Online headline: "“Scott Peterson, infamous wife-killer, beat up by fellow inmate during prison yard Pickleball match” -- Good grief! Even though  it’s in California, it's still a prison, not a YMCA or Public Park... Why does  a prison offer "Pickle Ball"! Why not offer "Pole Vaulting".. so prisoners can learn a new way to escape from prisons?

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Sounds like there were more fireworks fired off at Columbus GA Council yesterday than are usually heard on July 4th. Councilor Judy Thomas resigned from Post 9 for health reasons... She's been a stalwart for Columbus, and we all wish her improved health.


John Anker was nominated and approved to fill Judy's Post 9 seat.. Anker is a successful  businessman who has brought many new jobs into areas of Columbus that were in need of proximity opportunities. Council voted 6-3 to confirm Anker. Thought it was strange that Mayor Skippy and Councilor Chambers were so openly against Anker as both had run against him in the past 2 years, and while they both won, neither seemed very gracious about Anker bringing his energy to Columbus' future. Was most surprised at Mayor Skippy's statement that appointing Anker was wrong because he had not received a majority of Columbus voters in either race. I must point out that Mayor Skippy himself, nor Councilor Chambers, has never done that either. While he/they have received the majority of VOTES CAST, the local elections occur at the end of the school year in May (or possibly June) at the start of family vacation time rather than during the November General Election which draws many more voters to the polls.

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Another "surprise", at least in Columbus, GA Mayor Skippy's eyes, was the new authority for managing the Civic Center, the AJ McClung Memorial Stadium, Softball and Ice Rinks. It seems it's been years since the Civic Center hasn't been "revenue positive" (different from actually being profitable) in a while, and like the previous financial mishandling of a landfill receipts shortage, and more recent audit discovery of  lackadaisical  management in our City Finances, this seems not to have been of real concern to either the City Manager nor Mayor.  I was dumfounded when those two feigned not knowing about this development even though it's been on Council Agenda beginning in January of 2024..

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Another "surprise" was the announcement of the Advisory Board for a new City Manager.. Mayor Skippy said he wanted to make sure the search was "transparent" but was there transparency in selecting the "Advisory Board".. It seems pretty much politically active.
Oh, just wondering who picked the Advisory Board....and when?

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From the, "When it rains, it pours!" department - Online headline: "Columbus chief of police announces intention to step down in 2026" -- Hmmm.... tough choice as to why... either crime reports will show a different story than has been previously released... or.. he doesn't want to get fired and replaced by Mayor "I-see-a-nothing" Hugley..

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Online story: "Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday lauded her fellow Democrats for “showing up” while Republicans are “hiding” from the American people, referring to the GOP’s avoidance of in-person town halls . *  Warren, in an interview with MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez, weighed in on the large numbers of rallygoers attending fellow Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) gatherings across the country, intended to combat the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to overhaul the federal workforce." -- Hmmm... typical Pocahontas drivel.. Whether it be Republicans or Democrats scheduling "Town Halls", liberal organizations send paid flunkies to early to fill up the auditoriums and acticely disrupt .. or falsely support... a candidate.

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Online headline: "Republican Maine lawmaker sues over censure following viral post about transgender student athlete" -- And she's a real woman in a liberal  environment.   Yep...Liberals claim they support Democracy and Free Speech and Women...as long as they agree with them.

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Online headline: "Why is the Council on American-Islamic Relations hiding its donors? --  DOH! Probably because it's the same donors who pay protesters to tear up our cities!

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Online headline: "Soros and liberal megadonors behind nonprofit group that added US to human rights watchlist" --  Well...you certainly would not hear Jim Nabors say, "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise" to this revelation!

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Online headline: "Ex-Anheuser-Busch executive blames DEI for company’s missteps" --  True, but Budweiser became more complicit in its losses when it failed to apologize to America’s biological men and women for making a tranny "the face" of "Dud Light".

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Online headline: "Georgia budget proposes spending more on poor students for the first time" -- Whoa! Whatta word game! Test scores show that either 70% of students are "poor students", or they show 70% of the curriculum is "poor"  for most students.. or "poor" could be just a judgmental attempt to excuse students who's families fall below cerstain income levels because they can't succeed unless the "Giver-mint" does it for them...

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Online story: "Staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which the Trump administration has targeted to be shut down, were given an order Tuesday that seems to violate federal law. * The few USAID employees remaining after Trump’s mass firings were directed on Tuesday to shred and burn classified and personnel documents remaining at the office’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, Devex reports. *  “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” read an email from Erica Y. Carr, the acting executive secretary of USAID, noting that this would be an “all day” event beginning Tuesday morning. USAID employees were ordered to label the burn bags with the word “SECRET” and “USAID/B/IO” with permanent markers." -- Good GRIEF! Treasonous! And I'm sure Ms Carr got some "marching orders" from an outside source who is not part of DOGE... or any other person in the Trump Administration! Carr needs to be jailed immediately.. maybe even at GITMO!

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Online headline: "Judge blocks deportation of Columbia University protester " -- You guessed it.. another Obama-Biden appointee in the Southern District of NY...