HuffPOOPOO headline: "Elon Musk bails on Trump's advisory councils after US withdraws from Paris climate deal" -- Good grief.. could you believe Elon Musk's angst about Trump? Even if Trump were to continue US participation in the Climate Change Accord until the year 2100, Musk's praise for Trump's decision would last no longer than 15 minutes. Remember 9.11.01..liberals were patriotic for about 30 days than went back to their normal assholeness.

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Once again, Trump proves he can direct mainscream media focus.. "covfefe"....I bet there were more references yesterday to "covfefe" than to Elon Musk's threat about Trump leaving the Climate Control Accord

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You know. Elon Musk "bailed out" from serving on two of Trump's "advisory boards". Makes you wonder how smart Musk really is.. I'd love to be sitting in on future technology sessions if I wee dependent .involved in the technology growth industry.

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You know, if Trump had continued the US participation in the Climate Change Accord, mainscream media would be "strutting in unison", and proclaiming it "was back" .. back in control of White House policies. Mainscream media just cannot cope with a real leader making it less relevant..

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I saw an ad speiling 40 million FREE cellphones, FREE prescriptions, FREE knee and back braces among other things..Can we afford FREE ..and how can the service afford advertising while "giving away" all this FREE stuff?

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Random Thought: All those air freshener ads...the ones that use all the TV ad time not taken up by personal injury lawyers and those awful medicine ads...well, has anyone done any research on what the effect of breathing in all that stuff causes?

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From the "you really keep up with politics" department - Does anyone know where I can order a "Make MACEDONIA Great Again" T-shirt and cap?

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That Gwinnett County Commissioner being brought up on an ethics charge for calling GA Representative John Lewis a "racist pig" should apologize immediately.. to pigs. Lewis was a brave man ...once.. but has failed to move on.

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After showing a clip of a Kindergartner in a spelling bee with kids twice her age, a Fox & Friends anchor "sent" the camera over to the weather girl and asked her to spell "meteorologist".. She couldn't... is anybody surprised? Update,, the girl, now age 6, was just 5 years old when she qualified to compete in the bee in March, was reportedly disqualified from participating in the finals due to her performance on a written test... Good grief, I ran across some "letters" a I wrote to my mother who was in a TB hospital for two years in the early 50s, and I was advanced, but I can hardly dream of anything I wrote as being advanced enough to be entered into a written performance test. This girl should be celebrated.. Oh, if you hadn't aleady assumed such, she is home schooled.

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Remember all those "visuals" in the past about seeing road repair being done by 6 men standing around watching 1 man with a shovel work? Well, we're now in the 21st Century.. We still see the repair group but now they all arrive in different vehicles.

 

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From the "close but no cigar" department - "Online headLIE": " Hillary Clinton claims Trump unleashed 'dangerous' levels of hate" -- WRONG! Trump just EXPOSED high and dangerous levels of "hate" within Hellary and mainscream media.

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From the "what planet are liberals from" department - Online story: "Recently freed Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera has agreed to step aside from any formal role in New York City’s Puerto Rican Day parade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. * Rivera, who was considered to be a top leader of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, was set to be honored by parade organizers. The ultranationalist Puerto Rican group had claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in New York, Chicago and Puerto Rico in the 1970s and 1980s * River had not been charged with carrying out any of the bombings, but he was convicted of charges including seditious conspiracy and served more than 35 years in prison before President Obama commuted his sentence.." -- "Obama commuted his sentence"? And New York was going to celebrate.. a terrorist!  And would have except major sponsors including Coca-Cola, JetBlue and AT&T to drop out of the June 11 march up Fifth Avenue.  Once again liberalism is jerked around by the money trail.

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L-E headline/story: "Phenix City man identified in Sunday crash on Veterans Parkway" * A Phenix City man who died of massive head injuries two days after a Sunday crash on Veterans Parkway has been identified *
I***** L****-G**** was pronounced dead of blunt force trauma and other injuries at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta * was traveling on Veterans Parkway south of 14th Street when the 2000 Ford Expedition he was driving steered from the right lane to the left and back to the right about 1:35 p.m. The SUV rotated about 270 degrees clockwise before the vehicle’s left bumper struck a traffic signal box before flipping completely. *  The SUV continued flipping over until it struck a message board sign in the Midas parking lot before stopping. L****-P****, who wasn’t using a seat belt, was hurled from the vehicle. *  The driver sustained severe head injuries before he was first transported to Midtown Medical Center in Columbus. He was transferred to Grady Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead on Tuesday." --  no seat belts...how about insurance or citizenship? and who pays for transport to Atlanta...and since Columbus Regional seemed capable of handling double-digit shooting victims at once,  why wasn't Columbus Regional able to handle this?

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President Obama ordered , at a minimum... allowed.. departments that he controlled the authority, to listen in on opposing party officials prior to the 2016, and delay/thwart conservative groups' charitable status while sitting in the Oval Office having sworn to uphold, and protect the US from all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC... and mainscream media still yawns about this.

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L-E headline/story: "Junior Golf Tournament * (Saturday June 10)  Sponsored by Fore Kids Columbus, a Georgia state recognized youth golf program. The mission of this non-profit is to bring quality golf instruction to children in a fun and exciting environment. $20 per player which includes a hot dog lunch. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards. 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Godwin Creek, 403 42nd St. www.forekidscolumbus.com" -- In the interest of "full disclosure", I am an Advisory/Board Member and supporter of Fore Kids Columbus. Come play a round...

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L-E Headline/story: "Breathe Easy poll results, ‘69 percent of voters support Columbus smoking ban’ *  The poll was conducted by Landmark Communications Inc., a company based in Alpharetta, Ga., to determine public opinion for a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance in the Columbus, according to a news release issued by the organization. The company found that 69 percent of voters support a city ordinance to prevent smoking in public places and 83 percent believe employees should be protected from exposure to second-hand smoke while on the job. Seventy-two percent stated that they would be more likely to support an elected official who voted for a smoke-free ordinance." -- You know.. I'm a former smoker.. and wish everyone who currently smokes, would be former smokers, too.. but ... BUT what about our Constitution? Can you not see the plethora of "civil rights" cases erupting out of this.. and I'd support such stands.. In a society that is as permissive as ours, how can anyone be denied any lifestyle choices?

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Online headline: "Ossoff: ‘History will condemn us’ over Trump decision to abandon Paris Agreement" -- Hey, Ossoff.. didn't you help Rep Hank Johnson (in the District you live in) come up with the idea that Guam would "tip over" if the US moved all its military equipment onto the US military base there?

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Yesterday morning our CPD staged a trap on Bradley Park Drive to pinpoint driving-to-work drivers for "distracted driving". The set up between the J R Allen Parkway ramps and Starbucks/Chick-fil-A. Wrote 96 tickets at about $200.00 a pop.. I'm sure the City can use the $19,000+ dollars, but is Columbus any safer from drivers texting/pre-ordering from cellphone apps? Maybe confiscating the phones "for evidence" would be safer for all than just fining them.. Say having a one-week without a cellphone "sentence" for the first offense and 1 month for a second one might have a more sobering effect.. more so than $200.00 fine.

 

The incident also made the L-E editorial page: "As reported by senior writer Chuck Williams, Columbus Police issued almost 100 citations Thursday morning in the Bradley Park area alone. Among the distracted driving violations reported were texting, reading, applying makeup, checking Facebook — and, according to Maj. J.D. Hawk, one driver using a laptop." -- "applying makeup"? Did you know there is an actual word for this.. "farding".
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Online headline: "US issues new sanctions on North Korea over arms program" -- Go Trump!

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So the Obama's just bought the home they were renting in Washington, DC for $8.1 Million.. hmmm that's nearly $3 Million more that it was listed for earlier in 2016.. Guess since it was owned by Bill Clinton's former Press Secretary, Joe Lockhart (Warren Buffet's secretary should be watching closely), it looks like the jump in value may be some sort of "hush money" to keep Lockhart from writing a Clinto expose now that Hellary is not in the White House. Of course, the Obama's still own their Chicago House (one we taxpayers fortiied), and we guess he may not be going back there to live ever.. I can think of over 4,200 reasons they won't.. over 4,200 people have been shot dead in Chicago since the Obama's left

You know.. the Obama's grew wealthy in the White House.. and a lot more wealthier than mainstream America did during his 8 years in office.

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L-E headline: "Police: Man stabbed victim after being denied crack cocaine" -- Hmmm.. yeah .. makes the argument rather weak about all  those locked up drug dealers/users being victims of non-violent crimes.

Yesterday & Today's online headlines: "Clinton says false stories on Facebook helped Trump win election" &    "Clinton calls out Russia for election loss"  &  "Clinton slams New York Times, DNC, Comey for her loss"  & Hillary Clinton blames everyone but herself for her 2016 loss" -- Hmmm -- you know, Hellary came up short of blaming Trump and the American voters in  for her loss, and other than a few specialty party nominees, it was basically just hers and Trumps names on the ballot. Will someone please dust off the mirror she looks into so she csn see exactly who to point her finger at?

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From the "damn the Constitution, full speed ahead" department - HuffPOOPOO headline/story: "Poll: Support for Trump's impeachment surges" * According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, 43 percent of voters now want Congress to move toward impeaching the 45th president of the United States
 *  54 percent (of those) believe he has "proven he is unfit to serve and should be removed from office, regardless of whether he committed an impeachable offense or not," according to the poll." -- "whether he committed an impeachable offense or not"? Good grief, even the 9th District US Court of Appeals wouldn't support the this...

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Speaking of the Clintons, when have we heard an update on the amount of money foreign countries are making to their Foundations? 

And speaking of the Clinton Foundations, has the IRS started an audit of them?

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Looks like CNN has learned how to improve its business practices...from Trump...CNN just looked at Kathy Griffin and said, "You're Fired!"

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Message to the RNC and Conservative PACs asking for donations...it's not about re-electing RINOs..they aren't much..if any.. better than Democrats. If you want my money..my support in mid-term elections, then show me candidates running against RINO's in the Primaries. Give us hope for the Trump presidency!

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Looking at the MCSD revenue stream, and seeing the "measly" $1.475 million in Federal moneys, why doesn't the MCSB just renounce use of such, refuse acceptance of such, and see how much better and cheaper it is to be free of the Federal compliance issues.

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Hmmm.. in one word describe the mainscream media/Democratic Party partnership in dealing with Trump...
"ASS-ASS-ins"

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Online story: "U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop is hosting a town hall this week in Macon. * Bishop, D-Ga., will be holding the event 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday at Central Georgia Technical College. The forum is an opportunity for people to talk about policies that are before Congress, according to a news release." -- Hmmm.. wanna bet that the unemployment trifecta  of Bishop's main urban centers (Macon-Columbus-Albany) will not be on the "planned agenda"? Neither will the last BRAC's failure at Ft Benning...

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From the "damn the Constitution, full speed ahead" department - HuffPOOPOO headline/story: "Poll: Support for Trump's impeachment surges" * According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, 43 percent of voters now want Congress to move toward impeaching the 45th president of the United States
 *  54 percent (of those) believe he has "proven he is unfit to serve and should be removed from office, regardless of whether he committed an impeachable offense or not," according to the poll." --

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Common CRAP Curriculum victim's L-E "soundoff": "For those of you who were not gifted with the 52 genes that help determine intelligence, don't worry — you can always apply for a job at CNN." -- Hmmm.. with 23 pairs, most of us have 46 genes.. apes have 24/48.. more is not good.. but I guess it might be a criteria of CNN anchors just look at the line-up.. guess we need a descriptive name for this "stuporbeings"

 

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L-E headline/story: "City, Liberty District stakeholders seek common ground on future *  Hugley said he envisions the Liberty District becoming a replica of Uptown with mixed-use development to include entertainment, multifamily housing, and nice restaurants like The Loft. He would like to create a connection between the district and Uptown so people can walk to and from the two areas for dinning and concerts, he said. * there was $5 million designated for the Liberty District in the 1999 Special Local Option Tax, and $950,000 remains." -- Is Hugley serious.. walking between UpTown and the Liberty? Has Hugley got a map of how far apart the two areas are physically?  And where is that remaining $950,000.00? Is the Mayor including that in the "Fund Balance"? Another thing.. there will be no progress in the area as far as housing goes.. UNTIL.... until the private sector rebuys those apartments that the City WRONGFULLY bought years ago, and buys them for more than the City paid for them...

 

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'Hmmm.. the world anxiously awaits Trumps decision on the Climate Change Accord.. isn't it wonderful... with Obama, the plan would have been thrown up into the air weeks ago to see which way the wind was blowing. Now the world recognizes what leadership is...and who leads the world. USA USA USA! 

 

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L-E story: "Auburn’s Jay Jacobs made it clear Wednesday that he would like his program to change divisions with Missouri, a trade that would make financial and geographical sense and likely provide the league with more competitive balance. * The Western Division has won eight consecutive SEC title games, including the last three by powerhouse Alabama." -- Hmmm.. looks like to me that Auburn has basically "rolled over" and says it can't win in the SEC West..and wants an easier path to get to the SEC Championship Game.

 

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L-E headline: "Whitewater course turns 4 and still quite a rush" --  How come Columbus gets only about $35,000 in annual fees? At .035 percent of sales, it say that sales are $1,000,000.00... hardly justifying the huge public sector investment. Please note that "fees" are not sales taxes.. the state gets none, and the MCSD gets none.

 

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Random thought: After 8 years of Obama, and the November 2016 rejection of a 3rd Term under Hellary, you have to doubt the credentials of mainscream media as to why it won't embrace the changes that Trump voters confirmed. Surely, none of the mainscream media thought America was respected worldwide under Obama/Hellary...

Online headline: "Sean Hannity fans call for Rachel Maddow boycott" -- What is this.. an out-of-sync April Fool's Day story? Surely this is a mainscream media "fake news" story, because I do not know of any Hannity fan who has or would watch Maddow... and like me, couldn't tell you for sure which network she's on, much less the time slot.

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Online headline: "Democrats are pushing an unlikely source — Jerry Springer — to run for governor in Ohio" -- heh heh heh.. I guess this adage, with a bit of adjustment, fits well, "Any POT in a storm".  But you know, Springer would be an appropriate moderator for Ohio gubernatorial debates.. just think of the rating he'd get.. and the beratings the Republican candidate would get.

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From the "Exodus 20:5 in the 21st Century" department - Online story: "Los Angeles police on Tuesday said they used spit collected from a sidewalk to tie a man to the sexual assault and murder of two women who vanished in 2011. * used a controversial DNA testing technique known as familial DNA testing to link the suspect, Geovanni Borjas, 32, to the murders of Michelle Lozano, 17, and Bree’Anna Guzman, 22,   * Familial DNA testing allowed investigators to compare forensic evidence from the victims to law enforcement databases to identify likely relatives of the person who may have committed the crime. The search resulted in a match to Borjas’ father, whose DNA was on file from a prior arrest, Beck said." -- Hmmm... No hock, Sherlock! ... Exodus 20:5 “You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.”

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Remember the item I posted yesterday about several properties being wrongfully carried as tax exempt or under assessed? Well,, I had to be at the Citizens Center, and ran into 2 different Coincilors who had just finished a "work session. and both were quick to let me know they had jumped on one of the items and the New York owner's property has been corrected already.. Seems that all the info has to be hand-inserted (and erroneously wasn't) currently but the new system will take care of that in the future. Of course, the new system will probably make getting mistakes taken care of an impossibility.. seems that we don't have anyone down there that knows how to correct computer mistakes.

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From the "liberals have no clue" department - Online headline/story: "THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FOR GEORGIA GOVERNOR IS BEING FOUGHT OVER FREE COLLEGE * TWO GEORGIA DEMOCRATS are running for the party’s nomination to seek the governor’s mansion in 2018: House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams and a member of her caucus, House Democrat Stacey Evans" -- Seems the future of "HOPE/Zell Miller Scholarships" is the focus of the "free college" conflict.. One is for the current status, and the other wants to limit such to lower income families.. The rub is that there is no such thing as a "free college" program.. The GA Lottery makes it's revenue off the backs of lower income families, and harder working families pay for the welfare programs most lottery players are on since they spent their cash on lottery tickets rather than on food or saving for their children's college fund.

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In mid-March, the L-E reported that more cars than in the whole year of 2016 had been in a crash so far in Columbus in 2017. Anybody know how many have been involved in crashes since then? I doubted the info then. but.. BUT with the influx of Atlanta lawyer ads since has made me reconsider...

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Uber-LIV's L-E "soundoff": " For every person who thought it was OK for a politician to assault a reporter, you have sold your soul." -- Hmmm.. and how about defending oneself when a reporter grabs one's wrist to begin the process?

 

 

 

What is it with taxing authorities in Columbus.. neither the City nor the MCSD seem to feel having a sufficient "Fund Balance" nor a proper "Maintenance Budget" are  good business practices..

 

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"What a difference a day makes"... is an oft heard adage in the past.. Now from the "what a difference a president with leadership skills makes" department - L-E headline: "Consumer spending, incomes grew solidly in April". --  yet not one mention.. nor any credit.. of Trump's invigoration!

HuffPOOPOO headline: "The internet is buzzing about the mystery red lights seen in the White House" -- Good grief.. I'd have thought that the Internet would be "knowing" that Putin was calling Trump..,these people are sickos!

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Merkel said Europe must stick together since it can no longer rely on others..Why didn't she say that Europe needs to conform to its contracts to support NATO obligations? And doesn't Merkel remember when Obama had her phones tapped?

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A lawsuit filed by the mother of an American killed at Benghazi against Hellary was recently thrown out by a federal judge.. later, we learned that the Judge was appointed by Bill Clinton..doesn't common sense scream that the judge should have automatically..immediately..recused himself?

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Isn't it nice to have a president who respects those who have given their lives to defend our freedom, and AND who respects our soldiers who are currently defending our freedoms!

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Tiger Woods was arrested for DUI in FL around 3:00 AM yesterday., and released about 10:50 AM later that morning.. Hmmm.. DUI in the morning.. ..  and this may possibly explain his erratic driving off the tee on golf courses in early rounds before he pulled himself out of tournaments recently.

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You know, the more "test" missiles N. Korea fires, the less actual missiles N. Korea has to arm with warheads.. But, if I was the Defense Minister in S. Korea, or Japan, or Russia, of China or even the Philippines, I do believe I'd go on record and say I must now assume that any test missile  may be equipped with such, and I'd consider it an act of war if a N. Korean missile crossed it's borders in any direction... and I'd be ready to take it down and reciprocate at Kim Jong Oooops' compound.

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A Princeton professor melted down in a speech and went into a tirade about Trump being a "racist, sexist megalomaniac". You know, I find that when someone has a "bully pulpit" and a microphone,  and his target is not there to defend himself, the "ranter" is actually more of what he calls his target than the subject of his attack.

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It's amazing at how local folks don't seem to understand the effect on the cost of their own healthcare when Columbus Regional doesn't get reimbursed by Phenix City when Columbus Regional takes care of their emergency indigents. I guess these same people would think it "OK" if Columbus' Fire Department couldn't answer a call to their home fire if the CFD was busy putting out a fire in Phenix City.

Does anyone know why Columbus Regional doesn't have a working contract/agreement with the Phenix City/Russell County, AL governments to provide emergency/trauma care for its citizens?

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Hey, Columbus taxpayers: Remember Mayor Tom-LYING-son's assault on our property tax freeze? She said it was costing us in our appeal to new buyers and in attracting out-of-town businesses and other nonsense? Well, I came across an address.. 3100 Bellanca St.. and the owner's mailing address is in Ticonderoga, NY but still has a property tax freeze/property exemption.. Property tax revenues should be higher than the City is receiving, but they aren't because of poor record monitoring or updating non-exempt assessments..

Or another home with H1 exemption even though the owner has moved to Henry County, has remarried, yet lets his "ex" live in the old house here.. How does this qualify as his main residence?

Oh, and then there are sweetheart deals.. how about a home bought for $725,000.00 being assessed for only $557,000.00? It happens under Mayor Tom-LYING-son's watch.. oh, and how about commercial property at 1510 6th Ave.. with out-of-town ownership.. with over 65,000 square feet.. being assessed for 'only' $1,031,787.00 and paying 'only' $3,884.06 in property taxes?

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HuffPOOPOO "headLIE": President Trump acted like a 'drunk tourist' during first foreign trip: report" -- First, President Trump does not imbibe with alcohol, but the worst thing is how mainscream media has lost its standing as "credible" and "honorable" by its tabloid approach to reporting..

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HuffPOOPOO headline: "The internet is buzzing about the mystery red lights seen in the White House" -- Good greif.. don't tell me the HuffPOOPOO, of all of mainscream media, did not presume it was the "Red Hotline for a call from Putin...

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Have you gotten tired of these fake polls mainscream media is ballyhooing about Trump's time in office.. they have one thing in common.. all "say" Trump is a "loser". Let me ask mainscream media,, where were all your poll responders last November when the election was being decided, and the citizens/voters of 30 states picked Trump over Hellary?

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Another HuffPOOPOO "story": "President Donald Trump may be planning to reverse another major accomplishment of former President Barack Obama. * the Trump administration is working on announcing plans to rollback President Obama's policies toward Cuba come June." -- To begin with, the only majot accomplishment of the Obama Administration was destroying Hellary's taking over chances. Besides, none of Obama's Cuban policies should have come to fruition to begin with because Cuba never complied with the human rights improvements.

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L-E headline: "What lessons come from the failure of MCSD’s Camelot Education plan?" -- I hope the first lesson learned is that Dr Lewis will develop workable solutions to problems from within the MCSD.. Pawning off troubles to outside organizations does not improve the working knowledge on how to handle the situation in the future, nor guarantee that the best interests of all students will be the focus.

Let's not forget today.. all day, is Memorial Day. Be respectful.. and reverent as we honor the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice to defend our country and it's belief in freedom.

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Only liberals can find a way to denigrate patriotism and love of country and freedom.. liberals label everything they can to segment..to divide.. the nation as a whole.. all I see are the tombstones of Americans willing to put their lives on the line for the ideals of our Forefathers.. Of course, we don't see a single tombstone highlighted with either a "Liberal-American" or "Editorial Cartoonist-American". 

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From the "mainscream media would find a way to knock Trump if he saved a baby from an attacking pit bull by saying Trump was cruel to a dog" department - HuffPOOPOO "headLIE"/video: "Emmanuel Macron appears to swerve Trump's handshake at NATO to hug Angela Merkel instead" -- Good grief.. Macron did what any civil gentleman would do under the circumstance.. The circumstance being meetin a group of "equals" and one is a woman.. a civil man first honors the woman, then others..Watch this video"

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/26/emmanuel-macron-appears-swerve-trump-handshake-nato-hug-angela-merkel/22111118/

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It's gone too far.. This is what happens when a lie gets told so often that it seems to become the truth.. Trump's Executive Order to block refugees/travelers  from 6 dysfunctional countries is not a "travel ban".. it's a ban from entering only the USA..and after recent cowardly attacks on women/children in Manchester, Christians in Egypt, and the LGBTQ's in Orlando, I'd say Trump is RIGHT.

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Hellary is going to get a job at Wellesley? As what, a revisionist history professor? Did you hear her talk about Nixon's " impeachment"? She made that up..Nixon was never impeached..he resigned rather than subject the office of the president to such angst..of course, she didn't mention her husband's actual impeachment nor his failure to save/preserve the dignity of the Oval Office.

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You know, if I was Trump or worked on his staff, and was responsible for setting up communications with various major governments in the post election atmosphere where the previous administration's appointees controlled the State and National Security Departments, I, too, would want communications between the new president-elect and world leaders to have a direct communication avenue that bypassed the "leaky" atmosphere of Obama's minions. Events have proven Trump's philosophy were "right on".

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Wow.. Greg Allman was younger than me...

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When street thugs shoot other street thugs here in Columbus, GA.. do they just think they will probably get away with it like most do in Chicago either by police overload, DA ineptness, or witness/jury apathy?

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Uber-LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Singleness of purpose -  The motivation for Republicans to repeal Obamacare is to give the super wealthy a nearly $1 trillion tax reduction. About this goal the Republicans are unified." -- Good grief.. how do we fight ignorance when liberals are in charge of our education system and mainscream media?

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Those ubiquitous "Together 2017" ads.. now they are showing up as "pop up" ads on Internet news stories, as well as daily in the L-E.. Somebody has suggested that the L-E is running them for free, but we all know that the L-E is not on good enough financial grounds to afford such generosity, so I ask again.. who is paying or these ads, and how much has been spent on them? Seems to me, a lot more public good could be accomplished if just the money spent on ads was spent on community projects..as opposed of saving the L-E from extinction..

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Trump calls his first overseas trip a "home run".. Yes!  but, mainscream media will report it as a "run home"..

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You know Advanced Disposal could "clean up" its own backyard... and image.. with some fence screening at its Veterans Parkway business site.. it certainly is not a pretty sight to ride by. In fact, a lot of businesses along the heavily traveled Veterans Parkway could help with Columbus' image to tourist and passers-through by tidying up their sites,, and getting rid of all the barbed wire..and razor wire.. would be a great first step.
What must tourists.. and even business scouts looking over Columbus really think about our crime situation.


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You know.. even George Will does not ask the consummate question.. How does a non-resident,, one who lives and is registered to vote in another Congressional District, be allowed to run in another District?

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While I generally move on once I glance at any Leonard Pitts commentary headline, I did have the curiosity to read the first two paragraphs of his  Siunday's piece..L-E commentary headline/content: "Right-wing intolerance for inconvenient facts * BY LEONARD PITTS JR. * Miami Herald * Some people will call it surprising that a reporter was reportedly assaulted Wednesday night by a political candidate. Truth is, it is not surprising in the least. * For those who hadn’t heard: Greg Gianforte, a Montana Republican running for Congress, was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly body-slamming Ben Jacobs, who works for the British newspaper The Guardian, hard enough to break his glasses. This, because Jacobs tried to ask for Gianforte’s opinion of the GOP health care bill in the wake of an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that it would leave 23 million Americans without health care." -- Well, suggesting that a British reporter's question started the eventual results is what Leonard "the Pitts" does best.. leave out pertinent detail.. Pitts conveniently (as it supported his biases) tap-danced around the fact that said "reporter" grabbed Gianforte by his wrist.. an assault condition in all 50 US states.. but that's what Pitts does to get his writings into liberal tabloids.

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Last week, I was in Atlanta and drove most of the length if Peachtree from downtown to Oglethorpe University. Yesterday, I drove up 2nd Ave from 12th Street to Manchester Expressway. Peachtree in Atlanta is in a lot better shape than 2nd Ave in Columbus...and don't think every business visitor to Columbus doesn't notice this. And when you think about it more, it doesn't even seem probable.. much less possible..

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Saw retired WTVM9 newscaster Dick McMichael doing an ad for Beltone hearing aids..He said he's no longer missing so much of what he hears people say. I guess that means he might start hearing what politicians say...and stop voting for Democrats.

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I've tried to stop at McDonald's for my favorite "Big Mac", but after verbal exchanges with John Pezold, finally outgoing GA District 133 Rep, I cannot pull through the drive-thru without imagining a "double Whopper" so I usually end up at Burger King, but yesterday, I wanted fish and McDonald's "Pick 2" for $5 bucks "lured" me in. Didn't see the Pick 2 menu, but ordered it anyway, but the girl barked back that the "Pick 2" menu had been discontinued, and two fish sandwiches would be $7.58 plus taxes.. just said, "no thanks," and drove over to BK and ordered a "double John Pezold".

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Online headline: "Report: Manchester Suicide Bomber Used Student Loan And Benefits To Fund Terror Plot" -- Hmmm.. wonder how much in student loans foreign students have in our country?

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Crime is escalating.. again.. and 3 of the worst neighborhoods produce chances of being a victim of violent crime between 1-in-less-than-10 in Memphis, TN and  Kansas City, MO, and Chicago. Imagine just walking around on the streets where you live with 9 other people KNOWING there's a good chance one of you will be going to a hospital..or  morgue..

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From the "why does the L-E hire employees that know nothing about how our government operates" department - L-E headline/"story": "Bad sewer pipes turning South Lumpkin Road red *  Drive out South Lumpkin Road and you might wonder what happened to the nicely paved road now covered by Georgia red clay. Along with the work, the two lanes of traffic have been reduced to one as crews replace about 2.5 miles of failed 30-inch sewer pipe from Fort Benning to the South Columbus Water Resource Facility in Columbus. *  Work is underway, possibly through the end of June to replace the sewer pipe and avoid a major failure in the line due to excessive corrosion, said Vic Burchfield, vice president of Information, Security & Environmental Services. The last of the old pipes were removed Thursday, and the main work left is to repave the road. *  The Water Works was forced to dig up the corroded pipe after only eight years of service and replace it with high-density polyethylene pipe, which shouldn’t face the same problems in the wastewater environment. *  Almost $5.1 million have been spent on the project so far, and it will take another $400,000 to complete the paving, Burchfield said. Columbus residents aren’t footing the bill because the line serves Fort Benning, " -- "Columbus residents aren’t footing the bill because the line serves Fort Benning"? And people wonder why, I call him "Hasn't Ever Ben Wright"... who does "Hasn't Ever Ben Wright" "feel" Ft Benning gets it's funding from...Now, what company sold that pipe for construction, and hasn't the L-E identified the contractor, supplier, and pipe manufacturer?

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L-E story: "Phenix City police are investigating an alleged block party shooting after 12 people were taken to Midtown Medical Center for gunshot wounds and other injuries." -- 12 shooting victims? Dang, the most victims in a single event in Chicago this year has been "only" 10.. Wonder if Chicago street thugs will try to top this? Now, the big question is why the Phenix City victims were taken to Columbus rather than a Phenix City facility....

 

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You know.. no matter how often Hellary "throws" her "victim" or "woman" card out onto the table, she always gets "TRUMPed"

From the liberals have their gender-neutral panties in a wad" department - Online story: "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years." -- Hmmm... under the recent jihad circumstances, this is appropriate.. of course mainscream media had no issue in 2009 when Obama distanced himself from the National Day of Prayer by nixing a formal early morning service and not attending a large Catholic prayer breakfast the next morning..

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HuffPOOPOO headline/story: "Mayor Bill de Blasio staffer faces charges of child pornography  * The 29-year-old computer programmer analyst was charged with "promoting a sexual performance by a child and possessing a sexual performance by a child under 16," both of which are felonies, notes the Washington Times. * The NY Post also reports the illicit content on (29 year old Jacob) Schwartz's computer allegedly included 3,000 images and 89 videos. *  According to court documents they showed, "young nude females between the approximate ages of 6 months and 16, engaging in sexual conduct...on an adult male." * His lawyer is quoted by the New York Daily News as saying, "If the alleged actions are true, it really seems like a product of someone with a psychological problem calling out for help, not to evade the law. *  Schwartz works with the Department of Design and Construction *  He's also the president of the Manhattan Young Democrats, and founded a climate education nonprofit called Common Climate." -- "seems like...someone with a psychological problem"? In a word.. SICK! Seems like! What it  "seems" like is the "climate" just got hotter for the Democratic Party's claims that we should be accepting of alternative diversity!

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More about that "partnership" Columbus Regional is entering into with Piedmont... seems it's not just an idea that "materialized" by coincidence.. Piedmont has done "the deal" with Athens as well.. did the Columbus L-E or Council even know this and look at what has gone on in Athens?

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Did you see VP Mike Pence addressing the US Naval Academy graduates? What a relief it is to know Pence is next in line if something happens to President Trump..compare this...shudder.. to thinking about Veep Bleep Biden stepping into the Oval Office had something happened to President Obama. Shudder even more if the line of succession were Kaine following Hellary!

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Did you hear Pence mention the "Global War On Terror"...a.k.a. GWOT.. America is back! Obama actually squashed the use of that phrase.

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28 Christians dead as we speak, and more likely to die from the wounded in Egypt by Islamic jihadists. While it's "nice" that Muslim leaders are "condemning" such actions, I want to know WHAT THE MUSLIM LEADERS ARE DOING ABOUT IT!

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Did you hear Hellary tell Wellesley College grad students she feels there should be "open fact debates"?  I guess she meant for those not above the law like she is.. Let's get her involved in some "open fact debates" about Benghazi, her Foundations, her Wall Street speeches, her husbands "bimbo eruptions", the Whitewater files, Vince Foster, e-mail-gate.. Abedin's husband/Weiner's wife, and whether of not she knows how to bake cookies..

 

Of course, my favorite line she ranted was aimed at Trump's budget figures, but she hit herself right between her eyes... " “Let’s call it what it is. It’s a con.”" -- Yeah,, she just described her whole career.. if that's what you can call her life journey.

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L-E headline: "Very cool! Great Wolf Lodge Georgia is drawing closer in LaGrange" -- Hmmm.. how come we got "Whitewater and Ziplines and Lagrange hit the lottery?

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Online headline: "Polling locations changed ahead of 6th District election" -- Hmmm.. guess the Dems need a polling place in another District where Ossoff lives and is registered.. Excuse me.. it bothers me that anybody can run in a District where he doesn't live, nor can be registered to vote..heck.. how does he even get to vote for himself?

 

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L-E "headlie/"story": "Here’s why the L-E ran the name and photo of Vardman * We have no agenda here. The newspaper exists to bring facts to the light of day." -- Good grief.. non-stories or half-truth stories about the mayor's and school board/superintendent actions/non-actions belie any claim the-at the L-E "exists to bring facts to the light of day?! And when you get down to the bottom-line, the L-E published the photo/name in hopes of getting more readers to report to corporate HQ.

 

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L-E headline/story: "Zuckerberg gives Harvard graduation speech  *  Facebook’s CEO returned to Harvard on Thursday, telling graduates that it is up to their generation to create a purpose for today’s world, to care about others, to fight inequality and strengthen the global community." "to create a purpose for today's world"? Good grief. 6uckerberg has "created" chaos and self destruction and undermined the order of social worth with his creation.. What grads need is to emulated, and carry forth the values of "the greatest generation".

 

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L-E story: "Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who became a national celebrity after speaking at last year’s Democratic National Convention, has a book planned for young readers. Khan’s “This Is Our Constitution” comes out Nov. 14" -- "This is our Constitution"? I believe Khan better define "we", because all the "we's" I know already have "The Constitution".. it's the one our Founding Fathers created. nurtured, and passed on to .. and for.. the best future for America.

 

From the "did you know" department - Herman Wouk is alive! Today is his 102nd birthday..Wouk won a Pulitizer Prize in 1951 for "The Caine Mutiny", but his "Winds of War" is what I remember him for best.. Wouk's research for detail had him bring to light, Arminius.. the German warrior who defeated Caesar in the early years of the 1st Century A.D., and is credited to thwarting Caesar from taking over Europe.. A few year back, I remember when artifacts from that battle were discovered/uncovered. Arminius  is an nearly.. if not the earliest known connection with my Armentrout ancestry.

 

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L-E story: "A federal judge has tossed out two life sentences for D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo and ordered Virginia courts to hold new sentencing hearings. * In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk said Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional." -- Good grief! I do not think any judge nor jury gave Malvo 2 Life Sentences because :they were mandatory", they were give because it;s JUSTICE since they couldn't execute him because of his age! Fortunately, the Fairfax County (VA)  Commonwealth’s Attorney is already on the record to go after another life sentence.

 

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L-E headline/story: "FCC: No punishment for Colbert’s joke about Trump * There will be no fine for Stephen Colbert’s risque joke about President Donald Trump. * A Federal Communications Commission spokesman said Tuesday that the agency received “thousands” of complaints about the late-night host’s May 1 show, so it reviewed the material as “standard operating procedure.” * The agency found that the joke, which involved Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and a crude word for penis, did not warrant punishment." -- Good grief..does the FCC mean that if Colbert used the words "Penis Holster" instead of "Cock Holster" the FCC might have been offended?  If the FCC was not offend by this, "“You talk like a sign-language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster.” intentionally voiced over the public airways, then neither Facebook nor the L-E cannot censor it either. Personally I'm embarrassed that the FCC head that Trump inherited has no common decency, and I hope Trump replaces him as soon as he gets back into the USA. I'm actually embarrassed to actually cite Colbert's complete comment in my blog, but sometimes, you just have to bring wrongs to light with a sledgehammer.

Online headline/story: "Tourism in the US has drastically declined since Trump was elected" -- Hmmm.. and especially from the Mid-East and Central/South America...Only liberals would label terrorists and drug dealers "tourists".

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Good grief.. Ben & Jerry's is banning cones with two scoops of "the same flavor" in it's campaign for "marriage equality" in Australia.. Huh? ..this sorta sounds "backarsewards" if you think about it.. Two men or two women represent "two like flavor scoops" more than marriages between men and women.

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Sooner or later there had to be a "list" of the "15 worst  careers if you want to pay off your college debt", and now it's out..as you probably suspect, most are "snowflake" oriented in people/social services.. but the list leaves off the #1 worst job to pay off your college debt... being a protester at a $15.00 per hour minimum wage rally at a fast food outlet!

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Online headline/story: "Federal appeals court upholds nationwide block on Trump's travel ban *  A majority of judges on the appeals court in a 10-3 decision said they were "unconvinced" the travel order had more to do with national security concerns than a "Muslim ban." * Trump's March 6 travel ban targets six Muslim-majority nations -- Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The order barred people from those countries for 90 days." -- Hmmm.. I wonder if anyone has injected the fact that in these countries,Christians are purged and subject for genocide measures by the culture of Islam?  No wonder they are predominantly Muslim...

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Online headline: "Milwaukee middle school brawl: Five injured, three arrested after fight * Five people were hurt during a fight between several students at Webster Middle School near 53rd and Green Tree, officials with the Milwaukee Fire Department said. *  A Milwaukee Public Schools spokesman issued this statement to FOX6 News: "MPS is working with the Milwaukee Police Department to investigate a situation that occurred at Webster. Students who were involved face both district disciplinary and potential legal consequences. * “This type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated." -- "This type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated." ? Good grief.. it's only BECAUSE this type of behavior has been accepted TOO LONG that it has escalated to this point!

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Oh! Remember the Montana Republican candidate "accused" of "body slamming" a mainscream reporter just hours before the polls opened for that "Special Election"? Well, he whipped his Democrat opponent by 24,000 votes!  Maybe this is what it is going to take to get mainscream media reporting fairly, rather than making up, the news about Republicans in the future.

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Online headline: "(GA) Minority House Leader Stacey Abrams: ‘I believe in government’" -- ...believe in government.... what? Government control of every aspect of life? Government intervention in majority rule? Government control of Freedom of Speech? Government control of the rights of others? Yeah, I can believe Stacy Abrams believes in government, but she believes in the government designed by Lenin, not the government designed by our Founding Fathers.

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Online story: "An ad unleashed Thursday by the Congressional Leadership Fund takes aim at Democrat Jon Ossoff’s military credentials just ahead of the holiday break. *  “Ossoff is a liberal. And immature. And he lied to us about his national security experience,” *  Politifact Georgia found no evidence he exaggerated his resume, though it said he left out “relevant context” about his experience." "left out RELEVANT CONTEXT about his experience"?  I do believe that is what is known as a "half truth", and we all know that the "half truth" is the Blackest of all lies".

You know, I still don't understand.. comprehend.. how a candidate can run for a Congressional District Office and have no resident in that district.

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Since Mark Cantrell is on record for thinking $220,000.00 is too much to spend on new electronics for the MCSB board room...and I agree..but does Mark Cantrell agree with me that spending $312.00 per square foot ($750,000 per building) on a 2,400 sg ft metal/slab constructed buildings  for wrestling and weight rooms is way too much?

Oh, how about a revote on spending over $900,000.00 on 50 +/- parking spaces at Columbus High?

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L-E headline/story: "Columbus jobless rate improves in April but is still near bottom of state * Columbus still has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state, however, with it only better than Albany’s 5.6 percent. " -- Boy, if I hadn't gotten on Queen Tom-LYING-son's band wagon before, I'm surely not going to WISH HER ON  the rest of GA citizenry for a state/federal job! What's missing in this story is that Macon is in the bottom 3 with Columbus and Albany which are all in Congressman Bishop's District 2.

 

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On target L-E "soundoff": "Odd budget priorities: The city can’t afford to hire enough paramedics, but it can build a roundabout to service a parking garage, a pedestrian bridge and two dead-end streets." -- Oh, and let's not forget the Queen TT Lounge on the RiverWalk, the dog runs, the Dragonfly Trail, narrowing of car lanes on 13th Street, the AquaCenter, the Whitewater and ZipLine "investments" , or the City Manager's raise and PPV Dodge Charger..

 

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L-E headline: "Columbus Council considers hiring full-time Recorder’s Court judge" -- Excuse me, but why, after years of the current setup being satisfactory, do we "need" a higher salaried, full time Recorder's Court judge? There's only one acceptable condition Council should consider this move... if it will ELIMINATE part time judges, and reduce overall salary/benefits drain on the budget.