Why does Mayor Tom-LYING-son have high hopes for running for Senator in 2020? She certainly has no plan for leaving Columbus with HIGH HOPES in her final year in office here...Am looking at the preliminary budget figures (page 76 of 262) for Fiscal Year 2018, and every category is projected DOWN:

 

GENERAL PROPERTY TAX: DOWN 1.06% from the 2017 Budget

 

FRANCHISE FEES (Utilities) DOWN 3.38% from 2017 Budget

 

GENERAL SALES & USE TAXES (Our 1st LOST tax): DOWN 3.79%

 

SELECTIVE SALES & USE TAXES: DOWN 1.08%

 

BUSINESS TAXES: DOWN 1.98%

 

This is just one page of the RECOMMENDED 2018 BUDGET and anticipated revenues are projected DOWN by $1,863,827.00 (over 1.5% LESS).

On scary note is the 1st LOST TAX decline,, total projections for 2018 are $33,000,000.00. That means the Public Safety SPLOST revenues will be even less as ales taxes on hotel/Motels and Car Sales were excluded in this SPLOST.

 

What's even more depressing about Columbus under Queen Tom-LYING-son's reign is that the economy of the rest of America is SOARING.. The Stock Market DJIA just tore through the 24,000 mark (closed at 23.940) which was at 18,332 on the day Trump was elected.. up some 30.5%.

 

And this is not very good news for the MCSD 2015 SPLOST, either.. With revenues already coming in about 13% LOWER than "wished for", the City anticipating another drop for 2018 is troubling at a minimum.

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Online headline/story: "Matt Lauer wants $30 million from NBC after his firing for sexual harassment, report says * Lauer’s lawyers are working on a plan to get him the remainder of his $20 million per year contract, which would have run another year and a half had he not been terminated over allegations of sexual misconduct." -- Hmm.. I tell you what, we should all pray that when this goes to court, that Lauer is faced with a "Jury of his LEERS".

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In a world where there are "no coincidences", the L-E has a story on Voter Fraud going on now across the river, while Democrats in GA noisily protest there are no voter fraud worries. This is why GA's next Secretary of State must be a conservative Republican, and none of the candidates is better qualified as our own Josh McKoon. Josh McKoon was outed from the chairmanship of the GA Senate Judiciary Committee because he was so insistent of other legislators not being influenced by lobbyists, the Senate leaders shut down that committee down to shut Josh up. What a wonderful testament to Josh McKoon’s character. Makes you really wonder why local District 133 Rep John Pezold doesn't ardently back Columbus' Josh McKoon.

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Pezold says he can't back McKoon because he made a decision 4 months earlier than McKoon committed to back an out-of-towner. You know, when I was being schooled about decision making, my Dad stressed how "good decisions" were the goal, not ones based purely on whether it was "right' or not. A "good decision" he would say, is based on the best available information at that time, and leaves room to add and digest NEW INFORMATION as it comes forward. This way, a "good decision" can be either "confirmed" or "tempered" if new info strengthens or alters the facts you had available when a decision was first made.. Hanging on to a decision when new info shows there is a better choice is at a minimum 'foolish".

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Another "jury fail"! The illegal alien.. oft caught and deported, but protected by Sanctuary laws in California, was acquitted of murdering Kate Steinle. What is it when a jury decides to acquit a person.. a criminal just by being in America at that time, possessing a gun illegally (and a stolen one at that), pulling the trigger of that gun, and shooting an American citizen.. for political protests against a president wanting to uphold our Constitution he is sworn to protect? Now is the time to build "the Wall"... only we don't need to start on our Southern border, it needs to be erected on the border that separates California from the other 47 states connected by our highway and river systems!

 

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Hmmm .. Sports Illustrated just awarded Colin KaeperPRICK the Muhammad Ali Award.. Muhammad Ali is rolling in his grave.. Maybe the military should issue a recall and future ban of any Swimsuit issues on military bases.

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Online headline/story: "Judge delays, tries to rein in X-rated civil trial of Jeffrey Epstein * What promised to be a salacious trial probing billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual relationships with underage girls won’t get underway next week as planned. * Citing the many unanswered legal questions that still swirl around the 8-year-old civil lawsuit pitting attorney Bradley Edwards against the 64-year-old Palm Beach convicted sex offender, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Donald Hafele agreed to delay the trial until March." -- Hmmm.. Judge Hafele.. appointed by Charlie Crist, the RINO who was outed as a true Democrat, then Governor of Florida/now Dem Representative in Washington. Guess Clinton still has a few friends working to keep him off the witness stand.. I mean, when a sitting president is impeached for "lying", any prosecuting attorney would have no problems getting the court to consider Clinton a "hostile witness" which will give the prosecutor tremendous leeway in questioning him about his trips on Epstein's plane to Epstein's island.

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You know, with the City buying millions of dollars in property tax/assessment software and services for the Tax Assessors Office, how come we can't pay our taxes online...seems an electronic check option would save a lot of the problems of collections... hmmm...might even allow the Tax Office to reduce its staff and save some of that money spent on updating the software system.

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From the "WOW!.. it sure is nice to be living in today's "world of medicine" department - Online story: "Biomedical engineers at Duke University developed a "heart patch" to cover and repair heart tissue damaged by heart attacks that's just as strong and active as real tissue. * The study surrounding the advancement, published in Nature Communications, details how this new patch is an enormous step forward in repairing dead heart muscle." -- My late Dad.. a UNC Tarheel graduate will probably wake up as I proclaim, "Yea DUKE!" Oh, and PRAISE GOD!

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From the "talk about Fake News talking about Fake News" department - Online headline/story: "Poll reveals Fox News as the winner of ‘Fake News Trophy’ * Americans have declared Fox News as the winner of the "Fake News Trophy." * In a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, 40 percent of respondents found the cable network worthy of the distinction. * CNN was the runner-up, with 25 percent of the vote. MSNBC came in a distant 3rd at 9 percent, while ABC, CBS, and NBC garnered, 4 percent, 3 percent, and 2 percent, respectively." -- Hmmm// the adage, "Figures don't lie, but liars figure a lot" is most appropriate here.. what the survey/poll shows is that 40%.. which is even LESS that Hellary/Democrats' base, don't like Fox. but 60% consider the multitude of liberal sources more FAKE.. it's just that the liberal sources are so numerous that the vote gets split.

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Rest in peace.. Jim Nabors.. does everyone remember the first time you heard him sing.. what a voice behind the Gomer Pyle character we cherish him for.

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L-E headline: "Springer decides against Ohio governor run * Jerry Springer has decided against throwing his chair into the ring." -- I guess Springer has been watching mainscream media tear up Lauer. Conyers, Weinstein and other poliicians and celebrities and figures he ain't got a prayer to win.

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Hmmm.. now that John McCain has said he will support the Trump Tac Cut Bill, who wants to bet libs/mainscream media will now go after him as brain damaged?

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L-E headline: "NORTHSIDE SOFTBALL * 4-year starter Hannah George signs with North Carolina" -- Wow.. UNC is a stronghold of Kirven family memories.. My Dad went there (Varsity Golf Captain) , Mother went to the UNC Women's College, and my older brother, his wife, two of his sons, and my Mother's brother (my Uncle Hal) all graduated from Chapel Hill. I do know there is one very proud grandfather among my Facebook followers/friends.. Congrats!

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Since politicians harassing women has become a full contact event.. what's the latest with Jehmu Greene's revelations about Calvin Smyre?