HuffPOOPOO headline: "Tom Brokaw: Brian Williams' Future 'Is Up To Brian
And NBC News' -- Oh...so know he says he's remorseful.. hmmm.. the second big
lie is a lot easier to tell...
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Who do you think Bradley Cooper will portray in his next
movie...Obamageddon or King Abdullah II?
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It's not just a "NO" we need to message the school system with on election
day...It's more of a need to express that it's a vote of "No Confidence"!
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Now we hear that the Jordanians are honoring Iraq's request not to bomb
ISIS in Iraq ....are the Iraqi decision makers that stupid? Doesn't it just make
sense that ISIS terrorists would beeline it to Iraq to avoid the Jordanian
bombers?
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Online story: "Tom Gehl, the Georgia Municipal Association’s director of
governmental relations (said) that “cities, counties and schools will be stuck
holding the bag” under House Bill 170, which would convert Georgia’s 4-percent
gasoline sales tax into the state’s motor fuel excise tax, which would total
29.2 cents per gallon after the change. * The legislation would require cities
and counties to replace their gasoline sales tax with an excise tax of 3 cents
per gallon. Gehl said that the 29.2 cent state excise tax “essentially precludes
the fiscal capacity of cities and counties to use an excise tax to fund
transportation because they would be the only players in that proposal to raise
taxes.” -- Whoa! If the state of GA wants more money, then it should do a
forensic audit on every GA DOT project while it's under construction.. Just one
project here in Columbus (Whittlesey Rd widening) is running 6 months behind and
a $1,000,000.00 plus over budget (about 12-13% more).
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Online story: "Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a hero of the civil rights
movement, and Rep. G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina, chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus, said they won’t attend Netanyahu’s March 3 speech. *
“I think it’s an affront to the president and the State Department what the
speaker did,” by not consulting the White House, Lewis said in an interview." --
"affront to the president..State Department"? How about it being a US
credibility issue to regain confidence of our allies....Oh, and the last I
heard, the US Constitution gives equal strength and rights to the legislature as
it does the president.
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Wow! The Reverend T.D. Jakes....he said love is measured by how far it can
be stretched and not shattered. Powerful!
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Online story: "President Obama is expected to formally ask Congress to
authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State terror group in
the coming days, even as lawmakers said crafting and passing such a measure
would be a challenge." -- You know...why are Democrats now interested in taking
out ISIS? Why weren't they interested when they had majorities in the House and
Senate?
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After hearing Geraldo Rivera try his hand singing hip-hop, I have to say
that his voice is as empty as his "Al Capone Vault " scam.
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Online quote source: "“The brotherhood of men does not imply their
equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep
and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man
should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of
each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.” - Aldous Huxley"
-- Sorta bursts the balloon of redistributionists...
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L-E story: "Superintendent David Lewis and Muscogee County School Board member Rob Varner say state law prohibits them from debating board member Frank Myers, who challenged them to a public exchange of opinions about the proposed sales tax to fund capital projects." -- Hmmm, well there certainly isn't a state law that prohibits the disclosure of the actual projects to the taxpayers that create the sum of $192 Million the MCSD is asking for, so what are the actual projects?
L-E story: "Superintendent David Lewis and Muscogee County School Board member Rob Varner say state law prohibits them from debating board member Frank Myers, who challenged them to a public exchange of opinions about the proposed sales tax to fund capital projects." -- Hmmm, well there certainly isn't a state law that prohibits the disclosure of the actual projects to the taxpayers that create the sum of $192 Million the MCSD is asking for, so what are the actual projects?
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From above L-E story: "The (MCSD) administration’s response: "Approximately
85 percent of the district’s budget is comprised of personnel costs with the
remaining approximately 15 percent used for all other expenses such as
utilities, maintenance, instructional materials, supplies, etc. Without a
SPLOST, there are only two options: generate revenue from another source or
decrease expenditures.” -- "only two options"? Private businesses have a third
option.. live within your revenue stream... why does the MCSD "feel" it is
exempt from this option?
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From above story: "(Valerie) Fuller responded in a follow-up email
Friday:
“No money has been exchanged. There has been no purchase of property. We own two pieces of property (Muscogee and Cusseta Road locations) and the land swap would complete the necessary acreage required to build a high school depending on the SPLOST disposition. Then, the Board must approve the site.” *
Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson said the land swap is basically a done deal. * “I believe it’s been signed,” Tomlinson said Friday. “It certainly has been approved * According to the memorandum of understanding, the school district would receive 33 acres along Fort Benning Road in exchange for 21.44 acres at the former Marshall Middle School, 11 acres at Brewer Elementary School and 5 acres at the former Tillinghurst Elementary School. It also states that if the total value of the properties exchanged isn’t equal, the agency that receives the lesser value shall pay the difference in cash at the closing * The 33 acres the city would give the school district along Fort Benning Road is undeveloped land south of Cusseta Road and north of Baker Plaza Road. A new Spencer High would be built there, Caggins said. The land would be contiguous with the 28 acres at the former Cusseta Road Elementary and the 9 acres at the former Muscogee Elementary. An athletics complex with tennis courts and fields for other sports could be built on those two parcels for district-wide use. “That would give us 70 acres, which is about what we currently have at Spencer,” Caggins said. The Spencer property off Victory Drive would be sold, he said." -- Wait a minute! The Mayor and Council "know" yet the MCSD won't "tell" the taxpayers? And the current Spencer school property will be sold... to who? I also want to know why the current Spencer land would be valuable enough for private interest, yet deemed unusable by the MCSD...Oh, and why hasn't the sale of the property been figured/calculated into paying for a new Spencer?
“No money has been exchanged. There has been no purchase of property. We own two pieces of property (Muscogee and Cusseta Road locations) and the land swap would complete the necessary acreage required to build a high school depending on the SPLOST disposition. Then, the Board must approve the site.” *
Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson said the land swap is basically a done deal. * “I believe it’s been signed,” Tomlinson said Friday. “It certainly has been approved * According to the memorandum of understanding, the school district would receive 33 acres along Fort Benning Road in exchange for 21.44 acres at the former Marshall Middle School, 11 acres at Brewer Elementary School and 5 acres at the former Tillinghurst Elementary School. It also states that if the total value of the properties exchanged isn’t equal, the agency that receives the lesser value shall pay the difference in cash at the closing * The 33 acres the city would give the school district along Fort Benning Road is undeveloped land south of Cusseta Road and north of Baker Plaza Road. A new Spencer High would be built there, Caggins said. The land would be contiguous with the 28 acres at the former Cusseta Road Elementary and the 9 acres at the former Muscogee Elementary. An athletics complex with tennis courts and fields for other sports could be built on those two parcels for district-wide use. “That would give us 70 acres, which is about what we currently have at Spencer,” Caggins said. The Spencer property off Victory Drive would be sold, he said." -- Wait a minute! The Mayor and Council "know" yet the MCSD won't "tell" the taxpayers? And the current Spencer school property will be sold... to who? I also want to know why the current Spencer land would be valuable enough for private interest, yet deemed unusable by the MCSD...Oh, and why hasn't the sale of the property been figured/calculated into paying for a new Spencer?
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One of the major subterfuges that the MCSD is perpetrating is not
voluntarily disclosing the location it would build a new Spencer High School...
why would this not be freely disclosed.. First the MCSD said it already owned
the property, but has backslid a bit to say it involves a land swap with the
City.. BUT.. since the land is not in private hands, and a deal is in place, the
value nor availability will not be affected by disclose so why isn't the MCSD
being forthright with the taxpayers. As it stands now, the SPLOST vote is not
just a "yes/no" issue.. it's an issue of "NO CONFIDENCE", and that reason alone
soul be why we need to vote it down.
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A Jonathan Gruber stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " When did Lewis admit the
school system had money it couldn’t account for? If that were true, the internal
auditor would be investigating along with the police." -- Well, to begin with,
an internal audit wouldn't necessarily bring this to light nor guarantee
notification to the police.. that why a forensic audit is necessary.
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Another Jonathan Gruber stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Have you seen a MCSD
budget? It shows where the money will be spent. Multi-level budgetary controls
assure the money is spent as budgeted. Verified by the annual audit. What more
do you want?" -- Good grief... budgetary controls do not prevent good money from
being spent on bad ideas, nor do budgetary controls prevent money from being
wasted..
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L-E's " Thought for Today": “No one is useless in this world... who
lightens the burden of it for any one else.” — From “Our Mutual Friend” by
Charles Dickens (born this date in 1812, died in 1870)." -- In the days of
Dickens, this was infinitely true.. yet we have created a welfare system that
Dickens could not foresee, and entitlement seekers that cannot be content with
what the public provides are burdens on all others.
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Good grief.. Auburn is going to build a $13.9 Million dollar video screen..
some one speaking for Auburn said ticket prices have been held down for 4
years.. now I guess Auburn is raising them with the idea that " this is going to
be an enhancement that moms and dads are going to have to come to because their
kids are going to want to see this video board" -- Wow.. now if Auburn includes
video game controllers for the kids, I could see this, but if Auburn wants the
parents to come, why not spend the $13.9 Million on a better football team?
