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And what of the BLM protests? Did they not promote chaos that undermines the fabric of our society?
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 12:12 pm By: Will Simmons
Kamala Harris' radical far left positions on a wide variety of issues, which would destroy our economy and society in the name of her far left ideology is bad enough. THe very worst, however is Walz and Harris' distrain for freedom of speech, the essential cornerstone of democracy, and their support of government censorship instead. She and Walz are a threat to our democracy. The Democrat blather about Trump is just that. He did a fine job, MUCH MUCH better than Biden and Harris, and has the record to prove it.
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 11:21 am By: Conservative Voter
Bobbie has not been looking at the polls lately.
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 11:13 am By: John Steed
I appreciate the thoughtful comments. I tend not to mix religion and politics so won’t comment on that portion.
Politically I agree that, as it often is, a choice between the lesser of two evils.
I choose KH because DT and the MAGA movement he leads is antithetical to American values. I can’t support someone who promotes chaos that undermines the fabric of our society.
MAGA rips everything. Government, the justice system, education, elections ,science, medicine, the arts, you name it. It’s corrupt and needs to be dismantled and remade in the image of the MAGA faithful. By force if needed.
No thanks.
I’m sure KH does scare some of you as DT scares me. The difference, for me, is that I know KH is bound by our system of government. Policy issues aside, she works within the system, will do her best to win, and will accept the outcome with dignity.
MAGA has a history of the opposite. When they lose, it’s always the system is corrupted, never that their ideas are not a majority.
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 10:00 am By: Big Bob
Saving money by hiring an attorney who is not really going to look out for your interests because he has a much better paying client who may have contrary interests is the economy of a fool. It is like saving money by turning the heat down in the schools to 60. With attorneys, you have to have one who will go to the mat for you, or you are wasting your money. There is an old saying that "you get what you pay for" when it comes to "bargains" like this.
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 10:16 am By: Concerned Taxpayer
Honest voter registration campaigns, as have been run in the past by both parties have turned in the forms as they got them and did it to the proper offices. This was not Democrats or Republicans doing this. It was far left activist organizations, and given the ACORN history, they should be held to the rules. If they did not turn them in to the county by the proper date, they should have been rejected. This is the Cloward-Piven strategy of trying to overwhelm the system.

And to Bogus Bob, the people who called their local board of elections to complain were just citizens, not people supporting any particular candidate. In fact, if they hadn't registered themselves, they probably do not care at all about politics. The next step would be to have someone put in an absentee ballot request in their names.
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 10:07 am By: Rino Hunter
At some point, it is reasonable for there to be questions as to how far your community should go to lend agency to certain movements or ideas.

The fact that there are contrasting discussion of ideas is a noble point in the American experiment of real and robust Freedom of Speech.

In response to Big Bob's constant derision of MAGA, it is also a noble point to allow all reasonable groups with productive points of views, like MAGA (Make America Great Again), on the premises of BCCC.
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 9:19 am By: Stan Deatherage
Big Bob: Another translation is that Patriots will one day stop Non Patriot Leftists from cheating to win elections, eliminating the collusive defrauding of real American citizens of their sovereign right to self-govern.
Commented: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 @ 9:05 am By: Stan Deatherage
Translation-trumps down in the polls.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 11:45 pm By: Big Bob
If they found 18 fraudulent registrations in one county, that is probably the tip of the iceberg.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 9:06 pm By: Bubba
Sex clubs? What the hell is wrong with you?

Gay community college students have a right to meet on public property. So does the KKK.

MAGA- only old white men have rights
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 7:34 pm By: Big Bob
Cheeseman has got to go.
#CutTheCheese

We need someone who can understand the fall of civilization occurring due to technology, not actively engaging in it.

In my opinion, no child under the age of 16 should have their own phone or computer. Lazy parents have created the brain rot generation that our schools are beginning to deal with. A lot of children cannot answer word problems simply because they have the attention span of a fly. If they are actually focused on something, it’s crap.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 10:06 pm By: Will Simmons
Yes, having our school board attorney being halfway across the state instead of local, and being chairman of one of the most leftwing Democrat county organizations in NC, are issues, and significant, but they are not the biggest concern with the present arramgement. That is the potential conflict of interest in having somebody whose most significant clients tie him closely to the liberal state education establishment also represent at the same time a more conservative local board.

Potential conflicts arise all the time between local government units and state government entities. Having served as General Counsel, or chief lawyer, for the largest department of NC state government in the Jim Martin administration myself, I am well aware of that potential. I am also aware that it can be very real with the school systems as well if you have a local board that will stand up to the Raleigh establishment. We had a school board attorney from a nearby county active in a political organization of which I was an officer back in the late 1970s and he told us that one of the biggest things he had to deal with was telling the state DPI that NO, they did not have the authority to tell his local board what to do on a variety of matters.

That conflict of interest is very relevant currently on curriculum. Legislative legal staff advised Rep. Kidwell that the county board of education had full authority to adopt whatever curriculum they wanted. This school board attorney, however, who is tied into the state education apparatus in Raleigh, keeps telling them they have to follow the state DPI on curriculum.

That is why the weak as water local School Board policy provision on Critical Race Theory is crafted with an excpetion you could dirve a Mack Truck through. It waives the prohibition if state curriculum provides for CRT.

The current Durham attorney's big education client is the NC School Boards Association, a group run by very liberal bureaucrats that tends to be in lockstep with the liberal bueraucrats at DPI. That organization is dominated by the liberal school boards of the big urban counties. They took no action, for example, to assist local school boards against Biden's attempt to hijack Title IX. The current Beaufort County school attorney is on retainer to this state body to handle major lawsuits against local school boards. All the local boards which are members pay into a fund to cover such lawsuits. It is a stretch for school board members to claim he "represented" county schools "at the state level" before they hired him as county school board attorney. Who he actually represented, and it would be a major client for him, was the fund managed by the NC School Boards Association. Only if Beaufort County schools had been sued would he have been called in to represent them. It seems there are more than one attorney who does that as the Davidson County School Board which is now being sued over suspending a student over his asking a question about "illegal aliens" in class is being represented by a different attorney in that lawsuit.

As to the partisan or ideological nature of legal positions in government, my time in the Martin administration showed clear examples of that. At the end of the administration, the incoming governor was of a different party, Democrat Jim Hunt, and he removed all of the departmental general counsels immediately on taking office and replaced us with Democrats. Governor Martin had similarly replaced all the Democrats he had inherited when he took office with Repuvlicans.

Governor Martin's own General Counsel advised department general counsels not to request Attorney General opinions because Democrat Attorney General Lacey Thornburgh was likely to put a partisan flavor to them. Two AG opinions pertaining to our department that I shot down shows how politics can enter into these things. In one AG opinion they "overlooked" a statute that was right on point and destroyed their argument. In another they cited the opening provisions of a federal statute, which seemed to support their position, but ignored the next few sentences of the same statute that destroyed their position. While legal issues can often be in a grey area that can be argued either way, in those two instances the AG's pffoce played fast and loose with the statutes involved to push the politically driven result they wanted.

I do not know when the contract of the current school board attorney is up for review, but when it is, all of these issues need to be thoroughly discussed. The position should also be put out for tender to local attorneys in Beaufort County and nearby counties.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 8:24 pm By: Steven P. Rader
No doubt John, to vote is to choose the lesser of two evils. We know the kingdoms of the world have been delivered into the hands of the adversary.

The cornerstone of the White House has disappeared. There are paintings of George Washington laying this cornerstone in DC. Since that time it has never been seen again.

Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 7:47 pm By: Will Simmons
Title IX as adopted by Congress and signed into law by the president does NOT make "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" a protected class. That comes from Biden and Harris trying to go around Congress to amend Title IX through rulemaking. Twenty eight states have federal court injunctions against enforcing that interpretation because what Biden and Harris did is not legal.

North Carolina is the only southern state NOT protected by one of these injunctions. That is because our ultra-liberal state Attorney General Josh Stein, who is now running for governor, agrees with Biden and Harris that biological men should be forced onto girls sports teams and into their locker rooms and bathrooms. Stein is the real radical in the governor's race.

Beaufort County Community College has an even bigger problem in that it has embraced the Marxist concept of DEI.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 7:22 pm By: Steven P. Rader
Small towns can easily be destroyed this way, and the only way we are going to reverse this is to elect Trump to do what a sbustantial majority of Americans want, mass deportation of illegal aliens. Reversing some of Biden-Harris subterfuges can strike the pnony claim to "legal" status of these Haitians and make them subject to immediate deportation.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 7:15 pm By: borderhawk
I am a Reagan conservative and Trump was not my first choice in 2016 or 2024. I was a Ted Cruz supporter to the bitter end, and supported Ron DeSantis as long as he stayed in the race this primary. I vote issues not personalities, and Trump is much closer to Reagan than people like the Bushes and Cheneys. I don't agree with Trump on every issue, but I do on most. I have found NOTHING I agree with Kamala Harris on. She is Hugo Chavez in a pants suit. She was the most leftwing member of the US Senate, even to the left of avowed socialist Bernie Sanders. Kamala Harris is a radical leftwing extremist who is a clear and present danger to America's future.

The biggest cult out there, part of the "woke" movement, is the climate alarmist cult, or Climate Scientology, a pagan form of Gaia worship. It is probably the biggest cult in history.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 6:18 pm By: John Steed
Bob I understand there are some people who seemingly worship Trump in a cult like fashion, this MAGA you refer to.

It is offensive however that you generalize everyone who would vote for him as this type of person. Many, including myself, do not really favor Trump as a person. There is a lot of evil about him, but we would vote for him because he appears to be for certain principles. Honestly though he may care less. He IS a con man. He profits from bankruptcies in his personal ventures and this is reflected on how he runs the country. I believe he could bankrupt the country but that is inevitable at this point. We know it will happen because we know of the world government in the last days.

In reality, there IS a lot about the Trump movement that is reminiscent of 1930’s Germany, and I can understand the concern of events going downhill.

All we can do is have faith in this:

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 4:42 pm By: Will Simmons
Crooked CBS refused to release the transcript or the tape of the full Kamala Harris interview, which they clearly doctored one answer on because they released the original version as a teaser before the doctoring was done. What more monkey business was involved? A poll showed that 90% of Americans think they should have to release the whole thing.

Now, Spreaker Mike Johnson has also nailed CBS for where they doctored one of his answers in a interview to hide material harmful to Harris. Johnson had made his own recording and released his actual answer undoctored.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 4:41 pm By: Conservative Voter
No knowledgable conservative uses woke leftwing google and their censored search engine. There are so many more trushwworthy sources like DuckDuckGo, BraveSearch, and even Ging.

No c oonservative would use google any more than they would buy Bud Lite.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 4:32 pm By: Conservative Voter
And you say you don’t use google! Good job
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 1:48 pm By: Big Bob
RH- no worries I’ll keep dumbing it down for ya.
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 1:47 pm By: Big Bob
KH is going on FOX. That’s good, right?
Commented: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 @ 1:45 pm By: Big Bob
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