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The school board has not distinguished itself in the public trust department in either the vandalism issue or the backroom deal on spending $52 million on poorly thought out school construction.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 4:22 pm By: Bubba

BB actually mentioned something interesting: Why was MLK shot and killed? The FBI presented a case for who and why - James Earl Ray and racism. The King family doesn't believe the FBI. I imagine we've got about as straight a story on this as we do the JFK assassination.

Concerning working to support the movement, I must be way younger than B Bob.

Back to the WHS vandalism: Hood is right. Where's the transparency and accountability? The questions by JV need to be answered.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 10:47 pm By: Van Zant

Beaufort County has a Tammany Hall style government both with its school board and county commission. No transparency is in the process because everything is done by secret deals in the backroom. Our school system has had this problem for some time as our last school construction spree built too much space some places and left needs unmet in others. We are seeing the same "fly by the seat of their pants" approach this time, and probably worse.

The big cheese on that committee is Cheeseman. T.W. Allen is a joke, and little more than Cheeseman's sock puppet. When Cheeseman says "jump" he asks how high? Frankie Waters owes Cheeseman a big political favot, so he will rubber stamp whatever Cheeseman wants. When Waters wanted to screw his adversary Commissioner Stan Deatherage out of the school website contract, Cheeseman did his dirty work for him, and so now Waters owes that favor, putting him in Cheeseman's pocket. This is a one man show, and it is all Cheeseman. Cheeseman wants what he wants for his own resume and does not care about the impact on education in Beaufort County.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 6:56 pm By: John Steed

Anyway you shake it, Americans eat too much meet. Modern Ag treats animal horribly, is tough on the environment and provides a product in quantities that just isn't needed. I'm no vegetarian, but Think how we raise our food is important and profits should not be they ONLY consideration.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 10:04 am By: Big Bob

Never happen.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 10:12 am By: Big Bob

I would love to see the next Trump administration bring in former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott as an advisor on US border policy. We need our own Operation Sovereign Borders.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 9:22 am By: borderhawk

Richardson's concerns on this vandalism in our schools reflects the feelings of many taxpayers in our county. The level of trust in the school system is not great due to their secretiveness and lack of transparency. People want answers but the school system wants to deflect. While they may not be able to give the names of the students, that is not what people are looking for. The school system wants to keep all information behind closed doors while the citizens want government in the sunshine.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 8:19 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Learn your history, LIttle BObbie. King was accused, including by the FBI, of being a communist, not a "Marxist". Although he dabbled with some of their "social justice" concepts, King was fundamentally a Christian and therefore had no use for the atheist core tenets of communism. He actually preached sermons against it.
kinginstitute.stanford.edu

What MLK was NOT was "woke", again because as a Christian he rejected homosexuality and would have rejected "transgenderism" which had not yet reared its ugly head.

Dr. King's belief that people should "be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin" is the polar opposite of the "woke" notion of DEI.

Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 4:14 pm By: Conservative Voter

The corrupt DOJ clearly cannot be trusted to handle contempt of Congress cases, because party politics matters to them more than the law. Congress needs to find a different way to prosecute these things. Right now the Attorney General seems to be able to thumb his nose at Congress at will while he prosecutes questionable cases against his political enemies.

I remember when scumbag Eric Holder played the same game and defied a Congressional subpoena, then would not prosecute himself. Some at that time suggested having the Capitol police take Holder into custody and find a room in the Capitol in which to detain him. That os the sort of thinking we need against these arrogant out of control leftist AG's.

It has also been mentioned that there is no statute of limitations on contempt of Congress, so the incoming Trump AG could take up both referrals and prosecute Holder and Garland and jail them. That may be the only way to straighten this mess out.

And stupid Bob is clueless. This is not about winning or losing. Corrupt AG's never even let it go to court on themselves, but they push their enemies into prison prematurely to try to screw up their chances of getting their appeals heard.

Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 2:25 pm By: Rino Hunter

The economy couldn’t stand such a policy. If you think prices are high now, see what happens. Trump will never do it.

Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 9:00 am By: Big Bob

Time will tell

Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 9:55 am By: Big Bob

Martin Luther King,Jr. was hardly "woke". Read some of his comments on homosexuality and it will show you he clearly wasn't. Indeed, it would not surprise me to some day see the Gaystapo going after MLK memorials just as hard as BLM gores after southern war memorials.

While Karl Marx himself never wrote anything that would promote wokeness, his followers in the following century did. Marxism is about creating divisions in sociey and Karl Marx expected wealth and class to fullfill the ideological need there. But a later Marxist ideologue changed that. Herbert Marcuse was chief of ideology for the German Communist Party in the Weimar Republic and fled when the Nazis took over. Upset that the working class did not rise up in Germany to overthrow the Nazis, Marcuse concluded that Marxists needed to create further divisions in society that they could exploit politically. He espoused what he called Critical Theory which advocated creating many divisions in society. Critical Race Theory is part of that. He came up with the term "intersectionality" to describe playing on more than one of those divisions at the same time. The "woke" movement today is straight out of the Marxist ideology of Herbert Marcuse.

Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 12:43 pm By: Conservative Voter