HuffPOOPOO headline: "Pope Francis 'ashamed' the word 'mother' was tied to MOAB" -- I think I missed the HuffPOOPOO headline that Poop Francis was embarrassed at hearing most rappers use of "mother..."

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Oh, while we're thinking about it.. don't think for a moment that local legislators and lobbyists aren't hard at work trying to get a casino law passed next legislative session that would put Columbus, GA in the running for a casino here. Ironically, the same man who chairs the oft ridiculed "Office of Crime Prevention" heads the group that wants to build the casino.

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You know, the Democrats assault on the new healthcare bill focuses on what they call "millions" who get, in their opinion, negatively affected. Besides pure BS, as our country as always taken care that indigents still get basic healthcare regardless of their ability to pay, let's remember, 100s of millions of Americans are going to benefit!

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Last week, I wrote about the infinite plausibility of GA's "automatic opt in" voter registration during renewals causing increased voter fraud conditions. A couple of know-littles poopooed the thought..yesterday, I got a "FB Friend Request"...from a person not only known to me in the past, but known to me to be dead. Wonder if the know-littles feel this can't happen either.

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Online story: " Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed into law on Sunday a measure to punish "sanctuary cities," despite a plea from police chiefs of the state's biggest cities to halt the bill they said would hinder their ability to fight crime. *  Democrats have warned the measure could lead to unconstitutional racial profiling and civil rights groups have promised to fight the Texas measure in court." --  "Democrats have warned... could lead to unconstitutional racial profiling "?  Excuse me, but Democrats ARE, not could.. exercising "unconstitutional racial profiling" by ASSUMING all crimes are/will be committed by Latinos.

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Online story: "Macy's is morphing into a discount store. * The department-store chain is testing self-service systems in its shoe departments and at its beauty counters, meaning customers would serve themselves instead of finding a salesperson to retrieve shoes or make eyeliner recommendations." -- Good grief.. "is morphing"? isn't  having too few employees per store what caused the previous closings of so many of their units.. I recall reporting how a major Macy's in California of 475,000 square feet had only 105 employees at the time..That meant that even if all 105 employees worked 9-to-9, 7 days a week, took no lunches, coffee or potty breaks, customers would get on 1 employee per 4,500+ square feet to ask help/ring up sales.

I guess the next sequel/remake to "A Miracle on 34th Street" will have to be shot at "Gimbels" because Macy's shut down Santa's Workshop".

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Online story: "FCC chairman Ajit Pai said that his agency will be looking into complaints made against Stephen Colbert for what some labeled a homophobic joke about President Donald Trump. * "I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get complaints — and we've gotten a number of them — we are going to take the facts that we find and we are going to apply the law as it's been set out by the Supreme Court and other courts and we'll take the appropriate action," Pai told Philadelphia's Talk Radio 1210 WPHT." -- "I have had a chance to see the clip now "? Good grief.. and Pai hasn't ALREADY shut down CBS? You know, this isn't about a guest exploding unscripted, or about a host reacting to someone who hits him with a "suckerpunch" from behind, this was about the man controlling the microphone INTENTIONALLY acting in an unacceptable manner.. It's not even about whether the target was Trump.. or any sitting/past president, it is about common decency that liberals believe they are exempt from being responsible for.

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Online headline: "Puerto Rico files for biggest ever US local government bankruptcy" -- As "Queen" might respond: "dant dant dant dant, another Democratic Party government bites the dust"

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From the "extra creepy" department - Online stroy: "Two baby lion cubs were presented to the public at a zoo in Chile on Thursday, born after a pioneering veterinary procedure that involved a reversed vasectomy of their father. *The cubs' mother "Masai" became pregnant after the father "Maucho" underwent the procedure, which vets at Buin Zoo in the suburbs of Santiago said took months of planning and a five-hour operation. * "This is the first successful reversal of a lion vasectomy reported in the world," said Marcelo Marconi, a urology specialist who joined the zoo vet team to lead the procedure. "It gives a way of preserving and maintaining a species in a zoo" -- Good grief.. who was the sicko that decided the lion needed/wanted a vasectomy to begin with?

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From the "doh!" department - Online headline: "Horse wins 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby" -- Hmmm... as one did in each of the first 142 runnings.

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From the "how appropriate" department - HuffPOOPOO story: "Border Patrol in Arizona found a closed casket filled with 67 pounds of weed, worth over $33,000 over the weekend.*  agents stopped the hearse in the ironic town of Tombstone for an immigration stop. * Manure was put over the marijuana to cover the smell."-- Probably headed for Portland, Oregon.... which brings up a vacuous point.. why do liberals feel dried weeds are worth nearly $500.00 a pound, and manure makes sense to burn for fuel?

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Looks like France's Macron has been purportedly hacked by "the Russians". You'd think Macron would had heeded the advice of Hellary and Obama to rid his hard drive of records of public ridicule.. Amazingly...(NOT) Macron didn't seem to mind when "hack" Obama spoke out for him.

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A conservative guest on Fox pretty much shut down a Hellary supporter yesterday when he said Hellary would have won handily by 3,000,000 votes in any other country..The conservative countered with all those votes were in California, while the rest of the country trusted convenience store sushi more than Hellary.

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Online headline/story: "Emory University to pay ‘100 percent’ of the financial need of students in country illegally * But international students pay full price and must certify they have sufficient funds to cover tuition  *  A program to be rolled out at Emory University this fall pledges to pay “100% of demonstrated financial need for undergraduate Undocumented Students (with or without DACA) who are admitted as first-year, first-degree-seeking students,” campus officials state online. * “Emory meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for undergraduate Undocumented Students (with or without DACA) who are admitted as first-year, first-degree-seeking students, and who graduated from a U.S. High school through a combination of grants and scholarships, institutional work study (DACA students only), and institutional loans. Undocumented Students without DACA status may receive an institutional loan in place of the typical work study award,” it adds." --  You know.. I was questioning the Emory committee last week on it's decision to allow/pay an impeached president who is also a disbarred lawyer , a noted misogynist, a pathological liar and philanderer to give life lessons to Emery graduates, but now Emory is exercising class/racial biases by preferring illegal aliens to American citizens.

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From the "this is not that exclusive a burden on DePaul parents" department - "Online story: "“Is it worth paying more for college if the money goes to help undocumented immigrants? * Students at DePaul University, a Catholic institution, will put their values to the test in a referendum next week. * Two student groups that favor illegal immigration convinced the student government to add the resolution to the ballot. It would ask the administration to create a scholarship fund for undocumented students that would be funded by higher student activity fees. *  DePaul’s tuition for the class entering the school this fall, not including housing, dining and general fees, is $38,410 for most students. It was $37,020 for students who entered last fall." -- You know,, even parents at CSU are loaded up on mandatory fees of close to $1,000.00 a semester.. two of which are burdens on parents who send their children there.. one is the "University Fee", which has absolutely no restrictions on how the University uses/applies it, and the other is the "Athletic Fee".. ypu would think it covers your child's attendance, but the purpose is to fund scholarships to students to play for CSU.. There is something inherently wrong with arbitrarily burdening one set of parents with funding the education of children of another set of parents.

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L-E headline: "IMMIGRATION * Shaw High grad held, now faces deportation" -- This IS tough.. but the same Constitution that would protect him if all the legal channels had been followed is the same Constitution that protects others from less productive illegal aliens.. and the Constitution only works for all when all work for the Constitution..

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L-E story: "A city councilman honored the Columbus Georgia Metro Black Nurses Association with a proclamation Saturday at the annual “Xcellence in Nursing Brunch.” -- Question.. did Pops also present a proclamation to the Columbus Georgia Metro White Nurses Association? Oooops, I'm sorry, there is  one of those.. and there shouldn't be one ... for either...

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L-E headline: "PROFESSIONAL SPORTS * With another team gone, it’s time to put baseball back on the table" -- Hmmm.. My words during the 1990 campaign for mayor seem to be haunting today's politicians.,, tear down the old ball park, build a new coliseum/civic center at that location, and build a new baseball/outdoor music facility where AutoNation Cars Sales now occupies. The ball/music park could have been done for about $7 Million then with PLENTY of parking. Council excitedly discussed the possibility.. but opted out to put a band-aid on Golden Park.. then a couple of years later, decoded to waste $7 Million of a softball do-over that ultimately destroyed Columbus' minor league baseball participation.. Now.. here we sit.. twiddling thumbs..

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Oh.. "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2".. take your spouse.. fun flick.. but it's not a children's show.. I do not know where the cut-off for PG-13 is anymore.

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Online headline: "REPORT: OBAMA SAYS TRUMP PRESIDENCY “LIKE WATCHING A BUSINESS HE’D BUILT FOR 8 YEARS BEING SLOWLY RIPPED DOWN” -- Hmmm... of course, the rest of the country and world view Trump as a "bankruptcy judge" or a "salvage captain" ordered in to right a shipwreck. 

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Online headline: "(Hellary) Clinton: French election results a 'defeat to those interfering with democracy'" -- Hmmm.. Then ..Why is the Senate Investigation only focused on Russian influence on elections..What about Obama's intrusions on the elections in Israel, France, and, of course, ours? Of course, Obama can really be pegged as undermining "Democracy" as his preferences are for socialism/communism..

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Well shiver me timbers! Knew I had a pirate in my family line-up, but today I found out that not only was the Post Civil War governor of New York (1865-1868) Robert Fenton an ancestral cousin, but also ancestral cousins with two passengers on the Mayflower!   OK.. back to real world 101..

 

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L-E headline: "Carmike property purchase was a ‘measured’ decision" --  Great coup for Will White! I can see AMC is going to have a tough time absorbing its Columbus culture.. I can see AMC wanting to convert $5 Million+ of property in Tom-LYING-sonville to cash at a loss to shake that connection, but something else AMC has done is something it will regret.. the popcorn now being served is not as good as the popcorn, Carmike served..

 

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "If guns were made solely for self-defense, they would’ve gone out of business decades ago. They fail miserably at that. So much that you have to assume anyone carrying a gun has other intentions."-- Dang! Another one of those.. one of those who was taught history by liberals.. One must only check early American history in the settlement of "the colonies".. While early guns were carried by settlers, defense was secondary, and "offense" wasn't even in the picture... the primary use was for hunting.. it is not easy job to carry large quantities ammunition into battle for sustained offensive use.. whereas, stockades/compounds where people lived/settled have set storage rooms settlers could tap into if conditions of defense arose..

 

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A beyond-recovery LIV's L-E "soundoff": "President Trump has only “street smarts,” or the ability to outwit the other fellow. President Obama has wisdom, or the ability to see the bigger picture. There is a difference." -- "Obama.. ability to see the bigger picture"? No, Obama had the ability to paint a picture of Utopia which does not exist, but is still sought by those who cannot cope with personal responsibility and accountability.

 

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L-E "Together 201-|->" ad: "I'm proud to continue partnering with some of our region's most generous and influential companies, business leaders and citizens in an effort to showcase what a truly remarkable community we live i. - Rodney Mahone, President and Publisher Ledger-Enquirer (and Macon Telegraph). -- Hmmm.. first we need to know which community he's referring to, but, partnering with such entities as the school system and government should not be part of his "partnering".. No, Rodney Mahone needs to be their "watchdog".. secondly, all these "partners are keeping any investigative  research in check as the L-E probably would sink without the daily ad revenues of "Together 201-|->"being injected into the L-E's operating steam..

 

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L-E headline: "I-85 bridge construction should be finished by Memorial Day weekend" -- Hmmm.. Having successfully reached 70 years of age, I do believe I'll wait until July 4th or Labor Day passes before I venture on to it...

 

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L-E story: "The governance board of Wynnton Arts Academy voted unanimously on April 27 to terminate its charter and request a return to magnet status immediately upon termination of the charter contract." -- You know.. what on earth will Wynnton offer as an "arts magnet" when the Rainey/McCullers Fine Arts School opens?

 

In another school related action, "The board will hear an update on the Learn to Swim Program, a collaboration between the school district and Columbus Parks and Recreation that makes it possible for kindergarten students attending six elementary schools to participate in classes designed to develop swimming and water safety skills." -- You know.. what parents would willingly turn their children over to a City employee to teach them to them to swim. but why is this a burden on all the taxpayers in Columbus?

 

In another school board action, "The board is being asked to renew contracts with SSC Service Solutions, Beck Janitorial and Diversified for custodial services in middle and high schools." -- Wait a minute.. aren't custodial services under another discussion already? Shouldn't this be resolved BEFORE any contrats are signed or renewed?

From the "mainscream media just threw Br'er Trump into the briar patch" department - Online headline/story: "All major networks now refuse to air Trump's 'fake news' advertisement * Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign says all three major networks have joined CNN in refusing to air an ad that attacks them. *  CNN was the first to reject the 30-second spot, which included the words "fake news" in bold, red font over photos of news anchors, including CNN's Wolf Blitzer, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Rachel Maddow, ABC's George Stephanopoulos and CBS's Scott Pelley *  In statement on Tuesday, CNN said it had no problem airing the ad if the network agrees to remove the offending graphic. "CNN requested that the advertiser remove the false graphic that the mainstream media is 'fake news,'" the cable channel said. "The mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false and per policy will be accepted only if that graphic is deleted." -- " the ad is false and per policy will be accepted only if that graphic is deleted"? Well, well, well,... mainscream media did leave itself a smidge of "wiggle room" by specifying "graphic", but.. BUT what mainscream media has done is "CENSOR A POLITICAL AD", which could be, IMO, challenged in the Supreme Court. On the other hand, by throwing Trump into "the briar patch", mainscream media has raised its standard for the truthfulness of political ads run by PACs backed by Soros.. While mainscream media may try to claim that "lies" spoken are not "graphics", lies spoken are graphic pictures being painted by liars. a solid

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From the "speaking of Soros" department - Online story: "A $10 billion suit against George Soros accuses the self-styled humanitarian of meddling in the politics of a poor African country in order to settle his own scores, a charge the billionaire’s critics say reflects his longtime modus operandi.
The 86-year-old investor, who controls a web of international nonprofits in addition to his vast financial empire, used his sway with the government of Guinea to freeze Israeli company BSG Resources out of the West African nation’s lucrative iron ore mining contracts, according to the suit filed last month in New York Federal Court by BSG Resources. * "Soros was motivated solely by malice, as there was no economic interest he had in Guinea," BSGR alleges in court papers. -- "used his sway with the government of Guinea to freeze Israeli company BSG Resources out of the West African nation’s lucrative iron ore mining contracts"? Sounds pretty much he's just proved that he represents anti-Semitism to the hilt.. makes you wonder why he associates with the US Democratic Party so closely.. you also have to wonder why America's overall Jewish population in America supports the Democratic Party..

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From the "there's still hope in California" department -- Heard a blurb a couple of days ago that there is going to be a concerted effort to unseat Nancy Pelosi in her re-election in the 2018 Democratic Party primaries.

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Hey...can you believe..not just the number, but the vileness and futility of liberals trying to respond to humor from Trump? The reason is that liberals lose their ability to just laugh at their own faux pas/verbal fumbles that they go ballistic over anything said in humor from others.

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Unemployment down to lowest in 11 years, 200+ thousand new jobs in last month, and more importantly, hourly wages up over 2%.. it's funny that liberal comics (well this is really an oxymoron) cannot find either hate nor humor in these facts.

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One fact you will not hear from mainscream media is that more Democrats voted against the "unread" OObamaCRAP bill sent back from the Senate than Republicans who voted against the new bill on Thursday.

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How can any contractor or architect feel nailing boards into a perfectly good roof in order to add a fake gable/dormer to a public housing building will be an improvement in either building integrity or future maintenance issues. And this is exactly what is going on at the Wilson Homes "up-date".

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Burlington Northern..owned by Warren Buffett.. another down quarter...runs nothing but freight as passenger service is not profitable..that's also confirmed by the history..the complete history of AMTRAK.. yet Mayor Tom-LYING-son says she could run a low cost ticket, high speed passenger rail service to Atlanta and make money..Who do you want to believe..Buffett or Tom-LYING-son?

https://www.bnsf.com/about-bnsf/financial-information/pdf/performance_update_4q_2016.pdf

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Why are politicians able to say (PC for "LIE")  people who don't have insurance do not have access to healthcare? Hospitals and doctors are equipped, and willing, to take cash and give discounts for such.

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I read about a number of churches and civic groups in Columbus that conduct reading assist programs for students. My church does so, too, as part of a missions program. I also wonder where state test results of MCSD students would be without these supplemental programs.

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OK, I believe you, Marie Osmond, that lost 50 pounds on Nutrisystem..but that was years ago..what have you  done lately?

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L-E headline/story: "City to test lane closures on 13th Street; could become permanent * The reduction in lanes along the viaduct that crosses an active Norfolk Southern rail yard and proceeds farther east to the intersection of 13th Avenue, where Kinetic Credit Union has its main office, will be part of a two-week test to determine if fewer lanes should be permanent." -- "two-week test" to determine if fewer lanes should be permanent"? It took more than two-weeks for my mailed in car tag renewal to get returned, and that was when the mailman was unfettered by lane congestion on 13th Street!

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Instant repeat - L-E headline/story: "City to test lane closures on 13th Street; could become permanent * “What we’re trying to do is create an environment that brings life back to the street, creates a calmer and slower 13th Street with these temporary outside lane closures,” * It’s to demonstrate that businesses can flourish, and that cars, people, walkers and cyclists can coexist on this important connection between Uptown and Midtown.”" --  Hmmm...The 13th Street "relane" may become Mayor Tom-LYING-son's "waterloo". Libs want bicycle and pedestrian lanes while developers will want curbside parking. Speaking of lane changing snafus, what about 10th St and 12th Street? 10th Street has dangerous parallel parking with bike lanes between cars and the curbs so passengers swinging open their doors will endanger bicyclers. 12th Street is suppose to be marked the same but hasn't since the 10th Street markings were exposed as dangerous before 12th Street was actually marked as well.

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Instant repeat - L-E headline/story: "City to test lane closures on 13th Street; could become permanent *
“MidTown has generated concepts for each of these sections, which could include bike lanes and on-street parking in order to reinvigorate the business area between 10th and 13th (avenues). Both of these concepts will be tested simultaneously with the use of barrels which will mimic a construction project, closing off the outside lanes. However, there will, of course, be no construction and pedestrians and bicycles are encouraged to utilize the areas behind the barrels for the duration of the test period.” -- Hmmm... Speaking of lane changing snafus, what about 10th St and 12th Street? 10th Street has dangerous parallel parking with bike lanes between cars and the curbs:  Passengers swinging open their doors will endanger bicyclers. 12th Street is suppose to be marked the same but hasn't since the 10th Street markings were exposed as dangerous before 12th Street was actually marked as well.

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Instant repeat - L-E headline/story: "City to test lane closures on 13th Street; could become permanent *
 Georgia Department of Transportation traffic counts show 19,100 vehicles a day in the area closest to 13th Street and 13th Avenue. Near 13th Street’s intersection with 5th Avenue, the count rises to 21,800 vehicles per day, then grows along 13th Street after passing Veterans Parkway and moving toward the bridge connecting Columbus and Phenix City." -- 19100 to 21,800 vehicles TO Vetrans Parkway then growing AFTER Veterans? Sounds like another "good intentioned" liberal utopian project earmarked for failure. Not too many years ago, I remember when the GA DOT wanted to blow through Lakebottom to Uptown with a multi-laned, median separated 5.lane thoroughfare to bring adequate traffic flow through midtown for emergency situations, and now the GA DOT feels narrowing the same route is good? With "thinking" like this, no wonder it took nearly 4 years to complete the widening of Whittlesey  between Whitesville and Veterans!

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Online headline: "California considers taxing space travel" -- and you wonder why the governor's nickname 's "Moonbeam".. and has been for decades...

 

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html

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Can you imagine FCC response if Tonight Show Host Johnny Carson had just "mouthed" the words that (_*_) Colbert intentionally spewed on TV?

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From the "suspicions confirmed" department - Online headline: "Portland to use sewage gas to shift away from diesel" -- We always suspected such, and now we have proof.. no one emits more BS than liberals!

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Online story: "This week, Harvard University announced that its libraries will be doing away with their traditional 50 cent-per-day late fee on overdue books. * This week, Harvard University announced that its libraries will be doing away with their traditional 50 cent-per-day late fee on overdue books. * That bears repeating: Harvard University students, whom the school hails as the brightest young scholars our nation has to offer, simply cannot and should not have to deal with the stress of overdue book fees." --  You know.. we need to work on a Constitutional Amendment to the qualifications of a future federal court/Supreme Court judge.. and barring any more Harvard attendees should be number one on the list!

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From the "and flip a dog a bone" department - Online headline:  "George and Amal Clooney donate $10,000 to dog rescue organization" -- Good grief.. for them, that's about like adding an eye-dropper full of Sweet 'n Low to a tanker truck of tea.

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L-E headline: "CSU waiting for guidance on campus-carry law" -- Well, as a start, how about enforcing the law.. it's not a good example to enforce just the ones you like...

 

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Uber-LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Make America calm my nerves. How come I have this feeling that Trump is leading America to disaster?" -- Emergency! Put down your Kool-Aid filled Yeti cup and Ledger-Enquire paper and come back to reality!

 

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From the "absolute void of humility" department - L-E story: "The company run by the outspoken father of top NBA prospect Lonzo Ball has unveiled a signature shoe for the former UCLA star with an eye-popping price tag of $495 a pair. * LaVar Ball’s Big Baller Brand unveiled the ZO2 Prime on Thursday and is taking pre-orders on its website." -- Yeah.. I'm going to rush online and reserve a $500.00 pair of unmade sneakers designed by the father of a 19 year oldNBA prospect.....too boot, neither the son nor the shoe has had a professional workout..

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From the "ludicrous outcome" department - L-E headline/story: "$110.5M awarded in lawsuit over baby powder  * A St. Louis jury has awarded a Virginia woman a record-setting $110.5 million in the latest lawsuit alleging that using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused cancer. * The jury ruling Thursday for Lois Slemp, 62, of Wise, Va., comes after three previous St. Louis juries awarded a total of $197 million to plaintiffs who made similar claims. * Slemp, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012, blames her illness on her use of the company’s talcum-containing products for more than 40 years. Her cancer has spread to her liver. *  Those cases, including the previous highest award of $72 million, are all under appeal. * Johnson & Johnson, based in Brunswick, N.J., said in a statement that it would appeal and disputed the scientific evidence behind the plaintiffs’ allegations. The company also noted that a St. Louis jury found in its favor in March and that two cases in New Jersey were thrown out by a judge who said there wasn’t reliable evidence that talc leads to ovarian cancer." -- You know.. I'm just curious how.. and where Ms Slemp used Baby Powder for 40 years? Too boot, since J&J appeals to similar cases in New Jersey have been upheld, as to why the court system is even allowing new/continuing cases to be going on..

No wonder Democrat were happy that Republicans repassed 00bamaCRAP.. there's still a "penalty tax" (actually a FINE) for not buying insurance when you have a history of responsibly taking care of your healthcare costs on your own.

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You know, keeping the "fine" for not buying insurance hurts the whole country.. Insurance companies have no need to work at giving better policy values since they don't have to work as hard to be competitive.

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I already anticipate that Democrats will campaign in 2018 that they "won" by basically keeping OObamaCRAP. The trouble is, for them. is that none of them actually can campaign on voting FOR keeping it.

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What's really lost in the mix is that when Pelosi asked Democrats to vote for the Senate rewrite in 2010, 34 Democrats voted "NO", and 00bamaCRAP  was passed by only a 219-212 vote..

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Yesterday, I pointed out that GA's new motor-voter registration regulations require applicants/renewals to "opt out" for voter registration, Some no-littles found no problem with this as, I guess, it took away the need to consciously attend their personal decision to register to vote. A couple threw out (unsourced, of course) figures that voter registation fraud was only 1%.. You know, 1% of this nation's over 200 million registered voters would be over 2,000,000 fraudulent voters.. and 2,000,000 fraudulent voters CAN alter America's direction.

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Correct me if I'm wrong (well, factual and knowledgeable people only) but as I recall, the Early College Academy in the MCSD was an "alternative school" of sorts and they "numbers" of successes reported have been impressive.. Why then, is Dr. Lewis so insistent on bringing in Camelot? My only reasoning is what I've said before is that 400-450 students will not be included in state testing which will skew the results upward in Lewis' favor without him actually improving anything.

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Online headline/story: "Biracial UT pageant winner slammed as 'not black enough' on Twitter * The winner of the Miss Black University of Texas is taking the high road after critics on social media claimed she's “not black enough.” Rachael Malonson, 22, who is biracial, was crowned on Sunday. The event was hosted by Kappa Alpha Psi, a predominantly black fraternity." -- You know, if "Black Lives Matter" doesn't defend this young woman... aggressively.. and immediately, "Black Lives Matters" message  becomes confirmed as only one of racial hatred.

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Online headline: "American Airlines is cutting legroom because flying hasn't become terrible enough" -- You know, I thought it was against the law to enact discriminatory practices, but this surely should be considered such to a person  of 6'6" or taller.. And if I remember my physics, it should offend any person over 5"10' or with a weight problem.

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Yes! As of yesterday, it's "OK" to pray again in America if you are a Christian.. Well, Christians prayed anyway, but now it's not against any Obama Executive Order or mainscream media's assault.

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From the "at least one Democrat questions Comey's statement for Huma Abedin not being arrested and tried for sending top secret/classified e-mails to her husband" department - Online story: "While testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey revealed that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, forwarded thousands of emails, including classified information, to her husband, Anthony Weiner. * On MSNBC on Thursday morning, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for a special prosecutor to investigate if Abedin committed a crime by forwarding the classified material. * “If there was classified information and it was improperly passed to a person unauthorized to receive it, yes, naturally it’s a crime,” Blumenthal said. “Without knowing what the intentions were and so forth, there is potentially a prosecutable crime.” -- Don't hold your breath just yet, but this maybe the crack in the wall that brings Hellary down, too.

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One more time.. Stop worrying about what Trump "twitters" about..he uses it to keep mainscream media from establishing "their version" of the "truth".

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Last night, Tucker Carlson asked a Democrat spinmeister why Susan Rice rejected an invitation to answer questions in front of the Senate Investigation Committee. You remember Susan Rice, Obama's security advisor who released Michael Flynn's name to mainscream media...well her spinmeister said she rejected the invitation because she would be a diversion for the investigation. What's this "invitation" crap.. SUBPOENA her! You know, the only diversion on Rice's mind is to divert the truth.

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L-E headline: "Mayor’s commission considers another SPLOST for replacing Government Center" -- Once again, we .. that's you and me, and every other taxpayer in Columbus, must demand that our legislative delegation get our local elections, whether for political offices or SPLOST-type referendums, be returned to the November General Election date in even numbered years!

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Astute L-E "soundoff": "Self-serving preference Why is the journalism award the most prestigious Page One award?" -- Hmmm.. sorta easy.. the L-E doesn't allow outside foundations to offer more or new scholarships, even though the L-E has not "upped" the monetary value of their original scholarships.. at least not since 1984.

 

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I heard there was a community forum/meeting about making it safer for pedestrians on Macon Road.. I suggest that common sense would make a big difference.. Rule #1 being cars are bigger than people, and if the two should "meet" cars are going to win..Solutions: follow the crossing rules.. at corners, look both ways..twice.. cross only when clear or with the prevailing green traffic signal lights.. and don't wear all dark clothing at night..

 

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L-E movie review headline: "No easy answers in ‘The Dinner’" -- Then it fails.. the number one purpose of a movie should be that it is entertaining.. if it's purpose message-based movie, and does not entertain, the message is lost anyway.

Why does mainscream media feel James Comey should be neutral? After all, his job is about justice for all, and not letting injustice happen in silence.

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A Fox commentator made the astute comment that Hellary was a "hideous" candidate..what he didn't say was she was the epitome of all the hideous choices the Democrats offered.

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Watching the Senate Oversight Committee question Comey under oath makes me wish that the same committee would question Senator Feinstein about her and her husband getting "plum" government contracts.

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FBI Director James Comey thanked the Senate Oversight Committee for its annual oversight review of his department. That being said, then doesn't it sound like our Mayor/Council and MCSD should also welcome annual forensic audits?

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Senator Grassley asked Comey if he had ever been the source for leaks about the Trump/Russia connection or Hellary's e-mail scandals or if he had ever authorized anyone else to be such a leak. Comey said "Never" and "No". What Grassley didn't ask was whether or not he KNEW of anyone else in the FBI that did do so.

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From the "and what's new" department - Seems like the only thing Democrat Senators are interested in from Comey is why he spoke out about Hellary...of course, I am more interested in why Hellary hasn't been charged, arrested, and convicted by now.

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Online story: "During an event with journalist Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Clinton said she was "on the way to winning" the election when FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress 11 days before the election informing them that he had reopened the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server. Clinton argued that this discouraged voters who otherwise would have supported her." -- "discouraged voters who otherwise would have supported her"?  Good grief.. she lost 30 complete states, and split another, and there's nothing that would discourage a Democrat from voting against whoever the party put on the ballot..

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Online headline/story: "Archdiocese cuts ties with Girl Scouts over 'troubling trends' * Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas said the organization is "no longer a compatible partner." * He cited its relationship with an international scouting association that he said advocates for "contraception and abortion as preventive health care for women." He also has concerns with the Girl Scouts featuring Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan as role models because they "stand in stark opposition to what we believe." -- Well, I guess the Archbishop could possibly cut ties with Poop Francis as well for certain of his wayward positions.

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Could there be anything more ludicrous than Senator Al Franken citing an undocumented book.."The Kremlin Playbook"  when he questioned James Comey.  Franken is like a 3rd string armchair quarterback on Tuesday morning. Oh, and for the record, "The Kremlin Playbook" was just published a 3 weeks BEFORE the 2016 election..obviously research and writing occurred prior to publication date then hurriedly printed to capitalize on the moment.

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I couldn't believe my ears when Comey stated that he couldn't prove "criminal intent" that Huma Abedin illegally sent her husband top secret copies of e-mails of the Secretary of State because Abedin didn't have a printer. Trump MUST fire Comey to restore confidence of the American citizens in our justice system.

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From the "will someone hand deliver this to the Mayor, Council,and GA DOT" department - Online story: "GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Two men were killed when they crashed their car into a roundabout in East Gainesville on Tuesday morning." -- Of course, that "triumvirate" will respond that Columbus driver observe the speed limits and exercise extreme driver caution.
http://wcjb.com/local-news/2017/05/2-men-killed-after-roundabout-crash

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Online headline/story: "Connecticut Hikes Taxes on the “Rich;” Look What’s Happening Now… * Every governor should be forced to actually take economic classes before taking or even running for office, especially Democrats. *  Connecticut, another left-wing bastion in New England, has raised taxes on the wealthy twice over the past six years. Cutting spending would never be a thought in a Democrat’s head, so they figure they’ll just tax the wealthy even more to pay for all of their ridiculous spending. *  Apparently many who are wealthy have either left Connecticut or are holding off on taking profits because they aren’t sure what will happen with the market. Either way, the wealthy aren’t playing, and that is hurting Connecticut’s over-spending. Even Governor Malloy admits that taxing a few to feed the government beast isn’t a smart idea." --  Trump won 30 states, but voters put non-Democrats in their governor's seat with 33 currently serving.. and 32 states now have Republican majority legislators.

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Yesterday, I posted a story about CSU creating "Safe Spaces".. basically, designating professors /faculty offices as places students needing a "safe space" to express/talk about their personal issues/angsts. Excuse me, but my students have parents, friends and  ministers to discuss such issues with. What they won't have is access to their professors to discuss their class work or class work demands if professors are busy "listening" to liberal jibberish.

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Online headline: "Hellary's Next Steps Revealed" -- Hmmm.. My guess is she will backtrack her campaign trail to try and cover up the trail of her scandals.

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Online headline: "Spam campaign targets Google users with malicious link" -- Guess WikiLeaks is warning former DNC Chairman John Podesta to change is password to something other than "password".

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In an online story parsing whether or not Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might retire this year of=r next, this blurb was mentioned in the story's closing, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 84, and Stephen Breyer, 78, are Democratic appointees who would not appear to be going anywhere during a Trump administration if they can help it. "I love my job," Ginsburg told a Georgetown University audience last week." -- You know.. a Supreme Court Justice who considers her appointment a "job" should not be siting on the Court.. Someone so anointed must... MUST consider such a CALLING.. a calling to preserve the American way of life our Founding Fathers created that gives stability to the rest of the world.

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Online headline: "MS-13 gang members charged in machete attack in New York, police say *  Authorities said the Hernandez brothers, both from El Salvador and in the country illegally, are responsible for an additional assault in January when a 19-year-old man was slashed in the face with a machete. Arguenta, also born in El Salvador, was in the process of applying for a green card, according to police." -- Well, if UpChuck Schumer is against "the wall" at our Southern Border, then Trump should build a wall around New York.

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Last week I mentioned that "the honeymoon" with Charter/Spectrum was over when C/S (hmmm.. CS.. pretty cryptic acronym don't you think) took the Golf Channel out of the channel package I signed up with in January.. I mentioned that we'd be seeing options that will bypass TV control the cable TV companies have. Here's proof of what's coming. http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/03/new-hulu-live-tv-deal-gives-customers-more-options.html

"This proves that "he who laughs last, laughs best"

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L-E headline: "PEACHTREE MALL MURDER * Three found guilty after 1st verdict rejected" -- Even with the final decisions coming to guilty verdicts, Columbus cannot rest easy that the community is coming together in re-establishing safe places to visit/shop/congregate.. While 10 shots hit the victim, any of those (or others that may have missed the target) could have hit bystanders. All of the group convicted were a unit in the crime, and and it's scary to fear a jury could let support members off.

 

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L-E headline/story: "Mayor marks ‘Michael J. Owen Day’ for long-time L-E journalist * Tomlinson said city officials felt unworthy to write a proclamation for such a talented storyteller so they relied on some of Owen’s friends to draft the document." --  I guess the Mayor was scared to pen her own words about the only L-E writer who would occasionally challenge her acts as whether they were of public good... We are going to miss Mike's work.. the mayor.. not so much.

 

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L-E story: "Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher whose apocalyptic ministry grew into a multimillion-dollar network of businesses and property before he was convicted in Arkansas of sexually abusing young girls he considered his wives, has died in prison. He was 82." -- It's a shame he died of old age... something more horrifying would have been more just.

 

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L-E headline: "Louisiana’s coast hit by plague of parasitic bugs" -- Ooops, my bad,, thought the L-E was appropriately calling out the desecraters of the Southern statues and monuments.

 

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L-E letter: "Demonic plan

 

Our tax evader-in-chief thinks that corporate America, notably himself, is being gouged by pervasive tax laws that must be reversed. Some of you may recall W’s 2008 economic collapse and the “too big to fail” nonsense that followed, thereby promoting a bailout of egregious felons by us, the taxpayers. What did we get? More of the same, and the same felons now want more.

 

Trump has been audited by IRS for 15 years, and who knows what he has earned, has paid in taxes, or what he is worth? Despite four bankruptcies and thousands of lawsuits by entities and people he has robbed of their labor and resources, he wants more room to deceive and avoid accountability.

 

He’s not alone. Try this one on for size. Microsoft reported profits of $168,481,000,000 (2009-2015), of which, $124,000,000,000 was held offshore. It claimed tax breaks during the same years totaling $22,303,350,000. Under Trump’s proposed tax plan, Microsoft would benefit an additional $28,077,142,857. That’s $50 billion in tax breaks.

 

What could $50 billion be used for other than Microsoft greed? When divided by the USAID Water Strategy protocols, it constitutes 147.4% of the cost to provide clean water and sanitation services to everyone on earth who lacks both necessities. Microsoft isn’t alone. There are more than 50 corporations with identical footprints and Trump is among them.

 

Wake up, Trumpoids. The daily rants and ignorant policy choices defy governance of anyone but the thieves he has surrounded himself with.

 

– Robert John White, Georgetown

 

To Letter-writer Robert John White, Georgetown: Online headline/story: "Connecticut Hikes Taxes on the “Rich;” Look What’s Happening Now… * Every governor should be forced to actually take economic classes before taking or even running for office, especially Democrats. *  Connecticut, another left-wing bastion in New England, has raised taxes on the wealthy twice over the past six years. Cutting spending would never be a thought in a Democrat’s head, so they figure they’ll just tax the wealthy even more to pay for all of their ridiculous spending. *  Apparently many who are wealthy have either left Connecticut or are holding off on taking profits because they aren’t sure what will happen with the market. Either way, the wealthy aren’t playing, and that is hurting Connecticut’s over-spending. Even Governor Malloy admits that taxing a few to feed the government beast isn’t a smart idea." --  Trump won 30 states, but voters put non-Democrats in their governor's seat with 33 currently serving.. and 32 states now have Republican majority legislators.

 

Continual "carpers" like White just highlight the liberal's basic lack of knowledge of economics and cause & effect..

 

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Excuse me, but why would the Emory Law School graduation committee decision makers feel that paying Bill Clinton to be the commencement speaker  would enhance their graduates final Emory experience? Sure, Clinton is an ex-president..but he was impeached, he was disbarred, and his reputation as a misogynist and philanderer and liar is horrible. Was this what Emory Law School wanted it's graduates to take out into the world as THE role model for their profession? Shame on Emory!

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Trump sent two US B-1 Bombers over the Korean Peninsula in a joint drill with South Korea. North Korea claims this was an attempt to provoke a war. No, Kim Jong Oooops, it was am RSVP to ask you if "are you sure you want some of me"...

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From the "more than meets-the-eye" department - HuffPOOPOO headline: "Dan Rather: 'Trump's knowledge of American history' below 'most gradeschoolers" -- I say there.. what it appears to me is that the HuffPOOPOO has a knowledge less than gradeschoolers about the professionalism of Dan Rather when it comes to representing the truth in journalism.

The sad thing is that gradeschoolers.. are not exposed to anything about the Civil War but what is politically correct among liberals.

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KaeperPRICK is being hailed as a "hero" for donating 50 custom-made suits to homeless men.. Hero? Making a tax deduction of his own suits? Suits of an ex-NFL QB will fit how many homeless men.. 6'4" 230is honed pounds.. Yeah, right.. he probably donated them because his new "digs" have smaller closets.

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "Trump administration denies report about ending Michelle Obama's 'Let Girls Learn' program" -- Of course, considering that Trump will refine the old program into "Let Girls Learn the Truth and Things of Helpful Value" will seem like Michelle's program has been replaced.

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Online headline: "Donkey Falls in Love With Baby Goat" -- Oooops, my bad.. thought this was a new reality TV dating show on al Jazeera.

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Online "headLIE": "HOME / ENTERTAINMENT  * 12 Popular Shows That Won’t Return to TV in 2018" -- To paraphrase Forrest Gump.. "Popular is as Popular does".. as I surfed through "the 12", there were 10 shows I never watched, 1 that I watched only 1 time, and "Bones" which I watched for all 12 seasons and knew it this was the last season.. Somehow, 11 losers cannot be considered "popular" by any other measure except by mainscream media.

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Online story: "Elections offices across Georgia have seen a dramatic increase in the number of voter registration applications in recent months. * A change with the state’s Department of Driver Services has spurred about 464,000 more applications this year compared to the most recent nonpresidential election year * DDS has switched from an “opt-in” to an “opt-out” policy on how it processes voter registrations when people use certain services." -- DDS now considers license registration an automatic "opt in" for voter registration? Well, does the GA DDS also invoke a citizenship search an "opt in" mandatory fact?

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Looks like Trump should have replaced Chief Justice Roberts with Gorsuch. Roberts joined the 4 Liberals of the Apocalypse to allow cities to to sue banks over housing, and that after allowing 00BamaCRAP to fine people who'd  rather not buy OObamaCRAP for their families.

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Can you believe Hellary? From one side of her mouth she took credit for her loss, and before her lips stopped flapping, from the other side she said it was Comey and WikiLeaks that caused her loss. Of course, had she just not done the things Comey and WikiLeak reported, she wouldn't have lost.

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Richard Hyatt published an online story about the "dinosaur age" video set up at the MCSD. His headline read, "It’s time for the school board to go live".. a btter headline would simply have been, "It’s time for the school board to go"

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Online story: "COLUMBUS, Ga. --- In the midst of a divisive political environment, Columbus State University is seeking new ways to provide students shelter and solace. * CSU’s Counseling Center is spearheading the installation of a “safe space” system across campus. Safe spaces are rooms or offices that guarantee students a place to be heard, respected and accepted. * “It was a push from faculty and staff to remind students that they are here, not just to lecture, but to listen,” said Dawn Bates, outreach and prevention coordinator for the CSU Counseling Center. “Safe spaces are meant to provide an informal means of counseling by simply offering a quick stop for students to vent, ask questions, or get further resources and connections if needed.” -- "staff. .. not (here) just to lecture.. but to listen"?  Listen.. but only to highlight when student intercourse id enlightening or counterproductive..It's the student's job to learn as much of what the lecturer can add to his/her education into a field of career interest . While I have one daughter graduating in a week or so, I have another who will be there 2 more years, and I'm "scared" at what sort of "mandatory fee" I'm going to have to pay for "Safe Space" each semester she attends.

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The ultimate LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Trump has filled his entire administration with billionaires and people who don’t qualify for the jobs for which he appointed them. Our country will never recover." -- ROFLMAO! Who does this idiot want Trump to appoint.. professionally successful business people, or more like the inept that Obama, or even Hellary... would appoint?

From the "perhaps mainscream media should look at the log in its eye more closely" department - HuffPOOPOO headline: "President Trump's biggest failures of his first 100 days" -- Hmmm.. Huff POOPOO says Trump failures are: 1 - Repeal of OObamaCRAP.. hmmm-- still on the table; 2 - Pull out of NAFTA... hmmm..both Canada and Mexico are willing..if not eager.. to negotiate a new treaty; 3 - Label China a currency manipulator.. hmmm..apparently China has altered its practices it used when Obama was in office; 4 - Establish a travel ban on Muslims entering the US... hmmm, other than it was a ban on people, not their religion, who lived in dysfunctionally  governed countries, current immigration quotas are in place while the now functional US Supreme Court waits to shred lower court justices' contrary-to-Constitution decisions; and 5 - Fund the border wall.. which mainscream media still asserts is to only stop people crossing illegally, while informed people realize that it's primarily to stop illicit drugs, chemicals, and criminals/jihadists from having easy access.. is still on the table, and Congress has increased the border patrol budget by $1.5 BILLION, and daily crossing are down considerably since Trump has rescinded Obama Executive Orders that tied law enforcement's  hands. 

On the other hand, the only real "failure" I see in Trumps's first few months in office is Hellary and Bill are not in prison.. but then again, their "freedom" to have to live together and face their friends is a bitter sentence.. that and having to dodge 3rd World despots who are looking for Foundation refunds since Hellary and Bill did not deliver access to the White House.... and they both have to wonder when  if and when "the other shoe will  drop".

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Remember yesterday when I posted that Yale graduate students (who get a $30K stipend, free tuition/boarding, and free healthcare) were staging a "hunger strike" to pressure the administration into granting them better union benefits? Well, it turns out that the hunger strike is "symbolic" and protesters can leave and get food when they can no longer go on. (next meal?). As Dr Seuss might pontificate: "Oh the sacrifices they will make".....NOT!

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Online headline: "Michael Moore to skewer Trump in Broadway debut 'Terms of My Surrender'" -- Good grief..Michael Moore looks more like the one that should be "skewered' and put over a BBQ pit.. but I'm not going to worry about anything Michael Moore produces as it will only be seen by other liberals, and there weren't enough of them willing to vote Hellary into office.

Oh, knowing how much Broadway tickets cost, and only rich liberals will pay that much, is Michael Moore going to give away free tickets so the poor and deprived can watch it too?

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Trintellix..if there was ever a drug that epitomizes overpriced drugs it's Trintellix...whether 10 MG or 20 MG dosage, 30 pills cost the same. If you're taking the 10 MG version, get your doctor to prescribe the 20 MG dose, then split the pills and double you days..

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What is it about liberals that feel the only purpose of building a wall on our Southern border is to block Mexican immigrants from coming into America? Besides the fact that law abiding Mexican immigrants have a legal way to enter the USA, we need a better way to stop the terrorists, the criminal elements, the drugs and jihadist chemicals from having easy access to our country.

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Online headline: "President Trump's NRA Visit To Atlanta Sparks Protests"-- Good grief.. if Trump BREATHES, it sparks protest from the mainscream media and masked leftist Democrat protesters..!

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Online story: H****d W***r is what’s known as a navigator. * He has been helping people choose the right health insurance plan since 2013, when the Affordable Care Act went into effect. Working out of the Athens Neighborhood Health Center, he estimates that he has steered about 1,400 people through the complexities of the federal health insurance exchange for Georgia. *Today, as congressional Republicans look to repeal the 2010 health care law and replace with it a different plan, W***r and other navigators wonder if they’ll have jobs a year from now." -- "OObamaCRAP "navigator"? Good grief.. That's not a job.. that was another expense piled onto the taxpayers back and increased healthcare costs! Imagine if you worked in a private business and in 4-plus years, you "helped" only 1,400 people who shouldn't have even NEEDED your help, These "navigators" shouldn't be worried about keeping their jobs, they should be grateful they could be off the unemployment lists. What they should be worrying about is explaining to a future employer is exactly what they were doing fpr the past 4 years when they apply for a private sector job.

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-04-30/georgia-health-navigators-concerned-about-their-future

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Online story: "The day after President Donald Trump visited Atlanta to address the NRA’s national convention, former President Bill Clinton came to town. * they had very different itineraries *  Clinton delivered the keynote address at Emory University School of Law’s Centennial Gala. Georgia’s former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn (an Emory alum) received the school’s Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award" -- Good grief.. what hypocrisy.. Emory paying a womanizing scoundrel to speak on a women's rights campus!

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L-E headline: "PEACHTREE MALL MURDER TRIAL * Defense seeks mistrial in case after juror replaced" -- Excuse me, but how does this "move" really help with justice being served? I know defense lawyers are supposed to "defend" their clients to the best of their ability, but..,BUT since the evidence (especially the videos and 10 bullet wounds)  is still the same, then why would the lawyers think.. "feel" justice can't be served?

 

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A "perspective" L-E "soundoff": "Four criminals executed by Arkansas in eight days! Wow, I can see how that's such big news. So how many Arkansas citizens were executed by criminals during those eight days?" -- Hmmm... let's see how that would compare in Chicago from the first 120 days of 2017.. There have been 15 8-day periods. and there have been 193 homicides.. so almost 9 people have been killed on the streets of Chicago EACH of the last 15 8-day periods, and law enforcement have only killed 4 street thugs so that equates to about  1 "death sentence" per 4 8-day periods.. In other words, there aren't even enough murders in Arkansas for any news service to compile a running total, while Chicago doesn't ALLOW juries/judges to give the death sentence anymore.. I'd say, Arkansas is a safer state because of what pends over a felonious murder's head for a crime.

 

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L-E headline: "CRIME * ‘Sunny’ Shah hasn’t reported to prison. Reasons remain a secret

I, too, am interested in this story, but having experienced the unwarranted,  childish, and politically biased writings of Chuck Williams, I'd have to say that this story by him is also more political and vindictive than informative for the public. Chuck can't resist the extra twist of his knife in Darr's back. On the other hand, I hope the facts about WHY Shah still walks among us come forward... fast!.

 

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Tonight Page 1 Awards will be presented.. we cannot highlight the positives our youth exhibit enough, but we can wonder why the L-E will not accept outside scholarship awards to a category winner. Our family has made overtures to 3 or 4 different publishing regimes at the L-E to fund an annual scholarship to the selectee of the Citizenship/Community Service. Seniors are all required to conduct Senior Projects, and most of the young leaders are heavily involved with other community endeavors, and  we thought such deserves more recognition.. Needless to say, the L-E has turned down all such requests.

 

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From the "let's not keep score so the children won't get their feelings hurt" department - L-E headline/story" "HIGH SCHOOL GOLF * Glenwood boys take second place at AISA state tournament * The Glenwood Gators finished the tournament with a team score of 630, two strokes better than third-place John T. Morgan Academy." -- While congratulations are in store, some parsing of this "report" needs to be discussed: Hmmm.. now, buried deep into the story comes the fact: "Lee-Scott Academy ultimately won the tournament in runaway fashion, giving the team its sixth consecutive state title" Needless to say, the L-E did not publish the Lee-Scott score or margin of victory,, but I guess it's "OK" (in L-E speak) if the public or Glenwood players don't need to know how much more practice they need to put in to be competitive.. The kids LOSE because adults won't allow them to know what their goals need to be.

 

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From the "let's obliterate reality" department -- L-E story: " A request by lawyers for ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez to dismiss his murder conviction would reward his “conscious, deliberate and voluntary” act of taking his own life, prosecutors argued Monday." -- Good grief.. everyone knows what's driving this move.. lawyers, I guess for Hernandez's family, would like to have the charges/convictions removed so one day Hernandez could be nominated to the NFL Hall of Fame without these "blemishes" getting in the way.

From the "how can we falsely scare sane people about Climate Change without stating anything sane?" department - Online story: "California could be in major trouble because of climate change. In some cases, landlocked regions could eventually have beaches. * An updated government report says in one severe scenario, sea levels could rise by 10 feet over the next the century. * The culprit in the study? It says loosely regulated greenhouse gas emissions. Fossil fuels are causing ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to melt at increasingly faster rates * The report says when ice melts in Antarctica, sea levels near California could rise more than the rest of the world." -- "sea levels near California could rise more than the rest of the world"?  You know with this kind of "feelings" (minus any kind of logic) I can understand liberals' insanity babbling about things.. I guess these liberals feel that Oregon and Washington State have "magic spells" that they can cast that will make the rising waters go straight by them and accumulate just in California..

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This ought to wake us up, but don't be surprised to find out Columbus Regional Medical Group has SOLD COLUMBUS OUT over the weekend!

 An Executive Committee met over the weekend and plan to make an announcement today about entering into (or seeking) a "strategic partnership" with a so-far unannounced  medical group that has no interest in Columbus, GA.. This is different from how/why St Francis did such following a near catastrophic financial scandal a couple of years ago, as Columbus Regional is currently profitable.

This possibility.. probability.. is basically selling Columbus out.. No longer will Columbus Regional be the "strategic partner" with Columbus, GA. It seems that releasing/firing/retiring a large contingent of Columbus connected people is causing the 35+ year "understanding" between Columbus Council and Columbus Regional to become moot. A Columbus Council move "gave away" our hospital to the hospital management under the understanding that the "new" hospital would run the hospital better than Council. As I remember, current Judge, former Mayor and sitting Council member when that decision was made, Bobby Peters was the only Council person who objected to the "sell out" based on exactly this situation happening.. Of course there is "a possibility" that the CRHG Executive Committee MAY have and felt a guilty twinge when meeting secretly this weekend and decided NOT to get engaged in subterfuge... but I doubt it.

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From the :hmmm.... yeah... right.. that's the ticket" department - Online story: "ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, April 29 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday a third country, such as Norway, should try to mediate the dispute between North Korea and Washington, to cool a situation that had become "too hot" and posed the risk of nuclear devastation." -- Well I guess Norway may have an arsenal of "new, clear, snowballs"....

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From the "obviously he majored in "Common Crap Math... 2+2=5" department - Online headline/story: *Starbucks still hasn't fixed its biggest problem in a time of 'disruption' *  Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said in a call with investors that the new rewards program and the company's digital platform are crucial to Starbucks' success during a "period of disruption" in the retail industry, as brick-and-mortar retails struggle to compete with ecommerce competitors" -- "to compete with ecommerce competitors"?  UPS delivers competitors coffee? Hmmm maybe their service is faster.

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From the "now we know why soon-to-be-ex-GA-District 133 Representative John Pezold was pushing for Uber not to have to collect GA sales taxes" department -- Online story: "McDonald's plans to expand its relationship with Uber Technologies as it seeks to offer delivery of its food to customers in more U.S. cities." -- While McDonald's franchisee Pezold has announced he's not going to run again (guess he knew this would come out eventually), now that this is public, he should resign immediately!

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From the "coin flip" department.. Trump attended a rally in Pennsylvania to

It's funny.. though not "Ha-Ha", to read the CNN report of Trump's Pennsylvania rally with 7,000 plus American citizens there. CNN did not mention of the numbers of people who came there to support the President versus the 2,700 who sat at the Washington Hilton (in seats mostly bought by others) patting themselves on the back.. Art does imitate life....

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It's funny, too, that thousands of libs gathered in Washington, DC Saturday to support/protest "Climate Change".. (I'm perplexed as to which as are most of the supporters/protesters) .. I'm sure the 100,000 or so looked around and saw that over 300,000,000 Americans were not there..

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From the "meanwhile, across the street" department - Online story : "About two hours before Trump was scheduled to start speaking, more than 100 Democratic and liberal activists gathered in a field across the street to express their opposition *  “This rally and march is to send a message to the president that he needs to be more moderate and more inclusive,” said Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse (D). “I hope he will look around and understand that he needs to do more than rally his supporters. He needs to listen to and speak with those who didn’t vote for him.”" --  Hey.. I believe that the 100 or so losers would benefit from looking around and see that their neighbors were across the street.

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Trump's supporters are loyal for one basic reason, not only is he keeping the promises he made before the election, he's standing up in public to make Americans aware that he's still working on keeping the promises he made that are still works in progress..

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On a local issue.. roundabouts.. what proponents don't mention is that in Europe, there are less than half as many personal drivers of cars than America, and that the majority of cars driven by Europeans are in the sub-compact class, and easier to manipulate through such traffic configurations.

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L-E headline: "With lawsuits gone, what is being proposed by mayor?" --  If there is one obvious thing shown by this, it's that Columbus has suffered (well, her legal buddies sure won) economically while Tom-LYING-son distracted media from looking at the local economy, and focus on the law suits.

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Uber-LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Looks like the U.S. declared war against Syria without any provocation." -- Hmmm.. and real America remembers it as President Trump keeping the promise Obama failed to keep when ASSwad crossed the line Obama drew in the sand.

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From the "conservative college students are smarter than liberal college students and others" department - Online headline: " Yale's College Republicans hold BBQ near a hunger strike to increase protesters' anguish" -- heh heh heh

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/29/yale-college-republicans-hold-bbq-near-hunger-strike/22061691/

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Looks like the rumors that Joe Biden may run in 2020 are percolating as we speak.. you know, it might be fun to see how mainscream media would describe his son's current and former wives...

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You know, with any luck, Kim Jong Ooooops will test fire another missile, and it will go haywire, divert its course to find Kim Jong Oooops' observation site, and explode.

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"Relay for Life" reminds us of the war we are engaged in to rid our society of cancer...now we have another opportunity to rid our country of another kind of cancer which may have worse long term effects than the disease cancer..liberalism...vote for and support conservatives ..rid our nation of Democrats and RINOs.

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You know, the now old, and probably obsolete cost estimate of $2.7 MILLION to build the "roundabout" at River Road and Bradley Park was dishonest to begin with..it didn't include the amount of money we already paid to have the stop lights and paving of the existing intersection that will be scrapped.

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Our US Congressman from GA District 3, Drew Ferguson, released this in an e-mail communique: "This week I was able to attend the signing of an executive order with fellow members of the Education and the Workforce Committee. President Trump signed an executive order which will direct the Secretary of Education to ensure Department of Education regulations conform with laws requiring state and local control of education. The Secretary of Education will need to modify or rescind any regulations that are not in compliance." -- Yes! Isn't it nice to have a president who is actually interested in making sure our students have the best education possible, and state and local taxpayers get more for their money!

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From the "there ought to be a law" department - Just left Disney on Ice...there ought to be a law against selling toys with lights and batteries at any event a grandfather takes his 5 year old granddaughter to celebrate her birthday.

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From the "it's not really funny if you have to tell people to laugh .. before they hear/read what a columnist writes about" department - L-E headline: "Columnist Tim Chitwood uses humor to answer readers’ emails"..
 

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L-E headline/story: "LEDGER INQUIRER * Big red arrows lead way to The Village, Uptown or Lakebottom" -- yeah.. sounds more like itshows leadership in Columbus government that doesn't know which way it is going.

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Instant repeat - L-E headline/story: "LEDGER INQUIRER * Big red arrows lead way to The Village, Uptown or Lakebottom " -- Hmmm... or maybe it's a future indication of the debt load Mayot Tom-LYING-son will leave us when she vacates her office.

 

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Instant repeat - L-E headline/story: "LEDGER INQUIRER * Big red arrows lead way to The Village, Uptown or Lakebottom * That was the goal of Mid-Town Inc. as part of its Minimum Grid Mobility Plan, but this week’s focus is aimed at answering two big questions from residents posting more than 100 comments on the Columbus Concerned Citizen Forum: whether the four structures qualify as art * Locations will be placed on the structures to identify The Village, Lakebottom and Uptown, fewer that two miles away." -- "locations will be added"? Sounds more like they are billboards rather than art.

 

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Uber-LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man, a weak man’s idea of a strong man, and a stupid man’s idea of a smart man." -- Ah! the ramblings of a liberal who feels he.she is smarter AFTER a few glasses of wine..

 

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Ironic that candidate Trump’s rhetoric about Hillary Clinton being under investigation has come back to haunt him. Careful what you wish for." -- "ironic"? "rhetoric"? Hmmm.. when you parse this. it sounds like Hellary is actually transgendered and coming out.

 

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L-E headline/story: "NFL DRAFT * Falcons top pick makes name for himself at draft * he was carrying on like a dockworker at quitting time. Let one oath drop while whooping it up with the commissioner. Dropped the F-bomb during a walk-off interview with the NFL Network’s Deion Sanders." -- You know..I do believe it's time the FCC stepped in and prohibits any more "live" interviews at the NFL drafts or in the locker rooms.