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CountryGirl
(joined: September 28th, 2014 @ 4:48 pm as 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
(joined: July 19th, 2014 @ 10:53 am as Notahater1)
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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
(joined: May 10th, 2014 @ 1:22 pm as christopher)
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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

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(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 April 19th, 2026 @ 4:55 pm)
Gore was not the first to resurrect and politically weaponize the old CO2 climate theory. That first happened in the UK.

The CO2 global warming theory was put forward by a Swedish physicist in the 1890s but never got much traction in climate science. Mainstream climate science looked at known climate history which followed alternating multi-century cycles of warming and cooling, CO2 and greenhouse gases were not a factor in those cycles.

In the early 1970s, a British science magazine, the "New Scientist" published an article that mentioned this then discredited and mostly forgotten CO2 climate theory. That got the attention of an advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was then in major battles with the Marxist coal miners union and with Arab oil sheiks. Her government was pushing nuclear power as an alternative and saw this theory as something they could use for that purpose. They put out a bunch of government grant money for "science" that promoted this CO2 theory and found enough hungry scientists to jump on that grant money and give them the "science" they needed to resurrect the theory and play it in the media.

After Thatcher got what milage she could out of this revived theory to promote her nuclear power program, others picked it up for their own political purposes, not only Al Gore, but also the UN hierarchy..

(commented on April 15th, 2026 @ 8:46 pm)
One thing that struck me on the recruitment of both a new county manager and a new city manager was that there was no effort to bring anyone in with management experience from the private sector. I think many taxpayers would find private sector management experience a plus in running government more efficiently.

Having spent five years during the Jim Martin administration as part of the management team of the largest department of NC state government, I remember that all of our top level deparment management came from the private sector, NOT from government. Our department had a $3 Billion budget and 18,000 employees, a much larges operation than local governments, yet we had no one in top departmental management with those Masters of Public Administration degrees that local governments covet in their management staff. Having also worked several months into the Hunt administration as a consultant, their management staff in the department also came from the private sector.

Private sector management experience obviously works fine in state government, so why is it not a resource to be tapped for local government?

The problem lies in local governments using their state associations to seek applicants, and those groups are wired into career bureaucrats. A smart local government would also advertize where potential applicants with private sector management experience could learn of the vacancy and respond. Our local governments are not doing that.

The larger the pool of applicants, the better the available choices will be.

Even though the state pays for local school superintendents and therefore has more of a say in qualifications, they allow local school boards to hire applicants who have a bachelors degree and four years of management experience who do not have education related education or experience. Some years ago, Wake County hired a retired army general as their school superintendent under those standards, whose management experience came from the military, and he proved a good school superintendent. .

(commented on April 6th, 2026 @ 7:55 am)
Van Zant, from my observation, the splits within the Beaufort County Republican executive committee had nothing to do with the outcome of the school board primaries. The big factors were 1) the large turnout of Unaffiliated voters turning out for other races, 2) a network of teachers actively working for the ex-teacher candidates, 3) obvious networking between the two ex-teachers and the campaign of the special interest backed NC House challenger, both of whom openly operated out of his tent at early voting.

In my own race, I had support from both wings of the executive committee split, with members of both sides making financial contributions, endorsements, and doing volunteer work like addressing and stuffing envelopes. The only exceptions I am aware of were the Walkers, who had their own personal agenda in all the school board races and some other races

There was one former county party officer, who is no longer active in the party who did get rather involved in pushing Charles Hickman's opponent and ran her mouth a few days at early voting against other conservatives, but she has no position in the party presently.

Having three conservatives running for the Bath seat was a blunder that had a lot to do with losing that one.

Jak Nature
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(commented on April 15th, 2014 @ 9:40 pm)
Dear Mr. Don Cox

Disrespect, is a word you used in your latest flyer. People have jobs and families that can make them run late for things. You may think this is disrespectful. I think your actions and words are more disrespectful. You should not personally attack your opponents, whomever they are. A personal attack is disrespectful. Why would we vote for you???????

Stephanie Butzer
(joined: March 27th, 2014 @ 10:44 am as SButzer)
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Clyde Stephen Sutton
(joined: March 17th, 2014 @ 10:54 am as Steve)
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(commented on March 17th, 2014 @ 11:06 am)
Larry was one of the most skilled guys that I've ever known. He could do anything. My Dad (Clyde Sutton) thought that there was nothing like Larry Linton. I wasn't around Larry that long, but he made such a huge impression on me. My thoughts and prayers are with the family.
Steve Sutton
Son of Clyde & Ruth Sutton

Donna Lay
(joined: March 13th, 2014 @ 7:20 pm as Donna)
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(commented on April 24th, 2014 @ 8:49 am)
You are absolutely right in that when a person has no platform or basis to sustain a campaign, the only thing he can do is try and trash his opponents in that race. That becomes very obvious when they don't show up for forums.
Donna Lay

Gary Brinn
(joined: March 11th, 2014 @ 3:47 pm as Gary)
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Vicky Austin
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Bryan Williams
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(commented on February 13th, 2014 @ 5:13 am)
just wanted to say thanks to everybody for being there

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