Was in Atlanta Friday on leg 1 of our celebration of graduation of my son-in-law from UGS School of Law.. Went shopping/lunching with my bride at Lenox.. As we walked through Macy's, I saw a display of Versace clothing.. all glittery and outlandish.... and all locked to display racks/stands. I thought to myself.. what's the message here.. I'm sure Macy's was concerned about shoplifting, but the message I got was thatif I bought them and wore them on the street, I'd probably get mugged.. or worse.. by someone wanting them for free.

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From the "it's more than protecting the source" department - When the WaPo or NYT receive files/reports containing possible classified information from people from within the White House, why aren't WaPo and NYT executives criminally charged for printing such facts, and not reporting crimes against America?

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James Comey "testifying" in public is a sham...and waste of taxpayer funds. We all know that Comey cannot disclose security info and will utilize the "I cannot discuss this in public"  option whenever he's asked a pertinent question about national security.

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Mainscream media is pathetic! It blasts Trump over what it believes without any evidence, yet yawned when Clinton gave China our rocket technology which allowed China to build a nuclear able intercontinental ballistic missile.

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From the "I think Dusty held this L-E "soundoff" back  from the term of Obama" department - LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Wouldn't it be nice "If our president advanced an agenda of health care, tax reform, immigration, and infrastructure improvement (read jobs) instead of examining, at taxpayers’ expense, an election he won, and quit impeding the FBI?" --  Good grief.. if Obama had done the things in 8 years that TRumo as done in 4 months, I'd have been praising Obama all along.

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Interesting...the King of Saudi Arabia met Trump on the tarmac when Air Force 1 landed. The same king snubbed Obama just last year. Guess the King of Saudi Arabia understands that Trump is not on either an apology or "bowing" tour.

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Online story: "Outraged Cincinnati cops received an apology from the mayor of the Ohio city after his office inadvertently issued a proclamation naming a day in honor of a cop killer. * Mayor John Cranley issued the apology Thursday, saying that the proclamation never should have been approved" -- One guess as to which party Cranley belongs.

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Last Tuesday, my bride and I were uplifted when the son of the man who did our lawn work brought his dad by to see us.. He'd had a major stroke last year and has lost a lot of his left-side abilities. WE were overjoyed by the moment, and learned from the son he is expecting his first grandchild soon. We congratulated him and his soon to be .. again... great-grandfather. I told him.. grandchildren make us forgive our children for everything we went through with them.. they both laughed boisterously in agreement.

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You know. our laws would have no standing without the Constitution..or without respect for our nation's flag..We went to graduation at the UGA School of Law Saturday, and could not understand why candidates for law school graduation, people who become entitled to represent other people in our courts/legal system,  would ignore and disrespect the singing of our national them. The Dean should have taken names and make then take American history courses over the summer before they get their diplomas.

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Online headline/story: "Minnesota yearbook: Behead Trump * The 2017 edition of the yearbook included a section titled, “Trump 2k17-2k20? How do you feel about him?” And let’s just say I’m surprised the Secret Service hasn’t paid a courtesy call to the campus. * “I would like to behead him,” one student declared. “I do not like him.” * “I feel like Donald is very racist and sexist and doesn’t care to give people a chance before knowing them,” another student lamented. * “I don’t like the way he comes off, he seems really rude,” said yet another" -- You know, a North Carolina school recalled it's Yearbook because one Senior used a Trump quote, "Build the Wall" .  Let's face it, children are not so much failing in schools, liberal schools are failing our children!

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HuffPOOPOO story: "The father of former FBI Director James Comey has publicly blasted President Trump, describing him as "nuts" and "really crazy." * According to the Bergen Record, 86-year-old J. Brien Comey said in a recent interview, "I never was crazy about Trump." -- "not crazy about Trump"? Oh.. and what would he have about Obama, who should have fired Comey, or Hellary, who may have done something worse to Comey if she;d been elected.. I don't fault Comey's dad for being upset, but unlike Comey's dad, I fault his son, not Trump, for creating the necessity for Trump to fire him.

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SoapBox Moment: The disintegration of brick&mortar stores is a consumer driven phenomena that will eventually bite consumers on their backsides.. back in the 70s/80's consumers  sent retailers a harsh mesage.. they'd rather have cheaper prices than dependable service.  Stores learned that consumers felt that if it's not on sale this week, it will be next week". Stores learned to buy more private label (i.e. store brands) merchandise, mark it up higher to begin with, then cut the price 2 weeks later to "retail" and call it a "SALE". As a result, brands we trusted lost volume, and had to raise prices to cover volume losses. Eventually, popular brands priced themselves out of mainstream appeal, and a lot are now either "gone" or are bit-players. Now consumers are intrigued by feeling they are paying less for online shopping (yet even when not having to pay for state/city sales taxes, online merchants are learning to add more profit into the shipping costs).  Eventually, though, consumers will learn that fit, fabric quality, and colors cannot be as exact online as shopping in person.. Now it's "novel" to shop/return via online avenues, but it will become a "burden" as more and more online purchases fail to come up to expectations. Unfortunately, the stores consumers use to shop at may not be there in brick&mortar anymore.

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Mainscream media is now trying to promote the cost of protecting Trump's family as being more than protecting Obama's family.. to begin with, Trump's family is bigger.. but, what mainscream media won't discuss/admit is that Trump's leadership will reduce the cost of overall taxes to all American families and hat all American families are going to be a lot better of with Trump in office versus Hellary continuing Obama's next term.


From the "misinformed liberals squeal in spite of reality" department - Online headline/story: "Trump’s first budget is coming, and the spending cuts are severe *  It looks like the Trump administration's first comprehensive budget for the coming year will contain major spending increases for defense and draconian cuts in domestic programs. * Details of the president's more than $4 trillion fiscal 2018 budget plan set for release on Tuesday began leaking out late last week. * According to an Office of Management and Budget fiscal 2018 budget plan spreadsheet obtained by Third Way on Friday, the administration will seek to eliminate the Social Service Block Grant, a $2 billion program that helps help low-income families; zero out $3 billion of heating assistance for the poor * The centerpiece of the budget will be Trump's call for a $54 billion increase in defense spending next year as a major down payment on the president's vow to expand and modernize the military and U.S. nuclear defenses. * The money would go in part to increase troop strength by 56,000, * Experts say Trump's proposed 2018 total defense baseline of $603 Billion  * Trump will request a total of $2.6 billion for border security, according to The New York Times, with most of that money going towards materials and planning to begin building a wall along the border with Mexico and related work that experts say could cost as much as $26 billion before it is completed." -- The domestic cut numbers look big, but in reality. most of those cuts pay salaries for political liberals...Let's parse this so liberals will actually see what's going on.. Let's take the $5,000,000,000.00 for Social Service Block Grant for the "poor".. If you deduct the norm for administrative and operational costs of 78%, then  $3,900,000,000 is spent leaving $1,100,000,000.. if "ONLY" 10 Million "poor" apply, then those 10,000,000 "poor" would get but $110.00 per person. Let's take the military budget next.. adding $54 Billion comes to about $180.00 per American citizen for the best defense in the world.. and the $2,600,000,000 for more border security come to about $87.00 per American citizen.. and what that will do is put a severe dent in drug trafficking and lost jobs for American citizens which benefit ALL American citizens.. ESPECIALLY the poor.

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Oh! Anybody heard anything about what's happening with the Ralston situation?

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Friday, I posted my assessment about the future of a grassroots movement on the CSU campus to set up a "food bank" for feeding college students,, All I can say today is the Reagan was right on the money when he said, "“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”..I drew up the highway for such a plan, and libs stepped out into the traffic and became the bugs on the fabled "windshield/bug" analogy.  To start with, such a movement would be considered a "charity", and unless it's a 501 (c) 3 approved one, no donations are deductible and no 501 (c) 3 charitable foundations can donate to such.. Next, where do "they" put a HQ and storage unit for such?   CSU could hardly do so for an "unofficial group". Next, who.where do you send donations.. CSU can't take such for an "unofficial group". Next. Who decides which students are more deserving than others; there are 8,000 +/- students at CSU. Next, with 8,000 students in the same boat, at $10.00 per student, that $80,000 per month, close to $1,000,000 in 12 months., Next, who is going to be accountable for distribution, accountability, and report such to IRS? Next, who is going to watch over the administrative group to make sure they are accountable? Next.. CSU takes it over, and administrative costs are part of the program, soon, administrative costs exceed the donations? Next, CSU would add a mandatory funding fee to the 8,000 students parents who are already paying for their children to go to CSU plus feeding them. Yes liberals, Reagan was right.. especially about you being ignorant of real world 101 FACTS.

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L-E headline: "CRIME AND COURTS * Understanding gang law" -- Good grief.. this is "front page" worthy news? What's Monday's subject going to be, "Understanding Sharia Law"?

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On a local issue.. I saw where there is a graduation ceremony set for Catapult Academy scheduled for the Civic Center in a few days.. Is Catapult Academy still using Edgewood School? And, are there really enough students enrolled in Catapult Academy's program to need/justify using the Civic Center for a graduation site?

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From the "suspicions confirmed.. current jury system is a major part of the problem " department - L-E headline/story: "Facebook used to ID man who took laptop at gunpoint * The jury got stuck during deliberations, so Kendrick and Assistant District Attorney Chris Williams made a deal for Moss to plead guilty to robbery and being a convicted felon with a firearm" -- You know, when a defense lawyer let's his client take a plea bargain deal of "robbery and being a convicted felon with a firearm" while the jury is out and stuck on a decision, you have to ask what else the criminal is guilty of that the defense lawyer didn't want to come out..Of course, the important thing is why the jury was stuck when the criminal is still eager to admit to robbery and felony possession of a gun...

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Two long time MCSD employees just retired. I got to know Melvin Blackwell when my girls attended Columbus High School. Blackwell was a good man who made parents and students feel good about him being in charge...future students.. and their parents will miss his contributions.. Didn't know Taunton so won't comment there..

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L-E story: "The Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward * Current and former U.S. officials described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades * Years later, that debate remains unresolved. * But there was no disagreement about the damage. From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former U.S. officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the CIA’s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building – a message to others who might have been working for the CIA. " -- Hmm.. right in the middle of Obama's first term and Hellary's stint as Secetary of State.. Hmmm.. right in the middle of Hellary's using an unprotected server in her home, and having Abedin and her husband, Weiner,  exchanging classified e-mails from the State Department. Hmmm.. hey, MAINSCREAM MEDIA, here's the story you should be in the middle of!

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L-E headline/story: "Disruptive airline passenger duct-taped to his seat * Before he even boarded the plane, Anil Uskanil, a Turkish national, had been arrested by police at Los Angeles International Airport after a worker allegedly spotted him walking through a security door leading from the terminal to an airfield ramp shortly before 3 a.m Friday. * He was released after being charged with a misdemeanor, police said. The 25-year-old had been drinking, airport police explained in a statement, but wasn’t drunk. *  “He was very quiet, moving very sluggish,” passenger Grant Arakelian said, told the Associated Press. “He was trying to approach the cabin, like where the captain is.” * A flight attendant ran down the aisle with a beverage cart, using it to block Uskanil from the front of the plane. * “She jammed the cart in the doorway and she just said, ‘You’re not coming in here,’ ” passenger Lee Lorenzen told AP." -- Let me get this right.. a Turkish nationalist was captured by TSA AFTER he had breeched a Security Door, but was still allowed to get on an airplane? I'm willing to bet, I'd still be waiting in a holding cell this morning trying to make my one phone call.. but something else is confirmed.. the use of the "drink cart" to block the (_*_) from getting into the Captain's quarters.. I could swear I heard a flight attendant once mutter "you're not getting by me and my drink cart to get to the restrooms, buddy"

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L-E editorial headline/content: "EDITORIALS * Matters of life and death, and money * Columbus doesn’t have enough paramedics. The Columbus Consolidated Government doesn’t have enough money to pay for more. And right now there aren’t enough incentives to keep some of ones the city does have. " -- Finally, an issue Dusty even understands.. Oh, why doesn't Mayor Tom-LYING-son just add toll booths to her bicycle trails and dog runs and let the users pay for their use oif the "necessary"  (yeah, right) public amenities.

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Online headline: "Notre Dame grads walk out during Mike Pence’s commencement speech" -- Hmmm.. If I was the person in charge of shipping those students diplomas to them, I do believe I'd send them out with "Pokemon Go".. If I was a parent of such a student, and their diploma arrived at my mailing address, I believe I;d mark of the mailing tube, "not at this address" and "return to sender", and if I were an employers and had a Class of 2017 ND grad apply, I'd ask them what did VP Pence say, and if they said they "walked out" and /or "don't know". I'd put their application in "round file" next to my desk.

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Online headline: "People are not okay with the leaked Facebook guidelines on sexual, violent content" -- Hmm it will be funny (NOT!) to see how Mark 6uckerberg responds to FaceBook leaks since he supports all for White House leaks.

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Revealing quote: ""It's not about how hard you can hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward" - Rocky Balboa" -- I can imagine, Sylvester Stalone is a huge Trump fan...

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UBER LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Anyone supporting the deportation of the Shaw student has the heart of a rabid skunk." -- From the "looks like liberals are mostly talk" department.. Remember Jose Gonzalez Ochoa? The Shaw graduate that got arrested for driving without a license and his illegal status was discovered?  A "go fund me" page was setup to help him get a Visa.. so far 45 people have donated.. and 679 have "shared" the site on FaceBook.. Guess that means 634 of the "sharers" did not donate, but simply passed it on wanting money from "other people's wallets".. bet this "soundoffer" was a "pass it forward" person. And you wondered how liberalism propagates...

 

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L-E headline/story: "Wondering what that smell is in south Columbus? *  “Controlling odors, that is the key,” said John Peebles, senior vice president of Water Resource Operations at the Water Works. “We spent over $1 million, probably close to $2 million, at this waste water plant," -- "we spent over $1 million, probably close to $2 million"?  You know, when I get my water bill, I'd like to know we have people figuring it that know there's a big difference in "$1 million" and "$2 million"  because I "feel" I'm being billed to make up the difference.. how about posting a "more correct/exact" number...

 

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L-E headline: "Biden: It’s time for America to regain unity" -- Good grief.. Biden just spent 8 years as part of an administration that measured itself by segregating this nation, and now he talks "unity"? Biden's -years late and trillions of dollars short... besides, Trump has this back on track already.

 

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Four GHSAA State Champions in golf will be crowned today.. It's a shame that Bull Creek didn't attract at least one.. even ALL, of these tournaments..