Please pray in God's honor.. about 2,000 years ago today, His Son.. our Savior, Jesus Christ, , was scourged and crucified. This selfless sacrifice was.. is .. our salvation.

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Online headline: "Canada introduces legislation to legalize recreational marijuana" -- Hmmm... now maybe all those "celebrity libs" who promised to leave if Trump won... WILL!

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A "MOAB" (Massive Ordnance Air Blast - and commonly known as "Mother Of All Bombs") was dropped on the cave/tunnel district of Afghanistan yesterday. It basically collapsed the cave/tunnel system of al Qaeda/Taliban/ISIS used for terrorist strategy. Kim Jong Oooops does not feel as safe in his underground nuclear developing lab this morning.

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MOAB...Mother of all bombs....To liberals, yesterday's was a dud compared to the "mother of all bombs
Hellary's defeat hit them with.

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Online headline: "State offers $3.1 million incentive to finish I-85 bridge early" -- Wait a minute.. do we want that section finished "faster" or "finer"? How about penalties for finishing "late" or "flawed" instead? As for a "financial incentive", tell the construction company it will get priority treatment on a future project if it finishes earlier and on specs.

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From the "let's not give those Berkeley campus protesters of 1st Amendment rights for conservatives any ideas" department - Online story: "A mob beat a Pakistani student to death at his university campus on Thursday after he was accused of sharing blasphemous content on social media, university and police officials said. * A group of about 10 students shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack on fellow student Mashal Khan, who was stripped naked and beaten with planks until his skull caved in as other students looked on, video obtained by Reuters showed. *  Blasphemy is a highly sensitive topic in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where insulting the Prophet Mohammed is a capital crime that has hundreds languishing on death row and where even an accusation can lead to violence." -- Good grief.. can you imagine the death rate on golf courses if a golfer lets a "Allahdamnit" slip out of his/her mouth after a missed shot?

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From the "let's dodge the COMPLETE truth" department - "Online story: "Candidates and outside groups have spent nearly $14 million on an unending ad blitz in the race to replace Rep. Tom Price’s suburban Atlanta seat, and that tally that will surely grow in the final days before Tuesday’s nationally-watched vote. * An analysis of the advertising obtained by the AJC shows the biggest spender by far is Democrat Jon Ossoff, a former Congressional aide who is eyeing a historic upset in next week’s vote." -- "Democrat John Ossoff, a former Congressional aide"?  Wait a minute.. Ossoff is NOT just ANY former "Congressional aide".. he was Democrat Hank Johnson's (D-GA) "former aide".. you know Hank.. the embarrassing Congressman who said the island of Guam would tip over if we moved all of our military equipment there onto the US base there.

 

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L-E headline/story: "MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * 2 schools improve, removed from lowest-performing lists * Thirty-nine of the Muscogee County School District’s 53 schools are in the Title I program, as are 1,650 of the 2,292 public schools in Georgia." -- Hmmm.. it's a wonder that Mark Rice's focus in this story wasn't that the MCSD "results" are above state averages...the State average for Title 1 schools is 72 percent while the MCSD average is 73.5 percent.

 

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L-E headline/story: "Can South Commons be more than an event center? One group says yes." *  Retrofit the (Golden) park to serve as amphitheater for outdoor concerts attracting a young audience." -- You know.. in 1990, I ran as an independent conservative candidate for mayor (as a write-in because local races weren't changed to non-partisan races until the later elections). At that time, I put on out proposal to "abandon" Golden Park (at the time, I had personally experienced events there in 5 decades and the superstructure was crumbling then), and build a new baseball/outdoor music facility in north Columbus, away from the summer insect and smell issues that plagued Golden Park.. It would give a much needed facility to more of Columbus, be appealing to attracting another minor league baseball team, be a great high school tournament facility, and .... and be just what Columbus needed to bid for satellite baseball games from the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. At that time, it was doable for $6.8-to-$7 Million.. Council got excited, but in the end, decided it would just spend $1,8 Million putting Band-Aids on Golden Park.. A couple of years later, Mayor Martin initiated getting Atlanta Olympic Softball games here.. the $1.8 million overhaul of Golden Park became a close to $7 Million dollar fiasco we are "stuck with" today.. The Columbus Red Stixx were sent scurrying to Columbus College's facility and local pro-baseball never recovered, and the grand expectations of Olympic Softball putting Columbus "on the map" as the "softball capital of the world" flew like the proverbial lead balloon.  Just think of where Columbus entertainment would be if Council had spent that $7 Million on building a newer and more useable facility.

 

Another option I proposed was building a new Civic Center where Golden Park stood.. it would have been a grand sight coming across the Oglethorpe Bridge, and would have been a key element in connecting Broadway via a trolley.. and/or a refurbish train/rail system to move patrons efficiently between the Civic Center and downtown restaurants and hotels (and now the CSU campus) Another benefit of this option would be the expansion of parking for the Civic Center AND the A J McClung Memorial Stadium and parking lot events there..

 

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L-E headline: "FBI director: Public should be aware of fake, agenda-driven news" -- Yeah, "fake news"  like Comey saying there's not enough evidence to prosecute Hellary.