Friday, October 7, 2011

potUS O'Blather says the economy is sluggish because of uncertainty in Europe... ??? If there is any uncertainty causing economic sluggishness it is only because potUS O'Blather has told us he thinks Europe is better than America.
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The "Buffet Rule" has actually been in effect since 1996..initiated by a Republican majority in both Houses of Congress when Clinton was President. Anyone who wanted to voluntarily pay more taxes could do so by sending money to the U.S Treasury Department. In these 15 years, only $26 Million has been voluntarily submitted, and I'll bet that none of the present day whiners have previously done so.
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While I'm sure Eric Holder and potUS O'Blather are scrambling "fast & Furiously" since it has been revealed that e-mails show they knew about the arms scandal more than a year before they recently admitted, I'll bet the DOJ executive who has written off his vacation trips with his girlfriend is scrambling even 'faster' from his spouse who is more than 'furious'.
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So potUS O'Blather has scheduled anoth bus tour for jobs. Of course, this time the media is skeptical, and have started a "name that tour" contest, including "the Running on Empty Express". I think we can do better. Here are some of my thoughts:L
"Going my way or the highway"
"Rode to Nowhere", "Plunder Road",
"Highway to My Way",
"Job Available - Bus Boy"
" Solyndra (Some old line you never dreamt about_

And you have to wonder who's actually driving the bus...potUS himself, a Secret Service agent, or an International Teamster...perhaps Jimmy Hoffa, Sr. Maybe even "the Hope and Change tour; I HOPE you still have CHANGE I can get from you".
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potUS O'Blather's problem in creating private sector jobs is because he's never had to raise revenues by getting people to voluntarily to hand over money because they like his pruduct. Books George Soros bought in bulk do not count.
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Online headline: "Head Of Solyndra Loan Program To Step Down" -- We can only hope that the first step is off a step off a solar panel on the roof of the White House.
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Online headline: "Aztec Temple Platform Discovered In Mexico" -- Archaeologists are expressing hope of finding the burial tomb of the Aztyec Emperor who was ruling when Columbus landed and when the Spanish conquered the Aztecs. My guess is this is somewhat of a PR scam to arouse funding interest to keep the archaeologists working, because since the Spanish killed and cremated the Emperor, I doubt any gold icons would be buried. More than likely, any gold icons ended up on a Spanish ship back to Spain or ended up on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
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In a L-E story regarding the Expedia lawsuit: "Assistant City Attorney Lucy T. Sheftall wrote in a letter to the attorney general. “We appreciate your interest in this matter, but we cannot put the taxpayers of Columbus at a disadvantage by releasing confidential attorney-client document to a person with a financial interest in the outcome of litigation.” --How is this a disadvantage to the taxpayers? The City of Columbus should only receive any taxes due plus any actual expenses the City has experienced, and since Council has eagerly defended its position as one that is based on the City not having any expenses, the only beneficiary of the suit is actually the lawyers. In addition, what the lawsuit claims could be more expediently handled in a criminal (versus civil) case by engaging the State Attorney General's office.
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L-E headline: "Columbus officials urge Georgia lawmakers not to leave city off rail line" -- Columbus officials only see the potential of what any taxes will be brought in to the city coffers on transportation sales, but have no clue that the actual cost of running it will be a drain on state coffers thus being an negative impact for the citizens of Columbus.
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One more time: Why are the figures used to reconstruct the Council and School Districts' borders 8,000 less than the recent U.S. Census report?
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Hallelujah! We finally have a MCSD Board member other than Cathy Williams who gets it! SO for Rob Varner "told them, “We don’t represent schools. We represent citizens.” -- Amen!
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If the MCSD wants to be "fair" then let the MCSD allow the homeowners' exemption for the City's portion be applied to the MCSD's portion.
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To letter writer C.A "Brother Love" Hardmon: Since you are so sure of your facts, even though, at best, they are all hearsay and conjecture, then you should lead the push to have all the witnesses who have recanted their testimony (lied under oath) to be prosecuted for perjury, and seek criminal and civil action against them for 'wrongful death'. If you don't, then, you are nothing but a blowhard racist!
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The latest first time unemployment application is 401,000. For 21 of the kast 25 weeks, that number has been over 400K. That means that in the last 6 months, over 10,000,000 people have lost their jobs, and will probably be drawing unemployment aid for the next 99 weeks. It's no laughing matter potUS O'Blather. You're throwing too many people under that Canadian bus you're out joyriding in.
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Sign seen at the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in NYC: "Stop Spending My Future". Huih? That's a sign that needs to be paraded in front of the Capitol and the White House, and i would even carry it myself.
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L-E's "Quotable" : "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr" -- Hmmm., no wonder DIM&DUMBERats object to Republicans who use Dr King's quotes/.speeches when they are running for election against D&Ds.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Online story: "GOLDEN, Colo. — A man charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting and wounding of two eighth-graders at a Colorado middle school was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday. * Eastwood was charged with a total of 15 crimes. Jurors found him not guilty by reason of insanity on all but one charge: possession of a weapon on school grounds, which carries a sentence of up to 1 1/2 years in prison." -- If the trial proved anything about insanity, it showed the jury was the guilty party.
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From online story: "In "Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shares insights gained from his 16 years on the nation's highest court. " -- No wonder SCOTUS Breyer is so liberal; he doesn't know our form of government is not a Democracy, but a Limited Republic!
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Online headline: "GM Agrees With D-Wade—Stars Are Underpaid" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought Government Motors was trying to court NBA players into the union.
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Hasn't the unbridled expansion/failure in the banking industry taught anybody anything about the pitfalls of meaningless expansion? Take the SEC for example; why do the powers that be think adding Texas A&M and Missouri will enhance the core of the SEC? With limited games that can be scheduled, many rivalries between existing schools will become alternate events, and the traditions will take a hit. Witness the division into East & West divisions, and how it has caused series to skip every two years. Can it be assured that, say UGA-AU not be interrupted by a 2 year absences when UGA schedules Missouri while AU plays Texas A&M on the traditional UGA-AU weekend. And how about inter-conference rivalries like UGA vs GA Tech?
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Talk about revisionist history, Tiger Woods is now recovering from "serial adultry"; in a couple of years his fall will be described as 'excess practice putting".

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Here's a Republican answer to the Occupy Wall Street whiners. Have rolling billboards circle the NYC protest site with a message saying "we will apply all the money recovered from potUS O'Blather's loan to Solyndra towards retiring 50% of your student loans".
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barackobama.com's message for today calls for everyone to 'twitter' Republican Congressman. Guess that makes the DIM&DUMBERats the party of "Big Twits", or "DIM&DUMBer Twits"'
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Documents have surfaced that show Eric Holder, head of our Department of Justice, show that Holder received updates on "Fast & Furious" in the summer of 2010, not the 2011 dates Holder has stated under oath. That's perjury....that is definitely not acceptable in his position, nor should it be acceptable any longer to potUS O'Blather.
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From a WRBL-# story about the Auburn, AL Cemetery: "With the use of ground-penetrating radar conducted last year, approximately five more slave graves have been discovered at the north end of the six-acre cemetery, Norman said." -- How many Thou$and$ of dollars did Columbus spend doing the same thing on a mythical site near 6th Avenue without any discovery, and yet the property has been designated as an expensive park?
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L-E story: "Three U.S. born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stunning revelation that suggests the cosmos could be headed for a colder, bleaker future, nearly devoid of light." -- You know, this is probably due to Algore's hot-air ranting about global warming. Also, how embarrassing for potUS O'Blather for pushing solar panels as the energy source of the future...
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The lawsuit filed against the City regarding a Parks&Rec firing reminds me of something: Have Adams and Porter finished their 'community service' sentences? Also, what exactly did they do as 'community service'?
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L-E headline: "Hank apologizes for Hitler-Obama analogy" -- I saw that sequence... Fox was embarrassed as I was for Hank, Jr's complete session on Fox. As for his apology, it's probably more like he regrets the effect it will have on his career more than anything else. Must have been "5:00" wherever Hank was.
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From the "suspicions confirmed" department - L-E headline: "Chicago - Rosie O'Donnell gets her wish: Russell Brand will be her first guest on her new (Oprah Winfrey Network) show." -- This sorta like having one wish from a Genie, and asking the Genie for a Yugo instead of a Rolls Royce. To quote Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does".
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Yesterday, I had a rare, as well as first time, experience. A fervent, last minute invitation to a legal system annual ritual revealed another side of that system. I witnessed an amoral driven body expose itself to honesty and emotion usually absent from a court venue. I felt honored to be there in support of each member, past and present.
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Politicos are scratching their heads about getting the economy moving since potUS O'Blather's 'plan' isn't working. Guess the key would be for potUS O'Blather to lead by example by working on something else other than golf or campaigning.
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Robert Johnson, BET founder, is a perfect example of an oxymoron. How can one person support lower corporate tax reform and potUS O'Blather at the same time?
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3,895.... this is just a number, but it's the total number of the much ballyhooed Chevy "Volt" Government Motors has poured its efforts into to reviving itself. Maybe a name change will help...perhaps "Solyndra" since it's THE hot name of government efficiency as a business partner, and it's suddenly available.
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The Big City Club....Just another reason the Friday concert night promotion known as "Bar Crawl" needs to be tempered with reality. Perhaps something like "BAND Night" would be a tad more acceptable for children to see when they are with their parents on such Friday evenings.
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Seems like the Charter Review Commission is adding more politics to the every day functioning of the City. Putting non-elected department heads on the chopping block every 4 years is tantamount to creating an hierarchy of sycophants to whomever is Mayor. What the Charter Review Commission should be doing is making the job of internal city auditor one of the securest jobs within the city.
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From "the suspicions confirmed" department - L-E story: "Stockholm - A pioneering researcher was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine Monday, three days after dying of pancreatic cancer without ever knowing he was about to be honored for his immune system work that he had used to try to prolong his own life" -- Now we know how potUS O'Blather was given the Nobel Peace Prize, which by now is even more embarrassing than the award to the dead guy.
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Ooops, the prosperity balloon has burst. The L-E Foreclosure Section is back to 10 pages.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Online headline: "Dick And Liz Cheney: Obama Owes Bush Administration An Apology" -- Yeah, and I'm sure that will be forthcoming....right after he apologizes to American taxpaying citizens for what he's done for our children's future.
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Online headline: "New NPR CEO Hopes To 'Depoliticize' Public Radio Debate" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought he was announcing its closing.
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Random thought from a fellow BCer with military expertise: "Watching FOX news Sunday. They are debating Anwar all Has (al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen) and whether or not we had the authority to kill him because he is a US citizen. Some say that our government doesn't have the right to kill an enemy combatant leader because of his 5th amendment rights as a US citizen (Ron Paul). Wonder if they ever had this debate during WWII when US citizens left the united states to fight for Nazi Germany. Just my thoughts...
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According to White House spokesmouth, Jay Carney, he thinks all White House trips of George Kaiser's (main investor of Solyndra) visits to the West Wing were for 'charity'... Yeah, his own!
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Speaking of Jay Carney...who'd have expected potUS O'Blather couldn't improve over Robert Gibbs? Then again, he may have for his purposes.
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No wonder the main stream media poh-poohs the idea that potUS O'Blather is a socialist/Marxist; the main stream media considered American-Muslin terrorist al-Awlaki a moderate.
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One of the Occupy Wall Street protesters was carrying a sign that read, " Equal Taxes For All!". Wait a minute, who can argue about that!
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From a quote site: "Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
- Pete Seeger " -- It's even worse than I thought...our school kids can't even read the regular print!
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L-E headline: "10 percent of parents ship, delay kids' shots" -- If this information is compilable and documented, cannot, should not, information be extracted comparing the occurrence of autism in these children versus the mainstream?
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From L-E's "Late Laughs": "The International Labor Organization says the global economy is facing a major jobs shortfall. Don't blame us - we've been sending you our jobs for the last 20 years. - Jay Leno" -- You have to laugh to keep from crying....
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Occupy Wall Street's main gripe is the high cost of education/student loans. What the students should be complaining about is how inadequately prepared they were when they finished high school to be able to analyze what such debt would entail in order to pay it back, and being able to sign for such debt without any collateral or job guarantee at their age.
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Paid $3.199 cents a gallon for gas yesterday. Also figured that if you deducted the $ .184 Federal tax per gallon, and the $ .075 GA tax per gallon and the 7% state & local sales taxes, the gas was "only" $2.75 per gallon. That also mean that $ .45 per gallon is taxes we pay which is an over 16% income tax going into government coffers straight from our pockets. The governments make more per gallon than the manufacturer and retailer combined!
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Requiring everyone to acquire health insurance guarantees three things: Those who comply will be at the mercy of those who provide coverage; those who provide medical services will not have to worry about holding down costs; and those who don't comply will still add costs at a higher rate to those who do.
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Bill O'Reilly is only 62? Even with the magic of TV studio make-up artists, I thought he was up in his 70s...
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This will be an oft inclusion of the Breakfast Club: Diane Schneider, a representative with the National Education Association (NEA), said that graphic sex education needs to be taught in the classroom. * "She said that 'gender identity expression' and sexual orientation are a spectrum, and...that those [who are] opposed to homosexuality are stuck -- quote -- 'in a binary box that religion and family create.' -- This should be sent to every teacher in every school district, and they should be asked to either endorse it, demand Ms Schneider be fired, or drop their NEA membership.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

In response to the outrage of a government worker paying $16.00 for a 'muffin'. Hilton Hotel issued a statement that it wasn't just a 'muffin', it was for a 'full continental breakfast'. Hilton's point? Would you order or let your employees pay $16.00 for a muffin and coffee?
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Online headline: "California To Quit Foreclosure Settlement Talks " -- Ooops, my bad. Thought California was in denial about being bankrupt...well fiscally...it's been morally bankrupt for decades.
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Why are the Wall Street protesters on Wall Street protesting their high student loans? It's the colleges and universities that have jacked up the prices. The protesters should be at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue complaining to potUS O'Blather and the Secretary of Education.
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Finally found a fitting campaign slogan for potUS O'Blather: "FORE...more beers. For more beers. Four more beers."
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While I think the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program is wonderful, one cannot help but notice that it's holding its big recruitment campaign during 'happy hour' time at 3 drinking spas. Wouldn't it send a better message if the sessions were held in churches or other non-drinking locations?
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Oh, yesterday's barackobama.com re-election e-missive came from "Don't mess with Joe" himself. VPOTUS Biden said, "This has never been about Barack and me. We're just two guys. It's folks like you out there who will decide this election." -- They just don't get it! It is about them, and our votes in November 2012 will decide.
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You know, main stream media is harping at potUS O'Blather's decision to wipe out Al-Awlaki because al-Awlaki was an American.... Yeah, an American who has betrayed America. Why can't the main stream media get upset with potUS O'Blather for the things he's done to destroy America rather than being upset for one of the few things he done to help America?
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L-E story: "Tripoli, Libya - Human Rights Watch called on Libya's new rulers to stop armed groups from rounding up Moammar Gadhafi supporters and abusing them.." -- The more things change, the more they stay the same in Muslim countries. Why would any Human Rights Watch member ever think differently?
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You know, if there was an organization giving out scholarships to 'whites only', even most whites would find this objectionable. In fact, there'd be lawsuits filed upon the announcement that such an organization existed. The sad thing is that when you exclude any segment from competing, the 'winners' never know if they are actually the best.
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Income down and prices up... and in O'Blatherland, the report is "All's well." Pinocchio's nose would look normal in Washington.
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Jimmy Carter is 87 today. I thought he was much older.. sorta like dinosaur aged like his ideas of how to run a government.