STRICTLY AN OPINION

A friend told me recently that the voters in his town recently elected a very liberal professor as their new Mayor. According to my friend, the mayor's first act in office was to have all of the town's stop signs changed so they now read  "STOP - ( IF YOU'D LIKE TO)".

You gotta love those liberals!*
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If our I-phones are so smart - WHY DO WE HAVE TO KEEP RECHARGING THEM - EVERY OTHER DAY?.
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I know our President is a sports fan. We've read and heard so much about it in the media. But, perhaps it's best he didn't choose team scouting as opposed to politics.

Regardless of your political persuasion one might think  to ask: "How does a group of athletic guys in Syria go from "JV" status in January - to full blown travelling squad members on the " first team" varsity in August - or/ to paraphrase Britains Prime Minister  - to become "our worst terrorist threat yet?"
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I saw the Prez defending his alleged comment in a recent Meet The Press inteview but still wondered to myself, "You always thought 'G.W' had the worst intel?"
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I truly do love this country - despite what some of my blogs might suggest.

Perhaps it simply boils down to a theory I had back when they hung the title "management" on me - and I subsequently became a self-appointed preacher: "If everybody just did their job - you know that thing they're being paid to do - we'd have a lot fewer problems to deal with."

I fielded most of the complaint calls and would go to the employee to confirm or deny what I had patiently listened to. When I inquired why they had failed to follow up with the customer on the status of their claim, they would usually reply "I had nothing new to report."

"Then Tell Them That!" - I said....

Common sense just ain't that common for so many of us.
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I will never be  bored as long as the Pittsburgh Post Gazette continues to include comments to the sports page from the readers. Similar to humorist Will Rogers -  thought:(paraphrased here) "I will never run out of material  - as long as there is a Congress" .

My panacea for occasional mild depression is reading the comments from the Steeler's so-called experts, advising Steeler management as to what they REALLY need to do in order to be competetive this year.

There is nothing wrong with having an opinion  - as long as one understands, usually - that's ALL it is. Opinions aren't necessarily truisms.
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Is it just me, or are we fans of the old show "West Wing" and now "The Veep", possibly getting the inside scoop as to what actually does go on in the White House - regardless of party affiliation?

If even 50% of what the writers include in "The Veep" scripts is accurate, we can understand how difficult it is for people in power to reach a decision.

 I once thought business management required some "squirrely thinking" in order to succeed. But in todays world of politics the battle cry seems to be:"YOU AIN'T SEEN NUTTIN YET!"
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I enjoy NBC's Meet The Press. In referencing my viewing of their  8/31/14 show I couldn't help but wonder about the criticism I was hearing: "What if we find out that despite his off the cuff comment, our President really did have a workable plan regarding Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the Ukraine?''

If so, how many politicians and commentators will be bailing ship now in an rush to obtain air time so they can tells us :"I knew it all the time!"

Of course, even if true, the Republicans still will find something to disagree with, ie, "too late, too little, too sketchy, etc.". We'll know more tomorrow night.
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In all my years of following politics - I cannot recall a Congressional body who simply appear to have nothing on their mind but advancing their own interests.

Just out of curiosity, I looked up the term "traitor" in my Merriam Webster's Collegiate dictionary  (Hey, old habits die hard)  and found the leading  definition was: "One who betray's another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty".

You've all read the polls as to the current Congress's ratings. You decide.
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Yeah, I've lived through the Harry Truman vs "Do Nothing Congress" years but  the 80th passed a total of 906  bills - including 'The Truman Doctrine", "The Taft-Hartley Act," "The National Security Act" - "The Foreign Assistance Act" (Marshall Plan) - "Presidential Succession Act" - "Federal Water Protection Act", amongst other significant legislation.

Despite their argument to the contrary - about the only think noticeable this vainglorious group appears to have passed is - "gas."
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But remember, all of the above is strictly an opinion.

* OK, I made that up.