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What an outrage. These spendthrift traitors need to be drummed out of the Republican Party.

Commented: Saturday, July 12th, 2025 @ 2:55 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Buzz I don’t mean to be harsh or rash but your speech illustrates the crux of the issue. If your faith is in Our Lord Jesus Christ then hallelujah, amen. We are indeed brothers, children of the Lord.

And as children growing in the way, we are nurtured on milk when we are young, but meat as we mature.

“To love thine enemy as thyself” is an example of milk.

A like example of meat would be:

“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.”

I do agree that there is an attack on Christianity, it has been under attack since the beginning because it is not of this world.

You said “All people should be free to worship who and how they please.”

Do you truly agree with your own statement? There are pagan worshippers of witchcraft that believe and perform human sacrifices, should they be free to do that?

I’ll let the Bible answer that;

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”

You made the statement:
“Because of Trump, you can express yourself and be a soldier for Christ without the fear of reprisal.”

Reprisal from who? The government? Society? Islamic terrorists? Fact is, one who follows Jesus the world or should I say “reality” is against. We worship the Lord that men hung on a cross. The servant is not greater than the master.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. The problem now is the cult like phenomenon of people associating Trump;Christ;God;Merica. It’s borderline if not outright blasphemous to make any such association because the man does not have a clue what the Bible says. He might can quote something out of it as anyone can but what does it say, he ain’t got the first notion.

Also nothing against CS Lewis was a fine fella. Little long winded but who’s talking.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 6:52 pm By: Will Simmons

European countries should do like the Trump administration and cut off welfare funds to illegal aliens. Illegal aliens, for example, account for 63% of all welfare spending in Germany. These freeloaders should not be a financial burden on taxpayers anywhere in the western world.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 3:34 pm By: borderhawk

Yes the door to God is waiting for us all. The writer did some good work on this artical.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 12:38 pm By: bill lee

Terry Williams was asked to "put up or shut up" about his claim of public discussion on closing Snowden by the school board over the last ten years. Apparently he cannot put up by telling us any times that can be documented when that happened, so he has chosen to shut up. Looks like his little bluff failed.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 11:30 am By: Bubba

All these "discussions" over the last ten years must have been in those closed from the public sessions. The public was not let in on any of this during most of the 10-year time period mentioned. I realize that it is comfortable and very convenient for the Superintendent and Board, but it is also an unlawful misuse of closed sessions. They saved the open session work for the cram down at the end. Transparency and disrespect for the public is a very big feature of this school board and this school superintendent.

Many of us on the southside do appreciate Terry Willliams's last ditch NO vote to closing Snowden School. We would have really appreciated him voting against starting the school closing procedure that made any of this possible. Trouble is he voted YES on that one. Donald Shreve made the motion to start the school closing procedure, and he and five other board members voted YES on the final vote also. It's hard to make a case for either one of those guys making any effort to keep Snowden open.

On the other hand, Mr. Hickman and Ms. Davis voted NO to all of this nonsense. A lot of us recognize and respect the difference. Also, Commissioners Richardson, Deatherage and Dunn made efforts to keep Snowden open, but they were outvoted by the other four commissioners. Remember during this time Commissioner Booth said, "I've done all I'm going to do for Aurora."

It is obvious that we do have local board members advocating for transparency. The trouble is the majority of our board members do not work for transparency and do hide their work in secrecy and murkiness. Those representatives disrespecting the people that put them there need to be weeded out.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 10:38 am By: Van Zant

Obviously you must have missed the WITN news where they interviewed Clif Williams and his exact words were he was glad it was closing and he would get a charter school or apartments...

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 9:05 am By: Rhonda Stallings

Terry - You claim the closing of Snowden was "openly discussed" by the school board for ten years. I am simply asking you for the facts by telling us when you claim that issue was on the public agenda of the school board. Then we can look up the minutes for those meetings. Apparently you are not able to do that which strongly suggests that, in fact, closing Snowden was never on the school board's public agenda. If it was not on the school board's public agenda, how in the heck was it "publicly discussed" by the school board?

Commented: Thursday, July 10th, 2025 @ 10:47 pm By: Rino Hunter

Rino Hunter - this probably is my last comment here because apparently no one on here is interested in the truth. Where did I say the Snowden discussion was behind closed doors? No where did I say that. Besides if you want to have a transparent conversation then sign your name and stop hiding behind the ridiculous Rino Hunter. So easy to make unsubstantiated claims when you hide.

Commented: Thursday, July 10th, 2025 @ 3:49 pm By: Terry Williams

Terry Williams: Since you suddenly are now waxing transparent: Can you help me get a copy of the title search, with all accompanying legal notations, on the infamous 4 acres that cost Beaufort County taxpayers an additional $500,000.00 just because your administration chose to build on land, OUR school system did not own, but fecklessly believed to be owned?

I have asked for that title search, with all accompanying legal notations, since early February. Your Superintendent promised me the title search, with all accompanying legal notations, back in early February, 2025, but a great big bowl of nothing is what I have received.

I asked for a formal request to be submitted by the Beaufort County Commissioners to the School Board, of which you are a member, but my motion failed, as it received a vote of 3 to 4, with the Center-Left /Left Coalition (those who swap votes to share power here in Beaufort County), denying me /my county constituents that phantom data.

Terry Williams, since you may be in a more persuasive position than myself: Can you please get me a copy of that special phantom data - the infamous title search - for me and my constituents (the taxpayers of Beaufort County)?

Commented: Thursday, July 10th, 2025 @ 1:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

There was a lot of closed door dealings. Don Shreve admitted they had "confidential information that could not be disclosed to the public". They violated the open meeting law every time they turned around. This secrecy game allows school management to tell each board member something different to steer their vote because they are pledged to secrecy. This game is against the law.

Rino Hunter you are correct. Terry Williams voted to close Snowden when he voted to start the process to close Snowden.

Maybe Terry can tell what the school board lawyer told him is closed session about his conflict with having relatives in high positions in the school system. That was another violation of the open meeting law.

Where are the ethics at the school board?

Commented: Thursday, July 10th, 2025 @ 12:11 pm By: Hood Richardson