today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Question for today… “It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” – Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, stating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August of 1945, was unnecessary. Read more in this Global Research article: “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The Big Lie.”

• CPD news release 05Aug2013

• “Police Often Don’t Enforce Jaywalking Law” – older video addresses persistent problem – WGAL-TV

• New Newsweek owner – The Washington Post

• “The 159th Reading Fair got underway today and runs through Saturday at the Reading Fairgrounds.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• BUT ...Firemen’s Competition Cancelled due to lack of interest of fire companies – Reading Fair Website

• Tomorrow night is “National Night Out” – Columbia Borough Website

• Great lesson for America’s youth: It’s OK to cheat at athletics; just ask Major League Baseball

• OPINION: If MLB hasn’t got the cajonnes to ban enhanced cheaters, bring back Pete Rose and his records. And let him go to the Hall of Shame with the others. There used to be a saying: Winners never cheat and cheaters never win. Apparently, in sports today, that’s no longer true.

• Who is the executive director at Community Life Network of Columbia? According to this, the former left the position in May 2013.