Let's all pray our thanks for the Irma damages in our area being limited.. and congratulations for the City Service and law enforcement departments being ready to react so fast.

 

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From the "mainscream media still doesn't get Trump" department - Online story: "President Donald Trump is weighing a strategy that could allow more aggressive U.S. responses to Iran's forces, its Shi'ite Muslim proxies in Iraq and Syria, and its support for militant groups, according to six current and former U.S. officials. * The proposal was prepared by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, national security adviser H.R. McMaster and other top officials, and presented to Trump at a National Security Council meeting on Friday, the sources said. *  All of the sources are familiar with the draft and requested anonymity because Trump has yet to act on it. *  In contrast to detailed instructions handed down by President Barack Obama and some of his predecessors, Trump is expected to set broad strategic objectives and goals for U.S. policy but leave it to U.S. military commanders, diplomats and other U.S. officials to implement the plan, said a senior administration official." -- "In contrast to detailed instructions handed down by President Barack Obama" ? Good grief, Obama would have told looters in Houston Miami what time he was evacuating his home, to what veterinarian he was taking his guard dogs , and when he was returning..... and that the key was under the mat.. and the reasons mainscream media sources want anonymity is that they have no clue either of what Trump's plan is.... and that is the way a successful plan is carried out.

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Online headline: "How Harley-Davidson killing off the Dyna is part of its plan to win over younger riders" -- God grief.. didn't we just read about the catastrophe at Applebee's following it's decision to abandon it's proven customer base to cater to millennials/snowflakes?

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Online headline: "Billionaire Richard Branson's private island got absolutely walloped by Irma, and he just posted photos" -- Guess the Obama's will not be vacationing there again this winter...now.. has anyone seen any reports over convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Island close by... and whether Bill Clinton will be able to return for another vacation soon?

 

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For this week's winner of the "Representative John Pezold Good Neighbor Award" - L-E "soundoff: "It really warms my heart to see merchants in south Florida selling gas for over seven dollars a gallon to people fleeing for their lives"..

 

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From the "is this the same college that promotes Climate Change" department - Online story: "A recent study at the University of Missouri has shown that the veggies we eat in our salad may actually be able to hear themselves being eaten." -- And the University of Missouri thinks parents have stopped sending their children (and money) there because of black issues? Personally, I think the SEC has grounds to kick Missouri out of the conference.. imagine playing football there and U of Missouri pre-med students rushing out on the field to surgically replace divots made when running back change directions to avoid being tackled

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Online story: "Connecticut’s New Milford Town Councilman, Scott Chamberlain, has resigned after his online animal costume profile was reportedly found to have mentioned that he “tolerates” rape.  *  Meanwhile, Mayor David Gronbach called for Chamberlain’s resignation immediately not also from his position as Town Councilman but also from all related public servitude roles. *  As public servants, we are held to a higher standard and Mr. Chamberlain’s apparent posts do not meet that standard,” Gronbach stated in an email to the New York Post." -- "as public servants, we are held to a higher standard"?  Good grief.. the Mayor of Seattle as well as this Connecticut Councilman are held to higher standards only after their personnas become public.. how come these standards weren't important when they were campaigning for office.. Oh, BTW, both men are Democrats.. and speaking of Democrat pervs, why didn't Democrats hold Bill Clinton to higher standards?

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Online headline/story: "'He's Not a General': Rep. Luis Gutierrez Hits Back at 'Mean' John Kelly * Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D) responded to Gen. John Kelly [Ret.], after the White House chief of staff dismissed the Chicagoan's first round of criticisms. * Gutierrez said Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, is "a politician, OK, not a general."  * "What could be more mean and more vicious than to say 'you've got six months to pack up...and leave the United States'?" Gutierrez asked of Kelly." --  Good grief.. Gutierrez should be expelled from Congress... today.. not 6 months from now.. Kelly swore an oath to protect this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and a Congressman who violates the oath he swore to uphold our Constitution should be expelled for treason.

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Online headline: "VIRGINIA * Richmond mayor calls for police crackdown after 9 deaths in 8 days" --  9 deaths in 8 days"?  and now he's upset... Hmmm.. guess he went to the Tom-LYING-son Skool of Mayoring.

From above story: "“My heart sinks every time I receive a phone call from Chief Durham early in the wee hours of the morning, because I know what that call means,” (Mayor) Stoney said. * Durham said he will assign two officers to patrol Gilpin Court on foot, a method that has had success in the past, the Times-Dispatch reported. * Gilpin Court is among four public housing locations where the most trouble has been seen, with police arresting a total of more than 700 people this year from those areas." -- "he will assign two officers to patrol Gilpin Court on foot, a method that has had success in the past"?  Hmmm... 2 questions: 1 - If it was successful in the past, why was it abandoned?, and 2 - How long will it be before "assignees" resign from the RPD and go to other cities? Let's face it, in the world of BLM, putting police officers on foot in this situation is basically a "death sentence".

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From the "mainscream media bias" department - Online headline/story: " Clinton State Department silenced them on Benghazi security lapses, contractors say * Based on documents reviewed by Fox News, Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions bid on the Benghazi compound security contract in the spring of 2012. But the State Department awarded the deal to a U.K.-based operation called The Blue Mountain Group.  * "Blue Mountain U.K. is a teeny, tiny, little security company registered in Wales that had never had a diplomatic security contract, had never done any high threat contracts anywhere else in the world that we've been able to find, much less in high threat areas for the U.S. government. They had a few guys on the ground," he said.
* According to Torres, the Blue Mountain Group came in 4 percent lower than their bid – and they challenged the decision, claiming the American company should have been preferred over the foreign one." -- "the State Department awarded the deal to a U.K.-based operation "?  Good grief.. and mainscream media blistered Trump because the company he no longer makes decision for hired a Chinese company to do work on a Trump golf complex in DUBAI!

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You know.. perhaps the most pathetic thing about Hellary is that she finds it necessary  to have to constantly remind us that she is a female....

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Online story: "Hillary Clinton's newly released campaign memoir adds voter ID laws and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to the list of reasons why she lost the 2016 presidential election." -- Hmmm... wonder when she's going to blame the millions of Trump supporters for not voting for her?

Oh, and when will she call for an investigation of New Hampshire's voting lists for voters New Hampshire allowed to register with out-of-state-ID  cards based on thenm getting New Hampshire driver's licenses within 60 days? Hellary "won" NH by less than 2,500 votes, and even worse is Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte was unseated by former Governor Hasan by less than 1,00 votes.. and with the votes required to get legislation passed, that 2-vote swing in the Senate proven itself very important.

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From the "I think millennials and snowflakes have found their Champion" department- Online story: "A Michigan teenager shot his mother to death last week while she slept -- all because the woman wouldn't let her son have a puppy, police said." -- You know.. this isn't a modern phenomena.. it began back in the 1970's when the US Supreme Court gave high school students "rights", and cut the legs of discipline  out from under high school principals.

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From the "fair is fair" department: Online headline: "PROUD AMERICAN * Bengals' Tyler Eifert on national anthem: 'I stand because I love my country'" -- The NFL better give the Cincinnati Bengals a spot in the 2018 Super Bowl... and find another team to play them with players that feel this way, too..

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What will some of the downward Tyler Technology property assessments do to some of our veterans who refinanced their homes through the VA's 100% plan last year? Will the VA require money back to keep homes from being upside-down?

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Looks like the Democrat spinmeisters descriptive words of choice about Hellary's new book are "honest" and "refreshing". Sounds to me like it's.the same Hellary we've for 25 years, and nothing's new...even the descriptive words of Hellary's choice sound like she plagarized a soft drink company's ad campaign.. Just wish we could get her to just shut up and go away.. we could describe this as "the pause that refreshes".

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Online headline/story: "Texas prof resigns from law firm after tweeting he'd be 'ok' with DeVos sexual assault *  A Texas professor and lawyer reportedly has resigned from his firm after tweeting that he’d be “ok” with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos being sexually assaulted. *  Ranco is an adjunct professor of paralegal studies at Austin Community College and part of the Carlson Law Firm." -- Hmmm.. and we notice that Austin Community College just sit's there... and don't say nothing...

 

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It was heart-warming to see pictures of Historic Downtown home-owners out cutting up and cleaning out the debris of storm felled trees on their streets.. Let's pray Columbus doesn't have a law against citizen vigilantism for doing so.. There was a West Coast "pothole vigilante"  group it's local government tried to squash...

 

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L-E headline/story: "Virgin Islands residents feel like ‘stepchildren’ of U.S. after Hurricane Irma *  As Hurricane Irma bore down on the Caribbean last week, Laurel Brannick, a park ranger on far-flung St. John Island, flipped through news channels to see how she might be affected. *  “The weather channels didn’t even include us,” she said. “All they kept saying was that Irma was in the Caribbean and headed to Florida.” *  Matt  Gyuraki, a 35-year-old IT specialist, worried that there wasn’t more of a coordinated U.S. effort to rescue the islands. * “It feels like we’re the bastard stepchildren of America and now nobody wants to help us,” he said. “America wanted us at one time, but now they really don’t.” * The islands are an unincorporated territory, with a nonvoting delegate in the U.S. House, and are about 40 miles east of Puerto Rico.
 -- Good grief.. the "Laurels" and "Matts" knew the VI is in every Atlantic Ocean's storm's "eye" whenever they moved down there.. it looks like there are millennials/snpwflakes everywhere..

 

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L-E headline/story: "Uptown Float will let you float your cares away downtown * Downtown Columbus is getting a new kind of business this fall, one that aims to help the stressed and strained by allowing them to soak and float their cares away. * The water is filled with 1,000 pounds of Epson salt, so you just effortlessly float.* "“We have showers here, and people will shower before floating, so it’s completely sanitary and clean,” Wolfenbarger said." -- Hmmm.. in this day when diseases are becoming impervious to strong antibiotics , we are to believe 98.8 degree salt water will kill super-bugs, and stds? I'm sorry, but no thanks..

 

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Oh! What ever happened to that property next to the Downtown Marriott that the Pezold's blocked another hotel from buying.. Is the  City still allowing the Marriott to park cars there? And since the Pezolds claim the property is worth $1,300,000.00, has the City raised it's rent accordingly?

 

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L-E headline: "Tax assessors process more than 10,000 tax appeals in wake of revaluation" -- Over 10,000 appeals.. and that's only from the landowners who don't have property tax protection or special "conservancy" exemptions... It also doesn't include landowners who's property was valued down or is considerably under what they feel the real value is.. Yes, Tyler Technologies software will be to the City of Columbus what "Camelot", the alternative school company,  has been to the MCSD.