notes FOX News. * He recently removed it in an effort to avoid making people uncomfortable " -- "uncomfortable"? Wait a minute.. and what about the feelings of people who found COMFORT in SEEING the Bible there?And what about people who are suffering and seeking answers and comfort? THis purge by government entities has got to stop!

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From the "gimmee a break" department: Just flipping through channels looking for Olympic competition, and came across "wimmins wrasslin". No wonder facility seats are empty and TV ratings are dismal. Maybe someone can add some Jell-O into the pit.

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Wanna poll.. here's one that CNN doesn't carry: http://makeamericagreattoday.com/national-poll-trump-leading-67-hillarys-19-50000-voters/

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One of the benefits of "the Freeze" is that it allows owners to hire contractors to fix up their home to suit their needs without raising their own taxes. You do this to tailor your home to your family needs because you're not looking to move.. If the Freeze is "melted", improving your home will raise your taxes which will increase your daily living expenses. Then, home owners will decide not to make improvements, so contractors and subcontractors will not be called. Then, those skilled workers will have to sell their homes on which they've made personal improvements at a loss. A "yes"vote is a potential death stroke to family security. Vote NO!

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Online headline/story: "Surging DeKalb property values cause higher taxes * Residential real property assessments are up 17 percent in DeKalb, 11 percent in Clayton, 10 percent in Fulton, 7 percent in Cobb and 6 percent in Gwinnett, according to preliminary figures. *  Deborah Sunday of Brookhaven will face even larger tax hikes than most of her neighbors. Sunday’s property tax bill rose by $1,321 last year, and by another $550.00 this year after her home’s assessment increased from $409,000 to $534,400 to $570,000, according to county property records." -- Below is the link to Ms. Sunday's property tax assessments The first one is current, . What government does not care about is that even though the property has arbitrarily "risen" in value, it's worth no more to Ms Sunday while she's living in it, and she has less dollars to maintain her property.. each year, so if she wants to sell it in 10 years , at the current rate of tax increases, she will be losing $44,000 plus dollars to keep it sales worthy at that time. Unlike government, Ms Sunday does not have the ability to create a "SPLOST to raise revenues to fix or replace her home.

http://taxcommissioner.dekalbcountyga.gov/PropertyAppraisal/ASMTNotice/Notice/2016/4/N1/4306854.pdf

http://taxcommissioner.dekalbcountyga.gov/PropertyAppraisal/ASMTNotice/Notice/2015/4/N1/4306854.pdf

http://taxcommissioner.dekalbcountyga.gov/PropertyAppraisal/ASMTNotice/Notice/2014/4/N1/4306854.pdf

Ms Sunday's taxes have escalated from $5,444 in 2014 to $6,744 in 2015 to $7,294 this year.. This is what can, and WILL happen if the Freeze is voted off.

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How can any one..even Hellary herself claim the FBI declared her innocent...what the FBI said was that it was not going to charge her with specific crimes because Comey didn't believe she had "INTENTIONALLY" broken the law. First, since when is ignorance of a law an acceptable excuse. Secondly, any one, especially a lawyer, generally knows when their actions are illegal.

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You know, if a new referendum were on the ballot directing that all the Lottery revenues be sent to K-12 education versus colleges, , K-12 would probably improve, and college education costs would drop drastically as there would be no need to remedial classes/professors, and oddball degrees would be dropped.

 

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L-E headline/story: "Death row inmate loses appeal * Leon Tollette was sentenced in 1997 and 19 years later, his pleas for appeal fail. * Leon Tollette was appealing only the death penalty a jury gave him, as he pleaded guilty to killing Brinks guard John Hamilton during a robbery on Dec. 21, 1995, when Tollette approached Hamilton from behind and shot him four times, once in the head, and fled with the money bag Hamilton had. * Finally Robert Oliver, a police officer accompanied by a cadet, confronted Tollette, who tried to shoot at Oliver, too, but had no more live rounds in his revolver. He dropped the gun and surrendered.  *  Tollette never went to trial for the crime itself. Instead, he pleaded guilty Nov. 3, 1997, to murder, armed robbery, being a convicted felon with a firearm, using a firearm to commit a crime and two counts of aggravated assault. * He had only a sentencing trial for a jury to decide whether he should get life with parole, life without parole or death. On Nov. 11, 1997, jurors sentenced him to death. * He since has filed repeated appeals claiming ineffective assistance of counsel and numerous procedural errors." -- Caught red-handed.. AND with gun in hand trying to cause more death, and some judge allowed an appeal based on "ineffective assistance of counsel"? Good grief.. the (_*_) played his cards about pleading guilty in hopes a jury might have sympathy since he confessed he was guilty as hell. , and we've been paying for boarding him for 19 years and feeding his attorneys,,And liberals are confused why felons aren't scared of being arrested? A certain death will do more to creating the "fear of death" before a criminal kills to begin with.

 

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You know, the basic difference between a legal held and a non-legally held gun, is that the owner of a legally held gun feels empowered to protect his/her family/self, while the possessor of an illegally held gun feel empowered to cause crimes. It ain't the guns....

 

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Hillary Clinton’s family foundation will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if she is elected president, and will bring an end to its annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting regardless of the outcome of the November election.

 

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L-E story: "During the recent meeting between Sheriff John Darr and Columbus Council to discuss budget overruns in the sheriff’s office, Councilor Skip Henderson said it was good to see everyone “pull on the same end of the rope.”" --  Since the real issue is about budget overruns caused by federal court.. maybe state, too, mandates for prisoner health issues, then the only reason Mayor TomLYINGson has for hitting on Darr is that she wants someone else to be sheriff, and she can;t just fire him. TomLYINGson is the real issue here.. perhaps a recall is due.

 

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L-E headline: "Georgia unemployment rate takes a dip during July" -- Of course unemployment "takes a dip during July".. part time and summer jobs for teens and other to fill in for full timers' vacation time, and businesses connected to the rush of summer users need them..check back in September when these temp jobs stop.

 

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 L-E editorial comment: "The sound of the rapids on the Chattahoochee between Columbus and Phenix City is drowning out the hecklers. A nice sound already, that makes it an especially sweet one. * We all know the hecklers. We know some of them by name." -- "them"? heh heh heh...guess I do sound like an army at times because I have big bullets to unload.

 

You know, even the Columbus Black Rodeo could make a profit if it didn't have to pay for using the publicly owned Civic Center.. that's basically what Whitewater Express is getting by using the Chattahoochee course paid for by mostly tax dollars.

Earlier this week, I posted the following in response to a roe]s-tainted view published by the L-E.. The L-E calls it cynicism because it can't pick the facts apart:
L-E story:"Chattahoochee River, outfitter Whitewater Express is closing in on its 100,000 rafter. * They are running a contest from now until the milestone customer runs the river. Called “Play 4 1K,” everyone who rafts the river will be signed up for a raffle in which one person will win $1,000 in a drawing after the goal is hit, which should be in late September. * Through last weekend, more than 95,000 people have gone down the 2.5-mile run since Memorial Day Weekend 2013 when the nearly $25 million-project opened to the public." -- Hmmm... Let's see,, 100,000.00 users at say about $50.00 a pop equals $5,000,000.00 in revenues for Whitewater Express.. Whitewater Express pays our two city governments a fee of 3.5% (there are no state or city LOST/SPLOST/Sales taxes collected. From that $5,000,000.00, a total of $175,000.00 is split.. SPLIT (though haven't seen "per city" amounts).. between Columbus and Phenix City.. there's been an "investment by some public donations and mostly GA and Columbus tax dollars of $25,000.000.00 to build this arena. That means the total Return On Investment for the two cities is .007 percent.. Ask your retirement advisor how long that percent of return would it take to make your nest egg investment to pay off for you.
You know.. you'd think the L-E would be aware of expenses to revenue issues.. The L-E let it's office building go to pot before getting bailed out by CSU's Foundation buying it for more than should have been paid..