Online headlines to watch: "Chuck Hagel Nomination For Secretary Of Defense Expected Monday" & "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the nation's tax woes are behind it, and that it's time to focus on the real issue." -- Both are true, Hagel will get nominated, and focus on the national debt/spending are the real issues, but pot-US Obluster's nomination of a former Republican Senator will be what the media focus is on because the current Republicans will self-destruct on Hagel's nomination which will make them look like they are just against anything that Obluster wants. Truth is, Obluster wants Hagel in play to derail Republicans now, and then as pot-US Obluster's "excuse" when Afghanistan withdrawals blow up in our face.

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Republicans are proposing a list of areas for pot-US Obluster to make sincere, adult decisions as to what to cut to get control of expenditures. What makes Republicans think pot-US Obluster is sincere and adult?

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Online story: "Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," Pelosi offered her strongest endorsement to-date of the 14th Amendment option, which holds that Congress doesn't have the power to use the debt ceiling as a hostage-taking device because the validity of the debt “shall not be questioned.” -- It ain't the "validity of the debt: that's in question; it's the validity of how we got in such debt, and of accumulating more debt that we've got to stop.

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Alabama is making a debit card an option for tax refunds. Reasons sound 'utopian' (no check cashing fees, no mail box thefts, etc), but it mainly means refunds will be used to spend rather than catch up on existing debt. I guess it sounds simple to government because it's how government seems to operate itself. New revenues are to be spent on new stuff rather than paying off old stuff.

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Since they've 'legalized' recreational use of marijuana, I'm curious as to how Colorado and Washington state are going to handle 'recreational' backyard marijuana gardens and such. I would guess since it's now legal in their minds, that old cases of 'recreational use' will be need to be expunged on the "recreational user's" records. Now, does that mean that recreational users previously prohibited from buying guns because of marijuana arrests will be able to buy guns AND smoke marijuana, too?

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The top 3 insurance providers in CA are jumping premiums 20-26% this year. Aren't we glad all 55 of CA's Electoral votes went to Obluster?

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With the purity the ACLU claims is it's basis for existence, why isn't the ACLU defending gun ownership, and defending high income taxpayers from being raped by the government?

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From a fellow BCer's Facebook posting:

Please forward to the anchors at NBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and Aljezeera. Also forward to Fox so it will get aired on TV.

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From another BCer's Facebook posting:

Hey, pot-US Obluster, here's solar battery powered project that might work...if you can get politicians out into the light occasionally.

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Senators Frank & Franken? As Rhett Butler might muse, frankly, I do give a damn!

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Of sad note was the picture in the L-E of a group pf black women who were running in a local half-marathon this past Saturday. They were organized and called "Black Girls Run". I have no real concern for that as organizing a group for health is a good thing, but I'm sure that if another group, say all white, women organized themselves as "White Girls Run", the NAACP would have been up-at-arms about this being "race-ism".

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Looks like there will be some semblance of a NHL season after all. NHL, that's the National Hockey League which most of us might be unaware of, but why do you announce something like this onthe day of the Bama-Irish game when it won't be a "Sportspage 1" above-the-fold story?

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L-E picture:

This trophy looks more like a Rugby ball than a football, but it makes you wonder whether coaches now send in plays via texting or not...

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The oldest American citizen died yesterday.... 114... hmmm, wonder what the death panel said about her treatment?

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Top two movies of the weekend... "Texas Chainsaw 3D" and "Django Unchained" (Movie line: "getting paid to kill white folks...what's not to like'"). We don't need to ban any weapons, we need to ban Hollywood!

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Let's hope pot-US Obluster doesn't see this and loan Juan Veldez a half Billion dollars to develop a latte-diesel fuel cell.

Online story: "President Obama's 2008 campaign has been fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for reporting violations related to a set of donations received during the final days of the election. * The fines are among the largest ever levied on a presidential campaign by the FEC and stem from a series of missing notices for almost 1,200 contributions totaling nearly $1.9 million. * Campaigns are required to file reports within 48 hours on donations of $1,000 or more received during the final 20 days of the campaign." -- What toothless legislation! Do you think pot-US Obluster cared anything about a fine (to be paid with other people's money, too) than in getting elected? Or where it came from? Heck, his re-election website is still soliciting and accepting campaign donations as we speak!
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Online story: "Jan 5 (Reuters) - Retired Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is taking aim at what he sees as knee-jerk support for marijuana legalization among his fellow liberals, in a project that carries special meaning for the self-confessed former Oxycontin addict. * Kennedy, 45, a Democrat and younger son of the late "Lion of the Senate" Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, is leading a group called Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) that opposes legalization and seeks to rise above America's culture war over pot with its images of long-haired hippies battling law-and-order conservatives. * Kennedy wants cancer patients and others with serious illnesses to be able to obtain drugs with cannabinoids, but in a more regulated way that could involve the U.S. Food and Drug Administration playing a larger role." -- Just another liberal making the "Animal Farm" argument that 'some liberals are more equal than others. He just wants to get his that has been grown medically so he doesn't worry what else the marijuana has been "laced" with, and in 'pill form' so he can be smoke free.

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From above story: "The U.S. Department of Justice is still developing a policy in regard to the new state legalization measures. * President Barack Obama said in an interview with ABC News last month that it did not make sense for the federal government to "focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that, under state law, that's legal." -- Hmmmm, from our U.S. Constitution: According to the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, clause 2) of the United States Constitution,

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

Hmmm, what part of Article VI, clause 2, do not Colorado, Washington state, and the ppot-US Obluster administration understand?

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Online story about Gen (Ret) McChrysta's book: "McChrystal adds the choice to resign as U.S. commander in Afghanistan was his own. * "I called no one for advice," he writes in "My Share of the Task," describing his hasty plane ride back to Washington only hours after the article appeared in 2010, to offer his resignation to President Barack Obama. McChrystal was immediately replaced by his then-boss, Gen. David Petraeus. * The closest McChrystal comes to revealing his regret over allowing a reporter weeks of unfettered access with few ground rules comes much earlier in the book. "By nature I tended to trust people and was typically open and transparent. ... But such transparency would go astray when others saw us out of context or when I gave trust to those few who were unworthy of it." -- Hmmm, when comparing the leadership styles of McChrystal and pot-US Obluster, the first analogy that pops up is McChrystal is a Harry "The buck stops here" Truman, and Obluster is a Sgt "I know nothing" Schultz.

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L-E story concerning the MCSD board finding a new superintendent: " No semifinalist meets all the criteria the board gave the search firm to screen the candidates.." -- Isn't it the responsibility if the 'search firm' to go out and find/solicit possible matches rather than submit names of applicants simply because 'they' applied for the opening?

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Repeat from above: "No semifinalist meets all the criteria the board gave the search firm to screen the candidates, (MCSD chairperson Cathy) Williams has admitted. The major shortfall is the requirement for candidates to have five years of superintendent experience in a similar-size urban school district. * That means the board must revise its criteria, settle for less or actively pursue superintendents who meet the criteria." -- "That means the board must revise its criteria, settle for less or actively pursue superintendents who meet the criteria"? We've seen what criteria revisions and settling for less have brought us; how about the MCSD board's feet being held to the fire to do what's right for a change... find a superintendent that's has the administrative tools for the job, and will be here long enough for any initiatives to come to fruition. One thing the MCSD board needs to add in it criteria is that an effective candidate does not necessarily have to come out of the education field.

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From above story: "Going into the Dec. 5 interviews, Williams still expressed confidence that the board was on track to hire a superintendent by the end of December. In hindsight, she said, the timeline the search firm set wasn't helpful. * "We will hire a superintendent when we have determined the best candidate." Williams said. * "To try to establish an artificial timeline, I think, is somewhat detrimental to the process. What's more important is success at the end." -- "What's more important is success at the end."? Hmmm, who'da thunk it... a MCSD board member accepting a good business practice... Bet there are a bunch of Generals wishing they would hear that from the mouth (either side) of pot-US Obluster concerning Afghanistan.

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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "The one percent took 93 percent of all the wealth made in 2010, yet Republicans want to cut Medicare, veterans' pensions and unemployment insurance to pay for additional tax cuts for the one percent." -- One would assume that the DUMBERat Party has completely brainwashed this one, but then we'd have to assume this liberal had a brain to begin with.

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We really don't need any tougher gun laws... what we need is for the courts to step down hard on criminals who use any illegally attained, or illegally possessed gun in any capacity.

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From the "what are we paying these guys for" department - L-E story: "Atlanta- Police are investigating apparent remains found near an Atlanta cemetery. A caller reported seeing what appear to be bones near the Crestlawn Cemetery. * Authorities told the AJ-C that they were unsure if the remains were human. * Investigators from the police homocide unit and the medical examiner's office were sent to investigate." -- Good grief! Did the reporter just not stick around for the police/med examiner to get there, or does the medical examiner just not know what human versus non-human bones looks like?

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L-E story: "Clay, Ala- A small northern Alabama town is facing a $7 million debt and is laying off municipal employees as it looks to trim expenses wherever it can. * (The Mayor) says the city building a new ballpark, moving city hall and cleaning up from last year's tornadoes likely contribute to the debt" -- Clay, AL had a population of 9,708 in the 2010 Census and was undertaking building a new ballpark and moving city hall? My guess is that the Mayor/Council voted for pot-US Obluster and expected him to consider Clay, AL 'too big' to fail, and include Clay in the 'bail-out'.

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Why is the GA General Assembly reconsidering school 'vouchers' again? The voters just passed legislation to bypass local school boards to create "Charter Schools" which will attract the state part of education dollars provided per student. We don't need both programs.

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Update of Whitewater project:

Hmmm. looks suspiciously like either a fake or the Committee to Pave the Chattahoochee has removed the 'wave-shaper' and the concrete basin. built earlier.

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From L-E editorial:, "The Department of Audits & Accounting (GA) reported last week that that although there are more than 3,500 laptops available for DFACS workers to file reports into the statewide database, in the year that ended June 11, 2011 more than 46,000 reports were not filed into the system on the day they were received." -- Hmmm, taxpayers have bought 3,500 laptops for DFACS? How many DFACS field agents are we paying? Taking that 46,000 of delayed report files, it comes out to only about 13 reports per laptop per year! About one a month for each laptop. Me thinks there's more than just a problem of reports being filed late here.

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Reading leftist columnists evaluating pot-US Oblauster's 'cave-in' to Republicans over raising the higher tax levels only to incomes over $400-$450 K is beyond reasoning. You cannot find one leftist columnist that really understands what pot-US Obluster has actually done to every taxpayer. Every taxpayer's income is subjected to the highest tax increases in history when you add up the removal of the Social Security break and fees/fines for Obamacare. Even the unemployed will be getting less cash in there distributions. Colleges that issued the folks degrees should have their charters revoked!

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Council is requested to purchase 5 "Harley Davidson Road King" motorcycles at $20,000.00 each.... from a Lexington, KY dealer! Good grief why can't the City Manager negotiate such purchases with the local dealer, and keep that $100K circulating in Columbus!

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The City Manager has requested Council also approve an annual contract for pressure-washing services on an 'as needed' basis with an estimation of about $4,500.00 annually. _Good grief... why does the City need an outside company to do what should be routine work with a minimum of equipment needs and costs? The City Manager has already gotten his own stump-grinder (how's that working out for us so far) rather than contracting an outside service to continue that, so why this?

Online story: "Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) will in all likelihood be nominated as secretary of Defense by President Barack Obama, according to reports from Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast and NBC News. * Hagel had come under intense criticism from pro-Israel interest groups for past comments. Drawing particular fire was a quote from his 2008 book, wherein he said, "I'm not an Israeli senator. I'm a United States senator." He added, "I support Israel, but my first interest is I take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United States, not to a president, not to a party, not to Israel. * Hagel had also drawn criticism from the LGBT community over comments made during the 1998 confirmation hearing for the first openly gay ambassador, James Hormel. At the time, he called Hormel "openly, aggressively gay" but has since apologized for the comment." -- I really thought pot-US Obluster floated this 'lead balloon' just to make nominating some ill-qualified crony seem tolerable, but obviously Obluster wanta someone the media can pick apart as a Republican hatemonger/bigot as the mid-East flares up the next couple of years.

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Online headline: "Reid Would Back Obama Decision To Ignore GOP On Debt Ceiling" -- DOH! Unfortunately, America needs Reids support, not pot-US Obluster, but Obluster signs/autopens the checks Reid wants.

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From the "here we go again" department: "Despite the public lashing Virginia GOP lawmakers took in 2012 over their support for an infamous mandatory ultrasound bill, some of them are kicking off the 2013 legislative session with a slew of new controversial bills that restrict women's access to abortion and birth control." -- It doesn't matter how 'pro-life' we are, this is not a battle that can be won legislatively. It's an issue with the individual and God, and until Republicans grasp this, women will vote for a lying DUMBERat over a Republican who doesn't respect women's feelings. Abortions will happen regardless of legislation, and who wants such to be relegated to 'back-alleys' again?

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Online story: "WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress that expired this week might have steered the nation away from the "fiscal cliff" of potentially devastating tax hikes and spending cuts, but it did not do much to save the U.S. Postal Service from its own fast-approaching cliff. * The cash-strapped mail carrier that lost almost $16 billion in the past year, ran into its legal borrowing limit and defaulted twice on required payments to the federal government, now turns to the newly sworn-in Congress for help. * The Postal Service loses $25 million every day, it says, as more Americans communicate by email and the massive payments for future retiree benefits take a toll." -- The Post Office is at (has been for decades) the point that the makers of the finest buggy whip maker dealt with as cars became eminent, and for the maker of the finest slide-rule felt as it watched handheld graphing calculators reach the retail shelves. Things have changed that leads to obsolescence unless it can adapt to, modify, and overcome the realities. In truth, what has lead to this inevitability is DUMBERats not wanting to collide with the union.

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Online story: "The gunman in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December used an AR-15 to kill 20 first-graders and six educators in the school. The gun belonged to the shooter's mother, but it's not clear where it was purchased. " -- "it's not clear where it was purchased"? Huh? Is our government so incompetent that it cannot track a serial number on the gun? If the gun was an antique, there might be difficulty in doing so, but there have been strict registration laws on the books way past when the semi-automatic versions of these rifle took effect.

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Online story: "Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who just left the House of Representatives Thursday after 32 years, said Friday that he has told Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) that he would like an interim appointment to fill the Senate seat that would open if Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is confirmed as secretary of state." -- Surely even Massachusetts politicians and voters don't want to open this closet door again.

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Online headline: "Would You Have Sex In A Hospital?" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought some hospital had come up with a billing code to charge you a second time for what it does when you walk in the front door. The story was about a Chinese hospital that offers sex wards for infertility 'treatments'.

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Online story: "Rex Ryan and the New York Jets missed the playoffs and the coach left town without speaking to the media. He briefly found some escape from scrutiny by traveling to the Bahamas this week with his wife. * That was until the New York Daily News tracked him down and photographed a tattoo that featured his wife, Michelle, posed in a classic pin-up style, wearing a Mark Sanchez jersey." -- Hmmm, can't wait for the headline that reads: "Michelle Ryan tells husband, "I know Mark Sanchez, and you are certainly no Mark Sanchez."

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Unless you drive a golf cart, the east parking garage at St Francis Hospital is the worst one in Columbus!

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McClatchy story: "With Republicans promising another climactic fight over the $16.4 trillion debt limit in two months, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday that if she were president, she would invoke the Constitution to raise the ceiling on her own — with or without permission from the GOP. * “I would do it, in a second, but I’m not the president of the United States,” Pelosi said. * Like many other Democrats, Pelosi is eyeing the language in the 14th Amendment stating that the validity of U.S. public debts “shall not be questioned.” Prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, have argued that language — added in the aftermath of the Civil War — gives Obama all the authority he needs to break the ceiling" -- What the DUMBERats don't do is quote the entire 4th Section of the 14th Amendment. This clause, "But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States,". Seems to me that breaking spending and budgetary laws is an "act of insurrection or rebellion" in the literal sense.

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Another McClatchy story highlighted the saga of Lincolnton Furniture. Seems a North Carolina furniture maker went to China to see how the Chinese manufacturing could help his business, BUT observed there was a market for Chinese people wanting furniture "Made in America", so he came back and started such a business. pot-US Obluster highlighted and blessed his initiative as an innovative way to create jobs . Lincolnton Furniture Company closed abruptly Thursday just one year after it was hailed by President Barack Obama as an example of the recovering U.S. economy.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/04/3167317/lincolnton-furniture-company-praised.html#storylink=cpy

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Question: Whatta pot-US Obluster, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the mainstream media gonna call the "Bush Tax Cuts" now?

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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "If the NRA were an auto club, there'd be no speed limits, no drunk driving laws, no licenses, no registration, no stop signs, no safety regulations, no driving tests, no tags, no age requirement..." -- How many more ways will liberals find to show how stupid they are? Elizabeth Barrett Browning sorta had a grasp on it... "let me count the ways"...

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L-E headline: "Columbus Civic Center brings monster trucks " -- Hmmm, I know how much it costs to park my truck in the parking lot, but how much will the City charge those monster trucks to park inside the Civic Center?

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L-E headline/story: "Man cleaning gun fires into neighbor's apartment * Wilbur Glass, 52, also was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the 8:20 p.m. shooting at a 6363 Flat Rock Road apartment. * Glass told police he was about to clean his 9mm Beretta pistol when he pulled back the slide and the trigger. The gun fired, sending the bullet through his apartment wall and into his neighbor's bathroom." -- What BS! If that sequence COULD happen, it would have blown up in his face. Emptying a gun is step one of cleaning one.

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L-E headline: "US pushes to finish Afghan dam as challenges mount" -- Hmmm, why don't we plan to pull out of the dam project on the same schedule as pulling our troops out? Bet the Afghani's would start being supportive of our efforts.

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Online story: "ROME — Six Russians were killed and two others were injured when their snowmobile slammed into a fence and flipped over into a ditch during a night run down an Italian ski slope. * RAI state radio reported early Saturday that the crash occurred on an unlit slope late Friday on Mount Cermis in northeast Italy. * Russian news reports said the snowmobile was pulling a sled, which is where most of the passengers were sitting." -- Hmmm, snowmobile pulling a sled on an unlit course... sorry to be appear callous, but it musta been Russian college fraternity boys on School Break.

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Lawmakers in Michigan and New Jersey are trying to pass legislation keeping the names of lottery winners secret; talk about a way to speed up the scandal/bribery/graft of a government project, and this would 'take the cake'! This is so diabolically wrong, I don't know how Washington, DC and Chicago weren't the driving force to get this done long ago.

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Online headline: " Obesity is a crisis" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought this was about the National Debt.

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Hillary has brought this public response to her using a 'blood clot' upon herself. She has dodged every investigation into her past in every way she could think of, and we know she's capable of throwing the sympathy card at the drop of Bill's pants.

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The new 'title tax' is going to kick the car industry in the teeth. All those 'two year' leases are going to have 7% +/- added into the cost of them on both ends of the deal (that's going to be about $6,300.00 on a big luxury import, or about $3,000.00 on popular cars every two years! Looks bleak for the car dealers.

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Following the Texas A&M-OU game, we have to suffer through the Compass Bowl & the Go-Daddy Bowl before the Bama-Irish game. Great scheduling, BCS...NOT!

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From the 'only in California (but probably soon in Colorado & Washington state)" department- L-E story: "Bridgeport, Calif-Grammy nominated R&B singer Frank Ocean is facing a marijuana possession charge after police say he was pulled over on New Year's Eve in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada for driving more than 90 mph in a 65 mph zone. & Sheriff's spokeswoman Jennifer H---- says a strong odor of marijuana wafted out as a deputy approached the vehicle. * She says the Beverly Hills resident was cited for marijuana possession and released." -- "a strong odor of marijuana wafted out"? Charged only with possession? What happened to driving under a controlled substance laws?

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Follow up: A while back, famed French actor, Gerard Depardieu announced he was going to seek citizenship in another country because of the French tax rate hike to 74% (from 41%) on his income bracket. The Russians have granted it. The Russian income tax rate... a flat 13%. No wonder pot-US Obluster wants to model his socialism after the French rather than the Russians.

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Passed along by a fellow BCer: "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian!" Henry Ford -- Bet Bleep Veep Biden didn't tell the Congressional Hispanic Caucus or the Congressional Black Caucus this tidbit.

Online story: "WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden rallied Latino members of Congress (Congressional Hispanic Caucus) on Thursday to push for immigration reform, calling Latinos "the center of the nation's future" and reminding them that their political power will only grow after the last presidential election." -- Hmmm, Latinos are "the center of the nation's future"; wonder what Bleep Veep said to the Congressional Black Caucus from the other side of his mouth?

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During photo-ops prior to being sworn in, Bleep Veep Biden was in full farce. Biden told Sen. Tim Scott's (R-S.C.) brother that he could "help with" his "pecs," and told Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) to "spread your legs, you're gonna be frisked." If Biden was the VP in a private or public company, or a Republican, he'd been crucified for racism and genderism and harassment! The saddest aspect is that this wasn't just a bloop, Biden was aware the cameras were rolling and just couldn't control himself.

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There's a photo on foxnews.com taken during a C-Section procedure which shows the baby, still inside her mother's uterus, reaching out and grabbing the OBGYN's finger. This photo should be posterized and hung up on the wall's of every Congressperson who has ever voted in favor of 'partial-birth abortions'!

Viral photo shows baby grabbing doctor's finger while still in womb | Fox News

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From WRBL3 story about the T-SPLOST projects: "Also on the list is the addition of an inner city bus system coupled with a new "third shift" service; meaning city buses will run throughout the night." -- Where was this on the list? Who rides buses at 3:00 AM anyway? We're going to run cab companies out of business, endanger City bus drivers, and increase the work load of our Police officers for the next 10 years on the T-SPLOST revenue, and then what... Will the City keep this program out of habit? Oh, I know! The City will load up all the homeless during the dark of night and take them elsewwhere then call the "Rid Columbus of Homelessness in 10 years" a whopping success!

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I see that Victoria's Secret is having its "Semi-Annual Sale". Hmmm, I thought they were half-off year round.

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Boehner, now that he's 'saved face', should resign and nominate Paul Ryan to take the Republican House leadership role, and McConnell should do the same for Marco Rubio in the Senate.

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More info, disgusting info, on Algore's sale to Aljazeera. First, he sides with a terrorist sympathizer versus an American patriot as to which best agrees with the DUMBERat philosophy, but he also tried to rush the sale through before the year ended so he wouldn't have to pay the new rates just passed, which, BTW, are the rates he and Clinton imposed when they were in office.

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The NY paper which printed the names of gun permit holders says it has been "forced" to hire armed guards out of fear. WRONG! The newspaper folks have the option or buying a permit to carry guns themselves.
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Was watching the opening of the 113th Congress. One tradition was the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag. How can DUMBERats stand to do that when in reality, they do their best to undermine our founding fathers' best efforts to give us the world's best Constitution.

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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "When a massacre of women and children occurs in a foreign land it is labeled terrorism. In this country, the NRA labels it a mental problem." -- Is there an actual bottom that liberals have in containing their stupidity? Like all normal thinking people, I'm sure the NRA considers terrorism in any country a mental problem, just as any normal thinking person knows that liberals have mental problems.

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L-E story: "Los Angeles-Scientists are abuzz about a coal-colored rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A yearlong analysis revealed it's quite differeb=nt from other Martian meteorites." -- Good grief! First, how could anyone assume, much less swear that any rock found on Earth was from Mars, but the fact that it has been analyzed for a YEAR just shows how much money we waste!

While the lemming of Congress tiptoed to the brink of the cliff' they sent taxpayers over, what wasn't extended was the reduction of Social Security withholdings, so middle America will see and feel less money in their paychecks.

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Online headline/story: "Fiscal Cliff: Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Into Law * Obama, who is vacationing in Hawaii, signed the bill using an autopen, a mechanical device that copies his signature."-- "signed thr bill using an autopen"? What's he doing... taking a page out of Xpot-US Clinton playbook? Guess when future analysts look back at 'crime', pot-US Obluster can say... "Who me? It depends on how you define "signed". On the other hand, if I have to sign a document away from the receiver's business (bank, real estate, stock etc transaction, they will fax it to me for my signature, I will fax it back. Why is an 'autopen' allowed to sign an official document.... I understand using one to sign fan mail/pictures or even books, but legal documents?

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Only in Washington-ese can both Chambers of Congress, with approval of the president, pass a deficit reduction bill that raise expenditures.

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Online story: "With no bipartisan agreement about the debt ceiling, spending cuts and tax increases in sight, Boehner reportedly pointed at Reid and said, "Go f**k yourself." * "What are you talking about?" Reid asked. * And Boehner again said, "Go f**k yourself." -- Is Reid feigning ignorance? Reid seems to understand 'it' quite well, when pot-US Obluster, Bleep Veep Biden, or Madonna drop the "F-bomb". Oh, maybe it's just a DUMBERat thing... sorta like the "N-word" being OK between blacks.

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al Qaida has posted bounties for killing the US Ambassador to Yemen, and any US soldier there. Wonder if the Saints' coaching staff will recruit al Qaida operatives to play for them?

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HuffPost Science story: ""That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." * It's one of the 20th century's most famous lines, but what if Neil Armstrong lied about when it was composed? * The Apollo 11 astronaut was quoted in a 2005 biography as saying he formulated the line while en route to the moon, NBC News reported. But Armstrong's brother Dean said in a new BBC documentary that it was written long before the astronaut's boots ever touched moon dust." -- Good grief! Who ya gonna believe, 'the man' or his brother? Besides, what does it matter when Neil Armstrong thought about what he would say at the moment? Does the HuffPost think, oops, 'feel' that Academy Award winners gush out their trite "thank yous" on the spot, or have they been thinking about what they'd say if they won?

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Republicans who voted against the Senate bill to avoid falling off the "cliff", and are out shouting they are going to draw a line in the sand about raising the debt ceiling should qualify that by setting a line in concrete, not sand.

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Online story: "Al Jazeera has acquired Current TV, the progressive cable news station co-founded by Al Gore. * Current co-founder Joel Hyatt told staffers that he and Gore were "thrilled" about the deal. * The purchase brings to an end the many attempts by Gore and his partners to make Current viable over its seven-year existence. * The network morphed repeatedly, from a center for short videos to a home for documentary reporting to its last iteration as a staunchly liberal cable news and opinion network. None of the moves proved successful enough. * Host Eliot Spitzer put his finger firmly on the problem earlier in December when he told Fishbowl NY, "Nobody's watching, but I'm having a great time." * Still, the deal could benefit Gore quite a bit. Forbes estimated that the former vice president could make at least $125 million from the sale." -- It used to be that no foreign entity could own a US TV/Radio company... what's happened? Aljazeera (staying in context with "Algore") providing Algore with $125 MILLION (Hope Tipper's lawyers are 'on this') reminds me of when the Saudis were buying up farm land at five time+ its value just so the Saudis could say they owned property.

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There's no comfort in having a Republican majority in the House when only 1-in-3 will stand their ground on major economic issues.

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* Representative Peter King, RINO-NY, was complaining about the House not bringing the Hurricane Sandy relief bill to a vote following the "fiscal cliff" vote. My question is why the Senate sent the House a revision of the bill the House sent over weeks ago instead of just voting for the House version as it was written.

* Online headline/story: "Christie Slams House Republicans On Sandy Aid * "There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their speaker, John Boehner," he said. "This is not a Republican or Democratic issue." -- "not a Republican or Democratic issue"? What political BS! Why didn't the DUMBERat Senate just vote on the bill that the Republican House sent rather than 'pork it up' and ping-pong it back? The bill went from $27 Million to $60 Million with the pork the DUMBERat Senate added for unrelated items.

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* Short version of above:

Why didn't the Senate just pass the House version of the Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill instead of porking it up and sending it back?

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Online story: "Ann Curry has asked NBC News executives to release her from her contract so that she can accept a "high-profile anchor position" at CNN, RadarOnline reported exclusively on Monday." -- Huh? There's such a thing as a "high-profile anchor position" at CNN"? Larry King was the only "high profile" show on CNN, and when it was stopped for lack of viewers, no one would have known it if Fox didn't annouce what had happened.

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Online quote service: " “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw - Hmmm, obviously Mr Shaw never contemplated the emergence of pot-US Obluster.

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Hmmmm....Northwestern in the Croc Bowl, Northern Illinois in the Fruit Bowl, Louisville in the High Fructose Bowl, unrated Wisconsin in the Flower Bowl... the BCS, Bowl Championship Series, may be earning another name.... after the line-ups in what used to be major bowls, the BCS has become the BSC, B--- S--- Contests.

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From a heads up from a fellow BCer: What do North Korea's Kim Jung Un and pot-US Obluster have in common? How about arrogant community organizers who never met a payroll, never owned a business, never made a budget, and never wore a uniform are now Commander-in-Chief of their country's military. Oh! And they both live in public housing!

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The UN reports over 60,000 people have died in Syria. That's more deaths than America was inflicted with during the Vietnam war. Why are American dollars and weapons and other support being extended to either side?

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As of January 1st, it has become a crime for motorcyclists to " pop-a-wheelie" in Illinois. Hmmm, Illinois doesn't seem to stop thugs from "popping" each other, so I guess motorcyclists don't have much to worry about.

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Passed along from another BCer: The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 46 million people. * Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves." * This ends today's lesson in irony.

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Online story: "The FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies _ but not the White House _ made major changes in talking points that led to the Obama administration's confusing explanations of the attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, a Senate report concluded Monday." -- Hmmm, the DUMBERat Senate has concluded that the White House has no clue of what's going on past the driveway... You know, this Senate would conclude that "the DON" of the mafia has no clue on who ordered what 'hit' and when. Oh, BTW, the committee was headed by retiring Independent/DUMBERat Joe LIE-berman of Connecticut, and RINO/DUMBERat Susan Collins od=f Maine.. two "concervative strongholds" (wink, wink).

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L-E headline: "Despite fiscal deal, taxes to rise for most * Policy center: 77 percent will face higher taxes in 2013" -- 77%... isn't that like 77 times the 1%?

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L-E story: "Gunfire at the 2102 Cusseta Road nightclub left 24-year-old Charles Foster dead and five others with non-life threatening injuries. Many of those wounded were young men 16- and 17-years-old. * Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, who also serves as the city’s public safety director, said an investigation is underway to make certain the owner of the nightclub was in compliance with requirements of the law to have a business license." -- "Many of those wounded were young men 16- and 17 years-old"? Mayor Obamalinson's powers of observation must be in doubt about now.

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From above story: "(The Rev. Willie) Phillips, 52, said the club has been a magnet for criminal activity even when it was called the Boom-Boom Room. As president of Winterfield on the Move Against Drugs, Phillips said the neighborhood group frequently protests against the club during weekend marches at Brown Avenue and Cusseta Road. " -- Excuse me, but why should another similar club be allowed to re-open at a site that has been shut down for illegal activities?

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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Some maniacal right-wing members of Congress would rather allow a=every American citizen's taxes to rise than to see a single millionaire pay a nickel more." -- Guess this liberal is not among the 77% of American citizens who are working and have just had their paychecks reduced by the removing the Social Security reduction...

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Another liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Charlie Harper says he's concerned about debt relative to GDP. The number he omitted was the miniscule 1.16 percent of GDP corporate America pays in taxes." -- First, since when are taxes considered part of the GDP? That said, what this lib, and liberals in general, do not understand that is when corporate America is struggling with growth, the GDP flounders and the job market stagnates then declines.

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L-E pic:

"A Waffle House is under construction behind the Grand Reserve Apartments just off of Highway 431 in Phenix City on Wednesday." -- Hmmm, this is what happens when you don't have common sense zoning laws. Reckon the renters with this "view" have a case for getting out of their leases? Reckon the Apartment owner has a case against Phenix City for depreciating its value?

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L-E story: "A Georgia sheriff has taken office with the start of the new year, desiye facing a felony indictment. * Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill took office on New Year's Day reclaiming the office he lost in 2008." -- Washington, D.C. has its Marfion Berry, and Atlanta has its Victor Hill. God help us all.

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L-E headline: "Writers rethink words for big screen" -- Considering how the education system has dumbed-down the S.A.T's, "english" grammar, incorporated remedial classes as college mainstays, and allows the president to sign legal documents with an autopen, I guess writers have to replace meaningful words with 3-letter ones so their audience won't be lost after the first sentence.

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L-E headline: "Snakes hope to see injured players start to return to ice" -- Pathetic! If I was the Columbus Cottonmouths' owner (or even coach or trainer), I wouldn't want my players to return to the ice 'injured'; I'd want them to be healthy.

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* Before anyone thinks I erred about the Hurricane Sandy bill facts, remember, all funding bills MUST originate in the House... a Senate funding bill is just Harry Reid playing with ignorant voters and media types.

Well, it's Jan 2nd, and every one is back at work, but there are 6 more bowl games scheduled (well, only 5 real ones; the "go, daddy" one shouldn't count). Fortunately, there are still four SEC teams playing in them. G-T-H, BCS!

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Online story: "HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett (R) said Tuesday he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over stiff sanctions imposed against Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal." Tom Corbett must be a RINO! In an age when women fear what Republicans try to do to micro-manage their personal lives, one Republican steps forward to claim that the penalty imposed on a man who is a convicted molester of some women's children is unfair to the football team!

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If the top 10 richest people in the world, the world mind you, were to donate 100% of their wealth ($437 BILLION total) to the pot-US Obluster checking account, he'd be bouncing checks in less than 6 months.

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HuffPost headline: "Pope Slams Capitalism, Inequality Between Rich And Poor In New Years Message" -- How can one man be oxymoronic, conflicted and self-incriminating in one sentence? He's the head of probably the richest 'church', should be able to win the wealthiest to Christ, lives in his gated community.

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The lemming stopped at the edge of the 'fiscal cliff'. We are run by a government that does not present our country as the best it can be. Nathan Hale is probably thinking he died in vain!

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Online story: "Liberals were unhappy Democrats left out a number of their goals for the bill, and that they did not push for setting the upper limit for retaining the old tax rates at $250,000 -- a promise Obama campaigned and won on. Obama had hoped to raise $1.6 trillion in revenue over 10 years. The bill only raises $620 billion, suggesting to many Democrats that future deficit reduction could come from cutting cherished programs. * "We're going to look back on this night and regret it," said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.). -- "Liberals were unhappy Democrats left out a number of their goals for the bill"? Besides the obvious difference of opinion as to all DUMBERats being liberal (some are just more liberal than others (Animal Farm II, the ongoing sequel), at least the furthest left liberals will look back in regret most of the country felt the morning after the November election reports came in.

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Unbeknownst to all of our BCers, while we either were sleeping when midnight arrived or were watching ABC's version, Kathy Griffin apparently tried to give Anderson Cooper oral sex live from their New Year's Eve CNN broadcast stand. Cooper stood his ground valiantly at her every attempt, for which he should be commended, but would he have faltered if Barney Frank had been his co-host.... I can't believe I just reported this, but it really is necessary to out CNN for not shutting the two down.

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Online headline: "'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve' Wins Big" -- Thank God! This means even less people were exposed to the crap on CNN.

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Online story: "New York Times correspondent Chris Buckley was forced to leave mainland China on Monday because the Chinese government did not renew his visa for 2013, the paper reported. * Buckley, an Australian national, has lived in China since 2000 and re-joined the Times earlier this year after working with Reuters." -- We should be so lucky to have NY Times reporters to be cut off from reporting their side of any issue.

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WRBL3 story: "ATLANTA, Ga. --Six people were stabbed in Atlanta during an early morning argument. All the victims are in stable condition, but were hospitalized with stab wounds. * Police said the incident started with an altercation between two men. One of them started stabbing people when they tried to intervene. -- Hmmm, somewhere, some liberal spinmeister will try to say this was better than them having guns. Just proves the point that when "guns/any weapons are outlawed, outlaws will try to kill you with something else".

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After watching 'the hit' by South Carolina's Jadevon Clowney on a Michigan running back, the NCAA should issue an immediate ban on the rasta dreadlocks players are wearing. The running backs helmet was blown off during the hit, probably because of the inability of a rasta dreadlock player's ability to fully secure his helmet with that much looseness caused by the clump of hair on his head.

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Online quote site: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln" -- No wonder pot-US Obluster seems to avoid the connection that he was sworn in as president in 2009, the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.

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Northwestern won the Gator Bowl. Just proof that half the 35 bowl games should never have been scheduled.

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Don't you have to wonder what the Senate actually passed, and whether anyone has actually read the whole thing?

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Hey, "regular people", did you hear that? The sound of additional Obamacare taxes falling out of your next paycheck?

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What's wrong with this picture:

 

This picture was copied from the website (note date) yet doesn't show that the wavershaper and the paved basin that are in it. What else is being hidden?

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That psycho, who used his brother's ID and his mother's guns to massacre 26 children and teachers; is it known whether or not he had a photo ID of his own? Let's muse that... without a photo ID of his own, he couldn't have bought a gun, but he could vote for pot-US Obluster.

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L-E headline: "Clinton gets blood thinners to dissolve clot " -- Guess they're hoping it will warm up her blood.

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It sure was refreshing to note that the first baby born in the area had a mother and father present.

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Of all the stories recalled from "Looking Back" 50 years ago, rehashing Viet Nam is the worst so far.

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If "No Kill Columbus" is going to demonstrate/protest euthanasia at the Animal Control site, all members should walk-the-walk by all showing up with pets they have adopted (and with 'doggy bags').

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Josh McKoon shouldn't have to be pushing for better ethics among legislators; that should be a given, but until then, "Go, Josh!"!

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L-E headline: "Hospitals going paperless to boost efficiency" -- "to boost efficiency"? How about to eliminate a paper trail.....

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L-E story: "CARTERSVILLE — A Bar-tow County school board member is free on bond after police say she hit a teenager with her SUV in a dispute over a Walmart parking space. * Police say the unidentified 17-year-old girl was standing in a parking space Friday trying to save it for someone. " -- Hmmm, guess the school board member was practicing what she preached... steamroll the students.

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This one hits home for most of us (though it happens rarely):

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L-E headline: "Restaurant employee robbed at gunpoint of Chinese food" -- Knew Chinese food was loaded, but didn't know you could point it..

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Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/01/02/2330200/restaurant-employee-robbed-at.html#storylink=cpy

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Happy New Year..... in spite of pot-US Obluster!

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The Times Square ball, the My Olive, NC "pickle" drop, the Atlanta "peach" drop, and many other "objects' dropped at midnight, but the biggest "drop" of 2012 was when the voters dropped the bomb in November.

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Year end report on Schick Hydro 5 cartridges:

 

Today I start with a new one, and won't notice much difference.

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Two lesbians in Kansas put in a Craig's List ad for a sperm donor. A Kansas guy volunteered, and a fault free contract was signed. Later, the 2 lesbians split up, and now a Kansas court has ruled the "donor" not only has to pay child support, but is also on the hook for $6,000.00 in medical costs. I really thought that something like this was limited to California, but this was in Kansas... Dorothy's Kansas.... fly-over country.... liberals.... it's a plague...they're everywhere!

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Contact your Congressional Representative and have them hold firm on the Debt Ceiling until the Senate has a real (and acceptable) budget for this year!

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2nd Day Air is a rip off from UPS.... the last 3 times companies have shipped this way, the package did not go out until a Thursday, and UPS doesn't deliver "2nd day Air" packages on Saturdays UNLESS you pay extra on top of the additional "2nd Day Air" fee. There's no guarantee that your package will be shipped on any day but a Thursday or Friday In actuality, my package is taking 5 days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday) to get here. Because of the holiday, if the package had been shipped on Friday, it would not get delivered until Wednesday.. It would have been much cheaper for normal PSPS package delivery.

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Why all the focus on the tax issue 'fiscal cliff" ? Everyone is already going to see Obamacare taxes and fines hit us in the wallet starting today.
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Why does Fox News think anything Kim Kardasian is Fox News worthy?

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A $450,000-$550,000 tax increase threshhold for couples will not increase revenues pot-US Obluster feels it will. Families with that kind of earned income don't have to rely on it for day-to-day living, so most families will (or can) cap their earned income.
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Online story: "WASHINGTON -- Three hours shy of the midnight deadline, the White House and congressional leaders reached a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, several sources confirmed to The Huffington Post. * Under the deal brokered by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Congress would permanently extend the Bush income tax cuts at $400,000 and below, keep the estate tax threshold at $5 million and extend unemployment benefits for one year." -- While there appears to be some 'good' in the deal, does anyone else feel like no one was representing them? I'm beginning to think this is how our founding fathers felt in 1776.

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Why is Washington, D.C. campaigning for statehood on the basis it doesn't have "representation'? We do have representation, but it doesn't help us any better than what Washington, D.C. citizens get.

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From the same story above: "The deal still requires buy-in from members of both parties, and Biden was set to meet with Senate Democrats Monday night to try to sell them on the package. That could prove challenging given that key progressive groups, including the AFL-CIO, made it clear earlier Monday that they would oppose any deal that raised the income limit for extending the Bush tax cuts above $250,000." -- Is the union so used to be against all business practices that it cannot even see one that will benefits itself?

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Have you noticed a trend in assigning projects to Bleep Veep Biden? Anything pot=US Obluster doesn't want to have to answer for is put in Biden's corner, so if it (and it will) goes wrong, Obluster has an out.

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Online story: "Infamous polygamist and leader of the break-off Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sect has predicted that the end of times is near, prompting some to worry about violence this New Year's Eve. * Warren Jeffs is currently serving a life sentence in Texas for abusing underage girl "brides," -- Hmmm, what's Jeffs hoping... that Armageddon will shorten his life sentence?

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Online story: "WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors treating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for a blood clot say the clot formed in her head but they stress that they are confident she will make a full recovery." -- Of course she'll make a 'full recovery! I'm a pragmatist, not a pessimist, but Hillary has dodged so many investigations in so many different ways, it's just hard to truly believe what we hear anymore. She's cried 'wolf' too often.

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Online headline: "North Korea's Kim Jong Un Calls For Better Living Standards" -- That's a no-brainer... any standard of living in North Korea would be a better living standard in North Korea.

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If a college football player won't make a full 4 years commitment to a college before entering the NFL draft, how can we expect said player to make a commitment to take the team's/school's best interest to heart?

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In the L-E's "Today in history" feature: "In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect" -- Hmmm, and liberals still blame it on Bush.

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Things HAVE to change! From a L-E story, a 22 year old man, identified as the father of a 19 year old's two children, burst into the woman's apartment and accosted another 22 year old many (pressumedly trying to give the 19 year old another child). With the state of our educational and entitlement systems, poverty is self re-cycling. Maybe the school system should keep the Academic Success Center, and pay for it by abolishing Sex Ed classes which obviously aren't working for prevention of babies .

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pot-US Obluster can claim he has stimulated some industry in the US because of his re-election... the gun industry.

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It's a shame to see pictures of the Shaw Christmas Tournament games with so many empty seats in the background.

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With that 'next day' birth control pill being available over-the-counter, why would any company be made to include that in its healthcare plan for employees?

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Guess the Columbus L-E is not ready for the New Year... it reran December 31st's Comiuc strips and word puzzles.

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In that spirit, here are some of last year's items we should never forget:

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver

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This still hasn't made it to the pages of the L-E, but I think even the L-E would actually have trouble printing what Robert F. Kennedy says. I ran it December 9, 2012, and will periodically to remind BCers worldwide how the DUMBERat Party thrives/survives on division:
Online headline: "RFK Jr: Fox News Has Divided Country In A Way Not Seen Since Civil War" -- Fox News? This coming from a DUMBERat who's party has given us affirmative action, political correctness, racist taxes on indoor tanning, the Congressional Black Caucus, historic black colleges with charity status, still allows black segregated beauty pageants and athletic events, and deems racism as a one way street. Fox News is the only TV network that discusses such dividing factors, and from both sides.

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Since the L-E won't identify columnist Karl Douglass as a paid campaign staffer for Sanford Bishop, I'm going to run this May 6th 'item' often in my blog (and place in the L-E online comments area) until the L-E does the right thing:
I see the L-E has run another Karl Douglass column without identifying him as a paid member of the re-elect Sanford Bishop organization. Fortunately, Karl had some pretty wise words to say about financial responsibility of our City. I would have been more impressed, though, if he had directed such advice and comments to his employer, Congressman Bishop!

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So President Obama told us that, " You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth." Then he went on to explain his college education plan:
· Cut the growth of college tuition in half over the next 10 years
· Recruit 100,000 math and science teachers over the next 10 years
· Train two million workers for real jobs at community colleges --
This has the reality factor of a 21st Century Mother Goose story written for a remake of the Twilight Zone!

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