From the "libs should be careful what they wish for" department - Online headline/story: "Governments Are Going To Lose $92 Billion In Fuel Taxes Thanks To Electric Cars * Governments get a ton of money from taxes on gas and fuel in general. Electric vehicles don’t use gas. As more EVs hit the road, there’s less gas getting used for governments to tax. * Under the International Energy Agency’s most ambitious scenario, in which 30 per cent of new car and truck sales are electric by 2030, governments are set to forgo $92bn in revenues from duties on road fuels." -- Don't worry.. though.. as soon as the next DIMocrat wins the Presidency, a new law will get passed that raises not only the gas taxes, but puts one on electricity as well, and soon enough only politicians will be able to afford to drive via another law that gives all politicians a fuel-furnished government vehicle to drive.

 

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Online headline/story: "Highest-ranking Latina braces for backlash over Pelosi snub *
Forget Nancy Pelosi. The most endangered member of House Democratic leadership is its most recent entrant and the highest-ranking Latina in Congress, Rep. Linda Sánchez. * As vice chairwoman of the Democratic Caucus, Sánchez occupies the obscure No. 5 spot in Democratic ranks, a position deemed the “potted plant” of leadership by veteran lawmakers." -- "the 'potted plant' of leadership"? Good grief.. is that what the DIMocrats feel about Latina women?

 

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Online story: "Handguns are almost three times as likely to be used in mass shootings as rifles, according to a new report from a gun-safety group that appears to cut against gun-control advocates’ push to ban some semiautomatic rifles. * More than three quarters of mass shootings from 1996 to 2016 involved a handgun, while just 29 percent of shooters used a rifle, according to the New York-based Rockefeller Institute, part of a gun safety initiative convened by a handful of mostly Democratic governors." -- Hmmm.. of course, this fact will not affect the DIMocratic mantra... that based on "facts" of what they can add to bolster their Machiavellian ultimate goal..

 

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From the "bias, what bias" department - Online headline/story: "'Donald Trump effect' is hurting US bid for 2026 World Cup, report says * President Trump’s comments on African countries and the administration’s travel restrictions on some Middle Eastern nations are reportedly hurting the U.S. bid to host the 2026 World Cup. * Muslim-majority countries are also wary of voting for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada proposal because of the administration’s travel ban that affects some Middle Eastern nations, a former European soccer official told the newspaper." -- You know.. if the opposition is based on one great President's choice to "Make America Great Again", and more countries would prefer to play soccer in Muslim world, then let it be...Trump will continue to Keep America Safe!

 

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Online headline/story: "New Starbucks training manual promotes 'becoming color brave,' speaking to customers 'one human to one human' * A 68-page guidebook and more than a dozen videos made up the majority of Starbucks’ hours-long racial bias training session on Tuesday, with much of the coffee seller's revamped curriculum focused on identifying racial prejudices, learning to be “color brave,” and respecting customers and their spaces" -- Hmmm... a 68 page guidebook... just to tell their employees what they could learn in one Bible verse... Matthew 7:12. Of course, most of America is waiting on Starbucks' Chairman Howard Schultz to apologize for excluding us from service.

 

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Online headline/story: "'Roseanne' fans call for Bill Maher to be fired after he joked Trump is part orangutan" -- Hmmm... HBO.. a division of Time-Warner which. among other holdings, also owns TBS, which owns CNN.. Imagine that...

 

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You know.. I have no inclination to use such a word as the "n-word", but I do think it's hypocritical... and discriminatory... and bigoted if it's use by one race is "OK" and by another, it's not "OK"

 

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Online headline/story: "CNN reporter Jim Acosta blasts Kim Kardashian's trip to the White House: 'She shouldn't be here talking about prison reform' * CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta railed against Kim Kardashian-West, who was at the White House on Wednesday to talk about prison reform. * Acosta argued that Kardashian-West's visit illustrates what he called a "lack of seriousness" from President Donald Trump with regard to matters of policy, and some politically divisive issues. * She shouldn't be here talking about prison reform," Acosta said. "It's very nice that she is here, but that's not a serious thing to have happened here at the White House." -- "lack of seriousness"? Good grief.. basically, Jim Costa has just said Kim Kardashian is an airhead... Hey, Jim... is that because she's a woman, black, or married to Kanye... or is it just your male ego complaining that she gets invited to the Oval Office, and you get shotdown by Sarah Sanders?

 

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10! ... Today is the 10th day of Zeph Baker's broken promise to have his Campaign Disclosures filed properly... Anybody have an idea where he's calling "home" these days?

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From the "how about that" department - The CSU Cougars are in the semifinals of the Div II NCAA World Series.. they play Florida Southern this morning at 10:30 .. if you are a Columbusite, you can listen on Radio 540 AM... if not, you can go the the NCAA app and stream it live..

 

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Clint Eastwood is 88 today..

 

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We still haven't heard from any Councilors about the costs of the River Road roundabout, nor the overinflated projections for LOST/OLOST revenues in Mayor Tom-LYING-son's swan song budget proposals for Fiscal 2019, nor have we heard from MCSB members about the location of the "wrestling/cheer-leading practice building for Columbus High, nor why the MCSD is spending more on revamping two baseball fields AND on 8 metal buildings than it j[has budgeted for increased school safety..