~~ In Washington , our D.C. Newsbreaker says with a blizzard of snow and ice pummeling the Northeast after trouncing the Midwest, and waves of Arctic cold fronts dropping much of America below sub-freezing weather, the $64,000 question is: Where is Al Gore?

~~ That’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Jay Leno’s “According to a new U.N. report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. That’s pretty bad, since they originally predicted it would destroy the planet."

~~ In Columbus, Buckeye Bureau Chief Gerry Manders says a Franklin County judge may have lifted a restraining order against Dingbat DemocRAT Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner that barred her from requiring paper ballots for the March primary, but the issue won’t be resolved until arguments are made in court today.

~~ Gayvenor Strickland’s great idea to send high school seniors to college has been in use for years. Kids at private schools, who excel in AP classes, can actually get many college credits while in high school. They are also getting scholarships to take college classes while still in high school.

~~ But there is one big problem with the yoofs who get scholarships with no plan to attend classes. They also get vouchers for free books. But, listen up, over-taxed payers: The yoofs sell the textbooks and keep your tax money for booze and drugs!

~~ And how in hell is this cockamamie plan going to help anybody? The kids will still be in high school, so no savings there. They’ll be taking up class space in Ohio universities, so there would be a cost for that, and they won’t be paying anything for college classes, so the universities will not be getting that tuition. Then if they graduate in less than four years, the universities will be getting even less in tuitions. This is a typical feel good giveaway DemocRATS just can’t stop proposing. This time, it’s take away from schools and universities and give it to those who are benefitting from free education and tax the already over-taxed payers even more.

~~ And in a move almost as sincere, Ditzy DemocRAT Icky Vicky Wulsin (Millionaire-Indian Hill) announced she was calling for the cancellation of the Clermont County OH-02 straw poll because her opponent Republican-Turned-DemocRAT Steve Black is mourning the passing of his father. You can’t get much more sincere than that.

~~ In today’s Black History Moment, we note that Don Murphy, Newly Crowned CEO of the Empty Uppity Oprah Winfrey Campaigning for Obama, Under-funded, Ugly-ass Unnagraown Ray roe Museum Freedom Center had a guest column in Sunday’s Fishwrap to explain “Why the Museum is reinventing itself to keep alive its crucial message for the world.” Maybe it’s just that the over-taxed payers of Hamilton County didn't like the B-S they’ve heard for the past five years, or maybe it’s that even bleeding hearts don’t want to go see slave stories and exhibits. And even bussed-in Black folks won’t go more than once. How long will this racial racketeer last. You know the turnstiles will never take in enough to pay his exorbitant salary.

~~ In Yesterday’s High Cost of Public Service Department, when the Mendacious Mallory Family observed their name rhymed with “salary,” one Mallory Watcher noticed Dale rhymes with “jail,” “for sale,” and “bail.”

~~ Meanwhile in the 34th Ohio House District race, where three Anderson Township Republicans are running really dull campaigns for “TaxKiller Tom’s” term-limited House seat in Columbus, Sidney Spellchecker says wouldn’t it be funny if “TaxKiller’s” pussy opponent in the 2004 GOP Primary sent out a slick direct mail piece that misspelled the name of one of the big shots he claims is endorsing him?

~~ Tuesday when The Blower said somebody needed to demand the current leaders of the Hamilton County Republican Party defend their shameful stewardship, George Vincent said he was willing to go anywhere at any time and publicly defend his record as the Temporary Hamilton County RINO Party Boss. Today the Blue Chip Young Republicans (formerly known as the Blue Chip Young RINOs) announced they had invited Vincent to speak at their February 25 meeting and explain the reason he’s not running anybody against Devious DemocRAT Hamilton County Commissioner Odd Todd Opportune and why he endorsed all those tax increases.

~~ Hurley the Historian says on this date in 1633 Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. We can only hope for a similar outcome after Vincent’s appearance at the Young Republican Club meeting.

~~ Meanwhile at the Totally Discredited Fishwrap, Idiotorial Page Editor David Wells has still not explained if Skaggie Maggie ’s pal Mean Jean had demanded separate interviews during the Fishwrap’s bogus endorsement process because she refuses to appear jointly with “TaxKiller Tom.” David says, “We look forward to Mr. Brinkman's abandoning his principles and participating in our bogus process anyway.”

~~ Clermont Countians who gave up watching Norm put up drywall on 'This Old House' last Thursday to attend the County Commission debate were stunned to see "TaxKiller" Tom Brinkman and DemocRAT Pierce Township Trustee Gregg Conrad snuggling next to each other at the UC Clermont auditorium. They were the only two people sitting in a row of 40 seats, but they decided to share an armrest together and watch the show, leaving many of the Republicans to wonder what's gotten into the burly Brinkman, and leaving the four other Democrats in the room to smile at Gregg's new “friend,” if you know what we mean.

~~ Lucy from Lebanon says wouldn’t it be funny if a cafeteria director at a local school district were running her catering business using school resources and they let her resign with no prosecution and no restitution of funds. And what if the same thing happened with the Athletic Director in 2005, and he went on to Sandusky and recently applied for a job at Fairfield ? And what if the treasurer left in 2006 with $5 million misappropriated and no one was allowed to speak to her or interview her? Do you see a pattern here? Word is they had a forensic audit and refused to release it to the public. What juicy items were uncovered in that document?

~~ Finally, did you notice the news coverage of that incident at MILF-ord High School that led to three basketball players being charged with assaulting another ninth grader on the team? Why won’t anybody tell you what really happened? They use terms like “assault,” “bullying,” “unlawful restraint,” “sexual imposition” and “complicity to sexual imposition.” Clermont County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Woody Breyer, who’s never met a TV camera he didn’t like, is suddenly squeamish. Come on, Woody, if you just said three ninth grade basketball players held down another boy just to get him to suck one of their dicks, everybody would know what you’re talking about.

~~ Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo says, “Yankee, Go Home!” after Friday, when Channel 12’s newsreader pointed out that Devious Hamilton County Commissioner Odd Todd Opportune had suggested that Cincinnati and Hamilton County really should have a seat on the Airport board, you know, the one in Kentucky. The airport’s response is that residents of Ohio are often appointed to the board, but they're business leaders. Presumably, Odd Todd’s complaint is that he doesn't get to appoint himself or some of his more generous supporters.

~~ At first glance, this just looks stupid, like all of Odd Todd’s ideas. But in the interests of regionalism, it probably deserves consideration. Hamilton County has three commissioners, in all fairness, one of those should be elected from Northern Kentucky . It’s highly unlikely that they would do a worse job. And while we're at it, Cincinnati has Nine Fine Clowns. We would think that at least one each should be elected by the adjoining Kentucky counties. Fair is fair.

~~ If memory serves us correctly, Odd Todd was on the City Clown-cil when they were constantly bickering and couldn't get anything done except get CIncinnati named the worst run city. He took that skill with him to the County Commission , and nothing seems to get done there, either. Now he wants to export his incompetence out of state. But while he's at it, wouldn't it be fair to levy a tax on Hamilton County over-taxed payers and hand that over to the airport? After all, with all those politicians wanting a seat on the Airport Board, the least they could do is to help pay for it.

~~ In Frankfort , Bluegrass Governor Steve Beshear says spending more than $1 million on last year's governor race won't help William Yung III win the right to open a gambling operation in Kentucky . As the old joke goes, “We all know what the Governor is, so now it’s just a matter of the price.”

~~ Ken CamBoo wrote the Blower to say he hopes legislators in Northern Kentucky read in Sunday’s Fishwrap how much money the big guys gave to Mitt Romney and what it got them. Ken said you guys better remember for every big check, there is only one vote and his wife is going to cancel that one out. Ask Mitt.

~~ Is it true that during Northern Kentucky Frankfort night, Nathan "Cornbread" Smith found it necessary to open up a can of whoop ass on Demon Nay Thayer when Demon began pushing Nathan after the two tiny fellows got into a screaming match? We need a couple of eye-witness reports to get this story straight.

~~ The Boone County Domestic Relations Judge said if it is true what he read in the Blower about the young attorneys in Northern Kentucky being in heat over Mrs. Robinson, does that mean he needs to clear his docket for more all those divorce suits that are going to be filed.

~~ Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney E. Rob Sanders says prosecutors from across the Commonwealth met last week to discuss the lack of sufficient funding for prosecutors in the current state budget bill. If Rob and his cohorts wouldn’t keep rounding up criminals and trying to put them in jail, we might not have that problem.

~~ Wouldn’t it be funny if Covington Fire Chief Buddy Wheatley was out drinking Friday night in his unmarked fire chief’s car in Boone county, lost control of it on River Road and totaled it over a hill side, got one of his co-workers to come and get him, took the plates off of it and left the scene, returned five hours later like it just happened and reported it to Boone County, then went to the hospital where his blood alcohol test showed him .04 (five hours after accident). Would City Mangler Jay Faucet go to the hospital to tell Buddy what to say? Is Jay planning to buy a new off road Hummer for the Fire Chief’s next unmarked vehicle?

~~ One has to wonder if the reason most Northern Kentucky legislators no longer worry about seeking the Right to Life endorsement might be because they checked the records to see in which zip codes most abortions were performed.

~~ State Commissioner of Education John Benet Draud wrote the Blower to say he could not believe how testy the people of Kentucky got over a couple hundred days of vacation and sick leave. It isn’t like the people at the Chamber of Commerce don’t give it to their employees.

~~ Cranky, who is renting the Commissioner of Education’s home in Crestview, wrote the Blower to ask if the legislation outlawing robo calls from legislators is not passed, will the Blower be printing a special edition publishing all the legislators home phone numbers so we can call and let them know how we feel about it?

~~ An ex-Vanilla Hills resident who moved to Florence and received another surprise said he can remember the good old days when public servants didn’t get rich, his whole tax bill was only $40, and the streets were like new.

~~ Vanilla Hills Mayor Mischievous Mike Sadouskas wants to clear up the confusion caused by the pea-brained dumb-ass who submitted instructions last Sunday for residents on where to pay their license fee and locate the mayor. Mischievous wants everyone, including the aforementioned, ill-informed mental-midget, to know that he can be located in city building #2, not city building #1. Mischievous would really love for the moronic Sunday submitter to pay him a visit sometime. Stay tuned, indeed.

~~ Could it be true, our Boone County Judge Defective is trying to save tons of money because the county is broke? Then why is it, the first and only street pre-treated for the big snow storm led right to Judge More-or-Less's home? Don’t we all wish we could get such special treatment?

~~ Finally, Linda Libel says, “Oprah told me I could keep these earrings if I'd wear this t-shirt. My life-long, straight-ticket Republican father nearly spit his dinner out when I came to the table wearing it.”