Online headline/story: "Top Republican senator: 'It's too difficult to say' whether Trump will be 2020 nominee * Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who did not support President Donald Trump as her party's presidential nominee in 2016, on Monday said it's unclear whether Trump will be the Republican nominee in 2020." -- "Top Republican"? Outside of MSNBC and CNN, Collins doesn't even qualify as a RINO... she's more like a "WHINO"..

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From the Graduates of Brooklyn Law, demand your tuition back" department - Online headline/story: "Law School Professor Pens Essay Explaining How Eclipse Is “Racist” *  Are you looking forward to Monday’s solar eclipse — the first full eclipse to hit the United States in decades? You filthy, filthy racist. * That’s at least the take of Brooklyn Law School professor Alice Ristroph, who used a staggering 4,544 words in The Atlantic to explaining why the phenomenon of the moon blocking the sun just wasn’t diverse enough for her tastes. * “On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon,” Ristroph writes. “The moon’s shadow will be about 70 miles wide, and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound, exiting the eastern seaboard shortly before 3 p.m. local time. It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.” --  What she going to claim next... God, the creator of the heavens and Earth and all people's is a racist for creating the eclipse path?

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Local question for Columbus, GA citizens.. Of those who normally have their garbage picked up on Mondays before noon.... who actually got their garbage picked up yesterday? My neighborhood did not.

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HuffPOOPOO headline/story: "Poll: Majority of Americans side with Trump in defending Confederate memorials * The data comes from the latest Rasmussen poll, which shows that 50 percent of likely U.S. voters agree with Trump's tweet that it is "sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments." Some 37 percent disagree with the statement, while 12 percent are undecided." -- Whatta culture shock for mainscream media.. a straight forward poll is hard to manipulate.. libs got less support than Hellary did.. just like a straight head-to-head election result.

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From the "armpit of hypocrisy" department - HuffPOOPOO headline: "Anti-fascist stabs innocent man after haircut gets him mistaken for a neo-Nazi * the only explanation he said his friends could come up with for the attack: “They say it’s my haircut.”" -- Hmmm... I guess if our hair is not purple or "rainbowed", we are being judged by people who feel they are judged on their appearances...

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I'm about worn out with seeing the people involved with "Together 2017".. unlike a well-known adage,, "things get done when no one gets minds who gets the credit" it seems the "Together 2017" effort is more about promoting the "doers" rather than what is being done for the community.

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From the " now we know how Bishop gets re-elected in GA District 2 yet his district economics are pitiful" department.-- This was taken at the entry at Green Island CC yesterday.. There are courses in Columbus that are in Bishop's district, but that must not be good enough for him.. either that or his "donors" don't want to go back into his district unnecessarily.. Oh.. this is the 4th year in a row he's picked this venue... I would think that a course/community he represents would have appreciated the revenue surge this event would have brought.


Rep. Sanford Bishop - Georgia District 02 • OpenSecrets:

http://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00002674&cycle=2016

Scroll down a bit in Bishop's website... an amazing figure is that he got only 0.88 % of his contributions for his 2015/16 re-election campaign funds from donations of less than $200.00 (total of $9,735.00 ) yet received over $1,100,000.00 from "large" and "PAC" contributions. Yep.. he's really into representing District 2... NOT! Nor GA nor AMERICA either

I also find it "funny" for a person to use a golf event as a personal political fund raiser.. I understand getting folks out for golf to raise money for a charitable organization... but a political one?

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Did you see the "total eclipse" picture on the front page of the Columbus L-E? Excuse me, but why would a picture taken in Kansas be featured over what Columbus experienced.. guess the L-E used another McClatchy paper to do its work...

 

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Uber-LIV's L-E "soundoff": "I’m not much of a morning news TV guy. I get most of my news from the Ledger. But now I turn on the TV to see who Trump has fired." -- "Get most of my news from the Ledger"? What a pathetic view of current and past history this writer must have of what really goes and went on in the past..

 

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L-E story: "The University of Texas removed statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures overnight from the main area of the Austin campus early Monday, hours after the school’s president ordered they be taken down. * University President Greg Fenves announced the decision late Sunday, saying such monuments have become “symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.” * Fenves said the statues of Lee, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan would be moved to the Briscoe Center for American History on campus." -- "University President Greg Fenves announced the decision late Sunday, saying such monuments have become “symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism"? How can a University claim to be a center of truth and enlightenment when its president is an obvious bigot? Now, did he ask that Austin Mosques be removed for representing Islamic Terrorism?

 

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From the "end of discussion about whether the 2nd Amendment is good for America" department - L-E headline/story: "Ohio judge shot in ‘ambush,’ returns gunfire * An Ohio judge was shot Monday in what authorities called an ambush. * Police said a man ran up to Judge Joseph Bruzzese and began shooting as he approached the courthouse in Steubenville. Bruzzese returned fire, shooting at least five rounds, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said." --  Hmmm.. I guess this justifies "what's good for the judge is good for the jurors"

 

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L-E headline/story: "Bergdahl chooses judge, not jury, for military trial * Defense attorneys had questioned whether Bergdahl could get a fair trial by jury because of negative comments President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail." -- "questioned whether Bergdahl could get a fair trial by jury because of negative comments President Donald Trump made"> Good grief.. Bergdahl is not being charged for what Trump siad, he's being charged for what being a traitor while wearing the uniform of an American soldier!

 

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L-E editorial headline: "EDITORIAL * Jail crowding problem resurfaces" -- Good grief.. is the L-E finally realizing that Dar was right all along and the Mayor was living up to her name... Tom-LYING-son?

 

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L-E guest editorial headline/content: "Georgia doesn’t have a spending problem * BY CHARLIE HARPER * To illustrate, let’s look at how Georgia actually spends its money — your money." --
This is a Fred Sanford looking heavenward, grasping his chest and saying, "Elizabeth, this is the big one" moment.. a mainscream media writer ADMITTING that what politicians spend is "Your (our) money"!
Why is it that liberals feel the only way to solve one tax reduction issue is to stick their hands in the taxpayers other pocket? Unfortunately, too many politicians have learned they can buy votes by promising segment of voters that he/she can get them what they want and other people will pay for it.. even though those are always broken promises..

 

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L-E headline/story: "MCSD board to seek loan, asks city to reduce tax collection fee *  the school board passed a resolution requesting CCG to reduce the fee it charges MCSD for collecting property taxes by the dollar amount it will cost MCSD to borrow the money. *  Although the school district previously announced it postponed nonessential expenditures while CCG deals with the property tax controversy, MCSD chief financial officer Theresa Thornton told the school board during its monthly work session last Monday evening the administration now recommends securing a Tax Anticipation Note." -- Hmmm.. while I'm in total agreeance  with  the MCSB "demanding" relief from the loan costs because the way Mayor Tom-LYING-son has thrown our property tax situation into turmoil because  borrowing against expected revenue at competitively bid interests rates for a couple of months is a great deal better than 2.5% to the City for such time (2.5% for 2 months is a loosely calculated $15% APR).. but... BUT I'm am disturbed that here is an ex]isting term for such a transaction.. a "Tax Anticipation Note".. I do not want the MCSB/MCSD learning to lean on "anticipated revenues" as collateral for "now" loans.. we already pay bond revenues for using SPLOST revenues before they are received......Oh, and thanks for John Thomas for bring this option up!

 

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From the "I wonder what the Las Vegas odds are that the public will be dealing with her again" department - L-E headline/story: "Teen admits lesser charge in stabbing attack * One of two Wisconsin girls charged with repeatedly stabbing a classmate to impress the fictitious horror character Slender Man pleaded guilty Monday, but she still faces a trial in the case next month focused on her mental health * The plea means her trial will look only at whether she is legally responsible for the crime or not guilty because of mental illness." -- Another plea bargain so a DA can claim to have won another case while hoping this girl will not come back an bite us on the butt down the road.. pathetic!

 

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L-E headline/story: "Tech firms make push toward TV *  Apple has more than $1 billion budgeted for original programming, Facebook wants its own version of “Scandal” and Google is ready to spend up to $3 million per episode on a drama." -- Good grief.. America is DOOMED in the future... what America doesn't need is more programs that depict.. encourage,... "snowflakes"  making decisions when so many have no degree oriented careers and live in their parents' homes.