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Big Bob you may be right ... for some Republicans here in North Carolina.

You neglected, however, to leave out the third leg of that proverbial stool of exceptions for abortions, in which you did state "rape and incest," but that neglected third exception would be "severe health risks," which is still an exception here in North Carolina.

The abortion conundrum is the most difficult issue to legislate, since it does involve the restriction of a woman's Free Will in lieu of the natural protection of an unborn child.

For any lawmaker in any state, it is tantamount to the lawmaking conundrum of when to exercise the Death Penalty for crimes against humanity. I see no difference in the severity in this level of judgement for general assembly lawmakers here in North Carolina.

It is such an awesome responsibility, it might would be wise for Democratic Socialists to NOT make such an issue of Abortion, and instead better consider the many smaller laws regulating the conduct of who we are, and who we could become as a People.

In that simarially awesome regard, issues of Abortion, and even environmentally "Saving the Planet for Human Usage" would take care of themselves by US all becoming better stewards of how we conduct ourselves, thus in taking care of OUR most precious things.

One thing I do know for sure, our better actions, by listening to our "better angels," would cut down on what I like to call the Grand Hypocrisy of Others, which right NOW is at an all time high; with the most frivolous among US generally being the greatest hypocrites in continual practice.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 3:44 am By: Stan Deatherage

Have these European countries lost their minds? Freezing to death during the winter of 2022 and now the leaders are planning to starve Europe in the winter of 2023 is insane. Do they not know how this will end? Caving in to the Globalist climate alarmist by shutting down fossil fuel and nuclear power power generation and now stopping food production will not end well. Biden and his ill informed sycophants are dead set on the same strategy for the United States. If anyone believes they are saving the Earth with these policies, they need to wake up and smell the roses or prepare to live in 1932. Ask your grandparents what that was like!

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 9:45 pm By: Ray Leary

What should be taught in schools is the real history, not fake history through the Marxist prizm of CRT and DEI and ESG which is all intended to divide America.

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 6:28 pm By: Conservative Voter

Don't be too sure of what MLK would be if he were alive today. Take his neice, Alveda King, who was active in the civil rights movement herself. Her politics went from being a Democrat state legislator and supporter of Jesse Jackson for president to a public supporter of Donald Trump for president in 2016 and 2020. She responds to the CRT / DEI / ESG advocates by saying the only race that is important is the human race. MLK may well have followed a similar path to that of his neice.

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 1:53 pm By: Conservative Voter

Sorry, I just have trouble when right wingers start cuddling up to MLK now that he is dead. I witnessed how he was treated when alive. The BO would have likely smeared him every chance it got just like most of the "publications" of the day did. You understand all that is very well documented in the history you don't want taught in schools. Shameful.

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 12:18 pm By: Big Bob

Lemmings like you blindly beleive what the globalist fear mongers feed you, and continue to march on in the biggest doomsday cult in history - Chicken Little on steroids. Never mind that NONE of the dozens of doomsday predictions the climate cult has made that were supposed to have happened by now HAVEN'T and haven't even come close. ONly the most addled true beleivers continue to follow a cult like that.

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 12:40 pm By: John Steed

It's because most of us see what's coming. However you can rest easy. None of this is gonna change anything. Its to little, to late.

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 10:09 am By: Big Bob

These Democrats are trying to visuallly pollute our coastlines by industrializing the oceans. These whirling demons also kill lots and lots of sea birds. Biden and Cooper are trying to destroy our coastal environment. And what happens to our electric grid when a hurricane destroys most of these wind turbines?

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:35 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Martin Luther King's concept of "judging people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin" aligns exactly with the American principle of equality of opportunity. The DEI dogma, on the other hand, aligns with Kark Marx's Coummunist Manifesto and the concept of government imposed equality of result.

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:08 am By: Conservative Voter

Thanks Steve for you kind comment here on John Steed's post, an excellent read by the way.

I have always appreciated your support and you wise counsel, and will always consider you my constituent of the first order ... You never ask for anything other than my honest efforts, and to think it all through before taking action.

I appreciate this type of support beyond all, and I too endeavor to emulate that support you have shown me in my actions with other assertive politicians as their good constituent myself. In conclusion, I consider you a great patriot in that you, by these actions, help me to be the best commissioner that is within my abilities to have become.

Thank-you Steve, and will continue to try to "pay it forward" when certain politicians show a glimpse that they are worthy.

Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 1:16 am By: Stan Deatherage

My mom and dad Tom and Sandy Hayward owned The Bistro during these times. Unfortunately the people that bought the place from my dad burned it down for insurance money in 1974? I think. Many musicians got discovered there like Jimmy Buffet, Oliver, Gordon Lightfoot, etc. My dad had a recording studio upstairs.

Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 7:17 pm By: Andtea Hayward Nickerson