Friday, February 7, 2014

Online story: "The Senate easily confirmed longtime Sen. Max Baucus on Thursday to become ambassador to China, handing the job to a lawmaker who is familiar with U.S. trade policy but has little expertise about military and other issues that have caused tensions in recent years with Beijing. * Senators gave final approval to the nomination of the moderate Baucus, D-Mont., by a 96-0 margin" -- Shame on the Senate... It has basically "nepotised" one of its own to become a taxpayer paid lobbyist for China.

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Online story: " President Barack Obama says part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "shtick" is to look like the tough guy in Russia." -- Hmmm, as opposed to Judas 00-Barnum actually being a "shtick in the mud"?
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Hmmm, scientist now claim the Bible is flawed because one of them found bones of a camel that "proved" camels were not domesticated in Egypt until 900 BC, well after being described in biblical history. Hmm, so the same group that tells us man evolved from apes, but without having any proof (such as mutant or in-process examples), is trying to prove that camels just "poofed" into Egypt at a certain date. Wonder if Algore is sponsoring this group?. Here's a good name for it, "Global Blarney".
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Online story: Meanwhile back at the ranch..."An oil company drilling in western Oklahoma has stumbled across a deposit of camel and horse fossils that date back roughly five million to 12 million years, scientists who've examined the remains say." -- Well, how about that...
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Online story: " House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) laid down a line Thursday on immigration reform: the president must prove he will enforce immigration law or the House won't pass anything." -- Well, it needed to be said as we know Judas 00-Barnum has a fear of crossing any line but the racism one, but all-in-all, it's another "stupid Republican.... trick", and will backfire come election time. The Democrat mantra will be that Republicans want to export all Mexicans, and the Democrats want to give more benefits...
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Online story: "SOCHI, Russia (AP) - A pseudo-lesbian pop duo, a famed opera singer and a romp through Russian history await viewers as the Sochi Winter Olympics launch Friday with an opening ceremony meant to showcase to the world the ultimate achievement of Vladimir Putin's Russia. * In a provocative choice, Russian singers Tatu will perform before the 3,000 athletes march through a stadium on the shores of the Black Sea, one of the many newly built facilities in the most expensive Olympics in history. * The women in Tatu put on a lesbian act that is largely seen as an attention-getting gimmick." -- "an attention-getting gimmick"? Can you imagine the uproar of GLAAD and PFLAG, if a straight country singing group performed a mockery of their lifestyle?
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Online story: " Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley planned to unveil a new cellphone security system Friday at the Baltimore City Detention Center. * Maryland's corrections facilities started having a cellphone problem in the early 2000s as the devices became smaller and easier to smuggle in * The technology automatically blocks calls from all cellphones inside the building, except a small number of phones assigned to employees. It also allows any phone to call 911. * The state tried several years ago to get permission to jam all cellphone use in the jail, but the federal government does not allow state facilities to do this" -- You know, I'm sure millions of tax dollars have been spent on this plus there'll be ongoing annual operating expenses to boot, so why not use some of the millions of dollars of TSA X-ray machines stored idly in warehouses to screen everyone, warden & guards included, that are allowed into the prison?
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Online story: "Bill O'Reilly is really pleased with his recent interview with President Obama — so pleased, in fact, that he believes the interview will "go down in journalistic history." * "It takes a certain skill to pose questions in a factual way and be persistent without being disrespectful." * O'Reilly pressed the president to reply to criticism of his administration's handling of the Benghazi attack and the president hit out at Fox News in his response. * Obama also said that he believes Fox News is "absolutely" unfair to him." -- Hmm . .... Judas 00-Barnum feels Fox is "unfair to him"... hmmmm, is Judas 00-Barnum claiming he is "balanced" with Fox and America?
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Online story: "A senior at Clements High School in Limestone County, Ala., faces disciplinary measures after she snapped a selfie with a dead body and posted it to Instagram. * She took a picture of herself smiling next to a cadaver intended for medical use during a senior anatomy class field trip to the University of Alabama at Birmingham's biology department. * The UAB biology department told the station that "sheets were not supposed to be removed from donated bodies and that under no circumstance were students or any other visitors supposed to have cell phones or recording devices on hand during the tour." -- Whoa! Where do I start! An anatomy field trip involving cadavers? What class was this ... part of Sex ED? And the cellphone selfie? Of course students should not have had cellphones on the field trip... but why are they allowed to have them on or even in possession of such during any school day?
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That case of the 16 year old drunk driver killing 5 people in Texas and getting zero jail time base on a defense tactic of "affluenza"... well, another judge (Texas District JUDGE JEAN BOYD - remember this name in case she's considered for a 'promotion') has refused to add jail time for the kid, but why weren't his parents at least charged with being accessories to murder (at least accessories to involuntary manslaughter) ?
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I feel vindicated. Sandra Fluke has decided to run in a California State Senatorial race rather than for the US Congress . My original assessment stands intact.. Now California and the US will benefit regardless of who replaces Henry Waxman
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Why doesn't the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus embrace successful black conservatives? Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Herman Cain, Bill Cosby, Dr. Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, Sen Tim Scott... these are role models for working hard at school and on the job. They epitomize success, so why are they pariahs.. especially during Black History Month?
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Low info, self-absorbed voter's L-E "soundoff": "Reference to a letter regarding minimum wage. The military has extra benefits besides pay. Minimum wage workers do not." -- Well, on the other hand, how many civilian minimum wage jobs have "dodging bullets" in their job descriptions?
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RE: dividing sex, dividing social classes, dividing by income... Low info voter's can cast stones at individual presidents about their contributions to "dividing" the American populace, but there's only one who has divided all gender and income groups at one time.. and that is today's administration.
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L-E story: "The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a nonprofit that has filed several lawsuits to block logging projects in national forests in the Northern Rockies, was skeptical about the plan. * Logging won’t help reduce wildfire risks or protect watersheds because areas thinned of trees allow the wind to blow through more easily, which could spread flames more quickly , executive director Mike Garrity said." -- What uninformed.. no, misinforming liberal BS! Wind. like water, gets more velocity as it's forced through SMALLER apertures. That's the theory of leaf blowers, vacuums, and fire hoses.
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L-E headline/story: "Martin Luther King's children battling over estate * "The King children have profited from their father's legacy. In 2006, Sotheby's auctioned off 10,000 documents from their collection for $32 million, with the siblings receiving equal shares of the money." -- Hmmm, I remember this well... what I don't remember is whether the IRS got it's "share" of the "capital gains" of $32,000,000.00.
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L-E story: " WELLESLEY, Mass. — A remarkably lifelike sculpture of a man sleepwalking in nothing but his underpants has made some Wellesley College students a bit uncomfortable, but the president of the prestigious women’s school says that’s all part of the intellectual process * The sculpture is a “source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault” for many, according to the petition, which had nearly 300 signees on Wednesday." -- How hypocritical can a college student body be.. it's a woman's college student body and they have no apprehension expressing their rights to sexual expression and freedoms, but shrink in fear of a male sculpture wearing underwear. Hey girls, parents of most college women have to be concerned with real live males walking around in their underwear in coed dorms our daughters are placed into without choice.
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L-E editoral commentary from McClatchy writer Jay Ambrose: "Getting people to quit cigarettes and saving families with children from destitution have nothing in common, right? I think they do, and I think it could be President Obama's single most significant legacy if he would sponsor something comparable to a surgeon general's 1964 report on smoking killing people" -- Hmmm...Jay Ambrose.. have you asked McClatchy to reduce your salary to minimum wage so that McClatchy could donate the rest of your old salary to other families where people don't work as hard as you do for it?
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Wow.. you subscribers to the Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer like me.. have you noticed the influx of death notices this week? All of a sudden, there are two full (and once this week 3) columns of local deaths.
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An area alert siren just went off, and I have no clue what it was for. My wife said she thought she heard something on the radio that it was a 'test" for schools. Obviously, the millions the City has spent on it are worthless. I checked all the local TV channels, and no 'alerts" were scrolling across the bottom of the screen, and when the siren stopped, some unintelligible "voice" spewed words that could not be heard clearly at our home. What happened? I do not recall seeing anything about it in the L-E this AM, either.
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Today is Ashton Kucher's birthday.. He's 36. Now he's old enough to date Demi Moore.

Thursday, February 6, 2014


Online story: "On November 22, 2012 Michael Elli received a ticket for flashing his lights to warn fellow drivers of a speed trap * A federal judge in St. Louis ruled Monday that a driver flashing their lights to warn other drivers of an impending speed trap is protected free speech." -- This is true justice... The laws regarding speeding were written for safety, and if another driver flashing his headlights gets another driver, even better yet, a line of drivers to be conscious of the speed limit, we are all safer, and that is the intention of speed limits.
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You know... all during his campaign, Judas 00-Barnum repeatedly claimed he would sit down at a table and have unbridled discussion with leaders of enemy and terrorist countries yet he still won't sit at the table and talk with Republicans... anyone else see the problem I have with this?
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We're hearing a lot of whining from the Mayor Obamalinson and the City Budget office concerning the budget overruns at the Sheriff's Office. Now, has anyone from the Budget Office, the City Manager's office, or Council itself actually taken into consideration what the federal demands made on the Sheriff's Office budget for housing and medically serving criminals when planning/authorizing the annual budget for the Sheriff's office?
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Just curious, but it seems Mayor Obamalinson is out for Sheriff Darr. She can't fire him as he's an elected official of a county established office, but it looks like she's trying to damage his re-electability. Wonder if it has anything to do with his given ability to arrest a mayor?
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I stand unabashedly corrected.. I exclaimed that the US would be better off no matter who was elected to fill the seat of retiring CA Congressman Henry Waxman after 40 years in the House. I could be wrong... Sandra Fluke is running.
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I'm curious... Sandra Fluke testified in Congress that she wasn't able to afford birth control pills for herself so wanted everyone else to pay for them, but now she can afford to pay the qualifying fee to run for Congress. Tell you what, taxpayers are going to need "protection" from her if she wins.
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Online story: " Federal officials on Wednesday pledged more money to help California cope with its severe drought as state fishing regulators shut down recreational angling on portions of two water-starved rivers because of concerns about the survival of salmon and steelhead trout. * The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Natural Resources Conservation Service announced another $14 million for water management improvements in the state, a day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack committed $20 million" -- All California needs to do is open the dam gates and stop coddling the fish. No matter how hard you "squeeze $34 MILLION dollars, nary a drop of water will be produced. This is nothing short of a Judas 00-Barnum payoff to Pelosi and Feinstein for delivering 55 Electoral votes during his elections.
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Online story: "Federal prosecutors rested their corruption case Wednesday against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, * Prosecutors allege that corruption spanned the two terms and included the period after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, when contractors sought to benefit from potentially lucrative rebuilding jobs in the devastated city. * The final prosecution witness was Josephine Beninati, a financial analyst for the U.S. Attorney's Office, who discussed her examination of documents indicating Nagin got $511,000 in money, travel, cellular phone service, granite for his family business and other benefits. * Cross examining Beninati, defense lawyer Robert Jenkins questioned why she characterized payments from various contractors as bribes when they could easily be seen as investments." -- "investments"? And the 1% of lawyers wonder why the public vilifies/stereotypes them because of the other 99% of lawyers.. I just wanna know what the feds were thinking when they tried this case in New Orleans? My bets are on the jury being bribed from the gitgo.
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Online story: "On Thursday, Maine’s Supreme Court made history when it ruled that officials from the public school violated state anti-discrimination law by not allowing Nicole ( a transgender with boy plumbing) to use the girls' bathroom. It was the first time that a state court has ruled it unlawful to deny transgender students access to the bathroom of the gender with which they identify" -- "Maine’s Supreme Court made history"? No, the Maine’s Supreme Court rewrote the law which should be Maine's legislative body's job.
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CVS just announced it was going to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products by October. This is not so much a statement against tobacco (it's still a legal product, but because of legal restrictions/obligations on selling such, plus CVS is basically a non-compensated "tax collector" for the feds) as it is trying to put more profitable margined products at its cash register stations.
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Online story: "Bill O’Reilly tonight took on MSNBC “All In” host Chris Hayes’ remarks that O’Reilly benefited from government help because he grew up in Levittown, N.Y., which was a result of the federal housing policy. * O’Reilly countered Hayes’ statements. He said federal housing policy was providing GIs with low-cost mortgages after returning from World War II. * “They weren’t freebies,” O’Reilly said. “Our military people earned them because they sacrificed years of their lives where they weren’t making any money.” *O’Reilly’s father was a military officer who was able to get a low-cost mortgage in Levittown." -- MSNBC's Chris Hayes literally hung himself out to dry claiming Bill O'Reilly's dad's war-earned mortgage break was a "benefit from government". I really don't have a problem of government programs that "benefit" people. The problem is government programs that DON"T benefit people long term.
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Online story: "A Maryland middle school is under fire for throwing a dance and pizza party for only the smartest students, while more than 300 kids were left out. It begs the question: does this help or hurt lower achieving students? * Psychologist Dr. Susan Lipkins said this type of reward system undermines anti-bully programs. * “It is divisive. It makes kids feel like they’re excluded, and it’s sort of like a country club that only accepts the smart kids,” she said." -- Good grief.. how can what ever state licensed her as a doctor of psychology not shrink from embarrassment? How can her college not want to sneak in and erase its bame from any diplomas she was given? She must suffer from the everybody-gets-a-trophy and it's-not fair-to-keep-score syndromes.
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L-E headline/story: "15 Carver players sign for college * In addition to Walton (Indiana U), Carver had two other Division-I signees and 12 non-Division-I signees." -- Hmmm, glad Dr Lipkins (above item) wasn't invited to the signing.. she'd probably claim it was fair that 3 got D-1 scholarships and the others didn't.
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Online story: "During a press conference on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called ‘freedom’ a “buzzword.” -- "buzzword"? I, and as well as many of you, had ancestors die in obtaining the freedoms we are guaranteed in our Constitution. I'm thinking of a "buzzword" for Carney and Judas 00-Barnum... "pinkslip" for Carney; "impeachment and conviction" for 00-Barnum.
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Just a brief comment regarding "accidental asphyxiation"? Asphyxiation is something the body fights hard to overcome. It's a reflexive struggle for life in situations where our bodies sense deprivation of oxygen...drowning.. strangulation are forms of asphyxiation. If the body is conscious, it will struggle. There's more to "accidental asphyxiation' than is being revealed. My mother literally died of accidental asphyxiation following surgery, but was miraclely brought back to life. Anther friend, a well-known Columbus icon, died of accidental asphyxiation when he was passed out. The same agent was responsible for both situations. There's more to this story.
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Soapbox moment - L-E story: " Once more a Muscogee County Superior Court hearing on convicted Columbus “Stocking Strangler” Carlton Gary’s motion for a new trial has been postponed." -- Carlton Gary terrorized this town in 1977-78. His lawyers have terrorized the justice system ever since. After 36 years of taxpayer room and board, Gary's lawyers have strangled due process, and the case is now in the hands of some people who weren't even born when Gary was raping and killing older women. I think the lawyers who prolong his life (because they can) should have to be subjected to Gary's death sentence as well when the dust finally settles!
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Bottom-of-the-barrel low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "Ninety-five percent of all wealth made since 2009 went to the one percent — 400 people. The other 320 million of us shared five percent. Thanks, Citizens United and lobbyists." -- Hmmm, low info plus must be a product of public education as well. So, 400 people constitute 1% of Americans. Good Grief... that would make this soundoff submitter one of only 39,600 other Americans in this entire country. Just another typical, informed Democratic Party voter.
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Even below-the-bottom-of-the-barrel low info voter's L-E "soundoff": " Those of us who served in Vietnam forgave Jane Fonda long ago. She was speaking her mind. Something we were fighting for. Maybe you should seek help." -- This guy must have survived his Kool-Aid he obviously drank with Jim Jones in Guyana.
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A get-out-the-shovel-it's-really-getting-deep-in-here low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "Obama didn’t turn whites against blacks, rich against poor and men against women. Karl Rove did." -- Well, it's more of a case of Judas 00-Barnum turning blacks against whites, the poor against the rich, and women against men plus the do-nothings against the doers, but what do you expect form someone who still votes for anyone who will promise something for free.
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L-E story: "PANAMA CITY — Work on the ambitious Panama Canal expansion project was halted Wednesday after talks broke down on how to settle a dispute over $1.6 billion in cost overruns." -- It's not even finished yet, and there are $1.6 BILLION in cost overruns? How can anyone run up $1.6 BILLION in unauthorized debt without someone else noticing earlier?
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L-E story: "Concerned that ethical problems inside the military might run deeper than he realized, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered service leaders Wednesday to add urgency to their drive to ensure “moral character and moral courage” in a force emerging from more than a decade of war" -- Hmmm, bet he won't last long if he decides that "ethical problems in the military" run HIGHER than he realized....
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L-E headline/story: "Hoffman autopsy inconclusive, further tests needed * Four people were taken into custody on drug charges after police investigating Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death executed search warrants, two people with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday, and the medical examiner’s office said more tests are needed to determine what killed him." -- Hmmm, guess finding someone with a hypodermic needle in his arm didn't pass the "accidental death" evaluation in New York.....
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L-E's "Quotable": “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group." - Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President (1882-1945)" -- Hmmm, bet if there's a portrait or bust of FDR in the White House, Judas 00-Barnum will now have it taken out and returned to the family similar to what happened to Winston Churchill's bust.
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L-E headline: "Singer Clay Aiken to run for Congress in North Carolina" -- As a Democrat, of course; hmmm, wonder if the DOJ will rule voters can text/call in up to 50 votes each via their cellphones?
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L-E story: " A Toyota Avalon was reported stolen after a man went inside the Milgen Road Circle K on Monday and left the vehicle unlocked, according to a Columbus police report. * The victim told police he had only been in the store a few minutes around 10:30 p.m. when a thief hopped inside his mother’s vehicle and used the key-less ignition to start the car." -- Hmmm.. all I've ever been told is that those "keyless ignition systems" require the car "key" to be within a very short distance to be able to activate the ignition. Either Toyota has a real PR problem to deal with, or the driver's story may need a little more examination.
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Congrats to all our school system's teachers nominated for "Teacher of the Year"! It's quite an honor for each of the 57 teachers named.
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Today is the National Day of Prayer breakfast in Washington. Tis nice to see/hear Judas 00-Barnum is praying more nowadays, but it would be nice if he included others than himself in them.
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Today also is the birthday of Ronald Reagan.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014


Online story: "For years, signs along Central California fields reading "Congress-created dustbowl" and "man-made drought" have reflected an ongoing battle between farmers and environmentalists over water from a large estuary northeast of the San Francisco Bay called the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Three million acres of farmland and 25 million people from San Jose to San Diego depend on water from the delta, but environmental regulations to protect threatened delta smelt and endangered salmon have restricted the amount of water that can be pumped from it. * House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and three Republican congressmen from Central California proposed emergency drought legislation to allow farmers to pump irrigation water from the protected delta. Their effort was unsuccessful. In addition, the governor, in conjunction with state agencies, has proposed a plan that would cost from $25 billion to as much as $67 billion to build two 30-mile underground tunnels to ensure water delivery from Northern California to Southern California." -- Hmmm... "build two 30-mile underground tunnels (a bit redundant) "... You know, this epitomizes liberalism... there's an obvious solution, but the fish are more important, so they pull pipedream alternatives out of thin air.
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Online story: "Residents in Spokane, Wash., protested the opening of a new bar called the Daiquiri Factory after the bar named one of the drinks on the menu 'Date Grape Koolaid, * 'I don't want to shut these guys down,' a protester explained, 'I just want to point out that they are handling a sensitive subject badly, and hopefully to change some hearts and minds.' * The owners refuse to change the name, saying that protesters are making a 'big deal out of nothing.'' -- Huh? From the state that voted for liberalism in the last 7 elections (timed effectively with Microsoft becoming the PC operating system),and a state that voted, illegally I might add, to allow recreational marijuana trafficking, and the state that trails only California in wine production comes a wee bit of concern for what, at best, is the warped association of a morals issue of a closed mind. Hey, protestors.. why is this Koolaid any more offensive than what Judas 00-Barnum gives you? Hey, if any one has a fight in this game, it's a legal team from Kool-Aid.
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From the "speaking of drinking Koolaid" department - Online story: "Barbara Walters gave a heated defense of Woody Allen on Monday's edition of "The View." * Walters said she has spent a lot of time with Allen and his current family. * "I have rarely seen a father as sensitive and as loving and as caring as Woody is," she said." -- Barbara Wa-Wa just wrote her own epitaph..and is now a zombie.. one of the walking dead. Defending Woody (_*_), who married a 17 year old minor child in his care. This is even worse than those teachers who prey on students. Barbara W(_*_)-W(_*_) is truly just as big an (_*_) as Woody. This will be how I remember her.
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Online story: "LEBANON, N.H. — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will receive almost $1 million in federal funds to expand telemedical services and equipment in New Hampshire and Vermont. * Dartmouth's Center for Telehealth launched in 2012 and its goal is to connect with rural healthcare providers using technology. * The U.S. Department of Agriculture funding will be used to expand Dartmouth's technology infrastructure, including software, and to buy equipment for a total of 26 sites in New Hampshire and 15 in Vermont." -- What! This is pure political pork barreling...a "picture-next-to-the-definition-in-Websters moment! First, it has nothing to do with the US Department of Agriculture, but more grievous is why it's being funded, even supplemented, by federal funding.. If Vermont/New Hampshire voters want this, they should pay for it.
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Online story: "TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday the country's caches of chemical weapons, including bombs and artillery shells filled with mustard gas, have been completely destroyed." -- Hmmm... right... or as Jon Lovitz would quickly add... yeah.. that's the ticket.
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HuffPost headline: "GOP Candidate Regrets Comparing Hillary Clinton To The Anti-Christ" -- What... another "stupid Republican..... trick"? Why do Republicans do stupid stuff like this... Hillary has enough baggage to work on without giving her ammunition to divert attention from all her real and other flaws.
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"Americans for Prosperity" is running an ad campaign expressing its disappointment in the promises Judas 00-Barnum has not kept to the liberal base. You know, it sounds like this group supports the promises he has kept that have created turmoil to our economy and health , and total distrust of the office of the president. Perhaps "Americans for Prosperity" is somewhat a misleading name, and perfectly appropriate for the Democratic Party's campaign.
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Just for a second, I'm going to parse OObamaCRAP by what Judas 00-Barnum tries to convince us of what it is.. HealthCare. HealthCare breaks down to two aspects. Health and Care. Tell me how either one has been improved by 00-Barnum and his circus?
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Juan Williams....he was fired by NPR, and Fox News took him in, which pretty much saved his life/career. We know he's a liberal, but that doesn't justify why he puts the defense of Judas 00-Barnum ahead of his journalistic integrity or his obligation to Fox and Fox viewers to seek and report the truth. Why does Fox allow him access to its air time?
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Online quote site: "“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.” - Ronald Reagan" -- EXCEPTION! How about when they are ordered to hold umbrellas for Judas 00-Barnum?
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L-E headline: "MAN TO PLEAD GUILTY IN TSYS ID THEFT * D--- J(_*_)----- faces federal charges for allegedly stealing info from TSYS workers" -- Hmmm, if the (_*_) is :willing: to plead guilty to existing charges, then TSYS has no clue as to what damages haven't been caught/revealed.
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L-E's " Thought for Today, “The greater the philosopher, the harder it is for him to answer the questions of common people.” — Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author (1846-1916)." -- Hmmm.. only if the philosopher is a BS artist.. do any Democratic philosophers leap to the tip of your tongue?
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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Several million people will reduce their hours on the job or leave the workforce entirely because of incentives built into President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. * That would mean job losses equal to 2.3 million full-time jobs by 2021, in large part because people would opt to keep their income low to stay eligible for federal health care subsidies or Medicaid, the agency said. It had estimated previously that the law would lead to 800,000 fewer jobs by that year." -- Even Judas 00-Barnum's clowns are abandoning the circus he has developed. The CBO has determined that OObamaCRAP will cost 3,100,000 EXISTING/projected full time jobs.
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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Hundreds of soldiers and others are under criminal investigation in what the military describes as a widespread scheme to take fraudulent payments and kickbacks from a National Guard recruiting program. The fraud cost the U.S. at least $29 million and possibly tens of millions dollars more, officials said Tuesday. * Two army generals revealed to a Senate panel on Tuesday new details of an ongoing investigation into a recruiting program put in place in 2005 to boost flagging enlistment during a crucial period of the Iraq War. * As many as 200 officers, including two generals, are suspected of participating in schemes to take advantage of a referral program that paid out cash bonuses ranging from $2,000 to $7,500 per recruit. * Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., called the investigation “one of the largest that the Army has ever conducted, both in terms of the sheer volume of fraud and the number of participants.” -- Now, to be fair, the Senate should follow through on its investigation to the fraud Sen, McCaskill has perpetrated on the American taxpayers as well. She has used her Senate expense account to pay for the use of a plane she and her husband are primary investor/owners.
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Wonder if college football players who have no hope of being drafted to the NFL will be quite as in favor of unionization... hmmm, the cost of scholarships (tuition, books, room & board, all those students fees, and even those "free" tickets for friends/family would have to be considered taxable income each year they are in college, and without being able to work (other jobs - NCAA rule) while they are on scholarships, how would they pay the taxes on it each year they are in school?

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Online headline: "Obamacare Computers Still Can't Correct Previous Errors" -- Hmmm, maybe this is a game of semantics... the truth is probably, "OObamaCRAP Computers Still WON"T Correct Previous Errors"...hey, Judas 00-Barnum doesn't won't to correct his "errors/fumbles" anywhere else, so why does anyone think, "feel" for that matter, he wants to correct 00bamaCRAP errors/fumbles?
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Online story: "Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was among the stranded travelers after her return flight to Phoenix was canceled Monday, a spokesman said. Brewer attended the big game as part of the ceremonial handoff of hosting duties; next year's Super Bowl is in Glendale, Ariz." -- "ceremonial handoff of hosting duties"? How about government 'pork spending'? Why is spending tax dollars on such an unnecessary "ritual" needed, much less warranted?
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It's just come to my attention about an ad banned by the NFL from the Super Bowl ad list.... one from "Daniel's Defense", a maker of semi-automatic rifles. It was about the freedom to defend one's home and family. The NFL excuse was about the number of firearm deaths in this country? Hmmm, it must be that the NFL is more concerned about firearms than deaths, because the NFL apparently is not concerned about the number of deaths related to automobiles or alcohol, which, combined, are responsible for 10 times the annual rate for firearms.
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Hmmmm, Super Bull 48 will be remembered as the Bruno Mars Concert where a football game was played, too.
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The Denver Broncos were not the only team that didn't show up "with game" ... The government run mass transit system had a worse night than Denver.
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Hmmm, what do Keystone XL, Syria's use of chemical weapons, and religion all have in common.. Judas 00-Barnum has drawn 'red lines", and he's not going to "cross" any of them.
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Online headline: "Obama To Consult Kerry For Next Move On Keystone Project" -- Hmm, guess he needs another Secretary of State to point a finger of blame at for his lack of leadership.
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I'm curious... curious about science's claims about the "Big Bang Theory"....curious as to what..where.. the "Big Bang" was generated.. seems to me that this supports God's existence and His creation of the heavens and Earth. Gosh, wonder what science could 'create' if it had spent the energy it has on looking forward rather than backwards?
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Bill O'Reilly tried to get Judas OO-Barnum to answer a question about Benghazi, and when O'Reilly challenged him to answer it, 00-Barnum said, "I am answering it." Hmmm, I think what he meant was this is as close to an answer you're going to get.
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I do hope mainstream media did watch O'Reilly's interview with Judas 00-Barnum, and asks itself how it defends Judas 00-Barnum's views.
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If OObamaCRAP is suppose to get the 30+ million without insurance on board, how can Judas 00-Barnum say he's happy with 6,000,000 medicaid enrollees?
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Hard work without planning is not going to produce wealth. no matter how good you are, no matter how hard you work. If you don't take into accounting the market needs, you will not necessarily become wealthy. Remember the examples of being the best buggy whip made during the automobile era, or the best slide rule maker during the calculator/computer era....
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Last week, the New York Times couldn't wait to publish that there was actually evidence that Christie was tied to the "Bridgegate" story. The NYT has been called on the carpet to produce it. Now the NYT has backtracked its claim and just says it knows such exists. Hmmm, only in the minds of Minutia
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L-E headline/story: "Coroner says captain’s death was accidental * Planned autopsy has been canceled * Bryan would not specify the nature of the accident, referring questions to the sheriff’s office. * Muscogee County Sheriff John Darr said Monday that he has not been informed of the precise circumstances of Tew’s death." -- Wait a minute! We have an unrevealed type of death; we have a canceled autopsy procedure; we have the Sheriff who hasn't been informed; we have a coroner running amok with power. Recently, we had a death off of J.R.Allen Parkway that the coroner made a cause of death decision based on what he saw, yet how many times has the coroner sent a body riddled with bullet holes to Atlanta for an autopsy to determine cause of death? Now this.. if there's something Tew's family needs to be protected from, so be it, but not at the expense of the public's right to know what's going on.
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Low info voter's L-E "soundoff": " President Bush never proclaimed he was going to sign executive orders — he just signed them, more than three times more than President Obama. President Obama is just more open and honest." -- "Fact Checked" this and found:
"The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara keeps a tally of every executive order from every president. And where does Obama rank compared to other post-World War II presidents? Second from the bottom. At 168 executive orders in five years, he has two more than George H.W. Bush. Above him, with 169, is Gerald Ford. Then, the numbers take a leap. JFK had 214 executive orders; George W. Bush had 291; Jimmy Carter had 320, and Lyndon Johnson had 325. Bill Clinton signed off on 364 during his eight years, and Ronald Reagan came in with 381. The winners in this game are are Dwight Eisenhower with 484, Harry S. Truman with 907, and the awful tyrant Franklin Roosevelt with a whopping 3,522." -- What the simple truth is that the three Republicans that have served had to write Executive Orders to undue the damage of the Democratic presidents created with their Executive Orders.
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Another Hollywood death by drugs...probably self inflicted drugs. You know, why does mainstream media focus on the druggie's career, and him being missed, than on his disregard for life or the law?
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L-E headline: "Obama seeks to hold Dems together in election year" -- You know..this is a sad state when the president of all the people is more concerned with his core political party wants than the Nation's needs.
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L-E headline and "the rest of the story": Storm-related insurance claims hit $10K * ATLANTA — State Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens says Georgians have already filed more than an estimated $10 million in claims related to last week’s snow storm" -- Hmmm, so 10K = 10M... the L-E must have mixed up its currency and drug conversion charts.
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Hmmm, according to media reports, there was a record number of viewers for this years Super Bowl... bet the second half also set a record for the number of viewers lost after the half time show.

Monday, February 3, 2014


Super Bowl? More like Super Bull.... Hope the advertisers in the 2nd half got rebates for diminished audiences. Next time this kind of mismatch happens, maybe the NFL will install the "mercy rule" used in high school games.... keep the clock running the entire time, including 'time outs', when the game is over at half time.

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John Elway and the rest of the Denver front office must have been kicking themselves last night. Tim Tebow had a lot better Super Bowl night than Peyton Manning.

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With no allegiance to either team, we changed over to pulling for Seattle in the 3rd quarter. Shoot, there wasn't any reason to be miserable over a badly played game.

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I think Rocky Balboa gave Denver its game plan.... let your opponent wear itself out beating your brains out, then hope for a knockout punch in the last round.

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Peyton Manning closed his eyes and flinched! That wounded duck interception that Seattle ran back for a TD should have gone to the ground with Manning, but what's a QB doing in the Super Bowl who closes his eyes when getting pressured?
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Broadway Joe" looked more like "Street Corner Jill"... wonder whether he has traded in his pantyhose for "Spanx"?
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The Super Bowl had Martin Sheen as emcee lead-in for the reading of the Declaration of Independence. Why would the NFL give him a role in presenting the ideals of our Founding Fathers? In the past, I'd ask, what was the NFL smoking... but now we already know.

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I've been watching the first & second seasons of "Columbo" from the late 60s. early 70s. Every body smoked.. in cars, in their houses, in their friends houses, even in houses where the pilot lights ofa stove were blown out and a suicide faked. Unfortunately, that's what people did back then.

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Online headline: "Thousands of ObamaCare site error appeals reportedly going unfixed" -- As art indeed imitates life, OObamaCRAP indeed imitates Judas 00-Barnum...
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Missed the original interview, but have watched the O'Reilly interview with Judas 00-Barnum this AM... I was aghast to see our president sans a necktie while broadcasting from the White House. I guess 00-Barnum was dressed appropriate in his mind to reflect how he has but casual respect for the truth as well. Either that, or was afraid to have any kind of slip knotted device around his neck.
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In that interview, Judas 00-Barnum said, ". “I try to focus not on the fumbles but on the next plan." -- Hmmm so what are his next planned fumbles?
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When I coached kids in Little League, I tried to teach them that when they made an error (baseball's equivalent of a "fumble"), it was OK, but after that "physical" error it was more important not to make a "mental" error. That meant there was no time to kick the dirt or throw their gloves down or look at the bench/bleachers in disbelief. The physical error meant they had a new assignment to minimize the damage. They had to either retrieve the ball or get to a base and cover it, of line up as a cutoff man... MINIMIZE the effect of that error. Judas 00-Barnum never had a coach show him how to minimize his errors, and it shows, and it hurts the team more than the actual physical error.
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Soapbox moment: Unionizing college athletics will destroy educational opportunities for way more student athletes than benefit the miniscule few who will make it to a professional level of sports. Let's face it... if athletes become unionized pay-for-play workers, scholarships will have to count as income for the recipients, and that will make them taxable. Since there is no difference in classrooms as to whether a student on scholarship is there because of his/her sports ability or academic achievement, all scholarships will have to be treated equally. Even GA's "Hope Scholarships" would become taxable revenues, and those total ride, highly sought prestige scholarships would become albatrosses around the neck of students (and/or their parents).
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L-E story: " A woman faces a reckless conduct charge after her 3-year-old son was found trying to cross Veterans Parkway, according to a Columbus police report." -- Another soapbox moment: This just brings to light where the schools system has failed in its attempt to remove responsibility of individual parents. I'm talking about the recent situation where a 5 year old boy manipulated school employees to get out of being put on a bus for a ride to someplace else after school. Why are we involved in transporting so many children between homes and schools in the first place? There are very little "rural" situations in the MCSD that would cause many hardship cases for the school system to need to address. It's just that federal programs have necessitated recruiting riders to justify the grant moneys. I believe the last figure I heard says we have about 500 buses in the school system. Those buses cost $100,000.00 +/- bucks apiece when new, and that's for the basics..(quick math shows that over a 10 year period/lifespan, we have spent $50 MILLION tax dollars on depreciable items) Add air conditioning and the costs escalate quickly.. not only in initial outlay but in fuel and maintenance costs. making more parents more responsible, more a part of the education system, more a part of their children's lives would save money and improve the results.
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L-E story: "Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly. * Rep. Harry Geisinger, R-Roswell, has sponsored a bill that would provide for the lawful use of unmanned aircraft in certain circumstances. A separate bill sponsored by Rep. Stephen Allison, RBlairsville, would prohibit manned or unmanned aircraft from flying within 100 feet above the surface of a property for surveillance without a search warrant or permission of the property owner." -- "prohibit ...unmanned aircraft from flying within 100 feet above the property for surveillance without a search warrant or permission of the property owner"? With cameras already available that can track moving autos' license tags from satellites orbiting Earth , what privacy without a search warrant would matter whether or not the 'drone" was less than or above 100 feet?
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L-E story: " Some Georgia educators say they feel slighted by pay increases for nationally board certified teachers being left out of the state’s education budget." -- Extra pay for being a certified teacher? Being certifies should be a requirement for consideration as a teacher.. not a plus.
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Yesterday, the L-E ran an article highlighting a few crime zones in Columbus, but with out really going into detail, the L-E has basically highlighted the most drug related crime zones, yet avoided showing the zones that have more home burglary and auto theft crimes. Why? Could it be, simply that highlighting those would probably alarm and disappoint Mayor Obamalinson's campaign donors.

Sunday, February 2, 2014


A man was arrested in NYC for making a threat on Bush43's life. My first thought was Judas 00-Barnum had gone too far in a fundraiser speech, and a liberal made a "citizen's arrest".
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Punxsutawney Phil made an appearance and predicted 6 more weak excuses from Judas 00-Barnum until Spring.
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You know, Punxsutawney Phil must be a Republican voter.. He sticks his head up to see what's going on, while Democrat voters are more like ostriches with their heads buried in the sand.
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Online headline: "Board allows gynecologists to treat more men" -- OObamaCRAP again! I pray every male Democratic who voted on OObamaCRAP without reading it be made to have a mandatory speculum exam when their doctors give them maternity treatments!
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Chris Christie is going to catch it from all sides today in East Rutherford... He'll get blamed for the traffic delays in getting into the stadium, and especially at the women's bathroom facilities.
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Referees for the Super Bowl will get paid $10,000.00 each. Those guys actually get paid?
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Hillary's confession that she hasn't driven a car herself since 1996 is a little disconcerting.... you know, what she really said was that she's so used to riding in the back of a limo, that she has no connection with America's middle class.
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During "sequester", our economy grew faster than before or after "sequester". That pretty much deflates the Democrats' claim that government spending spurs the economy.
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Congress just passed a bipartisan farm bill that includes a $3,000,000.00 portion to promote/advertise "Christmas trees". If there is any aspect of separation of church & state from "Christmas", this should be first in line.
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Government intrusion is reaching new depths. I can see the need for knowing the total amounts of credit card and mortgage and loan debts of the American populace, but why does government need to know how much individuals owe? A Fox contributor coined an appropriate phrase for this... a giant credit colonoscopy.
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Judas 00-Barnum's penchant for lying seems to rub off and grow in his spinmeisters. One such spinmeister claimed 00-Barnum had " created" 8,000,000 jobs since he's been in office. Of course, "created" is the key word to parse. The Bureau of Labor reports there are 1,000,000 fewer jobs now than when Judad 00-Barnum took office. Yes, Judas 00-Barnum had taught his minions that "lying" is really only a fact "created" to fit his needs.
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The spinmeister on Fox claiming that Judas 00-Barnum has "created" 8,000,000 jobs so far.. When he was "shot down" by the Bureau of Labor stats that there are actually 1,000,000 less jobs today than when 00-Barnum took office...well, he just sat there, like Uncle Remus' "tarbaby"... he just smiled wider and didn't say nothing. What a crock!
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California is hiring ex-cons as OObamaCRAP "navigators" . With all the other security problems of signing up on the web, now Californians (things like this start in CA, then move East) are having to give personal info & vital numbers to folks who may have been in jail for financial crimes.
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The problem with liberal economics analysts is that they think throwing money at a problem is the cure-all.
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It's strange, yet rewarding in it's own way, that the introduction of a grand baby means watching Sesame Street on occasion. Yesterday wad one of those "aha!" moments. Michelle Obama was on and was demonstrating vegetable seed planting. She instructed the kids involved to spread them around like they were planting rye grass. Hmmm, sorta makes you wonder whether she's been planting "grass" in her White House garden.
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Online quote source: ": “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” - George Bernard Shaw" -- This needs to be etched across the top of every ballot and voting machine!
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L-E headline/story: "Columbus Crime | 2013 crime statistics * stats show worst residential crime zones * Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, who serves as the city’s public safety director, said Columbus’ worst crime zones tend to be economically depressed areas where offenders believe they have little to lose." -- What about the rest of the story? Bet no one at the L-E looked into what the vote was for Mayor Obamalinson and Judas 00-Barnum in their last elections. Wanna bet how they vote in the next election, too?
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What is it with liberal commentary sought out by the L-E? For years we've been polluted by the ramblings of Leonard Pitts, and recently, the L-E has brought us an associate professor from Lagrange, and a bleeding heart Kansas City gal. Maria Sanchez poison pens today that: "The blind eye we turn to techniques of execution is giving cover to disturbing changes with lethal injection. The drugs that have traditionally been used to create the deadly “cocktail” administered to the condemned are becoming harder to get. Major manufacturers are declining to supply them for executions, and that has led states to seek other options.
That raises questions about how effective the lethal drugs will be. At least one execution appears to have been botched. In January, an inmate in Ohio was seen gasping for more than 10 minutes during his execution. He took 25 minutes to die. The state had infused him with a new cocktail of drugs not previously used in executions." --
You know, I could really care less about any pain or discomfort a murderer feels when being put to death.. it's a far less painful than what the victim went through and even way less painful for what the victim's family has been put through.
You know.. demonstrative pain should be required in every execution of the death sentence.. and public at that.

Saturday, February 1, 2014


Online headline: "NFL Commissioner Not Budging On Pot" -- Ooops, my bad... thought the Super Bowl had sold every seat in the house, including bathrooms..

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Online headline: "Man Washes Up In Marshall Islands After '16 Months Adrift'" -- Ooops, my bad.. thought Judas 00-Barnum had been on another usual vacation.
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Follow up to yesterday's exposure of the federal judge in Connecticut who called the 2nd Amendment unconstitutional. COVELLO added: " Connecticut's law does not "amount to a complete prohibition on firearms for self-defense in the home." -- Judge COVELLO, the 2nd Amendment quantifies our right to own and bear arms. It specifically states " the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." What part of deciding what you think is an acceptable firearm infringement is granted to you by the US Constitution?
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WTVM9 story: "The Muscogee County Marshal's Office will give a helping hand to the homeless Saturday morning through their Junior Marshal Program." -- Of course it's a nice "move", but.... BUT... was any money from the Crime Prevention grant used? Does the Crime Prevention Committee have any check points to follow up on?
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Online story: "Washington, DC - The daughter of a 77-year-old man who died of an apparent heart attack said firefighters refused to help him. * "I even ran to the curb and said are you going to help me, or are you going to let my dad die?" Marie Mills said. * She said firefighters told people asking them for help that they had to call 911 before anyone could respond." -- Hmmm... is there nothing in Washington that isn't controlled by red tape?
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LOS ANGELES — Acting in one of the worst droughts in California’s history, state officials announced on Friday that they would cut off the water that it provides to local agencies serving 25 million residents and about 750,000 acres of farmland. * With no end in sight for the dry spell and reservoirs at historic lows, Mark Cowin, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said his agency needed to preserve what little water remained so it could be used “as wisely as possible.” -- Hmmm, gotta save those red darter fish at all costs. You know, all 55 Electoral College votes were given to Judas 00-Barnum even though Romney carried 29 of California's 58 counties...
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We're "Bones" (the TV show) fans. Following last nights episode, a show came on we hadn't watched before called "Enlisted", Pathetic.. The US Army should sue whomever in the Judas 00-Barnum circus authorized use of the US Army insignias. On the other hand, it didn't do justice to our Marines, either.
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From a fellow BCer... the debate between Bill Ayers and Dinesh Dsouza - it's about 2 hours, but well worth your time.
The scariest thing is Ayers is a college professor and students have to pass his course.
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Can you believe Judas 00-Barnum is out three days after his "Recipe for Disaster" claiming Republicans cannot embrace any agenda much less his. You know, 00-Barnum can't even get the Democrat members of Congress to embrace his agenda anymore.
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Between new contact rules and concussion law suit threats, the game of football may have to change some of its main attractions. I can see a time when faster runners might be handicapped with weighted shoes, and larger linemen have built in airbags to lessen the impact of blocks and tackles. I can even see the championship game getting a new name...the Super Ball. Going to "the dance" has new meaning.
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An outdoor stadium in February in New Jersey... You know, most major bowl games' incentive is a nice vacation atmosphere for players and fans alike. This year, players and fans from Seattle and Denver leave warmer climates for the freezing atmosphere of Jersey. Some fun...
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Hmmm... Sunday is the Super Bowl. The temperature will be in the 20's, and fans will be sitting for 3+ hours in an outdoor arena. Players will have sideline heaters, and get to go inside during the extended halftime show. Owners will be sitting in the heated and well-stocked skyboxes. Yep, the NFL is surely for the fans.
Education's greatest facet is enlightenment... it brings people out of darkness and into a new light... Well, you'd think OObamaCRAP would be benefiting now that Judas 00-Barnum has explained it all. Now people know why Pelosi, Reid, and 00-Barnum didn't want taxpayers to read it.
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The total wealth of the Bloomberg's top 100 billionaires in the world is $2.029 TRILLION. If Judas 00-Barnum confiscated all of their wealth, he'd still be over $4 TRILLION short of covering the National Debt he's added to our children's and grandchildren's backs.
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Online quote source: " “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Theodore Roosevelt" -- Hmmm, another one of those presidential leadership quotes we'll never see hanging on the walls of a Labor or Welfare Department office under Judas 00-Barnum.
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You know... you can sorta relate Judas 00-Barnum's "AmeriKa" to the fable of the industrious ants and the frivolous grasshopper... only in 00-Barnum's version, the grasshopper wins.
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From the "what it's worth" department - A fellow BCer took my challenge to task yesterday. I asked if new MCSD Superintendent Lewis' "report" had been verified for originality on line like student term papers are, and one of ours checked it out.. Sure enough, many versions of similar reports popped up.
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L-E headline: "Muscogee COuNtY School District * Family wants answers From school after boy strays off" -- Hmmm, and I'm sure the MCSD wants to know how, and from whom, the 5 year old learned to lie and manipulate teachers...
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Low... no, stupidly low info voter's L-E "soundoff": "The Republican plan: Increase government debt when they are in charge and spend to make the economy seem to boom, then shriek about spending and government debt when they can blame the Democrats." -- Hmmm. let's see. when Bush43 left office, the National Debt of the previous 43 presidents was about $10 Trillion. In 5 years, Judas 00-Barnum has increased the previous 43 presidents' debt by 70%. The problem isn;t that Democrat politicians don't want to read the bills, it's that Democrat voters CAN"T read.
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L-E story: "SPANISH FORK, Utah — A man accused of killing one Utah deputy and wounding another was a fugitive who previously served 4 ½ years in prison for attempted homicide, authorities said Friday. * Jose (_*_) G_____ J_____, 27, is in extremely critical condition after being shot by law enforcement officials Thursday afternoon in Juab County, and his prognosis isn’t good" -- Hmmm let's make sure he doesn't leave the ER... make him fill out an OObamaCRAP application on line. There's no way it will be completed before the (_*_) bleeds out. and justice gets served.
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There were 10 pictures printed in the leagl section of the L-W today of people who had been convicted for their 2nd or 3rd DUIs inn the past 5 years. Sadly, it's just been the 2nd or 3rd time they've actually been caught and arrested.. who knows how many times they had gotten behind the wheel of a car in a DUI state that they weren't observed and stopped. How about GPSing the vehicle they were caught in the first time, and track it for the next 5 years and have a patrol car go to it if the vehicle is observed in an alcohol selling store or business....if the driver id caught the second time, confiscate that vehicle regardless of who owns it.
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You know, with a weakened economy that correcting it will be driven by consumer spending, why is Judas 00-Barnum trying to get people to save more than spend?