Online headline: "Trump and Clinton respond to courts ruling on travel ban * The president and his former Democratic rival had vastly different responses to an appeals court decision not to reinstate the travel ban" -- First.. and I repeat, it's not a "travel" ban, it's a temporary "ENTRY"  ban, but there's a bigger issue .. these folks so opposed of our vetting refugees/"travelers" from the unstable 7 countries are mostly the same folks who are hoping that God has no vetting to enter into Heaven.

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I'm amazed at how much attention and fawning mainscream media is giving to Democratic Party Congressional people's "ideas" for new laws.. none of them will ever reach legislative action...

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I learned something this morning that shocked me.. Lady Gaga is only 30!  After seeing pictures of her dropping into the NRG stadium at the Super Bowl halftime show, I thought she was the same age as Madonna .. and trying to look as good as my wife does.. but without success.

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Senator Rubio orated about Senator Warren's uncalled for Senate Chamber impugning of Senator Session's character. Rubio said we are only country that can govern even though half the country hates the other half..I think Rubio needs straightening out. While liberals do openly demonstrate their hatred for conservatives, conservatives do not not do so in return..conservatives just correctly disagree and move on with keeping this country on the best path it can despite who has the majority political power.

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Does anyone else find it strange, no..hypocritical, that Democrats are suddenly concerned with ethics, when they steered clear of looking into the Clintons, Obama, or Charlie Rangel?

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After 14 or so years, just conducted my last account interaction with WOW..got my old number "ported" over to Spectrum/Charter, and paid my last bill. I tell you what, I didn't realize until Spectrum's service started how bad my "WOW" service was...gone are the interminable "sorry for the service interuption" messages we received daily, and for the first time, my WiFi router reaches all rooms of our home. To boot, I have a 3- year guarantee of the same price each month. Highly recommend if you have an option to change.

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Why does NY keep sending Upchuck Schmoozer back to the Senate? After years of having businesses leave NY because of high taxes , NY has lowered taxes and is advertising such seeking new/return businesses, but when have you seen Upchuck offer new tax cuts for the other 49 states? Or support Trump's plan to keep.. and bring back ..companies  by eliminating crippling tax structure and regulations.

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L-E headline: "GEORGIA GAMBLING * Columbus back in the game for casinos" -- Hmmm... sounds to be that a "Wright" good bit of money has been deposited in the "Wright" pockets and campaign accounts.. I guess, also, it the "Wright" person reaches the "Wright" persons, they will come up with a "Wright" answer. ...even when it's the WRONG one.

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From the "the contest is over" department -- We have a winner of the best L-E "soundoff" EVER: "Final request - When I die, I want two Falcons, two Braves and two Bulldogs to serve as pallbearers so they can let me down one last time. "

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A "close runner up" L-E "soundoff": "We need magnet schools required for all kids who don’t want an education, so students who do can get one. Until then, the only hope for poor parents stuck with failing schools is voucher programs." -- Amen, Brother!

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L-E story: " (Libba) Russell, a historian for the Muscogee County School District, noted that when the county was founded in 1826 and when Columbus was founded in 1828 neither included any public schools. The city’s first public school opened in 1867 and was for whites only, Russell said. The city’s first public school for blacks was opened in 1868, the former Claflin School, she said." -- Excuse me.. why is it that "historians" insist Claflin was the FIRST school in Columbus to educate blacks? There is a Historical marker on 1st Avenue (between 12th and 13th Streets" proclaiming the old theater as being the first school for blacks, and a Historical time line at the Springer stating that the Temperance Hall became the first school for blacks in 1866. Please.. everybody get the facts straight... or at least coordinated.

 

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On a purely local Columbus area basis.. the Exchange Club of Columbus is having a "All The Pancakes You Can Eat" breakfast fundraiser tomorrow at the Shrine Club on Edgewood Rd... Starts at 7:00 AM.. Adults $6.00, children (3-to-9) $3.00 Leave the Exchange Club a NICE tip, too... it does great things here in Columbus.

 

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L-E Commentary headline/content: "Does Columbus have a property or a sales tax problem? * the CCG Accountability Forum, led by Tollie Strode, one of the mayor’s most ardent critics. *  The group’s plans call for a reorganization of CCG finances and accounting; the reshaping of the “anemic” sales tax revenue structure; and responding to “systemic change” in city expenses. *  Strode said he based his analysis on data published in the city’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. * He says the city’s financial position has declined in recent years, with an 89 percent increase in spending since 2001 and a 39 percent increase in revenue. To address the problem, he recommended no increases in property taxes, which he described as regressive; a five-year moratorium on capital projects, with some exceptions; a freeze on hiring for some new positions; and rigorously testing Tax Allocation District projects based on sales tax and property tax justifications. * “We don’t have a property tax problem; we have a sales tax problem” he said. “And after all the investments that promised a return, we’re not seeing it.” --  Am I detecting an "about time" meltdown in the L-E's penchant to back Tom-LYING-son and Hugley regardless of the facts?  Having worked with Tollie Strode on the "Keep the Freeze" campaign, I know Tollie is well informed and well focused on his tasks.. maybe we can convince him to run for Mayor in 2018.

 

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L-E guest commentary headline: "ANALYSIS * Sessions faces a tough job at Justice * BY DEL QUENTIN WILBER * Tribune Washington Bureau" -- "Sessions faces a tough job"? WRONG.. Sessions has an easy job.. just uphold the Constitution as written. The folks with the "tough jobs" will be liberals having to relearn and re-accept what the Constitution really says.

 

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L-E headline/story: "Police searching for person who robbed Columbus Civic Center ATM * Police are searching for the person who broke into the Columbus Civic Center on Feb. 1 and robbed the ATM. * According to Columbus police, the crime occurred around 2:20 a.m." -- Surely the Civic Center has an alarm system and security videos... and it's what.. 10 blocks from the CPD?

 

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From the "I gotta print this Columbus L-E editorial  verbatim" department:

 

 "HISTORY ON THE MOVE

 

Even as you read this, perhaps the most iconic of all Georgia historic and artistic treasures is rolling through the streets of Atlanta.

 

The Cyclorama — the massive panoramic oil painting that depicts in epic detail the Battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1864 — is being moved from Grant Park, its home since 1921, to a new facility built specially for it at the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead.

 

The 359-foot-long, 42-foot-high, 12-ton painting will undergo intensive restoration, as will the diorama that for decades has filled the space between the canvas and the viewers. (The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported a detail that probably few of us knew — the diorama was a New Deal work project of the mid-1930s, a half-century after the painting’s 1886 debut.)

 

A trip to the Cyclorama at Grant Park has been a rite of educational passage for more of us who grew up in this area than we could even begin to estimate. But the almost century-old building’s leaks and its temperature and humidity fluctuations have caused the exhibit to deteriorate toward a point of no return.

 

Its new climate-controlled exhibit building is the centerpiece of a $35 million project to save a priceless and irreplaceable American monument. We wish it a safe and uneventful trip to its new home."

 

Wanna bet than when it's time to re-open the exhibit in its new "home", the L-E will join in a protest that excoriates the "priceless and irreplaceable American monument" as racist because there are Confederate Flags in it?