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As usual, Bolshevik Bob, you are ALL left wing opinion, but NO fact.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By: Conservative Voter

VZ - no black history thread ever makes it in the BO, so yes, I hijacked this thread because it's about schools and it's February. Sure, its woke to talk about actual US history and I certainly didn't mean to ruffle your sensibilities. I know how important cherished beliefs can be and hope you are emotionally in a safe place. If you need a 800 counseling line to help process the fairy tail with actual history , I can provide. Stay safe.

CV - Who fought in what army is a moot point.
Slaves can't consent.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 2:48 pm By: Big Bob

MAGA - Even though trump will sell you a bible, they missed the whole point of the Christian religion.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 2:35 pm By: Big Bob

Building that mega-school is not about what's best for education in Beaufort County. I tis about what looks best for Cheeseman's resume for when he tries to move up to a higher paying job at a bigger school system. Cheeseman was not about to do any professional studies that would send the money elsewhere in the system, nor was he going to allow input from the peasants (public) that might also derail his resume enhancement. He did not even bring legal counsel into the process, which led to that fiasco about the 4 acres. It was ALL about Cheeseman and his resume, not about edcuation in our county.

Unfortunately, Cheeseman has had a pack of rubber stamps in the majority on the school board who just sat back and said "yes, boss". On top of that was the corrupt arrangement of two school board members with husbands on the county commission. It was a confict of interest and completely unethical for them to vote on any of these matters.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 1:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Under Border Czar Tom Homan, ICE is doing a great job rounding up the criminal illegal aliens and sending them home. Border crossings have dropped way off, too.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 11:43 am By: borderhawk

Before it became "woke" in the second Obama administration, USAID did not get into all of these leftist political agenda operations. That is my assessment from actually knowing quite a few people who ran those programs on the ground in eastern Europe. It was early in the second Obama administration that the wokeness started arriving in USAID. Keyboard warrior Bob has never had any contact on the ground with people who actually ran these programs, so all he has to go on is what his talking points tell him to say.

I am not surprised at the new reports of USAID funding of both promoting left oriented media here in the US and suppression by censorhip of right oriented media. It had emerged much earlier that they were funding a major pro-censorhship organization based in the UK that targeted conservatives.

It is sad to see what has become of USAID under Obama and Biden. It once was an agency that accomplished a lot of good.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 10:20 am By: Steven P. Rader

It seems that what is happening now is part of an established process of poor planning and broken promises.

In all of this, Chocowinity Primary School still does not have a 5th grade on campus. The CPS 5th grade is located on the Chocowinity Middle School campus. Has anywhere else in North Carolina done this?

Also, around County/City merger time the greatest needs in the County were identified as Belhaven and Aurora. I never quite understood how the answer to that was losing John A. Wilkenson. Maybe there are things I don't know about that one, but it makes me wonder.

At the time I wasn't very negative about the Chocowinity / Aurora High School consolidation. I've had second thoughts since then. When this was going on, assurances were given to Aurora area residents not to worry, because younger children would not be subjected to having to travel increased distances. Nowadays it appears that promise is off the table too.

Consequently, I'm for having a time out on everything until we've had a detailed study done resulting in a coherent plan for Beaufort County. This hodgepodge planning seems to be headed for nowhere good.

P.S.- I can't see where any of this Beaufort County business has anything to do with Tula [Tulsa] Oklahoma in 1921.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 9:41 am By: Van Zant

Never heard of the Corwin amemdment to the US Constitution?
I was over 50 when I firar heard of it.

It was passed by the northern-controlled US Congress by supermajority in March 1861, submitted to the states for ratification, and endorsed by Lincoln in his first inaugural address. It gives the lie to the argument that the north entered the War Between the States to free the slaves because if the Corwin Amendment had been ratified by the states, it would have enshrined slavery in the US Constitution where it could not have been abolished from the federal level.

Wonder why our pro-northern history books have covered that up even before they became woke?

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 9:10 am By: Rino Hunter

USAID was interfering in domestic American politics, not only by funding the leftwing "Politico" but also funding US-based censorship groups that were targeting conservative news outlets. Not only does USAID need to be shut down but those who ran it need to be ptrsecuted for their diversion of taxpayer funds to domestic political purposes. They need to be in prison. www.thegatewaypundit.com

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 8:32 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The wokesters put in place by two woke presidents, one white and one black are actually who corrupted USAID. It is beyond saving.

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 8:19 am By: Conservative Voter

As a point of clarification, when the Center-Left Coalition Party, who swap votes to share power here in Beaufort County, who voted to retain and keep their abject sophistry born from the convenience of Group-Think, I stated in in my observance of their utter inaction (and not wanting to let this last comment go unaccounted for): "Don't want to know; don't care; don't want to know, don't what to know; keeping their heads in the sand!"

Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 4:02 am By: Stan Deatherage