Online story: "SAN FRANCISCO -- When James Lee Crummel hanged himself in his San Quentin Prison cell last month, he had been living on Death Row for almost eight years – and he was still years away from facing the executioner. * California's automatic death penalty appeals take so long that the state's 723 condemned inmates are more likely to die of old age and infirmities _or kill themselves – than be put to death. * Since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978, California has executed 13 inmates, and none since 2006. But 20 have committed suicide, including Crummel, who abducted, sexually abused and killed a 13-year-old boy on his way to school in 1979. Another 57 inmates have died of natural causes. The ponderous pace of this process has helped make the state's death row the most populous in the nation, and it has generated critics from all quarters." -- "generated critics from all quarters"? When more death row criminals have died from natural or intentional causes than have experienced their sentence, it's a wonder the ACLU is not suing California for failure to carry out justice in a speedy manner. --- Online story: "The class, AFAM 280: Blacks in North Carolina, landed on the school calendar just days before the semester started, with 18 football players enrolled, along with one former player. The students’ advisers knew that there would be no instruction, but school officials were not aware that would be the case, chancellor Holden Thorp said in an letter to school trustees." -- We grew up with stories of courses like "Underwater basket weaving" being a course offering to keep athletes academically eligible, but those were at colleges high percentages of non-alumni ardent fans. Now it's apparent UNC, one of the last bastions of liberal elitism outside California and New England, has bitten the sports apple. --- From a fellow BCer: This is an excerpt form a commentary written By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner) aimed at his liberal followers: " Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job? * Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin. * Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is." -- Just gotta love it when liberals examine themselves... and don't like'm. Unfortunately, it ain't gonna change their votes. --- First, the City Manager had to have his own personal $33,000.00 stumpgrinder in spite of the fact it will take more money to operate and maintain it annually than was paid for out-sourced services when needed. Now he wants a 100' vertical reach bucket truck for $300,000.00. Haven't seen the design specs, but you have to wonder whether that thing will compact itself low enough to even be moved along city streets because of utility wires, but again, how much more money will be spent annually in operating/maintenance versus out-sourcing such when needed. What I think we have going on is a ego trip so the City Manager can go to City Manager Conferences and compete in the "mine's bigger than yours" conversations. --- L-E headline: "Spain bank rescue buys Europe time " -- "Buys Europe Time"? What a ludicrous assumption. You can delay the inevitable, but sooner or later, the game resumes where it left off. --- Creating jobs is not that difficult. All government really has to do is make being a small business owner able to have fun and enjoy his/her work. DIM&DUMBERats just don't get it...it's non-government job thing. --- L-E headline/story: "Small Calif. town shocked by family murder-suicide * Father was wanted for murder in India * In Selma, community members were also disappointed that police did not send Singh back to India when his warrant came to light, Pannu said. * a process that prompted the Indian government to seek his extradition days later in the 1996 death of a prominent lawyer and human rights activist in Kashmir, a disputed region in the Himalayas. " -- Excuse me, but was the guy even legally in our country, or was this just one of those California "sanctuary cities" with a 'don't ask, don't tell, don't deport" local option?

Online story: "Don Rickles told a racial joke Thursday night at the American Film Institute’s tribute to Shirley MacLaine that may have been more appropriate half a century ago at the Friar's Club. This time, though, the object of Rickles' mockery wasn't Sammy Davis Jr. -- but the first African-American President of the United States. * "I shouldn’t make fun of the blacks," Rickles, 86, said according to The Hollywood Reporter. "President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke." -- Hmmmm, even in Hollywood, the elite are turning on each other, even on political correctness...don't you love it! Of course the real story here is that if Kanye West said the same thing, the laughs would have been louder, and the media would be silent. --- Online headline: "Prosecutors to Investigate White House Leaks" -- About time.. the stench has gotten worse. Online headline: "Neutrino Subatomic Particles Don't Travel Faster Than Light--Einstein Was Right, Physicists Say" -- God is right, too, but the mainstream media will always question that. --- Online quote source: "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney " -- Updating this for today's world, we must add, "and the government leaves us alone." --- From L-E story: "Tasers fire prongs that pierce clothing and skin to deliver an electrical charge that immobilizes a person through “neuromuscular incapacitation.” But law enforcement officials say the device often is an effective deterrent as soon as it’s unholstered. * “Most people that are confronted with the possibility of having the Taser deployed on them generally don’t want any part of it,” Collins said. “But given the jail environment, there are several issues that make deploying a Taser in a jail problematic. " -- Hmmm, " the device often is an effective deterrent as soon as it’s unholstered. * “Most people that are confronted with the possibility of having the Taser deployed on them generally don’t want any part of it". Looks like another good argument for revamping the death sentence appeals quagmire so carrying out the 'death sentence' in a speedy way can be fully utilized as a deterrent for future criminals. We win! --- The Wisconsin vote was very revealing. The fact that over 40 % voted against Scott Walker's union reforms just demonstrates how too many are now so dependent on government jobs, and how dangerously close they are to being 50+% of us. --- L-E headline: "Karzai: U.S. failed to consult on airstrike " Well,Karzai, let this be a reminder that we won't be telling/warning you should your name pop up on the 'next list'. --- John Darr has my support! --- L-E story: "DENVER — The nation’s rapidly growing Latino population is one of the most powerful forces working in President Barack Obama’s favor in many of the states that will determine his contest with Mitt Romney. But Latinos are not registering or voting in numbers that fully reflect their potential strength, leaving Hispanic leaders frustrated and Democrats worried as they increase efforts to rally Latino support. " -- The 'rapidly growing" part of Latino growth is still illegal , and still ineligible to vote. Of course, potUS Arpege is trying to rectify that. --- Karl Douglass has written before checking all the facts. The MCSD was granted additional local millage rate equivalent to a 25% boost over other counties in the state because the Columbus Museum was placed under its authority. In addition, our local homestead exemptions are only for the portion of our property taxes that the City collects; the MCSD does not honor our exemptions. Also, the Columbus L-E still fails to inform the local population that Karl Douglass is a paid political advisor of Congressman Bishop. --- While George Will's commentary today would have been better if he 'exampled' problems in any other state but California, one paragraph stands out: "The Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald notes that sinecures in academia’s diversity industry are expanding as academic offerings contract. UC San Diego, while eliminating master’s programs in electrical and computer engineering and comparative literature, and eliminating courses in French, German, Spanish and English literature, added a diversity requirement for graduation to cultivate “a student’s understanding of her or his identity.” So, rather than study computer science and Cervantes , students can study their identities — themselves. Says Mac Donald, “’Diversity,’ it turns out, is simply a code word for narcissism.” -- As Mel Allen would have said, "Well, how about that." --- DIM&DUMBERats rail against Florida's current voter purge campaign seeking to remove Constitutionally ineligible person from its voting lists created by the pretty-much-intentional problem of not properly screening government assistance. Even in Georgia, D&Ds tried their hardest to pass a law allowing illegals to obtain GA drivers' license's that would not be marked differently than legal Georgians. That would have opened a floodgate of illegals getting added to the voter lists when they renewed their licenses. --- Notable purchase request in City Manager's Council Agenda: BUCKET TRUCK WITH 100+ FOOT VERTICAL REACH: It is requested that council approve the purchase of one bucket truck with 100-plus foot vertical reach (Terex Utilities Hi-Ranger TCX65/100) from Terex Utilities, Inc. (Watertown, SD)/Genie Industries, Inc., in the amount of $298,773, via National Joint Powers Alliance (NJPA). E-mail to Thomas, Davis, Henderson, and Tomlinson: Ladies and Gents that I can vote for: This item intrigues me as to why we need such in the City asset inventory. Since our inventory of buildings in Columbus that exceed 10 stories is limited to two, what make ownership of such a bucket truck reasonable? Surely, the amount of expected usage would be better served by occasionally renting such equipment as the real need arises. Will be on lookout for why any of you deem this to be a worthy use of such tax dollars. --- Another questionable purchase request on City Manager's agenda" ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE SERVICES (ANNUAL CONTRACT): It is requested that council approve the execution of an annual contract with Mowrey Elevator Co. of Florida Inc., (Marianna, FL) to provide elevator maintenance services for the estimated annual contract value of $49,500. -- Why are we contracting with a Florida concern with an Atlanta office rather than a local service company. Surely one of our locals can undercut this contract merely by being local and not having to drive from Florida or Atlanta every time service is needed. ---

From a fellow BCer - Bumper sticker of the Week: --- The latest from barackobama.com: "Today, Mitt Romney launched a shameless attack on the President, taking part of a statement he had made earlier about getting our economy back on track, and twisting it completely out of context * The President said that while we still have more work to do in the private sector, it's doing fine compared to the public sector.". -- potUS Arpege just doesn't get it! The public sector can only do 'fine' WHEN the private sector IS doing 'fine +'. --- Another online pick up: You gotta like this guy... --- There's a new poll out saying 47% of Americans (like they checked IDs?) 'trust' potUS Arpege. While the obvious fact is that 53% declined to say they 'trust' him, the number who claim to 'trust' him is probably skewed. Shoot, I'd probably say I 'trust' him; I trust him to continue to destroy America if he gets re-elected. --- Gitmo put in a $750,000.00 soccer field for the terrorists earlier, but has also added cable-TV. Hmmmm, maybe the reports of terrorist being tortured by Sesame Street music is true. --- L-E headline/story: "CORONER THROWER BOUNCED FROM RACE * Elections board disqualifies incumbent after check for his qualifying fee bounces * “We have to pay them by law pretty much immediately,” Van Doorn said of the party’s passing on qualifying fees to elections workers. * “We had plenty of money to pay his qualifying fee as well as everybody else’s, so we went ahead and did that.” * Had the Throwers called him, the issue would have ended there, he said: “Had they just called us and said, ‘We had a little problem; we can immediately replace it,’ no one would have been the wiser.” -- "no one would have been the wiser"? Is this not the disease of the DIM&DUMBERat Party? Now, since the D&D Party is a private party, and since the fee had been paid by it to the Board of Elections, what business is it of the B of E to consider it is the victim of a bad check? --- L-E picture: Free Syrian Army members train on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria on Thursday. -- For their next lesson, they learn how to 'roll over and play suicide bomber'. --- L-E headline: "U.S. general apologizes for Afghan deaths " -- Help! potUS Arpege has been Corrupter-in-Chief too long and either it's rubbing off on our generals OR potUS Arpege has replaced our generals with Hollywood actores who have 'played one' on TV or in a movie. --- L-E headline: "Obama prods Europe to fix economies * Prolonged crisis could worsen problems for U.S., other countries" -- "prods"? How do you 'prod' countries that are sulking because you haven't apologized and bailed them to them recently? --- L-E story: "WASHINGTON — Members of the House of Representatives have voted to protect their own expense accounts from budget cuts. * The bipartisan 307-102 vote came on a $3.3 billion measure to fund congressional operations." -- Guess it doesn't matter which side of the aisle Congressperson sit on, pretty much all of them don't want government to get into their personal wallets. --- L-E story: "CEDARTOWN, Ga. — Authorities say two teenagers have been arrested in the stabbing death of a 27-year-old woman who was attempting to deliver pizza in suburban Atlanta. * The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that 18-yearold Cadedra L. Cook and a 15 year old were arrested Friday after a short foot chase. * Thompson Street in Cedartown. " -- Maybe it's time for our schools to concentrate on teaching the true value of life; it is not the cost of a pizza. --- L-E story: "ATLANTA — Megachurch pastor and televangelist Creflo Dollar — who has drawn scrutiny for his flashy lifestyle and preaching that prosperity is good — was arrested early Friday after authorities say he slightly hurt his 15-yearold daughter in a fight at his metro Atlanta home. " -- It's a shame that this has happened, and it's a shame that it has become a national story, but it boils down to the personal lifestyle chosen by "Pastor" Dollar. He has chosen to feed his ego rather than the masses. --- L-E story: "Gov. Nathan Deal has frozen Georgia’s gas tax, preventing an increase that would have kicked in July 1. " -- Why all the bother to stop a specific tax increase on a certain product, when the state politicians are ganging up to promote raising taxes another 1 cent per dollar on everything we by? Vote a resounding "NO" on the T-SPLOST on July 31st! ---

Online headline: "High schools in Maryland's Prince George's County -- all 23 of them -- were forced to reprint nearly 8,000 diplomas after discovering a typo, MSNBC reports. * Last week, students were awarded diplomas stating they had completed their "progam of study," the Washington Post reports. The spelling error was apparently committed by the printing company and will be fixed at no additional charge to the county, which paid nearly $16,000 for the documents. * National Quality Products issued an apology to students and said the new certificates will be available in about a month. * Lynn Bryant, a recent Frederick Douglass High School graduate, noticed the error and had only one thing to say about it. * “That’s kind of embarrassing," Bryant told Hyattsville (MD) Patch. * Another recent graduate from Oxon Hill High School said he didn't quite understand how the typo got past officials." -- The printing company probably is taking the hit for fear of forever losing the business, but would bet the document had been 'proofed' and 'approved' by several County school district officials. Otherwise, the company would probably have replacement blanks within a few days. --- Online headline: "ll Clinton 'Very Sorry' For Flareup Over Bush Tax Cut Comments " -- Yeah, 'sorry' like a fox that was hired to guard a hen house. --- Online headline: "Toronto Votes To Ban Plastic Bags" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought Toronto had found a solution to hypocritical N.O.W. members. --- Online story: "When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents * But one made an incredible journey across 5,000 miles of ocean that ended this week on a popular Oregon beach. * Along for the ride were hundreds of millions of individual organisms, including a tiny species of crab, a species of algae, and a little starfish all native to Japan that have scientists concerned if they get a chance to spread out on the West Coast. * This is a very clear threat," said John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore., where the dock washed up early Tuesday. "...It's incredibly difficult to predict what will happen next." * State officials were considering plans to scrape all the living organisms off the dock and bury them in the sand, so they would not spread, Chapman said." -- "State officials were considering plans to scrape all the living organisms off the dock and bury them in the sand, so they would not spread"? Excuse me, but wouldn't taking them to a sealed kiln, crematorium, or blast furnace give a little certainty of destroying non-indigenous life forms than burying such in the sand? Remember kudzu? --- Saw an older couple taking a break from their bicycling venture standing around in their cute, almost matching spandex bicycling outfits. If any of you are over 18, and ardent bicyclers, let me remind you that the cute little salesgirls and salesboys who compliment you on how good you look in a new spandex outfit, remember, those salespeople are on commission, and you may be the subject they video on their cellphones and post to YouTube/Facebook as the "Joke of the Day". -- You go Florida Governor Rick Scott! Purge those undocumented voters so the real non-criminal Floridians votes will have their say in who's elected, and in what laws/programs the Florida Congress passes. --- L-E story: "Jon Shirek, a reporter for Atlanta television station WXIA, 11Alive, reported on the Gwinnett Commission’s vote, but then said there is another Georgia city that is actually interested in being the host city. * “There is a city that is interested, and it’s not even in metropolitan Atlanta,” Shirek told his viewers. “Tonight I talked to the mayor of Columbus, Teresa Tomlinson, who is busy planning a high-speed rail between her city’s airport and Hartsfield-Jackson , so that Columbus’ airport could become Atlanta’s second airport.” * Shirek said Tomlinson hopes a high-speed rail could be in place by 2025, when the Atlanta airport is expected to hit its capacity." -- Why is it that politicians get so enthusiastic about projects private industry has rejected as non-viable (where are the current railways on passenger service) that will cost excessive tax dollar expenditures for something the politicians won't be around when completed to explain their great misjudgment? Simple... the development money keeps their friends happy and continually donating back. --- L-E headline/story: "Cars that avoid crashes by talking to each other * The display at a recent transportation conference was a peek into the future of automotive safety: cars that to talk to each other and warn drivers of impending collisions." -- Can't you see it now... a new way to steal cars.... a thug, by hacking into his own system can tell another car to either "open up" or simply, "follow me".

Online story: "ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- The White House is denying claims from Republican Sen. John McCain that it orchestrated leaks of classified information to news organizations to boost President Barack Obama's national security reputation and re-election chances. * White House press secretary Jay Carney says any claim of leaks for political gain is "grossly irresponsible." -- Hmmm, but no where does Carney deny the claim of 'leaks' for other reasons. --- Online story: "ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- The White House is insisting President Barack Obama will not extend the Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier Americans – even temporarily. * Carney's stand came after former President Bill Clinton caused a political headache for the White House by suggesting in an interview that tax cuts for people of all incomes – including the rich – should be extended into 2013 to avoid economic harm and allow time for a broader fiscal deal. * Pressed directly on whether Obama would support a temporary extension, Carney said: "He will not. Could I be more clear?" -- And why would potUS Arpege want to do anything that might help his successor be successful in overturning potUS Arpege's 4 years of disaster? --- Bill Press, liberal talk show host on Current TV (co-founded by Algore) went on a revealing tear on the day before 68th anniversary of D-Day. He called our National Anthem an abomination. Quote: "PRESS (11:31:) … But it’s an abomination. First it ranges two octaves most people can only do kind of one octave. I mean when you think about it, it’s bombs bursting in air rocket’s red glare it all kinds of, you know a lot of national anthems are that way, all kinds of military jargon and the land there’s only one phrase ‘the land of the free’ which is kind of nice and ‘the home of the brave?’ I don’t know. * Are we [Americans] the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean all the brave people live here. I mean it’s just stupid I think. I’m embarrassed, I’m embarrassed every time I hear it." -- Come to think of it, as many times as the mainstream media highlights potUS Arpege busting loose with a song, have you ever heard him sing our National Anthem? Come to think of it, have you ever seen potUS Arpege salute our National Flag? --- Charlie Sheen has come out claiming to have a 'foot fetish'. I guess he means the foot he so often sticks in his mouth. --- The latest from barackobama.com: "This week, the Romney campaign is basing their entire message on a huge double standard -- and we can't let them get away with it." -- True.. it would be hard to combat since potUS Arpege and the DIM&DUMBERats have no standards at all. --- In a L-E story Wednesday, Alabama says it is looking into a new law to ease prison overcrowding. Why does Alabama need a new law to do that when just promptly and properly enforcing its 'death sentence' will do the same thing. It will immediately open new accommodations on death row, and the residual effects will be that it will deter future criminals from doing future crimes. --- Online quote service: "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests". - Patrick Henry" -- Obviously is not one of the principles potUS Arpege believes in. --- What started out as a project to restore the Chattahoochee to its pre-dams conditions has literally turned into a man-versus-nature circus. It's beginning to look like what we would see if you restored a burned out forest with plastic, fireproof trees. --- From L-E story: "Since people either built new houses, bought new houses, purchased new businesses, developed property or made significant improvements to their houses, the tax digest grew. That means the city expects to collect about $1.5 million more in property taxes in fiscal year 2013 than in fiscal year 2012, Hodge said. " -- Well, since Columbus survived last year, how about designating the growth in the tax digest to be used to rebuild (payback) our fund balance. --- L-E headkine/story: "Muslims file suit to stop NYPD spying * WASHINGTON — A Muslim civil rights group that has worked closely with the Obama administration to build better relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs." -- Now, is this a group of illegal or legal aliens? --- L-E's "Quotable “A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” Bill Cosby American comedian (1937- )" -- Why couldn't Bill Cosby have been scheduled to be at the Civic Center rather than Ron White? --- L-E headline: "Cruel June for Obama, Dems — and could get worse " -- Well, if the potUS Arpege and the DIM&BUMBERats are true to themselves, it is a probability rather than a "could". --- L-E "To Do" headline: "‘Elmo’s Super Heroes’ ready to teach life lessons " -- I guess they have come directly from Git-mo after warming up by torturing Muslim extremists. ---

Online headline/story:"Wisconsin Recall Election: Woman Slaps Tom Barrett After His Concession Speech * Democratic challenger Tom Barrett faced a throng of unhappy supporters on Tuesday night after conceding Wisconsin's recall election to Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Yet one woman was so dissatisfied that she actually slapped the mayor for conceding. * "She was upset about him giving the concession speech while she still felt there were votes to be counted," Sater said. "He looked at her and said 'I'd rather you hug me' so he leaned down thinking that she was going to hug him and she slapped him." -- This is a true DIM&DUMBERat follower. Like animals, if a trainer stops feeding them, they turn on their trainer. --- Online headline/story: "Scott Walker Defeats Tom Barrett In Wisconsin Recall Election * Scott Walker did it. In the historic Wisconsin recall battle, Walker emerged victorious on Tuesday, beating back labor unions and Democrats who tried to kick him out of office. Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on the outcome of the recall contest: "Despite the disappointing outcome of tonight’s election, there is no question that over the past year this recall effort sent a message to Scott Walker that his brand of divisive politics is offensive and wrong." -- This recall sent a message to Scott Walker? Where do the D&Ds find these people. The messages the voters sent was one of support of Scott Walker's initiatives, and that they liked the results so far. The only message the D&D's sent was that they are crybabies, malcontents, and feel no shame for tax revenues (other people's money) being spent on getting what they want. --- Online headline/story: "Bill Clinton Gives President Obama Another Headache * Former president Bill Clinton caused additional headaches for the Obama campaign on Tuesday when he told CNBC that he wouldn't have a problem with Congress temporarily extending all the Bush tax cuts, which are due to expire at the end of the year." -- Just setting up Hillary for 2012 and 2016... bye-bye Biden. --- From Richard Hyatt's column: "I met John Phillips before we were introduced. He and his wife, Suzanne, stepped off an elevator at the Marriott. The late Bob Bushong came through the front door of the hotel, and I intercepted them near the front desk. Seeing me, the color left Bushong’s face. “Don’t do this to me,” he begged. Phillips was the mystery guest for dinner. Bushong was to deliver him to the River Club where the Bar-tow County Superintendent would dine privately with members of the Muscogee County School Board. * Reporters were not invited. " -- "Reporters were not invited"? Well, I reckon not! From the appearance of the wasteful use of taxpayer dollars to wine and dine Phillips and the MCSD board, I'm sure reporters were about as welcome at the River Club as reporters would have been welcomed at the GSA retreat/convention that's been in the news for its extravagant waste of tax dollars. --- WRBL News3 report: "MCSD teachers face 2013 furlough days * They call them calendar adjustment days, but what it is, is we basically had to balance the budget out of the pockets of our employees,” said (MCSD Chairwoman Cathy) Williams." -- "balance the budget out of the pockets of our employees"? Excuse me, Madam Chair, but what you are having to do is reallocate tax dollars that are available to you for redistribution. It's not about taking anything out of employees' pockets, it's about how much you can put in their pockets that has been taken out of taxpayers' pockets. --- L-E story: "The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of “Sesame Street” in response to alleged corruption by the local workshop after working on the initiative." -- Well, now if we can only get Congress to stop funding the liberal version of Sesame Street for the same reasons. --- L-E story: "Come 2015, there won’t be any more candy, sugary cereal or fast food on TV with the morning cartoons. The Walt Disney Co. became the first major media company to ban ads for junk food." -- Wanna bet whether Disney will stop serving junk food at their theme park restaurants? --- Looks like I will have to choose the Democrat Ballot in the July primaries/non-partisan election. Too many races will be determined then rather than in July. --- We have pics from a fellow BCer: First is the updated 3 Stooges, and the second is "Hopeless":

Online headline/story: "Bill Clinton Makes Fun Of Allen West's 'Communist' Comments * "This is not the 1950s!" Clinton said. "At least Joe McCarthy could skate on the premise that there were still one or two living communists walking around. Nobody’s seen a communist in over a decade!" -- Sorta like not being able to see the forest because you're too close to the trees....
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Online headline: "Justice Department To Monitor Wisconsin Recalls" -- Oh, yeah! Who's going to be monitoring the Eric Holder and the Justice Department!
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Online headline: "TSA Workers Fired, Suspended For Violating Screening Protocol " -- Apparently, treating people like human beings is against protocol.
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According to an elated online news source, the Green Bay Packers players are against Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall election. DOH... just another bunch of union thugs..
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Online headline: "Obama Campaign Debuts First Nationwide TV Ad Featuring Sarah Jessica Parker" -- Well, did you expect potUS Arpege to make a campaign ad featuring his record?
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Online headline: "New Study Shows We Are Overworked and Overwhelmed" -- Hmmm, must have been a survey of conservative taxpaying small business owners.
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L-E headline: "Can MCSD afford John Phillips’ price? * Two board members say interim costs too much with cuts, furloughs " -- Board members who support bringing Phillips back in need to be pilloried in the passing lane of J R Allen Parkway during rush hour. Phillips went so far as to circumvent the board and hired himself a vice-superintendent at half his salary so he could tale more time out of town hunting. Track down that guy and bring him in and save half of Phillips' salary if there is no one remotely qualified within the MCSD system. Of course, that's another issue of why don't we have an abundance of qualified persons in the current administration?
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Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "If Mitt Romney gets elected president, the very first day he’s going to wave his magic wand and everyone is going to work. If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. " -- Well, what do you expect from someone who will vote for potUS Arpege, and his same promises...AGAIN..
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L-E's ": Thought for Today":, “What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” — Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. senator (1925-1968). " -- Can anyone not see the images of potUS Arpege, Pelosi, Reid, Sharpton, Jackson (both Jesse and Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas), and Wright as these words are processed?
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L-E story: "WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought to take advantage Monday of the fundraising prowess of former President Bill Clinton, the most reliable deliverer of Democratic dollars, despite their history of testy relations and differences on campaign tactics. " -- potUS Arpege better not just be worried about his back, he should be worried that most of those checks may have "Hillary" written on the fronts of them.
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L-E story: "VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian conservation officers have euthanized a black bear that ate the remains of a convicted murderer. " -- Whatta waste of talent! Why didn't the Canadians just rent the bear out to US prisons to be housed in such prisons " death row ".
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L-E story: "ATLANTA — A state law aimed at making the budget process more transparent has so far met with mixed success, according to a report by Morris News Service. * Morris News Service reported Sunday that, under the law, any local government with a budget totaling more than $1 million must submit copies of their taxes and expenses to the University of Georgia’s Carl Vin-son Institute of Government. Most governments have until the end of June to comply with the law. * So far 117 of 535 cities have submitted the records, while 76 of 159 counties and 169 of 180 school districts are in compliance, according to Morris News Service. Some of those not complying could be exempt because their budgets are too small. * “We don’t mind providing the information, but we think it’s come to the point where the state government doesn’t have anything better to do other than asking local governments to submit information,” said Carter Crawford, city manager in Sylvania. “It’s just aggravating. It takes time away from duties that we can do elsewhere .” -- What's wrong with a central reporting/evaluation site? This info should not only be easy to compile by every local form of government, but to com[plain about it is a 'red flag' that needs to be delved into.
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A trip down Veterans Parkway beautification project reveals that even after replacing trees noted as 'dead' from last year, there are 19 dead/dying ones as of yesterday. Here's a process that needs careful examination, and obviously some controls on accountability of DOT contractors.
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L-E online update story: "Columbus police are investigating the reported theft of $3,900 worth of jewelry from an apartment on St. Mary's Road. * According to the police report, entry was made through a door which suffered $100 worth of damage. * The crime occurred Sunday between 1:15 p.m. and 9:55 p.m." -- Excuse my skepticism, but if I lived in a St Mary's Rd apartment, and had $3,900.00 dollars worth of jewelry, I'd never leave home without wearing it...and my .40 Cal. Glock.
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L-E's "Quotable": "Every educated person is a future enemy." - Martin Bormann, German military officer (1900-1945) -- I wondered where the DIM&DUMBERat education plan came from... now we know.
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Every tribute to Bill Turner has been earned. He is even a life-long member of the BisKit BoyS....a group started around the basis of "Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do...at the time." -- He expressed a priceless aspect at thr presentation of 'The BisKit BoyS Inspirational Attitde Award' back in the early 90s. He said it was the first award he'd received that someone didn't expect a big check. When you think about that, it should sadden us, and we can pray that he's received many more since then. This is not making light of the good he has done with his life and money; it's just to remind us of his true servant leadership.
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