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John Woodard
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Edward Samuel Bowen , Jr.
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(commented on October 30th, 2014 @ 11:54 am)
In Defense of my friend, Ernie Coleman.......

I am compelled to rebut some very irresponsible assertions made against Ernie's character, and also on some very hurtful and unfounded statements made about the church of which Ernie is a member and serves as a deacon.

First the church issue, because that also affects Me, a fellow member. The word "deacon" comes from the greek word diakonos, which translated means "servant". I stress the word "servant", as opposed to "ruler" or "boss". A little kid walked up to me one day and said, "Are you the boss of this church?" With a warm grin I leaned over and said,"No...I serve the Boss, I'm just another helper" I've always hoped that stuck in his little mind.

Ernie is a servant, not a dictorial power pusher around the church. Nobody at Old Ford church is scared of Ernie, child or adult. We're a fellowship of brotherly love and service to our community and abroad to foreign fields of great need through our mission support all over the world. Ernie is one of many who serve and help with whatever the need is. We feel specially comforted to have him in our midst! Jesus said, "Whosever among you who would be great, will be the servant of all". Service is God's standard of greatness, and deacons simply serve.

Now concerning other false assertions, I state and will maintain that I have never in eleven years heard any ill or condescending reference come out of Ernie's mouth concerning a person with a different skin tone than his own. I have heard Ernie state, on the contrary, that he is appreciative of the non-combative and the gentlemanly good nature of his opponent running also for sheriff.

Two good men are running for sheriff...that's fantastic! Almost unheard of! I thank God for that. Maybe a new day is dawning! Eddie Bowen, minister (servant) with the Old Ford Church of Christ.

Liz Partrick
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(commented on April 27th, 2015 @ 9:01 pm)
Beautiful stuff...

(commented on March 26th, 2015 @ 9:53 am)
Lovely!

(commented on October 28th, 2014 @ 11:18 am)
Nice shots. Stan!!

kathleen vasquez
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(commented on October 2nd, 2015 @ 10:59 pm)
Excuse me, but Ted Cruz was not born in the US, he was born in Canada. So where are all the birthers now? I smell hypocrisy. Just sayin'.

(commented on September 30th, 2015 @ 10:54 pm)
Twelfth of Never - you're killin' me here!

(commented on September 28th, 2015 @ 9:48 pm)
Thanks, Stan. Everly Brothers, it don't get no better than that. Brings back memories of first real boyfriend, close dancing, sneaking cigarettes. Today's music (in fact, I don't even call it music) is the worst ever; hard to imagine inspiring nostalgia.
Kathy Vasquez

Ray Leary
(joined: September 30th, 2014 @ 8:36 am as RayL)
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(commented on May 8th, 2023 @ 6:11 pm)
Some have asked who voted for and against the Bridges math curriculum.
Charles Hickman III - against
Donald Shreve - against
Gary Carlton - for
Terry Draper - for
TW Allen - for
Terry Williams - for
Carolyn Walker - for
Elthe Booth - for
Mack Hodges - for

(commented on May 5th, 2023 @ 9:45 pm)
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 on April 25th, 2023 @ 4:04 pm)
You missed the most important one,,,NC DPI

David Miller
(joined: September 29th, 2014 @ 11:48 pm as allenmiller25)
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(commented on September 30th, 2014 @ 12:00 am)
Don't think he is receiving a pension from Beaufort County he retired from the NCSHP so i would think that would be coming from the State of North Carolina. Unless Harry Meridith had 20 years of service with the BCSO he is not drawing a pension neither.

Charles P Cullop Jr
(joined: September 29th, 2014 @ 6:37 pm as cullop1)
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(commented on October 6th, 2014 @ 6:52 pm)
Typical conservative. No original ideas so he calls Coleman names and tells negative stories that can't be corroborated. Reminds me of Stan when he called everyone that disagreed with him a liberal wacko.

(commented on September 29th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm)
Meredith is accusing Coleman of padding his income. He's retired and receiving a pension from Beaufort County. I think it's the kettle calling the skillet black. o

CountryGirl
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(commented on September 29th, 2014 @ 8:27 pm)
Well, I guess that is what makes the world go around...people seeing things differently.

(commented on September 29th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm)
There was 2 paragraphs that said something about Jordan, the rest was on Coleman and what he is doing and going to try to do! Really, all about Jordan!!!

(commented on September 29th, 2014 @ 8:04 pm)
I did not get out of this that Meredith was accusing Coleman of padding his income. He was just flat out saying Coleman is incompetent to do the job he is running for and he is so right!!! All Coleman can do is threaten and intimidate people. I have voted Republican all my life but I will not be this time around. And maybe both of you need to reread this! You obviously did not get what was trying to be said, or maybe you both are in Coleman's pocket, too!!!

Susan Duchesneau
(joined: September 19th, 2014 @ 5:15 pm as grandmasue)
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(commented on September 19th, 2014 @ 6:03 pm)
Our deepest sympathy & prayers to the family & friends of Alice McDonell
Our Love,
Dan & Sue Duchesneau

David Anderson
(joined: August 12th, 2014 @ 4:33 pm as david_alvin_anderson)
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(commented on August 15th, 2014 @ 1:44 am)
Stan, that is Susan Klutz (spelling).

(commented on August 12th, 2014 @ 4:48 pm)
FYI... that isn't a picture of Sharon Decker.... just sayin

A User
(joined: July 20th, 2014 @ 12:10 pm as auser)
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Kristine Cole
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(commented on July 19th, 2014 @ 11:28 am)
It is interesting that Gene Scarborough submitted a thought-provoking editorial on hate and then small minds attached a ridiculously skewed "poll" to make the point that the hate wins. We as a Christian nation have surely lost our way and are making ourselves the laughing stock of the world. It is not our President doing this to is - it is small-minded people who refuse to see beyond their own personal wants and prefer to deny others their true needs. This is not the way of Jesus Christ and it is certainly not the way of this country.

To those who prepared the poll - I am not "enamored" by my President. As I have told Mr. Scarborough, I respect my President and his love for his country. I know this to be true because I know of people in his life. Strong, well-educated people who have worked their entire lives to enrich other's lives and come from families who for generations have done the same for this country. These are people who know the President away from the cameras and outside of the Oval Office. These are people who know and believe in his wisdom and strength. These are positive, forward-looking people he chooses to allow in his life.

I am not "enamored" by this President because, for all my faith in him and his wisdom, I know he has made decisions that I don't agree with. However, as a US Air Force Veteran, mother of three strong young men, one of whom has been to war, I know that I don't have access to the military intelligence information, intel reports from other countries, and access to the smartest minds in the world in order for me - a mere citizen who elected this man to act my behalf in such matter, to make the decisions he has made.

Your arm-chair quarterbacking of the Office of the President of the United States, while funny to you and your ilk, is an embarrassment to the American People. There are "those who can" who run for office and are elected to act on your behalf, and then there are those "Who just don't get it" who would rather use very small minds to tear apart a fellow American just because it's funny, and more probably, because they feel that their own influence has been lost in this world - to someone who does not look like them, act like them, or understand their leftover ways of the days of glory before the Age of Reconstruction.

Should our President have known the flag was for Wisconsin? Yes? Is this story even true? Highly doubtful. The media in the US is owned by 6 major corporations and 5 have no love lost for our President. If this story had a shred of truth, it would have been on constant replay on CNN.

Gentlemen - take your anger and your hate and redirect it into something that helps this state and this country. And if you can't do that, then please remember the good Christian rule that everyone learned as a child - If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

Harold Smith
(joined: July 1st, 2014 @ 3:32 pm as smitty)
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Eric Brownlee
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(commented on February 8th, 2015 @ 9:23 pm)
Didn't Kaye spend twice as much as Thom?

(commented on January 23rd, 2015 @ 8:52 am)
Paper tiger ... Conservatives are not gonna do much if anything with schools, to change secular studies ... And to compare educational preferences and disputes to the Nazi's is absurd. You should rail about property taxes, and lazy people getting government handouts, Hospital industrial complex... There is no grand conspiracy to turn public school system into brown shirts of the late 30's and early 40s. And who is the leader of the of this grand scheme?

(commented on January 12th, 2015 @ 8:11 pm)
Cool that Powell gives cover to the racist democrats... LBJ's comments tell you all you need to know about the democrat party's opinion of blacks, and the efforts that keep them voting for dems... And the detainees that were interrogated or tortured depending on what you believe torture is... was not a racial issue. To color your opponent's as evil all the time, isn't reality, and re writing history to fit your politics isn't either. And terrorists are not soldiers. Never have been.

Ted McDonald
(joined: June 23rd, 2014 @ 3:40 pm as MorningMuse)
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(commented on October 1st, 2021 @ 8:34 am)
Twenty years of voter fraud video: home.frankspeech.com

(commented on July 23rd, 2021 @ 11:15 am)
www.eac.gov
What is the EAC (U.S. Election Assistance Commission)?

(commented on April 21st, 2021 @ 2:55 pm)
Chinese Dairy Farm link: www.youtube.com

Eugene Bowers Grant, Jr
(joined: May 11th, 2014 @ 6:50 pm as Eugene)
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Christopher Maye
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(commented on May 16th, 2016 @ 9:48 am)
They were talking about this on Stossel last Friday on his episode about rising medical costs. He was discussing the benefits of letting the free market into medicine and direct primary care. Stossel makes the argument that by having government and insurance companies in between the customer and business, it lessens the quality of service provided. Additionally, he mentioned this medical service called Pager. www.cnn.com
It is a phone app that allows you to contact a doctor and they come to your house (like doctors used to do.)

(commented on February 19th, 2016 @ 1:10 pm)
Obligatory video. "Feel the Bern? There's a Cure." by Julie Borowski

beaufortcountynow.com

(commented on October 28th, 2015 @ 3:49 pm)
I think it was "Bodoni MT Regular." Soon to come: #HATER, #throwbackthursday, "That is like tots cool", "That requires me to think, so no." (applies to other generations too) "OMG I'm like so random!", "Socialism sounds like a good idea!" (Again, applies to several generations,) "My opinion was swayed by a propaganda piece" (applies to early generations too.)

Edwin Hardy
(joined: May 9th, 2014 @ 10:22 pm as Hardy)
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(commented on May 14th, 2014 @ 9:09 am)
Coockoo, coockoo, coockoo

(commented on May 9th, 2014 @ 11:29 pm)
Publisher's note: All right, I will allow this one since this subject matter has not been stated as of yet.

Sleep tight!

(commented on May 9th, 2014 @ 11:24 pm)
The anonymous mailings on Ashley were illegal because they had no disclosure disclaimer telling who was responsible for the piece. Since the two mailings were illegal, I never expected you to admit to knowing anything about them. Not because I think you wouldn't do it and not because I don't think you wouldn't just silently sit back when you knew someone was doing it.

Steven P. Rader
(joined: April 16th, 2014 @ 1:28 am as SteveR)
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(commented on August 9th, 2026 @ 8:12 pm)
ABC = Anybody But Cooper

(commented on August 1st, 2026 @ 9:48 am)
Nick, in no local government should elected board / council members play second fiddle to hired mangers. Elected officials are elected to MAKE the policy, and hired managers serve to carry out that policy. That is true whether it is a city council, county commission, or school board. Managers in local government are full time while elected officials are part time, so it is also incumbent on managers to keep a watchful eye on policy issues that need to be brought to the attention of their boards, present options on the issues, and make recommendations to their boards. Mangers should always adhere to the policies set by the elected officials, but it can be problematic for elected officials to try to micromanage.

Local government works best when there is a good working relationship between the elected board / council and their hired managers. Local government personnel below the manager are hired and fired by the manager, but board members should be able to discuss any personnel concerns with their manager, and he should give them consideration, although he is not bound by them. Budgets are proposed by the manager but only proposed. Adoption, including with amendments is the function of the board. As part of the budget, funding can be eliminated for positions in local government.

No elected official should ever feel he is a "rubberstamp" because that is not the way the system is supposed to work.

(commented on August 1st, 2026 @ 9:32 am)
Van Zant, you are particularly well informed.

The conservatives elected to the school board in 2022 got some important policy changes made on the curriculum adoption process. The new written policy, proposed by board member Donald Shreve, gave the board a lot more oversight over the process, something it should have had all along. It is, after all, the elected board member who have the ultimate say over what curriculum is adopted.

During the adoption process on the new science curriculum, the teachers evaluation committee, supported by their central office staff coordinator tried to do an end run around that new process and present the board with a single "take it or leave it" option instead of the minimum of three options required by the new policy. The central office staff involved in that has since been replaced.

In dealing with that curriculum, the board informally used some new policies that produced a greater degree of information for the board from that teachers evaluation committee. It also became apparent that having cost information on curriculum proposals available early in the process to everyone would improve the process.

I put revision of the written policy on curriculum development on the board agenda for discussion, and verbally presented a series of suggested improvements in the formal process, based on our experience with the adoption of the science curriculum. I went through each of a series of proposals and got no objections to any of them from other board members, so I stated I would draw them up in a formal policy amendment and present them for adoption. When I presented them, I ran into a buzz saw of organized opposition, led by board member Carolyn Walker. They objected to making any change whatsoever. They did not want to rethink just a point or two. They wanted no changes at all.

Adoption of the curriculum is one of the most important policy decisions entrusted by statute to elected school board members, and one that members should take seriously. We need strong policies that maximize the board's responsibility and give it the best information to make its decision. Without appropriate written policies on the procedures in curriculum adoption, that responsibility may not properly be fulfilled.

If some of the more liberal board members had any issues with my proposals, those should have been discussed openly at the first meeting this subject was on the agenda. I put it on the agenda then to try to get a consensus, which from all appearances had been achieved. If any of the proposals had received pushback, I would have presented two policy proposals, one with those that had consensus, and one where there was some division. From the responses, all of the issues had consensus so that was the way I presented it in a formal amendment.

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