Online story: "President Trump has faced sharp criticism after posting a video of himself at a WWE match punching a man with the CNN logo superimposed over his face. CNN responded: "It is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters. Clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she said the President had never done so. Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, dealing with North Korea and working on his healthcare bill, he is instead involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his." --  Can you believe CNN complaining about Trump? CNN has a whole lot of rearranging to do in it's own "house". CNN needs to start with apologizing for disrepecting the office of the President regardless of who is President; CNN needs to apologize to America for not reporting scandals involving Hellary, Slick Willie, Holder, Lynch, and Obama; CNN needs to abandon taking  biased political stances; CNN needs to stop promoting liberal's violence against conservative groups; CNN must learn that Trump IS  prepared for his overseas trip; and ...and CNN needs to apologize again and again for how it covered up the atrocities of Saddam Hussein's inhumanities. In short, if CNN wants to be in the news business, CNN needs to start doing its job. In fact, CNN needs to be THANKING Trump for exposing it so it can revise its policies.

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Online headline: "Trump payroll cuts could save taxpayers $22 million" -- Probably one of Trump's easiest accomplishments.. the attrition of all of Michele Obama's entourage of will cover 10% of this, and Melania riding on the same jet as Trump will minimally save the rest.

From this story: "Trump himself is required to get a paycheck but he is reportedly donating the money to construction on the Department of the Interior and to help restore military cemeteries." --  Hmm, and I imagine CNN has a story about how Trump is using this for his own benefit......

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Hillary Clinton to launch PAC aiding 2018 candidates, resistance organizations" --"aiding 2018 candidates"? Yeah.. right.. maybe Hellary should try to do  something that will be aiding America instead.

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From the "what did you expect" department - Not having any other route to save face with their base, Congressional Democrats have resorted to frivolous attempts to promote self-serving bills questioning Trumps mental stability... The truth is that Democrats are really proving their own mental diminishment by trying to convince others that it wasn't their fault that Trump won, and the voters want more conservatives in Congress.

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Someone has compiled a list of Will Ferrell's "10 best " movies.. I'm upset the "Elf" wasn't #1, but more upset that apparently there are actually more than 10 other Will Ferrell movies circulating.

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L-E headline/story: "6 months of free in-state commuter rail begins Monday * The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is offering the free service among the state's three commuter rail stations, Providence, Warwick's T.F. Green or North Kingstown's Wickford Station. Ridership numbers at Wickford have been much lower than projections since the service began in 2012." -- bet this is omen-like for Queen Tom-LYING-son's high speed rail predictions

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L-E headline: "Theoretically, the Braves aren’t out of division race" -- "Theoretically"? let's talk reality

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L-E editorial headline: "Do we still believe in free speech? Only until we disagree" -- and it's WAY obvious when you look at the letters/op-eds the L-E does print from liberal sources versus conservative sources .

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L-E headline/story: "Discarded waste is too close to Fall Line Trace walking trail * Until the waste appeared, most problems for the trail were good. People started using the trail before it was completed in 2015, and users have not stopped pounding the 12-foot wide patch of asphalt. The entire trail runs 11 miles from Psalmond Road south to the 14th Street Pedestrian Bridge in downtown. * Although the trail is maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department, Rick Jones, director of the Planning Department for Columbus Consolidated Government, said he hadn’t heard about the solid waste near the trail. “That is the first I have heard of it,” he said Friday."* Jones said the trail is popular. “Yes, absolutely,” he said. “They are wearing that thing out, which is a good thing.” -- Two things become apparent.. one is that the P & R may not be spending enough time of maintenance if now hearing about  the solid waste "is the first I have heard about it", and secondly, since "they are wearing that thing out", it's obvious that bikers/hikers do cause damage to roadways, and if they want to "Share the road", they need to "Share the LOAD".. Bike licenses and acquiring biking licenses  would help pay it.. plus insure better knowledge of bike riding laws.. oh, and make it easier to identify stolen bikes..

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Yayyyy, we're number one! America is #1 in the world in spending for healthcare. The flip side is that we are ranked #37 in the world for healthcare services delivered." -- Hmmm.. then how about this LIV pick one of the "top 36" to move to ...

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Uber_LIV's L-E "soundoff": "The poorest states are controlled by Republicans. GOP working-class voters keep electing the same kind of politicians who take and take and take from them. It really makes me wonder what is wrong with these sad people." -- You know, he question here is not so much about the L-E printing such an unfounded "fact", but why the L-E intentionally prints unfounded "facts" throughout it's offerings.

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Ignorant LIV's L-E "soundof": "Frank Myers is a bully engaged in undermining the Muscogee County School Board and the school system. Shame on him." -- You know.. it's easily assumable that David Lewis.. or his wife, could have submitted this...

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I'm about fed up with cable TV....You know.. it's not about cable companies charges for cable access TV, it's about scrolling through the TV offerings and finding nothing worth watching on the Big 3 Networks....

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L-E story: "With industry’s help, Pruitt surges toward altering EP * In a sign of both Pruitt’s influence in the White House and the high regard in which Trump holds him, he will take a leading role in devising the legal path to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change, a job that would typically go to the State Department. * And he is doing all this largely without the input of the 15,000 career employees at the agency he heads, according to interviews with over 20 current and former EPA senior career staff members." "doing it largely without input of the 15,000 career employees"?  Good grief, 15,000 employees "trash" would clear a forest!  Oh, and remembering the joke that a camel was created when a committee was engaged to design a horse pretty much describes what you get when 15,000 career liberal design EPA regulations unchecked..

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From the "let's make it appear the culprit doesn't sound like a liberal" department - L-E "headLIE"/story: "Pope replaces conservative cardinal" * Francis and German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller had clashed, most recently over the pope’s cautious opening to letting civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion. * It was also the second major shake-up this week, after Francis granted another Vatican hard-liner, Cardinal George Pell, a leave of absence to return to his native Australia to face trial on sexual assault charges. -- Good grief.. Poop Francis just axed a traditional Cardinal for not going along with his Highness's deviance from Catholic doctrine... and blamed it on "conservatism".. That's two dismissed Cardinals this past week and both served at the whim and pleasure of Poop Francis... sounds more like the Poop has embraced sharia law...

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From the "claiming this is too much of a stretch" department - L-E guest editorial headline/content - "COMMENTARY * Getting it wrong – and being accountable * BY JAY BOOKMAN Atlanta Journal-Constitution * Upon learning of its mistake, CNN fully retracted the story. It publicly apologized to Scaramucci, who graciously accepted it. The three top journalists responsible for the mistake were forced to resign from CNN, and their careers will be permanently damaged. CNN also instituted policies to ensure against a recurrence. In short, it took every step possible to correct its mistake." -- "took EVERY step possible to ensure against a recurrence"?  Good grief.. "allowing" the byline group to "resign" is not taking EVERY step possible.. in fact, it's not even close..

 

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Curious.. the championship game of GA's District 8 Major Boys was played yesterday afternoon between Peach LL and Northern LL, and I haven't found results in the L-E  today (guess the 2:00 PM opening pitch was past the L-E's deadline). Anybody got the results?