Online headline: "San Quentin Death Row Inmate, Found Hanging In Cell" -- Hmmm, after 8 years there, guess the prisoner couldn't stand waiting for justice to be served anymore. Of course, his lawyer will probably sue California for "loss of wages for the next 20 years"... --- Have you seen the current Wild Turkey Bourbon ad? Its 'punch line' is "Give'em the bird". We need to send them a message and tell'em to "advertise responsibly". Give'em the 'silent treatment' at the cash register. --- The 'war on women' by the DIM&DUMBERats has escalated to a new low (if that could be possible). A new video capture has a Planned Parenthood Clinic across the board encouraging the late-term abortions of little girls just because they are girls." --- Simply because lawyers have basically written the election laws so ambiguously that proving misuse of funds beyond a shadow of a doubt is practically impossible, I just hope that the IRS is following the trial closely, and will act decisively if the jury does decide that the money in question was a gift versus a donation. --- Online headline: "Milwaukee Police Accused Of Illegal Cavity Searches" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought there was becoming a defined element of what cavities are legal for the TSA to search and which ones aren't. --- HuffPost headline/story: " New York High School Cancels Plans To Provide Condoms For Prom-Goers * The condom controversy doesn't show any signs of dying down before prom 2013. Do you think schools should have the right to provide condoms at prom? " -- "the RIGHT to provide condoms on prom night"? It was bad enough when the US Supreme Court gave high school students "rights", but why do the schools think they have a 'right' (or responsibility) to do anything but provide basic educational opportunities for taxpayers' children? --- WRBL News3 story: "COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Crews started working in the Liberty District last April to update the water and sewage system to prevent frequent flooding in the area. * Workers have been steadily moving along and the project is scheduled to be completed early next year." -- Shouldn't this have been done/completed back in the early to mid 1990s when the Columbus Water Works held us hostage to either a bond issue or tripling our rates to comply with a government order? The CWW told us our whole sewer system had to be overhauled right then and there. Wot happ'n'd? --- L-E picture of potUS Arpege demonstrating his new military strategy he picked up from the French:

--- L-E's "Quotable": “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” - Mother Teresa Catholic nun and missionary, beatified 2003 (1910-1997) -- Hmmm, now we know why she was never asked to speak at a DIM&DUMBERat National Convention. It wouldn't have been nice to try to fool Mother Teresa. --- The debate to hire more people in the DA's office should not be centered on the fact that more crimes are being committed and more arrests are being made. That comes with the territory. I'd be more agreeable with Slater if she wanted to spend money on assuring better qualified juries and more judges to hear all these cases. I am also open to more prison cells to keep criminals incarcerated for their entire sentence. --- A letter in the L-E paints a rosy picture for the Natatorium. Contrary to the rosy picture of succcess the Smiths' write about their past experiences in using a natatorium, the budget plans of this natatorium include only a plan for about 8 days a year for 'swim meets' providing only 2% of the projected revenues. If the Smiths are so enthusiastic about the merits swimming has been for their children, then the Smiths should be used in a campaign for making sure the Natatorium fees for use should be high enough that there would be no operations deficit for the facility. --- L-E headline: "Congradulations! " -- It would behoove the L-E to show/denote that this was an intentionally misspelled play on phonics rather than a proof reader's overlooked correction. "Con-grad-ulations" would show this; as it is, based on the plethora of spelling errors we are exposed to throughout the year, this may not be even noticed by the L-E. --- L-E story: " A Lumpkin Court resident lost 250 pounds of tools, hundreds of DVDs and other items in a Monday burglary, Columbus police said. * Police say a $1,000 Rolex watch and 250 DVDs worth $2,500 were taken from inside the house. * An electric handsaw worth $235 and 250 pounds of tools in two different tool boxes were taken from the storage shed." -- Please tell me the police are looking at this with a tad of disbelief... A Rolex may be worth $1,000.00 when 'hot' but considering the neighborhood of mainly $20K-$40K rental homes, such items reported stolen are not normal for such conditions. --- L-E headline: "Facebook’s Zuckerberg drops off rich list " -- Guess the DIM&DUMBERats will flood the online site with, "Like"s. ---

Online story: "MSNBC's Chris Hayes sparked controversy and debate on Sunday when he said that he felt "uncomfortable" calling soldiers killed in action "heroes" because the term can be used to justify potentially unjust wars. He later apologized for the statement. " -- The story also provided me with the perfect response: a "twitterer" wrote: " One Twitter user said that he was "uncomfortable with calling you (Hayes) an American." --- What is it with liberals? They don't seem to understand the difference between Veterans' Day and Memorial Day; even potUS Arpege. On Veterans' Day, we salute, we thank, we honor all our military men and women, past and present. On Memorial Day, we take a few minutes out of our day to remember those brave soldiers who died in order for America to become and remain free. Even a Memorial Day backyard cook-out is a tribute to them. To feel any different is unpatriotic... period. --- Online story: "WASHINGTON — The White House said President Barack Obama misspoke on Tuesday when he referred to a "Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish war hero. * The president's remark had drawn immediate complaints from Poles who said Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski called it a matter of "ignorance and incompetence." -- Thank goodness potUS Arpege handled this himself and didn't send VEEP Biden-Biden to represent him; Biden-Biden could have started WW III. --- Online story: "Romney spent Tuesday evening at a Las Vegas fundraiser with Trump, who had toyed with the idea of running for president. Romney says he believes Obama was born in America but has yet to condemn Trump's repeated insinuations to the contrary. * "If Mitt Romney lacks the backbone to stand up to a charlatan like Donald Trump because he's so concerned about lining his campaign's pockets, what does that say about the kind of president he would be?" Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, said in a statement." -- "If Mitt Romney lacks the backbone to stand up to a charlatan like Donald Trump"? Huh? I do believe it was potUS Arpege who kowtowed to Trump's demand. --- Online headline: "Cory Booker Communications Director Resigns" -- Yeah right... she either had to say that or end up next to James Hoffa in the New Jersey Meadowlands. --- Online story: "WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. National Weather Service has retired unexpectedly after an internal investigation found that agency employees improperly shifted millions of dollars in budget resources to weather service offices around the country." -- "Retired"? Sounds more like his heat wave was confronted by a cold-front and lightning knocked him off his throne. --- Online headline: "'Don't Fale Me': Student Writes Hilarious Note On Assignment " -- Any further arguments for eliminating remedial students to college? This reminded me of a day back in the 70's when I stopped by our stores personnel department to review recent employment applications. One struck me as a sign of the future. A recent high school graduate wrote in the "Previous Jobs" area of the application, "Non, I just don graduated." I felt my job was pretty safe in the future. --- L-E headline: "Councilman Sumbry says wife’s nap to blame for blue light mishap" -- Hmmm, I guess it doesn't matter which side of the river you live on, DIM&DUMBERats seem anxious to blame their wives for their ills. Along with Sumbry, we have Michael Eddings... Even worse than the "war on women" most DIM&DUMBERats partake in is the "war on wives". --- United Way just announced its results: $6,600,000.00 pledged; $6,006,000.00 actually collected; $5,021,101.00 distributed to agencies; $984,899.00 retained for United Way salaries/expenses. Looks like a couple of things need to be done. First, pledgers not completing such should have their United Way signs/window decals revoked, and United Way needs to curtail its almost 20% of revenues collected from being retained for in-house use. --- Succinct L-E "soundoff": "Democrats are all for tolerance until you disagree with them. Then they go on a personal attack: against God, His Bible, His church, His people, my marriage and family — all things they are ignorant about. " -- Well said! Write more often! --- Another obvious lib's L-E "soundoff": "Why does Columbus treat graduation like church? Graduation is supposed to be a joyous time!" -- Well, when high school graduates pick up their diplomas but have no skills to enter college or the work place, whay are we supposed to be joyous about? Being graduated is suppose to mean you have been prepared well enough to 'graduate' to the next step in life...being more independent. --- I've got it! With all the recent court decisions overturning criminal verdicts based om "ineffective counsel", require all court appointed attorneys and public defenders to buy insurance, and post a 'performance bond'. That way, if an appeal is overturned, the insurance company would pay for the taxpayers' cost of a retrial, and the lawyer woiuld pay more for his/her insurance (or be denied insurance coverage which would keep him out of court cases). --- Paraphrasing a phrase of support from most of our pasts, "Right On, Thomas Orr, Write On!" ---

To the lib Monday 'soundoff-er' who submitted, "Matrimony is not necessarily "holy." Leave the holy part to the church weddings and allow marriage to be legal instead. It won't hurt the holy ones." -- Hmm, Mark 10:9 (KJV) says, "What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder." so I guess the writer either thinks it's OK to 'asunder' a legal ceremony, or a JP has the same power of God. --- Online headline: " NATIONAL POLITICS * Obama to honor fallen troops on Memorial Day -- Oooops, my bad. Thought he was staging a ceremonial resignation; participating in a photo-op during an election year is not honoring. Besides, we are memorializing, remembering. --- A photographer has filed a complaint against Justin Bieber 'for roughing him up'. Yeah, right... That photographer better have a lot of pictures to back his story. --- From L-E story: "Americans spend more money on coffee every year than it would cost to put fresh water wells in every African village. It takes so little to save a life, to give these children a chance to rise above the generations of poverty. But the greatest hurdle is getting people to pay attention." -- Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson.... where are you? Are you listening? Do you even care? --- Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2012/05/28/2064471/columbus-woman-raises-money-awareness.html#storylink=cpy Lib's L-E "soundoff": "Unions had nothing to do with jobs going overseas. That was done by rich business owners who saw an opportunity to increase profits sinfully on top of the profits that already increased by not creating new jobs." -- Are there people who actually believe this? Unfortunately... but unions are not the ONLY reason, but they are surely one of the top two reasons. The other....the U.S. government via Congress and the regulatory agencies. --- Before it goes any further, Mayor Obamalinson and Council need to publish a detailed break down of the operational costs of the natatorium estimates. Fixed costs are harder to renegotiate, but variables are open season. Let the public see exactly what the budgeting snafu is really about. Whether a 'profit' (in government speak, enough revenue coming in from fees to offset bond interest, utilities, and salaries/benefits) can be made should have been evaluated before the first ground-breaking shovel turned over any soil. Letting a private entity, even the membership based Y.M.C.A., cannot be a solution if the operational costs overruns are as presented, because even the Y.M.C.A. (or other) cannot operate continuously with such a deficit budget plan. --- L-E headline: "Japan’s rice farmers pray over paddies * They hope this year’s rice crop won't be too radioactive to sell " -- "Too radioactive to sell"? How about taking the TSA out of the airports, and have then pat down and sniff every bag of Japanese rice that comes through customs, and reject all rice that has ANY level of radioactivity! --- L-E headline: "Russia condemns its ally Syria over massacre * More than 108 killed, including 49 children" -- Putin must be doing his ''potUS Arpege" imitation. Next we'll find an open mike gaffe where Putin's aide will tell Ahmandine-JIHAD's aide that he'll have more flexibility following the November elections. --- L-E story: "MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Hundreds of people gathered at the Alabama state Capitol to protest the recent passage and signing of a bill that makes some changes to Alabama’s tough law targeting illegal immigration." -- Obviously, millions of Alabamians showed their support for the bill by participating in life. --- L-E story: "OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers. " -- And running the cost up for students (or mainly, their parents) who are taking normal college level courses. The flux of added professors to handle admission of non-college-level prepared students not only drives up the cost of every student's education, the admission processes often give undeserving students a place at a college/university that another more qualified student is rejected for admission. Lets not even go to how many "HOPE Scholarship" dollars are wasted on unqualified students! --- How did the powers that be come up with the name "Beryl" as a tropical storm/hurricane name? Is that a girl's or boy's name? Wouldn't it be tough enough for a child to have to answer to 'Beryl' without having it the same as a tropical storm/hurricane? --- If watching the lack of effort, hustle of Braves players of Saturday is an indicator, it indicates the 8 game losing streak will probably continue...and continue. It wasn't just a comedy of errors we saw, it was a mental breakdown of players who obviously would rather have been somewhere else other than Turner Field. ---

Online story: "Florida officials made it clear Friday that the state will continue to purge as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls -- despite a coalition's call to stop the process or prepare for court. * In the last three weeks alone, the Florida secretary of state's office has identified and started to purge what it says are at least 50,000 dead voters from the state's rolls and stripped out about 7,000 convicted felons. Officials at the same time are defending a more controversial plan to remove as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state's voter rolls. * “Florida has a very shameful history of purging minority voters based on false information before presidential elections,” said Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez, director of voter protection projects for the Advancement Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to protect voter rights. " -- "Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez, director of voter protection projects for the Advancement Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to protect voter rights. "? If MS Culliton-Gonzalez was concerned about protecting voter rights, she would be working WITH Florida officials to make sure non-eligible people were QUICKLY purged from the voter lists so legitimate voters' rights would be protected! --- L-E headline/story: "Christian Jordanian woman sues her Muslim employer * A Christian Jordanian woman said Sunday she is suing her Gulf Arab employer for arbitrary dismissal after she refused a new dress code forcing her to cover her head." -- In sharia law, it's a different kind of justice when one has her head handed to her. Hope she filed in a California Court. --- Online headline: "Alan Simpson Slams Fellow Republicans For Unwillingness To Compromise " -- First of all, Simpson is a FORMER Republican who was rejected because of his unwillingness to stand his ground on important issues. No one wins in compromise, but the person who caves in the slightest on his values loses then, and will lose more the next time he compromises further. --- Online headline/story: "Ohio Casinos' Opening Cutting Into Winnings For Neighboring States * TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The opening of casinos in Ohio this spring means the luck is running out for neighboring states that have pulled in an estimated $1 billion each year from gamblers who've been crossing the border to wager at riverboats in Indiana, gaming tables in Michigan and casinos in western Pennsylvania. * With more Ohioans staying home to gamble, those states stand to lose millions in tax revenues that help pay for new schools, college scholarships, roads and bridges. * Indiana alone estimates it will lose as much as $100 million in tax revenue in the first year after all four of Ohio's casinos are operating. * "We were shockingly successful in the early years," said Luke Kenley, a state senator who's a key member of Indiana's budget committee. "But other states have chipped away at us."" -- Government mentality will destroy us all! Indiana State Senator Kenley sums up the greatest injustice, the greatest harm open gambling brings upon our social and fiscal growth... people who can't afford to gamble are running out of money, and can neither sustain their habit/hobby, and will become dependent on the state to exist. --- L-E story: "NEW YORK — Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it’s now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it. " -- Polls just prove that 'figures don't lie, but liars figure a lot'. What the polls reveal is that most people respect individual privacy, but reject those who want to force their private lives in other people's faces. --- L-E's "Looking back": "Fifty years ago today, May 28, 1962 City’s Crime Rate Lowest in State * Columbus made the best showing among Georgia cities of more than 100,000 population in the FBI’s uniform crime report figures for the first three months of the year." -- My, my, how the times have been a changing. --- L-E story: " ALBANY — School officials are scheduling August hearings for 24 teachers and two principals in southwest Georgia whose contracts weren’t renewed after they were named in Gov. Nathan Deal’s report on test cheating. " -- 24 teachers and 2 principals in one system caught... wonder what the real number is of those who cheated or didn't report what hey saw. 1 teacher/principal cheating is a problem; 24 teachers and 2 principals is an epidemic, that only a mass amputation will curtail. --- From a fellow BCer: Updated potUS Arpege re-election bumper sticker

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Today's Breakfast Club is coming to you from Athens. We went to Atlanta for a Braves Game/Scotty McCreery concert with our youngest, then drove to Athens to visit with our eldest. Carol calls Athens 'God's Country'; others just see it as "a pack of dogs". --- I guess if you hold on long enough, good things do happen. Saw a fellow BCer from the historic district riding his bicycle down Broadway Saturday AM...but on the streets instead of the sidewalks! Thanks, pard. --- L-E headline: "Vatican confirms pope's butler arrested in scandal" -- " promus did is!" ("The butler did it! in Latin - at least according to an online translator source. Took 2 years of Latin but couldn't remember merda. --- Liberals.....they complain about our military budget, yet have nothing to complain about spending more than half the amount of our military's budget on illegal alien benefits. --- Online story: "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is warning that if $607 billion in tax increases and spending cuts all hit as scheduled -- roughly the beginning of next year -- the U.S. will likely go into recession in 2013. -- Grab your wallet! You know this ia actually sugar coated if the mainstream media printed this. --- HuffPost headline: "Obama's Thrifty Claims Prove False" -- Of course, the HuffPost doesn't have the moxie to do a Joe Wilson analysis of "You Lie!"! Love it when libs turn on each other, but wish they'd learn that a campaign promise made just to get your vote ain't gonna be kept, and potUS Arpege is Hoping the same promise this year will keep'em from Changing their vote. --- Miami Herald (McClatchy, too) Commentary headline/story: "Obama administration reneged on it's secrecy pledge * There were no cameras around to record whether President Obama was winking when, on his first full day in office, he signed an executive order and two presidential memorandums declaring that "every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side of not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known". * No White House in my lifetime, even that of the infamously secretive Richard Nixon - has been more of an attack dog when it comes to preserving governmental secrecy." -- The party of 'yellow dogs' are now attacking the hand that feeds it. --- Online headline: "Biden: 'If You Harm America, We Will Follow You'" -- "Follow"? Looks to me like Osama bin Biden has been leading the way! --- potUS Arpege's 2012 'slogan' is "Forward".. 'Forward' as in "Back to The Future I Promised in 2008" would be more like it. --- Online story: "One man is dead and another hospitalized after a bizarre assault off Miami's MacArthur Causeway reportedly forced a police officer to open fire. * City of Miami police say the incident began Saturday afternoon about 2 p.m. when an officer responded to reports of 2 men fighting in the bike path of the Biscayne Boulevard exit ramp * The officer...approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man's head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him. * The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots." -- Other than it had to be obvious that the perv wasn't concealing a weapon, why didn't the officers just rush and contain him? Now, every LGB&T & ACLU office will be clamoring to file some sorta lawsuit. --- Online headline: "Former Mubarak PM Demands Partial Vote Recount" -- "Partial vote recount"? What's he want...Algore to recount the hanging chads on his opponent's ballots? --- L-E story: "In the wake of Columbus Council’s negative reaction to the proposed $1.2 million annual subsidy of the city’s new natatorium, city leaders are planning to reopen discussions with the YMCA concerning a possible partnership in the venture. * Tomlinson said that even if some level of subsidy remains for the natatorium, it would be just one of many such subsidies the Consolidated Government pays for civic amenities. * In the current fiscal 2012 budget, more than $1.5 million in subsidies were paid out of the general fund to venues such as the Civic Center/Ice Rink, Lake Oliver Marina , Cooper Creek Tennis Center, Bull Creek and Oxbow Creek golf courses, the Trade Center and Civil War Naval Museum, she said. Add in the $2.6 million that the Trade Center and Civic Center get from hotel/motel and beer taxes and the total of tax subsidies for city facilities totals over $4.1 million, she said. * “None of them are independent profit centers,” Tomlinson said. “But you have to take into account their economic impact. How much sales tax is generated. How many heads are in beds (in hotels and motels) because of families coming into town to visit these facilities.” * There’s a reason, she said, that the private sector isn’t jumping in to develop such facilities. But there is a ion of the reason they are good public investments. " -- With the exception of the Trade Center there should be no "subsidies" (a.k.a. bad management of resources). If the City thinks we should be offering special facilities, then the City should be able to operate them at a profit. If not, the City should vacate (or sell at fair market value) said ventures and clear the way for private industry to take over such ventures. As it stands, if the City lowballs the price/use of such facilities, which it makes it tougher, even impossible, for private businesses to compete for that business as well. A good current example is potUS Arpege has written off space travel as negative, but SpaceX, a private company, just launched a cargo rocket to the Space Lab, and SpaceX will make a profit on it. --- Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Let’s try to understand this: If I have $1,000 and pay $50 in taxes, I’m paying a higher percentage of my money than a man who has $1,000,000 and pays $5,000. Don’t pity the rich. " -- Heh heh heh..."If I have $1,000...." Liberals must have all been taught 'new math'...by design. First, this liberal says 'if I have a $1,000", not if I EARN a $1000, but even if the liberal has or earns such, he/she ain't gonna pay $50 in taxes; he/she will either pay ZERO or get an unearned income tax refund! --- Another lib's L-E "soundoff": "Mr. Romney says our American students are getting a “Third World education.” Maybe the solution is for all the students to go to expensive private schools like his kids did. " -- Ignorance may be bliss in some cases, but not this one. Only one private school or college even in Columbus has tuition that higher than the per child tax dollar expenditures of our public schools. --- I don't believe it! After all these years, Tim Chitwood actually has a satirically funny column all by himself... well, he may have gotten a few tips from my blog items concerning the MCSD board. --- This is a freaky picture in the L-E concerning a local HS graduation:

The teacher is identified as "a multi-age instructor". What is a "multi-age instructor", and why would this be a selected pose between any instructor and a student? --- L-E story: "ATLANTA — Faced with rising prison costs, Georgia corrections officials are releasing a growing number of sick and elderly inmates to save millions of dollars in medical spending. " -- Excuse me? Maybe GA correction officials can 'show' savings on paper, but how can that be claimed when it's gonna cost US a lot more in other government programs to house, feed, and treat such individuals? Raise hell with your representatives! --- Online headline: "Manure Pit Deaths Ruled Accidental" Oooops, my bad. Thought Clinton had been at another disappointing DIM&DUMBERat fundraiser. --- Online headline/story: "Newport Beach Slaps Obama Campaign With A $35,000 Bill * California has a reputation for being an "ATM" when it comes to presidential campaigns, but one city in the Golden State is tired of bearing the hidden costs of high-end political fundraisers. * Newport Beach in Orange County, Calif., has just slapped the Obama for America campaign with a bill for $35,043.04, reports Corona Del Mar Today. The figure represents the cost of extra police officers, reserve officers and overtime pay that the city contributed to the President's visit in February of this year. " -- Hmmmm, a $35K bill for security...hmmmm... why is that 35K bill sound familiar? Oh!!!! I do think that was the cost per person of the fundraiser! Guess this 'bill' sorta re-compensated either the Mayor's or the Police Chief's attendance that night --- www.BamaJam2012.com, replete with the Pepsi modified potUArpege insignia logo, should be carefully checked to see if it's really an ObamaJam2012 campaign rally promising country music, and apologizing when none of the country music kings actually shows up. --- L-E's "Thought for Today": “Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.” — Chuang-Tzu, Chinese essayist (c. 369 B.C.E.—c. 286 B.C.E.) " -- Wow! China has known for 25 Centuries that potUS Arpege was coming! --- Once again, the L-E has printed a political commentary by Karl Douglass without identifying Karl as a paid political strategist of Sanford Bishop. Shame on the L-E! --- From the pits of Leonard Pitts: "We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives. * So what did Eugene J. Polley do? What was the nature of his great leap forward? Did he invent the PC? Did he invent the cell phone? Did he invent the Internet? * No. Eugene J. Polley invented the wireless remote. " -- Wouldn't you know it...Pitts, the outspoken voice of the underpaid un/non-employed, idolizes the man who created 'the couch potato'. --- Jason Duffner.... Auburn Tiger replacing Tiger Woods. --- Oh...one comment about the Braves game. Washington's lead-off batter hit a soft single to right field, and as Jason Heywood lazily waiyed for the ball to get to him, the batter took note and made it to second. A fan close by yelled, "That's OK, Heywood!". I yelled, "No it's not, there are kids watching you! Hustle"! ---

Online story: "Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a law last year that sharply reduces the duration of benefits and makes filing unemployment claims much more of a hassle. The law requires claims to be filed online, creates a lengthy test with math and reading questions and requires workers to keep detailed records of their job search efforts. * "Florida's revised procedures make it just about as difficult as possible for unemployed workers to access unemployment insurance now," said Florida Legal Services attorney Valory Greenfield in a statement." -- Your point? Why shouldn't those filing for benefits 'work' for them? The legal indignation is but a hypocritical act, as the state's policy gives more lawyer's 'work'. --- L-E story: "A driver who fled Columbus police Thursday afternoon was later caught and found with $4,570 in marijuana, reports state. * Antonio Vanderson, 34, is charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, reckless driving, driving while his license was suspended and an excessive tint violation, police said." -- Once again, when someone gets his/her license suspended, the car should be impounded or fitted with a 'boot' for the same sentence duration. --- potUS Arpege is campaigning on the myth that a successful businessman is not necessarily qualified to run a country. He may have a warped point; he's already proven that a successful community organizer is not qualified to run a country. --- Online headline: "Edwards Jurors Looking At More Evidence" -- If it's about whether the money was a gift or a donation can be answered by looking at the giver/donor's tax returns. If it was a gift, the giver/donor's CPA would have known and listed it as a gift on the giver/donor's tax returns. Gifts over the $12/13K amount are taxable at about 50%+/-. If the giver/donor's CPA didn't list it as a gift, then it was a donation to the Edwards' campaign, and must be spent only in accordance to election laws. It's that simple! --- Online headline: "Bill Clinton Fundraiser Deemed "Worst Party Ever" -- Was there any doubt? It was a DIM&DUMBERat Party. --- Online headline: "Killer Cat-sized Rats Invade Florida" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought the Secret Service Advanced Team was in Miami preparing for the DIM&DUMBERat National Convention. --- L-E story: "French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France’s combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year" -- Well, France has certainly had enough practice at surrendering. --- Perhaps if Congress had to abide by all the laws it enacts, there wouldn't be any objections to tax cuts. --- Why would Columbus want to add another 1-cent tax to the taxes we pay on purchases of meals, clothing, entertainment, autos, hotels, gas, and such? When you look at businesses who collect more sales taxes for local/state coffers than the businesses 'net' annually, you have to think that the businesses may be wondering if they are in the wrong business to begin with. --- L-E headline/story: "FERNBANK SCIENCE CENTER * DeKalb schools consider closing center * Science center costs $4.7M each year * About 160,000 people visit the center each year, many of them school children, to learn about frogs, snakes, bugs and other animals and plants. " -- Having experienced being a volunteer chaperone on such a trip for middle schoolers, what I learned most was that none of the exhibits were near as intriguing for them as the day out of regular school and the overpriced Fernbank concession/souvenir counter. What the Fernbank Science Center needs is some excitement and hands on experiences, but that ain't happening. --- L-E headline: "BIBB COUNTY (Alabama) * Inmate, 37, arrested in death of prisoner * Jeremy James, 33, stabbed to death in fight with inmate " -- What do you bet his tax dollar paid attorney will drum up some girlfriend willing to testify the man accused couldn't have done it because he was spending the night with her at her place? And guess what, there's probably a jury there that will find him not guilty. --- L-E story: "ATLANTA — The interim leader of Georgia Perimeter College says the school plans to lay off about 185 employees as part of a broader effort to cut spending. * They also include increased class sizes and will involve faculty teaching more courses. * Watts said the job cuts won't affect tenure or tenure-track faculty members. " -- 185 non-union personnel will lose their jobs, but the folks most responsible for the success or failure will all be around wondering why they can't make ends meet. Those who can, do...... " --- L-E story: "ATLANTA — Two Republicans will run in the primary against state Sen. Don Balfour, who has been accused of improperly accepting state pay on days when lobbyists reported the incumbent was far from the Statehouse. Still, few political leaders in Georgia are facing major primary challenges. * Travis Bowden of Snellville and Steve Ramey of Lilburn met Friday’s deadline to qualify for the July 31 ballot against Balfour, who had a campaign account worth $741,000 at the end of March." -- Another good example of why politicos should have to turn in leftover campaign donations to either the local, state or national coffers at either the end of the election period, or if no one files to challenge an incumbent doing an election cycle. Building a campaign chest over the years is a sure way to discourage other candidates, and for lobbyist to gain special consideration. --- No offense meant, but looking at the list of graduates from Kendrick High, some of those young adults earned their diploma by being able to remember (and correctly spell) all their given names. For someone of entrepreneurial energy, there is a market for individually personalized coffee mugs. --- After scanning the qualifying list for the primaries in July, it's evident I will vote in the DIM&DUMBerat Primary so I can have a voice in who we have to live with for the next 4 years. I am grateful that our local races are now non-partisan so we get to vote on them regardless of the party primaries. --- Oh! Remember that 3 of the embarrassing MCSD board members (voting against personnel promotions) are up for re-election and they all have competition. Also remember those incumbents are raising the school property taxes on you. Check you district to see who you might be able to replace. --- Is Auburn golfer Jason Duffner on a roll or what? He's got a 2 stroke lead at the halfway point this week. --- L-E story: "PHOENIX — A person with knowledge of the situation said the Arizona Diamondbacks and catcher Miguel Montero have agreed to a five-year, $60 million contract on Friday. * The 28-year-old Venezuelan is a clubhouse leader and outstanding defensive catcher. He has thrown out 47.6 percent of the runners trying to steal (28 of 60), best in the National League." -- Baseball has to be the strangest paid sport. Batters make big bucks for only getting out 7-out-of-ten times they bat, and catchers throw out less than half of the runners making attempts to advance to another base on pitch. --- L-E headline: "ECONOMY * Consumer sentiment rises to highest since ’07 " -- Hmmm, there seems to be a consumer reaction to the impending selection of a DIM&DUMBERat to presidency, and when there is an impending removal of the same.

Online headline/story: "Nancy Pelosi Slammed Over Tax Cut Proposal * The Washington Post editorial board on Wednesday night slammed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for pushing to permanently extend "middle class" tax cuts for people earning up to $1 million, warning that it makes Democrats look "almost as irresponsible" as Republicans defending tax cuts for the rich." -- To paraphrase Rhett Butler, "and she should be slammed, and slammed often", and don't you love it when liberal media start turning on their leaders? --- Here's HOPing, that most of Congress bought into the Facebook IPO, and suffered for their availability to get insider access to such shares. Maybe there will be CHANGE in the laws and rules governing such stock transactions in the future. --- The $1.2 million for the Natatorium is for operational overrun... not just the costs of operations; not just the overrun of construction budget. It's an annual projection and considered "static' as opposed for what we know will be annual growth of expenses. There is something totally amiss in the planning of this facility. Additionally, if you parse Worsley's figures about if you cut operational hours to 60 from 90 hours per week, he can cut those overrun operational costs to about $600K. 30 hours x's 52 =1560 hours removed from budgeting at an average of $384.00+ per hour. This is not a healthy situation, nor is what he says it will take to run the Natatorium. --- This L-E story was in Wednesday's addition, but I wanted to mull it over before commenting: "State Rep. Calvin Smyre, the committee’s other cochairman, told council that the rail study reminds him of Columbus missing out on the Interstate highway system in the 1960s, and that he would hate to see it miss out on the possibility of passenger rail service in the 21st century. * Local attorney Edward Hudson, co-chairman of Mayor Teresa Tomlinson’s passenger rail commission, told councilors that rail service to Atlanta would connect Columbus to 57 percent of the state’s population, 60 percent of its jobs, and 70 percent of its gross domestic product. * “A passenger rail line is really about connecting economic resources,” Hudson said. The economic numbers are impressive.” -- If this was the 20th Century and we were about to enter the 19th Century, I could really get behind this venture, but that is not the situation. This is one of those "BIG" ideas that politicians salivate over as the preliminary money can be spent on their friends, and they will be long gone before any reality will come to fruition, so they won't be around to have to explain what they were thinking (Red McDaniel excepted; he's been around forever). If passenger rail systems were booming (don't dare bring up AMTRAK or MARTA as good examples), then looking for an upgrade would be reasonable, but consumers rejected the continued need for for passenger rail service 40+ years ago. --- President Barack Obama holds a narrow lead over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in three pivotal battleground states -- Florida, Ohio and Virginia -- according to an NBC-Marist poll released on Thursday. -- This musta really activated Chris Matthews leg tingling. --- NAACP Silent as Federal Contracts to Minority-Owned Small Businesses Drop - Say it ain't so, Joe and B.O. --- Bill Clinton Poses With Porn Stars At Star-Studded Gala In Monaco

Wonder if he's also acting under his stage name, "Slick Willy"? --- Latest from barackobama.com: "Dear Hal, I've been in President Obama's shoes before -- Bill Clinton" -- We knew he had a cigar fetish, and now he tells us he's into shoes...., and I bet they were 'loafers'. --- Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "There are as many Christian Democrats as there are Christian Republicans. Democrats just tend to act more Christ-like. " -- Well, not exactly 'act', though many 'feel' they ARE Christ, and 'feel' they have the right to determine when life begins, and to spend other people's money on government enslavement programs. --- A near miss L-E "soundoff": "Reading about the natatorium, I’m reminded of that old adage: Anything government can do, private enterprise can do better and cheaper." -- What private enterprise can do better is to know when there a venture has profitability in its future. Take railroads for example; many a fortune was made in the past on passenger service, but the railroads shut those down and concentrated on freight. Railroads acquiesced that the future of passenger movement belonged to the automobile and the airlines. Automobiles give flexibility, and people will put up with being crammed in like cattle for the convenience of getting cross country in 4 hours versus 3 or 4 days and nights. --- Another liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Our military has close to the same expenses as the militaries of all the rest of the world combined, but the Pentagon wants more? No wonder our roads and bridges are falling apart." -- If you don't like your military to be the superior one in the world, move elsewhere. On the other hand, perhaps our roads and bridges would be better (and better maintained if the military was in charge of them. --- Was hoping to see the way Columbus could save $351,000.00 as claimed by Elise Jenkins in her first forum. If she documents that now, the City could start saving more money than if she only reveals if she wins election. Besides, if the City can save more than the $250K Mayor Obamalinson claims we'll save if she can cut garbage pickup to once a week, maybe she'll drop that notion and move on to some other issue we might support her on. --- L-E headline: "Nuke talks with Iran to resume next month " -- Hmmm, meantime, bach in Tehran, nuke work is resumed. NATO, fish or cut bait! --- Seeing the Astrodome being considered for new life is special to me . Saw Mississippi State 'skunk' (36-0) Houston there in September of 1965, and in September of 1978, I heard a sports brief concerning that the Astrodome would actually fit inside of the new Superdome, so I bought a pre-announcement ticket package for the 1979 Sugar Bowl. After all the seasonal dust settled, it was #1 Alabama vs #2 Penn State . Whatta game and experience! --- L-E headline/story: "Civil rights groups call on Deal to diversify bench * They say Georgia’s black judges are being replaced by white appointees * ATLANTA — A coalition of civil rights and attorney groups says African-American judges are being replaced by white appointees in one of Georgia’s most heavily populated black counties and called Thursday for Georgia’s governor to fill vacancies with judges who reflect their communities’ diversity. * The coalition, led by the Rev. Joseph Lowery, said black representation on the bench has decreased from 44 percent in 2002 to 30 percent. * “We need fairness,” said Lowery, head of the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, as he stood on the steps of the courthouse. “Do the right thing. We’re not here to ask them for favors. We’re asking them for justice.” * “Governor Deal, working closely with members of the Judicial Nominating Commission, seeks to appoint to the bench the most highly qualified candidates for the bench, whether it’s in Fulton County or elsewhere in the state,” (Brian) Robinson said" -- Dr King must be turning over in his grave! Does Reverend Lowery contend that the color of a man's skin determines his fairness or ability? Shame on him! ---