From the "bias? what bias?" department - Online headline/story: "Donald Trump reportedly explodes at media bigwigs in off-record meeting *  President-elect Donald Trump on Monday reportedly lashed out at several top media executives and their outlets in a high-profile meeting, according to The New York Post. *  "Trump kept saying, 'We're in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong.' He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was [a] network of liars," a source told the Post. *  Kellyanne Conway, Trump's senior adviser who ran his presidential campaign, called the meeting "excellent" and "unprecedented," praising the fact that it was arranged in two days. * Conway later denied that Trump lashed out at the media during the meeting. *  "By the way, it's an off the record meeting, so whoever said that and mischaracterized it should think twice." -- "reportedly explodes"? Hmmm.. and if "they: were "reporting" about an off-the-record meeting with Hellary, "they" would have said, "allegedly" exploded...if "they" mentioned it at all.

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Another from the "bias? what bias?" department - HuffPOOPOO headline: " It's Official: Donald Trump's First 100 Days Will Be Horrible For The Planet" -- Huh? What's happened with "allegedly"?  While I actually detest its overuse  when facts are KNOWN, it's especially offensive when it's NOT used when facts are NOT KNOWN!

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Online headline/story: "Macy's is about to close more stores  *  The retailer revealed plans in August to shut down 100 stores in early 2017 as it battles slowing sales and growing online competition." -- "slowing sales"? Well.. dropping Trump lines of merchandise last year seems to have hurt Macy's more than Trump.. Macy's has found out that it's customers not only vote with their wallets, they voted for Trump as our next president.

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Online story: "According to a Morning Consult poll of registered voters, Trump's approval rating has jumped 9 points, to 46 percent, up from 37 percent just before Election Day. The percentage of registered voters who disapprove of the president-elect has dropped from 61 percent to 46 percent." -- Hmm.. sorta amazing what happens when mainscream media stops running Hellary's smear ads and lies...

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Online headline: "Norway Donations To Clinton Foundation To Fall Nearly 90% Off Peak" -- Hmm.. as predictable.. now I'm waiting for the reactions of Islamic terrorist countries when they find that the Clintons are not going to give then=m refunds they made in i=anticipation of her winning the White House..

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Online headline: "Pelosi challenger Tim Ryan: I'm 'pulling the fire alarm' because 'house is burning down' and we might 'cease being a national party'" -- Well.. he's "right".. only a day late and a 10 Trillion dollars short...I cannot remember when the Democratic Party represented the whole nation rather than hundreds of individual groups/special interests/fragments.

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Talk about potential mainscream media confusion.. if Tim Ryan wins the Minority Speaker job from Pelosi, both of the House Speakers, will be named Ryan, and mainscream media will trip all over itself in confusion.

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I'm still PO'd at the cast of Hamilton accusing Pence and Trump of exactly what the cast wasn't doing..being tolerant. You know, throughout the campaign,  only Trump and Pence were reaching out to all, while Hellary and mainscream media excoriated Trump supporters by referring to them as "deplorable", "irredeemable", and/or "ignorant". Well, it looks like OUR DIVERSITY not only BEAT theirs, our diversity is the tolerant one.

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Though "thinking" really isn't the appropriate word, what was the GA DOT thinking yesterday...traffic on Veterans was one lane and cars were backed up from Whittlesey to West Britt David Rd  and from the J.R. Allen Parkway to Whittlesey Road in the other.

Come on Council.. Legislative Delegation.. give the merchants and shoppers a BREAK! This is the 5th straight Thanksgiving weekend that such inconvenience has been forced on our community. Give the GA DOT the week off! In fact, Give'em the rest of the year off.. Let merchants have a break.. who knows, the additional sales volumn will probably generate enough new sales taxes to benefit the City, State, and MCSD!

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Online headline: "Howard Dean rips Bannon apart in scathing interview" -- Howard Dean? Didn't the Democrat Party determine that Howard Dean "didn't play well with others.. Democrats, even" during the 2004 Democratic Party primaries? Whatta (_*_)!

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Interesting....Trump is getting scrutinized because his wife and son are planning to live in NYC at their fabulous home so their youngest son can continue at the current school he now attends.. Now, on the other hand, Obama is renting a Washington mansion so his youngest daughter can finish school where she currently attends, and the mainscream media is "mum".

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I'm trying.. (though the system is really TRYING me) to use the Columbus State University CougarNet to pay for my children's Spring tuition.. and I noticed this on the CSU site:

Welcome to Columbus State University's CougarNet.
Future and current students use CougarNet for ISIS (Integrated Student Information System) to check:

How insensitive.. how STUPID .. is it for a university to use ISIS as an acronym for American students to associate with? What is the plan.. to recruit students to ISIS?

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Online story: "Two of Georgia’s most competitive schools — Georgia State and Augusta universities — will consider admitting immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status, starting in the spring of next year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned." -- Let's STOP this in its tracks! WE see just above that our university system LOOKS like it commiserates with ISIS, and now some of our universities are going to basically admit unvetted illegal aliens/refugees INTO them..

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From the "Democrat Tim Ryan (I'm 'pulling the fire alarm' because 'house is burning down' and we might 'cease being a national party) is right" department - Online headline/story: "Mass. college stops flying U.S. flag after students say its a symbol of racism, hatred * The day after the election, some people at Hampshire College reacted to news of Donald Trump's victory by calling for removal of the American flag at the center of campus, saying it was a symbol of racism and hatred. That night, some lowered it. And the following night - sometime before dawn on Veterans Day - people burned it. * The flag was quickly replaced, but the college board announced it would be flown at half-staff, "both to acknowledge the grief and pain experienced by so many and to enable the full complexity of voices and experiences to be heard." * Lowering the flag to half-staff offended many, and the backlash was immediate, especially from veterans and military families who saw it as disrespectful of the tradition of national mourning. * On Friday, Lash told the campus community that its efforts to convey respect and sorrow had had the opposite effect, and announced that the college would remove the flag entirely." --  hmmm..no Federal flag, no federal funds, and as a parent.. no funds either..

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L-E headline: "Columbus’ drought is killing trees and boosting fire danger" -- Hmmm... how ironic that the L-E is reporting this..while the continued printing of the Columbus L-E is not only killing, but WASTING trees..

 

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Just remember children, if you lie to people, and make promises that you know that you can’t keep, you can become President of the U.S.A." -- Hmmm.. just another lib who is having a tantrum that Hellary and her lies ("promises") did not win.. Hey, libs, the good news is that you will be better off in 4..8  years BECAUSE Hellary didn't win!

 

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Together 2016 is putting up "markers" along the Martin Luther King, Jr Walking TRail.. I do hope.. pray... the markers are "accurate".. I remember the 1996 Black Heritage Tour brochure/markers that were not "vetted" before being printed/erected, and a number of them were untruths about local history.. one was removed altogether.. another one has been exposed, but it still "exists" because some people just want it to exist.