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If the first thing you think of upon hearing the word "lynching" is white British solders, you might be a Clans-man.

Commented: Thursday, May 9th, 2024 @ 9:04 am By: Big Bob

A candidate who keeps loudly claiming to be a conservative at campaign time but has no record on conservative issues before the campaign comes across as a fake, a counterfeit conservative. The more they shout that claim at the top of their lungs, the more suspicious I get. When they start advocating popular conservative issues, that they don't even seem to understand and have no prior record of involvment on, it is clear that they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

Always look at the RECORD, not the campaign claims on all candidates.

A good example is Bob Brinson, who spent a wad of establishment money in his primary beating his chest that he was a conservative. Late in the campaign, the mother of all special interest groups, the Chamber of Commerce sent out postcards supporting Brinson, making him a "Chamber of Commerce Republican", which is the opposite of a conservative. Brinson's record in public office showed nothing conservative but one red flag of liberalism, voting to raise taxes. Of course, he papered over that in his campaign by putting out postcards that he was for cutting taxes, but that was NOT what he actually did in his own political record.

Our outgoing Senator, Jim Perry, was awful, constantly taking the lead on pushing liberal issues, but I do not have much hope of Brinson being much better.

The "Repubican" nominee for State Treasurer, Brad Briner, is indeed an example of this. Having voted in the Democrat primary as recently as 2020, he is sure no conservative but sent out postcards claiming he was. He also works for gun controller promoter Michael Bloomburg, which should have made him a non-starter in the primary, but he succeeded in pulling the wool over too many eyes.

Commented: Thursday, May 9th, 2024 @ 8:54 am By: Conservative Voter

The reality is that all kangaroo court proceedings are wrong, and that is a reality, Bobbie, that you are unwilling to face. My point on the white British loyalists is simply that is where the term "lynching" came from.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 7:52 pm By: Rino Hunter

Ask any J6er. A good protest takes some planning.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 4:54 pm By: Big Bob

I could easily see this happen in Beaufort County Schools. Start with the fact that some of the teachers (what percent I could only guess) are flaming liberals. Add to that a liberal education establishment superintendant and central office. The final problem is that a majority of the school board, including all of those running this year, are seat warmers who are rubber stamps for the liberal superintendant.

I could even name one high school English teacher who would be a prime suspect to start something like this rolling.

Parents in all school board races need to go to the polls and throw the rascals out this November. Davidson County, a Republican county, clearly needs that very badly, and it is something we need in Beaufort County as well. Mack Hodges, Eltha Booth, and T.W. Allen are all Cheeseman sock puppets.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 3:33 pm By: Conservative Voter

I wish we had a US president as concerned about illegal migration to the US as Panama's new president. Illegal immigration is costing our taxpayers a mint, thanks to Biden. I suspect we will have a president who will crack down on this flood of illegals mooching off of our taxpayers once President Trump returns to office in January.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 12:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Kangaroo court proceedings against anybody are just plain wrong, especially when people are killed as a result, whether it was the original Lynch doing it to British loyalists in Revolutionary War Virginia, yankee draft rioters doing it to black residents of New York City in 1863, the KkK doing it to blacks in the 20th century, or Biden/Bragg/Merchan/Smith/Willis trying to do it to President Trump now.

Nobody is trying to justify any of this. It is all abhorent.

And I see you put up a link to the (Manchester) Guardian, the UK's leading leftwing newspaper for many, many years, although one that still remembers to do real journalism sometimes, unlike their pure propaganda MSM cousins in the US.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 11:36 am By: Rino Hunter

Hello Liz,

I am fairly new to this publication but was looking through "posting categories" tonight and ran across the Disappearing South category. You have captured the essence of this category with your pictorial expressions exhibited here. I live in Pitt County and often take notice of crumbling houses, barns, and other structures as I drive. Another category beyond the buildings, is the farm equipment graveyards. It's quite sad that we as a society just cast things aside and allow them to decay at their own speed.

And by the way, our historical markers and monuments don't fare much better. I've become much more attuned to history over the last few years . . . but then again . . . I'm a bit of 'history' myself. (old dude)

Sigh. Thanks for sharing your work and your thoughts.

JMan
Pitt County

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 10:20 pm By: JMan

I suppose "lynching" and "hanging" are two diff things.
However:
"Thomas Granger, was executed in the Plymouth Colony in 1642. Granger was a servant to Love Brewster in the Plymouth Colony of British North America. At the age of 16 or 17, he was convicted of “buggery with a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheep, two calves, and a turkey” according to court records from September 7, 1642. His crimes were considered severe, and he was sentenced to death by hanging."

Having a Fair Trial, the animals were executed too.
en.wikipedia.org

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 5:16 pm By: Washingtonian

This problem is in a number of European countries, with Scotland just passing a "hate speech" law and Ireland on the verge of one. It is being applied to political speech by elected officials. A Belgian member of the European Union parliament is now under investigation for citing his own national government's statistics on asylum seeker migrants and crime in a speech on the floor of the EU parliament. A member of France's Senate has been charged for posting "Immigration kills" after the brutal rape and murder of a young French girl by an asylum seeker migrant.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 4:23 pm By: borderhawk

"Lynch mob" may not the best choice of words for Confederate loving white guys, Just sayin.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 3:35 pm By: Big Bob

In Germany, not the US. If you want the right to free speech, don't vote MAGA.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 3:33 pm By: Big Bob