For those who are actually interested in history and it's authenticity, today is actually "Columbus Day".. what we celebrated Monday was a government paid holiday.


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From "the little birdie told me" department - as I understand it, yesterday morning when the 6:00 shift began, only 9... that's right NINE CPD officers were dispersed to police our community. It takes more people than that to monitor/control 5 classes of kindergartners in our schools..


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From the "prophecy of doom" department -- Online "headLIE": "North Korea says Trump has 'lit the wick of war' -- Hmmm.. more "fake news".. Trump as said he'll snuff it out if Kim Jung Ooooops tries to light it.



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From the "Hypocrisy,, thou name is Hellary" department- Online story: Hillary Clinton said she would gift previous campaign contributions from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to charity. Clinton made the announcement in response to a question on the matter in a CNN interview on Tuesday. * "Of course I will do that. I give 10% of my income to charity every year. This will be part of that. There's no doubt about it," Clinton said." -- "I give 10% of my income to charity every year"? Wait a minute.. Harvey Weinstein's donations are considered "income to her".. Did Hellary pay the 50% gift tax on Weinstein's "donations"? Somebody is suppose to...and what's worse, is Hellary taking personal tax deductions from her taxes by redirecting Weinstein's "blood money" to organizations of her choice...


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From the "bet the wouldn't state this if he lived in Venezuela" department - Online headline/story: "Billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer demands pledge to impeach Trump * Steyer is not someone Democrats can ignore -- according to the Times, he is the single biggest liberal donor in the last two federal elections (spent over $91 million in support of Democrats in the last election cycle)." -- Good grief.. You know.. Trump made a decision to put his business acumen "on the line" to serve America.. but the Democrat "billionaire bad boys club".. Tom Steyer, Harvey Weinstein, George Soros, Jeffrey Epstein, and even Mark Cuban sit in the darkness behind the curtains trying to pull the strings of their Congressional Democrat puppets.. What Steyer has just done is basically "attempted bribery" and he should be charged with such.





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Online story: "European countries are scrambling to cobble together a package of measures they hope will keep the Iran nuclear deal on track if U.S. President Donald Trump ignores their pleas and decertifies the landmark 2015 agreement this week. * The two-year-old agreement, under which Iran agreed to freeze its nuclear program for 15 years in exchange for sanctions relief, is viewed in Europe as a rare triumph of international diplomacy in the Middle East. * But without strong U.S. support for the deal, senior officials in Berlin, Paris and London say it may be only a matter of time before the pact between Tehran and six world powers unravels, with grave consequences for Middle East security" -- Good grief.. Europe cannot see past the end of its nos! All the "Iran Nuclear Deal" has done is insure that nobody stops Iran from developing its nuclear capabilities down the road, and Iran is not going to wait 15 years to do so.. Basically, what current European 'leaders' are hoping for is that they will not be in office when "**it hits the fan".





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From the "suspicions confirmed" department - Online headline: "Former first daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush needed 'comfort' following the 2016 election" -- Good grief..I actually understand why they would seek "comfort" from their daddy, George, and Uncle Jeb, but I would have thought the granddaughters of Barbara Bush would have been much stronger women, and real role models for independent women in America..





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The Late Night Shows rating are out.. Kimmel rising, Colbert leading, Fallon dropping.. This basically confirms what advertisers fear.. the millennials and antifa are tuning in, and the conservatives are going to sleep earlier ..or watching Hallmark or Netflix..




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Online headline: "Megyn Kelly fallout continues as 'Today' show is 'alarmed' over 'plummeting' ratings" -- Good grief.. Megan Kelly's rating at Fox went higher only when liberals started tuning in to watch her try to take down Trump.. Now that she's "one of them" liberals she nothing they like.




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From the "keep the boycott strong" department - HuffPOOPOO story: "President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to praise NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for 'demanding' that players stand for the national anthem prior to games. * However, the president's interpretation of the commissioner's letter was inaccurate, according to a statement released by the NFL.:

"Commentary this morning about the Commissioner’s position on the Anthem is not accurate. As we said yesterday, there will be a discussion of these issues at the owners meeting next week. The NFL is doing the hard work of trying to move from protest to progress, working to bring people together. Commissioner Goodell spent yesterday with Miami Dolphins players, law enforcement and community leaders witnessing first-hand the outstanding work our players and clubs are doing to strengthen their communities. Players from around the league will be in New York next week to meet with owners to continue our work together. " -- "not accurate"? Goodell should have just kept his mouth shut... or at a minimum, said, "we're working on it". Well. keep up the pressure,, advertisers will abandon the NFL as viewer numbers and sales numbers drop.



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Once again... Harvey Weinstein did something unforgivable to liberals.. it wasn't his groping or grunting that did him in.. libs would have abandoned Bill Clinton if that was the case.. no, Weinstein did something else.. I'm betting it involves supporting a Trump issue.. Dems have pretty much abandoned Senator Feinstein because she simply said that Trump could end up being a good president. Respond if you have an idea or see something confirming..



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Online headline: "Joe Biden rebukes Harvey Weinstein and urges Hollywood to speak up about sexual assault" -- ""speak up about sexual assault"? Is Ex-Bleep Veep Biden kidding? Hollywood has always spoken up aboit sexual assault.. it's the main thing Hollywood SELLS! Hollywood makes "sexual assault" box offices hits!



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From the "Hypocrisy .. thou name is Hellary" department- Online story: Hillary Clinton said she would gift previous campaign contributions from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to charity. Clinton made the announcement in response to a question on the matter in a CNN interview on Tuesday. * "Of course I will do that. I give 10% of my income to charity every year. This will be part of that. There's no doubt about it," Clinton said." -- "I give 10% of my income to charity every year"? Wait a minute.. Harvey Weinstein's political donations are considered "income to her".. Did Hellary pay the 50% gift tax on Weinstein's "donations"? Somebody is suppose to...and what's worse, is Hellary taking personal tax deductions from her taxes by redirecting Weinstein's "blood money" to organizations of her choice...



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Personal story: A slur is what you perceive it to be...I've been called a lot of things..some of the worse have been the "Facebook Flak Pak" comments made on a Columbus Facebook Forum site when they couldn't repudiate my statements with facts of their own, but the worse thing I've ever been called was..."You Coca Cola Truck". One of my LL teammates and neighbors.n a fit of anger, pointed his finger at me and called me a "Coca Cola TRUCK".. Most people see nothing in his but if you knew Scotty Couch's story, it would have floored you under the same circumstance. Scotty was the frailest kid in our neighborhood, and in a game of "King of the Mountain" in his backyard (his dad had a load of dirt brought in to level off some of their backyard areas), I was "King" at the moment when 3 others got their grip on me and dragged me off... I landed on top of Scotty.. he dusted himself off, glared at me and yelled, ' you.. you COCA COLA TRUCK?. My world stopped because I n[knew Scotty had called me the worse thing he could think of at the moment.. His dad was a Pepsi manager here, and whenever he was driving around with his family, and saw a Coca Cola truck, his dad would mutter, "there's one of those damn Coca Cola truck"s. It's not the word that matters, it's what's behind the delivery.


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It's too long to publish here, but reading it will either make you laugh or cry.. or laugh to keep FROM crying...


https://teresatomlinson.com/accomplishments/


This is Mayor Tom-LYING-son's next campaign website.. somehow, I think Queen TT must have hired Hellary (or Hellary's speech writer) to list these 'accomplishments'.For me, each of her claims is another reason not to vote for her at any level of government..

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L-E headline:Judge: 1 trial for trio in Upatoi slayings" -- Thank you Judge McBride! These three don't really deserve a trial, but this is America, and all efforts will be made, not only to have a trial, but to make it much fairer than they deserve.. These three teens brutal murder of  a mother/grandmother, her son , and her granddaughter to take "teen things" they coveted that her son possessed.. just an absolute disgust for other people's lives. They deserve to die together! Update.. did a say "brutal murder"... I meant 'inhumane!"

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "If Puerto Rico were a state, the territory’s gross domestic product, about $103 billion, would rank it 37th, ahead of 13 Republican states. So much for your “bankrupt Democratic state.” -- Good grief.. Puerto Rico's National Debt is $70 Billion.. but that does not include the $50 BILLION in unfunded pension programs! In addition, of the 13 US states with less GDP than Puerto Rico, 7 (NM, HI, DE, NH, ME, RI, and VT) of those are actually Democrat voting states.. I pray this "soundoff writer" was not a product of our MCSD.

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L-E story: "Theresa El-Amin, regional director of the Southern Anti-Racism Network, has called for an investigation into the policies and procedures for awarding Crime Prevention grants to local nonprofits. * The Southern Anti-Racism Network (her organization) was awarded $13,000 of a $22,000 request for a Strong Parental Involvement in Community Education (SPICE) project. But El-Amin declined to accept the funding because her appeal for an additional $8,400 was denied, according to a news release from her organization." -- Good grief.. Teresa El-Amin has a point.. but her motive, as usual, is for the wrong reason.. she's more PO'd at not getting enough for herself.. Say, I recall that she stated she was moving.. going elsewhere (NC I think)  last year.. what happened.. she didn't get enough on her GO-Fund-MY-One-Way-Bus-Ticket?  If someone will send me a valid address for her, I'll send her a one-way bus ticket to NC for Monday..

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L-E "HEADLIE": "In historic change, Boy Scouts to let girls in some programs" -- "historic change"? No.. it's a "Hysteric Change" at best! How do liberals justify equality of the sexes, when it demeans the God given differences that make the world a better place?

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From the "how can we cover up the truth by celebrating mediocrity" department - L-E headline/story: "Here’s how this MCSD school leads the way in reading program’s improvement * That work seems to have produced positive results. All but one of the 12 MCSD schools using Achieve3000 through the first two years of its implementation improved their average Lexile score by double digits. District-wide, MCSD improved its average Lexile score in each grade Achieve3000 is used (grades 3-8).

SCHOOL 2015 2017 +/-
Forrest Road 598 749 +142
Fox 585 694 +109
Eddy 903 951 48
Dawson 677 719 +42
Downtown 735 767 +32
Lonnie Jackson 638 667 +29
Georgetown 669 692 +23
South Columbus 614 629 +15
Baker 890 895 +12
Davis 628 640 +12
Martin Luther King Jr. 581 591 +12
Rigdon Road 667 641 -26

For college and career readiness, the Lexile bands range from the following levels in these grades:

• Grade 1, Lexile 190-530

• Grades 2-3, Lexile 420-820

• Grades 4-5, Lexiles 740-1010

• Grades 6-8, Lexile 925-1185

• Grades 9-10, Lexile 1050-1335

• Grades 11-12, Lexile 1185-1385.

-- Hmmm.. now for the reality part.. the two "facts" that need to be focused on are the College and Career readiness levels of "Grades 4-5" (elementary school) of 1010, and the "Grades 6-8" (middle school) of 1185. The 10 elementary schools listed averaged 679 Lexile points, and the 2 middle schools averaged 923.. both horribly below the optimum levels for College.Career Readiness.. I wish the MCSD would approach this from a "this is where we stand and are not satisfied, rather than an "oh, look at us.. our numbers are improving for pathetic to less pathetic so everything is dandy" approach.

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