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

Quote for today… “The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.” – James Russell Lowell

• Columbia Police Department news releases: Columbia Police Department NEWS RELEASE 02-07-14 – A    Columbia Police Department NEWS RELEASE 02-07-2014

• Fire departments’ consolidation ongoing debate – MyColumbiaNews

A 5/11/14 aerial view by Paul Freeman looking northwest at McGinness Airport, showing it remaining intact, but with 2 closed-runway “X” symbols on the northwest/southeast runway. McGinness Airport is located southwest of the intersection of Manor Street & South 12^th Street. (SOURCE: airfields-freeman.com)

• To sell it – don’t you first have to own it?

“point made” – from a post at LancasterOnLine facebook page

• a law is a law, of course, of course, unless the “Supremes” say it isn’t – Newsweek

• “Hobby Lobby’s Hypocrisy: The Company’s Retirement Plan Invests in Contraception Manufacturers” – MotherJones.com
  

• Yeah, Ruth! – “Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.” – MotherJones.com

• We continue to become more like the nations we used to hate: Spy central – The Washington Post

• Loser bailout: GM recalls 8.4 million more – The Washington Post