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L-E headline/story: "Judith Tucker set to retire from mayor’s office * “If you had to say just one thing about Judy, it’s that you can trust Judy, and that’s so invaluable,” Tomlinson said Thursday in an interview." -- Judith Tucker...What a wonderful addition to Columbus' way of life she has been..but I cannot ignore Tom-LYING-son's unfulfilled prophecy about her value of trust... Tom-LYING-son... and Columbus.. just think about what Tom-LYING-son's "legacy".. and Columbus' present and future could be if she was concerned about taxpayers trusting her.
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L-E story: "President Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted that he was withdrawing his offer to visit the White House after the Golden State Warriors’ star point guard, Steph Curry, said he was hesitant to visit the president." -- Heh-heh-heh... I guess now Curry can STAY home and not worry about having to "take his balls and go home" once he got there..
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L-E commentary column..headline/content: "COMMENTARY * If we live in fear bad folks with guns win * BY CHUCK WILLIAMS * On Labor Day morning, I found myself on Ewart Avenue knocking on doors of the modest homes. * The reason I was walking along Ewart Avenue and Forsyth Street, which dead ends into the park, is 19-year-old Takelia Johnson had been killed the night before in a drive-by shooting. * There was a man sitting on a nearby porch. He was more than willing to talk to me about trucks, and the like. See, my 2000 GMC truck was a year older than the one he had. The color schemes were similar. We talked about transmission issues. It was the type of conversation you would expect two guys to have. * Then, I tried to change the conversation and talk about the shooting the night before. * It didn’t take long for the conversation to end. And it was clear to me that others in the neighborhood wanted to know who I was and why I was snooping around. One guy sort of followed me until I got into my truck and drove back toward Buena Vista Road. * They didn’t want any part of an outsider meddling into their business — or so it seemed. On this morning, their business was a killing. * If you think about, that is a large part of the problem in Columbus right now. People are killing each other for little to no reason. Many of the homicides are gang-related. Those doing the shooting and those who witness them are not talking. * And those who are dying certainly are not talking." -- This is the best.. and unfortunately, the only recent column by Chuck that qualifies as superior investigative reporting.. about everything else he's published in recent years has been laced with his personal opinion .. and only aimed at selling that aspect as doing his job.. This, Chuck.. this Columbus, is actual REPORTING.. and what could "Make the L-E Great Again". Hope this is a new beginning.. not just a fluke ..
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L-E story: "The rise of Tesla and its rivals could be turboharged by complementary services from Uber Technologies and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit, just as the iPhone rode the app economy and fast mobile internet to decimate mobile phone giants like Nokia.
* autonomous electric cars available on demand - could transform how people travel and confound predictions that battery-powered vehicles will have a limited impact on oil demand in the coming decades." -- You know.. how would you like to be someone who retired, moved to Puerto Rico.. and bought a 6-figure Tesla as your source of transportation... and now realize that after you travel the next 300 +/- miles, that you will have to park it for a year or more until electricity is restored following Hurricane Maria?
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Soapbox Moment: The older national black leadership in this country has failed the future of young black citizens.. these leaders could be out teaching about what they, and their parents, experienced growing up is changing.. getting better.. but.. BUT that's not what they have done.. Those grizzled and stalwart icons could be teaching the next generation about changes that have come and are still coming, but it seems that they have learned that they can benefit ego and financial wise by spewing the vitriolic aspects of the past more so than they can by pointing to the path that will continue the change into the future. Nothing has become so obvious as the rising death tolls of young blacks on the streets of the cities, the confrontational rebuke of police authority, young preteen football players "taking a knee" as our National Anthem is played at youth sports..and the drive of black leadership seeking separatism and segregation.. again..
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You know, as bad as I think the NFL players National Anthem protests are, the holier-than-thou defenders of the action are even bigger (_*_)s.
From the "what's the pot saying now" department - Online headline: "LeBron James explains his Trump tweet: 'He's now using sports as the platform to try and divide us' -- Good grief.. if not for professional sports and the freaky high salary ranges they
provide for otherwise unmeaningful people, the KaeperPRICKs and Jameses would not even have a platform to speak from..
One last mention of the NFL/NBA/MLB prima donas.. I'm glad it's our military in charge/control of our nation's security and sovereignty.. not these sports' crybabies.
No other comments will be made on the NFL.. the NFL "is dead to me".
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IRONY...irony is an amazing bargaining chip for for selling-out one's convictions ...Fox fired O'Reilly, and now O'Reilly is advertising his new book on Fox...and Fox is appreciative.. Sorta makes Fox a bit..no..a lot hypocritical.
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From the "now he should understand.. but won't" department - Online headline/story: "George Clooney slams Hillary Clinton's failed campaign: 'I never saw her elevate her game' * Hollywood superstar George Clooney, who was an avid supporter and major campaign donor for Hillary Clinton, had some stinging words for the former presidential candidate. * Clooney said while he thought Clinton was qualified for the job, the way she ran her campaign infuriated him * “It was frustrating because I never saw her elevate her game,” Clooney told the Daily Beast. “I never saw it.”" -- Heh-heh-heh... Hey George.. now that you're drinking Nespresso rather that Kool-Aid, you're learning about the real Hellary.. she LIED to you, too.. she actually NEVER HAD GAME... and you cannot elevate what doesn't exist.
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I'm curious.. who does McCain feel is benefiting from OObamaCRAP.. even the Arizona Governor wants the new bill. The only questions to ask McCain are "Why aren't you signed up for OObamaCRAP?". and "When are you resigning for health reasons?"
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Online headline: "Anthony Weiner, once a congressman, faces jail as a sex offender" -- While I care not to actually see any of them, can you not imagine the "sexting pics/videos" that will stream out of his prison via illegally held cellphones?
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Online headline/story: "Masked gunman kills woman, wounds several others at Nashville church * Police had not determined the motive behind the shooting, but the spokesman said certain items were found that might establish why the man opened fire." -- Hmmm.. sounds a lot like a copy-cat of the Dylan Roof hate crime in South Carolina.. but of course, mainscream media says there is no way a black can be a racist...of course, you
will not find mention of the shooter's or victims' race in this story.
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Uber-LIV's L-E "soundoff": "I heard Donnie is going to visit the U.S. Virgin Islands. They won’t be that way long, after the Grabber-In-Chief gets done with them." -- Good grief.. Hmm.. how quickly libs forget that Bill Clinton has been a guest of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstien on his Pleasure Island in the US Virgin Islands, so even if Trump was the person liberals try to "paint". I doubt "Slick Willie" would have left any virgins there for President Trump..
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There's an actual PAID ad in the L-E encouraging drivers to avoid Fortson Road between Smith/Woolridge and Almond. This drives home the reasons our streets are in such bad states.. rather than fixing problems when they are small, the City waits until the massive deterioration has become a major problem requiring drastic measures to fix.. This portion of Fortson Road really caters to Harris County residents more than Muscogee County taxpayers so it is an even bigger slap in the face of local drivers.. When is the City going to fix the roads Columbus people need.. starting with 17th Ave from Manchester Expressway to Warm Springs Road, Slade Drive from Warm Springs to Cherokee Ave, 54th Street from River Road to Veterans Parkway, and 2nd Ave from 38th St and south. Hope other Columbusites mention the streets they have to drive on as well.
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