From the "print first, verify later" department - Online headline/story: "
'British' Islamic State leader killed in U.S. air strikes in Syria: monitoring
group * A leading British member of Islamic State and three other foreign
militants have been killed in U.S.-led air strikes in northern Syrian town of
Raqqa, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
* A U.S. official said earlier that a strike in the area probably killed the
Briton known as "Jihadi John", who appeared in videos showing the killings of
American and British hostages. * "All the sources there are saying that the body
of an important British Jihadi is lying in the hospital of Raqqa. All the
sources are saying it is of Jihadi John but I cannot confirm it personally."" --
Liberal media is so .... so screwed up.. First... it has run with a story that
hasn't been confirmed, and secondly, this is a story, like that of the death of
Osama bin Laden, that G.I. JIllary's comment "What difference does it make"
would have been actually viable.. Ask yourself, will there be fewer beheadings
and more peace because Jihadi John IS dead?
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Here's a solution for
peace in the Middle-East...finally: Elect Trump. Trump would then deport the
11,000,000 + illegals which would make immediate room to allow the entire
population of Israel and Christians throughout the area to be brought to the US
(along with their $300 BILLION + GDP), then build a fence coated with bacon
around Israel itself yo keep jihadists refugees out, then carpet bomb the
entire area outside of Israel. Yeah... that's the
ticket!.
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HuffPOOPOO "headlie"/Colin C(_*_)mpbell "story": "Trump
links rival to child molesters in scathing speech" -- Good grief.. no where
close to the truth...the article was more accurate.. but not correct nor totally
truthful.. in other words, the "the blackest of lie.. the half-truth". Quote
from the article: "But Trump apparently thinks Carson never got better. The
business mogul generated headlines earlier in the day when he compared Carson's
"pathological" temper to child molesters during a CNN interview. He doubled down
on that comparison during his Thursday-night speech in Iowa. * "I don't want to
say what I said, but I'll tell you anyway. I said that if you're a child
molester — a sick puppy, you're a child molester — there's no cure for that.
There's only one cure; we don't want to talk about that cure. That's the
ultimate cure," Trump told his supporters. "If you're a child molester, there's
no cure. They can't stop you." Obviously, Trump did say what he said, but a
reporter merging two different comments totally.. and intentionally, destroys
the context of what was said.
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Online headline/story: "U.S. Secret
Service officer arrested in child sexting sting * A U.S. Secret Service officer
assigned to the White House was arrested this week after he sent naked pictures
of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to a criminal
complaint. * THe (_*_) turned himself in to Maryland State Police on Monday and
faces charges including solicitation of a minor, according to the complaint
filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware. * The complaint details a series of
pornographic online chats starting in late August between The (_*_) and a
Delaware State Police detective posing as a 14-year-old girl. * The (_*_) sent
naked photos of himself to the undercover officer and asked to meet in person to
have sex, according to the complaint. * In an interview with police, Moore
admitted to communicating with the person while he was working at the White
House, the complaint said. * The Secret Service, the agency that protects the
president, has placed The (_*_) on administrative leave, according to the
complaint. -- Good grief! " First question I had was, "did The (_*_) work on
Clinton's team?". The second was "why wasn't The (_*_) fired on the spot and
arrested?". The third one was "is this what Obamageddon defines as hiring
diversity?".
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Online "headlie": "'Real progress': Percentage of
U.S. smokers plummets, CDC finds" -- Another of those "blackest of lies... the
half-truth". THe CDC is talking only about cigarettes of tobacco.. e-Vapes and
marijuana aren't included...what's happening is that cigarette smokers are
seeking alternatives that aren't taxed as heavily as cigarettes...which means...
in the governments eyes, they are unpatriotic tax dodges!
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From the
above story: "The researchers say it's not clear if products such as
e-cigarettes are helping people quit. So far, there's little evidence that they
are." -- "there's little evidence that they are"? Good grief... if anything,
e-cigs are a gateway, a training tool, to smoking tobacco or marijuana.. I saw
a man.. no teen, smoking an e-vape while checking out at a store.. The cashier
nor some management personnel standing with her, said one thing.. neither even
looked concerned about it.. I hope this isn't a trend that's
developing..
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Online headline/"headlie"/story: "NFL star gives
whopping sum to fast food cashier * Life-changing gift he'll never forget *
Marshawn Lynch gave a McDonald's employee $500 to help him buy shoes * The
Seahawks running back was recently in a McDonald's where he and an employee
named Terrance Downs began chatting about a pair of luxury sneakers made by
Buscemi that Lynch was wearing, * Lynch decided to help the Dallas fast-food
worker out and handed him $500 to help him pick up his own pair of Buscemis,
which retail from $890 and up online." -- Good grief..you gotta be kidding that
this made the news as a "blessed event"! I can afford a pair of $890.00 (plus
tax I assume), but am smart enough not to spend that much on a pair of sneakers.
If Lynch wanted to make a "life-changing" gift, he might have picked up the
young man's college tuition so the young man could get a job that pays hiogher
wages so that the young man could afford them himself.. The irony is that if the
young man had such a responsible job, he wouldn't be spemding $890/00 on
"sneaks".. Now, the probabilities, no... realities, are that the young man will
not accumulate the balance of money needed to buy those shoes, and will get
mugged for the $500.00, or OR.. the young man WILL raise the balance, buy the
$890.00 shoes, and his best friends will mug him (or worse) and steal the
shoes.
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Online headline: "12 foods with more sugar than Krispy
Kreme doughnut" -- YES!.. my worst fears are over.. I can eat doughnuts
guilt-free as now they can be considered a diet food.!
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Online
story: "A high school cross country runner wearing a headband with a Bible verse
written on it was disqualified after finishing third in the Georgia state
championship. * The Georgia High School Association says the disqualification
wasn't because of the "religious nature" of the headband. The rules state an
athlete's headwear can't have any writing or logos on it." -- Good grief.. how
wimpy can the GHSA get.. is there another sport in GA that has the same
restriction? Cannot a football helmet or baseball cap have the school
name/logo/initials on it? How about jerseys? And shoes.. good grief, I don't
know of a single pair of athletic shoes, golf included, that don't have the
makers' name on them somewhere.. I hope the young man has that same Bible verse
printed on his jersey in the next meet, and see what the GHSA does
then.
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Online headline: " Foster parents claim judge took away
adopted daughter because they are gay" -- Good grief.. what I want to know is
how a Foster Child Agency would clear a same sex couple, married or not, qualify
to be in charge of other people's children.. I have a hard time with same sex
couple using third party surrogates/donors to create a blood-linked child in
their relationship.. Now,, for you stone throwers, I know what I am talking
about, have such situation in my family..and I deal with it through prayers for
my great niece and nephew, and I love my niece and her "spouse" as well. I just
don't think.. not even feel, that the circumstance is in the best interest of those
children, but ..ut I know God is watching over them.
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HuffPOOPOO
"headlie": "Donald Trump blasts 'weak, ineffective' leaders" -- Wait a minute,,
"weak, ineffective leaders" is a top tier oxymoron! He was referring to the
"leaders' at the U of Mizzou who resigned, but, if you throw in "greedy" as
another adjective, , it does pretty much describe most Republicans in
Congress... and all Democrats as well.
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Online headline/story: "CNN
Host Tells Donald Trump Illegal Immigrants Pay Billions in Taxes * Burnett
pushed back against the real estate tycoon. * “But they pay in taxes, they pay
24 billion dollars in taxes,” she said. * According to the Institute on Taxation
and Economic Policy, approximately 11.4 million individuals in the U.S.
illegally paid $11.84 billion in state and local taxes in 2012. The conservative
Heritage Foundation estimated unlawful immigrant households paid $39.2 billion
in 2010, but received $93.7 billion in government services." - You know,, what
mainscream media doesn't "understand" is that being here illagally is a crime,
and costs us in more way than financially.. Crimes, and the expense of such in
prosecution, incarceration, and deportation far outweigh the pittance that any
taxes that can be attributed to them.
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Students protesting about
the high costs of public college education are protesting about the wrong
people. It's not business people or other taxpayers driving up the costs, it's
the public education/government itself who are causing the increases. My
college aged daughter is required to live in a dorm room that's about 12' X 30'
(360 sq ft). THis costs us and her roommates parents $5,800.00 for 4 months.
That's $1,450.00 a month for two single beds and one bathroom for two people.
There's not a luxury apartment/condo in Carrolton, or Columbus that gets $48.00
a sq ft per year rent, yet that's what colleges are charging (in addition to
about $250,00 a month for mandatory fees). This gives colleges the cash flow to
keep unneeded, unproductive professors employed.
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Now, I tell you
what, after listening to students' reasons for protesting hat they "want,
deserve" "free education" , I think it's time to just stop public college
education. The teachers have failed the students and the
taxpayers.
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Good grief.. remember that University of Missouri
"student" who caused such an uproar last week claiming white people are
privilged and he is oppressed... well, he's already a graduate, and is 25 years
old taking advanced graduate classes. In addition, his parents are quite well
off .. his father is a railroad executive estimated to making a high singled
digit multi-million dollars annually in salary, and his mother was a former
educator who now runs a non-profit advocacy program. Well, you would think
"education begins at home, but obviously their child doesn't remember thsi.. I
wonder how many of the "protest joiners" knew this when they gathered in
mobbery?
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Jonathan Gruber incredibly stupid LIV's L-E "soundoff" : " Not only are
the red states the poorest states, but they must also be the most ignorant,
thanks to the Republicans’ sinister propensity for slashing education funding."
Another one of those \liberals that Reagan warned us about.. you know, the ones
that know so much that isn't so.. It's just that most of the "blue" states' big
cities have become magnets for poverty centers which have warped the balance of
the Electoral College and Congressional representation..
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From the L-E's "Today in History" feature: " In 1956, the U.S. Supreme
Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public city and state
buses." -- Yes! I remember well... I was 9, and this marked the time that me and
my friends could get on a bus Saturday mornings and get on the back seat so we
could press our faces to the back window and make weird faces at the car drivers
behind us!
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From guest L-E commentary, by Alfonza Menefee, probate judge of Macon
County, Ala., who is serving in his 27th year in that office.: " Finally, there
is good news for Macon County. Almost three years since VictoryLand’s closing,
the legal issues are settled: The citizens of Macon County voted in good faith
for electronic bingo and VictoryLand delivered on the citizens’ confidence in
the process. * Now, with Gov. Robert Bentley’s Executive Order 13 that returns
the responsibility of the enforcement of Alabama’s gambling laws to the local
entities authorized by the amendments that approved electronic bingo in the
first place, VictoryLand is moving full speed ahead toward reopening. * The
governor is to be congratulated for acting to bring jobs back to Alabama’s Black
Belt, where they are sorely needed. * Reopening VictoryLand will benefit people
across the Black Belt as a job creator, as a major tourist attraction and as a
company that has paid more than $300 million in local, county and state taxes.
The vastly underfunded Macon County school system has received more than $50
million in taxes from VictoryLand." -- "Macon County school system has received
more than $50 million in taxes from VictoryLand."? -- Good grief.. the Macon
County school system has received $50,000,000.00 taken out of the pockets of
visitors that would have spent that money in grocery stores, gas stations,
dealerships etc, and that $50 Million is only the "tax bite" after the Casino
has taken the lion's share of funds out of county circulation. It's a shame any
judge would gloss over the facts for the pittance Macon County receives.
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L-E headline: "ASTROS * Rasmus accepts $15.8 million deal" -- Good grief..
don't you know City Councilor, Glenn Davis, who also spent 7 years with the
Astros and was the NL MVP for three of those seasons, didn't make that much in
his overall 10-year career in "the Show".. a career Rasmus will not equal. No
wonder I have no more interest in pro-sports.
