Friday, January 8, 2016

Online headline: "Obama: I'm not plotting to take away guns  * The president made his case at a town hall on Thursday night for why he's taking executive action on the controversial issue."  - Here we go again.. NERO-bamageddon making another "promise"... like the one about .."you can keep your own doctors"...

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Online headline: " The 25 poorest members of Congress" -- At a minimum..... interesting. First I was surprised not to see Congressman Bishop GA-D on the list, but that's another story.. Secondly was the breakdown of the "Bottom 25" currently serving us in Washington.. Edwards, MD-D, has a "networth" of $4,000.00 after 7 years in the House and is running for the Senate in 2016; Brown, FL-D, after sitting in the House for 23 years has a "networth" of $3,500.00;  John Conyers, MI-D, has served for 51 YEARS and has a "networth" of a negative $45,000.00;  Walker, NC-R, may get his negative "networth" of $59,000.00 honestly, he's a minister by profession. Now we get to the "heavyweight" division... The only Senator on the list is Steve Israel, NY-R...then there's Ruben Hinojosa, TX-D, who has served for 19 years, has a negative "networth" of  over $2,000,000,00 dollars.. and serves on the FINANCIAL SERVICES and EDUCATION committees! And it gets worse.. Alcee Hastings, FL-D, has been serving 23 years in Congress, but before getting elected, he was IMPEACHED from a Disrtict Court Judge position for BRIBERY, and has a negative "networth" of over $4,700,000.00. The "poorest" of the Congressional membership is David Valadao, CA-R, with a negative "networth" of over $25,000,000.00. but most, if not all, of that is related to debt he hold in a family dairy business. The party breakdown of this list of 25 is 10 Republicans and 15 Democrats.  It's scary we have this many representatives that are involved in budgeting for and running our country..

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/01/07/the-25-poorest-members-of-congress/21293502/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk4%26pLid%3D1318151926

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Online headline/story: "Two Middle East refugees arrested in U.S. on terrorism charges  *  Two men from the Middle East who came to the United States as refugees more than three years ago were arrested on federal charges in California and Texas involving international terrorism, the U.S. officials said on Thursday.  * The men, arrested in Sacramento and Houston, were not involved in a single plot, but they may have been in contact with each other, a source familiar with the two cases said.  *  Both men are Palestinians who were born in Iraq. The man arrested in Houston, O888 F**** S**** (_*_)l-H****, entered the United States as a refugee in November 2009, according to a court document  * In Sacramento, the U.S. Department of Justice said A** Moh(_*_)mmed Y***** (_*_)l-J***, 23, came to the United States in 2012 as a refugee from Syria." --  Great screening..NOT... DHS/TSA... and now we will have to worry that NERO-bamageddon will send the DOJ into Houston and Sacremento to investigate "profiling" probabilities.

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Online headline/story: "Florida killer put to death in first US execution of 2016  * Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. was pronounced dead from lethal injection Thursday after being found guilty 10 times by juries in three 1986 murder cases. *  A former carnival worker convicted of killing three women in Florida was executed on Thursday after multiple overturned convictions and retrials, the first U.S. execution of 2016.  *  Governor Rick Scott signed Bolin's death warrant in October for the murder of bank worker Teri Lynn Matthews, 26. She was abducted from a Land O' Lakes post office in December 1986, then raped, beaten and stabbed to death.
Bolin was also found guilty in the Tampa-area slayings of Natalie Blanche Holley, 25, and Stephanie Collins, 17, earlier that year." --  Good grief.. for nearly 25 years, the families of the three known victims have had to suffer and extend their grief because of an appeals system that takes no concern of the victims' families. Maybe justice would be served for those families if the mpthers were given baseball bats and 15 minutes alone with to judges that overturned prior convictions of the crime.

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Online headline: "Bush opens up about possible third-party run" -- Hey, RNC,, where's Bush's "pledge"?

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Online headline: "The 25 best school districts in America" -- Needless to say, our MCSD was not on this list. Hmm.. maybe we should limit any future Superintendent searches to these top 25 systems... One interesting note is that even in the Top 25 systems,  the ratings for "Student Culture and Diversity" got "A" rated in only 5 of those systems'

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Instant repeat - Online headline: "The 25 best school districts in America" -- The "clustering" of Top 25 systems reeks.. Illinois has 5, Pennsylvania has 4 and California has 3... and the other 13 are spread out in only 9 states.. The deep South is completely left out, though Texas did land 2 on the Top 25.. in fact Texas had 2 of the Top 6 rated systems though neither of those two systems got an "A" in Student Culture and Diversity, and the Top Rated system in Illinois (number 4 in the ratings) had a "C+" in Student Culture and Diversity.... I guess that means that the school is not in South Chicago.

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Online story: "Salma Hayek * After more than 20 years living in the United States, the Mexican movie star became a citizen in 2013. To prove her love of her new country, Hayek even sang the National Anthem on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Unfortunately, Mexico was listening and wasn't happy, saying she sang the American anthem better than she sang that of her birth country." -- "sang the American anthem better than she sang that of her birth country"?  Hmmm .. maybe it was because she did has more to sing about now she is an American citizen.

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HuffPOOPOO story: "An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday." -- Two points to cover here.. Obviously, the Christian's  5th Commandment is not in play in the Muslim world.. secondly.. how can the Democrats claims the Republicans have a "war on women" when it's the Democrats that support Islam and Planned Parenthood?

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Have you noticed that even liberal media is not tossing G.I. JILLary all "softball pitches" during interviews? I guess even mainscream media doesn't want another totally embarrassing liberal to follow NERO-bamageddon in the White House.

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Since she flubbed the answer on the differences between Democrats and Socialism, the next question G.I. JILLary needs to attempt to answer is" "What's the difference between the "baby" Chelsea is carrying, and the fetus other women carry?

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Senator Chris Murphy, CT-D, Hopes Obama's Moves On Guns Will Save Lives" -- Good grief.. the only "moves" NERO-bamageddon can make on saving lives would be to sweep the streets of America for street thugs, and impose better security measure to stop illegal aliens.

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Online story: "An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for a NATO training exercise in 2014 was mistakenly shipped to Cuba and has been there ever since.  * Though the missile does not contain any explosives, The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. officials are concerned that Cuban authorities may share the missile's sensors and targeting technology with countries like Russia, China and North Korea." -- Hmmm.. "mistakenly shipped to Cuba"? Wanna make a bet it wasn't part of the Kerry/NERO-bamageddon negotiations?

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From the "Talk about reporting "facts" in a totally biased manner" department.. There's a graph/map of the state in America that ranks states by how much of their revenue comes from the Feds.. It calls attention to the South as the higest ratio sector (though there are other states sparsely spread about the country.. The real story is that all states receive too much "fed money".. (that's money confiscated from individuals, and doled back to them after Washington takes a 20+% before turning it around) but it's the states that are designated receiving the highest amounts that are the real champions.. What it really shows is that the states ranked "highest" are the states that tax their citizens "less" and are run more efficiently.


http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2016/01/06/how-much-does-georgia-rely-upon-federal-aid.html#i1

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Libs....want to ban guns based on a few sick people abusing them, but don't want to ban Muslims because they feel there are only a few radicals. ..and they feel this makes sense.

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Online headline: "Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime and Gun Control * According to a study in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, which cites the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the United Nations International Study on Firearms Regulation, the more guns a nation has, the less criminal activity." -- "more guns... less criminal activity"?  Hmmm.. bet this Study group doesn't get invited to dinner at the White House...
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Online headline + story: "Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime and Gun Control * According to a study in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, which cites the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the United Nations International Study on Firearms Regulation, the more guns a nation has, the less criminal activity. *  Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted. 13 The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. So has this reduced crime? The murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be “the deadliest global city,” 14 After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years and there was an 89 percent decline in burglaries. *  According to Gun Owners of America, the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their own people during the 20th century. The vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their own governments." -- Hmmm... bet this story won't be run on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or NBC or in the NYT,  LA Times, Chicago Trib, the LA or  Seattle TIMES., and heaven forbid it makes the HuffPOOPOO stories of the day..
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Online headline: "Loretta Lynch Belonged to an Anti-semitic Pro-Terrorist Group at Harvard" -- Apparently, Lynch was vetted even less than ]Pric Holder or NERO-bamageddon.
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I know how to stop NERO-bamageddon's assault on our Constitution. When he puts his "pen and phone" down, the Republicans need to have a representative there to draw a "red line" around them...he won't cross a "red line".
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Online headline: "Georgia garnishment law may get overhaul, more protection for debtors" -- Good grief.. there's already not enough relief roads for small businesses and divorced mothers with children to collect from deadbeat debtors.. now what's going to happen?
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Online headline: "Atlanta is about to step up its bid for a Super Bowl. Georgia lawmakers are set to consider a measure this year that would waive the state sales tax on tickets for the Super Bowl – worth an estimated $10 million to $12 million – and possibly other pricey sporting events." -- Wait a minute.. so non-Atlanta cities and counties will not get any benefit from state sales taxes on Atlanta events? That's a little alarming as Atlanta will get all the hospitality revenues flowing through the city that a major event brings with them, and other areas in GA will not benefit whether Atlanta lands such or not..  

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The "go to" question: to ask G.I. JILLary at all press conferences/debates: Can we have you opinion of Title 18. Section 2071 of the US Codes of law.

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What kind of statement about women's equality does G.I. JILLary make when she needs ... begs ...SENDS...  Bill to campaign  for her?

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Online headline/story: "Joe Biden on 2016 decision: 'I regret it every day'  *  "We've got two good candidates," Biden said, praising Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for engaging in a "robust debate" devoid of personal attacks. He glossed over the third candidate running for the Democratic nomination, Martin O'Malley, whose campaign has struggled to gain traction." -- "glossed over.....O'Malley, whose campaign has struggled to gain traction"? -- As yogi woulda said if he hadn't died... "it ain't over til it's over"..O
Malley isn't the only Democrat not gaining "traction".. G.I. JILLary hasn't overwhelm the party base even though she's considered a shoe-in for the nomination.. The truth is that she is so vulnerable for the DNC to reconsider Biden that she's sent Slick Willie out to lead her campaign.. not the sign of a confident/competent candidate.. especially when she literally doesn't have a serious challenger..another aspect is that Biden could still qualify in Democrat primaries that have more than enough votes to carry the Convention vote... or take JILLary into a brokered decision which will lead to Biden being drafted.

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If nothing else, G.I. JILLary sending Slick Willie out to lead her campaign casts serious doubts as to who wears the pantsuits in her family.

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FRom the "on the other hand" department - Online story: "Melania Trump's husband, Donald Trump, might be making a big splash in politics as the frontrunner in the GOP presidential race, but the former model isn't as inclined to go public with her personal views. * "I'm choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband's job,  *  'I follow from A to Z," she continued. "But I chose not to be on the campaign. I made that choice. I have my own mind. I am my own person, and I think my husband likes that about me."" --  Now this is what a marriage is about..

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Online story: "- The U.S. Congress on Wednesday approved legislation dismantling President Barack Obama's signature health care plan, putting on his desk an election-year measure that faces a certain veto." -- Hmm... looks like more Republicans in the House and Senate are watching voter responses to Trump.. one thing for sure its that every Democrat has thoroughly read THIS bill...

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Online headline: "Macy's to cut 4,000 jobs after disappointing 2015  * The large department store announced a series of store closures and layoffs on Wednesday after a terrible holiday season led to a sharp drop in profits." -- Hmmm... didn't Macy's "dump Trump"  and his clothing/accessories lines early on? I made it a point not to shop there.. for that matter. I didn't even watch Macy's Parade this year.. Obviously,, a lot of others chose not to as well.

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Online story: "A transgender woman says she was detained by TSA workers at Orlando International Airport after the security scanner spotted an anatomical "anomaly." -- "anatomical anomaly"?  Good grief.. she-it coulda had a "soft pouch" of any kind of fluid concealed in she-it's panties!  What this story reveals is that TSA is taking too much interest in watching crotches...

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Hmmm.. there's a "law" that says government workers' personal e-mauls on their own servers are not covered for the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). I feel pretty certain that G.I. JILLary was aware of and influenced by that "law" when she set up her own server.. Fortunately, there's another law that says when personal email is used, to forward copies to a State Department account so that it can be captured. * Under current law and Department policy, employees who use personal email to conduct official business are required to forward or copy email from a personal account to their respective Department accounts within 20 Days.”  -- You know.. since the Democratic Party is seeing the chinks in JILLary's "armor", and Biden is "regretful".. don't look for 100% effort by the DNC to divert attention from this.

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Speaking of FOIA records, I asked the Columbus Police Department for a count  of the number of people who were non-fatally shot in Columbus during the commission of a crime, and I got a response that says the CPD doesn't have a record of that.. I want to know "how come"...Surely a gunshot wound victim is noted on all cases as the person shot is definitely a material witness if not a perpetrator.

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Online headline: "Clinton struggles to explain difference between socialist, Democrat" -- Wow.. and it was "tingling leg" Chris Matthews who asked her! The simple answer and truthful is "there is no difference".. but that is an area that G.I. JILLary has a problem with /answering a simple question truthfully

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/05/chris_matthews_stumps_hillary_clinton_on_difference_between_a_democrat_and_a_socialist_im_not_one.html

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Let's face it.. the Republican Party is getting a real boost with Trump in the race.. the establishment candidates are seeing first hand how out-of-touch they have become with real voters over the past 2+ decades, and voters are seeing someone speak for them.
 
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Christie says divisiveness within the Republican Party will "guarantee a Clinton win". Hmmm, well, Christie, stop contributing to the divisiveness!

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Let's face it... The only real fear from North Korea and nuclear weapons is them blowing their own country up and taking South Korea with them.
 
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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Ewwww, that smells. I nominate Donald Trump. He assured me he would reinstate twice a week garbage pickup." -- Good grief.. the real "smell" is the stench of another Mayor TomLYINGson "decision"..
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Incredibly stupid and ill-informed LIV's L-E "soundoff": "To Sound Off writers who constantly state that Republicans only look out for the rich, please explain why every “poor” state in the nation is solidly Republican and every “rich” state is solidly Democrat." -- Any truth to this matter is that Democrat states became Democrat state with the surge of entitlement seekers flooding such states voting rolls. The best measure of whether a Democrat state is prospering is in the Electoral College numbers.. All one has to do is look at reductions and growth in states' Congressional representatives distribution. .
 
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Incredibly confused LIV's L-E "soundoff": " There actually are rich, highly-developed countries in this world where elected officials really do listen to — and respond to — the demands of the people, rather than the wishes of the wealthy. Not the U.S.! " -- Hmmm... let's parse this a bit..  the writer did not mention a country by name...
 
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This must be the L-E's "gang up on working people day".. Another incredibly blind and stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": " The problem in the U.S. is that groups representing the wealthiest people can decisively influence the legislative process, so that public policy reflects the priorities of wealthy, and not the needs of the general population." -- Good grief.. it's not "the wealthy" that try to influence government.. it's the successful, and they just want to insure that they can continue to be successful in offering jobs for those who are either not capable or not interested in handling the rigors of running a successful business.
 
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L-E's " Thought for Today":  “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” — Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister (1898-1978). -- Hmmm definitely not a citing to be found in mainscream media classes or the Common CRAPO curriculum.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

From the "stories that didn't fit the L-E's agenda on what's newsworthy" department - Online headline/story: "1,000 migrants rape, steal, brawl at train station in Germany *  Gangs of Arabic and North African migrants celebrated New Year’s Eve with a slew of sexual assaults on German women. Police only arrested five men during the chaotic night, which included brawling men who also launched fireworks into crowds of revelers.  *  Colone’s Chief of police, Wolfgang Albers, confirmed 80 crimes perpetrated by migrants during New Year’s Eve festivities, 35 of which were sexual attacks, Der Express reported Sunday."  -- The L-E is not going to run anything that demonstrates why "Trump is right"!

While "religion" wasn'r "Mentioned", 83% of North Africans are Muslims..

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Online headline: "Obama: 'This is not a plot to take away everybody's guns' -- Hmmm... sorta heard something like this before... "if you want to keep your doctor......

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You have to wonder,, are the Secret Service guards in place to protect G.I. JILLary from the American public ... or the American public from her

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Online headline: "N. Korea claims it has successfully tested an H-bomb: -- Hmmm.. maybe there is a second life after one has been a Press Release agent for NERO-bamageddon.. wonder if Kim Jong Un  has hired Robert Gibbs or Jay Carney...

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Online headline: "NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll: Trump still leads the GOP field" -- God grief.. what does mainscream media expect.. Trump is still the only one that is speaking out about fixing things that are on voters minds... Cruz is learning , though.

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You  know.. if NERO-bamageddon had a new, more effective way to control criminals WITH guns without compromising/destroying the 2nd Amendment, Republican leaders would be in lock-step with him, and other Democrats couldn't stop it.

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Online headline: "Current El Niño ties 1997-1998 as strongest on record, says NOAA"  -- Scientists have stated that "El Nino" has peaked, and the temperature "surge" from "average was less than 2/10ths of 1 degree. As Shakespeare might say... "Much Ado about Nothing".

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It's b.a.a.c.c.c.k.k.k.k!!!!!.. The Mayor's Masked Ball..you know..politicizing a fund raiser for education is pretty much a misuse of political responsibility..and neutrality..

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As much as the Clintons love liberal voters, you have to wonder whether it was Slick Willie or G.I. JILLary that decided to "stop" after Chelsea...

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A few weeks back, there was an online petition to ban Donald Trump from England based on "hate" speeches. Figuring that any online petition could ... WOULD.. be hacked by non-English signers..I tried it and was easily successful.. I just gave the postal code for Parliament to confirm my "English" residence required for the petition. I am getting updates as to when it will be discussed in Parliament.. I guess this petition drive was orchestrated by former Democratic Party voter registration officials.

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Random thought.. why is mainscream media.. and the Republican Party against Donald Trump.. Trump brings something to the table that none of the other candidates from either party bring.. actual private sector/business SUCCESS! 

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What is it with Republicans and their Trumpiphobia? Republican voters fully embraced General Eisenhower in 1952. Voters also partially embraced baseball magnate G. W, Bush in 2000 & 2004 (though he had political roots as well), and Republican voters almost embraced Romeny in 2012 but his failure to stand up to the party hierarchy disappointed too many voters towards the end of the campaign. If Republicans really want to show liberals that they, too, can embrace "diversity", the RNC better start working with Trump.. and show voters that they, too, like "success"

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Online headline/story: "BRISTOL PALIN EX-FIANCE SAYS I'M THE DAD And I'm Layin' Claim to My Kid  * Bristol Palin's new baby daddy may no longer be a mystery ... her ex-fiance says he's the daddy, and he's gunning for some serious custody. * Dakota Meyer filed legal docs, obtained by TMZ, in which he claims he's the biological father of 3-week-old Sailor. * Dakota wants a judge to award him joint legal and physical custody.   * Bristol has never publicly revealed the identity of the father. She and Dakota broke up 3 months after conception. * Bristol's baby daddy wants one more thing ... child support." -- You'd think the "Medal of Honor" winner would be honorable in all aspects.. he should either "do the right thing" or turn his medal back in.

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Online headline: "Group of heroic WWII pilots are now banned from Arlington National Cemetery
 *  An elite unit of WWII pilots will no longer have the right to be the laid to rest at the sacred burial ground -- and the rule has outraged military families. " -- Guess NERO-bamageddon has attained what he wants in the way of "diversity".. He's made it miserable for Vets to get to get honorably treated, now he's making it a war on women to get honorably buried.

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Online story: "Area 51, Roswell, and the idea of aliens in general have captivated Americans for decades. In late December, Hillary Clinton told the Conway Daily Sun, a New Hampshire newspaper, she intended to get to the bottom of the matter." -- Good grief.. wish she'd "get to the bottom" of the Benghazi incident.. firts.. heck. the "Area 51" files will probably mysteriously show up on a table in the lobby of the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas...

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A concerned but naive  LIV's L-E "soundoff": "In our quest for a better world, let us teach children the sanctity of love, the worth of every human being, and respect for our differences." -- Like Al Sharlatan or "Black Lives Matter" would ever "quote" you on this....
 
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Incredibly stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "   I admire Hillary — I always felt the wrong Clinton was elected years ago. But she’s a crook and nothing can change that, even though she’s a smart crook." -- Ain't nothing smart about a liberal who is known to be a crook/liar. Being able to use tax dollars to buy votes doesn't make her smart nor popular with the majority of Americans. The majority just doesn't want to elect a Republican counterpart of G.I. JILLary..
 
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Ultimately bigoted LIV's L-E "soundoff": "The fact that Trump supporters hate “political correctness” above all things tells me that nothing matters to them more than the freedom to be openly bigoted without being stigmatized for it." -- Nothing is more bigoted, and no one is more bigoted than something or someone who will stop a conversation dead in its tracks by diverting the subject that could resolve differences via good open conversation.
 
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L-E probable "headLIE": '' U.S. AUTO SALES HIT AN ALL-TIME HIGH" -- Sales"?  Since when do "leases" become "sales"? "Sales" indicate a change of ownership.. What's happening now is a repeat of what brought GM and Chrysler to their knees the last time around.  The bubble is rising as cars off lease are at inflated "resell" values that will only move under a "new" lease on a used car.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

How is requiring background checks for transactions between private gun owners..even family members.. going to stop criminals from using guns illegally. Even NERO-bamageddon's ultimate gun control plans would not have stopped the San Berardino terrorist attack.
 
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Does anyone actually think Loretta Lynch had any input in NERO-bamageddon's "dog and pony show" meeting?
 
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You know, if NERO-bamageddon wants good advice about whether he can legally invoke Executive Orders, why is he conferring with sycophants who work directly for him? Why isn't he getting advice about the legalities from the US Supreme Court Chief Justice?
 
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Recap Chicago: Shot and Killed: Jan 1- Dec 31, 2015 - 442..(1.21 people per day.)
                        Shot and Killed: Jan 1- Jan 4, 2016    - 5     (1.25  people per day) 
 
                         Info "link":    http://heyjackass.com/
 
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Online story: "An elderly man shot and killed a would-be burglar inside his Oak Cliff, TX home. * Police say the homeowner saw Deyfon Pipkins, 33, trying to climb into the window and fired his weapon at least once at the intruder. * The homeowner is legally protected by the Castle Doctrine, which allows a person to defend his or her home against an intruder.  * After police notified relatives of Pipkins’ death, some showed up at the house. They were upset, and questioned the homeowner’s actions. * “He could have used a warning,” Lakesha Thompson, Pipkins’ sister-in-law, said. “He could have let him know that he did have a gun on his property and he would use it in self-defense.” --  "He could have let him know that he did have a gun on his property"?  Good grief... it was in Texas! Who doesn't have a gun in Texas! What his sister-in-law should have asked was why he wasn't home taking care of her sister and family.
 
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So Slick Willie is back on the campaign circuit... wonder if G.I.JILLary has conceded she's not as capable as.she once thought, or whether Slick Willie told her to step aside as it's a man's job?
 
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Thinking about that miraculous outcome in the TCU-Oregon game..you have got to have wanted to be a "fly-on-the-wall" wherever the displaced starting QB was watching the game. I can see the smug smirk on his face in the first half turning to horror as the team regrouped under the leadership of his replacement to stage the greatest comeback in bowl history.
 
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Trump has announced he'll be spending $2 MILLION dollars a week on advertising.. hmmm.. bet ad managers of liberal mainscream media sources (yeah..yeah.. I know..it's redundant... on purpose) will be telling the news announcers to ease up a bit so they can get a share of the revenue.
 
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 Online headline: "Train of huge El Niño storms set to drench California  * Forecasters said as much as 15 inches of rain could fall in the next 16 days, bringing much needed precipitation to the drought-stricken state.
 * Residents urged to take precautions" -- "residents urged to take precaution"? Yeah.. either sell and move by tomorrow, or "nail" your home into the bedrock.
 
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Online headline: "Lake Superior University unveils list of banned words for 2016 *  A U.S. university revealed its list of words and phrases it says should be banished in the new year" -- Hmmmm.. and next year, I'm predicting that Lake Superior U will start banning  books once their students learn how to read.
 
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Online story: "Putin said that the only reason the US had any interest in relations with Moscow was that Russia was the only country that could "destroy America in half an hour or less." -- "in a half hour or less"?  You know,, Putin's probabl right.. he could start by drawing a red line to encircle NERO-bamageddon, and NERO-bamageddon would never cross it.
 
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Online story: "ATLANTA - A first-of-its-kind private school in Georgia aimed at attracting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and teachers is being established in Atlanta for students who feel bullied or not accepted in traditional schools.  *  Pride School Atlanta is a k-12 institution designed to be an alternative for LGBT students, though the school is open to any student who believes they're not getting the support they need for "being different," says Pride School founder Christian Zsilavetz.  * "Kids have full permission to be themselves — as well as educators. Where there's no wondering, 'Is this teacher going to be a person for me to be myself with?'" said Zsilavetz, who is transgender and a veteran teacher with nearly 25 years of experience. "This is a place where they (students) can just open up and be the best person they can be." -- Good grief! How more wrong can this be? How many rights of children are being  eliminated from their lives? This is like assembling all the evils of perversion in one barrel, and dumping their prey into it.... Children, as young as 5, will be at the mercy of teachers and older students alike, and have no choice in the matter..  Of course there is one hurdle such a school will never be able to jump over,, that's the court system that prohibits child abusers/predators/molesters from being within a 1000 or so feet of a school. Good grief.. an you imagine the "sex ed" curriculum? Makes me shudder!
 
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A "gets it.... but not quite" L-E "soundoff": "   Unity is something that cannot be legislated; nor can it be institutionalized. Unity requires understanding. Understanding requires dialogue. Dialogue requires communication. But these days we think communication is something you tweet." -- One aspect is not mentioned.. "political correctness" is the root of disunity.. and the "soundoffer" was too "politically correct" to say so.
 
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L-E headline/story: "Time for tax-free tampons? California lawmaker thinks so *  Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, says, “We’re being taxed for being women.” -- Hmmm... wonder how she feels about the "indoor tanning salon" tax? It's just as one-sided..
 
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L-E story: "NEW YORK — As bitter winter weather arrived in the Northeast, New York’s governor issued an executive order requiring the homeless to be forcibly removed from the streets in freezing temperatures, an unprecedented government intervention that faced immediate legal questions and backlash." -- Good grief! Democrat voters BEWARE! Liberals' will try to enforce their "good intentions" regardless of your rights!... in everything!
 
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Online headline: "'Hillary Clinton wants Georgia to expand autism insurance" -- Hmm.. you know.. a nice donation  would be a great way for her to get her Foundations participating in something other than narcissism. 

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The "go to" question: to ask G.I. JILLary at all press conferences/debates: Can we have you opinion of Title 18. Section 2071 of the US Codes of law.

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What kind of statement about women's equality does G.I. JILLary make when she needs ... begs ...SENDS...  Bill to campaign  for her?

Monday, January 4, 2016

That TCU comeback victory against Oregon will go down as "the game of games"...think about it.. Bram Kohlhausen, a 5th.year senior QB who had never started a college game carried his team to a 31 point second half rally and a triple overtime victory over one of the previous year's BCS finalists. He has thrust himself out of obscurity and into TCU history. And don't discount the beliefs of Texas Christian University Coach Gary Patterson.  He stuck to his guns and benched his start QB in hopes his team would learn form it, and turned it all over to God. God is good.. all the time!

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Online headline/story: "Militia members take over wildlife refuge building in Oregon *  A militia group is taking a stand in Burns, Oregon after the prison sentencing of two Oregon ranchers. * Some militia members broke in and camped out in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Building, after a peaceful protest nearby. The building was unoccupied by employees due to holiday break.  *  Father and son Dwight Hammond, Jr. and Steven Hammond who also were at the initial protest, burned 176 acres of leased governmental land for cattle in what they claimed was to cut back on invasive plants. *  Previously, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan, who is now retired, found that a five-year term would violate the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment because it’s “grossly disproportionate to the severity of the offenses here.  * Federal prosecutors challenged those sentences, and the 9th Circuit agreed that judges don’t have the “discretion to disregard” such requirements.”. *  At the Oct. 7 re-sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken said the ranchers cannot disregard the law in regard to setting fires on BLM property. * “The rules are there for a reason,” she said." -- "the rules are there for a reason"? How the hell does this kind of "reasoning" pass muster under the NERO-bamageddon administration? Throw in NERO-bamageddon's penchant for releasing drug felons because he feels the sentences were "tough", and it looks like there is about to be civil war in America again.

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Just got back from the gulf coast.. it's interesting what you find out when you leave Columbus.. especially when it comes to gas prices. $1.99 gas, which is generally 30-cents higher than Columbus,  was plentiful in the Panhandle.. even at the stations at  the 331/I-10 intersection, And on 431/231 South.. still in Russell County.. gas was available for $1.679. ... $1.679!.

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Online headline/story: "White House: more time needed for new Iran missile sanctions *  The administration had additional diplomatic and technical work to complete before announcing any new sanctions related to the missile program, but the delay was not a result of pressure from Tehran," -- " but the delay was not a result of pressure from Tehran"? Good grief.. we've actually heard a "truth" from NERO-bamageddon!  There was no pressure from Iran.. there was just total lack of respect from Iran!

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Online headline: "Jackson, Miss. councilman suggests throwing 'rocks, bricks and bottles' at police" -- Hmmm.. maybe a "Trump" fence around the Councilman's district is the answer.. no police officers will go in, and no civilians/visitors will be allowed out.

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Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley failed to qualify for Ohio's primary ballot after falling short of the signatures needed to appear before the state's voters, a spokesman for the state's elections chief said Thursday.  * O'Malley needed 1,000 valid signatures to appear on the March 15 primary ballot. The former Maryland governor's campaign submitted 1,175 signatures, but only 772 were deemed valid, said Josh Eck, a spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted." -- "submitted 1.175 signatures , but only 772 were deemed valid"? Hmmm.. maybe we should check all Democrat voters in all 50 states following the general elections.. start with a death certificate match...

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Online headline: "SF police find spiked baseball bats" -- Ooops, my bad.. thought  maybe the police discovered Barry Bonds cache of "loaded" bats.

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Online story: "For 2016, California is tightening gun laws. Concealed carry permit holders can no longer carry guns on school campuses." --  Hmmm.. well, if armed nutcases weren't sure before, now they will know that they won't be walking unknowingly into a school where anyone has a gun to shoot back at them. Unfortunately, students and teachers won't have that assurance as armed nutcases are going to disobey the law anyway..

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Online headline: "Russia reportedly sees US as national security threat" -- Good grief.. NERO-bamageddon must be putting out this rumor trying to save face as everyone knows Puton thinks NERO-bamageddon's a joke.

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "The Nation That Executed 47 People In 1 Day Sits On The U.N. Human Rights Council" -- Hmmm.. maybe the HufPOOPOO ought to be supporting Trump so Muslims will be kept out of the US...

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HuffPOOPOO "headLIE": "What's Washington Going to Do in Response to Saudi's Execution of Sheikh Nimr?" --  Hmmm... the real question is : "What golf course will NERO-bamageddon "be headed" off to now?

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Puerto Rico Is In Serious Trouble. Here's What You Need To Know." -- Hmmm.... It's Trump's Fault?

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What kind of statement about women's equality does G.I. JILLary make when she needs ... begs ...SENDS...  Bill to campaign  for her?

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L-E headline/story: "2016 WILL BE A BUSY, POSSIBLY ODD ELECTION YEAR IN COLUMBUS  *  Columbus will hold local elections during state party primaries on May 24, when a lot of local offices will be up for grabs." -- This is an absolute scam.. There is no reason that Council and School Board elections should not be held on the General Election date in November. In fact, it would BENEFIT Columbus to have our local elections, including any and all SPLOST/LOST referendums, on the November ballot so more people will have a voice in the outcome and direction of our future..

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In an interview with Cedric Hill, new Chair of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the interviewer asked him:

"According to the September 2015 Regional Prosperity Report, Columbus has not been growing as rapidly as some of the other cities in the Southeast and there’s been a lot of difficulty attracting businesses. What do you see the chamber doing in the near future to address that problem?
  
Hill responded: "The economic development department of the chamber is a new and growing department that we kind of want to put a lot of interest in going forward. ... In order to attract businesses to the community, you’ve got to go to them and figure out what it is that they want. And then Columbus has got to figure out, in itself, what is it that we want to become as industry itself? What’s going to be our target audience?... Do we want to be arts? Or do we want to be music? Or do we want to be riverfront development ... You’ve got, from an economic perspective, departments through here and the city itself that are looking at industry to attract here. But we’ve got some homework to do also. Because when you’re looking to have people come in the community, education is one of those things that they look at, your school system, quality of life, your crime rate, various different things in that respect." -- "when you’re looking to have people come in the community, education is one of those things that they look at, your school system, quality of life, your crime rate"?  "homework to do"?  We need some all-nighters of cramming! Hill did nail it in an earlier response to another question when he sad: " My generation.... has got to institute in our children, “Learn, go to school, take continuing education. Look at other places that you can begin to go to educate yourself, because the things that are being looked at as industry moves into Columbus," Perhaps Mr Hill will step up and seek a seat on the MCSD board as his next venture.. it's obvious he has a better grip than most of the current members.

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Looks like the Harris County Commission and the Phenix City Council are ready to hit the ground running in 2016.. their agenda for their next meeting appeared in the L-E on Sunday.. Of course, Mayor TomLYINGson's Columbus Council agenda appeared as well, but all she wants to do is issue proclamations and resolutions..

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L-E guest opinion headline/content: "Winning strategy  * We know how to succeed in a war on drugs, because we’ve been doing it over the last 50-plus years"  *  Rather than using the FBI to bust up fancy tunnel networks, we should legalize marijuana and decriminalize other drugs, and then tax and sue drug producers to generate revenue to support public health campaigns against their products, agencies to regulate them and treatment for those who suffer from addiction. *   Danielle Allen, a political theorist at Harvard University, is a contributing columnist for the Washington Post." -- Good grief.. when will parents learn what sending their children to Harvard will lead to? Harvard political theorists won't be satisfied until the 10 Commandments are removed from society,, not just from public properties. Over taxing cigarettes/tobacco has certainly put a dent in use (some because other addictive products are relatively more affordable) of tobacco, but.. BUT it has also led to black market street sales of untaxed cigarettes and such. What Ms. Allen leaves out of her equation...intentionally as it makes her "plan" look like a sieve.. is that when you start taxing at the source, the source owners just raise the prices and "customers" have to pay the higher rates or stop using it.. unfortunately, those who "can't stop" will become violent and determined to acquire the product (or money to buy "the product") and society suffers even more.. what do you think will happen when you put opiates on the non-prescription drug lists and tax the manufactures much higher?

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L-E guest op-ed piece headline/content: "Know who’s on your airplane? * Froma Harrop  * To me, the main difference between a secure driver’s license and an insecure one is that the insecure one can be used for committing crimes, among them identity theft and fraud. But to many foes of Real ID, secure ones’ threat to privacy is a more serious matter."  - Hmmm .. Ms Lib forgot another aspect.. a secure driver's license could be used to certify one's ability to cast a vote, and since it's a national standard, there should be no opposition.. Guess we'll see Ms Lib's retraction in her next piece.

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Another L-E guest opinion headline: "The Donald just isn’t in Slick Willy’s league * Mary Sanchez * Kansas City Star" -- Hmmm, while no one is in Slick Willie's league when it comes to womanizing, what kind of statement about women's equality does G.I. JILLary make when she needs ... begs ...SENDS... Bill to campaign for her?

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How about them SEC teams! 8 bowl victories out of 10 played! Would it be unreasonable to change the SEC bylaws so that teams that don't get invited to a bowl game not share in the "wealth distribution" for the schools that did participate? While an exception may be granted to Vandy since Vandy still holds academic excellence dearly, KY. SC, and Mizzou don't have any excuses...

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Was watching the last seconds of the replay of the GA VS PENN STATE bowl game and the SEC station immediately switched to the Mississippi State vs FLA women's basketball game. FLA was in its home team white uniforms, and State...my State was in black..BLACK? That's not one if our colors..I do not want to see teams in uniforms that aren't their school's traditional colors!

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On a different note: "Interesting "link" .. especially if you're looking for the Columbus "FOP" website.  Got this link from the Columbus Police Department site.

http://fop9.net/ 

Tell me what you make of it

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Good grief..G.I. JILLary just claimed the National Debt quadrupled under Republican presidents..the truth is that the National Debt has had largest increase, over $8 TRILLION just since NERI-bamageddon took office. Who wants more establishment politicians, especially Democratic Party ones, making spending policies?

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Online headline: "BREAKING: Prince Charles Makes Devastating Statement About Islam… Muslims Are Outraged" -- Good grief.. who knew the England's Crown Prince had a set, and the US President didn't?

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Soapbox moment: "Once again our local elections for City and School Board seats will be held during the political party primaries on May 24th. This is an absolute scam. There is absolutely no reason that Council and School Board elections should not be held on the General Election date in November. In fact, it would BENEFIT Columbus to have our local elections, including any and all SPLOST/LOST referendums, on the November ballot so more people will have a voice in the outcome and direction of our future..

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L-E guest opinion headline: "Chicago Tribune: Belated cure for 'affluenza' -- While the "affluenza" case was judicial BS... why is the Chicago Trib worried about it? Good grief.. why isn't the Chicagoi Trib so involved in getting it's own "plague of deaths" under control to even have time to look at other city's/state's issues?

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HuffPOOPOO story: "The United States and its allies conducted 26 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Sunday. * In Syria, one strike struck near Manbij, hitting an Islamic State tactical unit and destroying four Islamic State buildings and a vehicle," -- I know the HuffPOOPOO was trying to boost NERO-bamageddon's "image", but what it did was probably get a couple of US officers fired..

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From the "let's see if we can report a story in a way that Sen Feinstein will propose a new gun law" department - Online story: "A 48-year-old man from North Granby, Conn., has been arrested and is facing multiple charges, including disorderly conduct, trespassing, possession of an electric stun gun and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon after police received reports of a suspicious man in the hours before the opening faceoff at the 2016 Winter Classic." - Fortunately, there was a oicture of the weapons at the bottom of the story.. it showed a hand-held stunner (as opposed to a stun GUN), two swords, a cross bow, a slingshot, a meat cleaver and a couple of other weird machete looking weapons. I can only guess that the culprit will eventually be revealed a member of a terrorist group like the one NERO-bamageddon refuses to label.
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L-E story: " A sinkhole along Victory Drive is causing a major disruption in traffic flow on one of Columbus’ busiest roadways. * Columbus Police Maj. J.D. Hawk said Sunday that the hole, caused by the failure of a 24-inch sewer pipe, has forced the closure of a section of Victory Drive near 25th Avenue, not far from the Georgia National Guard Armory." -- Wait a minute.. the Columbus Water Works threatened us with mucher higher rates if we didn't approve a bond issue they needed to FIX all the Combined Sewer Overflow problems, and we did approve such.. Now we still have the CSO problems and our water/sewage rates have gotten absurd!
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You know.. why is it that Mayor TomLYINGson has no problems with raising our rates to pay for Public Safety, garbage, water, parking fines and court costs, but she doesn't feel users of the Aquatic Center, the bike trails, the ice rinks, Golden Park and other pet projects of hers need to pay thier fair share?
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L-E headline/story: "Retired educator wants to rescue Bibb City Elementary *  ibb Elementary closed its doors in 2001, but it’s still the property of the school district. *  It was built in 1915 by the Bibb Manufacturing Co" -- There are a few important things to point out here before any further discussion,,at least the history of the Bibb School is real, as opposed to the claims about Claflin, but it also highlights the inadequateness of the MCSD/MCSB to oversee the assets that the tax payers deserve. A private company built it in 1915. It served it's purpose well, even when turned over to the MCSD, until the 21st Century when the MCSD abandoned it and allowed it to fall into shambles (disrepair is nowhere adequate to describe it). Compare that to schools that the MCSD has built that fall apart in single lifetimes,, the New Spencer is a great example, but to "save" it is worse folly than Claflin.  It Mike Owen "thinks" it is worth saving, let Mike Edmundon, Mike Owen, and Sandi Lee donate some substantial moneys of their own. As for a reuse of the "building" (though ruins is a better word) as a senior/community center, didn't "we" just pay millions to rebuild Comer Auditorium/Gym in BIBB CITY!
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Incredibly stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Unemployment down, market up, gas below $2, ISIS losing territory. Thanks, President Obama. Somebody tell Fox News." -- Hmm.. Those are things that even MERO-bamageddon is in the picture.. Where he does influence things is the tripled food stamp program, the highest non-job-seeking percentage in history, the reduction in forces and capabilities of our military, taxing out local law enforcement community by releasing drug felons back into our communities earlier than what's fair, escalating the costs of basic healthcare, and continuing the dumbing down of our education system..
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From the L-E's "Today in History" feature: "   In 1974, President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee." -- Good grief.. and G.I. JILLary just emulated Nixon.. digest that, mainscream media!  What's ironic is JILLary was on the investigative team prosecuting Nixon, and was fired for lying about her findings. You know, that ought to be entered into evidence during her Benghazi and E-mail investigations.
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L-E headline: "Powerball jackpot expected to grow to $400 million" -- I guess since the founder was arrested for cheating, the odds are still to great for a person picking the winning combination on he=is/her own.
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L-E headline: "Illinois considers allowing recall attempts of Chicago mayor" -- Heh heh heh.. but why doesn't Chicago do us ALL a favorm and call for of a recal of it's "favorite son", NERO-bamageddon.. first!
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As you know, 2016 is a presidential election year, and like all US presidential election years, it's also a Leap Year. It's almost caustic that we have to have an extra day when we cannnot wait until a sitting president serves his last year in office.
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L-E headline/story: "LIFE IN PRISON * A look at becoming an inmate in Georgia  * The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, the state’s biggest, houses about 2,100 male inmates on a wooded, 900-acre campus about 50 miles south of Atlanta. A warden and three deputy wardens oversee more than 600 employees." -- "900-acre campus"?  Good grief.. this sounds like an orientation presentation for a promising career path!

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Online "headLIE"/story: "Obama readies plans to sidestep Congress on guns  * President Barack Obama, frustrated by Congress' inaction on gun control, will meet with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss ways of reducing gun violence unilaterally through measures that do not require congressional approval.  * Obama, in his weekly recorded address, said on Friday he has received "too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing."" --  "too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing"? For a former associate Constitutional law professor, NERO-bamageddon doesn't seem to know that even Congress has to obey the US Constitution, but this "letters" comment.. he doesn't have a 143,000,000 of them which would be the number of votes he'd need to get the 2nd Amendment repealed.

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You know.. NERO-bamageddon says he is "frustrated by Congress"... he's not only a liar, but dead wrong! Those Congressperson are there at the insistence of the American voters.. if NERO-bamageddon had wanted to get "things done", he had a 2-year-window of a majority of Democrats in both Houses to do that, but even most Democrats knew it was a "term limitation" to support him.

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Online headline: "Defiant Iran pledges to ramp up missile program, in challenge for Obama" -- "in challenge for Obama"? Good grief.. it's a direct slap in NERO-bamageddon's face! It's a challenge only if someone or some country has fear of being "called on it" and having to suffer the consequences of one's actions!

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You know.. in the past, networks have pretty much tried to conceal the empty seats at bowl games, but not this year.. I guess the TV money has become so great for colleges and ad revenues for the networks is overflowing for anyone to "care"  what the TV audience sees. My guess is between the "way to many bowls" scheduled, and with the playoff system making even former major bowls insignificant as to the final rankings, the economy just has people not willing to spend money on meaningless frivolity.

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 Yesterday, news laws went into effect around the country.. two of the stupidest ones are in Illinois.. NERO-bamageddon's home.. (well at least when he got elected).. "Illinois is giving financial incentives to pharmacies that dispense painkillers in bottles with combination locks. They're aimed at preventing drug abuse and drug-related deaths. Also in Illinois, you'd better keep those pets out of the car. During extreme cold or heat, leaving a pet in your vehicle could get you a year in jail or a $2,500 fine." -- Good grief.. the only thing "combination locks" on painkillers will do is keep people with arthritis  from accessing their medicine when they really need it.. I imagine most people who need painkiller medicines will just transfer the pills to an easy access container..but even stupider is the law about leaving all pets in allcars.. what's going to happen when a homeless person/family living in their car has to park in front of a convenience store to run in to go to the bathroom?

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Online headline: "Jeb Bush releases viral, sarcastic ad aimed at Trump" -- Good grief.. another qualifying "stupid Jeb tricks" that might have gotten him on Letterman's Show in years passed... Think about it.. why run ads that aren'r aimed at telling voters why you are a better choice than everyone else?

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Online story: "TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin has been suspended for Saturday’s Alamo Bowl after he was arrested following a bar fight early Thursday morning, head coach Gary Patterson announced. *  Around 2 a.m., Boykin reportedly attempted to start a physical altercation with patrons of the bar after they recognized him and began heckling him. He took a swing at one of the patrons, but missed and hit an employee, which led to he and his friends being thrown out of the bar.  * When San Antonio police arrived to break up the fight, Boykin was being held back by his friends when he swung at an officer, police said, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.  * Boykin became so belligerent, police had to hold him down on the ground as he continued to struggle. Police threatened to use a stun gun on him before he ultimately calmed down.  * San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the officer Boykin struck was not severely injured but was treated for bruises and abrasions after Boykin hit him in the face" -- You know.. Boykin is a victim of :Black Lives Matter"..unfortunately, there's no support group for "Stupidity Matters", and swinging at a police officer is "stupidity" that "matters".

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Hmmm.. you know, if the owners of American Pharoah had pulled a "Jenner", American Pharoah could have won the won "Woman of the Year", too.

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HuffPOOPOO story: "More U.S. military personnel have been sent to Iraq and Syria. Trainers, Special Forces, and airstrikes haven't been enough. The administration continues its slow progression to renewed ground combat. President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize grows more tarnished by the day" -- Good grief.. NERO-bamabgeddon's "Nobel" was tarnished the day it was given him...

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Donald Trump Featured In Jihadist Terror Recruitment Video" -- Hmmm.. wonder how much the Clinton Foundation paid to have this made?

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "It's No Surprise That Turkey's Erdogan Likes Adolf Hitler's Government" -- Hmmm.. Sharia law on steroids...

 
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Caveat for shoppers in Watercolor Resort area of 30A in Florida. While in Seaside shopping, one of my daughters heard tale that a store in the Watercolor resort community a couple of miles away might have a certain jacket she'd been searching for. Being the "wrapped around my daughters' fingers kind of dad", I loaded her and her 3 year-old niece (my granddaughter into my SUV and went looking for that store. My daughter spotted the sign for "Old Florida Outfitters" and I dropped her off while I went searching for a parking spot. Found one, and texted her where my granddaughter and I were parked so she could find us when she came out. Of course, about the time I sent the text, my precious granddaughter announced, "I've got to go potty... really bad."  Being a former merchant, I knew the store my daughter was in would have a bathroom facilit, so I took Sophia inside, My daughter had found her prize and made her purchase, so I said I would hold her bag while she took Sophia to the bathroom. Daughter returned moments later saying the owner said hey didn't have a public bathroom. Since when does a store's bathroom facility policy overturn a 3-year-olds need to "go potty.. really bad" plea?  Saw the owner as we left, and he said he hoped we'd come back soon.. I told him.. "not a chance...who refuses to let a 3-year-old needing to go potty real bad use the facility?" Needless to say, my daughter was "embarrassed' that I spoke, but I told her the only reason 3-year-old Sophia was denied the facility was because the owner was not a good person, and doesn't warrant any future business from us .. anybody else for that matter as far as I'm concerned.
 
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After leaving Old  Florida Outfitters, I took my daughter and my granddaughter next door to a wine restaurant/sports bar, so my daughter could take her niece "to go potty". Sophia was desperate (was doing the "potty dance") after being denied from doing so at Old Florida Outfitters. I waited in the bar area where two TVs were playing bowl games. I really didn't know Northwestern was playing...  Combination wine drinking and football watchers conversations are just different at a wine bar.
 
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L-E op-ed opinion: "You don't venture far into the world of adoption before you hear the word "triad." Picture a triangle with the adoptee at one corner, adoptive parents at another and the biological, or birth, mother at the third. But, wait - someone's missing ... *  The birth father.  *  Too often, the birth father dangles from the birth mother's corner. Sometimes he doesn't even know she's pregnant." -- "Too often, the birth father dangles from the birth mother's corner. Sometimes he doesn't even know she's pregnant."? Well, he should have called her back! Or either done right by her and the baby, or... OR said "NO" to having unprotected sex to begin with! "baby daddies" have 9 months to do the right thing; make their pleas... if they don't, then they do not need any "custody rights". Give the baby a chance in life!
 
 
Sadly, the L-E's Front Page story today is celebrating the birth of a beautiful baby girl, the first of 2016 in the Columbus area.... with her unwed mother, and there's not even a mention of the "baby daddy".. How can the L-E run both of these elements in the same paper?  No. why does the L-E support both elements?
 
 

 

Friday, January 1, 2016

Happy New Year... let's just make it a good one.. especially in November!

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Paris joined Brussels on cutting out its NYE celebration. Instead, I guess, Paris raised its traditional "white flag" at midnight.

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L-E story: "Billionaire George Soros, a major donor to liberal causes, confided to a former Clinton aide that he made the wrong choice in supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries over Clinton. * Soros told Neera Tanden during a dinner sponsored by Democracy Alliance, a liberal group, that he "regretted his decision in the primary — he likes to admit mistakes when he makes them and that was one of them," --  Hmmm.. so Soros admits NERO-bamageddon was a mistake... and now he's wishing  to make amends to G.I. JILLary... hmmm what I read into this is Soros actually thinks JILLary was/is a bigger mistake than NERO-bamageddon in 2008, but doesn't have any other  choice for 2016.

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Online headline: "Stocks Sputter: Close Out Worst Year Since 2008" -- It's amazing what you learn when you get your news from somewhere other than the mainscream media...or NERO-bamageddon.

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Online story: " An inmate mistakenly released from a Washington state prison three months early has been charged with killing a teenager when the inmate should have been locked up, officials said Thursday" -- Good grief.. the "crime" wasn't releasing him by error 3 months earlt.. the "crime" was obviously a too short sentence to begin with! The (_*_)  had been convicted of robbery, burglary and assault, which pretty much implies a weapon was used, so since the (_*_) wasn't rehabbed with only 3 months "to go", then the original sentence was totally inadequate. Oh, by the way, the (_*_) was black and he killed a 17 year-old Latino kid... where was "No Other Lives Matter"?

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Online headline: "Jeb Bush blames Obama for rise of Trump" -- Good grief.. the rise of Trump has been caused by the Republican trend away from Republican voters'  views.

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Alabama manhandled Michigan State.. manhandled! Alabama didn't skunk any SEC teams all year.. Michigan State probably couldn't have won the SEC East this past year. At least the Chan]mpionship game will feature the Best of the South...

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Turkey's President Calls Hitler's Germany Example Of Effective Government" -- Hmmm.. sort like Sharia Law on steroids...

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HuffPOOPOO headline/story: "Saudi Arabia Ends A Brutal Year Of Executions By Beheading A Filipino National  *  The country hasn't carried out this many annual executions in twenty years.  *  The country hasn't carried out this many annual executions in twenty years. *  More than 70 people executed this year have been foreign nationals like Zapanta," -- Hmmm... looks like the Muslims know how to handle immigration issues.... Happy SLEW Year!, and why Saudi Arabia hasn't jump into the ISIS fray...and why Syrian refugees aren't flocking to Saudi Arabia..

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L-E story: "The Nov. 8 Georgia ballot will include a statewide referendum on Gov. Nathan Deal's proposed "Opportunity School District" law that would let the state take over 20 chronically failing schools each year and control as many as 100 schools at a time. * Based on scoring less than 60 out of 100 points on the College and Career Readiness Performance Index the past three years, Muscogee County had 10 of the 141 Georgia public schools on the failing list when Deal proposed the law. They were Baker Middle School and nine elementary schools -- Davis, Dawson, Forrest Road, Fox, Georgetown, Lonnie Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Rigdon Road and South Columbus." -- I knew and loved Lonnie Jackson....Lonnie Jackson's family should file a suit against the MCSD to have his name removed from the previously named Eastway Elementary School building.. For years. Lonnie Jackson spent his own time and money creating a year round weekend tutoring program and a 4-week "summer camp" for at risk students to get help to get ahead, and now the MCSD has basically besmirched his good name and efforts.
 
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L-E story: "Meanwhile, Columbus faces a tough budget year as council since the Great Recession has relied heavily on the city's reserve funds to balance the city budget. Since 2008, council has carved the fund balance from 135 days during which the city could operate without additional cash flow to just under 60 days currently. After those 60 days, the city's bond rating could suffer as the reserve runs out. When budget season hits for fiscal year 2017, council will have no wiggle room left.  * One budget challenge council will face is operating the city's aquatic center at full capacity. Council the past two years has budgeted about $825,000 to operate it, but has learned more than $1.2 million a year is needed to keep the facility running the 89 hours a week it has been." --  Good grief.. how does the L-E report on a spending crisis and not point a finger at the spendthrift.. Mayor TomLYINGson!  Her incessant projects.. like the Aquacenter, the non-taxable Whitewater course, the Dog Run, the bicycle trails, and the Queen TT Lounge which are all revenue negative  are albatrosses on the taxpayers of Columbus now, and will be forever.
 
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L-E story: "Local business leaders anticipate much-awaited prognostication when the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business Economic Outlook Luncheon comes to Columbus Jan. 29, one of 10 stops on the annual caravan.  * The forecasts typically have been on target for this area." == "typically have been on target"? I don't remember any forecasts that included spending money from the "fund balance" to make up for improper planning... and if the "forecast" is accurate, it will mention emphatically that the soldier reduction, and the continued selling of taxable properties to CSU will reduce revenues even more.