Online story: "ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- The White House is denying claims from Republican Sen. John McCain that it orchestrated leaks of classified information to news organizations to boost President Barack Obama's national security reputation and re-election chances. * White House press secretary Jay Carney says any claim of leaks for political gain is "grossly irresponsible." -- Hmmm, but no where does Carney deny the claim of 'leaks' for other reasons. --- Online story: "ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- The White House is insisting President Barack Obama will not extend the Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier Americans – even temporarily. * Carney's stand came after former President Bill Clinton caused a political headache for the White House by suggesting in an interview that tax cuts for people of all incomes – including the rich – should be extended into 2013 to avoid economic harm and allow time for a broader fiscal deal. * Pressed directly on whether Obama would support a temporary extension, Carney said: "He will not. Could I be more clear?" -- And why would potUS Arpege want to do anything that might help his successor be successful in overturning potUS Arpege's 4 years of disaster? --- Bill Press, liberal talk show host on Current TV (co-founded by Algore) went on a revealing tear on the day before 68th anniversary of D-Day. He called our National Anthem an abomination. Quote: "PRESS (11:31:) … But it’s an abomination. First it ranges two octaves most people can only do kind of one octave. I mean when you think about it, it’s bombs bursting in air rocket’s red glare it all kinds of, you know a lot of national anthems are that way, all kinds of military jargon and the land there’s only one phrase ‘the land of the free’ which is kind of nice and ‘the home of the brave?’ I don’t know. * Are we [Americans] the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean all the brave people live here. I mean it’s just stupid I think. I’m embarrassed, I’m embarrassed every time I hear it." -- Come to think of it, as many times as the mainstream media highlights potUS Arpege busting loose with a song, have you ever heard him sing our National Anthem? Come to think of it, have you ever seen potUS Arpege salute our National Flag? --- Charlie Sheen has come out claiming to have a 'foot fetish'. I guess he means the foot he so often sticks in his mouth. --- The latest from barackobama.com: "This week, the Romney campaign is basing their entire message on a huge double standard -- and we can't let them get away with it." -- True.. it would be hard to combat since potUS Arpege and the DIM&DUMBERats have no standards at all. --- In a L-E story Wednesday, Alabama says it is looking into a new law to ease prison overcrowding. Why does Alabama need a new law to do that when just promptly and properly enforcing its 'death sentence' will do the same thing. It will immediately open new accommodations on death row, and the residual effects will be that it will deter future criminals from doing future crimes. --- Online quote service: "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests". - Patrick Henry" -- Obviously is not one of the principles potUS Arpege believes in. --- What started out as a project to restore the Chattahoochee to its pre-dams conditions has literally turned into a man-versus-nature circus. It's beginning to look like what we would see if you restored a burned out forest with plastic, fireproof trees. --- From L-E story: "Since people either built new houses, bought new houses, purchased new businesses, developed property or made significant improvements to their houses, the tax digest grew. That means the city expects to collect about $1.5 million more in property taxes in fiscal year 2013 than in fiscal year 2012, Hodge said. " -- Well, since Columbus survived last year, how about designating the growth in the tax digest to be used to rebuild (payback) our fund balance. --- L-E headkine/story: "Muslims file suit to stop NYPD spying * WASHINGTON — A Muslim civil rights group that has worked closely with the Obama administration to build better relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs." -- Now, is this a group of illegal or legal aliens? --- L-E's "Quotable “A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” Bill Cosby American comedian (1937- )" -- Why couldn't Bill Cosby have been scheduled to be at the Civic Center rather than Ron White? --- L-E headline: "Cruel June for Obama, Dems — and could get worse " -- Well, if the potUS Arpege and the DIM&BUMBERats are true to themselves, it is a probability rather than a "could". --- L-E "To Do" headline: "‘Elmo’s Super Heroes’ ready to teach life lessons " -- I guess they have come directly from Git-mo after warming up by torturing Muslim extremists. ---

Online headline/story:"Wisconsin Recall Election: Woman Slaps Tom Barrett After His Concession Speech * Democratic challenger Tom Barrett faced a throng of unhappy supporters on Tuesday night after conceding Wisconsin's recall election to Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Yet one woman was so dissatisfied that she actually slapped the mayor for conceding. * "She was upset about him giving the concession speech while she still felt there were votes to be counted," Sater said. "He looked at her and said 'I'd rather you hug me' so he leaned down thinking that she was going to hug him and she slapped him." -- This is a true DIM&DUMBERat follower. Like animals, if a trainer stops feeding them, they turn on their trainer. --- Online headline/story: "Scott Walker Defeats Tom Barrett In Wisconsin Recall Election * Scott Walker did it. In the historic Wisconsin recall battle, Walker emerged victorious on Tuesday, beating back labor unions and Democrats who tried to kick him out of office. Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on the outcome of the recall contest: "Despite the disappointing outcome of tonight’s election, there is no question that over the past year this recall effort sent a message to Scott Walker that his brand of divisive politics is offensive and wrong." -- This recall sent a message to Scott Walker? Where do the D&Ds find these people. The messages the voters sent was one of support of Scott Walker's initiatives, and that they liked the results so far. The only message the D&D's sent was that they are crybabies, malcontents, and feel no shame for tax revenues (other people's money) being spent on getting what they want. --- Online headline/story: "Bill Clinton Gives President Obama Another Headache * Former president Bill Clinton caused additional headaches for the Obama campaign on Tuesday when he told CNBC that he wouldn't have a problem with Congress temporarily extending all the Bush tax cuts, which are due to expire at the end of the year." -- Just setting up Hillary for 2012 and 2016... bye-bye Biden. --- From Richard Hyatt's column: "I met John Phillips before we were introduced. He and his wife, Suzanne, stepped off an elevator at the Marriott. The late Bob Bushong came through the front door of the hotel, and I intercepted them near the front desk. Seeing me, the color left Bushong’s face. “Don’t do this to me,” he begged. Phillips was the mystery guest for dinner. Bushong was to deliver him to the River Club where the Bar-tow County Superintendent would dine privately with members of the Muscogee County School Board. * Reporters were not invited. " -- "Reporters were not invited"? Well, I reckon not! From the appearance of the wasteful use of taxpayer dollars to wine and dine Phillips and the MCSD board, I'm sure reporters were about as welcome at the River Club as reporters would have been welcomed at the GSA retreat/convention that's been in the news for its extravagant waste of tax dollars. --- WRBL News3 report: "MCSD teachers face 2013 furlough days * They call them calendar adjustment days, but what it is, is we basically had to balance the budget out of the pockets of our employees,” said (MCSD Chairwoman Cathy) Williams." -- "balance the budget out of the pockets of our employees"? Excuse me, Madam Chair, but what you are having to do is reallocate tax dollars that are available to you for redistribution. It's not about taking anything out of employees' pockets, it's about how much you can put in their pockets that has been taken out of taxpayers' pockets. --- L-E story: "The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of “Sesame Street” in response to alleged corruption by the local workshop after working on the initiative." -- Well, now if we can only get Congress to stop funding the liberal version of Sesame Street for the same reasons. --- L-E story: "Come 2015, there won’t be any more candy, sugary cereal or fast food on TV with the morning cartoons. The Walt Disney Co. became the first major media company to ban ads for junk food." -- Wanna bet whether Disney will stop serving junk food at their theme park restaurants? --- Looks like I will have to choose the Democrat Ballot in the July primaries/non-partisan election. Too many races will be determined then rather than in July. --- We have pics from a fellow BCer: First is the updated 3 Stooges, and the second is "Hopeless":

Online headline/story: "Bill Clinton Makes Fun Of Allen West's 'Communist' Comments * "This is not the 1950s!" Clinton said. "At least Joe McCarthy could skate on the premise that there were still one or two living communists walking around. Nobody’s seen a communist in over a decade!" -- Sorta like not being able to see the forest because you're too close to the trees....
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Online headline: "Justice Department To Monitor Wisconsin Recalls" -- Oh, yeah! Who's going to be monitoring the Eric Holder and the Justice Department!
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Online headline: "TSA Workers Fired, Suspended For Violating Screening Protocol " -- Apparently, treating people like human beings is against protocol.
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According to an elated online news source, the Green Bay Packers players are against Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall election. DOH... just another bunch of union thugs..
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Online headline: "Obama Campaign Debuts First Nationwide TV Ad Featuring Sarah Jessica Parker" -- Well, did you expect potUS Arpege to make a campaign ad featuring his record?
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Online headline: "New Study Shows We Are Overworked and Overwhelmed" -- Hmmm, must have been a survey of conservative taxpaying small business owners.
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L-E headline: "Can MCSD afford John Phillips’ price? * Two board members say interim costs too much with cuts, furloughs " -- Board members who support bringing Phillips back in need to be pilloried in the passing lane of J R Allen Parkway during rush hour. Phillips went so far as to circumvent the board and hired himself a vice-superintendent at half his salary so he could tale more time out of town hunting. Track down that guy and bring him in and save half of Phillips' salary if there is no one remotely qualified within the MCSD system. Of course, that's another issue of why don't we have an abundance of qualified persons in the current administration?
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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "If Mitt Romney gets elected president, the very first day he’s going to wave his magic wand and everyone is going to work. If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. " -- Well, what do you expect from someone who will vote for potUS Arpege, and his same promises...AGAIN..
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L-E's ": Thought for Today":, “What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” — Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. senator (1925-1968). " -- Can anyone not see the images of potUS Arpege, Pelosi, Reid, Sharpton, Jackson (both Jesse and Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas), and Wright as these words are processed?
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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought to take advantage Monday of the fundraising prowess of former President Bill Clinton, the most reliable deliverer of Democratic dollars, despite their history of testy relations and differences on campaign tactics. " -- potUS Arpege better not just be worried about his back, he should be worried that most of those checks may have "Hillary" written on the fronts of them.
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L-E story: "VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian conservation officers have euthanized a black bear that ate the remains of a convicted murderer. " -- Whatta waste of talent! Why didn't the Canadians just rent the bear out to US prisons to be housed in such prisons " death row ".
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L-E story: "ATLANTA — A state law aimed at making the budget process more transparent has so far met with mixed success, according to a report by Morris News Service. * Morris News Service reported Sunday that, under the law, any local government with a budget totaling more than $1 million must submit copies of their taxes and expenses to the University of Georgia’s Carl Vin-son Institute of Government. Most governments have until the end of June to comply with the law. * So far 117 of 535 cities have submitted the records, while 76 of 159 counties and 169 of 180 school districts are in compliance, according to Morris News Service. Some of those not complying could be exempt because their budgets are too small. * “We don’t mind providing the information, but we think it’s come to the point where the state government doesn’t have anything better to do other than asking local governments to submit information,” said Carter Crawford, city manager in Sylvania. “It’s just aggravating. It takes time away from duties that we can do elsewhere .” -- What's wrong with a central reporting/evaluation site? This info should not only be easy to compile by every local form of government, but to com[plain about it is a 'red flag' that needs to be delved into.
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A trip down Veterans Parkway beautification project reveals that even after replacing trees noted as 'dead' from last year, there are 19 dead/dying ones as of yesterday. Here's a process that needs careful examination, and obviously some controls on accountability of DOT contractors.
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L-E online update story: "Columbus police are investigating the reported theft of $3,900 worth of jewelry from an apartment on St. Mary's Road. * According to the police report, entry was made through a door which suffered $100 worth of damage. * The crime occurred Sunday between 1:15 p.m. and 9:55 p.m." -- Excuse my skepticism, but if I lived in a St Mary's Rd apartment, and had $3,900.00 dollars worth of jewelry, I'd never leave home without wearing it...and my .40 Cal. Glock.
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L-E's "Quotable": "Every educated person is a future enemy." - Martin Bormann, German military officer (1900-1945) -- I wondered where the DIM&DUMBERat education plan came from... now we know.
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Every tribute to Bill Turner has been earned. He is even a life-long member of the BisKit BoyS....a group started around the basis of "Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do...at the time." -- He expressed a priceless aspect at thr presentation of 'The BisKit BoyS Inspirational Attitde Award' back in the early 90s. He said it was the first award he'd received that someone didn't expect a big check. When you think about that, it should sadden us, and we can pray that he's received many more since then. This is not making light of the good he has done with his life and money; it's just to remind us of his true servant leadership.
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Online headline: "Pelosi Says Clinton 2016 Bid Is Best Bet" -- Hmmmm.. interesting since Hillary is on the record stating she will not run in 2016 UNLESS potUS Arpege loses re-election, because if potUS Arpege wins, then she feels it becomes BIden's opportunity to be the DIM&DUMBerat candidate for 2016. potUS Arpege needs to 'watch his own back' with XpotUS Clinton campaigning for him OR replace Biden with Hiollary on the 2012 ticket. --- Why would any politician or party official be against proper voter identification? Well, I can see where someone whose job was dependent on his/her party's having the power to appoint him/her to a job would create such subterfuge. --- Online source headline: "IRS lectures pastors on pulpit politics * Pastors meeting in Washington have been warned about political activities that could jeopardize their churches' tax-exempt status." -- It's mighty convenient, even suspect, that the IRA waited for Jeremiah Wright and Johnny Flakes, Jr retire before doing this. --- Great finish, Tiger! Welcome back! Too bad the Revs Sharpton, Jackson, and Wright weren't on hand to see him EARN something without their intervention. --- The L-E's "Thought for Today": “If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.”— Carl Sandburg, American writer (1878-1967). " -- Obviously, Carl Sandburg's name will be purged from every Chicago voting precinct voters' list. --- Newkirk has passed. All you "Hogan's Heroes" fans will remember Riichard Dawson for his role as 'Newkirk' before you associate him with "Family Feud". --- From the L-E's "Quotable": Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) once said, "A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." -- CSU proves it. --- Put me on the bandwagon against the T-SPLOST. Eating out would be bad enough without any sales tax, but at 8%, it's like having to pay for government to eat with you and your family. BTW, Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon are the only states left without a state sales tax.

Online story: "WILMINGTON, Del. — Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley married a Pennsylvania doctor at a ceremony in Delaware, the vice president's office announced late Saturday. * She is a social worker for the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. He is a New Jersey native and a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, according to The News-Journal of Wilmington." -- NOOOOO! Their children will be the penultimate liberals; well funded social liberal elitists with the capability to campaign for more other-people's-money to be spent on style versus substance. --- Online story: "WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Justice says at least some materials sealed as part of the court case against seven men involved in the 1972 Watergate burglary should be released." -- Eric Holder can't find any dirt on Romney, and doesn't want to investigate potUS Arpege, so he's going to try and dig up dirt on the liberals' favorite whipping boy, Nixon. The next " ***-gate" we need to discuss is "giving-potUS-Arpege-the-gate" in November! --- From a WRBL News3 story: There's a video showing the sign on a small building of the Boxwood Recreation Center showing the schedule of when it was 'open'. "Summer Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Winter Hours: Mon-Fri 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Tuesday 12:00 Noon - 9:00 PM; Closed Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays." -- Can you believe a recreation center was actually scheduled not to be open on weekends and holidays when families would benefit form having a place have activities together? Well, obviously the City felt that the Boxwood (and probably others) Center was basically an after-school taxpayer funded day care center Mon-Fri with weekend-off benefits for the employees. --- The latest from barackobama.com: "Before the midnight fundraising deadline, make a donation of $10 or more and we'll send you a car magnet" -- I was promised a free 'bumper sticker' months ago which has never been delivered, and now potUS Arpege is promising me a 'car magnet' for a $10.00 donation. This is the ultimate example of the DIM&DUMBERat Campaign strategy: "potUS Arpege - Promise'em anything but give'em Arpege" . --- L-E headline: "BOARD MAY HIRE INTERIM CHIEF AHEAD OF PRINCIPALS * Former Superintendent John Phillips’ appointment up for discussion Monday " -- Hmmm, there's an old adage that is about to be superceded by a new level of government ineptness. Guess a third clause will have to be tacked on to 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me/us'; try to fool me/us again and blame the board at the ballot box! Surely, there is one employee in the MCSD administration that is qualified to manage the duties on an interim basis; if not clean house! --- From a L-E story...again: "Protests were held across the nation, and the case spurred debate about whether race was a factor in Zimmerman’s actions and in the initial police handling of the case. Martin was black; Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is from Peru. " -- Why is there such media determination in continually making this purely a racial issue! Lets parse the last sentence cited: "Martin was black; Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is from Peru." Now, what is George Zimmerman? Substitute "American" for 'black' and 'white', and reread: "Martin was American; Zimmerman's father is American and his mother is from Peru." What is George Zimmerman? Now substitute "Latino" for "Peru": "Martin was black; Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Latino". What is George Zimmerman? I'll tell you what George Zimmerman is... George is the scapegoat of potUS Arpege and the DIM&DUMBERat Hate Committee! --- Karl Douglass is a paid political strategist for Congressman Bishop, and it should be spelled out by the L-E when running his column.. Being up front is the correct (versus "politically correct") thing to do. On the other hand, what Karl writes about is what District 2 needs in a Congressman. Perhaps Bishop will step down and let Karl run in his place. --- L-E "Quotable": “I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.” - Jim Morrison American musician (1943-1971) " -- Hmmm, I knew there was something other than his music I liked about Jim Morrison. ---

Online headline: "US Gov't Denies Existence of Zombies" -- Wonder how much this project cost us! --- Online story: "WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for an inadvertent verbal gaffe that caused a storm of controversy in Poland this week. * Obama on Tuesday used the expression "a Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish World War II resistance hero rather than wording that would have made clear that he meant a death camp that Nazi Germany operated on Polish soil during its wartime occupation of Poland." -- You'd think with all the practice potUS Arpege has had that he would have apologizing down to an art form that the world would gladly accept and forgive him for his gaffes. --- Online headline: "Jobs Report Deals Big Blow to Obama" -- Bet he doesn't want to talk about this either, just as he doesn't want to talk about using 'blow' in high school and college. --- Online headline: "Day after proposing anti-big-sugary-drink initiative, Bloomberg marks National Donut Day in NY" -- Maybe the exercise you get from chewing a doughnut differentiates 'doughnuts' from 'sugary sodas' which you drink in Nanny Bloomberg's mind? --- Maybe requiring public defenders and court appointed criminal lawyers to post a performance bond in case an appeals court send a case back to the lower courts based on 'ineffective counsel' isn't enough...maybe having the lawyers pictures posted in the legal section for their second offense should be considered.... you know, DWI .. Defending While Incompetent/Inefficient. --- From a fellow BCer: Have you seen the new commemorative gun being made to bring attention to Congress?

It doesn't work and you can't fire it! --- Online headline: "Disney World Scammers Scored Four Years of Free Vacations" -- You know, I think I'm somewhat amused that Disney is experiencing the same feeling I've had every time we gotten our our bill from there. --- Have you noticed that since his last "gay-ffe", VEEP Biden-Biden, has been relegated to anonymity? Between the polls, and the words/actions of the Clintons, don't be surprised if we see Biden feign a health related need to withdraw from the November ticket, and Hillary step-in. This works for her big time as the 2016 line-ups begin jockeying for position. --- Well, it sure didn't make mainstream media reports, but I have confirmed this travesty happened. Veterans were not allowed to visit the Viet Nam Memorial on Memorial Day until after potUS Arpege's campaign speech. In fact, only special visitors with pre-event tickets were allowed to be there for the speech. We all paid for this, most with our tax dollars, but many with their lives. After 4 years of spotlight, one can only ask, "Who is this 'masked man?" --- Online headline: "He Knew He Was Gay at Age 6 * Sitting down with Oprah is bound to open you up. But when the host asked Neil Patrick Harris about sexuality, things got very personal." -- Ain't no way a 6 year old "knows" he's 'gay'. If he'd said he's always wondered why only girls wore pigtails, I'd believe he knew that at age 6, but not this. --- L-E headline/story: "SEC PRESERVES OLDEST RIVALRIES * An overwhelming majority of SEC teams voted for the 6-1-1 format despite opposition from a group of teams led by LSU to abolish permanent opponents and play a 6-2 format." -- Aha! Poor LSU... They have no 'friends', and LSU doesn't want to have to play Alabama again! --- Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Most Republicans don’t give to charitable organizations because it’s the right thing to do. They give to charitable organizations because they get a big tax break out of it. " -- Give a liberal an opportunity to open its mouth, and it will. A partial charitable donation is not near the tax break of either getting an unearned tax credit or refund for not having paid any income tax. --- Another liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Our government has control of what the minimum wage is, not the unions. " -- Another lib opens its mouth and 'proves' what the rest of us know. The DIM&DUMBERats control the minimum wage, and do so to keep the unions in their pocket. Every time their is a raise in the minimum wage, union contracts get an automatic boost in salary base, even the highest paid. A raise in the minimum wage does not mean every one in a private industry non-union job will get a raise. --- L-E story: "Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and the Law Enforcement Torch Run are teaming up for the 12th year to raise awareness and funds for Special Olympics Athletes in Georgia. " -- Doesn't it strike you as ironic that Krispy Creme would partner with police officers in a running verses 'dunking' event? Anyway, be there on June 9th! --- L-E story: "SANFORD, Fla. — A judge on Friday revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours, saying George Zimmerman and his wife misled the court about how much money they had available when his bond was set at $150,000. " -- Wait a minute! Is this judge saying that the court not only established the bond amount, but guaranteed it, too? I thought that the 'bond' guarantee was between a bonding company and a person accused of a crime, and the bonding company did the due diligence, for its own protection, on the accused. Sounds like a politically correct prosecutorial maneuver. --- L-E story: "RALEIGH, N.C. — Jurors from the John Edwards trial spoke out on TV news shows Friday morning, saying the prosecution did not bring enough proof to persuade the majority of jurors the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws. " -- Political BS! The only thing a hung jury means is that Edwards could not convince a jury that the prosecutors case was completely off base. Some, possibly most, did not think Edwards was wrongly charged. --- L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Is it “anything goes” now in America’s campaign finance system? * John Edwards is acquitted of using campaign cash as hush money." -- "Acquitted"? No way! Edwards has not been acquitted; the jury just couldn't find unanimity in its decision.. either way. --- L-E headline: "Jobless rate now a leading political indicator " -- "now a leading political indicator"? It's always the leading political indicator! --- L-E story: "Three men in a dark sport utility vehicle who may have been involved in a series of armed robberies shot a motorist this morning off Veterans Parkway in north Columbus, police said. * The victim, a 26-year-old man, told investigators the SUV cut him off in traffic before one of the occupants fired and shot him in the shoulder." -- Surely, when these guys are caught, the charged will be a "hate crime"; on the other hand, probably not. --- L-E story: "DOTHAN, Ala. — A former Alabama judge who retired under a cloud and surrendered his law license remains eligible for his state pension of more than $111,000 annually, the state retirement system said Friday. " -- This is just wrong! Perhaps a look at all government pension plans is in order to make sure that government workers who retire under ethics charges or are convicted lose all pension money paid by the taxpayers. Even personal contributions were paid with tax dollars. 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Online headline: "Report: Obama Says He Needs 2nd Term To Redo Health Reform" -- "To redo health reform"? Undo is what needs to be done, and that wouldn't happen in 5 more terms with potUS Arpege at the helm. --- Online headline/story: "Torture By Sesame Street At Guantanamo Bay: Al Jazeera Reports * Now, a new documentary from Al Jazeera shows that detainees may also have been subjected to musical torture of a softer variety. * According to the report, prisoners at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were forced to wear headphones blasting music from Sesame Street on repeat for hours or days on end." -- What wimps! Not the prisoners...the media who is upset about this and consider it torture. What parent of a preschooler has not been subjected to hours of Sesame Street music for extended periods of time. Now if you really want to talk about excruciating musical torture, play looped versions of Clinton or potUS Arpege State of the Union speeches, OR pump in the Barney or Mr Rogers Neighborhood theme songs on a 24/7 basis. --- Online headline: "Woman Finds Baby Bird With 2 Heads, 3 Beaks" -- Ooops, my bad. Had heard the DIM&DUMBERats were redesigning the symbol of the president to reflect potUS Arpege's talents of reading TeleprompTors while saying three different things to three different audiences at the same time. --- The latest from barackobama.com: "The outside spending we've been planning for is officially here. Just yesterday we learned that shadowy conservative groups are going to spend $1 billion to tear down the President." -- "Just yesterday we learned"? Is this the same potUS Arpege who claims to have done the research on Osama bin Laden, and claims he needs a second term to redo HELL-thSCare? Hey potUS Arpege, 'shadowy conservative groups' don't have to spend a dime to 'tear down' your presidency, you've done that all by yourself. Conservative groups are just doing the mainstream media's job they've ignored for the past 5 years. --- What needs to be on the next New York City ballot is a referendum to change the title of the head of the city from "Mayor" to "Nanny". Even if restaurants do stop selling 'sugary soft drinks' in larger than 16 ounce glasses, don't NYC customers get free refills? --- L-E headline/story: "SpaceX Dragon returns to earth in old-fashioned splashdown * Noted (Elon) Musk: “It really shows that commercial spaceflight can be successful. I mean, this mission worked first time right out the gate.” * Musk, the billionaire behind PayPal and Tesla Motors, aims to launch the next supply mission in September under a steady contract with NASA, and insists astronauts can be riding Dragons to and from the space station in as little as three or four years. " -- Once again, private industry shows it can operate old government monopolies better. Now the government needs to turn over the US Postal service mail delivery to UPS/FedEx, and social services to church groups. --- L-E headline: "Defense of Marriage Act heads to U.S. Supreme Court * Appeals court rules DOMA restrictions unconstitutional" -- It's about time that the appeal of non criminal issues be sent directly from the states to the US Supreme Court. US Constitutionality issues do not need a mid-management opinion. --- From L-E editorial: "Even with Georgia’s and the nation’s employment picture slowly getting brighter, there still aren’t enough jobs. But what’s at least as much a problem, certainly in the long term, is that there are high-skill jobs available and a shortage of workers qualified to do them. * According to a 2011 Georgia Department of Labor survey, there are as many as 5,000 technical jobs in the state, with employers anxious to fill them." -- Once again, the effect of a dumbed-down secondary education curriculum rears its ugly head. Students being graduated without basic work skills, or in need of remedial college courses is not what will solve this dilemma. --- Having seen "Mirror, Mirror", and pretty much decided against seeing "Snow White & the Hunstman", I'm glad my children are pretty much grown, and that my granddaughter is too young to watch the TV ad trailers. I want to limit her to the animated Disney version of "Snow White". --- L-E headline: "SPURRIER PUSHES FORWARD WITH PLAN TO PAY ATHLETES " -- Oh, and what's he gonna do when a player wants to be traded, or wants a performance raise and a 5 year scholarship extension, or the team joins a union and calls for a walk-out. Spurrier is one of those icons that Forrest Gump would describe as 'stupid does'. --- L-E headline: "Obama says he regrets 'Polish death camp' gaffe " -- And he certainly should! Psst, hey Mr Polish Ambassador, we'll have more flexibility to apologize properly after the November elections; pass that on to your president, Bronislaw Komorowski. ---