Monday, February 26, 2018

A couple of teachers are wanting to start an anti-gun movement in schools called "# arm me with the truth".. I can live with hat, but I'd like to see a student movement named "#teach me the truth".
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A Facebook posting asks the question: Can you "give a reason to own an assault weapon?" -- As a law abiding, American citizen with ancestors who fought for our country's freedom, they made sure I'd be able to bear arms and protect my family from enemies, both foreign and domestic as well, and at no other time in history does America have so many enemies, both foreign AND domestic.
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Online headline: "Ted Cruz losing 2018 fundraising race to likely Democratic challenger, filings show" -- Hmmm.. so DIMocrats can get outside of Texas donors to fund a candidate against Ted Cruz... now we have to be watchful of DIMocrats recruiting voters from outside Texas... outside America, even......
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From the "herein lies the problem" department - Online headline/story: "Payments to top college basketball players listed in FBI documents: report * "This problem can be solved if players are compensated. The NCAA is not capable of adequately policing tens of thousands of athletes around the country."- Don Jackson, attorney who has worked on numerous college eligibility cases" -- Teenagers are teenagers, and can be swept into pleasures that suit their desires... but.. they are not the problem.. the problem lives withing the unwieldy amount of TV dollars thrown into the mix, and the greed of attorneys/agents who want to make money off the sweat of others.
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I'm OK if Trump wants to pull ICE agents out of California...well, as long as he shuts down their airports, and positions all the ICE and TSA agents along the East and North California borders so no one from California gets into the US.
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Went to a movie at the Peachtree AMC Friday night..It's been years since we've done so..Two things stood out..I think they bought the theater seats from an airplane company .. my elbows reached the arm rest on the seat next to mine...and I guess the problems about teens hanging out there were/are true...the ticket taker wore a Security Company uniform.
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What happened to Fox's Chris Wallace..Even though Wallace was an avowed DIMocrat, I use to enjoy his views, even when they differed drastically, because he did his research and offered checkable info on which he believed. Now, he's no more balanced than Juan Williams or Nancy Pelosi.
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Trump nailed it at CPAC...For over a hour, President Trump poured his heart and love of America out. Trump kept the audience spellbound about America's future, and America is moving forward...in the right direction. Bring on November 2018!
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Friday's local question about the 2009 law prohibiting elected officials from having business interests in T.A.D. areas/projects touched a nerve. All candidates and sitting members of Council and the MCSB, need to be scrutinized.. even the Mayor .. and spouses of all. Even handling legal closings/financing on such properties rings with possibilities of disallowed "connections".
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Online headline: "Cop who didn't enter school during Florida shooting resigns, has home guarded, is slammed as 'coward' by Trump" -- Wow.. as Chester A Riley (William Bendix in "The Life of Riley") might have said, "What a revoltin' development this is!". Parkland, FL needs a new sheriff who inspires his men! And the most ironic thing about this is that the men guarding that shameful ex-deputy will protect him... from dead students' grieving parents.
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From the "Hallelujah and Amen" department - Le headline/story: "Execution set for ‘Stocking Strangler’ * More than 40 years after three women were raped and murdered in the Wynnton area, convicted “Stocking Strangler” Carlton Michael Gary faces an execution date in the grisly slayings. * An order was filed Friday in Muscogee Superior Court, setting the seven-day window for the execution to begin at noon Thursday, March 15 and ending at noon a week later." -- You know.. the Ides of March would be most appropriate ... Columbus has been delayed... no, denied... betrayed... justice, and this needs to happen as quickly as possible so the last remaining living son of all the victims can have peace.
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From the "who's on first" department - Online l-E headline/story: "LOCAL NAACP TAKEN OVER * The national administration has taken over the local branch of the NAACP in the wake of infighting. * The Columbus branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people has been placed under the control of a national administrator due to infighting. * James Gallman, a national NAACP board member from Aiken, S.C., said the national unit and membership committee appointed him administrator of the Columbus branch during a meeting on Friday. * Gallman said Tonza Thomas, the local branch president, will still hold her position, but he’s now in charge." -- Hmmm... she's president but Gallman's "in charge"? Somehow, I do believe someone has lost his copy of Robert's Rules of Order..
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From the L-E: picture and caption:
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The “Drama” fountain in front of the RiverCenter was full of soap bubbles Friday around 10 a.m. The culprit has not yet been identified. -- "Soap bubbles"? That's not what I would have "guessed" was flowing out of "Viagra Falls"...
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L-E headline/story: "Man found not guilty in carjacking case * Columbus was found not guilty on all charges of hijacking a motor vehicle, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault and using a firearm to commit a crime in the Sept. 12, 2015 case at the Cloister II Apartments, 3803 Armour Ave. * Hall said he just wanted a ride. He pulled a gun after the student refused to give him a ride" -- Another "JURY FAIL"! This is possibly the biggest jury fail ever! We have got to get concerned citizens serving on our juries! The man was masked and pulled a gun on the young woman!
No wonder our existing gun laws "don't work".. in fact, they'll never work if juries do not convict criminals illegally in possession of weapons and use them in other crimes...
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Since March... and March Madness are almost upon us, I have one thing to repeat... 3-point shots should only count if taken from a player's offensive court.. balls flung from beyond the half-court line are not "shots", they are heaves, flings, desperation tosses.... but not "shots". Let'em count for two points.
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From the "since when?" department - Online headline: "Major ally cancels WH visit after testy call with Trump" -- "major ally"? Mexico? The country that cannot provide jobs and a future for it's own people? The country which it's number 1 import to the US (or close to it) is illegal drugs? Was Mexico a country that fought beside us during WWII.. (ooops,wait a minute.. no Mexican soldiers died in WWII), or the country that allied with Russia and Cuba during the Castro regime? Mexico.. at best now, is a neighbor.. and not really a good one.. as Robert Frost so succinctly "poeticized", "good fences make good neighbors".
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How genuinely appropriate.. a Military Parade in Washington, D.C. on Veterans Day.. Hey Pelosi.. you going to sit this out too? Too bad it's always going to be AFTER the November General Election dates.
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Why are the Parkland, FL students, parents, and mainscream media and DIMocrats for that matter trying to point the finger of blame at the NRA and the White House.. their anger should be aimed first at the (_@_) Cruz, then at the Broward School Board and the Broward Sheriff's Office.
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You know.. I don't know of any American from any party/belief that isn't incensed at the (_@_) Cruz's massacre at Parkland, FL. What amazes me is how the DIMocrats and mainscream media are mad at the wrong people... and for all the wrong reasons..
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From the "what are they thinking" department - Mainscream media and DIMocrats are ecstatic about companies dropping discount programs with the NRA. Why? Personally, why would any company want to estrange itself from 4,500,000 people who promote gun safety and patriotism?
These are known companies:
1. @MetLife
2. @symantec
3. @BestWestern
4. @Wyndham
5. @Alamo
6. @NationalPro
7. @Enterprise
8. @FNBOmaha
9. @Hertz
10. @Budget
11. @Avis
12. @NortonOnline
13. @northAmericanVL
14. @SimpliSafe
15. @ChubbNA#BoycottNRA
16. Delta Airlines
17. United Airlines
I'm not even a member of the NRA (but ardent supporter of all of our Amendments with exception to the 17th), and I just started boycotting any dealings with the above.. I figure that if theses companies are willing to blame someone else wrongly, then they will not blame themselves when they do wrong.
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Where are the police when we need them..Saturday morning. I was behind a loaded dump truck (what.. a minimum of 20 tons, probably more like 30 or 40 tons) traveling south on Veterans Parkway. The traffic light at 19th Street changed to yellow 200 yards in front of us. I took my foot off the accelerator to prepare to stop..the dump truck pulled ahead..the light turned "RED" about 50 yards in front of us.. I stopped.. the dump truck didn't even slow down and went full speed through the light and intersection. There was no visible markings or tags on the truck, and I couldn't get close enough to check out any door marking before I had to turn off to head to my destination. These trucks are moving battering rams, and need to be held accountable. How about our legislators getting these trucks properly marked.. Either that, or let Ken Nugent et al put monitoring cameras at intersections to capture such actions and sue truck owners who endanger other road traffic.
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Futility...probably the best example is DIMocrats and mainscream media trying to explain why their concepts of utopian programs fail, followed closely by trying to explain how inanimate objects such as guns take on a life of their own, yet don't want to take a vehicle away from a diver arrested for DUI.
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From the "why aren't Shicago DIMocrats against "build that library" department - Online story: "The planned Obama Presidential Center in Chicago is being privately funded, but on Friday city officials estimated how much taxpayers will pay for roadwork and other construction around the center: $175 million." -- Hmmm... Wonder how many bodies will be found in South Shicago during construction... anyone seen Hoffa?
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From the "another week.. same problem" department - Another week has passed and not one sitting Councilperson has offered up info on the projected costs of building the roundabout at River Road, Bradley Park, Cascade and Green Island.. If it were a bridge out, expediency would take precedence to costs, but we don't need what's planned, so cost projects should be up front to weigh costs-to-value.
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Now it appears that the known deputy that was stationed at the Parkland, FL high school and didn't engaged the (_@_) Cruz may not be the only one.. It appears 3 more arrived when the shootings were active, and they too stayed out.. Seems like it was policy agreed to by the School system and Sheriff's Department. Pray I am am wrong..
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L-E headline: "Muscogee County school tax revenue less than expected, putting new stadium at risk" -- You know... revenue is not the actual issue here.. The revenue is about about the same as it has been for every SPLOST.. the issue is that the MCSD can... and DOES, over plan plan projects that it knows enough revenue will not be raised to cover them.. This is done to "buy votes' of people who will vote FOR SPLOSTs because they've been promised the moon. We need a law that prohibits a new SPLOST being planned for more projects than the collected revenues from the previous SPLOST actually provided.
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The Board of Elections really needs to examine who among sitting and announced candidates for local Council/School Boards may be in violation of the 2009 law that prohibits beneficiaries of T.A.D.s from holding elected office.. Quite a few seem precariously positioned.
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L-E headline: "Democratic memo defends FBI" -- Hmmm... sorta like the guilty hang tough together...or there's "honor" among thieves... maybe
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Online headline: "CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS DENY DIANNE FEINSTEIN THEIR ENDORSEMENT FOR SENATE_ -- In fact, the California DIMocratic Party gave 54% of it's straw vote support to a challenger and only 37% still support Feinstein. I'm scared... we know how awful Feinstein has been, and California DIMocrats want to replace her with someone to her left...
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Pelosi predicts DIMs can win in November and pass a bill to rescind the corporate tax cuts. Really...That would mean taking an up/down vote for cutting a tax cut... then getting Trump to sign it... Like that would happen. So then DIMs would have to vote a second time with 67 Senators voting to override the veto, and in the next election telling voters they voted TWICE to take away TAX CUTS...ain't gonna happen!
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You know.. illegal drugs.. and some legal ones without prescriptions, are a major reason for the inordinate amount of illegal guns on our streets.. Street crimes beget more street crimes... Put away the users and dealers, and guns will surely decline in use.. but what does mainscream media and the DIMocrats want.. less penalties for street drug buyers and sellers.. you have to be perverted to want lesser penalties for drug related crimes.
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From the "well, it is a start" department - HuffPOOPOO headline/story: "Fla. officials call on Gov. Rick Scott to suspend Broward County's sheriff * In the four-page letter, 74 out of Florida’s 76 state House representatives accused Israel of failing to take significant action to prevent the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which a 19-year-old suspected gunman confessed to killing 17 people using an assault-style rifle." -- Hmmm.. "suspend"? Well, it's a start but it would be better if Sheriff Israel were suspended... from the high school's flagpole.
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Online headline: "Delta coldly denies gold-medal curling team's request for an upgrade on Twitter" -- Hmmm... guess Delta assumed Curling was a shooting sport, and Gold Medal winning "curlers" might be members of the NRA.
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From the "you cannot have it both ways" department - Online headline/story: "Transgender boy wins girls' state wrestling title for second time * For the second year in a row, a transgender wrestler has won the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division. * Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas, entered the tournament in Cypress outside of Houston with an undefeated record. He beat Chelsea Sanchez — who he beat for the title in 2017 — in the final match Saturday. * Beggs is in the process of transitioning from female to male and taking a low-dose of testosterone." -- Good grief.. it's bad enough dealing with bathroom choices, but if a "she-t" is announces a gender change, shouldn't "she-it" move into she-it's" chosen gender-base activities? To boot, why hasn't the Texas High School Sports Association disqualified "she-it" for taking a performance enhancing drug (testosterone)?
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From the "hypocrite of the tear... so far" department - Online headline/story: "Florida killer's screams of 'Murderers!' during execution not caused by lethal injection, officials say * Authorities said there was no indication that the loud screams of a Florida death-row inmate, who repeatedly hollered “Murderers!” as he was put to death Thursday evening, resulted from drugs he was given for the execution procedure. * Eric Scott Branch, 47, was sentenced to death for raping and killing Susan Morris, a 21-year-old college student in 1993. Morris’ naked body was found in a shallow grave near a nature trail. * Department of Corrections spokeswoman Michelle Glady said "there was no indication" that Branch’s screams and thrashing on a gurney in his final moments were caused by the lethal injection" -- You know.. I'm sure it was either an "act" on the (_@_)'s part as reality set in, but I wish that any pain such an (_@_) suffered was real. Of course, it may have been just his reaction to seeing the entrance Hell opening up. God is good.
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With all the angst transmitted in Florida about banning guns, I believe I just may have to start "carrying" on Florida vacations now.. "Gun Free Zones seem to attract gun looneys in droves.
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From the "more stupid than the roundabout at River Road" department - L-E headline story: "New road design nearly blocks entire intersection at Macon and Jenkins Road * Some Ridgewood Estates residents returned home Thursday afternoon and found a 4-inch concrete median erected in their intersection at Macon and Jenkins roads. * A city official said other neighborhoods may see an R-cut if the device reduces crashes at intersections and makes the roads safer. The one at Macon and Jenkins is the first in Muscogee County aimed at making this part of the corridor safer. * Farhad AliFarhani, assistant director of engineering/traffic engineering manager for the Columbus Consolidated Government, said Macon Road also known as State Route 22 Spur, is managed by the Georgia Department of Transportation, but the city was notified about the road design construction." -- What does the GA-DOT really stand for...Grievous Avengement - Designs of Trauma? Now.. for a farm vehicle.. horse trailer et all ,, to cross the road, the driver will have to take a right turn into 70 MPH traffic, then move across two lanes to get to a u-turn access, then repeat with a slow left turn into 70 MPH traffic while moving over into the right lane to make a right turn.. all at speeds slow enough to get a ticket and to be more of an endangerment than whatever the GA-DOT determined they "was fixin".

Now.. when is the one going to be built at Fulton/Macon Road.. yeah.. right.. guess the GA- DOT doesn't want to ruffle polo players feathers...
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L-E headline: "Georgia county working to hire Spanish-speaking poll workers" -- hmmmm -- maybe a good idea,,, as long as the w[first question is "¿Puedo ver tu prueba de ciudadanía?" ... "May I see your proof of citizenship?"
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You know, allowing same day registration and voting is about as dumb as walking into a bar during Happy Hour to recruit jurors for a trial about to begin...
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